chronicling an ongoing war between King Kong, Godzilla, and various giant monsters affiliated with their respective franchises.Featuring an assortment of characters from every different series of films from the Godzilla franchise, the plot follows King Kong and Godzilla himself as they are targeted by hostile extraterrestrials who seek to weaponize the two monsters for nefarious purposes. The actions of the invaders draws in more monsters, leading to many battles. There are no humans to be seen, anywhere.
The first episode, which started off as a simple one-shot, was released in 2017 and was so popular that ASM continued it with an entire series of connected, ten-minute shorts. They can be found here on YouTube, and the series is still ongoing.
This series provides examples of the following tropes, which may include unmarked spoilers:
- Adaptational Backstory Change: The series seems to exist in its own continuity, and thus some of the monsters have their origins altered:
- The Chameleon is still a clone of Zilla, but was created by the Xiliens instead of Cameron Winter.
- King Ghidorah retains his origin story from the Heisei films, starting out as three little Dorats that are fused together by nuclear fallout. However, his transformation happened on Planet X instead of Earth.
- SpaceGodzilla is not a clone of Godzilla, but Godzilla himself after absorbing extraterrestrial radiation from crystal-like objects on Planet X.
- Shin Godzilla is a deformed clone of Godzilla created by the Xiliens, and later becomes a fusion of Biollante after assimilating floral life.
- Cyber-Zilla, Jet Jaguar, and Mechagodzilla are creations of the Xiliens. In their respective canons, Cyber-Zilla and Jet Jaguar were created by the Leviathan Travelers and Dr. Goro Ibuki. In each of his five film incarnations, Mechagodzilla has been a creation of, in this exact order, the Black Hole Planet 3 aliens, the United Nations, the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the human-Bilusaludo alliance, and Apex Cybernetics.
- Adaptational Heroism: Here, SpaceGodzilla is an evolved form of Godzilla himself, and thus retains his original memories and non-malicious personality.
- The Chameleon is portrayed here as a benevolent, mistreated creature who actively helps against the Xiliens and hostile monsters.
- Ambiguous Situation: As the series lacks any (comprehensible) dialogue, it is unclear exactly what the Xiliens' aim is here. They seem to want to weaponize Godzilla and Kong, but to what purpose is unclear.
- Artificial Limbs: Kong gets one from the Xiliens later, equipped with an energy weapon.
- Badass Adorable: Despite being a newborn, Godzilla Junior evidently inherits his parents' fighting spirit as he takes on a baby Skullcrawler.
- Badass Normal: Kong, who lacks any special powers compared to the other monsters here. Thanks to the cybernetic arm he gets from the Xiliens later on, this is no longer the case.
- Behemoth Battle: It's a series centered around Godzilla and Kong Kong. You've got these all over the place.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The Xiliens are the prime instigators behind the series' conflicts, though other monsters in the series seem to have self-serving agendas:
- King Ghidorah is hostile towards everyone, even the Xiliens themselves, as he is actively assaulting Planet X when he is first introduced.
- Shin Godzilla's creation was an accident on the Xiliens part, and they mark him as a threat when they see just how dangerous he is.
- Breath Weapon: Godzilla's atomic breath, of course. This is upgraded to a corona ray upon his transformation into SpaceGodzilla.
- Composite Character:
- King Ghidorah here seems to be an amalgamation of his Heisei and MonsterVerse interpretations; his origin and basic appearance match that of the former, while he has the personality and behavior of the latter.
- Rodan's appearance is much more like that of an actual pterosaur, similar to his portrayal in Godzilla: Singular Point. However, he has the abilities of his Heisei counterpart.
- The Xiliens bear the infamous insectoid appearance they had in Godzilla: Final Wars, and their mothership also resembles the one from that movie. However, their flying saucers and cities are more identical to what is seen in Invasion of Astro-Monster.
- Cute Is Evil: The baby skullcrawler that Godzilla Junior tries to befriend. All skullcrawlers are inherently hostile, no matter what life stage they are in.
- Cyborg:
- Zilla, Sr., who is resurrected and transformed into Cyber-Zilla by the Xiliens, turning him against his own offspring.
- Then you have Gigan, who is already a cyborg.
- Disc-One Final Boss: At the time of his introduction, King Ghidorah is the most dangerous adversary encountered and lasts longer than the other opponents that came before him. After he is finally defeated by Godzilla on Planet X, Shin Godzilla seems to be on the way to taking his place.
- Evil Counterpart: Shin Godzilla is this to Godzilla, being a malformed clone created by the Xiliens who kills his mate. Godzilla does not take that well.
- Interspecies Friendship: Godzilla and Kong become good buds after a while, and Kong himself is an adopted father figure to Zilla, Jr. And then there's Mothra's relationship with Godzilla's kind.
- No Focus on Humans: Humans do not appear in the series in any capacity, allowing for greater focus on the monsters.
- Outside-Context Problem: Judging by their reactions to it, Shin Godzilla was not a variable that the Xiliens had counted on.
- Parental Substitute:
- Kong raises Zilla, Jr. as his own son after Zilla, Sr. dies.
- While Godzilla and his mate are absent fighting the Xiliens and their mutant creations, Mothra takes to watching over Godzilla Junior.
