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Interestingly, the success of this franchise has given Toho enough confidence to throw their hat back into the ring with making a SharedUniverse of monster movies after 2020 ([[GenreThrowback naturally featuring people in rubber suits]]). Whether the two respective settings will coexist, or if the fourth film will serve as the franchise's GrandFinale is presently unclear.
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-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
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-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Ishiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they attack him first; he even goes out of his way to help and protect the invading humans as they help him in return. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho is very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the [=MonsterVerse=]. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's cocooned form within her temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho is very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the [=MonsterVerse=]. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's cocooned form within her temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the creatures and natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they threaten his home or attack him first; he even goes out of his way to help and protect the invading humans as they help him in return. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his battles and massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for thesetting, series, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho is very supportive of the setting, series, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the [=MonsterVerse=]. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's cocooned form within her temple in China in2009 2009, and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the [=MonsterVerse=]. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's cocooned form within her temple in China in
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** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
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** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever:The setting's This universe's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever:
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* BehemothBattle: The franchise's crux. The most anticipated battle will involve Godzilla and King Kong duking it out.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to ''bomb'' the place to try and map it.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to ''bomb'' the place to try and map it.
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* BehemothBattle: The franchise's crux. The most anticipated battle will involve Godzilla and King Kong duking it out.
out in "a battle for the ages".
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world prepare and deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they doa lot far more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to ''bomb'' the place to try and map it.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world prepare and deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do
* CentralTheme: Both Godzilla films share the theme of a [[DysfunctionalFamily fractured family]] getting caught in the middle of the kaiju chaos and trying to survive and reunite.
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* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the [=MUTOs=]).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the [=MUTOs=]).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
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* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allowsthem) them to be) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the [=MUTOs=]).
* {{Kaiju}}: Thesetting series is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows
* {{Kaiju}}: The
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* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
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* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] [=MUTOs=], and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: ManyKaiju kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, Kong is keeping things under control on Skull Island, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: So far the franchise seems to lean towards the cynical end of the scale, particularly when compared to the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] and similar settings. Humanity is surrounded by [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic monsters]] that have existed long before everyone was even born, and they are basically powerless against them once they awaken and begin laying waste to the world. And though there ''are'' some monsters (Godzilla, Kong, etc.) willing to protect the humans, they can be [[DestructiveSavior just as destructive to everything around them]] as the ones causing said destruction.
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: So far the franchise seems to lean towards the cynical end of the scale, particularly when compared to the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] and similar settings. franchises. Humanity is surrounded by [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic monsters]] that have existed long before everyone was even born, and they are basically powerless against them once they awaken and begin laying waste to the world. And world, and though there ''are'' some monsters (Godzilla, Kong, etc.) willing to protect the humans, they can be [[DestructiveSavior just as destructive to everything around them]] as the ones causing said destruction.
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount ofgrief grief, they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of
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The [=MonsterVerse=] is an American media franchise and [[SharedUniverse shared cinematic universe]] that is centered on a series of films featuring [[{{Kaiju}} giant gigantic monsters]], most prominently Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/KingKong.
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->''"The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around."''
-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The [=MonsterVerse=] is an American media franchise and [[SharedUniverse shared cinematic universe]] that is centered on a series of films featuring [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]], most prominently Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/KingKong.
The movies are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros and produced by Creator/LegendaryPictures in partnership with Creator/{{Toho}}, the Japanese studio that [[TropeCodifier codified]] the genre and owns most of the well known Kaiju [=IPs=]. Currently, plans are for the series to encompass four films, which is as extensive as Legendary's initial contract with Toho lasts.
Interestingly, the success of this franchise has given Toho enough confidence to throw their hat back into the ring with making a SharedUniverse of monster movies after 2020 ([[GenreThrowback naturally featuring people in rubber suits]]). Whether the two respective settings will coexist, or if the fourth film will serve as the franchise's GrandFinale is presently unclear.
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!!Films:
[[index]]
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014)
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017)
* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' (2019)
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (2020)
[[/index]]
!!Tie-In Comics:
* ''Godzilla: Awakening''
* ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
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!Tropes present across the ''[=MonsterVerse=]'':
* AdaptationalHeroism: While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they attack him first; he even goes out of his way to help and protect the invading humans as they help him in return. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho is very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the [=MonsterVerse=]. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's cocooned form within her temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AgeLift:
** Godzilla has always been described as ancient, but in this continuity he survived the Permian Extinction, which happened [[TimeAbyss 252 million years ago]].
** Judging by TheStinger of ''Kong: Skull Island'', Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah are also a lot older than their Toho counterparts. The original movie involving King Ghidorah mentioned that he was over 5,000 years old, but based on Godzilla's own AgeLift and the fact that the two have already fought at some point in ancient history, he's most likely '''[[TimeAbyss significantly]]''' older here.
** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently, a giant winged kaiju (possibly Rodan) caused the Great Smog of London.
* BehemothBattle: The franchise's crux. The most anticipated battle will involve Godzilla and King Kong duking it out.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to ''bomb'' the place to try and map it.
* CanonForeigner: A lot of monsters are created for the series, including the [=MUTOs=] and the Skullcrawlers.
* ContinuityReboot: The franchise represents the third reboot of the ''King Kong'' film series[[note]]not counting Toho's version[[/note]] and the first American reboot of the ''Godzilla'' franchise following the [[Film/Godzilla1998 1998 movie]].
* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the [=MUTOs=]).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* {{Masquerade}}: Upheld in ''Kong: Skull Island'', since the island itself is hidden away and any information about what happened there is classified. Upheld for about half of ''Godzilla'', at which point Godzilla and the two [=MUTO=] [[TheUnmasquedWorld completely do away with it altogether]].
* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
* SerkisFolk: The giant monsters are animated through MotionCapture. The TropeNamer himself, Creator/AndySerkis, assisted in the animation of Godzilla, albeit uncredited.
* SharedUniverse: One of several conceived in the wake of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse achieving success with ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', and one of several owned by Warner Bros. (the others being the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, the [[Film/HarryPotter Wizarding]] [[Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem World]], the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie LEGO Movie]]'' series, and ''Film/TheConjuring'' universe).
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: So far the franchise seems to lean towards the cynical end of the scale, particularly when compared to the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] and similar settings. Humanity is surrounded by [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic monsters]] that have existed long before everyone was even born, and they are basically powerless against them once they awaken and begin laying waste to the world. And though there ''are'' some monsters (Godzilla, Kong, etc.) willing to protect the humans, they can be [[DestructiveSavior just as destructive to everything around them]] as the ones causing said destruction.
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
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->''"The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around."''
-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The [=MonsterVerse=] is an American media franchise and [[SharedUniverse shared cinematic universe]] that is centered on a series of films featuring [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]], most prominently Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/KingKong.
The movies are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros and produced by Creator/LegendaryPictures in partnership with Creator/{{Toho}}, the Japanese studio that [[TropeCodifier codified]] the genre and owns most of the well known Kaiju [=IPs=].
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!!Films:
[[index]]
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014)
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017)
* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' (2019)
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (2020)
[[/index]]
!!Tie-In Comics:
* ''Godzilla: Awakening''
* ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
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!Tropes present across the ''[=MonsterVerse=]'':
* While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they attack him first. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', all the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho are very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the Monsterverse. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AgeLift:
** Godzilla has always been described as ancient, but in this continuity he survived the Permian Extinction, which happened [[TimeAbyss 252 million years ago]].
** Judging by TheStinger of ''Kong: Skull Island'', Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah are also a lot older than their Toho counterparts. The original movie involving King Ghidorah mentioned that he was over 5,000 years old, but based on Godzilla's own AgeLift and the fact that the two have already fought at some point in ancient history, he's most likely '''[[TimeAbyss significantly]]''' older here.
** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently, a giant winged kaiju (possibly Rodan) caused the Great Smog of London.
* BehemothBattle: Both films in the franchise thus far have featured multiple {{Kaiju}} each, who inevitably clash. There is yet to be (and seems to be no plan for) a single creature feature along the lines of the original ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 Godzilla]]'' or more recent ''Film/ShinGodzilla''.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to bomb the place to try and map it.
* CanonForeigner: A lot of monsters are created for the series, including the MUTO and the Skullcrawlers.
* ContinuityReboot: The franchise represents the third reboot of the ''King Kong'' film series[[note]]not counting Toho's version[[/note]] and the first American reboot of the ''Godzilla'' franchise following the 1998 movie.
* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the Mutos).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* {{Masquerade}}: Upheld in ''Kong: Skull Island'', since the island itself is hidden away and any information about what happened there is classified. Upheld for about half of ''Godzilla'', at which point Godzilla and the two MUTO [[TheUnmasquedWorld completely do away with it altogether]].
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SerkisFolk: The giant monsters are animated through MotionCapture. The TropeNamer himself, Creator/AndySerkis, assisted in the animation of Godzilla, albeit uncredited.
* SharedUniverse: One of several conceived in the wake of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse achieving success with ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', one of two owned by Warner Bros. (the other being the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse), and one of two currently focusing on monsters as opposed to superheroes (the other being Universal's modern day Franchise/UniversalHorror [[Film/DarkUniverse rebooted universe]]).
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
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->''"The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around."''
-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The [=MonsterVerse=] is an American media franchise and [[SharedUniverse shared cinematic universe]] that is centered on a series of films featuring [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]], most prominently Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/KingKong.
The movies are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros and produced by Creator/LegendaryPictures in partnership with Creator/{{Toho}}, the Japanese studio that [[TropeCodifier codified]] the genre and owns most of the well known Kaiju [=IPs=].
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!!Films:
[[index]]
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014)
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017)
* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' (2019)
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (2020)
[[/index]]
!!Tie-In Comics:
* ''Godzilla: Awakening''
* ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
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!Tropes present across the ''[=MonsterVerse=]'':
* While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they attack him first. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', all the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho are very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the Monsterverse. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AgeLift:
** Godzilla has always been described as ancient, but in this continuity he survived the Permian Extinction, which happened [[TimeAbyss 252 million years ago]].
** Judging by TheStinger of ''Kong: Skull Island'', Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah are also a lot older than their Toho counterparts. The original movie involving King Ghidorah mentioned that he was over 5,000 years old, but based on Godzilla's own AgeLift and the fact that the two have already fought at some point in ancient history, he's most likely '''[[TimeAbyss significantly]]''' older here.
** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently, a giant winged kaiju (possibly Rodan) caused the Great Smog of London.
* BehemothBattle: Both films in the franchise thus far have featured multiple {{Kaiju}} each, who inevitably clash. There is yet to be (and seems to be no plan for) a single creature feature along the lines of the original ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 Godzilla]]'' or more recent ''Film/ShinGodzilla''.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to bomb the place to try and map it.
* CanonForeigner: A lot of monsters are created for the series, including the MUTO and the Skullcrawlers.
* ContinuityReboot: The franchise represents the third reboot of the ''King Kong'' film series[[note]]not counting Toho's version[[/note]] and the first American reboot of the ''Godzilla'' franchise following the 1998 movie.
* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the Mutos).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* {{Masquerade}}: Upheld in ''Kong: Skull Island'', since the island itself is hidden away and any information about what happened there is classified. Upheld for about half of ''Godzilla'', at which point Godzilla and the two MUTO [[TheUnmasquedWorld completely do away with it altogether]].
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SerkisFolk: The giant monsters are animated through MotionCapture. The TropeNamer himself, Creator/AndySerkis, assisted in the animation of Godzilla, albeit uncredited.
* SharedUniverse: One of several conceived in the wake of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse achieving success with ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', one of two owned by Warner Bros. (the other being the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse), and one of two currently focusing on monsters as opposed to superheroes (the other being Universal's modern day Franchise/UniversalHorror [[Film/DarkUniverse rebooted universe]]).
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
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->''"The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around."''
-->-- '''Dr. Ichiro Serizawa''', ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The [=MonsterVerse=] is an American media franchise and [[SharedUniverse shared cinematic universe]] that is centered on a series of films featuring [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]], most prominently Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and Film/KingKong.
The movies are distributed by Creator/WarnerBros and produced by Creator/LegendaryPictures in partnership with Creator/{{Toho}}, the Japanese studio that [[TropeCodifier codified]] the genre and owns most of the well known Kaiju [=IPs=].
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!!Films:
[[index]]
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014)
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017)
* ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' (2019)
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (2020)
[[/index]]
!!Tie-In Comics:
* ''Godzilla: Awakening''
* ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
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!Tropes present across the ''[=MonsterVerse=]'':
* While both of them have always had TragicMonster traits, Godzilla and Kong are presented here as almost completely heroic in this continuity. Kong is explicitly described as protecting the natives of Skull Island from the Skullcrawlers and only attacks the invaders when they attack him first. Godzilla, for his part, never directly attacks the humans at ''all'', all the damage he causes is merely an unavoidable effect of his massive presence.
* AdaptedOut: Toho has to give Legendary explicit approval to use specific {{Kaiju}} for the setting, meaning that the only monsters that are licensed out to the company are Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Presumably, this is the reason why Rodan is showing up before Anguirus. That being said, Toho are very supportive of the setting, and it's likely that the approval process is based on determining what the movies need as opposed to there being real legal red tape preventing certain characters from being used.
* AllThereInTheManual: In the lead-up to the home release of ''Kong: Skull Island'', social media pages for the movie have been releasing video timelines for the Monsterverse. Notable events include the establishment of a Monarch research base at a Caribbean volcanic island in 1991 (presumably Rodan's roost), the discovery of Mothra's temple in China in 2009 and finding King Ghidorah frozen in MysteriousAntarctica in 2016.
* AgeLift:
** Godzilla has always been described as ancient, but in this continuity he survived the Permian Extinction, which happened [[TimeAbyss 252 million years ago]].
** Judging by TheStinger of ''Kong: Skull Island'', Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah are also a lot older than their Toho counterparts. The original movie involving King Ghidorah mentioned that he was over 5,000 years old, but based on Godzilla's own AgeLift and the fact that the two have already fought at some point in ancient history, he's most likely '''[[TimeAbyss significantly]]''' older here.
** In the meantime, King Kong is conversely much, '''much''' younger than the other versions of the character, which are described as being prehistoric in nature. While his species of ape has been around for that long in this continuity, Kong himself is only a teenager in TheSeventies and is still growing.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The setting's entire premise is that the world is filled with these, and while they've been mostly dormant, they're making a comeback.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently, a giant winged kaiju (possibly Rodan) caused the Great Smog of London.
* BehemothBattle: Both films in the franchise thus far have featured multiple {{Kaiju}} each, who inevitably clash. There is yet to be (and seems to be no plan for) a single creature feature along the lines of the original ''[[Film/Godzilla1954 Godzilla]]'' or more recent ''Film/ShinGodzilla''.
* BenevolentConspiracy: Monarch serves as an institution to make sure the monsters are kept in check, and are instrumental in helping the governments of the world deal with these threats accordingly. That being said, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they do a lot more harm than good]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'', to the point where none of their people would have died if they hadn't agreed to bomb the place to try and map it.
* CanonForeigner: A lot of monsters are created for the series, including the MUTO and the Skullcrawlers.
* ContinuityReboot: The franchise represents the third reboot of the ''King Kong'' film series[[note]]not counting Toho's version[[/note]] and the first American reboot of the ''Godzilla'' franchise following the 1998 movie.
* DeadToBeginWith: Adam, the Godzilla fossil that played host to the [=MUTOs=]; and King Kong's parents, respectively.
* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows them) unless they're attacked (although Godzilla doesn't fight back against humans when they attack him and only seeks to destroy the Mutos).
* {{Kaiju}}: The setting is about gigantic monsters rampaging through human cities.
* {{Masquerade}}: Upheld in ''Kong: Skull Island'', since the island itself is hidden away and any information about what happened there is classified. Upheld for about half of ''Godzilla'', at which point Godzilla and the two MUTO [[TheUnmasquedWorld completely do away with it altogether]].
* UnluckilyLucky: The human characters and humanity as a whole seem to have this going for them in this universe. As while Godzilla and Kong do cause them a good amount of grief they also end up taking out the threats that would have done ''so'' much worse.
* PrehistoricMonster: Godzilla, the [=MUTOs=] and many more existed well before the dawn of mankind.
* SerkisFolk: The giant monsters are animated through MotionCapture. The TropeNamer himself, Creator/AndySerkis, assisted in the animation of Godzilla, albeit uncredited.
* SharedUniverse: One of several conceived in the wake of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse achieving success with ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', one of two owned by Warner Bros. (the other being the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse), and one of two currently focusing on monsters as opposed to superheroes (the other being Universal's modern day Franchise/UniversalHorror [[Film/DarkUniverse rebooted universe]]).
* SealedCastInAMultipack: Many Kaiju are slumbering or trapped somewhere on Earth waiting to be awakened in some way. The [=MUTOs=] were in a sealed undergrown cavern until a mining organization DugTooDeep and according to the Monarch Timeline, Mothra is dormant in a cocoon in a temple in China, Rodan is sleeping in a volcano, an unknown kaiju is dormant and contained in Siberia, and King Ghidorah is sealed away in the Antarctic ice.
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