History Franchise / MonsterVerse

* TailSlap: Godzilla weaponizes his tail as a slapping tool against other Titans, as does his EvilKnockoff Mechagodzilla. Mokele-Mbembe also uses his tail like a whip, slicing up pyramids which have withstood the test of time like they're made of butter.

* TwoFirstNames: Vivienne Graham in the 2014 film and ''King of the Monsters'', James Conrad in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and Alan Jonah in ''King of the Monsters''.

* AnimalNemesis: Both of the main protagonist Kaiju, Godzilla and Kong, have respectively been this to various human characters at times, and every time they have, it's either the {{deconstructed}} version of the trope or said humans are presented as fallacious and vindictive antagonists. [[GeneralRipper Packard]] in ''Kong: Skull Island'' is obsessed with killing Kong, whilst Mark Russell and [[AntagonisticOffspring Ren Serizawa]] both respectively want Godzilla dead due to MisplacedRetribution over Godzilla's indirect role in their loved ones' deaths.

* AsianAndNerdy: Though an American franchise, the [=MonsterVerse=] has seen several egghead characters who happen to be of Asian nationality and exceptionally smart. Monarch's monster experts and field specialists include the [=MonsterVerse's=] resident Dr. Serizawa, the Chen family and San Lin, whilst Serizawa's son Ren is a technically-gifted engineer.

** ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'', a prequel set inbetween ''Kong: Skull Island'' and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', is somewhere in the middle between the ''Kong'' movie and ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' in terms of dense and wackiness, harkening back more to ''Kong: Skull Island''[='s=] exotic but gritty and bloody tone. On one hand, the cast is in a WorldOfSnark, the monsters (particularly Kong, Dog and a giant hawk) are TheSilentBob levels of expressive like the monsters in the later two [=MonsterVerse=] movies were, and one of the new creatures is basically a giant, mutant werewolf-pitbull creature who behaves much like a dog even in the wild. On the other hand, the series features none of the later two movies' fantastical hi-tech (the closest approximation being a TrackingDevice small enough to conceal inside handcuffs being available to high-paying mercenaries in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]]), and characters who don't deserve it die horrible and often bloody deaths at the creatures' hands. The kaiju themselves in the animation vary in the speed and weight of their movements, from semi-realistically slow and weighty like in the earlier movies to speedy enough to match Woody Woodpecker despite the laws of physics, depending on the scene.

* {{Facepalm}}: Dr. Brooks facepalms in dismay when he realizes his son disappeared because he went to Skull Island after their last argument over their differing views on the Titans, in ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''. Dr. Serizawa facepalms in ''King of the Monsters'' when he realizes that the eco-terrorists are planning to forcibly awaken all the dormant Titans because Emma has taken Serizawa's [[TheXenophile Xenophilic]] views on the creatures to the extreme.

* LeanAndMean: Both Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla, despite being among the larger Titans, have very lean and lithe physiques. They're also a lot eviler than the other Titans, being ''actively'' genocidal creatures who murder humans every chance they get.

* DaylightHorror: The vast majority of the horrifying scenes in ''Kong: Skull Island'' occur in the daytime, and against gorgeous tropical scenery to boot; whilst Godzilla and the [=MUTOs'=] kaiju-style arrival in San Francisco in the 2014 film and the [[spoiler:Ghidorah-controlled]] Mechagodzilla's rampage in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' both respectively occur amid a grim, grey overcast day.

* ''[[Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters Monarch: Legacy of Monsters]]'' (Late 2023) - Live-action series premiering on Creator/AppleTVPlus featuring Godzilla and the Titans, centered on a family discovering secrets about their history linking them to Monarch.

** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' and ''Godzilla: Dominion'' do this to the mass awakening of the other Titans in ''King of the Monsters''. The film makes the Titans' awakening out to be the DawnOfAnEra, but ''Godzilla Dominion'' ends with Godzilla commanding the newly-awakened Titans to return to hibernation before the events of ''Godzilla vs Kong'', [[spoiler: as it's implied he has sensed Ghidorah within Mechagodzilla and wants to avoid another global rampage.]] .

** Most of Skull Island is lush and tropical if super-deadly and hostile forestry, but the Skullcrawlers, which stand out from Skull Island's other creatures for being a subterranean invasive species that would wipe out the entire ecosystem if allowed to run amuck, make their home in a barren boneyard wreathed in toxic fumes where almost nothing else lives.
** In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', several of the Titans' domains reflect their temperaments as they shape the world around them according to their nature. The egg that hatches Mothra, the most benevolent and [[FriendToAllLivingThings life-friendly]] Titan of all (who literally gets pissed off at a {{containment field}} bug-zapping her domain's flies), is found deep in a rainforest in an overgrown temple that's teeming with life. During the third and fourth acts of the film where the violent, psychotic and omnicidal Ghidorah has usurped Godzilla as the reigning King of the Monsters and is engineering world-threatening global chaos, every location the main human cast visits is being pelted by torrential storms of thunder and rain, reflecting how Ghidorah is upturning and threatening to annihilate the global natural order including humanity.

* MysteriousIsland: Skull Island, as always, is a remote IsleOfGiantHorrors hidden away from the civilized world, home to various prehistoric and otherworldly monsters including King Kong. This incarnation of Skull Island, which is mostly a hot and humid tropical island, is cloaked from the outside world by a PerpetualStorm which the island is usually within the eye of and magnetic anomalies which fool navigation instruments, and the island us home to bizarre phenomena which include gigantic {{planimal}}s and aurora-like atmospheric anomalies. The source of most of the island's phenomena is that it's a gateway to the HollowEarth and the gravitational inversion inbetween the Hollow Earth and surface world. Skull Island is also home to the Iwi tribe, whom have survived under Kong's protection and are fortunately much friendlier than the natives of other Skull Island incarnations. The island hosts huge, ancient ruins from a time when the Iwis' original ancestors and Kong's ancestors were much more advanced and powerful. Many shipwrecks and WWII planes have disappeared from the outside world over centuries because they washed ashore on the storm-cloaked Skull Island, where their derelict wreckages remain.

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* ''Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters'' (Late 2023) - Live action series premiering on Creator/AppleTVPlus featuring Godzilla and the Titans, centered on a family discovering secrets about their history linking them to Monarch.

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* ''[=GvK=]: Kingdom Kong'' (2021)
* ''[=GvK=]: Godzilla Dominion'' (2021)

* ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' (2023) (Tabletop Game)

* SequelNonEntity: When a new film is released, chances are that most of the characters from the preceding film won't reappear nor get a mention, regardless of their importance to the setting or any appearance they had in the movie's [[TheStinger Stinger]]. James Conrad and Mason Weaver didn't reappear for six years, two movies, four graphic novels and one TV series after ''Kong: Skull Island'' set them up to join Monarch: the sequel storyline of the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' finally brought them back in. And almost all of the characters from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', including most of Monarch's top scientists, are completely absent from ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' during Monarch's investigation into Godzilla's rampage.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Jinshin-Mushi in ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' and Camazotz in ''Kingdom Kong'' both have weaponized screams which can cause immense physical pain and harm to their Titan opponents.

* PerpetualStorm: Skull Island is surrounded by a perpetual typhoon which acts like a barrier, shielding it from the rest of the world while the island usually sits in the storm's clear-skied eye except for episodes where the storm overlaps with the island to bring rain and wind -- according to ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'', the main theory about the storm's origin and true nature is that it's a byproduct of the HollowEarth's gravity inversion barrier interacting with the surface's atmosphere via Skull Island's Vile Vortex. Ghidorah, once he's awakened, begins generating a perpetual lightning-filled hypercane around himself, and it's implied he would've ultimately covered the entire Earth in perpetual storms if he was allowed to reign unchecked. As of the ''Kingdom Kong'' graphic novel, Skull Island's perpetual storm barrier has closed in and enveloped the whole island after Camazotz merged a perpetual storm leftover by Ghidorah's rampage with the storm barrier, leading to the island's destruction.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A couple characters like Lieutenant Preston Packard and Mark Russell have considerable similarities to characters from previous ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'' continuities. Within the [=MonsterVerse's=] own continuity, Dr. Ilene Chen seems like one to Dr. Graham, and Ren Serizawa has a lot in common with Aaron Brooks. [[GeneralRipper General Ward]] in ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' sounds a lot like Packard, as an antagonistic, vengeful military commander with a grudge against Kong for the deaths of his men.

* GeneralRipper: Colonel Packard in ''Kong Skull Island'', who starts the film off as somewhat unstable and then goes ''completely overboard'' in his mad obsession with killing Kong. Downplayed with Admiral Stenz, who is persistently distrustful of the Titans and prone to thinking NukeEm moves on them will do anything other than cause an EpicFail but does try to be reasonable. {{Inverted}} with the U.S. government in ''Godzilla Aftershock'' and ''King of the Monsters'', who are shown to be ''at least'' as short-sighted as Stenz and even more unreasonable than him about the matter of seizing any excuse that might see Godzilla killed and being blatantly blind to the long-term consequences biting them in the ass.

* PerpetualStorm: Skull Island is surrounded by a perpetual storm barrier which shields it from the rest of the world. Ghidorah, once he's awakened, begins generating a perpetual hurricane around himself, and it's implied he would've ultimately covered the entire Earth in perpetual storms if he was allowed to reign unchecked. As of the ''Kingdom Kong'' graphic novel, Skull Island's perpetual storm barrier has closed in and enveloped the whole island after Camazotz merged a perpetual storm leftover by Ghidorah's rampage with the storm barrier, leading to the island's destruction.

* SequelNonEntity: When a new film is released, chances are that most of the characters from the preceding film won't reappear nor get a mention, regardless of their importance to the setting or any appearance they had in the movie's [[TheStinger Stinger]]. James Conrad and Mason Weaver have yet to reappear in any capacity as of this writing; six years, two movies, four graphic novels and one TV series after ''Kong: Skull Island'' set them up to join Monarch. Almost all of the characters from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', including most of Monarch's top scientists, are completely absent from ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' during Monarch's investigation into Godzilla's rampage.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A couple characters like Lieutenant Preston Packard and Mark Russell have considerable similarities to characters from previous ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'' continuities. Within the [=MonsterVerse's=] own continuity, Dr. Ilene Chen seems like one to Dr. Graham and Ren Serizawa has a lot in common with Aaron Brooks.

* '' Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong (2023)

* DeadpanSnarker: Quite a lot of human characters. There's Elle Brody in the 2014 film, Captain Cole in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and there's Tarkan in ''Godzilla Aftershock''. ''King of the Monsters'' and the ''Skull Island'' 2023 series in particular have [[WorldOfSnark pretty much the whole snark be snarky and quippy at least once]].

** ''Skull Island'' (2023): Several. The overall series storyline begins with a hyper-aggressive [[KrakenAndLeviathan kraken monster]] destroying the human cast's boat and killing one of their own in front of his son's eyes, leading them to be shipwrecked on [[IsleOfGiantHorrors Skull Island]] and separated from each-other. Episode 5 opens with Annie and an ailing Mike getting effectively captured by the PrivateMilitaryContractors, Dog getting carried off by the [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey Hawk Monster]], and Charlie being left all alone. Episode 6 opens with a flashback to the night that Annie's father died, just before he went to his death.

* ImpossibleGracefulGiant: Largely avoided with Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] in ''Godzilla'' (2014): their massive size and weight really shows in their slow and weighty movements on-camera. In the next movie, ''Kong: Skull Island'', Kong and the Skullcrawlers are significantly more agile and acrobatic, leaping great distances through the air despite their sheer size and gravity, but they still have an appropriately slow and weighty quality to their movements here. Godzilla and other giant monsters' movements become a little more fluid and faster-paced in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' (2019), while ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' further ditches the early movies' realistically slow Kaiju movements even further to make the monsters more ridiculously agile and fast, a la ''Film/PacificRimUprising''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Quite a lot of human characters. There's Elle Brody in the 2014 film, Captain Cole in ''Kong: Skull Island'', there's Mark, Stanton, Jonah and Senator Williams in ''King of the Monsters'', and there's Tarkan in ''Godzilla Aftershock''.

* ILetGwenStacyDie: In the 2014 movie, Joe Brody feels responsible for his wife [[TheLostLenore Sandra]]'s death many years later, since she was only at the heart of the disaster because he told her to go down to the nuclear reactor before things got serious. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Nathan Lind has been in a HeroicBSOD since his brother died a couple years prior, blaming himself because it was partly his tunnel vision that got his brother and several other people killed. In the ''Skull Island'' animated series, Kong is haunted by the death of the Island Girl years after the WholeEpisodeFlashback, and it's {{implied}} that he feels responsible [[spoiler:because he was too late to save her and her village (whom were all under his protection) from being exterminated by the newly-emerged Kraken, to say nothing of the possibility that he might have eventually worked out that ''he'' unwittingly caused the Kraken's awakening to begin with after his moment of arrogance when dealing with the giant chameleons]].

* MonsterDelay: In Godzilla's movie debut, we don't see his full body until at least 1/4 through the movie. Like husband like moth, since in ''King of the Monsters'', Mothra's imago form's face and full body aren't seen by the audience until at least 30 minutes after the scene where she hatched.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are quite a few cases. The biggest offenders are Admiral Stenz, whose support of the Oxygen Destroyer in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' directly causes Ghidorah's NearVillainVictory that takes up the second half of the film; God knows how many of the people Stenz was trying to protect die horribly around the world as a result of this, to say nothing of how Ghidorah's victory would have spelled the extinction of humanity and all other complex life on Earth. Dr. Brooks, whose seismic operations on Skull Island in ''Kingdom Kong'' (a mistake of his which previously unleashed the Skullcrawlers in ''Kong: Skull Island'') debatably secures [[spoiler:the destruction of Skull Island's entire unique ecosystem by PerpetualStorm]], much to his horror. In the WholeEpisodeFlashback of the ''Skull Island'' series, Kong being cocky when he takes on the giant chameleons gets him injured, and unfortunately when he treats the wound afterwards he accidentally awakens the Kraken which causes Kong and the human cast a lot of death and grief throughout the series.

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Not in release order, but if the franchise's film installments are put in ''chronological'' order, this trope is in full effect until ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the Skullcrawlers are relatively small by Kaiju standards, and Kong who ''isn't even fully mature yet'' can beat back hordes of them. In ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'', the Kraken can hold its own in a fight against a more mature Kong, coming close to killing him. In ''Film/Godzilla2014'', the [=MUTOs=] are nearly the size of Godzilla, they create an {{EMP}} around themselves which does a lot to cripple the entire U.S. Navy's efforts to track and stop them, and the pair make Godzilla (whom ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' would later establish to be basically a lot more physically powerful than Kong) work quite a bit to kill them both, and it looks like the [=MUTOs=] nearly win the fight against him. In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Ghidorah is roughly ''twice'' the size of Godzilla, he's powerful enough that Godzilla is considered the ''only'' force on Earth that can truly rival him (and even then, in a fair fight without Mothra's assistance or watery terrain, Godzilla despite himself does seem to be the underdog), Ghidorah generates an intensifying electricity-filled hurricane around himself merely by being active, and he gains command of ''all the other Kaiju on the planet'' except Mothra when Godzilla is briefly incapacitated. ZigZagged by ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', where the BigBad Mechagodzilla [[spoiler:is essentially Ghidorah's {{reincarnation}}, but is implicitly not quite as powerful as Ghidorah was: lacking Ghidorah's HealingFactor, EnergyAbsorption and apocalyptic WeatherManipulation, with Word of God and the novelization suggesting the Mecha only succeeded in curb-stomping Godzilla because the latter was already heavily weakened before their fight, and with the heroes successfully killing Mechagodzilla before it can take control of any other Titans]].

* SquashedFlat: Packard is crushed into the ground by Kong's fist in ''Kong: Skull Island'' (2017), at least one or two soldiers are crushed by falling ice boulders during Ghidorah's awakening in ''King of the Monsters'', and Hiro is flattened by the Kraken's CombatTentacles in ''Skull Island'' (2023).

** In the ''Skull Island'' series, the Croc Monster, setting its sights on trying to eat Mike and Charlie (and ''immediately'' after it's already eaten a grown mercenary no less), pursues the boys along the rapids of a river that the Croc itself fears, and even ''over a waterfall'' which is the main reason the Croc fears the rapids.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Earth is a hellish world in which 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 reclaiming the world for themselves. Unlike the aliens and gods in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse or Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, the heroic monsters are rather indifferent towards humanity and can be every bit as destructive as the villainous monsters. However, that does not preclude the monster being friendly and benevolent, as evidenced by Mothra, and [[spoiler:Godzilla organizing his fellow monsters to leave humanity unharmed whilst replenishing the world's ecosphere]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:Ghidorah is living proof that alien life on par with the Titans exists, and the hydra in question is every bit as malicious and [[OmnicidalManiac hellbent on razing the Earth clean of life]] here as he ever was]].

* EvilIsBigger: Ghidorah, introduced in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', is the largest Titan in the franchise at a whopping 521 feet as well as the evilest, serving as the BigBad of that movie. Ghidorah's reincarnation Mechagodzilla in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', though not as big, still stands taller than both of the other two Titans in that movie, and he's just as murderous as Ghidorah was. The Kraken in ''Skull Island'' supersedes Kong himself in total body size, and it's a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

* MoralDisambiguation: In the first couple of movies, [[AdaptationalHeroism Godzilla]] and Kong are on humanity's side more due to circumstance than anything else. Godzilla causes mass destruction in his own right, and it's ambiguous how much he is out to destroy the more hostile [=MUTOs=] because they're disrupting the balance of nature at large, and how much he's just out to kill his natural enemy. In his debut in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', Kong is an AntiHero and not above massacring U.S. military forces when they unwittingly disturb and threaten his kingdom. Meanwhile, Godzilla and Kong's kaiju foes in early installments are [[NonMaliciousMonster simply doing what nature built them to do rather than being deliberately malicious]]. In subsequent movies; Godzilla, and especially Kong, become more heroic and pathic to humans, whilst the antagonistic kaiju get more petty and genuinely malicious.

* NatureIsNotNice: Everything humans thought they knew about the creatures they share the Earth with is really just the ''insect kingdom'', which humans are a part of; and there was once an entire world of gigantic, radioactive, borderline-supernatural beasts who will fight and kill each-other for dominance and survival (as Godzilla does to the [=MUTOs=], but fortunately these creatures are mostly indifferent to humans the same way we're indifferent to the ants we see in our garden. Somewhat ZigZagged, as some of the Kaiju such as Godzilla, Mothra and Kong are capable of higher intelligence and even displaying benevolence towards humans, and ''King of the Monsters'' establishes the Kaiju have a cross-species hierarchy amongst themselves which enables them to coexist.

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Not in release order, but if the franchise's film installments are put in ''chronological'' order, this trope is in full effect until ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the Skullcrawlers are relatively small by Kaiju standards, and Kong who ''isn't even fully mature yet'' can beat back hordes of them. In ''Film/Godzilla2014'', the [=MUTOs=] are nearly the size of Godzilla, they create an {{EMP}} around themselves which does a lot to cripple the entire U.S. Navy's efforts to track and stop them, and the pair make Godzilla work quite a bit to kill them both and it looks like they nearly win the fight against him. In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Ghidorah is roughly ''twice'' the size of Godzilla, he's powerful enough that Godzilla is considered the ''only'' force on Earth that can truly rival him (and even then, in a fair fight without Mothra's assistance or watery terrain, Godzilla despite himself does seem to be the underdog), Ghidorah generates an intensifying electricity-filled hurricane around himself merely by being active, and he gains command of ''all the other Kaiju on the planet'' except Mothra when Godzilla is briefly incapacitated. Overall ZigZagged in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', where the BigBad Mechagodzilla [[spoiler:is essentially Ghidorah's {{reincarnation}}, but is implicitly not quite as powerful as Ghidorah was: lacking Ghidorah's HealingFactor, EnergyAbsorption and apocalyptic WeatherManipulation, with Word of God and the novelization suggesting the Mecha only succeeded in curb-stomping Godzilla because the latter was already heavily weakened before their fight, and with the heroes successfully killing Mechagodzilla before it can take control of any other Titans]].

** Type 1: Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorists, G-Team, Emma, Mark and Madison Russell.
** Type 2: Chen family, Madison Russell (in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters -- The Official Movie Novelization''), Rock Critters, Scaly Quadruped.

* ILetGwenStacyDie:: In the 2014 movie, Joe Brody feels responsible for his wife [[TheLostLenore Sandra]]'s death many years later, since she was only at the heart of the disaster because he told her to go down to the nuclear reactor before things got serious. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Nathan Lind has been in a HeroicBSOD since his brother died a couple years prior, blaming himself because it was partly his tunnel vision that got his brother and several other people killed. In the ''Skull Island'' animated series, Kong is haunted by the death of the Island Girl years after the WholeEpisodeFlashback, and it's {{implied}} that he feels responsible [[spoiler:because he was too late to save her and her village (whom were all under his protection) from being exterminated by the newly-emerged Kraken, to say nothing of the possibility that he might have eventually worked out that ''he'' unwittingly caused the Kraken's awakening to begin with after his moment of arrogance when dealing with the giant chameleons]].

* NormalFishInATinyPond: On average, the creatures on Skull Island are in a lighter weight class than the Titans distributed around the world, but still a mortal threat to any humans that run afoul of them: Kong, the Skullcrawlers and the Kraken are the island's top dogs who vie against each-other to be the island's apex predators (a position which Kong holds and maintains), but Godzilla and the worldwide Titans are in another league altogether, [[spoiler:as Kong himself learns the hard way in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' once the global King of the Monsters stops holding back on the King of Skull Island altogether]].

** In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters''; Ghidorah, upon waking up, takes a good look at the humans around his former resting site, then with a [[SlasherSmile smile]] on his [[MultipleHeadCase middle head]]'s face, proceeds to atomize them with all three heads' worth of [[BreathWeapon Gravity Beams]], and he continues to give any and all humans he encounters the same treatment for the rest of the movie. Upon taking over as the reigning global King of the Monsters, Ghidorah galvanizes the other Titans into attacking cities and engulfing the globe in a NaturalDisasterCascade, threatening to cause a global extinction event, while violently xenoforming the Earth to his own liking -- and in the novelization, it's briefly speculated that Ghidorah [[ForTheEvulz might not even be trying to do the latter]].
** This trait carries over to Mechagodzilla once whatever's left of Ghidorah's consciousness reincarnates into it and makes it autonomous, in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. The very first thing the Mecha does with its newfound sentience is murder its own creators, and upon breaking out of their base and seeing the Hong Kong skyline, it immediately turns its all-destroying BreathWeapon on the fleeing people and city blocks below, ''then'' it hyper-focuses on beating down and killing Godzilla at all costs.

* BehemothBattle: The franchise's crux, featuring at least one of these battles in every film. The Godzilla Vs. Kong promised Godzilla and Kong duking it out in "a battle for the ages". Instead it delivers three fights between Godzilla and Kong, [[spoiler:a fight between Mechagodzilla and a Skullcrawler, a fight between Gozilla and Mechagodzilla, and a fight between Mecha Godzilla, Godzilla, and Kong.]]

** When it comes to the human antagonists, the films do this more than once and ultimately go slightly back and forth. The first human antagonist in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' is an insane GeneralRipper who wants to kill the Titans allegedly to keep humanity safe; then in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', the human villains are pro-Titan [[EcoTerrorist Eco-Terrorists]] who want the Titans to reclaim the world from humanity, then in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' we're back to anti-Titan villains with delusions of taking the planet back from the monsters for humanity. However, whereas the ''Skull Island'' and ''King of the Monsters'' human antagonists were underground, military and somewhat ragtag organizations in their own respective ways, the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' human fiends are wealthy, techy and well-dressed EvilInc operatives who have at least a moderate public image.

* FreudianExcuse: Most of the major human antagonists except for [[TheSociopath Walter Simmons]] have one. [[spoiler:Emma Russell]] bemusingly decides the way to honor their son's tragic death as the casualty of a Kaiju battle is by conducting a UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans which technically involves engineering repeats of the same incident on millions of families around the world, whilst Jonah became the PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery MisanthropeSupreme he now is due to decades of war experience causing MaddenIntoMisanthropy and because of (according to the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization) the gruesome murder of his daughter that never got solved while he was away on a tour of duty. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization reveals [[EvilGenius Ren Serizawa]]'s personal motivations for wanting Godzilla dead are because he feels the Titan robbed him of his [[ParentalNeglect highly-absent father]]'s love and attention his entire life.

** The MUTO Prime which features as the main Kaiju antagonist of the ''Godzilla Aftershock'' graphic novel. It's the sire of both the [=MUTOs=] which served as the antagonists of the 2014 film. This also makes the MUTO Prime indirectly responsible for TheUnmasquedWorld that the MUTO pair's rampage caused.

* HostileTerraforming: This trope is generally theorized by Monarch to be the motivations of most of the hostile Titans (the [=MUTOs=] and MUTO Prime, Ghidorah, Camazotz) respectively. It's believed that the greater-scale apocalyptic threat from each of these creatures -- besides being gigantic, city-destroying monsters with little to nil regard for human life of course -- comes from them seeking to reshape whatever territory they're looking to claim for themselves (Skull Island in Camazotz's case, the ''entire planet'' in Ghidorah's case) into a state more to their own liking, with the process destroying the pre-existing ecosystems and causing mass extinction. This makes an interesting parallel to humans, who are themselves doing this to the world already both InUniverse and in RealLife, with Godzilla as the embodiment of natural balance working to stop these hostile Titans when they threaten the world's overall natural equilibrium.

* KilledOffscreen: Gunpei Ikari during the 28-year TimeSkip in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and the Sirenjaw in the sequel graphic novel ''The Birth of Kong''. In ''Godzilla vs Kong'', the Iwi except for Jia have suffered BusCrash.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: Several. Aside from Godzilla himself, the franchise has featured two cephalopodic, tentacled marine Titans that are capable of inflicting mass destruction on humanity, and both of them shared the name "Kraken" at some point. The first Kraken, Na Kika, is among the monsters enthralled by King Ghidorah to attack the world during the global Titann rampage in ''King of the Monsters'', while the second (dubbed the Kraken by Brian Duffield) is a highly-aggressive and malicious beast which attacks anyone or anything that approaches Skull Island's waters from either direction in the animated series.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The United Nations Security Council in ''Godzilla Aftershock''. They've made up their minds about what ''not'' to do about the MUTO Prime crisis as soon as they heard the part where the MUTO Prime succeeding in its goal of wearing down and fatally impregnating Godzilla with its parasitic spawn will cause the MUTO Prime to go back into dormancy. They're convinced this will solve both their problems with [[HeroWithBadPublicity Godzilla]] dead and the MUTO Prime inactive, in blatant and frankly obscene disregard of the bit where allowing the MUTO Prime to do that will result in its spawn being unleashed on the world to at best trigger a repeat of the 2014 incident or at worst succeed in causing an extinction event, with no Godzilla to fight them (or any other hostile Titans) off this time.

* TentacledTerror: Na Kika (''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', ''Godzilla: Dominion'') and the Kraken of Skull Island (animated series) are both colossal marine monsters with CombatTentacles who attack humans, although the former mainly does so under [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]]'s control whereas the latter is violent all on its own.

** [[EcoTerrorist Alan Jonah]] despises humanity and seeks our total destruction, because decades of fighting for his country in the world's worst war zones, where he repetitively saw with his own eyes just how monstrous human beings could become, have broken his mind.

* AdvertisedExtra: Joe Brody was heavily featured in trailers for the 2014 movie, but in the movie proper, he dies fairly early on and is barely mentioned again after the LectureAsExposition. Likewise, the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' trailers put emphasis on Mark Russell and Ren Serizawa, but in the final film, Mark was a minor character with only a few scenes, while Ren despite [[AntagonisticOffspring his connection to the previous films]] was just an EliteMook. Promotional materials for ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'' emphatically feature a Skullcrawler, which is only in one episode of the show for a couple minutes before being killed.

* AxCrazy: Ghidorah will murder anything that moves if it's human, often with a SlasherSmile or three on his [[MultipleHeadCase faces]], and he wants to create global extinction. [[spoiler:His {{reincarnation}} in Mechagodzilla likewise slaughters several city blocks' worth of fleeing civilians the moment that he sees them]].

* BrainyBrunette: There's ''lots'' of brown-haired, exceptionally smart people, particularly on the heroes' side. Joe Brody, Dr. Graham, Madison Russell, Sam Coleman, Nathan Lind, Ilene Andrews, Jia, most of Aaron Brooks' Skull Island expedition.

** Both the [=MUTOs=] and the Skullcrawlers are merely animals acting on instinct, but while the [=MUTOs=] are insectoid and they're portrayed as somewhat sympathetic and tragic, the Skullcrawlers are reptilian and played for full-on horror. Then they're followed by the draconic King Ghidorah, and later [[spoiler:his mechanical reincarnation Mechagodzilla]], both of whom are no mere instinctive beasts but are genuinely evil, sadistic and malicious creatures. It's also worth noting, whereas the [=MUTOs=] and Skullcrawlers are primordial, natural creatures, [[spoiler:Ghidorah is an ancient extraterrestrial of unknown origin who's considered an invasive species to Earth's biosphere]] and Mechagodzilla is a newly-manmade cybernetic beast.

* EvilIsBigger: King Ghidorah and his reincarnation Mechagodzilla. Ghidorah, introduced in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', is the largest Titan in the franchise at a whopping 521 feet as well as the evilest, and he's the BigBad of that movie. Mechagodzilla in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', though not as big, still stands taller than both of the other two Titans in this movie, and he's just as evil as Ghidorah was.

* GiantFlyer: Unsurprisingly for a {{Kaiju}} franchise, there are lots of monsters that are capable of flight: including [[BigCreepyCrawlies Hokmuto]], [[TheWormThatWalks Shinomura]], [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]], [[TerrorDactyl Rodan]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Mothra]], [[BatOutOfHell Camazotz]], [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Hellhawks]], and Kong's hawk.

* HomefieldAdvantage: For Godzilla as an aquatic saurian, it's dragging foes who are poorly suited to water (Ghidorah and Kong) into the ocean. For Kong in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', as a giant ape, being in the middle of Hong Kong enables him to use the skyscrapers to swing around and dodge Godzilla's Atomic Breath. For Camazotz, it's being in the air as a GiantFlyer whilst Kong is more or less land-bound.

* MoralDisambiguation: In the first couple of movies, [[AdaptationalHeroism Godzilla]] and Kong are on humanity's side more due to circumstance than anything else. Godzilla causes mass destruction in his own right, and it's ambiguous how much he is out to destroy the more hostile [=MUTOs=] because they're disrupting the balance of nature at large, and how much he's just out to kill his natural enemy. In his debut in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', Kong is an AntiHero and not above massacring U.S. military forces when they unwittingly disturb and threaten his kingdom. Meanwhile, Godzilla and Kong's kaiju foes in early installments are [[NonMaliciousMonster doing what nature built them to do rather than being deliberately malicious]]. In subsequent movies, Godzilla becomes more heroic and pathic to humans, and Kong becomes exclusively heroic, whilst the antagonistic kaiju get more petty and malicious, to the point of King Ghidorah being an OmnicidalManiac who displays ''true'' malice while trying to wipe out humanity.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Many of the monsters have more teeth inside their mouths than a person would feel comfortable seeing. Skullcrawlers and Swamp Locusts on Skull Island, Mokele-Mbembe. Even Ghidorah has a couple extra teeth in his gums.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: There are quite a few cases over the course of the franchise. The biggest offenders are Admiral Stenz, whose support of the Oxygen Destroyer in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' directly causes Ghidorah's NearVillainVictory for the second half of the film, which causes God knows how many unnecessary deaths around the world and would have spelled the extinction of all complex life on Earth if Ghidorah wasn't stopped; and Dr. Brooks, whose seismic operations on Skull Island in ''Kingdom Kong'' (a mistake of his which previously unleashed the Skullcrawlers in ''Kong: Skull Island'') debatably secures [[spoiler:the destruction of Skull Island's entire unique ecosystem by PerpetualStorm]], much to his horror.

* OneSteveLimit: Names in the franchise which have respectively belonged to two different characters include Martinez, Sam, Walter, Rick (in the ''King of the Monsters'' {{novelization}}), Ilene, and [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]].

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While most of the antagonistic Kaiju are reptiles, so is Godzilla. That being said, it could be more accurately stated that some kinds of reptiles are abhorrent - all antagonistic reptilian Kaiju introduced so far have a [[SnakesAreSinister snake theme]], while the heroic Godzilla has a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile theme]].

* {{Sadist}}: Ghidorah is different from the other Titans in that he'll kill any humans he sees not because they're an inconvenience or are in his way, but just because he enjoys it; flashing {{slasher smile}}s as he attacks, and often disengaging with the big atomic lizard who ''does'' pose a threat to him when an opportunity to slaughter humans for his own amusement presents itself. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Ren Serizawa grins in ecstasy when Mechagodzilla is violently sawing a Skullcrawler in half under his control. In ''Skull Island'', the Kraken kills anyone or anything that passes by its aquatic territory, and it furthermore has a nasty habit of taunting Kong with the remains of its kills (some of whom were Kong's own beloved charges).

** The [=MUTOs=] in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' are overall [[NonMaliciousMonster Non-Malicious Monsters]] if highly callous, they just want to survive and reproduce regardless of how their life cycle threatens other life, and they do get some TragicMonster treatment. In the subsequent prequel film ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the Skullcrawlers are voracious and relentless man-eating predators who are driven by an extreme, biologically-ingrained HorrorHunger: though they're ultimately just following instincts like the [=MUTOs=], unlike those creatures, the Skullcrawlers are played for full horror. Then in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', the BigBad is King Ghidorah, who compared to the previous films' kaiju is {{sadist}}ic to an unnatural degree, being aware of its actions whilst exhibiting unmistakable ForTheEvulz tendencies; killing humans with no gain other than malicious amusement to be found. ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' has [[spoiler:Ghidorah's reincarnation Mechagodzilla, who is just as sadistic as its predecessor]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Joe Brody was heavily featured in trailers for the 2014 movie, but in the movie proper, he dies fairly early on and is barely mentioned again after the LectureAsExposition. Likewise, the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' trailers put emphasis on Mark Russell and Ren Serizawa, but in the final film, Mark was a minor character with only a few scenes, while Ren despite [[AntagonisticOffspring his connection to the previous films]] was just an EliteMook.

** Both the [=MUTOs=] and the Skullcrawlers are merely animals acting on instinct, but while the [=MUTOs=] are portrayed as somewhat sympathetic {{Tragic Monster}}s the Skullcrawlers are played for full-on horror. And then they're followed by King Ghidorah and later [[spoiler:his reincarnation Mechagodzilla]], both of whom are no mere instinctive beasts but are genuinely evil, sadistic and malicious creatures. It's also worth noting, whereas the [=MUTOs=] and Skullcrawlers are primordial, natural creatures, [[spoiler:Ghidorah is an ancient extraterrestrial of unknown origin who's considered an invasive species to Earth's biosphere]] and Mechagodzilla is a cybernetic beast of humanity's creation.
** When it comes to the human antagonists, the films do this more than once and ultimately go slightly back and forth. The first human antagonist in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' is an insane GeneralRipper who wants to kill the Titans allegedly to keep humanity safe; then in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', the human villains are pro-Titan [[EcoTerrorist Eco-Terrorists]] who want the Titans to reclaim the world from humanity, then in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' we're back to humanist, anti-Titan villains. However, whereas the ''Skull Island'' and ''King of the Monsters'' human antagonists were underground, military and somewhat ragtag organizations in their own respective ways, the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' human fiends are wealthy, techy and well-dressed EvilInc operatives who have at least a moderate public image.

*** As competent and intelligent as [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Alan Jonah]] is, especially comparative to the other villains, his [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred of humanity]] is so great that it overrides his intelligence when he realizes King Ghidorah can exterminate humanity completely. He overlooks the certainty that he and his men will also sooner or later die in that scenario, and the ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' novelization states more explicitly than the film that Jonah genuinely thinks against all logic that he and his troops will be able to eke out a worthwhile living after Ghidorah has been allowed to turn the entire Earth into a dead wasteland.

*** Walter Simmons is basically a walking sack of hubris. He seeks to glorify himself and realize his [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence ideals of solely-human planetary domination]]; but he's so convinced that [[CrazyEnoughToWork fortune always favors the bold]], he doesn't bat an eye at using '''[[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah's]]''' not-entirely-dormant alien neurology as the core of the ''control system'' that he's betting his entire plan on, and he's even stubborner about throwing GreenRocks into the mix without first even ''trying'' to examine them. This leads to a homicidal space dragon Titan's consciousness being reborn within Simmons' anti-Titan superweapon, which in turn leads to Simmons' death and his weapon doing [[KillAllHumans exactly what he claimed it would stop the Titans from doing first]].

* ForTheEvulz: Ghidorah kills people because he can, not because we're a threat or in his way, as does [[spoiler:his reincarnation in]] Mechagodzilla. It's even speculated in the novelization that Ghidorah isn't really motivated by [[HostileTerraforming turning Earth into a more suitable environment for himself]] at all so much as by murdering every living thing that isn't him.

* GiantFlyer: Unsurprisingly for a {{Kaiju}} franchise, there are lots of monsters that are capable of flight: including [[BigCreepyCrawlies Hokmuto]], [[TheWormThatWalks Shinomura]], [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]], Rodan, [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Mothra]], [[BatOutOfHell Camazotz]] and [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Hellhawks]].

** Godzilla seems to only use his Atomic Breath as a last resort in his earlier appearances, allegedly because it massively drains his radiation stores. This completely goes away in later instalments, where he practically spams his Atomic Breath.
** In the 2014 film, Serizawa clearly only resorts to attempting to have the incubating MUTO killed once he realizes the threat it poses. Admiral Stenz, unlike the usual GeneralRipper, is hinted to be reluctant to resort to [[NukeEm using nukes]] but believes there's no other way, and when ''that'' plan [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], Stenz hesitantly concedes to holding out hope that Serizawa is right about Godzilla being our ally.
** In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', the threat posed by King Ghidorah is so great and the circumstances so dire, Serizawa defies his own preaching against human intervention and against the use of nukes so that Godzilla will be able to stop Ghidorah.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Attempting to lure out Kong by dropping bombs on his home in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and charging Godzilla's atomic-powered body up with the full power of an exploding nuclear warhead in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters''; both respectively "work a little too well". [[MugglePower Apex Cybernetics]] designing Mechagodzilla to be able to kill Titans as powerful as Godzilla in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' means that once [[spoiler:Ghidorah's consciousness remnants take control of the Mecha]], the Mecha which is now essentially [[spoiler:Ghidorah reincarnated]] begins to KillAllHumans including Apex instead of allow Apex to TakeOverTheWorld and it stands a serious chance at killing Godzilla and resuming Ghidorah's end goals of bringing mass extinction including human extinction.

* HisStoryRepeatsItself: In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Mark and Emma's character development following the PlotTriggeringDeath of their elder child amid the Titan battle in San Francisco culminates in them trying to save their remaining child's life amid the Titans' FinalBattle in Boston. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Nathan Lind's character journey orients around him successfully launching the first manned mission to the Hollow Earth, a task at which he previously failed with his brother dying in the process, leaving him traumatized.

* HomeOfMonsters: Besides Skull Island being carried over from the ''Franchise/KingKong'' franchise, there's also the HollowEarth, which is believed InUniverse to be the true point of origin of most if not all the Titans including the creatures on Skull Island. The idea is first addressed In-Universe in ''Kong: Skull Island'' and its existence is effectively confirmed in ''King of the Monsters'', before it's finally visited and explored in full in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''.

* ItsPersonal: Quite a few examples occur over the franchise. Amid Godzilla and Ghidorah's feud for dominance, their interactions indicating they truly ''despise'' each-other because of their past history. Kong's hatred of the Skullcrawlers implicitly comes from them killing the rest of his kind including his parents until he was the last ape standing. In the 2014 movie, Joe Brody has been obsessed with uncovering the truth about Monarch and the male MUTO for years, after his wife died amid the destruction of Janjira as an indirect consequence of his actions before the MUTO attacked. Packard's insane obsession with killing Kong in ''Kong: Skull Island'' starts with Kong killing several of his men, and Packard latches onto that as a justification for a vendetta. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization confirms the movie's vague hints that Ren Serizawa has a personal fixation on killing Godzilla because of his father's death while saving the Titan, and it furthermore reveals that Bernie Hayes is trying to expose Apex because they apparently silenced his wife to hide their dirty secrets.

* MeaningfulName: Quite a few. Besides the Kaiju carried over from Toho and the ''King Kong'' franchise directly, and besides Ghidorah's RedBaron as the One Who Is Many in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters''; there's also the [[MoleMonster MUTO Prime]] being named after a mythical "Earthquake Beetle" in ''Godzilla Aftershock'', the Skullcrawlers' name describing their anatomy (and their Iwi name Halakrah translates to the accurate description "[[SuperPersistentPredator persistent enemy]]"), [[TheWormThatWalks Shinomura]] being named after a phrase meaning "''swarm of death''" in ''Godzilla Awakening'', and [[MugglePower Apex Cybernetics]]' name referring to both their end goal and [[HumongousMecha the means they intend to use to accomplish it]].

* OneSteveLimit: Names in the franchise which have respectively belonged to two different characters include Martinez, Sam, Walter, Rick (in the ''King of the Monsters'' {{novelization}}) and Ilene.

* {{Sadist}}: Ghidorah is different from the other Titans in that he'll kill any humans he sees not because they're an inconvenience or are in his way, but just because he enjoys it; flashing {{slasher smile}}s as he attacks, and often disengaging with the big atomic lizard who ''does'' pose a threat to him when an opportunity to slaughter humans for his own amusement presents itself. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Ren Serizawa grins in ecstasy when Mechagodzilla is violently sawing a Skullcrawler in half under his control.

* SequelNonEntity: When a new film is released, chances are that most of the characters from the preceding film won't reappear nor get a mention, regardless of their importance to the setting or any appearance they had in the movie's [[TheStinger Stinger]]. James Conrad and Mason Weaver have yet to reappear in any capacity as of this writing; six years, two movies and four graphic novels after ''Kong: Skull Island'' set them up to join Monarch. Almost all of the characters from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', including most of Monarch's top scientists, are completely absent from ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' during Monarch's investigation into Godzilla's rampage.

* SquashedFlat: Packard by Kong in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and at least one or two soldiers are killed this way by falling ice boulders during Ghidorah's awakening in ''King of the Monsters''.

** In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', [[CorporateConspiracy Apex Cybernetics]] still cling to the mindset that all Titans, not least [[BigGood Godzilla]], are monsters that pose an existential threat and need to be either corraled or destroyed; past the point where the previous movies already proved Godzilla is on humanity's side so long as we don't cross him, and that humans and Titans ''can'' share the planet in beneficial balance. Instead, Apex and their egotistical CEO have implicitly just taken the events of the previous films as proof that humanity needs to build even bigger and more dangerous weapons in order to annihilate Godzilla and take over his kingship.

** This is also present among the main human antagonists. Preston Packard in ''Kong: Skull Island'' is an AxCrazy ColonelKilgore who becomes more and more willing to sacrifice the lives of everyone around him in pursuit of his vendetta, but his fall into darkness is framed in a tragic light. In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', the FromCamouflageToCriminal MisanthropeSupreme Alan Jonah, though he has very tragic reasons for being so disillusioned with humanity, is a nasty piece of work who not only slaughters people left and right in pursuit of his goals, but is willing to let the three-headed monster he helped release condemn ''almost all life on Earth'' to certain extinction so long as he gets to see the human race that he despises wiped off the board. ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' has Walter Simmons, a {{narcissist}}ic utter egotist who has ''no'' tragic backstory to explain his actions, and whose justifications for his actions are presented in the story as even more hollow than the eco-terrorists': he's simply a self-spoiled industrialist who puts millions of people's lives in mortal danger by [[spoiler:instigating and knowingly continuing to instigate Godzilla's rampage]], all to satisfy his own ego.

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* GiantFlyer: Unsurprisingly for a {{Kaiju}} franchise, there are lots of monsters that are capable of flight: including [[BigCreepyCrawlies Hokmuto]], [[TheWormThatWalks Shinomura]], [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]], [[PteroSoarer Rodan]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Mothra]], [[BatOutOfHell Camazotz]] and [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Hellhawks]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Skull Island|2023}}'' (2023) - Animated series premiering on Creator/{{Netflix}} set on the titular island and following a group of explorers as they try to survive the alien environment.

* ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'' (2023) - Animated series premiering on Creator/{{Netflix}} set on the titular island and following a group of explorers as they try to survive the alien environment.

* ''Skull Island'' (TBA) - Animated series premiering on Creator/{{Netflix}} set on the titular island and following a group of explorers as they try to survive the alien environment.

* ''Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters''(Late 2023) - Live action series premiering on Creator/AppleTVPlus featuring Godzilla and the Titans, centered on a family discovering secrets about their history linking them to Monarch.