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**Welp, if the prequel comic is acknowledged as canon, we now have an in-universe reason as well: a short time after the first film, Godzilla's spines were shattered in a fight with another MUTO. Seems he regrew them over the next five years.
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*** If the rest of the franchise is any indication, the Doylist answer seems to be the correct one here - Godzilla has rarely looked the same in any two different movies, always for meta reasons, from suits getting too worn out to improved designs being thought of. In this case it's probably no different - they just implemented what they considered improvements to the design.

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The third trailer confirms that the fireball is Godzilla falling from the sky. Also, Madison and Emma are interacting with the larval form of Mothra


** It's possible that Ghidorah is a mutant abomination and the first of his kind. However, another possibility is that the fireball falling from the sky in the trailer is Ghidorah and he's an alien invader.

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** It's possible that Ghidorah is a mutant abomination and the first of his kind. However, another possibility is that the fireball falling from the sky in the trailer is Ghidorah and he's an alien invader.



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* Was the Mothra that Madison was interacting with the head of a larva or an adult? Because Mothra was seen spreading her wings in the trailer, so either she morphs into a moth in the climax, or she has an offspring in the film?
** There was a mention of a "giant cocoon" in the backstory in promo materials tho, so how could there be a larva seen in the film if she's already pupated by the film's start?
** ¨Too early to tell. Maybe they will be treated as regular animals and there will be larvae as well as an adult.
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* If the Ancient Sumerians were utterly frightened by Rodan to the point of comparing him to a demon then why exactly did they worship despite the fact that he's not as merciful as Mothra let alone Godzilla?

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* If the Ancient Sumerians were utterly frightened by Rodan to the point of comparing him to a demon then why exactly did they worship despite the fact that he's not as merciful as Mothra let alone Godzilla?
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* If the Ancient Sumerians were utterly frightened comparing him to a demon then why exactly did they worship despite the fact that he's not as merciful as Godzilla and Mothra?

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* If the Ancient Sumerians were utterly frightened by Rodan to the point of comparing him to a demon then why exactly did they worship despite the fact that he's not as merciful as Godzilla and Mothra?Mothra let alone Godzilla?
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* If the Ancient Sumerians were utterly frightened comparing him to a demon then why exactly did they worship despite the fact that he's not as merciful as Godzilla and Mothra?
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* I find Emma Russell's allegiance to Titans a little questionable. If she did willingly release King Ghidorah who long ago has a vendetta against Godzilla, wouldn't she be bothered that she's going to commit the death of the Alpha predator?

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* I find Emma Russell's allegiance to Titans a little questionable. If she did willingly release King Ghidorah who long ago has a vendetta against Godzilla, wouldn't she be bothered that she's going to commit the did, won't Godzill'a death of the Alpha predator?contradict everything she believes in?
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* I find Emma Russell's allegiance to Titans a little questionable. If she did willingly release King Ghidorah who long ago has a vendetta against Godzilla, wouldn't she be bothered that she's going to commit the death of the Alpha predator?
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance The U in M.U.T.O. stands for "Unidentified". But ]]ViralMarketing [[FridgeBrilliance shows that Monarch seems to have at least partially identified most of the Titans between the first movie and this one.]]

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*** [[FridgeBrilliance The U in M.U.T.O. stands for "Unidentified". But ]]ViralMarketing [[FridgeBrilliance shows that Monarch seems to have at least partially identified all or at least most of the Titans between the first movie and this one.]]
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance The U in M.U.T.O. stands for "Unidentified". But ]]ViralMarketing [[FridgeBrilliance shows that Monarch seems to have at least partially identified most of the Titans between the first movie and this one.]]
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** While we'll need to wait and see if the movie even acknowledges it, but the out-of-universe reason is simply the staff tweaking Godzilla's design to closer match the Japanese version. This includes bigger spines, a redesigned tail tip, and more claws on each foot.
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The new TV spot simply refers to him as "Ghidorah".


* Since the likes of Godzilla and Kong are stated to be the last surviving members of a formerly populous species, what about King Ghidorah? Is he a SingleSpecimenSpecies, or were there others of his kind?

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* Since the likes of Godzilla and Kong are stated to be the last surviving members of a formerly populous species, what about King Ghidorah? Is he a SingleSpecimenSpecies, or were there others of his kind?
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** It could be an indication of his strength in a way, i.e. the more well fed he is on atomic energy the larger his spines grow. After all, by the end of the first movie he had the fallout from the nuke to feed from and possibly the female MUTO's irradiated corpse as well. Addiontally, humans could have been purposly feeding him nuclear waste to keep him away from populated areas, keeping him well fed and allowing his dorsal spines to grow.

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** It could be an indication of his strength in a way, i.e. the more well fed he is on atomic energy the larger his spines grow. After all, by the end of the first movie he had the fallout from the nuke to feed from and possibly the female MUTO's irradiated corpse as well. Addiontally, Additionally, humans could have been purposly feeding him nuclear waste to keep him away from populated areas, keeping him well fed and allowing his dorsal spines to grow.
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*** The classification of them being in the same ''genus'' seems dubious though, as a genus is a group of closely related species (think lions, tigers, and leopards), and a Permian lizard, a pterosaur, and an insect are clearly not closely related.
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** It's possible that Ghidorah is a mutant abomination and the first of his kind. However, another possibility is that the fireball falling from the sky in the trailer is Ghidorah and he's an alien invader.
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** The tie-in website refers to the PowerTrio of Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan as being in the Genus "Titanus", so it's probably safe to say that it's an official designation.
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** Possibly Ghidorah IS the last survivor of his species... What happened to the others? Ghidorah did.
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** Well, Ghidorah lived in ancient times when the Earth was populated by equally powerful monsters, so there was an equilibrium in their ecosystem. Also, they could go for the classic Showa era Ghidorah (it's interesting that the viral website does reffer to him as "Monster Zero") and make him an extraterrestrial being.
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* Since the likes of Godzilla and Kong are stated to be the last surviving members of a formerly populous species, what about King Ghidorah? Is he a SingleSpecimenSpecies, or were there others of his kind?
** And given how utterly cataclysmic ONE Ghidorah is to all life on earth, how would have an ''entire species'' of them have thrived and survived on the planet without wiping everything else to extinction?
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**¨Too early to tell. Maybe they will be treated as regular animals and there will be larvae as well as an adult.
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* Was the Mothra that Madison was interacting with the head of a larva or an adult? Because Mothra was seen spreading her wings in the trailer, so either she morphs into a moth in the climax, or she has an offspring in the film?
** There was a mention of a "giant cocoon" in the backstory in promo materials tho, so how could there be a larva seen in the film if she's already pupated by the film's start?
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** The synopsis for the film indicates that another mysterious organization, aside from MONARCH is in play. Perhaps “Titan” is their term for kaiju.
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** We'll probably find out how far we're to take the trailer calling them titans. Obviously the trailer could be over-selling the seriousness due to Doughtery describing humanity's response to kaiju as being over-reacting in an interview. But then again given the director's previous two efforts some are thinking the series is going more literal with this line of thinking.
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** It could be an indication of his strength in a way, i.e. the more well fed he is on atomic energy the larger his spines grow. After all, by the end of the first movie he had the fallout from the nuke to feed from and possibly the female MUTO's irradiated corpse as well. Addiontally, humans could have been purposly feeding him nuclear waste to keep him away from populated areas, keeping him well fed and allowing his dorsal spines to grow.
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** Or it's a sign of Godzilla continuing to evolve?



* Are the monsters in the Monsterverse now officially designated as Titans, including Kong, the MUTO and the Skullcrawlers, or is it just a quasi-religious fanatic term that the eco-terrorists are using?
** And would that mean that "MUTO" is now the specific name of the particular sexually-dimorphic insectoid species of the previous film, and no longer a catch-all term for giant monsters in general?

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* Are the monsters in the Monsterverse now officially designated as Titans, including Kong, the MUTO [=MUTO=] and the Skullcrawlers, or is it just a quasi-religious fanatic term that the eco-terrorists ecoterrorists are using?
** And would that mean that "MUTO" "[=MUTO=]" is now the specific name of the particular sexually-dimorphic insectoid species of the previous film, and no longer a catch-all term for giant monsters in general?
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** And would that mean that "MUTO" is now the specific name of the sexually-dimorphic insectoid species of the previous film, and not a catch-all term for giant monsters?

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** And would that mean that "MUTO" is now the specific name of the particular sexually-dimorphic insectoid species of the previous film, and not no longer a catch-all term for giant monsters?monsters in general?
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* Are the monsters in the Monsterverse now officially designated as Titans, including Kong, the MUTO and the Skullcrawlers, or is it just a quasi-religious fanatic term that the eco-terrorists are using?
** And would that mean that "MUTO" is now the specific name of the sexually-dimorphic insectoid species of the previous film, and not a catch-all term for giant monsters?
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* Why are Godzilla's dorsal spines in the trailer much bigger and more jagged than they were in the previous movie? Are they somehow linked to his powers and abilities?
** Perhaps it's not actually the same individual Godzilla, but another of his species?
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