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not sure why it wasnt moved but ok
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** Mechagodzilla in this continuity graduates from being a heroic, anti-heroic or soulless machine as it was in previously continuities, to being the SecretWeapon of a mass-murdering NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist which gets possessed by the soul of ''[[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]]''. Rodan in this continuity is portrayed as more of a demonic creature than past iterations, and he sides with [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]] against [[BigGood Godzilla]] and [[FriendToAllLivingThings Mothra]] instead of vice versa.
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** Mechagodzilla in this continuity graduates from being snaps back to his villainous roots after spending time as a heroic, anti-heroic or soulless machine as it was in previously continuities, to some of his incarnations, being the SecretWeapon of a mass-murdering NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist which gets possessed by the soul of ''[[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]]''. Rodan in this continuity is portrayed as more of a demonic creature than past iterations, and he sides with [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]] against [[BigGood Godzilla]] and [[FriendToAllLivingThings Mothra]] instead of vice versa.
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That's Took A Level In Jerkass, not Adaptational Villainy or Adaptational Jerkass. The "Adaptational" tropes are for when the change occurs in an adaptation or alternate continuity, not when a character grows into more of a jerk in a single timeline.
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** Meshed with AdaptationalJerkass: Godzilla in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' tried to avoid casualties when he could (aside from a tsunami that likely kills a few people when he arrives in Honolulu to fight a MUTO) by diving under US Navy boats and avoiding skyscrapers, in comparison to the [=MUTOs=] deliberately walking through buildings, and ignores humans for the most part, with the exception of it being heavily implied he saves Joe Brody's life in exchange for Brody distracting a MUTO from a wounded Godzilla. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'', he's more antagonistic towards MONARCH and the military, and in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', it's outright stated he's caused civilian casulaties on his sudden rampages through Apex Cybernetics and slams through populated civilian areas, and at one point causes a reactor to melt down with the implication the personnel inside were fried. [[spoiler:In the latter two cases, Godzilla's only acting like this because he detects Apex was housing a world-ending threat - namely, using Ghidorah to make Mechagodzilla - and another apex titan who caused the ice age and nearly killed all life on Earth, Shimo.]]
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** Meshed with AdaptationalJerkass: Godzilla in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' tried to avoid casualties when he could (aside from a tsunami that likely kills a few people when he arrives in Honolulu to fight a MUTO) by diving under US Navy boats and avoiding skyscrapers, in comparison to the [=MUTOs=] deliberately walking through buildings, and ignores humans for the most part, with the exception of it being heavily implied he saves Joe Brody's life in exchange for Brody distracting a MUTO from a wounded Godzilla. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'', he's more antagonistic towards MONARCH and the military, and in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', it's outright stated he's caused civilian casulaties on his sudden rampages through Apex Cybernetics and slams through populated civilian areas, and at one point causes a reactor to melt down with the implication the personnel inside were fried. [[spoiler:In the latter two cases, Godzilla's only acting like this because he detects Apex was housing a world-ending threat - namely, using Ghidorah to make Mechagodzilla - and another apex titan who caused the ice age and nearly killed all life on Earth, Shimo.]]
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* GenreShift: The series goes from a deadly serious meditation on man vs. nature and human meddling on the environment that's played mostly straight, save the giant monsters. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'' and increasing over the following instalments, the series added in giant aircraft carriers, ancient civilizations, telepathic humans, genocidal aliens from outer space, and augmented cyber-gorillas as it took on a far more action-adventure tone, with a generally idealistic theme of protecting humanity ''and'' the environment. This isn't far off from the original ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series, where ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' was a comedic romp compared to the horrific destruction Godzilla visits in the original film.
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* GenreShift: The series goes from a deadly serious meditation on man vs. nature and human meddling on the environment that's played mostly straight, save the giant monsters. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'' and increasing over the following instalments, installments, the series added in giant aircraft carriers, city-sized {{Airborne Aircraft Carrier}}s, ancient civilizations, telepathic humans, genocidal aliens from outer space, and augmented cyber-gorillas as it took on a far more action-adventure tone, with a generally idealistic theme of protecting humanity ''and'' the environment. This isn't far off from the original ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series, where ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' was a comedic comedic, campy romp compared to the horrific destruction Godzilla visits in the original film.two films, and later films introduced sunglasses-wearing genocidal aliens, bioterrorists, and telepathic fairies.
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* AbusiveParents: [[EcoTerrorist Emma Russell]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' is an emotionally-abusive mother; alienating her daughter Madison from her father while brainwashing her, and traumatizing Madison by exposing the girl to hers and her co-conspirators' acts of mass murder and efforts to sacrifice millions of innocents. In the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization, [[{{Narcissist}} Walter Simmons]] is stated to be constantly pushing and testing his daughter Maia to see if she's worthy to inherit his corporate empire, and he deliberately denied her some important intel about the potentially life-threatening mission he sent her on as one such test, seemingly as his idea of a joke. It's implied in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'' that the [[TheCaligula Skar King]] is Suko's father, despite him treating the latter like utter crap, using him as a child soldier, and trying to kill him in a rage without hesitation.
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* ActionGirl: Mothra once again is a particularly powerful case. Among the humans, there's Mason Weaver in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', and ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and to a lesser extent ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' have dropped hints of Madison being a teenage one, plus there's several {{Ace Pilot}}s who try to fight Camazotz in ''Kingdom Kong''.
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* ActionGirl: Mothra once again is a particularly powerful case. Shimo is another case of a combative female Titan who is ultimately benevolent, when not being {{forced into evil}}. Among the humans, there's Mason Weaver in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', and ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and to a lesser extent ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' have dropped hints of Madison being a teenage one, plus there's several {{Ace Pilot}}s {{ace pilot}}s who try to fight Camazotz in ''Kingdom Kong''.
* BadassInDistress: Godzilla and Kong end up in distress and needing their allies to help them out, at least once in the majority of their appearances, for the sake of tension. Na Kika needs Godzilla to rescue them from a trap set by Titan-poachers in ''Godzilla: Dominion'', and Shimo, who is one of the most powerful Titans, is enslaved by the Skar King until Suko manages to free her.
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* BaldOfEvil: Packard, the AxCrazy BigBadWannabe who is obsessed with killing Kong in ''Film/KongSkullIsland''. This trope is also {{downplayed}} and PlayedStraight in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', with that film's Big Bad Wannabe [[MisanthropeSupreme Alan Jonah]] and a couple of his {{Mook}}s respectively. In ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'', the Skar King -- a wicked simian Titan [[EvilCounterpart like Kong]] -- has a balding scalp atop his head.
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* BaldOfEvil: Packard, the AxCrazy BigBadWannabe who is obsessed with killing Kong in ''Film/KongSkullIsland''. This trope is also {{downplayed}} and PlayedStraight in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', with that film's Big Bad Wannabe [[MisanthropeSupreme Alan Jonah]] and a couple of his {{Mook}}s respectively. In ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'', the Skar King -- a wicked simian Titan [[EvilCounterpart like Kong]] -- has a balding scalp atop his head.head, as does his wicked [[TheDragon right-hand]] One-Eye.
* BenevolentMonsters: Some of the Titans that have more positive ancient relations with humanity are classed as Protectors instead of Destroyers. Godzilla and Kong in particular don't actively crave destruction and only inflict it in defence of themselves, their territory and their charges, while Mothra is the Titan equivalent of an AllLovingHero. Shimo once she's no longer being {{forced into evil}} makes it clear she doesn't want to hurt anyone.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mothra and Kong are two of the gentlest and kindest Titans around when it comes to humans, but even they are forces of nature if you cross them, and they won't show ''any'' mercy to hostile and invasive species which threaten their domains.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mothra and Mothra, Kong and Shimo are two three of the gentlest and kindest Titans around when it comes to humans, but even they are forces of nature who won't hesitate to see you killed if you cross them, them. Kong and they Mothra won't show ''any'' mercy to hostile and invasive species which threaten their domains.
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* BlueIsHeroic: Godzilla's atomic breath and dorsal spines glow blue, as per usual, and the [=MonsterVerse=] version is one of the more exclusively heroic iterations, acting to protect the world and generally not antagonizing humanity. Likewise, although Mothra's bioluminescence flashes with a variety of different colors, blue and teal are the most prominent colors, and she's [[AllLovingHero possibly the nicest Kaiju in the whole MonsterVerse]]. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', the heroic freelance mercenary James Conrad and the Monarch operative Houston Brooks both wear blue tops.
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* BlueIsHeroic: Godzilla's atomic breath and dorsal spines glow blue, as per usual, and the [=MonsterVerse=] version is one of the more exclusively heroic iterations, acting to protect the world and generally not antagonizing humanity. Likewise, although Mothra's bioluminescence flashes with a variety of different colors, blue and teal are the most prominent colors, and she's [[AllLovingHero possibly the nicest Kaiju in the whole MonsterVerse]]. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', the heroic freelance mercenary James Conrad and the Monarch operative Houston Brooks both wear blue tops. Shimo and her BreathWeapon glow with [[BlueMeansCold icy blue light]], and when she's freed from the Skar King's control, she proves to be a very mellow and gentle Titan, helping to defeat the Skar King.
* BullyingADragon: Several of Godzilla and Kong's antagonistic foes -- namely the smaller Skullcrawlers, the Ion Dragon, Scylla, one of the Great Ape slavedrivers and the Titan Hunter-armed Raymond Martin -- all try to pick fights with them even when they don't stand a chance of winning on their own.
** In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', [[TheDragon One-Eye]] is a karmic case like Maia, who is in the party beaten by Kong, constantly treated like crap by his boss, and ultimately buried by Kong's trap.
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* CivilizationDestroyer: Later entries heavily imply that various Titans were responsible for the downfall of several ancient and even prehistoric civilizations when they rampaged. ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' reveals that an exceptionally powerful MUTO caste called MUTO Prime or Jinshin-Mushi caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse. ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' confirms via EasterEgg that AdvancedAncientHumans[='=] civilization was wiped out by a war against the Titans. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization reveals that Godzilla himself caused the downfall of ''Titanus Kong''[='s=] ancient Hollow Earth-based civilization amid a war between the two Titan species, driving the surviving ''T. Kong'' to migrate to Skull Island on the surface and slowly devolve into a primitive lifestyle.
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* CivilizationDestroyer: Later entries heavily imply that various Titans were responsible for the downfall of several ancient and even prehistoric civilizations when they rampaged. ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' reveals that an exceptionally powerful MUTO caste called MUTO Prime or Jinshin-Mushi caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse. ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' confirms via EasterEgg that AdvancedAncientHumans[='=] civilization was wiped out by a war against the Titans. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization reveals that Godzilla himself caused the downfall of ''Titanus Kong''[='s=] ancient Hollow Earth-based civilization amid a war between the two Titan species, driving the surviving ''T. Kong'' to migrate to Skull Island on the surface and slowly devolve into a primitive lifestyle. In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', Shimo apparently caused the previous great ice age, which drove prehistoric human ancestors to near-extinction and which the ''King of the Monsters'' {{creative closing credits}} stated was the cause of the {{advanced ancient humans}}[='=] disintegration and the Titans' modern hibernation at the end of the ancient human-Titan war.
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* DeathGlare: Quite a few over the course of the franchise. The most notable examples include Packard frequently dishing these out to anyone who pisses him off, Ichi (Ghidorah's middle head) giving Madison one when the heads spot her and he realizes she's responsible for broadcasting the ORCA signal, Godzilla and Kong exchanging such looks mutually at the end of their first battle, and Emiko Randa briefly giving Cate a pretty scary glare when Hiroshi Randa's SecretOtherFamily becomes known to the two of them.
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* DeathGlare: Quite a few over the course of the franchise. The most notable examples include Packard frequently dishing these out to anyone who pisses him off, Ichi (Ghidorah's middle head) giving Madison one when the heads spot her and he realizes she's responsible for broadcasting the ORCA signal, Godzilla and Kong exchanging such looks mutually at the end of their first battle, and Emiko Randa briefly giving Cate a pretty scary glare when Hiroshi Randa's SecretOtherFamily becomes known to the two of them.them, and the Skar King's default expression.
** In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', the Skar King is a lot of truly evil things, but he's no coward, and even amidst his VillainousBreakdown he dies fighting after he loses control of Shimo.
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* TheDragon: In this continuity, this trope is notably retconned from Ghidorah, as it's a one-dragon AlienInvasion by himself, and in both his film appearances, the human antagonists attempting to control him ends up being a total EvilIsNotAToy, truly making him '''King''' Ghidorah. In a bit of AdaptationalVillainy, Rodan becomes King Ghidorah's Dragon in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' after Ghidorah defeats him, staying close by Ghidorah as his vanguard while the rest of Ghidorah's Titan army is spread out across the globe. Among the human antagonists, Alan Jonah is a big DragonInChief to [[spoiler:Emma Russell]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', and Ren Serizawa is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]]' close right-hand man in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (revealed to be a DragonWithAnAgenda in the novelization).
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* TheDragon: In this continuity, this trope is notably retconned from Ghidorah, as it's a one-dragon AlienInvasion by himself, and in both his film appearances, the human antagonists attempting to control him ends up being a total EvilIsNotAToy, truly making him '''King''' Ghidorah. In a bit of AdaptationalVillainy, Rodan becomes King Ghidorah's Dragon in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' after Ghidorah defeats him, staying close by Ghidorah as his vanguard while the rest of Ghidorah's Titan army is spread out across the globe. In ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'', the BigBad the Skar King has a cruel lieutenant called One-Eye. Among the human antagonists, Alan Jonah is a big DragonInChief to [[spoiler:Emma Russell]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', and Ren Serizawa is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]]' close right-hand man in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (revealed to be a DragonWithAnAgenda in the novelization).
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* EyeScream: In ''Kong: Skull Island'', one of the giant Skullcrawler's eyes (its real eye, not the eye sockets in the skull jaws) gets shot out with a flare gun. In the 2023 ''Skull Island'' series, Kong gouges [[ExtraEyes two]] of the Kraken's eyes out in the FinalBattle[[spoiler:, and the Kraken in turn injures one of his eyes]]. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', a Brambleboar [[spoiler:in the Axis Mundi area of the Hollow Earth]] is warded off when it's shot in the eye with an arrow.
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* EyeScream: In ''Kong: Skull Island'', one of the giant Skullcrawler's eyes (its real eye, not the eye sockets in the skull jaws) gets shot out with a flare gun. In the 2023 ''Skull Island'' series, Kong gouges [[ExtraEyes two]] of the Kraken's eyes out in the FinalBattle[[spoiler:, and the Kraken in turn injures one of his eyes]]. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', a Brambleboar [[spoiler:in the Axis Mundi area of the Hollow Earth]] is warded off when it's shot in the eye with an arrow. In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', one of the Great Apes called One-Eye has a blind eye with a scar running across it.
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* GoodAllAlong: Kong at first appears to be a bloodthirsty monster in his debut, but it's revealed later that he's quite passive and protective when not provoked, and he only attacked the cast earlier because from his point of view, a bunch of tiny alien jerks popped up on his land out of the blue and started carpet-bombing everything. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Godzilla is EasilyCondemned as a rabid monster after he suddenly attacks an Apex Cybernetics factory, and he continues to act aggressive toward humans, [[spoiler:but the reason he's acting this way is because he can sense that humans' meddling with King Ghidorah's remains is reanimating the evil hydra's consciousness]].
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* GoodAllAlong: Kong at first appears to be a bloodthirsty monster in his debut, but it's revealed later that he's quite passive and protective when not provoked, and he only attacked the cast earlier because from his point of view, a bunch of tiny alien jerks popped up on his land out of the blue and started carpet-bombing everything. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Godzilla is EasilyCondemned as a rabid monster after he suddenly attacks an Apex Cybernetics factory, and he continues to act aggressive toward humans, [[spoiler:but the reason he's acting this way is because he can sense that humans' meddling with King Ghidorah's remains is reanimating the evil hydra's consciousness]]. In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', Shimo is the Skar King's RightHandAttackDog who's clearly being tortured and {{forced into evil}}, but it's only once she's broken free from his control that it becomes clear her personality is benevolent.
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* AlienBlood: Some of the creatures on Skull Island bleed black, green or even white blood; as do the Warbats in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', and the Ion Dragon in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters''. And Ghidorah[[spoiler:, who is an actual extraterrestrial,]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' bleeds black blood that's compared by the novelization to oil.
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* AlienBlood: Some of the creatures on Skull Island bleed black, green or even white blood; as do the Warbats in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', and the Ion Dragon in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters''.Monsters''; and Scylla, the Wart Dogs and the Drownviper in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire''. And Ghidorah[[spoiler:, who is an actual extraterrestrial,]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' bleeds black blood that's compared by the novelization to oil.
** The anthropomorphic [[TheCaligula Skar King]] in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'' represents tyranny in its purest form. He's a dictator who makes the majority of his people suffer so that the few -- himself and his inner cabal -- can prosper, he further abuses them by coveting {{breeding slave}}s to himself and using his resulting children as cudgels, and he's a warmonger who actively attacks new territories with the aim of conquering them for his own aggrandizement and power.
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* ApocalypseHow: The [=MUTOs=] successfully repopulating and infesting the world will cause [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 global civilization collapse]], and they have the potential to destroy entire ecosystems and cause [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 mass extinction]] in that scenario. If King Ghidorah succeeds in reshaping the Earth's environment, he'll [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 strip the entire biosphere save himself back down to pure bacteria]] -- before he's defeated, Ghidorah manages to [[ApocalypseHow/Class0 destroy multiple cities globally]] and (in the novelizations), he [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 destroys a few ecosystems beyond repair]].
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* ApocalypseHow: The [=MUTOs=] successfully repopulating and infesting the world will cause [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 global civilization collapse]], and they have the potential to destroy entire ecosystems and cause [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 mass extinction]] in that scenario. If King Ghidorah succeeds in reshaping the Earth's environment, he'll [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 strip the entire biosphere save himself back down to pure bacteria]] -- before he's defeated, Ghidorah manages to [[ApocalypseHow/Class0 destroy multiple cities globally]] and (in the novelizations), he [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 destroys a few ecosystems beyond repair]]. Shimo was the cause of a previous ice age or several in the Earth's relatively recent history, and the Skar King tries to force her to cause another one to decimate the surface world in the present.
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** In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', Kong after obtaining his B.E.A.S.T. Glove seeks out Godzilla on the surface for help combating the Skar King and his army. However, Kong doesn't account for Godzilla's fiercer territorialism and view of the Earth's entire surface as his territory driving the great lizard to attack and attempt to kill Kong without hearing him out the second that he senses Kong effectively intruding on his territory.
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*** Kong after obtaining his B.E.A.S.T. Glove seeks out Godzilla on the surface for help combating the Skar King and his army. However, Kong doesn't account for Godzilla's fiercer territorialism and view of the Earth's entire surface as his territory driving the great lizard to attack and attempt to kill Kong without hearing him out the second that he senses Kong effectively intruding on histerritory.territory.
*** The Skar King himself becomes so blindingly livid at Kong for knocking his tooth out in the final battle, he redirects Shimo's attentions off of fighting Godzilla to attack Kong instead... which leaves Godzilla freed up to go all-out against the Skar King himself.
*** Kong after obtaining his B.E.A.S.T. Glove seeks out Godzilla on the surface for help combating the Skar King and his army. However, Kong doesn't account for Godzilla's fiercer territorialism and view of the Earth's entire surface as his territory driving the great lizard to attack and attempt to kill Kong without hearing him out the second that he senses Kong effectively intruding on his
*** The Skar King himself becomes so blindingly livid at Kong for knocking his tooth out in the final battle, he redirects Shimo's attentions off of fighting Godzilla to attack Kong instead... which leaves Godzilla freed up to go all-out against the Skar King himself.
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* GenreShift: The series goes from a deadly serious meditation on man vs. nature and human meddling on the environment that's played mostly straight, save the giant monsters. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'', the series added in giant aircraft carriers, ancient civilizations, telepathic humans, genocidal aliens from outer space, and augmented cyber-gorillas as it took on a far more action-adventure tone, with a generally idealistic theme of protecting humanity ''and'' the environment. This isn't far off from the original Godzilla series, where ''Godzilla vs. King Kong'' was a comedic romp compared to the horrific destruction Godzilla visits in the original film.
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* GenreShift: The series goes from a deadly serious meditation on man vs. nature and human meddling on the environment that's played mostly straight, save the giant monsters. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'', Monsters'' and increasing over the following instalments, the series added in giant aircraft carriers, ancient civilizations, telepathic humans, genocidal aliens from outer space, and augmented cyber-gorillas as it took on a far more action-adventure tone, with a generally idealistic theme of protecting humanity ''and'' the environment. This isn't far off from the original Godzilla ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series, where ''Godzilla vs. King Kong'' ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' was a comedic romp compared to the horrific destruction Godzilla visits in the original film.
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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]], [[TerrorDactyl Rodan]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Mothra]], [[BatOutOfHell Camazotz]], [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Hellhawks]], [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey the Hawk Monster]] and the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ion Dragon]].
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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]], [[TerrorDactyl Rodan]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Mothra]], [[BatOutOfHell Camazotz]], [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Hellhawks]], [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey the Hawk Monster]] and Monster]], the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ion Dragon]].Dragon]] and [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Verticines]].
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* GoodLipsEvilJaws: PlayedStraight in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' and the graphic novel ''Kingdom Kong''; with Godzilla and Kong being the Good Lips and the [=MUTOs=], Warbats, Mechagodzilla and Camazotz being the Evil Jaws. {{Averted}} in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' with Ghidorah, whilst the [[Film/KongSkullIsland Skullcrawlers]] have bone "lips" on their skulls.
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* GoodLipsEvilJaws: PlayedStraight in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' and the graphic novel ''Kingdom Kong''; with Godzilla and Kong being the Good Lips and the [=MUTOs=], Warbats, Mechagodzilla and Camazotz being the Evil Jaws. {{Averted}} {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' with Ghidorah, whilst the [[Film/KongSkullIsland Skullcrawlers]] have bone "lips" on their skulls.skulls. {{Subverted|Trope}} with the Spineprowlers in ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'', as they become quite sympathetic after an initial clash between one of their numbers and Kong.
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* GenreShift: The series goes from a deadly serious meditation on man vs. nature and human meddling on the environment that's played mostly straight, save the giant monsters. Starting with ''King of the Monsters'', the series added in giant aircraft carriers, ancient civilizations, telepathic humans, genocidal aliens from outer space, and augmented cyber-gorillas as it took on a far more action-adventure tone, with a generally idealistic theme of protecting humanity ''and'' the environment. This isn't far off from the original Godzilla series, where ''Godzilla vs. King Kong'' was a comedic romp compared to the horrific destruction Godzilla visits in the original film.
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* AncientEvil: Not all of the long-dormant prehistoric Titans are bad, but not all of them are good either. The [=MUTOs=] in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' and ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' are amoral {{explosive breeders}} which caused at least two of the planet's past mass extinctions before their contemporary awakenings. King Ghidorah in this incarnation has been [[MonsterInTheIce frozen in the Antarctic ice]] for thousands of years before he's thawed out in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', and he's just as much of a planet-threatening, {{sadist}}ic OmnicidalManiac as ever. ''Kingdom Kong'' reveals that one of the other prehistoric Titans, Camazotz, was a [[BatOutOfHell gigantic monster bat]] who went on to destroy Skull Island and almost all its inhabitants after he awakened.
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* AncientEvil: Not all of the long-dormant prehistoric Titans are bad, but not all of them are good either. The [=MUTOs=] in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' and ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' are amoral {{explosive breeders}} which caused at least two of the planet's past mass extinctions before their contemporary awakenings. King Ghidorah in this incarnation has been [[MonsterInTheIce frozen in the Antarctic ice]] for thousands of years before he's thawed out in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', and he's just as much of a planet-threatening, {{sadist}}ic OmnicidalManiac as ever. ''Kingdom Kong'' reveals that one of the other prehistoric Titans, Camazotz, was a [[BatOutOfHell gigantic monster bat]] who went on to destroy Skull Island and almost all its inhabitants after he awakened. The Skar King in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'' has been imprisoned in a lower layer of the Hollow Earth since he was defeated by Godzilla in ancient times, after he attempted to conquer the surface world and enslave all other life for himself.
** The [[TheCaligula Skar King]] in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'' is an intelligent Great Ape like Kong is -- but unlike Kong, the Skar King is a sadistic, psychopathic bully who will kill anyone including his own subordinates for minor slights. It says a lot that he moves to attack Suko -- who is further [[AmbiguouslyRelated hinted]] to be [[AbusiveDad his own offspring]] -- ''just'' because Suko failed to laugh loudly enough along with the Skar King and the rest of his gang at Kong, and when Suko's caretaker submissively intervenes to plead for mercy on Suko's behalf, the Skar King pretends to relent for a moment, before he kicks the off-guard caretaker to a molten death ''in front of Suko''.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: In addition to the Titans' OneMythToExplainThemAll; the 2014 film and its supplementary materials reveal that the nuclear bomb tests of TheFifties in the Pacific Proving Grounds were actually attempts to kill Godzilla and that Monarch believe the Great Smog of London was caused by another creature; whilst the ''Godzilla Aftershock'' graphic novel reveals that the [=MUTOs=] likely caused at least two of Earth's past major extinction events and also the Greek Dark Ages.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: In addition to the Titans' OneMythToExplainThemAll; the 2014 film and its supplementary materials reveal that the nuclear bomb tests of TheFifties in the Pacific Proving Grounds were actually attempts to kill Godzilla and that Monarch believe the Great Smog of London was caused by another creature; whilst the ''Godzilla Aftershock'' graphic novel reveals that the [=MUTOs=] likely caused at least one or two of Earth's past major extinction events mass extinctions and also the Greek Dark Ages.Ages; and ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'' states that Shimo was most likely responsible for the previous major Ice Age.
* CombatPragmatist: Several of the Titans, being giant, prehistoric animals, are not afraid to fight dirty; including the [=MUTOs=], Godzilla, Ghidorah, Tiamat and the Skar King.
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* DemotedToExtra: Whilst the franchise does bring some characters from previous entries back in future instalments, if they're not Kaiju then they're pretty much guaranteed to experience this trope. Admiral Stenz, Mark Russell, Dr. Brooks, and also the Skullcrawlers, all have a lot less screentime and a more minor part in their second movie appearances that they did in their debuts respectively.
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* DemotedToExtra: Whilst the franchise does bring some characters from previous entries back in future instalments, if they're not Kaiju then they're pretty much guaranteed to experience this trope. Admiral Stenz, Mark Russell, Dr. Brooks, and also the Skullcrawlers, Skullcrawlers and Warbats, all have a lot less screentime and a more minor part in their second movie appearances that they did in their debuts respectively.
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* EnfantTerrible: The Endoswarmers in ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' '''immediately''' attack the very first humans that they see upon hatching from their eggs. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization states that newborn Skullcrawlers are just as aggressive and dangerous as their adult counterparts.
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* EnfantTerrible: The Endoswarmers in ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' '''immediately''' attack the very first humans that they see upon hatching from their eggs. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization states that newborn Skullcrawlers are just as aggressive and dangerous as their adult counterparts. In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', the juvenile Suko is at first very aggressive and scrappy to Kong's kindness due to his extremely rough upbringing.
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* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows 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=]).
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* GentleGiant: Both Kong and Godzilla are relatively placid (or as much as their size allows 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=]). Shimo turns out to be much the same once she's freed from the Skar King's painful control over her.
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** It's hinted that the Skar King, the BigBad of ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', might be responsible for starting the entire primeval feud between Godzilla and Kong's species to begin with, making him indirectly responsible for the events of ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', and also for Kong's and his ancestors' entire presence on Skull Island and their near-extinction in the war against ''Titanus Gojira''.
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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Several of the monsters have bioluminescent body parts, particularly when they're displaying their powers; including the [=MUTOs=], Godzilla, [[LivingMoodRing Mothra]], the Kraken, the Frost Vark, the Endoswarmers' eggs, the Snarehunters and Shimo.
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%%* BlueMeansCold: MysteriousAntarctica in ''King of the Monsters'' and the [[AnIcePerson Frost Vark]]'s bioluminescence in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters''.
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* TheBusCameBack: James Conrad and Mason Weaver of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) return in the storyline of the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'', released in 2023. Lee Shaw, a supporting character from the ''Film/Godzilla2014'' supplementary prequel graphic novel ''Awakening'', is finally set to return in the 2023 TV series ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''.
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* TheBusCameBack: James Conrad and Mason Weaver of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) return in the storyline of the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'', released in 2023. Lee Shaw, a supporting character from the ''Film/Godzilla2014'' supplementary prequel graphic novel ''Awakening'', is finally set to return in the 2023 TV series ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''. Scylla from ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is completely absent from the following ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' before returning in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''.
** In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', Kong after obtaining his B.E.A.S.T. Glove seeks out Godzilla on the surface for help combating the Skar King and his army. However, Kong doesn't account for Godzilla's fiercer territorialism and view of the Earth's entire surface as his territory driving the great lizard to attack and attempt to kill Kong without hearing him out the second that he senses Kong effectively intruding on his territory.
** The Skar King rules over an entire tribe of other Great Apes via pure terror and tyranny, reducing them all to cowering away from his presence in fear. The Iwi in the Hollow Earth consider him a major threat to the world, and sensing that he's about to return is enough to drive Godzilla to force-metamorphose himself into a stronger and more evolved form.
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** Kong gains an evil counterpart from himself in the form of the Skar King in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''. Both are intelligent, simian Alpha Titans who rule over a monster kingdom of their own, are connected to the HollowEarth, and make use of tools to win. However, the Skar King is a far more aggressive and sinister character than Kong, lacking the King of the Primates' philanthropy.
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*** Kong gains an evil counterpart from himself in the form of the Skar
*** Shimo serves as an evil counterpart to Godzilla -- they're both ancient, reptilian and extremely powerful and revered Titans, and they're both ultimately benevolent in character. However, Shimo is a dark representation of what Godzilla could have become if Kong or Apex had enslaved him: {{forced into evil}}, and forced to commit evil mass destruction against their will.
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* EvilIsAngular: Whereas Godzilla in this incarnation has fairly rounded and curvy edges to his design and he's [[AdaptationalHeroism one of the more benevolent incarnations of the character]]; his arch-enemies [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' both have more edges and angles, in the forms of spiky protrusions, bat-like wings (Ghidorah), and a more cuboid and sharp-edged anatomy with an industrial theme (Mechagodzilla).
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]].
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]].
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* EvilIsAngular: Whereas Godzilla in this incarnation has fairly rounded and curvy edges to his design and he's [[AdaptationalHeroism one of the more benevolent incarnations of the character]]; his arch-enemies [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' both have more edges and angles, in the forms of spiky protrusions, bat-like wings (Ghidorah), and a more cuboid and sharp-edged anatomy with an industrial theme (Mechagodzilla).
(Mechagodzilla). Likewise, Ghidorah's [[TheDragon dragon]] Rodan has a very triangular head with pointed horns and a hooked beak, clawed fingers, and avian feet with talons.
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]]. Shimo in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', although she's very much being {{forced into evil}} by the Skar King, is his reluctant attack-dog for use against Godzilla and the surface world, and she's as tall as Godzilla when she's standing on all fours.
* EvilOldFolks: Several of the more anthropomorphic if not outright human villains are visibly elderly, and they're all among the eviler villains in the [=MonsterVerse=]. Alan Jonah is a murderous and genocidal {{misanthrope supreme}} who wants the human race dead at all costs, even if it means letting [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] destroy the Earth; Walter Simmons is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{corrupt corporate executive}} who engineers a plot to endanger and kill millions of people and to usurp Godzilla in order to pettily satisfy his own egotism; and the Skar King is a visibly-aged, balding Great Ape who sadistically enslaves and terrorizes the rest of his kind, who wants nothing more than to conquer any and all new territories that he can, and implicitly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil crosses a line]] that no other character in the [=MonsterVerse=] has been shown crossing before him via him keeping a harem of abused, terrified {{breeding slave}}s.
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]]. Shimo in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', although she's very much being {{forced into evil}} by the Skar King, is his reluctant attack-dog for use against Godzilla and the surface world, and she's as tall as Godzilla when she's standing on all fours.
* EvilOldFolks: Several of the more anthropomorphic if not outright human villains are visibly elderly, and they're all among the eviler villains in the [=MonsterVerse=]. Alan Jonah is a murderous and genocidal {{misanthrope supreme}} who wants the human race dead at all costs, even if it means letting [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] destroy the Earth; Walter Simmons is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{corrupt corporate executive}} who engineers a plot to endanger and kill millions of people and to usurp Godzilla in order to pettily satisfy his own egotism; and the Skar King is a visibly-aged, balding Great Ape who sadistically enslaves and terrorizes the rest of his kind, who wants nothing more than to conquer any and all new territories that he can, and implicitly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil crosses a line]] that no other character in the [=MonsterVerse=] has been shown crossing before him via him keeping a harem of abused, terrified {{breeding slave}}s.
* FinishingStomp: Godzilla likes to stomp on a lot of his opponents at the ends of fights, from Jinshin-Mushi to King Ghidorah to Kong. Kong himself stomps a couple of his own enemies in, like when he stomps a pair of juvenile Skullcrawlers underfoot.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: In the 2014 film, Femuto's eye... slit-thingy passes eerily over Ford Brody and Tre Morales in one shot, when the two are trying to avoid being noticed by her. In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Ghidorah's heads glare into Fenway Park's press box when they locate Madison and the ORCA there, prompting an OhCrap from Madison. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, [[spoiler:''after'' she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him,]] and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: In the 2014 film, Femuto's eye... slit-thingy passes eerily over Ford Brody and Tre Morales in one shot, when the two are trying to avoid being noticed by her. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', Kong's eye glares into a chopper that he's destroying before he seemingly eats the soldier inside. In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Ghidorah's heads glare into Fenway Park's press box when they locate Madison and the ORCA there, prompting an OhCrap from Madison. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, [[spoiler:''after'' she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him,]] and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly, and Godzilla's eyes lighting up with blue light when charging his Atomic Breath from ''King of the Monsters'' onward.
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* GlassCannon: The male MUTO, Mother Longlegs, Warbats and Spineprowlers can deal a lot of damage to their opponents, ranging from armed humans to Godzilla depending, but all of them also go down quite quickly if their enemy gets just a few good licks in.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly,and Godzilla's eyes lighting up with blue light when charging his Atomic Breath from ''King of the Monsters'' onward.onward, and Shimo's eyes glowing before she emerges from the pit where the Skar King keeps her locked away.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly,
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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Several of the monsters have bioluminescent body parts, particularly when they're displaying their powers; including the [=MUTOs=], Godzilla, [[LivingMoodRing Mothra]], the Kraken, the Frost Vark, the Endoswarmers' eggs, the Snarehunters and Shimo.
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* TheBusCameBack: James Conrad and Mason Weaver of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) return in the storyline of the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'', released in 2023. Lee Shaw, a supporting character from the ''Film/Godzilla2014'' supplementary prequel graphic novel ''Awakening'', is finally set to return in the 2023 TV series ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''.
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* TheBusCameBack: James Conrad and Mason Weaver of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) return in the storyline of the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'', released in 2023. Lee Shaw, a supporting character from the ''Film/Godzilla2014'' supplementary prequel graphic novel ''Awakening'', is finally set to return in the 2023 TV series ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''. Scylla from ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is completely absent from the following ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' before returning in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''.
** In ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', Kong after obtaining his B.E.A.S.T. Glove seeks out Godzilla on the surface for help combating the Skar King and his army. However, Kong doesn't account for Godzilla's fiercer territorialism and view of the Earth's entire surface as his territory driving the great lizard to attack and attempt to kill Kong without hearing him out the second that he senses Kong effectively intruding on his territory.
** The Skar King rules over an entire tribe of other Great Apes via pure terror and tyranny, reducing them all to cowering away from his presence in fear. The Iwi in the Hollow Earth consider him a major threat to the world, and sensing that he's about to return is enough to drive Godzilla to force-metamorphose himself into a stronger and more evolved form.
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** Kong gains an evil counterpart from himself in the form of the Skar King in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''. Both are intelligent, simian Alpha Titans who rule over a monster kingdom of their own, are connected to the HollowEarth, and make use of tools to win. However, the Skar King is a far more aggressive and sinister character than Kong, lacking the King of the Primates' philanthropy.
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*** Kong gains an evil counterpart from himself in the form of the Skar
*** Shimo serves as an evil counterpart to Godzilla -- they're both ancient, reptilian and extremely powerful and revered Titans, and they're both ultimately benevolent in character. However, Shimo is a dark representation of what Godzilla could have become if Kong or Apex had enslaved him: {{forced into evil}}, and forced to commit evil mass destruction against their will.
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* EvilIsAngular: Whereas Godzilla in this incarnation has fairly rounded and curvy edges to his design and he's [[AdaptationalHeroism one of the more benevolent incarnations of the character]]; his arch-enemies [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' both have more edges and angles, in the forms of spiky protrusions, bat-like wings (Ghidorah), and a more cuboid and sharp-edged anatomy with an industrial theme (Mechagodzilla).
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]].
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]].
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* EvilIsAngular: Whereas Godzilla in this incarnation has fairly rounded and curvy edges to his design and he's [[AdaptationalHeroism one of the more benevolent incarnations of the character]]; his arch-enemies [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' both have more edges and angles, in the forms of spiky protrusions, bat-like wings (Ghidorah), and a more cuboid and sharp-edged anatomy with an industrial theme (Mechagodzilla).
(Mechagodzilla). Likewise, Ghidorah's [[TheDragon dragon]] Rodan has a very triangular head with pointed horns and a hooked beak, clawed fingers, and avian feet with talons.
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]]. Shimo in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', although she's very much being {{forced into evil}} by the Skar King, is his reluctant attack-dog for use against Godzilla and the surface world, and she's as tall as Godzilla when she's standing on all fours.
* EvilOldFolks: Several of the more anthropomorphic if not outright human villains are visibly elderly, and they're all among the eviler villains in the [=MonsterVerse=]. Alan Jonah is a murderous and genocidal {{misanthrope supreme}} who wants the human race dead at all costs, even if it means letting [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] destroy the Earth; Walter Simmons is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{corrupt corporate executive}} who engineers a plot to endanger and kill millions of people and to usurp Godzilla in order to pettily satisfy his own egotism; and the Skar King is a visibly-aged, balding Great Ape who sadistically enslaves and terrorizes the rest of his kind, who wants nothing more than to conquer any and all new territories that he can, and implicitly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil crosses a line]] that no other character in the [=MonsterVerse=] has been shown crossing before him via him keeping a harem of abused, terrified {{breeding slave}}s.
* 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 [[AxCrazy thoroughly nasty piece of work]]. Shimo in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', although she's very much being {{forced into evil}} by the Skar King, is his reluctant attack-dog for use against Godzilla and the surface world, and she's as tall as Godzilla when she's standing on all fours.
* EvilOldFolks: Several of the more anthropomorphic if not outright human villains are visibly elderly, and they're all among the eviler villains in the [=MonsterVerse=]. Alan Jonah is a murderous and genocidal {{misanthrope supreme}} who wants the human race dead at all costs, even if it means letting [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] destroy the Earth; Walter Simmons is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{corrupt corporate executive}} who engineers a plot to endanger and kill millions of people and to usurp Godzilla in order to pettily satisfy his own egotism; and the Skar King is a visibly-aged, balding Great Ape who sadistically enslaves and terrorizes the rest of his kind, who wants nothing more than to conquer any and all new territories that he can, and implicitly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil crosses a line]] that no other character in the [=MonsterVerse=] has been shown crossing before him via him keeping a harem of abused, terrified {{breeding slave}}s.
* FinishingStomp: Godzilla likes to stomp on a lot of his opponents at the ends of fights, from Jinshin-Mushi to King Ghidorah to Kong. Kong himself stomps a couple of his own enemies in, like when he stomps a pair of juvenile Skullcrawlers underfoot.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: In the 2014 film, Femuto's eye... slit-thingy passes eerily over Ford Brody and Tre Morales in one shot, when the two are trying to avoid being noticed by her. In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Ghidorah's heads glare into Fenway Park's press box when they locate Madison and the ORCA there, prompting an OhCrap from Madison. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, [[spoiler:''after'' she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him,]] and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: In the 2014 film, Femuto's eye... slit-thingy passes eerily over Ford Brody and Tre Morales in one shot, when the two are trying to avoid being noticed by her. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', Kong's eye glares into a chopper that he's destroying before he seemingly eats the soldier inside. In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Ghidorah's heads glare into Fenway Park's press box when they locate Madison and the ORCA there, prompting an OhCrap from Madison. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, [[spoiler:''after'' she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him,]] and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly, and Godzilla's eyes lighting up with blue light when charging his Atomic Breath from ''King of the Monsters'' onward.
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* GlassCannon: The male MUTO, Mother Longlegs, Warbats and Spineprowlers can deal a lot of damage to their opponents, ranging from armed humans to Godzilla depending, but all of them also go down quite quickly if their enemy gets just a few good licks in.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly,and Godzilla's eyes lighting up with blue light when charging his Atomic Breath from ''King of the Monsters'' onward.onward, and Shimo's eyes glowing before she emerges from the pit where the Skar King keeps her locked away.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A few Titans display this, including the [=MUTOs'=] eye-like slits, Ghidorah's eyes tending to glint brightly,
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** Godzilla is the King of the Monsters, but his neck is shown in all his movie appearances to be a weak spot, because despite his crocodilian armor, the gills on his neck are sensitive to attacks.
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** Godzilla is the King of the Monsters, but his neck is shown in all his movie live-action appearances to be a weak spot, because despite his crocodilian armor, the gills on his neck are sensitive to attacks.
* AllegoricalCharacter:
** Godzilla, rather than specifically representing atomic weapons as he previously did, instead represents nuclear power generally. An extremely powerful, universal natural force unlike anything else with destructive potential, which has always been in the world since before humanity first noticed it in the 20th century, but which is also only dangerous to humans when tampered with or aggravated and can otherwise be extremely beneficial.
** [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' represents climate change. He's thawed out of the Antarctic ice by human actions, he causes [[NaturalDisasterCascade nature]] (the other Titans) to become more hostile to humanity on a global scale, and he radically de-stabilizes the global climate, changing it in such a way that human life and most other existing life on Earth cannot survive. He's opposed by Godzilla, who acts as a guardian of nature's balance, and by Mothra who is essentially MotherNature incarnate.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' is a fairly [[FlatCharacter two-dimensional]] embodiment of mankind's {{pride}} and hubris. He's a rampant technophile who believes in the march of technology and the march of human domination of the planet via subjugating nature, ''despite'' everything that's already happened in the [=MonsterVerse=] by the time that he shows up to disprove mankind's notion that we're bigger and badder than Mother Nature and can control her, and he has no concept of caution and restraint. He even tries to make his own mechanical Godzilla in the real thing's image with the aim of toppling him, but his impatience and recklessness leads to him losing control of his own creation.
** Godzilla, rather than specifically representing atomic weapons as he previously did, instead represents nuclear power generally. An extremely powerful, universal natural force unlike anything else with destructive potential, which has always been in the world since before humanity first noticed it in the 20th century, but which is also only dangerous to humans when tampered with or aggravated and can otherwise be extremely beneficial.
** [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' represents climate change. He's thawed out of the Antarctic ice by human actions, he causes [[NaturalDisasterCascade nature]] (the other Titans) to become more hostile to humanity on a global scale, and he radically de-stabilizes the global climate, changing it in such a way that human life and most other existing life on Earth cannot survive. He's opposed by Godzilla, who acts as a guardian of nature's balance, and by Mothra who is essentially MotherNature incarnate.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' is a fairly [[FlatCharacter two-dimensional]] embodiment of mankind's {{pride}} and hubris. He's a rampant technophile who believes in the march of technology and the march of human domination of the planet via subjugating nature, ''despite'' everything that's already happened in the [=MonsterVerse=] by the time that he shows up to disprove mankind's notion that we're bigger and badder than Mother Nature and can control her, and he has no concept of caution and restraint. He even tries to make his own mechanical Godzilla in the real thing's image with the aim of toppling him, but his impatience and recklessness leads to him losing control of his own creation.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Several of the monsters have jagged weapons on the ends of their tails -- these include the Ion Dragon in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Shinomura in the (CanonDiscontinuity) graphic novel ''Godzilla: Awakening'', and Shimo in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire''. King Ghidorah's tails as usual end in spike-covered clubs.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Several of the monsters have jagged weapons on the ends of their tails -- these include the Ion Dragon in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Shinomura in the (CanonDiscontinuity) graphic novel ''Godzilla: Awakening'', and Shimo and Evolved Godzilla in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire''. King Ghidorah's tails as usual end in spike-covered clubs.
* BigDamnHeroes: Godzilla and Kong both respectively pull off a ''lot'' of impressive rescues of people and their allies throughout the franchise. Several of their human allies end up returning the favor, like Ford Brody blowing up the [=MUTOs'=] nest just in time to distract them from killing Godzilla, or Dr. Brooks firing on the Skull Devil with a pair of mounted machine guns in time to save Kong.
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* DavidVsGoliath: Oftentimes, the heroic Titans end up facing off against villainous Titans that are much larger than them and coming out on top, albeit with human help at times.
** ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'': Godzilla renews his ancient rivalry with Ghidorah, who is roughly ''twice'' the size of Godzilla with his wings spread, has Gravity Beams so powerful that he can literally throw Godzilla off his feet, and can generate world-ending hypercanes just by existing in Earth's atmosphere.
** ''Godzilla vs. Kong'': Godzilla is now the Goliath to Kong's David, and Godzilla is decidedly the more antagonistic and less empathetic of the two heroic Titans, as well as the more superpowerful whereas Kong relies on his wits to match him. In this instance, Goliath defeats David.
** ''Skull Island'' (2023): The Kraken which functions as the BigBad of the first season, vying against Kong to the death and threatening the humans, is roughly twice Kong's size once its full appearance is revealed, and it has an array of abilities including {{combat tentacles}}, and a bio-electric sting which also delivers venom.
** ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'': Godzilla renews his ancient rivalry with Ghidorah, who is roughly ''twice'' the size of Godzilla with his wings spread, has Gravity Beams so powerful that he can literally throw Godzilla off his feet, and can generate world-ending hypercanes just by existing in Earth's atmosphere.
** ''Godzilla vs. Kong'': Godzilla is now the Goliath to Kong's David, and Godzilla is decidedly the more antagonistic and less empathetic of the two heroic Titans, as well as the more superpowerful whereas Kong relies on his wits to match him. In this instance, Goliath defeats David.
** ''Skull Island'' (2023): The Kraken which functions as the BigBad of the first season, vying against Kong to the death and threatening the humans, is roughly twice Kong's size once its full appearance is revealed, and it has an array of abilities including {{combat tentacles}}, and a bio-electric sting which also delivers venom.
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** 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]] so much as he is murdering every living thing that isn't him.
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** Ghidorah kills people any and all human life that he encounters because he can, not because we're he considers us a threat or in his way, as does [[spoiler:his and this trait carries over to his reincarnation in]] in Mechagodzilla. It's even speculated in the ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' novelization that Ghidorah isn't really motivated by [[HostileTerraforming turning Earth into a more suitable environment for himself]] so much as he is by hatefully murdering every living thing all life that isn't him. him.
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* HelicopterFlyswatter: What did you expect from a {{Kaiju}} franchise? Kong in his debut movie invokes a very deliberately excessive instance of this trope when he ''massacres'' a fleet of helicopters in retaliation for them carpet-bombing his home and firing on him. Various Titans in ''King of the Monsters'' take down lots of military aircraft including choppers and tiltrotors with their sheer size and weight, and the only airborne rotor vehicle to show up in the first season of ''Skull Island'' gets torn apart by the Kraken like paper.
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* HelicopterFlyswatter: What did you expect from a {{Kaiju}} franchise? Kong in his debut movie invokes a very deliberately excessive instance of this trope when he ''massacres'' a fleet of helicopters in retaliation for them carpet-bombing his home and firing on him. Godzilla himself takes down a few aircraft in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' and ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters''. Various Titans in ''King of the Monsters'' take down lots of military aircraft including choppers and tiltrotors with their sheer size and weight, and the only airborne rotor vehicle to show up in the first season of ''Skull Island'' gets torn apart by the Kraken like paper.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Godzilla, though he's definitively an AntiHero in this continuity, is initially just seen by most of humanity as a monster and a threat to their peace until the events of ''King of the Monsters'' make humanity see him as their savior -- and even then, when he begins rampaging seemingly unprovoked in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the human race are surprisingly quick to assume he's gone bad. Monarch also get shtick in TheUnmasquedWorld and are often blamed by the public and government for whatever damage the Titans cause.
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** Godzilla, though he's definitively an AntiHero in this continuity, is initially just seen by most of humanity as a monster and a threat to theirpeace peace, until the events of ''King of the Monsters'' make humanity see him as their savior -- and even savior. Even then, when he Godzilla begins rampaging seemingly unprovoked in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the human race are [[EasilyCondemned surprisingly quick to assume he's gone bad. bad]]. Godzilla continues to cause grief and draw ire from European governments during his activity in ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire''.
** Monarch also get shtick in TheUnmasquedWorld and are often blamed by the public and government for whatever damage the Titans cause.
** Godzilla, though he's definitively an AntiHero in this continuity, is initially just seen by most of humanity as a monster and a threat to their
** Monarch also get shtick in TheUnmasquedWorld and are often blamed by the public and government for whatever damage the Titans cause.
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* BlueIsHeroic: Godzilla's atomic breath and dorsal spines glow blue, as per usual, and the [=MonsterVerse=] version is one of the more exclusively heroic iterations, acting to protect the world and generally not antagonizing humanity. Likewise, although Mothra's bioluminescence flashes with a variety of different colors, blue and teal are the most prominent colors, and she's [[AllLovingHero possibly the nicest Kaiju in the whole MonsterVerse]]. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', the heroic freelance mercenary James Conrad wears a blue shirt.
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* BlueIsHeroic: Godzilla's atomic breath and dorsal spines glow blue, as per usual, and the [=MonsterVerse=] version is one of the more exclusively heroic iterations, acting to protect the world and generally not antagonizing humanity. Likewise, although Mothra's bioluminescence flashes with a variety of different colors, blue and teal are the most prominent colors, and she's [[AllLovingHero possibly the nicest Kaiju in the whole MonsterVerse]]. In ''Kong: Skull Island'', the heroic freelance mercenary James Conrad wears a and the Monarch operative Houston Brooks both wear blue shirt.tops.
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* BrutalHonesty: In ''Kong: Skull Island'', Slivko, possibly due to the stressful situation, doesn't mince his words when telling [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Hank Marlow]] that his wife must think he's dead after three decades. In the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization, Jia is described as being blunt and literal. In the ''Skull Island'' animated series, [[WildChild Annie]] is extremely blunt when commenting on death.
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* AntiVillain: The [=MUTOs=] in the original 2014 film are by far the least malevolent kaiju antagonists in the franchise, being motivated solely to reproduce and carve out territory. Godzilla himself ultimately becomes this in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' when he [[spoiler:goes on a rampage trying to find Ghidorah's NotQuiteDead remnant]]. Admiral Stenz, with his {{wrong assumption}}s about the Titans just being a threat per the genre norm, and with his inability to learn his lesson coupled with his genuine well intentions, can be seen as this.
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* AntiHeroSubstitute: Several of the major characters who featured in the first [=MonsterVerse=] movie, ''Film/Godzilla2014'', have had more morally-dubious characters who fill similar roles to them in the cast and mirror their own ideals turn up in the sequels.
** Joe Brody, the heartbroken, unintentionally-neglectful and -obsessive workaholic determined to find out what Monarch are covering up that caused his wife's death which he blames himself for. His substitutes in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' are Mark Russell and Hiroshi Randa respectively, whom were both acting much more deliberately when they abandoned their remaining children and loved ones. Mark is a rude, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-pitying]] man with a hate-on against the Titans and especially Godzilla, while Hiroshi has a [[SecretOtherFamily secret double-life with two wives and children]] whom he was always distant toward.
** Dr. IshirÅ Serizawa, the thoughtful, cautious and wise naturalist figurehead of Monarch who worships Godzilla and professes to value all life. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', his substitute is Bill Randa, who leads the Monarch expedition to Skull Island, but is a ManipulativeBastard who tricked dozens of returning vets and civilians into mortal danger, and Bill initially believes that all the Titans are monsters that need to be wiped out for humanity's survival. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Serizawa's substitute is Monarch's Deputy Director Natalia Verdugo, an acidic MeanBoss who is resentful of being [[AlwaysSecondBest only the deputy]] and is willing to [[TheNeedsOfTheMany sacrifice the few for the many]].
* AntiVillain: The [=MUTOs=] in the original 2014 film are by far the least malevolent kaiju antagonists in the franchise, being motivated solely to reproduce and carve out territory. Godzilla himself ultimately becomes this in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' when he [[spoiler:goes on a rampage trying to find Ghidorah's NotQuiteDead remnant]]. Admiral Stenz, with his {{wrong assumption}}s about the Titans just being a threat per the genre norm, and with his inability to learn his lesson coupled with his genuine well intentions, can be seen as this. [[spoiler:Lee Shaw in ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' is trying to help both humanity and Godzilla, and to atone for his own perceived failures, via forcibly sealing all the Vile Vortexes on Earth to cut humanity and the HollowEarth off from each-other forever, oblivious to the dangers of his plan backfiring; and he never directly sacrifices or endangers innocent human lives to realize his plan]].
** Joe Brody, the heartbroken, unintentionally-neglectful and -obsessive workaholic determined to find out what Monarch are covering up that caused his wife's death which he blames himself for. His substitutes in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' are Mark Russell and Hiroshi Randa respectively, whom were both acting much more deliberately when they abandoned their remaining children and loved ones. Mark is a rude, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-pitying]] man with a hate-on against the Titans and especially Godzilla, while Hiroshi has a [[SecretOtherFamily secret double-life with two wives and children]] whom he was always distant toward.
** Dr. IshirÅ Serizawa, the thoughtful, cautious and wise naturalist figurehead of Monarch who worships Godzilla and professes to value all life. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', his substitute is Bill Randa, who leads the Monarch expedition to Skull Island, but is a ManipulativeBastard who tricked dozens of returning vets and civilians into mortal danger, and Bill initially believes that all the Titans are monsters that need to be wiped out for humanity's survival. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Serizawa's substitute is Monarch's Deputy Director Natalia Verdugo, an acidic MeanBoss who is resentful of being [[AlwaysSecondBest only the deputy]] and is willing to [[TheNeedsOfTheMany sacrifice the few for the many]].
* AntiVillain: The [=MUTOs=] in the original 2014 film are by far the least malevolent kaiju antagonists in the franchise, being motivated solely to reproduce and carve out territory. Godzilla himself ultimately becomes this in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' when he [[spoiler:goes on a rampage trying to find Ghidorah's NotQuiteDead remnant]]. Admiral Stenz, with his {{wrong assumption}}s about the Titans just being a threat per the genre norm, and with his inability to learn his lesson coupled with his genuine well intentions, can be seen as this. [[spoiler:Lee Shaw in ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' is trying to help both humanity and Godzilla, and to atone for his own perceived failures, via forcibly sealing all the Vile Vortexes on Earth to cut humanity and the HollowEarth off from each-other forever, oblivious to the dangers of his plan backfiring; and he never directly sacrifices or endangers innocent human lives to realize his plan]].
** In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Tim gets injured quite a lot and he's in more than one crashing vehicle. At one point, he's the {{sole survivor}} of a helicopter crash in the Algerian Desert, after which he has to hike across miles of desert without water, and the second he reaches a town, he's immediately accused of something that he's not guilty of [[NotMeThisTime this time]].
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* CaptainErsatz: The [[ArchEnemy Skullcrawlers]] that Kong regularly fights on Skull Island are based on the Deathrunners from ''Literature/KongKingOfSkullIsland'' which is based on the [[Film/KingKong1933 original]] ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'' continuity as reptilian predators who wiped out Kong's family and the rest of his species. Dr. Rick Stanton who debuted in ''King of the Mosters'' is based on [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty another, animated Rick on Adult Swim]] as a cynical, alcoholic, white-haired scientist who deals in the fantastical in a sci-fi setting.
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* CaptainErsatz: The [[ArchEnemy Skullcrawlers]] that Kong regularly fights on Skull Island are based on the Deathrunners from ''Literature/KongKingOfSkullIsland'' which is based on the [[Film/KingKong1933 original]] ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'' continuity as reptilian predators who wiped out Kong's family and the rest of his species. Dr. Rick Stanton who debuted in ''King of the Mosters'' Monsters'' is based on [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty another, animated Rick on Adult Swim]] as a cynical, alcoholic, white-haired scientist who deals in the fantastical in a sci-fi setting.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: More often than not. The biggest instance is in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', when Dr. Serizawa's open beliefs that Godzilla is ultimately the world's protector rather than its destroyer, dating back in the 2014 movie, are finally vindicated. Joe Brody in the 2014 movie is seen by his son as a wackjob who lost his mind with grief, but he's proven completely right that the government are covering up a living creature. Dr. Brooks and Bill Randa in ''Kong: Skull Island'' have been dismissed as loonies by the government and ''even by other Monarch operatives'' in the past for believing in Skull Island and HollowEarth theory (both of which are proven to be 100% real, much to the delight of Brooks' cynical, alcoholic token advocate Dr. Stanton). Bernie Hayes in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' is a very ''wacky'' ConspiracyTheorist who's 100% right that Godzilla is GoodAllAlong and that Apex Cybernetics are up to something sinister.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: More often than not. The biggest instance is in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', when Dr. Serizawa's open beliefs that Godzilla is ultimately the world's protector rather than its destroyer, dating back in the 2014 movie, are finally vindicated. Joe Brody in the 2014 movie is seen by his son as a wackjob who lost his mind with grief, but he's proven completely right that the government are covering up a living creature. Dr. Brooks and Bill Randa in ''Kong: Skull Island'' have been dismissed as loonies by the government and ''even by other Monarch operatives'' in the past for believing in Skull Island and HollowEarth theory (both of which are proven to be 100% real, much to the delight of Brooks' cynical, alcoholic token advocate Dr. Stanton). Bernie Hayes in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' is a very ''wacky'' ConspiracyTheorist who's 100% right that Godzilla is GoodAllAlong and that Apex Cybernetics are up to something sinister. Lee Shaw in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'' is revealed to have been deemed crazy by Monarch for verifying and trying to tell them of the Hollow Earth's (specifically Axis Mundi's) existence decades earlier.
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* 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 cast acting snarky and quippy at least once]].
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* 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''.Aftershock'', and Lee Shaw, Keiko Randa-Miura and Michelle Duvall in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters''. ''King of the Monsters'' and the ''Skull Island'' 2023 series in particular have [[WorldOfSnark pretty much the whole cast acting snarky and quippy at least once]].
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* EnemyMine: The least generous interpretation of [[AdaptationalHeroism Godzilla]] and humans repeatedly working together against another Titan which threatens them both (the [=MUTOs=], Jinshin-Mushi and Ghidorah) -- we say "least generous" because compared to most Godzilla iterations, the [=MonsterVerse=] incarnation of the Big G is remarkably less antagonistic and more benign towards humanity even in the absence of a common enemy, and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' explores the concept of cohabiting the world with him in mutually-beneficial symbiosis. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the titular monsters go from being at each-other's throats to working together once Mechagodzilla emerges as an even greater threat than either of them.
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** The least generous interpretation of [[AdaptationalHeroism Godzilla]] and humans repeatedly working together against another Titan which threatens them both (the [=MUTOs=], Jinshin-Mushi and Ghidorah) -- we say "least generous" because compared to most Godzilla iterations, the [=MonsterVerse=] incarnation of the Big G is remarkably less antagonistic and more benign towards humanity even in the absence of a common enemy, and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' explores the concept of cohabiting the world with him in mutually-beneficialsymbiosis. symbiosis.
** In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the titular monsters go from being at each-other's throats to working together once Mechagodzilla emerges as an even greater threat than either ofthem.them.
** In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', the Randa half-siblings put their animosity with Tim aside to get his help after May is kidnapped.
** The least generous interpretation of [[AdaptationalHeroism Godzilla]] and humans repeatedly working together against another Titan which threatens them both (the [=MUTOs=], Jinshin-Mushi and Ghidorah) -- we say "least generous" because compared to most Godzilla iterations, the [=MonsterVerse=] incarnation of the Big G is remarkably less antagonistic and more benign towards humanity even in the absence of a common enemy, and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' explores the concept of cohabiting the world with him in mutually-beneficial
** In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the titular monsters go from being at each-other's throats to working together once Mechagodzilla emerges as an even greater threat than either of
** In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', the Randa half-siblings put their animosity with Tim aside to get his help after May is kidnapped.
** Deputy Director Verdugo in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'' doesn't accomplish much of anything meaningful except for cutting a deal with [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]] which might have aided the {{corporate conspiracy}} to create Mechagodzilla, and eventually driving the heroes away from Monarch and into Apex's claws with her questionable leadership.
** [[GreyAndGrayMorality Lee Shaw]]'s impulsive and passionate personality leads him to engage in and stick to his own plan to save the world and atone for his lost loved ones' deaths while being blind to the signs that he's causing even more harm than he solves, [[spoiler:ultimately leading him to his entrapment in Axis Mundi and possible death]].
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* HisStoryRepeatsItself: In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Mark and Emma's character development following the PlotTriggeringDeath of their elder child amid the Titans' past battle in San Francisco culminates in them trying to save their remaining child's life amid this movie's 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 and traumatically failed with his brother dying.
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* HisStoryRepeatsItself: In ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Mark and Emma's character development following the PlotTriggeringDeath of their elder child amid the Titans' past battle in San Francisco culminates in them trying to save their remaining child's life amid this movie's 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 and traumatically failed with his brother dying. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', Old Shaw, haunted by his failure to take Keiko's hand in time to save her from falling to her seeming death, ends up successfully grabbing Cate's hand in the exact same spot years later.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Quite a few of the human villains implement a lot of hypocrisy into their agendas. Packard puts all his remaining men at risk in pursuit of his vendetta against Kong for killing his men, and he refuses to take responsibility or understand why Kong committed the actions he did. Jonah pretty much uses any excuse to justify letting King Ghidorah destroy the world completely, even when it directly contradicts his earlier attempts to meddle with nature and claims to be preventing the world's ecological destruction; never mind ''[[spoiler:Emma]]''[='s=] utterly twisted idea of the best way to honor their dead son's memory being to create over a dozen more repeats of the incident that killed him. [[GoodIsNotNice Mark Russell]], being the [[{{Jerkass}} piece of work he was]] at the start of ''King of the Monsters'', is quite ObliviousToHisOwnDescription, when he's scorning Serizawa for allegedly "kid[ding] himself" and when he's scorning Emma for putting her grief before her health and her family, in a HolierThanThou tone of voice. Dr. Serizawa himself gets called out on how he's willing to be proactive when the eco-terrorists' plan to unleash the Titans threatens the world, yet he wasn't taking the senators' [[WrongAssumption misguided]] plan to attempt exterminating the Titans in their sleep seriously at all despite the fact he should have known it was equally dangerous.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Quite a few of the human villains implement a lot of hypocrisy into their agendas. agendas.
** ''Kong: Skull Island'': Packard puts all his remaining men at risk in pursuit of his vendetta against Kong for killing his men, and he refuses to take responsibility or understand why Kong committed the actions hedid. did.
** ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'': Jonah pretty much uses any excuse to justify letting King Ghidorah destroy the world completely, even when it directly contradicts his earlier attempts to meddle with nature and claims to be preventing the world's ecological destruction; never mind ''[[spoiler:Emma]]''[='s=] utterly twisted idea of the best way to honor their dead son's memory being to create over a dozen more repeats of the incident that killed him. [[GoodIsNotNice Mark Russell]], being the [[{{Jerkass}} piece of work he was]] at the start of ''King of the Monsters'', is quite ObliviousToHisOwnDescription, when he's scorning Serizawa for allegedly "kid[ding] himself" and when he's scorning Emma for putting her grief before her health and her family, in a HolierThanThou tone of voice. Dr. Serizawa himself gets called out on how he's willing to be proactive when the eco-terrorists' plan to unleash the Titans threatens the world, yet he wasn't taking the senators' [[WrongAssumption misguided]] plan to attempt exterminating the Titans in their sleep seriously at all despite the fact he should have known it was equallydangerous.dangerous.
** ''Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization'': [[AesopAmnesia Mark Russell]] constantly demands that Madison trust and have faith in him while giving her absolutely none in turn. [[DragonWithAnAgenda Ren Serizawa]] doesn't see any of the contradictions in him: (a) hating Godzilla and disparaging his Godzilla-worshipping father for the collateral damage of Godzilla's fights to save the world, while Ren himself is shamelessly helping Apex to endanger millions of civilians for [[EvilIsPetty Walter Simmons]]' EngineeredHeroics, (b) equating himself and his Mecha to a god when he disparages the notion that the real Titans are gods or anything more than a new kind of animal, and (c) being derisive of Walter Simmons' egotism despite his own arrogance.
** ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'': Tim is appalled that Verdugo is locking up Bill Randa's grandkids like they're criminals when Monarch finds them, even though as Verdugo points out, Tim's earlier attempt to bring one of the grandkids into Monarch involved kidnapping her off the street like a creep.
** ''Kong: Skull Island'': Packard puts all his remaining men at risk in pursuit of his vendetta against Kong for killing his men, and he refuses to take responsibility or understand why Kong committed the actions he
** ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'': Jonah pretty much uses any excuse to justify letting King Ghidorah destroy the world completely, even when it directly contradicts his earlier attempts to meddle with nature and claims to be preventing the world's ecological destruction; never mind ''[[spoiler:Emma]]''[='s=] utterly twisted idea of the best way to honor their dead son's memory being to create over a dozen more repeats of the incident that killed him. [[GoodIsNotNice Mark Russell]], being the [[{{Jerkass}} piece of work he was]] at the start of ''King of the Monsters'', is quite ObliviousToHisOwnDescription, when he's scorning Serizawa for allegedly "kid[ding] himself" and when he's scorning Emma for putting her grief before her health and her family, in a HolierThanThou tone of voice. Dr. Serizawa himself gets called out on how he's willing to be proactive when the eco-terrorists' plan to unleash the Titans threatens the world, yet he wasn't taking the senators' [[WrongAssumption misguided]] plan to attempt exterminating the Titans in their sleep seriously at all despite the fact he should have known it was equally
** ''Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization'': [[AesopAmnesia Mark Russell]] constantly demands that Madison trust and have faith in him while giving her absolutely none in turn. [[DragonWithAnAgenda Ren Serizawa]] doesn't see any of the contradictions in him: (a) hating Godzilla and disparaging his Godzilla-worshipping father for the collateral damage of Godzilla's fights to save the world, while Ren himself is shamelessly helping Apex to endanger millions of civilians for [[EvilIsPetty Walter Simmons]]' EngineeredHeroics, (b) equating himself and his Mecha to a god when he disparages the notion that the real Titans are gods or anything more than a new kind of animal, and (c) being derisive of Walter Simmons' egotism despite his own arrogance.
** ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'': Tim is appalled that Verdugo is locking up Bill Randa's grandkids like they're criminals when Monarch finds them, even though as Verdugo points out, Tim's earlier attempt to bring one of the grandkids into Monarch involved kidnapping her off the street like a creep.
