History NightmareFuel / GodzillaVsKong

* Thanks to Camazotz's actions in the graphic novel ''Kingdom Kong'', Skull Island is permanently enveloped in a PerpetualStorm made from the island's own storm barrier and a leftover superstorm of Ghidorah; by the movie's start, it's wiped out all the humans on the island sans Monarch and Jia, every beast big enough to compromise the bio-dome is implicitly gone, and it's likely (outright confirmed in the novelization) that all the remaining plant life and any remaining fauna is condemned to die and fade away ''slowly'' amidst the new conditions[[note]]The island's trees visibly haven't died off yet, even though it's been one to three '''years''' since the storm settled over the island[[/note]]. Now let's backtrack to ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''. If [[TheStormbringer Ghidorah]] hadn't been stopped, then what's happened to Skull Island in this movie could've been the fate of ''every landmass on Earth'', even without the other Titans speeding up the destruction.
* Godzilla going on a rampage is the worst-case scenario for humanity. The King of the Monsters has travelled all over the world leaving ruin in his wake. Now that the [=MUTOs=] and King Ghidorah are gone, there's literally no other Titan that can ever challenge him. Godzilla's rampage in civilian areas (that clearly have not been evacuated) in general is terrifying, a deliberate reminder despite being generally considered a hero for the most part, this Godzilla is a walking natural disaster when provoked just like his villainous (or at the very least antagonistic) Japanese counterparts.
* How utterly unstoppable Godzilla is against the US Navy battle group escorting Kong. In real life, that'd be enough firepower to end a conflict just by threatening to show up. Here, frigates, Aegis cruisers, an ''Iowa''-class battleship and F-35 fighters all fall in terrifyingly quick succession while missiles, depth charges and battleship main gun rounds all bounce off him. Only quick thinking on Lind and Andrews' part get him to back off by making him think they weren't a threat any more. The truly terrifying thing is that all that was an afterthought for Godzilla - he was trying to get Kong, and they were just in the way; after Kong briefly gets the upper hand, in his mind, Kong must be incapacitated, or even ''killed'', and it doesn't matter how many humans are slain for him to achieve his goal. It's no wonder Mark is so scared of Godzilla going rogue.

** Even Kong gets his own share of nightmarish moments, notably in the aircraft carrier fight where he flings jet fighters at Godzilla as weapons--with people still inside of them, though fortunately the pilots manage to bail out before their planes impact Godzilla's body.
* It's revealed that APEX has been genetically-altering and cloning Titans to use as test subjects for Mechagodzilla. Since humans now have such immeasurable power...what other unnatural monstrosities could arise from such technology?
* Ren Serizawa is this in spades. The estranged son of Dr. Serizawa, Monarch's own Godzilla expert, he's joined APEX in protest of his father's ideals, and is responsible for the creation of Mechagodzilla: as he believes that all the Titans must be either destroyed or put in chains as mankind deserves to reign the planet uncontested, in a dark juxtaposition of his father's rhetoric of mutual symbiosis with the Titans.
** There's something inherently distressing about how Ren is so obsessed with killing someone his father ''sacrificed his own life to save.'' Whether it's due to him blaming Godzilla for his father's demise is never fully explained.
** The sheer sadistic glee he gets at demonstrating Mechagodzilla's power. Even for a Skullcrawler it's a little too much: he uses Mecha G's arms to pull the struggling, shrieking Skullcrawler apart as he slowly roasts it alive with Mecha G's atomic breath, all the while ecstatic like a child with a new toy, or pulling off the legs of a bug.
** The death of the Skullcrawler in general. It effortlessly gets hoisted up and has its arms pulled tight on opposite ends. The subsequent atomic breath, instead of blasting inside and incinerating the organs like before, proceeds to go a step further by ''blasting through its mouth's roof until it comes out through the brain''. Not done yet, Mechagodzilla proceeds to lower his head while still using the breath, effectively ''very slowly'' sawing and pulling the corpse in half. [[GoryDiscretionShot It immediately cuts to the protagonists who saw this first-hand jumping into a nearby bunker, in where the windows are immediately splashed with the Skullcrawler's blood and organs]]. All this carnage happens in ''just a minute''. The kicker? You realize that these tests are nothing more than rehearsals for the real target, Godzilla himself. Imagine him suffering that same fate. Yikes.
** When Ren first sees Ghidorah's skull, he refers to it as ''love at first sight.'' Given how Ghidorah's consciousness still exists inside its remains, who is to say that Ghidorah did not influence Ren's actions while he was piloting Mechagodzilla?
* Walter Simmons himself is a terrifyingly reality-grounded brand of Nightmare Fuel, being an ordinary-seeming man who exhibits the telltale signs of [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] and [[TheSociopath antisocial personality disorder]] whilst having no apparent FreudianExcuse: he positively ''thrives'' off of manipulating other people like pieces on a chessboard, has [[LackOfEmpathy absolutely no empathy for nor remorse over the millions of people whom he intentionally endangers]], he knows how to superficially ''fake'' compassion as a manipulation tactic (with the dead look in his eyes when manipulating Nathan Lind giving away that it's all an act), and he has no apparent meaningful emotional connections to anyone, not even his own daughter. The truly scary thing? There are people just like Walter Simmons in real life, and just like Simmons' rather unassuming appearance, [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse they could be anyone, anywhere, and they can blend in a crowd]]. We can only take comfort in knowing that not ''all'' of them are in major positions of power through which they can change the world for the worse like Simmons.
* You thought Skull Island was bad? Well, it was just a small sample of the nasty things the Hollow Earth has in store, such as Hellhawks, (basically the Leafwings but far more bloodthirsty), the Warbats, which are giant cobra-like serpents with hoods big enough to use as wings, and the Skullcrawlers return as well: as big as Ramarak and colored an ominous red (And even then, one such giant Hollow Earth Skullcrawler stands no chance against Mechagodzilla). And this is just what we see on a short trip on one specific path, given how massive the Hollow Earth is, [[NothingIsScarier there's no telling what else is living there]].

** Godzilla's entire BeamSpam is a horrifying moment. Kong is forced to run to avoid getting burned, and from the look on his face we can see he's actually afraid.
* Godzilla holds back on Kong for most of the film, merely trying to drive him away so he can track down Ghidorah's signal. But after Kong presses his BerserkButton one too many times and manages to trounce him during the first act of the fight in Hong Kong, Godzilla [[RageBreakingPoint goes absolutely feral]]: he knocks Kong's axe away, gets down on all fours and lunges and snaps at him with an almost crocodilian ferocity like never before. He utterly throws Kong around like a rag doll and for one brief moment looks like he's about to finish him off...then simply roars in his face and departs, almost as if to say, "[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice If I wanted it, you'd be dead already.]]"
** What makes Godzilla on all fours all the more terrifying is that when you initially look at him, you would think it would be physically impossible. The bear-like ferocity (the Godzilla in the Monsterverse is partly designed after Grizzly bears) and crocodilian speed puts that to rest almost immediately.
** Scarier than that is that ultimately, for a bit, Godzilla's absolutely savage CurbStompBattle in the final round on Kong actually does briefly '''''[[TheHeroDies KILL]]''''' the giant ape as the sheer physical trauma that Godzilla caused makes Kong go into [[HollywoodHeartAttack cardiac arrest]], which would have ended him had he not been resuscitated at the last moment by the detonation of the hovercraft's antigravity core to give him a jolt to restart his heart. Even if Godzilla didn't go in for the kill himself, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength his sheer strength nearly does Kong in anyways]]. It's '''''[[HeroKiller absolutely frightening]]''''' the damage, even unintentionally, that Big G can do when [[RageBreakingPoint sufficiently pissed the]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[RageBreakingPoint off]].
** For that matter, all Kong can do the entire time is run. It looked like he might have actually had Godzilla on the ropes, until Godzilla bit, threw him off and dislocated his shoulder. From then on all Kong could do was run, Godzilla's relentless assault not even giving him enough time to get on his feet before leaping onto the ape, clawing up his chest and pinning him under foot. Kong stayed defiant and punched Godzilla in the wound left by the axe, which just made him angrier and prompting him to bring his giant foot down a second time.
* Godzilla's atomic breath is powerful enough to ''punch a hole all the way to the Hollow Earth'' if he powers it up enough. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mocIrhUC1Eg This video]] estimates that such a feat would require a force at least ''1800'' times that of the Tsar Bomba (a ''58 megaton'' nuclear bomb - the largest ever detonated). Imagine what it could have done to Kong if Godzilla wasn't as merciful...
** And the fact that even with such power, ''Mechagodzilla's atomic breath is still far stronger.'' It manages to leave a nasty burn on Godzilla's nigh-impenetrable hide, which is all the more frightening given that not even a ''point-blank nuke'' could hurt him.[[note]]Though to be fair to Godzilla, he wasn't exactly in the best condition since he was fresh off from his fight with Kong where he also used the atomic breath multiple times against him.[[/note]]
*** In Wikizilla's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR09PqejJ50&t=541s Kaiju Profile video on Mechagodzilla]], it is revealed through a Japanese theater program that Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream[[note]]The official name for his beam attack[[/note]] comes in at a whopping ''758 petajoules'' of energy, and that's the ''lower calculation!'' [[note]] Other facts and statements do imply this is more likely the most accurate, since WordOfGod states that had Godzilla not been at half-strength from fighting Kong, he would have done better and might have even won against Mechagodzilla; the energy of the Proton Scream comes out to 181 megatons, whilst the Atomic Breath is 104 megatons - not to hard to imagine Godzilla struggling but ultimately overcoming the gap, since it's not even a times two difference. Furthermore, he still had energy for the Atomic Breath left to use against Kong ''after'' drilling to Hollow Earth, so the Proton Scream may have been matched or even overpowered by Godzilla's full powered Breath [[/note]] This is mainly because of the wonky way the equations for the beam's energy level are written, without any exponents;[[note]]'4.10 x 1080 Joules (12 to the 16th power)'[[/note]] formatting the second equation correctly comes out to 758 petajoules, but the first equation equals out as being around ''100 billion'' times the mass energy equivalent of the entire observable universe. For some comparisons, the Tsar Bomba's energy yield was a mere 210 petajoules, while the third explosion during the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 is estimated to have been in the range of 840 petajoules. That's right, Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream is so powerful that it utterly ''dwarfs'' any other weapon humans have created, and isn't far off from ranking among the strongest energy releases the Earth has ever produced!
* [[MechanicalAbomination Mechagodzilla]] finally returns to his villainous roots in this film, and what's worse is that the mecha is possessed by the dreaded '''[[TheAntiGod King Ghidorah]]'''. He is an unstoppable engine of mass destruction armed with plasma arm-cannons, an entire armory's worth of missile launchers all over him, a semi-autonomous drill tail disturbingly reminiscent of that of ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', and a red atomic breath far more powerful than Godzilla's own. His design is also quite disturbing, with a skull-like face reminiscent of the Terminator, glowing red eyes, and long, gangly arms that make him look uncannily human-like. Most unsettling, however, is the fact that his cockpit was fashioned out of Ghidorah's skull; and at times, Mechagodzilla makes some eerily Ghidorah-like sounds, giving a sinister implication of whose mind is really in command when Mechagodzilla goes rogue...
** Mechagodzilla's awakening is pretty disturbing, with him motionless in the APEX hangar, and then suddenly, he short-circuits a bit, and to everyone's horror, he slowly begins to move on his own as Ghidorah's brain takes control...and he slowly sneaks behind the APEX command centre, where the organization's leader, Simmons, fails to notice until it's too late. Ren Serizawa is also electrocuted to death in the Ghidorah skull cockpit, as the camera zeroes in on Mechagodzilla's eyes flickering blue and red, signifying the return of who else...

*** Crossing into tearjerker territory, but Ren's last thought before his mind is devoured by Ghidorah's consciousness is a vision of his father, who he refers to as ''Daddy.''
** One especially harrowing scene is Mecha G pinning Godzilla down to the ground after throwing him around: and for the first time ever in the series, Godzilla is visibly afraid. He helplessly gazes up at the machine with Mechagodzilla's visage reflected in his eye, and then Mechagodzilla grabs his head, pries his jaws open, and seems fully prepared to finish Godzilla off with his very own Kiss of Death...
** The worst part is how utterly ''sadistic'' he is. He has every bit the ounce of strength needed to finish Godzilla quickly, but instead, he takes his time beating him senseless and taking him apart, clearly relishing in his newfound dominance compared to before. While it does, like last time, result in his demise due to Godzilla still being alive to help Kong kill him, it makes you wonder; if the least intelligent of Ghidorah's heads was capable of this kind of sadism, how bad would Godzilla have had it if it was Ni, or worse, Ichi, who was in control?

*** Or perhaps just as bad: what if Kevin was in fact the most ''evil'' of the three heads, only being restrained by Ichi's dominance, and now that he has free reins to his own body he can finally run rampant with nobody to hold him back?
** Mechagodzilla once again starts to brutalize Godzilla even if he's teamed up with Kong. Kong spots his axe in the rubble and uses it on the Mecha, [[HopeSpot from that moment onward it seems like Kong is starting to gain the upper hand.]] After landing one sweep blow that floors Mechagodzilla, Kong raises his weapon for another attack, but Mechagodzilla instantly interrupts him with a rapid swipe of his tail and punts him into a building. His tail arcs behind himself and launches the tip of it but Kong grabs it in time... only for it to start rotating like a drill and it ''slowly starts to inch'' closer and closer to Kong's cheek as he has a panicked expression glued on his face. The next shot after is another close up of Mechagodzilla's face, with a disturbing gaze of murderous intent as his eyes are vividly glowing. What's even more frightening is that it's ''Kevin'' displaying his level of sadism lurking inside of the literal killing machine, the last time he was this vicious was when he excitedly started to bite into Godzilla's neck via slurping the radiation out of him like a kaiju vampire.
** Consider everything from Ghidorah's perspective: Having been reawakened from your icy tomb after centuries of slumber, you reengage your hated enemy, and come close to destroying him forever, only for in your hubris suffering a definitive, and humiliating, defeat. Then you are resurrected, but not by your own doing, not with your own mind and not in your own form - by creatures so small they barely register as ants to you, for the purpose of using you as a puppet to fight their meaningless battles and, to top it off, in a form that mimics the very thing that destroyed you. No one deserves a FateWorseThanDeath more than Ghidorah, but seeing all that, it's understandable why he's even more bloodthirsty than usual.
*** On that topic, there's the fact it immediately goes for Simmons when Ghidorah takes over. Given it's been previously established Ghidorah was smart enough to recognise and go after individual humans (Madison in the last film), it's very possible it knows Simmons is the one responsible for its new form - and given all that's mentioned above, ''it isn't happy'' about that. The novelisation confirms this line of thinking, having it focus on the "one that believed they controlled it" immediately after its new consciousness comes into being.
** One frightening factor: both time Godzilla's drawn to attack, Mechagodzilla's eye is flickering active in the exact same way with the same sound, completely independent of Apex. The second time it's after Ren has powered down Mechagodzilla and is just talking to Walter...It's very possible Ghidorah was ''already'' awake and just biding his time, waiting for Mechagodzilla to be completed.
** Mechagodzilla's entrance into Hong Kong. He blasts his way out of Apex's facility which sends chunks of rock into buildings. Once he actually emerges he promptly blasts rows of buildings to dust simply because he can.

** After laying waste to Hong Kong, Mechagodzilla jerks its head towards Godzilla, before emitting three deep, reverberating tones. An EvilLaugh? Or is Mecha-G ''[[SayMyName directly calling out Godzilla by name]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis one syllable at a time]]''? Either way, both scenarios bring up a multitude of implications that are downright ''chilling'' to comprehend.

** One more frightening aspect is that Ghidorah's had his body completely incinerated and all that remains of him is a skull and some neurons... and he's ''still not dead'' and able to become a threat again. It gives the feeling that Godzilla didn't go to such extreme overkill last time just because he was angry, but because nothing less than '''complete obliteration''' can kill King Ghidorah ''period''.

** And at the end of the movie, Mechagodzilla is destroyed by the combined efforts of Godzilla and Kong: ''but Ghidorah's skull, in APEX's hangar and not in the machine, is very much still alive and intact.'' Could it possibly hint at a potential return, especially given his extreme regenerative capacity?

** While some have complained about Mechagodzilla's design being somewhat lacking in this film, one thing we can all agree on is that this version definitely feels more ''robotic'' than previous versions did. The way it slowly starts up, the artificial, mechanised sounds it makes when it moves, even how it's 'voice' sounds so unnatural and machine-like. Despite Ghidorah's skull controlling it, it's clear this thing is truly soulless. A heartless killing-machine built to do only one thing, and designed to do it ''very'' well.
** There's also the very real likelihood that if Ghidorah is still kicking even after this crushing defeat, Kong will be in ''serious'' trouble sometime in the future. Because if what's left of Ghidorah remembers Godzilla killing him the first time around to the point that he ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown really]]'' lets him have it when they reunite, then it's extremely likely that Kong himself is now sharing a special spot on Ghidorah's shitlist, right next to the big G himself, for being the one to put him down the second time. And if the above possibility of him fully regenerating back to his former glory is correct, then Kong is going to be in for one ''hell'' of an uphill fight.
* In the novelization, both Mark Russell and head honcho Director Guillerman respond to Mechagodzilla's mass-murdering emergence and the realization that Apex was responsible for Godzilla's rampage all along by wondering aloud whether they should be rooting for Godzilla or Mechagodzilla (this comes ''after'' Mechagodzilla has not only confirmed with its mere existence that Mark and Guillerman were right to suspect Apex of being the bad guys, but also after the Mecha has established it's ''far'' worse and much more like Ghidorah than Godzilla has ever been by blasting several city blocks for no other reason than because it could). How scary is that; knowing that the organization in charge of monitoring the {{Kaiju}} and helping mankind to effectively balance the fate of the world is being run by ''these two'' dunderheads?
** For bonus points, this film establishes that Mark's BreakTheHaughty in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' didn't last and that he didn't really internalize much of anything from the previous film, so it seems unlikely that he's going to learn anything following the events of this film either going forward.

*** In Wikizilla's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR09PqejJ50&t=541s Kaiju Profile video on Mechagodzilla]], it is revealed through a Japanese theater program that Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream[[note]]The official name for his beam attack[[/note]] comes in at a whopping ''758 petajoules'' of energy, and that's the ''lower calculation!'' [[note]] Other facts and statements do imply this is more likely the most accurate, since WordOfGod states that had Godzilla not been at half-strength from fighting Kong, he would have done better and might have even won against Mechagodzilla; the energy of the Proton Scream comes out to 181 megatons, whilst the Atomic Breath is 104 megatons - not to hard to imagine Godzilla struggling but ultimately overcoming the gap, since it's not even a times two difference [[/note]] This is mainly because of the wonky way the equations for the beam's energy level are written, without any exponents;[[note]]'4.10 x 1080 Joules (12 to the 16th power)'[[/note]] formatting the second equation correctly comes out to 758 petajoules, but the first equation equals out as being around ''100 billion'' times the mass energy equivalent of the entire observable universe. For some comparisons, the Tsar Bomba's energy yield was a mere 210 petajoules, while the third explosion during the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 is estimated to have been in the range of 840 petajoules. That's right, Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream is so powerful that it utterly ''dwarfs'' any other weapon humans have created, and isn't far off from ranking among the strongest energy releases the Earth has ever produced!

** Mechagodzilla once again starts to brutalize Godzilla even if he's teamed up with Kong. Kong spots his axe in the rubble and uses it on the Mecha, [[HopeSpot from that moment onward it seems like Kong is starting to gain the upper hand.]] After landing one sweep blow that floors Mechagodzilla, Kong, raises his weapon for another attack, but Mechagodzilla instantly interrupts him with a rapid swipe of his tail and punts him into a building. His tail arcs behind himself and launches the tip of it but Kong grabs it in time... only for it to start rotating like a drill and it ''slowly starts to inch'' closer and closer to Kong's cheek as he has a panicked expression glued on his face. The next shot after is another close up of Mechagodzilla's face, with a disturbing gaze of murderous intent as his eyes are vividly glowing. What's even more frightening is that it's ''Kevin'' displaying his level of sadism lurking inside of the literal killing machine, the last time he was this vicious was when he excitedly started to bite into Godzilla's neck via slurping the radiation out of him like a kaiju vampire.