History YMMV / GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019

** Despite all of [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]]'s {{Adaptational Badass}}ery points in this film – his ability to spontaneously dominate the Titans around the world single-handedly, his lack of reliance on HumanAlien masters to be a global threat, his HealingFactor, the fact that this version ''doesn't'' cave and flee the war when he suffers a grievous injury, and his [[NearVillainVictory Near-Villain Victories]] against Godzilla [[spoiler:one of which occurs when the latter is overloaded by a nuke]] – accusations of King Ghidorah in this film being one of the weakest iterations to date are a common sight in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fandom whenever he's brought up (which is ''very'' bizarre when he has the likes of the [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack GMK Ghidorah]] and [[Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah Heisei Ghidorah]][[note]]whom are ''infamous'' among ''Godzilla'' viewers for being underdogs and performing banally in their fights[[/note]] to be contrasted against). This incarnation is often made out to be a weakling; with the fandom exaggerating his stalemates or losses against Godzilla, downplaying the unambiguous struggles and near-defeats that Godzilla endured against him throughout the movie, and taking issue with Ghidorah being outmatched in Boston by [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla just]] [[Characters/MonsterVerseMothra two]] of the original three rival monsters that were required to match him in his [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster debut movie]] until he has the third monster [[AdaptationalVillainy on his side]] backing him up; the fandom scapegoats Ghidorah as an AdaptationalWimp whilst ignoring how Godzilla, Mothra or Rodan's ''own'' respective Adaptational Badassery and Adaptational Wimp points contribute to the original scales of power balance amongst the Big Four's conflict being altered.

** Although he's still widely considered a comparatively better character than Emma, Mark Russell's [[MisplacedRetribution attitude toward Godzilla]] didn't come across as particularly understandable to some. We're supposed to sympathize with his pain and understand where he's coming from with his hatred towards Godzilla for the latter's role in the San Francisco battle which killed Mark's son. Whilst the movie does portray Mark as ultimately being in the wrong for holding onto revenge, there's one crucial factor in San Fran's destruction that the movie does ''not'' acknowledge in any shape or form, not even when Mark finally admits he needs to let go of his hatred: '''the [=MUTOs=]''' were the beasts responsible for starting the city's destruction, whereas Godzilla's involvement began and ended with him stopping and killing the [=MUTOs=]. This makes Mark's grudge against Godzilla look less like an understandable reaction by an emotionally-wrecked man to Andrew's death, and more like Mark was so petty, spiteful and desperate for an excuse to hate something that he latched onto the very creature who technically ''avenged'' his son's death for him as a targetm. The fact that Mark unfairly lashes out at his completely-courteous Monarch ex-colleagues in an extremely rude and at times hypocritical manner because they won't indulge his rage doesn't do him many favors, nor does the movie's AMillionIsAStatistic treatment of the Russells' grief relative to millions of other people's.

** Creator/CharlesDance delivers a chilling, cold-blooded and ruthless performance as Alan Jonah. Jonah murders Monarch operatives all over the place, and reveals himself to be a MisanthropeSupreme who condemns all of humanity and the vast majority of life on Earth to being murdered by Ghidorah, making the audience quite want to see him get his just-deserts. At the same time, Jonah is markedly more competent and subdued than the [=MonsterVerse's=] other human antagonists thus far, he has a few PetTheDog moments and implicit BenevolentBoss tendencies, on top of a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tragic backstory]] whilst remaining an overall nasty piece of work; making for a very entertaining and watchable villain. It doesn't hurt that the ''other'' major human villain, [[spoiler: Emma Russel]], is often seen as [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic an unselfaware hypocrite who's far less tragic or sympathetic than the writing seems to think]]; Jonah's constant [[KickTheDog cold and unsympathetic insults directed at them]] instead come across as [[BrutalHonesty calling them out for their lack of self-awareness]] and only serve to make the audience relate to him.

** Creator/CharlesDance delivers a chilling, cold-blooded and ruthless performance as Alan Jonah. Jonah murders Monarch operatives all over the place, and reveals himself to be a MisanthropeSupreme who condemns all of humanity and the vast majority of life on Earth to being murdered by Ghidorah, making the audience quite want to see him get his just-deserts. At the same time, Jonah is markedly more competent and subdued than the [=MonsterVerse's=] other human antagonists thus far, he has a few PetTheDog moments and implicit BenevolentBoss tendencies, on top of a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tragic backstory]] whilst remaining an overall nasty piece of work; making for a very entertaining and watchable villain.

* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:In response to [[SatanicArchetype King Ghidorah]] bringing widespread death and suffering, along with the [[HeroKiller death of Mothra]], [[GoodIsNotSoft Godzilla pulls off a merciless and well-deserved]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the [[CompleteMonster vile]] alien dragon which blows off his wings, his side heads, and the rest of his body from the neck down before blowing up the agonizing central head with an ''[[BreathWeapon Atomic Breath]]''. In essence, '''never''' invoke the wrath of the ''true'' King of Monsters.]]

* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler:In response to [[SatanicArchetype King Ghidorah]] bringing global death and suffering, along with the [[HeroKiller death of Mothra]], [[GoodIsNotSoft Godzilla pulls off a massive and merciless]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the tyrannical alien dragon which blows off his wings, his side heads, and the rest of his body from the neck down before blowing up the agonizing central head with an ''[[BreathWeapon Atomic Breath]]''. Basically, don't piss off the Big G, a.k.a. the ''true'' King of Monsters.]]

** The first trailer for the film notably used an epic orchestral version of Music/ClaudeDebussy’s ''Claire De Lune'' in the first trailer, however this is not the first time this song has been featured in the Godzilla franchise as a synth version of the song was used in Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla.

* AssPull: Emma Russell [[spoiler:joining Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorist gang and helping them unleash the Titans against humanity because she thinks it could "honor" her son Andrew's death and help the world be better, despite the fact that Andrew's death in itself occurred in a Titan attack back in [[Film/Godzilla2014 2014]]. In other words, Emma knew very well and very personally how bad unleashing gigantic living natural disasters was, yet she actually thought creating a million repeats of her son's death on everyone else was the best way to honor his memory, making her decision to support the eco-terrorists a colossal {{doublethink}}. And since she knows that the terrorists are evil people whom have even fewer standards than she does, it makes even less sense for her to think they would let her stop the rampaging Titans once she loses control of them.]]

** Alternatively, this film serves this to ''Film/Gamera3AwakeningOfIrys''. Both films question the allegiance of the Kaiju, and the BigBad awakened by a troubled female.