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2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: XAI’s “White Out” featured in both the trailer and the end credits.
3* BaseBreakingCharacter:
4** Haruo has divided viewers of the film, with most Western viewers decrying him as an immature and reckless hothead who endangered the lives of those under him for the sake of petty vengeance. Others have had a warmer reception, noting that he had a right to be angry -- having grown up in hellish conditions and lost both his biological and foster family, didn't ask any of his soldiers to do anything that he wasn't willing to do himself, that his plan -- which he'd throughly researched -- ultimately succeeded, [[spoiler:and that he gave the order to retreat when the original Godzilla woke up instead of ordering them to attack]].
5** Godzilla Earth himself, with some fans praising the "nature god" aspect of the character and how he represents an "ultimate evolution" of Godzilla. Others find the design awkward, too derivative of the Legendary version, or too goofy-looking with regards to his face, with his botanical nature very divisive among purists of the series.
6* CreepyAwesome: Metphies' constant religious speak and borderline worship of Godzilla is unsettling on its own, but combined with the darker setting, he becomes nightmarishly cool.
7** Godzilla Earth himself. For such a hostile and omnicidal creature, he has a strangely calm and gentle appearance that is a disturbing counterpoint to his violent rage.
8* FirstInstallmentWins: While opinions on the film are overall quite divisive, for many fans it’s usually seen as the most coherent, better animated and memorable entry in the trilogy, as ''[[Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle City On the Edge of Battle]]'' is often seen as a [[SophomoreSlump step down by comparison]] and ''[[Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater The Planet Eater]]'' is [[BrokenBase highly controversial amongst the fanbase]].
9* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Even this movie has some funny moments of its own:
10** In the beginning, they tried making a Mechagodzilla to combat the original, but they couldn't get it to turn on.
11** Later on when they went to lure Godzilla:
12-->'''Mulu Elu Galu Gu''': This is why I hate working with stubborn species.\
13'''Adam''': So who drew the short straw? (Godzilla looks at him, preparing atomic breath) [[OhCrap GUESS IT'S ME]]!!!
14* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Who expected ''[[Creator/ChrisNiosi Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi]]'', the creator of WebAnimation/{{TOME}} as the protagonist Haruo?
15* HilariousInHindsight: Godzilla's origin as the next stage of life on Earth, accelerated by nuclear radiation, is exactly the same retconned origin featured for Zilla in the unmade sequel to Tristar's Godzilla film from 1998.
16* JerkassWoobie: Haruo, a vengeful protagonist and crew member of the ''Aratrum'' whose so keen on killing Godzilla for driving humanity out of earth and killing his family in a process which is understandable for him to be very vengeful and angry, but doesn't stop from him being a massive JerkAss towards anyone he comes across.
17* MemeticMutation:
18** The reveal that this Godzilla will be taller than the last incarnations in ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', whom in turn was taller than the previous incarnation in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', whom in turn was taller than the previous incarnation in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''; has lead to many jokes amongst G-Fans that the filmmakers are having a competition on who can make the biggest Godzilla.
19** The reveal that Godzilla is plant-based has fans reducing it as "Godzilla is a plant". Many compare him to Groot, or make jokes about his dorsal spines being weed leaves.
20** Due to Haruo's personality, fans occasionally joked the trilogy '''only''' focusing on a very angry, loud & vengeful main protagonist with monsters as guest stars/cameos.
21** Many joke that any possible adaptations of Toku from Creator/PolygonPictures will repeat the plots from the trilogy over and over again.
22* {{Misblamed}}: During the trilogy's production, fans blamed a lot of its problems on the creative team. [[https://www.scifijapan.com/godzilla-toho/gamera-rebirth-director-hiroyuki-seshita-interview A later interview]] would clarify they actually wanted to make a kaiju brawl series, but Toho shot it down, as they already had a plan laid out for what the trilogy would be and didn't give much creative control.
23* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The set up is one: Expies of the Xilians and Simians come to Earth and team up with humanity to try and stop Godzilla in exchange for taking over the Earth...and Godzilla kicked their tails so hard that ''all'' of them have to work together to ''run away''.
24* {{Narm}}: Some fans find Godzilla Earth's somewhat goofy-looking face awkward, especially given that his the biggest and most powerful Godzilla in the history of the franchise.
25* OlderThanTheyThink:
26** The concept of a future on a planet ruled by kaiju had previously been used in the IDW ''ComicBook/GodzillaCataclysm'' and ''Godzilla: Oblivion'' series as well as the popular fan film, ''Godzilla x Kaiju Killer''.
27** One of the human characters having an Ahab-like obsession with killing Godzilla is pretty common in the franchise, with one of the more recent examples of it (up until this film came out) being the IDW comic ''ComicBook/GodzillaTheHalfCenturyWar''.
28* ShockingMoments: Godzilla is not only massive, [[spoiler: he so tall the humans have no choice but to retreat. And that's not all: He has a power breath and a tailwhip that can destroy a mountain]]. Truly a God Incarnate indeed.
29* SignatureScene: The reveal of Godzilla [[spoiler:Earth, moments after Hauro and his men killed his son, and it [[CurbStompBattle decimating his remaining forces]]]].
30* SpiritualAdaptation: Given the premise of the movie, this movie is most likely ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' or ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' in anime format.
31* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some fans have accused Godzilla's new design of being a rip-off of Film/Godzilla2014.
32** Haruo himself has also faced a considerable amount of criticism from some fans for getting perceived as little more than a poor man's [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Eren Yeager]], who lacks the latter's nuanced and complex characterisation.
33* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
34** ''Tons'' of kaiju emerge and attack humanity in mass...but by the present when the film ''actually'' takes place, Godzilla killed ''all of them'' off screen.
35** Yuko Tani. As stated by [=OmniViewer=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EboQNtcwWfk states]], she has no personality or motivations to speak of and is only through plot convenience that she is pushed into a position of relevancy across the entire trilogy. Very sad for a character portrayed by veteran [=VAs=] Creator/KanaHanazawa and Creator/CristinaValenzuela.
36* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
37** For a film called ''Planet of the Monsters'', there sure aren't too many monsters. The Servum are eventually treated as a mostly minor threat, while we otherwise only see Godzilla Earth and Godzilla Filius. Imagine if the planet was inhabited by tons of other kaiju, new or original, with Godzilla as the top dog.
38** Then theres the prequel novels, which detail mankind's decades-long war against practically every Toho kaiju (major or minor) in existence, chock full of mythology gags, Easter eggs, and continuity references. If only they had made a trilogy out of THAT.
39* UnexpectedCharacter: While kaiju like Anguirus, Rodan, and Kamacuras aren't that unexpected due to being staples of the series, Dogora and Dagahra certainly weren't expected since Dogora only appeared in a standalone film, and Daghara is only loosely connected to Godzilla by way of the ''Rebirth of Mothra'' films. The prequel novel ''Monster Apocalypse'' features even more unexpected monsters, such as Zilla, Varan, Gorosaurus, Gabara, and the Griffon from ''Film/LatitudeZero''.
40* UnintentionallySympathetic: Godzilla himself. He's clearly supposed to be malevolent and dangerous, but we don't actually see him killing anybody before his NonMaliciousMonster son is killed. Given that Fillius was itself Non-malicious, it's not unreasonable for fans to extrapolate that the same ''may'' have been true of Godzilla before humans went to war with him. [[note]]We do, after all, only have one side of the story to go off of.[[/note]] Not helping is the fact that in both sequels he faces off against far worse evils who are more dangerous than he ever was, or that unlike them, Godzilla is satisfied with humans simply leaving Earth and never coming back.
41* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Though it's really hard ''not'' to sympathize with Haruo throughout the film despite his parents death at the hands of Godzilla, but considering that it's entirely his fault that nearly everybody dies or in danger when he drag everyone along for his endeavors to take out the kaiju in the first place. In the end [[spoiler: it wasn't Godzilla they've killed, ''it's his son'' which pissed off the awoken Big G himself.]]

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