The Monarch site mentions that King Ghidorah's heads have "disparate levels of cognitive function", which suggests that one of the heads may be smarter or dumber than the others?
Word of God confirms one head, implied to be the middle one, is smarter than the others.
In the movie we see the above demonstrated by how the center head repeatedly has to stop the left head from (for lack of a better term) playing around with their victims. The thing outright is sniffing and curiously tasting the human bodies at one point!
The Mama Said Knock You Out trailer as awesome as it is it's more-or-less a King Ghidorah Humiliation Conga video if you think about it.
The first clip of Ghidorah's beatdown is shown when Godzilla is forcefully slamming his right head into the ground, which then cuts to an explosion that sends Serizawa sailing.
Mothra encases all three heads in webbing that pins them against the side of a building, the right head is the only one that seems the least stuck. Godzilla, seeing the opportunity just aggressively shoves his entire body through it. One of Ghidorah's heads even hit the ground while in sync with the beat.
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When some ground forces try to shoot at Ghidorah with their puny little machine guns, the middle head turns to them and menacingly smiles at them, as if to say, "Is this all you got? Try this on for size!" Cue an Oh, Crap! from the soldiers, just before they get obliterated...
Throughout the movie Godzilla seems very pissed, and one shot of his Death Glare seems to look like he's almost scolding the humans for waking up giant monsters yet again. Poor big guy just can't catch a break.
The shot of Charles Dance (known for playing Hand of the King Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones) saying "Long Live The King!" Even funnier for Game of Thrones fans is that his beard and mandarin collar jacket make him look like he's playing Tywin again, only now he's serving a genuine monster king instead of a mere fire-obsessed madman or a psychotic brat in Westeros!
For bonus Game of Thrones points, he's shown staring at Ghidorah, a three-headed dragon - pretty much the symbol of House Targaryen!
Godzilla shooting his atomic breath at the sky looks awesome but becomes rather awkward when you remember that unlike Ghidorah, Mothra, or Rodan, he can't fly...
The head of the United States Senate assuming that MONARCH wants to make Godzilla, the King of the Monsters, their pet. Doubles as an In-Universe funny moment as several other senators laugh at this comment. Dr. Serizawa sets them straight in what is also an Awesome rebuttal.
Dr. Serizawa: No, we would be his.
The second trailer ends with Madison saying "Oh sh--" before she's cut off by Godzilla's deafening roar, almost as if the giant monster himself was saying "Watch your language, young lady!"
Though really, it's less of the physics and just the sheer image of Godzilla running that makes the whole scene downright hilarious. He's like an angry dog bursting into a full-speed chase after a terrified cat: you can tell just how much he HATES King Ghidorah and just can't wait to get his hands on him.
After Serizawa and Graham walk out of the Senate meeting, Coleman runs after them but leaves everyone to watch a video on Titan reproduction. Better yet, said video seen briefly is the clip of the two MUTOs courting in the 2014 film with everything blurred out as if it's nudity.
Coleman: I think this is the one with the genitalia blurred out. . . but if it's not, leave a complaint with my assistant.
Let's not forget the disturbingly hilarious Fridge Logic this implies: the two MUTO were rubbing heads as they courted, and the female immediately had fertilized eggs after the brief encounter. And the video blurred out their heads. Implying that their heads ARE their genitalia.
When we first see Godzilla here (not counting from the intro’s flashback), Monarch is observing him underwater where his spikes are shown to be pulsating as a means of intimidation. He stops, it gets dark, and everyone watching him thinks he’s stopped. Cue Big G glowing and growling as he has just moved close enough to their viewpoint to frighten everyone.
Mark gets a lot of mileage out of his knowledge of animal behavior. When Godzilla is acting threatening towards Castle Bravo, he convinces them to stand down their weapons so as not to provoke Godzilla further. Then he tells them they should open their blast shields, to show Godzilla they're not a threat.
Rick: Sure, let's bring him in for a beer. You out of your goddamn mind?
Madison watches Jonah rubbing his face, wearing a trademark Tywin Lannister scowl. Seeing her, he moves his hand, blocking his face momentarily, and uncovering it with a warm, charming smile. Madison responds by rubbing the corner of her eye with her middle finger. Jonah thinks this is Actually Pretty Funny.
Mark is aghast when he learns Monarch knows there are at least 16 other Titans including Godzilla. His temper gets heated when he's first brought onto Castle Bravo and advises that Jonah probably isn't going to try to capture the Mothra larvae when he has the ORCA. He sums it up as 'why go after this one (a larvae) when has the keys to your magical kingdom of horrors?'
The idea of Ghidorah's three heads displaying differing personalities is amusing in itself, with the middle head (Ichi) being the intelligent and dominant one, the right head (Ni) being the aggressive and irritable one, and the left head (San/Kevin) being the dimwitted, easily-distracted one. It wouldn't be too inaccurate to describe them as a dragon version of Shenzi, Banzai and Ed.
In the European-Spanish dub, they're called Groucho, Chico and Harpo instead. Not hard to imagine what head is Harpo.
Ghidorah's left head is something of a goofball (at least as much as a Ghidorah head can be goofy), easily distracted and curious (basically playing with the soldiers even as they shoot at him, then nuzzling/licking the fried corpses). The center head has to repeatedly discipline him with a Dope Slap and then a horn pull to keep him on task.
The left head is a dunce compared to the the other two heads, yet in The Stinger his decapitated head is discovered by fishermen, and Alan Jonah has interest in it. Considering this new incarnation's regenerative abilities, it possibly won't be long now until he regrows an entirely new body, along with new heads presumably within a year or so and he'll be the one in charge for a change.
After Ghidorah's middle head grabs the chunk of ice Dr. Graham was standing on, the right head snatches a piece that falls from the middle head's mouth. The left head then looks up momentarily at the other two before turning to the rest of the humans, as if to say "Hey guys, can I have some too? Oh, nevermind, I'm just gonna catch a few of my own then."
And then the left head immediately takes a missile to the face, much to his annoyance.
After Ghidorah knocks down Godzilla with his gravity beams, the right head can be seen angrily snorting and shaking his head, as if to say, "That's what you get for messing with us, punk!" What makes it even more comical is that if you look closely at the left head as he's slouching back, he's visibly flicking his tongue out. It's almost as if Kevin is childishly Blowing a Raspberry at Godzilla.
Once Godzilla shows up in Antarctica, Ghidorah's middle head roars loudly at him. What makes it funny are the reactions of the other two heads: the left one flinches hesitantly as if to say to the middle head "are you sure about this?", while the right one responds to Godzilla's entrance with a Quizzical Tilt, looking confused.
A spectacular close up of all three of Ghidorah's heads roaring right at the camera... but the left head is furiously shaking◊ like a puppy attacking a chew toy.
In the scene where Ghidorah arrives at Fenway Park, the middle head is searching intently for Madison, the right head roars skyward in rage...and the left head is looking in the opposite direction, clearly distracted by something else that caught his attention.
When Ghidorah starts blasting at Madison, the right and middle heads blast in short bursts, aiming and continuing to blast...and the left head is just continuously spamming his gravity beam like a trigger-happy maniac.
Mothra webbing two of Ghidorah's heads to a building, leaving the right one (Ni) to untangle the other two, who are like "HURRY UP, YOU IDIOT!"
And right after the above, it's comical watching Ni (who happens to be the Hot-Blooded head) respond to Godzilla charging straight at him and his brothers by snapping his jaws at Godzilla's shoulders — without the other two, Ni's counterattack goes as well as you'd expect.
When Ghidorah is constricting Godzilla and draining his energy, the left head seems...a little too gleeful ripping into Godzilla's neck like a puppy with a chew toy. One can only imagine that it's personal for Lefty here, given that it was his head Godzilla ripped off in their last fight...
Possibly the funniest antic with Kevin occurs during Burning Godzilla's rampage, directly after the first blast incinerates Ghidorah's wings. When Ghidorah immediately falls down, Ichi and Ni keep their eyes laser-focused on Burning Godzilla, while Kevin is just looking off to the left and then snaps back to attention when Burning Godzilla gets close. That's right — Kevin actually got distracted by something else in the distance, when his certain death was looming right in front of his chest with murderous intent.
Once the dramatic scene where Emma explains why she set Ghidorah free (which is very taunting due to a family getting split apart along with the sheer destruction wrought by the monster) is over, Dr. Chen is not in the mood for being polite, and says what most of the audience is probably thinking:
Dr. Chen: That bitch.
Sam's general Butt-Monkey status. When Mark goes to sort the Argo's hangar bay door problem, he asks if anyone knows the way. Sam immediately volunteers - to which Mark asks if there's anybody else...
The human characters arguing about Ghidorah's name and how to pronounce it. One of them even asks if it's pronounced Gonorrhea.
Stanton's liquid intake. In the first meeting, his coffee cup is clearly marked "Not Yours". By the time the group are discussing Ghidorah shrugging off the Oxygen Destroyer, he's graduated to swigging from a hip flask.
After Rodan emerges from the volcano and roars, the entire population of the nearby town collectively screams in horror. It's loud enough for Rodan to hear, causing him to look at the town and tilt his head in confusion, as if thinking "Wait, that wasn't here before. Where did it come from?".
Mark asking if they have a "catchy nickname" for Rodan. And later on, he refers to him as Big Bird.
Really, Mark is the odd one out in this movie, as while all the other characters respond to the Titans in either reverence or fear, Mark hates Titans so much he couldn't care less about MONARCH's attitude towards them, often referring to these giant, god-like monsters with the same level of disdain one might have for a particularly annoying pest.
Mark's reaction to the realization that Ghidorah is heading over to their location upon hearing Rodan's calls...
As Rodan continues to pursue the Argo, and take out the fighter jet escorts he starts to approach a second jet up close. Instead of ejecting, the pilot maneuvers away. Rodan's expression clearly screams 'oh, a wise guy eh?' *Cue murdering the rest of the squadron.*
Rodan doing a barrel roll mid-air while being shot at by planes counts as both this and Awesome.
Black Comedy at its finest: a jet fighter pilot ejects from his plane... right into Rodan's jaws.
Even better is Rodan's own immediate reaction to this with the surprised look on his face, showing that he's just as shocked as anybody at how easy of a meal he just got.
As Ghidorah is regrowing his missing head, the middle head tears off a chunk of extra flesh off the stump of the neck to help the new head emerge. He then chews and swallows, before making a face that says, "Hmm. We taste pretty good."
A scene in the novelization which describes Methuselah's awakening from two onlookers' perspective has the onlooker who doesn't immediately run away give a pretty damn hilarious response to what she's seeing.
For all the beauty and majesty that is Mothra hatching from her cocoon, the manner in which she emerges by first extended one of her forelimbs out from the waterfall is unintentionally humorous as it brings to mind a Bathing Beauty sticking her leg high into the air.
After Mothra appears before Monarch, and helps them find Godzilla, Barnes asks if Godzilla and Mothra are a "thing". Even after Rick tries to clarify that the two likely have a symbiotic relationship, Barnes simply responds:
Barnes: That's messed up.
As they stand looking in awe at Mothra, Mark asks Rick if he's recording. Rick responds that he records everything. Then repeats "everything" in a low, lascivious tone. Mark gives him a weird look as the implication sinks in.
After trapping Ghidorah's heads in her silky snare, Mothra sounds like she's laughing at them!
When Rodan swoops in and intercepts Mothra, he lets out a squawk that sounds amusingly like the Red Bird from Angry Birds.
As Mothra runs her stinger through Rodan, she gives him a heavy-lidded glare as if to say "how do you like that, you bitch?"
At one point Ghidorah starts chowing down on a power line to absorb its energy. Godzilla reacts what seems to be confusion...then does a visible double-take.
The fact that the other Titans arrive after Godzilla finishes off Ghidorah. Remember that Ghidorah called them to his aid in the first place: too bad for him that his cavalry was too slow!
Rick states that Godzilla's likely to go nuclear-critical, in the middle of what's left of Boston, by saying, "In twelve minutes, it's going to be a bad day to be a Red Sox fan."
Rodan being all bootlicky before Godzilla, straight after siding with Ghidorah and nearly killing Mothra. He's basically the kaiju version of Starscream.
The look he gives Godzilla (note, he still has basically a sucking chest wound Mothra inflicted on him with her stinger) practically screams "Uh... please don't kill me?" It gets better: Rodan lands in front of Godzilla and roars a challenge. Godzilla, fresh from utterly obliterating Ghidorah, just looks at him like "You want to do this now, take your shot, because you're never gonna get a better one." Rodan seems to consider that for a moment, before basically prostrating himself before Godzilla.
It's better than that: If you pay attention when it cuts to Godzilla after Rodan's roar, Godzilla lets out a huff that comes across as a bit exasperated with Rodan's antics (it's very much a nonverbal "Really, dude?"), which combined with Rodan's expression when the camera cuts back gives the pair something of a Vitriolic Best Buds vibe. It seems it was less a challenge and more Rodan being clueless. (Or, as noted before, still a bit loopy from Mothra's sting.)
In a bit of Fridge Logic, the implication that Rodan spent most of the climax just thrashing on the ground screaming in agony for the entire night somewhere offscreen becomes darkly Hilarious in Hindsight.
Not only that, but supplemental material reveals that Mothra's stinger has a type of hallucinogenic/paralytic agent in it. Rodan was probably high as a kite for the remainder of the battle.
Look at the facial expressions of Ghidorah's middle head (Ichi) when he emerges from the rubble in Boston — hilariously, he doesn't seem to know any more than the audience what the hell just happened during that big final blast, up until the very second Godzilla emerges behind Ichi holding his neck stump in his jaws.
Still think nothing can top Godzilla's "Kiss of Death" on the Female Muto in the previous film in terms of Moment of Awesome? What about Godzilla lighting up Ghidorah's severed but still-living head in his mouth like a cigar, causing its eyes and mouth to light up like some morbid jack-o-lantern before exploding?
Godzilla then coughs up a few sparks of yellow lightning afterward!
The Death Glare Godzilla gives each of the Titans in turn. It's like he's saying, "I could do this all day, if you want..." Naturally, after his epic trouncing of Ghidorah, none of the others takes him up on the challenge.
One of the titans present is a second female MUTO. Godzilla's angry glare at her could almost be read like "If only you knew what I did to your little sister when she challenged me five years ago..." Amusingly, the MUTO complies, as if she's well aware what happens to MUTO who defy the natural order.
While driving to find Madison, Mark and Emma are fighting and Barnes comments that if he had parents like them he'd have run away too. When Emma then seemingly turns her anger on him, he repeats what he said with a "I don't have time for your shit" tone.
It's barely noticeable on the first viewing, but if you listen closely when Barnes first makes the comment, there's no Beat from Emma and Mark while Barnes is speaking — in the background, you can hear them shouting at each-other at the same time like something out of a sitcom, and it's freaking hilarious.
The credits listed Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra as themselves as part of the cast. Looks like that meta joke about contacting Ghidorah's agent was true.
After Dr. Serizawa revives Godzilla with the nuke, the kaiju swims up to the surface to observe the humans on their sub. Given that Godzilla's depicted as a Grumpy Old Man in this series, the look on his face is as though saying; "You woke up that bastard Ghidorah, then you damn kids hit me with a bomb that near killed me, and THEN you blew up my house... I should kick your ass for any one of those things alone...but that nuke was a tasty home delivery, and the delivery guy died, bless him, and I gotta go and beatdown a dragon, soo..." (fires breath into the sky) "Don't let it happen again."
On this note, earlier when Godzilla arrives in Antarctica, his roar could be translated as; " Good lord, I'm a reptile and its friggin cold out here! Why the HELL did you idiots choose to wake this asshole up in Antarctica?!
Serizawa quotes what sounds like an old piece of wisdom, but claims he actually got it from a fortune cookie. A very long fortune cookie.
There's another bit of black humor as the Osprey deploys in Boston to look for Madison. Martinez makes a sign of the cross while Barnes closes his eyes and steels himself. The moment two red shirts just in front of them get off they get disintegrated by some of Ghidorah's storm lighting.
Right after Godzilla incinerates Ghidorah's wings with his nuclear pulse, Ghidorah starts to stumble on his back, and his facial expressions pretty much have him saying "Stay back! STAY BACK!"
Fridge humor? The only piece of Ghidorah to survive the movie (so to speak) was the severed left head from the second battle. In other words, Ghidorah's LEFT HEAD is all that is LEFT of him.
If that comes across as a pretty weak joke, consider the fact that the left head was the idiot of the three. If Ghidorah does manage to regenerate from this head... just imagine what the new Ghidorah will be like!
As a pissed-off Rodan chases the Argo, (which is leading him right to Ghidorah), getting closer and closer to the plane; one can imagine that he's thinking; "Almost got em, almost got em... a little bit closer...(looks up and see's Ghidorah) HOLY SHIT!" (Crashes straight into the dragon)
Godzilla’s final fight with Ghidorah takes on a somewhat funnier tone too when one considers that he’s been given the equivalent of an adrenaline shot from the nuke, therefore is probably mentally going through the equivalent of a caffeine-induced rush, only to crash as Ghidorah eventually gains the upper hand.
Additionally, getting further boosted by Mothra, and going into Unstoppable Rage! Two words: Roid rage.
Doubling as kind of adorable, one of the news items in the credits is a Twitter post about Carnival Breeze getting a surprise visit from Godzilla. There's something inherently humorous about Godzilla being treated not only as something tourists gawk at, but essentially a full-on celebrity.
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