Godzilla (MonsterVerse)/Synopsis

The story of the anti-heroic Godzilla from the MonsterVerse series.
==Backstory==
In 1954, an American nuclear submarine unknowingly awakened Godzilla when it reached the lower depths of the ocean, drawing him to the surface in search of new sources of radiation. Godzilla attacked and fed on American and Soviet nuclear submarines in the South Pacific Ocean, with each nation believing the other was responsible for the attacks.
When Godzilla's existence became known, the American military began detonating a series of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands to try and kill the amphibious reptile titan, under the guise of nuclear testing. On March 1st, 1954, Godzilla was lured ashore at Bikini Atoll, where the American military detonated their first-ever dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, code-named Castle Bravo, in an attempt to kill him, but Godzilla survives and vanishes soon afterward, and the United States covers up all evidence of his existence. A scientific organization called Monarch was formed to study Godzilla and any other supersized "hyperfauna" like him, and continued to search for him in the following decades, as well as to prepare for the possible emergence of another giant monsters, which was later confirmed with the discovery of King Kong and the Skullcrawlers.
==Kong: Skull Island==
Although Godzilla doesn't physically appear in this film, the monster can be seen in two of the cave paintings fighting his ultimate nemesis, Ghidorah, during the post-end credits of the movie. The cave paintings of Mothra and Rodan can also be seen as well, although they don't physically appear in the film, and Godzilla's roar can be heard afterwards. Monarch fears Godzilla's existence, as they believe he poses a threat to humanity.
==Godzilla==
In 1999, the spores of two of his ancient enemies, known by humans as the M.U.T.O.s, were found in the Philippian mines. 15 years later (2014), the male M.U.T.O. hatched out of his chrysalis after 15 years of absorbing nuclear radiation from a power plant in Japan. Godzilla begins listening as the male M.U.T.O. lets out a mating cry to his recently hatched female counterpart, and attacks the creature as he is laying waste to a Hawaiian airport, though the male M.U.T.O. escapes by flying away, and Godzilla retreats into the ocean. By this point, he made his presence known to the public.
After this, Godzilla, while still in the ocean, hunts the M.U.T.O.s while they're lured to San Francisco with a nuclear warhead by the American military. Godzilla surfaces just before hitting the Golden Gate Bridge, and the military opens fire with tanks and gunfire. This has little to no effect, however, and Godzilla descends into the ocean once again, but not before clearing his path by accidentally destroying the bridge during the confusion.
Godzilla surfaces once again in San Francisco to confront the recently arrived male M.U.T.O., and the two battle all the way into the night, while a bomb disposal squad led by Ford Brody is sent in via HALO jump to defuse the bomb that was placed to lure the M.U.T.O.s to San Francisco. Shortly after their arrival, the female M.U.T.O. lays her eggs, and Godzilla makes a loud roar at her, prompting the both of them to fight. Godzilla gets the upper hand during the battle, but the male M.U.T.O. arrives, and both creatures take on Godzilla, who is quickly overwhelmed by the two of them.
Before either of them can kill Godzilla however, they're distracted by Brody, who saved the monster by destroying the female's recently-laid egg sacs. While the female is distracted by Brody, Godzilla used the opportunity to pummel her with his atomic breath. Before he can finish her off, the male M.U.T.O attacks Godzilla once more, but Godzilla fights back and manages to kill him by slamming the male M.U.T.O. into a skyscraper with his tail, rupturing the male M.U.T.O.'s internal organs in the process. The impact, however, brings the entire building down on Godzilla, and he collapses to his hands and knees, extremely weak. Godzilla briefly stares down at Brody and after identifying him as the one who saved him from the M.U.T.O.s, he is consumed by smoke and debris.
Brody then escapes to the pier, where the rest of his unit is trying to send the bomb out into the ocean where it can detonate without risk of fallout hitting the city. The female M.U.T.O., still alive from her encounter with Godzilla, follows the radiation and kills the rest of the squad, leaving Brody alone to send the boat out to sea with the bomb. As the M.U.T.O. closes in on the bomb and Brody, Godzilla emerges from behind, grabbing her and blasting her in the mouth with his atomic breath, making her neck explode, before tearing her head off and letting it fall into the water. With both M.U.T.O.s killed, Godzilla roars in victory before collapsing from exhaustion in the city, seemingly dead. When morning comes, however, Godzilla rises up from the ashes around him and lets out a triumphant roar as the humans below cheer and applaud for their supposed "savior", proclaiming him "King of the Monsters." With both of his enemies dead and with balance in nature restored, Godzilla descends back into the ocean to become dormant once again.
==Godzilla: Aftershock==
The battle against the MUTO threat turned out to be far from over, as the greatest of MUTOs, MUTO Prime, emerged and was about to finish what its fallen progenies started. Godzilla soon faces the new threat in multiple confrontations starting from an American military base in Guam. The two titans soon bring their battle to Barents Sea and later, Athena II Nuclear Power Plant in France at which Godzilla came close in facing death's door with MUTO Prime nearly infected him with its MUTO eggs. The fight soon ends in a stalemate with both enemies exchanged roars before the latter retreated back underground. Godzilla returned to the sea, but was visibly injured from the encounter.
Around this time, Monarch had determined that the ultimate MUTO was the same one who slain Godzilla's predecessor, an older member of his kind that known to the ancients as Dagon, by infecting him with its parasitic eggs using its ovipositors. The deceased Dagon later entombed in a cavern in the Philippines, the same cavern which was unearthed in 1999 and confirming that the two MUTOs that unintentionally released before their eventual destruction at hands of Godzilla were none other that MUTO Prime's children. As if that was bad enough, MUTO Prime now sought to kill Godzilla in the exact same way with that of his predecessor. Fearing this, Monarch developed a plan to replicate the sonic pulses given off by the MUTO eggs in hopes of aiding their kaiju ally.
By the time two of Monarch's agents, Dr. Emma Russell and Tarkan Cavusgolu, arrived at a decommissioned nuclear submarine power cores in Nevada with the prototype ORCA sonar device developed by the latter, Godzilla and MUTO Prime already locked in combat. The two then join the fight by activating the device just as MUTO Prime is about to deliver a killing blow on Godzilla with its ovipositor, causing the MUTO to hesitate. Seeing an opening, Godzilla quickly grabs his foe and lifts it onto his back before employing a Nuclear Pulse at a point-blank range through his damaged dorsal plates, launching the beast into the air and shattering its additional limbs in process. With the greatest of MUTOs weakened, Godzilla delivered a final blow by stomping on the beast's skull, killing her.
After the fight, the exhausted Godzilla roared victoriously before weakly walking off into the sunset.
==Monarch: Legacy of Monsters==
Godzilla appears in a flashback when the United States Military attempted to kill him with the Castle Bravo bomb at the Bikini Atoll in 1954. His footprints were also discovered in a muddy field in Indonesia. In 1955, Godzilla swims to Hateruma Island upon sensing the Gamma Radiation Simulator. Godzilla destroys the device before swimming back into the ocean.
In 2014, prior to the showdown in San Francisco, footage of the battle between Godzilla and the male MUTO at Honolulu became viral across the internet. A group of students in school teacher Cate Randa's class watched footage of the battle on a cellphone, with one of the children mentioning how his father speculated that the battle was a calculated hoax in order to burst the real estate market.
Godzilla appears in another flashback when he accidentally destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, which resulted in the deaths of several children who were in the same bus as Cate Randa.
In 2015, Godzilla is sleeping in the middle of the Algerian Desert when Hiroshi Randa's Gamma Radiation Simulator awakens him from his slumber. He briefly observes Cate Randa and stands on his hind legs, which results in him accidentally knocking away a Monarch helicopter with one of his regrown dorsal plates. Godzilla then lets out a roar before walking away from Cate and her group.
Godzilla responds to the Gamma Radiation Simulator that Lee Shaw activated and enters Axis Mundi to battle the Ion Dragon. The Ion Dragon seizes Godzilla's head with its thagomizers and starts biting his throat, only for Godzilla to retaliate by tearing off one of the thagomizers before he throws the Ion Dragon onto a nearby mountain. Godzilla is about to use his atomic breath when the Ion Dragon intends to blind him with its nacre attack. Godzilla then body slams the Ion Dragon and briefly burns the smaller Titan with his atomic breath before he rips its right wing off and hurls its body into a nearby Vile Vortex. With his victory secured, Godzilla drops the torn Ion Dragon wing he is holding and watch as the reconnaissance pod carrying Cate Randa, May Olowe-Hewitt, and Keiko Randa hovers toward the surface.
Monarch then tracked Godzilla as he swam through the Pacific Ocean, passing Skull Island in the process. He eventually disappeared for some time into the Mariana Trench before resurfacing and headed down south where he arrived at the Antarctic, near Outpost 32, where Ghidorah was contained in ice and being monitored by Monarch, presumably to check on him.
==Godzilla: King of the Monsters==
thumb|200px|Godzilla as he appears in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
While fruitlessly searching through the ruins of San Francisco for their missing son Andrew in 2014, Mark Russell, his wife, Emma and their daughter, Madison witnessed Godzilla walk past them. Mark (mistakenly) accused Godzilla for the death of his son and resigned from Monarch, maintaining a desire to have the monster killed. The U.S. government and a large portion of the public grew to feel the same way following the devastating events in San Francisco. After five years, Godzilla had (seemingly) disappeared. Monarch's Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, Vivienne Graham and Sam Coleman appeared before a Senate hearing to discuss the organization's future. The government and military expressed a desire to exterminate Godzilla and all of the other Titans like him, but Serizawa and Graham insisted that the solution was to find a way to co-exist with Godzilla and other possibly benevolent Titans in a sort of symbiotic relationship.
Monarch soon faced a bigger crisis, as they learned that Emma and Madison had been kidnapped from Outpost 61 in China along with Emma's sonar device the ORCA. They brought Mark with them to their underwater headquarters in Bermuda, Outpost 54, a.k.a. Castle Bravo. From there, they covertly had been observing Godzilla on his own turf. Inside Castle Bravo, Monarch determined that Emma and Madison had been abducted by Col. Alan Jonah, a British Army colonel-turned eco-terrorist bent on restoring the natural order. Evidently, he intended to use the ORCA to achieve his goal. While Monarch attempted to decipher where Jonah had brought the ORCA, the base detected Godzilla approaching unusually close. Readings of the monster showed his breathing and heart rate were elevated, and he seemed ready to attack the base. Members of Monarch's G-Team manned the base's Maser Turrets and prepared to open fire, but Mark convinced them to stand down and lower the base's shields to signal to Godzilla that they were not a threat.
As the shields were lowered, Godzilla could be seen swimming just outside the base, his dorsal fins emitting a periodic blue flash, which Graham identified as an intimidation display. Mark approached the window to get a better look, as the glow faded and Godzilla vanished into the blackness. Suddenly, Godzilla charged past the base and swam off. Mark asked to view Godzilla's movement routes, saying that if he left his territory it was because he must have felt threatened. Mark believed this could be because he detected the ORCA. Monarch's course projections showed Godzilla heading to a single location: Antarctica. The members of Monarch boarded the flying command ship the USS Argo and followed Godzilla to Antarctica. Graham explained to Mark that Antarctica was the location of Outpost 32, an off-the-books outpost in which Monarch studied a recently-uncovered specimen which Emma called "Monster Zero," possibly a rival alpha to Godzilla in the ancient past. Godzilla soon vanished from tracking, which Dr. Rick Stanton took to mean he was using passages within the Hollow Earth to navigate underwater more quickly.
Upon arriving at Outpost 32, Monarch was ambushed by Jonah's men and was unable to stop them from unleashing Monster Zero. The three-headed Titan menaced the members of Monarch before Godzilla erupted from the ice to confront him. The Titans charged at each other, with Godzilla trying to grapple with each of the beast's heads. Monster Zero seemed to have the physical advantage over Godzilla, who attempted to fire his atomic breath at his enemy. Instead, the beast's heads simply dodged the blast and countered with a series of gravity beams that knocked Godzilla off the ice shelf. Godzilla got back onto the ice and attempted to reengage, but after being bombarded by missiles from the Argo Monster Zero simply flew away. Monster Zero later vanished within a tropical storm, while Godzilla seemed headed to Isla de Mara, Mexico, the site of Outpost 56. Emma had actually sided with Jonah from the start to unleash the Titans in an attempt to "restore balance" to the world, and her next target was the pterosaur Titan Rodan in Outpost 56.
Monster Zero arrived over the waters near the island within the tropical storm and defeated Rodan in an aerial clash, only for Godzilla to intervene by leaping from the ocean and drag him underwater in an attempt to drown Monster Zero. Godzilla had the upper hand below the waves, tearing off one of Monster Zero's heads, but the U.S. military attempted to kill both Titans with the experimental Oxygen Destroyer missile. When the warhead impacted, it produced a huge green explosion that sent Godzilla sinking to the bottom of the sea, his vital signs dropping until he was pronounced dead by Stanton. Monster Zero, however, was unharmed by the blast and promptly regenerated his severed head before unleashing all of the Titans around the world while Rodan serves as his minion.
While Titans including Rodan around the world bowed to Ghidorah's will, Mothra did not and upon emerging from her cocoon made her way to Castle Bravo. Monarch analyzed the sonar she emitted and found that Godzilla was responding to her. Realizing Godzilla was still alive, Serizawa, Stanton, Chen, and Mark followed Mothra to Godzilla's location in a submarine, which was pulled deeper underwater by a sudden whirlpool. They discovered that this whirlpool led to the Hollow Earth, where they came upon the sunken ruins of an ancient city. Adorning its walls were murals depicting humans worshiping Godzilla. The submarine located Godzilla laying on a giant altar within a nearby underwater air pocket, which contained molten lava flows and extremely high radiation levels. This chamber was Godzilla's lair, and where he went to continuously feed on radiation, allowing him to continuously evolve and survive for an incredibly long time. While the radiation would allow Godzilla to recover from the Oxygen Destroyer, it wouldn't do it fast enough for Godzilla to stop Ghidorah. Unfortunately, the submarine's firing systems had been damaged, meaning it could not fire one of its nuclear torpedoes at Godzilla in order to speed up the process. Furthermore, no one would be able to survive the lethal heat and radiation within the chamber if they armed the warhead manually.
Serizawa declared that he would sacrifice his own life to do this task, and donned a radiation suit which would protect him long enough to arm the warhead. Serizawa departed in a smaller submarine which surfaced in Godzilla's lair. He brought the warhead to the altar and armed it. As the timer counted down, Serizawa removed his helmet and approached Godzilla, who opened his eyes and seemed to notice him. Serizawa placed his hand on Godzilla's snout, causing the Titan's eyes to well up with tears while saying "Goodbye, old friend" and accepting his fate just as the warhead detonates. The explosion obliterated the sunken city and propelled the main submarine to the surface. Chen and Mark went above deck to see if Serizawa had succeeded, and witnessed Godzilla emerge from a whirlpool, completely rejuvenated. Godzilla fired his atomic breath into the sky, but then turned his attention to the nearby humans and leaned down to briefly inspect the group. At first, Godzilla didn't see them as a threat due to the fact he saw Serizawa before the warhead detonated, but then suddenly realized that the group helped heal him upon smelling the scent of Serizawa on them. Afterwards, Godzilla turns around and makes his way to Boston, where Madison had activated the ORCA after stealing it from her mother and Jonah.
Ghidorah, detecting the ORCA, had landed in Boston and began to attack Madison. Just before he could obliterate her with his gravity beams, he was struck and knocked off his feet by a blast of Godzilla's atomic breath. Godzilla came ashore in Boston accompanied by a full military escort, ready for a final battle with his ancient nemesis. Godzilla and Ghidorah charged at each other and began their fighting. Stanton observed that the radiation Godzilla absorbed from the blast had begun to reach critical levels, meaning that he would explode like an atomic bomb in 12 minutes. Two Ospreys were deployed from the Argo to try and locate Madison and the ORCA while Godzilla and Ghidorah clashed. Ghidorah used his heads to restrain Godzilla and pin him to the ground, but Godzilla forced him off with his atomic breath. As the monsters' battle continued, Mothra arrived to support Godzilla and pinned Ghidorah's heads against a nearby building with her silk. Godzilla lunged at Ghidorah and tackled him through the building. As Godzilla prepared to attack his fallen enemy, Ghidorah called out to Rodan for support, prompting the winged Titan to appear and intercept Mothra so that he can take her out of the fight. While Mothra and Rodan dueled in the sky, Godzilla and Ghidorah continued their struggle on the ground.
Ghidorah bit down on a nearby power substation and absorbed the electricity, projecting it from his wings in an attack that temporarily incapacitates Godzilla. Ghidorah then leaped at Godzilla and grabbed him in his claws before lifting him into the air. Ghidorah wrapped his middle neck around Godzilla's throat and strangled him until he went limp, then flew above the clouds before releasing Godzilla. Godzilla plummeted back to the ground, producing a blue explosion upon striking it. With Godzilla immobilized and injured, Ghidorah landed in front of him and prepared to finish him. However, a wounded Mothra crawled weakly onto Godzilla's body and shielded him from Ghidorah. She then flew directly at Ghidorah, who vaporized her with his gravity beams. Mothra's energy flowed into Godzilla, causing his skin to form glowing red cracks while he mourns over the death of his friend. Ghidorah bit down on Godzilla and lifted him, draining his atomic energy through his bite. However, Emma, Madison and Mark were able to reactivate the ORCA and draw Ghidorah away from Godzilla.
Ghidorah pursued the ORCA, which Emma transported in a jeep, finally destroying the vehicle with a blast of his gravity beams. As Emma lay wounded on the ground, she looked up at Ghidorah as he prepared to kill her and defiantly declared her last words "Long live the king" before eventually dying from her injuries. Ghidorah suddenly sensed something behind him and turned around to see Godzilla approaching, now covered in glowing bright orange patterns and emitting heat that melted everything around him. Godzilla's dorsal fins sparked and glowed before he launched forward a nuclear pulse shaped like Mothra's wings and making the sound of her shriek. This pulse incinerated the flesh of Ghidorah's wings as he tried to shield his heads from the blast. Wounded, Ghidorah tries to fight back with his gravity beams which seemed to not even affect Godzilla. Godzilla emitted a second nuclear pulse which disintegrated Ghidorah's left and right heads, leaving the middle head remaining. Ghidorah fell to the ground as Godzilla stomped on his chest just before the nuclear energy inside of him exploded. Boston was consumed by a ginormous explosion, and when the smoke cleared neither monster was visible.
After a few moments, Ghidorah's still-living burned head emerged from the rubble, followed by Godzilla, who was carrying the severed head in his jaws. After a huge struggle as Godzilla thrashes the head around, he then fired his atomic breath which incinerated the head, finally destroying Ghidorah for good. While victorious over Ghidorah and having avenged Mothra, Godzilla was soon cornered by the other Titans Ghidorah had awakened: Methuselah, Behemoth, Scylla, and a new female MUTO. Rodan, having survived being impaled by Mothra's stinger earlier, approached Godzilla and confronted him. However, Godzilla only responded by giving Rodan a stern look and snorted at him, causing the flying Titan to instantly reconsider his actions and submit to him. The other Titans each followed suit, all "bowing" to the new King of the Monsters.
In the aftermath of the battle, Godzilla kept the other Titans in check and prevented them from attacking human cities. Under Godzilla's leadership, many of the stray Titans began congregating at Skull Island, which had recently become affected by seismic disturbances.
==Godzilla Dominion==
As Godzilla swam through his oceanic territory, he witnessed a battle between the United States Coast Guard and Scylla. Godzilla recognized Scylla as a Titan who earlier submitted to him, but realized that she had become hungry and restless and was trying to obtain a nuclear warhead for sustenance. Godzilla recognized the warhead as a human invention, and knew that if Scylla fed on the weapon, it would explode and damage the land and sea. With Scylla unwilling to surrender her prize without a fight, Godzilla attacked her. Godzilla tackled Scylla, who speared her legs into his body and drew his blood. She extended her tentacles at Godzilla's face, but he shook her off and sent her slamming into a cargo ship. The two Titans exchanged roars before Scylla launched her tentacles at Godzilla's face once again. Godzilla stumbled backward into an electrical sign near several oil tanks, causing the former to spark and the latter to explode. Amid the flames, Godzilla found himself behind Scylla and lunged at her, launching her into the air. Scylla crashed into the water and got back to her feet, growling at Godzilla. As the humans lifted the warhead onto a ship, Scylla finally retreated underwater. Godzilla knew that Scylla would outswim him and wouldn't challenge him again anytime soon. However, he also understood that he was needed elsewhere.
Godzilla thought about how the world had changed since Ghidorah awoke, and that with his death, there was still imbalance in his territory as it sought a new equilibrium. Godzilla took in the water swirling around him, then made his way to the Amazon River. Not long before, the many small lives of the reefs were in pain, but were now healing well. The "deep singers" were breeding once more, which pleased Godzilla. Nearby, Behemoth was locked in battle with Amhuluk, who slashed off one of the Titan's massive tusks. Godzilla arrived in Behemoth's territory, which was also healing. However, Ghidorah caused too many of his Titan brethren to awake at once, putting them into conflict with one another. If this battle continued, the land would be further wounded. Behemoth struck Amhuluk with his other tusk, but Amhuluk retaliated with a punch that knocked Behemoth down. Amhuluk grabbed Behemoth by the tusk and began to drag him away, but Godzilla intervened and threw Amhuluk. Amhuluk acknowledged Godzilla's status as "king" and left, while Behemoth stood up once more and wandered into his territory. Godzilla was tired, but his lair where he could rest and feed on the planet's energy was gone.
Godzilla swims under the sea and descends into the Hollow Earth to rest. Much had changed in Godzilla's lifetime. The land and seas had shifted, places that once burned were cold, and places that teemed with life were now abandoned. Godzilla reached the place where his lair once stood, a place the humans had built for him. He remembered how Ishiro Serizawa had died for him here. As Godzilla descended a colossal staircase into his former lair, he realized that something else was here now, something that should not be there. Godzilla was swarmed by a host of unfamiliar creatures, which he recognized must have come from deeper within the Hollow Earth. As Godzilla fired his atomic breath, he perceived that the creatures seemed to share a hive mind. Godzilla understood that the explosion that destroyed his lair must have breached the deeper parts of the Hollow Earth, and that these creatures did not come alone. As predicted, the piranha-like creatures' massive leader called Genitor burst through a wall of rock and swam into Godzilla, biting down on his throat. Godzilla promptly tore Genitor's skeleton from its flesh, and the hive mind shared by the his swarm was destroyed. Godzilla incinerated the carcass with his atomic breath, and Genitor and his swarm scattered. They would no longer emerge in this place once sacred to Godzilla. The energy from the Earth that Godzilla fed on no longer collected in this place, so Godzilla had to seek out a new source of nourishment.
Godzilla closed his eyes and shut out the surrounding sounds, perceiving the winds that blew around the planet. In some places, the winds folded, like a place Godzilla once came to long ago. Godzilla may have called this place home, had a "rival" not driven him out of it. Godzilla surfaced and climbs up a cliff, drawn to the moon which seemed to call to him. Godzilla remembered how the ocean once divided his world, above and below. But now, they were one, and he saw the world anew. Godzilla saw a vision of Mothra as he remembered the sacrifice she made for him. Godzilla continued his search for a new home, led on by Mothra's gift of life. He decided to return to the place from which his rival had driven him, but sensed something calling out in pain in the depths. Godzilla was compelled to defend his territory, so he went to investigate its source. He saw many dead whales floating in the deep and recognized that they must have been killed by humans. He sensed boats and oil, but also something else. He came upon Na Kika, who was trapped within a massive net. She came here seeking solace and rest, only to be captured. Godzilla swam into the net, caught and affected by poison as well. Whatever had done this was violating the natural order. Godzilla tore himself and Na Kika free. Godzilla realized that those who had done this have made war on the sea, and like Ghidorah, had come only to destroy for the sake of destruction. Godzilla fired his atomic breath at a nearby submarine and swam right through it, destroying the vessel. He surfaced near an oil drilling platform and was fired upon by helicopters. Godzilla dove below the water and swam beneath the platform. Godzilla fired his atomic breath directly up at the platform, destroying it. He then surfaced and roared victoriously.
Godzilla continued swimming, needing his energy replenished. He swam through a tunnel into the Hollow Earth, then sharpened his dorsal fins on the rocks above him. He surfaced from beneath an ice shelf, and continued on his way, swimming past several humans as well as a Monarch submarine. Godzilla swam past the carcasses of many fallen Titans, and finally reached his destination. He could sense that his rival was there as he came ashore. He roared to signal his intentions, but to no reply. Suddenly, the nearby water swirled and Godzilla found himself under attack by Tiamat. The serpentine Titan coiled her body around Godzilla and pulled him underwater, her scales cutting into him. He headbutted Tiamat in the mouth, but she expelled a blinding mist from her mouth into the surrounding water. Unable to see, Godzilla was still able to pinpoint his enemy's location with his other senses and turned to face Tiamat as she tried to swim up behind him. Tiamat again coiled around Godzilla and began dragging him deeper and deeper underwater. Godzilla realized that Tiamat was at her strongest in the deep, and that he needed to take the fight to land. Eventually, Tiamat pulled Godzilla through an underwater tunnel that led to an air pocket. The Titans surfaced, Tiamat biting down on Godzilla's neck. Godzilla grabbed Tiamat by the throat and used his tail to smack her onto solid ground. He then stomped on her head repeatedly. Despite this, Tiamat defiantly roared at Godzilla. However, he responded with an even more fearsome roar that convinced Tiamat to back down. She then slithered back into the water and left.
Godzilla continued deeper into the cavern, coming upon one of his old lairs, its walls adorned with paintings of him and his worshipers. Something was different though. His rival was not the same. Before Tiamat, there was another there. Godzilla saw the skull of a member of Kong's species and recognized it as belonging to his rival. Godzilla had found a new home and would be able to rest soon. But first, he had to call the other Titans to rest as well.
==Godzilla vs. Kong==
Five years after defeating Ghidorah, Godzilla suddenly surfaced near Pensacola, Florida, and attacked the Apex Cybernetics facility there. In the aftermath of the attack, humanity no longer regarded Godzilla as its Titan savior and designated him a threat. Walter Simmons, the CEO and founder of Apex, promised that he and his company would find a way to defend mankind from Godzilla. To do so, Simmons and Apex Chief Technology Officer Ren Serizawa visited former Monarch geologist Nathan Lind at Denham University. They revealed that scans of the Hollow Earth showed a tremendous energy source similar to the energy possessed by Godzilla. If they could harness this energy, they could develop a weapon capable of standing up to Godzilla. They proposed a joint mission between Monarch and Apex to explore the Hollow Earth and find this energy source, using Apex's new Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, or HEAVs, to survive the intense gravitational inversion. Lind suggested that they could use another Titan to lead their mission, as he theorized all Titans' genetic memory led them to their evolutionary source within the Hollow Earth. Lind approached Monarch anthropological linguist Ilene Andrews with his idea, but she rejected it on the basis that Godzilla would come for Kong as soon as he was moved off of Skull Island. Undeterred, Lind convinced Andrews that they needed to undertake this mission in order to stop Godzilla, and said that they could find Kong a new home in the Hollow Earth. Andrews finally accepted, on the condition that she was in charge of Kong.
Unknown to humanity, the reason why Godzilla attacked them was because Apex Cybernetics has acquired skulls of the fallen Ghidorah and using it to develop Mechagodzilla. The skull's usage for such project coupled with ORCA experiment creates alpha calls not unlike the extraterrestrial titan, alarming Godzilla that he instructs every single one of active titans under his command back to dormancy before setting out to confront those who responsible and stop them before his nemesis got resurrected in some form like what happened at Antarctica. But with Apex Cybernetics' facilities being located at different parts of the planet, such quest negatively affects his reputation in humanity's eyes.
When the fleet transporting Kong reached the Tasman Sea, Jia sensed Godzilla approaching. As Godzilla swam toward the fleet, battleships and jets opened fire on him to no effect. Godzilla smashed through the attacking ships and knocked the jets out of the sky with his tail. Kong roared at the sea beneath him, only for Godzilla to burst up from under the surface and capsize the ship holding him. As the bridge filled with water, Lind released the chains restraining Kong. Kong grappled with Godzilla underwater as the ship righted itself. Kong climbed back aboard as he saw Godzilla circling around. Kong leaped from ship to ship until he landed on an aircraft carrier. He grabbed a nearby jet and threw it at the approaching Godzilla, who pulled himself onto the carrier and roared at his opponent. Kong greeted Godzilla with a powerful punch, but Godzilla responded with a vicious slash to Kong's face. Kong fell onto his back while Godzilla charged his atomic breath, only to be interrupted by missile fire. Kong got back to his feet, punching Godzilla and then ramming him off the side of the carrier. Godzilla fired his atomic breath from directly underneath the carrier, destroying it as Kong leaped to safety. However, Godzilla quickly grabbed Kong and tried to drag him under. Kong freed himself and began swimming back to the surface, but Godzilla returned and coiled his tail around the ape Titan, beginning to drown him. The ships fired depth charges into the water, disorienting Godzilla long enough for Kong to escape and pull himself back onto the ship. Lind told the fleet to deactivate all of its power in order to signal to Godzilla that he had won. Surfacing amidst the devastated fleet, Godzilla observed the scene before seemingly becoming satisfied and swimming away, continuing the quest to prevent mankind from destroying themselves along with the balance of nature itself.
Later, when Apex activated its ultimate anti-Godzilla weapon, Mechagodzilla, for a demonstration, Godzilla became alerted to its presence and began swimming toward Hong Kong. Godzilla surfaced from under a bridge, destroying it before coming ashore. Upon reaching the heart of the city, Godzilla charged and fired his atomic breath directly at the ground. Simmons realized that Godzilla was responding to the energy in the Hollow Earth activating, meaning the team had found its objective. Godzilla's atomic breath blasted directly into the temple within the Hollow Earth where Kong and the Monarch and Apex teams were. Godzilla roared into the crater he had opened, and was answered by Kong. Kong grabbed the axe he had found within the temple and jumped into the crater, climbing all the way to Hong Kong. Kong roared at Godzilla, who answered back. After exchanging taunts, Kong leaped at Godzilla and swung his axe at him. Godzilla ducked, causing the axe to become lodged in a building, then clamped his jaws onto Kong's neck and pulled him away. Kong freed himself, while Godzilla tried to fire his atomic breath. Kong delivered a series of blows to interrupt Godzilla's atomic breath, eventually shoving the handle of his axe into Godzilla's mouth. Godzilla fired his atomic breath again, but the beam was absorbed by Kong's axe. Godzilla then tackled Kong, who buried the axe into Godzilla's leg. Godzilla shoved Kong into the water, then tore out the axe with his jaws before throwing it into another building. Godzilla fired his atomic breath, prompting Kong to run through the city trying to avoid it. Kong leaped from a skyscraper, but was struck in midair by the atomic breath and knocked to the ground. Kong got back up and climbed another skyscraper, tearing the top off of it and using it as a shield to block Godzilla's atomic breath. Kong retrieved his axe from the building and leaped off as Godzilla fired his atomic breath, absorbing the energy with his axe before striking Godzilla and causing a shockwave that knocked both monsters down.
Godzilla got back to his feet, then dropped onto all fours, looking for Kong. Kong perched himself on a building, then threw a crane at another building to distract Godzilla. Kong then jumped onto Godzilla's back and forced him face-first into a building. Godzilla struggled to get Kong off of him, then bit Kong's hand and flung him to the ground. Godzilla tried to stomp on Kong, who rolled out of the way. Godzilla then bit down on Kong's arm and threw him into a building, dislocating his shoulder. Godzilla knocked Kong to the ground, then again dropped onto all fours and began snapping at Kong's feet with his jaws. Kong kicked at Godzilla to keep him at bay, but Godzilla leaped onto Kong and tore through his chest with his claws, then stomped on his chest. Kong punched Godzilla in the knee, making him roar in pain before stomping on Kong's chest even harder. Kong weakly grabbed at Godzilla's leg, after which Godzilla roared angrily in his face. Kong answered with a defiant roar of his own, showing he would not submit. Impressed, Godzilla lifted his foot off of Kong and began walking away, with Kong weakly trying to get to his feet before collapsing and passing out.
In the meantime, Apex had managed to copy the energy source from the Hollow Earth and infuse it into Mechagodzilla. However, true to Godzilla's fears, this caused King Ghidorah's dormant consciousness to awaken and take over the machine, as Ghidorah's left head's skull was being used as a neural interface for it. The rogue Mechagodzilla killed Simmons and then Serizawa before freeing itself from under Victoria Peak with its proton scream. Mechagodzilla obliterated what remained of Hong Kong with the proton scream before Godzilla roared at it. Mechagodzilla charged at its organic counterpart, unleashing a barrage of missiles at him. Mechagodzilla used its jet boosters to outmaneuver Godzilla, then repeatedly slammed him into multiple buildings. Godzilla fired his atomic breath, but Mechagodzilla countered with its proton scream, overpowering Godzilla, blasting him to the ground and severely burning his chest. Mechagodzilla continued to drag Godzilla through the city, then prepared to finish him off by firing its proton scream into his mouth. Meanwhile, Lind detonated a HEAV over Kong's chest and revived him. Jia signed to Kong that Godzilla was not the enemy and pointed out that Mechagodzilla was the true enemy. Kong sprung into action, jumping onto Mechagodzilla's back as it was about to deliver the killing blow and forcing it to fire its proton scream into the sky. Godzilla saw this and got back up, grabbing Mechagodzilla by the arm. Kong grabbed its other arm and the two Titans rammed Mechagodzilla through a building.
The three monsters continued battling, with Mechagodzilla tossing Kong aside and focusing its onslaught on Godzilla. It punched Godzilla and then used its jet boosters to push him into a building. It prepared to finish Godzilla with its tail before Kong reentered the battle with his axe and swung it repeatedly at Mechagodzilla. Mechagodzilla pinned Kong against a building and lashed its spinning spike-tipped tail in his face. Kong grabbed its tail and attempted to restrain it. After failing to hack into Mechagodzilla's control console, Josh Valentine poured Bernie Hayes' flask of alcohol onto the console, causing it to spark and momentarily impede the mecha. Seizing the opportunity, Godzilla fired his atomic breath at Kong's axe, charging it. Kong swung the axe and severed Mechagodzilla's tail, then both of its arms, and then its leg. Mechagodzilla charged one final proton scream before Kong brought the axe down on its neck then tore its head off. Kong let out a triumphant roar as he held up the mecha's head.
Godzilla roared, prompting Kong to pick up his axe and prepare for battle again. But as Godzilla approached, Kong relented and dropped the axe. Godzilla roared in acknowledgement before turning toward the sea and disappearing beneath the waves.
==Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted==
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, Godzilla began swimming towards an inoperational oil derrick, which was blaring a signal. Upon arrival, he destroyed the structure with his atomic breath before resubmerging and swimming onward. Trophy hunter Raymond Martin had ordered the placement of a meltdown decoy at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in India, which drew the attention of both Godzilla and the cephalopod Titan Scylla. The latter arrived first, destroying the power plant and absorbing its nuclear energy, with Godzilla arriving soon after but only able to witness the damage caused. As Scylla continued to go on a feeding spree across the world, Godzilla arrived just a few hours after she moved on each time. Eventually, Godzilla arrived off the coast of Italy and intercepted Scylla as she made her way through the city of Rome. The two stared at each other before Godzilla roared and they both charged.
==Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire==
In Rome, Scylla is attacking the local populace when Godzilla arrives to confront her. The two charge at each other and Godzilla quickly manages to overpower her and throws her across the city. He then jumps onto her and stabs her with one of her legs before he uses his atomic breath to essentially cause her head to combust. Afterwards, Godzilla proceeds to rest in the Rome Colosseum. Sometime after, he is awakened by his sensing of the Skar King, his forces, and Shimo. Presumably recognizing his last battle with them, Godzilla begins to drain and store nuclear energy from around the planet, attacking a French nuclear power plant at one point.
Eventually, Godzilla heads to the new underwater lair of Tiamat and the two come to blows. As Tiamat again tries to use her scales to wrap around Godzilla, he manages to overpower her and when she resorts to using her mouth to suffocate him, he uses his atomic breath, blowing her apart before settling into her base where he begins his metamorphosis into his evolved form. Godzilla later wakes up after completing his evolution, now emitting a magenta intimidation display before heading to Gibraltar, from where he ends up hearing Kong call out to him all the way from Cairo.
Misinterpreting the call for help as a challenge, Godzilla angrily swims all the way from Gibraltar to Cairo and proceeds to charge at Kong despite the latter's futile attempt at convincing him to jump into the Hollow Earth portal, leading to a confrontation where Godzilla slams the Great Ape through one of the Giza pyramids and even goes as far as performing a suplex on his rival before getting brutally pummeled by the latter who ended up having enough. Unfortunately for Kong, Godzilla swiftly recovers from being knocked out as the primate drags him to the portal, soon firing his atomic breath at the latter before eventually knocking him down and brutally stepping on him.
Just as he is about to finish off his former rival for good, Godzilla is stopped by a revived Mothra's intervention, which draws his attention and swiftly calms him down as he curiously inspects Jia who came with Mothra before roaring off as his trustworthy ally manages to convince him Kong is not the enemy he's looking for.
Later on, as the Skar King and his army advance towards the Iwi pyramids, Godzilla roars as he enters the Hollow Earth with Kong, unsettling the tyrannical ape before charging side by side with his former rival and Mothra following suit, even allowing Kong to briefly ride on his back before lunging at Shimo. When the anti-gravity wave hits the area, Godzilla takes advantage of the situation and effortlessly dispatches two apes before grappling with Shimo, being evenly matched with her despite needing Mothra to distract the cryokinetic Titan after she briefly froze him in place. Once the antigravity wave's effects wear off, Godzilla soon falls alongside Skar King, Shimo and Kong through a Hollow Earth portal that sends them all to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, the Alpha Titan deals with his ice-powered adversary while she was starting a new Ice Age at Skar King's command and repeatedly clashes with her, saving his simian ally on more than one occasion in the process and allowing him to momentarily take care of Skar King in an evenly-matched fight where the latter attempts to use his whipslash on Godzilla, who simply grabs it with his jaws and throws the tyrant across the city before breaking the weapon and firing his atomic breath at him. The fight goes on until Suko arrives and uses Kong's axe to destroy the crystal that Skar King used to control Shimo.
From this point on, Godzilla whips Skar King with his tail after Kong throws the tyrannical ape at him and instructs Shimo to freeze their common enemy, to which she gladly obliges. Following Skar King's demise, Godzilla briefly smirks at Kong before blasting his atomic breath into the sky, undoing the meteorological disaster Shimo unwillingly provoked and subsequently part ways with her, Kong and Suko, returning to Rome and settling in the Colosseum to get a much deserved and peaceful slumber.
==Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong (Non-Canon)==
Godzilla first appears in the first issue, seen on a monitor on a Monarch Outpost on Skull Island by the Legion of Doom. After being summoned to the DC universe, Godzilla attacks Metropolis. In the second issue, Godzilla battles Superman after ignoring the latter's attempt to reason with him before Hawkgirl and Billy Batson join in. Godzilla manages to incapacitate Hawkgirl with his tail before he uses his atomic breath in a beam fight with Superman's laser vision. Billy Batson decides to help by yelling "Shazam!", staggering Godzilla with a lightning bolt. However, Billy turns back to his normal human form as Superman catches him. Godzilla then uses the opportunity to blast both Superman and Billy with his atomic breath. Although Superman manages to shield Billy from harm, the atomic breath's high levels of radiation has seemingly killed him. In the third issue, Godzilla is about to close in on both Superman and Billy when Atom Smasher decides to join the battle.
Godzilla swiftly overpowers and kills Atom Smasher before Billy and Supergirl join forces to knock the Titan down with their combined punches. However, Godzilla almost immediately stands back on his feet and follows Billy to the ocean. In the fourth issue, Godzilla is swimming in the Atlantic Ocean when he witnesses Tiamat attacking Atlantis and responds by blasting her with his atomic breath. Godzilla and Tiamat start to battle each other when Aquaman decides to unleash the Kraken as Atlantis's last line of defense.
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