Right now, it’s unconfirmed who Godzilla and Kong will be facing in the Monsterverse’s next installment, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. There are three likely candidates: SpaceGodzilla, Gigan, or a Monsterverse original e.g. Skar King and Shimo. Suffice to say, the following three beasts aren’t going to be involved, but they could be in a future Monsterverse movie or season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. These monsters would make as great a fit as the Toho kaiju who have not yet been adapted, like Anguirus, Baragon, Battra, Biollante, Destoroyah, Ebirah, Hedorah, Megaguirus, Megalon, or Varan. King Ghidorah, Rodan, Mothra, and Mechagodzilla have already been Americanized, so those aforementioned friends and foes are next.
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And, even if the Monsterverse makes enough movies and shows to Americanize all of those literal giants, there is still more kaiju gold to mine. These following three monsters prove as much.
3) Megalodon
As King Kong and some of the Godzilla movies over the years have proved, it works to have the title kaiju face off against a less intimidating adversary in the first or second act before moving onto a larger threat in the third. The Megalodon would be a great first or second act fight.
Of course, Godzilla would win. He’s just facing a big shark, after all. But it’s still a monster that can swim fairly quickly and has a surplus of teeth. The Meg, as it were, could get a few bites in on Godzilla before the Big G makes it bite the dust.
2) Kraken
Another aquatic-based monster Godzilla could take on is the Kraken, most iconically seen in the two Clash of the Titans movies and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. And it wouldn’t be hard to incorporate the beast, either.
Since the Kraken has popped up in various media over the years, there’s no true set way in which it is supposed to look. As long as it has teeth and long tentacles and can annihilate a boat it’s golden. It’s also not a licensed character; it’s a part of Norse folklore from before the 18th century. It’s a fair game monster.
1) Gamera
In the wake of Gojira‘s massive success, film companies all over the world scrambled to jump on the kaiju train. South Korea had Yongary, Monster from the Deep, England had Gorgo, and North Korea had Pulgasari. But no one did it better than Japan, not just because of the Godzilla franchise, but also because of how Toho made a single hit into a winning streak via Rodan and Mothra. Then there was Gamera, the Giant Monster from Daiei Film, which amounted to Toho’s competitor. In Gamera, another long-running franchise was born and, for decades now, kaiju fans have been begging for the two icons to finally face off. Yet, even when they both experienced a resurgence in the Heisei era (which started in the ’80s for Godzilla and the ’90s for Gamera), it didn’t happen.
But now we have the Monsterverse, and it really isn’t an unheard of or unthinkable proposition. Gamera still holds a certain level of popularity, even if his Shลwa era films hover in this weird nebulous between kiddie-focused tones and blood-spurting monster battles. Naturally, Toho had to license out the rights to Godzilla for the Monsterverse movies just as they did to Roland Emmerich back in ’98. Right now, the rights to Gamera are held by Kadokawa Corporation, which bought the rights up from Daiei Film. But there is a Toho connection. The three ’90s Gamera Heisei era films were distributed by Toho, so who’s to say Kadokawa can’t partner with Toho once more now that Toho has finally seen that Americans can take their atomic ray-spewing cash cow and make good use of him? The success of movies like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire could indicate that the Monsterverse could very well do a similar good job with Gamera.
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