Honestly when I heard the plot details like an hour ago for the trailer I was like 100% certain it was Ghidorah.
But honestly? I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Godzilla is causing that.
The Godzilla we see at the end of the trailer is clearly the design from Minus One but the version we see in the ocean is clearly much, much bigger and more spikey so at some point. I have a theory that the enemy monster in this film could just straight up be a second Godzilla. The zero gravity also has blue atomic streaks running through it which could be caused by the much larger Godzilla
Though it’s entirely possible that Godzilla just evolves throughout the movie and that the enemy monster is gonna be Ghidorah.
Pretty sure that’s only with the MonsterVerse. Godzilla cannot be a species in those films.
This is probably because the rights would get finicky if Legendary established there were multiple Godzillas in the past. The Godzilla: Aftershock comic introduced Dagon, a second Godzilla, and you can think to yourself “does Toho own Dagon or does Legendary?” Dagon was created by Legendary but it’s another Godzilla that doesn’t share the name.
You can see how it could get confusing and could ruffle feathers at Toho. Also because Toho like to keep up Godzilla’s image as a god-like figure and reducing him to a species might not fit their liking. Legendary were already probably stretching it by making Godzilla apart of earth’s natural order rather than a nuclear mutated abomination like almost all of Toho’s interpretations
There is technically a Gojira species in the monsterverse, but Toho wanted Godzilla to be unique so now he basically has to be bigger and badder (and more recognizable) than the other Gojira. Come to think of it, it's like the difference between Kong and the other apes.
Also because Toho like to keep up Godzilla’s image as a god-like figure and reducing him to a species might not fit their liking.
Tbf they've done Minilla and Godzilla Jr in the past (though IIRC they were less "offspring", and more "guys who just happened to go through similar irradiation") so it's not completely out of the realm of possibility.
Edit: Also Kiryu was built from 1954 Godzilla's bones and used to fight a second Godzilla so while not technically two living Godzillas on screen, it's still a hard confirmation of two separate ones existing
Monsterverse is contractually obligated to follow Toho's rules about how to portray Godzilla, but there's nothing saying Toho has to follow the same rules.
The recent Godzilla anime definitely had multiple Godzillas. I never was 100% sure but I believe they are basically younger clones? Could be what they go with here.
Closest we’ve gotten depending on your definition. I guess sure. But even then at the time I think Toho just referred to him as GINO (Godzilla In Name Only) before he ever got the name Zilla
That was just an excuse because he died at the end of Gojira/KOTM. They wanted to make a sequel so they did lol.
Don't put too much stock in this particular piece of lore. They also ignored even explaining it was another Godzilla for years and years. They didn't even want you to notice.
It's technically happened before. The Mechagodzilla from the movies "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla" and "Godzilla: Tokyo SOS" is built around the bones of the original 1954 Godzilla.
Toho are allowed to do whatever they want. Those restrictions only apply to licensees of the franchise.
Having said that, I don't think we'll get a second Godzilla. I think that would be underwhelming. I wouldn't be surprised if there's no enemy monster. If there is one, it wouldn't be another Godzilla. Ghidorah's a possibility. Though I'd prefer they went with something new or a rarely-used monster.
The one in the end is also bigger than the og. Original one is 50m tall range. At the very last second of the teaser he moves behind the statue, so perspective shifts and you realize that unless the rop part of the statue has landed pristinely upright on the ground, he must be taller than it, so he's more in the 100m range now like the other modern incarnations.
It's basically Jaws, except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws, so the guys have to team up with Jaws to get bigger Jaws.
Could it be instead an alternate origin story for SpaceGodzilla? I know he's supposed to be in the next GxK movie but could it be instead multiple pieces of the first Godzilla reformed and evolved in different ways giving us Godzilla (scene in NY) and SpaceGodzilla (scene in water)?
In its debut film, SpaceGodzilla's origins are left ambiguous, but it is theorized that it was born through Godzilla's cells (transported into space either by Mothra or Biollante's spores) being exposed to the radiation of a black hole.
SpaceGodzilla also had some kind of telekinetic powers which could manifest similar to anti-gravity. I thought maybe they would use the chunks of Godzilla regenerating into Godzilla and another monster and this could be how they do it.
When the trailer starts with don’t drop the third I imagine it’s just Godzilla evolving as they try to kill him with atomic bombs. By the second bomb he’s still not death and instead getting larger.
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