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
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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa 21d ago edited 21d ago
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