Godzilla: KOTM's Missing Titans Could Be The Key To New Toho Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters' missing Titans may be the key to getting more Toho kaiju into the MonsterVerse in Apple TV+'s Godzilla show.



These missing Titans offer the MonsterVerse an interesting opportunity. For a long time, there’s been a demand for iconic Toho monsters like Anguirus, King Caesar, Gigan, and more to show up in Godzilla and Kong’s movies. Unfortunately, the show’s place in the MonsterVerse timeline creates major complications for such a scenario happening in the series. The show is set before King of the Monsters, where it was confirmed that only 17 Titans (other than Godzilla) have been discovered. Since the names of all 17 are already known, there isn’t much room for Toho’s monsters – unless, the MonsterVerse changes the identities of the movie’s missing Titans.




In other words, Apple TV+’s Godzilla show can use a retcon to explain that Titans like Baphomet and Abaddon are actually MonsterVerse interpretations of creatures from Toho’s movies. That could work since it’s possible that their names were just codenames assigned by Monarch. The public could call them by new names. If the MonsterVerse leans in this direction, it could add new Toho kaiju to MonsterVerse canon without creating any massive continuity issues. Since King of the Monsters already established a fixed number of known Titans that Monarch knew about in 2019, this may be the only way Anguirus and the others could conceivably appear in the show.


Because of Dominion, Amhuluk and Tiamat already have designs, but the Godzilla TV show should be free to do what it wants with most of the other missing Titans from Godzilla: King of the Monsters. What’s known about their mythological connections could be used to link them to certain Toho monsters. For instance, Sekhmet is believed to have lion-like characteristics, which means she could stand revealed as a member of King Caesar’s species. Typhon, who is depicted as a dragon in some myths, could be Manda from Atragon and Destroy All Monsters. Leviathan, described by the Bible as a beast of the sea, could turn out to be the aquatic Titanosaurus.


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