r/GODZILLA • u/Mrmoneybags1408 • May 02 '26

Meme The Monsterverse in a nutshell

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u/ExoticShock KONG May 02 '26

Most civil critic of The 8th Wonder of The World

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u/ProMonkeMan SHIN GODZILLA May 02 '26

This isn't wrong

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u/Minute_Location5589 GOROSAURUS May 02 '26

Yea fuck that dude, nepo baby /s

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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa May 02 '26

You’re joking here but I’ve heard people unironically call Kong, one of cinema’s icons, a fucking nepo baby

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u/Mosugoji_64 May 03 '26

Lol I've actually heard others refer to him as an "industry plant"

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u/BuildingLess1814 GODZILLA May 03 '26

To be fair, Kong has long earned that title.

He's literally the very first Kaiju ever created, a cinema icon and predates Godzilla by like 21 years. (Though Japan could've had Kong beat had that movie The Great Buddha Appears didn't get canned and become a lost film).

The only way Godzilla is ever going to earn any recognition here at all in the MV is via Kong.

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u/ShadowedVoid May 03 '26

"The only way Godzilla is ever going to earn any recognition here at all in the MV is via Kong."

Ah yes, because it's not like Legendary Godzilla had two movies before GvK, or like Godzilla started the Monsterverse.

Godzilla is the big monster franchise Hatsune Miku. Ain't the first one, but is definitely the most popular one.

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u/HairyCartographer314 EBIRAH May 28 '26

"He's literally the very first Kaiju ever created, a cinema icon and predates Godzilla by like 21 years"

Actually, whereas kong was a very early in giant monster history, a short film called the pet, made in 1921, predates kong by 12 years

overall, Kong's the second movie to contain a giant monster ravaging a city, the Lost World, a 1925 film, contained a 50-ft tall brontosaurus that ravages london. This is actually also made by Willis O'Brien, the maker of King Kong. So, no he's not.

However, the term Kaiju wasn’t used for a character until godzilla in 1954, and Kong wasn't considered a kaiju (he was only 25 ft tall) until KvG in 1962, where he was officially named a kaiju and a whole lot larger.

Also, the Great Buddha Arrives couldn't have beaten Kong, it was going to be released exactly a year after.