Godzilla x Kong is Going Supernova, What Could It Mean?

Almost a full year aft it was teased, we precocious learned the third Godzilla x Kong movie is subtitled Supernova, and it’s coming March 2027. As fans wonderment what’ll bring the 2 Titans unneurotic erstwhile more, immoderate deliberation the rubric could beryllium mean the MonsterVerse is introducing interstellar threats. After all, some Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire took the characters underground to the Hollow Earth, truthful the adjacent spot near to go, successful theory, would beryllium up into the stars.

One of the archetypal candidates that comes to caput is SpaceGodzilla. Like the sanction implies, it’s an evil clone of the King of the Monsters who archetypal appeared successful 1994’s Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. Created by Godzilla’s familial worldly merging with a crystalline organism successful space, past absorbed by a achromatic spread and subsequently spat retired by a achromatic hole, the cosmic-themed variant attacked Godzilla and Little Godzilla utilizing its powerfulness to make and power crystals.

The monster was subsequently defeated by Godzilla’s reddish vigor ray attack, and since then, it’s mostly appeared successful non-movie media much than the films themselves. On screen, it past showed up arsenic a artifact successful 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, but its astir caller wide quality was successful the 2021 gacha game Godzilla Battle Line and anniversary toys for the franchise’s 40th birthday. Suffice to say, it’s not an A-tier baddie, but the imaginable Godzilla x Kong connection comes from the sanction of its peculiar attack, Corona Beam—or Void Invader, the retitled sanction bestowed upon it from a 2020 Magic: The Gathering expansion. The Beam has been likened to the cosmic explosion, and the Supernova logo seems to enactment this theory.

Alternatively, there’s Gigan, archetypal introduced successful 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan. This monster is an alien converted into a cyborg by the Nebulans, aliens looking to usage it to decimate Earth and hole the satellite for their eventual subjugation. Godzilla and Anguirus defeated Gigan, who came backmost successful 1973’s Godzilla vs. Megalon arsenic a enactment monster to that film’s titular villain, past in 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, where helium was awakened by the alien Xiliens and upgraded to assistance destruct the Earth. It mislaid successful some returning appearances, and successful Final Wars’ case, it decapitated itself with its ain limb earlier a flaming Mothra finished it disconnected for good. Unlike SpaceGodzilla, it’s had a much accordant multimedia appearance: on with being playable in GigaBash, it’s shown up successful the Godzilla vs. Megalon web video from 2023 and the abbreviated anime series Chibi Godzilla Raids Again.

If Supernova’s actually introducing different Godzilla-related enemy, it’d proceed a inclination archetypal established with MechaGodzilla successful vs. Kong. Despite the King’s mechanical nemesis being that film’s last baddie, some it and New Empire have mostly focused connected Kong to soma retired his country of the world, and Godzilla’s been much of a peculiar impermanent prima stomping astir during the archetypal and past acts. Now that Kong has an ape tribe, a surrogate son, and a caller limb to his name, he’s good established capable to cede crushed implicit to Godzilla, whose past important mythology and quality improvement was backmost successful 2019’s King of the Monsters. If these 2 are a bundle woody now, the MonsterVerse writers volition person to springiness them some worldly to enactment with, and immoderate fans watching would archer you it’s lone just Godzilla get the spotlight now.

Whichever evil monster ends up being the superior baddie, we’ll beryllium determination for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova on March 26, 2027, and we’ll person much quality connected it arsenic accusation comes out.

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