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Apr 1, 2021 · Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021) By Matt Goldberg. Published Apr 1, 2021. ... But where does Mechagodzilla come from? Godzilla vs. Kong is a radical departure from the character’s 1970s origins.
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Spoilers for Godzilla vs Kong follow.
Before we dive into how Mechagodzilla was created in Godzilla vs Kong, let's take a brief look at the character's history.
Mechagodzilla was initially created in 1974 by Japanese film and theater production company Toho. Toho were the studio behind Godzilla and the other monsters that the lizard titan faced, and Mechagodzilla was conceived as a more serious villain to its two predecessors Gigan and Megalon. Toho considered this duo to be creative disasters, and Mechagodzilla's robotic nature was cheaper to construct in comparison to the mutated monsters that Godzilla was fighting at the time.
In Godzilla's film history, Mechagodzilla's first appearance came during Japan's Shōwa period. The robotic version of Godzilla was originally created as a weapon of destruction by an alien race known as the Simians, who wanted to use it to help them conquer Earth.
Of course, the Simians' attempts were foiled after Godzilla and its ally King Caesar defeated their creation, but the cybernetic villain kept returning in various guises. Mechagodzilla was built as an anti-Godzilla weapon during 1993 movie Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, while Millennium Godzilla appeared in 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and 2003's Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Mechagodzilla was briefly seen in the Godzilla anime film trilogy, which was released in Japan between November 2017 and November 2018, and was supposed to be used as a countermeasure to Godzilla in these movies. It's never fully utilized before humanity has to abandon it following a Godzilla attack, but its AI is repurposed to build a facility called Mechagodzilla City, as well as battlesuits known as Vultures, in the trilogy's second film Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle.
Mechagodzilla has an arsenal of weapons that it deploys to combat Godzilla and any other titans. Throughout its history, it's been capable of firing missiles from its toes, fingers and knees, energy beams from its eyes, and creating force fields to protect itself. Other weapons in other adaptations have included a mouth-based lazer cannon - akin to Godzilla's nuclear breath - while its diamond-coated shell has often proved effective in repelling Godzilla's atomic ray ability.
As you'll have worked out by now, Godzilla isn't the movie's chief bad guy. The trailers had installed Godzilla as the villain of the piece, but we know that's not true now. It is, in fact, Mechagodzilla.
To find out how Mechagodzilla is constructed, we need to look back to 2017's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In that film, Godzilla killed King Ghidorah - an alien apex predator who had wanted to upset the natural order and establish itself as the king of Earth's titans.
We had suspected that King Ghidorah's remains would be cleared up by Monarch, but it appears that the secret scientific organization - or the authorities in general - didn't do a good enough job of removing Ghidorah's shattered body.
As it turns out, Apex Cybernetics - a sinister scientific corporation - acquired one of Ghidorah's skulls. Ghidorah's three heads were able to telepathically communicate with each other, so Apex uses this ability to help it create Mechagodzilla. Apex's scientists found a way to harness Ghidorah's psionic powers and, connecting it to supercomputers at its Hong Kong headquarters, were able to create a neural link between Ghidorah's skull and Mechagodzilla's robotic body. This allows anybody to control Mechagodzilla from inside Ghidorah's skull, providing that they wear a psionically linked helmet to complete the circuit.
It isn't explained how Apex built Mechagodzilla's shell and robotic parts, or what materials they used to make it. As a cybernetics company, though, we imagine that it's made up of the best and strongest materials known to man. What we do know is that Apex have been building Mechagodzilla's parts in secret at its various laboratories and sneaking them off to Hong Kong even when Godzilla has attacked its bases, much like it does in Florida.
Despite building Mechagodzilla and having one of Ghidorah's skulls, Mechagodzilla isn't exactly powerful to begin with. Sure, it can tear a Skullcrawler in half with ease, as we see in the film, but it wouldn't be a match for Godzilla in a one-on-one fight.
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Mechagodzilla was a mechanized daikaiju created by Legendary Pictures, that first appeared serving as the secondary antagonist of the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong. Constructed by the corporation Apex Cybernetics as an anti-Titan weapon designed to establish humanity as the apex predator by surpassing the Titans, Mechagodzilla was innately designed to kill Godzilla. However, Apex made a mistake ...
Mar 31, 2021 · The Godzilla vs Kong ending leaves both Godzilla and Kong in new places in their stories, thus allowing both to coexist in future MonsterVerse movies.First announced way back in 2015, it's been a long journey getting Godzilla vs Kong onto the big screen, which marks only the second time the two iconic monsters have come to blows in a film, with their first bout being in 1962's King Kong vs ...
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Jan 9, 2020 · In classic Toho movies, Mechagodzilla is one of Godzilla's two biggest enemies, the other being King Ghidorah. Mechagodzilla has appeared in a total of five Toho films. A role in Godzilla vs. Kong would mark the first time an American production has used the mechanical kaiju. Mechagodzilla would be the fifth Toho kaiju to join the MonsterVerse.
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Oct 3, 2024 · Mechagodzilla (メカゴジラMekagojira) is a mechanical Titan that appeared as the primary antagonist of the 2021 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla vs. Kong. It is the second incarnation of Mechagodzilla to appear in an American -made film, after the incarnation featured in the 2018 film Ready Player One.
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Mar 31, 2021 · Mechagodzilla Origin & Ghidorah Head. In Godzilla vs Kong, Mechagodzilla was created by Apex Cybernetics, particularly with the involvement of the company's founder Walter Simmons and one of their chief scientists, Ren Serizawa, the son of the late Dr. Serizawa, who died in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Although it had been 10 years since the ...
