Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-25238001-20150613205339

This is a world in which kaiju exist, and this is my idea for how this plays out: In 1961, mass sightings of a giant serpent off the Greek coast sparked a worldwide stir, inciting rumors of a mythical lost continent, Mu. After several disappearances of beachgoers in Albania, the Mediterranean flew into a panic. As this monster, which the Legend of Mu called Mandah, or Manda, made landfall in the Italian region of Caltanissetta in 1963, the world’s militaries took action, and ended up reducing an urban area to ruin. The creature was destroyed, but the world was now conscious of the possibility of other giant monsters, or kaiju, living within the depths. Manda had been obliterated, and to this day, people can only speculate about where this leviathan came from.

             No other monsters appeared until 1984, when the now-infamous Godzilla stomped through the Japanese capital of Tokyo, taking over 35 thousand lives. The Japanese Self-Defense Forces were helpless to stop it, until the United Nations unveiled their new superweapon, a futuristic, flying battleship called the Atragon. Godzilla was repelled back to the sea. By studying chunks of Godzilla’s skin, blown off by the Atragon, it was determined that Godzilla was created from nuclear tests performed by the United States in the Philippines in the late 1940s. At the site of these tests, scientist Daisuke Serizawa made an alarming discovery: an island crawling with mutated kaiju, not least of which the 25-story spider, Kumonga, and an adolescent Godzilla, called Minya. Over the next several decades, monsters, from this island and from origins unknown, came other creatures, sometimes treading through major metropolises on their paths of havoc. Often these monsters have crossed paths, leaving unimaginable destruction in the wake of these titanic struggles.

             One monster that has had just as many conflicts with its fellow beasts, as well as mankind, is Godzilla, the King of the Monsters. His first fight with another monster was with a monster named Gezora, in 1986. Gezora was a monster that alarmed many. The first kaiju to appear since Godzilla’s initial raid, Gezora was a gigantic cuttlefish, surrounded by blue orbs of light, and having, according to witnesses, an “absent, almost possessed, look in his eyes”. While Godzilla stumbled upon humanity and was simply stepping over Tokyo’s skyscrapers because they obstructed him, Gezora, like Manda, seemed to be a genuinely malevolent kaiju.

 In the late eighties and early nineties, kaiju ran rampant across the earth. Baragon dug his way through France and Belgium. Varan, the first flying kaiju, slashed his way through Turkey, and the first man-made kaiju, a crustacean called Ebirah, guarded the island home of a terrorist organization. A highly radioactive beast called Rhedosaurus awoke in the Arctic and destroyed the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia. The first evidence of sapient kaiju came in 1987, when two behemoths, Sanda and Gaira, fought in the frigid Russian forests, before the more malicious Gaira was brought down by experimental new anti-monster weapon, the MASER cannon, a mobile energy weapon mounted on a truck or tank.

 As the new millennium approached, the new Anti-Megalosaurus Force built new weapons to repel the world’s monsters. The Atragon was replaced with a more modern, better armed Gotengo, and several nations began construction of anti-kaiju weapons. Japan built Kiryu, and the United States made MechaGodzilla. Even Canada created their own weapon, Garuda, although this was meant to literally piggyback on MechaGodzilla, and was built with the ability to attach to the mechanical monster’s shoulders. In 1998, the biggest city in the world, New York City, experienced a devastating kaiju attack. A mutant reptile which some still insist to this day was Godzilla rose out of the East River and started ripping through NYC in a search for food. The monster was driven away by the arrival of the Gotengo, but it turned out this radioactive lizard had laid a clutch of nearly three dozen eggs. These eggs hatched within hours of the faux-Godzilla’s retreat, and ran amok through New York City. Without even waiting for the city to be evacuated, the United States military nuked the island, as they knew the offspring could not be contained and would spread quickly. This sparked a shocked outrage from the people of the world, and was the first shot fired in the Monster War. Kaiju were hunted, and now that the precedent had been set, the world’s governments fought the kaiju viciously. Even the most powerful kaiju were hunted. The new anti-kaiju weapon, MOGERA, was deployed to destroy even kaiju that had defended humankind, the pteranodon Rodan and a divine insect called Mothra. Even Godzilla was targeted. As cities were leveled by the colossal struggles between man and monster, kaiju that had coexisted for decades now did battle. Godzilla was on the forefront of these battles. After nearly a decade of hibernation, the King of the Monsters did battle with the fauxZilla and several giant Kamacuras mantises in the Australian outback. The King finished off his foes within minutes, and trudged on. The war came to a conclusion in 2003, on and around Monster Island, Godzilla’s home, and the spawning ground of so many other kaiju in a battle called Final Wars. Godzilla and his allies, a Godzilla-sized ankylosaur called Angillas, a much smaller (but still massive) tyrannosaur called Gorosaurus, Kiryu, and Mothra, were quickly outnumbered. Their foes included MOGERA, Garuda, the energy-conducting ogre Gabara, a pair of Mutos, the clawed burrower Baragon, and the gliding Varan. Gorosaurus was quickly overpowered, and Kiryu had locked MOGERA in mecha vs mecha combat, unable to best one another. The remaining monsters were easy enough for Godzilla, Angillas, and Mothra to handle. Godzilla absorbed more of the island’s radiation and used it to give more power to his atomic breath, blowing through Varan’s wing and scorching Baragon. The Mutos were overpowered by Mothra and Anguirus. The MOGERA crew agreed wiith the JSDF to both return to their bases, and the day was won.

 The war for earth was not over, though, and a new party shortly came into play: extraterrestrials. The explosion of an asteroid near Earth’s atmosphere lodged a mile-wide chunk of the space rock to lodge in the side of a volcano near Japan. The collision awoke a walrus-like kaiju sleeping inside, which fed off the volcano’s magma. This monster, called Maguma, proceeded to head west, destroying the urban ports of China. Maguma was destroyed by the Gotengo, frozen and then smashed to bits using an absolute-zero cannon. Only days later’ another piece of the asteroid was found under the Pacific Ocean. This fragment, bigger than the first, yielded another monster. This one started out as a towering, skeletal demon with two tails and the ability to fire golden gravity beams. Godzilla arrived on the scene, fought the skeletal X Monster, and won. However, the alien behemoth began to glow, and it changed into a three-headed, two legged dragon called Ghidorah, which, after an hours-long struggle, killed Godzilla.

 More recently, new kaiju have appeared on the scene as the world tries to rebuild from the Monster Wars. A four-story Gorilla, affectionately named King Kong after the famous movie monster, has been discovered living on a coincidentally skull-shaped island in the Bay of Bengal. A giant pelycosaur appeared in South Dakota and is currently contained in Lake Michigan. Among the more hostile alien kaiju was Gigan, a powerful cyborg with advanced weapons and a human-level intellect who appeared in 2012. Gigan was eventually killed by Mechagodzilla, MOGERA, and Angillas in South Africa. In May 2014 what appears to be a new Godzilla fought a giant insect called Vishnu, leveling San Francisco, and destroyed an aging Ghidorah in November.







 Depiction of kaiju in the Godzilla verse:

 19th century- Lost Continent of Mu by Augustus Le Plongeon

 1933: Willis O’Brien’s King Kong

 1984- Manda- an action thriller depicting the supposed origins of the first kaiju

 1986- Shobijin religion founded, worshipping Mothra

 1999- Yamata No Orochi- set in 1400s Japan, this American film depicted a mythical mega-kaiju, Orochi

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> 2001- Orochi vs Daimajin- Sequel to Orochi, in which the title monster battles a giant stone warrior, Daimajin

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> 2016- Netflix’s Kong, King of the Apes follows the story of a new King Kong, not set in 2050 and not battling robot dinosaurs. <ac_metadata title="My new &quot;history of kiaju, inspired by Matt Frank&#039;s Kaiju Neo"> </ac_metadata>