Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-8622774-20141231104405/@comment-3542924-20150313115533

Meeston Falcon wrote: GodzillaIsland7.2 wrote:

But it doesn't. Even MechaGodzilla 3 does not exist, only MechaGodzilla 1, MechaGodzilla 2 (or II), and Kiryu (his name is "Kiryu", not "MechaGodzilla 3") exists.

Actually, it's more like this: While Heisei MechaGodzilla is called "MechaGodzilla 2" in a considerable amount of recent media, such as IDW Comics and a couple of Atari games... It is actually not "MechaGodzilla 2" due to being the first and only one of its respective era, and the third one to appear consecutively, people are calling Heisei MechaGodzilla by that name because of Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1993)'s given English dubbed name "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II". And "II" is "2" in Roman numerals, so "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla 2" is no different from "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II". The real "MechaGodzilla 2" is actually the MechaGodzilla from Terror of MechaGodzilla, not only is it evidenced by a piece of the poster and trailer for the movie... But on the MechaGodzilla 1975 suit, the red "MG" initials on its arms from the previous movie, Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1974) are replaced with blue and orange "MG2" initials, meaning "Mecha Godzilla 2", and thus that incarnation of MechaGodzilla is given the name "MechaGodzilla 2".
 * MechaGodzilla 1974 = MechaGodzilla
 * MechaGodzilla 1975 = MechaGodzilla 2
 * MechaGodzilla 1993 = G-Force MechaGodzilla
 * MechaGodzilla 1997-1998 = G-Guard MechaGodzilla
 * MechaGodzilla/Kiryu 2002 = MFS-3 Type-3 Kiryu
 * MechaGodzilla/Kiryu 2003 - Modified 3-Kiryu