Talk:Godzilla vs. Mothra/@comment-26220899-20150319205248/@comment-25285745-20150611224205

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth was just a random English title TriStar came up with when they released this film because they didn't want it to get confused with Mothra vs. Godzilla, which was called Godzilla vs. Mothra in the U.S. at the time.

Point being, the plot of this movie doesn't really have anything to do with the English title. There is some concept of Mothra and Battra existing to defend the Earth, and there are constant lines of dialogue saying how humanity is destroying the Earth, even though it really has nothing to do with the plot aside from being Battra's motivation to wipe out humanity. Godzilla is really only in the film for marquee value. This movie easily could have just been Mothra vs. Battra, but Toho felt Mothra wouldn't be able to support her own standalone film. So, they basically changed the plot of the cancelled Mothra vs. Bagan, replacing Bagan with Battra (originally Gigamoth) and throwing in Godzilla to make Godzilla vs. Mothra. You can't argue with the results though. This movie did very well at the box office and made Toho a ton of money.