User blog comment:Titanollante/Zilla 1998 is Godzilla/@comment-25285745-20141101214957/@comment-25285745-20141102030001

Well it could come down to a matter of Toho not being willing to recognize the 1998 monster as Godzilla while Tristar will not recognize it as Zilla and forces Toho to acknowledge it as Zilla in anything related to the 1998 film. As far as Toho is concerned, Godzilla 1998 and Zilla may very well be the same character but the 1998 creature must be referred to as Godzilla despite being an incarnation of Zilla. It's probably more of an after-the-fact thing. All future incarnations of the 1998 creature will be called Zilla because all of these appearances will be licensed by Toho and not Tristar, but the 1998 incarnation must be referred to as Godzilla.