Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-27255656-20180411184336/@comment-24941009-20180523190810

I haven't seen the movie, but for what I found out Paradox supposedly introduced us into a complex and bizarre multiverse of alternate realities or something like that (which might actually make sense, considering that most Godzilla movies are part of a multiverse as well with differing timelines). Maybe the Clover died in the 2008 timeline, but survived and grew to a ridiculously colossal size in the 2016 timeline.

Alternatively, we can just consider the 2016 a piece of garbage (at least that's what it is according to some critics) and assume it's not canon at all.