Talk:Godzilla, King of the Monsters (Marvel)/@comment-343942-20150225032226/@comment-25285745-20150225054546

Technically, none of the appearances of the Godzilla-like creatures in the Marvel comics are legally Godzilla at all, since Marvel does not hold the rights to Godzilla. Sure, they look like the Marvel Godzilla, and the mutation-thing is implied to be either the former Marvel Godzilla himself or a related creature, but legally speaking, neither it nor the Leviathan are (officially) Godzilla in any way, simply because Marvel doesn't own the rights to him.

It would be like if Toho made a movie called Godzilla vs. Gorilla, where Godzilla fights a giant gorilla closely resembling King Kong, and people consider Gorilla to be an incarnation of King Kong because he looks like Kong, and Toho once held the rights to Kong.