Talk:Godzilla (TriStar)/@comment-30161070-20170117114648/@comment-4820209-20170121105338

It's not a "was" legally known as scenario. It's an "is legally known as" scenario. Present tense. Legally, Zilla is a different character than TriStar's Godzilla. Always has been. Legally, and even canonically the characters aren't the same. It was only in 2004 when Toho began to trademark TriStar's Godzilla in future media appearances as Zilla.