Talk:Unnamed Multi-Legged Monster/@comment-25690501-20150124131502/@comment-25285745-20150124180433

IGN did a behind-the-scenes report about the movie months before release and said that Edwards told them it was a skeleton of Godzilla's species. They were proven right by the DVD special features, where in a narration by Dr. Graham she says that the skeleton was a member of the Godzilla species that was killed by the parasitic M.U.T.O. species, who laid their eggs in its corpse.

Edwards has also said that "Vishnu" doesn't even canonically exist in the Legendary universe. The design for the M.U.T.O. was not yet finalized, and Edwards wanted to show in the first teaser trailer that Godzilla would fight another monster, so Legendary quickly came up with a one-shot concept monster whose corpse would appear in the trailer. That's it.