Thread:The Reptile King/@comment-25808351-20181209032549/@comment-27950421-20181210043210

The movie is Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monster All Out Attack.

Most call it GMK because dear God(zilla) that's a long damn title. GMK is it's own seperate continuity and is a direct sequel to the original Godzilla, (and kinda sorta the 1998 failure due to a reference). In it Godzilla is either possessed by the souls of every person who died in the Pacific Theatre of WW2 or he's the physical manifestation of said souls. Given that Japan was the invader in that side of the war, a lot of blood was on their hands and Godzilla being driven/the embodiment of the rage and hatred of everyone who died in said war, his primary goal was to destroy Japan. Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Baragon (poor bastard couldn't even get his name in the title...) were guardian beasts from ancient Japan who rose up to fight Godzilla. King Ghidorah having specifically been said to have had originally had 8 heads, but had all of them chopped off in a previous battle and was healing from that even after thousands of years.

Despite the flip flop on heroic/villainous rolls, it actually brought the "God of War and Destruction" aspect of Godzilla out better than nearly every movie. The way he went out of his way to crush his foes under heel (literally. Poor poor baragon...) was an art in and 9f itself. He even took on Mothra and King Ghidorah at the same time in it. I don't really like how they used all of the characters in the story, but Godzillas portrayal in it was awesome nonetheless.

And even when Ghidorah is the hero fighting a villainous Godzilla... Godzilla stille wins.