![]() ![]() In fact, the pastel-colored egg looks like a literal Easter egg.Ī protester early in the film holds up a sign that says “Destroy All Monsters,” the name of a 1968 film that was basically The Avengers of Godzilla, as it featured 11 kaiju, many of which had never appeared in a proper Godzilla movie before. Just as Monarch - the secret scientific organization dedicated to studying massive unidentified terrestrial organisms (MUTOs) around the world - designated Godzilla “Titanus Gojira” as a nod to the character’s original Japanese name, “Titus Mosura” is a nod to the giant moth Mothra’s original Japanese name.Ī brief glimpse of a screen in the Monarch base shows an image of Mothra’s egg that appears to look quite a bit like the yellow-and-blue encasement out of which the giant moth has hatched in earlier movies. Here, our fittingly titan-size list of all of the Easter eggs that follow, ending with our best theories on what that post-credits scene means. (If you don’t know what Monarch is, this might be tough.) The third film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse (joining 2014’s Godzilla and to 2017’s Kong: Skull Island) begins with an homage to 1964’s Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (the movie that marked Ghidorah’s debut appearance in the Toho franchise and cemented Mothra’s and Rodan’s roles as classic Godzilla monsters) - so it’s best to start there. ![]() (Looking at you, Mecha-King Ghidorah fans.) But to understand the Mecha-Easter egg, you must first catch up on your foundational Monarch history. What does the surviving head signify? People have theories. In those closing moments, we learn that one of King Ghidorah’s severed heads is still out there and Alan has plans for it. But Dance’s final appearance as the villainous Alan Jonah provides the biggest hint of what’s next - a glimpse of a plot point that might drive the next MonsterVerse film. ![]() By the time Charles Dance walks back into frame in Godzilla: King of the Monsters’s post-credits scene, kaiju fans will no doubt have picked up on the plethora of Easter eggs and other nods to the longstanding lizard franchise sprinkled throughout the movie. ![]()
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