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Tohoverse (Franchise)
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The Tohoverse is The 'Verse that Toho‘s Kaiju films are set in, it’s perhaps best known as the place Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster inhabit.The Tohoverse is notable as one of the first Shared Universes in film along with Universal Horror, and for hosting some of the earliest Crisis Crossovers in fiction in the form of the aforementioned Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Destroy All Monsters, released decades before the trope became standard franchise procedure.Tohoverse continuity is rather complicated, the best way to describe it is that Godzilla (1954) is the only film that happens no matter what, and that several Alternate Timelines springboard off its conclusion, for the sake of clarity and completion, several non-canon films and Alternate Continuities will be placed in this article due to the presence of Tohoverse characters and concepts in those pieces of media.See also the MonsterVerse and the Shin Japan Heroes Universe, both of which feature elements of the Tohoverse in starring roles. | |
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Mammal Monsters Are More Heroic | |
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Mammal Monsters Are More Heroic: King Shisa (King Caesar in the English localization) is one of the few mammalian Toho kaiju, and also one of the most consistently heroic. Unlike many of the other monsters in the series, he is generally portrayed as a protector of humanity, and in his debut appearance in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, he is the guardian deity of an ancient family from Okinawa. | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Mothra, Rodan, and Varan all started out in their own films independent from Godzilla, later being put together with him in crossover films for the sake of more marketable film concepts. Though Varan is this to a lesser extant, Mothra and Rodan are now firm additions to Godzilla lore. Originally, King Ghidorah was a threat to the Tohoverse at large, appearing near exclusively in Crisis Crossovers, but after Destroy All Monsters, he became Godzilla’s Arch-Enemy, appearing near-exclusively in his films until Rebirth of Mothra 3, where he was transplanted again to become an opponent of Mothra’s. The Kaiju Baragon was originally the enemy of a giant version of Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein Conquers the World. However, Baragon eventually became part of Godzilla's Rogues Gallery thanks to video-games, action figures, and the films Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!. The robot Moguera was a class of war machines created by alien invaders to conquer humanity in The Mysterians, and forty-something years later, it is crossed over into the Godzilla series as a weapon created by humans to kill Godzilla. Gorosaurus started out as an Expy of the Meat-Eater from King Kong for the giant ape to square off against in King Kong Escapes. After featuring in Destroy All Monsters, he is now more associated with Godzilla than he is with Kong. The Rogue Planet Gorath was originally a threat independent of the Kaiju, but menaced Godzilla in Godzilla: Final Wars. | |
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Crisis Crossover | |
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Originally, King Ghidorah was a threat to the Tohoverse at large, appearing near exclusively in Crisis Crossovers, but after Destroy All Monsters, he became Godzilla’s Arch-Enemy, appearing near-exclusively in his films until Rebirth of Mothra 3, where he was transplanted again to become an opponent of Mothra’s. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Alternate Continuity: The Rebirth of Mothra trilogy has no connection to the first film and the films are only canon to each other. Godzilla: Final Wars, while intended as the Grand Finale to the whole Tohoverse, officially takes place in an entirely separate universe with no connections to past films. | |
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Shared Universe | |
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Shared Universe: While not as interconnected as modern day shared universes are, the Tohoverse still stars various Kaiju inhabiting a singular universe. | |
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The Kaiju Baragon was originally the enemy of a giant version of Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein Conquers the World. However, Baragon eventually became part of Godzilla's Rogues Gallery thanks to video-games, action figures, and the films Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!. | |
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Expy | |
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Gorosaurus started out as an Expy of the Meat-Eater from King Kong for the giant ape to square off against in King Kong Escapes. After featuring in Destroy All Monsters, he is now more associated with Godzilla than he is with Kong. | |
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Moral Disambiguation | |
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Moral Disambiguation: In the original 1954 movie, Godzilla was a tragic creature seeking revenge on humanity after being a victim of their hubris, but as the franchise went on, the character generally became a campy Anti-Hero opposed to more generically-evil and sadistic kaiju and space aliens, such as Monster Zero, Gigan and the Xiliens. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Many early Godzilla films were crossovers between him and monsters from formerly independent properties. Mothra vs. Godzilla was a crossover between Godzilla and Mothra, and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster served as a sequel both to that film and Rodan. King Kong vs. Godzilla is probably the most traditional example, as it was a crossover not just between Godzilla and King Kong, but between properties from two different film companies. | |
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Rogue Planet | |
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The Rogue Planet Gorath was originally a threat independent of the Kaiju, but menaced Godzilla in Godzilla: Final Wars. | |
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