Here's a fun fact for Planet Eater, Ghidorah was supposed to appear as he does traditionally, three heads attached to one body with wings, but that design never made it into the final product, but it was sold as a toy anyway.
14:24 Pretty sure the KingGoji figure and the Oxygen Destroyer model were just supposed to be Easter eggs that were thrown into the movie to reference past films
The Titanosaurus thing is lost in translation The director meant he is not a "Kaiju", Kaiju just means monster He is making the point that Titanosaurus is not a monster, but an innocent creature being mind controlled Also, technically, the Showa Varan, Baragon, Rodan and Anguirus are just regular unmutated dinosaurs too
Meanwhile in the Monsterverse every single creature in the show is technically just a different un-mutated ancient species. So if natural Earth creatures aren't kaiju, the monsterverse technically contains 0 kaiju in it's entire story. Other than maybe Mechagodzilla and Ghidorah depending on how you stretch the definition.
Isn't that precisely what speaker in the video explains. He never denied this fact either, so it's less of a matter of mistranslation and more or less someone who adds on the obvious just to seem smart or more aware.
@@muffins901 He has but it feels like the implication is more that he 'survived' the blast instead of being mutated by it. It's not like this version wasn't Godzilla before the blast but turned into Godzilla after it. This Godzilla has clearly been Godzilla for millions of years now and the atomic bomb didn't really change anything about that. Unlike for example the heisei version which had the most explicit and dramatic change between Godzilla before and after the bomb.
@@jonatanluna1061 well it must have done SOMETHING to him, hell the only reason he was able to beat kg in KotM was because he got a power boost from the nuclear warhead
Not gonna lie, now I’m *SUPER* curious what a Tim Burton directed Godzilla film would be like after learning he was gonna be involved with Godzilla ’98!
I knew most of these accept for a few such as the 1984 Godzilla fact. I knew that in some shots they used an animatronic but I never knew that it was a 20+ foot full puppet. I also never knew that Mechagodzilla II was supposed to split into separate entities. Great video!
Wow, a lot of these were actually pretty cool to learn. Also I feel like if we has gotten a different director the Earth movies could have been some of the best in the intire franchise, it has cool concepts but they never really got utilized.
@@matthewsuchomski2593 hmm it's an interesting what-if. but in terms of marketability? I think in some ways it was bad, but other ways good. Good: Easy hook-in with the visuals, Mothra and Ghidorah are well-known and popular. As for story... hard to say if that'd be good or bad. One unusual aspect of GMK is that... all the good Kaiju DIE before the Humans kill Godzilla. That would have made far more sense if it was Anguiras, Baragon, and Varan. but.. how spectacular could it have been? hmm..... Baragon is a legit ranged fighter, Anguiras is a tough melee fighter, and Varan is a fast flying melee fighter. the three tag-teaming Godzilla? that could be a good fight.
I already knew about the original concept and you're probably right, even though, I love King Ghidorah (as many people), I think Anguirus, Baragon and Varan (specially the last two) deserve more love and to be in more movies. Also, the film is great, but the CGI Mothra is not that well made.
For those who don't know, toho hated the 1998 movie and when they saw how much of a stain it left on the franchise, they decided to make the next series of godzilla movies to remove that stain, while also just insulting tuna-zilla by just making him a one-hit kill for godzilla in final wars. I can imagine godzilla coming back from the dead like "not on my watch. Toho, let's fix this mess"
I find it funny that Mothra was polled more than once, to be the most popular kaiju among women in Japan, then when the time came for Toho to make an anime, they chose to make a Godzilla anime targeted towards women instead of headlining the kaiju most popular with that demographic. Granted after watching that train wreck of a trilogy, you can feel the studio was battling itself internally. The backstory of the trilogy is more interesting than the trilogy itself. The fact an anime where Hatsune Miku helps fight Godzilla is 1,000 times more entertaining than an anime that takes place in a timeline where Godzilla kicked humanity's ass so hard we had to flee Earth is both a fucking shame, and a massive achievement. I'm actually impressed how poorly handled that anime movie trilogy was.
One of the Shin Godzilla proposed endings had him evolving so extremely to the point where he basically becomes an omnipotent living galaxy. Wild stuff.
I wish a movie shot ONLY from Godzilla’s perspective would be released including fighting, destroying Tokyo, and the aftermath from it all seen by Godzilla with no type of narration by a person at all.
It’s nice to hear Godzilla trivia that I don’t actually know for once in a while. Nice video. As for random trivia facts: the GMK Godzilla suit was the tallest Godzilla suit, standing at 7+ feet tall. I don’t know how obscure of a fact this is, but I only found out about it recently, so I’d deem it pretty obscure.
Fun Fact: An early script for *"GODZILLA: Final Wars"* by writer Wataru Mimura and long-running producer Shogo Tomiyama from 1989-2004 was set to take place after the final film of the Heisei era: *"GODZILLA vs DESTOROYAH"* and was to feature Godzilla Junior as the lead kaiju, but that idea was sadly scrapped.
That Godzilla 1998 trivia about the director of Robocop be offered the job, really stings. While the movie might not have been good. It definitely would've been better then what we got.
With how well this video is made, I can see it getting the views it deserves. The fun facts and humor commentary makes this a well worth watch for how long it is. Entertained through the whole video, keep it up!
Good choices of fun facts, as a diehard there were several of these I didn't actually know! While the Cybot Godzilla stuff is interesting in its own right, I'm surprised your fact for Return of Godzilla wasn't that Kenpachiro Satsuma, the Hedorah actor who took over the role in the Heisei series, wasn't the original planned suit actor for Godzilla, and thus had to operate a suit that didn't actually fit him properly! That's at least part of why Godzilla's design changes in Biollante and then stays the same for the rest of the Heisei era, that suit actually WAS designed with Satsuma's body in mind.
4:52 The fugue is a form of musical composition that had run its course and was falling out of favor. Then along came a certain Johann Sebastian Bach who did it better than anyone. Whenever the fugue is discussed, Bach is the first name that springs to mind ... just like Godzilla with this dance. I found a parallel between Godzilla and Bach. What exactly am I doing with my life?
King Ghidorah’s color was originally going to be crimson, the painter always wanted it to be gold, and they put stuff on it that made parts look blue in some photos.
What a very informative video! There were certainly a few things I never knew about. While I'm here I might as well share one interesting bit of trivia I know, this one being about Godzilla Final Wars For a while, there was a rumour that Bagan was going to feature in Godzilla Final Wars but was cut, after a supposed deleted scene was posted online in 2012. However, it was eventually found out to be a hoax. The deleted scene was actually heavily edited footage of a monster named Reizaus from Super Star Fleet Sazer X, which released a year after Final Wars. Reizaus bears a striking resemblance to Bagan, and in fact, the designers of the monsters from Super Star Fleet Sazer X, Shinji Nishikawa and Minoru Yoshida, also worked on Bagan designs back in the day. There's no sources that confirm whether or not Reizaus' design was inspired by Bagan though.
0:50 According to an interview with Nakajima Tezuka was only in one scene and he accidently destroyed the model of the Diet building too early. In a different interview I read that for that particular scene they had no money to rebuild the model so they filmed the rest in close up. Which means that the scene in which Godzilla walks towards the building it's Tezuka, extreme closeups (mostly legs) belong to Nakajima. In KKvsG Tezuka played Godzilla when he breaks free from the iceberg but I don't know if it's also him in the scene where Godzilla comes ashore. About the both 1964 movies I have no ideas where he is in those. 4:12 Some say it was just first layer of paint and he was always supposed to be gold and that version made it to the poster but I don't know. Seems like there's some conflicting information.
Another Fun Trivia. The Alien Franchise is owned by Fox, and now Fox owned Disney, and that company have one of the worst reputation for Overzealous Copyright claims
Great video! I love your style of editing. I do think you should probably cut out moments where you fumble over your words, if only to make the quality that much better. Really looking forward to more content!
Hey thanks for this, it was fun. But really man, you can edit your voice overs. Do a couple takes if you make a mistake or fumble your words, don't leave in instances where you say something a little off and immediately say it again. Just a little editing goes a long way with people wanting to continue watching your content
I have a bit of personal, tragic head canon that the Zilla in Final Wars is the same one from Godzilla The Series that runs around with H.E.A.T and that at some point, he gets kidnapped by these aliens and then the H.E.A.T team has to watch on the news or something as he gets killed by Godzilla
Fun fact: There's actually an earlier attempt for a American Godzilla film way back in the 1980s entitled *"GODZILLA: King of the Monsters in 3-D"* with Steve Miner as the film's director, a script by Fred Dekker, and Oscar Winning Makeup FX legend Rick Baker was contacted to built a mechanical Godzilla head. Sadly, much like Jan De Bont's *"GODZILLA",* the *"3-D GODZILLA"* film never got made due to budgetary reasons. Knowing that *"GODZILLA '94"* got an fan graphic novel adaptation, I think that the *3-D GODZILLA* deserves one as well.
Fun Fact: Cristina Vee who voiced Rei Hino aka Sailor Mars in the Viz Media English dub of the OG & reboot *"Sailor Moon"* anime series & films, Miki Makimura in *"Devilman Crybaby"* (2018) and Deborah Kim in *"Friday the 13th: The Game"* (2017) was the English voice for Yuko Tani in the Godzilla anime film trilogy.
@@johnnygallagher5718 I don't know, but then again, Kotono Mitsuishi & Aya Hisakawa (the Japanese voice actresses of Usagi & Ami/Sailor Moon & Sailor Mercury) worked on the JPN DVD release of *"The NeverEnding Story III",* dubbing for Julie Cox & Melody Kay as "Moonchild", the Childlike Empress & Nicole Baxter. Jason James Richter & Freddie Jones (R.I.P.) were also dubbed in Japanese by Takeshi Kusao & Shōzō Iizuka (R.I.P.), who voiced Trunks & Nappa in *"Dragon Ball Z".*
Kaiser in German means emperor in Japanese it would be "Tennō". I guess because Emperor comes off as more powerful than king that's why they possibly went with the name.
Building on Jet Jaguar and it's original name Red Alone, Hideki Anno featured a giant robot named Jet Alone in the 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anno would take this full circle as he would become the director for Shin Godzilla and even brings iconic soundtracks from Eva into the film.
Am I the only one that made it to 7:43 and not realize I haven't heard any "one piece" trivia once🤣😭. I got too invested to realize what I was watching 😭
That G2K fact about Orga’s roar being ripped right from Aliens is not true. Orga’s roar is actually just Cretaceous King Ghidorah’s roar and the reason why it sounds similar to the Xenomorph is because they both use Elephant noises as the basis.
Fun Fact: John Carpenter, who co-wrote, scored, produced & directed the first *"HALLOWEEN"* as well as directed the remakes of *"THE THING"* and *"Village of the Damned"* was a fan of Godzilla and he too wanted to direct a Godzilla film, but that never came to be which is a complete shame.
Oh my God, a Paul Verhoeven Godzilla movie... nearly a Stan Winston design... Godzilla '98 really dodged greatness at every turn, didn't it. What could have been...
@@wallygator92 yeah flying, fast melee fighter? yes please! Anguiras is a tough melee fighter who already proved he could stand up to Godzilla! Baragon... physically not a great threat, but he has a decent flame breath attack, and he can burrow to hide or surprise attack.
Really good video, but I noticed a mistake regarding the name of one of the special effects artists who were referenced in G: KOTM. "Stan Wilson" is actually Stan Winston. Just thought I'd bring that up real quick. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Winston
Ok so with kamacuras in the background in destroy all monsters in stock footage I guess he was in it sort of and 4 octopuses in gvkk guess that means King Kong took down 4 giant octopuses
Dude you missed some bonus information for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah. The Godzillasouraus before he turns into Godzilla. Actually has a Gamera roar as Godzillasauarus. Listen closely and you can hear the Gamera roar
9:45 As the Godzilla vs Megalon lore master there’s no genuine proof that Red Alone nor Jet Jaguar supposed to be in a standalone movie except for Jet Jaguar being the main protagonist, in fact The winner of the contest is supposed to be in the next Godzilla movie
They could reintroduce Jet Jaguar and introduce Red Alone by making Jet Jaguar the result of AI research and Red Alone be an attempt at creating a cybernetic Kaiju by humans
I think that's Stan Winston, not Wilson. Thanks for all the fun facts though! Really interesting about the Varan heads on Ghidorah. Also explains why they'd make him a good guy. I think the anime trilogy is the most bizarre thing because it had a lot of cool sci-fi concepts, but was just so overlong and boring. the pacing was awful. I think it definitely would've been great as a video game, actually!
And Godzilla vs Megalon failed at the box office anyways; so, yeah, Toho screwed up big time. Maybe that's why Megalon and Jet Jaguar have rarely been referenced and haven't appeared in another movie.
Mistake! Godzilla vs Gigan, the ending song itself as Godzilla and Anguirus swim away victorious, that was made specifically for the movie. Movie being entirely stock music is incorrect... it has one original piece lmao
Fun fact: After seeing the abundance of hate and criticism Godzilla 1998 got, Emmerick claimed that the movie was bad but not as bad as the fans claimed it was and that he never took the movie seriously in the first place since he wasn’t a Godzilla fan, while Devlin took the criticism like a man instead of a sore like Emmerick and admitted that many terrible mistakes were made during production and that he must be held accountable for it.
Mate if you’re going to mention something hidden in the background of the stock footage of kamunga at least put a ring or something to show where kamakuras body is (if you are reading this comment can you please direct me to where it is because I don’t see anything
Pro tip, when you’re about to pronounce a Japanese name and you’re unsure if you’ll be able to pronounce it, make a separate recording of you attempting to mimic Google translate pronouncing the name several times (and then splice in the best result). Also Japanese is phonetic so try your best to sound it out slowly and then speed up your pronounciation. It just makes me sad to hear you say you’re gonna butcher a name, and then proceed to do so. It just takes practice and patience with yourself. And since you make so many Godzilla videos, it would behoove you to brush up on Japanese pronounciation. You can do it! :) I believe in you!
Actually Orga’s Roar are just reused roars from Desghidorah and were actually just Stock Elephant noises So no they didn’t use the Xenomorphs “Roars” it just sounds really similar, so they aren’t hypocrites
Orga’s roar in the Japanese I reckon is a combo of xeno and 1976 Peter Cullen-voiced King Kong. I don’t hate 1998 Godzilla it was redeemed by an awesome animated show and I hope a live-action be made based on that cartoon.
Isn't there a throw-away line about how Heisei Mecha-Godzilla was too badly damaged fighting Godzilla to be repaired and the cannibalized it to build Moguera?
I hope they at least do one follow-up to Shin Godzilla. Like, iirc, the characters at the end of that movie talk about having to live with the fact that he's just there in the middle of the city. To me, this Godzilla is sending the message of "Nature is unstoppable" so imagine if he unfreezes because of global warming or something and immediately evolves into the human-like godzillas.
About Gigan's laser, the reason they never put it into the film was actually because of the spirituality of the thing. The idea of Gigan having a third eye it would unleash power from didn't feel right to Teruyoshi Nakano, as that sort of power (intended to visually reference some sort of psychic ability), he felt, didn't belong to a monster, but a human. Based on how ubiquitous it is in the marketing, this was probably a pretty late decision. The fact that the shot of his third eye lighting up still appears in the final edit of the film seems to suggest it was axed after the edit but before the effects were drawn in, so it wouldn't have had anything to do with the budget. Kinda interesting that the fact that his laser was so prevalent in the marketing cemented the idea in everyone's heads that Gigan has this ability regardless, which of course he uses later on, so in a way it's like Gigan defied Nakano and opened his third eye anwyas. I guess cyborg space dinosaurs really can open their chakras. About "we just threw Godzilla in at the last minute," this is a complete fabrication that is just a rumor spread in the west. Godzilla vs. Megalon was always going to be a Godzilla movie from the start, the initial plot idea (it was literally a sentence) pitched by Sekizawa was for a Godzilla movie, that's what the studio asked for. Gigan may or may not have been part of the earliest drafts, as it was initially called "Godzilla vs. the Megalon Brothers," but the gimmick of the monster contest was certainly intended for this movie. This is become such a widespread myth that it even showed up on the English wikipedia at one point. Of course, it's never been on Japanese wikipedia because it isn't... you know... true. About Mechagodzilla's suit, you're wrong there again. The surviving suit is Mechagodzilla 2 from Terror of Mechagodzilla, not the original suit from the previous film. You can see clear as day the "MG2" label on his arm in the photos. Really not sure how you missed this. Terror of Mechagodzilla isn't the final movie in the Showa era. Return of Godzilla was released theatrically in Showa 59, with it's sequel premiering in Heisei 1, making Return of Godzilla the final movie from the Showa era. I'm almost certain you're referencing the timeline reset after Terror of Mechagodzilla and therefore the era of the series that take place in the same timeline (aside from Revenge), but that's not what "Showa era" means, "series" would be a better word choice there. As for Takayama's comments, I s'pose in the universe where Godzilla and other monsters exist it is just barely possible that a deep sea dinosaur would naturally get that large without any sort of mutation, but it's pretty clear to me she's commenting on the nature of the character rather than its biology. It's explicit in the film that Titanosaurus is not a naturally violent creature, and that it's only the invention of people that turned it into a ""monster," that's like one of the themes of the film. I doubt she was dropping lore about Titanosaurus being an ordinary animal in a series where every monster is either some kind of mutation or alien or the like. The cybot was a publicity tool made to one-up the animatronic Kong from the 1976 film. I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was intended as a replacement for the suit, I mean the thing couldn't even move its legs. Is there a source for that? You're a little mixed up on the Godzilla vs. Mothra stuff. Mothra vs. Bagan was written with a target release in 1990, it was ditched when Biollante underperformed, so they wanted to go in a more safe direction and just do Godzilla 3, first with King Kong, and then when that fell through, King Ghidorah. The reason Mothra was chosen for Godzilla 4 was indeed because of the poll results, and the final script for the film is a direct descendent of Mothra vs. Bagan, though. Not sure where you're getting the idea about Mechagodzilla getting scrapped because of power levels. Moguera was put into the story by Kawakita from the beginning because he particularly likes the monster, and he was swapped out for Mechagodzilla by the suits to save costs by avoiding making a new suit. Moguera is in the finished film because Kawakita pushed for them really hard, I don't really think the suits relented for reasons of power levels. If they did, I think that would be the first time studio executives have ever cared about in-universe continuity in film history. I suspect the real reason the let Kawakita have Moguera has something to do with the toys - especially when you consider that they let him make Moguera into a sort of megazord. "Godzilla," the 1998 Zilla movie, is not a Godzilla movie, and doesn't belong here. Orga's roar wasn't changed in the international version, that was an alteration to the film by Michael Schlesinger who oversaw the American dub of the film. While this version of the film is unique in that Toho actually clings to it as its "official" English language version, the international version was used as the basis for dubs in other languages, as is tradition. The original English dubbed international version is actually currently lost media, the on-screen text from this version is still extant in other dubs, but the audio track itself is nowhere to be found. It's almost certain that this version of the film does still EXIST somewhere, but the likelihood of it ever seeing the light of day is, judging from Toho's current attitude towards distribution of English dubs of its films, upsettingly low. As Toho gave Sony a copy of the international version, Schlesinger and the rest of the crew working on the US release of Godzilla 2000 are the only confirmed people not directly involved in the making of that version to have ever seen it. Also, Orga's original roar has nothing to do with the noises the xenomorphs make. 1. The roar was created using an elephant sound effect, and is actually reused from Cretaceous King Ghidorah, and 2. the xenomorphs have never had a consistent roar or sound associated with them, they always make various hissing noises, but the sound effects aren't really the same between films. The only exception is the squeal from Aliens, which was reused a few times, mostly in video games, simply because that particular film is so iconic in the franchise. They aren't stealing from anyone, and they aren't hippocrits. Stock sound effects are not protecting under copyright... that's... what "stock" means. The Mondo Island King Kong absolutely exists in the GMMG timeline. The reason those films are part of the timeline is to establish the Kiryu saga as a legacy sequel and flesh out the world it takes place in, allowing them to bring back a lot of nostalgic elements and be a kind of soft reboot of the Showa series timeline and to establish a history of monsters the AMF has dealt with in the past. It's called world building. Kaiser is not a Japanese word, it's German, and means "emperor." It's from "Caesar," as in, Julius Caesar, who's name later became synonymous with emperor, which is how Kaiser ended up meaning emperor in the first place. Also Yoji Shinkawa did do a concept for a Godzilla design, but the design you're referencing was actually drawn by Yasushi Nirasawa. Also also, that bit about Gorosaurus being in the film is just a rumor. It has its origins in a leak about the monster roster that happened on Rodan's Roost prior to the publication of the website that made concept art of all the monsters viewable, and when that website did go up, we found out the leak was 85.7% accurate. The only omissions from the website were King Ghidorah and Gorosaurus, plus there was the addition of a new monster called "Monster X." Given how accurate the leak was (they specifically mentioned Minilla would drive a car, and it came from the same person who leaked that the '02 Mechagodzilla would have "purple hairdryers") the explanation for the discrepancy is pretty obvious: Kaiser Ghidorah was taken to just be King Ghidorah, and Zilla was thought to be Gorosaurus, which, in a pre-Final Wars world, is a pretty reasonable mistake to make. Mechagodzilla, however, was for sure part of the original plan, but the part about it having Gotengo's role is again just a rumor. It was probably cut before any sort of role was even nailed down. I actually went and looked this stuff up to see where this is coming from, and I found a blurb in the trivia section of Wikizilla's page for Final Wars that says exactly what you did here, followed by a "citation needed" tag. So it kinda seems like this Mechagodzilla replaced by Gotengo idea was just someone making stuff up. The mandate on the anime trilogy was to not feature *traditional* monster fights, obviously, if you've actually SEEN the films, you'll be well aware that Godzilla does fight enemy monsters in COTEOB and Planet Eater. Your understanding of the trilogy is really fucking vapid and clueless. You don't have any idea what the hell you're talking about. This is most evident in the way you "mispronounce" the names of the people involved, you're clearly not trying, you're just making up random "Japanese-sounding" syllables and throwing them together under the illusion that you just don't know. You do know, and you're being maliciously ignorant and borderline racist.
The fights ,opening of the tragedy and the fight with void gidorah was meant to be same as the fight shown in a channel sadly it never made into the movie also the fight with mechagodzilla was meant to be like that animation including the city and Godzilla was meant to have more power and also many other various ablities along making Godzilla cosmic powers not lovercraftian like but as a embodiment of earth itself but all was discarded in truth it was a missed opportunity but if 😢ever they chose to reboot it i just hope they make him really a god incarnate and his fight with void gidorah.
Here's a fun fact for Planet Eater, Ghidorah was supposed to appear as he does traditionally, three heads attached to one body with wings, but that design never made it into the final product, but it was sold as a toy anyway.
14:24 Pretty sure the KingGoji figure and the Oxygen Destroyer model were just supposed to be Easter eggs that were thrown into the movie to reference past films
The Titanosaurus thing is lost in translation
The director meant he is not a "Kaiju", Kaiju just means monster
He is making the point that Titanosaurus is not a monster, but an innocent creature being mind controlled
Also, technically, the Showa Varan, Baragon, Rodan and Anguirus are just regular unmutated dinosaurs too
Meanwhile in the Monsterverse every single creature in the show is technically just a different un-mutated ancient species.
So if natural Earth creatures aren't kaiju, the monsterverse technically contains 0 kaiju in it's entire story.
Other than maybe Mechagodzilla and Ghidorah depending on how you stretch the definition.
Isn't that precisely what speaker in the video explains. He never denied this fact either, so it's less of a matter of mistranslation and more or less someone who adds on the obvious just to seem smart or more aware.
@@jonatanluna1061 I'm pretty sure godzilla was exposed to radiation just like every other version of him
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He has but it feels like the implication is more that he 'survived' the blast instead of being mutated by it.
It's not like this version wasn't Godzilla before the blast but turned into Godzilla after it.
This Godzilla has clearly been Godzilla for millions of years now and the atomic bomb didn't really change anything about that.
Unlike for example the heisei version which had the most explicit and dramatic change between Godzilla before and after the bomb.
@@jonatanluna1061 well it must have done SOMETHING to him, hell the only reason he was able to beat kg in KotM was because he got a power boost from the nuclear warhead
Not gonna lie, now I’m *SUPER* curious what a Tim Burton directed Godzilla film would be like after learning he was gonna be involved with Godzilla ’98!
It's obvious Johnny Depp as Godzilla and Amber Heard as the Smog monster 😂
@@Josh-bh8xe You beat me to the Johnny Depp joke.
@@Josh-bh8xe .... Johnny Depp as Godzilla.
Halle Berry...
Honestly back then I think the 98 film would have been in better hands if Tim burton had been the one in charge
@@Darkwarp1994 it would've been the perfect opportunity to make a Godzilla horror movie, or at least one with gore
I knew most of these accept for a few such as the 1984 Godzilla fact. I knew that in some shots they used an animatronic but I never knew that it was a 20+ foot full puppet. I also never knew that Mechagodzilla II was supposed to split into separate entities. Great video!
Yeah, reminds me of the vehicle based versions of Voltron and Power Rangers TBH.
Wow, a lot of these were actually pretty cool to learn.
Also I feel like if we has gotten a different director the Earth movies could have been some of the best in the intire franchise, it has cool concepts but they never really got utilized.
"Fun" fact, Anime Mechagodzilla was designed after sea urchins because the filmmakers wanted him to look unapproachable.
No wonder the design wasn't ever used
Unpopular opinion GMK would have been better if they had used Varan and Anguirus instead of King Ghidorah and Mothra
I don’t think that opinion is all that unpopular.
@@matthewsuchomski2593 hmm it's an interesting what-if. but in terms of marketability? I think in some ways it was bad, but other ways good. Good: Easy hook-in with the visuals, Mothra and Ghidorah are well-known and popular. As for story... hard to say if that'd be good or bad. One unusual aspect of GMK is that... all the good Kaiju DIE before the Humans kill Godzilla. That would have made far more sense if it was Anguiras, Baragon, and Varan. but.. how spectacular could it have been? hmm..... Baragon is a legit ranged fighter, Anguiras is a tough melee fighter, and Varan is a fast flying melee fighter. the three tag-teaming Godzilla? that could be a good fight.
I already knew about the original concept and you're probably right, even though, I love King Ghidorah (as many people), I think Anguirus, Baragon and Varan (specially the last two) deserve more love and to be in more movies.
Also, the film is great, but the CGI Mothra is not that well made.
Or instead of some of the new titans they added in.
@@Zoso55 a lot of those I look at and think "inspired by..."
For those who don't know, toho hated the 1998 movie and when they saw how much of a stain it left on the franchise, they decided to make the next series of godzilla movies to remove that stain, while also just insulting tuna-zilla by just making him a one-hit kill for godzilla in final wars. I can imagine godzilla coming back from the dead like "not on my watch. Toho, let's fix this mess"
I find it funny that Mothra was polled more than once, to be the most popular kaiju among women in Japan, then when the time came for Toho to make an anime, they chose to make a Godzilla anime targeted towards women instead of headlining the kaiju most popular with that demographic. Granted after watching that train wreck of a trilogy, you can feel the studio was battling itself internally. The backstory of the trilogy is more interesting than the trilogy itself.
The fact an anime where Hatsune Miku helps fight Godzilla is 1,000 times more entertaining than an anime that takes place in a timeline where Godzilla kicked humanity's ass so hard we had to flee Earth is both a fucking shame, and a massive achievement. I'm actually impressed how poorly handled that anime movie trilogy was.
One of the Shin Godzilla proposed endings had him evolving so extremely to the point where he basically becomes an omnipotent living galaxy. Wild stuff.
I wish a movie shot ONLY from Godzilla’s perspective would be released including fighting, destroying Tokyo, and the aftermath from it all seen by Godzilla with no type of narration by a person at all.
It’s nice to hear Godzilla trivia that I don’t actually know for once in a while. Nice video.
As for random trivia facts: the GMK Godzilla suit was the tallest Godzilla suit, standing at 7+ feet tall. I don’t know how obscure of a fact this is, but I only found out about it recently, so I’d deem it pretty obscure.
I believe the Godzilla suit from the 2014 Snickers commercial is actually the tallest, being over 8 feet tall.
Fun Fact:
An early script for *"GODZILLA: Final Wars"* by writer Wataru Mimura and long-running producer Shogo Tomiyama from 1989-2004 was set to take place after the final film of the Heisei era:
*"GODZILLA vs DESTOROYAH"* and was to feature Godzilla Junior as the lead kaiju, but that idea was sadly scrapped.
Reading the title, I actually thought this was about Monkey D. Luffy versus Godzilla
25:19 The japanese word for 'emperor' is 天皇 ('Ten'nō').
'Keizer' was derived from 'Kaiser', the *GERMAN* word for 'emperor'.
Oh yeah, this part bugged me. "Kaiser" or "Keizer" as sometimes spelled doesn't even follow Japanese phonetic rules.
That Godzilla 1998 trivia about the director of Robocop be offered the job, really stings. While the movie might not have been good. It definitely would've been better then what we got.
With how well this video is made, I can see it getting the views it deserves. The fun facts and humor commentary makes this a well worth watch for how long it is. Entertained through the whole video, keep it up!
yeah, as a long time fan... I actually learned something.
Orgas Japanese roar is reused from the Cretaceous king ghidorahs roar from rbom 3
Good choices of fun facts, as a diehard there were several of these I didn't actually know! While the Cybot Godzilla stuff is interesting in its own right, I'm surprised your fact for Return of Godzilla wasn't that Kenpachiro Satsuma, the Hedorah actor who took over the role in the Heisei series, wasn't the original planned suit actor for Godzilla, and thus had to operate a suit that didn't actually fit him properly! That's at least part of why Godzilla's design changes in Biollante and then stays the same for the rest of the Heisei era, that suit actually WAS designed with Satsuma's body in mind.
I'm a simple guy, I see 'One Piece' and 'Godzilla' in the same title, I click.
THE ONE PIECE IS REEEAAAAALLL!
5:55 i think the reason why minilla is called minilla is because its a "MINI" version of godz"ILLA" so MINILLA
4:52 The fugue is a form of musical composition that had run its course and was falling out of favor. Then along came a certain Johann Sebastian Bach who did it better than anyone. Whenever the fugue is discussed, Bach is the first name that springs to mind ... just like Godzilla with this dance.
I found a parallel between Godzilla and Bach. What exactly am I doing with my life?
I am still fingers crossed that we get to see Godzilla and King Kong team up to fight Destroyah someday.
King Ghidorah’s color was originally going to be crimson, the painter always wanted it to be gold, and they put stuff on it that made parts look blue in some photos.
Gigan's eye beam first appeared in Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee
What a very informative video! There were certainly a few things I never knew about. While I'm here I might as well share one interesting bit of trivia I know, this one being about Godzilla Final Wars
For a while, there was a rumour that Bagan was going to feature in Godzilla Final Wars but was cut, after a supposed deleted scene was posted online in 2012. However, it was eventually found out to be a hoax. The deleted scene was actually heavily edited footage of a monster named Reizaus from Super Star Fleet Sazer X, which released a year after Final Wars. Reizaus bears a striking resemblance to Bagan, and in fact, the designers of the monsters from Super Star Fleet Sazer X, Shinji Nishikawa and Minoru Yoshida, also worked on Bagan designs back in the day. There's no sources that confirm whether or not Reizaus' design was inspired by Bagan though.
This was fantastic! Didn’t know about Mothra’s smoking problem.
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According to an interview with Nakajima Tezuka was only in one scene and he accidently destroyed the model of the Diet building too early. In a different interview I read that for that particular scene they had no money to rebuild the model so they filmed the rest in close up. Which means that the scene in which Godzilla walks towards the building it's Tezuka, extreme closeups (mostly legs) belong to Nakajima.
In KKvsG Tezuka played Godzilla when he breaks free from the iceberg but I don't know if it's also him in the scene where Godzilla comes ashore. About the both 1964 movies I have no ideas where he is in those.
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Some say it was just first layer of paint and he was always supposed to be gold and that version made it to the poster but I don't know. Seems like there's some conflicting information.
I love it when random Kaiju and Tokusatsu videos appear in my RUclips feed. Well done my guy.
I have no idea who kenuki satasumi is, but Hedorah was played by Kenpachiro Satsuma (which is a stage name. His birth name was Kengo Nakayama)
As for the 98 Godzilla movie, while not a unknown fact, He never appears in the movie.
Another Fun Trivia. The Alien Franchise is owned by Fox, and now Fox owned Disney, and that company have one of the worst reputation for Overzealous Copyright claims
Great video! I love your style of editing. I do think you should probably cut out moments where you fumble over your words, if only to make the quality that much better. Really looking forward to more content!
Hey thanks for this, it was fun. But really man, you can edit your voice overs. Do a couple takes if you make a mistake or fumble your words, don't leave in instances where you say something a little off and immediately say it again. Just a little editing goes a long way with people wanting to continue watching your content
25:19 just a correction, kaiser is a German word, not Japanese
Thanks for the trivia! Awesome to learn which had the most Godzilla screen-time as opposed to the least
Singular point was surprisingly a good anime show based off of gojira
So Godzilla doing the victory dance in Astro-Monster is the equivalent of having a modern Godzilla flossing
kinda yeah
3:23 Cripes, that is a neat monster design hiding behind that censor box. Who knew?
I have a bit of personal, tragic head canon that the Zilla in Final Wars is the same one from Godzilla The Series that runs around with H.E.A.T and that at some point, he gets kidnapped by these aliens and then the H.E.A.T team has to watch on the news or something as he gets killed by Godzilla
Fun fact:
There's actually an earlier attempt for a American Godzilla film way back in the 1980s entitled *"GODZILLA: King of the Monsters in 3-D"* with Steve Miner as the film's director, a script by Fred Dekker, and Oscar Winning Makeup FX legend Rick Baker was contacted to built a mechanical Godzilla head. Sadly, much like Jan De Bont's *"GODZILLA",* the *"3-D GODZILLA"* film never got made due to budgetary reasons.
Knowing that *"GODZILLA '94"* got an fan graphic novel adaptation, I think
that the *3-D GODZILLA* deserves one as well.
I actually prefer 84's Cybot design over the actual 84Goji suit design that is still used in merchandise to this day, it doesn't get enough love.
Fun Fact:
Cristina Vee who voiced Rei Hino aka Sailor Mars in the Viz Media English
dub of the OG & reboot *"Sailor Moon"* anime series & films, Miki Makimura
in *"Devilman Crybaby"* (2018) and Deborah Kim in *"Friday the 13th: The Game"* (2017) was the English voice
for Yuko Tani in the Godzilla anime film trilogy.
How can a great voice actress star in a terrible trilogy?
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I don't know, but then again, Kotono Mitsuishi & Aya Hisakawa (the Japanese voice actresses of Usagi & Ami/Sailor Moon & Sailor Mercury) worked on the JPN DVD release of *"The NeverEnding Story III",* dubbing for Julie Cox & Melody Kay as "Moonchild", the Childlike Empress & Nicole Baxter.
Jason James Richter & Freddie Jones (R.I.P.) were also dubbed
in Japanese by Takeshi Kusao
& Shōzō Iizuka (R.I.P.), who voiced Trunks & Nappa in *"Dragon Ball Z".*
Kaiser in German means emperor in Japanese it would be "Tennō". I guess because Emperor comes off as more powerful than king that's why they possibly went with the name.
Building on Jet Jaguar and it's original name Red Alone, Hideki Anno featured a giant robot named Jet Alone in the 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anno would take this full circle as he would become the director for Shin Godzilla and even brings iconic soundtracks from Eva into the film.
Great video Alex
In terms of Netflix Godzilla, they did a (great/better) job with the series "Godzilla: Singularity Point"
Am I the only one that made it to 7:43 and not realize I haven't heard any "one piece" trivia once🤣😭. I got too invested to realize what I was watching 😭
That G2K fact about Orga’s roar being ripped right from Aliens is not true. Orga’s roar is actually just Cretaceous King Ghidorah’s roar and the reason why it sounds similar to the Xenomorph is because they both use Elephant noises as the basis.
Excellent vid!
Learned a lot!
Fun Fact:
John Carpenter, who co-wrote, scored, produced & directed the first *"HALLOWEEN"* as well as directed the remakes of *"THE THING"* and *"Village of the Damned"* was a fan of Godzilla and he too wanted to direct a Godzilla film, but that never came to be which is a complete shame.
That last line with Battle against the Algorithm was hysterical. Great Stuff. But a robot in Godzilla Returns? how wonder he looked stiff lol.
Man..im hoping for Gigan in GvK2
Oh my God, a Paul Verhoeven Godzilla movie... nearly a Stan Winston design... Godzilla '98 really dodged greatness at every turn, didn't it. What could have been...
Financially they probably made the right decision on GMK but the movie would've been a lot cooler with Anguirus and Varan.
I wish they didn't change the monsters for GMK😢
I agree Varan is a very underrated Kaiju
@@wallygator92 yeah flying, fast melee fighter? yes please! Anguiras is a tough melee fighter who already proved he could stand up to Godzilla! Baragon... physically not a great threat, but he has a decent flame breath attack, and he can burrow to hide or surprise attack.
I can’t unsee the fact that Mothra had a smoke on her head.
Dude this video was amazing! I am the biggest godzilla fan I know and I didn't know most of these things.
Now I wonder if Jet Alone in Evangelion is a reference to Jet Jaguar and Red Alone
i mean... Hieaki Anno was enough of a Godzilla fan to write Shin Godzilla... so.. maybe...
Dude just imagine if Sanda and Gyra were in Destroy All Monsters. That would’ve been the hypest shit
Fun & Enjoyable video as always Alex.Thank You for doing these and Please keep up the Awesome work.
Great Godzilla trivia! 🐲 🐉
Really good video, but I noticed a mistake regarding the name of one of the special effects artists who were referenced in G: KOTM. "Stan Wilson" is actually Stan Winston. Just thought I'd bring that up real quick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Winston
I've been rewatching every Godzilla movie and I enjoyed watching this as supplemental material.
Ok so with kamacuras in the background in destroy all monsters in stock footage I guess he was in it sort of and 4 octopuses in gvkk guess that means King Kong took down 4 giant octopuses
Dude you missed some bonus information for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah.
The Godzillasouraus before he turns into Godzilla. Actually has a Gamera roar as Godzillasauarus.
Listen closely and you can hear the Gamera roar
Heh. All monsters attack has only one piece of trivia.
9:45 As the Godzilla vs Megalon lore master there’s no genuine proof that Red Alone nor Jet Jaguar supposed to be in a standalone movie except for Jet Jaguar being the main protagonist, in fact The winner of the contest is supposed to be in the next Godzilla movie
They could reintroduce Jet Jaguar and introduce Red Alone by making Jet Jaguar the result of AI research and Red Alone be an attempt at creating a cybernetic Kaiju by humans
thank you for the video
Godzilla v Mecha Godzilla the kiryu ones were my fav.
I think that's Stan Winston, not Wilson.
Thanks for all the fun facts though! Really interesting about the Varan heads on Ghidorah. Also explains why they'd make him a good guy.
I think the anime trilogy is the most bizarre thing because it had a lot of cool sci-fi concepts, but was just so overlong and boring. the pacing was awful. I think it definitely would've been great as a video game, actually!
And Godzilla vs Megalon failed at the box office anyways; so, yeah, Toho screwed up big time. Maybe that's why Megalon and Jet Jaguar have rarely been referenced and haven't appeared in another movie.
Which is too bad in my opinion.
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Yes. Those two kaiju REALLY deserved more.
Mistake! Godzilla vs Gigan, the ending song itself as Godzilla and Anguirus swim away victorious, that was made specifically for the movie. Movie being entirely stock music is incorrect... it has one original piece lmao
What a fun video. Thanks for this info.
This was a lot of fun to watch, thanks for making it.
It's sad that Terror of Mechagodzilla didn't do well. It's probably my favorite Showa movie besides the original.
Fun fact: After seeing the abundance of hate and criticism Godzilla 1998 got, Emmerick claimed that the movie was bad but not as bad as the fans claimed it was and that he never took the movie seriously in the first place since he wasn’t a Godzilla fan, while Devlin took the criticism like a man instead of a sore like Emmerick and admitted that many terrible mistakes were made during production and that he must be held accountable for it.
Mate if you’re going to mention something hidden in the background of the stock footage of kamunga at least put a ring or something to show where kamakuras body is (if you are reading this comment can you please direct me to where it is because I don’t see anything
I think actually "Kiryu Saga"'s Godzilla is one of the strongest, as he can match Kiryu and Mothra and almost destroyed them both
Pro tip, when you’re about to pronounce a Japanese name and you’re unsure if you’ll be able to pronounce it, make a separate recording of you attempting to mimic Google translate pronouncing the name several times (and then splice in the best result). Also Japanese is phonetic so try your best to sound it out slowly and then speed up your pronounciation. It just makes me sad to hear you say you’re gonna butcher a name, and then proceed to do so. It just takes practice and patience with yourself. And since you make so many Godzilla videos, it would behoove you to brush up on Japanese pronounciation. You can do it! :) I believe in you!
i could and i have in the past but i like it as a running joke that i'm just terrible with names
I honestly thought the title said "One Piece Trivia in Every Godzilla Movie" and was VERY curious how the heck that was gonna work
You should have showed the original Godzilla 1964 suit. Would have been a much more obscure fact.
No singular point?
Actually Orga’s Roar are just reused roars from Desghidorah and were actually just Stock Elephant noises
So no they didn’t use the Xenomorphs “Roars” it just sounds really similar, so they aren’t hypocrites
"Tim Burton Meets Godzilla":
.... can't help but wonder...🤔
Aw I was hoping you'd toss out a fun fact about the recent Godzilla anime series
Fun fact shin godzilla is actually destoroyah
Orga’s roar in the Japanese I reckon is a combo of xeno and 1976 Peter Cullen-voiced King Kong. I don’t hate 1998
Godzilla it was redeemed by an awesome animated show and I hope a live-action be made based on that cartoon.
17:45 even though Moguera is clearly the better mecha out of the two
Isn't there a throw-away line about how Heisei Mecha-Godzilla was too badly damaged fighting Godzilla to be repaired and the cannibalized it to build Moguera?
“Kanekiri” it’s Kaneko
Orga wasn’t the first to use this roar that honor goes to the mothra trilogy with Cretaceous ghidorah
my favorite kaiju is anguirus too! but its also tied with zilla
what? i like zilla!
I hope they at least do one follow-up to Shin Godzilla. Like, iirc, the characters at the end of that movie talk about having to live with the fact that he's just there in the middle of the city. To me, this Godzilla is sending the message of "Nature is unstoppable" so imagine if he unfreezes because of global warming or something and immediately evolves into the human-like godzillas.
Fun vid with really really sloppy editing. It really gets distracting
7:35 - Lol
Godzilla’s revenge definitely Canon in my world
About Gigan's laser, the reason they never put it into the film was actually because of the spirituality of the thing. The idea of Gigan having a third eye it would unleash power from didn't feel right to Teruyoshi Nakano, as that sort of power (intended to visually reference some sort of psychic ability), he felt, didn't belong to a monster, but a human. Based on how ubiquitous it is in the marketing, this was probably a pretty late decision. The fact that the shot of his third eye lighting up still appears in the final edit of the film seems to suggest it was axed after the edit but before the effects were drawn in, so it wouldn't have had anything to do with the budget. Kinda interesting that the fact that his laser was so prevalent in the marketing cemented the idea in everyone's heads that Gigan has this ability regardless, which of course he uses later on, so in a way it's like Gigan defied Nakano and opened his third eye anwyas. I guess cyborg space dinosaurs really can open their chakras.
About "we just threw Godzilla in at the last minute," this is a complete fabrication that is just a rumor spread in the west. Godzilla vs. Megalon was always going to be a Godzilla movie from the start, the initial plot idea (it was literally a sentence) pitched by Sekizawa was for a Godzilla movie, that's what the studio asked for. Gigan may or may not have been part of the earliest drafts, as it was initially called "Godzilla vs. the Megalon Brothers," but the gimmick of the monster contest was certainly intended for this movie. This is become such a widespread myth that it even showed up on the English wikipedia at one point. Of course, it's never been on Japanese wikipedia because it isn't... you know... true.
About Mechagodzilla's suit, you're wrong there again. The surviving suit is Mechagodzilla 2 from Terror of Mechagodzilla, not the original suit from the previous film. You can see clear as day the "MG2" label on his arm in the photos. Really not sure how you missed this.
Terror of Mechagodzilla isn't the final movie in the Showa era. Return of Godzilla was released theatrically in Showa 59, with it's sequel premiering in Heisei 1, making Return of Godzilla the final movie from the Showa era. I'm almost certain you're referencing the timeline reset after Terror of Mechagodzilla and therefore the era of the series that take place in the same timeline (aside from Revenge), but that's not what "Showa era" means, "series" would be a better word choice there. As for Takayama's comments, I s'pose in the universe where Godzilla and other monsters exist it is just barely possible that a deep sea dinosaur would naturally get that large without any sort of mutation, but it's pretty clear to me she's commenting on the nature of the character rather than its biology. It's explicit in the film that Titanosaurus is not a naturally violent creature, and that it's only the invention of people that turned it into a ""monster," that's like one of the themes of the film. I doubt she was dropping lore about Titanosaurus being an ordinary animal in a series where every monster is either some kind of mutation or alien or the like.
The cybot was a publicity tool made to one-up the animatronic Kong from the 1976 film. I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was intended as a replacement for the suit, I mean the thing couldn't even move its legs. Is there a source for that?
You're a little mixed up on the Godzilla vs. Mothra stuff. Mothra vs. Bagan was written with a target release in 1990, it was ditched when Biollante underperformed, so they wanted to go in a more safe direction and just do Godzilla 3, first with King Kong, and then when that fell through, King Ghidorah. The reason Mothra was chosen for Godzilla 4 was indeed because of the poll results, and the final script for the film is a direct descendent of Mothra vs. Bagan, though.
Not sure where you're getting the idea about Mechagodzilla getting scrapped because of power levels. Moguera was put into the story by Kawakita from the beginning because he particularly likes the monster, and he was swapped out for Mechagodzilla by the suits to save costs by avoiding making a new suit. Moguera is in the finished film because Kawakita pushed for them really hard, I don't really think the suits relented for reasons of power levels. If they did, I think that would be the first time studio executives have ever cared about in-universe continuity in film history. I suspect the real reason the let Kawakita have Moguera has something to do with the toys - especially when you consider that they let him make Moguera into a sort of megazord.
"Godzilla," the 1998 Zilla movie, is not a Godzilla movie, and doesn't belong here.
Orga's roar wasn't changed in the international version, that was an alteration to the film by Michael Schlesinger who oversaw the American dub of the film. While this version of the film is unique in that Toho actually clings to it as its "official" English language version, the international version was used as the basis for dubs in other languages, as is tradition. The original English dubbed international version is actually currently lost media, the on-screen text from this version is still extant in other dubs, but the audio track itself is nowhere to be found. It's almost certain that this version of the film does still EXIST somewhere, but the likelihood of it ever seeing the light of day is, judging from Toho's current attitude towards distribution of English dubs of its films, upsettingly low. As Toho gave Sony a copy of the international version, Schlesinger and the rest of the crew working on the US release of Godzilla 2000 are the only confirmed people not directly involved in the making of that version to have ever seen it.
Also, Orga's original roar has nothing to do with the noises the xenomorphs make. 1. The roar was created using an elephant sound effect, and is actually reused from Cretaceous King Ghidorah, and 2. the xenomorphs have never had a consistent roar or sound associated with them, they always make various hissing noises, but the sound effects aren't really the same between films. The only exception is the squeal from Aliens, which was reused a few times, mostly in video games, simply because that particular film is so iconic in the franchise. They aren't stealing from anyone, and they aren't hippocrits. Stock sound effects are not protecting under copyright... that's... what "stock" means.
The Mondo Island King Kong absolutely exists in the GMMG timeline. The reason those films are part of the timeline is to establish the Kiryu saga as a legacy sequel and flesh out the world it takes place in, allowing them to bring back a lot of nostalgic elements and be a kind of soft reboot of the Showa series timeline and to establish a history of monsters the AMF has dealt with in the past. It's called world building.
Kaiser is not a Japanese word, it's German, and means "emperor." It's from "Caesar," as in, Julius Caesar, who's name later became synonymous with emperor, which is how Kaiser ended up meaning emperor in the first place. Also Yoji Shinkawa did do a concept for a Godzilla design, but the design you're referencing was actually drawn by Yasushi Nirasawa. Also also, that bit about Gorosaurus being in the film is just a rumor. It has its origins in a leak about the monster roster that happened on Rodan's Roost prior to the publication of the website that made concept art of all the monsters viewable, and when that website did go up, we found out the leak was 85.7% accurate. The only omissions from the website were King Ghidorah and Gorosaurus, plus there was the addition of a new monster called "Monster X." Given how accurate the leak was (they specifically mentioned Minilla would drive a car, and it came from the same person who leaked that the '02 Mechagodzilla would have "purple hairdryers") the explanation for the discrepancy is pretty obvious: Kaiser Ghidorah was taken to just be King Ghidorah, and Zilla was thought to be Gorosaurus, which, in a pre-Final Wars world, is a pretty reasonable mistake to make. Mechagodzilla, however, was for sure part of the original plan, but the part about it having Gotengo's role is again just a rumor. It was probably cut before any sort of role was even nailed down. I actually went and looked this stuff up to see where this is coming from, and I found a blurb in the trivia section of Wikizilla's page for Final Wars that says exactly what you did here, followed by a "citation needed" tag. So it kinda seems like this Mechagodzilla replaced by Gotengo idea was just someone making stuff up.
The mandate on the anime trilogy was to not feature *traditional* monster fights, obviously, if you've actually SEEN the films, you'll be well aware that Godzilla does fight enemy monsters in COTEOB and Planet Eater. Your understanding of the trilogy is really fucking vapid and clueless. You don't have any idea what the hell you're talking about. This is most evident in the way you "mispronounce" the names of the people involved, you're clearly not trying, you're just making up random "Japanese-sounding" syllables and throwing them together under the illusion that you just don't know. You do know, and you're being maliciously ignorant and borderline racist.
tweaking
The fights ,opening of the tragedy and the fight with void gidorah was meant to be same as the fight shown in a channel sadly it never made into the movie also the fight with mechagodzilla was meant to be like that animation including the city and Godzilla was meant to have more power and also many other various ablities along making Godzilla cosmic powers not lovercraftian like but as a embodiment of earth itself but all was discarded in truth it was a missed opportunity but if 😢ever they chose to reboot it i just hope they make him really a god incarnate and his fight with void gidorah.