How would TK feel about a Pacific Rim crossover?

[BlankAccount]

Sure why not. As long as it's an original design and not just 2014 Goji used again.

I feel like a video game would be the best for a crossover.

Well all we know is Del Toro said he would love to have Godzilla cameo in PR3, which could mean anything, it could be something not impactful to the story at all and just a quick blink and you'll miss it 2 second cameo in the background in a montage of PR monsters invading the world.

It could be something as simple as a wall of monitors showing monsters around the world and one of them shows Godzilla shooting his atomic breath at a building.

[Gerdzerl]

I'd honestly prefer if it was an entirely new incarnation of Godzilla made just for the crossover and not the MonsterVerse incarnation, specifically.

[Cybermat47]

Plus, with these new jeagers and kaijus, godzilla would get royally demolished.

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[GigaBowserG]

Plus, with these new jeagers and kaijus, godzilla would get royally demolished.

There's absolutely no way they'd allow that to happen It'd be easy enough to scale Godzilla to match the powers of the Kaiju/Jaegers so he isn't outclassed. But as others have noted, this would probably require introducing a totally new Godzilla as opposed to using the current 2014/Legendary one.

[Ivo-goji]

Lots of joyless people here.

Set it in the Pacific Rim world, have a portal experiment accidentally bring Godzilla through, and then a ton of Jaeger/Kaiju kickass action.

This.

[eabaker]

I'm curious what you guys imagine a Godzilla/PR crossover would actually be about. What does each have to offer that would meaningfully complement the other?

[RamshackleRanger]

Nothing. That's exactly it, it offers nothing but godzilla kicking ass - something he can already do. In fact, it takes away from Godzilla AND pacific rim.

either you get rid of godzilla's nuclear themes, or make it so that there are kaiju other than the anteverse kaiju which over complicates pacific rim.

[Cookson]

Pacific Rim is not popular enough for this crossover. It would bring nothing to the table.

[Ivo-goji]

I'm curious what you guys imagine a Godzilla/PR crossover would actually be about. What does each have to offer that would meaningfully complement the other?

Seeing how a wild card like Godzilla shakes up the situation in the PRverse, where no one on either side of the war has seen a kaiju with a mind of his own before, would be potentially interesting.

The other way it could go (the PR kaiju invade Godzilla's world and the Jaegers show up to lend assistance) would offer the opportunity to scale up the kind of conflict Godzilla and co can face without resorting to "it's King Ghidorah again but now he has UFOs/Gigan". Actually, thinking about the Monsterverse post KOM and GvsK, this scenario would serve nicely as a grand finale.

If nothing else it would give Newt a monster he can idolize without feeling guilty.

[Mr_Goji_and_Watch]

Nothing. That's exactly it, it offers nothing but godzilla kicking ass - something he can already do. In fact, it takes away from Godzilla AND pacific rim.

either you get rid of godzilla's nuclear themes, or make it so that there are kaiju other than the anteverse kaiju which over complicates pacific rim.

Basically. It doesn't add a lot outside of "wow cool robot and kayjoo fight just like my japanese anime/movies!"

[Pacfanweb]

It could only work if a new Godzilla appears in PR, as PR's timeline is incompatible with the Monsterverse.

I think it could work with current Godzilla. PR is pretty much in the future.....they could just say it's well after the events in KoM, GvK, etc.

[ebirah_scampi]

I think it could work with current Godzilla. PR is pretty much in the future.....they could just say it's well after the events in KoM, GvK, etc.

This wouldn't solve anything. In Pacific Rim the first Kaiju attacks happen in 2013, meaning kaiju would be old news by the time Godzilla arrived publicly in 2014. Them there's the whole slew of kaiju that Monarch already knows about in the prior decades, but in PR Trespasser is the first one to be seen by anybody, government or not. The timelines conflict way too much.

[Cybermat47]

It could only work if a new Godzilla appears in PR, as PR's timeline is incompatible with the Monsterverse.

I think it could work with current Godzilla. PR is pretty much in the future.....they could just say it's well after the events in KoM, GvK, etc.

The first Kaiju in PR destroyed San Francisco in 2013, while G14 is set in a world where San Fransico is still intact and no-one outside of Monarch and the KSI survivors know anything about giant monsters

[SG-17]

Nothing. That's exactly it, it offers nothing but godzilla kicking ass - something he can already do. In fact, it takes away from Godzilla AND pacific rim.

either you get rid of godzilla's nuclear themes, or make it so that there are kaiju other than the anteverse kaiju which over complicates pacific rim.

You mean the nonexistent nuclear themes between 1962 and 1975? Godzilla doesn't always need to be some somber nuclear allegory. He can be a hero. The Legendary films, at least based on 2014, are more in-line with the Showa era than anything else.

[RamshackleRanger]

Nothing. That's exactly it, it offers nothing but godzilla kicking ass - something he can already do. In fact, it takes away from Godzilla AND pacific rim.

either you get rid of godzilla's nuclear themes, or make it so that there are kaiju other than the anteverse kaiju which over complicates pacific rim.

You mean the nonexistent nuclear themes between 1962 and 1975? Godzilla doesn't always need to be some somber nuclear allegory. He can be a hero. The Legendary films, at least based on 2014, are more in-line with the Showa era than anything else.

You're right, the nuclear theme doesn't always stand up. But with g14, 1. The timelines don't add up and 2. It's still going to overcomplicate pr.

[SG-17]

Nothing. That's exactly it, it offers nothing but godzilla kicking ass - something he can already do. In fact, it takes away from Godzilla AND pacific rim.

either you get rid of godzilla's nuclear themes, or make it so that there are kaiju other than the anteverse kaiju which over complicates pacific rim.

You mean the nonexistent nuclear themes between 1962 and 1975? Godzilla doesn't always need to be some somber nuclear allegory. He can be a hero. The Legendary films, at least based on 2014, are more in-line with the Showa era than anything else.

You're right, the nuclear theme doesn't always stand up. But with g14, 1. The timelines don't add up and 2. It's still going to overcomplicate pr.

It could be a standalone "Elseworlds" animated DTV film for all I care, I just think it would be fun.

[Mr_Goji_and_Watch]

You mean the nonexistent nuclear themes between 1962 and 1975? Godzilla doesn't always need to be some somber nuclear allegory. He can be a hero. The Legendary films, at least based on 2014, are more in-line with the Showa era than anything else.

Nah, they're much closer to the Heisei era of films with Godzilla being an anti-hero rather than a defender of earth like in the Showa series.

[SG-17]

You mean the nonexistent nuclear themes between 1962 and 1975? Godzilla doesn't always need to be some somber nuclear allegory. He can be a hero. The Legendary films, at least based on 2014, are more in-line with the Showa era than anything else.

Nah, they're much closer to the Heisei era of films with Godzilla being an anti-hero rather than a defender of earth like in the Showa series.

He was a straight villain in the Heisei era. He actively sought to destroy humanity.

[UltramanGoji]

...no..?

He was definitely neutral in the Heisei series.

[eabaker]

Yeah, that's assigning a pretty specific motivation to Godzilla that the text absolutely does not support.