Postby eabaker » Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:00 pm
kamilleblu wrote:eabaker wrote:kamilleblu wrote:Is Mecha-King Ghidorah a violation of the film's time travel rules? He falls into the Sea of Okhotsk, which is where the wounded Ghidorah slumbers until he is later converted into Mecha-King Ghidorah. The film tells us that if two of the same person exists in the same time and same place that one will vanish. So doesn't this mean either King Ghidorah vanishes and thus no Mecha-King Ghidorah depending how time travel works overall or Mecha-King Ghidorah vanishes and there is no MechaGodzilla?
Perhaps what was recovered in the future was actually the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah, his poor body reassembled and mangled again and again, the rest of the world in an infinite time loop, but he alone continuing to progress and transform throughout?
But the creature Emmy finds in the future does not seem to have any enhancements and is referred to as "King Ghidorah." Also, the conversation she has in the future and how the rest of the post-Mecha-King Ghidorah timeline plays out suggests Mecha-King Ghidorah had not existed yet.
It wasn't intended as a serious answer, anyway

Since this form of time travel seems to involve constant re-writing of the timeline (the "stable time loop" theory really doesn't hold up to analysis), the version of those events that we see presumably happens "before" the timeline in which Emmy travels back with MKG comes into being.
Time travel in this movie doesn't make any damned sense.
Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world.