Godzilla vs. Kong Easter Eggs
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Once scheduled for release on May 29, 2020, the film was then moved back to March 13, 2020, before being pushed back again to November 20th and finally May 21st, 2021. It was subsequently postponed until March 26th, 2021, before being released on March 31st, 2021, in American cinemas. The film was also available on HBO Max until April 30, 2021, simultaneously.
A dramatic confrontation between fabled rivals Godzilla and Kong is the focus of "Godzilla vs. Kong" Along on the adventure is Jia, an orphaned child with whom Kong has built an unbreakable bond. But they find themselves in the path of an infuriated Godzilla, wreaking havoc throughout the globe. It is simply the beginning of the enigma that lurks deep below the Earth's core.
However, when Jia comes to visit Kong and holds out a doll to him, the Titan, sensing that he is trapped inside the biodome, finds out and immediately throws a tree at it.
Bernie Hayes, an employee of the Apex Cybernetics corporation and the host of the Titan Truth Podcast, a Titan conspiracy theory podcast, exfiltrates information pointing to sinister activities at a Pensacola Apex facility, but just as he is about to finish downloading the files, Godzilla appears and launches an unexpected attack. The remains of the facility include a bizarre piece of technology that resembles a huge robotic eye, which Bernie finds after Godzilla's spree of destruction.
In the aftermath of the attack, public opinion has turned against Godzilla, who is no longer viewed as humanity's savior. Madison Russell, now grown up and a fan of Bernie's podcast, sees the news about Godzilla's recent attack at her school and is worried. After school, she tries unsuccessfully to talk sense into her widowed father Mark (who is acting as Monarch's director), regarding a possible lead on the cause of Godzilla's rampage, but he dismisses everything she says as he only replies that creatures, just like people, can change. Later, Madison enlists the help of her best friend Josh Valentine to investigate the one behind Godzilla's rampage and figure out the secrets of Apex.
When it comes to finding a major energy source in the Hollow Earth, Apex's founder and CEO Walter Simmons enlists the assistance of Nathan Lind, a former Monarch scientist who has now become an expert on the Hollow Earth theory. The fear of dying himself in an anti-gravity zone makes Nathan apprehensive to visit the Hollow Earth with his brother. After Walter discloses that Apex has built and developed Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, specialized vehicles that can survive the gravity field's pressure, he finally decides to cooperate.
Nathan recommends using Kong as their navigator to get them to the energy source since Skull Island can no longer contain him (because Kong has grown too large). When Nathan persuades Ilene, she decides to help stop Godzilla's rampage and find Kong a new home.
They are joined by an Apex crew led by Walter's daughter Maia aboard a modified boat where a moderately drugged Kong has been locked up. In the middle of the night, Kong becomes restless and nervous, but Jia calms him down by instructing her and Kong to hold their fingers together in solidarity as Kong signs the word "home" for Ilene. On the next day, Ilene tells Nathan about raising Jia as her own when fierce and unpredictable storms killed most of the Iwi and her parents. Jia was the only survivor since Kong defended her, which resulted in them developing a bond.
By now, Godzilla has arrived and attacked the soldiers, before causing the barge to capsize and almost drowning Kong as well as the others on board. When Nathan frees Kong by unlocking his shackles, enabling him to combat Godzilla underwater long enough for him to surface and tip the barge back on its head, he saves the party from drowning. Godzilla goes onboard a neighboring aircraft ship to fight Kong, who has jumped onto it. Fighter planes divert Godzilla long enough for Kong to drive him back into the water, where the two Titans trade blows until the latter is forced to retreat. This time around, Godzilla doesn't let Kong get away by firing his atomic breath from the copyright, but instead takes him down into the water and intends on drowning him.
Their struggle is interrupted, however, when Godzilla is rendered unconscious by depth charges, allowing Kong to surface for air.
In that location, the three disembark and find themselves inside a vast dark chamber, where they come across Apex's ultimate weapon, "Mechagodzilla" a mechanized counterpart of Godzilla controlled by Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son, Walter's chief technology officer Ren Serizawa, who is also Walter's chief technology officer. As soon as Mechagodzilla is launched, Walter releases a gigantic adult Skullcrawler designated "Number 10" into the chamber in order to put the mecha's might against the Titans to the ultimate test. Madison, Josh, and Bernie are on the verge of being attacked by the Skullcrawler when it is grabbed and restrained by Mechagodzilla, who uses a powerful red energy beam to cleave the Skullcrawler in half, allowing Madison, Josh, and Bernie to take refuge in a small hatch. However, because to the restrictions of the power source, the test is cut short when the mecha shuts down immediately after the conclusion of the exam.
In the next scene, it is revealed that Walter aims to harness the energy of the Hollow Earth in order to overcome Mechagodzilla's constraints. Madison then understands that Mechagodzilla is the cause for Godzilla's assault in the first place: Apex is attempting to replace him and all of the Titans in order for humans to become the Earth's apex species, which is why Godzilla attacked. When Madison and the others are trying to find an exit, they come across a room where Ren is sitting inside the severed head of Ghidorah, which has been transformed into a biological supercomputer and cockpit for Ren to control Mechagodzilla through radio waves after Apex acquired it from Alan Jonah five years ago during Godzilla's battle with Ghidorah.
Kong and Nathan's group discover a similar ecology to Skull Island within the Hollow Earth. They are ambushed by a pair of Warbats while traversing the area, with one of the HEAVs being destroyed by one of them. Kong saved the party by killing the first Warbat and swinging its carcass into the second, knocking it out, but the beast recovers and constricts around him. Before the Warbat can smother Kong, it is hit by missiles fired by Nathan's squad in their HEAV, allowing Kong to escape and viciously thrash the monster to death before gorging on its intestines.
After that, Kong and Nathan's crew continue on their way to a large stone temple built by Kong's forefathers. They discover ruins of an old fight between Kong's and Godzilla's races, and Kong discovers an ancient axe crafted from a dead Godzilla's race member's dorsal plate before sitting on a gigantic throne. Kong discovers that the same power source can replenish the axe as Nathan's crew discovers it for Mechagodzilla. Despite Ilene's protests, Maia and the Apex team utilize spider-like drones to collect the power source and return it to their Hong Kong headquarters. Maia's guards fire at Nathan's squad, but Kong violently defends them. Godzilla, sensing the machine's activation, goes directly for Hong Kong.
Godzilla makes his way into the heart of the city and, upon detecting Kong's presence in the Hollow Earth, uses his atomic breath to dig a hole through the environment, causing the temple to collapse. When a flock of Hellhawks attacks, Kong and Nathan's team rush to the rescue, only for Kong to grab their HEAV on their way out, crushing it in his hand despite Maia's attempts to shoot him in order to escape. After peeking inside to make sure Jia, Ilene, and Nathan aren't in there, Kong immediately crushes the aircraft in his hand, killing Maia and her team on board.
Hearing Godzilla's scream as he gives Kong with another challenge, Kong accepts and continues with his axe in hand to Hong Kong as Ilene, Nathan and Jia pursue him in their HEAV through the hole made by Godzilla's atomic breath. Arriving in Hong Kong, King takes against Godzilla once more, this time getting the upper hand over the Titan, eventually shoveling his axe down Godzilla's throat to prevent him from launching his atomic breath. Kong discovers that his axe is capable of both blocking and absorbing Godzilla's atomic breath, and he uses it to stab the Titan in the thigh before Godzilla can remove and discard the axe. Using the Hong Kong skyline and his greater agility, Kong evades and dodges Godzilla's blows before retrieving and charging his axe, which he then unleashes on the monster, causing an explosion that knocks both Titans off their feet, leading Nathan to assume that Kong has won the rematch.
Godzilla is so taken aback by Kong's power and skill that he spares his life and walks away, leaving him alive but severely injured.
Back in the Apex base, Walter excitedly orders Ren to send out Mechagodzilla to kill Godzilla. Though Ren warns him against using the new Hollow Earth energy source without testing, Walter ignores his pleas and coldly orders him to activate the mecha. At the same time, Bernie, Madison, and Josh are caught by security for breaking into Apex headquarters. They are taken to Walter by the security guards. Madison accuses Walter of provoking Godzilla into war and for causing all of this in the first place, though he confidently explains that he accepted the responsibility for giving mankind a chance to fight back against Godzilla and the Titans.
Mechagodzilla suddenly goes crazy under the influence of both the energy source and Ghidorah's brain networks, unbeknownst to Walter as he is monologuing about his invention with his back turned, ending in the robot murdering Walter with a sweep of its hand and Ren being electrocuted to death. In this episode, Mechagodzilla, who has been possessed by Ghidorah's mind, escapes from the Apex facility under Victoria Peak Mountain and rampages over the city before coming face to face with Godzilla. Once it comes into touch with Godzilla, Mechagodzilla launches a volley of missiles at the monster's biological counterpart before the two engage in a pitched combat.
Kong wakes to see Godzilla and Mechagodzilla battling before encountering Jia, who attempts to persuade him that Godzilla isn't truly his opponent. Though Kong doesn't believe her at first as he continues to witness Godzilla being overrun by Mechagodzilla, Jia explains the reality to him that the robot is the "real" adversary, not Godzilla. After a while, Kong ultimately accepts and sets aside his hatred before marching into combat to aid Godzilla while repairing his dislocated arm.
To save Godzilla, Kong climbs atop Mechagodzilla and diverts its red energy beam into the air, thereby preventing Godzilla from being killed. Godzilla aids Kong in the battle against Mechagodzilla after realizing that Kong saved his life and realising that he is not an adversary.
They succeed in turning the tide by combining their forces, but the robot is much more powerful and eventually defeats them. It is revealed that Kong had previously lost his axe when fighting Godzilla, and he reclaims it from the ruins and tries to use it against Mechagodzilla, but his weapon is rendered ineffectual due to the loss of its charge. With nothing left to do, Bernie takes out a flask of booze and suggests that everyone have a drink. However, Josh, having an idea, takes the flask out of Bernie's hand and pours the contents of the drink all over the control panel, short-circuiting Mechagodzilla's controls and allowing Godzilla and Kong to regroup and retake the upper hand.
Seeing Kong clutching his axe, Godzilla supercharges it by blasting the weapon with his atomic breath, enabling Kong to dismember Mechagodzilla limb from limb and tearing its head off before holding up his prize with a tremendous cry of victory and sitting down to rest.
Despite the pandemic's influence on the cinema industry, Godzilla vs. Kong surpassed Godzilla: King of the Monsters' total box office on April 17, 2021.
Kyle Chandler has featured in two King Kong films, the first of which being Peter Jackson's 2005 adaptation of the classic tale.
If Kong slams his dislocated right shoulder on a building to move it, then it may be a reference to Martin Riggs' notorious ability in the Lethal Weapon series.
The film features multiple allusions to Neon Genesis Evangelion:
Mechagodzilla's base is underground and capped by a pyramid, like the Central Dogma.
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