Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah story
Some seemingly benevolent time travelers arrive in Japan looking for help to alter the past to make it so that Godzilla had never existed. It is the 18th film in the Godzilla franchise, and is the third film in the franchise's Heisei period.
19 total · 6 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| giant monster | major | The iconic giant dinosaur-like monster Godzilla. The three headed dragon-like monster King Ghidorah. |
| human vs. monster | major | Godzilla and King Ghidorah rained down destruction across Japan. |
| living dinosaur | major | The film explores how a dinosaur living on a secluded island in the South Pacific was mutated into Godzilla in 1954 after a hydrogen bomb test on the island. |
| nuclear proliferation | major | Many warnings were made about the dangers of nuclear weapons, power generation, and waste. |
| time travel | major | Some time travelers from the year 2204 traveled back to 1991, and subsequently 1944, in an effort to alter history to make it so that Godzilla had never existed. |
| time traveler meddling in history | major | Some time travelers from the year 2204 traveled back to 1991, and subsequently 1944, in an effort to alter history to make it so that Godzilla had never existed. |
| android | minor | The time travelers were accompanied by the M-11 android. |
| creative writing | minor | The science fiction writer Kenichiro Terasawa was writing a book about Godzilla. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | minor | Some were quick to jump to the conclusion that an unidentified object that appeared in the sky over Japan was in fact an alien spaceship. It turned out to be a flying saucer shaped time machine carrying back some human visitors from the 23rd century. |
| hologram | minor | The time travelers appeared in holographic form to Japanese deputation that came to make contact with them outside of their time machine. |