The chances of the MonsterVerse adding new Toho kaiju in Apple TV+’s Godzilla show may hinge on Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ missing Titans. In the third MonsterVerse movie, monitor screens at a Monarch base confirmed the names and locations of 11 Titans, but never showed them. Like Scylla, Behemoth, and the Methuselah, the missing monsters are original Titans who share their names with Biblical and mythological creatures.
Dwelling somewhere in the MonsterVerse are Bunyip, Abaddon, Yamata no Orochi, Sekhmet, Typhon, Tiamat, Quetzalcoatl, Amhuluk, Mokele-Mbembe, Baphomet, and Leviathan. Before King of the Monsters, all of these creatures were under observation at secure Monarch outposts. But after Ghidorah woke them up, their whereabouts were left up in the air. There was some speculation that the MonsterVerse would eventually introduce them and unveil their official designs, but that never came to pass – or at least, not on the big screen. Both Tiamat and Amhuluk fought Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong graphic novel prequel Godzilla: Dominion but none appeared in the movie itself. Another chance to use them could come when Apple TV+ launches its untitled Godzilla TV series.
These missing Titans offer the MonsterVerse an interesting opportunity. For a long time, there’s been a demand for iconic Toho monsters like Anguirus, King Caesar, Gigan, and more to show up in Godzilla and Kong’s movies. Unfortunately, the show’s place in the MonsterVerse timeline creates major complications for such a scenario happening in the series. The show is set before King of the Monsters, where it was confirmed that only 17 Titans (other than Godzilla) have been discovered. Since the names of all 17 are already known, there isn’t much room for Toho’s monsters – unless, the MonsterVerse changes the identities of the movie’s missing Titans.
In other words, Apple TV+’s Godzilla show can use a retcon to explain that Titans like Baphomet and Abaddon are actually MonsterVerse interpretations of creatures from Toho’s movies. That could work since it’s possible that their names were just codenames assigned by Monarch. The public could call them by new names. If the MonsterVerse leans in this direction, it could add new Toho kaiju to MonsterVerse canon without creating any massive continuity issues. Since King of the Monsters already established a fixed number of known Titans that Monarch knew about in 2019, this may be the only way Anguirus and the others could conceivably appear in the show.
Because of Dominion, Amhuluk and Tiamat already have designs, but the Godzilla TV show should be free to do what it wants with most of the other missing Titans from Godzilla: King of the Monsters. What’s known about their mythological connections could be used to link them to certain Toho monsters. For instance, Sekhmet is believed to have lion-like characteristics, which means she could stand revealed as a member of King Caesar’s species. Typhon, who is depicted as a dragon in some myths, could be Manda from Atragon and Destroy All Monsters. Leviathan, described by the Bible as a beast of the sea, could turn out to be the aquatic Titanosaurus.
