The Godzilla and Kong MonsterVerse begins in
season one of the television series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. In 1952, US Army Lieutenant
Lee Shaw is sent on a mission to escort a Japanese scientist, Keiko, on a mission to the Philippines
to investigate strange radiation levels. While on their mission, they cross paths with a Navy
vet named Bill Randa. Randa explains that a decade prior, while fighting in World War
II, his ship was attacked by a mysterious creature and he was the lone survivor. He has
dedicated his life ever since to finding this monster and proving its existence to the world,
and believes that unbeknownst to Shaw and Keiko, their mission is one in the same. Bill’s seemingly
crazy tale is proved right when the group are attacked by a creature known as the Ion Dragon,
and they all narrowly escape with their lives. Two years laters, Shaw, Keiko, and Randa all work
for a secret international organization known as Monarch, whose mission is to hunt and study the
mysterious monstrous creatures hidden throughout the Earth, which have been dubbed Titans. The trio
have discovered that the Titans feed on radiation, and upon discovering the footprints of one
of the monsters, they believe they can lure it out of hiding for research purposes by
baiting it with uranium. The group gets funding from the US military, and uses uranium
to lure a massive lizard-like Titan known as Godzilla out of the ocean. Unfortunately,
the military has no interest in research, and instead drops bombs on the creature to
kill it. Lee reluctantly allows the attack to go through, while Keiko is devastated.
The military is impressed by this event and gives Monarch a blank check to
fund their discovery of more Titans. In 1955, Randa and Keiko follow a lead to a
place known as Monster Island, where a Monarch scientist has detected the presence of a Titan.
Shaw abandons a meeting to secure more government funding for Monarch to travel to Monster Island,
as he has developed romantic feelings for Keiko and wants to ensure her safety. The group are
then confronted by a Titan, which reveals itself to be Godzilla, alive and well after surviving
the military’s attack. Not wanting to reveal Godzilla’s survival to the military, inspiring
them to create dangerous superweapons to combat the Titans, Shaw, Keiko, and Randa keep Godzilla’s
survival a secret. With years going by since a Titan spotting, the military takes control of
Monarch, places the gruff Lieutenant Hatch in command, and threatens to cut off government
funding. Knowing the future of Monarch is in jeopardy, Randa works harder than ever before
having a revelation and coming up with the Hollow Earth Theory. The Titans can hide themselves
so easily because the Earth is in fact hollow, and there is an entire secret world hidden beneath
its surface. Upon taking this theory to Keiko, Randa discovers that she has a secret child named
Hiroshi. Randa professes his love for Keiko, and offers to help raise her son. Meanwhile,
the military pay no mind to Randa’s Hollow Earth Theory, so Shaw is forced to reveal Godzilla’s
survival to ensure Monarch’s continued funding. In 1959, Keiko and Randa, now married, travel to
Kazakhstan with Shaw to study a location that they believe could confirm Randa’s Hollow Earth Theory.
Underneath an abandoned nuclear power plant, they uncover caverns containing the eggs of a new
Titan species known as Endoswarmers. As the eggs begin to hatch, the group attempts to flee from
the attacking Titans. Tragically, Keiko becomes overwhelmed by the Endoswarmers and is pulled
into the depths of the caverns to her death. In 1962, Monarch has discovered a way to
enter the supposed Hollow Earth. Shaw bids farewell to his best friend, Bill Randa, and
his surrogate nephew Hiroshi, before leading a team on a journey to hopefully discover a new
world. The team’s state of the art pod follows a Titan into an underground rift, but quickly
loses control and communication to the Monarch team above. Randa is left devastated as Shaw
and his team plummet into an unknown oblivion, with no way of determining their fates,
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this video, now let’s get back to the recap! The story continues in the film Kong: Skull
Island. In 1973, Bill Randa finally secures government funding to continue his research into
the Hollow Earth, now aided by fellow scientist Houston Brooks. Brooks believes that the key to
confirming the existence of a Hollow Earth resides on the mysterious Skull Island. Joining Randa and
Brooks on their journey are a team of researchers, Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard and his
unit of U.S. army soldiers, expert tracker and former British Special Forces Captain James
Conrad, and anti-war photographer Mason Weaver. Upon arriving at Skull Island, the group
begins dropping seismic bombs developed by Brooks to detect whether or not its
surface is hollow. This experiment is abruptly halted when the group is attacked by
a giant ape, which kills many of the soldiers, and separates the survivors into disparate groups.
Conrad and Weaver lead a faction of survivors to discover a group of island natives known as
the Iwi, and a US air force pilot named Hank Marlow who crash landed and has been stranded
on the island for nearly three decades. Marlow explains that the giant ape has been named Kong
by the island natives, who view the creature as the island’s protector. Kong is the last of his
kind, as all of his species has been killed by another group of dangerous island creatures,
known as Skullcrawlers. After the remaining survivors regroup, Conrad and Weaver insist
on fixing up a boat to leave the island and Kong in peace. When the group are attacked by a
Skullcrawler, which tragically kills Bill Randa, Packard insists on salvaging their weapons
supply and killing the Skullcrawlers and Kong to avenge his fallen comrades. As Packard
and his team head off to gather their weapons, Conrad and Weaver prepare to leave the island with
Marlow and Brooks. But after a peaceful encounter with Kong, the group decides to intervene
to stop Packard and save the giant ape. As Packard and his team lure Kong into a trap,
Conrad and Weaver arrive and persuade Packard’s soldiers to abandon their Colonel’s commands.
Packard refuses to stand down, but is interrupted when a giant Skullcrawler arrives to battle
Kong. Packard is crushed to death as Kong and the Skullcrawler get into a brutal fight. Just as
the Skullcrawler gets the upper hand and prepares to kill Kong, the humans intervene and help their
new ape friend defeat its Skullcrawler rival. The surviving humans then depart Skull Island
safely. Marlow returns to his family after thirty years away, while Brooks recruits Conrad
and Weaver to join Monarch, revealing that many other Titans, like Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and
King Ghidorah, posed a giant threat to humanity. The story continues decades later in the movie
Godzilla. In 1999, Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham uncover a massive
Titan skeleton in the Philippines that resembles Godzilla, as well as two giant spores, one which
remains dormant, but the other has already hatched and escaped. The creature birthed from that spore
secretly arrives in Japan, and its massive size begins creating dangerous tremors and seismic
activity. At the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant, the volatile reactor is damaged by the tremors,
causing a meltdown. The supervisor of the plant, American scientist Joe Brody, is forced to
watch as his wife, Sandra, and her team of scientists are trapped inside the reactor room
where they all die in the plant’s collapse. In 2014, Joe Brody is still grieving his
wife’s death, and refuses to believe the government’s explanation that an earthquake
caused the reactor meltdown. Joe’s son, US Navy Officer Ford Brody, comes over from
America to help investigate the quarantined reactor zone for any evidence on what caused
the meltdown. Inside the plant’s ruins, Monarch scientists are studying a massive chrysalis
that has grown for the past fifteen years, feeding off the radioactive energy.
A Titan emerges from the chrysalis, killing many of the scientists, including,
tragically, the grieving Joe Brody. Serizawa and Graham explain to Ford the
origins of Monarch, and that a Titan had in fact been responsible for the meltdown,
as it feeds on nuclear energy. Ford reveals that Joe had been tracking echolocation
from inside Janjira before his death, which the Monarch scientists theorize
was the Titan communicating with the long dormant Godzilla. As the scientists use
this newfound information to track the Titans, Ford prepares to return home to San Francisco
to reunite with his wife, Elle, and son, Sam. As Ford awaits to board a plane in Honolulu,
the Titan attacks, killing many innocent people. Godzilla arrives and fights the Titan, causing
it to flee, which spares the lives of Ford and many other innocent people. Serizawa deduces that
Godzilla is an enemy of the Titan, and therefore, it must have been using echolocation to
communicate with a different creature. The second spore, which was taken to be stored at
a nuclear site in Las Vegas, hatches and wreaks havoc on the city. Serizawa realizes that the
Titans’ communications are actually mating calls, and if they unite, they could create an army of
deadly Titan babies. Gruff Navy Admiral William Stenz approves a plan to use nuclear warheads to
lure the two Titans and Godzilla into the ocean off the coast of San Francisco and destroy
them all. Serizawa and Graham are resistant to this plan, but Ford joins a squad to deliver
the warheads necessary to complete the mission. Unfortunately, the Titans steal a warhead
and bring it to the center of San Francisco, where its detonation would cause catastrophic
damage and kill countless innocent civilians. As Godzilla arrives to fight the Titans,
Ford joins a strike team to enter the city’s battleground and deactivate the
bomb. Unable to deactivate the bomb, Ford’s team decides to take it out into the
ocean where it can safely be detonated. As the Titans kill off Ford’s team to take back the
warhead, Godzilla arrives to fight them off, killing both Titans before collapsing from
exhaustion. Thanks to Godzilla’s help, Ford manages to get the warhead into the
ocean, and then safely return to reunite with his family. Godzilla then retreats
into the ocean, and the media names him the “King of the Monsters”, theorizing
that he may in fact be humanity’s savior. Back to season one of Monarch: Legacy of
Monsters, it’s now 2015, a year after the fight between Godzilla and the Titans destroyed
large portions of San Francisco. Cate Randa, the daughter of Hiroshi and granddaughter
of Bill and Keiko, is still suffering from PTSD from having survived the attack. Hiroshi
has recently died in a mysterious accident, and Cate travels to Japan to settle his affairs,
only to discover that her father had a secret second family, including another wife, Emiko,
and a son, Kentaro. Cate and Kentaro are both shocked by this revelation about their father,
and agree to work together to uncover all of his secrets. The long-lost half-siblings team up with
Kentaro’s hacker ex-girlfriend, May, to uncover Monarch secrets that their father, Hiroshi, and
step-grandfather, Bill Randa, had been working on. May is actually a hacker named Corah Mateo who
worked for a company called Apex Cybernetics, under the guidance of Dr. Brenda Holland, that
promised to help change the world. Unfortunately, May discovered that in Apex’s desire
to help disabled humans walk again, they were conducting dangerous
and unethical experiments on apes, which caused May to destroy their research and
flee, changing her name and living on the run. Cate, Kentaro, and May follow Hiroshi’s clues to
find a shockingly alive and well Lee Shaw. Back in 1962, Shaw’s team had successfully crossed
through a portal into a world between worlds, known as the Axis Mundi. After
being attacked by an Ion Dragon, Shaw became the team’s lone survivor. After
escaping back through the portal, Shaw was shocked to discover that time works differently
in Axis Mundi, and the year was now 1982. There, Shaw met the adult Hiroshi, now working for
Monarch, who sadly informed Shaw that Bill Randa is now dead. Monarch then placed Shaw
under house arrest in a retirement community, where he has been living ever since. Now, in
2015, Cate, Kentaro, and May bust Shaw out of his Monarch prison to join them on their quest
to uncover the truth behind Hiroshi’s death. On the group’s journey, they are joined by
rogue Monarch agents Tim and Duvall. Duvall reveals herself to be the sister of Sandra
Brody, the late mother of Ford Brody who died in the Janjira power plant collapse. The new
Deputy Director of Monarch, Natalia Verdugo, has no interest in studying Titans, as is Shaw’s
desire, and only wants to destroy them at any cost. Shaw’s group travel the world, following
Hiroshi’s trail and encountering Titans like the Frost Vark, and even the infamous Godzilla
himself, before discovering that Hiroshi is in fact still alive. Shaw and Duvall part ways
with the others to follow Godzilla and protect it from Monarch, while Cate, Kentaro, and
May continue their journey to find Hiroshi. Shaw and Duvall rally Monarch members to betray
Verdugo and join them, using explosives to close a rift to Hollow Earth in Alaska, preventing
dangerous Titans from escaping to the Earth’s surface. The closing of the rift causes spikes
in radiation across Earth’s surface at other rift openings, which Monarch believes could cause
more Titans to emerge on the surface and cause worldwide devastation. Verdugo sends a team of
agents to stop Shaw’s team, and Cate, Kentaro, May, and Tim volunteer to try to talk Shaw
down from his master plan. Everyone reunites at Shaw’s next rift target at the Kazakhstan
power plant where Keiko had died half a century prior. Undeterred by both Cate and Monarch’s
warnings, Shaw explodes the rift. Unfortunately, as the rift collapses, Shaw, Cate, and May are
pulled inside and land in the Axis Mundi. Cate is separated from Shaw and May, and while
attacked by a Titan known as a Bramble Boar, she is rescued by her unaged grandmother, Keiko.
Keiko has an emotional reunion with Shaw and an even more emotional introduction
to her adult granddaughter, Cate, but is devastated to learn that a few months for
her in Axis Mundi has equaled a half century on Earth’s surface, and that her beloved husband,
Bill Randa, has been dead for several decades. Kentaro and Tim are rescued from the
wreckage of the collapsed rift by Monarch, and they assume Shaw, Cate, and May have
died. Kentaro returns home to Tokyo, where his alive and well father, Hiroshi, finally
reveals himself. Kentaro rebukes his father, devastated that his life of secrecy and
lies has now led to Cate’s death. Hiroshi explains that he has spent his life and career
trying to prove the Hollow Earth’s existence to honor his parents legacy. He believes that
if Monarch and the government had trusted them and funded their research, then the
Titan attacks would have never occurred. In the Axis Mundi, Shaw leads the group to
his original exploratory pod, while Keiko activates a distress signal in the hopes that
their allies on the surface can pull them out of the rift. As the group attempt to escape Axis
Mundi, they are attacked by the Ion Dragon, which damages the pod’s cables. As Godzilla arrives to
fight the Ion Dragon and save his human allies, Shaw sacrifices himself to fix the cables and
ensure his friends make it back to the surface, falling back into the rift and
leaving his fate unknown. Cate, May, and Keiko exit the pod on the Earth’s surface
where they reunite with Kentaro, Hiroshi, and Tim, who reveal that it is now 2017. May is shocked to
discover that the group was aided by Dr. Brenda Holland and her reformed Apex Cybernetics, now
operating at a research base on Skull Island. The story continues in the film Godzilla:
King of the Monsters. The year is now 2019, and Monarch has developed a device known as
the Orca which can attract and calm Titans. As Monarch scientist Dr. Emma Russell and her
teenage daughter, Madison, use the Orca on a Titan known as Mothra, their base is attacked
by former British Army Colonel Alan Jonah and his team of eco-terrorists. Jonah kidnaps Emma
and Madison, and steals the Orca for himself. Fellow Monarch scientists Serizawa and Graham
track down a former colleague named Mark Russell, who is the ex-husband of Emma and father
of Madison. Mark has become disillusioned with Monarch and their mission of peacefully
studying the Titans after the Godzilla battle in San Francisco resulted in the death of his son.
Despite his hesitance, Mark agrees to accompany Serizawa and Graham in their mission to stop
Jonah and rescue Emma and Madison. The trio track the terrorists to Antarctica, where they
discover that Emma is actually working alongside Jonah to awaken all of the dormant Titans in an
effort to have the beasts re-terraform the Earth, as humans have decimated the environment.
Jonah awakens the three-headed Ghidorah, King of the Titans, and Godzilla arrives
to fight its hostile rival. In the battle, Godzilla is quickly overpowered, and
Ghidorah kills Dr. Graham before escaping. Jonah’s team flees with Emma and Madison, who
is devastated upon learning that her mother is willingly working with terrorists. In Mexico,
Madison uses the Orca to wake another Titan, Rodan, leading to a battle between Rodan,
Godzilla, and Ghidorah. Godzilla manages to rip off one of Ghidorah’s heads before
Admiral Stenz and the U.S. military drops a new Titan killing bomb dubbed the Oxygen
Destroyer, which seemingly kills humanity’s Titan savior. Ghidorah survives the blast and
regrows its lost head, before awakening all of the dormant Titans around the world and forcing
them, including Rodan, to submit to its rule. A near death Godzilla retreats to the
Hollow Earth to heal itself. Knowing that Ghidorah and his army of Titans
could soon destroy the entire world, Serizawa chooses to sacrifice himself
by delivering a nuclear warhead near Godzilla’s location so the Titan can
absorb its energy and heal itself faster. After arriving in Boston, Emma finally begins
to realize the destruction that Ghidorah will cause to the Earth, but Jonah refuses to
halt his mission. In her own efforts to thwart Jonah and save the world, Madison steals
the Orca and attempts to use it to calm Ghidorah and his Titan army. Unfortunately,
the Orca has no effect on Ghidorah, who arrives to destroy the machine. Luckily, the
healed Godzilla also arrives and battles Ghidorah once again. Mark leads Monarch to the battle
site, where they attempt to aid Godzilla and help Madison escape. Amidst the chaos, Mothra
arrives to help Godzilla, defeating Rodan, but becoming critically injured in the process.
As Ghidorah begins to overpower Godzilla, Mothra sacrifices herself to allow Godzilla to
absorb her energy. As Ghidorah tries to intercept this power transfer, and absorb all of Mothra and
Godzilla’s powers for itself, a remorseful Emma reconciles with her family and then uses the Orca
to distract Ghidorah, allowing Mark, Madison, and the Monarch team time to escape, and sacrificing
herself in the process. With Ghidorah distracted, Godzilla is able to fully absorb Mothra’s powers,
which it uses to go nuclear, killing Ghidorah and destroying most of the city. Rodan and the other
Titans then bow down to Godzilla, their new King. The story continues in Godzilla vs. Kong. It is
now 2024, and Monarch has taken control of Skull Island to monitor Kong. The Iwi tribe of island
natives have all died out, except for a young deaf girl named Jia, who communicates via sign language
with her friend and protector, Kong. Jia has been adopted by Monarch scientist Ilene Andrews,
whose job is to study and monitor the giant ape. Meanwhile, Apex Cybernetics employee and
Titan conspiracy theory podcast host Bernie Hayes discovers that his employers may be plotting
something sinister. As Bernie downloads evidence, the Apex facility is attacked by Godzilla.
In Godzilla’s wake, Bernie discovers a giant, robotic eye. Due to the unexpected and unprovoked
attack, the world begins to turn on Godzilla and fear his potential for destruction. Among those
that have begun to fear Godzilla is Monarch’s new director, Mark Russell. His daughter,
Madison, is a fan of Bernie’s podcast and insists that there must be more going on. When
her father refuses to listen, Madison teams up with her friend Josh to seek out Bernie and
investigate the Godzilla attack themselves. Apex Cybernetics CEO Walter Simmons promises
the world he will find a way to defeat Godzilla, and develops Hollow Earth
Aerial Vehicles, or HEAVs, which will allow humans to finally travel through
the Axis Mundi into the actual Hollow Earth, believing that the hidden world could
contain the untold resources needed to defeat Godzilla. Simmons recruits former Monarch
scientist Nathan Lind to lead the team into the Hollow Earth. Nathan recruits his old friend
and colleague, Ilene, to aid the mission, as the team needs a Titan to guide them
to the Hollow Earth, and Kong, whose home on Skull Island is becoming uninhabitable, could
potentially find a new home in the hidden world. Madison, Josh, and Bernie investigate the wreckage
of the Apex lab before accidentally stumbling into an underground hyperloop system that transports
them all the way to an Apex lab in Hong Kong. There, the trio discover that Walter Simmons
has villainously plotted to turn the world on Godzilla to gain support for his secret
superweapon, a giant Titan-esque robot known as Mechagodzilla. Simmons’ right hand man is Ren
Serizawa, the villainous son of Ishiro Serizawa, who resents his father largely abandoning him to
fulfill his mission with Monarch that eventually led to his death. Using a skull of Ghidorah
that he bought from Alan Jonah, Ren is able to telepathically control Mechagodzilla to do his
bidding. Apex does not yet have enough energy to fully power such a massive weapon, leading
to Simmons’ need to explore the Hollow Earth. As Nathan, Ilene, Jia, and an Apex team, led
by Simmons’ daughter, Maia, transport Kong to a Hollow Earth rift in Antarctica, their convoy is
attacked by Godzilla, who battles and defeats Kong before retreating. The Apex team takes the injured
Kong to the rift, where Jia tells the giant ape that he may find a long lost family inside the
secret world. And so, Kong enters the rift, leading the Apex HEAVs into the Hollow Earth.
Nathan and Ilene are dazzled by this hidden world, with an ecosystem and Titan creatures similar
to Kong’s home on Skull Island. The team journey through this world with Kong as their protector
from its dangerous inhabitants, before finding an ancient throne room. Nathan and Ilene realize
that Kong and Godzilla’s ancestors had fought many battles for supremacy of the Hollow Earth.
Kong finds a giant battle ax, made from the bones of Godzilla’s ancestors, and places it into a
shrine, before taking his seat on a giant throne. The battle ax then reveals Hollow Earth’s energy
source, which Maia and her Apex team immediately steal and send back to Simmons at the Apex base
in Hong Kong. When Nathan and Ilene protest this, Maia’s team turns on them, holding them all at
gunpoint. Maia and her team flee, abandoning Nathan, Ilene, and Jia to the creatures of the
Hollow Earth, but Kong acts as their protector, fighting off a swarm of Titan creatures known as
Hellhawks before killing Maia and her entire crew In Hong Kong, the new energy source is
enough to fully power up Mechagodzilla, which attracts Godzilla, who had been
attacking Apex bases in an attempt to thwart their superweapon’s creation. But instead
of battling his robotic rival, Godzilla uses his atomic breath to drill a hole straight from Hong
Kong into the Hollow Earth, where he calls on Kong to engage him in battle, just as their ancestors
had. Kong races to Hong Kong to fight Godzilla, followed closely behind by Nathan, Ilene, and
Jia in the last remaining HEAV. In Hong Kong, Godzilla and Kong get into a brutal battle,
in which Kong uses the ax to defend himself against Godzilla’s atomic breath. Ultimately,
Godzilla defeats Kong, resulting in the giant ape being left for dead. As Mechagodzilla
is activated to battle Godzilla, the mind of Ghidorah takes control, killing Simmons, leaving
Ren for dead, and quickly overpowering Godzilla. In the Apex base, Madison, Josh, and Bernie search
for a way to deactivate Mechagodzilla. Outside, amidst the battle, Nathan manages to detonate
the HEAV on Kong’s chest, acting as a giant defibrillator to resuscitate the giant ape.
Jia convinces Kong to align with Godzilla, leading to the former Titan rivals teaming up
to battle Mechagodzilla together. As Madison, Josh, and Bernie temporarily short circuit
Mechagodzilla, Godzilla uses his atomic breath to power up Kong’s battle ax, which the ape
uses to destroy Mechagodzilla once and for all. In the end, Godzilla and Kong decide
to end their species’ eternal feud and co-exist in peace. Madison reunites
with her father, Mark. And Nathan, Ilene, and Jia return with Kong to the Hollow Earth,
where Monarch sets up a new research station, and Kong is able to live safely and freely,
and take on his rightful mantle as King.
