The Heisei Timeline Explained

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Re: The Heisei Timeline Explained

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King of the Monsters wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:42 pm
LegendZilla wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:20 pm
Kaiju-King42 wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:54 pm The sad thing is that the old time loop explanation actually patched up some of this movie's godawful writing. Now that it's debunked, we're back to square one: where nothing in the movie makes any skreeonking sense at all.
Where did it get debunked?
It's debunked by the movie itself. Emmy says to Terasawa that Japan is a superpower by 2204 and Godzilla never recovered from the ANEB. Then later she and Morrys mention that Japan was destroyed by Godzilla after he defeated King Ghidorah, meaning the future was changed by their time tampering. Emmy stops this future with Mecha-King Ghidorah, but the in the current timeline Godzilla still recovered from the ANEB. So that's three different timelines right there, meaning it's impossible for it to all be one big time loop.

Furthermore, the film's official theater program and Super Complete Works book both provide the same explanation, laying out three branching timelines.

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I still think time travel in the Godzilla franchise deserves a second chance.

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