LegendZilla wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:01 pm
^If they wanted to give help Kiryu be separate from other incarnations of MG, why not give every new version of Godzilla, Mothra or Ghidorah a completely different name too?
What even is there to say at this point... I'm confused why any of this is an issue for you. Kiryu is Mechagodzilla. It's copyrighted as such. Figures of that incarnation are generally sold as "Mechagodzilla 2002" or "Mechagodzilla 2003". In the film they refer to it as Kiryu, because it's a weapon and people like giving names to things. It was obviously an intentional way to help fans and people refer to different MGs seperately. Instead you tried to extrapolate some weirdness of there being some other monster or something.
And actually, very recently they have started doing just that. Godzilla Earth, Godzilla Filius, Godzilla Ultima...Mothra Leo...
Another good example, would be Toto. Toto is Gamera, but obviously that doesn't mean Daiei "subconciously" wanted to make TOTO the GIANT SQUID movie or some bs.