Godzilla: PLANET OF THE MONSTERS

In the last summer of the 20th century, giant monsters began appearing all over the world and wreaking havoc. A powerful creature called Godzilla appeared which destroyed humans and monsters alike. Two species of aliens, the Exif and the Bilusaludo, arrived with the former attempting to convert humanity to their religion and the latter seeking to emigrate to Earth with promises to defeat Godzilla with Mechagodzilla, should humanity accept them. However, the Bilusaludo were unable to activate Mechagodzilla, which forced the aliens and humanity to abandon Earth and emigrate to Tau Ceti e via the Aratrum.

20 years later and 11.9 light years away, Captain Haruo Sakaki locks himself in a shuttle, threatening to bomb the area unless the Aratrum leaves Planet Tau-e and abandons the emigration project. Haruo believes the planet is uninhabitable and the emigration crew only consists of the elderly, including his grandfather, because he believes the Aratrum's committee are trying to reduce the population due to limited resources. Haruo fails, is arrested and thrown in a cell where he witnesses the emigration shuttle exploding upon entering the planet's atmosphere.

Metphies, an Exif priest, visits Haruo, where he hands him classified data regarding Godzilla. Haruo anonymously publishes an essay detailing Godzilla's weak points, which convinces the central committee to return to Earth after concluding that finding another habitable planet seems unlikely. Upon returning to Earth, the Aratrum sends recon drones to scout the Earth which reveal that Godzilla is still alive.

Metphies explains to the committee that they cannot co-exist with Godzilla and suggests killing it. He also explains that the anonymous essay was the result of a thorough investigation, promising to reveal the author under the condition that Haruo is released. Haruo is released on bail and explains to the committee that a certain unknown organ in Godzilla's body can emit a high frequency electromagnetic pulse that generates an asymmetrical permeable shield, making it impervious to all damage except for a small window when the organ recycles. Haruo proposes using that windows to crack the shield organ, then shove an EMP probe within the organ before it regenerates, which will cause Godzilla to implode as its own body amplifies and concentrates the energy inside him. However, Haruo stresses that close quarters combat would be needed for accurately coordinated attacks in order to find its weak organ, as well as 600 people.

The committee reluctantly accepts Haruo's plan. However, upon landing two battalions on Earth, it is discovered that 20,000 years have passed due to relativist effects and that Godzilla's presence has radically altered Earth's biosphere. The battalions are attacked by a group of flying creatures called Servums that exhibit biological similarities to Godzilla, causing critical damage to several of the landing ships. Leland, the company's commander, orders a retreat but Metphies stresses that they would need to rendezvous with Companies D and E through a pass in an area Godzilla frequents.

The group mobilizes and soon encounter Godzilla. Haruo proceeds with the original plan on his own and attacks Godzilla. Leland manages to provoke Godzilla to use its atomic breath, but at the cost of his life. Leland's actions reveal that Godzilla's weak point is its dorsal fins. Command falls to Metphies, who promotes Haruo to commander. In a speech, Haruo convinces the remaining survivors to continue with the plan and defeat Godzilla.

The group attacks Godzilla and manage to trap it within a collapsed mountain pass. EMP probes are drilled into Godzilla's dorsal fins which causes it to implode. Commenting after the apparent victory, the group's environmental biologist Martin Lazzari theorizes that this Godzilla may be different from the one that drove humanity away, believing it to be an offspring. Subsequently, the original Godzilla, which has grown exponentially to 300m in height, emerges from beneath a nearby mountain and destroys most of the remaining crew. Trapped beneath rubble, Haruo watches Godzilla leave, vowing to kill it.

In a post-credits scene, Haruo wakes up in a secluded area, finding an indigenous girl next to him. 

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GODZILLA: CITY ON THE EDGE OF BATTLE

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Following the events of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the Aratrum is unable to contact Haruo and the rest after their encounter with the original Godzilla. The Captain orders that if drones do not find survivors by forty-eight hours, the Aratrum will withdraw from Earth.

Haruo Sakaki is rescued by a native girl named Miana and has his wounds treated with a strange powder. She belongs to an indigenous tribe called the "Houtua", surviving descendants of humans. The Houtua recover Haruo's surviving team and hold them for questioning. Miana and her twin sister Maina use telepathy to communicate with their guests to understand their reasons for burning their lands.

After the Houtua realize the group was after Godzilla, the twins inform Haruo that their god was destroyed by Godzilla and left behind an egg. With an understanding that Haruo is waging war against Godzilla and not the Houtua, they are released, but the twins accompany them as both protective guides and observers. The group is attacked by a swarm of wormlike creatures, but they are able to fight them off with the twins' help. During the fight, Galu-Gu realizes that the twins' arrowheads are laced with "nanometal", a remnant of Mechagodzilla. They are then attacked by a pack of Servums, but Metphies arrives with some other survivors and drives them off.

Galu-Gu explains that the nanotechnology that built Mechagodzilla somehow survived and in the past 20,000 years, it has steadily self-replicated and expanded itself. With this fact, the Bilusaludo tell Haruo and the rest that they can win against Godzilla with the nanometal, which prompts Haruo and the rest of the crew to remain on Earth and continue the original plan to defeat Godzilla. They manage to make contact with the Aratrum, which takes the few crew members who wished to leave and agrees to stay in orbit. Tracing the source of an energy signature they detected, they discover the nano-materials have rebuilt the former facility that held Mechagodzilla, which Galu-Gu dubs as "Mechagodzilla City".

The twins part ways, but warn Haruo that the nanometal is toxic; the Bilusaludo assure the group that the technology is harmless to them. The team soon discovers that even though Mechagodzilla was destroyed, half of its head survived and has reconstructed and expanded the original facility it was held in. Galu-Gu manages to gain access to Mechagodzilla's surviving brain and has it build all necessary materials for them to use in order to trap Godzilla within the city, then cover it with nanometal, before finishing it off with EMP harpoons. While overseeing the construction, Yuko confesses her feelings for Haruo and kisses him.

Godzilla awakens and quickly advances on the city, which forces Galu-Gu to sacrifice the city's defenses in order to divert power to finish building the harpoon. Haruo, Yuko, and Belu-be battle Godzilla with aerial Vulture suits in order to slow it down. The trio managed to hold Godzilla long enough for the city to complete its construction and proceed to lure Godzilla into the trap. Godzilla survives the attack and overheats the facility. Galu-Gu refuses to lose and decides to fuse with the nanometal.

While the remaining Bilusaludo embrace the fusion, the humans are appalled by it and escape the city. The three Vultures begin to fuse with their pilots, against Yuko's will. To Galu-Gu's bewilderment, the nanometal seems to have no effect on Haruo and fails to assimilate him. Metphies warns Haruo that if it is not stopped, Mechagodzilla City will consume the entire planet. Galu-Gu argues that in order to defeat Godzilla, they must become greater than humanity. Haruo is conflicted, but ultimately chooses to win the battle with his humanity intact. He destroys the command center, along with Galu-Gu, which deactivates the nanometal but sets Godzilla free, who proceeds to destroy the city. Haruo tends to Yuko, who is unable to wake from her comatose state, while the surviving humans hide in a cave with Metphies as everything burns around them.

In a post-credits scene that flashes back to an earlier scene, Metphies explains to Haruo that a monster, more powerful than Godzilla, destroyed his planet, and reveals that the monster's name is "Ghidorah".

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GODZILLA: THE PLANET EATER

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Following the fall of Mechagodzilla City, Martin Lazzari and another soldier are seen monitoring Godzilla, confirming it was alive. The crew of the Aratrum are then seen running over the final moments of Mechagodzilla City and the Bilusaludo commanding it, with Halu-elu Dolu-do damning Haruo Sakaki as a traitor, and Takeshi J. Hamamoto supporting Haruo. As a fight breaks out over the ethics of the situation, Endurph leaves.

Haruo and Martin are then shown on Earth, tending over Yuko Tani. It's deduced that the nanometal eroding her body is the one thing keeping her alive, but that she is clinically brain dead. Metphies and Adam Bindewald enter, with the latter deeming Yuko's circumstances as a punishment for her sins, and Haruo's survival as a gift of grace.

Later, Martin reveals he was able to recover one of the Vultures from Mechagodzilla City, however, he is unable to reboot it, with the vehicle's controls also being locked, following the city's destruction. During one of Metphies' religious group talks, Martin pulls Haruo aside, and speaks up about how it wasn't divine intervention that saved Haruo, but the Houtua and their medicinal prowess. Haruo would then confront Metphies on this, who would explain he knows that gods had nothing to do with Haruo's survival, but he spread the idea as a means to unite everyone for a future battle with Godzilla.

Back on the Aratrum, the Bilusaludo begin a revolt in response to Haruo's actions and the lack of condemnation from humans on the committee, leading to the ship's power being turned off. On Earth, Martin devises a plan to cool things down on the Aratrum, involving feigning Haruo's escape to hopefully allow a compromise to be reached, with Miana assisting in providing Haruo a place of residence far away from the action. When the two are alone, both speak on Haruo's internal conflicts, determining that "winning" is prosperity, living on, and procreating, while "losing" is dying, and disappearing. Eventually the former makes sexual advances on the latter, but is turned down.

Endurph and Metphies then speak telepathically, with the latter saying he needs more time to prepare the offering, being a single Earthling. Endurph would allow him to proceed, and Miana would intervene, sensing the Exif's telepathy. Back at the Houtua hut, Haruo would then be approached by Maina, and the two would engage sexually. Meanwhile, Metphies and Miana would speak, with the Houtua questioning the Exif's intentions and where he was leading his followers. Threatening to make her a sacrifice, Miana would attempt to flee, but instead would be restrained and forced to bear witness to a vision of Ghidorah.

Haruo and Metphies would then meet, with Metphies questioning if Godzilla would be what it was, without humans. Offering Haruo soup which he accepts, Metphies quickly answers his own question, stating Godzilla is Godzilla because it is hated, and its existence is cursed, while Haruo's is essential because of it. Approaching the pot of soup, Haruo sees Miana submerged in the pot, and ends up awaking from what turns out to be a nightmare, only to be urged to actually confront Metphies as Maina expresses worry over her sister.

At Metphies' altar, he speaks to his followers about devotion, as does Endurph to his on the Aratrum. Both deem it impossible to defeat Godzilla by humanity's hand alone, and Adam insists "god" can defeat Godzilla. A chant then begins at both sites in a successful effort to summon Ghidorah, who begins to manifest as a shadow within Metphies' altar. The shadow proceeds to kill all of his followers, including Adam, and Ghidorah finally begins to appear above Earth's atmosphere, and the Aratrum in the form of a singularity. With the Bilusaludo having cut off the ship's power, and Ghidorah's immense power of gravity taking its toll on the ship, the crew is powerless as Ghidorah dismantles and destroys the vessel, killing everyone aboard in a nuclear explosion that lights up the Earth's atmosphere in a dazzling display.

On Earth, Godzilla fully awakens, and begins to move, just as Ghidorah begins to enter the Earth's atmosphere. Haruo, Martin, Maina and the remains of the fighting force on Earth, alongside the Houtua all reconvene, with Haruo leaving to go find Metphies. Ghidorah and Godzilla begin to fight, with Godzilla's attacks all being ineffective on what seems to be an ethereal creature which can't be detected by anything but one's eyes and ears. Nearby, Haruo finds Metphies, who has gouged out his right eye in favor of an Exif insignia-laced eye, which pushes Haruo into a trance-like, immobilized state.

In reality, Godzilla begins to radiate immense amounts of heat, identical to what occurred with Mechagodzilla City, only to have the heat stripped from its body and absorbed by Ghidorah, who begins to freeze the giant, only to then begin to raise him into the air. Back in the dream-like state, Metphies attempts to sway Haruo, beginning to guilt him about those who've fought and lost against Godzilla in his life, including Eliott Leland and Yuko. Martin and Maina make contact with Haruo through the egg, and Mothra briefly intervenes to break Metphies' grasp on Haruo. Metphies regains control and reveals that he was the one who put explosives on the elderly's shuttles, having made the elderly do it voluntarily. Haruo is then confronted by a hallucination of Daichi Tani, his grandpa, and swiftly snaps out of the illusion, having grabbed Metphies, before shattering his glass eye.

Ghidorah recoils for a brief moment, having been made physical, and Godzilla begins to attack, using a tail swipe to dispatch one head, ripping apart the second with its bare hands, and using a blast of atomic breath to finish the last one off as it escapes into the portal it appeared from, before it then destroys the rest of the portals. The next morning, Haruo awakens, and finds Metphies, who speaks on how Ghidorah will always watch over him, as long as he carries the hatred that he does. Haruo then grips his hand as Metphies dies from his injuries.

Following the battle, it is shown that the remaining humans on the planet abandon the ways of technology, scrapping their weapons and suits, and adapting to the lifestyle of the Houtua, while Maina becomes pregnant. Miana later shows Haruo the blossoming flowers of spring, marking the first time Haruo had seen it.

Martin then calls for Haruo, and shows him the reactivated Vulture. Upon the realization that humanity could once again use this technology to get to where they once were, Haruo has a vision, where Metphies states that expansion like this is human nature, but will lead to another time of harvest, implying returning to that state will spawn another Godzilla, or Ghidorah.

Later, Haruo is shown picking up Yuko's body, about to leave, before Miana stops him. Haruo asks if Miana hates Godzilla, to which she states the Houtua have no such word. When Haruo attempts to go once more, Miana states he's only losing if he does, which he accepts, saying sometimes one can choose a losing battle. While Miana doesn't understand, Haruo says that in time, if he stayed around, they would understand, but this is why he must leave.

Haruo then takes the final Vulture, and setting Yuko aside him, flies to Godzilla. Stating that he is the last of those who challenged or hated Godzilla, and that he bears the lives of all those he took on his shoulders as a result. He rhetorically challenges Godzilla to destroy the remnants of the past, leaving no traces, to which Godzilla fires a blast of atomic breath at his Vulture, destroying it, killing him, and Yuko.

In a post-credits sequence, the Houtua and their children are seen praying to a wooden statue they dub "their wrathful lord".

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EDITORS NOTE: I copied this from other sites because dammit i have a full time job and I'm lazy. but if one closely examines the films, they make much more sense as a trilogy than if each one stands alone. And throughout are nods to previous Toho characters, such as the Black Hole Aliens in the Bilasaludo, the Xians in the Exif, the infant island characters in the Houtua, the Shobijin in the twin sisters, Katsura Mafune in Yuko, and Dr. Serizawa in the self sacrifice of Haruo in the film's final chapter.

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