WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Godzilla vs. Kong, now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.
For now, Godzilla vs. Kong concludes Legendary's MonsterVerse and answers the question of who's the true alpha of all the Titans. Despite the presence of Mechagodzilla and a couple of brawls with the giant ape, Godzilla manages to stake his place atop the food chain in a rip-roaring fashion. However, while it seems like Godzilla and Kong's story is done and dusted, there are some mysteries the film left answered.
Skull Island became unstable when all the Titans started converging after King of the Monsters. With the biodome unstable and consumed with massive thunderstorms, building the biodome must have been pretty difficult, especially with creatures roaming all around. Not to mention Kong probably would have sensed intruders and equipment being transported as he did in Kong: Skull Island, prompting him to attack the invaders. After all, it seems nearly impossible for Monarch to keep Kong sedated during such a lengthy construction period.
When Kong and the Monarch team journey to the center of the Earth, there is a perfect ecosystem for supporting giant creatures. For massive lizards, Warbats and Hellhawks, it's a utopia. This leaves some wondering why Godzilla, Kong, the Skullcrawlers and other Titans ever left this perfect environment in the first place, especially since Kong wants to return to Hollow Earth at the end of the film.
Even if Kong listens to Jia, surely shooting tranquilizer darts at him would tick him off. The best bet to subduing a giant ape is probably through the food Monarch feeds him, but none of this is ever shown on camera. Kong is already knocked out and groggy by the time viewers see him loaded and chained onto the naval fleet to head to Antarctica.
When humans go through the gravitational inversion, they are crushed. This is why Apex creates the Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles (HEAVs) for the trip, so humans can avoid any ill-effects and death. However, when Kong falls through the rift, nothing happens. Considering Kong is a mammal, some question why his and other Titan's physiology is unaffected.
Alan Jonah bought the Ghidorah head, yet he and his eco-terrorist crew are not included in Godzilla vs. Kong. Houston Brooks, who generated the Hollow Earth theory, and the Chen twins (who had the Mothra bond) are cut too. Audiences never even find out what happened to James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) and Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), who have vast experience with Kong. Also, the Mothra egg that was found in KOTM post-credits isn't mentioned, and the Oxygen Destroyer doesn't come into play when Godzilla is viewed as an enemy.
Godzilla's temple was showcased in KOTM and, in Hollow Earth, Kong has one too. Yet, there is little information provided about the history of the people that built these ruins and what happened to them. Glimpses into their past could have shared insight into why the Titans fought, why they revered them, who won these battles and why the beasts moved on from Hollow Earth.
Madison's team discovers Apex has Skullcrawlers they're incubating into adults for Mechagodzilla to train and kill. But viewers never find out where they got them from. The only place would be Skull Island but the island went unstable, and it's said the Titans disappeared. Plus, given Monarch was already based there, it'd be quite the heist to pull off.
It's never fully disclosed, but Godzilla vs. Kong implies an extinction event happened, with only Kong and Godzilla remaining "active." Whether the other Titans fought each other and died, or the unstable weather on Skull Island killed them is still a mystery. Still, it's hard to think all the Titans went to Skull Island at the same exact time, so it's a very convenient way of writing off Rodan and the likes.
When Madison and Josh first connect with Bernie, he reveals he's doing this for his late wife. We never discover how she died but, the way it drives his Titan Truth podcast forward and has him working undercover, it can be assumed it has to do with Apex's work. Godzilla vs. Kong doesn't go into it, but it's possible Sarah's death had something to do with Mechagodzilla, Skullcrawler breeding or some other Titan-related incident.
In the previous Godzilla movies, Ren's father, Ishirō (Ken Watanabe), worked with Monarch to help both humanity and the Titans. In Godzilla vs. Kong, Ren pilots Mechagodzilla and is eager to kill the lizard, yet there's no context as to why he was so bitter towards a Titan that his dad and his ancestors revered as Earth's protector. Not to mention Ren doesn't even drop a line as to why he aligned with Apex over Monarch, which is strange given his father's history with the latter.
Directed by Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, Godzilla vs. Kong stars Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is in theaters and on HBO Max now.
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