
TW_G-Fan2014
MemberMothra LarvaeAug-12-2014 7:51 PMA lot of G-fans have expressed interest in a Godzilla and Pacific Rim crossover, but the fact is that it will never happen.
Why, you might be wondering? After all they're both monster movies right? And set in the real world?
Yes, but the respective movie lore does not match and that eliminates any and all possibilities of a crossover from happening. Otherwise they'd have to change their respective lores to match and that would destroy the integrity of the original works.
Pacific Rim's lore states that the first ever Kaiju attacks came on August 10, 2013 when the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge was destroyed. That was the first Kaiju attack ever in the Pacific Rim lore, which eliminates any possibility of Godzilla existing in the mid 1940's-1954 when Castle Bravo was dropped and he was not seen again until the events of the 2014 Godzilla movie. Even if his existence was covered up, the fact is that the entire world coming together and pooling its resources to create Jaegers would have shared that information and known of his existence as well as prepared for it.
Automatically this single element eliminates any possibility of a Godzilla crossover.
But I'm not done. Why doesn't Godzilla's lore match? For one, the Kaiju of Pacific Rim were killed via nuclear weapons and last I checked the Big-G took Castle Bravo, a 15 Megaton nuke, to the face and lived. Also Godzilla's lore establishes that any and all Kaiju, be they living or dead, are/were creatures born on Earth. Godzilla himself comes from a time before the dinosaurs if you decide to believe the Godzilla: Awakening lore (which is considered by Max Borenstein to be official to the story) and states that he was around during the Permian Era and survived the Permian impact which wiped out most of life on Earth before the dinosaurs began evoloving over 250 million years ago.
I realize many of us love Pacific Rim and we all love Godzilla (why else would we be on a Godzilla website?), but the fact is that due to the mismatched lore there will never be a crossover between the two yet I still see people from time to time speaking as if it could happen. If Legendary does a crossover, it's not going to be between the actual movie lores. It would have to be a spin-off, and not an official part of either franchise's respective lore or timelines to work.
Sad, but it's the truth.