Monarch Creature Profile

Battra is next up

wait Angurius looks nothing like an ankylosaurus, he more resembles a kaiju-fied Kaprosuchus than any ankylosaurus

Oh, sorry. Confused the two when typing this.

According to the characters in Godzilla Raids Again and the "Godzilla Monsters All Overall Encyclopedia", Anguirus was a giant Ankylosaurus that was awoken and irradiated by atomic tests like Godzilla. Furthermore, the first Anguirus was from Siberia, according to the "Common Knowledge of Godzilla" book. It's unknown where the second came from.

Anguirus's name is even derived from the Japanese spelling of the name anklyosaurus.

I don't care about the Toho's insane justifications, it just doesn't look like an ankylosaurus at all. The head is too crocodilian, even if it were mutated, it wouldn't look like that. It would be like saying Dogs are mutated cows

I don't care about over-assessed fan conjecture of a fantasy series because it doesn't fit with what you think it should be. Like it or not, that's officially and canonically what it is.

Deal with it.

Anguirus as an ice-elemental-ish creature? Interesting. I can get behind that. It'd make an interesting contrast to MonsterVerse!Rodan...

Actually, I'm working on a personal rewrite of KOTM, and I plan on giving Anguirus a few cameos amongst the awakened Titans. Do you mind if I do something similar to this?

@GH Man

I wasn't saying that as over-assed fan. I was saying at a scientific, zoological, and paleontological viewpoint that the creature cannot be a ankylosaurus for multiple reasons. I am very well aware that japan's dinosaur knowledge back in the 50's was severely wonky, like seriously dinosaurs dying off 4 million years ago. 

You can't tell me that a green reptilian creature that has a frog-like tongue, has five fingers, eats fruits, and wears tennis shoes a Tyrannosaurus. Because Tyrannosaurus has glaring anatomical differences from a Yoshi. T. rex has two fingers on tiny little arms, eats meat, and being a a stem-bird most definitely doesn't have a sticky tongue.

Would you mistaken a Chihuahua for a German Shepard? Of coarse not because we all know that Chihuahua and German Shepards have difference that separate these two dog breeds.

Also canon in Godzilla seems to be dependent on either Era or movie to movie basis. Godzilla can't seem to make up its mind what kind of creature it wants to be: a Hypothetical prehistoric aquatic reptile, a mutated dinosaur, a mutated marine iguana, a collection of angry WWII spirits, a dinosauromorph, a mutated modern-day deep sea creature, or a giant reptilian tree.

Xenotaris,
"Over-assessed fan conjecture," not over-assed.

I don't care about any of your pseudo-scientific suspicions. The fact is this is what has been officially canonized and has not been contradicted in any other movie or official source books since then. That's what Anguirus is. The end.

Christ, I can't wait for the Monsterverse to end so we can get back to proper fantasy kaiju epics that are riddled with metaphor instead of this over-obsession with "realistic" paleo-nonsense.

This quote by David Kalat seems relevant:

”American audiences conditioned to expect realism conclude anything short of that goal must be a mistake. By contrast, Japanese art often values beauty, poetry, and fantasy above realism”

The Hooded Figure,
Good quote. Straight out of his book if I recall.

I think I actually have Kalat's book. Got it as a Christmas present a couple years ago, if I recall correctly.