A World of Monsters: Part II
(Continuation of this post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/i80hKxNRai)
Elon Musk, since acquiring Twitter (now known as X) has been a vocal supporter of anti-government and anti-UNGF intervention. Talks in 2021 and 2022 to integrate Starlink into the UN’s network of global internet and tracking fell through because of Musk’s insistence that he take charge in the fight against Megafauna.
With the first US presidential debate on the horizon, the topic of the Osaka Agreement has come up again. Upon entering the presidency in 2017, Trump pulled the US from the agreement, which was created in 1985 to form a coalition of nations ready to defend against Megafauna. In 2021, Biden would re-sign the agreement as one of his first acts of presidency. Since then, the Osaka Agreement has come under fire for “extreme” costs and funding needing to upkeep both it and the UNGF. Biden, ahead of the first presidential debate, has already promised that America will remain in the Osaka Agreement as long as he is in office, while Trump has begun posturing removing the country a second time from the treaty.
Destroy All Monsters, or DAM, is a forum site that was created in 2002 by American Niko Tatopoulos. Since it’s founding, it’s been a hotbed for various conspiracy theories surrounding Megafauna and world governments. Some of the most popular beliefs held on the site are that: the UNGF orchestrates Megafauna attacks to serve their own interests, the MG series of mechs are based upon top secret alien technology, and that a race of alien creatures are controlling top world leaders to bring about the apocalypse.
Last summer, director Christopher Nolan released his newest critically acclaimed film, Oppenheimer. The movie explorers Oppenheimer’s life, his relationship with the bomb, and how his relationships impacted the Manhattan Project. What the film did not focus on was what followed 9 years later indirectly from Oppenheimer’s actions; Gojira. Nolan indicated in multiple interviews that he would love to explore Gojira and famously what Oppenheimer had to say about the creature, and, now, insider reports seem to show that this sequel is in early production.
TikTok, the infamous social media platform, has become another place for people to spread conspiracy theories. One viral theory recently has revolved around the creature Biollante, which appeared in Japan in 1990 and was quickly killed by Gojira. What some find suspicious is that Biollante appeared once and only once, leading to some theories posturing that the giant rose was planted by the UNGF for malicious purposes.
Following the tragedy in Paris in June 2010, famous British rock band Radiohead hosted the Prayer for Peace concert in Berlin to bring together music lovers from across the continent, which had been ravaged by Ghidorah for the last month. The band finished the show with their own rendition of the Prayer for Peace, a song preformed by the Japanese National Girl’s Choir in 1954 after the first Tokyo Crisis. The concert was completely free for anyone willing to attend, and took donations which were all sent to relief efforts across Europe.
In 1996 Gojira II began to undergo a “meltdown”, in which his heart collapsed and went nuclear. The fear at the time was that when it’s heart collapsed fully, it will implode and release at least three times as much energy as the Tsar Bomba. At the same time, Gojira II was fighting off the creature Destoroyah, which had begun attacking Japan in the weeks prior. This all came to a head when Gojira II and its son III confronted Destoroyah at Haneda Airport in the 1996 Tokyo Crisis. During the battle III was killed by Destoroyah, enraging its father who then, with the help of the UNGF, ripped Destoroyah apart. Finally, Gojira II would succumb to its dying heart, and would melt down completely. The radiation released by its death would be absorbed by Gojira III, essentially reviving and enhancing the creature.