In the 2021 Godzilla vs. Kong movie, the Apex secret underground facility created Mechagodzilla as a way of defending the cities against Godzilla and fighting other Titans. The Apex corporation has been doing tests on Mechagodzilla against other Titan giants, and not only does this draw Godzilla’s attention because he wants to destroy it, but it also uses an enormous amount of energy to operate. The Apex CEO, Walter Simmons, wants to harness the energy of Hallow Earth so that Mechagodzilla will have no energy limitations. Mechagodzilla is controlled telepathically, but a small amount of liquid caused it to malfunction and gain freewill. But Godzilla and Kong team up and are able to defeat the Mechagodzilla.

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There have been no confirmations yet on what will be the next film in the MonsterVerse franchise, but there has been an announcement about an upcoming live-action Gundam movie that will be released on Netflix. This is very telling news about what kind of future the MonsterVerse will have. It seems likely that there will be a ‘giant robot versus giant monster’ storyline somewhere down the road. Gundam is a Japanese franchise about giant robots (mecha) and mobile suits, sometimes seen in militaristic settings. There are reports that Jordan Vogt-Roberts will be directing the Gundam live-action film. He also directed Kong: Skull Island—another entry in the MonsterVerse.

At the end of Godzilla vs. Kong, the two Titans who had been battling one another the majority of the film finally looked at each other in sort of a respectful understanding way after they teamed up to defeat the Mechagodzilla. If for some reason the Apex corporation has a bigger storyline and decides to make more giant robots for military purposes, it seems likely that the robots will do what robots do in any movie they are in and break free from control, resulting in Godzilla and Kong needing to team up once more to defeat the evil robots.

In a 1968 film titled King Kong Escapes, the Mechani-Kong was introduced in order to do a job too dangerous for humans. Though the visual effects don’t stand up to those in Godzilla vs. Kong, it would be interesting to see a movie with Godzilla and King Kong having to team up to fight against their robotic counterparts. There are a lot of different types of giant robots created in media. There is plenty of anime, manga, and movie source material to look through to create a giant robot storyline within the MonsterVerse.

The film Pacific Rim co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro features a storyline not too different from a Monster vs. Robot titans crossover that could happen within the MonsterVerse. In Pacific Rim, giant sea monsters emerge from the ocean ready to attack, so the people in that universe must create giant mechas to fight back. Perhaps the monsters that Apex captured and experimented with while testing the Mechagodzilla will attack people and Apex will have to create more giant mecha versions of monsters in order to fight back.

Or maybe, similar to how Dr. Who in King Kong Escapes used Mechani-Kong to extract useful materials in a place too dangerous for humans, perhaps Apex will create more mechas in order to get resources and energy from Hollow Earth. But because Kong now rules the land there, he may have a problem with this that will cause an epic battle sequence with giant robots. And who knows, maybe Godzilla will help Kong out with all those giant robots invading his new habitat. It would be cool to get to see Mechagodzilla again, but even if it did not make another appearance, there are plenty of other mechas that would be just as interesting and badass looking.

Giant robot films used to be more popular, but in recent years mechas have not made much of an appearance (at least not live-action) on the big screen. The Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong may have laid out path for the MonsterVerse to follow to incorporate a MechaVerse storyline into that universe. The fight scene between the Mechagodzilla and King Kong with Godzilla was visually very exciting to watch in theaters, so another series of films that focus more on militarized, giant robots would be big, summer blockbuster hits among fans of action and sci-fi movies.

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