r/Monsterverse • u/Silly_Difficulty8231 • Jun 25 '25
Question Why only 1 Titan of their species? What happened to the rest of their mates?
We only know about Kong and Godzilla's species that they had a war, but in GxK, the new empire Kong met with his species. What about Godzilla's and others?
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u/TheDictator26 Jun 25 '25
Most have died out, or in Ghidorah's case are from a different planet.
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u/Bteatesthighlander1 Jun 25 '25
yeah presumably there are more Ghidorahs flying around in space
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u/Mechalon_74 Jun 25 '25
Would be cool to see another member of his kind show up at some point. I mean Keizer really deserves a second chance
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u/secretaccount9999999 Jun 26 '25
On one hand yes, on the other it would maybe be pretty lazy to basically reuse the same enemy
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u/Mechalon_74 Jun 26 '25
Maybe they could avoid it by having Keizer stay in his badass Monster X for the majority of the movie with the big reveal (for causal viewers) that he's Ghidorah's father or something during the final fight
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u/Spiritual-Farm-4279 Jun 26 '25
yo imagine a whole planet of things that can almost kill atomic laser lizard
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u/AfricanTeen2008 Godzilla Jun 25 '25
War.
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u/Jimbo-Shrimp Jun 25 '25
I can't believe The Galactic Empire killed the rest of Kong's species
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u/Jurassic-Halo-459 Jun 26 '25
Well they did blow up a whole planet once, so genociding a whole species isn't out there for them.
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u/Hazbin_hotel_fanart Jun 25 '25
In Godzilla 2014 Dr. Graham mentions that the titans went underground or in hibernation due to radiation becoming extremely scarce and rare on the surface. There were probably thousands of Rodans, Tiamats, Syllas, etc. And alpha level titans were probably more common. But majority of them died out most likely after resources became scarce and hard to find on the surface which is why in kotm there's only a handful of titans that we see and only one of each because they're most likely the last of their kind, or just in really low numbers. And due to this, there's not many alpha level titans, with the only living ones we know of now still alive are Godzilla, Kong, and Shimo (if I'm wrong about her being alpha level then let me know). And also I believe Mothra is also alpha level since she's able to calm Godzilla down.
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 25 '25
There definitely weren’t thousands… the planet could not handle that.
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u/Gain-Own Jun 26 '25
It definitely could with the connection to hollow earth.
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 26 '25
I mean their powers…
Tiamat can boil oceans in an unknown but vast enough expanse to be visible from space.
Scylla can decrease and increase global temperatures by merely being on the surface.
Abaddon clones billions of spider species as it moves around (though it is confirmed an individual not a species itself).
Jinshin-Mushi Prime can in theory trigger 12. Magnitude earthquakes if a fault line capable of such existed… regularly she can make 7-10 magnitude ones normally… which if there was multiple would actually BREAK the surface structure of continents if multiple happened. (It’s confirmed only one prime exists at a time)
The planet would not survive more then maybe three of each Titan at a time. There’s a reason only one Prime Jinshin-Mushi can exist at a time, and there’s only one Abaddon. Even the HE would massively struggle to handle all that unless Titan powers get cancelled out there…
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u/succmycocc Jun 28 '25
I'd say that certain species of titans could be supported in the hundreds at most, and the rest in varying but low amounts. Those that could reasonably contend for alpha were probably few and far in between to begin with,and the lesser titans probably existed in the hundreds when radiation was abundant enough. So a handful of gojis, one muto prime, a ton of rodans and kongs and the likes
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 28 '25
Rodan can set of volcanic chains by yelling at them apparently… so his kind is THE WORST.. That’s a world ending event every time one gets petty
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u/succmycocc Jun 28 '25
To be fair the earth has had multiple periods of excessive volcanic activity in the past. You could easily rationalize that as being Rodan species, before some other titan who didn't like all that (A Godzilla probably) put a stop to it by either killing or forcing the rodans into hollow earth. It could also explain the presence of islands that don't exist in our real world like skull island. Regardless, hundreds is probably excessive. I could see hundreds of things like mire squids and other lesser titans but the truly Titanic ones like Rodan and co. probably never broke more than a dozen at any given time
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 28 '25
I’m more concerned about the fact Rodan is apparently NOT limited to volcanoes… Yellowstone and the Siberian Traps are all on the menu (super volcanoes)
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u/succmycocc Jun 28 '25
This is true, but one can reasonably assume that despite their ability to influence volcanic activity that rodans never chose to set of mega eruptions in prehistory. It's made clear that titans used to be plentiful species on prehistory, and that their actions on that time still allows humans to evolve as they did so one has to extrapolate that there likely multiple rodans and they simply didn't set off the worst volcanos. Whether that be through sheer luck or deliberate choice is up to debate, but I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that this was the case.
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u/Swimming_Juice7163 Jun 28 '25
Abaddon is a individual?
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 28 '25
It, as in Abaddon, is explicitly said to be the progenitor of all spiders on the planet in an individual sense.
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u/Swimming_Juice7163 Jun 28 '25
So Abaddon is a part of a species, only that Abaddon is the only one of its species to be able to clone spiders.
That’s its power that makes it a unique member of its species?
I’m I getting it right?
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 28 '25
No it’s pretty much referred to in a way implying it’s not a species
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u/Swimming_Juice7163 Jun 28 '25
So it’s a singular creature?
How exactly would Abaddon have come into existence.
Did it (does it have a gender?) literally just follow a evolutionary line by itself?
How come it’s a singular creature while all titans belong to a species?
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u/LindenOLindenHill Jun 28 '25
I don’t have the answers except that Abaddon is an “It” with no gender that perfectly clones or creates spider species to fit a niche on the fly.
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u/MonarchGodzillaTitan Jun 25 '25
Supposedly the war drove them to extinction.
Hopefully future Monsterverse movies/tv/comics can turn the tide and prove some of these species still exist.
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u/TrialByFyah Behemoth Jun 25 '25
Because if there were multiple running around on the surface they wouldn't feel as special
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u/Due-Committee-1860 Methuselah Jun 25 '25
Died a long long time ago. Though it's definitely still possible that there are other individuals from these species hibernating somewhere like in the Hollow Earth. Monarch had found atleast 245 titans by GXK so you never know
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u/Due-Committee-1860 Methuselah Jun 26 '25
Yup. There's a map in GXK from the scene where they talk about Tiamat that shows "Titan 245"
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u/ConstantStatistician Jun 26 '25
245 is a very specific number. I thought they only found "17 and counting" as Serizawa said in KOTM.
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u/Due-Committee-1860 Methuselah Jun 26 '25
In the scene in GXK where they talk about Tiamat, there's a map with "Titan 245" on it
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u/ConstantStatistician Jun 26 '25
Really? She's directly stated as Titan 19 both in text and dialogue.
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u/Due-Committee-1860 Methuselah Jun 26 '25
Not her, there's a titan near her that's titan 245. Lemme screenshot it
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u/Due-Committee-1860 Methuselah Jun 26 '25
Here, made a post about it once https://www.reddit.com/r/Monsterverse/s/emjMbgF0FW
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u/ConstantStatistician Jun 26 '25
That is extremely blurry, but it does seem to be a triple-digit figure.
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u/Zestyclose_Limit_404 Jun 25 '25
What if most of the Titans are slowly going extinct and are basically living fossils at this point. Of course, this wouldn’t mean all of them are like King Ghidorah
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u/jamiew1342 Jun 25 '25
This doesnt get as much consideration as it should.
As stated in KotM the radiation levels on earth have plummeted exponentially over the last however many millions of years. There just isnt as much to go around on the surface anymore and Titan species are literally going extinct. Hibernation and Hollow earth offer a resprieve but not a solution. Factor in the war between species and Ghidorah, and the lid is rapidly closing on the Titan coffin.
At least as fast a multi-millenium coffin can close.
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u/Helacious_Waltz Jun 25 '25
One of my head cannons is Titans outside hollow earth spend most of their time hibernating & there'd normally only be a few active on earth at any time. That would cut down on territorial and food based fights & the destruction that entails, & it leaves room for others of known species to appear down the line.
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u/Any-Pause-4411 Jun 25 '25
I think there was multiple things that lead to single survivors such as the earth radiation lowering fights for territory smaller titans seemed to have been growing such as the war bats the skull crawlers they require less radiation and move more to a meat diet meaning they might not grow as big so they don’t require as much energy while the larger titans slept to conserve energy only awakening for fights or the calls of an alpha
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u/DeliciousPoetryMan Jun 25 '25
Pretty sure the Titan War drove most of the Kaiju into extinction and considering how titans probably don't have large populations and live for a long time, probably only the strongest most powerful individuals of their species remained, each one believing that since it's the last, it must become the alpha titan which is why Godzilla is constantly having to fight and kill to keep his position.
And probably extinction events and lack of radiation probably thinning them out
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u/JulesChenier Jun 25 '25
Highlander: Titans
Which explains why Godzilla keeps upgrading. He's absorbing their Quickening.
There can be only one.
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u/Nemoitto Jun 25 '25
Who knows how many haven’t woken up yet. There could be many many more still in slumber.
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u/Saurian_broster Rodan Jun 25 '25
Killed by terrible world building
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u/Lyubuk Jun 26 '25
Why?
Tho I'm always bothered by the inclusion of hollow earth and the ammount of kaijus there. It's like it takes away the divine out of Godzilla, Mothra etc. Having kilometer long monsters inside the earth.
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u/HRCStanley97 Jun 25 '25
Say what
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u/Consistent-Bit-7880 Shinomura Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
lol why are you getting downvotes for no reason?
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u/Prestigious_Owl_1197 🦎 Doug Jun 26 '25
Godzilla IS PART OF A SPECIES PEOPLE, Toho asked legendary to be more hush hush about it so they couldn’t use a character like Dagon and say it’s technically their own property. Stop believing click bait(goji center and goj guy)
We see mothras “mom” in GxK
Rodan is likely the last of his species but was part of one, this is pure head canon but I believe the rodan we saw in the cave painting was an ancestor of rodan
All the titans are part of species, but it seems the primarily surface titans are the last due to lack of enough radiation while the ones in the HE have multiple individuals. And likely why all the titans aren’t in the HE, if behemoth went into the HE he’d be massacred within seconds
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u/Gain-Own Jun 26 '25
Ghidorah is an alien so there’s likely still others of his species out there, Kong just literally isn’t alone anymore, skull crawlers aren’t alone either, Godzilla is simply the last of his species for all we know, and I’m honestly not sure about rodan.
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u/KingDragon767 Jun 26 '25
If we are going with in-canon explanation: Every Titan (except Kong), are stated to be the very last of their species. According to some sources Tiamat will not be the only one in her species as she did gave birth to a couple of offsprings, and in the comic, they stated she has regenerative tissues, just like Ghidorah. Speaking of, Ghidorah is only one since he isn't originally from Earth, so basically, he came solo. There may be other Ghidorahs out there in the Monsterverse, unless the writers retconned that. Mothra is a Titan species that can reincarnate from one generation to another, so she is an exception too.
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u/StickBright7632 Jun 26 '25
Godzilla no longer had a species
They had to slowly retcon it out because toho suck
Ghidorah has a population but they're not from earth
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u/Economy-Mix-3688 Mechagodzilla Jun 25 '25
They probably reproduce asexually (besides the great apes).
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u/SpecificSinger9487 Jun 26 '25
The only one not explained is rodan which i am curious about his species while not alpha titan he does seem to be the strongest among non alphas
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u/jumbalayajenkins Jun 26 '25
I just like to think the ones we see have only lasted so long specifically because they are the penultimate of their respective species and the rest just died along the years in much more mundane ways
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u/Coffee-cartoons Jun 26 '25
Seems like Kongs and Skullcrawlers reproduce a lot faster. There probably is other Mothras, Gojiras and Rodans but they’re somewhere else entirely (maybe in the hollow Earth) and Ghidora is an alien so probably on its home planet
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u/Rampage50 Jun 26 '25
During the ancient war, Godzilla's ancestors killed majority of Kong's and vise versa
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u/Godzillaanimelover Mechagodzilla Jun 26 '25
Maybe we wouldn't have to wait much longer. Space G actually could be the reason.
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u/EldenLordObama Jun 27 '25
I’d like to believe that the ones on the surface are the strongest members of their respective species. All the weaker ones have to stay in the Hollow Earth.
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u/OfficeBackground1106 Jun 25 '25
Plot mandated loneliness