During a live tweet-a-long for a Godzilla: King of the Monsters watch party, Dougherty (tweeting via the official King of the Monsters' Twitter account) shared their reasoning for switching up the monster's designations. Not only that, he explained why the MonsterVerse didn't simply refer to them with the commonly used Japanese term for these sorts of giant monsters - kaiju. Dougherty's three-point explanation, 1) "People have asked why we refer to the creatures as Titans instead of MUTOs or Kaiju. 1) MUTO stands for Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism, so once a creature is identified & classified, it's technically no longer a MUTO so Monarch had to come up with a new term: Titan." 2) *Besides sounding cool, the definition of a Titan matches the history of the creatures as the First Gods and ties back to their ancient mythic roots." 3) "Kaiju was already taken by Pacific Rim, but I like the idea that the English translation of Kaiju could be Titan, because then everybody wins."
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05-03-2025 alle ore 07:32