Rome

Skyline of Rome, Italy

Rome (Roma in Italian) is the capital of Italy as well as its largest city. It is home to several world-renowned landmarks, including the Colosseum.

History

• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Godzilla and Scylla clashing in Rome in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

In 2027, Rome was attacked by Scylla. She stomped through the streets with her claws and shot webbing at buildings, before being intercepted by Godzilla. The two Titans roared and charged at each other, and after a brief scuffle Godzilla hurled Scylla into the Victor Emmanuel II Monument. Godzilla leapt onto the arthropod Titan, who frantically tried to suffocate him with her tentacles and stab him with her claws to no avail. Godzilla fired his atomic breath directly into Scylla's face, obliterating her and ending her brief terror. After the fight, Godzilla rested inside the Colosseum for a few hours before suddenly waking up, alerted by the Iwi's distress call warning of the Skar King's attempt to take over the surface of the Earth, and left Rome on the River Tiber to prepare for his old enemy's return. Godzilla returned to the Colosseum a few days later after taking part in the defeat of Skar King, going back to sleep inside the Roman landmark.

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  Godzilla awakening in the Colosseum

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  Evolved Godzilla returning to the Colosseum to rest

Comics

• Godzilla: Rage Across Time #4 (2016)
• Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024)
• Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II - Sons of Giants (2024)

Godzilla: Rage Across Time #4

Godzilla freeing himself from the Alps. Mountains near Rome in Godzilla: Rage Across Time

In 218 B.C., Godzilla, Hannibal, and a third party traversed an underground cavern that sewed through the Alps. Mountain Range. The three of them fought each other while closing in on Rome. Hannibal and his men eventually buried Godzilla beneath remnants of the cavern ceiling before continuing on toward the city. Alive and unharmed, Godzilla reawakened and freed himself with his atomic breath, firing up a beacon that sent the people of Rome into fear. The King of the Monsters subsequently destroyed Rome.

Scylla attacking Rome in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted

Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted

After absorbing radiation from various sites across the world, Scylla attacked Rome. Titan Truth Podcast host Bernie Hayes commented on how the "Eternal City" of the ancient Roman Empire would not fair well from the aggressive Titan’s raid. However, after pursuing Scylla across the world, Godzilla intercepted her in Rome and prepared to battle her, in order to end her challenge to his reign and her disruption of the natural order.

Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II - Sons of Giants

Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and Hedorah converged in Rome in ancient times, called together by unknown means. The four kaiju battled each other until their true enemy appeared: King Ghidorah. Working together, the four kaiju were able to defeat Ghidorah and stop an Xilien invasion in the process. Some of the human survivors of the battle began to honor and worship kaiju as a secret society called the Sons of Giants.

Books

• GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla (2018)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization (2024)

GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla

Rome was attacked by several Rodans when they claimed the Italian Peninsula as their hunting grounds.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization

After Godzilla returned to the Colosseum, Monarch Director Hampton wondered if the Roman architecture reminded him of his lost temple in Hollow Earth.

Trivia

• Godzilla sleeping in the Colosseum was directly inspired by director Adam Wingard's own cat Mischief sleeping in her nest.
• A poster for 2014's Godzilla featured Godzilla in the Colosseum, 10 years before he visited it in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

References

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Bibliography

• Keyes, Greg (23 April 2024). Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1803368108.

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