Could the ***Monsterverse*** be tackling a Climate Change theme in *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters* season two? - Star Trek Website

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/36900956 [https://startrek.website/post/36900956] > Reading through speculation about what the **Monsterverse’s new kaiju Titan X aka Le Gran Dios de la Mar may be (such as the article linked above), it sounds increasingly as though she may be a new protective mother figure, impacted or possibly even responding to the effects of global heating on the oceans. > > If so, this season’s Titan threat may put Monarch: Legacy of Monsters in a unique position among current major science fiction streaming shows in directly taking on a Climate Change/Emergency scenario with no gloss of allegory. > > It is nonetheless absolutely in keeping with the long tradition of the broader franchise in critiquing the consequences of human actions on the planet. > > The 70+ year Godzilla franchise is unique in embedding the impact of humanity on the Earth’s environment from its outset. > > The narrative of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as later nuclear weapons testing and nuclear power plants, calling up kaiju, literally “strange creature” [http://www.everythingkaiju.com/p/what-is-kaiju.html], is a constant within the franchise. > > In addition to atomic/nuclear radiation, films such as Godzilla vs Hedorah [https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Hedorah] (1971), with its smog monster, and the more recent Monsterverse film Godzilla: King of the Monsters [https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla:_King_of_the_Monsters] (2019), which ends with Godzilla leading an ecological recovery, the franchise continues to underscore its deep theme that humanity shares the Earth and will bear the consequences for its actions.