Out of all the Titans Godzilla has faced in MonsterVerse canon, there’s one that evolved specifically to kill Godzilla (in the grossest way possible).

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Godzilla is the King of the Monsters in MonsterVerse canon, with every other Kaiju quite literally bowing before him (with Kong standing proudly by Godzilla’s side), though there’s one Titan that will never ‘bend the knee’ – quite the opposite. This Titan has actually evolved to not only be the perfect ‘Godzilla-killer’, but to use Godzilla’s species to procreate (and it’s absolutely disgusting).

When the MonsterVerse kicked-off in 2014 with the film Godzilla, the King of the Monsters’ main villains were Titans called MUTOs. Where other Titans were individually unique, MUTOs were more like an invasive brood that would multiply and spread if left unchecked. That’s why Godzilla crushed them, as he is the keeper of the balance on Earth, and the MUTOs would have effectively ended all other life on the planet if he didn’t.

Godzilla vs a MUTO from Godzilla (2014).

Since then, Godzilla has faced the likes of King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and – of course – Kong, with a new crop of challengers popping up in the upcoming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. However, no matter how many other monsters Godzilla faces, it could be argued that none of them can compare to the MUTOs, and the evolution of those creatures – as explained in a MonsterVerse tie-in comic – reveals why.

MonsterVerse MUTOs Evolve into MUTO Prime aka “The Dragon-Beetle”

Godzilla: Aftershock (2019) by Arvid Nelson and Drew Edward Johnson

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In the MonsterVerse tie-in comic Godzilla: Aftershock (which is set between the events of Godzilla and Godzilla: King of the Monsters), Monarch is chasing a new Titan that looks like a super-charged version of a MUTO, and after some intense research, they find that that’s essentially what it is. This MUTO (known as MUTO Prime or “The Dragon-Beetle”) is bigger, stronger, and all around more terrifying than the classic MUTOs of 2014’s Godzilla. Plus, there’s one major difference that makes them much more of a threat to Godzilla specifically: they use Godzilla’s species to procreate.

MUTO Prime is strong enough to hold Godzilla down (unlike the original MUTOs), and it has evolved egg-laying tentacles that carry the biological payload of its offspring, which incubate inside Godzilla’s race. The offspring feeds on Godzilla’s internal nuclear furnace, weakening him, and then eventually killing him. While this never happened to Godzilla, this comic reveals that it happened to a great number of Godzilla’s species.

MUTO Prime is a Greater Threat to Godzilla than Kong

Godzilla vs MUTO Prime from Godzilla: Aftershock.

While Kong is presented as Godzilla’s ultimate rival, it seems MUTO Prime is the ultimate threat to Godzilla, not Kong. Sure, the Empire of Kong’s race may have been built upon the bones of Godzilla’s species (with a Godzilla-killing ax explaining how something like that could even be possible), but the same could be said about Kong’s species and their rivalry with the Skullcrawlers. Ancient members of Godzilla’s race were challengers to the power accumulated by Kong’s people, to be sure, but MUTO Prime’s entire existence literally requires Godzilla, on an evolutionary level.

Godzilla’s species forced the MUTOs to evolve into the disgusting “Dragon-Beetle”, which not only made MUTO Prime strong enough to fight (and very possibly defeat) Godzilla one-on-one, but made Godzilla an integral part of MUTO Prime’s lifecycle. In other words, MonsterVerse’s most disturbing Titan evolved to kill Godzilla in the grossest way possible.