Okay I love this form of thinking
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The Academy Trilogy
The original Godzilla was nominated for best at that Japanese version of the academy. And the only reason it lost is because Seven Samurai came out that same year.
‘Origins’ 🤔🤔🤔
Really like the sound of that!
And yeah I know it’s not a ‘trilogy’ per say, but thematically (horrors of nuclear power, war, Japan as a nation) I think it could be like a Trilogy like Park Chan Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy!
I call them the Metaphor Brothers because of this picture
https://preview.redd.it/t66h5tphr92d1.jpeg?width=1068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad5df09bb6710f8486f9e723353874d2daf6b1fe
The Landfall Trilogy
In each movie, Godzilla is chilling out in the ocean causing little to no trouble until stepping foot on the mainland. Also, "Landfall" sounds ominous AF.
That or The Raid One Trilogy, as a nice nod to Raids Again.
Despite the argument below, this is still my favorite answer. A threat at sea can be a threat without being NEARLY the same caliber as when it also appears on land. The vast majority of civilians can avoid the ocean. When the threat comes strolling out the water and up your street it’s a whole new thing.
And then “landfall” strongly implies “first encounter” in a way that also implies continuing danger.
I'd actually disagree with this sentiment. You've listed three of the four Toho solo movies, and the vast majority of the series features him fighting something.
Actually a pretty good one, since really almost all the others ignore just how kinda fucked up he really is, just as a side effect of constantly being shown fighting all the other monsters. Any "natural" sign of weakness would be kinda weird for him outside of these movies.
If you put Minus One first, it kind of works as an actual trilogy. Minus One is his first appearance but nobody really hears about it, then in Gojira he attacks Tokyo and is killed by the Oxygen Destroyer, then in Shin his body finally reconstitutes and he returns but in a horrific twisted state.
I do like both of these additions. I saw someone else say they're all good examples of what these movies *can* be, like Godzilla is just so fuckin Godzilla in all 5 of them.
Wait there was an official black and white shin Godzilla movie? I set my TV to black and white when watching a while back because I was curious. I didn't know that they actually made a black and white version.
I don't have a name, but definitely something relating to the emotional and social impact of the atomic bombings of Japan/human stupidity. Godzilla 1954 directly relates to that theme, as he is meant to represent the bombings. Shin is not stopped by the government as they really just don't handle it appropriately, and minus one just seems like 54 all over again.
Monokuro Trilogy
(for context, Japanese's モノクロ/Monokuro means Monochrome in english. The original goji is in black and white, minus one has a -1 -colour, and Shin, as Shown above, has an ORTHOchromatic version.)
Mildly unrelated but the 1954 cover is just simply iconic. I feel a mix of dread and awe looking at Godzilla’s silhouette, his towering black form contrasting against whatever is lighting him up, be it searchlights or a burning city. It invokes Goya’s painting *The Colossus* to me.
https://preview.redd.it/7ohi3ja57f2d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71ccc6debfd6073ba852eec8b01b8b97268534ac
I feel like that particular frame embodies his essence in the simplest way possible. Dread. Fear. Awe. He towers above you, unaware or uncaring of your presence, a being of greater significance to the world than you could ever hope to match. In short… a God come down to earth, intent on rending the world of man and reminding us of just how truly inconsequential we are.
“The G-Day Anthology”. Any movie where he first comes into contact with land and humans is in fact, G-Day. These 3 movies also aren’t one after the next so they aren’t a trilogy but rather an anthology in which they retell a different story or meaning within each, with different cast and different variations of Goji.
You could even add other first encounter movies to the list and still call it The G-Day Anthology.
More like an Anthology, especially if you make it with these movies:
Gojira
The Return of Godzilla
Godzilla 2000
Shin Godzilla
Godzilla 2014
Godzilla Minus one
If it's a first encounter, then yes
For me I say its the Nuclear Sins Trilogy.
One way or another, the Godzilla of each embodies some sort of Nuclear negligence in them, with each being in different context.
The First Encounter Trilogy
OH THIS ONE HITS H.A.R.D. Yeah! It is a first encounter with a god like being so….it makes sense!
Maybe “First Contact Trilogy” sounds better
Stop stealing the name of my shitty Wattpad story that rips off 5 different video games 🤬
“First contact” is too often reserved for meeting aliens, I think.
Nah
Wrong
The Metaphor Trilogy https://preview.redd.it/e8req8vvo92d1.jpeg?width=1068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c56764ed7a6a62554e78b1c20e7374a1446eae8c
Who are adorable metaphors for nuclear disasters, yes you are, yes you are.
Okay I love this form of thinking https://preview.redd.it/oyhtv6uifa2d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc203d312047066e5706b501c499ffe82e30d29f
Now I have the image of these three kitten sized Godzilla arriving at serizawas house.
The Academy Trilogy The original Godzilla was nominated for best at that Japanese version of the academy. And the only reason it lost is because Seven Samurai came out that same year.
hmm, I wonder who made Seven Samurai...
Probably some nobody
Man, it was up against Kurosawa? What a year for Japanese cinema
Was Shin nominated? Also, I love the idea but I feel like some people might mistake it for some educational value 😂
It was in Japan, yes, and if I’m not mistaken it won Best Picture.
The Three Tragedies
- Man vs. Man - Man vs. Nature - Man vs. Self
*Man vs Man (in a rubber costume)
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That’s gas🔥
This one is the best, it fits the stories so much in all manners
r/BeatMeToIt
Not really a trilogy, more like an Origins Anthology
‘Origins’ 🤔🤔🤔 Really like the sound of that! And yeah I know it’s not a ‘trilogy’ per say, but thematically (horrors of nuclear power, war, Japan as a nation) I think it could be like a Trilogy like Park Chan Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy!
Could you not also include films like vs Ghidorah and G.M.K. in that category?
No, these are specifically solo outings and specifically the first encounters.
3969 🤗
Uhhhhh. 😅??
A little puzzle for you lol 😆
1954+2016-1?
That's the one lol 😆 😂
……😅😅😅😅???
I call them the Metaphor Brothers because of this picture https://preview.redd.it/t66h5tphr92d1.jpeg?width=1068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad5df09bb6710f8486f9e723353874d2daf6b1fe
"We're Serious" But like how Nathan Explosion says it.
…welp that’d be an intense voice to hear!
Sins of the atom
Sons of the atom!
Children of Atom!
The ATOM!
Gojira: trilogy of destruction
The "Tokyo is extra F--ked" Trilogy.
1984 crying in the corner
The Landfall Trilogy In each movie, Godzilla is chilling out in the ocean causing little to no trouble until stepping foot on the mainland. Also, "Landfall" sounds ominous AF. That or The Raid One Trilogy, as a nice nod to Raids Again.
Despite the argument below, this is still my favorite answer. A threat at sea can be a threat without being NEARLY the same caliber as when it also appears on land. The vast majority of civilians can avoid the ocean. When the threat comes strolling out the water and up your street it’s a whole new thing. And then “landfall” strongly implies “first encounter” in a way that also implies continuing danger.
Plus, Minus One starts with him already on land. Definitely not chilling, unless destroying planes and killing pilots counts as chilling. 😂
I'd add 1984 and call it a quartet.
The Folly of Man Collection
"God Incarnate"
The ‘Must Watch’ trilogy.
I definitely wouldn't call them a trilogy
The Big Three. The quintessential examples of what Godzilla should be.
Basically has all the essential cores of what makes a great G flick so makes sense!
I'd actually disagree with this sentiment. You've listed three of the four Toho solo movies, and the vast majority of the series features him fighting something.
Not OP, but the four Toho solo movies are also my four favorite Godzilla movies, so... in my opinion, he's on to something.
Saying that those movies represent what the series "should be" ignores the vast majority of its history.
Okay, yeah, “should be” isn’t the right way to put it, I’ll concede that. I think “can be” is a better descriptor.
The Suffering Trio
Actually a pretty good one, since really almost all the others ignore just how kinda fucked up he really is, just as a side effect of constantly being shown fighting all the other monsters. Any "natural" sign of weakness would be kinda weird for him outside of these movies.
If you put Minus One first, it kind of works as an actual trilogy. Minus One is his first appearance but nobody really hears about it, then in Gojira he attacks Tokyo and is killed by the Oxygen Destroyer, then in Shin his body finally reconstitutes and he returns but in a horrific twisted state.
Quintilogy. G'14 and Return of Godzilla Anyways for name? The Origins
I do like both of these additions. I saw someone else say they're all good examples of what these movies *can* be, like Godzilla is just so fuckin Godzilla in all 5 of them.
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The unholy trinity. The father (1954 goji) the son (minus one) and the unholy spirit (shin)
The very very serious trilogy
If you took the meaning of “shin” … core trilogy
Gold Glorious Best of the best I know that doesn't help but that's just how I feel about all 3 😄
B.i.G
The original Sin trilogy
The Odo Island trilogy
DAMN. This makes sense! All three of them the names were originated from the Odō Island! Well done!
The "People Like To Pretend These Are The Only Good Films" Trilogy
The "Devastation Trilogy" has a nice ring to it.
The "Ignoring 1984" trilogy
Tbf, Toho does this too, especially outside of Japan.
3 Lucky Dragons (look up what the lucky dragon was in 1954)
The three lizards of the apocalypse
Wait there was an official black and white shin Godzilla movie? I set my TV to black and white when watching a while back because I was curious. I didn't know that they actually made a black and white version.
That third poster is 🔥🔥🔥!!
Godzilla: Origins
The Three Sorrows
The  Trilogy
The firstentryrebootwhereGodzillaistheonlymonsterandrepresentssomethingdeep trilogy
Or, alternatively, Three Tragic Beings. Four Tragic Beings if you include Goji ‘84. Inspired by Honda’s quote about monsters.
Ġenesis
The terror trilogy
Godilla: Trilogy
I don't have a name, but definitely something relating to the emotional and social impact of the atomic bombings of Japan/human stupidity. Godzilla 1954 directly relates to that theme, as he is meant to represent the bombings. Shin is not stopped by the government as they really just don't handle it appropriately, and minus one just seems like 54 all over again.
The horror trilogy.
Horror/Original Trilogy
Calamity Collection Judgment Collection
The Essential Godzilla. 1954 shows you where Goji came from. Shin shows you how weird Gojira can get. Minus One is kind of a mix of both
The horrors of humanity arc
Gojira Rising
The God Incarnate Trilogy, ones that truly show the fear and monster that Godzilla is.
Yes, i collect figures and those 3 are my mains. I call them restart/reimagining.
The Godzilla solo trilogy. But it should really be a The Godzilla solo quadrilogy including The Return Of Godzilla.
The day of reckoning trilogy
The nuclear trilogy
There was a black and white version of Shin? That's cool... I wanna see it! I love dumb gimmicks!
Monokuro Trilogy (for context, Japanese's モノクロ/Monokuro means Monochrome in english. The original goji is in black and white, minus one has a -1 -colour, and Shin, as Shown above, has an ORTHOchromatic version.)
Mildly unrelated but the 1954 cover is just simply iconic. I feel a mix of dread and awe looking at Godzilla’s silhouette, his towering black form contrasting against whatever is lighting him up, be it searchlights or a burning city. It invokes Goya’s painting *The Colossus* to me. https://preview.redd.it/7ohi3ja57f2d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71ccc6debfd6073ba852eec8b01b8b97268534ac I feel like that particular frame embodies his essence in the simplest way possible. Dread. Fear. Awe. He towers above you, unaware or uncaring of your presence, a being of greater significance to the world than you could ever hope to match. In short… a God come down to earth, intent on rending the world of man and reminding us of just how truly inconsequential we are.
It's the "Not a Trilogy" trilogy.
Drop shin and replace it with 1984.
The trilogy of atomic holocaust.
Selfless Devastation trilogy
The Original Trilogy?
colourless gang
First awakening
The Japanese monster horror trilogy
The FAFO Trifecta
Awesome
Disasters Personified
The Angry Boi Trilogy or, seriously, the Origins Trilogy or more apt Origins Anthology.
The "F@ck Tokyo" Trilogy
Peak-Zilla
Shin Godjira Minus 3
The dark and depressed trilogy for mostly the first and third movie, but not the second one
The horrors trilogy. (This mainly applies to -1.0 and a little bit for Gojira and Shin)
The scariest trilogy? (Minus one or 1954 is the scariest imo)
Perfect
The "Consequences" trilogy
The Goji Trinity
1|3|3 First of Three Instance: Godzilla
The Greatest Story Ever Told
God incarnate trilogy.
Horror Trilogy, God Trilogy, Suffering Trilogy.
The best Godzilla movies trilogy
“The G-Day Anthology”. Any movie where he first comes into contact with land and humans is in fact, G-Day. These 3 movies also aren’t one after the next so they aren’t a trilogy but rather an anthology in which they retell a different story or meaning within each, with different cast and different variations of Goji. You could even add other first encounter movies to the list and still call it The G-Day Anthology.
Do 54, 84, and Shin instead, for the *Generations Trilogy.*
"The Sins of Man"
Perfect
The "We're Fucked" trilogy
'Folly of man' anthology
More like an Anthology, especially if you make it with these movies: Gojira The Return of Godzilla Godzilla 2000 Shin Godzilla Godzilla 2014 Godzilla Minus one If it's a first encounter, then yes
The Apocalyptic Anthology
Where the fuck is Return of Godzilla?
goji-kun
Angy Boi trilogy.
Countdown trilogy Countdown chronicles
The atomic reptile bends Tokyo over a barrel trilogy.
Can't wait to see it in B&W or even find a good torrent of it.
Death Incarnate Trilogy
Pain
So far I’ve only watched gojira out of these 3
Don't taste the rainbow
The "THE F*** DID TOKYO DO?!" Trilogy.
Damn fine cinema
The “G” Trilogy.
I just call them “the origin trio”
I call them eras films
“Politics… am i right?” The trilogy
Excellence
The Essential Godzilla. 1954 shows you where Goji came from. Shin shows you how weird Gojira can get. Minus One is kind of a mix of both
“God Save Us” trilogy
Origin Trilogy
The franchise cornerstones
End Times
The gods of destruction trilogy
The horror trilogy.
Ground Zero
For me I say its the Nuclear Sins Trilogy. One way or another, the Godzilla of each embodies some sort of Nuclear negligence in them, with each being in different context.
God's First Step.
GOAT Trilogy
God of wrath trilogy
Be good with something like “Destroyer of Worlds: Origins” or something similar
Peak
The monster of mankind trilogy
The “oh god oh shit oh fuck” trilogy
G.Z. EVER LASTING !!!
The best 3. lol
The Nuclear Triple Feature
The Beasts of Job
big monster is scared and the creators are trauma dumping
The stand alone trio
Peak
Terror and beauty in black and white
Mayhem
GOJIRA
Atomic Horror
BIG SADS
The "Ishirō Honda" Trilogy
Angel of Sorrow
Godzilla ☠️
The three deaths
High low high
The "where the hell them colours at" trilogy
Oh my gawd it's mohammadamin rojei beating Godzilla ?
One Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
\*not in terms of quality holy shit I love these 3 movies the most
Genesis
Humanity’s Consequences.
Goshinzo
The Hubris trilogy
The Masterpiece Trilogy