ABSTRACT
In a plotline more complicated than Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, in the 1991 movie Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (eighteenth in the series of Godzilla Kaiju movies, and the fifth time Ghidorah the three-headed serpent monster appears), time is loopy — literally — and history collapses all over the place. 1 Emissaries from the future, aptly called ‘The Futurians’ appear in 1991 Japan to warn of the country being destroyed by Godzilla. The only solution is to time-travel back to 1944 to destroy the beast. Godzilla, which made its first appearance on the island of Lagos during the Pacific War, however, inadvertently saves Japanese soldiers from American forces, and becomes a friend to the Japanese. The Futurians, as it turns out, are not who they claim to be — they lie about the Japan of the future (which became all powerful rather than being destroyed), and aim to subjugate the nation by unleashing King Ghidorah to kill off Godzilla (Tsutsui 2004). The visitors from the future are false prophets, and history is a lie. Truth is in fact located in the past, and in 1944, among patriotic Japanese soldiers before the humiliating defeat and surrender of Japan in 1945.
