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Full spoilers for “Godzilla Minus Zero” follow.
For the longest time in the character’s 72-year history, the “Godzilla” films were surprisingly light on continuity. During the Showa era films produced by Toho Studios during the 1950s through the 1970s, the most common recurring characters in the movies were the kaiju themselves. When the Heisei era occurred between 1984 and 1996, they established a continuity that was a bit more contiguous, but not much. The Millennium era became even more piecemeal continuity-wise, with most entries using the original 1954 “Godzilla” as a starting point but erasing everything else until the latest film (similar to how the “Halloween” franchise continuity has operated before). Even the MonsterVerse films produced by Legendary Pictures function most similarly to the Heisei era in terms of continuity,
