u/DinoBoy2005

I know, this is kind of a tired talking point by this point, but this isn’t about “Ghidorah being introduced too early”, it’s about the tone and the way it’s written, because I can’t help but feel like KotM’s tone is just… *odd* compared to the rest of the MonsterVerse, especially when you consider where it is in the timeline.

With all of the callbacks, fanservice moments, and the apocalyptic tone and stakes. Not to mention the “dawn of a new era” nature of the ending, KotM honestly feels like a grand finale to a much larger series. Tell me it doesn’t. I dare you.

Case in point, Seriezawa’s death. The way it plays out makes it seem like it’s meant to be an epic, emotional sendoff to a beloved franchise mainstay… and this is his second ever appearance (and in his first appearance, he didn’t even have a major role).

All of that combined means it feels kinda weird to look at KotM and find that it was never even intended to be the final entry (even when it was first greenlit, Godzilla vs Kong was greenlit at the same time and was always planned to come out after KotM).

Heck, it’s not even that hard to rewrite it in a way where GvK happening before KotM makes sense. Just have the Ghidorah skull that Apex uses be a fossilized head that was torn off during Godzilla and Ghidorah’s clash in prehistoric times. Even better, when Ghidorah overtakes MechaGodzilla and makes it go rogue, it’s a perfect way to foreshadow Ghidorah’s threat level and herald how big of a menace he is in KotM, especially when you consider how violently Godzilla reacts to it. Then The New Empire could have come after King of the Monsters, functioning as a sort of “breather episode” before the next story arc (Which seems to be about SpaceGodzilla) begins.

That could creat a more coherent narrative that fits the cinematic universe the MonsterVerse is meant to be.

What do you guys think?

(Previous Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBYcritics/s/h2zFDgfgSh)

Okay, before we get started, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Yes, it is indeed me; Dinoboy225. It’s the same guy. What happened to my old account? A ton of stuff that I don’t feel like explaining right now, mostly involving me getting frickin’ hacked and impersonated. Bottom line; My old account got deleted, but I’m back, and I’m not letting no stupid Reddit drama get in my way!

Anyways, the Grimm. In all honesty I think the Grimm in canon are one of the few consistently good things in the show, they have cool designs, their fights are pretty cool, and a lot of the ideas behind them can be really neat, namely the Apathy and the Nuckelavee. It certainly helps that they’re not human and were made from the ground up to be vicious monsters, meaning that there’s no real character to ruin them or any horribly written backstory to get in the way. Plus, it allows the heroes to tear them to shreds with sadistic abandon without anyone feeling bad about it!

That said, I do have some issues with them. For one they are terrible at being a threatening force. Ever since the Red Trailer, the heroes slaughter them en masse without any effort, and most new variants of Grimm, while cool, are introduced and then promptly die in the same scene.

So, in my rewrite, it’s only natural that I expand more on them, namely by giving them more variations and making them feel like more of a threat.

Now I won’t go too far in this direction, they are ultimately Mooks after all, and none of the main characters end up biting the dust because of a random Grimm lol, but it should absolutely be more of a challenge to take them down. Each Grimm has a different way of doing this. For example, Beowolves tend to overwhelm people with sheer numbers, tiring them out or pressuring them until they make a mistake. Namely, in my rewrite, Ruby is the only one who can reliably take down hordes of Beowolves by herself, in fact, she wears her slaughter of them in the Red Trailer as a point of pride specifically because it’s so notoriously hard to do. While none of the other characters are slouches in this department, they still have a limit of how many Grimm they can handle at once.

In Volume 2, Oobleck suggests that Grimm get smarter with won battles, and I would definitely play into this more. They learn their opponents and figure out how to counter them. For example, try to keep your distance and shoot projectiles? The Grimm start throwing rocks and stuff at you to keep you on your toes long enough to close the distance.

Another way I’d get around this is by forcing the heroes to get smart. In canon, the Grimm all too often just get overpowered and killed with brute force or sometimes with Silver Eyes. In my rewrite, the heroes are usually forced to get creative in order to best them. The best part is that doing this pulls quadruple duty; By forcing the heroes to get creative when killing them, I not only make the Grimm look like more of a threat, but it makes the heroes look cooler, and I get to come up with more creative kill methods! It’s a win/win/win/win!

Now as for my ideas for other Grimm variants, I have way too many ideas to list here, so you’ll just have to actually read my rewrite to see all of them lol. (which you can do here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4074376) In the meantime I’ll just list three.

The Gidora (pronounced He-Dora): A three-headed dragon that can breathe fire from its mouths. It can also fly, making it a deadly threat to huntsmen caught off guard.

Thunderbug: Named for the rumbling noise it creates by burrowing, the Thunderbug is a burrowing Grimm, popping out of the ground to ambush its prey, and often creating sinkhole traps to trip up huntsmen.

Omniclaw: A hermit crab like Grimm with spider legs and pincers on each one. It’s tough shell is impervious to pretty much anything thrown at it, meaning that the only way to effectively defeat it is to somehow trick it into stabbing itself to death with its own pincers.

New species aren’t the only idea I got. Remember how Roman was stealing a bunch of dust in the Beacon Era? Well there’s a reason why now: Salem uses it to experiment on her Grimm. Augmenting them with elemental powers to make them even more dangerous.

I would go more into detail with their backstory, but I believe I already did that with Salem’s post, so you can just go back and read that, since it’s the previous post and all.

Anyways, that’s all I got for now. See ya!