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“	Mothra, Queen of the Monsters.	„
	~ Dr. Ilene Chen (Godzilla: King of the Monsters)

Background

Mothra is a Titan who first appeared in a cave painting in the 2017 Legendary Pictures Monsterverse film Kong: Skull Island, was later featured in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and reappeared in the 2024 film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. She is the first incarnation of the character to appear in an American-made film.

A lineage of benevolent lepidopteran Titans, Mothra defended the natural world in the ancient past and was revered as a goddess by ancient human civilizations. Mothra possessed a symbiotic relationship with Godzilla, and aided him in battle against the extraterrestrial King Ghidorah long ago. In 2009, the scientific organization known as Monarch discovered Mothra's egg within an ancient temple in China's Yunnan Rainforest. She hatched in 2019, and subsequently escaped Monarch's Outpost 61 after a group of armed eco-terrorists raided it. Mothra cocooned herself under a nearby waterfall and emerged in her imago stage to help Monarch locate Godzilla so together they could stop Ghidorah from destroying the world. Mothra led Monarch to Godzilla's underwater lair in the Hollow Earth, where Dr. Ishiro Serizawa sacrificed his life to revitalize Godzilla using a nuclear warhead. Mothra joined Godzilla in Boston to confront Ghidorah, but the three-headed Titan summoned the winged Rodan to intercept Mothra. Despite being badly injured in the battle, Mothra incapacitated Rodan by stabbing him with her stinger. She then crawled onto the wounded Godzilla before Ghidorah could finish him off and defiantly flew at her enemy, who disintegrated her with his gravity beams. Mothra's energy flowed into Godzilla, triggering the final stage of their symbiosis in which Godzilla gained the ability to emit intense heat and generate pulses of nuclear energy which took the form of Mothra. In this empowered state, Godzilla easily destroyed Ghidorah once and for all, and took his rightful place as the King of the Monsters.

In the time after her sacrifice, Mothra posthumously gifted Godzilla newly heightened senses that allowed him to become aware of any disturbances or imbalances and react accordingly, which he then used to find a new home after his old lair was destroyed.

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Kong: Skull Island After their adventure on Skull Island, Monarch members Houston Brooks and Lin San showed James Conrad and Mason Weaver a cave painting of Mothra, along with paintings depicting Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah, as proof that the inhabitants of Skull Island were not the only monsters in the world. Mothra was entirely white in color and surrounded by worshipers in her painting. Godzilla: King of the Monsters While discussing the completion of her sonar device the ORCA, Monarch's Dr. Emma Russell and her daughter Madison overheard Mothra's roar from their dwelling built in China's Yunnan rainforest. Emma was contacted and told to report immediately to Outpost 61, the Temple of the Moth. Upon arrival, they were greeted by entomologist Dr. Tim Mancini, who explained that Mothra's radiation levels have suddenly skyrocketed after she was sleeping peacefully just before. As they entered an observation room overlooking a huge chamber, they witnessed Mothra's glowing blue egg begin to pulse and shift before a huge mass burst from it. Shaking the amniotic fluid from her body, Mothra's larval form finally hatched. Monarch attempted to put a containment field around Mothra, but their systems inexplicably shut down, as if they were being sabotaged by an outside party. Seeing the armed soldiers surrounding her, Mothra began to panic as the soft blue bioluminescent glow being emitted from her body shifted to a red glow. Mothra began to thrash about, spitting silk at the guards and grabbing one guard in her mouth before throwing him into a wall. Emma ran into the chamber with the ORCA and activated it, trying to use it to calm Mothra. As Emma struggled to find the right sonar pattern, Mothra became aggressive and began spitting silk at her. Madison ran into the chamber after her mother and watched as Mothra was bearing down on both of them. Fortunately, Emma successfully pacified Mothra with the ORCA, and her glow returned once again to the peaceful blue color from when she hatched. Emma and Madison were able to approach Mothra, and Madison placed her hand on the monster's face. Mothra blew air through her nostrils that blew both Emma and Madison back. This peaceful communion between man and monster was interrupted however when a bomb was detonated in the observation room. A group of armed mercenaries entered and gunned down most of the Monarch personnel, then absconded with Emma, Madison, and the ORCA. Mothra subsequently escaped the temple and cocooned herself under a nearby waterfall. In their quest to retrieve the ORCA, Monarch came to realize that Emma had been in league with the eco-terrorist group, led by Alan Jonah, and intended to use the ORCA to reawaken the Titans around the globe in order to restore balance to nature before the government could exterminate them. The first Titan they unleashed, King Ghidorah, proved to not belong to the natural order like the others and emitted a call that awakened all of the other Titans around the world. Each of these Titans responded to Ghidorah's call and began doing his bidding, converting the planet's ecosystem to his liking by causing destruction across the globe. However, Mothra did not respond to Ghidorah's call as she emerged from her cocoon in her imago stage. Monarch's Dr. Ling and Dr. Houston Brooks watched as the imago Mothra spread her glowing wings. Mothra made her way to Monarch's Castle Bravo underwater base, where Monarch and the U.S. military were discussing countermeasures against Ghidorah and the other Titans now that Godzilla was seemingly killed by the experimental Oxygen Destroyer weapon that failed to harm Ghidorah. Mothra emitted blinding white bioluminescence from her wings that parted the surrounding storm clouds and revealed her presence to everyone in the base. Monarch discovered that Mothra was using sonar to communicate and that Godzilla was responding from somewhere. Using her bioluminescent God Rays as a beacon, Mothra led Monarch to Godzilla's location. The submarine they were traveling in was pulled inside the Hollow Earth, where they found an ancient sunken city that contained Godzilla's lair. Dr. Ishiro Serizawa sacrificed himself to detonate one of the sub's nuclear torpedoes next to Godzilla, with the radiation revitalizing him and allowing him to fight once more. Mothra flew back to China to lay her egg (offscreen). Godzilla made his way to Boston to confront Ghidorah, supported by the military. Mothra arrived shortly after and assisted Godzilla by pinning Ghidorah's heads against a building with her silk attack. Godzilla tackled Ghidorah through the building, but before he could attack again Ghidorah summoned Rodan to support him. Rodan intercepted Mothra, and the two flying Titans engaged in an aerial battle across the city as Godzilla and Ghidorah continued to fight on the ground. The molten magma emitted from Rodan's wings burned Mothra's own, causing her to eventually lose her ability to fly. Rodan sent Mothra crashing into a nearby skyscraper, but she used her claws to knock him off and climbed to the top. Rodan flew back around and pinned Mothra to the top of the skyscraper, trying to stab her with his beak. Mothra dodged his attacks and used her stinger to pierce directly through Rodan's chest. Immobilized by the sting, Rodan fell backward down into the burning city below, shrieking in rage. When Ghidorah dropped Godzilla from the sky and seriously injured him, Mothra intervened by weakly climbing onto Godzilla as Ghidorah closed in. She spread her wings to shield Godzilla, then flew directly at Ghidorah who easily disintegrated her with his gravity beams. Mothra's energy floated down onto Godzilla, causing glowing orange cracks to begin forming in his skin. Ultimately, Mothra's energy provided Godzilla with a huge boost in power which caused his entire body to become covered in these glowing patterns and emit intense heat. Godzilla used his new power to finish Ghidorah once and for all. His dorsal fins sparked with energy as he launched forth a burning nuclear pulse of energy which took the shape of Mothra's wings and made the sound of her roar. This pulse incinerated both of Ghidorah's wings, after which Godzilla fired another pulse that melted his left and right heads. Godzilla stomped onto Ghidorah's chest as the energy inside him built to critical levels and exploded. When the smoke cleared, Godzilla emerged victorious from the rubble, holding Ghidorah's remaining head in his jaws. Godzilla incinerated this head with his atomic breath before being confronted by Rodan and the other Titans which Ghidorah had controlled. With Ghidorah gone, the Titans all one by one submitted to Godzilla, accepting him as the new King of the Monsters. Under Godzilla's leadership, the Titans became peaceful and helped to restore damaged ecosystems across the globe. Monarch also discovered a Titan egg inside of Mothra's territory, speculated to be either another Mothra or something else entirely. Godzilla vs. Kong At some point in the past, Mothra participated in an "ancient war," where she fought alongside Godzilla against one of Kong's ancestors and a giant Skullcrawler, as evidenced by one of the cave paintings found by explorers. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire During an expedition within the Hollow Earth to uncover the source of a mysterious signal, Dr. Ilene Andrews, her adoptive daughter Jia, fellow scientist Trapper, and conspiracy theorist Bernie Hayes happened upon the ruins of an ancient Iwi temple where they discovered murals of Mothra alongside an irrigation system. By following the irrigation system, the group discovered a hidden Iwi tribe and subsequently learned of a prophecy which purported that Mothra would return to help Godzilla save the world, and that she could only be awakened by an Iwi from Skull Island. As the Skar King's forces closed in on the hidden Iwi village, Jia, being the last of the Iwi from Skull Island, conducted a ritual which resurrected Mothra and allowed her to manifest back into her imago form between the Iwi pyramids. Unfurling her wings, Mothra immediately departed through the portal to the surface that Kong had earlier jumped through in a bid to secure Godzilla's assistance against the Skar King. In Egypt, Mothra and Jia arrived in the nick of time to prevent Godzilla from killing Kong, using pulses to knock Godzilla down off his feet. As Jia stood atop the Great Sphinx of Giza, Mothra appeared to communicate to Godzilla regarding Kong's intent on facing the Skar King, calming Godzilla into losing all malice that he possessed towards Kong as a result of Mothra's intervention. Now working together, the trio returned to the Hollow Earth to put an end to the threat of the Skar King permanently. After the Iwi used their gravity distortion technology to temporarily remove gravity in the region, Mothra rescued the HEAV from one of the Skar King's apes, since the HEAV had lost power as a result of the gravity distortion. Mothra proceeded to engage more of the Skar King's forces by bounding them in silk before witnessing Shimo freezing Godzilla, at which point Mothra inflicted an unknown form of attack on Shimo, allowing Godzilla to break free and continue fighting the Ancient Titan. Once the gravity returned, Mothra once again saved Dr. Andrews, Trapper, Bernie, and the Iwi Queen from falling to their deaths, catching the HEAV in mid-fall and gently returning it to the the ground. Godzilla and Kong later killed Skar King and freed Shimo of her enslavement, thus fulfilling the prophecy. In the aftermath of the battle, Mothra returned Jia to Dr. Andrews before restoring the protective wall surrounding the Iwi village with her silk. With the Iwi safe once again, Mothra proceeded to fly deep into an unknown region of the Hollow Earth with ambiguous intent.

General Information

Name: Mothra

Origin: Godzilla: King of the Monsters

First Appearance: Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Latest Appearance: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Company: Legendary Pictures, Toho

Creator: Toho Co., Ltd

Sex: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: Over Millions of Years Old (In Godzilla vs. Kong it's shown in an ancient painting that Mothra teamed up with Godzilla to overthrown the Kong species, where Godzilla has lived for over millions of years)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Yunnan Rainforest, China

Story Role: Monsters, Protectors, Heroes

Classification: Titan, Titanus Mosura, Queen of the Monsters, Master of the Skies

Species: Giant moth Titan

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Mutant Physiology

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Godzilla (Godzilla and Mothra share a symbiotic relationship, allowing them to telepathically speak with one another and locate each other over sonar waves), Kong, Humanity, Jia, Iwi, Suko

Enemies: King Ghidorah, Rodan, Skar King, Shimo (Formerly), Great Apes

Height: 52 feet/15.8 meters

Wingspan: 803 feet/224.8 meters

Status: Initially Deceased at the end of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Was killed by King Ghidorah after sacrificing herself to save Godzilla), Alive in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Mothra was revived due to a ritual carried out, allowing her to help out Godzilla and Kong)

Date of Death: End of Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Alignment: Neutral Good (Even when irritated, Mothra does not kill but merely restrain the humans attacking her, along with calming down once hearing the correct sound frequency, showing something was making her act irrationally, when revived in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Mothra goes out of her way to protect the humans from Shimo and Skar King's attacks. Noted that Mothra was the key to having Godzilla protect the world from Hollow Earth)

Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (When irritated and awakening she caused an earthquake that could be felt across the Yunnan Rainforest, China)

Codex Statistics

Key: Larva | Imago Form | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Grade: B (Mothra as a larva caused earthquakes across the Yunnan Rainforest, and was still considered a high level titan despite being in her larva form) | A (Mothra is considered the Queen of the Monsters, sharing a similar placement to Godzilla) | S (In her resurrected state, she could easily push back Evolved Godzilla and aided in his battle against Shimo, one of the strongest titans in the world)

Tier: At least 8-B | 7-C | 7-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least City Block level (Her awakening caused an earthquake that could be felt across the Yunnan Rainforest, China, with the effects resulting in around a magnitude 4 earthquake, putting her at around these levels of energy) | Town level (Her silk could harm and restrain King Ghidorah, fought against and killed Rodan. Considered the Queen of the Monsters, and should be comparable to Godzilla, where Godzilla has tanked repeated nukes, with it being noted they only used nukes on him that were in the kilotons) | City level (Mothra was revived due to a ritual carried out, where she should be stronger then before. Easily defeated random Kong species members and aided Evolved Godzilla and B.E.A.S.T. Arm Kong against Skar King and Shimo. Her pulse could push back Evolved Godzilla where Godzilla evolved to a state where his energy capacity increased by 20 times, where prior his atomic breath was noted to have an energy yield of 3.15 x 10^14 joules or 315 terajoules (75.3 kilotons of TNT))

Durability: At least City Block level | Town level | City level

Striking Strength: At least City Block Class | Town Class | City Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown. At least Class M with Webbing (Her silk could harm and restrain King Ghidorah, who can support its own weight, where it weighs 141,056 tons) | Class M (Can wrestle against and kill Rodan, who weighs 39,043 tons). At least Class M with Webbing | Class M. At least Class M with Webbing

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Through her sheer size she should be able to move at these speeds) | Unknown on foot, Supersonic flight speed (Kept up with Rodan in flight, who is noted to have supersonic flight, where at top speed, Rodan's wings can generate cyclonic drift streams capable of leveling cities, kept up with and outflew various fighter jets, and can create a sonic thunderclap as it flies) | Unknown on foot, Supersonic flight speed

Combat Speed: Superhuman | Supersonic, Speed of Light with Godrays (Mothra's god rays are a giant flash of light that are so bright it causes one to cover their eyes) | Supersonic, Speed of Light with Godrays (Her pulses are a flash of light that can blind one)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman | Supersonic | Supersonic

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Tens of Meters through sheer size (Noted to be around 52 feet or 15.8 meters), Hundreds of Meters through sheer wingspan (Noted to be around 803 feet or 224.8 meters)

Intelligence: High Animalistic (Mothra is able to conquer death through her asexual reproduction, being noted by the director of Godzlla that Mothra represents the eternal cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, with her being aware of this, with her memories being passed on genetically)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Her teeth are sharp enough for her to bite smaller enemies and either eat them or fling them around), Longevity (In Godzilla vs. Kong it's shown in an ancient painting that Mothra teamed up with Godzilla to overthrown the Kong species, where Godzilla has lived for over millions of years), Large Size (Building Sized; Noted to be around 52 feet or 15.8 meters), Enhanced Senses (Mothra has thermal vision, being able to see and sense thermal radiation), Accelerated Development (Environmental & Body; Mothra can force her metamorphosis to speed up at will, allowing her to fully grow to an Imago to deal with threats), Reincarnation (Self-Reincarnation, Memory Remembrance; Non-Combat Applicable) & Propagation (Mothra is able to asexually reproduce and lay an egg that'll let her be reborn, she uses this to conquer death, being noted by the director of Godzlla that Mothra never dies and that she represents the eternal cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, with her being aware of this, with her memories being passed on genetically), Extrasensory Perception (As Mothra's sacrifice gave Godizlla the ability to understands the scents of growth and decay, of health and sickness), Telepathy (Mothra has a psychic connection with the twin sisters born into each generation of the Chen family), Symbiosis (Godzilla and Mothra share a symbiotic relationship, allowing them to telepathically speak with one another and locate each other over sonar waves), Transformation (Permanent Transformation; Mothra undergoes a multi-stage life cycle), Breath Attack & Thread Manipulation (Mothra is noted to have silken web attacks, used normally to restrain people where her silk could harm and restrain King Ghidorah, who can support its own weight, where it weighs 141,056 tons), Sound Manipulation (Even as a larva, her screams produce a noticeable wave distortion in the air), Radiation Manipulation (Mothra awakening made her radiation levels go through the roof), Earth Manipulation (Her awakening caused an earthquake that could be felt across the Yunnan Rainforest, China), Consumption (Physical Consumption; The titans consumed radiation from the Earth during the time it's radioactivity was ten times it was now as a food source), Energy Manipulation & Power Bestowal (Mothra's sacrifice gave Godzilla new abilities he did not previously have before, along with her death giving him his Burning Godzilla state, where her wings can be seen within the fiery aura from his nuclear pulse).

Resistance to Radiation Manipulation (The titans consumed radiation from the Earth during the time it's radioactivity was ten times it was now as a food source)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent with the exception of Transformation (Permanent Transformation), Natural Weaponry (Has a massive stinger that she used to kill Rodan), Large Size (Seemingly same height as before, potentially smaller. Skyscraper sized in wingspan; Noted to be around 803 feet or 224.8 meters), Flight (Mothra with her 803 foot wingspan is able to fly freely through the skies), Light Manipulation & Weather Manipulation (Mothra is capable of releasing bright bioluminescent rays known as "godrays" which can disperse entire storms, they can blind the likes of Kong, Godzilla, along with Shimo)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Notable Techniques

Flight

In her imago stage, Mothra has massive wings which make her capable of flight. Her flight was notably hindered after her wings were burned by the lava dripping from Rodan's wings.

Thermal Vision

Mothra's larval form can sense thermal radiation.

Bioluminescence

Both Mothra's larva and imago forms can change color depending on her mood. When Mothra is angry or aggravated she turns red, and whenever she’s calm she turns blue with traces of aqua green. In her imago stage, she becomes able to emit powerful bioluminescent rays known as God Rays.

God Rays

Mothra can emit concentrated beams of beta-wave bioluminescence from the patterns on her wings. Mothra's God Rays are yellowish-white in color and are powerful enough to completely dispel storm clouds. While they produce blinding light, Mothra does not use her God Rays offensively and seems to use them like a beacon to communicate with Godzilla and lead Monarch to him.

Pulses

In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Mothra utilized pulses to break up Godzilla and Kong's fight in Egypt, at which are shown to be powerful enough to knock Godzilla down before he could kill the latter. During the battle in the Iwi civilization, the pulse was also able to phase Shimo, and caused her to cease her Frost Bite Blast on Godzilla.

Silk Attack

Mothra's natural defensive ability is to spit silk at enemies. Unlike past incarnations of the character, she can use her silk attack even in her imago stage. This silk is shown to restrain humans with ease when she first hatches and is strong enough to restrain two of King Ghidorah's heads long enough for Godzilla to recover and attack him again. In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire she uses them to restrain the Skar King's army of apes. Following the Skar King's defeat in Rio de Janeiro, Mothra used her silk to repair the wall surrounding the Iwi's Hollow Earth village.

Symbiosis

Mothra possesses a deep symbiotic relationship with Godzilla, which manifests in several ways. For instance, the pattern on her wings is meant to mimic Godzilla's eyes. Mothra is able to communicate with Godzilla over long distances through sonar and uses this ability to guide Monarch to Godzilla so they can revive him. Most dramatically, upon her body's destruction, Mothra's energy can enter Godzilla's body and provide him with a substantial increase in power. This manifests as Godzilla's skin becoming covered in glowing orange cracks and emitting intense heat, a state known as Burning Godzilla. In this state, Godzilla can perform his most powerful attack which takes the form of a nuclear pulse shaped like Mothra's wings that produces the sound of her roar. These nuclear pulses were what allowed Godzilla to finally destroy King Ghidorah.

Psychic Connection

Mothra has a psychic connection with the twin sisters born into each generation of the Chen family.

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Other

Standard Tactics:

As a larva Mothra has showcase mainly spitting silk at her enemies along with grabbing smaller enemies by her mouth and flinging them.

In her Imago form she uses her bright light to blind enemies along with her flight and stinger to attack while also shooting out her silk.

Weaknesses: Mothra's wings can be greatly weakened by immense heat being shot on them.

Note: The opening to Godzilla vs. Kong is admitted by Adam Wingard, director of Godzilla vs. Kong to have some overlooked things in the statistics, though he mainly notes that heights and weight statistics were overlooked, thus using the opening for the atomic breaths energy value is perfectly fine.

Trivia

• Mothra is referenced in an Easter egg in the first film of the Monsterverse, Godzilla. At Ford Brody's old house in Janjira, a terrarium with a cocoon in it can be seen with two labels attached to it that together say "Ford's Mothra."
  • Earlier in the film, during the sequence where the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant is seen collapsing from Ford's elementary school, a chart showing the lepidopteran life cycle along with numerous large paper butterflies and moths can be seen displayed in the classroom.
• Mothra's photograph in the first issue of Skull Island: The Birth of Kong taped on a map in Houston Brooks' office appears to plagiarize a fan poster by DeviantArt user edwardjmoran.
• The Monarch outpost where Mothra is being studied is Outpost 61, a reference to the release year of her debut film, 1961.

Early concept art design for Mothra, sharing some design similarities with the MonsterVerse Mothra

• This incarnation of Mothra possesses uncharacteristically long limbs and a more upright posture compared to past designs. However, these traits were present in Toho's early pre-production concept art design for Mothra from her debut film.
• The MonsterVerse Mothra's bioluminescent "God Ray" abilities, perhaps coincidentally, resemble an unused ability of the winged MUTO in the June 2012 screenplay for Godzilla. In this version of the film's story, the male MUTO, originally dubbed "Hokmuto," had the ability to produce a lightning like "shockwave" that generated aurora-light lights similar to the ones Mothra gives off.
• While Mothra is usually accompanied by her twin priestesses, the Shobijin, this incarnation lacks them. However, they are referenced through Dr. Ilene Chen and her twin sister Dr. Ling, the third generation of Monarch members and identical twin sisters in their family. Dr. Ling is shown looking up at Mothra as her imago stage emerges from her cocoon, and her hair is arranged in the same style of the Shobijin.
  • Likewise, while Mothra does not hail from Infant Island in this incarnation, she still possesses a link to this location. In the film, a photograph of Dr. Chen's mother and aunt, also twins, on Infant island in 1961 is briefly shown, while in Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization, Dr. Chen states that Mothra's name comes from Mosura, the name of a goddess worshiped on a small Indonesian island.
  • In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Jia fills in the role of Mothra's priestess similar to the Shobijin and is able to ride inside her like the Cosmos did in Godzilla vs. Mothra.
• Two characters in Godzilla: King of the Monsters define Godzilla and Mothra's ancient alliance in romantic terms, with Dr. Ilene Chen calling Mothra "Queen of the Monsters" and Chief Warrant Officer Jackson Barnes questioning if "they got a thing going on," though subsequently Dr. Sam Coleman explains it as a "symbiotic relationship." In addition, chapter 15 of Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization begins with a quotation from Hazrat Inayat Khan, foreshadowing Mothra's sacrifice:

Moth: I gave you my life.

Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

Fans have produced a great deal of artwork showing the Titans as a couple following the release of the film, some of which was retweeted by director Michael Dougherty. This pairing between the two is commonly called "GodziMoth" ゴジモス (Gojimosu) by Japanese fans and alternatively "MothZilla" by English-speaking fans.

• According to a tweet answered by Michael Dougherty, Mothra is represented by the Tarot card The High Priestess, which symbolizes intuition and arcane knowledge.
• A carving of Mothra can be seen inside the temple on Outpost 61 with two larvae.
• The S.H. MonsterArts figure of this Mothra appears to deviate slightly from the the character's design from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), lacking white fur and instead possesses smooth skin which ranges in color from light brown to orange. In the film itself she is clearly seen possessing white fur, with some orange fur on her forehead.
• In Godzilla vs. Kong, an episode of Bernie Hayes' Titan Truth Podcast is titled "Mothra Pregnancy Theory."
• As of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Mothra is the only Toho monster besides Godzilla to appear in two Monsterverse films (not counting carcasses or stock footage).
• She is the first Godzilla series monster to ally with King Kong aside from Godzilla himself. She is also the second Godzilla series monster to appear alongside Kong (except for Godzilla himself), the first being Mechagodzilla.
  • She was previously planned to appear alongside Kong in Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah.

Battle Records

2-1-0

• Rodan - Fight
  • Conditions: Mothra was fighting alongside Godzilla while Ghidorah fought alongside Rodan.
  • Location: Boston
  • Note: None.

• Shimo & Skar King - Fight
  • Conditions: Godzilla has help from Kong and Mothra, Shimo had help from Skar King.
  • Location: Hollow Earth to Rio
  • Note: Mothra several times during the battle helped Godzilla, such as when Shimo shot him with an ice blast before Mothra got in the way so Godzilla could break out. Godzilla also removed the mind control Shimo was under, making her join with Godzilla and Kong to defeat Skar.

• King Ghidorah - Fight
  • Conditions: Mothra was fighting alongside Godzilla while Ghidorah fought alongside Rodan.
  • Location: Boston
  • Note: Mothra was heavily weakened from her fight with Rodan along with Ghidorah being amplified by consuming Godzilla's electricity along with the electricity from a Boston power plant, without these in mind, Mothra could've stood more of a chance.

None.