Out of all of the cinematic universes from the 2010s, no one expected Godzilla and Kong to be the one to reign supreme at the box office this year.

What can I say? People like to see giant monsters fight.

But do you know what would make that even better?

These giant monsters fighting giant robot mecksuits.

And that, my friends, is exactly where the monster verse is headed.

Hello internet, welcome to film theory, the show that wants you to take a kaiju-sized bite out of that subscribe button. So after struggling a bit during the past decade, Godzilla's been having a really big year, huh?

Fan-driven projects like Unknowingly's The Man in the Suit have been blowing up on YouTube.

The Japanese film Godzilla Minus One was a huge hit and won the franchise,

its first Oscar. Monarch of Legacy of the Monsters was one of Apple TV's biggest hits last year,

and the latest Monsterverse movie Godzilla Kong, the New Empire, is the second biggest movie

of the year so far, leaving audiences chomping at the bit for more. And hey, I get it. When your

movie features a giant

monkey with a robot arm, fist fighting a dinosaur lizard that eats radiation on the

pyramids of Giza, it's kind of hard not to be a crowd pleaser. No doubt. Godzilla and Kong

are having a moment in pop culture, and everyone involved is tripling down on it. The team

behind minus one have started work on another film, Monarch is moving ahead with a second season and multiple spin-off shows,

and most importantly for us today, Hollywood is hard at work on a script for the follow-up to Godzilla Kong, and that is exciting.

I love these big dumb movies about Big Dumb Monsters Fighting, so any chance we get to talk about them? I'm in.

We've done shorts about

Godzilla Kong, we've made officially licensed Godzilla Kong apparel. It's high time we revisit

this series with a good old-fashioned theory, a prediction about what's to come. Because let me tell

you, there are so many hints in this latest movie about their future plans that based solely

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