TO GODZILLA MISSION FIELD OFFICE: Assignment. Citizen-submitted Hypothesis re: Monarch & Legacy

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To: Godzilla Mission Field Office, All Staff

From: Mission HQ [Deputy Director Vera Rowen]

Date: April 07, 02026

Subject: Assignment. Citizen-submitted Hypothesis re: Monarch & Legacy

Dear Field Office Team,

I am writing to share a thought submitted by citizen-scientist and supporter of Mission Kaiju_Love_Care_Futures_02026, :

Thought for the wonderful The Godzilla Papers:

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters focuses more on the human characters of the show instead of the Kaiju, specifically the descendants of Monarch’s founders, often creating drama around the characters’ dark sides.

A legacy is something that will outlast you.

The Kaiju are seemingly eternal, and therefore have no legacy.

The name doesn’t refer to the Kaiju, it refers to the humans. The humans are the monsters who destroy each other to rule the planet while the Kaiju just follow their instincts.

The humans are the monsters in the show (specifically Apex Cybernetics), while the Kaiju are simply caught in the crossfire.

-Eliseo F.G. McCarthy (find original note here)

While this mission’s artifact review is (for now) concerned with the Godzilla franchise films, Director Stevens and I believe that this inquiry is related to the research question, What might the future look like if humankind were to implement lessons from The Godzilla franchise about love, mutual trust and collaboration, anti-facism, the world, and ourselves?

We must also acknowledge the publicity surrounding Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters should bolster public engagement with this Mission.

You are to develop a special Field Report exploring McCarthy’s thoughts above. I suggest you conduct your analysis with the support of bell hooks’ all about love and the radical anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. This literature, paired with McCarthy’s thoughts, should provide you with the material to explore the following questions:

1. What place does legacy have (or not have) in our motivations to build a better future?
2. What can the Kaiju teach us about being responsible living ancestors?
3. How might the tensions between humans and Kaiju—as McCarthy describes—look different if our world were built with a love ethic, as defined by bell hooks?

Please submit this Field Report no later than May 24th.

Note: I received your request for money. No.