History Recap / MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E3SecretsAndLies

* Another mild example, the scene where the military attempts to blow up Godzilla differs from the opening of ''Film/Godzilla2014'' which showed the bomb going off just as Godzilla is rising out of the water while in the episode Godzilla rises fully out of the water and has time to roar and curiously observe the bomb before it detonates.

** To a lesser degree it also differs from the opening of ''Film/Godzilla2014'' which showed the bomb going off just as Godzilla is rising out of the water while in the episode Godzilla rises fully out of the water and has time to roar and curiously observe the bomb before it detonates.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Despite her cold, Terminator-like exterior, Duvall sticks her neck out for Tim in front of a superior so that she can keep her partner with her.

%%* GeneralRipper: General Puckett.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Creator/MirellyTaylor[='s=] character doesn't pull her punches much when chiding Tim for gallivanting after Bill Randa's files on his and Duvall's own without getting clearance or telling any higher-ups, but nothing she says is wrong at all, and she's right to scold him for his unprofessional and un-orderly conduct which has arguably exacerbated the situation.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bill and Keiko are horrified that theirs and Lee's decision to present the U.S. military with hard proof of a gigantic Titan's existence prompted the military to [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated seemingly]] wipe it off the face of the Earth before they even knew if it was an active threat. {{Subverted|Trope}}, as the audience knows that Godzilla survives the military's atomic bombing none worse for wear (and might have even been strengthened by it in the long term), and the military are so horrified by the existence of Titans that they afterwards grant Monarch the unlimited funding it needs to operate globally on the scale that it does by the 21st century.

* OhCrap: Du-Ho freaks out and immediately makes a beeline back for his own plane the moment he sees the Frost Vark's claw-marks and realizes that there's a giant, plane-downing monster up on the Alaskan mountain with the cast.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Discussed by Kate and Shaw on the plane. Shaw attempts to convince her that her father's double life with Monarch was a secret, not a lie, prompting her to counter with this exact phrase. The scene immediately after this shows his reasoning; after sharing the existence of Titans with the military directly led to the attempt to nuke Godzilla, he, Keiko and Randa reason that they're not lying if they withhold information about Titan discoveries, tey're just keeping a secret.

* PerpetualStorm: {{Implied|Trope}}. After Cate mentioned in Episode 1 that Hiroshi's missing plane disappeared in a storm in Alaska, Du-Ho's plane when pinpointing that location hits a turbulent lightning-storm, which requires Lee Shaw to use his {{ace pilot}}ing skills to get them through it in one piece, coming upon the Frost Vark's remote territory, which is also where Hiroshi's plane has been all this time, moments after coming out on the storm's other side.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: The nuclear bomb used for the Castle Bravo test had a blast yield of 15 megatons -- a much larger explosion than what's shown in the episode. At the distance they are from the blast, the characters should've been swept away by the shockwave or other effects of the bomb's detonation.

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%%** "They're an existential threat to global security."

* LanguageBarrier: Lee when he ends up talking to the wrong customs officer in South Korea. Apparently, the customs officer doesn't speak English and Lee doesn't speak Korean.

%%* MeaningfulLook: Bill and Keiko at Biki Atoll.

** A mild one. Dr. Graham's wording in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' indicated that most if not ''all'' of the atomic bomb tests in the early 1950s were geared towards trying to kill Godzilla. This episode however implies that the iconic Bikini Atoll test in 1954 was the first if not ''sole'' attempt geared towards ending a Titan's life.

* AgeCut: {{Inverted|Trope}} by the MatchCut from old Shaw in the present to young Shaw in 1954.

* DramaticIrony: Shaw, Bill, Keiko and Puckett all assume that exploding Castle Bravo point blank in Godzilla's face kills him, whereas the audience [[Film/Godzilla2014 is well aware of just how easily he can withstand the blast.]].

* SeriesContinuityError: A mild one. Dr. Graham's wording in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' indicated that most if not ''all'' of the atomic bomb tests in the early 1950s were geared towards trying to kill Godzilla. This episode however implies that the iconic Bikini Atoll test in 1954 was the first if not ''sole'' attempt geared towards ending a Titan's life.

* DramaticIrony: Shaw, Bill, Keiko and Puckett all assume that exploding Castle Bravo point blank in Godzilla's face kills him, whereas the audience[[Film/Godzilla2014 is well aware of just how easily he can withstand the blast.]].

* LikeASonToMe: Lee quite passionately says as much about his [[HonoraryUncle honorary nephew]] Hiroshi, and that it's the reason he's invested in helping May and the Kentaros find out what happened to him.

* DramaticIrony: Shaw, Bill, Keiko and Puckett don't know that the Bikini Atoll bomb [[Film/Godzilla2014 will fail to kill Godzilla point-blank]].

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** Graham also notes that the military first became aware of Godzilla thanks to an incident with a nuclear submarine. Hear, no mention of this is made, and the first evidence discovered of his existence is a footprint.