The Republic of the Philippines is an island nation in Southeast Asia, whose capital city is Manila. It is referenced and featured in multiple Godzilla films.
History
Showa era
Rodan
Rodan was sighted flying over Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
Heisei era
Godzilla vs. Mothra
After witnessing the battle between Mothra, Battra, and Godzilla in the Philippine Sea, Takuya Fujita and his ex-wife Masako Tezuka stayed in a hotel in Manila. While they were staying there, the Cosmos disappeared from their hotel room, as they had been stolen by Kenji Andoh and given to the Marutomo Company.
MonsterVerse
Bunker 09's old world map in Godzilla: King of the Monsters indicates that Monarch established an emergency bunker on Luzon in decades past.
Godzilla: Awakening
In 1946, a portion of the Shinomura creature was found near an island in the Philippines. It was later determined to be one of the creature's cells which could regenerate via radiation.
Godzilla (2014 film)
The collapsed strip mine in the Philippines in Godzilla (2014)
In 1999, Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham were summoned to the Philippines to investigate the discovery of a colossal skeleton under a strip mine. There, Serizawa identified the skeleton as belonging to a member of the same species as the creature known as Godzilla, the monster Monarch had been formed to study. Serizawa and Graham also discovered two parasitic spores attached to the skeleton, both of which appeared to be perfectly preserved rather than fossilized. However, one of the spores had burst open, and a large trail was left behind by whatever hatched from it, leading out to the Pacific Ocean.
That same year, at the Janjira nuclear plant, Hayato, one of the scientists, speculated that the earthquake readings they were getting were simply aftershocks from the Philippine earthquake.
Godzilla: Aftershock
By 2014, Monarch had set up an outpost in the Southern Philippines upon the exact site where the MUTO eggs were found. It was known as Outpost 14, codenamed Hollow Dark. Monarch scientist Emma Russell arrived there to review findings about the Jinshin-Mushi MUTO that Godzilla was currently combatting.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
After King Ghidorah calls the Titans around the world to awaken and attack under his command, a world monitor in Castle Bravo indicates that Typhon from Angkor Wat, Cambodia is attacking in the northern Philippines.[1] Another monitor later indicates that Typhon has since moved westward back into the South China Sea when the ORCA calls it to stop attacking.[2]
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