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Norway, formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordering with Sweden, Finland, and Russia. It possesses numerous island territories in the Arctic Circle such as Kvitøya, which makes an appearance in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as the residence of the Titan Tiamat before it is revisited in the graphic novel Monsterverse Declassified.
History
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) [name]
- King Kong (2005) [mentioned]
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Heisei era
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland was mentioned in a newspaper story about nuclear fuel supposedly being cleaned up from a crashed Soviet submarine in the Bering Sea.
King Kong (2005)
Seven years before the fateful voyage, Lumpy and Hayes sailed on a Norwegian barque, picking up a castaway who had visited Skull Island.
Monsterverse
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
By 2027, the aquatic serpentine Titan, Tiamat, had taken residence somewhere in the ice composing Kvitøya, where electromagnetic solar wind energy emitted from the Sun was stockpiling. Following Godzilla's departure from Spain, a Monarch submarine approached Kivtøya after its crew determined Godzilla's trajectory to Tiamat's whereabouts. With the intent of acquiring power in preparation of the return of the Skar King, Godzilla had arrived at Kvitøya and proceeded to drill a hole in the ice with his atomic breath. The blast aroused Tiamat out of her rest and burst from the bottom of the ice, challenging Godzilla to a territorial dispute over the island lair. The King of Monsters came out on top with his raw strength, forcibly slicing Tiamat into pieces with his atomic breath despite being constricted. Triumphant, Godzilla took his claim and encased himself inside the island off-screen. While absorbing the abundance of energy and incorporating Tiamat's DNA into his own to enhance it, Godzilla closed his eyes as Monarch monitored the plummeting plasma levels. Incomplete but nonetheless sufficient with his changes, Godzilla burst from the ice with a new look as a result of self-evolving.
Comics
- Monsterverse Declassified ["Tiamat"] (2024)
"Tiamat"
Jae Jørgensen travelled to Tiamat's former lair in Kvitøya some time after her death in a Monarch submarine, listening to Bernie Hayes' Titan Truth Podcast along the way and taking a sample of Tiamat's lingering blood. Hayes tied Tiamat to various legends and artworks from the northern Atlantic before stating he believed Monarch had covered up more modern Tiamat attacks and is not telling the full truth about their activities in Kvitøya.
In a flashback, Tiamat comes to her future underwater lair, discovering a pink substance leaking from it before being attacked by the starfish monster Abzu. Though Abzu put up a fight, Tiamat bisected it and claimed its lair for herself.
Hayes reveals that he has classified Monarch documents detailing that they had been aware of Tiamat's lair for four years prior and that they had sent a submarine to investigate, which Tiamat destroyed, though not before the sub discovered the corpse of Abzu and a Hollow Earth entrance. As Hayes begins talking about Tiamat's blood uniquely not decaying, Jørgensen's sub passed through the Hollow Earth portal to a Hollow Earth Monarch outpost, where she analyzed Tiamat's blood, confirming Hayes' suspicions as she stared at Tiamat's decapitated head in a giant tube full of the pink fluid.
Trivia
- Though Scandinavian folklore in general spawned the renowned Kraken, the earliest accounts of the creature originate from Norway.
- Likewise, the highly-reputed god known as Thor, whom Godzilla faces in Marvel Comics' Godzilla comic series as well as the upcoming 2025 comic Godzilla vs. Thor, originates from Norse mythology and religion.
- The crude oil tanker Susanne Onstad from the Norwegian Onstad Shipping Co. was used in the filming of 1976 King Kong remake.[1]
- In the Monsterverse, the Titan known as Margygr is named after a mermaid described in the Norwegian educational text The King's Mirror, written around 1250.
- Plenty of monsters in Norse mythology have influenced or even appeared in kaiju media, namely the infamous Kraken, having fought both Godzilla and King Kong at least once. The Ice Giant, a planned adversary of Gamera for the scrapped 1966-Daiei film Gamera vs. the Space Icemen, was designed after the Jotunn, a race of frost giants originating from Norse mythology. The 2022 Norwegian film Troll makes references to both King Kong and Godzilla.
References
This is a list of references for Norway. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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