The end of season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has opened a new front of debate among Monsterverse followers. The series places Rodan in Thailand in 2017, two years before his supposed awakening in the Mexican volcano of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The appearance of Lee Shaw investigating a crack in Axis Mundi suggests that the creature was not asleep, but traveling between dimensions.
How a dimensional rift breaks the Monsterverse timeline 🌀
The mechanics of Axis Mundi, introduced in the series as a connection point between realities, allows explaining Rodan's presence in Asia without fully contradicting the film canon. If the monster used these fissures to move, its appearance in Thailand would not be an awakening but a transit. This forces the writers to adjust the timeline, since in the 2019 film it is stated that Rodan had not been seen for centuries. Season 3 will need to define whether these rifts are stable or if they generate paradoxes.
Rodan, the awkward tourist who didn't know he was on vacation 🦅
One understands that Rodan wants a change of scenery. Being locked in a volcano for centuries must be boring, even for a nuclear pterosaur. But traveling to Thailand in 2017 and then returning to Mexico to act surprised in 2019 is a bit tricky. Either the creature has dimensional jet lag, or Monarch urgently needs a GPS for titans. Meanwhile, fans will keep doing finger calculations to square the dates.