Thread:Varg2000/@comment-3367060-20150314233540

Hi, if you've payed ANY attention to Wikizilla recently, you'd have noticed that we deleted our "The Zilla Name Change" article and changed the "Name" section of the Zilla page to say "The original 1998 incarnation of Zilla is called 'Godzilla.' Toho has declared any future incarnations of this character will be called Zilla."

This doesn't quite mean I'm okay with you going to Wikipedia to rename the Zilla page to "American Godzilla" since Toho has the rights to the character and has said any future appearance by him will be known as Zilla, but it makes you realize something... that this whole thing was pointless.

For you, you might be thinking "Haha! I was right," but neither of us were 100% right. See, while the Zilla name didn't apply to the 1998 character, it still IS the same thing, since Toho says the 1998 character will be known as Zilla in any future appearance, meaning the "American Godzilla" has no chance of ever returning with the name "Godzilla" other than, of course, things that predate this, like the 1998 GODZILLA film. So going by this, we call 1998 by "Zilla" since it's the same thing. I'm not trying to say here that the Zilla name change is real, but just explaining how the thing actually works, per from someone who officially worked with Sony people and KNOWS how the copyrights for Zilla works--Keith Aiken. (Who's also been nice enough to help Wikizilla on a few things! ^-^)

So, it makes sense to call the 1998 character by "Godzilla," you win there, since it is what he was and technically still is due to how Toho dealt with TriStar. But it's also right to call it Zilla since that is the character that subsequently replaced him.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/f/f5/Keith_Aiken_declares_Zilla_name_change_as_false....jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141101203548 