{"id":410267,"date":"2026-05-03T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410267\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:41:11","slug":"monarch-legacy-of-monsters-time-travel-changes-the-monsterverse-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410267\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Time Travel Changes the Monsterverse Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters<\/a> Season 2 has officially embraced time travel. Monarch Season 2\u2019s ending<\/a> went full-circle, with Titan X returning to Skull Island<\/a> for a face-off against Kong himself. Where other Monsterverse films focus on the spectacle, though, Monarch used this to explore the franchise\u2019s real villains; human beings. In the aftermath of G-Day, the world is still struggling to figure out whether it\u2019s possible for humanity and Titans to coexist.<\/p>\n

Step forward Isabel Simmons, a trust-fund baby with her own ideas. She\u2019s pieced together reports on the Axis Mundi<\/a>, and she has theories for how it can be used. A mysterious realm accessed by the Titans, Monarch Season 1 revealed anyone trapped there experienced time dilation; if you spent a day there, it could be equivalent to a year in the real world. But Season 2 revealed there\u2019s so much more to the Axis Mundi than anyone thought.<\/p>\n

The Axis Mundi is the Key to Time Travel<\/p>\n

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Monarch Season 2 initially reinforced the \u201ctime dilation\u201d theory of the Axis Mundi, finally revealing why Cate and Kentaro\u2019s father Hiroshi Randa had gone missing for a year after G-Day<\/a>. It seems he\u2019d stumbled into the Axis Mundi and spent a day there, emerging a year later unaware of the time dilation. But attentive viewers immediately noticed the problem with this, because other characters \u2013 notably Lee Shaw and Keiko Randa \u2013 had spent time in the Axis Mundi as well, and they\u2019d experienced time dilation at a different rate. Something wasn\u2019t adding up.<\/p>\n

Monarch Season 2, episodes 6 and 7 finally explained this. Attempting to find Godzilla, Lee opened another rift to the Axis Mundi \u2013 and stumbled on a transmission from his past self. The two versions of Lee wound up working together, with the 1962 Lee planting a tracker on Titan X decades before it awoke. Lee\u2019s memories then adjusted themselves in the present, compensating for the changes he\u2019d made, and an old tracker was suddenly detected on Titan X. History had, to an extent, been rewritten \u2013 although in a minor way.<\/p>\n

The Axis Mundi Can Be Used To Rewrite History<\/p>\n

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Isabel Simmons doesn\u2019t know about Lee\u2019s experience, although she has theorized that time travel is possible through the Axis Mundi. She\u2019s toying with two plans at once, and it\u2019s unclear which one she\u2019ll settle on. The first, pitched to Kentaro, involves rewriting the past so G-Day never happened. This would erase vast chunks of the Monsterverse timeline, save countless lives, and mean the existence of Titans remained a secret. It\u2019s easy to see why Kentaro was drawn to the idea, believing it would save his father\u2019s life too.<\/p>\n

But Isabel\u2019s second goal is a little more dangerous. She seems to believe it\u2019s possible to travel back and forth in time via the Axis Mundi, tossing out the idea of \u201cvisiting the future.\u201d More, though, she also imagined selling access to the Axis Mundi as a sort of \u201cfountain of youth.\u201d She envisioned a world where wealthy people with terminal diseases could buy access to the Axis Mundi, where they could wait until a cure had been found. It\u2019s phlanthropy mixed with greed \u2013 but it\u2019s also impossible.<\/p>\n

Lee Shaw Proves Isabel\u2019s Plans Won\u2019t Work<\/p>\n

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To understand any time travel story, you really need to be familiar with the idea of a paradox. The most famous is the so-called Grandfather Paradox, and Isabel has unwittingly stumbled into a variant of this. Imagine a scenario where a time traveler steps back in time and kills their own grandfather before their father\u2019s birth; they would have effectively erased themselves from the timeline. But that would naturally mean nobody existed to travel back and commit the murder in the first place. Different time travel franchises imagine different outcomes from this, but all agree; a Grandfather Paradox is a bad thing.<\/p>\n

If Isabel travels back and prevents G-Day happening, then everything since will be unwritten as well. Importantly, that means the lessons about the Axis Mundi will never be learned, and Isabel will never theorize time travel is possible. In some time travel franchises, this would create a branched timeline. But Lee\u2019s experiences suggest we\u2019re not dealing with a multiverse here. Rather, we have a single coherent timeline that adjusts itself around time travel. Isabel is about to crash head-first into the Grandfather Paradox.<\/p>\n

We have no idea how the Monsterverse\u2019s timeline would react to something like the Grandfather Paradox. In some franchises, only smaller things can be changed, simply to prevent anything like this happening. In others, time only has a limited degree of resilience to changes, and Isabel would destroy the entire timeline if she managed to create a paradox on this scale. Whatever the truth may be in Monarch, the odds are good that Season 3 will reveal it.<\/p>\n

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