The New Monsters of GodZzilla

I'm pretty sure it's "Mutos", multiple. The reason they used the word in singular form is because they were talking about a specific Muto, the eight legged variant. It's also hinted that there are TWO Mutos, as heavily implied by the chibi figures' description. That being said, I'm pretty sure "mutos" is a word for "mutants" that the military uses to keep too much panic from ensuing. The word "monster" is usually a word attached to something negative, while the word "mutos" is vague, and can mean anything really. Here's an example: "In our fight against the Mutos, many lives have been lost." "In our fight against the monsters, many lives have been lost." Notice that the word Mutos can mean one of several things, the word "monster" isn't exactly the first word that comes to mind when you read that sentence, well it really shouldn't. In the second sentence, the word "monster" can really only be interpreted as one of two things, the worst type of people... Or, what most people would usually immediately assume, beasts of violent nature. That's my guess why they're using the word "mutos". But, to answer your question, instead of going off on another lesson about word choice, I'm pretty sure the other creature will be called a Muto. I believe the creature is going to be more reptilian in design, I don't think that Legendary would use a giant bug as a main opponent for Godzilla, they'd want something that looks more threatening. Maybe a mutated komodo dragon or something which would undoubtedly be called "Muto" as well, or maybe "The Lizard Muto". I don't think that in a real life scenario, we'd be giving names left and right to every monster that showed up. I'm sure we'd develop a class system, and maybe Mutos is a class of beast, a size. Sort of like they did with the Kaiju in Pacific Rim, but instead of a numbering system, they use words, and maybe Mutos, is denoted to something large. I feel that they call Godzilla "Godzilla" is because maybe some soldiers recall a legend about a creature known as Gojira, and it gets called "Godzilla" in translation when they try to alert the U.N. about the presence of the beast. I dunno. I'm going off on a tangent again. xD Sorry. I hope I answered your question to some degree.

I'm just excited to hear that the spiderish/Cloverfield monster like (as far as I've heard from people who've seen the 2nd Comic Con trailer) is named Muto. From the fan drawings of it, I'm not sure what to expect from this thing... and that makes me like it more. As for the other monster, seen in the leaked Comic Con trailer, it doesn't look like a centipede creature. From the body and feet/leg perspective given, I'm reminded of Randall Boggs from Monster Inc http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110426151053/pixar/images/8/86/Randall.png Now I'm not saying it would be a chameleon or anything, but I wouldn't doubt it being dangerous. After all, the 'skinny' Randall Boggs was able to take on Sully (a blue furred yeti basically).

Reminder to Everyone: The centipede creature in the leaked comic con trailer will NOT be in the film.

all some great ideas and Thank you for sharing, and yes to BCRockeTT94, that might not be out of the realm of possibility of the class system or the Reptile Muto. and to , True American Godzilla .the centipede like monster kinda is what I'm thinking about when they describe the released Muto spider drawing. I don't know why they would show a monster that won't be in the movie. I personally hope they bring back a old Classic Monster Godzilla has fought countless times, have them have a last epic duke off of the two and then the second monster comes in and try to take it's spot in the rumble. or the other monster might be a massive robot like Jet Jaguar.

Wraith, it was test footage. They just wanted to get people excited for the movie, but they didn't start filming when they released the test footage at San Diego Comic Con 2012. That footage was edited to display a different looking creature, which people describe as being grey, and looking like one of the bugs from Starship Troopers and the cloverfield monster in one.

Okay, here are my own ideas for the second monster to face the New American Godzilla: 1: A monster that employs the bio-luminescent lure trick used by real deep sea fish to draw in prey. 2: A monster sized 'Bobbit Worm', aka deep sea predatory worm that (in our real life/know counterpats) are big and tough enough to eat fish! 3: Some kind of parasitic creature (to do damage from the inside to defeat Godzilla). 4: A deep sea version of a megalodon.

Oh I didn't know that BCRockett, thanks for that slice of info. and i think a megalodon might be a challenge for Godzilla ,because of Megalodon's sheer natural size and rows and rows of ridiculously large and sharp teeth. but if we wanna discuss realistic sea monsters for him to box, why not Godzilla take on something like a giant squid or another sea based Dinosaur like him(or what ever he will be in this one) or have him fight another Godzilla, like fighting for territory or a natrual food source, . that would be some thing to think about.

Like you, no idea on what Godzilla is going to be mutated from (to me, nor what geneder. I've read that in the deep sea it's the females who's bigger). I do have a realistic monster to threaten Godzilla. 1: Kaiju-fied Deep Sea Crab. With their tough shell, this fella could take a beating. Particularly if it lived near a Hydrothermal Vent before mutation so as it can withstand high heat!