10 "Final" Entries In Movie Franchises (That Totally Weren't)

There may be no more evocative, astonishing title than this one, and it is because of its audacity that perhaps the audience was foolish to ever believe it. What began in 1955 as Gojira became an international phenomenon. Godzilla battled humans, King Kong, Mothra, and any number of enormous threats to Earth's existence.

After eight movies where Godzilla battled greater and greater enemies, the ultimate battle finally arrived in Destroy All Monsters. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, and many others duked it out in the most spectacular monster crossover since Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. What could possibly come after a blowout that big? The series had to be over, right?

Not. Quite.

There were over 20 more Japanese entries in the original Godzilla series. That doesn't include the animated children's television series, the American adaptation from 1998, the animated children's television series based on the American adaptation from 1998, or the current franchise that began in 2014 and recently released Godzilla: King Of The Monsters.

So it seems that all the monsters were not, in fact, destroyed.