Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 1 explained Axis Mundi as a different plane of existence, which the Titans used for traveling. However, this left many confused due to the parallels with Hollow Earth. This concept was introduced in the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong. So, what is the difference between the Hollow Earth and the Axis Mundi?
Godzilla’s Hollow Earth and Monarch’s Axis Mundi explained
While both Hollow Earth and Axis Mundi are parts of the Monsterverse, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters executive producer Tory Tunnell explained to The Direct how they are separate, independent concepts. Tunnell explained that Axis Mundi was governed by “its own rules.” Meanwhile, Hollow Earth played on the theory of undiscovered spaces in the Earth itself.
“They are, in some ways—It’s almost like different layers. We talk about Axis Mundi as almost being a cul-de-sac… And Hollow Earth being its own, truly in Hollow Earth,” Tunnell explained. “And Axis Mundi has its own rules. We obviously play with time dilation and the idea that it has access to these other monsters… But it is its own zip code, if you will.”
“But it is something where there are more mysteries within our own world than we know about… And that’s something that we’re continuing to mine in the same way that we’re, you know, we’re constantly told in the real world that there are things in the sea that we still haven’t discovered, or, you know, what else is out there in the galaxies far away,” he continued.
Tunnell further added, “And so I think that we’re always sort of playing with, what more can we do? What more can we mine and then stay within canon, but keep people excited and showing the depth of our world?”
So, Hollow Earth seems more like a physical space present within this realm. On the other hand, Axis Mundi is a space beyond the traditional concepts of time and space.
