Godzilla Minus Zero may be marketed as a conclusion, but its ending reads like a setup. Per ComicBook, the new sequel — promoted with the tagline that "everything ends here" — clearly lays groundwork for a third movie in the series.

That would track with the franchise's recent history. Godzilla Minus One closed in 2023 with a tease that ComicBook describes as generating more excitement than any other in the kaiju series' long history, pointing directly at the sequel that became Minus Zero. The 2023 film's ending hinged in part on the fate of Godzilla's heart following the monster's defeat — a thread the follow-up evidently picks up and, it seems, declines to fully tie off.

Marketing a sequel on finality while quietly holding the door open is a time-honored franchise move, and Toho's revitalized Godzilla line has earned the benefit of the doubt after Minus One's critical and commercial run, including its Oscar win for visual effects.

Nothing official exists yet on a third installment. But if Minus Zero's closing moments are as suggestive as described, 'everything ends here' may prove to be more tagline than promise.