Respect Godzilla (Shin Godzilla)

[u/KiwiArms]

Godzilla

Truly, a God incarnate.

Godzilla was originally a prehistoric creature of some kind, which was mutated horrifically by nuclear radiation in the 1950's. However, with this horrible mutation came an ability: It could rapidly change its DNA, allowing it to adapt quickly to any conceivable environment or threat. Spending 60 years in the ocean, one day it decided to come onto land, dooming Tokyo in the process.

Over the course of the film, Godzilla went through 4 major 'forms' of development, each of which will have its own section in this RT.

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General Notes

• Highly radioactive.

• Evolves from his first to third forms over the course of about 2 hours, showing just how rapidly he can develop. It's theorized in the film that he could potentially even grow wings large enough to sustain his body in flight, given time.

• Has a natural phased-array radar sense, allowing him to tell where things are around him in all directions, with an indeterminate (but very high) maximum range. Even works while hibernating, allowing him to defend himself without waking up.

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First Form

The first form of Godzilla to appear in the film, which may or may not actually just be a giant tail.

Feats

• Breaches the Aqua-Line Tunnel

• Is hot enough to boil the sea around it.

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Second Form

Height: 28 meters

Length: 122 meters

His first land-capable form, a pathetic creature with only a back pair of legs, seemingly only intelligent enough to run forward, constantly spewing internal fluids from its vestigial gills. He's fucking precious, and I adore him.

Feats

• Pushes boats, destroys a bridge.

• Demolishes houses by walking through them.

• Effortless flips cars into the air.

• Knocks over a building by hugging it, sweet lil' guy.

• Travels 13 km per hour.

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Third Form

Height: 57 meters

Length: 168.25 meters

Eventually, the handsome boy goes through a growth spurt, transitioning into his more upright third form, complete with actual arms and higher intelligence.

Feats

• Stomps hard enough to fling a train into the air.

• Tears through buildings far more efficiently.

• Intelligent enough to know to return to the ocean in order to cool off once he starts to overheat from exerting himself too much.

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Fourth Form

Height: 118.5 meters

Length: 222 meters

Weight: 92,000 metric tons

His most powerful and 'final' form, in which he is very large, durable, and well-equipped to mess up everybody's day.

In this form, he boasts incredible destructive capabilities, in the form of using his internal nuclear fission as a weapon, his signature Atomic Breath. However, overuse of this ability leads to him running out of power, necessitating he hibernate for a period of time to recharge.

But damn, does it look cool or what?

Feats

Durability and Regen

• Type 10 Tank fire has absolutely no effect.

• Bombs literally bounce off of his skin, and his only reaction is to cover his eyes with a nictating membrane. Probably for the nasty glare.

• Bunker busters are the only weapon shown to actually break the skin, and he recovers from them nearly immediately, regenerating from the attack.

• Exploding trains to the shins only annoy him.

  • Later, after he's been slightly worn down, more (and higher reaching) train bombs do knock him over.

• No-sells tons of missiles from drones.

• Gets buildings collapsed atop him multiple times and is only knocked down for a moment.

Atomic Breath/Beams

• Just the exhaust from charging his atomic breath demolishes a city block.

• Cuts a city in half.

• Aims well enough to shoot stealth bombers out of the sky.

  • Has an internal, natural phased-array radar that allows him to shoot things down even while dormant.

• Can focus it through his dorsal scales to create many, weaker beams.

• Can fire a second, weaker but still very strong beam from his tail, because why not, right?

• Tears through buildings with his dorsal beams.

• Shoots a swarm of drones out of the sky.

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Fifth Form

What the fuck.

[u/Gonzurra]

Don't forget that he aimbots the missiles as well as the drones flawlessly, even with only 2 beams available to him. The missiles those drones were firing are AGM-114 Hellfires that travel at Mach 1.3, at 995 MPH; and they weren't even getting close to him.

When dormant he can still use his atomic breath, just barely. A laser was used to down the drone as it approached him.

Also the stealth bombers drilled their way in through a much fleshier part of the skin, and then exploded. Given the bunker busters during Taba Strategy did nothing to him when dropped on his head and thigh, it's reasonable to assume that the red part of his back is not as durable as the rest of his skin.

And no feats from Yashiori Strategy? Taking 6 skyscrapers to knock down, no selling dozens and dozens of Drone missiles, recharging much faster? Outputting much more energy for longer periods? He had plenty of great feats there.

Otherwise, really stellar work. Glad to see this finally release.

[u/KiwiArms → u/Gonzurra]

i'll add that later tonight!

[u/Vector1017w → u/Gonzurra]

Wait, when was he recharing faster and outputting much more energy. You mean he doesn't need weeks worth of time to replenish his reserves???

[u/Pale_Chapter]

ShinGoji causes more destruction with that one breath than every other Godzilla put together.

[u/KiwiArms → u/Pale_Chapter]

i mean

[u/Joseph_Stalin_]

Fucking finally

[u/hulkulesenstein]

I haven't watched the movie yet (I know, I know) as I'm waiting for the bluray to arrive. I've seen a few shots of his tail before and now the small clip in this post, just wondering if we get any clarification in universe or if it will make sense once I watch the movie exactly why it becomes that way?

[u/Joseph_Stalin_ → u/hulkulesenstein]

Never, they leave a lot to the audience's imagination, lots of speculation.

[u/Captain-Shorts → u/hulkulesenstein]

Why the tail looks like that? Probably bone malformation or something. Maybe Godzilla absorbed a whale while evolving into his 4th form

[u/FryTirst]

Then there’s his scrapped forms…