Destructive Savior: If he's the protagonist, expect a major city in ruins.Geiger counters in his films reminds us about that when characters are looking for him, whereas other films, they happen to find him through random chance. Ishiro Honda has reminded us in his films that Godzilla is always has been a radioactive monster while non-Honda films glosses this over. His connections to nuclear weapons and how radioactive he is varies between plot to plot.Godzilla's origin varies in each film: He has been a prehistoric monster awakened by a nuclear bomb, a dinosaur mutated by a nuclear submarine, a sea creature mutated by dumped nuclear materials, a planimal, or he is just sort of there.Whether it's portrayed as a solid beam of light or more of a wispy vapour also varies between films.
The colors and power varies in each film, although it's usually blue. Breath Weapon: Each Godzilla is able to charge and fire radioactive plasma, originally called "incandescent light" but later renamed Atomic Breath, from their mouths.Shin Godzilla uses Terror's version (known as "Godzilla appears'') and the 1954 version in the credits. Each film later on uses the theme whenever Godzilla shows up, up until 2000 and as a remix for Godzilla: Final Wars. It isn't until 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla that it made its return, but it is used for Godzilla. Bootstrapped Leitmotif: The "Godzilla March" theme was actually intended for the military as far as 1954.He totally destroys everything and then there is a rebirth. He likens Godzilla to a Shinto "God of Destruction. Blue-and-Orange Morality: So says Shōgo Tomiyama, who denies that Godzilla is an evil being.Original and Showa: 50 meters (164 ft), Heisei: 80 meters (262 ft) in his first two appearances, 100 meters (328 ft) from Vs King Ghidorah and onwards Millennium: Your Size May Vary (but generally in the 50-60m range), Shin: 118 meters (387 ft), PotM: 318 meters (1043 ft), Singular Point: 45m at first, then eventually in excess of 100m. Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Each Godzilla's size varies.Fitting given him originally being an allegory for the atomic bomb and its destructive power. Atomic Breath, Nuclear Pulse, feeding on radiation, you name it. Atomic Superpower: Godzilla has always had this given his origin of being mutated by a nuclear blast.Anti-Villain: Whenever he is a Villain Protagonist, Godzilla is usually portrayed as not truly malicious but rather a destructive force of nature.Anti-Hero: His most common trait whenever he is not a Villain Protagonist.Godzilla is a towering behemoth (typically between 50 and 120 meters tall) that is impervious to mundane weaponry, breathes torrents of radioactive plasma, spreads lethal radiation in his wake, absorbs radiation to sustain himself rather than or in addition to eating meat, has a healing factor that lets him recover from severe injuries, is capable of fighting gods and Eldritch Abominations to the death and winning, and in several incarnations is named after and seen as the incarnation of a destructive oceanic storm-god by the inhabitants of Odo Island. Animalistic Abomination: Barring Godzilla Earth and Filius, most Godzillas are this, being mutated dinosaurs or, Shin's case, a sea creature.Although, this debate has mostly died down thanks to apocryphal writings penned by Godzilla co-creator Tomoyuki Tanaka, which heavily imply that Godzilla is indeed male. This translation quirk and statement has sparked fierce debate amongst some fans about whether the Big G is a male, female, or hermaphrodite as the creature has never once sexually reproduced on-screen (save for Zilla). The original Japanese films always refer to most kaiju with a genderless pronoun akin to "it" to reflect their monstrous natures, and not even Haruo Nakajima himself knew about Godzilla's actual sex. Ambiguous Gender: Believe it or not, Godzilla being male was an idea created solely by the English dub.Naturally, two prominent nuclear countries, the USA and the Soviet Union, aren't happy with this development. This is often the focus of certain films, such as The Return of Godzilla, in which the Heisei Godzilla is basically a lost, confused and hungry animal seeking nuclear power plants to feed on. Disregarding the 1998 film, however, Godzilla has never been shown to actually eat real food onscreen. Biollante had him eating meat (a cow and a fish-rat kaiju respectively), and he has sometimes been shown hunting whales. That being said, in the original film, the first Godzilla is said to have been devouring large schools of fishes at Odo island, removed scenes in both this and Godzilla vs. Alien Lunch: Godzilla's main form of sustenance in multiple continuities seems to be radiation, in spite of his sharp teeth.
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