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This month, the KaijuKing answers more questions which have cropped up in the Godzilla series through the years in...

Seven More Baffling Things
About The Godzilla Series


Dear KaijuKing,

1) In "Godzilla 1985" they use a device that reproduces the sounds of a flock of birds to lure Godzilla to Mt. Mirhara to drop him in to it.  Why is this device never used again in future Heisei Godzilla movies since its the same monster?

The simple answer could be "the same reason they can not use the Oxygen Destroyer or the same reason they do not have ice cubes in Poland.  The inventor died and took the formula with him."  But it is most likely because all they wound up in doing was trapping Godzilla in Mt. Mirhara, not destroying him.  The Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria was a far more effective weapon, especially seeing that it had been working, until the Future Men showed up.

2) In "Godzilla vs. Biollante," why is there a model and photos of the Godzilla from "King Kong vs. Godzilla" in the office if Showa series (with the exception of the first film) dose not exist in this timeline?

There are many theories as to why these objects appear in this film.  One is the possibility that the first four Godzilla films; "Godzilla," "Gigantis the Fire Monster," "King Kong vs. Godzilla" and "Godzilla vs. The Thing," were all supposed to happen (Godzilla being finally killed by the Mothra larva).  This might also explain why the people of Japan have knowledge of Godzilla after the Future Men "removed" him from time.  The original Godzillas being two different creatures from the one in 1985.

3) "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah."  This movie could take up a whole "Ask Kaiju King" in itself, but I will ask the 2 most important questions of all. When Godzilla's timeline is changed, do all the people who died in the previous movies, "Godzilla," "Godzilla 1985," and "Godzilla vs. Biollante" come back to life or are the killed by King Ghidorah? Also since its later explained that the first Godzilla and the one that appears in "Godzilla 1985" are different creatures which one has been moved off the island the original or Heisei Godzilla?

I think that it is safe to say that the Godzilla that attacked Japan in 1954 and the one that arose in 1985 are two different creatures.  With that said then the Godzillasaurus that was "zapped" off the island in "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" was the second Godzilla which had appeared in 1985.  There is also a theory that the 54 Godzilla regenerated due to continued atomic testing and that it was in fact  a reborn 54 Godzilla that appeared in 1985.  However this would mean that when the Godzillasaurus was taken off the island then neither the 54 or the 85 Godzilla would exist (since the 85 Godzilla is just a regenerated 54 G).  Since it is clearly obvious in the film however, that people still know about Godzilla, then they must be different creatures.  as for how the changing of the timeline effects peoples lives, one can assume that all the people who were killed when Godzilla reappeared in 1985 would no longer be dead.  They of course would not know that they had in fact been dead in a different timeline because that timeline no longer existed.  In fact the only people who knew that Godzilla had ever attacked Japan in 1985 and 1989 would be the Future Men and the 20th century people who traveled back to the war.  Of course if Godzilla did not exist in 1985 then Biollante could not exist in 1989, which brings up the question of, "where did SpaceGodzilla come from?"

4) In "Godzilla vs. Mothra," if Mothra and Battra are the same just on opposite sides, why dose Mothra have to build a cocoon and Battra just morphs into its adult stage?

Because evil always takes short cuts.  Actually since Battra is linked to Mothra it would have no need to morph until Mothra did so.  Assuming that it could not detect the change until Mothra emerged from its cocoon, the quick change approach seems logical.

5) In "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla," why dose Rodan protect "baby" G if it goes and fights with the grown up Godzilla?

Certain species of  both insects and lizards have been known to lay eggs in the nests of a different species (usually destroying the original eggs first).  When the eggs hatch the new born either eat the surrogate mother, or are cared for by said mother creature and prosper.  It is suggested that this is what happened with the Rodan egg, and that Rodan was just protecting what it had considered one of its own.

6) In "Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, how dose little Godzilla get out of the crystal trap when he is shown free at the end of the movie before Godzilla himself gets back to the island?

Considering that this movies sucks, do we really care?!  Either Godzilla returns to Birth Island and frees him, or SpaceGodzilla's crystals dissolve once he is killed.  Now, can we never talk about this film please?

7) In "Godzilla vs Destoroyah," why dose only Godzilla get "super-charged" from the island and his sickness has no effect on Godzilla junior?

We don't really know if it had no effect.  When we last see Little Godzills he looks like the Pillsbury Dough-Boy on steroids, now, as Junior, he has grown immensely.  It may also be that Junior left the island long before Godzilla destroyed it.  Either way we know Junior cab absorb the radiation, otherwise he would not have absorbed the radiation released from Godzilla's "melt-down," and thus mutating into a fully grown Godzilla.


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