ROTMONSTER ARCHIVE

Day 19: Favorite origin for Godzilla

The way I see it, there are three Godzilla movies that offer up distinct origins for the King of the Monsters: Godzilla (1954), Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991), and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001).

But I’m going to cheat and talk about the pair of drawings above instead. Unfortunately, I can’t read Japanese, so I have no way of knowing if these images (and others in the book) are meant to be canon. Oh well.

In twenty-eight movies, we have never actually seen Godzilla at the moment he was irradiated by the Bomb, and now I see why: because it’s absolutely heartbreaking. He had a family, and they were ripped away from him by a force he’ll never be able to understand, a force that by some quirk of genetics spared him but transformed him into a monster.

Oh, and one more thing. In Godzilla (1954), the texture of his skin was intentionally designed to resemble radiation burns.

In these drawings, his skin in smooth.

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