Personality. The Heisei Godzilla does not retain the heroic personality of the Second Generation Godzilla during the later Showa films, instead returning to the antagonistic persona of the original Godzilla. The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs.
Godzilla is the titular main anti-heroic protagonist of the Godzilla Heisei era. He was once a Godzillasaurus inhabited in Lagos Island before being mutated by a nuclear submarine. He grew to a massive 100 meter tall monster.
All things considered, however, the Heisei Godzilla disintegrated after defeating its opponent. Although powerful, it's still nowhere near the strongest Godzilla.
In his history, in fact, Godzilla has been both the villain and the hero. The King of the Monsters has been shown to have a certain degree of compassion for humanity, seeing their flaws and potential. In these traits, he saw a species worthy of protection and fought his 15 enemies numerous times to ensure our survival.
One of 2023's 20 best films. A surprisingly emotional melodrama bolsters what may stand as the most enjoyable Godzilla movie ever made in Yamazaki's call back to the nuclear creature's origins. Godzilla himself takes up only a slim chunk of a run time largely devoted to people running around in awe and horror.
GODZILLA: The Heisei Era Retrospective - A King Reborn & Transformed
Who does Godzilla hate?
The rivalry between Godzilla and King Kong is well noted within their established mythos, including and especially the current MonsterVerse canon, but there's one kaiju Godzilla hates far more than Kong (or any other Titan, for that matter): King Ghidorah - and there's only one reason as to why.
At the beginning of the film, he is annoyed at the intrusion of soldiers on the island, furious that the war is disturbing his sacred waters. Later, he is absolutely incandescent with rage, mutated into a behemoth, and seemingly, unable to die.
However, it makes no special effort to protect human life or property and will turn against its human allies on a whim. It is not motivated to attack by predatory instinct; it does not eat people and instead sustains itself on nuclear radiation and an omnivorous diet especially cetaceans and large fish.
Personality. Despite having wrought destruction worthy of any Toho kaiju, Mothra is almost always portrayed as a kind and benevolent creature, causing destruction only when acting as protector to her worshipers on Infant Island or to her egg, or as collateral damage while protecting Earth from a greater threat.
It's often mistaken as Pure Evil due to being made from the remains of King Ghidorah. However, Ghidorah's remnants combined with the AI and became its own conscience, meaning that Mechagodzilla is its own entity and doesn't qualify as Pure Evil off of it's connections with Ghidorah.
Now it is said that Godzilla does indeed have brains and this is according to the Heisei Series of Godzilla movies. In the movie Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla II which came out in Japan in 1993 is mentioned that Godzilla does have a secondary brain which is located at the base of the tail.
After absorbing excessive amounts of radiation, Godzilla's powers were boosted to new heights. With his enhanced strength also came a surprising side effect, turning Godzilla's usual blue glow when he is powering up into a vibrant pink.
The Godzilla from the Heisei era started as a rampaging villain, but later became the lesser of two evils, fighting off threats worse than himself such as King Ghidorah, SpaceGodzilla, and Destoroyah.
In 1954's Godzilla, he's a symbol: a horrific monster awakened by Japan's military ambition during World War II. He unleashes devastation that humanity has never seen before, and never wants to witness again. The American movies see him differently.
By extension, we have a problem with SpaceGodzilla. He was able to survive a black hole, alright. But if that was a matter of sheer durability, then we have to assume he's more durable than something that's so dense - the laws of physics may shatter in it. Something that no finite amount of force or energy can destroy.
Kong is portrayed as a tragic and sympathetic animal and lives a very solitary and difficult existence, constantly being attacked by the ferocious giant creatures that live on Skull Island.
Unlike Godzilla or Rodan - who are believed to be the exact same specimens that lived millennia ago - Mothra's life is cyclical. She hatches, enters her cocoon, emerges, lays an egg, dies, and is reborn.
Kong didn't bow before Godzilla like the other Titans did in King of the Monsters, and more than that, Kong is inherently a threat to Godzilla's kingship. Add that to the fact that Godzilla can feel Kong's every move with his planet-scoping power, and the ultimate battle between the two was completely unavoidable.
He can die. Every Godzillas died from events: like the oxygen destroyer, his nuclear meltdown, mechagodzilla, who kill Godzilla, but got revived by Rodan and even Spacegodzilla or Destroyah could kill him, but didn't. Even Hedorah's sludge melt godzilla's to his bones. His skin is not invulnerable to anything.
Godzilla roars in acknowledgement and respect for Kong, seeing him as an equal and a friend (same with Kong respecting Godzilla as an equal and a friend) before returning to the sea and disappearing beneath the waves as Kong and the gathered humans watch on, safe in the knowledge that the world is finally at peace.
The saddest monster death wasn't a death, per say, but it was framed as one until the next movie where we learned he survived. It was Godzilla himself from 1984/5, when he freejumps into a volcano.
First of all, one of the key reasons Godzilla lost was Mechagodzilla's energy-charged punches. He landed numerous hits on Godzilla this way, but Kong was fortunately spared these devastating blows.
