History Film / ShinGodzilla

* BreathWeapon: Godzilla, of course, has his Atomic Breath, but it doesn't use it until it's injured by the MOP bombs, and it starts out very differently. At first, Godzilla bends over until it's facing the ground and jets out [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shingojifirstbreath.png a thick cloud of dark grayish-purple smoke]]. The smoke then ignites, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shingojisecondbreath.png acting like a flamethrower]] and incinerating several square miles of Tokyo at once. Finally, Godzilla [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shingojithirdbreath.png focuses the flame jet into a narrow, bright purple beam]] that's capable of slicing through anything in its path. After emitting this beam for a while, it returns to the flame jet and then shuts it off completely before going dormant. Later on, Godzilla goes straight to the purple beam, but it [[spoiler:steadily loses the ability as his internal reactor starts shutting down]]. The different forms of the atomic breath are possibly a reference to the different presentations of it, with the older Showa films depicting it as a stream of fire while the later films, such as ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', depict it as a long-range beam.

** Finally, the United Nations--mostly led by the Americans--issue an ultimatum to nuke Godzilla with the highest-megaton bomb they have, obliterating Godzilla... and Tokyo and its environs, along with the possibility Godzilla might just reform and use the resulting fallout to ''get even angrier''. It's stated that it's both a coverup to erase the mistake the Americans caused in the first place, and out of sheer desperation when UN estimations show a possibility of Godzilla going international (after Godzilla has already wiped half of Tokyo out). The American officials on-the-ground in Japan lament that the UN's timetable (two weeks) isn't enough to fully evacuate a massive city when the Japanese government is in shambles and resources are already tapped out, and when the research team successfully stalls the UN's timetable, the American military helps the operation by sending in a drone fleet to distract Godzilla and sending Marines and other ground forces to help the GSDF. It's also made clear that the Americans are being pressured into taking this course of action with the implied threat that if they don't do it themselves, Russia or China will.

* BreathWeapon: Godzilla, of course, has his Atomic Breath. This time at first it's a 3 part attack. In the first part, Godzilla bends over, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/9/96/Shin_Godzilla_%282016_film%29_-_00118.png/revision/latest?cb=20170424020812 breathing out a thick cloud of dark grayish-purple smoke]], straight down at the ground. Then in the second part, Godzilla takes a diagonal pose, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/0/0e/Shin_Godzilla_%282016_film%29_-_00121.png/revision/latest?cb=20170424020813 breathing a torrent of flames]] out in front of him, that incinerates several square miles of Tokyo at once. Finally in part 3, Godzilla stands up fully, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/f/fb/Shin_Godzilla_%282016_film%29_-_00127.png/revision/latest?cb=20170424021503 before focusing his Atomic Breath into a narrow, bright purple beam]] that's capable of slicing through anything in its path. However later on, Godzilla learns how to freely change his Atomic Breath between the grayish-purple smoke cloud, the fire breath and the plasma beam at will, but later after that Godzilla [[spoiler:steadily loses the latter ability as his internal reactor starts shutting down]]. The different "settings" of the atomic breath is possibly a reference to the different presentations of it, with the older Showa-films depicting it as a stream of fire while the later films, such as ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', depict it as a long-range beam.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A ''ton'' of characters come in and out of the film, starting from a good chunk of the Japanese PM's cabinet, ranging all the way to various researchers hired by Yaguchi, JSDF commanders, grunts, pedestrians recording Godzilla, and even German computer techs far away from Godzilla. The theatrical release of the film helpfully puts subtitles to show who's who (in either Japanese, or trilingual in some Asia releases).

See also ''Film/ShinUltraman'' and ''Film/ShinKamenRider2023'', similar film reboots of classic tokusatsu franchises by Anno and Higuchi. ''Shin Ultraman'' is written by Anno and directed by Higuchi, while ''Shin Kamen Rider'' is written and directed by Anno.

The film enjoyed immense success in Japan, winning several awards and dominating the box office. However, despite that, [[http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/toho-plans-godzilla-cinematic-universe-after-2020-no-shin-godzilla-2 it has been confirmed that there won't be a sequel]], though a 4D ride crossing over with ''Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''Ride/GodzillaVsEvangelionTheReal4D'', was created as a temporary attraction at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Japan]]; and possible spiritual sequels or companion films set in the same universe in the form of ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' and ''Series/KamenRider'' movies titled ''Film/ShinUltraman'' and ''Shin Kamen Rider'' are being made by Anno and Higuchi. ''Godzilla Intercept Operation'', a zipline attraction in the form of a life-size model of Shin Godzilla's head and neck opened at Nijigen no Mori park on Awaji Island in October 2020.

** Maybe it wasn't the coagulant that made Godzilla freeze, but Godzilla himself. With his cooling mechanism disabled, Godzilla would start to overheat and have to perform a reactor scram and freeze himself to survive.

* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Japanese government is more preoccupied with publically appearing to be in control of the situation, rather than '''actually''' being in control of the situation. As such, most of their actions before [[spoiler:Godzilla vaporizes the [=PM=]'s cabinet]] always come one step too late.

* OhCrap: The Prime Minister during the initial press conference about Godzilla when he finds out that what he just told the press, that Godzilla couldn't come onto land and survive, was just proven false within seconds of him saying it. [[note]]At the time he made the announcement, the Prime Minister is made aware that under its then current state, Godzilla would not be able to survive outside water. However, he was warned that this was not an absolute certainty and that he should refrain to announce it as such. The problem lied in the fact that he ran out of things to say, and when put on the spot, he opted to run with it.[[/note]]

* ChekhovsHobby: Played with origami, the art of paper folding that many of the Japanese characters would've done since childhood. One of the teammembers in Rando's group had been studying the mapped lines compiled by Goro Maki's data, remembered the paper crane that had left behind on Maki's yacht, and [[spoiler: [[EurekaMoment realized]] that the lines could allow the paper to be folded in various ways to point towards a method of stopping Godzilla.]]

* NoticeThis: A paper crane was left on top of several notebooks on the derelict yacht at the beginning. [[spoiler: It's what give one of Rando's teammembers the epiphany needed to figure out the coagulant that helps stop Godzilla, that of origami where they fold along the mapped out lines of the compiled data left behind by Goro Maki. See ChekhovsHobby above.]]

* ShoutOut:
** In addition to the recycled music from previous ''Godzilla'' movies, the soundtrack contains references to Shiro Sagisu's work, such as "Decisive Battle" from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and "What Can You See In Their Eyes" from ''Franchise/{{Bleach}}''. It also contains music references to Akira Ufukube's other work, such as a battle theme from ''Film/BattleInOuterSpace'', which ''in turn'' was originally intended for ''Film/Godzilla1954'', making this also a MythologyGag
** Speaking of ''Evangelion'', one gets the impression that Ogashira is a live-action expy of Rei Ayanami. Also, Yaguchi's team later get uniforms with the same color scheme as NERV's BridgeBunnies.
** Godzilla's focused Atomic Breath is a narrow purple beam that can cut through skyscrapers and sends torrents of molten metal cascading to the ground, much the same as the God Warrior's BreathWeapon in ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' and Anno and Higuchi's short spinoff film ''Giant God Warrior Appears Over Tokyo''. It even manifests as a beam that starts several meters out of his throat, instead of directly coming out of it, much like the God Warrior's.
** Godzilla's body/colony of organisms is able to mutate, adapt, and produce new materials in response to radiation and energy is the same ability of the titular organism from ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain''. Fitting, given that Terminal Dogma was based in part from the book's Wildfire facility.
** The Art Book shows patch/insignia designs for Operation Yashiori featuring elements from Toei's 60s anime adaptation of the Orochi myth "Anime/TheLittlePrinceAndTheEightHeadedDragon" such as Susano's flying horse.
** The scientist's name, Goro Maki, is the name of the (completely unrelated) reporters from ''Film/SonOfGodzilla'' and ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla''.
** The folder that the American government liasons passes Yaguchi has the serial numbers [[Franchise/StarTrek NCC-1701]] printed on the label.
** The coagulant used against Godzilla is from a company called [[Series/KamenRider555 Smart Brain]] Peculiar Chemicals Pharmaceutical Company.

* {{Leitmotif}}: A theme heard during Godzilla's initial coming ashore in Shinagawa is later reprised as ''Under a Burning Sky'' during the Yashiori Strategy at the film's climax.

** In addition to the recycled music from previous ''Godzilla'' movies, the soundtrack contains references to Shiro Sagisu's work, such as "Decisive Battle" from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and "What Can You See In Their Eyes" from ''Franchise/{{Bleach}}''.
*** Also contains music references to Akira Ufukube's other work, such as a battle theme from Film/BattleInOuterSpace, which ''in turn'' was originally intended for Film/Godzilla1954, making this also a MythologyGag
** Speaking of ''Evangelion'', one gets the impression that Ogashira is a live-action expy of Rei Ayanami.
*** Yaguchi's team later get uniforms with the same color scheme as NERV's BridgeBunnies.

* AgentMulder: Rando is the only Cabinet member to dare believe that a monster caused the Aqua-Line collapse. At first, RealityEnsues and he gets ridiculed for it. Then, [[http://www.funimationfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ShinGodzilla_14.jpg the creature's tail shows up on the news]].

** The film takes an extensive look at how the Japanese government would actually struggle to deal with a {{Kaiju}}. Dealing with the sudden appearance of what could be a large, unidentified monster? [[RealityEnsues That's nuts]], [[ThisIsReality it's probably just a chemical accident]]. Want to stop the monster before it can cause significant damage to the general area? Enjoy having to run through a series of {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s before you can actually do anything. Think the JSDF can do anything about [[ShootingSuperman dealing with the monster]]? Careful, an evacuating citizen could get in the way and get killed while the creature is actually vulnerable. [[AmericaSavesTheDay Want to call for the good ol' USA to save you?]] Sure, [[DestructiveSavior enjoy the substantial collateral damage that they'll bring]]. [[spoiler:Think nukes are the solution to killing the monster when everything else has failed?]] [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that'll really go over well with the people of Japan.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Let's be honest: no one would believe that a [[{{Kaiju}} monster]] caused the flood. Least of all the Prime Minister of Japan (or, you know, any world leader). The first person to seriously suggest it's a sea monster -- even after Japanese social media has been abuzz with it -- is curtly told to stop making jokes. In the aftermath, the Japanese government ''has no idea'' how to handle a rampaging sea monster because this sort of thing doesn't happen.
** Oddly played with: It's noted Godzilla's initial form would have crushed itself if it had come on land, and the Japanese government announces it can't come on land as a result. Guess what it does.
** Unlike previous ''Godzilla'' films (including American remakes), attacking Godzilla on-site required approval as long as civilians are not present. In previous films, the military has a bad case of LeeroyJenkins-level of attacking while major cities are in the middle of evacuating. This is what screwed things over as far as the original film: Godzilla was actively destroying everything and the military was so busy attacking him, 2/3 of Tokyo's population were either dead or dying.
** The film makes a point of showing at the personal level how the Japanese government responds to the notion of being nuked again by the Americans, even when it's a non-hostile effort. Some officials are driven to the point of tears from the anguish, shame and helplessness surging from the very thought. Even seven decades after the fact, the horror of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still looms, ever present.
** The "giant monster" film genre (including the ''Godzilla'' series) is full of scientists that are renowned and know perfectly well what is going on (or at the very least they are renowned but because of the single crackpot theory -- that, obviously, involves the monster -- they were treated by the community as TheWormGuy up until they were needed). In this film the renowned scientists the Japanese government consults at the very first sign of Godzilla are as much of a HeadInTheSandManagement as everybody else, and refuse to risk their reputations by making any kind of theories. The Prime Minister, in a very justifiable rage after such a snafu of a meeting, orders his subordinates to find ''anybody'' who can provide ideas to deal with the monster. Making this worse is that the one scientist with the most in-depth knowledge of Godzilla and his anatomy is long dead by the start of the movie from implied suicide, thanks to the ridicule and censorship of his work by the government, and the death of his wife from radiation poisoning nobody cared to deal with.

* TakeThat: Toho made a few playful ones toward ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' in advertising the film, noting that they needed to make a ''Godzilla'' movie free from the influence of foreign studio. It should still be noted that [[ApprovalOfGod Toho were still big fans of the 2014 film]], which would be the primary reason that they chose to revive the franchise.

** The folder that the American goverment liasons passes Yaguchi has the serial numbers [[Franchise/StarTrek NCC-1701]] printed on the label.

** Another message overshadows the entire film, and that's the other side of point: Tragedy begets consequences and consequences begets tragedy, an Anvil that hasn't been used since the original ''Film/Godzilla1954''. Goro Maki's tragedy hangs over the entire film and the movie doesn't hide this. By ignoring one's tragedy, you basically caused the events to happen as they were. By ignoring Maki and censoring his work, Japan ''and'' America are at fault for not helping a man whose wife is dying of radiation sickness. As a result, a giant behemoth you tried to keep secret is on the loose. That's the entire point of this film.

* AnAesop: "'Doing what you will' doesn't come easy in [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} this country]]."

* TorturedMonster: Godzilla

** Godzilla once again is depicted as this: He was a simple creature that happened to mutated into a monstrosity we see now, but his Leitmotif "Who Will Know" heavily implies this further with its lyrics, indicating him being a gigantic monstrosity was not even his choice to begin with.

* AlternateCharacterReading: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] The reason the word "shin" is left untranslated is because it has so many different meanings in Japanese, all of which are applicable.

** The English subtitles state that Godzilla is "evolving". Evolution is a multigenerational process, and what Godzilla is doing is technically mutating at that point in the movie. However, at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: the humanoid growths on its tail do constitute a sort of "evolution" in rough terms, as they're Godzilla's progeny.]]

** Kayoko Ann Patterson/[[DubNameChange Kayoco Anne Patterson]], the American government's liaison, supports the research group our protagonist leads from the get-go, and later severely jeopardizes her chances of becoming president by stalling the American/UN nuclear strike for as long as she can.
* BeamSpam: Godzilla is capable of not only firing his Atomic Breath from his mouth, [[spoiler:but from a vestigial mouth at the tip of his tail... and can shoot ''multiple beams from his back'']].

* FaceFramedInShadow: The new US poster takes off his eye, giving this effect.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A ''ton'' of characters come in and out of the film - starting from a good chunk of the Japanese PM's cabinet, ranging all the way to various researchers hired by Yaguchi, JSDF commanders, grunts, pedestrians recording Godzilla, and even German computer techs far away from Godzilla. The theatrical release of the film helpfully puts subtitles to show who's who (in either Japanese, or triligual in some Asia releases).

** The first form, compared to a tadpole, is unseen in the film itself, but is important to the movie's backstory.
** The second form is a yellow, armless lizard-like creature with pronounced gills.
** The third form is a red lizard-like creature that stands upright and has greater mobility.

** [[spoiler: The fifth form (as explained in the concept art book) is composed of the numerous humanoid creatures emerging from the tail]].

* MultipleHeadCase: Close-up photos of the maquette reveal that Godzilla has a grotesquely malformed vestigial head on the tip of his tail. [[spoiler:He can fire his Atomic Breath from it as well as his own mouth. Furthermore, the film ends on several skeletal humanoid Godzillas frozen in the midst of emerging from the tail's tip, suggesting that Godzilla reproduces through his tail.]]

** The bifurcated jaw Godzilla has harkens to Crustaceous Rex from WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries.

** The ending of the movie, in which the JSDF finally pacify Godzilla by [[spoiler: trapping him under the rubble of collapsing buildings]] and [[spoiler: using an experimental chemical to freeze his body solid]], is a direct reference to the ending of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', in which the military finally stops him by [[spoiler: trapping him under an avalanche]] and [[spoiler: freezing him in a block of ice]]. Notably, it ends with the clear implication that [[spoiler: Godzilla will eventually unfreeze himself to wreak more havoc]], as he did in ''Godzilla Raids Again'''s immediate sequel ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla''.

** Let's be honest: no one would believe that a [[{{Kaiju}} monster]] caused the flood. Least of all the Prime Minister of Japan (or, you know, any world leader). The first person to seriously suggest it's a sea monster - even after Japanese social media has been abuzz with it - is curtly told to stop making jokes. In the aftermath, the Japanese government ''has no idea'' how to handle a rampaging sea monster because this sort of thing doesn't happen.

** The "giant monster" film genre (including the ''Godzilla'' series) is full of scientists that are renowned and know perfectly well what is going on (or at the very least they are renowned but because of the single crackpot theory -- that, obviously, involves the monster -- they were treated by the community as TheWormGuy up until they were needed). In this film the renowned scientists the Japanese government consults at the very first sign of Godzilla are as much of a HeadInTheSandManagement as everybody else, and refuse to risk their reputations by making any kind of theories. The Prime Minister, in a very justifiable rage after such a snafu of a meeting, orders his subordinates to find ''anybody'' who can provide ideas to deal with the monster.
*** In addition, the one scientist with the most in-depth knowledge of Godzilla and his anatomy is long dead by the start of the movie from implied suicide, thanks to the ridicule and censorship of his work by the government, and the death of his wife from radiation poisoning nobody cared to deal with.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The film does what the original film did: Depict Godzilla as a horribly scarred and victimized mutant not a choice of his own. His mutations are a result of a radioactive dumping, resulting in large keloid scars seen on the burn victims of the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And speaking of which, the Japanese are ''terrified'' at the prospect of the UN using a nuke to kill Godzilla, reopening the wounds of the past that plagued the country several decades ago.

** Discussed: Kayako is talking to Cussley, who presumably her father, that if she refuses to go with America's efforts to nuke Godzilla, she would gravely hurt her chances of becoming President of the United States. Cussley also notes he's supposed to withdraw with the rest of the American personnel, but it's implied he decides to stay.

** Godzilla's body/colony of organisms is able to mutate, adapt, and produce new materials in response to radiation and energy is the same ability of the titular organism from Literature/TheAndromedaStrain. Fitting, given that Terminal Dogma was based in part from the book's Wildfire facility.

** The folder that the American goverment liasons passes Yaguchi has the serial numbers "[[Franchise/StarTrek NCC-1701]] printed on the label.
** The coagulant used against Godzilla is from a company called [[Series.KamenRider555 Smart Brain]] Peculiar Chemicals Pharmaceutical Company.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/DayOfTheKaiju'', both being serious looks at the political hurdles that would really be involved with dealing with {{Kaiju}}-like lifeforms, and both being sharp allegorical rebukes toward the Japanese government's handling of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.

* TrulySingleParent: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. Godzilla has a healing factor, and bits blown off of it continue to regenerate. They are thus destroyed for fear of regrowing into more godzillas. [[spoiler: A second method of reproduction-by-fission is later confirmed when numerous 6ft "Anthrozillas" are seen frozen in the process of prying themselves off of Godzilla's tail.]]
* UltimateLifeForm: Godzilla is several times described as a perfect lifeform far beyond mankind, as the scientists studying him discover he has eight times more DNA information than human beings, and may continue evolving. Although, as noted under Artistic License – Biology this isn't really all that impressive.
* VastBureaucracy: The Japanese government is portrayed as extremely slow and inefficient, requiring a meeting to do absolutely anything. Notably, this isn't shown to be the fault of any particular ObstructiveBureaucrat, but a general tendency to [[HeadInTheSandManagement do nothing as to save face]] - several times, the government members get annoyed at the fact they'd have to go through legal channels, waste time on pointless meetings, or have ''zero'' experience with, well, a rampaging monster.
* VillainSong: ''Who Will Know'', a OneWomanWail/choir piece that accompanies the scene where Godzilla first unleashes his Atomic Breath [[spoiler:and spine beams]] in response to the military getting a good hit in. The song being Godzilla's perspective becomes apparent with the verse "As long as breath comes out my mouth/I may yet stand the slightest chance/A shaft of light is all I need/to cease the darkness killing me."

** Godzilla once again is depicted as this: He was a simple creature that happened to mutated into a monstrosity we see now, but his Leitmotif ''Who Will Know'' heavily implies this further with its lyrics, indicating him being a 110-metered monstrosity was not even his choice to begin with.
** The film heavily implies Goro Maki as this. He's a simple scientist who found Godzilla in 1956. However circumstances heavily weighted on him, such as his discovery of Godzilla being mocked, shunned, and censored. The final straw was the death of his wife via radiation sickness. [[spoiler: The fact that the Godzillalings emerging from Godzilla's tail indicates that he merged with the creature, since the tip of Godzilla's tail has a malformed ''face with a blue eye'']].

* EnergyWeapon: Godzilla's atomic breath can be focused into a purple laser beam that fires from his mouth. [[spoiler:Not only that, but it also shoots from ''the mouth on the tip of his tail'', and it only gets worse when they find out that Godzilla can fire a ''barrage of beams from his spines''.]]

** To a certain extent, Hiromi and Kayako have similarities to Evangelion's Rei and Asuka.

* FreezeFrameBonus: After Godzilla's first arrival in Tokyo, the Yaguchi team are reading Twitter posts about rising radiation levels. Look for the post from [[{{Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion}} bakashinji]], who uses Asuka as an avatar.
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:During the battle where Godzilla first uses its BreathWeapon, the US bombers aren't the only things dropped by his spine beams--there were helicopters, holding most of the Japanese government officials in them, as well.]]
* GhostShip: A derelict yacht in Tokyo Bay is a major location in the film. [[spoiler:It belonged to Goro Maki, a zoologist who had been researching mutations as a result of nuclear waste being dumped into the ocean by the Americans. He had discovered Godzilla in its larval form decades ago, but was shunned and mocked by Japanese academia and had his work censured by the American government and committed suicide, leaving his research to be discovered by Yaguchi's team.]]

** After [[spoiler:a good, good chunk of Tokyo is absolutely destroyed and irradiated, taking a majority of the Japanese government out with it]], the United Nations - headed by the Americans - all resolve to ''nuke Godzilla'' with the largest megaton bomb they have. Obviously, the Japanese have a big issue with this. It's also portrayed neutrally - American personnel make it clear they wouldn't be considering such a destructive action if Godzilla hadn't, y'know, [[spoiler:''destroyed Greater Tokyo'']] and is threatening to go international.

* HealingFactor: A staple power of Godzilla's, but with a deadly twist. [[spoiler: when the scientists discover Godzilla's cells continue to grow exponentially even detached from his body, it raises the possibility that Godzilla can reproduce asexually. This raises Godzilla from a city destroyer to a potential extinction level threat, with one scientist theorizing a horde of rapidly reproducing Godzillas could destroy the world within months. It's this apocalypse scenario that motivates other nations to press for the use of nuclear weaponry.]]

* HollywoodTactics: Averted with the military for the first time. In the previous films (including ''Film/Godzilla2014''), the military forces tend to be way too close to the monster they're facing, and they often get smashed or blasted within the monster's reach. In this film, they were a good distance away from Godzilla as he advances- shooting him from realistic ranges for the types of weapons being deployed. He still defeats them by kicking a bridge in the Tama River battle, but at least they have the sense to retreat when the odds were so against them.
* HopeSpot: Hooray, the military actually got a good hit on Godzilla! Everything should start getting better, [[TemptingFate right]]? [[spoiler:Cue the Atomic Breath destroying much of Tokyo's skyline in an instant...and the spine beams taking ''every bomber and fighter that had been sent'' '''and''' most of Japan's government officials.]]

* IgnoredExpert: One running theme is the danger of this trope. Goro Maki's initial findings were both laughed out of Japan and covered up in the United States. Both of these would lead to the world being unprepared for Gojira, but these same issues kept coming into play, because these tropes are still relevant in workplace culture, despite Yaguchi staffing his team specifically to counter this trope:
** When Ogashira hypothesizes that Gojira is fueled by nuclear fission, Yasuda laughs and dismisses her idea as prepostorous. When she quietly shows Yaguchi proof of her theory, which was also supported by on-site nuclear experts, Yasuda is in the background having a '''loud''' FreakOut as he comes to the same realization, before presenting it to his coworker. He then brings "his" finding to Yaguchi, who says to all of them that Ogashira was right. Yasuda at least gives her an apology.

** The politicians convinced the Prime Minister and his cabinet to evacuate during Godzilla's climatic attack, saying he couldn't afford to die if Godzilla came to their location. [[spoiler:Godzilla never went near the cabinet's headquarters, but instead, his BreathWeapon destroyed the Prime Minister's evacuation helicopter]].

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: One of Godzilla’s most terrifying abilities is his adaptive biology, from growing into new forms repeatedly, to developing new abilities to counter tacics used against it. Prior to the bombs the Americans dropped on it, Godzilla hardly reacts to anything the military throws at him. After the Americans bomb him, he utilizes his atomic beam, first through his mouth, then through his spines, while also developing a biological radar to detect incoming attacks. What’s more, after this development, even while Godzilla is hibernating, he becomes much more cautious, refusing to allow any airborne object to approach him, even if it’s something as harmless as a drone. When the military launches Operation Yashiori, Godzilla uses his spine beams to shoot down anything and everything coming at him, even though it’s clear that nothing that’s being fired at him is on the level of the first bombs the Americans dropped. After being hurt once, Godzilla stops taking any chances.

* EldritchAbomination: Godzilla originated as a prehistoric marine reptile, but through exposure to radioactive waste became a living nuclear reactor as well as a rapidly-metamorphosing unstable biomass, with the ability to spontaneously mutate to respond to threats. One character even refers to Godzilla as a being beyond human comprehension, and cults dedicated to its worship pop up.