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* MythologyGag: The film is packed with references and inspiration from earlier films in the series.
** ''Film/Godzilla1954''
*** The movie was released in Japan on November 3rd, 2023, the same day as the original film's release.
*** Godzilla has a notably brown tint on his skin as opposed to charcoal gray. The original Godzilla suit was originally brown before he was colored green for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956'' poster and merchandise paints him as charcoal gray for consistency.
*** During the Ginza attack Godzilla chomps down on a train, recreating an iconic scene from the 1954 film.
*** Koichi Shikishima and Dr. Kenji Noda, like Daisuke Serizawa in the original film, are ex-Imperial military men, and Dr. Serizawa is heavily implied to have been a weapons researcher, like Dr. Noda explicitly is. [[spoiler:Dr. Noda cooks up the plan to kill Godzilla as penance for what he did in service to Imperial Japan, much like Dr. Serizawa, and Shikishima volunteers to sacrifice himself as atonement - though, in the end, Shikishima chooses to live instead of deliberately dying with Godzilla.]]
*** Dr. Noda's demonstration of [[spoiler:the plan to kill Godzilla]] is very similar to Dr. Serizawa's demonstration of the Oxygen Destroyer, down to a little model in a tank of water.
*** The plan to kill Godzilla is almost the opposite of Dr. Serizawa's plan. [[spoiler:Instead of waiting until he dives deep and kill him with the science thing-a-majig, they'll wait for him to surface, deploy the science doohickey (freon gas tanks), and if that doesn't work, they'll yank him ''up'' with another scientific gadget (inflatable balloons) to finish him off on the surface. In both cases the mechanism in question releases a lot of bubbles]].
*** Godzilla dredging up deep-sea fish when rises to the surface and signalling his arrival brings to mind the intact trilobite that Yamane discovers in Godzilla's footprint on Odo Island in the very first film.
*** A group of radio reporters verbally track Godzilla's movement from the top of a building as he destroys Tokyo landmarks, only to fall to their deaths when Godzilla demolishes the structure they're standing on.
*** [[spoiler:Noriko]] is blinded in the same eye Dr. Serizawa was in the original film.
*** The Godzilla march appears a few times, but notably, the original version appears during the [[spoiler: operation to kill Godzilla]], as that theme was originally used to convey the JSDF combating Godzilla in the 1954 film.
*** The original film's working title was called "Project 'G'" before it was given its official title. The movie's poster and CloseOnTitle shows title as ''G Minus One''.
*** Akiko sobbing [[spoiler: when Noriko is seemingly dead]] is framed the exact same way as the irradiated child crying over her dead mother in the aftermath of Godzilla's Tokyo rampage.
** Like with ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'', the Cold War plays a role in the plot, albeit not as active - America can't deploy its military due to fear of Soviet retaliation.
** Like the Heisei incarnation of the character (as revealed in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah''), this Godzilla starts off as a regular (albeit highly aggressive) dinosaur who first appears during World War II, before the atomic bomb.
** The dinosaur that turns into Godzilla, pre-mutation, is lean, angular, and hunched over like Zilla in ''Film/Godzilla1998'' (perhaps coincidentally, he looks almost exactly like a design conceptualized for an unmade 1983 American Godzilla movie). Interestingly, Godzilla's form here has visible spines on his back prior to suffering mutations. In addition, the '98 opening depicted the creation of Zilla with footage of Operation Crossroads (1946), the same atomic testing that irradiated Godzilla in this film.
** Much like in ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', Godzilla is [[spoiler:blown up by his own Atomic Breath after suffering an injury while charging it, but promptly starts regenerating from a remaining chunk of flesh, complete with the main theme blaring when the chunk of flesh starts pulsing]].
*** [[spoiler:The explosive decompression renders Godzilla's eyes opaquely white, the same as they appear in ''GMK'']].
*** When Godzilla uses his atomic breath the first time, [[spoiler:it literally explodes like a nuke in effect and detonation which is how GMK Godzilla's atomic breath went off when he used it on a crowd of fleeing citizens, along with a flashbang and a powerful shockwave that could be felt for miles, with the resulting aftermath ending with a mushroom cloud]].
*** While not ''literal'' (as in ''GMK''), this Godzilla is a representation of Japan's sins during [=WW2=].
** The protagonist is a disgraced ex-military SoleSurvivor who panicked while facing Godzilla, now coping with SurvivorsGuilt as he tries to redeem himself by killing Godzilla--the same as Akane from Film/GodzillaAgainstMechaGodzilla.
** ''Film/Godzilla2014'':
*** Godzilla's dorsal spines light up from the tip of his tail and moving up his back, which is in itself a MythologyGag for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries''. The framing itself is a direct callback to the scene where Godzilla deploys it against the first MUTO.
*** Multiple shots of Godzilla swimming under a naval vessel are framed in the same way as Godzilla approaching Honolulu and San Francisco under US vessels.
** ''Film/ShinGodzilla'':
*** Much like ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', this movie's incarnation of Godzilla uses the same roar as the [[Film/Godzilla1954 original Godzilla]].
*** Once again, a lot of grief is caused by Japanese incompetence and a focus on ''appearing'' orderly when all it does is cause death and destruction. The JMSDF and Shikishima are forbidden from warning Tokyo of the giant angry dinosaur approaching to avoid "chaos", [[SelfFulfillingProphecy which results in far more deaths]].
*** The plot to kill Godzilla for good has to come from a ''de facto'' government team working independently from an overworked and useless government - or in the case of this movie, ex-Imperial Navy who mostly work for the new government.
*** Godzilla deploys his beam weapon in response to heavier ordinance injuring him. Instead of American bombers, it's Japanese tanks. And just like ''Shin'', [[spoiler:the resulting beam weapon annihilates the government and levels half of Tokyo]].
*** Godzilla [[spoiler:can [[GoodThingYouCanHeal regenerate from lethal wounds]]]], albeit at a ''much'' faster pace than ''Shin''.

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* MythologyGag: The film is packed with references and inspiration from earlier films in the series.
** ''Film/Godzilla1954''
*** The movie was released in Japan on November 3rd, 2023, the same day as the original film's release.
*** Godzilla has a notably brown tint on his skin as opposed to charcoal gray. The original Godzilla suit was originally brown before he was colored green for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956'' poster and merchandise paints him as charcoal gray for consistency.
*** During the Ginza attack Godzilla chomps down on a train, recreating an iconic scene from the 1954 film.
*** Koichi Shikishima and Dr. Kenji Noda, like Daisuke Serizawa in the original film, are ex-Imperial military men, and Dr. Serizawa is heavily implied to have been a weapons researcher, like Dr. Noda explicitly is. [[spoiler:Dr. Noda cooks up the plan to kill Godzilla as penance for what he did in service to Imperial Japan, much like Dr. Serizawa, and Shikishima volunteers to sacrifice himself as atonement - though, in the end, Shikishima chooses to live instead of deliberately dying with Godzilla.]]
*** Dr. Noda's demonstration of [[spoiler:the plan to kill Godzilla]] is very similar to Dr. Serizawa's demonstration of the Oxygen Destroyer, down to a little model in a tank of water.
*** The plan to kill Godzilla is almost the opposite of Dr. Serizawa's plan. [[spoiler:Instead of waiting until he dives deep and kill him with the science thing-a-majig, they'll wait for him to surface, deploy the science doohickey (freon gas tanks), and if that doesn't work, they'll yank him ''up'' with another scientific gadget (inflatable balloons) to finish him off on the surface. In both cases the mechanism in question releases a lot of bubbles]].
*** Godzilla dredging up deep-sea fish when rises to the surface and signalling his arrival brings to mind the intact trilobite that Yamane discovers in Godzilla's footprint on Odo Island in the very first film.
*** A group of radio reporters verbally track Godzilla's movement from the top of a building as he destroys Tokyo landmarks, only to fall to their deaths when Godzilla demolishes the structure they're standing on.
*** [[spoiler:Noriko]] is blinded in the same eye Dr. Serizawa was in the original film.
*** The Godzilla march appears a few times, but notably, the original version appears during the [[spoiler: operation to kill Godzilla]], as that theme was originally used to convey the JSDF combating Godzilla in the 1954 film.
*** The original film's working title was called "Project 'G'" before it was given
[[MythologyGag/GodzillaMinusOne Has its official title. The movie's poster and CloseOnTitle shows title as ''G Minus One''.
*** Akiko sobbing [[spoiler: when Noriko is seemingly dead]] is framed the exact same way as the irradiated child crying over her dead mother in the aftermath of Godzilla's Tokyo rampage.
** Like with ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'', the Cold War plays a role in the plot, albeit not as active - America can't deploy its military due to fear of Soviet retaliation.
** Like the Heisei incarnation of the character (as revealed in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah''), this Godzilla starts off as a regular (albeit highly aggressive) dinosaur who first appears during World War II, before the atomic bomb.
** The dinosaur that turns into Godzilla, pre-mutation, is lean, angular, and hunched over like Zilla in ''Film/Godzilla1998'' (perhaps coincidentally, he looks almost exactly like a design conceptualized for an unmade 1983 American Godzilla movie). Interestingly, Godzilla's form here has visible spines on his back prior to suffering mutations. In addition, the '98 opening depicted the creation of Zilla with footage of Operation Crossroads (1946), the same atomic testing that irradiated Godzilla in this film.
** Much like in ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', Godzilla is [[spoiler:blown up by his
own Atomic Breath after suffering an injury while charging it, but promptly starts regenerating from a remaining chunk of flesh, complete with the main theme blaring when the chunk of flesh starts pulsing]].
*** [[spoiler:The explosive decompression renders Godzilla's eyes opaquely white, the same as they appear in ''GMK'']].
*** When Godzilla uses his atomic breath the first time, [[spoiler:it literally explodes like a nuke in effect and detonation which is how GMK Godzilla's atomic breath went off when he used it on a crowd of fleeing citizens, along with a flashbang and a powerful shockwave that could be felt for miles, with the resulting aftermath ending with a mushroom cloud]].
*** While not ''literal'' (as in ''GMK''), this Godzilla is a representation of Japan's sins during [=WW2=].
** The protagonist is a disgraced ex-military SoleSurvivor who panicked while facing Godzilla, now coping with SurvivorsGuilt as he tries to redeem himself by killing Godzilla--the same as Akane from Film/GodzillaAgainstMechaGodzilla.
** ''Film/Godzilla2014'':
*** Godzilla's dorsal spines light up from the tip of his tail and moving up his back, which is in itself a MythologyGag for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries''. The framing itself is a direct callback to the scene where Godzilla deploys it against the first MUTO.
*** Multiple shots of Godzilla swimming under a naval vessel are framed in the same way as Godzilla approaching Honolulu and San Francisco under US vessels.
** ''Film/ShinGodzilla'':
*** Much like ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', this movie's incarnation of Godzilla uses the same roar as the [[Film/Godzilla1954 original Godzilla]].
*** Once again, a lot of grief is caused by Japanese incompetence and a focus on ''appearing'' orderly when all it does is cause death and destruction. The JMSDF and Shikishima are forbidden from warning Tokyo of the giant angry dinosaur approaching to avoid "chaos", [[SelfFulfillingProphecy which results in far more deaths]].
*** The plot to kill Godzilla for good has to come from a ''de facto'' government team working independently from an overworked and useless government - or in the case of this movie, ex-Imperial Navy who mostly work for the new government.
*** Godzilla deploys his beam weapon in response to heavier ordinance injuring him. Instead of American bombers, it's Japanese tanks. And just like ''Shin'', [[spoiler:the resulting beam weapon annihilates the government and levels half of Tokyo]].
*** Godzilla [[spoiler:can [[GoodThingYouCanHeal regenerate from lethal wounds]]]], albeit at a ''much'' faster pace than ''Shin''.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Shikishima delivers the final blow to Godzilla, while ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety, having decided to forgive himself and continue to live. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. Turns out Godzilla is NotQuiteDead, as a fragment of his body is revealed to have not disintegrated with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future. Even worse, Tokyo is an Atomic mess and countless lives are dead as a result of Godzilla's earlier rampage, Shikishima, Noda and the other crew members, as well as most of the rampage survivors, have been exposed to a massive amount of radiation, and the horrors of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar are yet to come.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Shikishima delivers the final blow to Godzilla, while ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety, having decided to forgive himself and continue to live. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. Turns out Godzilla is NotQuiteDead, as a fragment of his body is revealed to have not disintegrated with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future. Even worse, Tokyo is an Atomic mess and countless lives are dead as a result of Godzilla's earlier rampage, Shikishima, Noda and the other crew members, as well as most of the rampage attack survivors, have been exposed to a massive amount of radiation, and the horrors of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar are yet to come.]]



* CameBackWrong: Though the nuke gives Godzilla his HealingFactor, his attempt to regenerate the burn wounds back into the body beforehand is... [[BodyHorror interesting to say the least]].

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* CameBackWrong: Though the nuke gives When Godzilla uses his HealingFactor, his attempt HealingFactor to regenerate survive the burn wounds back nuke, he intakes a bunch of radiation that mutates him into the body beforehand is... [[BodyHorror interesting to say the least]].a monster much different from what he's accustomed to.
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* CameBackWrong: Though the nuke gives Godzilla his HealingFactor, his attempt to regenerate the burn wounds back into the body beforehand is... [[BodyHorror interesting to say the least]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The FinalBattle results in Godzilla being defeated, with Shikishima ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety, having decided to forgive himself and continue to live. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. And just before the credits, a fragment of Godzilla's body is revealed to have not disintegrated with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future. On a side note, Tokyo is an Atomic mess and countless lives are dead as a result of Godzilla's earlier rampage, Shikishima, Noda and the other crew members, as well as most of the rampage survivors, have been exposed to a massive amount of radiation, and the horrors of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar are yet to come.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The FinalBattle results in Godzilla being defeated, with Shikishima [[spoiler:Shikishima delivers the final blow to Godzilla, while ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety, having decided to forgive himself and continue to live. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. And just before the credits, Turns out Godzilla is NotQuiteDead, as a fragment of Godzilla's his body is revealed to have not disintegrated with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future. On a side note, Even worse, Tokyo is an Atomic mess and countless lives are dead as a result of Godzilla's earlier rampage, Shikishima, Noda and the other crew members, as well as most of the rampage survivors, have been exposed to a massive amount of radiation, and the horrors of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar are yet to come.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The FinalBattle results in Godzilla being defeated, with Shikishima ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. And just before the credits, a fragment of Godzilla's body is revealed to have not died with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future...]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The FinalBattle results in Godzilla being defeated, with Shikishima ejecting from his plane and parachuting to safety.safety, having decided to forgive himself and continue to live. Afterward, Sumiko directs him and Akiko to a hospital, where Noriko--injured but alive after the Tokyo attack--is staying, although seemingly with radiation poisoning. And just before the credits, a fragment of Godzilla's body is revealed to have not died disintegrated with the rest, and its HealingFactor kicks in again, suggesting that he will return to attack Japan in the future...future. On a side note, Tokyo is an Atomic mess and countless lives are dead as a result of Godzilla's earlier rampage, Shikishima, Noda and the other crew members, as well as most of the rampage survivors, have been exposed to a massive amount of radiation, and the horrors of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar are yet to come.]]

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ambiguous, when the pre-irradiated Godzilla shows up on Odo island he noticeably spares Shikishima as the latter did nothing to provoke him by not firing on him when he had the opportunity.


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* YouWillBeSpared: Ambiguous, when the pre-irradiated Godzilla shows up on Odo island he noticeably spares Shikishima as the latter did not provoke him by not firing on him when he had the opportunity, while the former massacres almost everyone else for shooting at him.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ambiguous, when the pre-irradiated Godzilla shows up on Odo island he noticeably spares Shikishima as the latter did nothing to provoke him by not firing on him when he had the opportunity.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The crew of the ''Kaishinmaru'', the sister ship of the minesweeper Koichi is assigned too. We only briefly hear their captain over the radio, but it's implied they have a friendly rivalry with the ''Shinseimaru'' and they likely have just as much experience and history between them.

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