History Fridge / Godzilla2014

* The female Muto seems to be a good deal more aggressive towards humanity than her mate, best shown during her rampage through Las Vegas when she actively tears some buildings down that ''weren't'' in her path. Remember that, while the male was mainly observed inside his cocoon, the female was said to have been tested heavily and even partially cut open before it was believed she was completely dormant or dead. It's quite possible she was ''vengeful.'' or was smart enough to realized that Humanity is a threat.

** ''Also'' note, the novelization states that he's already been awake for over 24 hours at the movie's ''start'' '''before''' he gets the phone call about being arrested in Japan. The novel also consistently states at various points throughout that Ford isn't catching a full night's sleep if any sleep over the following 5+ days and nights: escalating SleepDeprivation forcing Ford's brain and body to conserve energy for where he needs it is most likely another factor in Ford's reduced facial and vocal emoting. To say nothing of how the sheer, repetitive jet-lag he must be experiencing from flying halfway around the world from Afghanistan to several far-apart Pacific landmasses must be adding to his exhaustion.

* Why is Ford prone to DullSurprise? He's a returning war veteran, having worked in defusing bombs. Think ''Film/TheHurtLocker''. A fellow officer even warns him that coming home is hard to handle. This is a guy that lost his mom as a kid, went to war and dealt with traumatic situations, and as soon as the monsters start appearing, keeps being thrown through life-threatening experiences over and over. He's racking up a lot of psychological damage. There's also the fact that military personnel, particularly one in bomb disposal, ''would'' be trained to keep his cool under pressure and not have a major reaction to situations like this. Also note that the DullSurprise and his non-emotive moments occur when he's in the middle of tense combat situations, where a soldier is supposed to keep a cool head. When he's in a more casual situation, he emotes quite a lot. He nearly cried when confronting his father in Japan and was visibly distraught when [[spoiler: he dies]]. Basically, he's less DullSurprise and more StayFrosty.

* Doubles as both this and FridgeHorror: during the nest spire scene, one can hear the baby MUTOs chirping to each other from inside their eggs, [[ShownTheirWork just like real-world alligator and bird chicks]]. This would probably be used to coordinate the hatching time with each other and to communicate with their parents to help them hatch/have food ready for the hungry little babies. The FridgeHorror? This means that the babies were alive and conscious when Ford blew up the nest. If they were awake and well-developed enough to vocalize with each other, then they were well-developed enough to feel pain…

* Joe Brody was already a certified {{workaholic}} before the death of his wife in the {{distant prologue}}, to a point where he [[ForgotTheirOwnBirthday didn't notice it was his own birthday]] because he was busy fussing over a job. This makes Japan an ideal country for the American Joe to move to and work in, since Japan was until much more recently famous (or infamous) for its extreme work culture and work sheets.

* Why is Ford prone to DullSurprise? He's a returning war veteran, having worked in defusing bombs. Think ''Film/TheHurtLocker''. A fellow officer even warns him that coming home is hard to handle. This is a guy that lost his mom as a kid, went to war and dealt with traumatic situations, and as soon as the monsters start appearing, keeps being thrown through life-threatening experiences over and over. He's racking up a lot of psychological damage. There's also the fact that military personnel, particularly one in bomb disposal, ''would'' be trained to keep his cool under pressure and not have a major reaction to situations like this. Also note that the DullSurprise and his non-emotive moments occur when he's in the middle of tense combat situations, where a soldier is supposed to keep a cool head. When he's in a more casual situation, he emotes quite a lot. He nearly cried when confronting his father in Japan and was visibly distraught when [[spoiler: he dies]].
** Basically, he's less DullSurprise and more StayFrosty.

* The plan to use the force of the nuclear explosion to kill all three kaiju actually makes sense (despite their ability to feed on radiation) in the context of ''Awakening''. [[spoiler:That's exactly what killed Shinomura, which could also feed on radiation]]. It didn't work on Godzilla obviously, but assuming it would kill the Mutos is plausible and given that Godzilla does not appear to be particularly vengeful against humanity for testing Castle Bravo on him, they probably assume the King of Monster will just go back to whatever deep part of the sea when the Mutos are, likely, gone.

* Monarch is a straight ShoutOut to Godzilla's title, King of the Monsters, and also Mothra, the giant ''butterfly.''

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* The female MUTO charging towards the docks and massacring the soldiers the moment she notices them activating a boat from afar probably isn't just down to her taking out her grief on the first living things she sees or deeming all humans a threat after she saw Ford near her nest's ruins and realized he was likely responsible. Given how the [=MUTOs=] demonstrate an ability to sense and locate manmade sources of radioactive sustenance, the female can likely senses that the soldiers at the dock have the same nuke that was in her nest before it went up in flames with them -- which they could only have gotten by being inside the nest in the short time window between the female's departure to fight Godzilla and the nest-consuming explosion.
* The military sending fighter jets to Hawaii to combat the male MUTO before its {{EMP}} disables them isn't just [[MilitariesAreUseless classical military uselessness in these types of movies]]. In RealLife, military aircraft are equipped with EMP shielding precisely to prevent this sort of thing from happening when manmade [=EMPs=] go off. It's likely the military thought the fighter jets' shielding would be enough to protect them from the blast, underestimating that the EMP would be powerful enough to overwhelm the shielding. [[IdiotBall The military repeating this mistake with the fighter planes in San Francisco's airspace, and especially with the boat they were planning to use to transport a kaiju-baiting ARMED NUCLEAR WARHEAD? That's less forgivable]].

* MONARCH is a straight ShoutOut to Godzilla's title, King of the Monsters, and also Mothra, the giant ''butterfly.''

* The majority of the military seems to be Navy. If one wants to mobilize against an amphibious Kaiju, it makes sense to keep track of him in the water before he can make landfall. Too bad about him being able to swim ''under'' a blockade, though.

* It's also possible that Godzilla's species could be a type of Archosaur. Archosaurs are a group of reptiles that first appeared in the Permian era (when Godzilla's species first appeared) and whose descendants include dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians. Given Godzilla's aquatic nature, armored scaly hide, and predatory nature, it's possible his species could be a form of ancient ocean-dwelling Archosaur. Perhaps even some sort of prehistoric crocodile, especially when you consider that the earliest species of crocodilian (such as Protosuchus and Simosuchus) looked more like Godzilla than modern-day crocodiles.

* What exactly killed Sandra Brody and the other workers after they were sealed in the power plant's highly-irradiated area? Joe indicated they would've had less than five minutes to live, but literally ''seconds'' after we last see Sandra before the secondary bulkhead closes, the entire power plant starts violently collapsing.

*** Dr. Graham's pointer that the {{Kaiju}} and Godzilla feed on radiation is dismissed because of the above, but there's likely more to it and why she deems the whole plan crazy. The nuke's energy, precisely because it makes the atom bombs of the 50s look like "firecrackers" comparatively, could make Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] ''even more powerful'' than they already are.

** And there's the possibility that Godzilla or the [=MUTOs=], if they survive being nuked and recognize it as an attempt on their life (it's very possible they'd come to this conclusion given the [=MUTOs'=] displays of intelligence in this film and Godzilla's in the sequel), that they'll actively retaliate against humanity. Bear in mind, throughout the film, both types of Kaiju [[HumansAreInsects weren't even trying to directly cause harm to humans]] when they half-destroyed Honolulu and San Francisco.

* How many people died over the course of the movie, in Honolulu, San Francisco, and Las Vegas?
* Remember the submarine? [[spoiler: The 10,000 ton one picked up by Hokmuto like a eagle picks up a fish?]] Imagine how strong the male Muto has to pick it up and fly as fast as it did?

* Imagine the international responses to the attacks. The fact that Godzilla is still alive would probably put the entire world on high alert. [[HappyEndingOverride The sequel more or less confirms this happened after the film's ending]].

* At first glance, it might seem only natural that this version of Godzilla attacks San Francisco instead of Tokyo; after all, the movie was made by Americans and primarily marketed to Americans, so it makes sense that it would primarily star American characters. Then again, when you think of the original film's subtext as an anti-nuclear fable, it makes sense for a very different reason. In the original, Godzilla was unwillingly given life by nuclear weapons, and he pretty clearly wanted to take revenge on humanity for ''creating'' those same nuclear weapons. With that in mind, it can seem odd that he chose to attack ''Japan'', of all places--the only country in world history ever to be attacked by nuclear weapons in wartime, [[NotSoDifferent whose people were just as much victims of the atomic bomb as Godzilla himself]]. But if Godzilla had travelled ''East'' from his island home instead of West, he would eventually have happened upon the US states of Hawaii and California, where he could have taken his anger out on America--the country responsible for the nuclear tests that caused him so much anguish. In this film, he does exactly that: he starts out by attacking Honolulu, Hawaii, then eventually attacks San Francisco, California.

** As of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', this roster has been expanded to include King Kong, ''his'' enemies the Skull Crawlers, various other monsters native to the eponymous island, and ''Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah''. It gets ''higher again'' in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters''.

* Considering how the nuke had ''less than fifteen minutes left'' when Ford reached the boat it was on, and the speed the boat was moving at (plus the brief delay when the female [=MUTO's=] EMP deactivated the boat for a few moments), it's unlikely the nuke got anywhere near far enough away from San Francisco to avoid irradiating the city to a harmful extent. Guess it's a good thing Godzilla and the MUTOs could've drained the nuke's radiation as described under Fridge Brilliance.

* Godzilla, like the [=MUTOs=], feeds on radiation. He may have soaked up the radiation from the bomb, further saving the rest of the world, and explaining his waking up at the end when he seemed dead. That or he still has cellular regeneration.

* Dr. Ichiro Serizawa trying to convince the Navy not to use nuclear weapons on Godzilla and the Mutos seems like a forced anvilicious "anti-atomic weapons" Aesop at first. But, take into consideration that he mentions that his father fought in WWII and was there during the bombing of Hiroshima (IE: The broken pocket watch). Who was formerly a soldier during WWII in the original 1954 film? Daisuke Serizawa. And, take into consideration that Daisuke Serizawa was reluctant on using the Oxygen Destroyer against Godzilla in the original film much like how Ichiro Serizawa is reluctant to use nuclear weapons against Godzilla in this one. Not only are there are similarities between the two characters, but it's subtly hinted at that Ichiro is Daisuke's son in this continuity. On another note, both creatures feed off radiation, and if the blast doesn't kill them, it would ''seriously'' piss them off. Godzilla, at the very least, was shown to be able to survive a 15-megaton nuclear blast, so even if they do kill the M.U.T.Os, they would have a rampaging Godzilla to contend with.

*** It's already established that the {{Kaiju}} and Godzilla feed on radiation, and [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the sequel]] confirms that Godzilla does ''not'' need time to eat an excessive amount and can just swallow it in one gulp. The three Kaiju could very well drain the nuke's energy before it goes off so the blast is less powerful and there's that much lower a chance of success. Furthermore, there was a serious risk that the nuke's energy, precisely because it makes the atom bombs of the 50s look like "firecrackers" comparatively, could make Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] ''even more powerful'' than they already are.
*** Adding to the above, in the sequel, Godzilla nearly ''explodes like a nuclear bomb'' from being overloaded with a nuclear warhead detonation's energy. Now imagine, if the nuke the military were using in this film had had the same effect on Godzilla ''and two other Kaiju''.

** And there's the possibility that Godzilla or the [=MUTOs=], if they survive being nuked and recognize it as an attempt on their life (it's very possible they'd come to this conclusion given the [=MUTOs'=] displays of intelligence in this film and Godzilla's in the sequel), that they'll be ''pissed'' and actively retaliate against humanity. Bear in mind, throughout the film, all the destruction that both types of Kaiju were causing humanity were merely caused by them following their nature whilst being [[HumansAreInsects completely indifferent to humans]].

*** It's already established that the {{Kaiju}} and Godzilla feed on radiation, and [[Film//GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the sequel]] confirms that Godzilla does ''not'' need time to eat an excessive amount and can just swallow it in one gulp. The three Kaiju could very well drain the nuke's energy before it goes off so the blast is less powerful and there's that much lower a chance of success. Furthermore, there was a serious risk that the nuke's energy, precisely because it makes the atom bombs of the 50s look like "firecrackers" comparatively, could make Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] ''even more powerful'' than they already are.

* Godzilla's fighting style is based primarily on that of a bear. For those of us who are uncomfortable with youtubing what Bears do when fighting, they roar, then slam their massive bodies against their opponent. Thrashing their claws into their side until they are taken to the ground. All the while digging their teeth into them. The Horror part? This type of fighting style will be implemented with a beast 350 feet tall...
* Creatures from the old world fed on radiation, making them great big batteries --hence why the Muto chrysalides were found stuck to the skeleton of another of Godzilla's species. So, had Godzilla lost the battle... Femuto would have likely ripped him open and laid more eggs ''inside him''. Probably why Godzilla wanted to kill the Mutos in the first place. Kinda like how hyenas and lions want to kill each other. They are each others natural enemy, and since the two Mutos are actually capable of matching Godzilla (and presumably hurting him) in combat and both feed on radation, probably rival predators as well.
** Though that raises the question of why there were only two eggs in the other Godzilla critter while the female MUTO laid dozens, if not hundreds, in San Francisco.
* Was Godzilla really a predator, following the mating calls of his prey? Or was ''he'' the prey, being intentionally lured by the MUTO to their nest so they could tag-team him, kill him, and then feed their numerous brood on his radioactive flesh?
* How many people died over the course of the movie, in Honolulu, San Francisco, and Las Vegas?
* Remember the submarine? [[spoiler: The 10,000 ton one picked up by Hokmuto like a eagle picks up a fish?]] Imagine how strong the male Muto has to pick it up and fly as fast as it did?
* Speaking about the submarine...do you think there were any survivors?

* The MUTO pair and Shinomura were both super ancient monsters laying dormant deep below the earth until awakened, and Godzilla has been around for just as long. While this gives the writers an easy way to introduce new monsters in the sequels, it still raises the question of just how many titanic, sapient disasters lay dormant below the Earth's crust, just waiting to awaken and be unleashed.
** As of ''{{Film/Kong Skull Island}}'' this roster has been expanded to include King Kong, ''his'' enemies the Skull Crawlers, various other monsters native to the eponymous island, and ''Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah.''

* When we finally get to see San Francisco burning, you got to ask yourself, how many people couldn't get to safety in time?
* Imagine the international responses to the attacks. The fact that Godzilla is still alive would probably put the entire world on high alert.

* Why do the Male Muto have wings and the Female Muto is much larger and stronger? The winged Mutos need to hop from mate to mate while the Females need to guard their nest. They need to be big and bad by necessity to protect their young from their predators(and given that at least one of those predators is the species that the King of Monsters himself came from, they need to big). They are also based on insects, where it is common for females to be larger. If we assume monogamy, flight allows the male to travel and bring food for the female (which he is seen doing, presenting a nuke as a gift to the expectant mother), while the female would stay at the nest as stated.

** Besides, they feed on ''Radiation''. The Heat and shock of the explosion would likely kill the weaker MUTOs (although Godzilla is likely too tough to take down as easily).

* The reason Elle lost the phone connection while trying to get in contact with Brody after the Male MUTO escapes Janjira? EMP! The general said that the MUTO messed with the satellites they would have used to track it, and guess what many phone calls go through!