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2* During the Yashiori operation against Godzilla, he's hit with artillery, trains, and collapsing buildings in an effort to weaken him enough to freeze him in place to avoid a nuclear strike being launched. Those buildings were dropped on top of him, with everything they had inside of them. Office buildings have break rooms. So Japan hit Godzilla with everything they had, including the kitchen sink!
3* Professor Hazama speculated that Godzilla's fins are heat vents to help keep Godzilla's blood cool--and it's the area around the dorsal fins that the the [=MOPs=] hit. Who's to say that that area isn't a weak point for this Godzilla?
4* As noted by a Website/{{Youtube}} commenter, Godzilla's fifth form makes a whole lot of sense. Godzilla has repeatedly been called "God Incarnate" across the franchise, and what's more godly than creating man in your own image?
5* Pay attention to the characters and it becomes apparent that Anno worked the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji/Rei/Asuka trio]] into the cast.
6** Hiromi Ogashira is very obviously Rei -- they're both introduced as keeping to themselves, are stoic and largely unemotional except for a small but genuine smile after a catastrophic crisis is averted, have short hair and don't seem to put much effort into their appearance, and both play an understated but integral role in their respective teams.
7** Kayoco Patterson maps closely to Asuka -- they're both multi-ethnic (particularly part-Japanese), multi-lingual, received college degrees in their teens, have long hair, are concerned with their appearance, and have brash personalities that seem overbearing to their Japanese counterparts. They also both have a complicated relationship with the male protagonist, although Kayoco, rather than being the temperamental {{tsundere}} that Asuka was, is politically ambitious and is eyeing Yaguchi as her eventual counterpart in Japan while also showing some actual fondness for him.
8** The comparisons between Rando Yaguchi and Shinji are far more about how they fit in their respective stories than their personalities. Both of them are fairly average people who are thrust into crises that they're largely unequipped to deal with, have to play increasingly pivotal roles in dealing with those crises as they become more and more dangerous, and are shown visibly cracking under the stress (although Rando only has one real blowup). They also end up working closely with two women who are ''wildly'' different in terms of personality, with one being quiet and stoic but dependable and the other being a wild card who is supportive but is also hard to deal with, partly because of culture clash and partly because of how she regards him.
9* It might at first seem odd that Godzilla is firing violet atomic blasts instead of the typical blue, or even the occasional red or orange, until you take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum. Violet is the last color on the visible light part of the spectrum, and therefore has the shortest wavelength in that range. This also means that the next shortest wavelength range in the electromagnetic spectrum is ''ultraviolet''. Atomic bombs emit the highest radiation in the ultraviolet range. It might be a stretch, but the violet coloring is perhaps the closest we can get to "seeing" the sheer level of radiation that Godzilla's atomic blasts emit.
10** Additionally, Shin Godzilla's main color is red and, historically, Godzilla has been associated with the color blue. What do you get when you combine red and blue? Purple. Sure, it's not anything particularly special, but it's certainly something.
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13* Goro Maki, the scientist who was exiled from Japan and was the first person to truly discover Godzilla, left his yacht, along with his notes on Godzilla in the Tokyo Bay, allegedly committing suicide while jumping into ''the bay Godzilla supposedly was in.'' In his notes, it is shown that Godzilla can survive ''anywhere that there is water and oxygen present, and reproduces asexually.'' This leads us to two Fridge Horror moments:
14** Considering that he has notes on the molecular schematic of Godzilla's cellular processes, and how it survives and reproduces, he must have gotten a ''sample'' of some sort, ''or maybe even '''''met''''' Godzilla.''
15** Shortly before Operation Yashiori's commencement, Yaguchi spoke up about Maki's hypothetical plot to unleash Godzilla on the Japanese people, as a sort of test/revenge. Considering that he allegedly committed suicide by jumping into Tokyo Bay where Godzilla was, and not only Godzilla's humanoid traits, but how humanoids come from Godzilla's tail, and how he gains the traits of what he assimilates, one could interpret this as ''Maki intentionally committing suicide into the ocean so Godzilla could absorb him, and evolve properly and make more of himself.''
16** Godzilla could just as easily gotten human genes from someone it stepped on. Then again, [[https://mykaiju.com/goro-maki-dairy/ they did release Goro's files, and his intimate knowledge of the creature implies the obvious conclusion.]]
17* This version of Godzilla is NightmareFuel, plain and simple. However, we all know that any respectable film industry who plans on making a Godzilla movie will inevitably make a sequel to pit Godzilla against a {{Kaiju}}. So when ''this'' Verse's Ebirah, Hedorah, King Ghidorah, Destroyah, Biollante or anyone else comes around... be prepared for pure, unadulterated, NightmareFuel.
18** On the plus side, this also could mean [[BigGood Mothra]] will appear. So maybe things won't be as crapsack as we fear. [[ParanoiaFuel Maybe.]]
19*** Then again, {{Adaptational Villainy}} ''is'' a thing...
20** [[http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/shin-godzilla-king-ghidorah-do-battle-celebration-godzilla-stores-anniversary We finally know what a Shin Ghidorah would look like.]] There is a LOT wrong here. Firstly, Ghidorah absolutely ''towers'' over Godzilla, who is already ''absolutely massive'' in this universe. Second, the city is being assailed not just by Ghidorah and Godzilla, but by what appear to be golden spears raining down from the sky itself. It shows that as powerful as Godzilla is, as always, ''Ghidorah would be so much worse''. And to make matters worse, while Godzilla looks like an abomination of nature, Ghidorah looks downright demonic and unnatural. It says a lot when Shin Godzilla is more of a comforting sight.
21*** Well,Godzilla, while unnatural, is a purely terrestrial being, Ghidorah is always portrayed as a Extra-terrestrial being, with a few movies even outright calling him an EldritchAbomination, so the Shin universes version of Ghidorah would pretty much ''need'' to be pure lovecraftian.
22* The very nature of this Godzilla's rampage isn't anger, it's because it literally has no idea where it is and why it's in pain. It's probably looking for help. Its accelerated metamorphosis keeps it in constant pain. Its skin and flesh keeps ripping apart as its body keeps growing. Even its colossal form by the film's climax resembles a walking scab that's burning from the inside. Most of its body doesn't work, like its malformed arms and enormous tail, which was likely an attempt to break off and spawn a second creature but cancelled out in favor of making a larger singular creature (Hence the semi-dead head at the tip).
23* The fact that Shin Godzilla's body is so highly radioactive that it glows from the inside means that killing it might be just as bad as letting it live: there could be fallout comparable with the Chernobyl disaster, to say nothing of the cost in human lives that it would take to safely dispose of a highly radioactive body with the mass of a skyscraper.
24* The end shot is already frightening enough in its implications, with Godzilla's tail dividing into numerous smaller, humanoid monsters. However, if you note the point at which Godzilla was frozen by the coagulant...''his tail wasn't like that when he was initially frozen!!'' In other words, this process might actually be ongoing, even while Godzilla is supposed to have been halted.
25* While Godzilla was causing a lot of damage just by walking around, hurting it with the MOP bombs arguably made things ''worse''. It lost a lot of blood when the bombs detonated, and since its blood is its coolant, the disruption to its body likely threw its internal balance off badly enough that it needed to vent all that energy to prevent something even worse, like a full-on meltdown. Cue a big chunk of Tokyo that hadn't been damaged being burned to a crisp by the fire breath, sliced to pieces by the focused beam, and generally irradiated by both.
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