I think fighting Godzilla (apparently) over the egg, later coming to rescue the baby, and going to his death in defense of the baby are... pretty much all you need to qualify.UltramanGoji wrote:...Did it really, though? People are always going on about this, but I barely remember Rodan doing anything "loving" or "parental" in GVMG93 besides giving Godzilla his life force and kidnapping Baby Godzilla and putting it in danger.Zarm wrote:Just as a Heisei movie was being released that portrayed Rodan with a loving, self-sacrificing parental side unique to this singular portrayal of his character.
My point, however, is that this seems to be the only incarnation of Rodan to me with instincts to raise or protect young (unless the mated pair had offspring I've forgotten in the original?) But the timing of this book seems to be designed to retroactively graft that aspect onto the previous incarnation of the character ('He raises dinosaurs babies from outside his species! That's a Rodan thing!') as a sort of a bizarre that-doesn't-have-anything-to-do-with-anything tie-in to a similar plotline in the film. Before, I thought it was just a random but of lore; but the year provides a that-can't-be-coincidence context that finally makes that little insertion make (a kind of) sense in some ways. (And even less in others; it kind of feels like releasing a new Star Wars Legends reference book when The Last Jedi came out and having a footnote where R2-D2 once spit out casino coins, because someone somewhere thought it was important to connect that as an important astromech trait, by establishing it in a separate and already-concluded continuity that has no bearing on the current product.)
