"Little things" in Godzilla films you wonder about

[Voyager]

Nah was just pulling your leg

Yeah I know I was making a funny

I mean, it was an officially licensed adaptation, so it is canonical.

Where's the Giant Charles Barkley profile on the main site We need it!!!!!!

[Breakdown]

Rewatching MvG, I genuinely think the JSDF could have defeated, or at least temporarily incapacitated Godzilla with the electric pylon strategy. Those combined with the metal nets had him writhing on the ground in agony, and the plan only backfired when the commander's lieutenant got overzealous and increased the voltage beyond capacity. If they had just kept at it a little longer they may have been able to defeat Godzilla.


Also Godzilla's atomic ray was able to instantly make the metal towers turn red-hot and melt. When I was a kid, I never understood why the towers went from silver in one scene to red in another. Only now as an adult do I realize it was meant to show the towers glowing with heat and melting.

[Spuro]

"Anguirus" is just a bad Romanization, period.

And it's resulted in some truly hideous pronunciation.

This is a bit of a necro, so apologies for that, but how is it supposed to be pronounced? I’ve always said it as “An-gear-us”, as it was pronounced in the Pipeworks games I grew up with.

[JAGzilla]

This is a bit of a necro, so apologies for that, but how is it supposed to be pronounced? I’ve always said it as “An-gear-us”, as it was pronounced in the Pipeworks games I grew up with.

I'm no expert, but assuming that 'Angilas' is a straightforward romanization, the Pipeworks pronunciation is almost correct. Ahn-gi-rahs. It's just a matter of putting an 'ah' sound to the A's, and separating the 'gi' from the 'ras' just a bit. Not 'gear-us' but 'gi-ras'.

For maximum accuracy, though, the best thing to do would probably be to just watch one of his movies or a relevant clip in Japanese, and listen to the way the actors pronounce his name.

[Terasawa]

In this video, the foreign pronunciation closest to the Japanese is the Marketing Film German dub of Godzilla Raids Again. None of the English approximations are particularly close, with the worst being "ANGLE-us," "ann-GWEIR-us," and "eng-WEEN-is."

I also don't think the Pipeworks announcer's take is that great. I only played a clip from STE, but I hear "ann-GEAR-us," which is pretty far-removed from the Japanese. ("ann" as in Queen Ann; the Japanese would be closer to the English word "on".)

Friendly reminder too that you can drop katakana monster names into Google Translate and use the playback function to hear how they're pronounced. This is helpful if your ears have a hard time isolating specific words in the Japanese dialogue in these films.

[Spuro]

Whatever happened after the events of Godzilla: Final Wars?

Were the main cast among the last humans left alive of Earth? Was it only Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Paris, Shanghai, and New York that were destroyed with the rest of the world left relatively untouched? If it was somewhere in-between the two extremes, then how long did it take for humanity to recover? What does that world look like in twenty or fifty years?

[GodzillavsRayquaza]

Whatever happened after the events of Godzilla: Final Wars?

Were the main cast among the last humans left alive of Earth? Was it only Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Paris, Shanghai, and New York that were destroyed with the rest of the world left relatively untouched? If it was somewhere in-between the two extremes, then how long did it take for humanity to recover? What does that world look like in twenty or fifty years?

I’ve always assumed that pretty much every major city got demolished, but anyone in more remote areas was fine, given how the grandpa and grandson with Minilla were able to survive well enough without any issue.

[edgaguirus]

I figure that major population centers were destroyed, but suburbs and rural areas would be better off. As for how long it would take to recover, who knows?

[Logan268]

What Happened To Infant Island after Ebirah but before Destroy All Monsters? The Island was returning to normal in the former so there's no way it could have been destroyed before 1999

[JAGzilla]

What Happened To Infant Island after Ebirah but before Destroy All Monsters? The Island was returning to normal in the former so there's no way it could have been destroyed before 1999

There are any number of ways it could have been destroyed before 1999. Maybe Godzilla threw a fit and took it out. Maybe it got hammered by a typhoon or earthquake. Maybe some trigger-happy world power got nervous about Mothra and nuked it again. Etc, etc.

[godjacob]

Whatever ended up happening to the Oratio from the Godzilla Anime Trilogy?

[edgaguirus]

I wonder about what happened when Princess Salno returned home. She recognized the man trying to kill her, so she might know who he takes orders from. If so, the princess could have done an investigation and purge of those trying to kill her.

[godjacob]

What kept Mothra from doing literally anything in Ebirah Horror of the Deep when the Red Baboon took her own people as slaves. Only getting involved after the Red Bamboo had been defeated.

[godjacob]

Also not a Godzilla film but screw it been bugging me for too long. In King Kong Lives they jump through hoops and ladders to preserve and try to keep King Kong alive, even using a big artificial heart and a blood transfusion from a recently discovered female Kong. My question is, why? Why are they trying to save the same beast they tried to shoot to death in the last movie?

[_JNavs_]

Also not a Godzilla film but screw it been bugging me for too long. In King Kong Lives they jump through hoops and ladders to preserve and try to keep King Kong alive, even using a big artificial heart and a blood transfusion from a recently discovered female Kong. My question is, why? Why are they trying to save the same beast they tried to shoot to death in the last movie?

I believe it's due to environmentalists attempting to enact species preservation. Pretty honorable actually, it shows not every group of humans are the same.

[eabaker]

Also not a Godzilla film but screw it been bugging me for too long. In King Kong Lives they jump through hoops and ladders to preserve and try to keep King Kong alive, even using a big artificial heart and a blood transfusion from a recently discovered female Kong. My question is, why? Why are they trying to save the same beast they tried to shoot to death in the last movie?

I believe it's due to environmentalists attempting to enact species preservation. Pretty honorable actually, it shows not every group of humans are the same.

Besides, they were shooting at him in the previous film because his presence in New York was creating an immediate peril. It wasn't like they just hated Kong and wanted him dead!

[Chris55]

What kept Mothra from doing literally anything in Ebirah Horror of the Deep when the Red Baboon took her own people as slaves. Only getting involved after the Red Bamboo had been defeated.

She needed a motivational song and dance number.

[edgaguirus]

What kept Mothra from doing literally anything in Ebirah Horror of the Deep when the Red Baboon took her own people as slaves. Only getting involved after the Red Bamboo had been defeated.

Someone needed to get her an alarm clock.

Does anyone know if Mothra was intended for this film? It could be a case where Infant Island was substituted for Faro Island because Mothra had good chemistry with Godzilla. All Mothra had to do was give the slaves and our heroes a lift, while Godzilla got all the action.

[godjacob]

What kept Mothra from doing literally anything in Ebirah Horror of the Deep when the Red Baboon took her own people as slaves. Only getting involved after the Red Bamboo had been defeated.

Someone needed to get her an alarm clock.

Does anyone know if Mothra was intended for this film? It could be a case where Infant Island was substituted for Faro Island because Mothra had good chemistry with Godzilla. All Mothra had to do was give the slaves and our heroes a lift, while Godzilla got all the action.

Far as I know, Mothra was always planned for the film even when they had Kong in mind. Think I recall seeing it in concept sketches.

[godjacob]

Why does Showa Mechagodzilla never use its breath weapon, despite having it as a feature as Fake Godzilla? I refuse to buy removing a disguise would take that feature out of its arsenal.