The Case Against Gwangi the Great
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:18 pm
I am pretty new to the Fantasy Matches sure, but all the hype and empowerment behind Gwangi makes no sense to me. What makes this allosaurus so powerful that it can take the likes of Godzilla and other such monsters head on with either minimal or no damage? Watching said feats for myself, I am making a case against why Gwangi is not as Great as people make him out to be, with video links to each feat given.
Here are all the videos I found for Gwangi's feats, including an upload of my own of the Boulder feat people keep bringing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leLKC7d ... fernoRodan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A6tNff ... fernoRodan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qET9D0M ... ightParker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c472KE ... delaescena
Let's start with his combat.
Feats include:
Now for Gwangi's Durability.
His feats of durability that people seem to use are as follows.
Now for the Boulders. I've heard people saying he survived boulders the size of his torso falling on him with the only effect being that they knocked him out for a bit. Therefore, his durability is even better for blunt force trauma being used against him. However, as seen from the movie, this boulder shattered as it was falling, breaking into head-sized boulders which then fell onto his body, knocking him out. It did no damage to his hide sure, but a rock hitting scales is not going to have the same effect as a rock hitting flesh. One will bruise and leave bleeding cuts, the other is more sturdy like armor and much better at protecting the fleshy bits beneath. Even so, the fact that these boulders were enough to knock Gwangi out long enough for them to make a cage, and tie him to it by his neck and feet, means that those rocks did a lot to him. People use the fact that these rocks only knocked him out means that he has this unbreakable and untearable scaly hide. You know who else survived having a torso and a head-sized boulder hit them and have no visible damage nor got knocked out in the process?
https://tenor.com/view/godzilla-vs-king ... f-16223659
https://tenor.com/view/volleyball-godzi ... if-5497700
Let's go over to the church stuff now since that also includes rocks in the form of marble. They say the marble collapsing on him only trapped him down and that it was smoke inhalation that finished the beast. However, if you watch the ending, you see that he had already fallen over onto the floor due to being literally cooked alive by the fire surrounding him. Standing near a fire is hot enough, but being surrounded by fire only intensifies that heat, meaning that Gwangi was being cooked alive by the fire, as supported by what InfernoRodan stated before, leaving this whole paragraph moot, but it does go into the marble so keep reading and humor me here. If he truly was being killed by Smoke inhalation, his cries would have been getting shorter, instead of remaining at the panicking screams he was doing due to it being harder to breathe. Sure he had no physical burn marks, but being covered in scales would make the heat more unbearable as it would be trapped beneath those tougher materials, similar to how wearing armor in a hot location makes you more vulnerable to heat stroke. Now for the Marble. He was already on the ground when the marble started falling. The first bout did ensnare his body under hot metal bars and marble, keeping it trapped on the ground yes. Then the second chunk of marble fell onto him, and he then stoped moving and screaming because it has now killed him. It was not the smoke inhalation that killed the beast, but falling debris and broiling fire.
In short, I find all the supposed feats of how Gwangi is this invicible unbeatable dinosaur when scaled up to kaiju size to be a bunch of overhyped BS. Sure it's impressive, but just about every other Toho monster most likely has similar or greater feats compared to Gwangi.
Here are all the videos I found for Gwangi's feats, including an upload of my own of the Boulder feat people keep bringing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leLKC7d ... fernoRodan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A6tNff ... fernoRodan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qET9D0M ... ightParker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c472KE ... delaescena
Let's start with his combat.
Feats include:
- Killing a Styracosaurus
- Killing an Elephant
- Straining the Styracosaurus's horn with a bite.
- Killing several men on horseback
Now for Gwangi's Durability.
His feats of durability that people seem to use are as follows.
- The horns of both the Elephant and the Styracosaurus did not pierce him.
- Survived having his whole weight on the horn of the Styracosaurus.
- Survived Boulders falling onto him
- The Church Fire not hurting him
- Surviving Marble falling on him and trapping him and not killing him
- Spears don't pierce his hide
- And finally, it was not the fire or the marble falling on him, but smoke inhalation that killed Gwangi
Now for the Boulders. I've heard people saying he survived boulders the size of his torso falling on him with the only effect being that they knocked him out for a bit. Therefore, his durability is even better for blunt force trauma being used against him. However, as seen from the movie, this boulder shattered as it was falling, breaking into head-sized boulders which then fell onto his body, knocking him out. It did no damage to his hide sure, but a rock hitting scales is not going to have the same effect as a rock hitting flesh. One will bruise and leave bleeding cuts, the other is more sturdy like armor and much better at protecting the fleshy bits beneath. Even so, the fact that these boulders were enough to knock Gwangi out long enough for them to make a cage, and tie him to it by his neck and feet, means that those rocks did a lot to him. People use the fact that these rocks only knocked him out means that he has this unbreakable and untearable scaly hide. You know who else survived having a torso and a head-sized boulder hit them and have no visible damage nor got knocked out in the process?
https://tenor.com/view/godzilla-vs-king ... f-16223659
https://tenor.com/view/volleyball-godzi ... if-5497700
Let's go over to the church stuff now since that also includes rocks in the form of marble. They say the marble collapsing on him only trapped him down and that it was smoke inhalation that finished the beast. However, if you watch the ending, you see that he had already fallen over onto the floor due to being literally cooked alive by the fire surrounding him. Standing near a fire is hot enough, but being surrounded by fire only intensifies that heat, meaning that Gwangi was being cooked alive by the fire, as supported by what InfernoRodan stated before, leaving this whole paragraph moot, but it does go into the marble so keep reading and humor me here. If he truly was being killed by Smoke inhalation, his cries would have been getting shorter, instead of remaining at the panicking screams he was doing due to it being harder to breathe. Sure he had no physical burn marks, but being covered in scales would make the heat more unbearable as it would be trapped beneath those tougher materials, similar to how wearing armor in a hot location makes you more vulnerable to heat stroke. Now for the Marble. He was already on the ground when the marble started falling. The first bout did ensnare his body under hot metal bars and marble, keeping it trapped on the ground yes. Then the second chunk of marble fell onto him, and he then stoped moving and screaming because it has now killed him. It was not the smoke inhalation that killed the beast, but falling debris and broiling fire.
In short, I find all the supposed feats of how Gwangi is this invicible unbeatable dinosaur when scaled up to kaiju size to be a bunch of overhyped BS. Sure it's impressive, but just about every other Toho monster most likely has similar or greater feats compared to Gwangi.