LegendZilla wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 11:08 pm
ShinGojira14 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 5:35 pm
Revealing that Shin
is actually SpaceGodzilla would mean Shin was never really Godzilla—which would be a gigantic slap in the face to essentially a modernized 1954 Godzilla. It would be bringing to life the one jab at Shin that I truly and genuinely hate:
"Shin is not Godzilla because he's ToO DIFfeReNT!"
A Shin SpaceGodzilla as a character on his own would be amazing, especially as an adversary for Shin Godzilla to fight. Even more especially if his film would be a character-driven film that could explore his and Godzilla's differing personas. But making Shin and Space G the same character would just kick the impact
Shin Godzilla—as a film and as an incarnation of the character—had, right in the balls.
^G54 getting turned into Mechagodzilla back in 2002 didn’t take anything away from the original film, did it?
That was different. G54 had already died, and MechaGodzilla was simply built
around his bones. His spirit still remained, and possessed the mech in a rare two moments. He was not alive. The original Godzilla was still dead (Ghost Godzilla is not a scrapped Kaiju, contrary to popular belief). He didn't really change into a new monster; a new mech was built around what remained of him (and even that was a retcon; going by the original film, his bones should've been destroyed). The original Godzilla was still the original Godzilla—something those who built Mecha G didn't realize.
MechaGodzilla and Godzilla (1954) may have been physically merged together, but they were two separate entities. One was just a mindless husk of metal, and the other was a spiritual consciousness that lay dormant within said husk, taking control once or twice. The same goes for MV MechaGodzilla.
Shin Godzilla physically transforming into SpaceGodzilla, on the other hand, would severely handicap the impact
Shin Godzilla had as a film, in its revealing that all along the film was just a SpaceGodzilla origin story, and not a fresh, new yet unmistakably classic take on the King of the Monsters, and what life would really be like if he emerged in the modern world for the very first time.