Godzilla (Minus One Continuity)

Dinosaurian-physiology

* Size
* Enhanced strength
* Enhanced speed
* Enhanced durability

Post-mutation

* Gigantic size
* Immense strength
* Immense speed
* Immense durability
* Immense stamina
* Immense endurance
* Enhanced senses
* Atomic breath
* Super regeneration
* Intimidation
* Swimming skills

### Goals

* Kill humanity out of pure aggression and out of revenge for his mutation (failed).
* Destroy Japan (partially succeeded).

### Crimes

Attempted Mass Serial Murder (Heavily Implied, And Child Murder)
Mass Destruction
Attempted Omnicide
Attempted Homicide
Attempted Genocide
Attempted Planeticde
Multiple Murders
Attempted World Domination
Attempted Universal Domination
Planetary Destruction
High Treason
Breach Of Autohority
Libel
Usurpation
Kidnapping
Desertion
Terrorism
Pollution
Conspiracy
Conquest
Incrimination
Man-eating
Cannibalism
Terrorism
Terrorizing
Torture
Invasion
Piracy
Jailbreak
Assault And Battery
Trespassing
Vandalism
Mutilation
Enslavement
Corruption
Breaking And Entering
Brainwashing
Mind Controlled
Blackmailed
Possession
Defilement
Madness Inducement
Multiple Other Offenses
Mayhem
Manslaughter
Fighting
Stalking
Death Threats
Fraud
Theft
Abuse (Physical and Physiological, Including Child Abuse)
Animal Cruelty
Nigh-omnicide
War Crimes
Abuse Of Power
Crimes Against Humanity, Peace, And Paradise
Malefic/Dark Magic
Usage Of Dark Magic

### Type of Villain

Cataclysmic Vengeful Kaiju

**Godzilla** (ゴジラ, *Gojira*) is the fourth Godzilla in the Reiwa Era of films and the only known Godzilla of the ***Godzilla Minus One*** continuity.

This Godzilla appeared in the 2023 film, *Godzilla Minus One*, where the monster wreaked havoc across Japan following the end of World War II.

**Godzilla** is the titular main antagonist of the 2023 Japanese monster film. *Godzilla Minus One*.

## Name

The name "Godzilla" is a transliteration of *Gojira* (ゴジラ), which is a combination of the Japanese words *gorira* (ゴリラ), meaning gorilla, and *kujira* (鯨 or クジラ), meaning whale.

## Design

### Portrayal

Like the Godzilla of the *Shin Godzilla* continuity, this Godzilla is portrayed through the use of CGI.

### Roar

Godzilla’s roar is identical to the 1954 incarnation, but more amplified and has an echo effect. He also makes hissing like growls in his pre-mutated form.

## Personality

Godzilla is incredibly aggressive and hostile, both before and after his mutation. He is shown to attack anything which he perceives to be a threat to him, or an invader of his territory. Before mutating, after coming ashore to Odo Island. Godzilla instantly became aggressive after a Japanese soldier on a watchtower shined a spotlight on him. Godzilla immediately responded by violently knocking the tower over, killing the soldier as a result. While on Odo Island, Godzilla also displayed a degree of curiosity. After knocking the watchtower over, he began to wander around the Japanese air base, seeming both curious and confused as to why there were humans in his territory. He only became aggressive again after the remaining soldiers began to fire at him with their rifles, to which Godzilla responded by killing almost every person on the base. After mutating, Godzilla became even more aggressive, to the point of being almost vengeful towards humans. While out at sea, he began to defend his perceived territory by attacking passing ships, eventually making landfall and attacking the city of Ginza.

This Godzilla harbored strong grudge toward humanity for nuclear tests which irradiated him in the first place not unlike original iteration of the character, though his case is much worse as he already hostile towards mankind prior to his mutation. During the fateful grisly encounter with Japanese military personnel in 1945, Godzilla displayed inquisitive side as he observed them from a short distance rather than immediately attacking them — he only became enraged and aggressively attacked them once provoked. Even Odo Island natives who managed to earn his respect by appeasing him in exchange of deep-sea fishes knows better than enraging him. However, after being irradiated by the Operation Crossroads nuclear test a year later, Godzilla's hostility toward human presence worsened more than ever, perpetually angered by his predicament and believed that nothing in their disposal could stop him thanks to newfound powers from his mutation. So much that he demonstrated his wrath towards humankind expressively and aggressively with his actions and occasional satisfaction in the destruction he causes as shown during his rampage at Ginza and Operation Wada Tsumi, showing no remorse at destruction and deaths he caused. Not even those who have little to no involvement in aforementioned nuclear tests such as civilians in Tokyo are spared from his wrath.

## Origin

Godzilla's origin is largely similar to that of both his 1954 and Heisei renditions; a dinosaur-like creature mutated and provoked by nuclear tests (whether he's a living fossil like Godzillasaurus is left ambiguous). Like the former, he is referred by locals at Odo Island as a legendary sea monster from their home island's folklore. In this case, his appearance often heralded by deep sea fish floating up to the surface, frightened by his sheer presence where some ended up swimming upwards to their deaths due to abrupt change of pressure. A year after slaughtering everyone at a Japanese military airbase in the island save for the former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima and the lead mechanic Sosaku Tachibana, Godzilla was horribly burned and mutated by the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests performed in the Bikini Atoll by the United States, turning the 15-meter tall theropod-like reptile into a far larger and more powerful creature.

## History

### *Godzilla Minus One*

Godzilla first appeared on Odo Island in 1945 resembling a fifteen-meter-tall theropod-like reptile and slaughtered the inhabitants of the military base, save for Koichi Shikishima and Sosaku Tachibana. It first demolished the watchtower and killed the officer stationed there before searching for his comrades who hid in a nearby trench. Though he was ordered to bombard the creature with his plane's guns, Koichi found himself too afraid to do so, leading his comrades to open fire on Godzilla out of fear. Predictably, their guns only enraged the creature, who then proceeded to massacre the soldiers as soon as they scrambled out of cover. The one-sided battle culminated with Godzilla destroying Koichi's plane and knocking its pilot out before leaving. A year later, Godzilla was caught up in Operation Crossroads and mutated into a fifty-meter tall behemoth and proceeded to destroy the American fleet before making his way into Japanese waters. Due to the rising tensions between the USA and USSR, America could not deploy their forces to intercept. He would then be encountered once again by Koichi in 1947 out at sea and chased after him and his colleagues. During the chase, they detonated a sea mine in his mouth which wounded Godzilla, but the damage was quickly undone due to Godzilla's newly acquired regenerative abilities. He was then intercepted by the *Takao* and proceeded to battle the vessel before he managed to get the drop on her and destroy her with his atomic breath. Later, Godzilla would make landfall in Tokyo and proceed to destroy it. After being fired upon by the remnants of the Japanese army, Godzilla fired his Atomic Breath and annihilated a good chunk of the Ginza before returning to sea. With the Japanese government wanting no part in Godzilla's eradication, the civilians and veterans of WWII had to take matters into their own hands and devised a plan to kill Godzilla by using explosive decompression. Koichi led Godzilla out into the attack point using a *Shinden* fighter plane that Tachibana had modified prior. While the plan to sink Godzilla failed, they opted to kill Godzilla by bringing him up to the surface at a fast rate. While the effort managed to injure him, Godzilla managed to turn the tides on the ships and prepared to fire his Atomic Breath. However, at the last second, Koichi rammed his *Shinden* into Godzilla's mouth, decapitating him and causing his built-up atomic energies to explode from the inside out. However, a small piece of Godzilla drifted to the bottom of the ocean and proceeded to regenerate.

## Appearance

Godzilla is a massive reptilian creature, its body covered in rough, bumpy skin of a brownish-gray hue with some mottled, pale brown burn scars, and has a long, thick tail that ends in a rounded tip. It has large, four-toed feet that possess short black claws. Its eyes are a golden yellow. Most noticeably, Godzilla’s dorsal plates are incredibly large compared to other incarnations, appearing rough and jagged. Its face and body shape resembles the Heisei incarnation of Godzilla (from *Godzilla vs. Biollante* onwards). The dorsals resemble needles and its legs resemble those of the *Singular Point* Godzilla. In its pre-mutated form, it is a large theropod-like creature reminiscent of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but with large dorsal plates. Its appearance is also similar to Godzillasaurus and the 1998 incarnation of Godzilla. Its dorsal plates are smaller and less sharp in appearance, and its skin is browner in color than its mutated form. Pre-mutated Godzilla adopts a hunched over bipedal stance, and its feet are digitigrade. Its head is larger in relation to its body in comparison to its mutated form.

### Pre-mutated form

Godzilla's pre-mutated form is reminiscent to older depiction of *Tyrannosaurus Rex*, Godzillasaurus (Heisei reimagining of the prehistoric amphibious reptile mentioned in 1954 film) and in lesser extent, Zilla; a 15-meters tall amphibious theropod dinosaur. He assumed hunched, bipedal stance akin to kangaroo, and had digitate feet. Unlike his post-mutated form, his head is larger relative to his body and more tyrannosaurid in shape, particularly the snout. In stark contrast of Godzillasaurus, Godzilla already possesses maple leaf-shaped dorsal fin albeit less pronounced.

### Post-mutated form

Following his irradiation in 1946, Godzilla attained more muscular physique, brawny arms and sturdy legs just like Heisei iteration of the character, even bearing a stance and general shape evocative of the latter to the boot. His body is covered in rough, bumpy skin of brownish gray hue reminiscent to that of his MonsterVerse counterpart albeit with more apparent resemblance to keloid scars instead of crocodilian and have mottled, pale brown burn scars in some parts. He also attained new scar on his right cheek following the explosion of a mine inside his mouth and his subsequent regeneration. His four-toed feet now larger with short black claws while his eyes are a golden yellow. His now prominent dorsal fins now become larger and more jagged.

## Biography

In 1945, Godzilla came ashore on Odo Island at night and entered a Japanese military airbase. *Kamikaze* pilot Koichi Shikishima entered his fighter on the airfield to try and attack the creature with its guns but froze up as Godzilla stood in front of him. The panicked military repairmen nearby opened fire on Godzilla, enraging him and causing him to brutally dispatch them all. By morning, the only survivors were Shikishima and the lead mechanic, Sosaku Tachibana, who blamed Shikishima for failing to act and costing the others their lives. The incident was covered up by the Japanese government, with the official story being that the men on the island were wiped out by American force however this event would cause Shikishima to be haunted by his experience with the monster, having nightmares of his attack on Odo Island years after the war ended. In July 1946, Godzilla was caught in one of the American military's nuclear weapons tests at Bikin Atoll, burning and mutating him. Now substantially larger and even more enraged, Godzilla began destroying American vessels in his path as he approached the Japanese archipelago however the American military refused to take action against Godzilla in the Pacific and warned the Japanese to begin preparing for the worst. In 1947, the minesweeper *Shinsei Maru* was ordered to stall Godzilla until the Japanese battle cruiser Takao could arrive and attack him. Shikishima, now a crew member on the *Shinsei Maru*, saw a destroyed ship and deep-sea fish floating to the surface and immediately recognized that the culprit was the creature he saw on Odo Island before Godzilla soon appeared and gave chase to the *Shinsei Maru*, which dropped mines and detonated them in an attempt to stop him. One mine was dropped into Godzilla's mouth, with Shikishima using the ship's guns to detonate it. destroying half of Godzilla's face which regenerated before the crew's eyes. As Godzilla rose from the water, the *Takao* arrived and began firing at him. Godzilla turned his rage to the cruiser and grabbed it, tearing it apart viciously with his claws. The ship's guns unloaded on Godzilla again, causing him to fall backward into the sea. However, the creature swam underneath the *Takao* and obliterated it in an instant with an explosive heat ray. Godzilla then surfaced amid the ashes and smoke and emitted a terrifying roar. Eventually, Godzilla passed through a mine blockade and entered Tokyo Bay before coming ashore in Ginza where he tore through the district in a frenzied rage, eventually grabbing a train in his mouth. Noriko Oishi, Shikishima's girlfriend, narrowly escaped the train before Godzilla dropped it into the water below. Shikishima arrived to rescue her as Godzilla approached, just before a group of tanks began firing at him. Godzilla then begins to charge up his dorsal fins which protrude from his back and emit a blue glow one-by-one before he fired a blue atomic heat ray from his mouth that struck the tanks and produced a nuclear explosion that flattened most of the surrounding area. Noriko was swept away in the shockwave after pushing Shikishima to safety, leaving him screaming in grief among the ruins of Ginza. In the aftermath of Godzilla's raid, an estimated 30,000 civilians were killed or injured. With Godzilla approaching Tokyo once more, Shikishima used his fighter to draw Godzilla back into the ocean after the beast came ashore, drawing him to the trap point in Sagami Bay. Noda tricked Godzilla into firing his atomic breath at an unmanned vessel, leaving him unable to use it again while it recharged before he ordered all of the ships to circled Godzilla and tied a cable attached to Freon canisters around him. As Godzilla prepared to fire his heat ray again, the canisters were ruptured, and he was forcibly pulled underwater where he immediately froze in place. Noda inflated the balloons under him, and Godzilla was rapidly drawn to the surface, but Godzilla tore through the balloons, foiling the plan seemed until a fleet of tugboats arrived to help the ships pull him the rest of the way where his flesh began to freeze and rupture, however he did not sustain enough damage for the plan to succeed. Noda and the others accepted their inevitable demise as Godzilla struggled to unleash his atomic breath to kill them all however, Shikishima flew his plane into Godzilla's mouth, ejecting just before it crashed and exploded the top of Godzilla's head and causing the accumulated atomic energy to burst from Godzilla, tearing his body to pieces. However unknown to anyone, a surviving fragment of Godzilla's flesh began to regenerate as it sank into the depth of the ocean, signaling a possible return of Godzilla.

## Powers And Abilities

* **Dinosaurian-Physiology**: Godzilla was once a theropod dinosaur-like creature, which gave him incredible instincts, enhanced strength, speed, durability, and endurance.
* **Big Size**: Godzilla was about ~15 meters in height by the time he was a Godzillasaurus.
* **Enhanced Strength**: Godzilla was stronger than an average human, as he was able to stomp on a human and destroy a watchtower by simply ramming into it. He was also able to destroy a plane with pure force alone.
* **Enhanced Speed**: Godzilla seemed to be faster than a normal human, as shown that he ran to catch up to one of the soldiers on Odo Island.
* **Enhanced Durability**: Godzilla’s hide was strong enough to withstand firearms, showing that when being shot at, he displayed aggression and annoyance.
* **Kaiju Physiology**: The Atomic Bomb made Godzilla far more powerful than he was before. Making him much bigger, making him about 50.1 meters in height. This also augmented his physical attributes to numerous monstrously immense levels, this resulted in unbearable strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, stamina, and endurance.
* **Immense Size**: Thanks to the Atomic Bomb, Godzilla is much bigger. He stands about 50.1 meters tall.
* **Immense Strength**: Godzilla’s natural strength augmented to immensely monstrous levels, thanks to the atomic bomb. With this level of strength, He is capable of tearing down U.S destroyers with only his bare hands, an example of this is when Godzilla grabbed onto the Takao cruiser and punch into it. He is also strong enough to tear through structures such as buildings, this example is when he knocked over numerous buildings by swinging his tail. He can also throw trains and heavy objects with his hands alone.
* **Immense Bite Force**: Godzilla is shown to have incredible jaw force, he can lift a train after biting down on it.
* **Immense Durability**: After his mutation, Godzilla’s physical durability increased significantly. He is able to withstand anything that hits him such as bullets, and explosives, showing that even the toughest of weapons cannot harm him. He can also withstand his atomic breath, despite it burning his face.
* **Immense Agility**: Godzilla surprisingly can turn rather quickly and nearly catch Koichi's prop aircraft by simply trying to bite it or catching it with his tail.
* **Immense Stamina**: Godzilla never appears to be tired or exhausted due to the fact that he has unlimited stamina.
* **Immense Reflexes**: Godzilla is capable of reacting quickly to what occurs around him, as he is shown to react to Koichi’s jet movements approaching his exact location.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Godzilla is granted with unique senses, allowing him to easily track down US vessels and the like.
* **Amphibiousness**: Godzilla, even before mutation, is a deep-sea marine reptile, capable of staying in water for indefinite amounts of time without getting air.
* **Swimming Skills**: Godzilla is an extremely skilled swimmer as he can effortlessly swim after a speeding boat.
* **Intimidation**: Godzilla is extremely intimidating, and it appears to be intentional.
* **Atomic Energy**: Godzilla’s body has numerous atomic atoms that he can stockpile, to the point where he can generate and produce it into a deadly weapon.
* **Atomic Breath:** Like all incarnations, this incarnation has atomic breath. The process of charging its atomic breath is unique, as its dorsal plate glow blue and extend outwards starting from the tip of its tail and working upwards, then retracting all at once before firing. Its atomic breath is powerful enough to cause an explosion similar to an atomic bomb detonation. Its atomic breath is also powerful enough to burn Godzilla itself, forcing him to regenerate before he can use it again.
* **Regeneration:** Godzilla possesses regenerative abilities, though these abilities are more advanced than previous installments in that it can regenerate if so much as a single piece of it remains. However, its regeneration abilities have their limits, as they are slower on the inside than the outside.
* **Marine Biology:** As a marine reptile, Godzilla is an adept swimmer, able to move with great speed and agility in the water, as well as being able to survive the crushing depths of the deep sea.
* **Contamination:** Godzilla gives off a type of radiation that can contaminate an entire area that is even stronger internally and can subject humans to a strain of unknown radiation poisoning.

## Trivia

* This incarnation of Godzilla strongly resembles the Godzilla from *Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle*. Not surprisingly, both are designed by Takashi Yamazaki.
	+ This is the second Godzilla to appear in a movie directed by Takashi Yamazaki, after the 2005 film *Always: Sunset on Third Street*.
* This is the first cinematic Reiwa Godzilla to be more akin to the traditional Godzilla in terms of design, origin, and execution. Although, here, his origins are similar to the Heisei Godzilla in that he starts out as a marine theropod before getting mutated by an atomic bomb.
	+ Much like the original Godzilla, this Godzilla is created through American nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, though instead of the Castle Bravo test, it is mutated by one of the Operation Crossroads tests in 1946.
* At 50.1 meters, this incarnation of Godzilla is the third-shortest adult, being only 10 centimeters taller than the first and the second of the Showa era.

* At 50.1 meters tall, this Godzilla's primary form is the second shortest of any incarnation on film, standing only 0.1 meters taller than his Showa counterpart and Godzilla Filius.
* Just like the Heisei incarnation, this version of Godzilla began life as a dinosaur-like creature.
* Godzilla's death could be a reference to how his GMK counterpart was killed.
* Unlike those of his previous iterations, Godzilla's atomic breath deals small amounts of damage to his skin when used.
* In the film's novelization which can be read here (note that translations are made by Google translate thus bound to errors)...
	+ Godzilla and inhabitants of Odo Island originally had symbiotic relationship with one another; the latter would appease him with gifts in exchange of the kaiju providing them deep-sea fishes he herded to the surface.
	+ Godzilla's regeneration did not just exist in his post-mutated form but also his pre-irradiated form as well but when he caught in front of the atomic bomb testing, it not only caused his healing factor to spiral out of control but also changed and deformed him in the process. The film hinted this through his ability to shrug gunshots from Tachibana's men without visibly bleeding.
		- The aforementioned forced evolution due to atomic bomb testing could be the reason behind his worse temper and vengeful side, as it understandably traumatized and embittered him.
	+ The explosion resulted from Godzilla's atomic breath destroyed all of Tokyo for a radius of 6 kilometers upon being used as demonstrated during his attack at Ginza.
* This Godzilla is the most aggressive version of the character to date, the second being his GMK counterpart.