Godzilla

For the film, see Godzilla (film).

"*Nature has an order. A power to restore balance. I believe **he** is that power.*"
―Dr. Ishiro Serizawa[src]
**Gojira**, more commonly known as **Godzilla**, is a giant reptilian MUTO and the alpha of the giant monsters. He is a member of the gojira species and was born 207 million years ago during the Permian period. During the age of antiquity, he burrowed deep into Earth to hibernate, eventually waking up in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki.

Subsequently, he began to chase a specimen of *Parasitus dacia* that awoken around the same time as he did. Eventually in 1954 after years of failed efforts, both of them were lured into Bikini Atoll by the US Military and a nuclear bomb was dropped on them. The winged MUTO was killed, but Godzilla continued his journey to the oceans, the event was known as the Castle Bravo under the guise of nuclear testing.

He is one of the main subjects in the MUTO Revelation in 2014, having hunted two parasitic MUTOs to prevent them from reproducing.

## Biography

### Birth

An ancient alpha predator who lived around the Permian period of Earth, Godzilla thrived and gained longevity by immersing in the high radiation levels of Earth.

### Reawakening

#### Castle Bravo Nuclear "Test"

The American military began detonating a series of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands to try and kill the two clashing monsters, under the guise of nuclear testing. On March 1st, 1954, Godzilla and the winged MUTO were lured ashore at Bikini Atoll, where the American military detonated their first-ever dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, code-named *Castle Bravo*, in an attempt to kill them both.

The winged MUTO was vaporized by the explosion, but Godzilla survives and vanishes soon afterward, and the United States covers up all evidence of their existence.

### MUTO Revelation

In 2014, Godzilla detected the mating call of a parasitic MUTO, a aforementioned parasitic lifeform that lived during his era and laid its eggs in the corpses of his species, believing their call to be a threat. He goes to Oahu, creating a tsunami before finally arriving at the Honolulu Airport where he confronts the winged MUTO for the first time. After a brief clash Godzilla returned to the sea and continued pursuing his enemy. The United States military believes Godzilla to be just as big of a threat as the MUTO, although Serizawa stated that Godzilla was present to hunt the MUTO and that he should be allowed to do so. After a second MUTO, a larger female one appears in Las Vegas, the military forms a plan to lure Godzilla and both MUTOs out to a remote island and kill them all with a nuclear warhead several times more powerful than Castle Bravo.

#### Battle of San Fransicsco

The winged MUTO uses his electromagnetic pulse ability to disable the military's vehicles and steal the warhead to be used as a radiation source for the nest in which the female would lay its eggs. Godzilla emerged from the Bay shortly afterward, surfacing near the Golden Gate Bridge. Soldiers were deployed onto the bridge and opened fire on Godzilla while civilians were attempting to cross it. Godzilla withstood the artillery fire until a blast hit him in the gills, causing him to smash into the bridge and split it in half. Godzilla roared and continued to approach the city, where the MUTOs had constructed their nest.

When Godzilla entered downtown San Francisco, the winged MUTO attacks him while the female one lays her eggs using the warhead. Godzilla finally reached the nest and confronts the female MUTO, who charged at Godzilla and attacked him. Soon, the male re-entered the battle and both MUTOs double-teamed Godzilla. Distracted by an explosion at the nest, the female MUTO leaves the fight to go check on her eggs just to find them all destroyed, wailing in pain, she notices Ford Brody who destroyed the nest. Before she could kill Brody, Godzilla charges up his atomic breath and releases it on her. The male flew behind Godzilla and pulled him out of the way, allowing the female to chase after the soldiers. As the male flew behind Godzilla to try and grab him again, Godzilla swung his tail at him, killing the MUTO by impaling him on a skyscraper. Godzilla stopped to catch his breath, only for the skyscraper to collapse onto him and bury him in debris and rubble. As Godzilla laid on the ground, he briefly stares down at Brody before being consumed by smoke.

The female MUTO then chases down Brody to the docks before Godzilla suddenly came up behind her, pulling her away and prying open her jaws, and brutally killing her by firing his atomic breath down her throat until her neck blew open and her head tore off. After doing so, he roared into the sky before dropping her head and collapsing to the ground again due to exhaustion. The next morning, San Francisco was in ruins, while military and emergency personnel surrounded Godzilla's unconscious body. Serizawa and his assistant Vivienne Graham looked sadly at Godzilla, believing him to be dead. Suddenly, Godzilla's eye opened and he began to stir. Godzilla stood up and began walking back out to the ocean as he is crowned the saviour of the city. Godzilla let out one last roar before diving back into the sea and disappearing beneath the waves.

### King Ghidorah Uprising

Five years after the battle of San Francisco, the government and military expressed a desire to exterminate **Godzilla** and all of the other MUTOs like him.

After appearing near an outpost on Bermuda, Monarch follows Godzilla to Canada where the team learns of eco-terrorist Alan Jonah's intentions to free a MUTO encased in the ice called "Monster Zero". Upon arriving in Canada, Monarch was ambushed by Jonah's men and was unable to stop them from unleashing Monster Zero, a three-headed Titan named Ghidorah and an ancient rival of Godzilla. Godzilla soon erupted from the ice to challenge him, engaging in a fight that ends with Monster Zero flying away while Godzilla heads to Volcan de Agua, Guatemala, the site of Outpost 91, where the specimen Rodan is contained.

Monster Zero later encounters the newly unleashed Rodan in an aerial clash, only for Godzilla to leap from the ocean and drag him underwater where he rips off Ghidorah's left head. The U.S. Military then attempted to kill both MUTOs with the experimental Oxygen Destroyer missile, seemingly killing Godzilla, who disappears into the ocean. Ghidorah however, was unharmed by the blast and promptly regenerated his severed head before awakening all other Titans around the world.

Following Ghidorah's ascension and the awakening of Titans around the world, Mothra emerges from her cocoon at a waterfall and flies to the outpost on Bermuda where she hovers above the sea to communicate with Godzilla, who had survived the detonation and is recuperating in a chamber inside an ancient sunken city older than any civilization on Earth, where there were murals of Godzilla, hinting that he and the Titans were the first mythological gods. There, the Monarch team board a submarine to revive Godzilla, as they realize the natural process could take years. Ultimately, the team decides to detonate a nuclear weapon allowing Godzilla to feed on the radiation much faster. Godzilla then emerges from the ocean, completely rejuvenated, firing his atomic breath into the sky, then turned his attention to the nearby humans before making his way to Boston.

At Fenway Park, Madison Russell broadcasts a frequency that attracts all the MUTOs to its location. Ghidorah, detecting the ORCA, lands on Boston and begun to menace Madison. Just before he could kill her, he was struck and knocked off his feet by a blast of Godzilla's atomic breath. Godzilla came ashore in Boston accompanied by a full military escort, ready for a final battle with his ancient nemesis. During the fight, the radiation Godzilla absorbed from the blast had begun to reach critical levels, meaning that he would emit a thermonuclear explosion in 12 minutes. Mothra arrives but Ghidorah calls out to Rodan to intercept her while he battles Godzilla. Mothra finally defeats Rodan after a long fight in which she was nearly defeated. Ghidorah wrapped his middle neck around Godzilla's throat and strangled him until he went limp before grabbing him with his claws and lifting him into the air, he then flew above the clouds before dropping Godzilla, producing a blue explosion upon striking the ground. The wounded Mothra crawls on top of an immobilized Godzilla before flying straight to Ghidorah who vaporizes her with his gravity beams. Mothra's life force flowed into Godzilla, causing his skin to form glowing red cracks.

Ghidorah bit down on Godzilla, draining his atomic energy through his bite. However, Emma and Mark were able to reactivate the ORCA and draw Ghidorah away from Godzilla. Just before killing Emma, Godzilla appears glowing orange and unleashes a series of thermonuclear blasts shaped like Mothra's wings, bombarding Ghidorah with atomic pulses, while Ghidorah desperately tries to fend him off. Godzilla, now impervious to his gravity beams lets out another pulse that destroys his body and two of his heads. Ghidorah fell to the ground as Godzilla stomped on his chest just before the nuclear energy inside of him consumed Boston with a fiery explosion. Rising out of the rubble, Godzilla bites down on Ghidorah's decapitated head and fires his atomic breath, disintegrating it.

Following Godzilla's victory, some of the Titans Ghidorah awakened: Behemoth, Scylla, the Crimson MUTO, Quetzalcoatl and Wukong converge on Godzilla along with Rodan, bowing to him as their true king.

### Exploitation

Year after the second Great MUTO War, Tokyo is left desolate and was only occupied by the Anderson-Maeda Enterprises, who has been secretly using Godzilla's genes as means to create the artificial MUTO Biollante by splicing his genes into the abomination.

## Personality

Edwards designed Godzilla to have a personality that would evoke the "last samurai" archetype, calling him "a lone, ancient warrior who prefers to be left alone until world events force him to resurface."

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Gojira physiology**:
	+ **Bio-atomic nature**: Godzilla's power originates from a bio-nuclear circulatory system. Activating when threatened, a neutron flux is triggered that travels up Godzilla's dorsal fins to nucleosynthetic chambers in his throat and explodes into his atomic breath. His radioactive signature also makes it easy for Godzilla to be followed and monitored.
		- **Atomic breath**: Godzilla's signature weapon. The atomic breath is a ray of white-hot radiation that the Alpha MUTO can direct at his enemies.
		- **Extreme temperature resistance**: Godzilla is highly immune to cold and freezing temperatures in Antarctica and in his burning form, he is highly immune to extreme heat as he is capable of withstanding burning temperatures.
		- **Thermonuclear pulse**: Godzilla can release pulses of radioactive energy if specific conditions are met.
	+ **Immortality**: Godzilla is seemingly immortal and had extensive life span since he has lived for millions of years, thus; he can survive unless he is pushed near death through violent means.
	+ **Amphibious nature**: Though technically a reptile and not an amphibian, Godzilla had an amphibious lifestyle. He spent half of his life in water and the other on land, which made him an adept combatant in both environments.
	+ **Thermal vision**: Like some reptiles, Godzilla has the ability to see another creature's body temperature.
	+ **Armored Skin**: Godzilla has broad scales which little look like rough coal like stone.
	+ **Regenerative healing factor**: Due to the fact Godzilla can absorb energy, particularly radiation; he can heal/regenerate much faster, more extensively, and efficiently, depending on how serious his injuries are.
	+ **Prehensile tail**: Godzilla has a long prehensile tail that he can use to help balance himself, use as a formidable weapon or even use it to hold opponents in its grasp.
	+ **Energy absorption**: Godzilla feeds on nuclear radiation and can sustain himself for millions of years at a time by absorbing geothermal radiation from the Earth's core. Godzilla is also capable of healing from his wounds by absorbing large amounts of radiation.
* **Nigh-omniscience**: After Mothra's sacrifice to empower him in 2019, Godzilla has permanently gained a heightened awareness of the tectonic and atmospheric interactions of the planet as well as the Earth's early geothermal history.

### Abilities

* **High intelligence**: While fighting the *Parasitus dacias*, Godzilla figures out their strengths and weaknesses through repeated clashes with them. He lets the winged MUTO fly in close to attack him, and he then used his tail to slam him into a skyscraper, killing him. With the six-legged MUTO, he fired his atomic breath right into her mouth after forcing it open, making her neck explode, and decapitating her.
	+ **Tactical analysis**:
* **Master swimmer**: Being a semi-aquatic creature, Godzilla is naturally a good swimmer.
* **Super metabolism and combat**: Godzilla possesses immense physical strength and can use his huge mass as a weapon.
* **Super senses**: Godzilla has a very strong sense of hearing, as he was able to track down the MUTOs' locations from the ocean by their mating calls. He is also capable of sensing the presence of Ghidorah inside Mechagodzilla and went on a hunt for him, recognizing the mecha as a threat to the balance of nature.

### Weaknesses

* ***Parasitic MUTOs'*** **electromagnetic pulses**: The EMP blasts produced by the *Parasitus dacias* can weaken Godzilla's atomic breath.
* **Excessive radiation**: While his species is evolved to absorb radiation, Godzilla cannot tolerate radiation levels above the amount his body can naturally sustain.
* **Exposed gills**: The gills on Godzilla's neck appear to be a weak spot.
* **Proton scream**: During Godzilla's battle with Mechagodzilla, his atomic breath was slowly overpowered by Mechagodzilla's proton scream.

## Relationships

* Children
* Biollante - genetic successor

Allies* Mothra
* Rodan
* King Kong - former enemy
* Behemoth
* Scylla
* Quetzalcoatl
* Wukong
* Crimson MUTO
* Drukr
* Typhon
* Unnamed winged MUTO
* Winged MUTO - victim
* Six-legged MUTO - victim
* Titan skullcrawler - victim
* Mechagodzilla
* Gigan - victim
* Shapeshifting demon
* Moloch
* Asag
* Pazuzu
* Satan
* Anderson-Maeda Enterprises - exploiters
* Destroyer
* SpaceGodzilla - clone

## Trivia

* It was decided that Godzilla would have minimal growth across the films as the filmmakers thought it would be weird that he didn't grow in the millions of years that he had lived and only conveniently grew during the 21st century.

## References

1. ↑ *Godzilla*
2. ↑ *Godzilla II*
3. ↑ 'Godzilla is like the last samurai'