by Snowdenzilla » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:36 pm
I thought it might make sense to finally create a thread for this.
This isn't for new spoilers- rather, the deeper discussion of G14 plot elements that have already been revealed.
So... Beyond this point, I'm gonna drop the spoiler tag stuff because it's highly obnoxious to pull off on a mobile device.
You've been warned!
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In the "Debacle Thread", another user asked,
"So... Jira is a prehistoric creature like the Mutos. A Jira creature survived and was awakened by the Nagasaki explosion. Theh the creature attacked a location of an american nuclear test and it gets exposed to the explosion. Then the same creature gets attacked by the american fleet with some kind of nuclear warhead. So this new Godzilla took radiation from THREE different explosions? And it must be already a living nuclear reactor since the ancient Mutos needed to put their eggs inside Jiras.Is that right?"
That was my question exactly. The dead creature in the ice shouldn't be mutated at all, since it had never been nuked. And given that the Mutos need something radioactive *and* living to deposit their larva in (because otherwise, wouldn't they just deposit their eggs in nuclear reactors?) we have to conclude that Godzilla l, in his mutated form was already a radioactive creature.
Godzilla takes several nukes assumedly. They imply that post WW2 nuclear tests in the 60's were really operations meant to take out Godzilla, who had already become something of a nuisance after nosing around (but not rampaging) shortly after Nagasaki and later bothering with the US nuclear fleet.
My assumption would be that he was attracted to the radiation like a dog to bacon.
So...
1. What did the radiation "change" about Godzilla?
2. If Godzilla wasn't dead, why did he suddenly stop seeking out radioactive things?
3. An unmutated Godzilla is already enormous- there could probably only be a couple of these things simply because of their ultra-super-predator status, unless we are to assume that Jiras are fueled entirely by radiation and do not eat. Given this, it seems unlikely that the Mutos would evolve specifically to implant their eggs in a Jira creature- especially since the infestation assumedly kills the host.
Discuss!