by jrichreturns » Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:25 pm
I don't think it's necessarily different. It was alluded in an earlier script he was somehow changed by his exposure to the new, modern nuclear weapons, but he was always similar to what he is now. Maybe he was smaller or whatever. We'll have to find out. He may still be a dinosaur that survived in a time period (after the KT impact) that created a vacuum for biodiversity and knowing that the Earth was more radioactive in the time of dinosaurs, you have large amounts of radioactive materials in the crust and mantle being flung into the atmosphere. So that could be that time period.
Here's my theory:
he Earth truly had a higher radiation level in times past due to higher amounts of isotopes in the soil before they became denatured into their "normal states", thus life had to deal with higher radiation levels. The age of the dinosaurs was ended with a large asteroid striking the earth, kicking up a debris cloud from damaging the crust and upper mantle. This created a massive cloud of radioactive debris and forced some creatures into hiding either underwater or underground. Godzilla's ancestors were probably some Abelisaurid or Tyranosaurid species located near water and basically sought refuge in the sea. That would still provide prey and shelter and when needed they could make landfall from time to time to raid for corpses. The extra radiation affected the creatures' cells and they adapted, getting bigger to accommodate a living radiological reactor(only way a creature could be a living reactor is if they were huge) and also their ocean-going habitat also accommodated such. The issue with square-cubed rule(you could argue with it due to the dinosaur paradox) is also null because of the radiological nature basically reenforced the molecular bonds of the creatures and they also develop graphene internally to help. During the few mya after the end of the dinosaurs a (the MUTO sound more like a bizarre arachnid-morph to me) type of parasitic Chelicerata evolves to fill in a gap in multiple niches in the short term and they hunt after creatures like Godzilla. The Earth's denaturing of radioactive elements and the constant arms-race between the two species drives them to extinction. Godzilla could be a mutation of said species that was influenced by modern nuclear weapons. What do you guys think?
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