Thread:The Reptile King/@comment-25808351-20161014013445/@comment-27950421-20161014023107

I have some rather mixed feelings about it. They've kept the spirit of the 1954 Godzilla alive in Shin Godzilla, but they've drastically altered him. Now, I'm not going to complain about them changing his origin. They've done that before. But how they changed it annoys me a great deal. In all of his origin stories, what Godzilla is was maintained, he was always a giant radioactive dinosaur who has a radiation based breath weapon. In Shin Godzilla, he isn't. Now he's a giant collection of mutated microorganisms that is vaguely shaped like a giant dinosaur. Hence his new burn victim look. What really grinds my gears though, is how they did his origin. You see his Shin Godzilla origin is that a type of microorganism at the sea floor that was exposed to nuclear waste and merged into Godzilla. Now, I don't know how well you know Godzilla, but one of Godzillas greatest foes was a monster called Destroyah. Destroyah had a lot of symbolism and really brought things full circle whith the way oxygen destroyer worked out in the 1954 original movie. However that's not important, what is important is Destroyahs origin story. Basically, Destroyah is a type of microorganism at the sea floor that exposed to the Oxygen Destroyer and merged into Destroyah.

Microorganisms + O2 destroyer = Destroyah

Microorganisms + nuclear waste = Godzilla

They've blatantly ripped off Destroyahs origin and slapped on Godzilla, completely changing what godzilla is in the process. It annoys me quite a bit.