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Godzilla can withstad a nuke

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MemberMothra LarvaeJanuary 26, 201411090 Views22 Replies

Ive heard some on the site such as KYERO( i do admit that he tends to make good arguments in various topics, i just disagree on this one)  state that godzilla can't take a nuke and give big long explaenations as to why. However, the idea that godzilla cannot survive a nuke is simply false. for example. in Godzilla Kingdom of monsters he gets nuked point blank, doesn't even have a scratch, and actually gets stronger by gaining his atomic breath from the nuke! in the films godzilla has survived far worse a nuke. example a- he swam through magma and was dropped into a volcano. example b- the black hole gun. first of all wether or not it hit him directly the second time is arguable, second, many say that he survived only because it was a small black hole, however that is a silly notion. a singularity is a singularity no matter what, what they basically did was shrink the event horizon, in effect focusing the black hole so as to avoid collateral damage. example c- the asteroid, godzilla got hit by and asteroid and was fine, an asteroid! of course godzillas toughness has varied over the years, could the showa godzilla take a nuke? maybe, maybe not, but most other incarnations surely can in light of this evidence. in any case it may not make much sence that godzilla could survive all this, but why does it have to? godzilla is pure fiction, he doesn't really follow the rules of the universe, if he did, there wouldn't really be any good godzilla movies now would there?

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THANK YOU, Godzilla Himself, it's about time someone pointed out the flaws in Kyero's "logic." I was planning on starting my own topic about it, but now I don't have to. What he, and now DURPOO4 here, seem to be ignoring is that Godzilla is a fictional character who doesn't follow any kind of realistic logic, and there are plenty of fictional characters that have survived nukes, for example, the Hulk, Slattern, Superman, and, oh yeah, GODZILLA (seriously, the IDW comics are officially endorsed by Toho, so they do count as an official incarnation of Godzilla). The thing that really annoys me is that Kyero loves to claim that is somehow a "fact" that a nuke would vaporize Godzilla, even though there is absolutely no evidence that it would even harm him. In fact there is quite a bit of hard proof that at least some incarnations could survive a nuke aside from the IDW Godzilla actually surviving one, as several movies have had had him surviving explosions as or more powerful than H-bombs:

-In Final Wars, although the meteor doesn't actually hit him, the shockwave from its explosion was still powerful enough when it reached the ground to leave a massive crater, which Godzilla was at the center of, completely unharmed. Now, I'm not going to try and calculate the exact power of the explosion based on the size of the crater, but I can say that, judging by the size of the crater left by the 15Mt Catle Bravo test, the force of the shockwave that hit Godzilla was definitely equivalent to multiple megatons of TNT, making it more powerful than most nukes. And before you point out how it didn't knock down the buildings around the crater, you should remember that, in movies, explosions don't effect anything outside of the fireball/immediate area, no matter how big they are, unless they are caused by nukes.

-In Godzilla vs Megaguirus, although I'm pretty sure he wasn't actually sucked into the black hole, he was still at ground zero when it evaporated in an explosion that left an absolutly-frickin'-GIGANTIC crater, so big that I'm not even going to try to figure out the size of the explosion. Now, while it's not clear whether the reason for it taking so long for him to show up again afterwards was because he was so badly injured that it took several days to heal or because he was buried deep underground by it, he still did survive it either way.

-In Godzilla vs Destoroyah, both Godzilla and Godzilla Jr. survived the massive nuclear explosion caused by the unstable uranium deposits or whatever it was, which was so powerful that it completely wiped Birth Island, which is not a small island, off the map. To give some context, when Krakatoa erupted in an approximately 150 Mt explosion, 3 times the size of the largest nuclear bomb ever, it wiped out about two thirds of its island, which, from what little information I could gather in the last few minutes, is not a very large island. This means that the explosion of Birth Island was probably equal to several hundred megatons of TNT, and yet did not kill even a juvenile Godzilla.

So, there you have it, if we're going to be throwing around "facts" about these completely illogical films, it is a fact that at least some incarnations of Godzilla could survive a nuke. Whether the rest could is a matter of opinion, and due to the fact that Godzilla has always been meant to be an unstoppable force and, as Akio123 said, the creators of the original film themselves actually said that "modern technology does not affect Godzilla," it is my OPINION that every incarnation of Godzilla could survive a nuke, except for the late Showa Godzilla (which I do count as separate in terms of powers from Godzilla in the earlier Showa films, since he seemed to become much less powerful and indestructible once he became a children's hero). There is really no logic that I can think of that would indicate that he cannot.

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Kyero logic.

 

Either way, we forget technically Heisei Godzilla blew up a submarine carrying nuclear weapons. That is pretty close to being nuked.

 

 

 

He is 350ft Tall people, those things on his neck ARE gills, and the Brazil photo is part of the final advertising design-- Deal with it.

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