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MemberMothra LarvaeSep-24-2014 3:26 PMWhat if the MUTOs are born as females? This may sound weird but what if the MUTOs are born as genderless? In most mammals, all babies are born as females but then are turned into males from a certain hormone that is released. What if the MUTOs are similar? Seeing as they are some of the first land animals alive, I doubt they are as complex as modern day animals. In the beggining we see that 1 MUTO (the male) hatches and goes to the Janjira plant while the female is taken to Yucca Mountains. What if all MUTOs are born as gnderless animals? When the male MUTO hatched it probably was awoken from the opening in the mine, then we see the big trench that it makes as it travels to Japan but we don't see it at all. I think all MUTOs are born in a medium sized, genderless animal that changes sex to respond to their environment. With no males in the area, the Male MUTO cacooned and then started to change into the male. Though when the female hatches, she doesn't go into a giant cacoon like the male. This suggests that the female hatched, then constantly grew until she was full grown. So how does the female turn into a female? Simple, the stimulas of the male calling out to her made a hormone kept her as a female and then she probably hatched a year or two after the male cacooned and then started to grow.
What do you guys think? This has been bugging me for a while and since there has been a few scintific topics lately, I thought now would be the best time. Feel free to debunk, elaborate, or think I'm just plain crazy. I realize there are some flaws like how did the male MUTO travel all the way to Japan. Then I ask how did the militray not detect the male in the first place?
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MemberGiganSep-24-2014 3:40 PMI nver thought of it that way...
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Top Hat Gyaos
MemberMothra LarvaeSep-24-2014 3:41 PMThis is rather an interesting topic. ^_^
The female M.U.T.O. theory is actually quite possible, since they never explained it in the movie, and we don't know if Legendary's Godzilla universe had sex-changing organisms back during the reign of kaiju.
As for the military not detecting the male M.U.T.O., remember that no one, not even Monarch knew of its existence before the spores were found. By the time the military would have tried to find it, the larva would have been already cocooned beneath the power plant. Taking Godzilla's swimming speed into consideration(going from Hawaii to San Francisco in the course of 2 days or less), its a possibility that the larva, which is smaller, lighter, and more likely faster than Goji himself, would've had no problem swimming from the Philippines to Janjira.
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MemberGodzillaSep-24-2014 5:08 PMInteresting theory. Never really thought of it like that.
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MemberMothra LarvaeSep-24-2014 6:47 PMInteresting... some species do change when theres an abcence of the other geneder
G-Raa
MemberMothra LarvaeSep-24-2014 10:05 PMI agree. I had my own theory in which the female remained in its spore until the male was fully developed so that both would be ready to mate and then the female could lay her eggs. This is so that they wouldn't have to wait for an extended period of time for either of them to fully develop, which would be dangerous for them. This is also a very plausible theory!
On a related note I'm thinking of starting a thread on the parasitic spore phase of the MUTO life cycle.
FordBrodyLover99
MemberMothra LarvaeSep-25-2014 7:13 AMI think i might be able too help you here, actually. Look at this screenshot from one of the "Godzilla: Revelation" videos(SPOILERS, i guess?). Its the male M.U.T.O in his cocoon. Yet he looks much more like the female M.U.T.O!
