Godzilla: 17 Easter Eggs, References & Fan Nods You Need To See

14. Dr. Ichiro Serizawa

Ken Watanabe spends a lot of the movie wandering around war rooms offering his expertise on the kaiju, and reiterating his Jurassic Park-like assertion that nature will find a way, and that Godzilla represents the solution to the other monstrous threats facing the world. He is somewhat underused, or at least seems to function the same way as an "expert cameo" would, but extended out to multiple appearances, but his character's name is a reference to Godzilla lore. Though is isn't expressly stated, it's easy to assume that Dr Ichiro Serizawa is perhaps a relative of Daisuke Serizawa, the tragic hero of the 1954 original Godzilla, or more likely just a nod to his importance. In the original Serizawa creates the Oxygen Destroyer (a thinly-veiled allusion to the H-Bomb) and kills himself along with the creature to save his knowledge falling into other hands. The character parallels come in Ichiro Serizawa's commitment to the balance of nature and his horror at the human capacity to over-reach, though ultimately this new version of the character champions a natural solution, rather than reverting to devastating weaponry.