Godzilla 2: 10 Ways To Make Sure The Sequel Is Better Than The Original

4. Godzilla - Defender Of Earth

Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla song asserts that "history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man", referring to the monster himself. Despite being partially created by nuclear energy in the 1954 film, Godzilla is constantly implied to be nature's reckoning for humanity's unnatural activities. Ken Watanabe echoes this feeling as he muses that "The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in their control and not the other way around". The trailer took this even further by comparing Godzilla to the Hindu deity Vishnu by quoting his famous assertion "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". Wow, this all sounds really meaningful... except that none of this stuff really pays off as Godzilla seems to have no more of a "divine mission" than the Mutos. We aren't told that the Mutos are products of science or human tampering, so they're no more unnatural than Godzilla himself. If the series wants to play up Godzilla as a divine being of nature, his antagonist should somehow represent something diabolical and unnatural. For example, the smog monster Hedorah was an alien life-form which arrived on Earth to feed on its pollution. It's basically the Captain Pollution to Godzilla's Captain Planet. Whereas Godzilla enforces ecological equilibrium, Hedorah literally feeds off of the degradation of Earth. Rather than just being a giant bug monster, Hedorah embodies the evils humanity have wrought upon nature, making him a worthy opponent for Earth's protector.