And they're all nuclear powered.

I can't fucking believe they leaned into that.... Like out of nowhere considering Kong island. And still haven't brought it back up to do anything with it instead of immediately doing a journey to the center of the earth's sun monster mash.

But being that deep would compound the square-cube problem.

Does he eat nuclear energy? Or does he like chow down on some humpbacks every day?

Is Godzilla the real reason the Japanese whaling fleet won't stop?

But what if we gave each dinosaur an oxygen mask?

um what/who is Nedrid? google didn't help

If you stop just before immobility, you'd have gargantuan fights at a glacial pace. Would be a terrible movie, but maybe a cool story or book.

Godzilla is nuclear powered so he's not limited by biological energy sources. There's still the entire issue of the form factor, but for that I like John Scalzy's take on the Kaiju Preservation Society.

Well, kind of.

They showed the interior of the earth with other megafauna, but how exactly Godzilla or Kong are getting their caloric intake satisfied on a regular basis is somewhat of a question regardless.

Godzilla especially... feeds on radiation? But not just like, consuming uranium ore. He can take a full thermonuclear blast to the face and seemingly heals bodily injury. Maybe makes him feel really full too?

It's handwaved at best, which is fine. Trying to figure out how Kaiju work is like trying to explain The Force with physics. It's just magic, don't worry about it.

My question is how are these boats so buoyant, rigid, and stable!?

Fittingly enough, this is called the Square-Cube law

Ideally you aren't slamming all of your weight on your ankles with every step though. If you do that at human scale with normal human weight, there won't be much of your ankles left either. Your muscles work as a spring to catch most of the force and they also grow cubicly. So i think the law cannot be applied this directly to biological systems. Of course you are right, that King Kong would probably not just be a scaled up Gorilla, but also altered in his shape.

• Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

From what I've gathered, not quite. The film showed up around the time of the Castle Bravo tests at the Bikini Atoll. The bomb tested there turned out to be dirtier than predicted, and fallout made it to some Japanese fishing vessels. It became a bit of an international incident.

And then the original Gojira film launched. And one early scene showed a fishing boat, which went under in a bright flash of light.

Gojira, or Godzilla as he was westernised, was not just the personification of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was the personification of the fact that this could happen again.

One take on it that I'm copying

Shin Godzilla was great for following the original idea behind the first movie. Also that version of Godzilla would kick King Kongs monkey ass every day of the week.

I thought it ended with at least one egg intact?

Oh shit, have not heard about this book and need one for my upcoming vacation. Gonna look into this!

Godzilla is radiosynthetic isn't he, wasn't that like a big part of the cartoons? Like dude absorbs radiation to survive in most cases the sun but if there's a nuclear accident homie gets a buffet.