Shin Godzilla vs The Guardian Monsters

[Inferno Rodan]

It was pretty clear it was injured when it screamed in pain when they hit. It didn't seem to be fatal as it kept going, but you do see it get hurt.

You obviously aren't aware of how obscenely powerful a MOP is. That would have instantly killed the vast majority of kaiju. We're talking a bomb with a 5300-lb warhead which is capable of punching through 200 feet of earth. It's called a Massive Ordnance Penetrator for a reason. This thing makes Showa Mechagodzilla's missiles look like firecrackers.

Shin may get overrated a lot, but his durability is genuinely top-tier.

[Tomzilla]

It was pretty clear it was injured when it screamed in pain when they hit. It didn't seem to be fatal as it kept going, but you do see it get hurt.

You obviously aren't aware of how obscenely powerful a MOP is. That would have instantly killed the vast majority of kaiju. We're talking a bomb with a 5300-lb warhead which is capable of punching through 200 feet of earth. It's called a Massive Ordnance Penetrator for a reason. This thing makes Showa Mechagodzilla's missiles look like firecrackers.

Shin may get overrated a lot, but his durability is genuinely top-tier.

Not only that, but Shin had at least two MOPs blowing up inside him. He was subsequently hit by four more, too.

Unfortunately, I've had discussions with some people who seem to think MOPs belong in the same category as your garden variety conventional weapon. They reason that because Godzilla-like monsters wade through conventional weapons all the time, then that must make Shin's durability feat unimpressive by default. This sort of dissonance astounds me.

[Zarm]

And even with conventional weaponry, he endures it with far less reaction than most Godzillas, as if he doesn't even feel it.

Unless the weapons are made out of his arch-nemesis and kryptonite... trains.

[HillyHulk]

Alright already, I'll concede the durability. I didn't know how capable a MOP was (let alone what it was in the first place).

[Tomzilla]

Unless the weapons are made out of his arch-nemesis and kryptonite... trains.

/thread

[Inferno Rodan]

Not only that, but Shin had at least two MOPs blowing up inside him. He was subsequently hit by four more, too.

He was only hit by two. The same strike was shown from 3 different angles. A B2 can only carry two MOPs, so if 6 of them had been dropped then that would have been the entire payload of all three aircraft. That'd be fine, but the remaining two were swinging around to attack after the first got shot down. And unlike the vast majority of people, Anno seems to have enough knowledge of military tech to not make a goof like that.

Unfortunately, I've had discussions with some people who seem to think MOPs belong in the same category as your garden variety conventional weapon. They reason that because Godzilla-like monsters wade through conventional weapons all the time, then that must make Shin's durability feat unimpressive by default. This sort of dissonance astounds me.

It's sad, really. Of course it doesn't help that most military attacks against kaiju are really pretty pathetic in terms of both the weaponry and tactics used, but that's another issue altogether. A proper, realistic military strike would ruin most kaiju, and they'd be helpless to retaliate against it because it'd be coming from miles away. Again this is where Anno did a damn good job and displayed his knowledge, as the artillery and missile strikes against Shin were both pretty fantastic.

Unless the weapons are made out of his arch-nemesis and kryptonite... trains.

With as much as trains get picked on by kaiju, it's only right that they finally managed to exact some revenge.

[TheRealSpinoRex]

Shin is the tallest Godzilla (that's taken seriously). Mothra, Ghidorah and Baragon were all smaller than 50m. If they do what they did to the big G at the end, Shin will just evolve and regenerate. Shin takes this.