I also find it funny that he is 'less powerful,' despite, via stock footage, essentially accomplishing everything onscreen that the 'first' did.
I don't even think he was weaker in durability; if anything, he stayed around to endure more punishment this time around, before fleeing. Maybe he was a little less aggressive in the battle, but not to a huge degree; and they use more of the footage (I've literally been reviewing all three films today for an editing project) where Godzilla wades right in and gets too close to shoot, so you could chalk the differing performance up to Godzilla's experience in Ghidorah's tactics; he knows how to counter the worst of it by neutralizing the distance advantage, so he is able to handle Ghidorah solo when before he needed allies. And as for Zone Fighter, they had three fights, the last in an environment specifically detrimental to Ghidorah to give Zone an advantage... and one might say that's just a benchmark indicating his strength rather than Ghidorah's weakness. I mean, the guy frequently blows kaiju the heck up, just straight up annihilating them; 'second' Ghidorah went three rounds with him, got a broken neck but not critical damage when in an unfavorable environment and a fight that included reflecting his own strength back at him... that's not really a shabby performance.
All in all, there's no real problem that the retcon fixes, and the inconsistencies between the two are a matter of reputation more than reality when you really analyze the fights. Ghidorah's as strong as he ever was; he's just facing stronger and more experienced opponents... and taking more punishment because, unlike usual, he doesn't run away so readily.
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