Inferno Rodan wrote:
1. The monster existing doesn't change known historical events.
The point is: the events of the movie are all fictional. It is not a history documentary. There may not have been nuclear tests near Japan IRL, but that doesn't mean there weren't in the universe of the film.
Inferno Rodan wrote: Let's assume you're right and there was a nuke detonated right next to/on top of the cavern he was sleeping in. That still doesn't mean he was directly exposed to the blast. In deep water, the blast radius is extremely reduced, as is the overall power of the explosion. So it's still not comparable to taking a nuke at the surface. Add onto that the fact that the cavern itself would have shielded him from it further.
Whether or not he
did tank a nuke doesn't matter, the idea I got from the dialogue and the themes of the film is that he
can. Unless you have some startling new piece of evidence that outweighs that, continuing to point out that we didn't see what happened on-screen won't magically change my mind.
Inferno Rodan wrote:
But Heisei Godzilla was never hit by a nuke. You have no basis of comparison there.
*Sigh* Well, I'm not going to explain my reasoning for the... what is it, fourth time? If you'd like, though, I can give some examples more specifically pertaining to Heisei Godzilla.
Inferno Rodan wrote:A nuke can make a crater dozens of feet deep. Hell, a 2000-lb bomb can make a crater 30 feet deep. Even ignoring the width of said craters, I'm fairly certain that's deeper than the Corona beam penetrated the ground. That's what I mean by damage on a point-for-point basis.
Ohhhh...
Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant. As I've explained already, I don't think the damage an attack causes to the environment matters much in determining its power. I think the Corona Beam is more powerful than a nuke because it harms Godzilla while, IMHO, a nuke wouldn't. Not necessarily more overall energy, but enough energy in a concentrated form to do what the omnidirectional burst of a nuke would fail to.
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