Radiation/Nuke Issues in the Monsterverse

[_JNavs_]

Well at the end of KOTM Boston is completely demolished...like completely donezo, like Final Wars level of leveled.

Didn't the film end right after Godzilla roared? Similar to Godzilla vs Destoroyah, Final Wars etc?

[Mr_Goji_and_Watch]

Same way G:Raids Again glossed over the destruction Anguirus and Godzilla caused, vs the nuclear holocaust themes of Gojira 54.

I don't think it's fair to criticize KOTM for being different when compared to the darker grittier "original" 2014 film.

As it happens in almost every era, minus Millennium.

99% sure Raids Again literally has a scene where the cast talks about the destruction at their totaled workplace and we see imagery of a burning Osaka with one of the female leads.

Besides, do you really wanna compare KOTM to Raids Again of all Godzilla movies lol

[_JNavs_]

Same way G:Raids Again glossed over the destruction Anguirus and Godzilla caused, vs the nuclear holocaust themes of Gojira 54.

I don't think it's fair to criticize KOTM for being different when compared to the darker grittier "original" 2014 film.

As it happens in almost every era, minus Millennium.

99% sure Raids Again literally has a scene where the cast talks about the destruction at their totaled workplace and we see imagery of a burning Osaka with one of the female leads.

Besides, do you really wanna compare KOTM to Raids Again of all Godzilla movies lol

No lol, but we have to understand that the second film of every era isn't going to double down on the exact same themes as the first.

Btw I'm pretty sure they showed not only a family in KOTM literally running through the chaos of Boston as the fights were happening but they also had a shot of a burning Washington D.C.

[LSD Jellyfish]

It`s not an issue of it completely dropping the themes or messages from the first film; its doing a complete and utter reversal. Of course a film`s sequel will be different. But they don`t poop on the previous films themes. Godzilla vs. Biollante takes place five years after Godzilla 84. It doesn`t talk too much about nukes, but it does stay fairly serious in regards to the biogenetics. In addition, the ANEB is introduced, which is another super weapon. And the Heisei series does a good job with keeping the nuclear themeing consistent.

None of those films actively shoot themselves in the foot either. The entire plot of this movie was how the environment and interesting biodiversity is being ruined by man, so nature must reclaim the earth, only to have mostly the same people, take a nuke and detonate it under the ocean.

GRA is a horrible film to compare KOTM to as well. GRA does it very poorly, but still then its more consistent then this. I didn`t even think of it that much, but Maddie`s plan is really skreeonking dumb; theres no real reason why she couldn`t have brought the orca to the military and have them use it on some remote island or on the coast. She essentially is just as much to blame for the destruction of Boston.

Ill say something massively controversial, but at least the Anime Trilogy, for all its faults, kept its themes very consistent.

[MegaEvilSaurus666]

Same way G:Raids Again glossed over the destruction Anguirus and Godzilla caused, vs the nuclear holocaust themes of Gojira 54.

I don't think it's fair to criticize KOTM for being different when compared to the darker grittier "original" 2014 film.

As it happens in almost every era, minus Millennium.

99% sure Raids Again literally has a scene where the cast talks about the destruction at their totaled workplace and we see imagery of a burning Osaka with one of the female leads.

Besides, do you really wanna compare KOTM to Raids Again of all Godzilla movies lol

No lol, but we have to understand that the second film of every era isn't going to double down on the exact same themes as the first.

Btw I'm pretty sure they showed not only a family in KOTM literally running through the chaos of Boston as the fights were happening but they also had a shot of a burning Washington D.C.

Burning Washington D.C. is something I don't think I saw even once. Unrealistically flooded and overblown stormy Washington D.C. is what I saw, though.

I don't think I even remember an evacuation plan in Boston, and I'm sure I saw lights in some of the buildings. Do I remember this wrong? Was there an explanation I missed? So, thousands of people probably died and no one bats an eye?

[Mr_Goji_and_Watch]

Nah, they evacuate Boston beforehand so you don't have to worry about civilians. That's when Brown's character gets into the stadium

[MegaEvilSaurus666]

Nah, they evacuate Boston beforehand so you don't have to worry about civilians. That's when Brown's character gets into the stadium

Such breakneck speed on the pacing that I missed that, it seems.

[Living Corpse]

While the whole deal with radiation causing impossible explosions of new life like rainforests growing in the Sahara or an overnight rebounding of fish stocks is just plain bonkers, the idea of radiation as a point-blank destroyer of life isn't accurate, either. Chernobyl, for example, is known for having thriving wildlife populations, with the radiation having fairly limited health effects aside from some serious mutations early on.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/060418-chernobyl-wildlife-thirty-year-anniversary-science/

So cities and areas that the kaiju clear of humans, even if they are irradiated, do seem likely to fill right up with healthy-ish plants and animals.

The new life isn't normal, it's probably not new but the opposite, ancient life that came from similar environments as the Titans, feeding off radiation like them. They probably have been sleeping much like them or in some cases dormant eggs.

After all these creatures don't just absorb radiation exclusively, they still eat food like normal life.

[LSD Jellyfish]

It`s worth noting though that even in the cases mentioned about the affect of radiation, nothing in the article indicates the Radiation was a good thing. The reason why the animals have returned, is that there are simply no humans to kill them off. This also started occuring way after the accident. Saying that radiation caused life is ridiculous.

[Living Corpse]

I'll be honest, the newspaper clippings at the end credits went by too fast. Did they say it was radiation bringing back plants? Or is it more like Biollante making pollen that made flowers in that one deleted scene? Cause I just took it as a easter egg referencing Biollante.

I'm not that bothered by it either way, you have to assume there were other life forms that lived in the same environment as the Titans and not all of them had to be giant monsters. I feel like this is more of saying nature finds a way, much as Dr. Malcom said in Jurassic Park. It's also possible these new forms of life are not natural and the Titans are mutating new forms of life never before seen, we've seen this done before in Godzilla films with the sea lice in G1984 and the wildlife in the Godzilla anime.

[JAGzilla]

Your theory is possible, LC, but I don't think a revival of prehistoric life was the intent. The plants overgrowing San Francisco looked normal enough, and a standard, modern oarfish was used to demonstrate the recovery of ocean ecosystems. The movie was pretty straightforward and tell-don't-show-y in its delivery of information, so I feel like they would have been much more open about 300-million-year-old life suddenly swarming across the planet and (realistically, anyway) wreaking unholy havoc on already strained modern life. The terrorists' whole plan was based on the assumption that the Titans would restore modern ecosystems, not replace them.

[Mecha-SpaceGhidorah]

Burning Washington D.C. is something I don't think I saw even once. Unrealistically flooded and overblown stormy Washington D.C. is what I saw, though.

I don't think I even remember an evacuation plan in Boston, and I'm sure I saw lights in some of the buildings. Do I remember this wrong? Was there an explanation I missed? So, thousands of people probably died and no one bats an eye?

I don't remember for sure about an evac plan for Boston, but as far as D.C. they absolutely showed it burning. Not juat burning but as a fiery hellscape. It was even featured prominently in the second trailer.

[MechaGoji Bro7503]

Using the Showa Era Godzilla as a defense of this, is kind of misleading though. Post DAM, I’m pretty sure they completely drop any reference to Godzilla being a nuclear oriented creature; and this is again a symptom of generalizing showa Godzilla as one era, rather then desperate parts; even in SoG Godzilla was portrayed as a fearful nuclear monster.

I distinctly remember the scientist from vs Hedorah mentioning how Godzilla was born from atomic testing. Something along those lines.

[MegaEvilSaurus666]

Burning Washington D.C. is something I don't think I saw even once. Unrealistically flooded and overblown stormy Washington D.C. is what I saw, though.

I don't think I even remember an evacuation plan in Boston, and I'm sure I saw lights in some of the buildings. Do I remember this wrong? Was there an explanation I missed? So, thousands of people probably died and no one bats an eye?

I don't remember for sure about an evac plan for Boston, but as far as D.C. they absolutely showed it burning. Not juat burning but as a fiery hellscape. It was even featured prominently in the second trailer.

I saw something much different in the second trailer and in the final film, then. I saw a massive storm over a flooded capital. Only a few flames were visible by comparison to everything else. More water, tornadoes, and lightning than flames.