Godzilla is hurt by electricity?

[Battra2346]

In the original,Godzilla was invincible to the electric tower barrier and managed to destroy it but in King Kong vs Godzilla,there's an electric barrier and Godzilla's hurt by it.Why is that?

[Inferno Rodan]

It's called a plot device. They had to give Godzilla a weakness in order for Kong to be able to beat him.

[Tyler]

They were different Godzillas.

[HayesAJones]

Electricity was used to fend off Godzilla in Mothra vs. Godzilla too. I guess it was one of those things to give Godzilla a weakness in his villainous days, but disappeared when he became a anti-hero/hero. Like Gamera's weakness to cold in his first few movies.

EDIT:

They were different Godzillas.

... well, if you wanna go the easy way...

[Battra2346]

Electricity was used to fend off Godzilla in [i]Mothra vs. Godzilla[i] too.

I know that but that didn't get Godzilla to go somewhere else.

[HayesAJones]

Electricity was used to fend off Godzilla in Mothra vs. Godzilla too.

I know that but that didn't get Godzilla to go somewhere else.

But it did manage to keep him down for a while, which is still relatively impressive.

[James23873]

Godzilla has a strange relationship with electricity indeed. One minute it doesn't hurt him, the next it does, and then it turns him into a powerful magnet! Oh and I almost forgot, in Zone Fighter he deliberately destroyed an electrical tower to save the Zone without an visible effects.

Best in universe explanation, maybe both Godzillas are hurt by electricity only their tolerance for it fluctuates at times.

It actually makes more sense in the American version of King Kong vs. Godzilla since they changed it to stand on it's own rather then follow the previous films, meaning they don't have to worry about continuity.

[Mini-Godzilla]

Let's not forget how electricity charged him in Sea Monster. Inconsistencies!

[James23873]

Let's not forget how electricity charged him in Sea Monster. Inconsistencies!

I just assumed that the electricity caused him enough pain to force him to wake up.
(Of course we know it was really because it was supposed to be Kong )

[Goji]

Let's not forget how electricity charged him in Sea Monster. Inconsistencies!

Indeed. I always assumed this was because the role was originally intended for King Kong, and his electricity charged powers from KING KONG VS. GODZILLA carried over to the original script (which probably wasn't changed much at all once Kong was out of the picture)

[TokyoVigilante]

Wasn't the voltage in KKvsG and MvsG much higher? hence it actually being an effective defense.

Also, I don't see how he was charged by the electricity in Sea Monster. The lightning woke him up from his sleep, didn't recharge him or anything.

[Living Corpse]

Also, I don't see how he was charged by the electricity in Sea Monster. The lightning woke him up from his sleep, didn't recharge him or anything.

This. Saying it charged him is like saying a small bolt from some prank made me more powerful because I woke up. It's electricity! I think we'd all wake up from our sleep with a jump if were were given a small shock too.

As for the magnet power in GvsMG, I see it as a double edged sword where he can store and later use that energy to turn himself into a giant living magnet but at the cost of being harmed by lightning or whatever electrical source he has to absorb in order to do it. In fact as I recall, the second fight where Godzilla uses that power on Mechagodzilla was a day or two after letting himself get hit by lightning over and over, so in the meantime he used that time to recover from the shocks.

[Omegazilla]

Electricity was used to fend off Godzilla in Mothra vs. Godzilla too. I guess it was one of those things to give Godzilla a weakness in his villainous days, but disappeared when he became a anti-hero/hero. Like Gamera's weakness to cold in his first few movies.

EDIT:

They were different Godzillas.

... well, if you wanna go the easy way...

This sums it up. Godzilla was only shown to be adversely affected by electricity in two films and he was the villian in both of them. We all know the treatment of villians in most of cinema...

[Inferno Rodan]

This. Saying it charged him is like saying a small bolt from some prank made me more powerful because I woke up. It's electricity! I think we'd all wake up from our sleep with a jump if were were given a small shock too.

Problem with this is a lightning bolt carries WAY more electricity than high tension wires.

[Lionblaze]

Godzilla being hurt by electricity is just a plot device, he needed a weakness so they picked electricity and gave Kong the ability to gain power from it.

The net thing from Godzilla vs Mothra didnt seem to be hurting him at all, he just seemed ticked off.

Him being revived by lightning seems plausible to me, it woke him up. Though since this role was ment for Kong it remains up to debate.

As for him being absorbing the lightning from the storm, he wasnt in any visible pain to me, he gained power and used it to turn himself into a living magnet.
He seemed to be able to control how he used it to me.

[edgaguirus]

His weakness in KK vs G and G vs M was a movie convenience to fight Godzilla. It gave Kong the edge he needed, and the army a way to try and kill Godzilla.

You might also see it this way. Perhaps Godzilla begins as being weak to electricity, but over time his body adapted to it. He became able to feed off of the Electro magnetic radiation from the electricity, therefore explaining the events of G vs MG.

[Goji]

Wasn't the voltage in KKvsG and MvsG much higher? hence it actually being an effective defense.

Also, I don't see how he was charged by the electricity in Sea Monster. The lightning woke him up from his sleep, didn't recharge him or anything.

It's all debatable anyway. Though It's possible Kong originally being in Godzilla's place had something to do with it.

[edgaguirus]

Though It's possibly Kong originally being in Godzilla's place had something to do with it.[/quote]


Definately.

[Lionblaze]

He was almost killed in Godzilla vs Mothra but the tower burned because it was too much.

Almost killed? I dont think so.

[Hellspawn28]

Godzilla not getting hurt by electricity was just another retcon that happen in the series since retcons happens pretty much nearly all of the time in fiction. Just like you guys said, Godzilla getting hurt by electricity in KKvsG was a Plot Device in order for Kong to win.

Funny how the electricity power up for Kong in the movie was taken from the original screenplay from King Kong vs. Frankenstein since I recall the Frankenstein monster gets stronger by electricity during his battle with Kong.