Godzilla (Godzilla Minus One)

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“	It was like a prehistoric dinosaur turned monster. The local inhabitants called it "Godzilla."	„
	~ Koichi Shikishima

“	A giant monster that was once known as the legendary "Godzilla". After being exposed to the effects of hydrogen bomb test, it has transformed into an even larger and more ferocious creature. As Japan struggles to rebuild following World War II, Godzilla makes landfall to further devastate the nation. Its Heat Ray attack is so powerful that it decimates entire cities, turning them into nothing more than scorched earth. With a body tough enough to withstand even attacks from large battleships, it seems there is nothing the Japanese people can do to defend themselves from Godzilla's fearful assault.	„
	~ Godzilla Minus One's Description in Godzilla Battle Line

Godzilla's Roar

Background

Godzilla is a kaiju who appears in the 2023 Toho Godzilla film Godzilla Minus One.

A huge dinosaur-like creature known only by the people of Odo Island, Godzilla emerged from the ocean and attacked an Imperial Japanese airbase on the island during the closing days of World War II, killing all personnel save for Koichi Shikishima and Sosaku Tachibana. In July 1946, Godzilla was caught in the blast of a nuclear weapons test conducted by the U.S. military at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads, causing him to grow substantially in size and power. Over the next year, Godzilla attacked American vessels in the Pacific as he made his way toward Japan. Withstanding all attempts to stop him, Godzilla landed in Ginza, Tokyo and leveled the surrounding area, killing countless civilians in the process. Dr. Kenji Noda formulated a plan to use Freon gas to rapidly submerge Godzilla in Sagami Bay and then draw him to the surface again with balloons, hoping for the explosive compression and decompression to destroy him. A civilian fleet carried out the strategy, named Operation Wada Tsumi, but it neared failure until Shikishima crashed an explosive-laden plane modified by Tachibana into Godzilla's mouth. The blast decapitated Godzilla, leaving his body to crumble. Though Japan broke into celebration, unbeknownst to everyone, a fragment of Godzilla survived and began to regenerate.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Godzilla’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

During the closing days of World War II in 1945, Godzilla came ashore on Odo Island at night and entered a Japanese military airbase, attacking the military repairmen stationed there when one of their members shined a spotlight on him. Kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima entered his Zero on the airfield to try and attack the creature with its 20mm guns, but froze up as Godzilla stood in front of him. The panicked military repairmen nearby opened fire on Godzilla, enraging him and causing him to brutally dispatch them all with his jaws, legs, and tail. By morning, the only survivors were Shikishima and the lead mechanic, Sosaku Tachibana, who blamed Shikishima for failing to act and costing the others their lives. The incident was covered up by the Japanese government, with the official story being that the men on the island were wiped out by American forces. Shikishima would be haunted by his experience with the monster, having nightmares of his attack on Odo Island years after the war ended. In July 1946, Godzilla was caught in the American military's Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll, irradiating and mutating him. Now substantially larger and even more enraged, Godzilla began destroying American vessels in his path as he approached the Japanese archipelago. Due to ongoing tensions with the Soviet Union, the American military refused to take action against Godzilla in the Pacific and warned the Japanese to begin preparing for the worst. In 1947, the minesweeper Shinsei Maru was ordered to stall Godzilla until the Japanese cruiser Takao could arrive and attack him. Shikishima, now a crew member on the Shinsei Maru, saw a destroyed ship and deep-sea fish floating to the surface and immediately recognized that the culprit was the creature he saw on Odo Island. Godzilla soon burst out of the water and sank the Shinsei Maru's sister ship, the Kaishin Maru. He then gave chase to the Shinsei Maru, which dropped mines and detonated them in an attempt to stop him. One mine was dropped into Godzilla's mouth, with Shikishima using the ship's guns to detonate it. The blast destroyed a large part of Godzilla's cheek, which instantaneously regenerated before the crew's eyes. As Godzilla rose from the water, the Takao arrived and began firing at him. Godzilla turned his rage to the cruiser and pulled himself onto it, tearing it apart viciously with his claws. The ship's guns unloaded on Godzilla again, causing him to fall backward into the sea. However, the creature swam underneath the Takao and obliterated it in an instant with an explosive heat ray. Godzilla then surfaced amid the ashes and smoke and emitted a terrifying roar. With Godzilla continuing to approach Japan and no viable countermeasures available to stop him, the Japanese government declined to reveal his existence to the public out of fear of inciting a panic. Eventually, Godzilla effortlessly passed through a mine blockade and entered Tokyo Bay before coming ashore in Ginza. He tore through the district in a frenzied rage, eventually grabbing a train in his mouth. Noriko Oishi, Shikishima's girlfriend, narrowly escaped the train before Godzilla dropped it into the water below. Shikishima arrived to rescue her as Godzilla approached, just before a group of tanks fired on him. Godzilla paused as his dorsal fins began to protrude from his back and emit a blue glow one-by-one. In a split second, his dorsal plates retracted and he thrust his head forward, firing a blue atomic heat ray from his mouth that struck the tanks and produced a nuclear explosion that flattened most of the surrounding area. Noriko was swept away in the shockwave after pushing Shikishima to safety, leaving him screaming in grief amidst the ruins of Ginza. The monster then returned to the sea, leaving an estimated 30,000 civilians killed or injured and 20,000 houses and other buildings destroyed. Kenji Noda, a former naval weapons designer and current crewmate of Shikishima aboard the Shinsei Maru, drafted a plan to destroy Godzilla with a team of civilians and former naval personnel given the government's inability and unwillingness to respond directly. He proposed luring Godzilla above the deepest part of Sagami Bay and tying canisters of Freon gas to him which, when ruptured, would lower the water's buoyancy and forcibly sink Godzilla to a depth of 1,500 meters, crushing him with the sudden pressure change. Should that fail, balloons would be inflated under him to rapidly bring him to the surface and destroy him via explosive decompression. Skeptical that the plan would succeed, Shikishima believed that Godzilla was vulnerable from the inside and could be destroyed if a plane laden with explosives was flown into his mouth. He recruited the reluctant Tachibana to modify a prototype Shinden fighter for his plan. With Godzilla approaching Tokyo once more, Noda's plan began. Shikishima flew his fighter perilously close to Godzilla, evading his jaws and then his tail while peppering him with machine gun fire. Godzilla turned around to chase him, with the Shinden luring him all the way to the trap point in Sagami Bay. Noda tricked Godzilla into firing his Heat Ray at a pair of unmanned vessels, leaving him unable to use it again while he regenerated from his self-inflicted wounds. Ships encircled Godzilla and tied a cable attached to Freon canisters around him. As Godzilla prepared to fire his heat ray again, the canisters were ruptured, and he was forcibly pulled underwater. Upon surpassing the target depth, Godzilla immediately froze in place and stopped charging his ray. The attempt to kill Godzilla via compression having failed, Noda had the balloons inflated under him, rapidly drawing the monster to the surface. When Godzilla tore through the balloons, the plan seemed hopeless until a fleet of tugboats arrived to help the ships pull him the rest of the way. Upon surfacing, Godzilla's flesh began to freeze and rupture, but he did not sustain enough damage for the plan to succeed. Noda and the others accepted their inevitable demise as Godzilla coursed with power and prepared to unleash his Heat Ray. However, Shikishima flew his plane into Godzilla's mouth, ejecting just before it crashed and exploded. After the smoke cleared, the top of Godzilla's head had been destroyed, after which the accumulated atomic energy overloaded and destroyed the rest of his body. With the operation an apparent success, the people of Japan celebrated and breathed a sigh of relief. In the aftermath of the battle, Shikishima and his adopted daughter Akiko were reunited with Noriko at a hospital, having survived Godzilla's attack. However, she was left with an unknown form of radiation sickness, causing a vein-like pattern resembling Godzilla's dorsal fins to appear on her neck. Meanwhile, a surviving fragment of Godzilla's flesh left by Shikishima's attack began to regenerate as it sank into the depths.

General Information

Name: Godzilla

Origin: Godzilla Minus One

First Appearance: Godzilla Minus One

Latest Appearance: Godzilla Minus One

Company: Toho

Creator: Takashi Yamazaki

Sex: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Unknown

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Unknown Area in the Ocean

Story Role: Monster, Main Antagonist

Classification: Kaiju

Species: Irradiated saurian creature

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Mutant Physiology

Occupation: None

Height: 15 meters in 1945, 50.1 meters in 1947

Weight: Unknown in initial form, 20,000 tons in Irradiated Form (Estimated to weigh about 20,000 tons)

Enemies: Humanity

Status: Alive (Koichi flying the Shinden fighter jet filled with bombs into Godzilla’s mouth, caused him to shoot the Heat Ray and crumble to pieces though he was still regenerating from pieces of himself at the end of the movie)

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Godzilla did not directly attack Ensign Shikishima, due to him not attacking back and only killed the military men firing at him. Initially when irradiated it only attacked American ships due to being hit by an American atomic bomb test and afterwards when Japanese ships tried to attack it, Japan became its enemy, thus Godzilla is not directly a malicious creature but mainly seeking vengeance for the pain caused to it)

Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (Its atomic breath destroyed a large portion of the city and leaving behind a mushroom cloud, along with the novel noting that the shockwave of the blast in Gina pulverized everything within a six kilometer radius. His atomic breath in Godzilla Battle Line is stated to be capable of decimating entire cities)

Codex Statistics

Key: Initial Form | Irradiated Form

Grade: S within his movie (Even in its initial form it is one of the most creatures on the planet, along with this he has a robust self-renewal ability that allowed him to heal and become a gigantic Godzilla by renewing himself to survive, where his intracellular errors have made him huge) | S within his movie (Yamazaki described Godzilla's heat ray as "the strongest weapon on Earth")

Tier: Low 8-C | High 8-C, 7-B with Heat Ray

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Building level (Easily knocked over a light tower causing it to explode, stepped on objects causing them to explode. Every object he stepped on caused a massive explosion) | Large Building level (It's sheer size would grant it this level. Tore apart entire buildings and destroyed an entire building with a mere tail swipe. Casually destroyed a US Warship. Noted to have become much larger and more powerful then before), City level with Heat Ray (Noted that its heat ray was so powerful it decimates entire cities, turning them into nothing more than scorched earth. Yamazaki has described it as "the strongest weapon on Earth", with it being agreed that the most powerful weapons during World War 2 were the Little Boy and Fat Man, both of which had an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (Little Boy) and 21 kilotons of TNT (Fat Man). With in the movie it using it destroying a large portion of the city and leaving behind a mushroom cloud, along with the novel noting that the shockwave of the blast in Gina pulverized everything within a six kilometer radius), can also ignore durability with the Heat Ray due to its intense heat

Durability: Small Building level. Regeneration & Adaptation makes it difficult to kill | Large Building level (Took no damage from an underwater mine hitting it point blank, although staggered, took several hits from naval cannons of the Takao. Completely unaffected by repeated detonations in the water. Took no damage from repeated tank fire. Noted that its body can withstand even attacks from large battleships). Regeneration & Adaptation makes it difficult to kill (Koichi flying the Shinden fighter jet filled with bombs into Godzilla’s mouth, caused him to shoot the Heat Ray and crumble to pieces though he was still regenerating from pieces of himself at the end of the movie)

Striking Strength: Small Building Class | Large Building Class

Lifting Strength: Class 5 (Casually flipped a kamikaze plane up into the air causing a massive explosion, which the Nakajima Ki-115 had a gross weight of about 2,580 kg) | Class M (Can support its own weight of about 20,000 tons. Casually lifted a US Warship with its mouth, which American warships during World War II could weigh around 7,500 tons. Lifted an entire train car with its mouth)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Crossed from his distance to the light tower in a short timeframe) | Superhuman

Combat Speed: Superhuman | Superhuman, Speed of Light Attack Speed with Heat Ray (It is directly noted to be a heat ray by Noda, which travel at the speed of light. Fired out an Heat Ray that instanteously pulverized everything within a six kilometer radius)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman | Superhuman

Stamina: Superhuman (Rampaged across the entire military personal on Odo Island without tiring)

Range:

Tens of Meters through sheer size (Noted to be 15 meters tall in the novel)

Tens of Meters through sheer size (Noted to be 50.1 meters tall), Kilometers with Heat Ray (Noted that the shockwave of the blast in Gina pulverized everything within a six kilometer radius)

Intelligence: High Animalitic (Godzilla did not directly attack Ensign Shikishima, due to him not attacking back and only killed the military men firing at him. Initially when irradiated it only attacked American ships due to being hit by an American atomic bomb test and afterwards when Japanese ships tried to attack it, Japan became its enemy)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry (Utilized his jaws, legs, and tail in the battle against the military personal, eating some of them, crushing them with his feet, and destroying objects with his tail), Large Size (Building Sized; Noted to be 15 meters tall in the novel), Aquatic Breathing (Godzilla has many times swam underwater without any need for air, along with being acknowledged as a sea creature that can withstand the underwater pressures of the ocean), Pierce Resistance (Standard Pierce Resistance; Unaffected by the multiple bullets shot at him, only making him angrier, noted that a 20mm gun would likely only anger him more then do any damage), Absorption & Adaptation (Absorbed the radiation from a atomic test called "Operation Crossroads" that caused him to mutate. Noted that he was seriously burnt during from the atomic test called "Operation Crossroads", but he has a robust self-renewal ability and he became a gigantic Godzilla by renewing himself to survive, where his intracellular errors have made him huge. Regenerated a chunk of his body being blown off), Regeneration (At least High-Mid; Koichi flying the Shinden fighter jet filled with bombs into Godzilla’s mouth, caused him to shoot the Heat Ray and crumble to pieces though he was still regenerating from pieces of himself at the end of the movie. In the novel he survived the nukes being dropped in him due to his regeneration. Noted by the director Takashi Yamazaki that Godzilla has a self-renewal ability and can survive ancient times. Noted that he was seriously burnt during from the atomic test called "Operation Crossroads", but he has a robust self-renewal ability and he became a gigantic Godzilla by renewing himself to survive).

Resistance to Oceanic Pressures (Noted that Godzilla like other sea creatures can withstand the immense pressures of the ocean)

All previous powers and abilities, Large Size (Building Sized; Noted to be 50.1 meters tall), Radiation Manipulation (The radiation from Godzilla killed all the fish that he passed by in the sea. Noted to have to set up radiation buyoncies to detect Godzilla. Gave Noriko a wierd form of radiation sickness, causing a vein-like pattern resembling Godzilla's dorsal fins to appear on her neck), Body Control & Light Manipulation (Can control its dorsal fins and light them up when charging for an Heat Ray), Breath Attack, Heat Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, & Energy Projection (The Heat Ray is it's most powerful attack, shooting out an energy projectile coming from its mouth of atomic energy and heat that leaves behind a mushroom cloud. It is directly noted to be a heat ray by Noda. Its Heat Ray completely evicirated the Takao), Shockwave Generation (The Heat Rays it shoots out create massive shockwaves from the explosion), Regeneration Negation (Biological; Godzilla's Heat Ray is so powerful he needs to regenerate before he can use another, which takes longer then his regular regeneration where he regenerates nigh-instantaneously. Koichi flying the Shinden fighter jet filled with bombs into Godzilla’s mouth, caused him to shoot the Heat Ray and crumble to pieces greatly slowing his regeneration as he's still regenerating from pieces of himself at the end of the movie)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Notable Techniques

Heat Ray

A blue ray of superheated atomic energy fired from his mouth. Before using the attack, Godzilla's dorsal fins jut out from his body and emit a blue glow one-by-one, starting from the tip of his tail up his back. Glowing blue ionized radiation leaks from his mouth as his eyes and neck glow. The fins then all retract back into his body as he fires the heat ray from his mouth. According to director Takashi Yamazaki, the nature of Godzilla's Heat Ray is similar to the implosion method of detonating an atomic bomb, whereby nuclear material condenses towards the center all at once and detonates once it reaches a point of critical mass. The beam generates an extremely powerful explosion upon striking its target, creating a mushroom cloud and crater and generating incredibly powerful shockwaves that level anything around the blast. The Heat Ray is so powerful, in fact, that it inflicts injuries to his face and throat from the intense heat and radiation that it gives off, requiring him to regenerate the damaged tissue before using the ability again. Godzilla first used his Heat Ray to destroy the cruiser Takao instantaneously from below it, then to destroy a group of tanks in Tokyo and level most of Ginza in the process. Yamazaki has described it as "the strongest weapon on Earth" at the time of the film's 1947 setting; taken literally, this would mean it has an explosive yield exceeding that of the atom bombs. In Novel Version: Godzilla Minus One, written by Yamazaki, Godzilla's Heat Ray is stated to be so hot that it sublimated the iron in Takao, as well as the National Diet Building and the buildings surrounding it. The ensuing shockwave of the blast in Ginza "pulverized" everything within a six kilometer radius.

Amphibiousness

Godzilla is capable of movement on land or underwater and is equally dangerous in either element. His Heat Ray is not substantially hindered even when fired underwater, as it destroys the Takao in a flash. He is able to move fast in the water, keeping up with boats.

Regeneration

Godzilla also boasts enhanced cellular regeneration, which according to Yamazaki has allowed him to "survive from ancient times.". It is first clearly demonstrated when Shikishima detonates a mine inside Godzilla's mouth, blasting a massive hole in his face which heals near-instantaneously. This healing factor extends far beyond regenerating wounds quickly, as after the total destruction of Godzilla's body he begins to regenerate from a piece of flesh. This regeneration is not perfect, however, as Godzilla's face is left with a permanent scar after regenerating from Shikishima's mine and did not fully heal the injuries caused by the sudden water pressure changes during Operation Wada Tsumi. In Novel Version: Godzilla Minus One, his regeneration is stated to have allowed him to survive the Baker nuclear test. He then mutates as a result of his regeneration attempting to restore him to his original state, but going out of control due to the large amounts of radioactive material.

Radioactivity

After Godzilla destroyed Ginza, authorities quarantined the area due to radioactive contamination he left behind, and to recover pieces of his flesh which are composed of unknown material. When reunited with Shikishima at the hospital, Noriko was shown to have developed a veiny pattern resembling Godzilla's dorsal fins on her neck, a form of infection caused by exposure to Godzilla.

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Other

Standard Tactics:

The initial form seems to only attack when provoked to, it will use it's powerful jaws to bite on and fling an opponent, it's tail to swing at or crush an opponent, and it's feet to crush the opponent.

The irradiated form, more angered and vengeful will attack anything it deems to relate to why it was hit by the nuke, initially being American ships but as Japanese warships tried to attack too, it now considers Japan also its enemy. This form implements similar attacks with its initial form along with shooting out its Heat Ray.

Weaknesses: While Godzilla's scales allow him to resist attacks externally, strikes to the inside of his body do wound him, as demonstrated when Koichi Shikishima was able to detonate an ocean mine inside his mouth, exploding part of his face and temporarily incapacitating him. Noted that Godzilla like other sea creatures Godzilla cannot withstand the extreme shift in pressures, leaving him greatly weakened. Godzilla can be tricked by hearing its roar, assuming it to be another territorial competitor. Koichi exploited this weakness again when he flew the Shinden fighter jet filled with bombs into Godzilla’s mouth, decapitating him as he prepared an Heat Ray and causing his body to crumble to bits after being weakened from Kenji Noda’s plan. Godzilla is unable to fire his Heat Ray in rapid succession due to the burns and physical injuries it inflicts upon him, which take time to heal.

Note: As Godzilla Minus One lacks any official release at this moment, a bootleg copy of the movie had to be used. If the youtube videos with better quality go down, click here for initial form scenes with better quality. Click here for the copyrighted boat scene.

Note 2: The reason no more time stamps are given past 00:41:46 is that the bootlegs weirdly cut out part of the boat scene, thus an accurate time cannot be given.

Miscellaneous Feats

• Easily killed all of the military personal at Odo Island.
• Destroyed all members on the Takao and greatly damaged the boat itself before fully destroying it with its Heat Ray.
• Casually crushed houses below it just from walking on them.

Trivia

• Godzilla Minus One takes place in the year 1947.
• This is the third incarnation of Godzilla to be created by Takashi Yamazaki, after the Third Street Godzilla briefly featured in Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007) and the Godzilla from Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle (2021).
• At 50.1 meters tall, this Godzilla's primary form is the second-shortest primary form of a Godzilla incarnation on film, standing only 0.1 meters taller than the Showa Godzillas and Godzilla Filius.
• Like the Heisei Godzilla, this Godzilla began life as a dinosaur-like creature who battled servicemen on a remote Pacific island in World War II and was later mutated by American nuclear testing in the Pacific (prior to the Futurians' altering of history).
• Like the GMK Godzilla, this Godzilla intentionally destroys cities and tramples humans fleeing, his Heat Ray creates a mushroom cloud in one scene, he is defeated by a single-pilot vehicle as he attempts to fire his Heat Ray, and a small piece of him is revealed to have survived in the film's final scene. In addition, when this Godzilla suffers decompression damage, his damaged eyes turn pure white like the eyes of the GMK Godzilla.
• Crossroads Baker, the nuclear test which irradiated Godzilla, previously appeared via stock footage in Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959), GODZILLA (1998), and Godzilla (2014). In the latter two films, it was used to represent an unspecified test in French Polynesia and the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, respectively.

Battle Records

2-1-0

• Military Personal at Odo Island - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Odo Island

• Takao - Fight
  • Conditions: Godzilla was about to attack the Shinsei Maru crew before the Takao showed up and shot at him with naval cannons.
  • Location: Middle of Sea

• Koichi Shikishima - Fight
  • Conditions: Koichi had a massive amount of help from the Navy force and Nado's plan that greatly weakened Godzilla.
  • Location: Sagami Bay
  • Note: Koichi recieved a massive amount of help for this fight, without this he would've most certainly have perished to Godzilla.

None.