How strong is Godzilla?

Pearl 2022-03-29 09:01:09

The film reflects a lot of political things, such as Japan's rigid bureaucracy, American control over Japan, and Japan's tense international relations with Russia and China. Also, at the very beginning of the film, Godzilla was so ugly that he almost gave up the movie because of it. Fortunately, the image of Godzilla was relatively normal and domineering enough, and the scene of modern weapons fighting Godzilla was also spectacular enough. Overall, although this movie has some political additives, the core is still a very good monster movie.

How strong is Godzilla? For this, the film portrays it quite clearly. The power of Godzilla can be summed up in a few points. First, strong defensive capabilities . This defensive ability can basically defend against all attacks by humans. In the film, the weapons used by humans to deal with Godzilla can be divided into four levels. Needless to say, small-caliber weapons will never work. Therefore, from the beginning, the Self-Defense Forces used 30mm machine guns to attack, which is the fourth-level attack capability that humans have come up with, but it has no effect. Next, start to attack with tactical missiles in conjunction with the main battle tank, which is the third-level attack capability that humans have come up with. However, several rounds of salvos from dozens of main battle tanks and self-propelled artillery were still unable to cause damage to Godzilla. It can be seen that the fourth and third levels of attack power have no effect on Godzilla. This attack capability is already at the top of the attack capability of the Self-Defense Forces and the standing army conventional weapons of major powers in the world today. So in the face of this behemoth, the U.S. military, which represents the strongest combat power of mankind, took out the second-level weapon - the GBU-57A/B giant ground penetrator. This ground-penetrating bomb can be carried by a B2 strategic bomber and dropped at an altitude of 10,000 meters. It can directly penetrate 60 meters of concrete, and its penetration capability is even greater than that of nuclear weapons. Living up to expectations, this weapon finally broke through Godzilla's perverted defense, but it only caused serious damage to Godzilla. So what other weapons can completely wipe out Godzilla? The rest is the strongest weapon that humans can come up with - thermonuclear weapons. Even if it is as strong as Godzilla, it is impossible to survive the hundreds of millions of degrees of heat generated by a nuclear explosion that is comparable to the core of the sun. Of course, the premise is that the nuclear weapon can hit Godzilla. If it is Godzilla in normal state, any weapon is unlikely to get close. But if it falls into a state of sleep, thermonuclear weapons must be able to destroy Godzilla.

So can Godzilla's defense really be so perverted? Judging by the size of Godzilla, its strong defense should be reasonable. According to the proportion of body size, Godzilla's surface skin should be very thick, and the skin material should not be ordinary organic matter. It should be a material similar to composite armor. If converted into homogeneous steel, the thickness of the skin should be at least a few meters. Armor thickness. The penetration depth of ordinary cannons using armor-piercing bullets is generally 100mm, which is just a scratch for Godzilla. Not even large-caliber armor-piercing projectiles. The penetration depth of modern main battle tanks can basically reach 1000 mm, that is, it can penetrate one meter thick homogeneous steel armor. So not even main battle tanks, self-propelled guns, or air-to-surface missiles can break through Godzilla's defenses. The GBU-57A/B giant ground penetrator dropped by the B2 strategic bomber is a rare weapon that can cause effective damage to Godzilla.

" MOP penetrating bomb is the largest penetrating bomb in active service in the US military. According to the information released so far, this penetrating bomb is 6.2 meters long, 0.8 meters in diameter, and weighs 13.6 tons. It can carry 2.4 tons of high explosives. Drill to a depth of 60 meters from the ground and then explode. In addition to being powerful, the MOP ground penetrator can be carried by the B-2 bomber and dropped at an altitude of more than 10 kilometers.

Second, a powerful attack capability . Godzilla's most powerful attack ability is reflected in its ability to fire ultra-high-speed ultra-high temperature plasma from its mouth, and lasers from its back and tail. In the film, the B2 bomber was shot down by the mouth cannon fired by Godzilla immediately after a successful hit. You know, the B2 bomber flies at an altitude of 10,000 meters, which is basically the height of the stratosphere. It can be seen that Godzilla's mouth cannon can reach the stratosphere. In addition, Godzilla's mouth cannons and lasers can easily cut off high-rise buildings in the middle, with a range of tens of kilometers. For targets within the range, whether it is on the ground or high in the sky, it is basically invincible. Humans do not have any means to defend against Godzilla's attack.

Third, strong perception ability . To destroy the target first, the target must be seen first. In the film, Godzilla was able to shoot down the first B2 bomber and turn on the laser on the back immediately after the other two threw MOP penetrators, indicating that Godzilla has a strong perception ability. This perception is likely based in a way unknown to humans. You must know that as a stealth strategic bomber, the B2 has excellent radar stealth and infrared stealth capabilities. In addition, it travels at a high speed at an altitude of 10,000 meters. How can it be easily detected and then shot down? The only possibility is that Godzilla may have used other means to accurately detect B2's location. But what is this detection capability? After thinking about it, the strongest weapon of mankind is invisible to Godzilla, which is why thermonuclear weapons may not be able to destroy Godzilla in normal state. Because the powerful long-range and short-range attack capability combined with the powerful perception capability is an omnipotent anti-missile system, before this anti-missile system fails, even nuclear weapons cannot be used against Godzilla. The only strategy can only be to use a large number of low-end weapons (drones) to consume Godzilla's energy, wait for Godzilla's energy to be exhausted, and then strike a fatal blow. This is also used by the protagonists in the film, but they chose Frozen Godzilla.

In fact, with only the above three, Godzilla is scary enough, and there is almost no possibility of destroying it on the spot without paying a huge price. But Godzilla's strength is far more than that. The most powerful part of Godzilla is its ability to adapt to the environment, or its super evolutionary ability . According to the information disclosed in the film, Godzilla's genes contain genes of all species, and he can flexibly adjust his form according to changes in the environment. Godzilla evolved an amphibious form within a few hours of landing, and a terrestrial form a few days later. After being attacked, laser rays evolved from the back, and plasma cannons evolved from the tail. At the end of the film, Godzilla's tail has even evolved a new human-like creature. According to this evolutionary ability, even in the extreme environment of a nuclear explosion, as long as Godzilla is not completely vaporized. It is entirely possible that the remaining tissue could evolve into new species that would normally live in a post-nuclear environment. At that time, what awaits human beings may be the real fate of extinction.

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  • Dereck 2022-03-30 09:01:10

    89/100, simply Perfect! ! ! Anno Hideaki has made a drastic innovation to the traditional monster special photography, replacing the leather case with CG but retaining the texture, the special effects are really cool, and the three evolutions directly climax. //Using the monster as the appearance, it practiced Godard's "make a movie politically", completely catastrophic Godzilla in the post-311 period, and the purpose of stripping his personality is to focus on human personality, government-official, group-individual It has been thoroughly analyzed, and it is not only the city that is destroyed, but also the system. The final open ending will undoubtedly deepen the text again, not only in the monster genre, but also in the case of time and abuse.

  • Keeley 2022-03-24 09:03:44

    No ordinary monster movie. From this, we can explore the source of Japanese national anxiety: between the natural disasters without hostility and the hostile enemy countries, Godzilla is such an existence with "objective hostility". Godzilla is the embodiment of this anxiety, and the origin of this anxiety is, to some extent, the de-morality of human civilization itself. They are afraid of their reason going crazy. It's also valuable as a political comedy. funny little montage

Shin Godzilla quotes

  • Kayoko Ann Patterson: I won't see a third bomb dropped on the country of my grandmother, who lived through it.

  • Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: There is no precedent.