Talk:Zilla (MA)/@comment-26850821-20171113200531/@comment-26850821-20171114012953

It says up there that the juveniles are too tough to take down in hand-to-hand combat, so as far as I can tell, the humans don't kill them that easily. As for the conventional weapons, I can't tell for sure from the way the article's written whether just the juveniles or all members of the species are killed by standard weapons, but I'm assuming all of them. That and the fact that they're supposedly explicitly stated to be "weak by kaiju standards" is indeed upsetting. The only thing more demeaning than treating a character as cannon fodder is treating an entire army of him as cannon fodder.

If they had followed through with the complete 1998 continuity and had one surviving baby Zilla grow up to be stronger than the rest like in the cartoon, then it wouldn't be so bad, but I doubt that'd ever happen. Also, I'd give anything to see a Zilla with a heat ray again. I'd hate to think Zilla Jr. from the cartoon is the only one we'll ever see with a proper heat ray.

I mean, if they're going to have the humans mistake Zilla for Godzilla, he might as well play the part.