Joseph Brody

"You're lying. It was not an earthquake, it wasn't a typhoon... because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there... and it is going to send us back to the stone age."

- Joseph Brody (Godzilla)

Joseph Brody is a scientist character created by that first appeared in the 2014 Godzilla film, Godzilla.

Godzilla
According to Bryan Cranston, Joseph Brody "discovers an anomaly in some sonar... signalings, patterns, and is just starting an investigation when all hell breaks loose."

The main trailers show that Joseph Brody demands to know the truth of an 'event' that was caused by a 'natural disaster' 15 years prior to the events of the film. An extended trailer in April has shown that he has lost his wife in the destruction of the nuclear power plant he works at and this is the reason why he's furious over how the authorities are trying to calm down the public from panicking by lying to them that it was simply a natural disaster, not a giant monster.

Relationships
Joseph is Ford Brody's father, Elle Brody's father-in-law, Sandra Brody's husband, and Sam Brody's grandfather.