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MeanGreenMutha wrote: It just depends on your interpretation of the definition of kaiju.

As I think I've made clear, I personally like to avoid labeling real, living species as kaiju unless there's something to it that takes it out of our reality (if you really want my take on Moby Dick I'll post it, but I'll save it for now because I get verbose in my posts).

I feel that the term kaiju was more meant to be applied to the beasts of our imaginations. Can agree with this. Things like Jaws/Bruce and Moby Dick fall in line with reality and are at least plausible, and can be reasonably explained to fall within our laws of reality.

Being a kaiju is more than just being large and potentially abnormal. It's also in part about being implausible. Outside of reality. Godzilla doesn't follow many rules set by our reality. He's legitimately a "strange beast" in that sense, whereas it's possible to have a larger than average, intelligent shark/whale within our oceanic ecosystems. Things like Megalodon did exist, after all.

Godzilla can only exist within our minds, as you spoke on. Whereas these can exist within reality.