Talk:Gigan (PM)/@comment-36634308-20181012000453/@comment-35039661-20181015033104

Aside from the Showa era and debatably the Monsterverse, Godzilla has never been friendly to humanity, he attacks their cities most of the time, that's not something that is new to the Anime. Infact him hating humans is a major part of his character.

Not that you can blame him, humanity has done bad things to him and the planet, and Godzilla is really just an confused,  (and dare I say scared) and dumb (by human standards) animal so he lashes out at things which attack him, and humanity does that quite frequently.

The first film actually seems to show that during his first rampage he is more curious and just knocking over things due to his size, however gets more agressive after a train hits him in the foot, and after the army attacks him. Thus his subsequent rampages get more brutal. That same film also shows that he is passive towards other lifeforms, such as when he spares some birds.

The truth is that Godzilla is a very tragic character, in fact most of his movies are allegories for how terrible humanity can be, and yes we tend to be very terrible to the Earth we walk on. Even the Showa Godzilla only became friendly once humanity began to learn from their mistakes.

Say we were to make another 'Era ' of Godzilla and made him a defender from the start of said reboot (as opposed to making a gradual changeor something), then we would be removing a key element of his character.

Not only would there be no city destroying from him, but there would also be nothing to Godzilla's character aside from him being the 'heroic monster'. And as much a I love it, this is one of the issue I have with the Monsterverse.

Sorry for the long post XD.