Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-3148673-20140525021457/@comment-5234191-20140607052130

SolZen321 wrote: The MUTOs come from the same era and ecosystem as Godzilla, they are Godzilla's natural enemy like Lion and Hyena. Think about it, they nest their eggs near radiation sources and the first set of eggs where found inside what could possibly be a Godzilla skeleton. Back in prehistoric times there were no man made nuclear reactors, so they had to get the radiation from more...organic sources, like Godzilla. Even if the MUTOs themselves are not parasites, their young parasite of Godzilla species, killing them by stealing their life giving radiation. That may be the reason their claws generate EMPS, somehow they soften up Godzilla making him easier to kill. Like with some versions of Superman, kryptonite doesn't take away his powers but he is now vulnerable to injury despite being powerful. The females grew big to defend their nests from Godzilla and the males gained flight to hunt down Godzilla and/or find mates. The MUTOs are a species that evolved to fight/prey upon Godzilla, Godzilla's species naturally hunts them down with extreme prejudice. They are unique from Godzilla's previous foes since they were actually designed to not be just a powerful threat, but to also actually kill him.

Really? Godzilla's natural predator? If the male MUTOs are of to single-handedly hunt Godzillas in the past I'm surprised why there aren't any MUTO fossils that was discovered embed in rock formations for dying out of being tail-slammed to the surface. The skeletal remains that was shown in the movie, correct me if I'm wrong, hardly give the picture that it was a Godzilla, look again, the rib sets goes as long as the vertebrate bone itself and they are all roughly the same size, a Godzilla would need a bigger rib case down its neck, and the skeleton implies that it is something rather serpentine, clearly nothing like Godzilla, maybe it implies that there were actually a kaiju ecosystem that the MUTOs and Godzilla are not the only gods of the past.

While for their relation, I think its hard to find a reflection. I'd say the Godzillas were actually as Dr Serizawa said, are ancient Alpha predators, even the primordial ecosystem could not have more than, say 80 of them on earth, seriously, something that makes chunk of Pacific Ocean a hunting ground should be considered a keystone species. The MUTOs are on the other hand, apex predators in their own food chain, having their children being parasites for a certain species (like that particular species of hornets who put their eggs on caterpillars) and their adults are fearsome couple of giants. Both specimens are aware of each other and rather keep distances of each other. But THE Godzilla on the movie is somehow... A prophet of its kind, it gained a certain level of sentience, being aware of its role as Nature's right hand, which caused it to somehow have to deal with the MUTOs (This might also explain why Godzilla didn't hunt down the male MUTO when it was in larvae form crossing the pacific, since at that time, humanity still could get things done by themselves, and only reacted when things went to the point that Nature has to intervene prominently, sending an ancient Alpha Predator to dispose what's left of the old food chain, and his awakening in 1954 with the nuclear submarine attack might also be nature's method to tell humanity that a nuclear war is a bad idea), Godzilla also didn't eat them or whatsoever that a predator would do to its prey, he hunted that long and that far for the kill, and that needs consideration.

Anyway, if Male MUTOs are designed to hunt Godzillas, they better be really good at underwater, that feat that they show with the nuke carrier-boat would only get them as far as catching whales and submarines.