Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-26942270-20161226215752/@comment-4820209-20170315213053

An0nimis1 wrote: I think this is related to a key moment in the film people are overlooking: the old scientist who has disappeared is Godzilla.

It sounds outlandish at first but this movie is all about evolution. Godzilla evolves throughout the film, but what evolutionary form did Godzilla have before we saw the monster on screen? He was human and the clues are there. If Godzilla is the old scientist these skeletons are probably a genetic aberration/side effect or the next step of the monster’s evolution.
 * We’re told that the old scientist is the creator of Godzilla as revenge for his wife dying of radiation
 * Godzilla continually evolves throughout the film
 * The scientist disappears the day Godzilla arrives
 * His boat is left unmanned at the exact spot where Godzilla emerges
 * He leaves his shoes a sign that he has gone into the water and also a practice Japanese do before suicide
 * Godzilla has skeletons growing out from its tail, so it can be assumed it has some evolutionary connection with humans

I don't think he was human before he arrived, given Goro Maki's studying of the creature and attempting to pin down its evolutionary route. I would agree with the theory that he "became" Godzilla, at least genetically. Given Goro jumped into the same bay Godzilla arrived in, the latter of which arrived shortly after the discovery of his presumed suicide, it's pretty likely.

Also, Godzilla didn't "have" skeletons growing from his tail. Those were him. He'd evolved into that new form past his fourth. It was entirely his next step, but the "why" is the unanswered question.