Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-27637441-20160128232821/@comment-27637441-20160203012502

The King of the Monsters wrote: GMK didn't add any victims to Godzilla's body count. They just included insight into one particular individual who was present during the rampage and what happened to his parents. All it really did was give some tiny detail to a few unnamed victims of Godzilla's rampage.

And I think you're looking way too far into this. Toho wanted to tell a story about Godzilla coming back in the present day to seek revenge on Japan for its sins during World War II, and him battling three guardian monsters. The film's backstory is structured the way it is to set up the film's plot. That's how movies are made. The Tachibana character didn't exist back in 1954. I know what the story's about, but it's just a small detail I didn't get about GMK's timeline.