Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-28959656-20160708002630

But I have to warn you, they're very different from regular Godzilla backstories, but they both have one thing in common: They involve a Japanese soldier from World War ll, named Tatsuo. Anyway, here they are:

The first is similar to Count Dracula in the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula": Tatsuo is called to battle against the United States Army. Even though he and his army win the battle, he comes home to find his wife, Yoshiko, dead, having commited Seppuku after received a false report of her husband's death. Outraged at his Admiral's belief that her soul won't be saved, Tatsuo desecrates his base and renounces Buddha, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Yoshiko with all the powers of darkness. He then stabs the base's Buddha statue and drinks the blood which pours out of it. He is then cursed and becomes Godzilla.

The second is similar to Count Dracula also, this time from the movie "Dracula Untold": Tatsuo is called to battle against the United States Navy. He wins the battle, but the United States calls in an air strike, which is set to arrive in Japan in 5 days, and Tatsuo, out of desperation, seeks the help of a legendary mystic from the Japanese countryside. The mystic gives him a barrel of mystical water, and Tatsuo drinks the water and becomes Godzilla. When the air raid occurs, Tatsuo, as Godzilla, goes to battle and successfully fends them off, but is confused for a threat by the Japanese Army, and subsequently attacked, causing him to retreat. When he finds out that his family was kidnapped by the United States Navy, he goes to rescue them, and transforms a few of his former friends into monsters as well to help get them back, but ends up having to defend them from his monsterized friends afterward. He then brings his family to the mystic, who takes them in, and later finds out about America's plan to decimate Japan with nuclear weapons, but fails to save the targeted cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in time. He would later become known as the "King of the Monsters". 