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TGriffy wrote: Titanollante wrote: Actually in 2014, Godzilla was awakened accidentally by nuclear weapons a nuclear submarine. It might have been either a Russian or American submarine, but it's being pinned on the Russians so... America escapes fault again, I guess. Awakened by nuclear devices is not the same thing as created by them. There is an element of awakening in the original, true. But in the original, nuclear weapons not only awakened Godzilla, they mutated him, making him the monster he became. In the Heisei series, nuclear devices had the additional effect of making him the aggressive destroyer.

According to Godzilla (1954 film) in the original Japanese-English subtitles, Godzilla was awakened by the nuke, not mutated. According to Dr. Kyohei Yamane, Godzilla was a giant super-creature the late Cretaceous Geologic time period, sealed within a underwater cave for 65 million years. Then in 1954, Godzilla was released from the cave by a hydrogen weapon.