Talk:Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack/@comment-24214574-20150925194231/@comment-24277243-20150925202044

The reason why some people hate his portrayal in the film is because, in the original 1954 film, Godzilla was a metaphor for the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was meant to be the physical form of nuclear war.

In GMK, he's turned into a metaphor for the forgotten souls of WWII.

Y'know, I don't know why people are complaining. The "atomic war" metaphor was almost completely dropped after the first film, and it continued to go downhill late into the Showa era when he became a kids icon. And, for some reason, people only started caring about Godzilla's original meaning around the time GMK is released, which I think is stupid beyond belief.