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Kaijuzilla2000 wrote:

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.

In my copy, Dr Yamane reports that Godzilla continued to survive by eating deep sea creatures. He was never dormant, so "awakened" would be the wrong term to describe what the atomic weapons testing did to him. Instead, atomic testing disturbed Godzilla's natural environment and forced it out of its natural setting. Dr. Yamane also noted that Godzilla had absorbed a tremendous amount of radiation. He again stressed the absorption of radiation after Godzilla's initial Tokyo appearance, believing that to be the reason it could not be destroyed. Yamane's emphasis on the radiation Godzilla absorbed foreshadows Godzilla's atomic breath, though the movie does not explicitly state there is a link.