Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-25864061-20151209201128/@comment-27050484-20160228013935

If Godzilla or any Kaiju for that matter existed the Military would be powerless to stop them, scientist would be struggling to understand how such creatures can exist in real world physics. Every major religion would have their own interpretation of Godzilla's presence on earth, to quote a video on the subject "Many would worship him as a god or fear him as a demon. North Korea would claim they created him." Costal cities would become vacant and inner land locked places would be flooded. Shipping industry would plummet because companies wouldn't want to put money into assets that can be wiped out. Entire cities would become battle grounds against Godzilla as the world's militaries tried to combat him, some would try to lure him to other cities and countries. However when this fails the world would unite against him, investing trillions of dollars into weapon technologies and research to combat him.

In terms of immediate damage on the first attack Godzilla even if he wasn't explicitly trying to destroy anything would cost hundreds of thousands if not millions or even 10s of millions of dollars in damages due to his sheer size, weight and mass. Local authorities would have no idea what to do since they aren't trained to handle this sort of situation. Thousands of lives could be lost in the human stampede before Godzilla even made land fall and 10s if not hundreds of thousands more would be killed or left homeless in the ensuing battle either by Godzilla's movements or by the military if they are deemed acceptable collateral losses. After Godzilla leaves, water, gas and electricity would be cut off from the surviving population. Godzilla's radiation levels are so high he can rend entire city blocks uninhabitable with his presence alone, much like Chernobyl did after it melted down. Everything in his path of destruction would be infected with radiation, water, plants, animals, buildings, even people.