Talk:Zilla/@comment-1605458-20140504225212

As someone who grew up with the 1998 movie, I'm very disappointed that Toho decided to use Zilla as a hate magnet for fan service, calling him a "fake" and a "pretender to the throne". I mean, he really was never considered the King of Monsters in the first place, they just sort of thrusted this "phony poser" theme onto him for the G fans that never got over the TriStar film.

Doesn't anyone think it would have been cooler if he was an ally for Godzilla in the 2004 and onward Toho movies? With actual kaiju powers like atomic breath? Wouldn't it have been better to improve the image of the creature they owned instead of deliberately destroying it further?

What Toho has done with Zilla is something I've never seen any other company with an IP do, and quite frankly I find it immature.

Growing up, Zilla was the equivalent to Spiderman or Batman for me, a childhood hero, much like the Japanese Godzilla was for so many others. Sure, in the movie he didn't fight monsters or do anything particularly badass, but I still looked up to him in a really vague sense.

Today, it's disheartening for me to see that he'll likely never be shown in any sort of good light by official means. The way he was throttled in the new Rulers of the Earth comic shows that. Hopefully someday, a new video game like "Destroy All Monsters" will release where he'll resemble something that's closer to a respectable kaiju, not a mockery.