User blog comment:Krazar77/why does every body hate zilla/@comment-5527544-20140428183914

The reason people don't like him is because he failed to live up to the standards of the Godzilla Legacy, what's that? Basically it three simple things...

1) Godzilla is a metaphor for nuclear allegory, climate change, mother nature. Zilla was just a monster, he stood for nothing, his origins are a case of Giant Ant Syndrome (I think that's what its called) basically, the radiation was just a cliche' excuse for his existence. Now granted, I suppose depending on the kind of movie you are making this is not that important considering some of the past movies... but still when trying to translate a character to a new audience you're suppose to bring the soul of the character.

2) Godzilla is portrayed an unstoppable force of nature, that is unstoppable in the face of man's weapons. Zilla was just an animal who ran from basically every in counter with the military, the only time he attacked was when 'his' babies got killed. The movie ended with him being shot down by the military. In the 20+ film Godzilla has fought a giant moth, a three headed space dragon, alien cockroaches wearing human suits, space apes, a mutant cyborg chicken creature, his robot double, even a giant pile of crap but the army never took him down.

3) Godzilla without his Atomic Breath is like Superman not flying. Granted in Smallville they did that quite well, but it was different, flying represented the end of the series and final hurdle for the character before he became Superman as we know and love. In 98, he just didn't have it, he had a scene where he breathed hard and cars exploded but that was more of an atomic burp.

It's not about his design, if I remember correctly Toho said that they loved Zilla's design. Heck there was a cartoon series that was a sequel to the movie where his son had atomic breath and was immune to conventional weaponry. I not certain but I've heard fan rumors that people from Toho refer to the cartoon as Godzilla Jr because he's actually deserving of the 'God' in his name. Zilla's movie showed utter disrespect for the source material making him effectively the black sheep of the Zilla family, even Godzooki and Minilla are not as bad because they were never meant to be Godzilla in the first place...