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Titanollante wrote: Bioniclezilla76 wrote:

Titanollante wrote:

Bioniclezilla76 wrote: Well, I mean in the series. Zilla might have been masscred but 14 may do badly in the box office because they think it's the fake Godzilla even though it is vice versa. Nah, the fans know this won't be 98 all over again. I mean anyone who isn't a fan. Ofcourse the fans will know that I mean by the main stream audience. Ofcourse they will know it won't be a 98 sequel. The main stream audience thinks the real Godzilla is a big chinned iguana. Right, Godzilla fans know that Zilla just stole the name back in 1998 but that it got renamed. With all the re-airings of "GODZILLA" on SyFy and all these channels, it has been engraved on the minds of the non-fans that Godzilla is some asexual iguana with T-Rex feet.

Actually, American non-fans sometimes refer to him as American Godzilla and not Zilla. They have no knowledge of the name change and therefore, the term stuck. To fans, it's Zilla and to non-fans, it's American Godzilla, so there's almost no fooling anyone.