Talk:Godzilla (2014 film)/@comment-25285745-20150505002037/@comment-25285745-20150505003056

Honestly, I don't even think Awakening should be considered canon anymore. There's too much in the film that directly contradicts Awakening.

In the film, Godzilla was awakened by a nuclear sub in 1954, then swam ashore at Bikini Atoll just as the Tsar Bomba was detonated.

In Awakening, Godzilla was awakened in 1945, fought Shinomura for a bunch of years, then in 1954 was fighting Shinomura on the fictional Moansta Island when the Tsar Bomba was detonated.

Both versions of those events cannot co-exist. Not to mention, going by Awakening's logic, Ishiro Serizawa is at least 69 years old, which cannot be true at all. He could be in his 50's or maybe early 60's, but he's not close to 70 years old in the film.

I know Awakening was written to be an official canonical prelude to the movie, but I think it ultimately diverged from the film as it was being written and was published as something completely irreconcilable with the movie's canon.