Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-4310945-20140711014426

Granted, yes the Military in his movie was able to kill him. But let's step back for a second and see the facts as they are presented:

In the end, it took at least nine F-18 Hornet's missiles to finally kill him. Each missile alone could sink an entire warship on its own. Before that, he survived being bombarded by both standard Tank artillery fire as well as small weapons fire from Apache helicopters and ground units as well as being hit by two torpedo's from a Nuclear submarine. Also he may or may not have been more vulnerable after laying at least 200 eggs in Madison Square Garden.

While yes he wasn't the most durable Kaiju, we've seen Kaiju horribly injured by the military before. Rodan, a beloved Kaiju, in it's first appearance was maimed in a bombardment of their nest in Mount Aso, while in the Japanese version one of the two was injured by a fighter jet, causing it to dive into a river and prevent it from achieving supersonic flight. Rodan didn't become resistant to military attacks or become as large as Godzilla until his second appearance in Ghidorah the three headed monster, where he seems to be resistant to both Godzilla's atomic breath as well as Ghidorah's Gravity beams. Also other Zilla's like Zilla Jr. and the one from Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth have both been shown to be bigger and more durable in later appearances.

So before you write off Zilla Sr. as overly weak and this pathetic excuse for a Kaiju, just try to remember, he wasn't the first to be horribly killed by the military, although some argue he should have been the last *cough*Destoroyah*cough*  