Talk:Godzilla/@comment-26160669-20150302180033/@comment-25285745-20150303011357

All that is ever concretely said in the movie is that MechaGodzilla destroyed Godzilla's second brain and paralyzed him from the waist down. Immediately after becoming paralyzed, Godzilla is seen moving and roaring in pain, before MechaGodzilla blasts the crap out of him.

I have no doubt that MechaGodzilla would have killed him if Rodan didn't intervene, but the scene does not really do anything to imply that Godzilla actually died. Now supposedly in the original script Godzilla was going to die, and he does get temporarily killed in the manga, but going by the film itself, I'd say Godzilla was just paralyzed from the waist down and was at MechaGodzilla's mercy. Rodan most likely interrupted MechaGodzilla before he could finish the job.