Tell Me Your Headcanons

Shyria Dracnoir · 06-07-2014, 05:29 PM

Spoilers for Godzilla 2014

While Serizawa is right that there's a predator/prey dynamic at work with the behavior of the monsters, the roles are reversed from what he thinks. Instead of being the top predator in their original ecosystem, creatures like Godzilla were the main prey of the MUTOs, at least when the MUTOs needed to brood. The male stealing the warhead for the female to bury with the eggs indicates they need a constant supply of radiation to nourish the offspring; the natural source is obvious when you remember that the MUTO cocoons were originally found in the ribcage of another Godzillasaurus' corpse. Like tarantula hawks, in the absence of environmental radiation the MUTOs probably try to implant eggs in a still-living Goji, who ends up dead from either the larvae consuming too much internal radiation while gestating or from the actual hatching (if John Hurt from Alien were the size of the Space Needle). It may be that they seek out injured or elderly individuals to have a better time of it, and Godzilla's body language throughout the film, to me at least, certainly feels like that of an older monster, especially when we see how taxing using his atomic breath is on his system.

This is why Godzilla fights so viciously and almost theatrically (having your jaw broken and radioactive napalm shoved down your throat was not a peaceful end for the female MUTO) and also why he doesn't do obviously predatory things like haul the corpses off to snack on later; he's not looking for food, he's preemptively wiping out a potential threat to his own existence while demonstrating his vigor despite his age. Maybe there's still an entire population of Gojis under the sea he's looking out for once he realizes that the MUTOs aren't extinct.

06-07-2014, 05:29 PM	#29
Shyria Dracnoir Kawaii-ju Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Monster Island Posts: 4,240	I think entirely too much about shit like this Spoilers for Godzilla 2014 While Serizawa is right that there's a predator/prey dynamic at work with the behavior of the monsters, the roles are reversed from what he thinks. Instead of being the top predator in their original ecosystem, creatures like Godzilla were the main prey of the MUTOs, at least when the MUTOs needed to brood. The male stealing the warhead for the female to bury with the eggs indicates they need a constant supply of radiation to nourish the offspring; the natural source is obvious when you remember that the MUTO cocoons were originally found in the ribcage of another Godzillasaurus' corpse. Like tarantula hawks, in the absence of environmental radiation the MUTOs probably try to implant eggs in a still-living Goji, who ends up dead from either the larvae consuming too much internal radiation while gestating or from the actual hatching (if John Hurt from Alien were the size of the Space Needle). It may be that they seek out injured or elderly individuals to have a better time of it, and Godzilla's body language throughout the film, to me at least, certainly feels like that of an older monster, especially when we see how taxing using his atomic breath is on his system. This is why Godzilla fights so viciously and almost theatrically (having your jaw broken and radioactive napalm shoved down your throat was not a peaceful end for the female MUTO) and also why he doesn't do obviously predatory things like haul the corpses off to snack on later; he's not looking for food, he's preemptively wiping out a potential threat to his own existence while demonstrating his vigor despite his age. Maybe there's still an entire population of Gojis under the sea he's looking out for once he realizes that the MUTOs aren't extinct. __________________ Godzilla vs. Gamera (1994) Last edited by Shyria Dracnoir; 06-07-2014 at 05:32 PM.