I've Always Wondered.

I've always wondered.

When did the Godzilla fandom start using the nickname "Big G" to refer to Godzilla.

I agree with both of these.  I could imagine a backstory in which KT extinction event was caused by Ghidorah's arrival, with an awakened Godzilla's timely intervention causing him to hibernate and preventing him wiping out the remaining 25% of life.  Sadly I'm not sure either Max Borenstein or Gareth Edwards are willing to do an extraterrestrial backstory.  I'm just hoping we don't get Vermithrax Ghidorah.

Ideal King Ghidorah origin (Ghidorigin?) for Godzilla 2: The meteor carrying KG is the same one that wipes out the dinosaurs. I don't know, I just think it would be awesome.

My ideal origin for the new King Ghidorah would be very Lovecraft/ancient astronauts/At The Mountains of Madness. Maintains the essential alien origin while doing something a bit new and slightly more grounded (as is the current trend in blockbusters).

Let’s not forget that Mothra convinced the second Showa Godzilla, a creature that was mutated by nuclear fire, lost the last member of it’s race to another human created super weapon, was trapped in ice for 6 years by yet more yet more humans, and was antagonized back into the sea by Mothra herself, to become the protector of humanity solely by appealing to his/her better side.  Chessmaster indeed.

An obscure power shared by Mothra and Battra. For lack of an official name, I think I’ll call it the Taser Grip.

(Also, how much of a chess master is Mothra, persuading Battra to put himself directly into harm’s way?)

I don't think Godzilla is a species so much as the creatures that become him, named the rather dry Godzillasaurus in the Heisei continuity.  Their never seem to be more than a couple Godzillas each continuity, so I doubt there's a large breeding population anymore.

So if Godzilla died in the original film, does that mean Godzilla is more of a species name or did he come back to life somehow?

I think of it more as a mantle passed down. I think having it as a species name takes away from Godzilla’s individuality as a character, and I’ve never really liked the idea more than one adult Godzilla existing at the same time.

I’ve never been a fan of Final War’s top heavy, anthropomorphized, overly slim DBZesque design philosophy, notably in Gigan and Monster X.  However, I was fine with the Godzilla suit because while it streamlined him it didn’t go too far.  He’s less bulky but he’s still basically the same mountainous shape, and there’s a lot of the late Showa spirit in the design.

These designs reveal that it was originally the same as the others, with arguably worse execution.  The first one looks downright emaciated.  I’d wouldn’t trust a regular sized dinosaur to hold up its own weight on that tiny waist, let alone one the size of a skyscraper.  I’m having a genuinely hard time deciding whether this or Zilla is a worse redesign of the King of the Monsters (Sure would have made their fight scene awkward).  I’d be interested to know how far these made it into the design process, or if they were ever genuinely considered (The style is definitely similar to some of the other designs).

Concept art for a redesigned Godzilla, for Godzilla: Final Wars (2004).

Holy Shit how did I forget about THIS?

Award winning scene from Takao Okawara’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993).