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Shin Godzilla

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Shin Godzilla	comment	Shin Godzilla (シン・ゴジラ Shin-Gojira), also known as Godzilla Resurgence in some territories, is a 2016 kaiju tokusatsu film. It's the 31st entry in the Godzilla franchise, the 29th Godzilla film produced by Toho, the first Godzilla movie produced in Japan since Godzilla: Final Wars in 2004, and the first in the Reiwa series. Announced in December 2014 as a Continuity Reboot made in response to the 2014 American Godzilla movie, it was released on July 29, 2016. In March 2015, it was announced that Hideaki Anno of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame and Shinji Higuchi of the Heisei Gamera trilogy would be co-directing, with Anno writing the script and Higuchi in charge of special effects. The music was directed by Shiro Sagisu, also of Evangelion fame. Visual effects duties are handed off to Shirogumi, the studio behind Stand by Me Doraemon.When the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line mysteriously floods and collapses, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Rando Yaguchi (Hiroki Hasegawa), is convinced that the incident was caused by a living creature, but his claims are shrugged off by Prime Minister Seiji Okouchi (Ren Osugi), who assumes the accident was caused by a natural disaster. However, when an enormous tail surfaces from the Bay, the possibility of a giant monster becomes a reality.The film's Japanese title is a multiple entendre that can be read as "New Godzilla", "Pure Godzilla", "True Godzilla", or "God Godzilla". The film also stars Yutaka Takenouchi as Hideki Akasaka and Satomi Ishihara as Kayoco Anne Patterson. The film's incarnation of Godzilla uses computer graphics with the ending scene portrayed with a practical tail piece, and takes design cues from the original 1954 film.Unlike Toho's other Godzilla films, this one ignores the original 1954 film completely, with it being the first time Godzilla appears in Japan.Following the film's release, it received a limited theatrical run in 100 territories worldwide in late 2016, and Funimation dubbed the film for North America. Funimation also released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on August 1st of 2017.Promotional materials: Official Japanese website Official Funimation site (Warning to headphone users: the roar used is loud.) Teaser Trailer Official Trailer Funimation's theatrical trailerThe film enjoyed immense success in Japan, dominating the box office and winning several awards including seven Japan Academy Prizes. However, despite that, it has been confirmed that there won't be a sequel, though a 4D ride crossing over with Neon Genesis Evangelion, Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D, was created as a temporary attraction at Universal Studios Japan; And Godzilla Intercept Operation, a zipline attraction in the form of a life-size model of Shin Godzilla's head and neck opened at Nijigen no Mori park on Awaji Island in October 2020.See also Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider, similar film reboots of classic tokusatsu franchises by Anno and Higuchi — which, when combined with Shin Godzilla, form the Shin Japan Heroes Universe. Shin Ultraman is written by Anno and directed by Higuchi, while Shin Kamen Rider is written and directed by Anno.
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Shin Godzilla / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Shin Godzilla / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The first half of the film shows that anyone can kick the bucket due to the carelessness of the government. Speaking of which, this is the first time in a Godzilla movie where the Prime Minister as a character dies in the film, along with the rest of the Cabinet. Rando, his aide, and his mentor are the only Cabinet members to survive.
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Shin Godzilla / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Shin Godzilla / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: Right after the Minister makes an announcement to assure the public that Godzilla would not make landfall, reports come in that he has. The Minister even muses that Godzilla made a liar out of him. He was warned ahead of time that landfall could be a possibility, though.
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Shin Godzilla / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Shin Godzilla / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Shinji Higuchi has stated that the tone of the film is supposed to take cues from real world disasters, such as the 9/11 attacks and the 2011 tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan (along with the subsequent Fukushima nuclear plant disaster). In many ways, this film is one of the darkest installments in the Godzilla franchise since the original film.
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Shin Godzilla / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Shin Godzilla / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Whereas the original film was an allegory of the then-recent Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident (and obviously by extension, the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), this movie is an allegory for the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster that happened in 2011. The anti-nuclear weapons moral is still preserved in this film, however.
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Shin Godzilla / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Shin Godzilla / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Goro Maki Journal reveals details that are undisclosed in the movie itself, like what Shin Godzilla's first form looked like and that it was created by Goro Maki.
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Shin Godzilla / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
Shin Godzilla / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: Explored. The Japanese government is utterly incapable of doing anything to halt Godzilla's rampage, with a significant focus being placed on harshly critiquing the bureaucratic process and Japan's dependency on the United States and United Nations. Worse, their evacuation procedures are not enough to prevent thousands of deaths by the rampaging beast. Some of this is blamed on too much democratic accountability (most of the leadership are terrified of the public backlash that might come from them doing, well, anything), but some of it is the result of too little democratic accountability (because the Liberal Democratic Party's decades-long stranglehold on the Japanese government has resulted in much of the country's leadership being an insular old boys' club with no respect for outside opinions, and because the US has more influence in decision making than the average Japanese citizen).
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Shin Godzilla / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Shin Godzilla / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The amount of genetic information an organism possesses has absolutely no bearing on how complex or advanced it is outside of single-celled microbes. Godzilla is stated to have eight times more genetic information than humans, making it the Ultimate Life Form; in real life, the animal with the largest known genome is the marbled lungfish, with approximately forty times more genetic material than humans, but of course no one ever argues the marbled lungfish is any sort of ultimate life form. The English subtitles state that Godzilla is "evolving". Evolution is a multi-generational process, and what Godzilla is doing is technically mutating at that point in the movie. However, at the end of the movie, the humanoid growths on its tail do constitute a sort of "evolution" in rough terms, as they're Godzilla's progeny.
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Shin Godzilla / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Shin Godzilla / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The film features numerous cameos from a variety of Japanese actors, celebrities and even animators, with Mamoru Oshii and Hayao Miyazaki appearing as scientists. Hideaki Anno himself appears in a very quick cameo as a bus driver.
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Shin Godzilla / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Shin Godzilla / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "Who Will Know", a One-Woman Wail/choir piece that accompanies the scene where Godzilla first unleashes his Atomic Breath and spine beams in response to the military getting a good hit in. The song being Godzilla's perspective becomes apparent with the verse "As long as breath comes out my mouth/I may yet stand the slightest chance/A shaft of light is all I need/to cease the darkness killing me."
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Shin Godzilla / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shin Godzilla / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Invoked, though it's more of an obstructive bureaucracy as a whole. The film criticizes the way the Japanese government prioritizes "saving face" rather than admitting that there's problems to begin with. As such, the bureaucracy serves to hinder the effectiveness of both actions and policies by acting in a conservative and timid manner as a default. This only serves to both waste time and cost thousands of lives.
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Shin Godzilla / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Shin Godzilla / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: This film is extremely graphic. While tame in Toho standards, Godzilla spills large amounts of blood in this film. This deleted scene shows after evolving, his radioactive blood can melt cars. Imagine someone getting caught in a pool of that.
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Shin Godzilla / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Shin Godzilla / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The vocal tracks in the movie are done in this way. In an unusual twist on this trope, the lyrics are actually in English.
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Shin Godzilla / int_20e2a53b	type	Notice This
Shin Godzilla / int_20e2a53b	comment	Notice This: A paper crane was left on top of several notebooks on the abandoned yacht at the beginning. It's what gives one of Rando's teammembers the epiphany needed to figure out the coagulant that helps stop Godzilla—like a shape made using origami, the mapped-out data is meant to be folded in a way that gives the solution to the problem.
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Shin Godzilla / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Shin Godzilla / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: One of Godzilla’s most terrifying abilities is his adaptive biology, from growing into new forms repeatedly, to developing new abilities to counter tactics used against it. Prior to the bombs the Americans dropped on it, Godzilla hardly reacts to anything the military throws at him. After the Americans bomb him, he utilizes his atomic beam, first through his mouth, then through his spines, while also developing a biological radar to detect incoming attacks. What’s more, after this development, even while Godzilla is hibernating, he becomes much more cautious, refusing to allow any airborne object to approach him, even if it’s something as harmless as a drone. When the military launches Operation Yashiori, Godzilla uses his spine beams to shoot down anything and everything coming at him, even though it's clear that nothing that’s being fired at him is on the level of the first bombs the Americans dropped. After being hurt once, Godzilla stops taking any chances.
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Shin Godzilla / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Shin Godzilla / int_20f689e9	comment	As mentioned under Adaptational Villainy, the film serves as a reminder that Godzilla is an inherently destructive creature and effectively a living nuclear weapon. Because of him cities are destroyed, people are killed, and those that survive are left homeless and exposed to residual radiation from his atomic breath. Conversely, between being in constant pain from radiation burns and being under near constant assault from humans that want to kill him, the film also makes a point that Godzilla's existence is one of constant torment. His Villain Song "Who Will Know" emphasizes this as it presents us with Godzilla's perspective, revealing that he is indeed a tortured creature that's just trying to survive.
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Shin Godzilla / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Shin Godzilla / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The "giant monster" film genre (including the Godzilla series) is full of scientists that are renowned and know perfectly well what is going on (or at the very least they are renowned but because of the single crackpot theory — that, obviously, involves the monster — they were treated by the community as The Worm Guy up until they were needed). In this film the renowned scientists the Japanese government consults at the very first sign of Godzilla are as much of a case of Head-in-the-Sand Management as everybody else, and refuse to risk their reputations by making any kind of theories. The Prime Minister, in a very justifiable rage after such a snafu of a meeting, orders his subordinates to find anybody who can provide ideas to deal with the monster. Making this worse is that the one scientist with the most in-depth knowledge of Godzilla and his anatomy is long dead by the start of the movie from implied suicide, thanks to the ridicule and censorship of his work by the government, and the death of his wife from radiation poisoning nobody cared to deal with.
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Shin Godzilla / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Shin Godzilla / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Godzilla's earlier forms were a mystery almost up until the theatrical release.
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Shin Godzilla / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Shin Godzilla / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: When Godzilla first makes landfall, he tries to stand up using an apartment building, but his weight ended up crushing the building with a family (including a child) inside.
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Shin Godzilla / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Shin Godzilla / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A promotional poster of Godzilla's footprint shows a trilobite in one of the toes, as a Call-Back to the original 1954 movie. Even the design of Godzilla's head is evocative of concept work for the 1954 film, which originally had a malformed-looking head and tiny eyes◊ and went unused save for promotional shots◊. The first thing the Prime Minister does is meet with three elderly paleontology and biology experts in suits and glasses. Unlike Drs. Yamane, Shigezawa, or Hayashida, they're absolutely useless, instead spouting off common-sense platitudes that waste the prime minister's time and anger him. Godzilla's second and third forms, the "tadpole" and two-legged lizard-like form, have pronounced gills on each side of his neck, which may be a possible reference to the 2014 remake, whose Godzilla design had gills. Speaking of the remake, this Godzilla also subsists on radiation, and the plan to try and obliterate him is detonate an extremely high-yield nuke on top of him that would cause severe destruction to a major city and its environs, but obliterate Godzilla (but also runs the risk of failing and only giving the target more sustenance), which is also called off in lieu of a suicide mission involving infantry. The reveal of the atomic breath is also done at night, and is shot similarly to the 2014 version. Initially, Godzilla releases a massive firestorm, much like the original film, which then becomes his more iconic beam weapon. Additionally, the shots of Tokyo burning mimic and recreate scenes from the original film as well Goro Maki has been the name of two characters in previous Godzilla continuities: a character in Son of Godzilla, and the main character of The Return of Godzilla. His function here seems like a Shadow Archetype to Dr. Serizawa of the original Gojira - horrified by the destructive potential of WMDs, but instead of using one against Godzilla, the research team speculates he helped awaken Godzilla both both as revenge against the Japanese government and academia for ruining his career and denying his wife aid for radiation sickness, and to test humanity. As in the original film, Godzilla is named after Gojira, the malevolent sea-god of Odo Island, and is speculated to have been sighted around the island before. The sound effects used by the JSDF's weapons and Godzilla's Atomic Breath, as well as many of the explosions and impacts, are taken straight out of the Showa films. The bifurcated jaw Godzilla has harkens to Crustaceous Rex from Godzilla: The Series. Godzilla's metamorphic, adaptational development draws influence from Hedorah and Destoroyah. His evolution from a simple dinosaur-like beast to a truly imposing mutated Kaiju also recalls his origin story shown in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, where he was shown to have evolved from a simple dinosaur known as "Godzillasaurus" after being exposed to nuclear fallout. The probability of further Godzillas coming to life through displaced pieces of the original evokes The War of the Gargantuas. The ending of the movie, in which the JSDF finally pacify Godzilla by trapping him under the rubble of collapsing buildings and using an experimental chemical to freeze his body solid, is a direct reference to the ending of Godzilla Raids Again, in which the military finally stops him by trapping him under an avalanche and freezing him in a block of ice. Notably, it ends with the clear implication that Godzilla will eventually unfreeze himself to wreak more havoc, as he did in Godzilla Raids Again's immediate sequel King Kong vs. Godzilla. While technically Godzilla was never shown growing in size before onscreen (although him becoming bigger was a minor plot point in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah), his height increase between the 3rd and 4th Forms (57m-118.5m) closely mirrors his growth between the Showa and Heisei eras (50m-100m).
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Shin Godzilla / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Shin Godzilla / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Day of the Kaiju, both being serious looks at the political hurdles that would really be involved with dealing with Kaiju-like lifeforms, and both being sharp allegorical rebukes toward the Japanese government's handling of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The film also serves as this to Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's previous Kaiju short Giant Warrior Appears in Tokyo. The short film, coproduced with Studio Ghibli, serves as a prequel to Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The short film shows the titular Giant Warrior attacking Tokyo in traditional Kaiju fashion albeit much Darker and Edgier akin to Shin Godzilla, leading to the Seven Days of Fire that leads up to Nausicaä's After the End setting.
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Shin Godzilla / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
Shin Godzilla / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Goro Maki's tragedy. He Took a Level in Cynic, seeing the only way to prove was point was to awaken or merge with Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Shin Godzilla / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: When Godzilla senses that the bombers are attacking him again, he begins firing a spray of energy beams from his back, which take out all the bombs and one of the bombers. It deploys these beams again to take out the drones attacking it during Operation Yashiori, but when they're exhausted, it then begins shooting a beam of energy from the tip of its tail.
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Shin Godzilla / int_2dc35926	type	Ghost Ship
Shin Godzilla / int_2dc35926	comment	Ghost Ship: A derelict yacht in Tokyo Bay is a major location in the film. It belonged to Goro Maki, a zoologist who had been researching mutations as a result of nuclear waste being dumped into the ocean by the Americans. He had discovered Godzilla in its larval form decades ago, but was shunned and mocked by Japanese academia and had his work censured by the American government, and eventually committed suicide, leaving his research to be discovered by Yaguchi's team.
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Shin Godzilla / int_2e406a1	type	Hollywood Evolution
Shin Godzilla / int_2e406a1	comment	Hollywood Evolution: Godzilla's Adaptive Ability is often called "evolving", even though evolution only describes changes in a species as a whole and thus couldn't apply to a Single Specimen Species. If anything Godzilla's evolution is similar to a Pokémonnote In this context, Godzilla undergoes a different form whenever he's onscreen, similar to a how a Pokémon evolves through leveling or evolution stones, just not as horrific. Bizarrely, one scientist points out that lifeforms normally evolve through generational change, but the term continues to be used regardless.
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Shin Godzilla / int_2e9105e4	type	Power-Strain Blackout
Shin Godzilla / int_2e9105e4	comment	Power-Strain Blackout: After Godzilla first unleashes his Atomic Breath, the effect is so draining that he goes comatose for fifteen days.
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Shin Godzilla / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Shin Godzilla / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: As befitting a Hideaki Anno work, Shin Godzilla deconstructs several aspects of Godzilla and Kaiju films in general: The film takes an extensive look at how the Japanese government would actually struggle to deal with a Kaiju. Dealing with the sudden appearance of what could be a large, unidentified monster? That's nuts, it's probably just a chemical accident. Want to stop the monster before it can cause significant damage to the general area? Enjoy having to run through a series of Obstructive Bureaucrats before you can actually do anything. Think the JSDF can do anything about dealing with the monster? Careful, an evacuating citizen could get in the way and get killed while the creature is actually vulnerable. Want to call for the good ol' USA to save you? Sure, enjoy the substantial collateral damage that they'll bring. Think nukes are the solution to killing the monster when everything else has failed? Yeah, that'll really go over well with the people of Japan. The film gives us a horrifically realistic depiction of a giant monster created by nuclear radiation. With various physical deformities (see Body Horror above) similar to those of a radiation burn victim and how he appears to be in a constant state of pain, this Godzilla is what an enormous creature that's been exposed to large amounts of radiation could actually look like. Godzilla's atomic breath is deconstructed as well. In previous films Godzilla has used it repeatedly with no visible drawbacks. In this film though, using it (and his other beam attacks) drains him so much that he goes dormant and spends the next 15 days recharging his energy. And unlike previous films, it's shown irradiating the area, requiring decontamination efforts. We also see Godzilla's regenerative abilities taken to their logical conclusion. Blown off pieces of Godzilla are shown to continue regenerating independent of Godzilla himself, and the scientists speculate that they will eventually regenerate into more Godzillas, making Godzilla an even bigger threat than he already was. This also addresses for the first time (in any of the Japanese films) how Godzilla reproduces, as whenever Godzilla had a "son" in the previous films, said "son" hatched from an egg that just sort of appeared with no explanation (and no indication that it even came from Godzilla). Even Godzilla's name is deconstructed. Specifically the fact that it's different in Japan and America, something that's never been acknowledged in any of the Japanese films. The monster was first named in America, the English name "Godzilla" being given as a code name. The "God" part was inspired by the Japanese word "Gojira", meaning "God incarnate" (giving the name an in-universe meaning for the first time), referring to a violent god. It's from this that the Japanese start calling the monster "Gojira". As mentioned under Adaptational Villainy, the film serves as a reminder that Godzilla is an inherently destructive creature and effectively a living nuclear weapon. Because of him cities are destroyed, people are killed, and those that survive are left homeless and exposed to residual radiation from his atomic breath. Conversely, between being in constant pain from radiation burns and being under near constant assault from humans that want to kill him, the film also makes a point that Godzilla's existence is one of constant torment. His Villain Song "Who Will Know" emphasizes this as it presents us with Godzilla's perspective, revealing that he is indeed a tortured creature that's just trying to survive. The Return of Godzilla was the last film that showed us what the international response to Godzilla would be, which involved other countries wanting to use nuclear weapons to stop him and the Prime Minister being against it note His stated reasons are because Japan has a policy against nuclear weapons and because many people would be killed. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not mentioned and neither America or Russia are portrayed as particularly antagonistic. Shin Godzilla once again gives us an idea of what the international response to Godzilla would be today, only this time, America is depicted as a subtly antagonistic force, closer reflecting the actual sentiments of many Japanese people. And once again, the international powers (led by America) want to stop Godzilla by nuking him. Only this time, we get a more visceral depiction of how much the Japanese people are against it, and the underlying reasons why are directly acknowledged instead of left in the subtext. It also needs to be said that Shin Godzilla seems to be a subtle Take That! to The Return of Godzilla, or at the very least wanting to be the more realistic of the two. While in Return the use of nuclear weapons is stopped by the Japanese Prime Minister making an Armor-Piercing Question to the acting leaders of both the US and Russia, asking them if they would've used nuclear weapons had Godzilla attacked their countries; Shin makes the whole argument moot as America eventually states that yes, yes they would. note In Shin's case, the exact quote is if Godzilla had attacked New York.
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Shin Godzilla / int_3346eb29	type	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
Shin Godzilla / int_3346eb29	comment	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Godzilla's forms all generate massive amounts of blood. Its initial emergence ruptures the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, pouring in hundreds of gallons of blood. Its first form leaves an enormous trail of blood in Tokyo Bay before making landfall, and its second form spurts superheated blood from its gills every few steps. Later, after its fourth form is hit by the MOP bombs, it sprays out what seems to be a small tidal wave of blood from his back. Also, an unfinished deleted scene showed its third form vomiting up a torrent of blood that would have covered several city blocks.
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Shin Godzilla / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
Shin Godzilla / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: Yasuda initially scoffs at Ogashira's hypothesis of Godzilla running on nuclear fission, only to spook the research team office with a flabbergasted screaming fit when he reaches the same conclusion while she's trying to give information to Yaguchi. The reaction of the American ambassador when told that Godzilla not only has a weapon, but that it can shoot down stealth bombers.
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Shin Godzilla / int_38dade51	type	But Not Too Evil
Shin Godzilla / int_38dade51	comment	But Not Too Evil: It's shown that the Americans are not too keen with the prospect of having to nuke Japan yet again, but the nuclear option remains even after Godzilla is frozen. It helps that it is also explained that the decision was taken along with the UN and the movie makes it clear that either America or the UN at one point stated that they would resort to the nuclear option even if the attack had happened in American soil, so its Nothing Personal.
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Shin Godzilla / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Shin Godzilla / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The three scientists the PM confers with regarding Godzilla, after a fashion. Of course, the paleontologist thinks it might be a dinosaur, the marine biologist thinks it might be a marine animal, and the more generic biologist refuses to offer any speculation at all for fear of risking his scientific credibility.
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Shin Godzilla / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
Shin Godzilla / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: The film's soundtrack incorporates several original Akira Ifukube tracks from Godzilla (1954), Battle in Outer Space, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Terror of Mechagodzilla, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II. These tracks are new renditions of the 1995 music tracks from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Makes sense given Shiro Sagisu worked on Evangelion and Shin Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Shin Godzilla / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The movie ends with Godzilla being defeated by a chemical substance that greatly lowers his body temperature and completely freezes him solid. Unfortunately, it's left ambiguous whether he is truly dead or in suspended animation. If he does reawaken, the US government will have no option but to nuke Tokyo... and if that happens, it probably won't do a thing due to Godzilla feeding on radiation. Furthermore, even after being frozen, Godzilla is beginning to mutate yet again into another form, implying that he will soon become free. Regardless of Godzilla's fate, there is also the fact that the Prime Minister and his cabinet are dead, Tokyo is in ruins, and part of Japan has been rendered uninhabitable for months due to radiation.
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Shin Godzilla / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Shin Godzilla / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Godzilla is such an unprecedented situation that no existing protocols can be relied upon. The only government agents able to help are the ones willing to stick their necks out and risk doing something wrong for the sake of doing something right. Discussed: Kayako is talking to Cussley, presumably her father, that if she refuses to go along with America's efforts to nuke Godzilla, she would gravely hurt her chances of becoming President of the United States. Cussley also notes he's supposed to withdraw with the rest of the American personnel, but it's implied he decides to stay. The American military was supposed to withdraw for the bombing of Godzilla, but they instead assist the JSDF with drones and Marines for the final operation.
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Shin Godzilla / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Shin Godzilla / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Godzilla's atomic breath can be focused into a purple laser beam that fires from his mouth. It also shoots beams of energy from its spinal plates when confronted with more aerial attacks, and fires a beam from the end of its tail when the spinal beams' power is exhausted.
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Shin Godzilla / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
Shin Godzilla / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: A non-public domain example. The sound effects used by the JSDF's weapons and Godzilla's Atomic Breath, as well as many of the explosions and impacts, are taken straight out of the Showa films.
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Shin Godzilla / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Shin Godzilla / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Godzilla covers Tokyo entirely in flames by destroying everything with his Atomic Breath.
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Shin Godzilla / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Shin Godzilla / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Ogashira's reaction upon hearing that the United States plans to use a thermonuclear bomb to destroy Godzilla (and all of Tokyo with it).
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Shin Godzilla / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Shin Godzilla / int_504a1991	comment	The film gives us a horrifically realistic depiction of a giant monster created by nuclear radiation. With various physical deformities (see Body Horror above) similar to those of a radiation burn victim and how he appears to be in a constant state of pain, this Godzilla is what an enormous creature that's been exposed to large amounts of radiation could actually look like.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Shin Godzilla / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Toho logo is the modern version, then turns to the 1950s color logo to homage Gojira (1954)'s era, seen here.
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Shin Godzilla / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Shin Godzilla / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Godzilla returns to the ocean several times to prevent his body from overheating.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
Shin Godzilla / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: The ultimate form of Godzilla's atomic breath being a laser-focused beam that can cut through entire city blocks like a lightsaber is one of Hideaki Anno's trademarks from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Particularly when it starts firing from dozens of different points on Godzilla's body at once.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Shin Godzilla / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: While steady-cam footage is used predominantly throughout the movie, this format is also used throughout the movie—specifically, during sequences that show ordinary citizens fleeing from Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Shin Godzilla / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Tragedy and Consequences. One man's personal tragedy can affect the lives of others and not just himself. In fact, Goro Maki's tragedy started the entire plot of the film. The film does not sugarcoat how Maki was heavily affected by his wife's radiation sickness, but no one bothered to help him. To this end, his yacht was found empty, and it's heavily implied that he woke Godzilla. The consequence is a giant confused radioactive monstrosity that has no idea where it is.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Shin Godzilla / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Badass Bureaucrat: Rando Yaguchi, the Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, is ultimately put in charge of finding a way to stop Godzilla, and he succeeds by pumping Godzilla full of a coagulant. Kayoko Ann Patterson/Kayoco Anne Patterson, the American government's liaison, supports the research group Yaguchi leads from the get-go, and later severely jeopardizes her chances of becoming president by stalling the American/UN nuclear strike for as long as she can.
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Shin Godzilla / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Shin Godzilla / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: During a scene where the government officials are forced to evacuate after a US airstrike is launched in the area, Hiromi can be seen in the background calmly walking out of the room.
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Shin Godzilla / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Shin Godzilla / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: A rare heroic example. Most of the early distraction phase of Yaguchi's plan to kill Godzilla involves letting him destroy a vast number of unmanned vehicles, from drones to trains, signifying that the Japanese and American governments are done counting the economic cost of saving human lives.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Shin Godzilla / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The film ends with several frozen humanoid Godzillas emerging from Godzilla's tail, meaning as soon as Godzilla thaws, so will those things.
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Shin Godzilla / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Shin Godzilla / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: After Godzilla's first arrival in Tokyo, the Yaguchi team are reading Twitter posts about rising radiation levels. Look for the post from bakashinji, who uses Asuka as an avatar.
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Shin Godzilla / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
Shin Godzilla / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: It is discovered that chunks of flesh blown off Godzilla retain the main body's ability to rapidly regenerate, leading to concerns that they can grow into new Godzillas. At the end of the film, several emaciated Godzilla-like creatures are shown petrified while in the process of fissioning from Godzilla's tail. Early designs show Godzilla budding a second, nearly full-sized Godzilla from his back. Although this doesn't happen in the film itself, there's no sign that this would be impossible. In fact, he grows a second vestigial head on the end of his massive tail, possibly showing the process had begun but didn't finish.
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Shin Godzilla / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Shin Godzilla / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Yasuda initially scoffs at Hiromi's hypothesis that Godzilla may be running on some form of nuclear fission and asks if she's joking. In exactly the next scene, Yasuda can be heard screaming in confusion and terror, running from the opposite side of the research room to report his findings to Yaguchi who's already being briefed by Hiromi about this exact same conclusion. After a Beat, Yasuda briefly bows to Hiromi and apologizes.
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Shin Godzilla / int_698dcc45	type	Huddle Shot
Shin Godzilla / int_698dcc45	comment	Huddle Shot: Happens a few times, with the task force crowding around one side of the table◊.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6a492371	type	Truly Single Parent
Shin Godzilla / int_6a492371	comment	Truly Single Parent: Implied. Godzilla has a healing factor, and bits blown off of it continue to regenerate. They are thus destroyed for fear of regrowing into more Godzillas. A second method of reproduction-by-fission is later confirmed when numerous "Anthrozillas" are seen frozen in the process of prying themselves off of Godzilla's tail.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Shin Godzilla / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: For the first time ever, "Gojira" actually has a meaning; "God incarnate", according to Ohdo Island inhabitants.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Shin Godzilla / int_6c4ed101	comment	The Americans dropping bunker-busters on Godzilla only gave him the ability to use his iconic Breath Weapon, which he used to decimate entire cities instantly.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6f398193	type	Behemoth Battle
Shin Godzilla / int_6f398193	comment	Behemoth Battle: Averted for the first time since the 1985 film, being more of a reboot, ignoring the events of all other films.
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Shin Godzilla / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
Shin Godzilla / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: Kayoco Anne Patterson (Satomi Ishihara), the American envoy to Japan, is half-Japanese. Her loyalty primarily lies to the American government, even if she's facilitating things like searching for Goro Maki's research or as a go-between for the Japanese and American governments, and is more blunt and casual than the other Japanese characters—even asking Yaguchi if they can talk without honorifics or politeness, as she's unused to the levels of politeness common with Japan—but reasserts she won't let the Americans nuke her grandparents' country again, and is one of the reasons why the United Nations stalls their nuclear strike.
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Shin Godzilla / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Shin Godzilla / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: After a large chunk of Tokyo is absolutely destroyed and irradiated, taking a majority of the Japanese government out with it, the United Nations — headed by the Americans — all resolve to nuke Godzilla with the largest megaton bomb they have. Obviously, the Japanese have a big issue with this. It's also portrayed neutrally — American personnel make it clear they wouldn't be considering such a destructive action if Godzilla hadn't, y'know, destroyed Greater Tokyo and didn't pose a potentially international threat. Because the Japanese government has never anticipated something like Godzilla, there is no law to deal with the situation (e.g. by calling in the military when there's no foreign aggressor involved), requiring the Prime Minister to make extralegal decisions simply because the buck stops with him and It's the Only Way to deal with the crisis.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Shin Godzilla / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Do what you will", the Dying Message of Goro Maki found in the beginning of the film. Maki, hating the usage of nuclear technology, left behind the notes and data that, if properly interpreted and used, had the potential to neutralize Godzilla. Come the end of the film, humanity's only options left for stopping Godzilla were between Yaguchi's coagulant and nuking it, the latter option a prospect considered horrifying by many characters due to Japan's history with atomic weapons. Thus, Maki's words take on a whole new meaning.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Shin Godzilla / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Godzilla's first use of its Breath Weapon takes out one of the US bombers. It then destroys the other bombers with its spine beams, and then its next use of its mouth beam destroys several sections of the city that weren't already burning and the helicopter carrying the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet members.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Shin Godzilla / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Zigzagged. Godzilla was ultimately created by American nuclear waste dumped off the shores of Japan, but the film makes it clear that the Japanese had a major hand in it. The original scientist who had been studying Godzilla had his work censored by the American government to cover up the waste dumping, but Japanese academia laughed him out of scientific circles, and the government didn't give his wife adequate care for radiation sickness, leading to her death. The American government begins its bombing run on Godzilla early, forcing evacuations to speed up and head underground instead of out of the city as originally planned, but it's clear the timetable was moved up due to the extreme threat Godzilla posed. American forces also destroy or take precious samples needed for the splinter group of researchers, but the former was at least justifiable, as the Japanese forces were also purging any leftover remains on sight, due to the biohazard and stench. Finally, the United Nations—mostly led by the Americans—issue an ultimatum to nuke Godzilla with the highest-megaton bomb they have, obliterating Godzilla... and Tokyo and its environs, along with the possibility Godzilla might just reform and use the resulting fallout to get even angrier. It's stated that it's both a coverup to erase the mistake the Americans caused in the first place, and out of sheer desperation when UN estimations show a possibility of Godzilla going international (after Godzilla has already wiped half of Tokyo out). The American officials on-the-ground in Japan lament that the UN's timetable (two weeks) isn't enough to fully evacuate a massive city when the Japanese government is in shambles and resources are already tapped out, and when the research team successfully stalls the UN's timetable, the American military helps the operation by sending in a drone fleet to distract Godzilla and sending Marines and other ground forces to help the GSDF. It's also made clear that the Americans are being pressured into nuking the monster with the implied threat that if they don't do it themselves, Russia or China will.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Shin Godzilla / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: This film is comparable with Godzilla (1954)'s Early-Installment Weirdness for their portrayal of Godzilla. The first film treats Godzilla as a radioactive burn victim as he was an atomic bomb. In this film, Godzilla is treated as if he was hit by an actual bomb, making him look like an ant-walking alligator person (in his case, monster) while being a living nuclear reactor. Unlike previous films — including the first and Legendary — being Godzilla is not a pretty sight to behold.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
Shin Godzilla / int_7d152a2d	comment	Agent Mulder: Rando is the only Cabinet member to dare believe that a monster caused the Aqua-Line collapse. At first, he gets ridiculed for it. Then, the creature's tail shows up on the news◊.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Shin Godzilla / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In both fronts actually: Godzilla once again is depicted as this: He was a simple creature that happened to become mutated into the monstrosity we see now, but his leitmotif "Who Will Know" heavily implies this further with its lyrics, indicating him being a gigantic monstrosity was not even his choice to begin with. The film heavily implies Goro Maki as this. He's a simple scientist who found Godzilla in 1956. However circumstances heavily weighed on him, such as his discovery of Godzilla being mocked, shunned, and censored. The final straw was the death of his wife via radiation sickness. The fact that the Godzillalings emerging from Godzilla's tail indicates that he merged with the creature, since the tip of Godzilla's tail has a malformed face with a blue eye.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Shin Godzilla / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Prime Minister calls off the helicopter gunship attack on hearing that civilians are still in the area. By the time the attack is launched, Godzilla has evolved into a form that is Nigh-Invulnerable. The Americans dropping bunker-busters on Godzilla only gave him the ability to use his iconic Breath Weapon, which he used to decimate entire cities instantly. Due to the politicians convincing the Prime Minister to evacuate during said attack, he and his cabinet end up getting killed when Godzilla's Atomic Breath blasts their helicopter.
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Shin Godzilla / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Shin Godzilla / int_7fbe9a30	comment	When Ogashira hypothesizes that Gojira is fueled by nuclear fission, Yasuda laughs and dismisses her idea as preposterous. When she quietly shows Yaguchi proof of her theory, which was also supported by on-site nuclear experts, Yasuda is in the background having a loud Freak Out as he comes to the same realization, before presenting it to his coworker. He then brings "his" finding to Yaguchi, who says to all of them that Ogashira was right. Yasuda at least gives her an apology.
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Shin Godzilla / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Shin Godzilla / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode:invoked Meta-example. Despite being the bleakest Godzilla film since the original, the film serves as a palette cleanser to both Hideaki Anno and Studio Khara after the former's Creator Breakdown while making the even darker EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO..
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Shin Godzilla / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Shin Godzilla / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Something that's actually tried, but ultimately to no effect. The JSDF's attempts of attacking Godzilla focus attacks on its head and legs, but nothing comes of it.
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Shin Godzilla / int_854601b3	type	Government Procedural
Shin Godzilla / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: The film primarily focuses on how the Japanese Cabinet responds to a sudden, unprecedented crisis. Most of the main characters are bureaucrats or politicians, and a lot of time is spent in meetings, press conferences, and consultations.
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Shin Godzilla / int_88e1831d	type	Vast Bureaucracy
Shin Godzilla / int_88e1831d	comment	Vast Bureaucracy: The Japanese government is portrayed as extremely slow and inefficient, requiring a meeting to do absolutely anything, even having meetings that conclude with the decision to have another meeting. Notably, this isn't shown to be the fault of any particular Obstructive Bureaucrat, but a general tendency to do nothing as to save face. Several times, the government members get annoyed at the fact they'd have to go through legal channels, waste time on pointless meetings, or have zero experience with, well, a rampaging monster.
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Shin Godzilla / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Shin Godzilla / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: The US Special Envoy's name is spelled as "Kayako Ann Patterson" in interviews and articles, but "Kayaco Anne Patterson" in the film itself. Odo Island is spelled "Ohdo" Island in Funimation's subtitles.
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Shin Godzilla / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Shin Godzilla / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Yaguchi's task force is composed of an assortment of people who are highly skilled in their areas, but who generally lack an adherence to decorum and procedure that would allow them to get ahead in their respective departments. However, because of that, they're the people actually dedicated to getting stuff done.
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Shin Godzilla / int_8eb3d48f	type	Revisiting the Roots
Shin Godzilla / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: Like the 1954 film, this is a Disaster Movie with overtones of Horror.
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Shin Godzilla / int_8f842f45	type	Multiple Head Case
Shin Godzilla / int_8f842f45	comment	Multiple Head Case: Close-up photos of the maquette reveal that Godzilla has a grotesquely malformed vestigial head on the tip of his tail. He can fire his Atomic Breath from it as well as his own mouth. Furthermore, the film ends on several skeletal humanoid Godzillas frozen in the midst of emerging from the tail's tip, suggesting that Godzilla reproduces through his tail. Concept art reveals that several designs for Godzilla that were suggested had him with another smaller head (and arm) sprouting from his neck, implying he was some sort of grotesque mutant or undergoing the equivalent of mitosis.
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Shin Godzilla / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Shin Godzilla / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The film does what the original film did: depict Godzilla as a horribly scarred and victimized mutant, not a choice of his own. His mutations are a result of a radioactive dumping, resulting in large keloid scars seen on the burn victims of the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And speaking of which, the Japanese are terrified at the prospect of the UN using a nuke to kill Godzilla, reopening the wounds of the past that plagued the country several decades ago.
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Shin Godzilla / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Shin Godzilla / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: One of the franchise's only recurring characters, Goro Maki, returns after a decades-long absence- though this time in a posthumous role as a scientist rather than a reporter. Still sticking his nose where he shouldn't though.
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Shin Godzilla / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Shin Godzilla / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Averted throughout the movie, most notable in the first battle scene against Godzilla where everything, from machine gun fire to heavy artillery, manages to hit Godzilla with pin-point accuracy (not that it'd be that easy to miss), though this being a Godzilla film, it doesn't do much good.
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Shin Godzilla / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Shin Godzilla / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: This is an actual complete reboot that doesn't connect with the first film, as previous movies have.
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Shin Godzilla / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Shin Godzilla / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Japanese government and Kayoco upon learning the U.S. government plans to nuke Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Shin Godzilla / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Completely averted in an early scene. The JDF are armed and ready to take down a much weaker and smaller Godzilla, and it seems that at this stage they might have a chance. Then one of the pilots spots a civilian carrying someone on his back still in the area, and the helicopters back off and return to base. As shown by the rest of this movie, following this trope in this instance backfires horribly.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Shin Godzilla / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Godzilla has a massive mouth lined with needle-sharp fangs, evocative of deep-sea fish. Some of them actually grow from the skin outside of his mouth.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Shin Godzilla / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Careful study of Godzilla reveals that he's essentially a living atomic reactor, and one of the most feasible (and in the loosest sense of the term, safest) ways of neutralizing him is to overload his capacity to channel energy, burning him out. Unfortunately, given how ineffective conventional bombardments have been on him (a massive aerial raid just puts him into brief stasis to cool himself off), the only weapons capable of forcing him into critical mass are nuclear warheads; an option despised by the Japanese for obvious reasons and attractive to the other countries of the world because at the rate Godzilla is mutating, he may soon be capable of flight, making him an international menace.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Shin Godzilla / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Considering the third form Godzilla was never attacked by those first four choppers, it seems unnecessary for the fourth version it turned into later to bother adapting to resist the JSDF's arsenal, doesn't it? Prominently, not only are bullets and missiles shown harmlessly bouncing off and exploding against Godzilla, but state-of-the-badass-art JDAM bombs bounce off with a harmless chink sound before exploding. Only US Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs deal damage to Godzilla. . . and that just pisses him off.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
Shin Godzilla / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: Godzilla was empowered by nuclear waste instead of nuclear weapons in this continuity.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Shin Godzilla / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: The final shot of the movie shows petrified humanoid creatures growing off of Godzilla's tail, indicating that this is only the beginning of the threat of Godzilla. The movie also makes it clear that the United Nations will deploy its plan to nuke Godzilla—and, by proxy, Tokyo and the surrounding cities—once he starts moving.
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Shin Godzilla / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Shin Godzilla / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: A theme heard during Godzilla's initial coming ashore in Shinagawa is later reprised as Under a Burning Sky during the Yashiori Strategy at the film's climax. As mentioned prior, variations of the Evangelion franchise's "Decisive Battle" are used multiple times throughout the film as the Anti-Godzilla organization's theme.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
Shin Godzilla / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: Godzilla's focused Atomic Breath is purple/violet rather than blue or red, and is powerful enough to slice through skyscrapers in seconds. As he begins to charge it up, his dorsal fins glow (as per usual) in purple, and the red glow under this version's skin changes to purple.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Shin Godzilla / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Shin" can be written using different kanji characters, and thus can mean literally anything from "progress", to "humility", "advance", "gentleman", "heart", or even "belief", to name a few. The three meanings emphasized by Anno are "new", "true", and "god".
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Shin Godzilla / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Shin Godzilla / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: A staple power of Godzilla's, but with a deadly twist. When the scientists discover Godzilla's cells continue to grow exponentially even detached from his body, it raises the possibility that Godzilla can reproduce asexually. This raises Godzilla from a city destroyer to a potential extinction level threat, with one scientist theorizing a horde of rapidly reproducing Godzillas could destroy the world within months. It's this apocalypse scenario that motivates other nations to press for the use of nuclear weaponry.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Shin Godzilla / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Even as an infant, Godzilla was a fatal nightmare for Japan even when all he could do was roam around densely populated areas, shake his neck around so that the blood will come out and stop irritating him, and basically grow.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Shin Godzilla / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Averted with the military for the first time. In the previous films (including Godzilla (2014)), the military forces tend to be way too close to the monster they're facing, and they often get smashed or blasted within the monster's reach. In this film, they were a good distance away from Godzilla as he advances, shooting him from realistic ranges for the types of weapons being deployed. He still defeats them by kicking a bridge in the Tama River battle, but at least they have the sense to retreat when the odds were so against them.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a7129d3b	type	First World Problems
Shin Godzilla / int_a7129d3b	comment	First World Problems: Done intentionally after Godzilla kills the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet members. The first shot of the new Prime Minister shows him grumbling about how his noodles are soggy, indicating how unsuited he actually is for the role.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a87b7e81	type	Scenery Dissonance
Shin Godzilla / int_a87b7e81	comment	Scenery Dissonance: Unlike the original Godzilla and The Return of Godzilla, the majority of Godzilla's attacks are during daylight hours. Only one scene is set at night, to highlight the intensity of its rays.
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Shin Godzilla / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Shin Godzilla / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Every character so far, save Hiromi Ogashira, loses their nerves when the US decides to use a nuclear bomb on Godzilla. If you know your history class, you know exactly whynote This includes the nuclear accident in 1954 when the US tested a hydrogen bomb and a fishing boat called the Daigo Fukuryū Maru was accidentally caught in its explosive burst, and led to the creation of Godzilla (1954) in real life.
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Shin Godzilla / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Shin Godzilla / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Godzilla is completely unfazed by the barrage from tanks, launchers and helicopters. In other words, Godzilla is invincible to most human weaponry. It takes American GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to injure him, and it's presumed (perhaps incorrectly) that a nuclear weapon could completely kill the creature.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Shin Godzilla / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: The United Nations comes to the conclusion that the only way to get rid of Godzilla is to throw a nuke at it. Thankfully, Patterson delays their decision long enough to let the people of Japan find another way to stop the monster.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Shin Godzilla / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Played with in terms of origami, the art of creating shapes through paper folding. One of the teammembers in Rando's group has been studying the mapped lines compiled by Goro Maki's data, remembers the paper crane that had left behind on Maki's yacht, and realizes that the lines could allow the paper to be folded in various ways to point towards a method of stopping Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Shin Godzilla / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Prime Minister during the initial press conference about Godzilla when he finds out that what he just told the press, that Godzilla couldn't come onto land and survive, was just proven false within seconds of him saying it. note At the time he made the announcement, the Prime Minister is made aware that under its then current state, Godzilla would not be able to survive outside water. However, he was warned that this was not an absolute certainty and that he should refrain to announce it as such. The problem lay in the fact that he ran out of things to say, and when put on the spot, he opted to run with it.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
Shin Godzilla / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: After discovering that existing laws and procedures may not allow for deployment of the JSDF against Godzilla, among other gaps in the response, the Prime Minister is pushed to declare a state of emergency that would allow extraordinary measures to be taken. Even then, mention is made of special legislation being rushed through the Diet.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ad3a96f5	type	It's the Only Way
Shin Godzilla / int_ad3a96f5	comment	Because the Japanese government has never anticipated something like Godzilla, there is no law to deal with the situation (e.g. by calling in the military when there's no foreign aggressor involved), requiring the Prime Minister to make extralegal decisions simply because the buck stops with him and It's the Only Way to deal with the crisis.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Shin Godzilla / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: An in-universe example. As in the original film, Godzilla is named after the malevolent sea-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Odo Island.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
Shin Godzilla / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: The Japanese government is more preoccupied with appearing to be in control of the situation, rather than actually being in control of the situation. As such, most of their actions before Godzilla vaporizes the PM's cabinet always come one step too late.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b50504d	type	Creepily Long Arms
Shin Godzilla / int_b50504d	comment	Creepily Long Arms: Inverted. This Godzilla has arms that are rather thin and short, even withered. This prevents Godzilla from being portrayed using a conventional suit.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Shin Godzilla / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Toho made a few playful ones toward Godzilla (2014) in advertising the film, noting that they needed to make a Godzilla movie free from the influence of foreign studio. It should still be noted that Toho were still big fans of the 2014 film, which would be the primary reason that they chose to revive the franchise. The film makes a point of showing at the personal level how the Japanese government responds to the notion of being nuked again by the Americans, even when it's a non-hostile effort. Some officials are driven to the point of tears from the anguish, shame and helplessness surging from the very thought. Even seven decades after the fact, the horror of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still looms, ever present.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Shin Godzilla / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Unlike previous Godzilla films (including American remakes), attacking Godzilla on-site required approval as long as civilians are not present. In previous films, the military has a bad case of Leeroy Jenkins-level of attacking while major cities are in the middle of evacuating. This is what screwed things over as far as the original film: Godzilla was actively destroying everything and the military was so busy attacking him, 2/3 of Tokyo's population were either dead or dying.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b5c562be	type	Face Framed in Shadow
Shin Godzilla / int_b5c562be	comment	Face Framed in Shadow: The US poster greatly darkens Godzilla, almost completely obscuring its eye and giving this effect.
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Shin Godzilla / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Shin Godzilla / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Goro Maki has been the name of two characters in previous Godzilla continuities: a character in Son of Godzilla, and the main character of The Return of Godzilla. His function here seems like a Shadow Archetype to Dr. Serizawa of the original Gojira - horrified by the destructive potential of WMDs, but instead of using one against Godzilla, the research team speculates he helped awaken Godzilla both both as revenge against the Japanese government and academia for ruining his career and denying his wife aid for radiation sickness, and to test humanity.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Shin Godzilla / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: One running theme is the danger of this trope. Goro Maki's initial findings were both laughed out of Japan and covered up in the United States. Both of these would lead to the world being unprepared for Gojira, but these same issues kept coming into play, because these tropes are still relevant in workplace culture, despite Yaguchi staffing his team specifically to counter this trope: When Ogashira hypothesizes that Gojira is fueled by nuclear fission, Yasuda laughs and dismisses her idea as preposterous. When she quietly shows Yaguchi proof of her theory, which was also supported by on-site nuclear experts, Yasuda is in the background having a loud Freak Out as he comes to the same realization, before presenting it to his coworker. He then brings "his" finding to Yaguchi, who says to all of them that Ogashira was right. Yasuda at least gives her an apology. When the suggestion is made to study tissue samples, the team is immediately told that the Americans have already confiscated them.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
Shin Godzilla / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: For the first time in a Japanese Godzilla film, Godzilla is mostly portrayed through motion capture and CG animation, though a few scenes utilize a massive puppet.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c180f1cb	comment	Advertising by Association: The Funimation trailer for the film touts it as being "from the creator of Evangelion. "
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Shin Godzilla / int_c2b4b3e2	type	Suit with Vested Interests
Shin Godzilla / int_c2b4b3e2	comment	Suit with Vested Interests: About 90% of the PM's cabinet function as this, as it's composed of stuffy bureaucrats and career-driven company men who are unjustifiably skeptical and out of their element when dealing with the mass disaster of Godzilla's presence.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Shin Godzilla / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Plenty: While discussing about Godzilla and his name, he was called "Godzilla" by the Americans in this film before being called "Gojira". In the previous two non-Toho films, the monster was referred as "Gojira" first before being called "Godzilla". The politicians convinced the Prime Minister and his cabinet to evacuate during Godzilla's climatic attack, saying he couldn't afford to die if Godzilla came to their location. Godzilla never went near the cabinet's headquarters, but instead, his Breath Weapon destroyed the Prime Minister's evacuation helicopter. Toho made Godzilla 2000 due to negative response to the first American attempt. This film was made out of the positive response to Godzilla (2014), considering Toho, Kenpachiro Satsuna, and Haruo Nakajima greatly loved the film. As an added bonus, Satsuna despised the first American film as he stated the monster lacked the spirit. Longtime Godzilla producer Shogo Tomiyama renamed the American character "Zilla", because the American film "Took the 'God' out of Godzilla". In contrast, this film not only has God in the character's American name, the Japanese name is derived from a (fictional) God, and one of the meanings of "Shin" in the title is God.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
Shin Godzilla / int_c34a1799	comment	The film takes an extensive look at how the Japanese government would actually struggle to deal with a Kaiju. Dealing with the sudden appearance of what could be a large, unidentified monster? That's nuts, it's probably just a chemical accident. Want to stop the monster before it can cause significant damage to the general area? Enjoy having to run through a series of Obstructive Bureaucrats before you can actually do anything. Think the JSDF can do anything about dealing with the monster? Careful, an evacuating citizen could get in the way and get killed while the creature is actually vulnerable. Want to call for the good ol' USA to save you? Sure, enjoy the substantial collateral damage that they'll bring. Think nukes are the solution to killing the monster when everything else has failed? Yeah, that'll really go over well with the people of Japan.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Shin Godzilla / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: As Godzilla's fourth form approaches central Tokyo, it's confronted by multiple JSDF forces, who were given orders not to attack his body to avoid possibly causing a radiation leak. The helicopters barrage its head with machine guns and missiles, the tanks go for both its head and legs, and the planes drop bombs on its head. None of these attacks so much as scratch Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Shin Godzilla / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Hooray, the military actually got a good hit on Godzilla! Everything should start getting better, right? Wrong. Godzilla unleashes its atomic breath, incinerating a huge chunk of Tokyo in the process, and takes out the bombers and most of the Cabinet at once through its spine beams and the focused laser-like version of its atomic breath.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Shin Godzilla / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: More like "Japan Saves the Day", so it's downplayed from a Japanese perspective. Even as it becomes clear Godzilla poses a threat to the entire Earth, any attempts spearheaded by countries outside Japan fail and make things worse. The US (who accidentally created Godzilla and covered up its existence until it attacked) are the only one able to injure Godzilla, but this just makes it much more destructive. The UN then decide to resort to nuclear weapons, which would destroy more than Godzilla had and has the obvious potential to go very, very wrong, making the rest of the film a Race Against the Clock. Ultimately the best solution comes from the Japanese-led task force made to deal with Godzilla in the first place, but they end up needing a lot of support from outside countries.In total Germany provides computers to analyze Godzilla's DNA faster, numerous world experts join Yaguchi's task force to get the coagulant to work despite Godzilla's Bizarre Alien Biology, France uses their pull at the UN to delay the nuclear bombing by one critical day, Shanghai provides trucks for the coagulant, and the US both assists with pre-operation recon and fields UAVs to waste Godzilla's energy and distract him while some Marines work with the JSDF in the suicide mission.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c60a9136	type	Ultimate Life Form
Shin Godzilla / int_c60a9136	comment	Ultimate Life Form: Godzilla is several times described as a perfect lifeform far beyond mankind, as the scientists studying him discover he has eight times more DNA information than human beings, and may continue evolving. Although, as noted under Artistic License – Biology, this isn't really all that impressive.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c7a80503	type	Burn Scars, Burning Powers
Shin Godzilla / int_c7a80503	comment	Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Godzilla is a gigantic monster who's basically a living nuclear reactor and is able to fire a plasma beam from his mouth and also from his tail and back as well. Despite his immense size and power, however, Godzilla has an extremely sickly and cancerous look, not unlike the burns of people exposed to fire or radiation. He appears to be in constant pain, dripping blood and body parts everywhere, his charred skin covered in open wounds and glowing red keloid scars.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Shin Godzilla / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License – Chemistry: Operation Yashiori was a plan to pump Godzilla full of a coagulant in order to cool Godzilla down. It's also stated that Godzilla's blood is a cooling mechanism for his radioactive heart. If Godzilla is a walking nuclear reactor, and his blood is the cooling mechanism, then using a coagulant to stop Godzilla's blood from cooling Godzilla would result in Godzilla overheating, not freezing. Granted, that was the point: since they also knew that Godzilla could adapt to any situation that could bring it harm, they were counting on Godzilla's body to respond to his blood failing to cool his overheating reactor by shutting its body down in response.
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Shin Godzilla / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Shin Godzilla / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: During his engagement with the JSDF, Godzilla pauses before turning away from its original path. The JSDF commanders and politicians think it's a sign the defense is working. Cue Godzilla walking over to the bridge the JSDF HQ is by and then kicking said bridge on top of the HQ. It promptly resumes its journey to Tokyo's heart.
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Shin Godzilla / int_cad6fc25	type	Desolation Shot
Shin Godzilla / int_cad6fc25	comment	Desolation Shot: Several scenes showing the devastation left by Godzilla's forms are shown. Yaguchi takes a moment to pray at one such location created by its second form, and one of the last scenes from the "atomic breath" sequence is a long shot showing how widespread and enormous the damage to Tokyo is as Godzilla vents the last of his fire before going dormant.
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Shin Godzilla / int_cb3adcb7	type	Kill It with Ice
Shin Godzilla / int_cb3adcb7	comment	Kill It with Ice: The other solution humanity comes up with to deal with Godzilla is to essentially freeze him, dousing the fiery core of his being and preventing him from evolving any further. An ideal alternative to the above with the caveat that due to the open conditions of his environment (read: the outside), the only way this plan could ever work on a creature his size is if he were to ingest a lot of the freezing agent.
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Shin Godzilla / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Shin Godzilla / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: As a nod to the film that started it all, the title character is the sole Big Bad.
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Shin Godzilla / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Shin Godzilla / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The December 2015 teaser only showed people running from Godzilla without showing Godzilla himself.
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Shin Godzilla / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Shin Godzilla / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The marketing gave quite a bit of focus to Godzilla's height. This Godzilla is the tallest yet, at 118 meters, scooping the title from the 2014 Godzilla, who was 108 meters. Given his similar build and proportions, this makes him roughly thirteen times larger by volume than the 50 meter tall Showa Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Shin Godzilla / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Let's be honest: no one would believe that a monster caused the flood. Least of all the Prime Minister of Japan (or, you know, any world leader). The first person to seriously suggest it's a sea monster — even after Japanese social media has been abuzz with it — is curtly told to stop making jokes. In the aftermath, the Japanese government has no idea how to handle a rampaging sea monster because this sort of thing doesn't happen.
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Shin Godzilla / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: Invoked when government officials believe the young Godzilla will be unable to support its weight on dry land, only for it to make landfall during a press conference where they insist it can only stay in the water.
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Shin Godzilla / int_d4fbe5c4	type	Delegation Relay
Shin Godzilla / int_d4fbe5c4	comment	Delegation Relay: Partly through bureaucratic buck-passing, but also because there are no laws to cover the situation, a lot of decisions keep being passed up to the Prime Minister because he's the only one who can make such extralegal decisions.
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Shin Godzilla / int_d8827578	type	Alternate Character Reading
Shin Godzilla / int_d8827578	comment	Alternate Character Reading: Invoked. The reason the word "shin" is left untranslated is because it has so many different meanings in Japanese, all of which are applicable.
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Shin Godzilla / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
Shin Godzilla / int_dc6a260b	comment	Rando Yaguchi getting an increasingly-long list of titles as he takes on more responsibilities, since he's about the only cabinet member actively doing something.
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Shin Godzilla / int_dd01736e	type	One-Eyed Shot
Shin Godzilla / int_dd01736e	comment	One-Eyed Shot: The very first shot of Godzilla's second form is one of its eyes as its head plows through a building, just before the entire creature is shown.
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Shin Godzilla / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Shin Godzilla / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. This version of Godzilla, at least in its fourth form, is completely covered in red and black keloid scars, but while it looks malevolent and causes enormous damage and loss of life, it is mainly just a mutated monstrostity that could be mindlessly wandering around and reacts to things that harm it.
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Shin Godzilla / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Shin Godzilla / int_e2c4b927	comment	Even Godzilla's name is deconstructed. Specifically the fact that it's different in Japan and America, something that's never been acknowledged in any of the Japanese films. The monster was first named in America, the English name "Godzilla" being given as a code name. The "God" part was inspired by the Japanese word "Gojira", meaning "God incarnate" (giving the name an in-universe meaning for the first time), referring to a violent god. It's from this that the Japanese start calling the monster "Gojira".
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Shin Godzilla / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Shin Godzilla / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: Done with explosive-laden bullet trains!
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Shin Godzilla / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Shin Godzilla / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: To a certain extent, Hiromi and Kayoco have similarities to Evangelion's Rei and Asuka. Goro Maki's origins in this film is similar to another misanthropic scientist of the franchise: Shinji Mafune of Terror of Mechagodzilla. The only difference is that Maki was driven by despair after the death of his wife, and left significant information about Godzilla while Mafune hates humanity so much, he joined forces with the Black Hole aliens to destroy humanity. Their significant discovery, at the time, were ground-breaking, but were flatly ignored. Thus their cynicism.
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Shin Godzilla / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Shin Godzilla / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: Brought up at the end of the film, when it's discovered that the radioactive isotopes in Godzilla only have a half-life of twenty days, meaning even the places irradiated the most in his rampage will be safe for habitation in a few short years.
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Shin Godzilla / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Shin Godzilla / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Characters attempt to invoke and exploit this early on by reading Japan's military conventions, to see if there's any specific wording that would allow for deployment against Godzilla. As part of the film's Deconstructor Fleet, it doesn't work.
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Shin Godzilla / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
Shin Godzilla / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: Toho decided to use this to help promote the movie. How? By announcing a crossover movie between Godzilla and Neon Genesis Evangelion (which makes sense, as Hideaki Anno directed the latter). While it obviously turned out too good to be true, Toho is at least selling tickets with special artwork featuring both Godzilla and EVA Unit-01 and merchandising mashing up the two properties such as Godzilla versions of the NERV logo, Heisei Godzilla in Unit-01's colors, and action figures of the Millennium Mechagodzilla painted in the colors of EVA-01 and EVA-02. For 2017, Toho announced a special Godzilla smartphone: A large figurine of Kamata-kun with a phone embedded in its belly. 2018's was a Shin Godzilla roller coaster in downtown Tokyo built along the spine and tail of a gigantic statue of Godzilla.
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Shin Godzilla / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Shin Godzilla / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: As part of the marketing for the film, a crossover film with Neon Genesis Evangelion was teased as an April Fools joke. However, an image featuring Unit-01 and Shin-Godzilla standing back-to-back was featured on the official website (before being moved to its own website), alongside Godzilla-themed renditions of NERV's emblem. As part of the crossover promotion, S.H.MonsterArts produced models of Kiryu painted in Unit-01's and Unit-02's colors, Heisei Godzilla in Unit-01's colours, and a grotesque fusion of Godzilla and Unit-01, among other merchandise. Eventually an actual "Godzilla vs Evangelion" crossover would happen in the form of Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D for 2019's "Universal Cool Japan" event at Universal Studios Japan. Besides the Godzilla/Evangelion merchandising, a crossover special between Shin Godzilla and Crayon Shin-chan aired in July, 2016.
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Shin Godzilla / int_f1d38725	type	Engrish
Shin Godzilla / int_f1d38725	comment	Engrish: Kayoco Anne Patterson's dossier is full of typos and grammatical mistakes, such as calling her an "it" and not putting verbs in the past tense. Her first name is also a case of this, as translated from hiragana it should be "Kayoko" — and many articles reporting on the film spell it as such. In the Japanese language version, Kayoco's own English is quite obviously not her first language, making her character slightly difficult to take seriously (to an English-speaking audience, at least).
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Shin Godzilla / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
Shin Godzilla / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "Japan vs. Godzilla", as seen in katatana in the original poster. An alternate poster uses this tagline as an Alternate Character Reading for kanji translating to "Reality vs. Fiction". Funimation's English-language release uses "A god incarnate. A city doomed.",
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Shin Godzilla / int_f7ef954e	type	Metamorphosis Monster
Shin Godzilla / int_f7ef954e	comment	Metamorphosis Monster: This iteration of Godzilla has four forms that he mutates into. The first form, compared to a tadpole, is unseen in the film itself aside from its tail, but is important to the movie's backstory. The second form is a yellow, lizard-like creature with pronounced gills and stumps where its arms should be. The third form is a red lizard-like creature that stands upright and has greater mobility, its stumps developing into stunted hands. The fourth form is pictured above, and it has the greatest amount of screentime out of any of these. The fifth form (as explained in the concept art book) is composed of the numerous humanoid creatures emerging from the tail.
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Shin Godzilla / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Shin Godzilla / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The Prime Minister's whole cabinet repeatedly changing meeting offices for no reason in particular, basically to simulate a notion of "taking action", which actually amounts to nothing but time wasting. Basically, especially near the beginning, they learn of a new development that makes the meeting they're currently having moot, so they adjourn that meeting to convene a new meeting about this new development, usually moving from the conference room to the PM's office or back. Rando Yaguchi getting an increasingly-long list of titles as he takes on more responsibilities, since he's about the only cabinet member actively doing something.
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Shin Godzilla / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Shin Godzilla / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: The international title (Godzilla: Resurgence) sounds like Revenge of the Sequel, but the film is a Continuity Reboot to before Godzilla had ever been seen before. Presumably, this is part of the reason Funimation changed the title to Shin Godzilla, at Toho's request, when distributing the film to international theaters.
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Shin Godzilla / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Shin Godzilla / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: One translation of the title is God Godzilla (the reason for which is listed under "Double Meaning Title"). Even more redundant with Godzilla's name i.e. "God God Incarnate". Looks like Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi took a page from Akira Toriyama...
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Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Giant Equals Invincible / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Government Procedural / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Head-in-the-Sand Management / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Ignored Expert / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Instantly Proven Wrong / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Internal Reformist / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Kaiju Works / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Kitchen Sink Included / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Laser Cutter / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Legendary Carp / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Mainlining the Monster / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Metamorphosis Monster / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Militaries Are Useless / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Monster Organ Trafficking / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Monstrous Mandibles / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Multiple Reference Pun / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Newbie Boom / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Non-Malicious Monster / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Nuclear Mutant / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Nuclear Nasty / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Nuke 'em / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Oddball in the Series / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Orochi / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Outside-Context Problem / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Purple Is Powerful / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Red and Black and Evil All Over / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Rei Ayanami Expy / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Reluctant Ruler / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Retraux / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Revisiting the Roots / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	So Bad, It Was Better / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Square-Cube Law / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Technicolor Fire / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	The Great Fire / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	The Kingslayer / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	The Tokyo Fireball / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	The Worm Guy / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	This Cannot Be! / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Throat Light / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Tragic Monster / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Translation Nod / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Ultimate Life Form / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Walking Wasteland / int_c17ac72a
Shin Godzilla	hasFeature	Wall of Text / int_c17ac72a

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