Godzilla (MonsterVerse)

"We call him... Gojira."

- Dr. Serizawa

"Nature has an order. A Power to restore balance. I believe he is that power."

- Serizawa on Godzilla

Godzilla is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Ford Brody) of the 2014 film of the same name and its upcoming 2019 sequel. He is a version of Godzilla who hunts the M.U.T.O.s.

Godzilla
In the film, Godzilla is a prehistoric amphibious monster who fed off of Earth's natural radiation. Over the years, however, as the radiation emitted from the planet gradually declined, Godzilla retreated to the ocean depths, where it could absorb radiation from the Earth's core. For an incredibly long, albeit unknown amount of time, Godzilla remained dormant in the ocean, until 1954, when he was awakened by a nuclear submarine.

After being discovered, the U.N. tried to keep him secret and destroy him with atom bombs under guise of nuclear testing, all of which failed to do so. An organization called "MONARCH" was then tasked with keeping him secret and studying him.

However in 2014, one of his ancient enemies, known by humans as M.U.T.O., hatches after 15 years of absorbing nuclear radiation from a power plant in Japan. Godzilla begins listening as the M.U.T.O. lets out a mating cry to his recently hatched female counterpart, and attacks the creature as he is laying waste to a Hawaiian airport, though the M.U.T.O. escapes by flying away.

After this, Godzilla retreats into the ocean once again, hunting the M.U.T.O.s while they're lured to San Francisco with a nuclear warhead by the American military. Godzilla surfaces just before hitting the Golden Gate Bridge, and the military opens fire with tanks and gunfire. This has little to no effect, however, and Godzilla descends into the ocean once again, but not before clearing his path by destroying the bridge.

Godzilla surfaces once again in San Francisco to confront the recently arrived male M.U.T.O., and the two battle all the way into the night, while a bomb disposal squad led by Ford Brody is sent in via HALO jump to defuse the bomb that was placed to lure the M.U.T.O.s to San Francisco. Shortly after their arrival, the female M.U.T.O. arrives, and both creatures take on Godzilla, who is quickly overwhelmed by the two of them.

Before either of them can kill Godzilla however, they're distracted by Brody, who destroyed the female's recently-laid egg sacs. While the female is distracted by Brody, Godzilla rises up again and pummels her with his atomic breath. Before he can finish her off, the male M.U.T.O attacks Godzilla once more, but Godzilla fights back and manages to kill it by slamming it into a skyscraper with his tail. The impact, however, brings the entire building down on Godzilla, and he collapses to his hands and knees, extremely weak. He briefly looks Brody in the eyes, before being consumed by smoke and debris.

Brody then escapes to the pier, where the rest of his unit is trying to send the bomb out into the ocean where it can detonate without risk of fallout hitting the city. The female MUTO, still alive from her encounter with Godzilla, follows the radiation and kills the rest of the squad, leaving Brody alone to send the boat out to sea with the bomb. As the MUTO closes in on the bomb and Brody, Godzilla emerges from behind, grabbing her and blasting her in the mouth with his atomic breath, making her neck explode, before tearing her head off and letting it fall into the water.

With both MUTOs killed, Godzilla then collapses from exhaustion in the city, seemingly dead. When morning comes, however, Godzilla rises up from the ashes around him and lets out a triumphant roar as the humans below cheer and applaud for their supposed "savior", proclaiming him "King of the Monsters." With both of his enemies dead and with balance in nature restored, Godzilla descends back into the ocean to become dormant once again.

Godzilla 2
Editing begins after the film is released.

Godzilla vs. Kong
Editing begins after the film is released.

Personality
Unlike his more aggressive incarnations whom often at odds with humanity, this version of Godzilla had no interest with humanity nor having any malicious intentions toward them: Instead, he prefer to avoid any confrontations with their military forces and chooses to spare them once his business with M.U.T.O.s done as seen in the end of the film. Not only that, he also noticeably less destructive if compared with other incarnations and also attempted not to provoke human military forces to attacked him as much as possible: For instance, when having himself surrounded by navy ships in close proximity during his pursuit for M.U.T.O.s, he carefully (and cautiously) swim near them and even chooses to dive below the said ships to escape instead of ramming them. Any known destruction records that he done in film appeared to be a mere accidents. Even when he destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, it did not appear to be intentional, but rather just him reacting from being hit in the gills by missile fire. At that moment, Godzilla obviously chooses to move away from the military attacks as any attempts to fought back was only worsen their situations, especially because the male M.U.T.O. used this opportunity to stole their nuclear warhead. He was also able to notice Ford before being covered in dust.

While his personality still far from typical Gentle Giants and therefore more like territorial animal, Ishiro Serizawa theorized that he is the driving force to restore balance to nature whenever that balance is disrupted, suggesting that he essentially considers the entire Earth to be his territory. The theory proved to be correct, as M.U.T.O.s' presence would caused chaos on the balance of the nature had no one stopped them and with Godzilla destroyed them, the balance eventually restored. This shows that Godzilla dislikes any imbalance in the planet where he lives, and would do whatever it takes to correct it.

In indirect way, Godzilla is the most powerful ally that humanity ever had.

Strength
In addition with his great size, Godzilla is incredibly strong, capable of smashing through the Golden Gate Bridge (though it was mostly accidental), outpowering the Eight-Legged M.U.T.O. with ease, manhandles both the M.U.T.O.s  and also has a strong bite, he also killed one of the M.U.T.O. with his huge tail, which also can bring down a huge building.

Atomic Breath
Like his Japanese counterpart, Godzilla posseses Atomic Breath. Godzilla's atomic breath is a powerful, concentrated blue beam of pure radiation blasted from his mouth. It is strong enough to bring down the Eight-Legged M.U.T.O. in two shots. The atomic breath that he demonstrated so far may not released in full strength unlike his counterpart due to him often used it as last resort, but still

Amphibiousness
Using his gills, Godzilla is capable of living and breathing underwater. He is also a great swimmer. As this version possessed gills for swimming underwater, it's possible that he could swim far longer than his other incarnations.

Durability
Godzilla is immune to Conventional Weaponry and is tough enough to survive constant beatings from the M.U.T.O. But the only body part that least durable was his gills, as seen when he became panic when one of the missiles hit his gills and forcing him to retreat and destroyed Golden Bridge in accident.

Trivia

 * In the trailers, Godzilla was thought to be the main antagonist for the film, but in the Japanese trailer, he was revealed to be a protagonist. This was likely done to hide the true main antagonists that he actually hunted down before returning to the ocean.
 * This Godzilla's recent design is based on the original 1954 design, the ShodaiGoji suit from the original Godzilla film, as director Gareth Edwards wanted to create a Godzilla design that's very modern, but still respect and resemble the design from the original Toho films.
 * This version of Godzilla's fighting style mostly after the bear's, in which explain why he often uses bite attack more than his limbs or tails during the fight. In addition, his atomic breath was slighty different: the atomic breath that being his trump card fired in the form of focused, fiery blue beam. The beam itself also seemingly not as powerful as his previous incarnation does and not used very often. The onlu known explanation of this was Godzilla only uses his atomic breath not as main weapon, but instead as the last resort weapon had he having himself cornered or nearly beaten into the pulp. Not only that, when Godzilla was forced to uses this beam, Godzilla has already weakened due to M.U.T.O's all-out attack, something that both hindering him to unleashed his overall potention of his atomic breath and also made him fell unconscious after the battle.