Because Godzilla dies in the end of this. Then in Godzilla Raids Again it's a new godzilla, just another member of his species. So does that mean that the Godzilla in this is not even actually technically the same character as the Godzilla in all the trillion sequels?
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As long as we're talking about the '60s and '70s films, yes, the Showa series deals with Godzilla #2.
From the '80s until 2004 it depends on the continuity of the movie you're watching, since the events of the 1954 movie are often retconned. For example Godzilla x Megaguirus (2000) starts with scenes from Gojira exactly replicated with the 2000 Godzilla suit, but it is explained that they could not kill him, and he kept on attacking throughout the decades.
On the other hand, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) explicitly states that Japan has to deal with a second Godzilla right now, and Mechagodzilla is actually built from the bones/skeleton of the original 1954 Godzilla (this of course also has a bit of a retcon in there, since in Gojira there were no remains left behind when they managed to destroy him).
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"and Mechagodzilla is actually built from the bones/skeleton of the original 1954 Godzilla (this of course also has a bit of a retcon in there, since in Gojira there were no remains left behind when they managed to destroy him)."
In "Godzilla" (1954) we see the skeleton sinking, with the disturbed water swirling around it, but there is no indication that it did not just settle on the bottom, where it could have been salvaged later.
That is true. Though Raymond Burr says in Godzilla Returns (a.k.a. Godzilla 1985) that no body of Godzilla was ever found, we, the viewer, know Godzilla/Gojira bit the dust.
A second Godzilla appears and stays around until he falls prey to his out-of-control radiation in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. But, the unleashed radiation from that death is absorbed by a baby Godzillasaur, who then becomes the new Godzilla in Godzilla 2000, which was made because of the horrible 1998 Roland Emmerich version.
Godzilla Junior isn't the Godzilla in Godzilla 2000. That film is set in an alternate continuity from the Heisei series.
shareThe only other movie I can think of when he was the same Godazilla was "Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" (Say that five times really fast). He was like, reincarnated in that one. But that one didn't follow any other film continuity.
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