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Godzilla is a Vegetarian!

posted 15 years ago by collegeofuselessknowlege
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Have you ever seen him/her/it eat a human? Never in my recollection. At the end of this movie he's so close to the head of the JSOF and what does he/she/it do? Instead of eating the guy, the big G stomps on the ground causing an earthquake and the guy falls to his death.

Godzilla's never eaten anybody. Stomp on them, maybe. Cause mayhem aroud buildings so that stuff falls on the people killing them--even burn them with his/her/it's breath...but Godzilla never eats them.

So what does a giant fire-eating lizard eat? :/

[–] The_Keeper_of_Angela_Baker 15 years ago

One of Toho's rules is that Godzilla is not allowed to be shown devouring people.

Godzilla consumes nuclear energy for sustenance. That's what he eats.

[–] georgegauthier 15 years ago

Godzilla is no vegetarian, not with cutting teeth like that. He has the dentition of a carnivore, lots of sharp teeth for cutting hunks of meat from prey. A vegetarian has flat teeth to chop and grind the foods in his diet. As an animal, Godzilla needs more that simply nuclear energy. He needs nutrients to repair and replace tissue, for growth and respiration. The notion that this monster with the head of a giant crocodile is a vegetarian is completely wrong headed.

[–] JazukaiX 8 years ago

Godzilla is a mutant, transformed from a Carnivorous dinosaur into a living nuclear reactor that feeds on radiation. The teeth are a leftover.

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[–] Perkins_the_Uncanny 14 years ago

Godzilla IS a vegetarian. She eats a cow in the original movie and they're vegetarian.

Godzilla's diet is mainly fish based; anything from sharks to whales.

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[–] ciarandino 11 years ago

Nobody knows for sure what Godzilla eats besides nuclear energy, though I think we can assume that it's something large like whales.

[–] oldmotem 11 years ago

He will eat ANYTHING. Railroad cars, airplanes, Downtown Tokyo, and those delicious Godzilla towers. He is an OMNIVORE. Obviously.

[–] wallacesawyer 11 years ago

I will assume Godzilla eats fish and underwater vegetation, seeing is he spends so much time in the ocean. Unless you're one of those religious types who think fish is not a meat.

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[–] Snake_MacReady82 11 years ago

He eats whales, giant squid, orcas, dolphins, sharks, and kelp forests (for fiber). Not to mention other giant monsters. I like to believe the producers of the movies would have shown Godzilla devouring his fallen enemies, but decided it was too grisly for the younger audiences.

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[–] kingofthemonsters1995 9 years ago

First of all, Godzilla is, as confirmed by Toho, completely male. Not she or it, he. It's been made incredibly clear in the films themselves and by all of Toho's official statements.

As for Godzilla's diet, he metabolizes radiation. He himself has never been shown eating anything, only absorbing radiation from a reactor. However, Godzilla's species is most likely omnivorous. Godzilla's adopted son in the Heisei series, Junior, ate both plants, meat, and even whales at some point as he grew up. In the original film, Dr. Yamane also mentions that Godzilla survived deep underwater for years feeding on deep-sea organisms, but this is only a theory he proposed. There was also a deleted scene of Godzilla eating a cow as he rises over the hill on Odo Island. I assume that while young or completely unmutated, Godzilla's species feed on both plants and animals, but at full maturity, his kind feeds only on radiation.

[–] lm362 9 years ago

I don't know what anyone else thinks, but in Godzilla 1985, that Godzilla looked like a female, especially the eyes. Plus, in the American version the Raymond Burr character, Steve Martin said Godzilla was searching for something. I always have the notion that they did not know that "he" was really a female and she was looking for a place to give birth. I know Toho said all Godzillas have been males but that one didn't look like a male.

[–] kingofthemonsters1995 8 years ago

What do you even mean "it looks like a female?" The 1984 Godzilla is the same Godzilla that appears in the rest of the movies from 1989 to 1995. He was explicitly identified as male in that film and all the other ones. He looks pretty much the same as he always does in that movie, only he has the build of the later Heisei Godzilla with the large head of the Showa Godzilla, along with some other minor differences. What Godzilla was "looking for" in the movie was radiation. He needed to feed, hence why he landed in Japan in search of nuclear plants.

[–] lm362 8 years ago

Just an opinion I have especially since Godzilla looks different in the very next movie. In Godzilla 1985 they all knew he fed off of radiation so that would be no reason reporter Steve Martin would say that he is searching for something since he already knew Godzilla was looking for radiation to feed off of.

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[–] kingofthemonsters1995 8 years ago

Even though he looks different in the next movie, it's very clear it's meant to be the same Godzilla from the last movie, as he emerges from the same volcano where he was trapped. The American version of the film with the Steve Martin character is already heavily altered and shouldn't be considered canon. That dialogue was just added to give the character something to say, it has no bearing on the plot and is completely absent from the Japanese version of the movie. It's quite a big jump to interpret an ambiguous line of added dialogue as meaning Godzilla is suddenly female. There's absolutely nothing to back up that assumption.