For the fourteenth edition of the greatest fictional heroes of our world, I will introduce this time one of the greatest hero ever known, both in terms of size and popularity. Considered as a true superstar, especially in Japan, this monster now even got his own star on the Hollywood Boulevard. The most famous of all monsters and their king: Godzilla.
According to his story, Godzilla is as old as the world itself, born in a very distant time, when the earth was much more radioactive than before. The world was dominated by titanic creatures, feeding themselves of radiations to live and grow more. Godzilla was the king of this ancient world, dominating all other creatures by his strength. But after the many climate changes over the centuries, the great monsters disappeared almost all, and the survivors were forced to take refuge in the depths of the oceans abysses, in burrows to the core of the earth, to feed of its radiations. Thus, Godzilla could survive and lay dormant for thousands of years, until one day, in the 50s, a submarine that beat the diving record, woke him up and made him emerge from the ocean. The famous testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific islands were actually a hidden pretext for trying to kill Godzilla, without success, the monster being invincible and insensitive to radiation. One day, some giant mutant creatures made their reappearance in the world: the Mutos, kind of gigantic parasitic creatures that feed of radiations, and apparently, mortal enemies of Godzilla. When two Mutos, a male and a female, appeared and caused havoc across the planet, Godzilla came back from the abyss, to stop them at all costs. He stalked relentlessly the creatures across oceans and continents, until one day, while the female Muto had founded a nest and laid her eggs, Godzilla came and hired the fight. Despite its power, the king of the monsters found himself in difficulty facing the two mutants who attacked simultaneously, but the distraction allowed a band of human soldiers to recover a nuclear missile stolen by the mutos, and to destroy the nest with all eggs. While the female Muto tried to retrieve the missile, Godzilla took the opportunity to recover its forces and killed the male Muto.
And while the female Muto was about to retrieve the missile, Godzilla grabbed her by the neck and killed her by spitting his blue flames across the body of the creature, destroying her from within. But after this hard fight, Godzilla fell unconscious in the middle of the ravaged city. First, humans believed his death, but while rescue forces were trying to retrieve all the survivors in the debris, Godzilla awoke, and having accomplished his mission, returned to the depths of the ocean, under the crowd cheers for him.
Even if he has the appearance of a giant lizard, Godzilla is a lot smarter than a mere animal. He is actually the god of an ancestral ecosystem, and its purpose is to ensure the natural balance of the world. Whenever this balance is threatened, Godzilla rises from the ocean to protect him. He does not attack humans unless he feels threatened by them. It is unclear whether he does this to protect humans, or just if he ignore them, and does it because he has to. Anyway, he's smart enough to know that humans are not his real enemies, and leave them alone after defeat his opponents.
Being as old as the earth, we can deduce the divine status of Godzilla, being apparently immortal, and having a power equal to a god. Not weapons, not even nuclear missiles, can hurt him. It seems that only the mutant creatures as large as him are able to hurt him. With the radiations he eat over the centuries have allowed him to reach a titanic size larger than a building, and also allows him to spit kinds of powerful radioactive blue flames.
According to the versions, Godzilla is either the protector of the earth, or a creature of the Apocalypse coming to destroy humanity. He is still popular in Japan these days, to the point that in the country, he is considered at the same rank as the superstars, even almost as a living legend, and for a fictional character, that's really badass.
Becoming the most famous monster, an icon of cinema and a global superstar, Godzilla deserves more than its place in the pantheon of fictional heroes.
See you next time, humans \m/
Mathias, the Killmaster
Fire and Blood \m/
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