Godzilla 2014: Food for thought

Well, unfortunately, you're wrong about the whole "lifespan" thing. This Godzilla is, canonically, several MILLIONS of years old, predating the dinosaurs, his individual self showing up sometime in the Permian era. Though, you do have a point about some of the other stuff.

However, we must also remember these creatures, though they do have rather animalistic tendencies, are also somewhat beyond the mere common biological lifeform. I mean, you'd thionk it'd get lonely for a gigantic creature like Godzilla to live for millions of years in isolation only to surface when a threat to your survival and territory is at stake.

But he seems to be fine :P

Yes, but, canonically, he took an asteroid to the face, right?

If we take the comic as canon, it kind of disrupts the realism of the movie, which is gonna leave some people confuzzled..

Lifespan is a tricky thing, really. Only single celled organisms can survive for millenia, but not as long as this Godzilla was said to exist.I'm still inclined to believe there was more then one of these things, as He had to come from somewhere... but that's just me.

Yes yes, he does indeed have a "species". However, I'm pretty sure he's likely on of the last of his kind, if not THE last of his kind. Also, this Godzilla tanked several nuclear detonations in the Pacific. Something as hardy as that gets to at least be believed to live longer than any known lifeform in overall proportion :P

Again, this goes into the realm of over explaining Godzilla. Not to rob the fun out of considering his biology for some of you, but the reason a lot of this is either unexplained or left vague on screen, both in the old films and the new, is because it brings about a very important character trait for Godzilla: Science is baffled by him and can't fully explain him. He's beyond it for some reason. If single celled organisms are the only things that can survive for millions of years and Godzilla defies that rule then it's in line with what he's about.

I don't consider the comic book canon, but I believe that Godzilla is millions of years old. The creative assertion seems to be that he's so old that battles tend to exhaust him so I go along with that as well.

Um, this was a good explanation but im pretty much, 100% 0.999 everything 100 percent sure that Godzilla is the last of his kind it wouldnt make any sense to introduce more Godzilla's it doesnt need to happen and hasnt every happend in the series.

Gareth said when you have a formula dont change it, thats why Godzilla looks and acts like previous forms, just combined. So they wouldnt add something that will completely flop on them.

Along with keeping to the realism of the world, they're still trying to capture the core elements of what made the original Toho Godzilla who he was.

Legendary's Godzilla is one of a kind, plain and simple. There will not be any other Godzillas to see in the sequels. Why? Because the original 1954 Gojira was supposed to be one of a kind as well. The only reason they brought him back for future movies was due to the success of the first, and it was a jump to capitalize on the monetary and popularity it brought. From then on, the Godzilla which we came to know was the last of his kind. This Godzilla is no different.

Perhaps at one time there were many, but not anymore.

Also, when discussing creatures that defy the laws of physics by nature of their very existence, nothing factual can be said in regards to their life span. Godzilla, the Godzilla we saw in the movie this year, is the same one that survived the Permian Extinction event before the dinosaurs according to the Godzilla: Awakening which is canon to the Legendary franchise. You can't say that he can't live for millennia (which is only thousands of years by the way) when he is confirmed to be the sole survivor of his species and is hundreds of millions of years old.

Not really sad to say it, but the theory of yours, while it might sound plausible, is not actually plausible at all. Not when a major part of Godzilla's design is to be one of a kind. Legendary won't be giving us any other Godzillas because it would completely destroy the integrity of the creature and all of his credibility thus far as a singular force of nature.

The Godzilla in this universe will be the only living member of his kind (unless they choose to intoduce an adopted son for him, which would have to be handled very carefully). The skeleton in the beginning of the film has been confirmed to be a Godzilla skeleton, so if Legendary elects to utilize the next most popular Godzilla monster, Mechagodzilla, they could turn the skeleton into Mechagodzilla, emulating Kiryu. That or the appearance of more Godzillas in a flashback to the Precambrian is the closest we will get to more Godzillas.

Whelp, my theory is that as long as he has a source of radiation, he is immortal