A hypothesis on Godzillas origins.

Unfortunately, you missed out the fact that gamma rays emit so much energy into cells, that they die. The corpse of the prehistoric beast would have been totally peeled and stripped of flesh, considering the cells would die and fall of the bones - Not to mention extremophile organisms which would convert it's biomass into simpler things *rot, decay, decompose, if you will*, whilst surviving the radiation from the meteorite *it's an extremophile, that's what they do*. Furthermore, desperate animals looking for food such as scavengers would soon find the corpse and devour its remains... I really don't find your theory plausable, but I'm glad that you're generating ideas for the community. Thanks.

yes, i know some of those words

I've found myself coming up with something similar, but on a smaller scale with natural radiation pools formed on occasion, sort of like those acid pools you see around the world, but with radioactive materials instead, which will prevent decomposition of anything that happens to be in there, but still kills it, thus no pesky bacteria or melting of the flesh. Cells remain rpeserved for "natural experimentation". Such a process would take longer, but in the end, we'd still have our "Frankenstein's monster" made and patented by mother nature.

A very good scientific hypothesis, but it is flawed. Just as Puff, The Magic Dragon posted above, the radiation would have stripped the carcass down to nothing. Before the animal could be mutated, it must be alive. Then, by a miracle of nature, would the animal mutate into a superbeast. Only the orignal creators of Godzilla know his true origin.

Very intersting, but personally I am still hoping that Godzilla remains OUR creation in this film.  Thats how it has pretty much always been, and I see no reason to change it.  The original Godzilla was designed with the point of view that it had been mutated by the bomb, and exists because of us.  If Godzilla were to simply be awakened as Godzilla already, it takes the blame for the monster's creation off of our shoulders, and a key point of the character's power is lost.  It could be done and still be an incredible Godzilla film, but I feel the fact that we CREATED Godzilla, not simply woke him up, is an important part of the character's history and appeal.  Plus, as fantastic as mutating an animal into a monster might be in ANY cercumstances, doing it in the atomic age is more plossible and appropriate.  Having a dinosaur somehow atomically mutated millions of years ago is kind of a stretch, and, even in the realm of science fiction, far less plausible.

But if that's the direction they go, than I have a feeling that the explanation (if one is provided in the film) will be close to your hypothesis. :)

according to the synopsis of the prequel comic Godzilla: The awakening, he is a ancient creature awakened by the nuclear testing in the pacific, just like the original and obvious the radiation of the bombs affects him to give him the a-breath

Yeah I knew that there were holes in this the size of Godzilla but its food for thought, you know, and this is more interesting then half the stuff being posted lately. And this is just a fun little thing I threw together, it's not like I expect this to be any Godzilla's origin story.

really godzilla's origin should be mostly mystery, that way they can get away if the fact that giant monsters can exist and it won't be shoved down your throat like pacific rim's portal explaination.

Has anyone even WATCHED the original film? They never say that Godzilla is mutated-- they only say hes been awakened by nuclear testing. That is it-- his entire design is meant to look 'scarred' by the radiation, not mutated. Old lobby cards from the original film show that Godzilla was one of MANY Godzillas-- the others being killed by the radiation that scarred him and angered him. There were unused scenes from the original film to show that Godzilla was coming ashore because all of his food (fish) were killed off by the radiation.

I swear, half the fans that vomit up the whole "nuclear holocaust" metaphor haven't even sat through the original film in its original Japanese cut. 

Godzilla was not something 'we created', but something we pissed off.

He didn't really become a mutation until the Heisei films. 

Akagi... thanks for the insult.  I'll have you know the original Gojira is my all time favorite film.  I own three different versions of the original Japanese cut, and have seen it more than any other Godzilla film.  Don't accuse me of "vomiting" up things I don't understand.  I don't wish to start an argument; I come to this site to share my love of Godzilla with other fans, not to fight.  But I will say this... the original film states explicitly that the hydrogen bomb affected Godzilla in some way.  Whether that is creating the monster from a different animal or gifting an existing giant with a scarred appearence and atomic breath, Godzilla is the way he is at least partially due to human technology.  I tend to view the original film retroactively from the point of view of the whole "Godzillasaurus" element introduced in the Heisei series, and I feel the original film is vague enough in Godzilla's origins that the I can get away with that.  Its a personal view, but it works within the context of most films in the series.  I might be alone on that, but I'm a Godzilla fan... if there is one thing I am used to, its being alone.

Now lets move on.