Godzilla's screentime through out the years

@SZMIGIEL,

Thanks for all of that detailed information. Greatly appreciated.

Could a mod sticky and feature this? This is such a interesting and informative thread it'd be a shame if it got buried by threads that are frankly less important.

*Hears durp's call and answers*

Featured and stickied.

Huh. I just watched vs Hedorah and vs Gigan, and I thought there was an awful lot of Godzilla in them for the Showa era, and I guess I wasn't wrong. Awesome work, szmigiel, this is really well done and informative, as well as just fun. I am going to refer to this on my next watch through of all the G-movies. 

The podcast Kaiju 101 did episodes on this

http://www.kaiju101.com/

http://www.kaiju101.com/kaiju-quality-control/

Godzilla (1998) and Zilla are separate characters. Godzilla (1998) lasted until 2003 but any future incarnations of the character will be referred as Zilla. Since that Tri-Star held the rights to the character during that time Godzilla (1998) is a legal incarnation even Toho has a trademark icon for both Godzilla (1998) and Zilla

technically Zilla is still a Godzilla due to starting out as the first incarnation as an american godzilla and no matter what Toho does with the character. Godzilla 1998 is still technically a Godzilla, it only became Zilla in Final Wars