“Even as Godzilla, the kaiju, has been reimagined as a baby, a Westernized egg-laying creature more akin to a dinosaur, and a metamorphosing terror from the sea, Godzilla as a concept has never really lost its connection to its original allegorical self. By fully embracing Godzilla’s ability to exist as both a literal monster and a lens through which storytellers can explore humanity’s capacity for monstrosity, Toho has been able to give its iconic creation a kind of immortal life at the center of a sprawling franchise.”
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