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I don't like the design.

sonictiger

actually Tristar Godzilla/Godzilla98/Zilla is based off an allosaurus mixed with a raptor with an iquana's head

I still want to see Shin vs Legendary.

That would be awesome.

Found it!

Isn't the meme caption supposed to say just saying I've never seen Kong do this?

Let me find it...

@Xeno
Same word describing two different things. I wouldn’t say true evolution, I would say Biological Evolution. I don’t know what to call the other one.

@Gman

I’m not trying to be rude, but out of curiosity, based in the definition of kaiju, would monsters like Yongary be not considered kaiju

@TheoryGuyofThebigG

where did he get those?

Godzilla 1998 looks like a t-rex Gman.

GHman there is another about evolution you are over looking in your attempt to unify its definition.

Shin Godzilla/Marvel/Pokemon evolution is goal orientated and leads to an ultimate being/perfect state.

True Evolution is goaless, sandbox, freeform with both beneficial, neutral, and hindrance aspects to every adaptation. Specialists species evolve when the ecosystem is well adjusted and balance but the the enviroment changes like it has for 4.5 billion years, specialists are the first species to go extinct because they tend to get out competed by the new guy who is more adaptable before they too become specialists.

well the japanese see american monsters like Xenomorphs, Frankenstein, and Smaug as kaiju as well. Its just weebs hate when americans use the terminology

SarcasticGoji in case you didn't see my earlier message. 

If you look at the bottom of Godzillas shoe, you can see the Nike symbol. Thus, the shoes are custom made godzilla Nikes

@SarcasticGoji

I enjoyed reading your outlook. I like it too.

Kong won’t take monarchy, he’ll just head back over to skull island and leave the Titans to fend for themselves 

@Gman, I don’t think Kong wants to be the king of the monsters.

@Sonic

Who said anything about getting up, I might just stay up until then 

@Jordan, I kinda like my depressing outlook on Shin. Goji 1954’s death was treated this same way, it was tragic for Goji and serizawa.

@Gman,

Question, If the word “Kaiju” means “a giant monster of a type featured in Japanese fantasy and science fiction movies and television programs.” then why are American monsters from Pacific Rim or the new ones from Kotm called kaiju? Or is this proving your point?

@Jordan,

I know Gman is gonna disagree with you the balance of talking and action. I agree on this because most of the audience did not come to watch people do things, they came to watch kaiju fight

I think toy guns are made, to prepare the rising generations for the war when zombie alien vampires invade and fall from the sky with their water guns, and the battle will last for ages, each side squirting and getting soaked.

OHHHH NOOOOOOO

Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Elizabeth Olsen

I want their return into the Monsterverse! I enjoyed their roles in 2014.

I see no problem with Nerf Guns since there are other toy guns out there like Water Guns, Super Soakers, and Cap Guns

I am more so oriented towards Origins and or Action. KoTM was a perfect balance between action and talking. And oh boy was it hard on the action. Loved how they kept the alien origin of Ghidorah.

That's probably why Mad Max Fury Road is gonna be my all time favorite movie. So-Much-Action, and the score was amazing.

Y'all are forgetting about Nerf Guns. Literally modeled after real guns, being sold on the shelf.

They showed a lot of action scenes, which worries me that the anime as a whole is gonna be slow and boring.

I like the idea that Godzilla sees Humans as a pest, a plague. And knowing that it cannot destroy this plague alone, it proceeds to create it's own.

I'm saying your comparisons of knights and samurai is a poor analogy

its not okay to call a knight a samurai or viceversa because knights aren't gun-ho about honor to the point of killing themselves because their lords ask or demand of them to do so. Again knights are the lowest form of nobility while samurai can be of either noble or peasant background

But samurai and knights both have armor swords, so obviously it's okay to call a knight a samurai.

^This is about as intelligent of an argument as the one for using "kaiju" or "daikaiju" for Rhedosaurus or the giant spider.

There's a difference between "kaiju" the translation and "kaiju" in the English vernacular. If we're using the word merely as a direct translation, then we should just call them "strange beasts" or "giant monsters" and stop calling them kaiju.

But we don't. So what's the difference between a giant monster and a kaiju or daikaiju? Why bother using the Japanese word if we already have an English translation.

And the answer is simple, we appropriated the word to mean a specific thing in our English vernacular and are now abusing it to mean other things. "Kaiju" is a Japanese word. It refers to Japanese monsters and beasts. It is not meant for anything outside of that. If it's used for anything outside of that it defeats the purpose of using it in the English language and you might as well just use "giant monster" instead.

Fans have ultimately and timely nuetered the meaning of this word to be a catch-all for anything they feel like.

"Evolution", on the other hand, can still mean "transformation," "metamorphosis," and "modification," according to the Oxford Dictionary as well. So technically, based off its second definition, it makes just as much sense as using "kaiju" to describe a giant spider--If we go off literal meanings and definitions alone.

In both cases you and I are splitting hairs, because you can still twist both to be accurate.

I'm supposing that one man in the black and white still is supposed to be... like Serizawa for the world this takes place in? I'm honestly super hyped either way. I don't watch a lot of anime, but this looks pretty promising. I'm also wondering if that blue blob is hedorah. It looks like him a bit.

Yes^ :)

Wow that kind of hits home a little bit although I watched Predator long before I came across any Yaut'ja action figure toys, I've seen a few Xenomorph figures when I was 5-6 range then my aunt introduced me to the Alien series and I was like "Hey that looks like those toys I saw"  

Kaiju on the other hand doesn't have this since it itself is a broader term than just a single monster type. Kaiju is less like the difference between Knights and Samurai, but rather the noble/elite martial caste containing both.

Kumonga and the Giant Tarantula are both giant fictional spiders. To only call Kumonga a strange beast aka kaiju but not the Giant Tarantula seems odd to me because wouldn't the Giant Tarantula also be a strange beast?

I mean sure the giant tarantula is just a normal tarantula blown up to appear gigantic while Kumonga is a puppet but that's just special effects styles rather than a classification of monster

Yes it's convergent evolution as the same in biological convergent evolution, they may have similiar roles but otherwise completely different ancestry.

But overall the systems are very similar which I find so fascinating. They weren’t influencing each other. Reminds me of Convergent Evolution 

 Also Knights vs Samurai

Knights are usually part of the nobility

Samurai were divided into three classes: Joshi (nobility samurai), Kashi (peasant samurai that serves a Joshi), and Ronin (a peasant samurai that has no master)

Knights may give their life for their Lord as long as its in battle or protecting the said Lord from poison or sneak attacks from assassins

Samurai would commit ritualistic suicide for their lords, if their lords ask/demand for it.

Then there's the cosmetic difference and the geographical differences

I don’t think it’s one kaiju, I thinks that was more than one.

Anyone notice that DerpGoji (Yes that’s what I’m calling because of the face) holds his tail like shin?

@Xeno,

Beat me to comparing the feudal systems of medieval Japan and Europe. Oh well, that’s the way it goes..

Speaking of Walmart I saw a Xenomorph figure in the kid’s aisle. This struck me as strange because the box said 6 or 8 plus. Anyway the point is, does anyone find it weird toy companies are selling children these toys, which might in turn prompt them to explore a age inappropriate franchise. I mean it’s rated R for a reason.

First of all, awesome! Second of all, Jet Jaguar's design originally annoyed me because it looked so goofy, but then I remembered that JJ is already a pretty goofy character so I can forgive it this one time. Third of all, (@1:13) was that Hedorah/Dogora/some weird fusion of the two?

kaiju is more of classification than a single type of monster

Knights and Samurai are two different types of martial classes, similar but very different in functionality.

The evolution argument is way different:

The marvel/pokemon evolution is more akin to aging/metamorphosis which is a natural progression of a single organism that has stages like embryo, fetus, baby, juvenile, sub-adult, adult, and elder.

Scientific Evolution is a process of passing along a mutation or altered genes starting with the mating ritual and ending in the birth of the progeny. If the child has inherited the mutation from mom or dad it then has to seek out partners that share a similar mutation, rinse and repeat until the entire population has this mutation. This process happens faster when a fragment of the population is isolated from main population. Both population groups begin to show differences after a long period of isolation as they eventually become two new species.