Are you sure those are gills cause your just assuming they are

I had some trouble reading this. You need to space out your thoughts using the Enter key. Periods really help too, because right now you kind of seem like a ranting crazy person. Not to say that you are one, just that you're coming off as one due to poor grammar.

That muscle diagram you're referencing is fan art, not official, so anything shown in that can't be taken as canon.

In regards to Gareth saying 'it's realistic', he was more refering to the tone of the film and how people with be acting. Who's the say that him having gills makes it less realistic? If he's been sleeping under the ocean for hundreds or thousands of years, wouldn't he need to have kills in order to not drown?

There's absolutely no guarantee that Gareth would have told us if they were gills or not. He's not going to be revealing every single detail before the movie comes out.

In the future, if you're trying to be careful about 'jerky people' closing your discussion, you probably shouldn't mention it in the article.

It's gills, they made him more realistic and what better way to do that but make him amphibious. 

Godzilla has slept in the sea before and hey we will just have to see the movie to know what they are Toronto he doesn't have to have gills and Garth said that Godzilla will be original to the classic Godzilla but he will look different and be bigger and his breath obviously looks different :)

Omg hippos are amphibious do they have gills no and you don't they if they are gills your just assuming they are because have you seen an exclusive look at him swimming or have you seen the movie no 

Nobody

knows what they are yet except for Garth and the actors and Godzilla himself 

Giving this Godzilla gills wouldn't destroy the original vision of Godzilla. A cornerstone for Godzilla isn't 'it must not have gills, no matter what'.

In regards to Godzilla sleeping in the sea before, that's using the old canon. I wouldn't base anything you've seen in this movie on what has happened in the older movies.

Hippos can stay underwater for 6 minutes, a crocodile for 15-30 minutes, 90 minutes to 2 hours. I imagine a gill-less Godzilla could stay under water for a few days, I can't imagine it simply living down there for hundreds or thousands of years.

Why don't you want it to have gills? This seems to be a point that makes you very upset.

Well giving a reptile gills would be the only way godzilla could "sleep" underwater for that long. And I said amphibious, not amphibian.

Giving Godzilla gills wouldn't actually make him more realistic. Since his body produces its own nuclear energy (and, based on the giant Godzilla toy description, that trait is intact in this incarnation), he shouldn't actually need to respirate at all to survive. Hopefully, they did  take this into consideration when designing him, because if he has to breathe, that makes him a whole lot more stoppable (ever heard of chemical weapons?).

Well this is getting complicated... I'm out

We will wait and see in the movie but they could just be flaps of skin and scales and his lungs may be the same as the classic gojira lungs but we will have to see

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You're forgetting! 

The shot of the MUTO fighting Godzilla in the trailer....look where the MUTO is biting Godzilla!

He's going for exact area the gills are. Coincidence? I think not :-)

The gills man!!! DA GILLS!!! Godzilla's only weakness!!!

Trolling silliness aside, this gills topic has been done to death. Surely this could have been added in a pre-existing gills thread, as it doesn't really trudge up any new angles on the debate. 

I don't personally think they are gills just because they don't really look like gills to me. But if they are gills, I don't see why it's a big deal. Like it doesn't really matter does it? So long as it doesn't become significant plot point in the movie what difference does it really make if Godzilla has gills or not? It's just not a topic worth getting riled up about imo. 

The "gills" looks more like thick hide to me.

where is akagi when you need him

those are gills on his neck they made godzilla realistic and to understand how godzilla can breathe under the water you give him gills.

consideirng in most movies Godzilla is in the ocean/ ocean floor. It would only make sense for him to have gills or at least have some way to stay under water for a really, really long time....I think it only adds to the overall design and "realness" of the new Godzilla.

Longest. Sentence. Ever.

Also, the gills are just speculation. Why does this particular subject upset you so much? Do you irrationally hate any speculation about this movie, or is it just with the gills?

No I love Godzilla i hate that people are acting like they have seen the movie and know what those things are

@connor potasse

the gills are no longer speculation gareth edwards himself has confirmed that they are indeed gills :)

(>_<)  Holy run on sentense, Batman. The Unintelligiblist has struck again!

I have no problems with Godzilla having gills.  As Bigbadben, Kaiju1954, and many others have stated, it's a more biologically plausible anatomical feature considering where he is 99% of the time.  Citing this so-called "muscle diagram," which was something created by a DA artist and NOT someone involved with the actual design at WETA and Legendary, as gospel that has irrevokable consequences to the design of the creature in the film is taking things too far.  I think getting a kinked colon over this is a big waste of time and energy.  It's like arguing over what happens on what deck based on some fan drawing of the USS Enterprise.

The original Godzilla didn't have gills his lungsahead the capacity of no humans that's how he breaths under water and adagio doesn't know what they are either no body does 

I don't ever remember Gareth Edwards saying Godzilla has gills. And I've been following this movie since from the very first promotional artwork and the day it was annouced.

@marvelgoji

true the original gojira never had gills but when talking realism in a movie the producers have to make it seem as real as possible that is why they gave him gills so that the audience can identify with how he can breath under the water :)

@Bigbadben,

I'm curious, where did you hear this Gareth Edwards interview? I'd like to check it out myself, if you could find a link.

Yes we're is this interview and if you inspect themclosely in the trailers they look like flaps of skin or thick hide and the things on the front of his neck are scales and actually the audience would figure that the way he breaths under water is that he just breaths normaly :)

And if you inspect the figures and toys they look like flaps of skin or thick hide

And if you look at pics of the game as well :)

No need to spread out your posts like that.

Looking at the toys, pictures, and in-game items, I still see gills.

Check this sucker out. This is one of the oldest species on the planet. It was recently re-discovered after being thought to be dead for millions of years. Notice it's very distinct gills and the sharp ridges. They're remarkably similar to the flaps on the sides of Godzilla's neck.

@MARVELGOLI Well if your comparing Godzilla to human lungs, lets compare everything.

Godzilla is really big, we small. Godzilla can "live" on the ocean floor/at intence pressure,we can't.Godzilla can survive a nuke, we can't. Godzilla cant walk down the street without destroying it, we can. Anyway the list goes on, my point is, don't compare godzilla(all hail) to a puny human.

MarvelGoji, it's Gareth, not Garth. He is not from Waynes's World. I do think those are gills though, it would make sense.

No I was saying Godzillas lungs have thecapacity of no humans andtrudge Godzillas a giant atomic dinosaur the king of Kaiju not a shark and lets just wait and see what they are in movie ok because until then we don't know what they exactly are

Just come up with your own theory to explain the preence. Simple. I've been doing that for every single iteration of giant monster I've seen, coming up with my own unique explanations for every little thing, even though I may not possess the scientific background to support these statements exactly. Besides, it's fun to do that! As for my input on the presence of gills at all:

The gills are a vestigial feature that evolved early on in his species, obviously for the purposes of breathing underwater, whilst still maintaining the ability to go about on land. However, as they grew from the excess of natural radiation, they would outgrow their normal organic needs like food, water, and oxygen due to the newly created nuclear organ system of the species.

Now, the gills only serve as a means to filter out specific gases in liquid environments for non-essential bodily processes, possibly including gases to be ionized by the core nuclear organ system for use as a projected stream of high-intensity plasma from the mouth. They may also act as thermal vents for said process.

This debate makes my head hurt :(

It's no assumption.

They are gills.

It's plain for you to see every time you get a clear shot of Godzilla. After all, to breath underwater, he has to have them.

Not a single creature in the history of the world has been capable of respirating underwater without the use of gills. Anyone who says that dinosaurs could do it is an idiot who has obviously never studied dinosaurs nor animal biology in any way, shape or form.

In order to breath underwater, he must have gills. It's a law of nature that even Godzilla can't ignore. If he didn't have gills, he'd drown. Simple as that. This is non negotiable and undeniable. And it fits the whole "realistic" thing Gareth is going for and it doesn't really detract from Godzilla anyway.

They are gills dude. Just accept it already. It's no assumption, it's a fact.

For 1 don't you ever compare Godzilla to the laws of nature because he Has neve followed them before for 2 he said in an interview how the movie is going to be realistic for 2 in a tohokingdom interview the interviewer mentions the flaps of skin and for 3 you don't even know what they are for 4 you haVent even seen the movie you person 

Now I know why people told me not to use this site because People act like they have seen the movie and someone said it has been confirmed Godzilla has gills I smell bullshit because I keep up with everything and just because Gareth is making the movie realistic doesn't mean Godzilla has to have gills because Garth already said how the movie will be realistic and actually it's not a fact that he has gills because you don't know what those things are nobody does but the interviewr in tohokingdom mentioned then flaps of skin 

And just because there or overlapping things on his neck doesn't automaicly make them gills

I mean the famous rob said in a video that some of the things people say on this site tha not official is bullshit unless it's official 

Now the whole gill thing is your assumption :)

We will see what they are when movie comes out :)

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Nope, they are just random flaps that are discolored on the side of his neck. Has nothing to do with the fact that he is an amphibious creature that lives under water most the time.

They're gills people, deal with it. There is like zero percent weakness in being able to breathe on land and in the water.

I thought this fricken conversation was OVER with a long time ago. 

They are gills, and the fact that people still continue to deny that is just sad.

What if your wrong and there not gills because you don't know what they are because the only way you can know what they are is if Garth told us and if we saw the movie so yeah if I'm wrong I'm wrong if I'm right I'm right if your wrong your wrong if your right your right we honestly don't know what they are but Garth said that he would keep some classic things but he would look different but with some classic things and he told us if you would watch the interviews how the movie will be realistic and. By looking at the figures and the game and the trailers there the same color as his skin and look completely attached so there's now room for any gill slits because they look like there completely attached to the skin just saying but hey we won't know until we see the movie or if Gareth tells us what they are

@ Marvelgoji: What part of the word "PUNCTUATION" is not being understood? Periods, commas...I'm sure you've heard of these, right?

AFA the "Gills Controversy": what possible difference does it make? If they're gills, fine. If they're not gills, fine.