The Oxygen Destroyer

Wow. This is my first discussion to make it to 20 replies. Thank you all! :_)

THE DOCTOR - You're most welcome, sweetie! Congratulations on your post reaching such a high mark! You should be very pleased! :)

Godzilla 1954 is a demon, a beast freak of nature that wasnt meant to exist.

He had to be killed at all costs. He wasnt like the other Godzilla's, he killed and laughed while doing so, he couldnt have been left to survive.

:( I'm sorry GorillaGodzilla

Why are you sorry? I was just stating what i would do in that situation.

I'm just sorry if my choice dissapointed you.

Gojira in the originall whas only and enraged animal, The Frigate sent by the navy to stpo at odo island only made him mad and caused it to change its course to tokyo, where the Ligths acording to yamame in this film and Godzilla raids again, made him atack as it remembered him of the nuclear bomb that awakened it

i wouldn't use the Oxyegen Destroyher, an esasier solution and that breegly succeded in the next film, is to just turn of the City's power, and Lure awhay godzilla with Flares, even Serisawa knew The Oxigen Destroyher would cause more damage than godzilla, so he made sure it would never be used again

GORILLAGODZILLA - I agree. The original Godzilla was a MONSTER! I used to have nightmares about him when I was a little girl! :)

GG i think you are confusing that Godzilla with GMK godzilla, The originall whas a creature that didn't know it place in the present time

no matter the cause and how the conflict was resolved it was an awesome movie

Something real- Ikr, out of all the Gojira's the original is terrifying, i always cringed when he killed those people with his breath.

JRR- I think you are confusing GMK with 54, Godzilla 1954 was a thinking sentient being. It new what it was doing when it killed the woman with her child, it knew what it was doing and you cant deny that.

Gmk was the animal, he wasnt really thinking nor was he smart, he killed himself.

holy crap. my discussion made it to 30 replies XD

GORILLAGODZILLA - Indeed! Those sequences were bloody awful - and terrifying! The initial scenes of the film showing the little children undergoing screening for radiation poisoning are dreadful - and let you know just what sort of movie you're about to behold! :)

GG Did you just say gmk was a animal? You just told me yesterday he was basically a human

GG, 1954 godzzilla whas just an animal, he killed everihting cause he whas angry at mankind, like any normall animall wouild do

A normal animal wouldnt have the sheer intelligence to want to destroy mankind, Gmk however was acting on instinct to destroy everything due to the rage from the souls within.

Flyers GMK was being controlled though, he is not a human but he has mroe intelligence then the average beast.

GG many aninals have that inteligence, if you can call it that, its just instinct, and GMK godzilla is not really beeing controlled by the souls, like Gman said its a dub error

I don't ever remember him not wanting to use it because of the ocean, I though it was moreso to keep it out of the eye of mankind.

Anyway I'd use the weapon, Godzilla was essentially a guarantee at death and destruction being brought on people, whereas everything else you at least had a chance of making it out

@Indiana Jones... I was thinking about dropping it down Godzilla's throat, but then I read your comment.

@Something Real, I can see that working.

I'm glad someone like Durp finally, after three pages, pointed out the big flaw in the question here. Dr. Serizawa didn't want to use the Oxygen Destroyer because he didn't want to reveal a new super weapon to mankind. It had nothing to do with killing sea life and fish. Hell he was content with doing that in a water tank in his lab.

The dilemma as that his weapon was just as deadly, if not more so, than the Nuclear Bomb. That was the whole reason he sacrificed himself. He didn't want some super power to kidnap him and force the formula out of him.

The sea life in Tokyo Bay had probably already been damaged by Godzilla. Earlier in the movie it's established that Godzilla is responsible for the bad fishing season along the cost of Odo Island. Although there was clearly still sea life in Tokyo Bay when Serizawa and Ogata went to drop the Oxygen Destroyer, (either from using them as a food source or killing them with his bodies' radioactivity) the sea life was most likely already harmed by Godzilla's presense. So why even bother considering that an issue?

The really issue about the Oxygen Destroyer is the idea that it's the atomic bomb 2. Would you really expose the world to something that dangerous again? What if there was just reason to use would you still? That's the bigger issue.

MechRodan,
I find your idea of using 10 nuclear bombs against Godzilla in the original film directly in contradiction with everything it's about. Japan was still trembling from nuclear terror and even against Godzilla I think the country would have ruled out a nuclear offensive against something in its own waters.

GorillaGodzilla,
There's nothing in the movie to suggest that Godzilla in 1954 was sentient. If anything he was made to be tragic.

Honda himself said, "Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy." And while making the original film Tsuburaya even emphasized to Haruo Nakajima that Godzilla can't be directly looking for something to destroy, but rather knock over what ever is in his way. Meaning he was intentionally trying to kill anyone unless they aggitated him.