Mechagodzilla Is Impractical.

JurassicKaiju14
MemberTitanosaurusDec-22-2019 6:58 PMYes, yes, I know "Rule of Cool" is in full force here, but seriously; Mechagodzilla as a tactical weapon makes no sense.
When you get down to it, the first two incarnations of Mechagodzilla are basically mobile weapons platforms that rely almost entirely on their massive arsenals of missiles and sci-fi lasers and what-not. Their really isn't a reason for this thing to look like a robotic Godzilla at all. In Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), he starts off as Fake Godzilla, but what were the aliens' goals with that? Were they trying to frame Godzilla or something? And Anguirus seemed to carve through the disguise relatively easily, so that was kind of pointless. The same thing applies to the Heisei Mechagodzilla; it's just a mobile weapons platform, and Godzilla quite literally throws it around in melee combat. But there's no reason for it to look exactly like Godzilla. Honestly, MOGUERA makes more sense; it's a mobile weapons platform through and through.
But even then, they could have had all of those fancy-schmancy weapons on separate units, and then neither the Black Hole aliens or the UNGCC would have a lesser risk of losing all of that probably-expensive hardware.
And then we get to Kiryu. Now, there's a reason why he's my favorite Mechagodzilla; he actually has a justification for being a mechanical Godzilla. He's literally built around the bones of the 1954 Godzilla, which effectively makes him more of a cyborg than a straight-up robot, and I like that concept better overall. But then there's the Absolute Zero cannon, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the rest of him; why waste all that money on building a cyborg Godzilla when you can just have the molecular freezing death ray? Just lure Godzilla into a certain spot, fire the big freezer, and let him get frozen down to the molecular level and shatter. Problem solved, and less cash and time is spent in the process.
Do you see what I mean?
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