Sometimes Godzilla is a good guy, sometimes hes a bad guy. Whats the deal?
A. The original Godzilla was bad to the bone when he stomped Tokyo into flaming rubble in 1954. That creature was disintegrated at the end of the first movie, but another Godzilla showed up the next year (Godzilla Raids Again 1955/ Gigantis the Fire Monster 1959) and demonstrated the same bad attitude. He continued his evil ways through two more movies until King Ghidorah arrived in 1964 (released in the US as Ghidra the Three Headed Monster 1965). Although still a destructive menace through most of this episode, Godzilla eventually serves the public good by eliminating Ghidorah (with help from Mothra and Rodan), and a sort of truce is effected between Godzilla and mankind. Over the next several movies Godzilla’s relationship with mankind would gradually improve until, by the 1970s, Godzilla was considered a full-blown “good guy”. The Godzilla who returned in 1984 (US Godzilla 1985) was not the good guy Godzilla of the 1970s but the original 1954 bad-natured Godzilla reconstituted.
