The thing being, of course, that Godzilla and Mechagodzilla both do exactly the wrong thing I just mentioned where they stand and move like a human in a suit (because, obviously, they are a human in a suit) and they're also 20x the height of a T Rex (5 meters vs 100+ meters)
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It's the whole thing where kaiju don't have any biological adaptations to being absurdly huge for a land dwelling animal because they're played by a guy in a rubber suit on a miniature set that makes them extra surreal implies their bodies are many times denser than steel etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @StuartMWilke
Except in Shin Godzilla where the whole plot is based on this
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @StuartMWilke
I mean Shin Godzilla is in the same mold as the Angels from Eva where they were, like, abstract Lovecraftian horror
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Replying to @arthur_affect @StuartMWilke
True, but I took part of the horror to be the implication that Godzilla himself was in agony specifically bc of the square cube law
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"GOD, WHY AM I SO BIG!?"
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There's that... weird Twilight Zone episode where a little person gets hit by the Be Careful What You Wish For bat After a particularly bad incident being bullied he screams at God "I want to be big, do you hear me?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
You can probably imagine the ending so I won't go into it but it prominently features him screaming in agony "I'M TOO BIG, OH GOD, I'M TOO BIG"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
Man who on the writing staff thought this was a moral lesson that really needed teaching
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
"be careful what you wish for" is the fairy-tale equivalent of science fiction's "we've gone too far!"pic.twitter.com/7FbksZ3Zso
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A trans woman who wishes for more effective HRT and gets boobs that grow exponentially until they engulf the planet
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Replying to @perdricof @beetlefella101 and
Surreal horror and porn are two sides of the same coin
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