Or a lot of little ones. Let’s be honest here.
At least we won’t have to speak softly then.
Well, with the G-man doing all that yelling who can hear anyway? Might as well use the cover.
The problem is not just killing it, but killing it in a way it won’t fall on you when it dies.
We’ll have to lure it back into the ocean, where a bunch of nuclear subs are waiting with plenty of torpedoes.
They tried that in the 1998 (?) movie and Godzilla just squished the sub.
Don’t blame me, I voted for stronger cube-square law regulation. These assholes on Fox News think if we let monsters get gigantic and run amok they’ll magically create jobs.
See? That movie broke something important in my brain, because I have zero memory of that. Or a lot of the movie actually.
Can’t we just upload a virus into Godzilla using an old MacBook?
Did you all learn nothing from the Alien franchise? In real life, the government would not set out to kill Godzilla; rather, it would sacrifice any number of troops to try to capture it, in order to build an army of Godzilla-enhanced super-soldiers.
They work for (re)construction companies.
And doesn’t that explain why the Japanese government is always propping up the construction industry? It’s really kaiju repairs! They just don’t want to admit it!
I wish I could block out that movie too.
Godzilla meets Cthulhu.
Who wins?
Cthulhu ain’t Bambi.
I read a Godzilla comic book in the 60’s in which he/she was attacked with a thermonuclear Polaris missile. Being hungry, he/she tried to eat it. The blast did no damage but G was very annoyed by it. In the original movie that hot Japanese scientist couple kill him/her with a device that depletes the oxygen in the ocean where he/she is hanging out. It has always intrigued me that, less than a generation after Tokyo was incinerated by American B-29 Superfortresses there was a Japanese movie about an unstoppable monster attacking and burning Tokyo.
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As I recall, the rule for nuking Cthulhu is something like “he reforms in 1d4 rounds, except now he’s angry and radioactive.”
Actually given that it produces offspring with human women, the problem is that we’d really like for it to stop touching us.
We learned that if you use the nuclear option, you need to use an orbital launching platform. Otherwise you just can’t be sure you’ll nail the sucker.
The new US Navy Railgun leaps to mind, if a hardened steel penetrator was used.
Skull-buster, for certain.
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IF Godzilla exists, then it possesses physical qualities that appear to be either some uber-tech from … aliens? ancient civilizations? Tony Stark? or it is just magic. The thing is something like 328 feet tall and 60,000 tons. With several attack modes, the most notable - atomic breath, the quintessential radioactive heat ray, Godzilla can devastate large swathes of cityscapes. He is apparently able to withstand an atomic bomb attack and actually lives off of radiation.
I’d love this card in my Magic deck.
So, he can’t be killed by conventional weapons or atomic weapons. He doesn’t eat and can live submerged in sea water indefinitely.
Perhaps lasers at his eyes to blind him (temporarily) then bait him into a pit and trap him there. Entombing him in magma (or concrete as noted upthread) would merely cause him to go into hibernation. Sequel anyone?
But, if you have him trapped, then what? He’s too heavy to lift to orbit. Maybe throwing him into a subduction zone? In his magma overshoes? Maybe a deep trench. Active volcano is tempting, but that just inevitably ends up with a new eruption with an irritated Godzilla showing up just in time for … yes another movie.
Maybe we should find Cthulhu and see what he thinks we should do.
I did some work on the counter-giant-monster issue some years back.
DU penetrators aren’t very useful - very small diameter (about 20mm for an Abrams round), no payload and they don’t go as far through flesh as you might expect. Too geared up for going through steel and turning it into lethal fragments.
Current bunker busters are not designed to hit moving targets.
By far the best option would be weapons designed to take out large, heavily-armored moving targets – eg battleships. Large naval artillery would be perfect.
I think you’ll find this is why HMS Belfast is permanently moored by Tower Bridge in London.