It seems like half of his movies involve the big guy trying to make rubble out of Tokyo while the military tries to make sushi out of him, and the other half have him saving the city from the likes of Mothra, Smog Monster, et. al.
So which is it? What’s his real m.o.?
IMHO he is a neutral guy:)
The movie that prompted me to ask this lame question just ended a few minutes ago, and Godzilla was defeated!! By a couple of oversized maggots, no less! Geez, I didn’t think the big G ever got KO’d.
Kinda shakes my faith in, well… something.
Neutral? Then he’s (she’s?) got some real issues with his/her neutrality.
Gojira’s an animal. Period. When you take the series as a whole, both being the ‘good guy’ (Pulping the other monsters), and a ‘bad guy’ (Crunchong Tokyo) could be explained as a big old animal defending his territory.
How about Gamera?
Poor Godzilla (Rook! Eet’s Godzirra!).
The scaly bastard is so misunderstood, but really just wants to belong. Too bad about that halitosis problem.
Godzilla was always, IMHO, a misunderstood repitilian. How would you feel if at the buffet line midgets starting shooting toothpicks at your ass? I wouldn’t be happy either.
Godzilla is a guy? I thought she was a reptile.
This is the Lassie thing all over again!
I agree with the analysis that Godzilla is just defeding his territory. Let one monster kill the other, then the humans will just deal with whichever wouded monster is left over. Kinda like Olive Oyle does with Popeye and Bluto.
This is getting off point, but what ever happened to Johnny Soko and his Giant Robot? Does that ever get run anymore? It was a great show!
[Army of Darkness]
Good… Bad… I’m the guy with the rubber suit.
[/Army of Darkness]
And Ultraman! Don’t forget Ultraman!
Godzilla is a force of nature, like an earthquake, a hurricane, a tsunami. He is a dragon-force that emerges from the deep. “Good” and “bad” aren’t qualifiers that can apply to him, for Gojira simply is.
And a good thing, too. If the big critter weren’t around, the Japanese might develop a dangerous military again. As it is, he simply emerges to help cull it down to more reasonable levels every few years.
I don’t know if Godzilla is good or bad, but I just watched the remake movie, and boy is that terrible!.
IMHO. Godzilla was more-or-less neutral (unless he was fighting an obviously BAD monster, such as Ghedra)… Gamera ([MST3K]Gamera!?! Get the Camera![/MST3K]), on the other hand was definitely a good guy… and friend of all children everywhere.
Both were good fun to have around, but Mothra had no redeeming qualities whatsoever (except the two really cute tiny Japanese girls who summoned him (her? it?)). 
But that pooch-screw of a flick wasn’t Godzilla’s fault!
nods vigorously
[SINGING]history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.[/SINGING]
Well, lets see. He’s spent years trampling most of Japan and New York City. The puts him way up on the good guy scale to me.
Its kinda like the Yankees. I don’t really care who it is, or if they do it respectably, but as long as they beat the Yankees they’re America’s team. So if Gojira breaks Tokyo on purpose, or just happens to in the process fighting the resident giant mutant, its really a moot point. Tokyo/New York in rubble = heroic.