# Godzilla is Back -- and he's Buff and Toothy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-is-back-and-hes-buff-and-toothy/742216
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 5, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-is-back-and-hes-buff-and-toothy/742216 "2016-01-05T13:26:39Z")
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-is-back-and-hes-buff-and-toothy/742216/1 "2016-01-05T13:26:39Z")
> **[Godzilla Doesn't Look Like This Anymore](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/godzilla-leaked-new-photos_n_568b4a84e4b014efe0db80bc)**
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> The King of the Monsters looks scarred and bloodied.
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> Godzilla will be back in this summer’s “Godzilla: Resurgence,” and it looks like he’s had an extreme makeover.
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> The King of the Monsters will make his first appearance in a Japanese film since 2004’s “Godzilla: Final Wars,” and images leaked online show what appears to be a frightening new form:
> August Ragone, author of “Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters,” confirmed on his website that the images were real and snapped at Toho Studios.
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> Toho has made all 28 Japanese Godzilla films and is producing the new one, which is being called “Shin Gojira” in Japanese and “Godzilla: Resurgence” in English.
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> While some of the Godzilla designs over the years have had a more friendly look, this is definitely not one of them, showing a scarred and bloodied monster.
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> Multiple reports suggest this Godzilla is much bigger than the typical design used in Toho films. In the past, the creature has often required just a single person inside a “Godzilla suit,” but this one may be more of a puppet
Pictures show that Goszilla has pretty visible “muscle lines” on his chest, suggesting that he’s been lifting weights. The Godzilla in the more recent 2014 Warner Brothers outing, on the other hand, looked kinda _zaftig_ (which prompted one observer to say that “Real _Kaiju_ Have Curves”). He also has LOTS of teeth, sticking out at weird angles. It looks like a throwback to Godzilla’s second movie, _Gojira no Gyakushū_ (released as _Gigantis the Fire Monster_ in the US, and put on video as _Godzilla Raids Again_), where they clearly put in all the Kaiju Teeth they could get their hands on:
[https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=AwrBT.WIxItWkYAAPx1XNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Gigantis+the+Fire+Monster&fr=&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-yahoo-default#id=305&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbecominggodzilla.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FmovieSuit2\_12.jpg&action=click](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT.WIxItWkYAAPx1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Gigantis+the+Fire+Monster&fr=&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-yahoo-default#id=305&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbecominggodzilla.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FmovieSuit2_12.jpg&action=click)
[https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=AwrBT.WIxItWkYAAPx1XNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Gigantis+the+Fire+Monster&fr=&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-yahoo-default#id=567&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbecominggodzilla.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FmovieSuit2\_05.jpg&action=click](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT.WIxItWkYAAPx1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Gigantis+the+Fire+Monster&fr=&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-yahoo-default#id=567&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbecominggodzilla.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FmovieSuit2_05.jpg&action=click)
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-is-back-and-hes-buff-and-toothy/742216/2 "2016-01-05T13:42:37Z")
Yeah, he’s been in the gym. Complete body make-over, lots of weight lifting and aerobics (Zuma?). And some clear plastic surgery there, I think he’s been using the same guy Kathy Griffin goes to.
It’s been a long wait. Glad to see the big guy back.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-is-back-and-hes-buff-and-toothy/742216/3 "2016-01-05T13:59:28Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Yeah, he’s been in the gym. Complete body make-over, lots of weight lifting and aerobics (Zuma?). .
No. _'Zilla_