As someone pointed out upthread (I’d quote the specific poster but I’m too lazy to scroll up, though oddly not too lazy to type long pointless parenthetical digressions like this one), if the Japanese have survived at all they have surely been obliged to come up with some hellacious new weaponry. Once the last kaiju is dead, there might be a movement to take revenge on the bloody Yanks who woke up Gojira et al in the first place.
The key phrase being “survived at all.”
If it looks like they’re going to get anything remotely effective going, we just drop another nuke and not only take out their top scientists and their weapons, but breed even more monsters. Win-win.
I watched Tokyo Joe this weekend. If Bogie were on the side of post war Japan, it would be a different story.
What if Gamera was real? I hear he’s really neat!
Ah, but you are forgetting about the Ray Harryhausen monsters that keep attacking San Francisco. I think Japan and the USA would form an alliance against the mutual enemy.
They might be upset with us at first, but once the other, non-nuke-induced kaiju start showing up, they’d be grateful that, thanks to the US, they have one in their corner to defend them.
Not to mention candid.
As Godzilla became a defender of Japan, it is logic to suppose that the Japanese found a way to control him and the other monsters (Probably with an interface controlled by kids or a box with little singers (don’t ask)).
I would think that the US would notice the monster gap and attempt to develop some of their own.
I don’t know if its the slight beer-buzz I got going or what, but in the roughly 8 years I’ve been surfin’ the Dope, this is the funniest Thread Title I’ve ever seen!
I’ve been lauging uncontrollably for nearly 5 minutes! My sides ache, I’m crying and I nearly wet my boxers! 
Like King Kong and some kind of overgrown iguana? No, I think it’s clear that America’s ability to develop giant monster technologies is inferior to Japan. It might take fifty years before America could finally create something viable in that regard.
On the other hand, we’ve got Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and–most devastatingly of all–Chuck Norris. The Kaiju had better stay on their side of the ocean–although, admittedly, Batman’s not especially trustworthy.
I don’t believe in Godzilla. I believe in Gamera.
Apropos of nothing, but I wrote a story once in which a society of dragons , for various reasons I won’t go into, have access to cable TV. They’re very torn about kaiju movies, regarding them as either tragedies, anti-dragon propaganda, or holy texts. Some of them worship Ghidorah, and others Godzilla.
[nitpick]Godzilla was awakened by US hydrogen bomb tests, not the WW2 use of atomic bombs.[/nitpick]
I still believe in Gamera, you bastard!
What the hell are you talking about?
First, there was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, next there was Pride and Prometheus, and then Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (with a trailer on YouTube no less!).
And next, Great Expectations and Godzilla!
The U.S. loves to put on our white hats, saddle up, and ride to the rescue. Especially if we woke up the critters in the first place. Clearly we’d make things right, even if we had to send Cowboy Bill Watts and Dusty Rhodes to team with Giant Baba & Antonio Inoki in a Wargames match against Godzilla, Mothra, Rhodan, and Gamera.
Besides, the US has Them! We just lob a few tons of sugar into Tokyo harbor and wait. After the carnage, King Kong can handle the mop up.
Monster gap? What monster gap?
“Oh, sure, now you want Yucca Mountain operational and in a screaming hurry. Damn hippies.”
On another note of semi-serious, can you imagine the political counter-arguments? I mean, if you blame the U.S. for Godzilla, how do you explain all those other, completely non-nuclear Kaiju that started appearing after him? It’s a classic post hoc argument by “green” pundits and lobbyists of a certain political membership, misinterpreting a natural environmental process in order to further their own agendas. There’s no proof of causality from the nuclear tests—if anything, they simply infused Godzilla with enough radioactivity to make the creature easier to track…or even kill it outright from radiation-induced illness, justifying the creation of the weapons program, and the inclusion of Japan under the western nuclear umbrella!
…It did give him atomic flame-breath, though. Sorry about that.
With Mothra in a veil as Mrs. Haversham, andMinya as Pip.
