Originally posted by theTANTALIZER
I was wondering if 2014 Godzilla has regenerative abilities?
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He seems to, as both Papa Muto and Mama Muto stabbed him dozens of times a piece. The dad even did a belly splash with his talons pointed down. He was also bitten and mauled several times and impaled when they finally got him on the ground. Yet when he woke up and left in the end, you couldn't see any wounds, just dried blood.
But it's just as speculative that they could have tanked that blast. None of the human weaponry used on the monsters was beyond that used on the Kaiju. They even said in the film that while they absorb radiation, they probably wouldn't withstand the massive kinetic energy of the nuke. The speculation can go either way.
Gypsy withstood a megaton nuke blast underwater, and the thrusters overcame atmospheric reentry, so it's no slouch, and again, we don't know how it will affect the monsters. We don't know the exact nature or temperature of the atomic breath, because it was literally used only on the mutos. Gypsy's thrusters could be hotter. We don't know for certain.
Originally posted by Epicurus
And a heck of a lot tougher. Withstood a 1.2 megaton nuke point blank to the face. A similar weaponSpoiler:.
would have ended Goji and the MUTOs
Not at all. Despite what one soldier claims, nukes with megaton yields were "tested" by America on Bikini island in 1954. And we see Godzilla see hit by one of the Bikini island nukes in 1954.