Shin Godzilla (i̶s̶/ was female) (2021)

Watching the movie, & after noticing some details-

I believe Shin Godzilla was originally a female creature, Goro merging his DNA with hers, in combination with the radioactive waste- made it unisex. 

In spite of the form of address in the movie being “he/his”, so even as it’s a he/it now, my point is it began as female before Goro did what he did.

That explains why the 5th-6th forms were drawn to take an explicitly feminine form in spite of the ONLY human DNA sample it consumed was male to begin with. 

Side note: The expression on Humanoid Gojira is more relaxed, peaceful; Not being a threat by choice, given time, it could’ve been able to communicate to an extent with humanity or simply leave altogether for it’s own haven elsewhere.

Alas, it's inner monologue via WHO WILL KNOW is of a female & male voice, and most of the main verses are sung by a woman. (Reach, but an interesting note) 

Goro is male:

And it is believed by some /including me that the “Who Will Know” ensemble was intentionally mixed gender to establish Gojira as unisex. (Which that context, not so much of a reach, but an unintentional addition to the lore)

So, where does the female persuasion come from? Godzilla is unisex/ male-ish now, but it's pre-mutation form, fish form, it was female, is my take. Logically.

Goro was not a female, the only other possibility of female DNA to derive is the fish form prelude to Gojira.

Now i almost debunked myself: “Nah, it/she was an asexually reproductive fish. Agender. Boom. Next-“

However-

Being the last of her race, she couldn’t have been asexually capable of procreating at the time, before.

Why? Well, simply put, if she was, why aren’t there multiple Godzilla’s? She was the ONLY one of her species to eat the waste?

• Unless, she’s a stray/rogue member. Which is unlikely, in that entire bay, only one of her kind managed to get to all that waste? Only her??? unlikely.
• The average fish would corrode & die, from the radiation, she’s of a race that is long extinct or not discovered yet. She’s the only one to feed & change because “she” is the only one left.

And the cloning ability makes for a bizarre form of giving “birth”. 

And seeing “she” has male DNA, while very miniscule in sample, the “children” would then take the form of both their genetic parents; Goro & Gojira. 

Inter-species reproduction, 2 of different sexes, literally “intercourse’d” as one, breeding new life; From the first new species, Godzilla itself.

And if it weren’t for the Yashiori Plan (Goro’s direct assistance after his death), their spawn would’ve ravaged Japan if not the Planet. So there’s that.

• Weird, yes.  
• But story wise, Stephen King levels of horrifically brilliant.
• Makes you look at the movie differently, this was a dawn of a hostile takeover. ONLY because Gojira couldn’t speak out loud.

The beast was simply lost & afraid, and most likely in pain. And then it was shed blood by the bombers, then it was personal. 

From a narrative standpoint, with no mate of the same genus to confide in or procreate with, she, reasonably, was all that was left.

But as Gojira, it wasn’t a “She” anymore, but still alone. A violent violation of it’s genetics, from the waste mankind dumped in the bay. How was it supposed to know it was toxic, why would someone dump in there in the first place?

Loneliness and isolation; which is translated in the poster. Just he/her/ just It, in the void. Nothing else, nobody, that’s how it feels the entire movie.

Now mutated, she belongs to no genetic family/genus or species, truly one of a kind. Not even Goro can keep her company now, since she presumably ate him, mistaking him for marine life to feed on (though his intentions were not accidental) or she absorbed him unintentionally. 

Regardless, he’s dead, she- now It/”he”/they are truly alone.

Not intentionally trying to kill people, again the occasion it did fight back was AFTER humanity drew blood. It didn’t react to getting shot with bullets, or Japan’s ground forces bombs. 

After it was legitimately hurt; as it started to retaliate it was given a song, an inner monologue of it’s pain & thoughts. Even if the gender of the ensemble is a theory, the lyrics of the song representing Gojira’s feelings, is 100% confirmed.

As i’m watching the movie, thinking about this little theory; It’s attempt to clone itself, might’ve been it’s own way to rid itself of it’s loneliness. Massive stretch, most likely wasn’t the intention, but if i was a twisted existence, in constant pain and the only company i had were tiny organisms trying to kill me & i didn’t consciously know why; I’d clone myself too, for protection or a bizarre desire for friends or a family, even if it was I, me and myself.

And who knows, Goro might’ve been reborn in the spawn, or the spawn might’ve manifested their own will, a hivemind, etc. 

As depressing as it is, there’s either comfort in the fact that it’s/she’s at some crude form of peace, frozen in place; Or, it’s/she’s/he’s forever trapped in it’s/her/his/it’s own body, unable to move, going insane, still in pain, more than it/she/he/they was to begin with. 

Surrounded by little ones, the enemy. No more fighting or pain (Or it is?), but still in the same place it was in the beginning: Alone

Toho still got it.