Working on #paleoart of a rearing Kentrosaurus for the Palaeogames book today. It's not doing any favours to dissuade my opinion that Godzilla is best interpreted as a gigantic, bipedal, carnivorous stegosaur - official canonical backstory be damned!
@markwitton If I remember correctly, in the first movie it is stated that Godzilla is a hybrid of a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus, which is of course ridiculous for many, many reasons, but does describe the design-process behind him quite well.
In addition to that, in some iterations, his face has quite mammalian features reminiscent of Asian dragons, such as a rhinarium and external ears. Perhaps he is no dinosaur at all but a kind of synapsid.
@TKSivgin The folks behind the film stated that Tyrannosaurus, Iguanodon and Stegosaurus were used to design Godzilla, but I don't think they talk about hybrids in the film. IIRC, it's just ID'd as a mutated dinosaur. The theropod stuff comes later - they find the dinosaur species Godzilla was mutated from, and it's a T. rex-knockoff.
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