>>122591463I feel like that was the biggest flaw with KOTM, they failed to give Godzilla a more nuanced character. He was the hero of the story, which was fine for the first movie, but this should've been when he had a chink in his armor, not the third movie. Vs Kong had him as a "Villain", but at the same time what he was doing was heroic because he knew the danger Ghidorah posed and they were using him specifically, so the Apex part of the story even though he looks bad was entirely good. But the Kong side showed us a more vindictive and angry version of Godzilla, someone who still had a very old grudge with Kong's Species, not Kong himself. He didn't just beat Kong, he was going to drown him, and only left because he had a more important mission to get to. If he'd stayed on course and just charged right for the source he knew was evil, movie would be over. But he couldn't let the old fight go and thought he had more time. So he changed course to go fight with a Kong who was in no shape to fight on the water and had not issued a challenge, just because to him it meant something a lot more. I think the tunnel scene was the crux of that, the threat he knew he had to face was literally right in front of him, if he just kept going Mechagodzilla never gets turned on and he can fight Kong at any time. But Kong went into *that* temple, where the movie showed us the corpses of Godzillas and made it clear that a battle with his species took place, and he turned it on. Even though Godzilla knew what he *Had* to do, he gave it up for what he *wanted* to do, when in reality Kong would've probably stayed down there anyway, and he got his ass kicked sideways for not making the right choice.
Vs Kong really highlighted how old Godzilla is, how much he's seen and how he's not just some sort of earth spirit or something. He has personal feelings on things that are older than anyone alive knows, he remembers things they don't. He's fallible, he can make mistakes, and he can grow.
