Alt text: actually when you get down to it Godzilla is probably just a metaphor for an even bigger lizard.
What about a Godzilla movie where she's a metaphor for revolution and everyone ends up happy that she destroyed all the banks and police stations
The choice of including hegel in this one is weird as his philosophy isnt really relevant here
Also he's easily understood in this comic, which is exactly no one's experience of interacting with Hegel's philosophy
I guess Hegel's probably used because he is associated with the term "zeitgeist"? Basically Godzilla is a big cultural phenomenon because the films reflect wider contemporary social intellectual contexts/"spirit of the times", and not just because of "innate" qualities. The comic doesn't appear to engage any further with Hegelian philosophy, but I can see some connection with Hegel, and thinking about zeitgeist seems like a decent entry point to further dialectical investigation about pop culture.
I see Hegel's name and because my brain is cursed, I start thinking about how one of the most beloved stories involving post-apoc wasteland fiction happened because some fckin wisconsinite fundamentally misunderstood Hegel and somehow became a Roman LARPer over it
What if Godzilla fought a giant monkey and he gets thrown across an island and then the military comes in with tanks and jets and shoots them with guns and then Godzilla spits a giant laser and the giant monkey shields it with his freaking paw
yeah, godzilla has to be updated for today's fears.
so let's make him an asshole cop harassing minorities or something...
Nostalgia definitely destroys buildings. All over Europe right-wing think tanks get cities to build reactionary Disneyland versions of "traditional architecture". In Berlin they rebuilt the fucking city castle where the East Germany seat of government sat and in Frankfurt they rebuilt the "Altstadt" on top of a fucking parking garage.
They don't want you to know this but Jens Stoltenberg is actually a Toho plant whose goal is to increase tensions between NATO and its enemies, bringing back nuclear anxiety and creating a second Godzilla renaissance.
The monsterverse movies have sort of made godzilla and the kaijus a metaphor for climate change. It doesn't really work as they executed it...but there was an attempt and I do think there's something you could do with that.
