Sonic the Hedgehog Faces His Biggest Test Yet in Upcoming Godzilla Crossover Comic

Completely random point — to this completely random news — but I never felt Godzilla was particularly compelling as a character. Like, the big lizard's f***in' cool, and its original allegorical nature was provoking. But there's really not much more to do with 'em, I reckon, despite how they continued making movies for 50+ years. I imagine that's why the movies went through a phase of cheesy, fan-service nonsense for decades.

The recent Minus One was fantastic, but that's more because it focused on the human characters. Godzilla really wasn't more than a plot device. Shin I guess did something with its final form being anthropomorphic. But I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean, nor if it's legitimately interesting (I also haven't seen the full movie, so what do I know). Godzilla x Kong is quite possibly the ultimate fate of such a character. Degraded to a Fast & Furious style action hero that stands for nothing (something-something-nature-something).

Sonic either loses or its draw as Godzilla is never allowed a true feat. Its why Superman lost in first fight and had a draw on the 2nd fight despite the fact Superman vastly outclasses Godzilla and could one shot a composite Godzilla verse. They just won't allow Godzilla a true defeat.

@RoomWithaMoose Obviously the best Godzilla stuff is less about him and more about the characters and subtext but generally people love Godzilla because people love watching monsters destroy things and fight each other and well Godzilla is the King of Monsters. It goes back to the childhood joy and urge to smash toys together. Its just fun seeing big monster fight other big monster while wrecking a city in the process.

This should shock me but earlier today I was doing Spiderman/graphic novel/comic research and saw Spiderman versus Godzilla. It too was recent like Spiderman versus Predator, I'd just played the game and big licenses like that are my main draw for graphic novels and comics. Predator versus anyone and I'll read it, then I saw the Godzilla one. I think Minus One was the last one I saw, I haven't seen any of the others before Roland Emmerich's 1998 one. Maybe one day.

@DennisReynolds I just feel like there's enough of that particular brand of content already. Which makes the prospect of Godzilla tired. And, due to their innate nature, there's not much evolution or adaption the character can undergo that would revitalize their stories.

I get how the human stories are the crux of the IP's narrative weight. But that just kinda makes Godzilla ancillary and replaceable. Like Superman just showing up in a story to provide a Deux Ex Machina when he has no narrative, thematic, or character-driven reason to be there. Superman's cool, but if that's all he can do, why even write him into anything?

All my arguments ignore how contemporary fiction is built around IP, brand-recognition, and entertainment first, with artistic intent often lost somewhere between conception and production. So it's all really moot. Godzilla's compelling because they're an icon. And I guess that's fine, just a tad boring.

Though, I suppose the point I really want to make isn't that I think Godzilla is boring. It's that I can't fathom anything particularly engaging being done with them. Godzilla is just a big monster whose metaphorical strengths have already been tapped dry and literal mechanics (of being a big monster) have been permutated every which way possible. All Superman — the character — needs to be interesting is a good writer. For Godzilla, I don't think any writer can make the character interesting per se.