Godzilla & Symbolism

For those who want some inside information, the "biodroid" at the end of Fantasmagoria is kind of a cross between MechaGodzilla and Mogera.

In the original movie arcs from the 60s and 70s, MechaGodzilla was build by a race of invading aliens who needed to kill the king of the monsters before they could take over the earth. In the 90s-era reboots, MechaG was built by the human race to combat the big guy after he destroyed Mogera, our first attempt at a robotic counterthreat.

In both cases, the machine is the perfect symbolic counterpart to Godzilla, who is another in a long line of elemental giant beasts from the depths, including Cthulhu, the Kraken, the Leviathan of the Bible, all the way back to Tiamat, if you know your Sumerian mythology.

"Depths," by the way, can refer to the ocean, the subconscious, deep space, or anything similar. This is the formless void, the unknowable chaos that exists outside our ken and which must be vanquished for human society to flourish.

And so, in the earliest recorded creation story, Marduk the creator-god (who represents order) slays Tiamat (who represents chaos), an act that must be honored as part of the annual cycle (or eternal return) to ensure the proper continuation of the universe. Civilization over nature.

The same battle manifests in the Lovecraftian mythos as that between sanity and insanity, and you see echoes in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, on which Stan Lee based the Hulk.

My character Kraxus the Destroyer is supposed to evoke, albeit very weakly, those greats beasts from the depths. I keep it simple so as not to distract from the action, which is more fun both to read and to write.

And now I will go back to playing with my Godzilla toys.

We want the funk! Give us the funk!

Laying it down on the Smog Monster.

G-man takes a break from saving/destroying the world to pose with the missus.

Pardon me. Would you have any Grey Poupon?

You heard me! You can suck it!