The King of the Monsters has had an enduring 72-year legacy, with various eras marking pivotal changes.

There aren't a ton of Godzilla movies where he's an unambiguous hero, but there are a few good ones, like Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs. Gigan.

He’s been dissolved at the bottom of the ocean, frozen solid in an iceberg, blown up in a volcano, disintegrated in an atomic meltdown, and killed by missiles on the Brooklyn Bridge, but thanks to the ...