I'm aware. But they don't have to fight like idiots. Generally in the other eras of Godzilla movies the military is basically made to engage in a specific way and doesn't really have a choice. This is different from the US voluntarily sailing ships into a flooded city to engage a titan with weaponry they know is unlikely to do anything and where they'll be sitting ducks to retaliatory attacks.
Also, like, I know I'm stupid for having to say this, but: BVR combat doesn't look good on screen, jesus christ.
This is a great time to ask some relevant questions that I can use for muh fanfic. ANYONE CAN ANSWER.
Let's say the backstory/events of 2014 happen, just a bit differently. Godzilla is awoken in 1954 via nuclear testing. He goes and accidentally gets nuked at Bikini Atoll (emerging next to the nuke) and is potentially seen again at another test, but presumed dead/missing, and he's not really a priority? However, given that this is weird and holy shit giant monster, MONARCH is founded (I'm making it a UN thing though) but it's very discrete and given that there's no evidence of Godzilla after say 1960, and the whole Cold War, very few people care about MONARCH and it gets little attention or funding. 1) Is this even vaguely realistic in terms of a response? If not, how can it be made realistic but also fit a movie setting?
Most of the 2014 happens functionally-the fight in SF, etc.
2) When would the military consider using nuclear weapons against Godzilla and the female MUTO? Assume the male wings it to SF and chills for a few days (marking territory, etc.) while the female makes its way from the Midwest/Vegas (or thereabouts) on land and Godzilla does the ocean trek.
3) What are the other military options that would be tried beforehand (liberal use of bunker busters and the like against the female, chemical weapons, etc.)? If Godzilla is swimming to SF on the surface, but
is not actively hostile, would the military's response change to Godzilla in particular? MONARCH would have comparatively little information on their behavior, but would know and inform the military that Godzilla was
apparently nuked twice and while he wasn't seen for 60 years, he's fine now. However, there's no such proof for the MUTOs.
Okay so I'm gonna assume until proven otherwise that at some point even in a realistic scenario, the military would try nuking the kaiju after bunker busters and the like fail in doing more than briefly grabbing their attention. I'd
guess they try nuking the female when it's in the desert, and ideally my version of the movie would actually have this happen, but assume that they do a near-contact detonation with a 1 megaton nuke and it basically pisses the female off. Minor physical damage in the form of minor burns on the exoskeleton, and the female was hurled back a bit, but that's it.
4) If nukes are demonstrated to be mostly ineffective against the female MUTO, and the male MUTO is in SF (that's still being evacuated), what would the military try to do next? And how can we make it into a decent movie plan?
thank you all <3
(I got some KOTM context military questions too)
