Does Godzilla even breathe air? And other kaijuology

[Tsyroc]

For the early films (Pre- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster) I basically concluded that Godzilla's breath weapon was a spray of superheated radioactive gas. What that gas was is anyones guess.

That's essentially what the Jan DeBont Godzilla movie was going to do with the character except that they were going to step it up so that the super heated gas that Godzilla expelled would be so hot that it would ionize the air so it actually would look like flame of some sort.

[Anguirus]

The range and power seems pretty good, maybe not quite as good as GMKG's version.

Noticeably better by my analysis. (In a debate on Kaijuphile I screencapped EVERY time that guy fires his ray. GMK Godzilla's ray's mushroom cloud is a clear outlier, whereas nearly every time Kiryu-Godzilla fires it does something crazy like hurl Kiryu across the city.)

I'm a fan of the '60s look of the atomic blast as well (well, except when it's just a steam hose in the suit) but I also like the more recent Godzilla VFX. His beam truly reached ludicrous power levels in Godzilla Final Wars, in which his regular blasts are one-hit-kills and his charged or red blasts are mind-boggling.