a dog dies
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No dogs are featured in the original Godzilla film.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
an animal dies
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The technology used to kill Godzilla is first demonstrated on aquarium fish, which are reduced to skeletons and then to nothing at all. Near the beginning of the film, dead fish and trilobites are found in Godzilla's footprints. Godzilla, himself, does not survive the movie.
a pet dies
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We see birds in an aviary during a monster attack, their fate is unknown but probably not good
animals are abused
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Godzilla is implied to have mutated and grown in size due to being hit by bombs for nuclear testing, scarring him and possibly killing off the majority of his species.
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
someone breaks a bone
Yes
a kid dies
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In one scene, a mother is seen holding her children, saying that they will be with their father soon. It is not known if they survive.
In a later scene, a child is scanned with a Geiger counter, with the counter detecting a large, and implied to be fatal, amount of radiation.
a baby cries
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can't recall any "baby" babies, but in the aftermath of one of the attacks a very little girl wails for her dying/dead mother.
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone disabled played by able-bodied
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One of the main characters lost an eye during the war and has to wear an eyepatch. His actor isn't disabled and has two working eyes
a family member dies
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In the original Japanese version, a woman is seen on the street holding her children when Godzilla is on his huge rampage towards the end of the second act. She tells them that they will all be "where daddy is soon."
a parent dies
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A mother is seen comforting her children during one of Godzilla's rampage, and says that they will be with their father soon, implying that he was killed off-screen in the rampage.
Additionally, in a scene after a rampage, a child is seen in a hospital crying over her mother's death.
someone cheats
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Two characters are in love and the woman is engaged to someone else. She means to break it off with him but never gets around to it.
there's natural bodies of water
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Godzilla is consistently shown living in and coming out of natural bodies of water.
someone is eaten
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We don't see Godzilla eat anyone though a character does say this will happen. However the creature does bite a train carriage full of people so it is possible.
there's eye mutilation
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Dr. Serizawa wears an eyepatch, with an eye injury mentioned relating to World War II.
there's a hospital scene
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After Godzilla is driven back into the sea, there is a scene showing a multitude of people receiving medical treatment. People are carried on stretchers and doctors and nurses rush about, tending to as many as possible. A girl screams and sobs as her unconscious mother is taken away for treatment. A doctor is shown scanning children for radiation and it is implied that everyone has been irradiated. The scene may or may not take place in an actual hospital, but more closely resembles a war zone, with people laid out on the ground.
someone has an eating disorder
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No but a character mentions not being able to eat for days due to horror or shock
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
someone has a mental illness
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Not specified but one character chooses to sit alone in a dark room which suggests possible depression
someone has an anxiety attack
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A character cradles their head in their hands in despair at having to make a terrible decision.
someone struggles to breathe
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[Spoilers]
Dr. Serizawa drowns at the end of the movie, but he is not shown struggling to breathe.
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
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The movie is in black and white and features various strobe-like effects. There are many explosions, raging fires, Godzilla's flickering radiation breath, bright camera flashes from news crews, flashing and melting electrical towers, etc.
there's underwater scenes
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The final scene in the movie takes place underwater.
there is a baby or unborn child
Yes
someone speaks hate speech
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The closest to hate speech is the American reporter in the English edit referring to the events of the film as shaking "the civilised world", which has unflattering implications for parts of the world that aren't considered civilised, though is moreso outdated than downright hateful
religion is discussed
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There are prayers
there's suicide
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The scientist who created the new weapon to destroy Godzilla does not want the technology to be used ever again. He destroys all of his research before taking the device underwater and setting it off to kill Godzilla. However, he also notes that he still remembers how to create the weapon and could be coerced. After observing the weapon's effect on Godzilla, he takes out a knife and cuts the line connecting him to the surface so that his friends cannot retrieve him. His death is not shown and it is unclear how he dies.
someone is terminally ill
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Possibly implied when people are tested for radiation poisoning
someone is homeless
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Lots of people evacuated their homes and are displaced after attacks.
the ending is sad
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This is very debatable. Godzilla is defeated, but a major character dies, a great deal of destruction is left in Godzilla's wake, and it is implied that such a creature could attack again.
a car crashes
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In the chaos, at least one vehicle is shown crashing.
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
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Yes, two characters fight off screen and afterwards one has blood trickling down his face which someone else wipes away.
there's gun violence
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Most notably, Godzilla is fired upon using machine guns, tanks, and aircraft with missiles.
someone drowns
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It's unclear. The scientist who kills Godzilla remains underwater and his death is not shown. Cause of death is not implied; he may have allowed himself to drown or he could have easily moved in range of the still-firing weapon. He also had a knife. Godzilla makes thrashing movements underwater that could be upsetting to some, but it is clear that he does not drown.
there's a nuclear explosion
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Near the beginning of the movie, sailors on a ship are seen reacting to a loud noise and a flash of light. This is implied to be Godzilla, but could be seen as an analogy to a nuclear blast.
there's body horror
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We see animals reduced to skeletons but not humans so probably doesn't count as body horror.
someone is burned alive
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Yes, but it's off-screen or played down. We see people get hit by Godzilla's radiation breath. Unlike everything else how breath hits, they do not burst into flashes; they simply fall to the ground, dead. Elsewhere, Godzilla's radiation breath causes raging fires that rapidly destroy buildings and are understood to kill many, though their deaths are not shown.
someone is crushed to death
Yes
someone is buried alive
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Yes but not shown on screen
someone falls to their death
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Most notably, a news crew filming from a tower is shown falling and screaming as Godzilla destroys the tower. They are not shown hitting the ground, but their deaths are understood.
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
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