True. But I was talking specifically about Godzilla, and there’s a reason I emphasized the word “natural” – I may not have seen the movies, but I know that Godzilla specifically represents nuclear weaponry, with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks (as well as an incident where the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were contaminated by nuclear fallout from American testing at Bikini Atoll in 1954) fresh in Japanese consciousness when the first Godzilla movie was made.

So kaijus in general are often associated with natural disasters, but Godzilla in particular is tied to a distinctly man-made one.

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