User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Speculative Spitballing: Goliath/@comment-25555436-20150608190144/@comment-25555436-20150608201910

-Remember most Kaiju movies had very low budgets, especially the Showa Godzilla. All the budget went to the Monster destroying the city if not to the Monster Fight, with only the minimal going to the rest.

It's because of the low budget that rarely is any effort put into visual effects that show the military doing any noticeable damage against them. Now, bullets, these are too small to do any good against them. Artillery does cause damage, but small, the equivalent to a scratch for us, and as most monsters have Healing Factor one way or another...and even if they don't, they are either focused on something else to give a damn, or the damage caused is just too small to give a damn.

Plus said military is killed by the monster simply walking, so even if they could do some bigger damage, they wouldn't last long enough.

Ever fought a Monster in Monster Hunter with a weapon with a weak-enough edge? The weapon bounces back on impact. You still cause damage to the monster, you can even kill it that way, but the damage is pathetically small cherry tapping is pretty much impossible if not extenuating. That's exactly what happens here. Damage is caused, but is too low to make any difference or for the monster to even care.

-I know that, but still, that's how it works for Godzilla. Nuclear explosions are a cake for him, the explosion deals good damage but is not enough to kill him on the spot, and the radiation is inmediately absorbed by Godzilla, healing his wounds almost-inmediately and reversing the damage received.

The only thing that could truly kill him once and for all was that Oxygen thing, and Destoroyah who was made of it.