Toho: You can have our precious Godzilla rights and integrate him into your mainline story. Don’t reference our movies too much nor too little, after that, do whatever you want.

Stan Lee: Okay…

Marvel Comics Godzilla (1977): RANDOM BULLSHIT, GO!

The Earth-616 Godzilla is noteworthy for being the first incarnation of the character in America and I do mean the FIRST. It wasn’t the Shogun Warriors toy or the Hanna-Barbera show or the TriStar 1998 film, it was this guy. Interestingly enough, per the agreement Stan signed with Toho, this godzilla is vaguely implied to be the Showa era iteration… and yet, the godzilla in the current crossover run not only does not bear any design resemblance nor any origin that even alludes to this run, it’s also implied to be the Showa era Godzilla… okay! Yes, he did fight Thor and Iron Man. Yes, he beat them and the Fantastic Four. No, he didn’t fight Hulk. So in regards to his rights again, Toho upped their fee by like 1979 and Marvel did not wanna pay for it so they let it expire. That said, he does appear as Demonicus’ monster in later issues and is massively reduced in size although sizes were anything but consistent and he’d make his final technically-official appearance in Mighty Avengers Issue 1 of 2007 although he looks a lot more like the Heisei Godzilla Jr before the end of Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah.

Changelog is as follows;
-More saturated and comic-accurate color scheme
-Added comic book-esque details on the face
-Thinner teeth
-Elongated torso and neck
-Thinner, slightly more lean body shape… okay, that isn’t entirely comic accurate…
-Remodeled dorsal plates
-More outer dorsal plates overall, fewer central dorsal plates
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill… which there wasn’t a whole lot of actually!

When no one was looking, Godzilla took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That’s as many as forty tens.

and it’s terrible. One more thing… you like green godzilla? you think he’s cool? Well get on board bitch, we’re riding with the green boys for now on!