Draft:Shin Godzilla (character)

Shin Godzilla (in Japanese: シン・ゴジラ, Shin Gojira) depicted in its film as "Godzilla", is the titular main protagonist of Hideaki Anno's 2016 horror disaster kaiju film Shin Godzilla and the secondary antagonist in the crossover event 4-D short Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D.

Shin Godzilla is a bizarrely hyper-evolved lifeform, mutated by feeding on nuclear waste dumped on the seafloor in the 1950s. Now capable of spontaneously adapting to different situations, the Giant Unidentified Lifeform came ashore in Tokyo in 2016 and immediately wreaked havoc, with all of the Japanese Self Defense Forces' weapons having no effect on him. He was finally defeated by a complex plan orchestrated by government official Rando Yaguchi, but still could not be killed and remained a potential threat as he stood frozen in the ruins of Tokyo.

Unlike many past incarnations of Godzilla before him (who were either villains, anti-heroes or heroes), Shin Godzilla was neither, but instead was driven by his instinct for survival and adaptation. He was at first indifferent, if not merely unaware of humans, until they hurt him, which with these factors puts him at odds with humanity. Compared to his past incarnations, Shin Godzilla is also significantly more grotesque, monstrous, and biologically bizarre due to his capacity for evolve itself at near-constant state through self-mutation.

Biography
Shin Godzilla originated as a prehistoric marine animal of some kind, proposed by Professor Goro Maki to be a relative of Paleozoic marine reptiles, which managed to survive into the 20th century. When the United States dumped barrels of nuclear waste into Tokyo Bay in the 1950s, the creature began feeding on this waste, causing him to mutate. In 2016, the creature had grown into gigantic size and was dwelling in the waters of Tokyo Bay.