Godzilla 2000: Millennium story
Godzilla rampages around Japan as space aliens make a bid to take over the Earth. It is the 24th film in the Godzilla franchise, as well as the first film in the franchise's Millennium period.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space | major | Godzilla single-handedly prevented a crew of space aliens from either adding the Earth to its race's empire or terraforming it as a prelude to colonization - the story is unclear as to whether humanity would be subjugated or exterminated. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | A crew of space aliens, who were never seen directly, made a failed bid to take over the Earth. |
| father and daughter | major | The story follows the independent researcher Yuji Shinoda and his preteen daughter, Io, as they run a Godzilla tracking network. |
| giant monster | major | The titular monster Godzilla. Godzilla battled the giant creature Orga on the streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo, at the end of the film. |
| human vs. monster | major | The titular monster Godzilla wrought havoc in Tokyo among other locations in Japan. In the end, Godzilla saved Tokyo from the possibly even more horrible giant monster, Orga, before continuing its rampage through the city. |
| speculative spaceship | major | An alien spaceship that'd crashed to the bottom of the Japan Trench some 65 million years ago flew around Japan wreaking havoc after a group of well-intentioned raised it to the surface. |
| human childhood | minor | In one scene, Io spoke of balancing getting homework done with running a Godzilla tracking network together with her father, Yuji Shinoda. |
| photography | minor | The photographer Yuki Ichinose was determined to snap a good shot of Godzilla. |
| self-healing ability | minor | The independent researcher Yuji Shinoda discovered the secret to Godzilla's astounding regenerative ability: the giant monster was constituted of special "Regenerator G1" cells that instantly repaired themselves after being subjected to damaged. |
| single fatherhood | minor | Yuji Shinoda was raising Io as a single parent, although nothing much in the way of this storyline was developed. |