History YMMV / GodzillaVsHedorah

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hedorah himself has become a very popular kaiju among the fanbase, thanks to his unusual origin, extreme strength and the fact that he's one of Godzilla's strongest opponents in the entire franchise, having nearly killed the King of the Monsters several times during this film. As a result, he's shown up in a wide variety of sources, including the ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' and a host of different comic books, short films, video games and other assorted media.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Hedorah himself has become a very popular kaiju among the fanbase, thanks to his unusual origin, extreme strength and the fact that he's one of Godzilla's strongest opponents in the entire franchise, having nearly killed the King of the Monsters several times during this film.

** Godzilla's theme. It's meant to make him heroic, but the use of blaring horns makes it sound less like Akira Ifukube's traditionally intense leitmotif and more like Godzilla is a drunk fat guy who just stumbled out of a laidback circus.

** Godzilla's theme. It's meant to make him heroic, but the use of blaring horns make it sound less like Akira Ifukube's traditionally intense leitmotif and more like Godzilla is a drunk fat guy who just stumbled out of a laidback circus.

** Godzilla's background music when he enters, it sounds less like his traditionally intense leitmotif and more like he stumbled out of a laidback circus.

* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Many modern critics dismiss this movie as silly and cliche with its overwrought GreenAesop. What they forget is that films like this movie, along with Tokusatsu shows such as ''{{Series/Spectreman}}'' and ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' brought the environmental movement to the thoughts of a rapidly-growing young audience in Japan. In 1970s Japan, pollution levels were ''far'' worse than in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates due to rapid post-war industrialization with little to no governmental checks. Despite its silliness, this movie was as relevant to the concerns of the Japanese public in TheSeventies as the original was to the fear of nuclear warfare Japan felt during TheFifties and TheSixties. Along with countless other factors, the GreenAesop of these films and shows can be seen as a cog in the machine which eventually led to Japan becoming one of the cleanest countries in the world, an impact most people aren't aware of in an age where {{Green Aesop}}s are a dime a dozen.

* FridgeBrilliance: Throughout most of the film's fights, Godzilla doesn’t seem to be intentionally attacking Hedorah at first, with him "dancing around" as some put it. Only during the final fight does he truly go at it with Hedorah. This was also true of Mothra in ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster'' when she tried to get Godzilla and Rodan to stop fighting with one another. Godzilla isn’t trying to fight Hedorah, but instead convince him that he doesn’t have to be destructive with his powers the same way Mothra did to him before. It’s only after their second fight that Godzilla realizes he can’t get through to Hedorah and must kill him.

** Hedorah, particularly in his final form. He looks vaguely humanoid, has creepy movements and his roar sounds like high-pitched, insane cackling, all of which are way too human-like for comfort. And its eyes are positioned vertically in all forms, which also gives it an inherent wrongness.

* UncertainAudience: The film's really inconsistent tone is a large part of what made the final product so controversial among audiences. Produced during the period when ''Godzilla'' as a whole was skewing towards child audiences, it puts great attention on its human youngsters as the protagonists, the pointed, but [[SpaceWhaleAesop greatly simplified]] GreenAesop narrative, and occasional outright wackiness, especially regarding the representation of Godzilla himself. Despite this, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it can get really dark]], featuring plenty of [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence gruesome]] and [[{{Squick}} vile]] imagery when it isn't just being [[QuirkyWork psychedelic and strange]], which isn't exactly expected from a ''Godzilla'' film either.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Many modern critics dismiss this movie as silly and cliche with its overwrought GreenAesop. What they forget is that films like this movie, along with Tokusatsu shows such as ''{{Series/Spectreman}}'' and ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' brought the environmental movement to the thoughts of a rapidly-growing young audience in Japan. In 1970s Japan, pollution levels were ''far'' worse than in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates due to rapid post-war industrialization with little to no governmental checks. Despite its silliness, this movie was as relevant to the concerns of the Japanese public in TheSeventies as the original was to the fear of nuclear warfare Japan felt during TheFifties and TheSixties. Along with countless other factors, the GreenAesop of these films and shows can be seen as a cog in the machine which eventually led to Japan becoming one of the cleanest countries in the world, an impact most people aren't aware of in an age where {{Green Aesop}}s are a dime a dozen.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Many modern critics dismiss this movie as silly and cliche with its overwrought GreenAesop. What they forget is that films like this movie, along with Tokusatsu shows such as ''{{Series/Spectreman}}'' and ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' brought the environmental movement to the thoughts of a rapidly-growing young audience in Japan. In 1970s Japan, pollution levels were ''far'' worse than in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates due to rapid post-war industrialization with little to no governmental checks. Despite its silliness, this movie was as relevant to the concerns of the Japanese public in TheSeventies as the original was to the fear of nuclear warfare Japan felt during the 1950's and 60's. Along with countless other factors, the GreenAesop of these films and shows can be seen as a cog in the machine which eventually led to Japan becoming one of the cleanest countries in the world, an impact most people aren't aware of in an age where {{Green Aesop}}s are a dime a dozen.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Many modern critics dismiss this movie as silly and cliche with its overwrought GreenAesop. What they forget is that films like this movie, along with Tokusatsu shows such as ''{{Series/Spectreman}}'' and ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' brought the environmental movement to the thoughts of a rapidly-growing young audience in Japan. In 1970s Japan, pollution levels were ''far'' worse than in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates due to rapid post-war industrialization with little to no governmental checks. Despite its silliness, this movie was as relevant to the concerns of the Japanese public in TheSeventirs as the original was to the fear of nuclear warfare Japan felt during the 1950's and 60's. Along with countless other factors, the GreenAesop of these films and shows can be seen as a cog in the machine which eventually led to Japan becoming one of the cleanest countries in the world, an impact most people aren't aware of in an age where {{Green Aesop}}s are a dime a dozen.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Many modern critics dismiss this movie as silly and cliche with its overwrought GreenAesop. What they forget is that films like this movie, along with Tokusatsu shows such as ''{{Series/Spectreman}}'' and ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' brought the environmental movement to the thoughts of a rapidly-growing young audience in Japan. In 1970s Japan, pollution levels were ''far'' worse than in the USA due to rapid post-war industrialization with little to no governmental checks. Despite its silliness, this movie was as relevant to the concerns of the Japanese public in the 1970's as the original was to the fear of nuclear warfare Japan felt during the 1950's and 60's. Along with countless other factors, the GreenAesop of these films and shows can be seen as a cog in the machine which eventually led to Japan becoming one of the cleanest countries in the world, an impact most people aren't aware of in an age where {{Green Aesop}}s are a dime a dozen.

* NightmareFuel: For the first time since the first Godzilla, human death is shown graphically. It's especially unsettling is that in one scene where a baby is shown drowning in Hedorah's sludge.
** Hedorah himself. An alien life-form that feeds on man-made waste and becomes stronger with it, his [[UnintentionalUncannyValley vaguely-humanoid]] looking final form that utters high-pitched menacing cackles is quite an horrifying sight.
** The background of the band when Hedorah begins to attack the city with white skeletons against a black background accented with red blood, which forebodingly appropriate given the amount of deaths caused by Hedorah.
** The hallucination scene where a man sees the singer and the crowd having eerily and warped fish masks with wide-open, dead eyes.

* UncertainAudience: The film's really inconsistent tone is a large part of what made the final product so controversial among audiences. Produced during the period when ''Godzilla'' as a whole was skewing towards child audiences, it puts great attention on its human youngsters as the protagonists, the pointed, but [[SpaceWhaleAesop greatly simplified]] GreenAesop narrative, and occasional outright wackiness, especially regarding the representation of Godzilla himself. Despite this, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it can get really dark]], featuring plenty of [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence gruesome]] and [[{{Squick}} vile]] imagery when it isn't just being [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs psychedelic and strange]], which isn't exactly expected from a ''Godzilla'' film either.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The film has several moments that can provoke this response, but by far the most infamous is when Godzilla uses his BreathWeapon to propel himself into the air. [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext It's every bit as surreal as it sounds]].