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Old Version (Decanonized)
- Author's Saving Throw:
- The rationale behind the GDF giving the go ahead to fire upon Solgell island with Dimension Tide. The justification Stacker Pentecost, the chairman of the GDF, gave in chapter 5 was that the battle between Godzilla Jr. and Xenilla would have released so much nuclear energy it would have ignited the atmosphere. This raised a few eyebrows as Beam-O-War fights have happened all the time in the canon without issue and was seemingly lifted from real life concerns about the first atomic bomb testings, which was found to be false decades ago. Others didn't like the idea that the resident Big Good could be careless enough to nearly destroy the planet. Come chapter 14 and the other GDF council members ask Pentecost about it, and Stacker reveals he was lying about the atmospheric ignition and instead the plan was a big Batman Gambit on his part to make an increasingly hostile humanity realize not all kaiju were bad and total war wasn't the option.
- One chapter featured the humans rather quickly and efficiently killing Megaguirus, and critically damaging her with conventional weapons. Several fans complained that this was an insult to a character who could fight on par with Godzilla and demonstrated immunity to bullets before. Some even went as far as to say it low balled all the kaiju because none of the Toho or Daiei rosters were ever killed by conventional weapons. BlazingPhoenix17 rewrote the chapter so she put up a much better fight, included the Super-X3 , which pulls a Heroic Sacrifice, and a good reason was given for how the humans were able to pierce her armor by use of a super weapon and not normal jets.
- In 2017, BlazingPhoenix17 went back over the fic and rewrote certain parts to fix plot holes and continuity errors. The chapter-by-chapter changes are documented in the author's notes.
- Broken Base:
- The high number of original characters, kaiju, humor, inconsistent tone, fanservice, lack of a main character, and mecha. Is it a neat expansion of the roster that gives the story more uniqueness; or is it coming at the cost of using canon elements and distancing the story from its roots?
- Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites. To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character; though others still like she is an OC tied to a canon source given The Bridge showed humanoid-Kaiju splices were possible before her with Monster X. Still, some say that Tytanna is pretty much a good character, just unnecesary.
- The story itself is this somewhat for the larger fanbase of The Bridge. Camps that happily accept it, ignore it, aren't aware it's canon; or deem it Fan Discontinuity can all be found. The fact that its reception is more mixed as The Bridge doesn't help.
- Complete Monster: Gabara the Ancient is an ancient tyrant who ruled Japan in a sadistic reign of terror until he was sealed away. As his seal begins to break, he psychically tortures the then-infant Godzilla Jr. with nightmares. Years later, he begins to Mind Rape psychics with cruel nightmares that begin to inflict physical damage, taking it especially slow and torturous with a young boy named Damien out of spite for Miki Saegusa managing to best him. When Damien sees into his mind, Gabara brutally murders him with his own worst fear. During his showdown with the now-adult Godzilla Jr., Gabara attempts to torture the heroic kaiju to death in every sense of the word using his Soul Lightning. After being killed by Jr., Gabara attempts to possess his own descendant Ichiro to continue his rampage. Even with his soul destroyed by Ichiro's will, Gabara's lingering malevolence corrupts the kindhearted child into a lazy jerk. A cruel and psychopathic tyrant, Gabara's only goal is to sadistically torment every creature he comes across.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The justification the GDF gave for hitting both Godzilla Junior and Xenilla with Dimension Tide was that their Beam-O-War would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the planet. Several years later, IDW comic's Godzilla in Hell had Godzilla and Spacegodzilla destroy the world by, you guessed it, Beam-O-War fight gone horribly wrong. Adding to the hilarity was a later clarification/retcon in a chapter published just after the comic, stating that such an idea is ridiculous and wouldn't work, the statement having been a lie. note
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Gabara, who's one of the least liked kaiju in the entire franchise, is turned into an ancient, Freddy Krugger-like demon who's a legit threat to Junior, and is then succeeded by an Anti-Hero with a genuinely sympathetic backstory and motives, making a lot of people like the character.
