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_It was difficult to get AI image generators to make me the kind of image that I wanted here because it wouldn't give me images of bullies or other descriptors it interpretted as violent so I had to ask for images of kids with arms akimbo and then combine the images...

Pretty obviously I was inspired by memories of childhood fantasies of having a giant dinosaur as a pet-- kind of a Dogzilla:

 

Until putting this together, I'd had it in mind that Godzilla was supposed to be an oversized T-rex of the Cretaceous period (which, admittedly, is a very weak link to a series entitled Cretaceous period). I found out that Godzilla's fictional origins are often debated, but it appears that the creature was never explicitly designed to be a Tyrannosaurus rex. Instead, it was envisioned as a prehistoric sea monster awakened by nuclear radiation. Over the decades, Godzilla's size has dramatically increased—from its original 50-meter height in 1954 (T. rex, at about 11 meters [35 feet] long,would have stood, in a stable position, at about 4.6 to 6 meters [15 to 20 feet] tall to towering over 120 meters [394 feet] in more recent films. This growth has been linked to evolving cinematic trends and the need to maintain its imposing presence against modern cityscapes. However, even in its smallest incarnations, Godzilla's proportions defy biological feasibility. A creature of such immense size would struggle with basic locomotion due to the square-cube law, which dictates that as an organism grows, its volume increases faster than its surface area, making it structurally unsustainable in reality. But at least they’ve given the latest version a little more sturdy booty…

 

(if you don't recognize the link title "bullies 'fore brutosaurus" as an allusion to Stephen Jay Gould's book "Bully for Brontosaurus" you might want to check it out, for free, at https://archive.org/details/B-001-016-956-- like all of Gould's work, it's a great read!)

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