Godzilla's iconic atomic breath has always been a fan-favorite ... easily taken them down with a single burst of his nuclear pulse, but the movies never explain why that doesn't happen.

Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons as well as a victim, an intentional directorial decision by director Ishiro Honda, who explained, "I took the characteristics of an atomic bomb and ...

But just how fantastical is a 36-story-tall lizard-dinosaur creature who breathes beams of atomic energy? Well, energy beams aside, Godzilla is actually even more unrealistic than you might think.