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Is one of them the same Rodan.

It's unclear. Princess Salno comments Rodan was "resurrected" by volcanic gases in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, but it's not entirely clear if she's referring to one of the original two. No official sources comment on it, beyond the post-1956 Rodan being called "Second Generation" sometimes.

Like Les said, it's never truly explored.

However, remember that baby Rodan that hatched in Rodan? I think that might've become the 2nd gen Rodan. I know they said it was probably fully-grown, when it hatched, but I just don't see that actually being the case. Cuz I'm pretty sure that egg wasn't even 164.14 feet (50 meters) tall, based on the size of Shigeru Kawamura.

Huh? The baby that hatches flies out of the hole. It's one of the two adults.

Like I said, I know that's what they said, but I don't buy it. Especially with how long it took form the egg hatching to the 1st Rodan attacks. I just can't see it being fully-grown AND being 50 meters tall, all while inside its egg, which looks like it's gotta at least be a quarter to half the size of the adults.

Plus, the 2 1st gen Rodans' cause of death was "death by volcano," while the 2nd gen one got revived by volcanic gases. Unless they can somehow pull a Divine Moth or something, I just can't see either gens being the same kaiju.

I mean I guess, if you want to ignore the entire plot of the movie.

The egg was 80 meters tall, according to Godzilla Monsters All Encyclopedia. Rodan (who was irradiated, keep in mind) ends up being 50 meters by the time he attacks Fukuoka. He either hatched fully grown or rapidly grew between the time he hatched and when he reemerged. It's fine to headcanon, but I think it's a weird position to take. The actual point of contention is not if the Rodan that hatches is one of the two that dies (because it very obviously is), the point of contention is whether one of those two is the Rodan that was "revived" in GtTHM. There's been no clarification on that.

Two Rodans died at Mt. Aso and Shin'ichi Sekizawa scripts a line that says Rodan is being "resurrected" (fukkatsu being precisely the word he uses) at the same volcano. Since there's no more evidence in the movie that it's a third member of the species, IMO it has to be one of the two from the 1956 movie (regardless of what's been printed in other works).

Waaaiiit, wait, wait, wait. The egg. Was 80. Meters. Tall?! While the Showa Rodans are all 50 meters tall???

This suddenly went from "Who's Really Who" to "Wait, W-T-Frickbiscuit???", real quick!

You're surprised by nonsensical kaiju stats at this point?

Well, yeah. Cuz it doesn't make sense. Especially the unnecessary extra 30 meters of egg-dwelling wiggle room.

But then again, sci-fi was truly never supposed to male sense, now was it? That's why it has "fiction" in its name. It's all supposed to be nonsensical.

(*😳🤯 Holy 💩azoid, I should totally patent that 2nd paragraph as a quote. 🤣*)