this is the REAL reason behind godzilla's attack in 1954 : a few weeks before , godzilla mated with gigantis , the female godzilla , who layed a single egg which hatched into a healthy male baby godzilla (who would later grow up to be the godzilla we all know and love) , but a storm struck the island on which they were living and the baby was swept away , and once the storm had left , godzilla began searching the world for the baby , and eventually made it's way to japan , where he attacked ships which he thought had the baby on board , then later , he attacked civilization , in the form of tokyo , destroying everything in his search for his son (which explains why he looked around every few seconds or minutes during his rampage) , but he gave up and went back to sea , thinking the baby dead , then later , the humans killed him with the oxygen destroyer and godzilla thought he'd join his child again in the afterlife , but later on , it turned out that the baby survived and would later grow up to be the godzilla we all know and love !