After Godzilla uses his atomic breath, we see what look like scales falling off the creature, and after the attack on Ginza, there are mentions of “shards” left in his wake. The theory goes that a piece of one of those shards hit Noriko, and since we’ve seen that Godzilla has the ability to regenerate wounds, it stands to reason that the ability would extend to his scales and the contact with Noriko could have been the reason for her survival.
Aiding the theory are remarks “Godzilla Minus One” director Takashi Yamazaki made at Godzilla Fest in Osaka (via IGN), where he explained that the black mark on Noriko was the result of Godzilla cells, also called G-cells.
This is far from the first appearance of these G-cells. The concept was first introduced in the 1989 film “Godzilla vs. Biollante,” where a scientist manages to splice some of Godzilla’s cells with those of his deceased daughter and also a rose, accidentally creating the kaiju Biollante — which has the characteristics of Godzilla, but with a dash of plants for good measure. Though Godzilla defeats Biollante, her cells ended up falling into a black hole, where they get mixed with crystalline organisms and energy from exploding stars, ultimately creating SpaceGodzilla, co-star of the 1994 film “Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.”
Could the plot of a sequel to “Godzilla Minus One” be that Noriko somehow becomes a kaiju like Biollante? Stranger things have happened, of course, and the idea of humanoid kaiju was already part of 2016’s “Shin Godzilla.” That film ended with a shot of what look like human-sized Godzillas spawning out of the tail of the big guy himself, who was frozen to death.
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