It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these so I decided to poke around TV Tropes (and managed to make it out in one piece) and see what inspired me. Eventually I came across this one and if you’ve been around here long enough you know why a trope called Godzilla Threshold got my attention. This is one of those tropes named for a particular character who has ties to the trope. However, this one can lead to a few different tropes. That’s the danger involved with TV Tropes; a chain of tropes that can keep you spinning around them for hours.
The two tie-ins that interest me are the obligatory hero/villain team-up and breaking out the nuclear option, both of which also have ties to Godzilla if you think about it–the whole “lesser of two evils” thing (which is also a trope name). However, like most tropes it isn’t reserved for the King Of The Monsters himself. I don’t know where TV Tropes comes up with these names (some, like Jumping The Shark, the trope this article series is named for, and the Mary Sue/Gary Stu I know they didn’t invent) but when #@%# gets real, Godzilla is usually who comes to mind anyway. So what is this trope about?
