GODZILLA magazine

Japanese baseball star Hideki Matsui was nicknamed “Godzilla” early in his career. People started calling Hideki Matsui “Godzilla” back in his high school days, both because of his monstrous hitting prowess and a bad case of teenage acne. The acne went away, but the nickname stuck. In 2009, he helped the New York Yankees bring home their 27th championship and was named World Series MVP for his efforts. But you know what’s even cooler? The fact that Matsui made a brief cameo in the 2002 film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. Shocker: Scientists say that Godzilla could never actually exist. What a buzzkill. Paleontologist Mike P. Taylor claims that the limb cartilage in a Godzilla-sized animal would be crushed “like over-ripe watermelons” by its own body weight. Godzilla has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Godzilla’s induction came in 2004 to commemorate his 50th birthday.