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[Rhuen]

Basically which of the monsters that Godzilla has faced and/or teamed up with is your favorite *not counting Godzilla of course*

[Rhuen]

I should note this isn't all of them. But it is most of them.

Note: King Kong, the giant one from the third Godzilla movie isn't considered canon and will never appear again. Basically to be on this list a monster needed to be in a Godzilla movie and be well known enough to appear either in other movies or other Godzilla mediums (such as games). Original monsters from the games not counted, and Keiser Ghidorah is also not on the list because *I ran out of room and its just an ugly up-grade of King Ghidorah (same reason Mecha-King Ghidorah isn't on the list). I swear each newer version of that monster has been weaker than the original one (usually it goes the other way with newer versions being stronger).

[Ransom]

Honestly I didn't know half of those names on that poll. I voted for Mothra because he pawned.

[Rhuen]

Good point, a little brief catch up.

Anguiras
*First Apperance: Godzilla Raids again
(fun note: the first monster Godzilla ever fought, also this monster has never won a fight in all the movies its appeared in. Is considered a friend to Godzilla now)
Special power: can roll into a ball and roll *a very recent special power, was introduced in the Godzilla Melee video game and used in the movie "Godzilla Final Wars". It also has a sonic roar in the games that has never been used in the movies
http://1.bp.blogspot...irus040210a.jpg

http://www.kaijukits...5/anguirus1.jpg

Biology
http://www.pinktenta...my_anguiras.jpg

Ball roll
http://3.bp.blogspot...00/Anguirus.jpg

some roars

[Ransom]

If we ever hang out, I vote for a three day Godzilla marathon. I'll buy the beer:)

[Rhuen]

Ransom, on 28 December 2011 - 08:39 PM, said:

If we ever hang out, I vote for a three day Godzilla marathon. I'll buy the beer:)

Just the other day I saw the original "Gojira" for the first time (with subtitles). I had already seen the shorter and edited to include a (star human) "Godzilla King of the Monster". The original version is definetly different, very good for its time. Suffers a bit here and there as it has human characters but it jumps around between so many its hard to tell until the last twenty minutes which are really important.

Next Mothra
First Apperance: "Mothra" Mothra started out in its own movie. WHich is pretty good, especially for a giant bug monster movie. I'd say its the best giant bug monster moive. Its like a god-bug.

Its not clear, and is debated between fans if Mothra is a singular monster that rebirths its self like the phoenix (it always dies before its egg hatches) or if it just has a really short life span despite its monstrous size. Which ever the case the reason is so the movies can continue to use both versions.

The Larva Mothra can swim, and spit out a sticky silk
http://kaiju.boomcoa...othra-larva.jpg

the silk is so strong two working together were able to defeat Godzilla in "Godzilla vs Mothra" this also was the last movie in which Godzilla lost at the end until "Godzilla 1985: AKA Godzilla Returns".

Biology of Larva Mothra
http://www.pinktenta...tomy_mothra.jpg

The Adult Mothra
http://www.kaijukits...964/mothra3.jpg

In the original movies it had immense strength, could whip up strong winds with its wings and its "final attack" was poison dust from its wings.

Its powers have changed alot over the years, from a fire ball in an old video game, to lightning bolts from the antenna,

Officially its power list would be

1: Poison Dust
2: Telepathy (can communicate and locate those little fairy twins)
3: Telekinetic lightning (from eyes, antenna, wings, what ever)

In the 90's movies it could even fly into space to destroy a meteor and create mini-mothra projections to communicate with psychics on Earth in the Earth Defense Force.
http://images.wikia....othra_S.O.S.jpg

Mothra on set puppet
http://4.bp.blogspot...mothra19616.jpg

there is another Mothra, a male child called Mothra Leo, but its never been in the Godzilla movies, its from the "Rebirth of Mothra" trilogy.

http://www.monstrula...hra/still15.jpg

It has all the powers of the 90's Mothra plus transformations
such as
Aqua Mothra (to fight underwater monsters)
http://roberthood.ne...qua-mothra1.jpg

and Silver Mothra *its super transformations*
http://www.internati...k/m/mothra4.jpg

yeah the Rebirth of Mothra movies were weird.

[Rhuen]

Mothra summoning song from (Godzilla vs Mothra)


music videos from Tokyo SOS *official*

[Rhuen]

Rodan
first apperance "Rodan" like Mothra this one also started out in its own movie.

the original rodan, and a second one in the same movie were giant predatory creatures, eating people, cows, giant bugs, fish, what ever and attacking planes.

it was a bit smaller than later versions
http://www.badmovies...odan/rodan5.jpg

both Rodans were killed by a volcano.

A second, larger, and much stronger Rodan would re-appear in the movie "Ghidrah the three headed monster" and fight alongside Godzilla and Mothra against King Ghidorah
this one had the same sonic flight and wind from its wings. It was also heavily armored with a shorter wing-span.
http://3.bp.blogspot...s1600/rodan.jpg

Come the 90's the new Rodan was much smaller, and had a fiery breath weapon (earning it the name "Fire Rodan". This Rodan merged with Godzilla to save his life from the 90's Mecha-Godzilla
http://4.bp.blogspot...s400/rodan3.jpg

http://kaiju.boomcoa...llery/rodan.jpg

in the 2000's we have in the movie "Final Wars" another smaller sized Rodan, bigger than the 90's but smaller than the previous movies *minus its first apperance*
http://www.comicbook..._Money_Shot.jpg

It also has a much more armored, and kind of TV Kaiju apperance to it.
http://i2.listal.com...-screenshot.jpg

Rodan's most recent forms are in the comic books by IDW.
which seem to change between three horns and two horns. The Legends series
http://ryalltime.fil...an0203-cmyk.jpg

and in the main comic
http://3.bp.blogspot...OM03_cov-v2.jpg

Rodan is often listed as a Godzilla friend, but this changes between apperances, internationally, Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan make up the three best known Toho monsters and the three most likely to be seen in pop culture references

[Rhuen]

King Ghidorah
*First Apperance: Gidrah the Three Headed Monster (yeah bad title naming)

King Ghidorah was the first (Space Monster) to appear in the classic series, and for most of that series was a kind of go to bad guy; or at least often controlled by the bad guys (more often than not King Ghidorah has been a mind controlled monster.

The classic one first arrived on Earth in a meteor, it took Godzilla, Larva Mothra, and Rodan working together to fight it off. He had three basic powers, flight (even able to leave the atmosphere), able to survive in space, and cosmic lightning breath.

from *Gidrah the three headed monster: this movie was in color*
http://www.cinemastr...dorah1-1024.jpg

In the classic series King Ghidorah would return
in "Godzilla vs Monster Zero" AKA "Invasion of the Astro Monster"
In this movie we learn he was being controlled by the people of Planet X as a weapon. THey trick the people of Earth (I don't know why they bothered) so they could bring Godzilla and Rodan to their planet to fight King Ghidorah: the whole thing was just for show, they then take control of Godzilla and Rodan and use them to attack earth with King Ghidorah. All three monsters are freed from mind control, but Godzilla and Rodan fight King Ghidorah despite that.

Destroy All Monsters, this movie was made in 1968, but placed "in the future" as in 1999 LoL. King Ghidorah is being controlled again, this time by fire people (true forms are little worms inside rocks, but make themselves look like people. In this time all the other monsters are held on Monster Island, but the aliens take control of them and send them all to attack various cities on Earth. Godzilla and all except King Ghidorah break free. All the monsters gang up on King Ghidorah (who in this series is strong enough to hold its own against all of them)

Godzilla vs Gigan: its final apperance in the "Heisei series": aka everything before Godzilla 1985. In this film King Ghidorah is being controlled by Cockroach aliens who are also controlling the space monster Gigan. Godzilla and Anguirus leave monster island (in a very corny scene where they actually talk) to fight them.

The Showa Era: AKA the Godzilla movies from *Godzilla 1985-Godzilla vs Destroyah* are in their own continuity. King

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991). In this film people from the future who want stop Japan from becoming a global economic power come back in time. They are under the disguise of doing this to prevent Godzilla from mutating from a dinosaur into a giant monster and need the help of the local Japanese as in their time they lack the records of where the island was where Godzilla was before being mutated. One of their crew is true to this, they do go back and teleport Godzilla off the island and into a deep ocean trench. However they leave behind three genetically created pets called (Dorats) which are then mutated by the atomic bomb into King Ghidorah.
the aliens once returning to 1991 summon King Ghidorah which must have gone into a slumber on the island; and despite the time travel stuff involved people still remember Godzilla, like a parallel overlap memory of two timelines. However the trench Godzilla was in is exposed to more modern, stronger nuclear waste (like several warheads) from an American Submarine. Thus a stronger Godzilla is born, one that blasts King Ghidorah's central head off and massivly damages its torso.
One of the future people, the gir, the good one, goes to the future and comes back with cybernetic parts and repairs King Ghidorah as (Mecha-Ghidorah). Which barely beats back Godzilla before being destroyed.
This was its only apperance in this series, its mentioned again in Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla 2 as where the tech came from to build that robot.

http://skreeonk.file...1/09/gvskg3.jpg

Mecha-Ghidorah
http://2.bp.blogspot...ng-Ghidorah.jpg



*Millenium series* Godzilla 2000-Godzilla Final Wars
Most of the movies in this "series" are stand alones that claim being sequals only to the original and perhaps to various classic films.

King GHidorah makes one apperance in the flop movie
"Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All out Attack" its King Ghidorah's one and only so far apperance as a (Good guy) as one of three monsters that must fight off a vampire looking Godzilla *the other two being Mothra and Baragon *who didn't get title credit**.

There are a few "knock off versions"

In the millenium series "Godzilla: Final Wars" the aliens of Plant X (doing the exact same plot almost as "Destroy All monsters" control every monster except Godzilla. After Godzilla beats down or kills all the other monsters the aliens send "Monster X" to fight him, which transforms into a gargantuan quadraped three headed dragon called "Keiser Ghidorah"

Monster X
http://www.internati.../m/monsterx.jpg

Keiser Ghidorah
http://images.wikia....ng_Ghidorah.jpg

http://farm4.staticf...09aac96e4_z.jpg


The Rebirth of Mothra series saw 2 knock offs

Rebirth of Mothra, Des-Ghidorah (AKA Death Ghidorah), a quadraped, smaller than Final Wars one, it was a life force sucking alien dragon that would have gone all Galactus on the Earth if Mothra hadn't stopped it.

Death Ghidorah
http://www.freewebs....th ghidorah.bmp

http://www.stomptoky...img/mothra2.jpg

Rebirth of Mothra III, Grand King Ghidorah, looks close to its original form, only the two side heads are placed like limbs with a bulkier build.

Grand King Ghidorah
http://images.wikia....s/4/4b/Sdkg.jpg

http://mimg.ugo.com/...ng-ghidorah.jpg

[Rhuen]

The next one is a fairly easy one.
Kamakuras.

first apperance: Son of Godzilla. In the english dub they are called "Gi-Mantis"
There is more than one, and they arn't really anything special, just giant Praying Mantises. They start out about seven feet tall and for some reason a storm mutates them to a much larger Godzilla scale. Its not clear
http://www.godzilla....pl/gimantis.jpg

http://www.freewebs....kamacuras-m.jpg

although those classic ones are really ugly.

The movie Godzilla's Revenge has them (clips from SOn of Godzilla, Godzilla's Revenge was a stupid movie, all clips from past Godzilla movies as this kid imagines being friends with Minya AKA Minila on Monster Island.

There were four of them in SOn of Godzilla, two were killed by Godzilla, one was killed and eaten by Kumonga, and the fourth apparently escaped to live on Monster Island. Stock footage in Godzilla vs Gigan also shows them.

Another can be seen in "Godzilla Final Wars". Its smaller, can fly at mach speed and can turn invisible. Godzilla kills it by impaling it on a tower (apparently even this version lacks the invulnerability of most the larger monsters).

In Final Wars
http://www.internati.../kamacuras1.jpg

http://giantmonsters...s/Kamacuras.jpg

[Rhuen]

Kumonga
first apperance: Son of Godzilla.
pretty simple monster, its a giant spider, yet in its first apperance it gave Godzilla a run for his money. Godzilla seems to have issues with silk spray attacks. Its silk comes out of its mouth rather than its backside like a normal spider. The silk is nearly impossible to cut but can be burned. It can leap high into the air, survived several blasts head on from Godzilla's atomic breath, and its legs are blade like (more like a crab than a spider; which seems to be common in monster spiders to have crab legs rather than normal spider feet) In Final Wars it gained the Spider-man ability to turn its web into a net in mid-air. It also can shoot a poison dart from its mouth.

In the English dub Kumonga was called "Spega" or "Spiga" pronounced "spee-gah". Its since been called Kumonga.

http://www.godzilla....a.pl/spiega.jpg

Kumonga is surprisingly one of the more popular Godzilla monsters and actually made it into several movies

It appeared along side the other monsters in "Destroy all Monsters" it was even able, with the aid of Larva Mothra to stop King Ghidorah from flying by trapping it in silk.

It would appear again in stock footage in the films (Godzilla's Revenge, and Godzilla vs Gigan)

Kumonga's last apperance so far was in (Godzilla Final Wars) where as stated above it gained a new web ability. Its fight with Godzilla was very weird, not the weirdest fight in the movie (that goes to Godzilla fighting his three friends), but still weird.

Kumonga is one of the monsters IDW comics got to use in their comics. So far its apperances have been more cameo than anything and hasn't been part of any of the big monster fights or even noticed really it seems by the militaries or governments of the world.

Final Wars Kumonga
http://4.bp.blogspot...ngafinal303.jpg

comic (note the covers are more for show, this issue does not have this fight happen)
http://www.brokenfro...a2011_6_002.jpg

word is in the Godzilla Legends comic book series (which so far has done Anguirus and Rodan, Kumonga will be one of the issues, Titanosaurus and Hedorah are ahead of it though it seems).

[Rhuen]

Next up is Gigan.
First movie: Godzilla vs Gigan.
Gigan is a bio-cybernetic space monster. Its abilities are levitation flight, a laser beam from its one eye, and it can move the spikes on its abodmen like a buzzsaw.
(those are the abiliies of the original Gigan)
http://images.wikia..../64/Gigan72.jpg

yeah the common design also has those weird hook arms. Its a sort of praying mantis gargoyle.

(Gigan holds the notability of being the first thing to ever make Godzilla bleed)

In its first movie, cockroach aliens summong Gigan, and King Ghidorah to destroy earth, but are bested by Godzilla (who had a little help from Anguirus).

Its second apperance, a year later, was in (Godzilla vs Megalon). Gigan is summoned to help Megalon fight Godzilla and the Ultra-man knock-off robot "Jet Jaguar". After Jet Jaguar breaks Gigan's arm it flies away back to space leaving Megalon to fend for its self.

Gigan (as well as King Ghidorah apparently *just found this out*) made canon apperances in the tv show "Zone Fighter" which apparently takes place in the same universe as the Heisei era Godzilla movies. Gigan was beaten by Godzilla and Zone Fighter, and then later killed by Zone Fighter.

Gigan did not appear during the Showa series, and has one apperance in the Millenium series
Godzilla: Final Wars.

Gigan got a serious up-grade for this movie
http://fc09.devianta...GiganMaster.jpg

its hook arms became blades, the body is more mechanical in form, and it got tazer stingers on the base of its blade arms

This Gigan however would get its head blown off by Godzilla. the aliens in this movie revived Gigan, with chainsaw arms
http://media.comicvi...gigan_large.jpg

In this form it mortally wounded Mothra, but was again destroyed by Godzilla.

(Japanese character sheet)
http://images.wikia..../f1/Gigan_3.JPG

Gigan (in classic form) is slated to appear in the new comic book by IDW.
http://media.comicbo...rv10576_pg1.jpg

[Rhuen]

Megalon
first apperance: Godzilla vs Megalon

http://millionmonkey...ics/megalon.JPG

Megalon comes from the 70's Godzilla movies where the monsters tended to look more like TV Kaiju villains. Megalon is a giant bi-ped beetle. It can spit out exploding rocks, shoot lightning from its horn, and its arms spin like drills (allowing it despite its size to dig through the ground). It can even somehow by holding its arms together spin both hands together as a single drill, guess that means it can switch its "hands" between its arms to rotate them.

It can fly.

Its worth noting, as you might tell from the picture that at the time Toho was having financial problems, thus the Godzilla movies, and their tv shows started to have less city smashing (except in stock footage, many of Megalon's lightning bolt shots were stock footage of King Ghidorah's blasts) and have the giant monster battles out in a desert (which Japan doesn't have) that started the cliche that is often made fun of, of giant monster battles happening in these giant open desert spaces (right outside the city).

Which is funny given many of the covers for this movie showed them fighting in a city or somehow on top of buildings
http://images.wikia..../aa/25fkdc2.jpg

Megalon was never used again for another movie.

As a fun fact: this film was never intended to be a Godzilla film. It was the result of a contest for fans of Toho to design their own super-hero and have a movie made about it.

an elementary school student won the contest with a robot that was basically a cross between Ultra-Man and Mazinger-Z, he called it Red Arone. Toho renamed it Jet Jaguar (not sure why, that doesn't make any real sense or difference that I can see).

Megalon was designed to be its enemy, the film was originally going to be called "Jet Jaguar vs Megalon" but testing and screen board showings concluded that the movie wasn't strong enough to carry its self, so they put Godzilla in it, and added Gigan from the previous movie (Godzilla vs Gigan).

Despite all this Megalon's abilities lend it well for fighting games so Megalon has been in all the Godzilla fighting games.

This film took six months to make, three weeks to film, the Godzilla suit for it took a week to make. Its generally considered the down side of the Heisei films, the next two Godzilla films would attempt to revive the franchise, but ended up the last 2 to be made until 1984.

the film is famous for being on Mystery Science Theater 3000, even though that episode is unlikely to ever hit DVD as Toho takes issues with its films being heckled.

[Rhuen]

*First a correction* in all the previous posts I got the eras reversed,
everything before 1984 was called the Showa era and everything between 1984 and 1999 was the Heisei era.


Next up is Minila AKA Minya AKA Godzilla Jr.

First Apperance: Son of Godzilla.
Basically its supposed to be a baby Godzilla, there is no explination in the original series why it exists, they just find an egg buried in rock and Godzilla instinctivly starts to raise it.
its more human in apperance, the "Teddy Bear" effect where big eyes, squashed face, and round body makes something cute.
http://images.wikia....72/Minilla1.jpg

It has a rough hide and an atomic breath, however what usually comes out is like a fiery smoke ring, seldom does it get an actual blast down.

Minilla would appear in stock footage in Godzilla vs Gigan, was the focus of the only none-stock footage monster scenes in "Godzilla's Revenge" although it was all a dream a kid was having. and was in Destroy All Monsters.

the 90's series would see a new version, refered to as "Godzilla Jr."
when it started out, it was a human sized baby, and looked like an animal
http://1.bp.blogspot...by_Godzilla.jpg

(although Toho officially considers them seperate monsters, the fact that Godzilla Jr. looked like this in Godzilla vs Space Godzilla makes me view them as one and the same)
http://media.comicvi...zilla_super.jpg

However unlike Minilla, Godzilla Jr. grew up,
http://images.wikia....Godzilla_Jr.jpg

In "Godzilla vs Destroyah" it battled Destroyah and was killed. Godzilla, which was going nuclear at the time breathed life back into it, and the radiation from Godzilla exploding at the end which was feared would end all of Japan was absorbed by Godzilla jr. turning it into a full scale and shaped Godzilla.

Minilla would make one apperance in the Millenium series, in Godzilla Final Wars. Here it looks like its classic self and is friendly towards humans, it also has an ability it had only in the dreams of a child in (Godzilla's Revenge); that is the ability to shrink down to human size. It didn't fight in this movie but it did convince Godzilla not to continue attacking the humans.

http://i2.listal.com...-screenshot.jpg



Look he's even wearing a seat belt.
http://thethoughtful...elt_thumb_1.png

[Rhuen]

Hedorah
First Apperance: Godzilla vs Hedorah (AKA) Godzilla vs the Smog Monster

This film was an anti-pollution film, and felt very 70's, a little over the top at times with it though.

Hedorah had three forms in the movie, a giant tadpole like form *alien spores that ate pollution started out this way*,a quadraped form, a flying smog cloud form, and its giant "biped" form.
*the best way to get a good feel for its whole biped body is from the toy
http://www.kaijukits...005/hedorah.jpg
(Hedorah appears in Godzilla Melee in its cloud form as a kind of random stage trap)

Hedorah was very hard for Godzilla to defeat (as it could regenerate), however in Hedorah's second apperance, in the movie, Godzilla Final Wars, this Godzilla defeated Hedorah easily.

Hedorah's powers are regeneration (by absorbing pollution), emitting a sulferic acid cloud, spitting out globs of acid, shape shifting, and energy beams from its eyes.

As a fun fact the Director of "Godzilla vs Hedorah" was fired from Toho because of a scene in the movie he was told to cut, but left in on purpose because he liked it and it went to print and theaters that way (and is still on DVD that way). That being a moment when Godzilla uses his atomic breath as a jet to fly (Godzilla had been turning more kid friendly but they felt this was too far).

Hedorah did appear in the tv show "Godzilla Island"

Hedorah is one of the monsters IDW has decided to give a solo title in their "Godzilla Legends" series too.
http://fc09.devianta...alf-d4gsu2u.jpg

They say Hedorah would have been used again in another movie from the original series, but the costume had been dismantled and remade into the Megalon costume.

[Rhuen]

Up next the most famouse monster to have only been in one movie.

Battra, AKA the Anti-Mothra (its been in the main comic book from IDW now more than Mothra has *which hasn't been in the main comic yet*

Battra is basically Mothra, same powers, same issue with larva vs moth form, only Battra is uglier.

first apperance: Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for Earth.

also its only movie apperance so far. This was one of the 90's movies.

the back story is that Battra was born from the essence of the Earth to wipe out an ancient civilization that threatened the ecosystem, it did such a good job there is no sign of them (they being the little people), Mothra was created by these little people as a weapon against Battra (yeah its kind of counter-intuitive given Mothra's normal role)

Well in the movie the two fought, until Godzilla showed up, Battra and Mothra decided Godzilla was the bigger threat to the earth and teamed up against him. Godzilla killed Battra in the process.

Battra is kind of the anti-hero Mothra in a sense; although its role in the comic book is less clear as right away as a caterpillar it was mindcontrolled by a pair of psychic twin girls (who would also go on to control Rodan).

the Battra in the movie is Mothra sized, the Battra in the comics is much smaller.

Battra Larva *it moves around with its head reared up unlike the more natural Mothra shape)
http://1.bp.blogspot...attra_large.jpg

toy for fully body
http://www.clubtokyo...reBattraRed.jpg

Adult Battra
http://kaiju.boomcoa...attra-adult.jpg

in movie
http://www.internati...k/b/battra1.jpg

Despite its one movie apperance only, its become a very popular Godzilla monster, there are even plushie Battra larva toys.
http://site.unbeatab...239/tvlt084.gif

http://www.toyvault....vae - Large.jpg

adult Battra plushie
http://www.toyvault....attra Large.jpg

comic first apperance, with those psychic psycho girls
http://i2.photobucke...sue3review3.jpg

[Rhuen]

Biollante
First (and only apperance so far)
Godzilla vs Biollante

(I rather like this monster, but it seems not be so popular amongst Godzilla fans for some reason), if nothing else its the only monster I think actually could be as big as it is with out it being a major biological problem.

That is because its a plant.
it started off small,
but eventually started to take on characteristics of Godzilla

first form
http://media.comicvi...lante_large.jpg

larger form
http://files.myopera...biollante01.jpg

Biology
http://kaiju.boomcoa...lery/binner.jpg

http://media.giantbo...lante_large.jpg

Its also one of the few monsters made to be bigger than Godzilla
http://www.kaijukits...biollante/1.jpg

This is one of only two monsters officially recognized as "female" the other being Mothra.

A scientist from the fictious nation of Saradia (possibly meant to be in Siberia), working in Japan intended to use G-cells (which would become a running theme for the 90's series; of which this movie is the second movie of, a sequal to Godzilla 1985 "AKA Godzilla Returns") to enhanced crops; during Godzilla's attack on Toyko some skin was found during the clean up.

*the 90's Godzilla is nearly invulnerable, but also possesses incredible regeneration, so damaged scales are dropped and regrown almost instantly.

Terrorists attacked the lab to prevent this research, during which his daughter Erika was killed. He spliced her DNA with a Rose Bush; somehow also trapping her spiritual essence (soul and mind) inside the plant...guess he also knew some psychic dimension research stuff...the psychic stuff would also be a running theme of the 90's series (this movie basically established those 2 themes, however the monster designs for most of the 90's movies would get kind of campy or ugly).

He later used G-cells in an attempt to fully revive his daughter, the result a genetic hybrid between his daughter, a rose bush, and Godzilla. (he did this because an Earthquake destroyed the bush's shelter and killed most of it, he wanted to make the surviving parts of the bush invincible so it could survive anything).

Biollante originally broke out of its enclosure and took up roots in a nearby lake. This giant plant originally looked like a giant rose with teeth and tentacles, it had apparently in-advertenly summoned Godzilla to it via psychic waves it was emitting; Godzilla appeared and attacked Biollante, presumably killing her. Her spores went into space but came back down and reformed the larger more repitllian form I showed in a pic earlier.

this form also has nuclear energy consuming bacteria spores; which it nearly killed Godzilla with, however Godzilla won in the end; destroying the giant plant which vanished back into space; but didn't come back down this time.

In this struggle Biollante was actually the good guy defending humanity from Godzilla.

A novel version makes Biollante an "Old One" rather than a genetic creation, and Biollante appears in the Wii version of "Godzilla Unleashes" the sheer size and slow motion (it can move) of this monster has made it problamatic for game designers.

http://wiimedia.ign....0857096-000.jpg

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Destroyah
dun dun dunnn.

Labled as one of the few monsters that can pound on Godzilla, Toho officially lists Destroyah as the second most powerful of all DaiKaiju *after Godzilla*.

http://images.wikia....d/Destroyah.jpg

when images of this monster leaked out before the movie was announced rumors spread the next movie was going to (Godzill vs the Devil).

Destroyah's first and only movie apperance has been in
Godzilla vs Destroyah, which was the last of the 90's movies.

Destroyah's history is an epic one tied into Godzilla's origins. In the very first movie Gogira, AKA: Godzilla King of the Monsters, only one weapon, a one time only weapon about which all notes were destroyed and the creator killed himelf was able to destroy Godzilla, the Oxygen Destroyer.

this weapon however mutated some bacterial organisms in Tokyo bay, which underwent a very long mutation rate, before they began to merge, these merged ones many decades later would find their way to the streets of tokyo as freakish crab-alien like monsters.

http://i2.listal.com...oyah-(destroyah)-screenshot.jpg

http://kaijukommand....destroycrab.jpg

which were about the size of a car,
these things would then all merge into a giant version of themselves.

the giant version didn't fare well against Godzilla, so Destroyah evolved again into its winged biped form (yes it can fly) although it does have a faster flight transformation (of which a good picture is hard to find)
http://i2.listal.com...oyah-(destroyah)-screenshot.jpg

Destroyah has a very hard hide, an Oxygen destroyer beam breath attack, a laser saber horn (a large sword like energy comes from the horn) a crab claw tail, and a beam attack from the sort of mouth like thing on its torso.

Destroyah biology
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Destroyah's final form is also bigger than Godzilla
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Destroyah has appeared in the alt-verse "Legends" series of the IDW Godzilla comics, albeit with no origin explination (its not likely many of the monsters will have the same origins, and the main comic "Kingdom of Monsters" has made it a point not to be bogged down by that detail, cementing this in one panel where a scientist screaming "I know where they came from" is crushed under a building.

comic book
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in the comic Anguirus fights it, of course Anguirus would have lost the fight if not for the humans nearby exploiting Destroyah's weakness to intense cold and a convienent gigantic vat of liquid nitrogen...

[Rhuen]

I need to make a correction in the Biollante entry, "Saradia" is "Saudi Arabia" not "Siberia", a brain fart.

Well next we have a weird one shot monster.

Space Godzilla,
first (and only movie apperance so far)
Godzilla vs Space Godzilla.

cells from Godzilla were carried into space by Mothra by accident, somehow even though Mothra is staying in the Solar System to fight a meteor heading for earth, the Godzilla cells went through a black hole, then a worm hole, or were carried into space by Biollante (both are stated in the film) and grew into a cosmic version of Godzilla
http://images.wikia....acegodzilla.jpg

Space Godzilla has the powers of Godzilla, plus gravity control beams from its shoulder crystals, and the ability to fly (by forming a massive crystal on its back) as well as grow crystals elsewhere.
It can even generate a forcefield.

Space Godzilla in flight
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When defeated Space Godzilla turned into energy like Biollante had.

According to Toho, Space Godzilla was originally going to appear in the older Godzilla movies after "Terror of Mecha-Godzilla" but was scrapped after they decided to go a more animal route for the next film.

Space Godzilla is based on "Super Godzilla" a transformation of Godzilla in a video game from 1993. The original script for its movie called for Godzilla and Mecha-Godzilla to team up against Space Godzilla. However (as hard as this is to believe) Toho has a logistics department that pays attention to its movie mythos and concluded that as the new Mecha-Godzilla was strong enough to nearly kill Godzilla that Godzilla and Mecha-Godzilla teaming up against Space Godzilla (with the bio they had on hand) would make the fight too one sided. SO instead they recycled a really old robot called Mogera, gave it a lame explination for existing *cut backs after Mecha-G was destroyed resulting in an inferior robot with new ideas in its design, like multiple pilots and splitting into two vehicles (cue power rangers music)*

thus preserving Space Godzilla as a real threat.

In the video game "Godzilla Unleashed" its revealed Space Godzilla is fully sentient, in fact very intellegent, and wants to conquer the Earth. Its stated to be responsible for the creation of the two monsters unique to that video game "Kristilak and Obsidius" basicaly making Space Godzilla a classic Kaiju super-villain rather than another Kaiju rampaging monster. and even has psychic powers which it uses to control several other monsters to act as its minions in story mode.

[Rhuen]

I just re-watched (Godzilla vs Biollante), yeah its not clear if Godzilla actually won that fight, both were harmed badly and both escaped back to different places. At the end we see a giant rose blossom floating in space. Biollante apparently went off to live in space.

Any who,

next is another one shot monster that is oddly popular.

Titanosaurus.
first apperance (and only movie apperance so far): Terror of Mecha-Godzilla.

Its a giant marine reptile with a fan tail. It has psychic powers such as telepathy, great strength, and can whip up strong winds with its tail.
http://images.wikia....anosaurus_1.JPG

In the movie it has a telepathic link with a psychic girl, who has kept the monster calm for years (thus why despite living off the shores of Japan its never been seen before and never fought any other monsters). In the video game Godzilla: Unleashed Titanosaurus is given a sonic beam attack (in defiance or explination why in the movie sonic waves were able to knock it off balance and disrupt the telepathic link).

However the aliens who built Mecha-Godzilla are back, kidnap the girl and her father: they turn her into a cyborg, and use her to control Titanosaurus to have it team up with Mecha-Godzilla to fight Godzilla.

Whether or not its killed at the end of its one film is left up to fans to decide as its only seen being knocked into the water after its mind control is ended.

Titanosaurus is seen in stock footage in "Godzilla Final Wars" as one of the many monsters listed to have emerged thanks to fall out from World War III.