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Gabara

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1

Alternate names: Sometimes spelled “Gabarah” or “Gabra”; was mistakenly referred to as “Baragon” in the monster data screens seen on TNT during its Godzilla movie marathons.

Height: 50 meters

Description: Gabara possibly never truly existed at all, but was merely a fantasy monster created by the daydreaming mind of a young boy named Ichiro, who used the dream kaiju as a proxy for a human bully of the same name, who terrorized him in real life (some sources have suggested that Gabara may have been a thought-form projected into Ichiro’s mind by outside telepathic influences, possibly picked up by a device built by Ichiro’s inventor grandfather, but nothing was seen in the film to back up this notion).
Gabara was bipedal in stance, and had warty blue skin resembling that of a toad. He had a toad-like face, cat-like ears, no tail, tufts of orange hair, a row of small horns and a stiff finny crest atop his head.

During Ichiro’s fantasy visits to Monster Island in his dreams, Gabara acted as an archetypal bully, who beat up on Godzilla’s son, Minya. Finally, Minya stood up to and outwitted Gabara in battle, and the mean-spirited kaiju was then beaten up by Godzilla himself. As Gabara retreated into the jungle after being humbled by his defeat, Ichiro learned that all bullies are really cowards at heart, and he used the inspiration he received in his daydream musings with Minya to stand up to and both outwit real life bank robbers who kidnapped him, and to fight and win against the real life bully named Gabara, who formerly made his life miserable.

Special powers and abilities: Gabara wasn’t particularly tough or strong as dai kaiju go, and preferred to pick on smaller and weaker opponents, like Minya, but was absolutely no match for monsters his own size, such as Godzilla.
Nevertheless, he had one special power, which was to generate bio-electricity from the crest on his head, and he could thus electrocute his opponents with a touch.
The true nature of Gabara was never revealed, and it's very possible that he never actually "existed" in the flesh even within the context of Toho's Showa Series universe, and he may have been a telepathic projection of some sort that was somehow 'beamed' into the mind of young Ichiro from an unknown source, or the dream kaiju may simply have been nothing more than a product of the youth's subconscious mind during a sleep state that was (possibly) induced via a small technological device invented by a neighbor.

Significant appearances: Godzilla’s Revenge (1969)

Gaila I-II (Showa and Millennium X Versions)

Alternate names: Sometimes spelled and pronounced "Gaira." In the American press, he was simply referred to as the 'Green Gargantua,' and in the Japanese press he was sometimes referred to as one of the 'Frankenstein Brothers' along with Sanda.

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1 & "3D"

Height: 30 meters

Description: Gaila is a gigantic, green shaggy humanoid kaiju, who vaguely resembles a towering, grotesque neanderthal man. He is also aquatic, though probably not truly amphibious.
He is believed to have been spawned by the radioactively enhanced regenerative ability of a piece of the giant Frankenstein Monster's flesh that was torn off after the latter giant humanoid's apparently fatal encounter with a daidako in the water a year previous. This was believed to have influenced the aquatic nature of Gaila. He was also quite savage and brutal, and frequently fed upon human beings.

Gaila first appeared in Japan in 1966, his initial appearance being when he battled a daidako (giant octopus) over rights to a sea vessel full of human beings for food. Upon making destructive forays into Japan itself, the beast was seriously injured by the newly invented maser tank weapons.
In the Showa timeline, he was rescued from death by the arrival of a "brother" creature from the mountains, who had a similar genesis, a creature named Sanda. But when the inoffensive Sanda discovered that his "brother" Gaila was eating human beings, he turned on his fellow gargantua and battled him to spare the populace of Japan his erstwhile sibling's ghastly depredations. The two giant humanoids fought to a stand-still, ending up in the ocean where both were apparently consumed by an erupting volcano rising from the surface of the water.
In the Millennium X continuity, however, it's quite possible that Sanda didn't exist in that reality, and that Gaila was killed by the maser tank attack, initiated by the newly formed Anti-Megalosaurus Force (AMF). It's also possible that in this reality, Gaila's true nature was never discerned, as he was later described as being a gigantic bigfoot rather than a gigantic man-made monster.

Special powers and abilities: Gaila possessed an incredible degree of physical strength that was comparable to that of his "parent," Frankenstein. He could also run quite fast, and was highly aquatic, able to remain underwater for long periods of time, and he appeared to consider the ocean his natural environment. Gaila was also quite likely to be fully sentient, but since he was never reared in a human-like environment, his disposition was extremely savage and animalistic, though he certainly seemed to possess human-level cunning.
It's believed that he may have possessed the regenerative capability of his "parent."

Significant appearances: War of the Gargantuas (1966); [stock footage cameo only] Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)

Ganime

Category: Kaiju

Alternate names: Have no doubt that Ganime's name is probably spelled and pronounced in a variety of different ways in various sources (including "Ganimes").

Continuity: 1 & quite possibly "3D"

Length: 30 meters

Description: Ganime never actually appeared in a G-film, but since he once faced the Big G in the video game Godzilla, King of the Monsters released by Nintendo Game Boy, I decided that he deserved honorable inclusion in this glossary.

'Ganime' was the name given in Japanese texts to describe a rare but predatory species of giant lobster (not to be confused with Ebirah) indigenous to Godzilla's Earth that are likely descended from gigantic pseudo-crustaceans created many millennia ago by Muan geneticists as aquatic bio-weapons against their Atlantean nemeses; a small number of these lobsters managed to maintain a breeding population in the South Pacific by the present era.
These creatures resembled normally evolved lobsters in their exterior form, albeit of an incredible size (unlike Ebirah, the Ganime actually have two pincers, like normal lobsters, rather than a pincer on one limb and a spike-like projection on the other, as is the case with Ebirah).

A Ganime was first encountered by Japanese citizens on Selga Island in 1970, where one of the creatures was possessed by a disembodied alien entity known as Yog. It was then compelled to attack humans on this island, though the people there managed to blow the creature to pieces with many tons of TNT. However, that didn't stop the Yog entity from quickly possessing another Ganime. This second giant lobster was directed to attack the humans on Selga Island in the company of a possessed giant aquatic turtle known as a Kamoebas. Utilizing the sounds of bats that interfered with the alien's control, the humans on the island managed to incite the two giant creatures into battling each other, until both fell into the maw of an erupting volcano and were consumed.

Special skills and abilities: Ganime possesses the incredible strength and resilience that a lobster its size would be expected to possess, and it generally uses its two powerful pincers to attack its prey or its foes, enabling them to exert a vice-like grip on anything they grab, and to hurl their opponent about. Though mostly aquatic, the creature can move on land for extended periods.
It also possesses the ability to spit a wide stream of salt water into the eyes of its opponents, thus temporarily obscuring their vision.

Significant appearances: Yog, Monster From Space (1970)

Garogain

Category: Alien Race

Continuity: 1

Description: The Garogain were a highly militaristic starfaring alien race with very advanced technology, who attacked and destroyed all planets with civilizations dedicated to the preservation of peace [apparently, their philosophy was that such planets were inherently weak-willed, thus making them easy pickings, and that they would also be a potential threat to their plans of conquest of the universe in the future]. After obliterating a planet simply called “Peaceland” due to its high regard for peace, the Garogain set their sites on Earth (why they considered Earth a planet of peace is a mystery to me).

The Garogain, led by the nefarious Baron Garoga (also known as Garoga-Gold), were humanoid in form, but always wore what appeared to be expressionless face masks. They used extremely exotic technology much too varied to be described in detail here in their evil acts, but perhaps for purely sadistic reasons, they were also fond of using crude (by their standards) Earth weapons such as fully automatic machine guns. Each Garogain was given the power, probably through technological means, to shape shift into any known form, from specific human beings to even giant monsters.
In addition to their technology, they also utilize giant monsters under their control, collectively referred to as 'Terro-Beasts,' either by acquiring them from other planets, creating them through genetic engineering or by constructing them mechanically, and occasionally through a combination of the three. Sometimes, the Garogain agents themselves would transform into these creatures, meaning that they possessed the ability to accrue huge amounts of extra mass from an unknown source during the course of their shapeshifting.

Upon reaching Earth in 1973, the Garogain were opposed by the Zone family, consisting of Hikaru Sakimori, his younger sister Kei, and kid brother Akira, who are the last three survivors of Peaceland, and who were determined to protect the Earth, which had become their adopted home. Hikaru had the power to become the giant super-hero known as Zone Fighter, and he battled the Garogain and their legions of Terro-Beasts for an entire year before finally defeating them and driving them from the Earth.
During this time, Godzilla I, who had become a staunch protector of the planet by the early 1970’s, also opposed the Garogain monsters on several occasions, specifically the kaiju called Wargilgar, Spilar, Zandolla, Gigan (who he battled on two other recorded occasions apart from the Garogain), Jellar and Kastam-Jellar, Spiderous and Galobug.
On one memorable occasion, Baron Garoga even sent Godzilla’s arch-nemesis, King Ghidorah I, to battle Zone Fighter, who the latter very narrowly defeated without Godzilla’s assistance.

Significant appearances: Zone Fighter, the Meteor Man TV series, Episodes 1-26 (1973)

Garuda

Category: Kaiju/Mecha (could be categorized as either, depending upon individual perspective)

Continuity: 2

Alternate names: Merged with Mechagodzilla II to become Super Mechagodzilla.

Length: Approx. 60 meters

Description: Garuda is a very large flying machine created by G-Force, and designed by aviation expert Kazuma Aoki. It was named after a mythological bird-god, and due to Aoki’s fascination with the prehistoric flying reptiles known as pterodactyls, the mecha was designed to vaguely resemble a bionic version of such a creature, hence its inclusion here as a kaiju as well as a mecha.
Garuda wasn’t designed to act on its own volition, but was instead controlled manually by a pilot the same as any other aircraft. Intended as a weapon against Godzilla II, early computer analysis by G-Force technicians determined that Garuda would be no match for Godzilla in battle, resulting in the machine being placed on the backburner in 1994 in favor of the Mechagodzilla project.

When Fire Rodan attacked Japan that year and threatened the safety of a scientist named Azusa, who Aoki was fond of, he took Garuda out of mothballs and engaged the mutated Pteranodon in battle. Fire Rodan defeated Garuda, however, knocking his bionic counterpart out of the sky with his atomic breath, but not killing Aoki or severely damaging the craft. Aoki soon made Garuda airborne again, and briefly engaged Godzilla II in battle to distract the kaiju from the arrival of Mechagodzilla II. Aoki then merged Garuda with Mechagodzilla, greatly increasing the latter’s mobility and firepower, thereby creating the robotic entity known as Super Mechagodzilla. Despite the temporary defeat of Godzilla, his resurrection as Super Godzilla resulted in the destruction of Super Mechagodzilla, permanently sending Garuda to the scrap heap in the process.

Special powers and abilities: Garuda could achieve flying speeds in excess of Mach 3. It was equipped with a large array of tracking computers, was highly aerodynamic and maneuverable, and was outfitted with twin maser cannons, which were more powerful than standard maser tanks and jets, but still not powerful enough to defeat Godzilla.
When merged with Mechagodzilla into Super Mechagodzilla, Garuda increased that robotic entity’s mobility and firepower at least tenfold, as well as lending it the additional power of Garuda’s maser cannons. It is unknown what type of steel Garuda’s outer hull was composed of, but it was highly impregnable.

Significant appearances: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 (1993)

Gezora

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1 & quite possibly "3D"

Height: 30 meters, and a minority of specimens may attain a height up to 50 meters

Description: Gezora is a kaiju that did not actually appear in a G-film, but since he was from another Toho kaiju movie that took place within Godzilla I's continuity, and since he battled Godzilla (and Mothra) in both the Nintendo video game Godzilla, Monster of Monsters! and the Nintendo Game Boy video game Godzilla's Adventure, I thus decided to give him honorable mention in this glossary.

Gezora is a gigantic squid who was able to spend extended amounts of time on land. He was mistakenly referred in the film he appeared in as an "octopus." His origin was probably connected to the daidako (Japanese for "giant octopus"), descendants of ancient Muan genetic engineering, that appear to have established an actual breeding population on Godzilla I's Earth. This population of giant squid appeared to be even smaller than that of the daidako, and appeared to almost exclusively inhabit the seas close to Selga Island, where the natives believed these creatures were the manifestation of a feared sea deity that they named "Gezora."
Gezora basically resembled a giant version of a normal brachiopod, but was dark green in color, and walked upright on land on his eight smaller arms.

In the year 1970, an Earth space probe known as the Helios 7, which was designed to fly into the gaseous atmosphere of Jupiter in order to send information on the largest planet in the solar system back to Earth, was invaded by a disembodied, sentient, malevolent and extremely powerful being of pure energy (referred to as "Yog"), who re-directed the small extrasolar device back to Earth.
The probe landed in the South Pacific, where the disembodied alien left the device and invaded the body of a Gezora, using its power to take control of the giant brachiopod's actions. The giant squid may have been somehow granted the ability to produce extreme cold with its touch by the alien energy being that had possessed its body.

When a photographer named Kudo and a small entourage landed on Selga Island, they were likewise menaced by Gezora, who continued to terrorize the island, as the alien being which inhabited his body plotted eventual control of the entire planet. When it was discovered that the cold inducing creature was vulnerable to fire, Kudo and his allies used a leftover Japanese World War II munitions cabin discovered on the island, which included plenty of gasoline, to set the monster squid aflame.
Severely burned, the creature retreated to the water, where Yog abandoned the now useless organic husk, thus sparing the island further attacks by this alien-controlled Gezora.
However, it should be noted that Yog continued his attack by similarly invading and controlling the bodies of two other rare giant likely descendants of ancient Muan bio-engineering, a gigantic lobster (mistakenly referred to in the film as a "crab") and a gigantic predatory water turtle, and used them to terrify the island in Gezora's stead, until they were cajoled into battling each other by the humans on the island, who took advantage of the alien's vulnerability to the naturally occurring sonar used by the bats on the island, which ultimately caused the battling monsters to stumble into an erupting volcano; a human being on the island whose consciousness was likewise subverted by the bodiless alien being also exerted his willpower and leapt into the maw of the volcano under his own volition, thus ending the threat of Yog once and for all.

Special powers and abilities: Gezora possessed the proportionate tremendous strength of a squid his size. Although he spent the majority of his time in the sea, he could move about on land rather easily for extended periods of time. He would use his eight small arms to walk, and his two long tentacles to attack. His body naturally generated intense cold by unknown means, and he could cause frostbite to a living organism with his touch; it is unknown whether this ability was granted to the giant squid by the possessing alien, though this is a likely possibility.
Gezora, like all creatures controlled by the disembodied alien consciousness of Yog, was highly vulnerable to natural sonar that was used by animals such as bats and dolphins, which would cause Yog to lose control of the creatures. Gezora was also extremely vulnerable to fire, due to the cold inducing nature of his physiology.

Significant appearances: Yog, Monster From Space (1970)

G-Force

Category: Organization

Continuity: 2

Description: G-Force is an international military task force created and funded by the United Nations by the year 1994, and headquartered in Tsukuba, Japan for the express purpose of implementing military countermeasures against the threat of Godzilla II.

The organization is publicly known, and its agents boast areas of expertise in many different fields, but is particularly composed of scientists, engineers and military officials and soldiers. G-Force also has an esper division comprised of individuals with psychic powers whose main purpose is to psionically keep track of Godzilla’s presence, as well as participating directly in different means of psionically influencing the kaiju or enhancing certain technologies designed to control the creature.
The most prominent and active member of the esper division is telepath Miki Saegusa, who has studied and sought to peacefully guard her country against Godzilla since she was a teenager in 1990.

G-Force has also battled other dai kaiju that threatened the world, such as Rodan II, Space Godzilla and Destroyah, and the organization has access to the most advanced technology in the world, including a small amount of futuristic technology from the early 23rd century left behind in 1992 by time travelers from that era.

The most well known contributions undertaken by G-Force have included the design and creation of the flying war machine Garuda, the giant robot Mechagodzilla II, the G-Crusher Project (designed to kill Godzilla by utilizing Mechagodzilla to destroy his abdominal nerve ganglia), improvements on the Maser Tanks and Jets, the giant robot Mogera II, the T-Project (an undertaking intended to control Godzilla by a combination of technological and psionic means) and the Super X-3, another flying war machine, which was partially intended to prevent a wide-scale China Syndrome effect during Godzilla’s impending nuclear meltdown. Although the latter mission was successful, G-Force ultimately had nothing to do with Godzilla’s eventual demise, although they were partially responsible for the destruction of Rodan and Space Godzilla, and mostly responsible for the final defeat of Destroyah.

Significant appearances: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 (1993); Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994); Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995)

G-Graspers

Category: Organization

Continuity: "3B"

Description: 'G-Grasper' is the appellation given to the soldiers of the Anti-Godzilla Defense Bureau (AGD) set up in the reality of continuity "3B" to deal with Godzilla's incursions into Japan after his destructive attack on a plasma-generating plant in Osaka in 1996. The soldiers are commanded in the field by Kiriko Tsujimori.

Significant Appearances: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)

Giant Sea Snake

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1

Length: 85 meters

Description: The giant sea snake is likely yet another remnant of ancient genetic experimentation conducted by Muan (a.k.a., Lemurian) scientists to create gigantic, genetically robust, territorial, aggressive, and predatory creatures, both on land and in the sea, for use as bio-weapons against their only rivals for world dominance in prehistory, the Atlanteans. The giant sea snake is an example of an aquatic bio-weapon. Though most of these Muan-created creatures are long dead, including most land species (save a few ultra-dinosaurs, ultra-apes, pseudo-insects, and various ultra-mammals scattered about the South Pacific isles and occasionally found elsewhere) a few of the aquatic creations managed to sustain a small breeding population, albeit mostly in the Pacific Ocean, and often near various South Sea atolls (other such genetically engineered, predatory aquatic creatures who managed to survive in small breeding populations are giant octopi ['daidako' in Japanese, who appear to be the most populous of these rare Muan survivors], giant squid [the Gezora], giant lobsters [the Ganime], giant aquatic turtles [the Kamoebas], and sea serpents [to which Manda appears to be one of the few survivors]).
The giant sea snakes seem to prefer the waters near the remote South Pacific atoll called Mondo Island, and probably nearby islands, as well. They are whitish-azure in color, have comparatively small yellow lidless eyes, and rows of razor sharp teeth (non-protruding). Some of these giant aquatic snakes have almost certainly been confused with sea serpents in the past, though they are distinct from the latter upon close inspection.
They are quite vicious and voracious as well as territorial, in accordance with their artifical genetic encoding, and will attack not only large aquatic animals that intrude into their vicinity, but will even attack human ocean-going vessels.
The only recorded instance of a giant sea snake encountering humans from the developed nations in the 20th century was in 1967, when an international submarine called the Explorer, under the auspices of U.N. representative Carl Nelson, had their vessel attacked by such a giant snake while attempting to flee Mondo Island. They were rescued when the gigantic, powerful bipedal ape known as King Kong, who had since taken refuge on that island, intervened on the humans' behalf (the huge ape had taken a fancy to the vessel's nurse, Susan Watson). After a fearsome battle, Kong managed to defeat the giant snake and rescue the human crew of the Explorer.

No other instance of humans encountering these rare giant sea snakes have been recorded at this writing.

Special powers and abilities: Though not truly amphibious, these gigantic reptiles can spend significant amounts of time underwater (as can normal sea snakes), and are excellent swimmers. They are quite fast in the water, and will attack an opponent by constriction, much as a boa or an anaconda would, and their level of strength is incredible to a level commensurate with their size and weight.
Unlike normal sea snakes, the giant sea snakes do not appear to use venom. It's possible that they are able to come onto land for short periods, but they seldom do so, since they are unaccustomed to moving in a non-aquatic environment, where they are fastest and most able to battle or sieze prey.

Significant appearances: King Kong Escapes (1967)

Gigan

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1

Alternate names: Borodan (a name he was mistakenly referred to in certain American press materials during the U.S. release of Godzilla vs. Megalon in 1976, as well as in the comic book issued by Cinema Shares that same year as an advertisement for the aforementioned film, which they released on a large scale to American cinema).

Height: 65 meters

Description: Gigan is a powerful alien cybernetic kaiju who originated in a planet within the Hunter M Nebula. The monster was transformed into a cyborg by the technologically advanced aliens also living in the solar system (known as the Nebulans), replacing much of the beast’s natural parts with artificial ones, which has effectively transformed him into a lethal living weapon, and granting the kaiju access to atomic powered energy.
Gigan is bipedal in stance, his claws have been replaced with curved, scythe-like weapons, he has scaly skin, a single red digitized eye with infra-red capacity, a curved horn-like antenna atop his head that is connected to circuitry implanted within his brain, and which receives control signals from his alien masters, a large beak accompanied by insect-like mandibles, a large vertical buzzsaw projection protruding from his stomach to his upper chest, three very large vertical fin-like wing projections on his back, impact absorbing pads on his knees, and a medium length tail.

The kaiju first appeared on Earth in 1972 along with King Ghidorah I under the control of the Nebulans during their invasion attempt of Earth. Gigan and his ally were defeated and driven from Earth by Godzilla I and Anguirus.

A year later, Gigan appeared on Earth again, sent by the Nebulans to assist Megalon against the heroic robot Jet Jaguar at the behest of the hidden terran race known as the Seatopians. Godzilla soon arrived to assist Jet Jaguar, and in the course of the four way battle, Gigan once again fled the Earth after the robotic hero broke one of his arms.
However, it would soon be learned that the severe injury took its toll on the cyborg monster as he attempted to flee back home to the Hunter M Nebula, as his energy stores were severely depleted, leaving him laying insensate in the void of space for months, until he was found and captured by the hostile shape-shifting alien race known as the Garogain.

Months later, Gigan appeared on Earth for the final time under the control of the Garogain aliens, this time for use against the aliens' arch-foe, the gigantic super-hero known as Zone Fighter. The Garogain were unable to restore most of Gigan's energy supplies, however, doing nothing more than making returning him to a state of basic functional capacity. As a result, the once amazingly powerful cyborg monster found himself unable to use his laser beam, buzzsaw, or even his power of flight (the Garogain actually had to lower Gigan to the ground with huge parachutes in this instance). In an attempt to compensate Gigan for the loss of all of his special powers, the Garogain installed explosive devices on the tips of his hand schythes that would detonate upon impact with an adversary. Nevertheless, this hardly made up for the far more formidable powers that he lost, and soon after his arrival on Earth to face Zone Fighter, he found himself under attack from his old foe Godzilla, who was now easily able to defeat the cyborg monster. However, as soon as Godzilla left the area after seemingly beating his adversary into submission, Gigan rose again to seek out his true objective, Zone Fighter. The colossal super-hero soon appeared, and even with the explosive devices placed on his hand scythes by the Garogain, the cyborg monster proved no match whatsoever for Zone Fighter while bereft of his other powers. Within moments, Zone Fighter apparently destroyed Gigan utterly with a savvo of high-powered missiles from his wrist gauntlets, thus ending the menace of the deadly cybernetic kaiju once and for all.

Special powers and abilities: Gigan’s internal atomic generator ordinarily grants him a nearly inexhaustible supply of energy. However, this energy can be depleted if Gigan is forced to expend large amounts of energy, such as flying through warp space, after being seriously injured.
Gigan's natural claws were amputated and replaced by scythe-like appendages, and they, along with the razor sharp buzzsaw on his stomach, which can be activated to rotate at high speed, are both composed of an unknown diamond hard substance, and are able to slash or slice through almost anything, including Godzilla’s nearly impenetrable hide, with ease.
His internal power source enables him to fly at supersonic speeds in the manner of a living aircraft, and his motionless finny wings are present merely to enable him to achieve balance while in flight.
Although he can survive indefinitely in the hard vacuum of space, since he doesn’t rely on oxygen for survival but only on his own internal power source, and his cybernetic systems protect his body from explosive decrompression, he can surround himself in a crystalline covering in which he resembles a gigantic sapphire, through which he can travel through warp space and negotiate interstellar distances. Once he reaches his intended planetary target in space, he explosively “sheds” his blue crystal shell.
Gigan is rumored to be capable of firing a high-powered laser beam from a turret located just above his single huge digitized eye, although he has never been depicted using it in any of his onscreen appearances. His eye has the capacity for perceiving patterns of energy in the infra-red spectrum, thus enabling him to see clearly in the dark.

During the time Gigan was controlled by the Garogain and deprived of his powers, he had explosive devices planted on the tips of his hand scythes that exploded upon striking an object.

Gigan is controlled by his various masters via electromagnetic signals at a specific frequency that are directed through his antenna horn to his cybernetic brain, and he is thus completely incapable of disobeying the directives of his controllers. However, if freed from the control beams, he can act on his own volition, and will continue fighting his adversaries with all due vigor.
When at full power, Gigan's array of cyborg weaponry made him a match for Godzilla in battle, and he was one of the Big G’s most powerful foes prior to his subsequent power loss.

Significant appearances: Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972); Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973); Zone Fighter, the Meteor Man TV series, Episode 11 (1973)

Gimantises

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1

see Kamakiras.

Godzilla I (Showa Version)

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1

Alternate names: Gojira (his Japanese name, pronounced GOD-zeel-ah), King of the Monsters, Kaiju King, Gigantus, Big G, Godzi (a nickname both my grandmother and J.D. Lees independently came up with for him).

Height: 50 meters

Description: The events featured in the first G-film happened within the continuity of both Godzilla I and II, as well as the continuity of each film featured in the third Alternate Reality series; only afterwards do their histories unfold differently (with the probable exception of the end of the film, as explained below).

Godzilla was a creation of the atomic bomb tests undertaken in the Pacific Ocean by the United States from the early 1940’s to the early 1950’s. It has been theorized that Godzilla was originally one of the relatively small number of surviving dinosaurs who were created via advanced genetic engineering techniques many millennia ago by the "super-civilization" that once inhabited the now sunken continent of Mu (often called Lemuria in the West), and who once ruled much of the civilized world prior to the beginning of the official historical records; it's believed that the genetically enhanced dinosaurs (along with other large and unusual synthetically created animal species) were bred partially for the purpose of use as bio-weapons against the Muans' only real rivals for control of the world, the Atlanteans (whose home continent was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, and was also eventually destroyed), and partially as the result of experiments geared towards learning to control evolution by creating new species. After the fall of Mu/Lemuria and Atlantis prior to the beginning of the historical epochs, due to their extreme physical and genetic hardiness, many of these genetically engineered dinosaurs (many of them twice as large as their naturally evolved Mesozoic counterparts) survived into the present era on various isolated areas of the world, but most of them seemed to be situated, for many obvious reasons, on many of the numerous uncharted and mostly uninhabited islands dotting the Pacific Ocean, and lie closest to the Asian continent, particularly the island nation of Japan.
Due to the nature of these dinosaurs' genetic enhancements, many of them didn't die or even sicken upon exposure to large amounts of atomic radiation, but instead mutated into far larger, extremely powerful, and near-invulnerable creatures who thrived on nuclear energy, and became an extreme hazard for modern civilization after the beginning of the Atomic Age of human history.

Although Godzilla's outward appearance has changed in a subtle manner from year to year, possibly as a consequence of his continually mutating physiology, his basic form remains constant. His stance is bipedal, following the basic form of a carnosaur, his skin is charcoal gray (not green, as sometimes reported) and of a ridgy texture, he has three rows of dorsal fins on his back, with the middle row much larger than the outer two on each side, a very long muscular tail and large, plodding feet. He possesses two hands capable of grasping objects like a human being, and he has four fingers (including an opposable thumb) on each hand and three toes on each foot. He initially had very sharp teeth, though they became much less pronounced by the 1960’s (but remained very pronounced in continuity 2 and 3).

The atomic-powered mutation first appeared in 1954, menacing the peaceful natives off of Odo Island, located near the Bikini Atoll. He soon made his way to Tokyo in Japan, where he mindlessly attacked and devastated the entire city, easily defeating the Japanese Self Defense Force in the process. The deadly kaiju was only defeated when the Oxygen Destroyer, a terrible weapon secretly invented by Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, was unleashed on the monster.
Apparently, however, in continuity 1, the monster was only injured, not destroyed, and presumably in the timeline recorded in the Showa series of films, he managed to escape into an undersea cavern which spared him the full effects of the weapon, and Dr. Serizawa’s vision of the kaiju being disintegrated was just a post mortem hallucination due to the effects of the weapon on the drowning scientist, since he choose to end his own life at this time to prevent the weapon from ever being re-created and falling into the wrong hands.

One year later, Godzilla appeared completely recovered from the injurious effects of the Oxygen Destroyer (this was probably not an entirely different kaiju, as some texts have suggested, since it would have been exceedingly unlikely for another sleeping dinosaur to be mutated in exactly the same manner) on Iwato Island in the Japan Sea, battling another dinosaur mutation, Anguirus. Later taking their battle to Osaka, Godzilla devastated that city as well, and defeated Anguirus. He was hunted down in the Arctic by a squadron of fighter jets who buried him under an avalanche of snow, thus ending his reign of destruction once more.

He wasn’t seen again until 1962, when he was inadvertently freed from his icy prison when the iceberg he was hibernating in collided with the SeaHawk, a nuclear powered submarine. Making his way to Japan again, Godzilla escaped an elaborate trap set by the Japanese military only to be defeated and driven from the island nation after a battle with the giant ape King Kong.

In 1964, Godzilla appeared in Japan after being washed ashore in a typhoon, and this time he menaced Nagoya and withstood a Frontier Missile attack from the U.S. Navy. Later, he was nearly killed by an elaborate plan of the Japanese military called Operation: Artificial Lightening, and was finally defeated and driven from Japan once more from the kaiju protector of the Earth, the giant moth known as Mothra I.

Several months later, Godzilla returned to Japan while attracted to mysterious magnetic waves emanating from a fallen meteor, and he clashed with the flying monster Rodan I. By this time, perhaps due to a gradual effect of the partial exposure to the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954, Godzilla (and Rodan) had mutated to the point where he had developed a rudimentary form of sentience (perhaps on the level of a great ape, like a chimpanzee) and could be communicated with telepathically by the larval Mothra. The guardian of the Earth telepathically convinced Godzilla and Rodan to reject terrorizing the human race and to team up with her to defeat the evil space kaiju King Ghidorah I, who was gestating within the aforementioned meteor and had now emerged. Eventually, the two formerly antagonistic kaiju agreed, and the three Earth monsters together drove King Ghidorah from the planet, thus placing Godzilla and Rodan on better terms with the human race they once destroyed mindlessly.
For the rest of the 60’s decade, Godzilla had an ambiguous relationship with the human race as his sentience level continued to increase somewhat.

In 1965, Godzilla and Rodan again became menaces to humanity when they were under the control of an alien race known as the Xians via mind-altering magnetic waves, and were forced to attack Japan along with King Ghidorah. After the Xians were defeated by the A-Cycle Light Ray, the three monsters were freed from their control, and Godzilla and Rodan once again teamed up and drove King Ghidorah from the Earth.
For the rest of the 60’s decade, Godzilla seemingly confined himself to islands in the South Seas and appeared to avoid direct contact with human civilization; he was encountered by various Japanese travelers over the next few years, such as on Letchi Island in 1966 when he battled the sea monster Ebirah, a giant condor, an evil paramilitary organization called the Red Bamboo, and had another brief tussle with the adult Mothra; and on Solgell Island in 1967, where he took an infant member of his species, Minya, under his wing and battled the giant praying mantises called Kamikaras and the giant spider called Spiega.

By 1969, Godzilla had officially been rounded up by unknown means along with all the other then existing dai kaiju on the atoll known as Monster Island, and it was shortly after that time that a young boy named Ichiro "daydreamed" a conflict between Godzilla, his surrogate son Minya, and an ogre-like beast known as Gabara on Monster Island.

By 1971, Godzilla’s intelligence had reached the point where he now deliberately acted as the protector of the Earth, and he could also now use his powers in a creative manner, his fighting skills became more pronounced and less animalistic, and he clearly began reasoning effectively in his actions.
That year, he blatantly acted in the defense of the planet when he battled and defeated the destructive toxic sludge monster called Hedorah.

In 1972, he teamed with his former foe Anguirus to repel King Ghidorah and Gigan from Earth.

His most active year was probably 1973, where he teamed with the giant robotic super-hero Jet Jaguar to defeat Megalon and Gigan, and a few months later joined forces with the giant alien hero Zone Fighter on five recorded occasions to repel several giant monsters sent to ravage the planet by the evil alien race known as the Garogain.

A year later, Godzilla battled and defeated his robotic alien counterpart Mechagodzilla I in Okinawa alongside the island’s supernatural protector, the heroic kaiju called King Seesar, and the next year he once again battled and thwarted Mechagodzilla, as well as the dinosaur mutation called Titanosaurus.

After 1975, this version of Godzilla’s adventures weren’t recorded again until an incident in the year 1999, when he and the other kaiju of Monster Island were taken control of by the alien race known as the Kilaaks, and forced to attack numerous cities across the planet; Godzilla himself devastated New York City and Tokyo (the former alongside Manda). After being freed from control by the human race, Godzilla led nine of his fellow monsters on a successful attack against the Kilaak’s ultimate kaiju weapon, King Ghidorah, and then personally destroyed the Kilaak base himself, thereby ending the invasion threat for good.
He was last seen peacefully existing on Monster Island in the year 1999.

Special powers and abilities: Godzilla’s great height and weight gave him tremendous strength, arguably greater than that of any other Earth born dai kaiju (with the possible exception of King Kong). His tail could also be used as a powerful striking weapon.
Due to his radioactive nature, Godzilla could regenerate from virtually any injury with astounding speed, but he could do so quicker by absorbing energy from other sources, preferably nuclear/radioactive, though he could also absorb natural or artificial electricity in a pinch, though ordinarily electricity was painful to him. Due to his internal atomic energy source, Godzilla has virtually inexhaustible stamina, and rarely ever appears to tire. In fact, some sources have claimed that due to Godzilla’s internal nuclear energy and extraordinary regenerative capacity, he may be nearly immortal. His skin is so resistant to injury that he has easily withstood repeated attacks by military forces, including tanks, missiles, and assault jets. He has even resisted repeated attacks by the artificial lightening generated by Markalite (i.e., maser) tanks and cannons.

Godzilla is also completely amphibious, and can survive indefinitely on land or underwater, but he often seems to prefer the latter environment. Since he does not possess gills, it is presumed that he possesses lamellae, which are oxygen-diffusing membranes, in his lungs.

As a result of the radiation he consumes, Godzilla’s digestive system produces uranium material, which is collected in two organs called Uran Pockets near his lungs. This is the source of his greatest power, his atomic breath. By exhaling forcefully, Godzilla pushes radioactive material from his atomic furnace in his intestines into the Uran Pockets, which create a form of nuclear fission that expels an extremely powerful blast of nuclear charged radiation that glows white hot in a spectacularly visible effect (contrary to many claims, Godzilla does not exhale fire, but rather concentrated radiation that produces a heating effect which is greater than that of ordinary flame). The whole process takes about 1.26 seconds, and an electrical discharge is always visible around his dorsal fins when he utilizes his atomic breath.
On one extremely bizarre occasion, Godzilla used his atomic breath as thrust to enable him to fly through the air backwards, and on another occasion he utilized his atomic energy to somehow turn his body into a living magnet, capable of reversing its polarity at will so as to both repel and attract metallic objects.

Significant appearances: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954); Godzilla Raids Again (1955); King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962); Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964); Ghidrah, the Three Headed Monster (1964); Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965); Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966); Son of Godzilla (1967); (in a dream sequence only) Godzilla’s Revenge (1969); Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971); Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972); Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973); Zone Fighter, the Meteor Man TV series, Episodes 4, 11, 15, 21, 25 (1973); Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974); Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975); Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Godzilla II (Heisei Version)

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 2

Alternate names: Godzillasaurus (before being mutated by atomic radiation), Gojira (his Japanese name, pronounced GOD-zeel-ah), King of the Monsters, Kaiju King, Big G, Godzi (a nickname both my grandmother and J.D. Lees independently came up with for him).

Height: (as Godzillasaurus) 12 meters; (as Godzilla): (1955) 50 meters; (1985-90) 80 meters; (1990-95) 100 meters; (1996, after his radiation level went “critical”) 120 meters

Description:

Godzilla was a creation of the atomic bomb tests undertaken in the Pacific Ocean by the United States from the early 1940’s to the early 1950’s. It has been theorized that Godzilla was originally one of the relatively small number of surviving dinosaurs who were created via advanced genetic engineering techniques many millennia ago by the "super-civilization" that once inhabited the now sunken continent of Mu (often called Lemuria in the West), and who once ruled much of the civilized world prior to the beginning of the official historical records; it's believed that the genetically enhanced dinosaurs (along with other large and unusual synthetically created animal species) were bred partially for the purpose of use as bio-weapons against the Muans' only real rivals for control of the world, the Atlanteans (whose home continent was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, and was also eventually destroyed), and partially as the result of experiments geared towards learning to control evolution by creating new species. After the fall of Mu/Lemuria and Atlantis prior to the beginning of the historical epochs, due to their extreme physical and genetic hardiness, many of these genetically engineered dinosaurs (many of them twice as large as their naturally evolved Mesozoic counterparts) survived into the present era on various isolated areas of the world, but most of them seemed to be situated, for many obvious reasons, on many of the numerous uncharted and mostly uninhabited islands dotting the Pacific Ocean, and lie closest to the Asian continent, particularly the island nation of Japan.
Due to the nature of these dinosaurs' genetic enhancements, many of them didn't die or even sicken upon exposure to large amounts of atomic radiation, but instead mutated into far larger, extremely powerful, and near-invulnerable creatures who thrived on nuclear energy, and became an extreme hazard for modern civilization after the beginning of the Atomic Age of human history.

Godzilla, prior to his mutation after exposure to atomic radiation, was one of the aforementioned ultra-dinosaur survivors, and he was apparently the only such dinosaur who was dwelling on Lagos Island in the early 20th century. He lived there peacefully until he was encountered by warring Japanese and American military regiments in 1944. The dinosaur was disturbed by the U.S. Navy’s bombardment of the island near his lair, and the irate creature immediately pursued the American naval men, slaughtering every one of them on the beach, and inadvertently saving the lives of the outnumbered Japanese soldiers. The dinosaur was then severely injured by a retaliatory strike by the offshore Navy battleship. The leader of the Japanese regiment, Morimura, recited an honorable eulogy of gratitude over the insensate form of the injured dinosaur.
Immediately afterwards, the dinosaur was teleported off of the island to a location at the bottom of the Bering Sea by a group of time travelers culled from both the early 23rd and late 20th centuries, utilizing technology from the former period (see the Futurians entry for the reason why these individuals committed this action).

As a result of the atomic bomb tests conducted by the United States in the Pacific Ocean during the early 1940’s-early 1950’s, the dinosaur was mutated by exposure to the massive amounts of radiation into a 50 meter tall amphibious creature with charcoal gray skin (not green, as often stated), three rows of dorsal fins on his back (with the middle row being much larger than the other two), longer arms with hands possessing four fingers on each (including an opposable thumb), a very long and muscular tail, large, plodding feet with three toes on each and formidable atomic-based powers.

By 1954, the creature finally made his presence known to the world by destroying Japanese fishing ships with his atomic breath and menacing the natives of Odo Island,' where he was officially given the name 'Godzilla, since the natives believed the kaiju to be a legendary monster from the indigenous island folklore with that name. Godzilla soon attacked Tokyo in Japan, completely destroying the city and easily defeating the Japanese Self Defense Force. The monster was only routed through the use of a terrible weapon called the Oxygen Destroyer, invented by the eccentric scientist Dr. Daisuke Serizawa. Utilizing the deadly weapon, Dr. Serizawa committed suicide as he watched Godzilla disintegrated by the device’s oxygen destroying properties underwater (in continuity 2, it would appear that Godzilla was indeed “destroyed” by the weapon).

Godzilla wasn’t seen again for 30 years, after which the radioactive flotsam which made up his body after being disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer came into contact with many different nuclear waste spills in the ocean over the following three decades. Ultimately, due to his repeated exposure to huge amounts of nuclear waste, coupled with the kaiju’s extraordinary regenerative properties, Godzilla managed to reintegrate his physical form exactly as before by 1985. After destroying a Soviet nuclear submarine and absorbing its radiation, Godzilla’s size increased to 80 meters, as well as having his atomic powers greatly enhanced.
After attacking a nuclear power station at Ihama for sustenance, Godzilla trampled through Tokyo once more and defeated the J.S.D.F.’s flying war machine called the Super X in battle. He was finally defeated again after being lured into the volcano called Mt. Mihara by way of high-pitched sound waves that he was discovered to be sensitive to.
He remained alive inside the volcano for five years in a state of hibernation until he was awakened and freed from his imprisonment by a terrorist’s bomb. He then defeated the new war machine called the Super X-2, which attempted to stop him from reaching Japan, as well as resisting a psionic attack by young telepath Miki Saegusa.
Upon rampaging through Osaka, Godzilla was opposed by both the J.S.D.F. and the heroic dai kaiju called Biollante, who was created via genetic engineering by crossing Godzilla’s cells with a rose plant, and controlled by the spirit of a deceased woman named Erica Shiragami. Ultimately, Godzilla was defeated on this occasion by the Japanese military, who injected microorganisms called anti-nuclear bacteria (ANB) into his bloodstream, which would consume the radiation in his cellular structure when his body temperature wasn’t lowered by immersion in water, forcing him to flee to the ocean and remain there for two years.

In 1992, Japan was invaded by renegade time travelers from the 23rd century, who pretended to arrive in the present to eliminate Godzilla’s history from the timeline, but in actuality was out to conquer the then present time period by creating the dai kaiju called King Ghidorah II. After Godzilla destroyed a nuclear powered submarine called the Musashi II, which was searching for him, the large new influx of radiation both increased his height further to 100 meters and greatly augmented his atomic powers once more, as well as neutralizing the effect of the ANB bacteria.
Coming ashore to Hokkaido, Godzilla defeated King Ghidorah in battle and destroyed the renegade Futurians, only to then turn his fury on Japan itself and attack the city of Sapporo. Godzilla was only removed from Japan when the sole benevolent member of the Futurians, a woman named Emi Kano, traveled back to her native time period and re-created the massively injured King Ghidorah into the cybernetic Mecha-King Ghidorah. Returning to the present, Emi successfully utilized the Mecha-King Ghidorah cyborg to remove Godzilla from Japan, but the partially mechanized kaiju was destroyed in the process.

A year later, Godzilla surfaced again, and this time he was driven from Japan by the combined might of Earth’s elemental protectors, the giant moths known as Mothra II and Battra, although the latter was killed during the battle.

By 1994, the United Nations formed G-Force to deal with the ever-present menace of Godzilla, and they created the giant robotic version of the Kaiju King called Mechagodzilla II to kill him. Godzilla appeared again that year while tracking the psychic emanations from the newborn member of his species called Baby Godzilla, which brought him into conflict with the giant mutant pterodactyl called Rodan II. Defeating the flying monster, Godzilla was later nearly killed by Project G-Crusher, an attempt to kill the King of the Monsters utilizing Mechagodzilla’s shock anchor weapon to destroy Godzilla’s lower abdominal “brain.” Recovering only after absorbing the radiation from the dying body of Rodan (mortally injured in battle with Mechagodzilla), Godzilla re-emerged in his enhanced incarnation of “Super Godzilla,” and managed to destroy Mechagodzilla, who was itself merged with the bionic flying mecha known as Garuda to form the entity known as “Super Mechagodzilla.”
Godzilla then took the young Baby Godzilla under his wing, and the two departed for their new home on uninhabited Birth Island.

In 1995, Godzilla became the victim of G-Force’s T-Project, an attempt to control the kaiju through a combination of technology and Miki Saegusa’s telepathic powers. The project failed, and Godzilla ended up inadvertently saving the human race by destroying his extraterrestrial counterpart Space Godzilla alongside G-Force’s newest super-robot, Mogera II.

Finally, in 1996, Godzilla’s radiation caused Birth Island’s uranium deposits to explode, devastating the atoll and causing Godzilla to absorb more radiation than his body could handle, increasing his size to its maximum height of 120 meters, and causing his body to go critical like a living nuclear reactor. After first attacking Hong Kong with extreme frenzy due to the trauma of his internal meltdown, Godzilla later arrived in Tokyo and battled the kaiju called Destroyah, who was created by the micro-oxygen left behind by the Oxygen Destroyer itself 40 years previous, to a standstill before the latter was finished off by G-Force’s newest flying war machine, the Super X-3.
Beginning his meltdown, Godzilla was buffeted by the Super X-3’s freezing masers to prevent a massive China Syndrome effect, and the King of the Monsters finally melted into radioactive mist, meeting his demise through the same forces which first created him.
Absorbing the radioactive mist that was all that was left of Godzilla, Godzilla Junior (Baby Godzilla’s adolescent form) was accelerated to full adulthood and became the new Godzilla.

Special powers and abilities: Unlike Godzilla I, the Godzilla of the Heisei Era G-series never became semi-sentient, but remained a mindless engine of destruction to the human race, though he had an undeniable cunning that made him even more formidable in battle.

As a Godzillasaurus, before being mutated by atomic radiation, he possessed the formidable physical attributes typical of a carnosaur, though he was twice as large as an average specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex, and thus quite a bit stronger and more robust than the latter species of carnosaur.

After absorbing the radiation of the atomic bomb tests, Godzilla’s height and weight were amplified to a huge extent, and granted him tremendous physical strength, his teeth and claws could easily rip through materials ranging from flesh to metals, and his tail could be utilized as a powerful striking weapon.

Godzilla’s internal nuclear power source, which had to be periodically replenished by ingesting radiation from outside sources, gave the kaiju extraordinary regenerative properties, and he could recover from virtually any type of injury with amazing speed, depending upon the severity of the injury itself, and he could recover far quicker, often within seconds, after absorbing radiation from a particularly potent source.
Godzilla was even able to recover from being disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer, although the recovery process took 30 years and extensive contact of Godzilla’s remaining radioactive cellular material with large nuclear waste spills in the ocean. Godzilla’s fast regenerative G-cells may have made him virtually immortal.

Godzilla was fully amphibious, able to survive indefinitely in or out of the water, though he seemed to prefer the latter environment. Since he didn’t possess gills, it is presumed that his lungs possessed lamellae, which are oxygen-diffusing membranes, to extract oxygen from the water.

In addition to his physical attributes, Godzilla also possessed exceedingly powerful nuclear-based powers, including his atomic breath. Godzilla’s stomach and intestines had become organic nuclear reactors, creating uranium material within. This gave him an internal atomic furnace, and he possessed two fission processing organs called Uran Pockets near his lungs. By forcefully exhaling, Godzilla could push this fissionable material from his atomic furnace and into the Uran Pockets, thereby building up nuclear fission. This would result in a stream of white-hot radiation (not fire, as sometimes reported) to spew forth from his maw, and would hit any object in its path with temperatures in excess of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The entire process takes about 1.26 seconds, and is accompanied by a visible discharge of electrical energy along the monster’s dorsal fins.
Godzilla II has also displayed an additional atomic power never utilized by Godzilla I, his nuclear pulse (a phrase coined by J.D. Lees). This ultimate weapon has only been utilized by the kaiju during times of extreme physical danger or stress, so it is quite possibly a reflex action that is not consciously invoked, though Godzilla V was clearly shown using this ability consciously when he defeated Orga.
By generating a vast amount of nuclear energy in his atomic furnace, but not projecting it through his maw, Godzilla can project a devastatingly powerful, omnidirectional burst of energy from his entire body, effectively transforming himself into a living atomic bomb. This process takes several seconds of charging his atomic furnace before being initiated, which is why this power is only useful in some circumstances.

By absorbing particularly large amounts of radiation, Godzilla can permanently increase both his size and power (although there did prove to be an upper limit to how much he could safely absorb). By absorbing certain amounts of radiation under certain circumstances (such as from an organic source, like Fire Rodan), Godzilla could temporarily increase his already extraordinary cellular regenerative capacity and the power of his atomic breath into what Ed Godziszewski has christened his Uranium Power Breath. Unlike his normal atomic breath, which glows a whitish-blue, Godzilla’s Uranium Power Breath glows a fiery red and is far more intense, actually burning the atmosphere itself around it, and its effect is far more devastating than his atomic breath. This particular incarnation of the kaiju is often referred to as 'Super Godzilla,' although unlike the version of this incarnation seen in the Super Godzilla video game from Super Nintendo, the movie version doesn’t change his physical appearance. On one occasion, Godzilla was able to achieve his Super Godzilla incarnation by absorbing excess amounts of cosmic radiation.

For unknown reasons, Godzilla is very sensitive to psychic phenomena. He was attracted to the psionic emanations of other kaiju with high genetic similarities, such as Baby Godzilla, Biollante and Space Godzilla, as well as human telepaths like Miki Saegusa.

Godzilla was responsible for two other kaiju who were created from his genetic structure, Biollante and Space Godzilla, the former by having a human scientist splice his genes with a rose plant, the latter by having some of his cellular material in space combine with an alien crystalline life form and being mutated by exposure to cosmic radiation.

Significant appearances: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954); Godzilla 1985 (1984); Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989); Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (1991); Godzilla And Mothra: Battle For The Earth (1992); Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 (1993); Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994); Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995)

Godzilla III

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 2

see Baby Godzilla.

Godzilla IV (American Version)

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: A, "3C," "3E"

Alternate names: "'Zilla," "Deanzilla," "GINO."

Height: 50 meters.

Description: The fourth version of Godzilla is outside the continuity of any of the three Japanese film series, and has appeared only in the American Godzilla film [however, one line of dialogue in the Millennium Series film, GMK, implied that this story may indeed have taken place in one, or more than one, of the series of alternate realities seen in the third Japanese G-series]. His origin is considerably different from the Godzilla’s depicted in the three Japanese film series (all of whom shared the same origin) and he doesn’t share any part of their history.

This Godzilla also doesn't resemble the Japanese versions of Godzilla very much. Although primarily bipedal (though he walked on all fours while underground) he greatly resembled a gigantic iguana with spiky plates on his back. His skin was dark gray and scaly, much like a huge lizard. Unlike the Japanese versions of Godzilla, which were “tail draggers,” Godzilla IV’s tail was elevated off the ground as the monster walked, much like that of the dinosaurs. His mouth was armed with sharp, vicious teeth and his hands and feet sported very sharp talons.

Godzilla IV is the accidental creation of negligent nuclear experiments performed by the French government from the 1980’s to the late 1990’s. As a result of the considerable amount of leftover radioactive material in the environment, a powerful, 50 meter tall genetic mutation of an undisclosed reptilian species emerged, and lived by feeding on the fish populations in the ocean (this version of the monster was apparently not a mutated dinosaur, but a mutation of another form of reptile that was not a prehistoric survivor).
Called “Godzilla” by a member of a Japanese ship that was wrecked by the creature after a legendary sea monster in Japanese mythology, the monster eventually arrives in New York City in the year 1998, both in search of food, and for the purpose of spawning others of his species (this version of Godzilla is sexually androgynous). Godzilla innocently causes much destruction in the city, and evades all attempts by the U.S. military to destroy him.

After Godzilla’s progeny are destroyed, the kaiju angrily attacks a taxi cab containing a small group of people who he saw at the location of the slaughter; this included the noted young biologist Dr. Nick Tatopoulos, who was tracking and studying Godzilla. Becoming trapped in the support wires of a bridge during his ill-fated chase of the aforementioned taxi cab, Godzilla was finally struck down by the military, and slain.

Special Powers and Abilities: Although rivaling most versions of the Japanese Godzilla in height, the American Godzilla was nowhere near as impregnable to injury. He was killed rather easily when he was struck by several large American missiles, something any of the Japanese versions of Godzilla would have simply shrugged off. He also appears to have lacked the extraordinary regenerative powers of the various Japanese incarnations of Godzilla; thus, he was unable to heal himself at an accelerated rate so as to be virtually immortal.

Godzilla IV was completely amphibious, able to survive indefinitely in or out of the water, though he appeared to prefer the latter environment. This was presumably due to oxygen diffusing membranes called lamellae, which developed around his lungs. Unlike his Japanese counterparts, Godzilla IV was able to run at high speed, easily surpassing 100 mph. at his peak, and he could make great leaps through the air. His great size obviously afforded him an incredible degree of strength, though not as great as that of any of the Japanese versions of Godzilla.
However, despite being inferior to his Japanese counterparts in strength and resilience, he was quite superior in terms of speed and agility. He wasn’t killed outright by the military during his initial battle with them due to his ability to outrun and evade the largest weaponry in their possession. He seemed more or less unaffected by laser beams, however.

This Godzilla was a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female reproductive organs, enabling him to lay in excess of 200 eggs, all of which were self-fertilized.

He could also burrow underground with ease, and he appeared to spend much of his time in the subterranean depths, forming tunnels through which he traveled and hid.
His sense of smell was extremely keen, enabling him to easily catch the scent of fish or other prey, even when he was a great distance away or underground.

Also unlike his Japanese counterparts of various alternate realities, Godzilla IV didn’t possess the power of atomic breath. Hence, he probably possessed no internal fusion reactor as described in the entries for Godzilla I, II, and V. However, in two brief instances, he was seen to possess a form of “incendiary breath.” Apparently, Godzilla IV’s digestive processes create a huge degree of waste in the form of methane gas in his stomach. By exhaling forcefully, Godzilla was able to expel large amounts of this excess methane, which somehow ignites upon contact with already existing flames in the air, thereby causing flammable objects to undergo fast oxidation, creating clouds of flame in a small area. This ability was used very infrequently, however, and was far inferior in power to the atomic breath possessed by the Japanese versions of Godzilla.

Significant appearances: Godzilla (1998); Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) [referenced only in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)]

Godzilla V (Millennium Versions)

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: "3"

Alternate Names: Gojira (his Japanese name, pronounced GOD-zeel-ah), King of the Monsters, Kaiju King, Big G, Godzi (a nickname both my grandmother and J.D. Lees independently came up with for him).

Height: Approx. 55 meters.

Description: Godzilla V is not actually extant in a single, consistent continuity, as are the other versions of Godzilla appearing in this Glossary, but this "continuity" actually consists of several otherdimensional counterparts of the Kaiju King, whose exploits were documented in a different timeline appearing in each film covered under "continuity 3," and though his appearance varied slightly from timeline to timeline, it would appear that his physiology is basically the same in each. However, in one of the alternate realities seen within "continuity 3" thus far, Godzilla's origin appeared to be mystical, rather than the result of readily understandable scientific aspects of nuclear energy, and this version of Godzilla thus merits a seperate "special powers and abilities" section down below.

It would appear that the story depicted in the first G-film, however, is an historical event common to all of the timelines seen in "continuity 3," albeit with minor variations on the incident (mostly in regards to whether or not he was actually disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer at the end of the incident, or not).

Godzilla V (in most continuities depicted in the Alternate Reality series of G-films) was a creation of the atomic bomb tests undertaken in the Pacific Ocean by the United States from the early 1940’s to the early 1950’s. It has been theorized that Godzilla was originally one of the relatively small number of surviving dinosaurs who were created via advanced genetic engineering techniques many millennia ago by the "super-civilization" that once inhabited the now sunken continent of Mu (often called Lemuria in the West), and who once ruled much of the civilized world prior to the beginning of the official historical records; it's believed that the genetically enhanced dinosaurs (along with other large and unusual synthetically created animal species) were bred partially for the purpose of use as bio-weapons against the Muans' only real rivals for control of the world, the Atlanteans (whose home continent was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, and was also eventually destroyed), and partially as the result of experiments geared towards learning to control evolution by creating new species. After the fall of Mu/Lemuria and Atlantis prior to the beginning of the historical epochs, due to their extreme physical and genetic hardiness, many of these genetically engineered dinosaurs (many of them twice as large as their naturally evolved Mesozoic counterparts) survived into the present era on various isolated areas of the world, but most of them seemed to be situated, for many obvious reasons, on many of the numerous uncharted and mostly uninhabited islands dotting the Pacific Ocean, and lie closest to the Asian continent, particularly the island nation of Japan.
Due to the nature of these dinosaurs' genetic enhancements, many of them didn't die or even sicken upon exposure to large amounts of atomic radiation, but instead mutated into far larger, extremely powerful, and near-invulnerable creatures who thrived on nuclear energy, and became an extreme hazard for modern civilization after the beginning of the Atomic Age of human history.

Although the monster’s outward appearance has changed in a subtle manner from year to year, possibly as a consequence of his continually mutating physiology, Godzilla’s basic form remains constant. His stance is bipedal, following the basic form of a carnosaur, his skin is definitively green (not gray, as was the case with his counterpart seen in the Showa Series of G-films), and of a ridgy texture, he has three rows of dorsal fins on his back, with the middle row much larger than the outer two on each side, a very long muscular tail, and large, plodding feet. He possesses two hands capable of grasping objects like a human being, and he has four taloned fingers (including an opposable thumb) on each hand, and three toes on each foot. Some of the dimensional counterparts of Godzilla seen in the Alternate Reality series appear to have much larger, sharper, and far more pronounced dorsal plates, with a more lizardlike head possessing very sharp, lethal-looking teeth.

In all of the various alternate realities seen in "continuity 3," Godzilla first appeared to the modern world in 1954, and launched a devestating attack on the Japanese city of Tokyo, utterly destroying the city in the process, and easily fending off the attempts of the Japanese military to destroy him. He then departed, only to menace the island nation of Japan repeatedly since then, usually spurred on by his voracious appetite for the nuclear energy to be found in the many Japanese nuclear power plants (the number of times, places, and incidents varying in each reality), often engaging in battles with other dai kaiju who periodically appeared, and forcing Japanese scientists and military personnel to develop various countermeasures against him (also varying greatly, depending on different historical events in different realities). Three different alternate realities have been depicted in "continuity 3" thus far (again, all of which have only Godzilla's 1954 attack on Tokyo in common):

Continuity 3A: In the year 2000, Godzilla engages in one of his periodic attacks on Japan, but this time he not only meets resistance at the hands of the SDA (Japanese Self Defense Force, who unsuccessfully attempt to halt his progress with a new form of full-metal missles), but also an extraterrestrial spacecraft which initially laid dormant on that Earth for thousands of years, but which taps into all of the computer technology in Japan, thus gaining access to files containing Godzilla's DNA, and ultimately creating a genetic doppelganger of Godzilla known as Orga, whom Godzilla then battles and defeats before returning to his destructive trek in Japan.

Continuity 3B: After his initial 1954 attack on Japan (which prompted the Japanese government of this reality to move its capitol from Tokyo to Osaka), Godzilla engaged in another destructive assault on the land of the rising sun of this particular Earth in 1966, this time in Tokai Village, where Japan had its first nuclear power plant, the energy of which Godzilla would "feed" upon. This caused the Japanese government to outlaw nuclear energy, and to attempt to replace the latter with various types of environmentally "clean" sources of energy that would not attract Godzilla's attention. Over the next three decades, Japan tried various types of "clean" energy, such as wind, solar, and hydro, in an attempt to produce the amount of electricity that the citizens of Japan needed and demanded. Though this indeed prevented Godzilla from being attracted to Japan, these "clean" energy methods could not produce electricity with the sufficiency that nuclear power did in the eyes of the Japanese government, and the Japanese Bureau of Science and Technology thus put much effort into researching a new means of generating such energy that would be different from nuclear energy, but which could equal it in power output. By 1996, the Bureau had discovered that plasma energy, utilizing fast hydrogen to create it, could rival nuclear energy in efficiently producing electricity, and thus the Japanese government had the island nation's first plasma-generating plant constructed in Osaka that year. Unfortunately, plasma energy turned out to be every bit as attractive to Godzilla as an energy "food" source as was nuclear energy. Godzilla surfaced in Japan once more, trashed Osaka, destroyed the plant for its stores of plasma, and defeated the best attempts by the SDF to stop him. After this, plasma generating technology was also outlawed in Japan, and the government put funding into the creation of the Anti-Godzilla Defense (AGD) organization, full of specially trained and equipped soldiers known as the G-Graspers, designed to counter any possible attack by Godzilla which may materialize in the future; the team was led by a former SDF member named Kiriko Tsujimori, a soldier who participated in the SDF's 1996 battle with Godzilla, and swore vengeance on the Kaiju King when her commanding officer was killed saving her life during the battle. By the year 2001, the AGD developed a new weapon known as the Dimension Tide, which would attempt to remove the threat of Godzilla once and for all by opening a temporary miniature black hole in the beast's near-vicinity, thus displacing him from that Earth's dimension forever. However, plasma-generating "neutron" energy continued to be secretly utilized by the corrupt head of the AGD in Aqua City, Osaka, and Tokyo, which caused Godzilla to once again return to Japan in 2001 to partake of those "tasty" sources of energy. After defeating the initial attacks of the AGD, including their formidable Gryphon aircraft, the Dimension Tide is used, though the first mini-black hole fails to open close enough to displace Godzilla. Nevertheless, it does release a form of huge and deadly, energy-feeding extradimensional insect known as Meganulon II, which quickly forms an enormous swarm who transforms into a flying form known as Meganula, which attack Godzilla in large numbers for his vast internal stores of atomic energy. The Kaiju King manages to fend off the swarm before they "bleed him dry" of energy, though the swarm later help create a single large queen insect, known as Megaguirus, whose size rivals that of Godzilla, and who likewise attacks the latter for his energy. After a vicious battle, Godzilla manages to destroy Megaguirus, and after his continued trek through Japan in search of the various hidden neutron energy facilities strewn througout the island nation (before Tsujimori uncovers the scandal), this version of Godzilla is finally successfully dimensionally displaced from his reality by a second usage of the Dimension Tide.

Continuity 3C: This particular dimension appeared to be much more distant from the others in terms of history, as the origin and nature of Godzilla appears to be completely different from all previous versions seen to date. Thus, this appears to be the first of possibly several parallel realities which do not diverge from Godzilla's initial 1954 attack on Japan, but rather begins much further in the past than that (an article by G-fan Aaron Conway proposing an hypothesis on how the various universes where a version of Godzilla exists diverge from each other, and what the common denominators of each may be [suggesting that King Ghidorah, or a whole ancient species of such creatures, may be the cause], appears in G-Fan #46). Thus, not every reality containing a version of Godzilla will necessarily diverge from each other from a similar timeline (particularly since there is even a version of Godzilla extant in the Marvel Universe, though for obvious legal reasons, that version of the Big G has not been depicted anywhere in the comics chronicling the events of that universe for over two decades, despite a possible "teaser" appearance in an early 1980's issue of IRON MAN, implying that he had been mutated into a nearly unrecognizable, far smaller form by Dr. Demonicus, his old human nemesis from the Big G's own Marvel comic); this is also evident when you consider the disparate version of Godzilla seen in continuity A, which there is some reason to believe may have occurred in the same reality described here as "continuity 3C" (according to an offhand remark made in the film depicting the latter continuity).
In the reality depicted in "continuity 3C," Godzilla was evidently mystical in nature, and was strongly connected to the Japanese islands in some manner by its ancient ancestral spirits (a strong part of Japan's native Shinto religion), and may have been a vastly powerful bio-ethereal embodiment of various angered and embittered spirits of deceased Japanese people who were able to somehow utilize the ancient mystical energies surrounding Japan to form the destructive, intelligent, but viciously animalistic kaiju known as Godzilla. This version of Godzilla menaced ancient Japan, but the deities and ancestral spirits devoted to protecting the island from harm had created various "guardian monsters" of Japan known as Baragon II, Mothra IV, and King Ghidorah IV, the latter being the most powerful of these guardians (who was evidently linked in some manner with this reality's version of Orochi, the great eight-headed dragon of Japanese legend) to oppose Godzilla when the beast manifested itself under certain circumstances. This reality's version of the Kaiju King was apparently defeated by the combined might of these three guardian monsters, along with various other mystical beings and human warriors acting in concert. The angry and bereaved spirits of innocent Japanese people killed as a result of Japan's entry into World War II eventually utilized the still powerful mystical/spiritual energies surrounding the island nation to coalesce into another manifestation of Godzilla in 1954, who attacked and destroyed Tokyo in that year, only to be defeated by the SDF without the awakening or intervention of the guardian monsters. However, complicated reasons involving an apparent spiritual crisis in the Japanese civilization of today, which has seemingly angered many of the ancestral spirits, caused Godzilla to re-manifest in the year 2002, and to threaten Japan anew, evidently more powerful than ever before. This time the SDF, let by the intrepid Lt. General Tachibana, fails to defeat the brutal kaiju, and once again the legendary guardian monsters appear to stop Godzilla. Baragon is defeated in an ill-advised solo assault on the Kaiju King, and afterwards, the combined might of Mothra and King Ghidorah proves unable to stop Godzilla this time around. However, General Tachibana manages to utilize a new military vehicle he was piloting to seriously injure Godzilla from within, thus causing the bio-mystical energies powering his form to run amok and consume him, once again ending the threat of Godzilla to that reality's Japan.

Continuity D (a.k.a., Millennium X Version): In this reality, following Godzilla's 1954 attack on Japan, he had re-formed himself by 1999, and rose from Tokyo Bay, where a contingent of the Anti-Megalosaurus Force (AMF) failed to stop him.
He appeared again in 2003, but this time he was countered and driven from Japan by the cybernetic kaiju Mechagodzilla 3, whose interior organic aspect was composed of Godzilla's original skeleton, left at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean following his temporary 1954 discorporation by the Oxygen Destroyer.
A year later, Godzilla returned to Japan anew, evidently attracted to the psychic emissions from the organic skeleton within Mechagodzilla, and this time Mothra 5 attacked Godzilla in defense of Japan. Godzilla roundly defeated the adult stage Mothra, but he was then forced to face both Mechagodzilla and the newly hatched Mothra twin larvae. The combined might of these other three kaiju managed to fell Godzilla after a harrowing battle, and Mecha G carried the Atomic Titan into the Japan Trench, where Mechagodzilla, now acting of his own volition, could finally lay the bones of the "first" Godzilla for good.

Special powers and abilities: This will vary for the various versions of Godzilla seen throughout the Millennium Series, but since the majority of Godzilla counterparts appear to be derived from a scientific, nuclear origin, his features and powers can be described thusly:

Godzilla’s great height and weight gave him tremendous strength, arguably greater than that of any other dai kaiju on Earth. His tail could also be used as a powerful striking weapon, and in at least some versions of Godzilla seen in the various alternate realities of "continuity 3," his tail is prehensile, and can be used to grasp an opponent or object. His large, spiky dorsal plates are most likely utilized for steering while traveling underwater, but they are extremely sharp at the tips, and can be used to cut or even sever the limb of any opponent who is unfortunate enough to come into contact with them during a battle.
Due to his radioactive nature, Godzilla could regenerate from virtually any injury with astounding speed, but he could do so quicker by absorbing energy from other sources, preferably nuclear/radioactive, though he could also absorb other types of powerful energy, such as plasma or "neutron" energy. It is not known if the various versions of Godzilla V could absorb large amounts of electricity in a pinch or not, as Godzilla I could. Due to his internal atomic energy source, Godzilla has virtually inexhaustible stamina, and rarely ever appears to tire. In fact, some sources have claimed that due to Godzilla’s internal nuclear energy and extraordinary regenerative capacity, he may be nearly immortal. His skin is so resistant to injury that he has easily withstood repeated attacks by military forces, including tanks, missiles, and assault jets, and he has resisted assault by weapons much more powerful than the latter weaponry on more than one occasion in each respective reality. Further, his fast regenerative ability will allow him to seemingly heal incredibly quickly from any type of injury short of complete incineration, and even then at least some dimensional counterparts of Godzilla were able to reintegrate themselves from relatively small particles of their radioactive skin being left over in the ocean after being disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer, as soon as they came into contact with sufficient amounts of nuclear waste spilled in the ocean over the years (though this would take decades).

Godzilla is also completely amphibious, and can survive indefinitely on land or underwater, but he often seems to prefer the latter environment. Since he does not possess gills, it is presumed that he possesses lamellae, which are oxygen-diffusing membranes, in his lungs.

As a result of the radiation he consumes, Godzilla’s digestive system produces uranium material, which is collected in two organs called Uran Pockets near his lungs. This is the source of his greatest power, his atomic breath. By exhaling forcefully, Godzilla pushes radioactive material from his atomic furnace in his intestines into the Uran Pockets, which create a form of nuclear fission that expels an extremely powerful blast of nuclear charged radiation that glows fiery red in a spectacularly visible effect (contrary to many claims, Godzilla does not exhale fire, but rather concentrated radiation that produces a heating effect which is greater than that of ordinary flame). It takes Godzilla a few seconds to build up a large enough charge to expel a burst of atomic radiation, which can be seen in a visible display building in his maw, and an accompanying energy discharge is always visible around his dorsal fins when he utilizes his atomic breath, as this evidently causes them to glow red hot.

Godzilla can also apparently build up atomic energy in his Uran Pockets without expelling it, thus causing his entire body to progressively and dramatically increase in temperature, which first becomes evident in his dorsal plates. Any opponent or object in direct contact with Godzilla when his Uran Pockets rapidly increase his body's internal, and eventually external, temperature, will begin to burn or melt (whatever the case may be), and will eventually combust or "explode." It hasn't yet been established if the "continuity 3" versions of Godzilla are truly capable of the omni-directional "nuclear pulse" power of Godzilla II, though the "heating up" power of the various versions of Godzilla V may be the equivalent of that. It should also be noted that the atomic breath of the various versions of Godzilla V glows a fiery red rather than the whitish-blue of Godzilla I and II.

Godzilla of "continuity 3C" appears to have a completely different power source than many of those who exist in the other "continuity 3" realities, which is likely to be bio-mystical in nature, rather than nuclear, though the devestating effect is much the same. This version of Godzilla appeared to draw and build mystical energy, possibly from the collective chakra fields of the thousands of human ancestral spirits who combined to form his bio-mystical body, or by building such power by absorbing it from the mystical ley lines of the planet Earth that exist in Japan. In order for this version of Godzilla to use his "atomic breath," it takes him several seconds to build up the charge, and when he expels this built up bio-mystical energy, it creates an extraordinarily devestating effect, with an impact similar to that of a small nuclear weapon detonation. This energy was known to build in the center of his chest, where one of the main power centers for building "chi" energy in human beings exists, and thus this version of Godzilla may be using a similar method. Hence, he may indeed be utilizing his bio-mystical body's chakra centers to build up chi energy, much as the most skilled human martial artists in the world often do, but on a vastly greater scale, and actually expelling it in a forceful manner.

Significant appearances: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954); (Godzilla of "continuity 3A") Godzilla 2000 (1999); (Godzilla of "continuity 3B") Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000); (Godzilla of "continuity 3C") Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001); (Godzilla of "continuity 3D") Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 3 (2002); Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodzilla: S.O.S. Tokyo (2003)

Godzilla Junior

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 2

see Baby Godzilla.

Godzillasaurus

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 2

Alternate names: see Godzilla II.

Height: 12 meters

Description: The Godzillasaurus was a species of extremely large carnosaur who was artifically created over 10,000 years ago by the advanced genetic engineering technology of the ancient civilization who once dwelled on the new sunken continent of Mu (called Lemuria in the West) in the Pacific Ocean, and who once ruled most of the civilized world prior to the beginning of recorded history. These dinosaurs, who were often twice as large and strong as their naturally evolved cousins during the Mesozoic Era, were often used as bio-weapons by the Muan civilization against the Atlanteans, their only real rivals for world dominance in the past, and many descendants of the ultra-large dinosaurs they created via genetic engineering still thrive in small numbers on various isolated jungle locales across the world, but the majority of them dwell on the numerous small uncharted islands strewn across the Pacific Ocean, including the Godzillasaurus who was encountered on Lagos Island in 1944, though the mystery carnosaur (who later went on to bigger and better things after his genetically enhanced physiology was exposed to atomic radiation) was not actually named and identified until 1992.
The beast resembled a Tyrannosaurus rex in most ways, but like many of the ultra-dinosaurs created by the Muans via advanced genetic engineering techniques, the Godzillasaurus was twice as large as the largest known naturally evolved T. rex. Since they survived only in small numbers by the historical period, these ultra-dinosaurs remained largely hidden from the civilized world until their existence became obvious once several of their number were mutated into even larger and vastly powerful creatures after they were exposed to atomic radiation due to the reckless atomic bomb tests conducted by the U.S. government during the 1940's, and they subsequently became an extreme hazard to modern human civilizations.
Contrary to what was suggested in certain texts, it's almost certain that the artifically created Godzillasaurus species was not a leaf eater, as it was clearly carnosaurian in its anatomical features.

The adult Godzillasaurus encountered on Lagos Island in 1944 attacked and slaughtered a regiment of the U.S. Navy during a WWII conflict with Japanese soldiers there, before being severely injured itself from a retaliatory attack by an American battleship.
The dinosaur was later mutated into Godzilla II by exposure to atomic bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean conducted by the United States in the early 1950's.

For a description of the beast’s history after becoming Godzilla, see the entry on Godzilla II.

Special powers and abilities: The Godzillasaurus possessed formidable physical attributes typical of a prehistoric carnosaur. The dinosaur was resistant to gunfire, though not to the more powerful firepower found in the arsenal of a U.S. battleship.

Significant appearances: Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (1991)

Godzilla Prediction Network

Category: Organization

Continuity: "3A"

Alternate names: The official acronym for this organization is GPN.

Description: The Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) was created in 2000 on the Earth residing in "continuity 3A" by an eccentric computer specialist named Shinoda and his brilliant 12 year old daughter I-O with the goal of using modern computer technology to track Godzilla V's movements around Japan, with the hope of determining when and where the kaiju will strike. The ultimate goal of that organization, which was operated by the father and daughter team alone (and not taken very seriously by the Japanese military), was to hopefully mitigate the destruction caused by Godzilla's periodic rampages in Japan.

At the time of the Millennium, Shinoda became involved with the apperance of the mysterious techno-organic starship laying dormant beneath the Pacific Ocean for 6,000 years, and its eventual clash with Godzilla, along with its creation of a new kaiju known as Orga from the former's DNA. The GPN ultimately played an important role in the entire incident, and Shinoda nearly lost his life several times during the ensuing adventure.

Significant appearances: Godzilla 2000 (1999)

Gorath I (Showa Version)

Category: Celestial Object

Continuity: 1

Description: Gorath was the name given to what appeared to be a rogue neutron star fragment (euphemistically referred to as a "mystery planet" in the Japanese press) that traveled into Earth's solar system by the 20th century. Upon doing so, it's believed to have wreaked havoc on many advanced intrasolar Muan colonies, including that of the Xians and the Simeons, thus forcing them to turn their attention towards their origin planet of Earth (as per the speculations of writer Den Valdron, which this author agrees with).

By the year 1977, Gorath had passed Saturn, breaking up much of its gaseous ring structure in the process, and was on a collision course with Earth. In fact, the moon was reported as being destroyed, but this was likely an exaggeration, as it was later shown intact in other sources.
In order to avoid the destruction of the human homeworld, the United Nations of Godzilla I's Earth hastily but cleverly conceived a wild plan to place incredibly powerful thruster rockets at various strategic locations on the planet's surface, which would serve the purpose of moving the Earth out of the errant neutron star fragment's way, and then subsequently move the Earth back into its proper orbit once it was safe to do so (writer Gordon Long has speculated that certain technology which the U.N. had previously confiscated from the Mysterian, Xian, Nebulan, Garogain, and Simeon intrasolor Muan colonies enabled them to develop limited warp capacity so as to move the Earth to a safe distance and back in that manner, i.e., the creation of a brief hyper-tunnel in space, and given the different physics of the Showa Toho Universe in comparison with our own reality, it's hard to say how the U.N. scientists and engineers actually accomplished such a remarkable feat, and if what we saw in the recorded source should be taken at relative face value or not).
Following the successful moving and restoration of the Earth to its proper orbit, Gorath rapidly moved out of the Sol system, to trouble its inhabitants no longer.

Significant appearances: Gorath (1963)

Gorath II (Millennium Version)

Category: Celestial Object

Continuity: "3E"

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Gorosaurus

Category: Kaiju

Continuity: 1 Alternate names: Mistakenly referred to as “Baragon” during his attack on Paris in all the film versions of Destroy All Monsters.

Height: 50 meters

Description: Gorosaurus is one of the small number of prehistoric animals that survived into the 20th century on the South Seas atoll called Farou Island, and is likely to be descended from a group dinosaurs who were created artificially via the advanced genetic engineering techniques of the civilization that once lived on the now sunken continent of Mu (called Lemuria in the West), and who ruled the world many millenia ago. A carnosaur who appeared to be a mega-huge Gorgosaurus or Allosaurus, Gorosaurus is far larger than a normal dinosaur of this species, and it's been suggested that the consumption of growth-inducing soma berries found on the island (though it's unknown as to why so many non-herbivorous species of dinosaur and octopi near the island found the berries so appealing in a culinary sense) may have caused a few of these descendants of the dinosaurs created by the Muan scientists many thousands of years ago, the former of whom were twice as large as their naturally occurring counterparts in the Mesozoic Era, to attain a size that is easily ten times that of the equivalent species who dwelled upon the Earth during the Age of Reptiles (see the Godzilla Event Timeline elsewhere on this site for more info on this). Thus, despite his immense size, Gorosaurus was just an over-sized dinosaur, and not a dinosaur mutation as was the case with several of his fellow kaiju, which explains his lack of offensive radiation-oriented beam weaponry.

First encountered by an expedition to the island in 1967, Gorosaurus was defeated in a fierce battle with the island’s simian god-king, King Kong.
By 1969, Gorosaurus had been removed from his native home and placed upon Monster Island.

In the year 1999, Gorosaurus, as well as all the other kaiju confined to Monster Island (such as Godzilla I, Rodan I and Mothra I), fell under the nefarious control of the invading alien race known as the Kilaaks. The monsters were ordered to attack various cities across the world, and Gorosaurus himself attacked Paris, destroying the Eiffel Tower in the process. After being freed from alien control, Gorosaurus played a major part alongside his fellow kaiju in the defeat of the extraterrestrial monster known as King Ghidorah I, who was the ultimate weapon of the Kilaaks.

Special powers and abilities: Gorosaurus possesses the proportionate physical might of a 50 meter tall carnosaur. He’s a truly fearsome fighter, as he utilizes his great strength and powerful jaws to good effect.
He also possesses a formidable patented fighting move sometimes referred to as his "kangaroo kick" by G-fans: balancing himself on his tail, Gorosaurus can deliver a devastating kick to an opponent with both of his legs at once. He also appears to be unusually intelligent for a dinosaur.
Since he apparently doesn’t owe his great size to radiation, Gorosaurus lacks any type of offensive beam weapons.

Significant appearances: King Kong Escapes (1967); (presence on Monster Island in the present established) Godzilla’s Revenge (1969); Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Gohten

Category: Mecha

Continuity: 1

See: Atragon

Gotengo

Category: Mecha

Continuity: 1

See: Atragon

Gryphon

Category: Mecha

Continuity: "3B"

Alternate names: Sometimes spelled "Griffon."

Description: The Gryphon is the name given to a formidable aircraft designed by engineers working for the Anti-Godzilla Defense Bureau (AGD) in timeline "3B" as a potential countermeasure against Godzilla V, and officially used against that reality's version of the Kaiju King in 2001. It was destroyed after a deliberate collision with Godzilla.

The Gryphon, named after the flying monster that appeared in Greco-Roman and Persian mythology, and was depicted in art as being a hybrid between a lion and an eagle, could fly at speeds in excess of Mach 3, and though possessing a sophisticated computer system, including radar and targeting, it was piloted by a human crew. The aircraft was also equipped with a large amount of powerful weaponry, including extremely destructive Dragon-arrow missiles that were designed to directly home in on Godzilla's internal nuclear energy, and photon guns, that projected powerful bolts of energy.

Significant appearances: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)