The following section features an alphabetical listing of all the daikaiju (“giant monsters”) that appeared alongside Godzilla in each of his live action appearances, as well as a few other things of importance to the life of the Big G, such as various technology, islands, alien races or even individuals. Each entry will list which film continuity the monster appeared in (e.g., '1,' '2,' '3'; series 3 features a different continuity with each film, it should be noted), a listing of alternate names the creature has been referred to as, the monster’s height or length (a devout area of interest of all G-fans), a description of the beast’s appearance, a brief description of its history, what powers or special abilities the monster possessed and which films it had a significant appearance (in other words, films in which the monster appeared in a very brief stock footage vignette will not be included; sometimes brief original appearances will be listed if I feel it was prominent enough to merit this, and they will be noted as such). Other entry topics, such as islands, individuals or mecha will have similar descriptions.
The following section features an alphabetical listing of all the daikaiju (“giant monsters”) that appeared alongside Godzilla in each of his live action appearances, as well as a few other things of importance to the life of the Big G, such as various technology, islands, alien races or even individuals. Each entry will list which film continuity the monster appeared in (e.g., '1,' '2,' '3'; series 3 features a different continuity with each film, it should be noted, though two Millennium films, "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla" and "Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S." share a continuity), a listing of alternate names the creature has been referred to as, the monster’s height or length (a devout area of interest of all G-fans), a description of the beast’s appearance, a brief description of its history, what powers or special abilities the monster possessed and which films it had a significant appearance (in other words, films in which the monster appeared in a very brief stock footage vignette will not be included; sometimes brief original appearances will be listed if I feel it was prominent enough to merit this, and they will be noted as such). Other entry topics, such as islands, individuals or mecha will have similar descriptions.
The continuities enumerated in the Glossary entries are as follows:
Continuity 1: Showa Series films, and the TV series Zone Fighter, the Meteor Man.
Continuity 2: Heisei Series films.
Continuity 3: Millennium Series films, which will be subdivided into Continuity 3A (Godzilla 2000), Continuity 3B (Godzilla vs. Megaguirus,), Continuity 3C (Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monster All-Out Attack), Continuity 3D (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.), etc.
Note about Continuity 3 G-films: The first three Millennium Series films take place in entirely separate timelines, though the fourth and fifth Millennium G-films share a continuity (and others in the future may, also). The only consistent historical detail amongst all of the "continuity 3" films is the events depicted in the first G-film (even though a few of the details within that film, such as Godzilla's 'death' via the Oxygen Destroyer at the end of the movie, may have occurred a bit differently). Thus, it must always be kept in mind that the entries designated to "continuity 3" do not follow a consistent timeline. Nevertheless, it's apparent that Godzilla's solo 1954 attack on Japan occurred on the timelines of all films occurring in the Millennium Series.
Continuity A: Tri-Star's American Godzilla film (which may possibly be the same as Continuity 3C above).
The characters from the Godzilla commercials produced by Dr. Pepper and Nike Shoes do not have a designated continuity at this time.
A word on dates: When reading the dates given to various events depicted in the second G-series below, one will notice a year wide disparity between the years listed for an event’s occurrence, and the year listed for the release of the movie in which the event occurred. In the Showa G-series, events are considered to have happened in the year the film was released in Japan (not the American release date, which was usually later), with the obvious exception of Destroy All Monsters, which, despite being released in 1968, was explained to have occurred in the year.
In the second (Heisei Era) G-series, events have been posited in the series itself to have occurred a year after the film’s release date (actually, this makes sense, since the Heisei Era G-series films were always released in December of each year, making it logical to assume the event occurred a few months later, in the following year, rather than some months earlier). The one year after the movie release date is also the case with most of the third series films, unless otherwise noted.
The first G-film, which is part of the continuity of all three series, is considered to have occurred in the year of its Japanese release, 1954, despite the fact that it was said to be 1955 in the American version of Godzilla 1985. The American G-film (the sole film in that continuity, which will be described as the ‘A’, i.e., ‘American’ continuity) we will presume occurred in the year of its release date, 1998.
It should be noted that many G-fans will disagree with me on the date schemes here, but since these are only fictitious events anyways, who the hell cares when they actually occurred, right? :)
Also please note that the current version of this glossary will only cover the kaiju, technology, individuals, etc., that appear in the various continuities featuring Godzilla in a live action format on either the big or small screen, which includes the Showa Series (i.e., continuity 1), the Sentai TV series Zone Fighter, the Meteor Man (which took place within the context of the Showa Series continuity), the Heisei Series (i.e., continuity 2), the various alternate timelines seen in the Millennium (a.k.a., Alternate Reality) Series (i.e., "continuity 3, subdivided into various letters representing different timelines within a single film series"), and the Tri-Star G-film (i.e., continuity A), as well as a few extraneous characters who appeared alongside the Big G on the small screen in some of the more memorable Godzilla commercials that actually featured a capsule storyline (though whatever continuity they may have "existed" in is entirely unknown).
Okay, now I would like to point out something you may notice about the entries below, as well as the various sections of the site, that I would like to address here before moving on to the glossary itself: repetition of information. I fully understand that since certain information that is relevant to one character or locale may be equally relevant to another, and also between different alternate reality versions of a single character or locale, repetition of information will be evident to everyone reading the entries below, particularly in regards to the different versions of Godzilla, whose histories and background information tend to be more or less identical up until a particular point of divergence. Also, there will be a good degree of informational repetition between what you find in this section of the site, and what you will find in other sections (such as the forthcoming Event Timeline). Though this aforementioned repetition of information may appear tedious and even annoying to the reader at times, I decided to take this route in presenting the information as opposed to composing a large number of entries that provide a bare minimum of information, and then refer a reader elsewhere for more information about the character, locale, etc., a device used so often by writers composing a work of this nature in the past simply so that the writers in question could grant themselves themselves a break in typing (something that is no longer necessary thanks to the wonders of the cut and paste feature prevelant on all computers). It is my personal opinion that a large amount of information-light entries or sections of a web site that constantly refer readers to other entries or sections of the site is at least as annoying as the route I took, and every bit as annoying as when, for example, you are reading a newspaper or magazine article on page 5 that suddenly stops in the middle of a sentence and says "continued on page 174," thus forcing the reader to constantly jump around. This can be considered a form of tedium as well, especially when it takes place frequently within a single article or periodical. Though I do have a few entries in this glossary that I believe warranted only a small amount of information (such as a kaiju with more than one name) and a referral to go elsewhere for more info, I prefer to make the vast majority of the entries, and all sections of this web site, to be as complete unto themselves as possible in regards to information about a certain subject, so that the reader will have to do a bare minimum of jumping around from one entry to another in order to get information on a single kaiju, locale, piece of technology, etc., but can find the complete info in just one entry. To those readers who find the periodic repetition of information from one entry to another, or between one section of the site and another, to be tedious, I duly apologize for this.
I hope that this particular version of the glossary meets the standards of the majority of readers, however, and that you will bear with me regarding the imperfections and aspects of the site that may not be entirely to your liking.
And finally, I hope you will note that I am constantly updating the glossary, not only adding new entries as time goes on, but also updating information in the already existing entries, and correcting various errors that I may discover, from spelling and grammatical errors to factual errors.
A word on dates: When reading the dates given to various events depicted in the second G-series below, one will notice a year wide disparity between the years listed for an event’s occurrence, and the year listed for the release of the movie in which the event occurred. In the Showa G-series, events are considered to have happened in the year the film was released in Japan (not the American release date, which was usually later), with the obvious exception of Destroy All Monsters, which, despite being released in 1968, was explained to have occurred in the year.
In the second (Heisei Era) G-series, events have been posited in the series itself to have occurred a year after the film’s release date (actually, this makes sense, since the Heisei Era G-series films were always released in December of each year, making it logical to assume the event occurred a few months later, in the following year, rather than some months earlier). The one year after the movie release date is also the case with most of the third series films, unless otherwise noted.
The first G-film, which is part of the continuity of all three series, is considered to have occurred in the year of its Japanese release, 1954, desite the fact that it was said to be 1955 in the American version of Godzilla 1985. The American G-film (the sole film in that continuity, which will be described as the ‘A’, i.e., ‘American’ continuity) we will presume occurred in the year of its release date, 1998.
It should be noted that many G-fans will disagree with me on the date schemes here, but since these are only fictitious events anyways, who the hell cares when they actually occurred, right? :)
Okay, now I would like to point out something you may notice about the entries below, as well as the various sections of the site, that I would like to address here before moving on to the glossary itself: repetition of information. I fully understand that since certain information that is relevant to one character or locale may be equally relevant to another, and also between different alternate reality versions of a single character or locale, repetition of information will be evident to everyone reading the entries below, particularly in regards to the different versions of Godzilla, whose histories and background information tend to be more or less identical up until a particular point of divergence. Also, there will be a good degree of informational repetition between what you find in this section of the site, and what you will find in other sections (such as the forthcoming Event Timeline). Though this aforementioned repetition of information may appear tedious and even annoying to the reader at times, I decided to take this route in presenting the information as opposed to composing a large number of entries that provide a bare minimum of information, and then refer a reader elsewhere for more information about the character, locale, etc., simply so that the writer could grant themselves a break in typing (something that is no longer necessary thanks to the wonders of the cut and paste feature prevalent on all computers). It is my personal opinion that a large amount of information-light entries or sections of a web site that constantly refer readers to other entries or sections of the site is at least as annoying as the route I took, and every bit as annoying as when, for example, you are reading a newspaper or magazine article on page 5 that suddenly stops in the middle of a sentence and says "continued on page 174," thus forcing the reader to constantly jump around. This can be considered a form of tedium as well, especially when it takes place frequently within a single article or periodical. Though I do have a few entries in this glossary that I believe warranted only a small amount of information (such as a kaiju with more than one name) and a referral to go elsewhere for more info, I prefer to make the vast majority of the entries, and all sections of this web site, to be as complete unto themselves as possible in regards to information about a certain subject, so that the reader will have to do a bare minimum of jumping around from one entry to another in order to get information on a single kaiju, locale, piece of technology, etc., but can find the complete info in just one entry. To those readers who find the periodic repetition of information from one entry to another, or between one section of the site and another, I duly apologize for this.
I hope that this particular version of the glossary meets the standards of the majority of readers, however, and that you will bear with me regarding the imperfections and aspects of the site that may not be entirely to your liking.
And finally, I hope you will note that I am constantly updating the glossary, not only adding new entries as time goes on, but also updating information in the already existing entries, and correcting various errors that I may discover, from spelling and grammatical errors to factual errors.
The Glossary will be divided into a few separate sections for the sake of convenience.
Go to Entries A-L
Go to Entries M-P
Go to Entries R-Z
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