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In 2010, IDW Publishing acquired the rights to make a Godzilla comic, this time featuring a good chunk of Godzilla's classic adversaries. There have been three ongoing series along with several miniseries. One of the miniseries is The Half-Century War, written and drawn by James Stokoe in 2012.Lieutenant Ota Murakami is deployed with Kentaro Yoshihara to patrol Tokyo in 1954, only to run afoul of the newly arrived Godzilla. Barely surviving the encounter, the two of them are recruited into the newly formed Anti Megalosaur Force by American Colonel Schooler. Over the next fifty years they are involved in combat with many different monsters, but Godzilla, more than any other, remains Ota's Great White Whale. |
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Cool Old Guy: By the end of the series Ota has even more levels over Kentaro, surviving Godzilla rampage with only an old Sherman tank is enough. Ota has also piloted two Mechagodzillas and helps rid the world of Godzilla, Ghidorah and Gigan. |
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Mythology Gag: The story starts with Godzilla attacking Tokyo in 1954, Godzilla's second appearance is a fight against Anguirus. in 1967. The third Kaiju battle shown is set in 1975. Ota's final battle with Godzilla takes place in 2002. The new/rebuilt MechaGodzilla is now Kiryu. The original concept for Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla was a battle between Godzilla, Heisei MechaGodzilla, and SpaceGodzilla. The Mothra team's van sports a license plate that reads "Elias". King Ghidorah and Gigan's team up is an homage to their teamup in Godzilla vs. Gigan. The building that Godzilla smashes down in the first issue bears a squid similar in appearance to Gezora. The Dimension Tide is used in the final battle. |
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Moby Schtick: The central plot point is Ota's fifty-year-long Ahab-like obsession with getting rid of Godzilla once and for all. |
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Beam Spam: Expected with issue 4, Heishi Mechagodzilla and Space Godzilla are the guest monsters. |
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Psycho for Hire: Deverich is for hire, and clearly enjoys the devastation his psionic summoning device can cause. |
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Mad Scientist: Dr. Deverich who sells his monster attracting device to various terrorist cells. |
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Smug Snake: Dr. Deverich, so very much. |
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Enemy Mine |
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Enemy Mine: Once space monsters start showing up Ota would rather team up with Godzilla than fight him, allying first against SpaceGodzilla, and then Gigan and Ghidorah. |
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Friendly Enemy |
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Friendly Enemy: The "Anti"-Mothra team seem to be big fans of her. |
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Badass Normal: Kentaro, Ota, Schooler. |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Ota makes sure Godzilla is pulled into the black hole with his life... Although it turns out Godzilla managed to escape. |
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The Big Bad Shuffle |
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The Big Bad Shuffle: At first Godzilla is the main antagonist of the comic, but later on Dr. Deverich usurps the role from him due to selling devices made specifically to attract kaiju to locations and destroy them. Then in the same issue that Deverich is dealt with his last device lures Spacegodzilla to Earth, and after Spacegodzilla is killed another time jump happens just in time for King Ghidorah and Gigan to be the final antagonists. |
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From Bad to Worse |
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From Bad to Worse: Godzilla was bad enough, then more monsters show up, then a rogue scientist finds a way to call or repel monsters. Then that signal starts calling in space monsters. |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Ota, Kentaro, and most of the other long term veterans. |
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Cyborg |
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Cyborg: Gigan |
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Animal Nemesis |
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Animal Nemesis: Godzilla to Ota. |
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Crippling Overspecialization |
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Crippling Overspecialization: The AMF is only focused on dealing with monsters. So when they run into some mundane human mercenaries with assault rifles working for Dr. Deverich, everyone but Schooler who carried a sidearm is completely helpless as they didn't bring any firearms as they normally would be useless in the field. |
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New-Age Retro Hippie |
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New-Age Retro Hippie: The anti-Mothra team, complete with psychedelic Volkswagen minivan. |
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Muck Monster |
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Muck Monster: Hedorah puts in an appearance. |
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Final Boss |
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Final Boss: Gigan and King Ghidorah serve as the final monsters that Godzilla and Mechagodzilla face down. |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: The villain, Dr. Deverich, gets his name from a combination of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ota with Godzilla. |
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Colonel Badass |
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Colonel Badass: Colonel Schooler. |
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Our Dragons Are Different |
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Our Dragons Are Different: Ghidorah has his classic characterization as a spaceborne Cosmic Horror in the shape of a three-headed golden dragon. |
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Humongous Mecha |
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Humongous Mecha: MOGUERA, Heisei MechaGodzilla, and Millennium MechaGodzilla (Kiryu) all put in an appearance. |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: Mothra, Battra, Kumonga, and Megalon. |
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War Is Hell |
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War Is Hell: Especially seen in the second issue since Vietnam is the setting but the trope is at full force in the third issue too since it is war with monsters. |
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Evil Twin |
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Evil Twin: SpaceGodzilla to the real (Chaotic Neutral) Godzilla. Mechagodzilla is a Good Twin. |
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This Is a Drill |
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This Is a Drill: Doctor Randall loves attaching drills to his creations and wishes his masers had drills. |
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