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Skyscraper-sized monsters that assault Tokyo (though other cities like San Francisco and Hong Kong are also popular choices lately), hapless island explorers, or each other are called Kaiju (怪�).note literally translated, "strange creature"; the more accurate name for these things would be Daikaiju, "great strange creature" Although they have no specific form even in their own mythology, by Japanese standards they are traditionally monstrous, scaly water elementals of about 50 feet and taller that commonly though not universally resemble dinosaurs (due to those being the largest known land vertebrates in real life). Typically, they arrive from somewhere Far Away. Whether that means space, Beneath the Earth, or a South Pacific island varies. Expect lots of Stuff Blowing Up to result, but, since Giant Equals Invincible, don't expect the explosions to actually hurt them. Do expect at least one case of Helicopter Flyswatter. Examples of this genre can range from straight-up Disaster Movie (Cloverfield, the first Godzilla movie) to all-out wrestling matches between People in Rubber Suits (most of the later Godzilla movies, every Gamera movie but the first), and the characterization of individual kaiju can range from guardian hero to force of nature to Non-Malicious Monster to Eldritch Abomination to Tragic Monster. As this genre features a judicious application of Rule of Cool, expect the MST3K Mantra to be in full effect. Often, you'll only watch this kind of movie to see the monsters fight, which can often involve Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (such as King Kong vs. Godzilla). This is actually one of the oldest genres in film, dating back to the early days of cinema when special effects were new. Pioneers of the genre were The Lost World, King Kong (1933), and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The idea probably originates from thinking of dinosaurs as fantastic beasts or ideas about giant dragons. As for why it's so popular with Japanese media: Japan is quite earthquake and tsunami-prone, and you could think of a kaiju as a sentient natural disaster, so it may feel more meaningful to them. (Consider how Godzilla, like a wave, rises from the sea.) The word kaiju became more mainstream and used in western works after the release of Pacific Rim in 2013, when before they were usually and simply called "big Japanese monster" (even to the point of its origin being often Wrongfully Attributed to this film). A related term, "kemono", was used on many equally-monstrous creatures in a similar vein as kaiju (if not quite as massive), before it shifted into a common term for Beast Men or Little Bit Beastly. However, it's still not rare for some to refer to a Kaiju as a kemono. Another related word is kaijin, which applies to human-sized and humanoid monsters; the closest Western equivalent to this category of creature is perhaps the Monstrous Humanoid. Rent-a-Zilla is a Sub-Trope, where the work doesn't focus on the monster. A Notzilla is a kaiju that is specifically an Expy of Godzilla, and a King Kong Copy is this to King Kong. Kaiju also face off against an Ultraman Copy fairly often. There's also Mech vs. Beast for when a Kaiju fights against a Humongous Mecha. If kaiju offspring appear, expect Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies. Crosses over with Behemoth Battle when there is more than one kaiju and they engage in battle with each other, with Primate Versus Reptile being a particularly common variant. In more modern works, kaiju are often afflicted with Proportionately Ponderous Parasites. Compare Disaster Movie, Attack of the Killer Whatever, Robeast, and Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. Has its roots in Tokusatsu and Mons. See Kaiju Tropes for a list of tropes on these monsters and their stories, and Kaiju Works for an index of kaiju stories with articles on This Very Wiki. |
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Gold Digger featured an island inhabited by giant monsters, a result of the unusual emanations of the island itself. The native tribe, the Ooshoosh, also adapted... the women, while being born as normal-sized babies, grow unusually fast into 40-foot monster-slaying giantesses who are very protective of their normal-sized men. Well, mostly normal-sized, that is. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Since this is a Godzilla fanfiction, naturally it's a given. The story's main protagonists are a Two Beings, One Body heroic adaptation of Monster X, who ally with Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan against Ghidorah-derived Undead Abominations and the Three-Headed Monster itself and participate in more than one Kaiju battle in an urban area. | |
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A Bug's Life has a common, ordinary sparrow be this to the insect characters! Makes sense, as it is their natural predator after all. | |
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The Far Side: Godzilla appears in a couple strips, such as one of him driving a car with the bumper sticker "I 8 NY", another where he encounters a sign taller than him reading "You Must Be This Tall to Attack the City", and yet another captioned "Toby vs. Godzilla" which has a dog biting on his heel. King Kong has been spoofed a couple times as well. A few have him accidentally crushing something or someone when he falls to his death, and one memorable cartoon has detectives investigating the aftermath of a giant monster's rampage for clues, with a handkerchief labelled "K.K." left at the scene of the crime. |
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Power Rangers GPX: The Kel Monster. | |
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Massive Monster Mayhem is a children game show about the evil Master Mayhem sending giant monsters to Earth, and the contestants gearing up before increasing to comparable size for a final confrontation in the city, which is as much about smashing buildings than actually fighting. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo: An early comic has Usagi run into a tiny lizard that can only say "Zylla", that is then revealed to have a Breath Weapon, shocking Usagi and giving us this gem: | |
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Exiles had the Monster World arc, which envisioned Curt Connors, Bolivar Trask, Tony Stark, and Hank Pym as a team of Action Scientists fighting Kaiju in a transforming mecha. They fight it out with Fin Fang Foom in Japan at the end of the arc. It was awesome. | |
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In Disney's Hercules, the Titans are gigantic and monstrous elemental beings which terrorized the world at the moment of its creation until Zeus put a stop to them and imprisoned them deep underground in Tartarus. Hades releases them from their prison at the movie's climax and unleashes them on Olympus so they can get their revenge and aid Hades in his plan for conquest. One of them, a cyclops, is sent to Thebes to destroy the city and kill a weakened Hercules. The Lernaean Hydra which Herc fights earlier on the movie also deserves mention, being quite huge. And that's before it spreads an entire jungle of heads. | |
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Kaijumax is an Oni Press series about the titular prison, where they house giant monsters. | |
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Iron King, which although not created by Tsuburaya Productions, features many people who worked on the Ultra Series. | |
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The Future is Wild had the Toraton, a creature from the Bengal Swamp living 100 million years in the future. It's basically a giant, shell-less tortoise that grows 15 times as big as an elephant and weighs a whopping 120 tons. | |
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Rusty and Co. had one strip where Rusty uses the Belt of Genre Changing to momentarily turn the strip into a kaiju movie. | |
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RWBY: The oldest Grimm can get very big, most famously the sea-borne leviathans. The Atlas military base protecting Argus has to deal with these on a regular basis, which is why they have a series of Hard Light energy shields to delay any giant Grimm long enough for the Atlas colossus to fight them. And all of them pale in comparison to Salem's pet project Monstra, a flying monster whale the size of a city. | |
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Magic, Metahumans, Martians and Mushroom Clouds: An Alternate Cold War: A yowie, nicknamed Berberoka, is mutated by radiation from American nuclear testing in the 1950s and soon grows into a 70-foot giant that ends up going on a rampage in Manila before finally being driven off by American and Filipino military forces. | |
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In The Sea Beast, the titular beasts certainly qualify. They're massive, aggressive, and very dangerous. History books state that they used to come right up to shore and destroy whole towns, until the royal family funded monster-hunting crews to drive them back. As it turns out, the sea beasts are actually content keep to themselves unless provoked. The history books were rewritten and the public lied to in order to promote the hunting campaigns, which in turn would drive the monsters to extinction and allow the royal family to engage in conquest and expansion without worrying about the sea beasts destroying their ships by accident or due to territoriality. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin is a big fan of Japanese monster movies. He imagines himself as Godzilla on two occasions: stomping a sandbox version of Tokyo, and rising from the watery depths of his bathtub to blast Megalon (his mom). The Calvinosaurus he imagines is a theropod able to eat an Ultrasaurus in a single bite. A sauropod more than one hundred feet long, fits inside a Calvinosaurus' mouth. The whole thing is even more hilarious if one considers that Ultrasaurus is perceived as a dubious genus, meaning it may not have existed at all. |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-2954 ("Looping Kaiju Killing"). Every seven days, an example of SCP-2954-2 appears and attacks. SCP-2954-2 are bipedal and 50-60 meters tall. They have a mixture of traits from fish, amphibians and reptiles, including spiny fins on their back and forearms. | |
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Kamen Rider Hibiki has a lot of gigantic Makamou beasts, and in Kamen Rider Den-O, there are Imagin capable of going One-Winged Angel, becoming giant beasts called Gigandeaths. In Kamen Rider Wizard, a Phantom who hasn't hatched from its host yet appears as a monstrous beast within the mind of the victim, which must be battled within the mindscape by Wizard. The franchise is actually no stranger to giant beasties, and not a Humongous Mecha in sight! However, the Riders' vehicles are sometimes very weapon-laden. Interestingly, Wizard has to use his own Inner Phantom, Dragon, to fight the Inner Phantoms, his Second Rider Beast having to do the same thing. | |
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Fire Breather. Duncan's daddy, Belloc, actually calls himself king of the Kaiju and wants his son to one day take his place. | |
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Garfield usually mocks bad horror movies when it goes pop-cultural, but on one occasion the title character saw a news interview with "a prehistoric monster who rose from the depths of the Earth to stomp on Tokyo, and has written a book about his experiences (of course.)" | |
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The Mandalorian Season 2 has the Tatooine Greater Krayt Dragon whom has gotten some Adaptational Badass from it's original design◊, going from a big dragon-like beast to proper Kaiju-sized massive monster◊ which can spew acid from it's mouth and devour entire villages whole. It's also nigh-invulnerable to all kinds of laserfire and explosions, Mando has to pull a Iron Man and Kill It Through Its Stomach. | |
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Jumborg Ace, Fireman, Mirrorman, and Denkō Chōjin Gridman which were all from Tsuburaya Productions, AKA the creators of Ultraman. | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim has a few examples: In Episode 6, Tak's newest plan is a giant mutated cyborg rat. Zim counters this with a giant mutated cyborg snake. In Episode 11, Zim unleashes an army of plant monsters on the city, which turn out to all be connected to the monstrous Central Root. |
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Flash Gordon's planet Mongo just wouldn't be the planet Mongo without giant monsters absolutely everywhere. Live action adaptations often downplay this due to special effects costs, but the 1970's cartoon had them in all their wonderful stompy and bitey glory. | |
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In Turning Red, Ming Lee's red panda form is massive, at least a hundred feet tall with enough mass to justify a Ground-Shattering Landing, and harbours an Unstoppable Rage. Ming unleashes it in the film's climax after her daughter Mei openly defies her by remaining bound to her own red panda spirit, then running off to the 4*Town concert to reunite with her friends. Ming, in her panda form, proceeds to stomp through the streets of Toronto and tear open the roof of the SkyDome to attack the concert, intending to bring her daughter back by force. | |
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Avengers: The Initiative: When the new 3-D Man is sent to a superhero team in Hawaii he finds out one of his missions is to protect the state from the occasional kaiju that wanders over from Japan. | |
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In Persona EG, a few Personas qualify: the Ultimate Personas for Chariot and Tower are Gamera (80m length) and Gojira (168m), while Sonata's Rainbow Persona, Leviathan, consists of a Persona sized mermaid and a colossal sea serpent a hundred meters long. | |
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Giant Donkey Kong Jesus riding on a puff of smoke and the last incarnation of Super MechaDeathChrist 3000. | |
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One of the Justice League of America's oldest enemies is Starro the Conqueror (aka the Star Conqueror), a titanically huge, mind-controlling literal Starfish Alien. | |
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Shinnen New Year: Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Mothra makes an appearance. The Kaijus from Pacific Rim also make appearances by siding with Da'ath. | |
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Hexenringe introduces The Blarg, a Kaiju character whose destructive presence fails to phase the main character. | |
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Another one is mentioned in the Golden Legend in the tale of Saint Martha. The tarasque (later popularized by Dungeons & Dragons) was a massive dragon with a turtle's shell, six legs, the head of a beast and a stingered tail. It devastated the landscape, destroying everything in its path. The king sent out his knights to slay the tarasque with swords and spears and even catapults, but nothing would damage the beast. At last, Saint Martha was sent out to the tarasque, and she tamed the tarasque with hymns and prayers, saving the countryside. She led back the tamed Tarasque to the city. The people, terrified by the monster, attacked it when it drew nigh. The monster offered no resistance and died there. Martha then preached to the people and converted many of them to Christianity. Sorry for what they had done to the tamed monster, the newly Christianized townspeople changed the town's name to Tarascon. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: Most dragons are on the same scale as more mundane animals, but there are a few that are large enough to fit this trope. The Green Death as per canon, described as having been 60 cubitsnote 90 feet or 27.432 meters tall, 200 cubitsnote 300 feet or 91.44 meters long, and with a 300 cubitnote 450 feet or 137.16 meters long wingspan. The old nest lord of the Cretan nest, described as having been almost half as large as the Green Death. |
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Ted from Monsters, Inc. is a monster so large that a Gentle Giant like Sulley, who is about 7'6" according to supplementary materials, only comes up to half Ted's leg. While arguing with Mike about walking to work, Sulley cites Ted as someone who's willing to walk to work, but Mike says it's no big deal for Ted; he's so big he could take five steps and arrive. | |
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In The Monster Mash, Kaiju are the focus of Dash’s story, where they’re created when normal animals come into contact with Chaos pollution left over from Discord’s rampage. Dash becomes a part-time Kaiju by the same method at the end. | |
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Danger 5: In "Final Victory" the Nazis and the Japanese let giant monsters/robots (Danger Warrior, Tank Demon, Knight Demon, Sleepy Demon. Their names are displayed in Japanese) roam the Earth to destroy cities. | |
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The fourth volume of New Avengers has the creatively named American Kaiju, looking like a hybrid between the two Hollywood versions of Godzilla but with the Stars & Stripes on his underbelly, created thanks to injecting one Todd Ziller with a cocktail of Marvel's mad science serums (including Kurt Connor's Lizard serum) and seeing what happened. | |
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Jounin Quest: Kakuzumaru's final form is a one-hundred and eight headed hydra so massive it blots out the sky.. | |
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The plot of Batman Unlimited: Mechs Vs. Mutants involves the Penguin and Mr. Freeze turning Bane, Killer Croc, Clayface, and Chemo into giant monsters (with Croc basically being Godzilla with freeze breath instead of atomic rays). | |
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Lord Sock in Coyle Command and the New Villain Order is a genetically engineered green and black serpent...that looks suspiciously like a sock. | |
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Romance and the Fate of Equestria: Sørmur dï Mitgaeard, Lady Kolassa, and occasionally Annihilara. | |
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Batman: Gotham After Midnight, a very bizarre miniseries, featured Bat-foe Clayface devouring people whole and growing into a gigantic mud-monster... which the Dark Knight fought with a Bat-mecha he had built for just such an occasion. Crazy-Prepared, indeed... | |
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Twisted Kaiju Theater. Just ... Twisted Kaiju Theater | |
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Insectosaurus of Monsters vs. Aliens, down to having the same backstory as Godzilla, though he's more of a homage to Mothra. The gigantic alien probe-robots also. | |
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SCTV had a sketch called "The Tim Ishimuni Show", which featured a giant TALKING monster named Grogan (played by John Candy in a monster suit), who doesn't really go by the Kaiju stereotype of crushing things. | |
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Mongo from Shrek 2. It especially works if Drury Lane is in Far Far Away, since Kaiju rarely live in Close Near By. The Great Terror from the spin-off Puss in Boots is both this and Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. She's a giant goose and the mother of the golden goose chick which was stolen by our heroes. And yes, her master is the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. Good thing the guy is long-dead by the events of the movie. |
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The large majority of Kaiju Big Battel's roster. The angle here being the promotion is actually a device to contain giant monsters whose grudge matches would otherwise destroy the world. Locals are allowed to view what happens inside, for a reasonable price. | |
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The Marvel Mangaverse version of the Hulk. | |
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The Titans of Tuesday Titans fit the bill, being giant, anthropomorphic animal warrior women battling giant robots. | |
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The Pony POV Series: Queen Tiamat, the dragons' ruler and Mother Goddess. Normal adult dragons are borderline Kaiju to begin with, but Tiamat dwarfs even them, being large enough to blot out the sun when standing at her full height and immensely powerful. She joined the fray herself during the Dragon-Hooviet War and proceeded to leave half the empire in flaming ruin, willingly stopping just short of the capital. The Hooviets weren't able to even hit her, let alone do any lasting damage. There's also her husband, Bahamut, the Father of All Dragons. He's an equally massive platinum colored dragon and capable of Weather Manipulation on a massive scale. And the one time he fights a military goes just as well as Tiamat's. It seems to just be natural for Ryujin (Dragon Gods) to be this trope. |
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From Shut Up! Cartoons, we have Krogzilla, a Not Zilla who was shrunk down by scientists to human size. Of course, this means that he now has to integrate himself into human society resulting in Hilarity Ensues. Occasionally, he mentioned other kaiju, but the only one who appeared was another shrunken-down one named Regurgitor (for his ability to vomit lava) who resembles Titanosaurus with extra arms and a more Jerkass personality. | |
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The Giant Robo live-action series, better known in the west as Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, which along with the Ambassador Magma live-action series (known as The Space Giants for its American release) and Ultraman, were the very first entries in the genre. | |
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Lanterns of Equestria: Blackest Night: Twilight starts recruiting these into her Corps, giving them sentience in the process. Fluttershy eventually recruits an Ursa Major. | |
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Godzilla made 3 cameos in "Wingin' It". | |
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From Abrahamic traditions and The Bible, there are the lords of the animals: Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz. One's a giant aquatic dragon, the other an immense land beast with no natural predators, and the last is a gigantic bird. The three are treated like primordial forces of nature in apocryphal text, with the only thing that can stop them aside from God is each other. Another one is mentioned in the Golden Legend in the tale of Saint Martha. The tarasque (later popularized by Dungeons & Dragons) was a massive dragon with a turtle's shell, six legs, the head of a beast and a stingered tail. It devastated the landscape, destroying everything in its path. The king sent out his knights to slay the tarasque with swords and spears and even catapults, but nothing would damage the beast. At last, Saint Martha was sent out to the tarasque, and she tamed the tarasque with hymns and prayers, saving the countryside. She led back the tamed Tarasque to the city. The people, terrified by the monster, attacked it when it drew nigh. The monster offered no resistance and died there. Martha then preached to the people and converted many of them to Christianity. Sorry for what they had done to the tamed monster, the newly Christianized townspeople changed the town's name to Tarascon. Some Jews believe that the plague of frogs in Exodus was actually one giant frog . This is due to the use of the singular Hebrew word for "frog" rather than the plural in Exodus 8:2 “And Aaron stretched out his arm over the waters of Egypt and the frog arose and covered the land of Egypt�. A single frog covering the whole land of Egypt implies it must be gigantic. However, the plural word is used elsewhere so it's suggested that the giant frog spawned other smaller frogs. |
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Green: Yongling, a five-mile-long green serpent menacing Chineigh after awakening from a three-thousand year sleep. Princess Luna impresses the ambassador sent to inform her about it by reminiscing about the ''last'' time she, Celestia, and the dragons teamed up to seal him away the first time. During the Time Skip between this story and its sequel, she and Dragon Lord Torch repeat the feat. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Wyrm from the Sundering Seas is a huge sea creature that attacks ships and kills the passengers. | |
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From Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts" (1981): Her Name Was Rodan, and she lived in the ocean off Japan. | |
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Giant monsters are popular choices for the videos that MetaBallStudios produces to compare the sizes of various real and fictional objects and characters. "(Movie) MONSTERS Size COMPARISON" most directly deals with them, but lots of other videos focused on different topics nonetheless feature kaiju as well. | |
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During Walt Simonson's run of The Mighty Thor, Fafnir the dragon sure had the size to qualify. | |
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Peacemaker has the Cow, a gigantic, caterpillar-esque alien being used by the butterflies as a source of the nectar they need to survive on Earth. Like Starro in The Suicide Squad, John Economos directly refers to it as a kaiju. | |
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The Great Terror from the spin-off Puss in Boots is both this and Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. She's a giant goose and the mother of the golden goose chick which was stolen by our heroes. And yes, her master is the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. Good thing the guy is long-dead by the events of the movie. | |
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On Good Eats, a style of cooking known as tempura, which many Western chefs find intimidating, was portrayed as a giant one-eyed, tentacled monster that terrorized the city. Several chefs were seen running away from it, and it attacked Alton's former sous-chef, Paul. | |
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Rampant in Super Sentai, where any normal-sized Monster of the Week can become a kaiju by being enlarged. The same holds true for its American import Power Rangers thanks to; less common in Kamen Rider, where the monsters tend to stay small-sized. (Except Kamen Rider J.) note There's actually a generic term in Japan for Monster of the Week types in the spandex-versus-People in Rubber Suits genre — a kaijin is like a kaiju but smaller and more humanoid. Of course, as special effects grow on television but traditionalism and Narm Charm rules in monster movies, there are creatures who are considered kaijin because of the show they're on that are more monstrous than◊ creatures who are considered kaiju because of the films they're in. So, in real-life terms, a kaiju is a movie giant monster and a kaijin is a Toku series' Monster of the Week. While most of the monsters in Super Sentai and Power Rangers start off human-sized and only become giant at the end of the episode, occasionally we get monsters that start off being gigantic already, such as the Giganoids of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and Daitanix/Titanisaur from Seijuu Sentai Gingaman/Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, a Kaiju with three shark heads and a myriad of tentacles was killed by Big Science Action off the coast of Nagoya, Japan. Its corpse, which was impervious to magic and released a highly corrosive gas that killed all known Earth life nearly instantly and melted all known Earth metals in seconds, was impossible to remove. So it began known as Korusan Island. Izuku ends up trekking out there to train his powers in secret, but soon finds himself besieged by the Kaiju's asexual spawn. Although he's initially terrified of them, he manages to befriend them by the time the U.A. Entrance Exam rolls around and is sad to have to be away from them for a long time. | |
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The Wrath of Giga Bowser: Giga Bowser is treated as one, becoming a gigantic, unstoppable monster bent on destroying everyone who crosses its path. | |
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Most of the Targaryen dragons in House of the Dragon qualify as a Giant Flyer being big enough to ride, but the status of Kaiju certainly applies to Vhagar: a nearly-200 year-old grandma who is the last survivor of Aegon's Conquest a century ago, and towers way above Drogon, the largest of the dragons from the original Game of Thrones. | |
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The Planetary team discover the remains of various ersatz kaiju on Island Zero. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics: Lanterns of Equestria: Blackest Night: Twilight starts recruiting these into her Corps, giving them sentience in the process. Fluttershy eventually recruits an Ursa Major. In The Monster Mash, Kaiju are the focus of Dash’s story, where they’re created when normal animals come into contact with Chaos pollution left over from Discord’s rampage. Dash becomes a part-time Kaiju by the same method at the end. In Persona EG, a few Personas qualify: the Ultimate Personas for Chariot and Tower are Gamera (80m length) and Gojira (168m), while Sonata's Rainbow Persona, Leviathan, consists of a Persona sized mermaid and a colossal sea serpent a hundred meters long. The Pony POV Series: Queen Tiamat, the dragons' ruler and Mother Goddess. Normal adult dragons are borderline Kaiju to begin with, but Tiamat dwarfs even them, being large enough to blot out the sun when standing at her full height and immensely powerful. She joined the fray herself during the Dragon-Hooviet War and proceeded to leave half the empire in flaming ruin, willingly stopping just short of the capital. The Hooviets weren't able to even hit her, let alone do any lasting damage. There's also her husband, Bahamut, the Father of All Dragons. He's an equally massive platinum colored dragon and capable of Weather Manipulation on a massive scale. And the one time he fights a military goes just as well as Tiamat's. It seems to just be natural for Ryujin (Dragon Gods) to be this trope. The Powers of Harmony: Dragon Turtles can grow to massive sizes. Fluttershy's friend, the Master of the Lake, happens to be the size of a small island. There's also the always-recurring Star Beasts, like the good ol' Ursa Major. Romance and the Fate of Equestria: Sørmur dï Mitgaeard, Lady Kolassa, and occasionally Annihilara. Green: Yongling, a five-mile-long green serpent menacing Chineigh after awakening from a three-thousand year sleep. Princess Luna impresses the ambassador sent to inform her about it by reminiscing about the ''last'' time she, Celestia, and the dragons teamed up to seal him away the first time. During the Time Skip between this story and its sequel, she and Dragon Lord Torch repeat the feat. Harmonic Beasts: Philia vs Geryon diverges from canon because Cozy Glow's plan from the Season 8 finale had an unexpected side effect and the corrupted magic starts mutating creatures into kaiju. The first one, Geryon, is a giant mutated Manticore. To counter them, the Tree of Harmony helps create a benevolent kaiju named Philia based by the Element of Magic, leading to the title showdown in Manehatten. The ending implies it's far from over and the Tree of Harmony has five more eggs, one for each of the other Elements |
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A Doctor Who story called "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" contained Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Another story called "The Seeds of Doom" features an alien plant called a Krynoid, which eventually grows to a size of several tens of feet tall. The Doctor says it will max out at about the size of St Paul's Cathedral (at which point it will release thousands of seeds, dooming all animal life on Earth). Then there's the Robot from the serial, "Robot", and the Cyberking from the 2009 Christmas special, "The Next Doctor". Kroll, the giant squid monster from one of the Key to Time stories, doesn't have any cities to destroy, but it probably merits inclusion in this trope for sheer size (and Special Effects Failure). |
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Superman: There's a recurring enemy named Titano, who looks like King Kong with the power to shoot Kryptonite-flavored laser beams out of his eyes. One "Metropolis Mailbag" episode featured Superman's annual New Year's help-by-mail tradition interrupted by a fight between a gigantic Metallo and the new Toyman, a Japanese kid with a Super Robot. Between performing his tasks and trying to keep the battle from escalating, he also had to deal with several giant monsters awakened by the fighting: a massive butterfly, a Gorilla-Whale (A literal translation of Godzilla's name), and of all things, a giant purple Pikachu. In the prelude to H'el on Earth, a mile-long undead prehistoric Kryptonian Dragon creature◊ rampages across Metropolis. It's so strong, that a whack from its tail sends Superman flying all the way to Ireland! It is defeated when Superman left with no choice ignites an oil rig, engulfing the creature in a huge ball of fire. It's later revealed that H'el sent the creature to test Superman's abilities. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen has been one. In two main stream continuities. |
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The NES Godzilla Creepypasta warrants its own spot here because the creator actually came up with many all-new monstrosities, including the Big Bad whose final form easily dwarfs Godzilla, and can be estimated to be about 400-500m tall. | |
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Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen has been one. In two main stream continuities. | |
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Face/Off had a Kaiju-building challenge in Season 7, with contestants making creatures based on the squid, praying mantis, sloth, and yeti crab. | |
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Gurral the Smasher: The premise involves Gurral, a bioengineered fifty-meter tall alien gladiator, fighting against other giant monsters for the entertainment of the hedonistic and greedy Arena Lords in order to satiate his addicition to the rare mineral Impervium. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: The titular "Cubtron Z" and an unnamed tentacle monster seen destroying the city. Godzilla made 3 cameos in "Wingin' It". |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has Unigar the Vast Unicorn, Snookums in his original form, and Jolly the Giant Peanut Butter Monster. | |
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MegaTokyo has a bunch of these. Like Zom-Zom. | |
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The Sandling of White Sand is an enormous and highly territorial subterrestial creature huge enough, a single tooth of its Lamprey Mouth is almost two-thirds of Kenton's size. | |
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In an inversion, Lucas from The Ant Bully is a normal human kid, but wreaks similar wrath and destruction upon a hapless ant colony. The Exterminator, Stan Beals, definitely counts too. | |
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The third and final installment of The Adventures of D & A had the titular duo go up against Kitora, a Kaiju from a place called Monsterland Island. | |
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In the prelude to H'el on Earth, a mile-long undead prehistoric Kryptonian Dragon creature◊ rampages across Metropolis. It's so strong, that a whack from its tail sends Superman flying all the way to Ireland! It is defeated when Superman left with no choice ignites an oil rig, engulfing the creature in a huge ball of fire. It's later revealed that H'el sent the creature to test Superman's abilities. | |
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The Powers of Harmony: Dragon Turtles can grow to massive sizes. Fluttershy's friend, the Master of the Lake, happens to be the size of a small island. There's also the always-recurring Star Beasts, like the good ol' Ursa Major. |
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A small example in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow titled "Tagumo Attacks!!!" (appropriately, the show's title is written in Japanese for the episode and features modified music). In the episode, Ishirō Honda accidentally creates a giant octopus, after drawing his Hiroshima-related nightmares into Brigid's diary. In the end, Tagumo is lured to Ishiro's movie set and faces off against Garima, Queen of Thanzanon, who is Mick's literary creation (with three boobs, of course). She fights Tagumo on the set, while Ishiro grabs his camera and films the battle, making it look like a traditional black-and-white kaiju fight in a city. Garima kills Tagumo, and Ishiro can only look in wonder and say, "It's beautiful." Before leaving, Mick gives Ishiro some advice. | |
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The Chou Sei Shin Series from Toho, which in a similar manner to Super Sentai features human-sized heroes jumping into Humongous Mecha to fight gigantic monsters. | |
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Transformers: Trypticon, who is an Expy of Mechagodzilla. The Big Bad of Transformers Victory, Deathsaurus, transforms into a kaiju that resembles a cross between Gigan and Rodan. This was actually deliberate, as his arch-enemy Star Saber was deliberately patterned after superheroes like Series/Ultraman or Super Sentai. |
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The 1971 series Spectreman, which is one of the few Ultraman copycats to have aired on English-language television with a dub. | |
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