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Rodan

131 statements
24 feature instances
23 referencing feature instances

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Rodan	label	Rodan
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Rodan	comment	Classic Kaiju film directed by Ishiro Honda, who knows a little more about Kaiju films than you do, pal, because he invented them! This page is based on the dub by the King Brothers.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The movie takes place on one of the smaller islands of Japan. A small mining operation is in a panic; the mine's deepest vein has flooded, and one of the miners was found horribly mutilated. The blame falls upon Goro, the last person the dead miner was seen with. Goro's friend Shigeru, determined to prove Goro innocent, discovers that the killings were actually done by prehistoric insects. Shigeru leads a group of soldiers into the mine, where they battle the monsters. When bullets prove ineffective, Shigeru kills the bugs with a booby-trapped mine cart. With the monsters that did the killing dead, the movie's over, right?Wrong.As the cart explodes, the mine shaft collapses, trapping Shigeru inside. Meanwhile, a nearby volcano has become active, endangering the village, and to make matters worse, UFOs flying at supersonic speeds have been sighted all over the world, attacking jets and carrying off a young couple visiting the mountain. Meanwhile, Shigeru has been found outside the mine, badly hurt and suffering from a total loss of memory. Weeks go by, the UFOs are sighted some more times, and Shigeru's memory slowly returns. When his fiance Kiyo shows him that eggs her pet birds laid are hatching, Shigeru suddenly remembers what happened to him.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })As it turns out, when he got trapped in the mine, Shigeru fell into the nest of the killer insects. (Remember them?) Inside this nest was an egg, which promptly hatched, revealing a giant flying reptile, which eats the remaining bugs before taking off. A scientist who hears Shigeru's story and examines all the collected evidence in the mystery of the UFO, realizes that the monster and the UFO are one and the same, a species of Pteranodon called Rodan. Army guys show up, and discover that Rodan is living in the volcano, and what's more, it's not alone. A second Rodan flies out of the mountain, and joins its mate in leading the military in a chase across Japan, finally landing in, and leveling, Sasebo.After the attack, when the Rodans have gone back to the volcano, the military comes up with a final, desperate plan to defeat the monsters. The plan: Set off the volcano, with the Rodans still inside. As the mining village is being evacuated, Shigeru (Remember him?) finds Kiyo near the volcano, and tells her that he loves her, and that they should probably get out of the way of the volcano. Not a moment too soon, either, because as they leave, the army moves in. Bombers attack the Rodans' nest, and ground-launched missiles set off the volcano. When the Rodans fly out of the erupting volcano, all hope seems lost when, suddenly, one of the reptiles succumbs to the volcanic fumes. As the military, Shigeru, and Kiyo look on, the other Rodan flies into the eruption, choosing to die rather than be separated from its mate. As Shigeru ponders the implications of such actions in supposedly "vicious" monsters, he wonders whether he could ever make such a sacrifice for Kiyo, and we fade to black.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })It's basically Gojira with two Kaiju. No relation to French sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose last name is pronounced the same way.
Rodan	fetched	2018-10-19T16:50:53Z
Rodan	parsed	2020-06-25T17:20:52Z
Rodan	processingComment	Dropped link to CosmicHorror: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Rodan	processingComment	Dropped link to GodzillaVsMegaguirus: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Rodan	isPartOf	DBTropes
Rodan / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Rodan / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle: The Meganula are destroyed...only for it to turn out their predators have awakened as well.
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Rodan / int_3f1fa873	type	PteroSoarer
Rodan / int_3f1fa873	comment	Ptero Soarer- Rodan. Justified, in that Rodan isn't supposed to be realistic in the first place.
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Rodan / int_3f4ec001	type	DestructiveSavior
Rodan / int_3f4ec001	comment	Destructive Savior - The vast majority of the damage inflicted in the battles against the Rodans is caused by the JSDF, due to their utter inability to hit a moving target. The Rodans don't actually do any intentional damage, all the destruction they cause is from the downdraft of their wings as they pass by.
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Rodan / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Rodan / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Much like the U.S. release of Godzilla Raids Again, the distributors felt the need to add a pointless prologue with stock footage of Hydrogen Bomb blasts and Fauxlosophic Narration. This doesn't even make sense concerning the Rodan or the Meganulon, as they are not even mutants or radioactive. Although, sometimes stock footage is put to better use, such as the fighter jet take off sequence.
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Rodan / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Rodan / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia - Sort of. The amnesia happens after a terrible head injury and it takes several weeks to recover, but once Shigeru does he remembers everything he's seen.
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Rodan / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Rodan / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop - The creatures are disturbed by over-zealous coal mining.
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Rodan / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Rodan / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer - Rodan flies so fast as to use his sonic boom as a weapon.
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Rodan / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Rodan / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name- Rodan's Japanese name "Radon" is a reference to what it is, a mutated "pter-RA-no-DON."
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Rodan / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Rodan / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The Meganula are the primary threat for the first part of the movie, but after they're destroyed, the Rodans emerge and go on the rampage themselves.
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Rodan / int_6e6b8ca7	type	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
Rodan / int_6e6b8ca7	comment	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics- Used in a more realistic sense. The male Rodan is a different shade of brown than the female.
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Rodan / int_838270b7	type	Slurpasaur
Rodan / int_838270b7	comment	Slurpasaur: A very creative example. The scene of the baby Rodans eating the Meganula? The bug monsters were crayfish dressed in tiny costumes!
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Rodan / int_874c712f	type	Dug Too Deep
Rodan / int_874c712f	comment	Dug Too Deep: Both the Meganula and the Rodans are awakened by a mining operation.
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Rodan / int_878282b7	type	Too Long; Didn't Dub
Rodan / int_878282b7	comment	Too Long; Didn't Dub- Almost every instance of the Japanese honorifics "san" and "chan" are retained in the English dialogue.
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Rodan / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Rodan / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The Meganula go on the rampage...then the Rodans emerge and eat them as HATCHLINGS.
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Rodan / int_905438eb	type	RecycledINSPACE
Rodan / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space- It's a tragic love story, with Kaiju as the two ill-fated lovers. In the original release very little emphasis is placed on the second Rodan, and it's not even implied that the two creatures are mates. If both Rodans hatched from the same location, it would probably make more sense that they were both from the same clutch, and therefore would actually be more likely to be siblings, rather than mates. The original Japanese version doesn't clear this up either way, however.
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Rodan / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Rodan / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing - Although the Tank corps manages to land a few hits on the grounded Rodan during his raid on Fukuoka, every single missile truck manages to completely miss the giant creature standing barely a thousand yards away!
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Rodan / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Rodan / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets - The Meganulon.
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Rodan / int_ac7df45e	type	Giant Equals Invincible
Rodan / int_ac7df45e	comment	Giant Equals Invincible- Averted. Both monsters die by falling into a volcano while the JSDF bombs the area with an air strike.
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Rodan / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Rodan / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name - A man is accused of murdering a man who he is feuding with. Killer insects are at fault.
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Rodan / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Rodan / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: The Meganula and Rodans both eat people throughout the films.
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Rodan / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Rodan / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change - The City of Fukuoka is changed to Sasebo, Nagasaki for the U.S. release. The volcanic Mt. Aso was changed to "Mt. Toya" for whatever reason. Rodan's name is actually pronounced "Radon" as in Pteranodon in the original release.
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Rodan / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Rodan / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death- The male Rodan chooses to die alongside his mate after she dies in a volcano.
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Rodan / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Rodan / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Rodan, into the Godzilla films. The Meganulon themselves reappear with a more significant role in Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Rodan	sameAs	Rodan
Rodan	hasFeature	A Lizard Named "Liz" / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	All Flyers Are Birds / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Always a Bigger Fish / int_ba91b0fa
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Rodan	hasFeature	Beak Attack / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Big Creepy-Crawlies / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Bug War / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Dug Too Deep / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Food Chain of Evil / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Giant Equals Invincible / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Giant Flyer / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Informed Species / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Kaiju Works / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Memetic Loser / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Non-Malicious Monster / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Not So Extinct / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Prehistoric Animal Analogue / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Single Specimen Species / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	Starring Special Effects / int_ba91b0fa
Rodan	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_ba91b0fa

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