Godzilla (series)

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Godzilla series
Poster for Godzilla Minus One
Original Name	Japanese: ゴジラ
Origin	Japan
Company	Toho Co., Ltd.
First Work	Godzilla (1954)
Latest Work	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Work Type	Films

The Godzilla series is a collective name for a series of kaiju-themed feature films and their derivative works released by Toho since 1954.

Introduction

Since the release of Godzilla in 1954, the Godzilla series of movies has continued for decades, and has developed into a huge special film series with 29 films, which is not only a milestone in the history of Japanese tokusatsu, It is also the most representative kaiju-themed work in the world. The Godzilla series of movies often revolves around a giant monster with a huge body and hot light, the atomic dinosaur "Godzilla". Later, more kaiju characters were added to intersect with Godzilla. The character of Godzilla is sometimes hostile to humans and sometimes cooperative., and has performed countless wonderful stories. The image of Godzilla has become one of Japan's cultural symbols due to its widespread popularity and is the world's most famous fictional monster character.

List of works

Godzilla Series

Toho films

This series is a series of monster-themed feature films released by Toho since 1954.

Showa series

(Theoretically having the same lore)

• Godzilla (1954)
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (1963)
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• Invasion of the Astro-Monsters (1965)
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
• Son of Godzilla (1967)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• All Monsters Attack (1969)
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Heisei series

(Continuation of the 1954 version)

• Godzilla 1985 (1984)
• Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1996)

Millennium Series

(Except for the shared lore of the 2002 and 2003 movies, the stories are independent from each other, and the lores of some movies directly follow the 1954 version.)

• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla III (2002)
• Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Toho films (CGI)

This is a series of kaiju movies launched by Toho in 2016. Godzilla in this series is no longer an actor wearing a leather suit, but is now animated in CGI.

• Shin Godzilla (2016)
• Godzilla Minus One (2021)

Legendary Pictures series

This series is jointly produced by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. So far 4 films and one TV series have been released.

• Godzilla (2014)
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Polygon Pictures series

This is an anime film series produced by Polygon Pictures, with a total of three films. These were written by Gen Urobuchi.

• Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
• Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
• Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)

Anime

• Godzilla: Singular Point (2021)
• Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (2023)
• Chibi Godzilla Raids Again 2 (2024)

Semi-official

Special tokusatsu short films

(Short films played at Godzilla Fest)

• Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest (2020)
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (2021)
• Godzilla Fest 3: Gigan Attacks (2022)
• Godzilla Fest 4: Operation Jet Jaguar (2023)
• Godzilla Fest 5: Battle of the Monsters (2024)

CG short series

• Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2022)
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (2023)

Godzilla through the ages (movies and animation only, not games, cameos, doujin, etc.)

Almost all versions of Godzilla

Original

• Height: 50M
• Weight: 20000T
• Attack method: incandescent light, tearing and scratching
• Debut work: Godzilla (1954)
• Feature: The first Godzilla in history
• Introduction: Originally a remnant of a rare intermediate form of marine reptiles and terrestrial beasts that lived between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, appeared due to a hydrogen bomb experiment, attacked a cargo ship and landed in Tokyo, causing serious damage, and eventually killed by the Oxygen Destroyer invented by Dr. Serizawa. Unlike the later Godzilla, its light is gaseous incandescent light, rather than the later radiant heat.

Showa

• Height: 50M
• Weight: 20000T
• Attack: Radiant heat rays, incandescent light, kangaroo kick, throwing, fighting, tail whip
• Debut works: Godzilla Raids Again, King Kong vs. Godzilla,"Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Son of Godzilla, All Monsters Attack, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla vs Megalon, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Terror of Mechagodzilla, Zone Fighter
• Features: Anti-Physical Flying Kick, Flying (currently the only Godzilla that can fly, but the way it flies...)
• Introduction: The second Godzilla appeared in many works. The appearance has changed greatly but the setting is the same. In the early days, it was an evil monster that destroyed everywhere, but in the later period, it gradually became the incarnation of justice and fought against evil monsters with other righteous monsters. The shape also gradually became funny and amiable. The light it emits was initially similar to the incandescent light of the original generation, but it was later converted into radiant heat. Has an adopted son, Minilla. He appears in Zone Fighter as a cameo. It appeared for the last time in 1974's "Mechagodzilla Strikes Back", and its story ended without a trace after that (but according to the setting of the play, Attack of the Monsters in 1968 actually happened last chronologically, so that one can be thought of as the finale of the Showa series, while the following ones are extras).

Heisei

• Height: 80M
• Weight: 50000T
• Attack methods: Radiant heat rays, Radiant heat bombs, Internal radiation, Fighting
• Appearances: Return of Godzilla, Godzilla vs Biollante
• Feature: The Heisei era's first Godzilla
• Introduction: Has nothing to do with the Showa lore, the brand new Godzilla is bigger and more ferocious than before. The Godzillasaurus in Lagos was transformed by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb. Attracted by sound waves due to the instinct of homing, he fell into the crater of Mihara Mountain. Five years later, he was revived when terrorists detonated Mihara Mountain. Finally, he was injected with nucleophagic bacteria in his body and stopped his activities. Later, because history was changed by the Futurians, he became the the new Heisei Godzilla.

New Heisei

• Height: 100M
• Weight: 60000T
• Attack methods: Radiation Hotline, Internal Radiation, Spiral Hotline, Super Uranium Energy Hotline, Burning Hotline, Infinite Hotline, Fighting
• Debut works: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Godzilla vs Mothra, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla, Godzilla vs Destoroyah
• Characteristics: High popularity, G-series predecessor kanban, various pick-ups
• Introduction: The new Heisei Godzilla came about because the Futurians changed history. Because the absorbed nuclear radiation is more powerful, the size and strength are bigger and stronger than the original Heisei Godzilla, and he has fought multiple monsters successively. Its cells were carried into space by Mothra to give birth to SpaceGodzilla. In the end, due to the natural uranium ejection from Bass Island, the reaction of the inner core of the body went out of control, turning into a red and steaming "Burning Godzilla". After defeating Destoroyah, he died due to the high temperature of the nuclear reaction melting his body. His adopted son, Godzilla Junior, absorbed the energy released by Godzilla when he died and was resurrected to grow into a new generation of Godzilla.

Millennium

• Height: 55M
• Weight: 25000T
• Attack method: Radiant hot ray, internal radiation, tearing and scratching
• Debut work: Godzilla 2000: Millennium
• Features: The first Godzilla in the millennium, with super regeneration ability
• Introduction: The plot has nothing to do with Heisei Godzilla, and its appearance has changed a lot compared to Heisei. The snout is relatively pointed, and the dorsal fin is large and sharp. The radiation emitted by it is red in color. A decisive battle with the monster Orga transformed from the alien who absorbed the "Organizer G1", and finally destroyed it from the inside with internal radiation, and turned Shinjuku into a sea of fire.

2003

• Height: 55M
• Weight: 25000T
• Attack method: Radiant hot ray, tearing, punching, tail whip, dorsal fin slash
• Debut work: Godzilla vs Megaguirus
• Features:
• Introduction: Similar in appearance to Millennium Godzilla but not the same one, and the lore is also different. But its radiation is also red. After defeating Megaguirus, he was hit by a black hole cannon and disappeared, but Godzilla's familiar roar was heard at the end of the film.

GMK

• Height: 60M
• Weight: 30000T
• Attack method: Radiant Hotline, Gravitational Radiation Hotline, Boxing
• Debut work: Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
• Feature: White Eyes
• Introduction: It is a collection of the resentment of the dead in the Pacific War. It has defeated Baragon and Mothra in the three sacred beasts of protecting the country, and absorbed the energy of the gravitational light spit out by King Ghidorah to kill them. In the end, Commodore Tachibana drove a submarine to sneak into Godzilla's body, and penetrated Godzilla's body from the wound from the inside, which caused the energy of the hot line to leak and explode. But at the end of the film, Godzilla's undead heart is still beating under the sea.

Kiryu

• Height: 55M
• Weight: 25000T
• Attack: Radiant hotline, uppercut
• Debut works: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla III (2002) Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
• Features: Kiryu's rival
• Introduction: Similar in appearance to Millennium and New Century Godzilla, but with different colors of light. He fought twice against Mechagodzilla, which was transformed from the remains of the original Godzilla. In the end, he was seriously injured and was hugged by the awakened Mechagodzilla and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Final Wars

• Height: 100M
• Weight: 55000T
• Attack method: Radiation hotline, super spiral hotline, internal radiation, red lotus G flash hotline, throwing technique, tail whip, free fight
• Debut work: Godzilla: Final Wars
• Features: The strongest Godzilla ever
• Introduction: A monster that suddenly appeared in 1954, but it is not the same as the first Godzilla, and belongs to an independent lore. The shape combines the characteristics of many Godzillas that have appeared before, and the body is huge and flexible. Buried by a glacier that was shot down by a Hungtian missile in Antarctica 20 years ago. After 20 years, he was reawakened to fight against the Xiliens, and defeated multiple monsters in a row with overwhelming power. After coming to Tokyo, he started a close battle with Monster X, but after Monster X transformed into Keizer Ghidorah, Godzilla lost and lost. In the end, with the help of humans, he defeated Keizer Ghidorah, but when he was about to continue to attack humans, he was stopped by his adopted son, Minilla, and returned to the sea with Minilla.

Shin

• Height: 118.5M
• Weight: 92000T
• Attack method: ultra-high heat radioactive particles with smoke, radiation flow, back radiation flow, tail radiation flow
• Debut work: Shin Godzilla (2016)
• Features: The first Godzilla with only staged evolution, amazing evolution ability and regeneration ability
• Introduction: It belongs to the independent lore that pays tribute to the Showa movies. This is a deep-sea reptile that survived from the ancient times. It mutated due to the intake of a large amount of radioactive waste 60 years ago, and has amazing evolutionary capabilities and continues to grow. The first stage resembles a tadpole with a long tail, but it does not appear in the movie. In the second stage, it landed, gave birth to hind legs and was able to crawl slowly on land, and was able to eject red liquid from its gills. Later, it became the third stage, growing short forelimbs and walking upright, but returned to the sea due to hyperthermia due to rapid evolution. After cooling its body in the sea, it evolved into a fourth form, with several times its size, having an exaggerated long tail, and evolving its gills into lungs. The skin is very hard, ignoring the powerful firepower of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. After being injured by a heavy bomb dropped by the U.S. military, he quickly recovered. He shot down the U.S. military bomber with a jet of radiation on the back, and also destroyed the prime minister’s special plane with a jet stream, and turned Tokyo into a sea of ​​fire, and then fell into a short hibernation. After waking up, he was induced by the drone to evolve a tail radiation flow, but eventually his physical strength was quickly exhausted under the pressure of the drone-induced attack, train bombs and buildings. Eventually, a large amount of coagulant was injected into the body and the body cooled and froze. At the end, several humanoids were split from the tail (the transitional state from the fourth to the fifth form, the humanoids were humans who assimilated after being devoured in the sea). According to the speculation of the characters in the film, if it continues to evolve, it may have the ability to fly.

Polygon Pictures' Godzilla

• Height: 50M ~ 300M or more (will continue to grow)

• Weight: 20,000 tons to more than 100,000 tons (because it can control gravitons, the true weight is unknown)
• Attack methods: Charged particle ray stream (charged particle cannon), strong electromagnetic field, electromagnetic pulse, plasma cutting, asymmetric penetration position, graviton manipulation, internal molecular heat release, super shock wave, tail whip, red lotus Dragon (prequel novel)
• Appearance works: Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017), Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (May 2018), Godzilla: The Planet Eater (November 2018)
• Characteristics: It was once the largest and most powerful Godzilla in history.
• Introduction: Godzilla, which exists in an independent worldview belonging to the anime film trilogy, is the strongest creature produced by the earth itself. Its main body is composed of plant-like creatures. Its surface is covered with a strong electromagnetic field so that almost no attack can hurt it. of ontology. In the prequel novel, he basically killed all over the earth, and his achievements include but are not limited to: chasing Anguirus, Varan and Baragon all the way to Los Angeles; eating 150 US military nuclear bombs with a yield of 250,000 tons without any damage; one shot in the North Pole The Red Lotus Dragon destroyed the demon star Glass (neutron star) heading towards the solar system, cutting off the idea of ​​human beings establishing a base in the solar system. This killed Battra and Mothra one after another; the Bilusaludo failed to destroy them even though they used their mother ship to self-destruct; and melted the Himalayas that were pressing on it during the Great Wall battle through external heat rays. Appearing after the earth entered the monster outbreak period, it was a monster that chased monsters. It destroyed almost all monsters except it and the demon star that was about to hit the earth, and forced humans to escape from the earth and wander in the universe. Twenty thousand years later, its size increased to an astonishing 300 meters, and it single-handedly caused huge changes in the earth's environment centered on it. After humans discovered that there was no place to live in the universe and returned to Earth, they woke up, successively destroyed the mobile proliferation cities transformed by Mechagodzilla, defeated Star Eater Ghidorah, and finally fell into sleep again after humans returned to primitive life.

MonsterVerse

“

Long Live The King!!!

”

• Height: 108.204M (355 feet) ~ 119.786M (393 feet)
• Tail length: 200.75M (650 feet 4 inches) ~ 211.4M (682 feet)
• Weight: 90000T ~ 99634T
• Attack: Atomic Breath, Free Fight, Tail Whip, Back Spines Slash, External Radiation (Burning Form), Back Spines Radiation (Back Spines) After the thorn was shattered by the Supreme M.U.T.O)
• Debut works: Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), and the prequel comics Godzilla: Awakening, Godzilla: Aftershock, Godzilla: Reign
• Feature: Because the MonsterVerse films were made by Legendary Pictures, he is sometimes called Legendary Godzilla.

• Introduction: Legendary's Godzilla exists in a different lore and universe that is not consistent with the entire Japanese version of the series. The body is huge and sturdy, the dorsal fins are similar to the spines of the Japanese version of the original Godzilla, and it has gill-like organs to survive underwater, the trick is to spit out blue heat rays "Atomic Breath". This is one of the giant Titans that ran rampant on the earth in ancient times. It belongs to the atomic dinosaur family, and there are members of the same family as Dagon. It feeds on radiation energy, and later dives into the underground world to survive due to the decrease in surface radiation concentration caused by the Permian mass extinction. Later, because of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, he returned to the surface again, and pursued the death group who came to the surface for the same reason. In San Francisco, he defeated the M.U.T.O.s who were trying to lay eggs, and a few months later he defeated the revived Supreme MUTO. In Boston, Burning Godzilla's absolute overwhelming force defeated Ghidorah, the space monster, and was recognized as the king of monsters by the Titans - Long Live The King!!!, and later fought with King Kong and won, and after winning, fought with Mechanical Godzilla But he was not defeated, and with the help of King Kong he defeated Mechagodzilla. After killing Scylla in Rome, Italy, who violated the dormancy order many times, he went to the Colosseum to rest. After receiving a distress signal from the underground Ivi tribe, he first went to the French nuclear power plant to absorb nuclear energy, and then went to Tiamat's lair in the Arctic Ocean, killed Tiamat and absorbed all the energy in the lair to evolve.

After hearing King Kong's roar, he jumped off the cliff from Gibraltar to Cairo, Egypt. During the battle with King Kong, he was dissuaded by Mothra, and they went to the center of the earth together. They faced off against Skar King and Shimo, and then fought from Hollow Earth to Rio de Janeiro, where he killed Skar King with King Kong, Suko and Shimo who escaped from control, and returned to the Colosseum to rest after the war.

Can be transformed into Burning Godzilla after absorbing Mothra's energy.

Singular Point Godzilla

• Height: 50M ~ 125M (can use the world of mortals to grow infinitely)
• Weight: 110,000 tons (can use the world of mortals to grow infinitely)
• Attack methods: Atomic aperture, heat ray, tail whip
• Appearance: Godzilla: Singular Point (2021)
• Characteristics: The second Godzilla has only staged evolution. He is a high-dimensional creature. He is the most powerful Godzilla in terms of setting.
• Introduction: Belongs to an independent worldview. In this world view, the earth is suffering from a disaster called the "Singularity", which is composed of a high-dimensional material "prototype". The red mist distorts time and space and summons creatures from different dimensions in the future to the present world to cause destruction, and Godzilla is the monster summoned in this way. At the end of the first episode, a skeleton appears in the basement (Godzilla was summoned 80 years ago). At the end of the fourth episode, Godzilla appears in his first form (the shape pays homage to the Titanosaurus). In the seventh episode, he evolves into his second form. form and landed (the shape pays tribute to Varan), evolved into the third form standing on two feet in the ninth episode (the shape pays tribute to Gorosaurus), and evolved into the fourth form at the end of the tenth episode (the current final form, because in theory it will still continue to evolve) and destroy the city, ejecting rays with several apertures. In the end, Jet Jaguar PP, who came to the world through the red mist summons, sacrificed his life to hold him back, activated the orthogonal diagonalizer (a targeted weapon that neutralizes the red mist), and disappeared together (suspected of going to another dimension). The skeleton in the basement was transformed into Mechagodzilla.

Minus One Godzilla

• Height: 50.1M
• Weight: about 20000T
• Attack method: radioactive ray
• Appearance: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
• Features: Strong regeneration ability. When the hot wire is released, the dorsal fins will pop out one by one.
• Introduction: Belongs to an independent worldview. Minus One's Godzilla was affected by the explosion of the nuclear bomb Baker of Operation Crossroads when he was near Bikini Atoll. Although he suffered severe injuries, he relied on his regeneration ability to survive. However, he was mutated by the radiation and mutated into a 50-meter Godzilla.