"scientist Dr. Quinn Darien, her nephew Pete Darien and her research assistant Brock Borden. Also along for the ride is Godzooky, the ""cowardly nephew"" of Godzilla and Pete's best friend, who has a lighthearted role in the show. Godzooky can ""attempt"" to fly using the small wings under his arms. Whenever Godzooky tries to breathe fire, he usually just coughs up smoke rings (similar to Minilla the son of Godzilla from the Toho films). The group often call upon Godzilla by using a special signaller when in peril, such as attacks by other giant monsters. Godzooky is also able to"
"the idea of giving Godzilla a son to commemorate the New Year. According to Godzilla historian Steve Ryfle, the character's creation was likely a response to the contemporary light-hearted Gamera films. Minilla Introduced in ""Son of Godzilla"", Minilla was born on Sollgel Island, when its egg was prematurely cracked open by a group of mutant giant mantises called Kamacuras. Godzilla soon arrived, killed two of the Kamacuras, and rescued Minilla. Godzilla proceeded to train Minilla and defended it against further attacks from the final Kamacuras and the giant spider Kumonga. Godzilla and Minilla were placed in hibernation when a group"
"The series of OVA's was titled ""Godzilland"" (ゴジランド ""Gojirando"") and was aimed at primary school age children. This series featured Godzilla (the main protagonist), Gojirin (a pink female version of Godzilla), Minilla (here named Godzilla Junior), Mothra (and two Mothra larvae), King Ghidorah, Gigan, Hedorah (who is depicted as female in this adaptation), Moguera, Rodan, Baragon, Mechagodzilla, Anguirus and Ebirah. ""Godzilland"" was conceived initially to sell merchandise for the ""Godzilla"" franchise. The depictions of Godzilla and the various other kaiju were featured on stickers, toys, cards and board games. The educational media company Gakken and the film studio Toho collaborated"
"was designed as a homage to the monster's hinted progenitor Biollante by incorporating tusks and a hissing roar reminiscent of the latter monster. Creature designer Shinji Nishikawa had initially envisioned SpaceGodzilla as a much more western dragon-like creature with large fin-like wings on the back. The final design bore greater resemblance to Godzilla's final form from the video game ""Super Godzilla"", itself also designed by Nishikawa. Effects artist Koichi Kawakita redesigned Godzilla's son as a more cartoonish-looking character, having disliked the more dinosaurian-looking version in ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"" and hoping to launch a children's spinoff TV series entitled ""Little"
"soon fight. After Godzilla melts down, Junior is revived and grows into a new adult Godzilla. During the production of ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"", the decision to introduce a character similar to Godzilla's first adopted son, Minilla, was made in order to appeal to the largely female audience that made ""Godzilla vs. Mothra"" a financial success, despite objections by director Takao Okawara, who held a low opinion of the 1960s movies the character had previously been featured in. Okawara redesigned the new Baby Godzilla as more dinosaur-like than its predecessor, but strove to make it physically appealing in order to"
"Godzilla. He follows them back to Japan, where Neoranga quickly runs afoul of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Ushio Shimabara is a somewhat tomboyish, yet slightly shy and a bit reserved fifteen-year-old with a keen sense of justice and selflessness. She quickly accepts Joel's presence, as well as her position as a keeper of Neo Ranga. Ushio is often seen as being more empathetic and sensible than her siblings, especially in regards to Neo Ranga's interactions with everyday Japanese people. Voice: Yūko Miyamura (Japanese), Kelli Cousins (English) Minami Shimabara, twenty-four years old, is the eldest of the sisters and essentially acts"
"Godzilla Junior Godzilla Junior first appears in ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"" as an egg. Presuming it to be a ""Pteranodon"" egg, a scientific team unearths it from Adona Island and ships it to Japan for study. The egg displays strange psychic properties, even imprinting itself upon the biologist Azusa Gojo, before finally hatching to reveal an infant ""Godzillasaurus"". When Godzilla later appears, having sought out Baby Godzilla through an unexplained psychic link, Baby Godzilla leaves with Godzilla, later settling on Birth Island. By the time of ""Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla"", Baby Godzilla, now rechristened Little Godzilla, periodically interacts with the human"
"Minilla Introduced in ""Son of Godzilla"", Minilla was born on Sollgel Island, when its egg was prematurely cracked open by a group of mutant giant mantises called Kamacuras. Godzilla soon arrived, killed two of the Kamacuras, and rescued Minilla. Godzilla proceeded to train Minilla and defended it against further attacks from the final Kamacuras and the giant spider Kumonga. Godzilla and Minilla were placed in hibernation when a group of scientists completed a weather experiment, resulting in the freezing of their island. The mutant dinosaurs revived when the snow melted, and eventually relocated to Monster Island, as seen via stock"
"then was to dig up new characters, new ideas, new shows, and I had wanted to do Godzilla for awhile. I liked the monster thing, and the way it looked, and I thought we could do a lot with it. So I contacted Henry Saperstein, who was a very good friend and we got talking about it. Then there was an executive at the network who wanted to get into the act, and urged us to lighten the storyline up. So, I came up with the character Godzuki, who was like his son. The show had a sort of father-son"
"eggs, unlike its offspring in the animated series which was unable to reproduce. It possesses an ignitable radioactive breath weapon called ""Power Breath"", although its offspring could breathe a green atomic Power Breath in the animated series (where also the parent, resurrected as a cyborg called Cyber-Godzilla, possessed a blue version), in which it was pitted against a rogues gallery of original monsters, after the producers were unable to secure the rights to adapt Toho's classic monsters. It was also featured in advertisements alongside the Taco Bell chihuahua. TriStar's Godzilla was featured in the 2004 Toho film """" as ""Zilla"";"
"contrast it with the more brutish-looking Mechagodzilla. Baby Godzilla was portrayed by Hurricane Ryu, who wore a full-body suit with an animatronic mouth and eyes. The skin was also made smoother than Godzilla's in order to imply that Baby Godzilla had yet to be exposed to the mutagenic radiation that transformed its father. According to Godzilla suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma, Godzilla Junior was not intended to be the literal son of Godzilla, but ""the baby of a cousin."" In an early draft for the film, Godzilla would have had soldiers injected into its bloodstream, who would then trigger a nuclear"
"clownish slapstick wrestling with other monsters. Starting with ""Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster"", Godzilla began evolving into a friendlier, more playful antihero (this transition was complete by ""Son of Godzilla"", where it is shown as a good character), and as years went by, it evolved into an anthropomorphic superhero. ""Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster"" was also significant for introducing Godzilla's archenemy and the main antagonist of the movie series, King Ghidorah. The films ""Son of Godzilla"" and ""All Monsters Attack"" were aimed at youthful audiences, featuring the appearance of Godzilla's son, Minilla. ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla"" was notable for introducing Godzilla's robot duplicate"
"version of Godzilla, while intelligent, is not the protector of mankind; however, he does, at times, exhibit compassion for human characters, such as Dum Dum Dugan, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who is tasked with his capture, destruction, or repulsion from America, and Robert ""Little Rob"" Takiguchi, the grandson of Japanese scientific expert Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi, who regards Godzilla as a hero and who is depicted as being Godzilla's only human friend. Unlike other characters whose actions, thoughts and feelings are told through thought balloons, Godzilla's are narrated externally via captions. Godzilla encounters not only the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. during the course"
"and becomes the chief weapon summoned against the other mutations encountered by the human characters. The series also introduces two new characters: Monique Dupre, a French secret agent assigned by Philippe Roache to keep an eye on Godzilla and H.E.A.T., and Randy Hernandez, an intern of Nick's who specializes in computer hacking. The series did well during Fox Kids' Saturday morning line-up. Ultimately, however, it was overshadowed by the late 1990s ""Pokémon""/""Digimon"" war between Kids' WB and Fox Kids during the 1999-2000 season. As a result, ""Godzilla: The Series"" was placed in different timeslots on Saturdays to accommodate many of"
"Kamacuras In ""Son of Godzilla"", a species of man-sized mantis lived on Sollgel Island. Later, a radioactive accident that occurred due to a weather experiment mutated the insects into even larger proportions. Now the size of buildings, they became known as Kamacuras. Three Kamacuras found a giant egg and cracked it open to find a baby Godzilla. Before they could eat the infant, Godzilla arrived on the scene and attacked. Godzilla killed two of the Kamacuras with the third one killed by the giant spider Kumonga. However, a fourth Kamacuras was seen living on Monster Island in ""Godzilla vs. Gigan""."
"is seen to disturb Godzilla, Rodan, and Anguirus. As they try to escape the explosions, Anguirus falls into a crevasse in the ground. Rodan's fate was never revealed, though it can be assumed he flew away safely. Godzilla was summoned from Monster Island in a few of the episodes of the television series ""Zone Fighter"" to assist the giant superhero, specifically the first episode that Godzilla appeared in. These ""Zone Fighter"" episodes are considered by Toho to be canon. It is commonly speculated to be Sollgel Island from ""Son of Godzilla"" due to its South Pacific location and the timing"
"of Godzilla"", which featured Megumi Odaka as the captain of a spacecraft which lands on a planet inhabited by Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra, who are then accidentally transported to contemporary Tokyo. Kawakita made more extensive use of CGI than in previous ""Godzilla"" movies he worked on, and made an effort for the featured monsters to be less reliant on energy beams during battle sequences, particularly Rodan, who was portrayed via handpuppets and marionettes rather than through suitmation. Baby Godzilla was performed by series veteran Hurricane Ryu, and was designed to look much more dinosaur-like than his previous incarnation. Mechagodzilla was"
"fallout from rendering Tokyo uninhabitable. Suddenly, the radiation levels plummet and a familiar roar is heard and the JSDF sees that Godzilla Junior, having absorbed the energy from his father's death, has not only regenerated but grown into the new Godzilla. After ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"" and ""Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla"" failed to match the attendance figures of the highly successful ""Godzilla vs. Mothra"", producer Shogo Tomiyama announced in the summer of 1995 that the next ""Godzilla"" movie would be the series' final installment. Screenwriter Kazuki Ōmori initially proposed a story treatment entitled ""Godzilla vs. Ghost Godzilla"", in which the current"
"Godzilla: The Series Godzilla: The Series is an American-Japanese animated television series developed by Jeff Kline and Richard Raynis, which originally aired on Fox Kids in the United States between September 1998 and April 2000. The show premiered on September 12, 1998 and is a sequel to ""Godzilla"" (1998). Malcolm Danare, Kevin Dunn and Michael Lerner reprise their roles from the film. Using an art style similar to that of Adelaide's previous productions """" and ""Extreme Ghostbusters"", the series follows the Humanitarian Environmental (or Ecological, in ""Area 51"") Analysis Team (H.E.A.T.), a research team led by Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (voiced"
"Minilla, Godzilla's son, is found in the forest by a boy and his grandfather. Distrusting the Xiliens, Ozaki, Miyuki, and her sister, Anna discover that Gorath they saw is actually a hologram and that the aliens have replaced several members of the EDF with duplicates. After their kind is exposed, the Xiliens' Controller X, killing his superior to assume command, reveals the plan to use humans as a food source while taking control of all the mutants save Ozaki. X also has the monsters placed under his control and awakens Gigan to have them to wipe out the EDF. The"
"the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth. The egg hatches, revealing a baby Godzilla. The scientists realize that the baby's telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries, demolishing the scientist's base while rushing to defend the baby. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety, Godzilla then adopts the baby. The baby Godzilla, named Minilla, quickly grows to about half the size of the adult"
"utilized for this purpose, the robot was stolen by Takiguchi's 12-year-old grandson Robert. Originally referred to as SJ3RX, the robot was named Red Ronin by the youngster. After an initial attempt to control the robot failed and it went on an accidental rampage, Rob succeeded in piloting Red Ronin into battle with Godzilla, in an attempt to drive the beast off. Rob wished to prevent the radioactive creature from being harmed and his attempts to ward the monster off of the San Diego missile base were designed to actually preserve his life. He succeeded in doing so and it was"
"meltdown which would have killed the monster, only to have the radiation absorbed by Baby Godzilla, who would have grown into a new adult Godzilla and subsequently defeated Mechagodzilla. In ""Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla"", special effects artist Koichi Kawakita redesigned the young Godzilla as a more cartoonish character, having disliked the character's previously more dinosaurian appearance. Kawakita also intended to use the new design in a children's spinoff TV special entitled ""Little Godzilla's Underground Adventure"". He was portrayed by ""Little Frankie"", a professional midget wrestler. During the development of what would become ""Godzilla vs. Destoroyah"", it was proposed to have Godzilla"
"Godzilla Island Set in 2097, most of Earth's ""kaiju"" (monsters) live on an island out in the Pacific Ocean called Godzilla Island, which is monitored by G-Guard. The creatures living on the island include Godzilla, Godzilla Junior, Mothra, Mothra Leo, Rodan, Fire Rodan, King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla (Heisei version), Anguirus, Gigan, Hedorah, Destoroyah, Baragon, King Caesar, Moguera, Megalon, Battra, SpaceGodzilla, Gorosaurus, Kamacuras and Jet Jaguar. Torema and Zaguresu's ""kaiju"" (or monsters) include a black-coloured Mechagodzilla (Showa version), a fully mechanical King Ghidorah (called Hyper-Mecha King Ghidorah), a new version of Hedorah (called Neo Hedorah), Kumasogami (titled Dororin in the"
"(although it is not known if the person saying this actually knows that he ""is"" Godzilla or if this is just an example of the name possibly being used to refer to any big, green dinosaur that resembles a ""Tyrannosaurus rex""). Godzilla also appeared in a shaded silhouette in a monster handbook viewed by Japanese children in ""Uncanny X-Men"" #181. Here the children refer to him as ""Gojira"", his Japanese name. Outside of this, Godzilla has been referenced or spoofed in other Marvel comics. In ""Web of Spider-Man Annual"" #2 from 1986, the character Warlock from The New Mutants turned"
"gorilla family to Tarzan before succumbing to his injuries, signifying his ultimate acceptance of him as both adopted son and a worthy successor. Disney's Kerchak also appears briefly in the video game ""Kingdom Hearts"", first when Tarzan pleads with him and Kala to help him aid Sora, Donald and Goofy. Kerchak initially distrusts the trio, but later comes to accept them after they defeat Clayton and his Heartless companion, the Stealth Sneak. He then allows them access to the world's Keyhole, which Sora seals, protecting the world from the Heartless permanently. In ""Kingdom Hearts"", unlike the film, Kerchak survives the"
"shown as a protagonist. Goofy lives in Mouseton in the comics and in Spoonerville in ""Goof Troop"". In comics books and strips, Goofy's closest relatives are his nephew Gilbert, his adventurer cousin Arizona Goof (original Italian name: Indiana Pipps), who is a spoof of the fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones, and his grandmother, simply called Grandma Goofy. Goofy's catchphrases are ""gawrsh!"" (which is his usual exclamation of surprise and his way of pronouncing ""gosh""), along with ""ah-hyuck!"" (a distinctive chuckle) that is sometimes followed by a ""hoo hoo hoo hoo!"", and especially the Goofy holler. According to biographer Neal Gabler, Walt"
"show), Jigora (A species of kaiju from Torema's planet that look like pallette swaps of Godzilla Junior), a powered up version of SpaceGodzilla, a different version of Fake Godzilla, Proto Moguera (Which resembles the original Moguera from The Mysterians) and Gororin (a sentient ball-shaped cactus). One kaiju that did not appear in a Godzilla movie, a miniature version of Dogora, also appears for a few episodes, working with Zaguresu. For some unknown reason, Kumonga, Ebirah, Varan, Manda (kaiju), original Mechagodzilla, Titanosaurus (Godzilla), King Kong, Gabara, Minilla, Biollante, Daidako, Daikondoru, and Shockiras were not included. None of the Showa or Heisei"
"has a son named Ichiro. She and Ono have a solid relationship and she helps him throughout the marriage arrangement proceedings and dealing with his guilt post-war; she acts as his listener. Setsuko and Noriko have a strong, sisterly relationship, however they are quite different temperament wise. Ichiro is Ono’s grandson, Setsuko’s child and Noriko’s nephew. He is a young boy in the novel with an active imagination. To Ono, Ichiro can be confusing and alienating owing to his adoption of Western culture such as some English words and his obsession with cowboys and the movie Godzilla. They have a"
"a suffix to indicate something of exaggerated proportions), as well as an allegory of nuclear weapons in general. The earlier ""Godzilla"" films, especially the original ""Godzilla"", portrayed Godzilla as a frightening, nuclear monster. Godzilla represented the fears that many Japanese held about the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the possibility of recurrence. At least two prehistoric creatures from the fossil record have been named after Godzilla. ""Gojirasaurus quayi"" is a theropod dinosaur that lived in the Triassic Period; a partial skeleton was unearthed in Quay County, New Mexico. ""Dakosaurus andiniensis"", a crocodile from the Jurassic Period, was nicknamed"
"the scene. After the cartoon, an advertisement for Mr. Sparkle, a character that first appeared in the season 8 episode ""In Marge We Trust"", can be seen on the television screen. Barney, while impersonating Homer, says ""That boy ain't right"", a line frequently used by Hank Hill, the main character of the animated television series ""King of the Hill"". The giant monsters attacking at the end of the episode are Godzilla, Gamera, Rodan and Mothra, all of which are famous from Japanese monster movies. The scene was included as a reference to the 1998 action science fiction film ""Godzilla"", in"
"done. Godzilla returns to Monster Island, and Jet Jaguar returns to its previous human-sized state and reunites with its inventors. ""Godzilla vs. Megalon"" was originally planned as a non-""Godzilla"" film, a solo vehicle for Jet Jaguar, which was the result of a contest Toho had for children in mid-to-late 1972. The winner of the contest was an elementary school student, who submitted the drawing of a robot called Red Arone. Red Arone was turned into a monster suit, but when the child was shown the suit, he became upset because the suit did not resemble his original design. The boy's"
"face off with Ghost Godzilla, the spirit of the original 1954 Godzilla, who would possess Godzilla Junior and force it to fight Godzilla, though this idea was scrapped. Hurricane Ryu returned as Godzilla Junior and portrayed it via traditional suitmation techniques, though because the Junior suit was almost the same size as the main Godzilla one, a small animatronic prop was used in scenes where Junior interacts with its ""father"". Godzilla Junior Godzilla Junior first appears in ""Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"" as an egg. Presuming it to be a ""Pteranodon"" egg, a scientific team unearths it from Adona Island and"