Godzilla's debut album

Because of Godzilla's high popularity in Japan (even the world), it has many commercial or interesting appearances in many film and television works other than the series of films:

Scenes in TV movies produced by Dongbao Company.

Dongbao Company, the producer of Godzilla series films, once asked Godzilla to appear as a righteous partner in the TV series Meteor Superman Zone filmed by the company in 1973, helping the protagonist Meteor Superman to fight against monsters such as Gigan and King Guidola, which also appeared in Godzilla films. In the 26 episodes of the whole drama, Godzilla appeared in 5 episodes, and the Godzilla costume used in the film was the style in the series film Godzilla vs Megalo.

1June 65438+1October 1997 to1September 65438+September 1998, Dongbao produced a 256-episode mini-TV series Godzilla (ゴジラニラ). Although it has been criticized by "explicit toy advertisements", it unexpectedly makes almost all special monsters and heroes created by Dongbao over the years appear on the same stage in this film.

Godzilla, also produced by Dongbao and produced by computer animation, also appeared in the fantasy of the protagonist Chachuan at the opening of the movie Sunset 2 released in 2007, which greatly destroyed Tokyo, equivalent to its first screen appearance.

Dream showdown with Altman

In The Base of the Mysterious Fear, the tenth episode of the classic TV series "Motorized Altman" created by movie mogul and Eiji Tsuburaya, the father of Godzilla, this episode of Motorized Altman is opposite to the monster "The Fear of The Mystery". The shape and setting data of this monster are exactly the same as Godzilla (even the killing skills are exactly the same as the radiation hotline). More deliberately and interestingly, Altman even "pulled" Gillas' lapel at the climax of the fight in the film. So in this episode, Altman staged a short but nameless dream confrontation between special heroes across works.

Godzilla in this TV series is composed of costumes used in two different Godzilla movies. Eiji Tsuburaya left many anecdotes about reusing props used in past movies. This movie is a particularly interesting example.

Hollywood jokes and tributes

In addition to bipolar evaluation of Godzilla, American movies occasionally make a joke or pay tribute to Godzilla in some form:

1. 1994 in the movie The Last Battle, in a scene where Japanese sumo wrestler Honda fights with Russian wrestler Sankif, miniature building models and a huge TV wall playing Godzilla movies are specially arranged in the scene where the two fighters fight, so as to show the heavyweight degree of Godzilla.

2. At the end of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", when the captured Tyrannosaurus escaped from prison and made a scene in the street, the script specially arranged for several Japanese people to panic and shout while running for their lives. It is reported that those Japanese are shouting at Tyrannosaurus Rex: "I left Japan! Don't arrest me! " I left Japan! Stay away from me. )

3. In the film Captain Sky and Tomorrow's World in 2003, after the rebel robot army struck new york by lightning, the director arranged a scene in which the headlines of the world's major newspapers quickly alternated, which indicated that the robot invasion spread all over the world. In the Japanese newspaper that flashed by, the headline "Godzilla goes to war with giant laser blast" suddenly appeared, and a large black-and-white photo of Godzilla standing at the foot of Mount Fuji was also placed below.

Godzilla appeared on Mars TV in tim burton's movie "Martians Walk Around the Earth".

In Spy 3, Mike Myers ran into a Godzilla-like model with his car. In the film, he deliberately arranged for an Asian actor with a Japanese accent to say, "It looks like Godzilla, but he is not." A pun satirizes the Hollywood version of Kuusla (1998), which is totally inconsistent with the original Japanese Godzilla, losing the spirit of the original work and the common innuendo and tribute in film and television culture.

6. In Spider-Man, the sheriff said to Peter, "Do I look like the mayor of Tokyo?" , is to use Godzilla often make a scene in Japan to borrow what Dr. Peter told him, lizards make a scene in new york.

7. In the movie "The End of the World", a fat man in black set up a stall on the roadside to sell Godzilla dolls, and a puppy came to bite them, so the fat man in black had an argument with the dog owner, and then the first batch of meteorites struck.

8. In the movie "Dear, I Enlarged the Child", two Japanese passers-by saw the giant baby and said, "Godzilla!" But another passerby said, "No, it's just a baby."

Animation series

Godzilla has been adapted into an animated series twice, but both were made by the United States rather than Japan.

1978, the United States introduced a 26-episode Godzilla cartoon. The story style is that Godzilla plays the monster of justice and confronts the original villain monster. The setting of this film Godzilla is different from the movie version.

From 1999 to 2000, FOSS TV Network also produced and broadcast the animated series Godzilla: The Series based on the American version of Godzilla movies from 1998. The story continues at the end of the movie version, and the new Godzilla hatches from the remaining undamaged eggs. However, because the common female parents of oviparous animals can regard Dr. Nick as their own parents, they began to protect Neo-Godzilla. The animation series has 40 episodes in two seasons. Godzilla's shape is roughly the same as that of the American version, but an attack method similar to the original Japanese vomit hotline is added (Godzilla's cancellation of the vomit hotline in the film is unanimously considered as one of the biggest failures of the film).

Other forms of debut

In an advertisement for sports shoes in the early 1990s, Godzilla had a street bullfight with the 50-meter-tall NBA ball Starbucks.

In the early funny programs of Ken Shimura, a famous Japanese comedian, Godzilla occasionally appeared in some absurd scenes (for example, hooligans found Godzilla holding a wooden knife and wearing bad juvenile clothes as a thug).

In the 2007 animated film Persepolis, it was indirectly mentioned that Godzilla had been shown in Iran, although Mazen's mother-in-law was extremely dissatisfied with the film.

Because Dongbao cooperated with Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s, Marvel Comics released the authorized American version of Godzilla Comics from 1977 to 1979, with a total of 24 episodes. Comics take the battle between Godzilla who invaded the United States and the superheroes and criminals of Marvel Comics as the biggest selling point. The series also created original characters such as Red Ronin (a giant warrior-shaped robot) and Yetrigar (an ape-like monster) to fight against Godzilla.

In addition, monsters or monster movies alluding to Godzilla often appear in Japanese movies and comics. For example, in the reasoning cartoon Conan, the monster movie Gomella (Singularity) series based on Godzilla is often mentioned, and the cover of its cartoon volume 13 is the monster in the famous work Alaret by cartoonist Toriyama Akira. Godzilla with three funny faces and series of movie monsters often appear in the form of background, passers-by or friends of Alaret and Gallas. However, due to copyright factors, some of these pictures have been deleted in the full-version booklet to be released in the future.

April 6, 2005, 16, Japanese animated films Crayon Shinchan and Storm! Ignore the 3-minute attack "(original name: クレヨンしんちゃんんをぶブリブ).

A celebrity nicknamed "Godzilla"

Hideyoshi Matsui, a Japanese professional baseball player, played for the Major League Baseball Team los angeles angels, and he was nicknamed "Godzilla" during his stay in Japan.

Godzilla is also the name of a French obituary, formerly known as Godzilla.

Another Japanese professional baseball player nicknamed "Godzilla" is the Red Godzilla Island in Hiroshima, koi fish (the back number of the jersey is 55, which is the same as the back number used by Hideyoshi Matsui when he read and sold the Giants in Japan).

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Hideyoshi Matsui also appeared in two scenes in Godzilla's film series Godzilla × Mechanical Godzilla, and his guest role was himself.