Godzilla (other)
Godzilla, also known as Gojira, is a fictional Japanese monster. Godzilla may also refer to: Film * Godzilla (franchise), ''Godzilla'' (franchise), the franchise featuring the monster ** Godzilla (1954 film), ''Godzilla'' (1954 film), also known as ''Gojira'', the first film in the series ** "Godzilla (Main Theme)", a musical theme composed for the 1954 film ** ''The Return of Godzilla'', 1984, released in Japan as ''Godzilla'', the sixteenth film in the series ** ''Godzilla 1985'', 1985 English-language adaptation of the 1984 Japanese film, ''The Return of Godzilla'' ** Godzilla (1998 film), ''Godzilla'' (1998 film), 1998 film produced by TriStar Pictures ** ''Godzilla 2000'', also known as ''Godzilla 2000: Millennium'', the twenty-third film in the series ** Godzilla (2014 film), ''Godzilla'' (2014 film), 2014 film produced by Legendary Pictures ** Godzilla (MonsterVerse), the MonsterVerse version of the character. ** Zilla (Godzilla), the iteration of the character from the 199 ...
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Godzilla
is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film ''Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, four American films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. Godzilla has been dubbed the "King of the Monsters", a phrase first used in ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'' (1956)'','' the Americanized version of the original film. Godzilla is an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the '' Lucky Dragon 5'' incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Others have suggested that Godzilla is a metaphor for the United States, a giant beast woken from its slumber which then takes terrible vengeance on Japan. As the film series expan ...
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