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In order to promote the toys, Mattel approached Marvel Comics to produce a comic tie-in for the range, having enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the company on Godzilla, King of the Monsters. [1] Only three figures would be featured in the comic - Raydeen (originally from Brave Raideen ); Dangard Ace (from Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace ) and ...
In the aftermath of Mecha-King Ghidorah's defeat by the hand of Godzilla in 1992, [a] the United Nations establishes the "United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center" (UNGCC) to stop Godzilla. Their military branch, G-Force, salvages Ghidorah's remains and reverse engineers them to build two anti-Godzilla weapons: an aerial gunship called ...
King Ghidorah's body stays under the Sea of Okhotsk for two centuries before being recovered by a defected Earth Unionist to make it a cyborg and sent back to 1992 as Mecha-King Ghidorah (Japanese: メカキングギドラ, Hepburn: Meka Kingu Gidora) in order to stop Godzilla's rampage.
The film marks the first appearances of King Caesar and Mechagodzilla in the franchise. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla was released theatrically in Japan on March 21, 1974, to generally positive reviews. The film received a limited release in the United States in 1977 by Cinema Shares, under the title Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster .
Mechagodzilla was conceived in 1974 as a more serious villain than its immediate two predecessors, Gigan and Megalon, whose films were considered creative disasters. [5] [6] [7] According to Tomoyuki Tanaka, Mechagodzilla was inspired by both Mechani-Kong from the previous Toho film King Kong Escapes and the robot anime genre, which was popular at the time. [8]
The film features the fictional giant monster character Godzilla, along with an updated version of the mecha character Mechagodzilla, who is referred to in the film as Kiryu. The film stars Yumiko Shaku , Shin Takuma, Kou Takasugi, Yuusuke Tomoi, Kumi Mizuno, and Akira Nakao, with Tsutomu Kitagawa as Godzilla and Hirofumi Ishigaki as Kiryu.
Before sending wounded Ghidorah crashing into the Sea of Okhotsk, Godzilla destroys the UFO, killing Wilson and Grenchiko, and then turns his ire on Japan by attacking Sapporo to Tokyo, where he kills Shindo. Emmy travels to the future with M-11 and returns to the present day with Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cyborg version of Ghidorah. Ghidorah ...
Godzilla is a series of novels written by author Marc Cerasini, based on the film series of the same name produced by Toho.While all set within the same continuity (a unique continuity in which only the first Godzilla film has taken place), each novel has its own plot and storyline, with Toho's kaiju featured as the stars.