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The 1995 first-season finale episode of The Wayans Bros. titled "Brazilla vs. Rodney" (Brazilla being an obvious parody of Godzilla and the name Rodney being an obvious play on the name Barney) features Shawn and Marlon at a Japanese kid's birthday party dressed up as a mouse and cockroach while fighting another man dressed as a Godzilla-like ...
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [c] is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. [2] The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films produced by Toho Co., Ltd., five American films, and numerous video games, novels, comic books, and television ...
The name Gamera (ガメラ) derives from the Japanese kame ("turtle"), and the suffix -ra, a suffix shared by such other kaiju characters as Godzilla (Gojira) and Mothra. [11] Gamera's name was spelled Gamela on a French newspaper in the 1965 film, and Gammera in the title of Gammera the Invincible , the re-titled American release of the first ...
The name is not the only thing that was lost in translation, when the first of a long line of Godzilla movies was released in Japan 70 years ago this Nov. 3. You can stream it now on YouTube ...
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [a] is a giant monster, or kaiju, based on Toho Co., Ltd.'s character of the same name, and one of the protagonists in Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse franchise. The character first appeared in Godzilla (2014), directed by Gareth Edwards. This incarnation of Godzilla is depicted as the sole ...
Godzilla, 1998 film produced by TriStar Pictures; Godzilla 2000, also known as Godzilla 2000: Millennium, the twenty-third film in the series; Godzilla, 2014 film produced by Legendary Pictures; Godzilla (MonsterVerse), the MonsterVerse version of the character. Zilla (Godzilla), the iteration of the character from the 1998 film Godzilla.
Gojira (band), a French heavy metal band; 101781 Gojira, an asteroid; Gojirasaurus, the "Godzilla lizard", a Triassic-period dinosaur; Gojiro, a 1991 novel by Mark Jacobson; MV Gojira, the original name of the MV Brigitte Bardot; A nickname given to Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsui; Jira (software), a software product developed by Atlassian
Godzilla's role varies from purely a destructive force to an ally of humans, or a protector of Japanese values, or a hero to children. The name Godzilla is a romanization of the original Japanese name Gojira (ゴジラ)—which is a combination of two Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ), "gorilla", and kujira (クジラ), "whale". The word ...