Godzilla in popular culture

As an enduring and iconic symbol of post-World War II Japanese cinematic history, [ [http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24850 Godzilla and Postwar Japan] - "William M. Tsutsui (Univ. of Kansas) explores the role of the Godzilla film series in popular culture"] Godzilla, the King of the Monsters, has been referenced and parodied numerous times in popular culture. ["In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage" ed. by William M. Tsutsui, Michiko Ito. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 ISBN=1-4039-6461-0 [http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403964637 summary] ] Godzilla and other atomic monsters have appeared in a variety of mediums, including cartoons, [Professor Ferenc M. Szasz and Issei Takechi, "Atomic Heroes and Atomic Monsters: American and Japanese Cartoonists Confront the Onset of the Nuclear Age, 1945-80," "The Historan" 69.4 (Winter 2007): 728-752.] film, literature, television, and video games.

Film

The Godzilla films have carved out an enduring and resonant place for themselves in cinematic history. As such, motifs from the series have been echoed, parodied or paid tribute to in numerous later films.

*"Bambi Meets Godzilla" is the title of a humoristic 1969 Canadian cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. In 1994 it was voted #38 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Only two minutes long, this cartoon is considered a classic by many animation fans.

*Godzilla was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards.

*In "" a Godzilla appeared as an advertisement in Japan. Two Japanese men were discussing its legality.
*In "Mars Attacks!" the martians watch a scene from "Godzilla vs. Biollante" and later, they watch "The Dukes of Hazzard".

*In the Inspector Gadget movie, the evil clone shadow-puppets Godzilla, making it breath fire through his hat-mounted flamethrower.

*In "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" there is a scene on the set of a Godzilla movie as it is filmed. King Ghidorah is also seen in this scene.

*Toy models of Godzilla, Rodan and other movie monsters are seen in the boys bedroom in the opening scene of "Creepshow".

*In "", the entire third act is rife with references to Godzilla, due to an escaped "Tyrannosaurus rex" being loose in San Diego. A noteworthy scene includes a group of Japanese businessmen fleeing the tyrannosaur while shouting "I left Tokyo to get away from this!" Also in several interviews, Spielberg mentioned that he drew on inspiration from the first Godzilla movie (the American version) when filming Jurassic Park.

*In the film "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead," Treat Williams' character shouts "I am Godzilla! You are Japan!" before he and Steve Buscemi's character kill one another.

*In the film , there is a movie studio producing a theatrical film and portrays a man in a Godzilla suit destroying Tokyo, until Tom and Jerry trip over the Godzilla actor.

*In the film "Toy Story 2", when Woody's friends and another Buzz Lightyear are in the car, Mr. Potatohead says to Rex "Stand back, Godzilla."

*In "Friday the 13th Part III", a woman sits down on a hammock and opens a Fangoria magazine to flip through a few pages before finding one that has the words: "25 years with Godzilla". She looks at it for a moment before blood from a murdered friend drips down and she is killed by Jason Voorhees.

*In the TV movie "Fairly Oddparents in School's Out!: The Musical", when the kids are destroying the city, Godzilla is seen very briefly; he is probably on the kids' side rebelling against their parents or destroying the city because mankind angered him in the actual films. It resembled him from his first movie, and his spikes were green. He was only seen for 10 seconds.

*In the 1987 film "One Crazy Summer" actor Bobcat Goldthwaite becomes trapped in a Godzilla costume, and after another characters throws a lit cigar into the open mouth of the costume, he wrecks a model of a city while smoke pours from his mouth.

*In the sequel-Japanese film "", Godzilla appeared in the first scene to wipes out the community on Third Street and then destroyed the newly-completed Tokyo Tower with his radioactive breath.

Television

*In one episode of Ultraman, A Godzilla-like monster named Jirass battles Ultraman. The Jirass costume was actually made from the 1965 Godzilla suit.

*In an episode of the television series M*A*S*H, the character Hawkeye makes a comment that "he is just this side of Godzilla" in the eyes of an angry patient. This is strange, as M*A*S*H took place during the Korean War, which ended in 1953. The movie wasn't released with the name of Godzilla until 1956; three years later.

*In 1992, a Nike commercial aired featuring Godzilla and Charles Barkley going head to head, playing basketball in a cityscape. Charles Barkley gave Godzilla an elbow to the face on the way to a slam dunk after the latter tried to slap the ball away from Barkley using his tail. The advertisement received positive reception and inspired a brief t-shirt line.
*In one episode of Skunk Fu!, when Skunk was learning how to control dreams, he turned himself into a Godzilla-like monster trying to battle a King Kong-like monster. Also, he usually calls himself Skunkzilla when attacking, an obvious reference to Godzilla.

*In a Season 1 episode of ""Supernatural"", Dean Winchester commented that "Godzilla vs. Mothra" is the best film of the series, surpassing even the original; an opinion shared by many G-fans. He also criticized the 1998 remake by TriStar. He again briefly mentioned Godzilla in the premiere episode of Season 4.

*In The Powerpuff Girls show, many episodes depict a recurring Godzilla-like monster character attacking the city as well as monsters similar to the ones that co-star in Godzilla's films.

*Two Godzilla movies were featured and mocked on "Mystery Science Theater 3000".

* Godzilla appears in an episode of "Drawn Together" titled "Super Nanny", accusing Ling-Ling, a Pikachu-influenced character, of turning his back on his Asian culture by trying to become more American to obtain a driver's license, playing off a well-known stereotype of Asians being bad drivers.

*In "Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger"/"Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", the Guardian Beast Dragon Caesar/Dragonzord's appearance is based on Godzilla's appearance wearing a samurai's armor, with a smidge of Mechagodzilla's traits.

*In "Seijuu Sentai Gingaman"/"", the Demon Beast Daitanix/Titanisaur's appearance and powers appear similar to that of Godzilla.

*In "Danny Phantom", Godzilla's roar is reused time after time in the series for the more monstrous ghosts. Dorathea "Dora" the Dragon & her brother Ghost Prince Aragon from the Nickelodeon show "Danny Phantom" emit Godzilla-like roars when they are in their dragon forms.

*In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! there is an episode where Bowser eats "Super Sushi" that causes him to grow enormous in size and begins attacking a Japanese-themed city calling himself "Koopzilla". In the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon episode "Dadzilla", Kootie Pie and Big Mouth Koopa go to Hollywood to find their "real father" (Bowser having grounded Kootie Pie for not cleaning her room, making her feel he wasn't her real dad on account of his meanness), and come across Madzilla, a giant robot based on Godzilla used for filming his movies. They bring him to life with their wands and make him believe he is their father. In the end the Mario Brothers chase the Koopa Kids back to the Mushroom Kingdom and offer Madzilla a home on Giant Island.

*In SpongeBob Squarepants, the episode Mermaidman and Barnacleboy II, Mermaidman claims that they usually had a supervillain enemy called the Atomic Flounder who is now retired. The Atomic Flounder can breathe a Atomic Breath in blue color parodying Godzilla's atomic breath. Instead of having spine dorsal back fins glowing up, he instead closes his eyes and waits for his voice and mouth to get the power.

*In "Pinky and the Brain", one episode includes a parody of Godzilla, Gollyzilla.

*An episode of "Animaniacs" features a creature who is meant to represent Godzilla, but only vaguely shares Godzilla's body type, making a cameo appearance alongside Rodan. The segment they appear in is a parody of Jack and the Beanstalk, with the Warner Siblings taking the role of Jack and Ralph the Guard as the Giant, and presented in part as a parody of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham". ("Would you, could you, in Japan? With Godzilla and Rodan?" "I would not, could not in Japan, with Godzilla and Rodan!")

*In "Camp Lazlo", After Elebug metamorphoses, he resembles Kamacuras, another Godzilla monster, and makes a roar like Godzilla in "Creepy Crawly Campy". But Elebug looked like a cute pretty female elephant bug before she became a monster with Raj! After Elebug, the angry monster kidnaps Scoutmaster Lumpus, Raj decides that he'll rather have a puppy.

*In "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", Pudn made a roar like Godzilla in Toys will be Toys and in Giant Billy and Mandy All-Out Attack, which refers to "", King Ghidorah was spoofed as Kittyra. The original Godzilla, Rodan, Anguirus, King Ghidorah, Gigan, and Gamera appeared in "Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure", the series' movie, and how ironic that it would be on Monster Island that they saw the monsters.

*In a "Ben 10" episode, "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures", Wildvine faced a model of a dinosaur that resembles Godzilla.

*The "South Park" episode "Mecha-Streisand" parodies the "Godzilla" series heavily, with celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, Leonard Maltin and Robert Smith becoming giant "Godzilla" like monsters.

* In "The Simpsons" episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" (Season 10, Episode 23, #AABF20), the family's flight home is briefly interrupted by a monster attack on Tokyo, featuring Godzilla, Gamera, Rodan, and Mothra.

*In an episode of "", Ramon De la Porta uses a Cyberlink to fuse with a komodo dragon to become a monster identical to Godzilla, even having an atomic breath.

*The Death Saurer, a mecha from Tomy's Zoids franchise, appears to be deliberately evocative of Godzilla, right down to its size and its oral Charged Particle Cannon. The Gojulas and Gojulas Giga also bear similarities.

*In the "Futurama" episode "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" one of the Holograms features Godzilla. Also, in the earlier episode "Leela's homeworld" a creature with the name "brainzilla" is briefly mentioned.

*In an episode of "¡Mucha Lucha!", Rikochet overeats so that he will be eligible to challenge Potato Potata Jr., Francisco of the Forest, and El Haystack Grande at once. Becoming obsessed with eating, Rikochet grows until he is about 20 feet tall and grossly obese. Deciding to have one last "snack", he attacks a doughnut truck. When he does so, he lets out a roar identical to Godzilla's.

*In "The Life and Times of Juniper Lee", Ray Ray mentions Godzilla in front of a Dragon. Also, a Racatan is said to be like "Godzilla taking a vacation in Tokyo".

* On the episode of "Fairly Odd Parents" "Catman meets the Crimson Chin" Timmy makes a robot dog named Dogzilla.

* In the "Robot Chicken" episode "Celebrity Rocket," Godzilla and his wife think about using a toy when MechaGodzilla comes in with a Drill Bit out... Cee-Lo voices Godzilla in the episode "Squaw Bury Shortcake" in a segment that parodies "Training Day". Also in an episode Godzilla becomes a mentor to a younger monster (who resembles Minilla) and shows him how to defeat a monster by killing Great Mazinger, and at the end of the skit, he says a quote from the movie Training Day "King Kong an't got shit on me (before King Kong appears in the background, slinging his dung at Godzilla)".

* On a first season episode of "Wayans Bros.", Shawn and Marlon are costumed characters entertaining kids at a Japanese party who do battle with a Godzilla-type character and even damage a model city in battle.

* In a honey-nut Cheerios commercial, Godzilla's foot was shown crushing down on to people with the honeybee flying around his head getting him to eat the cereal.

* A Crest toothpaste commercial used King Ghidorah showing the monster spraying out crest toothpaste from his three heads instead of his gravity bolts.

* A recent Subway commercial featured a Godzilla type creature-Toho Studios has ordered a cease and desist on the ads. The new Subway commercials has replace the Godzilla image with a giant robot.

* In "Rugrats", a green "T. rex" with spikes named Reptar is obviously a reference to Godzilla, makes frequent appearances; also sporting a Pteranodon ally, Dactar, which is a spoof of Rodan.

* In an episode of Code Monkeys (The Takeover),Dave dresses up in a Godzilla costume in his second attempt to scare Japanese business men while Clarance is in a Mothra costume.

* In the premiere episode of the television show "Pushing Daisies", the main character and his friend, as children, dress as Rodan and Godzilla respectively.

* Godzilla (and similar lookalikes) appear on Pucca.

*In the episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Mondo Coco, after Coco goes to Japan,it shows her putting out a fire and a purple and black Godzilla-like monster. Also, In the Cartoon Network original film Good Wilt Hunting, when they discover that Wilt's creator is in Japan, Bloo yells "Godzilla! Godzilla is Wilt's creator!" In the episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Bloo Tube, the gang makes a video of a monster attack similar to Godzilla movies with Edwardo as Godzilla and CoCo as "Cocodan", a spoof of Mothra and Rodan.

*In an episode of Catscratch (The King of all Root Beer), A parody of Godzilla's theme song is played as Waffle and Mr. Blik fight each other over the city. Godzilla's roar is also heard multiple times along with Rodan's.

*In an episode of "Camp Lazlo", Chef McMusli calls a meat monster "Meat-Zilla".

* In the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animated series, Godzilla was spoofed by a creature from hollywood called Gorgonzola, a robot of which was used to terrorize the city. A creature resembling Kamacuras was also referenced in the series, referred to as 'Bugzilla' in the episode "Raphael Meets his Match", was shown as a movie creature battling a giant snail being watched by one of the turtles.

* Another Godzilla pastiche was referenced in the TV show "Dinosaucers", which again featured a robotic version of said hollywood creature appearing an episode. This robot came equipped with a built in light which emulated Godzilla's atomic beam.

* "Chappelle's Show" features a skit in which "Dave Chappelle" appears as a giant version of himself and is labeled "Blackzilla" by a Japanese city he attacks. The skit comes complete with Dave making the signature Godzilla roar and people in the city pointing to him and shouting "Blackzilla!". The skit ends with Dave having sex with a volcano.

* A cutout of Godzilla appears in the "Haunted House" stunt in the stunt comedy series "Super Dave".

* In an episode of Ed Edd 'n' Eddy Ed has a toy that looks like Godzilla and can breath fire. It is called Little Blue Ed, and Ed is able to make the dinosaur toy breathe fire by stretching a string.

* In Hannah Montana, the episode ``O, Say Can You Say the Words?" has Jackson, Hannah's brother, having chocoholic problems, and imagines pillows as chocolate bunnies. Then, the chocolate bunny says ``Oh no! It's Jackzilla!" before getting eaten by Jackson.

* In When Jimmy's baseball team, went to Tokyo for a baseball game, Sheen wanted to see Bonzilla. After they lost game they went to see him, but it turns out that he is only 12 inches tall.

* In America's Funniest Home Videos, the scene is a hot air balloon festival. The hot air balloons are being set up and in the center of the shot is a dragon balloon. The humorous part of the scene is a man walking across the field and the dragon starts to topple over. It then appears as the man is being eaten by the dragon. What makes it humorous is that the "Godzilla" roar can be heard as the balloon is coming down.

* In the episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog Courage in the Big Stinkin' City, when courage opens a door it shows King Ghidorah using its gravity beams.

* In the episode of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force GO! the Flytor monster resembles Battra from Godzilla vs. Mothra.

* In the opening sequence for The Flinstones, when the characters enter the drive-in a sign says "The Monster, Now Playing" and it shows a stone carving picture of a Godzilla-like monster.

* In an episode of Pokémon, while James, Jessie, and Meowth are interviewing the trainers in the Pokémon League one trainer mentions Venomoth and Jessie refers to it as "bugzilla.

* In an old Cartoon Network commercial, it shows the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla playing soccer with Flintstones characters.

* At the end of the Kappa Mikey episode Back To School, it shows Guano and two anonymous people in mascot costumes designed like Godzilla and King Kong. In the movie Kappa Karaoke when Guano andOzu sing Power Ballad Beat the Hero, the genie takes the form of a robotic Godzilla-like version of himself. In an episodes of Kappa Mikey the LilyMu cast are watching a monster movie featuring Megazilla (Godzilla), a mega giant turtle (Gamera), Mega Moth (Mothra), and a mega three-headed dragon obviously spoofing king Ghidorah.

*In the ' episode ', Godzilla's famous roar was used as part of the sound of a Vulcan creature called the " [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Le-matya Le-matya] ".

*In the Chop Socky Chooks episode "Do you want Thighs with that?" Chick P calls a lard monster "Lardzilla".

*Godzilla himself appears in episodes of the show "Zone Fighter", becoming an ally of the protagonists.

*Godzilla is spoofed in "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" in a cartoon short shown before the actual film, where Daffy dreams himself as a singer at a club for monsters, and points out a large creature, greatly resembling Godzilla called 'Shlodzilla', calling him the "two hundred and twenty ton terror of Tokyo."

*In an episode of Duck Dodgers, Dodgers and the Cadet along with a spoof of Astro Boy fight a giant alien-controlled sea monster called Maninsuit, a reference to Godzilla's character being a man in a rubber suit.

*Godzilla statuettes were used as set pieces on such shows as: "Roseanne", "Home Improvement" and "Clarissa Explains It All".

Video games

* The city-building computer game "SimCity" features a Godzilla-style monster that attacks the player's city, and the player is required to limit the damage and rebuild.

*The SNK game "King of the Monsters" features the monster Geon that is a near dead ringer to Godzilla; even shooting fire balls from its mouth. The game is set doing battle across four Japanese cities.

*In "", Bart Simpson for part of the game becomes Bartzilla, a Bart/Godzilla hybrid. Bartzilla does battle against military forces, Momthra (a parordy of Mothra and Marge Simpson) and Homer Kong (a parody of King Kong and Homer Simpson).

* The "Rampage" series of video games is heavily inspired by Godzilla and King Kong films. Players take control of gigantic monsters -- one of them, Lizzie, resembling Godzilla -- as they destroy all the buildings in a city and survive onslaughts of military forces.

* "War of the Monsters", a video game in which players take control of large monsters and battle in city environments, features a Godzilla-inspired monster named Togera.

*In "", the Snake Tales mission External Gazer involves a nonsensical story in which Solid Snake is thrust into a virtual world inhabited by a creature called Gurlugon which is rendered as a cross between a giant Spetsnaz trooper and Godzilla; possessing his trademark dorsal spines and attacking from the sea.

*In ', Para-Medic's mention of Godzilla celebrating its 50 years in 2004 is a prediction into the future, and is a reference to '.

* Godzilla appears - under the name of Gahz'rilla - in the Zul'Farrak instance dungeon in the "World of Warcraft" MMORPG.

* The original release of Sega's "The Revenge of Shinobi" featured a Godzilla-like boss on Stage 7. To avoid a possible conflict with Toho, it was replaced in later versions with a dinosaur skeleton.

*The Pokemon Tyranitar and Feraligator appear to be references to Godzilla, as they bear similarities in terms of their aggressive disposition, oral breath weapons, and jagged dorsal fins.

*In a video game called "", Ed plays as Edzilla, a parody of Godzilla in a bonus level called "The Revenge of Edzilla". The Kankers even spoofed King Ghidorah as the Kankernator.

*In "Destroy All Humans! 2" the final mission of the Takoshima (Tokyo) level is battling an irrated (By Soviet Union and Blisk) Japanese intern called Kojira. Its design is more like the TriStar Godzilla then the Toho Godzilla. The beast can breathe nuclear radioactive gas, shoot lasers out of a third-eye on the forehead, shoot out radiation in form of missiles, and crush things with its tail or feet. It also recovers whenever it destroys anything.

*In the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 game "", in a boss battle Gex becomes Gexzilla and fights MechaRez.

*In the Nintendo 64 game "Duke Nukem 64", if you fly up in the projection room of the theater on the first level, on the wall all the way in the back, there is a poster for "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"

*The single-player online RPG "AdventureQuest" contains the monster "ZardZilla" as well as the armor "Frogzilla Form," both of which are meant to be combinations of the game's beast known as the FrogZard and Godzilla.

*The game ' is the first in a running of Godzilla games. It has since been followed by ' and "". Godzilla has also appeared in "Godzilla Monster of Monsters!" for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, "Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters" also for the NES, and a Game Boy game entitled simply "Godzilla". Godzilla has also appeared in "Godzilla Generations" and "Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact!" in Japan. A game for the Tristar Godzilla was released, based on the cartoon show "Godzilla: The Series" and shared the name of the series when it was released on Game Boy Color.

Literature

Many books have been released pertaining to Godzilla and the Godzilla Series.Including various Collection Books and Manga:

* Dav Pilkey,the writer of Captain Underpants writes about a book called DOGZILLA which the city is Mousepolis instead of Tokyo and a giant dog from a volcano comes out by the city's first barbecue restaurant.The mice use bath to drive Dogzilla away instead of in Gojira as the Oxygen Destroyer to kill the original Godzilla in 1954. In pilkey.com, the Dogzilla infornation can be read.

*"Doctor Who: The Completely Useless Encyclopedia" contains the following (humorous) dedication at the beginning: "In Memory of Godzilla: 1954-1996". The dedication is also incorrect, as Godzilla had been 'dead' since December 1995, when "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" was released to Japanese theaters. Thusly, the dedication "should" have listed Godzilla's life as being 1954-1995.

*Gojiro is the 1991 debut novel by former Esquire columnist Mark Jacobson. It reinterprets the Godzilla film series from the perspective of the daikaiju—not a fictional creature depicted on-screen via suitmation, but an irradiated varanid–turned–B-movie star named Gojiro (an homage to Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla).

*Random House publishing produced four novels based on Godzilla, respectively entitled "Godzilla Returns", "Godzilla 2000" (which had no relation to the film which would later use that name), "Godzilla at World's End", and "Godzilla vs. The Robot Monsters". These books, as well as several novels aimed at younger readers in their later childhood and early teen years, and several picture books aimed at more juvenile readers age four and up, were produced during the late 90s and early part of 2000. The releases were intended to cash in on the release of the 1998 Godzilla film, as well as the video release of the remaining films of the Heisei Godzilla series. The more mature novels were written by Marc Cerasini, who presented Godzilla as a force of nature much like in the Heisei series and was neither truly good nor evil, with Mothra appearing in two books as a benevolent, supernatural and sentient creature who occasionally made a point to help people when monsters threatened the Earth. Other monsters besides Godzilla appeared in the three novels which followed "Godzilla Returns", which featured only Godzilla. A fifth novel in the series written by Cerasini, "Godzilla and the Lost Continent" had been planned for release, but never materialized, though an early cover design for the book did briefly surface on websites such as Amazon. The junior novels depicted Godzilla as sentient, and distinctly as a sympathetic character and in the later novels as an outright hero, and were written by Scott Ciencin. the remainder of the books were standard storybooks with text appearing on pictures depicting some part of the text in illustrated form. One book, "Godzilla saves America in 3-D", was based on the events depicted in Cerasini's "Godzilla 2000".

*In the book ``Cupids Don't Cook Hamburgers", a female character says ``Don't be so silly. Godzilla is more lovable then Eddie".

*In the book Arthur's April Fools the kids refer to the bully as King Kong and one of the kids says to the bully as and I quote "Go pick on someone your own size! Like Godzilla!

Music

*In 1977, Blue Öyster Cult had a minor hit "Godzilla." from their album "Spectres". The song is a tongue in cheek tribute.

*For his 2005 album, "Punk Rock Is Dead", Michale Graves recorded a song called Godzilla. The song is about events in the old Godzilla movies.

* Lemon Demon makes reference to Godzilla in the song "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" as a warrior in the eponymous conflict.

* Composer Eric Whitacre composed the song "Godzilla eats Las Vegas."

*Ginuwine uses Godzilla's roar in his song "What's So Different."

*In the 1987 musical, "Honor Finnegan vrs. the Brain of the Galaxy" (produced by the Improv. Olympic of Chicago), Ms. Finnegan sings a moving tribute to her love affair with the creature in the song "Godzilla" (music and lyrics by Charles Silliman).

*Feeder included a song named Godzilla on their album "Comfort In Sound".

*The Creatures' 2003 album "Hai!" contains a song entitled "Godzilla", which was released as a single with multiple mixes.

*Acid Mothers Temple 2006 album "Starless and the Bible Black Sabbath" features Godzilla's roar at the end of the final track.

*Pharoahe Monch released his first single in 1999 called Simon Says. The song became a major hit, however he was later sued for the use of a Godzilla sample for the beat and forced to remove the song from the album as a result.

* Heavy metal legend Rob Halford referred to Godzilla in the song "Made in Hell" from his solo band Halford

* On the soundtrack album to the Godzilla movie, Green Day has a remix of their Brain Stew song with Godzilla's signature roar at various moments through out the song.

*Rob Zombie's "American Nightmare" Made a reference to Monster Zero, which is King Ghidorah. Another of Zombie's songs, "Superbeast," would later be used in the trailer for the American theatrical release of Godzilla 2000.

*Welsh rock band Lostprophets' second album, "Start Something", features a song titled "We are Godzilla, You Are Japan".

*In the They Might Be Giants song "I'm Impressed" they reference Godzilla and his flaming breath.

*The Rage Against the Machine song "No Shelter" features the line: "Godzilla pure mother fuckin' filler, Get your eyes on the real killer". In an ironic twist the song was featured in the soundtrack to the 1998 hollywood Godzilla movie.

*There is a French Death Metal band called Gojira.

*In 1990, the Norwegian musician Bjørn Lynne composed a piece called "Godzilla" (under his pseudonym Dr. Awesome) for the Amiga-music-disk "Micro Concept" by the Demogroup Crusaders.

*On the Japanese front cover to Gorrilaz b-sides "G-sides", Noodles is holding a Godzilla figure.

*Sir Mix-A-Lot's song, "My Posse's On Broadway" samples Godzilla's roar repeatedly throughout the song.

*Ska group, the Scofflaws, recorded a humorous song, "Ska-La-Carte," where they cycle through naming off items of sushi, then Japanese film monsters, including Godzilla, finishing with a request for a cheeseburger instead.

*The Big Audio Dynamite song "Sony", from the album "This Is Big Audio Dynamite", contains the lines "Godzilla ate the bullet train / Won't see Kyoto ever again".

*TNA Wrestler Samoa Joe's entrance theme parodies Godzilla's theme, and actually contains a portion of the theme in the opening portion of his entrance music.

*Sepultura features the song "Biotech is Godzilla" on the album "Chaos A.D.".

*Gorillaz had the character Noodle holding a Godzilla figure on some editions of the B-sides collection, G-Sides.

*Fort Minor mentions his name throughout the album, "We Major'.

Anime

* The Digimon Tyrannomon as well as several related Digimon like Dark Tyrannomon and Master Tyrannomon resemble Godzilla.

* In episode 39 of "Hunter × Hunter" when Gon and Killua enter their hotel room Godzilla can be seen fighting Mothra on the Television screen.

*Gojira's original 1954 movie is briefly watched by the characters in the second "Urusei Yatsura" movie, "Beautiful Dreamer".

*In the "Air" movie, there are two posters of Godzilla's movies appearing on different walls in Misuzu Kamio's bedroom.

*Godzilla and some other kaiju appear in "Dr. Slump" in side stories.

*Godzilla makes an appearance in an "Idol Defence Force Hummingbird" (another Toho production) CD Drama, which includes authentic Godzilla sound effects and music.

*In the anime called "Mouse", Hazuki is a giantess inside a Godzilla suit; in the end of the show one person says the last line from the original 1954 Godzilla: "If we keep on conducting nuclear tests another Godzilla will appear a second time".

*Godzilla is on the news channel in an episode of "Love Hina", attacking a small town.

*In an episode of The Adventures of Mini-Goddess, Gan-Chan turns into Gabira, a Mold Monster who looks like Godzilla. Somewhat ironically, the name Gabara was also the name of a monster in one of Godzilla's own films, making his first, last, and to date "only" appearance in the film "All Monsters Attack". This particular "Gabira" has not been seen since that film. There was even a Mechagodzilla look alike called Mechanical Gabira in one of the episodes.

Comics & Graphic Novels

*An early strip of "Calvin and Hobbes" shows Calvin building a miniature replica of "Downtown Tokyo" in his backyard sandbox. After joyfully trampling it he finishes with the line "Godzilla."

*"The Far Side" several times incorporated Godzilla-like monsters in its visual gag strips and on one occasion ("Toby vs. Godzilla") calling him by name.

*Stan Sakai's "Usagi Yojimbo" has featured a creature named "Zylla" who is a thinly disguised version of Godzilla (In the story in which ";Zylla" is introduced, Miyamoto Usagi, the protagonist of the series, asks, "Are you a god, Zylla?"). In one story, Usaji fights a man using a cursed pen that allows whatever is drawn to come to life. When he creates a massive warrior, Usaji uses the pen to create a Godzilla-like creature to battle the giant.

*Godzilla has appeared in Marvel and Dark Horse comics, both times under the title "Godzilla: King of the Monsters". Marvel's run was produced in the late seventies and lasted twenty four issues, while Dark Horse has had the license for the creature's American appearances since the late eighties onwards, and produced a sixteen issue run, along with various appearances and special issues. Dark Horse produced a translated version of a six issue mini-series manga adaptation of the japanese version of "Gojira 1984" (Godzilla 1985 in it's American release) under the title "Godzilla", and it was later collected into a graphic novel under the same title. Godzilla appeared in an issue of "The Amazing Spider-Man" complete with an oral energy beam created by Mysterio in the mid 1990s when Ben Reilly wore the costume. The character Warlock of the New Mutants took on the shape of Godzilla as he appeared in "King Kong vs. Godzilla" in a "Web of Spider-Man" anuual set during the time Peter Parker was wearing a cloth version of the black and white suit that later became Venom. A thinly-veiled Godzilla, set after the final issue of the Marvel run of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", was captured by Dr. Demonicus, some how further mutated, losing his dorsal fins and gaining a large webbed crest on his head -although the creature actually "shrank" for reasons unknown- and was used by Demonicus via mind control for a short time. This version of the creature continued to make random appearances in Marvel for some time. Godzilla is also referenced very vaguely as a 'Time lost Dinosaur' when references to the Marvel run are made, such as in the occasional appearances of Red Ronin, an original character created for the Marvel run of Godzilla. (Demonicus is another character originating in Marvel's Godzilla run, and refers to the smaller, mutated Godzilla as being 'once [his] greatest enemy' in the story where Demonicus captured him.) Marvel has recently re-released their run of the series as "The Essential Godzilla: King of the Monsters volume 1", which collects the entire twenty-four issue run.

Other

*"-zilla" is a recognized slang suffix, used to imply some form of excess to a person or object; some examples being the reality show "Bridezillas" and the Netscape web browser Mozilla Firefox.

*In the Strong Bad email "Unnatural" from homestarrunner.com, Bubs suddenly turns up one day one hundred feet tall. Immediately, during a shot resembling Godzilla's initial appearance in , Japanese music plays while he is labeled (through song) as "King Bubsgonzola Supreme," which is also a slight reference to King Ghidorah. Upon seeing him, Strong Bad lists a number of origin theories, which include him being mutated by radiation and coming from the depths of the ocean (as well as him being from space, another Ghidorah reference). After Bubs is returned to normal size by the efforts of Strong Sad (who is referred to by Strong Bad as "the nerdy scientist type," which are frequently featured in Godzilla movies), it cuts to a shot of him wading through the ocean out into the sunset while the King Bubsgonzola Supreme song plays again and a Japanese symbol, reminiscent of Godzilla's (which is his name spelled in Japanese) appears on the bottom of the screen.

*In the South African cartoon strip "Madam & Eve" one cartoon shows the characters of the strip waiting for Godzilla, eventually when he arrives thay are all squashed by his foot.

*Former Washington Capitals and current Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Olaf Kolzig often goes by the nickname "Godzilla" (sometimes shortened to "'Zilla") and has a depiction of the monster painted on his goalie mask.

* Godzilla is featured in Lemon Demon's Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, and is the first competitor and one of the most frequently seen. He is first seen by rampaging through Tokyo when Batman attacks him. Godzilla attempts to defend himself, but is blocked by Shaq. Godzilla later attempts to knock over a building with his tail, though Optimus Prime manages to save it just in time. Godzilla proceeds to battle Optimus Prime and easily kills him, and then attacks Indiana Jones, who is unable to fight back since Batman, wo had just attacked Godzilla as mentioned above, stole his gun. Godzilla is later seen struggling with an unseen threat during a wide shot of the battle. His final appearance in the video is his tail sticking out of a pile of dead bodies.

*Godzilla is the nickname used to refer to the Nissan Skyline GT-R from the R-32 to R-35 Chassis.

*NHRA Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbet is also known as Dougzilla. A caricature of Godzilla adorns his car and other equipment.

References

External links

* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100515 Godzilla on St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture by David L. Hixson]
* [http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Godzilla_-_Other_media/id/1432879 Godzilla - Other media]
* [http://www.apeculture.com/movies/godzilla.htm The Science of Godzilla on a pop culture humor website]
* [http://worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/7b2da4a0e57d4df6a19afeb4da09e526.html "Contemporary Japan and popular culture" by John Whittier Treat] (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996).
* [http://www.sucksorrules.com/battles/detail/popculture/113336/toho-godzilla-vs-tristar-godzilla/ Toho Godzilla vs TriStar Godzilla] - Pop Culture Battles
* [http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/091006/jpop1.html "J-Pop Goes The Market: In a globalized economy, comic books, toys, and other popular-culture products from Japan are no longer exotic--they're worldwide hits" by Edward M. Gomez in "Duke Magazine"] 92.5 (September-October, 2006) - "Historically, for American consumers, the encounter with Japanese pop-culture products as we know them dates back to the post-World War II era. A major pop icon of those times whose fame crossed the Pacific was Gojira ("Godzilla" in the American market)..."
* [http://www.chrissiehousehold.homestead.com/godzilla.html godzilla] - "Godzilla is one of the defining aspects of Japanese popular culture for many people worldwide."
* [http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/2002-09/0209.html CFP: In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (12/1/02; 10/?/04)] ]
* [http://www.donaldkeenecenter.org/exhibit_godzilla/godzilla_exhibition_2.html Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture] - Godzilla Conquers the Globe
* [http://barakkushner.net/work2.htm "Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event," in the book, In Godzilla's Footsteps : Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/04/12/godzilla50.html Godzilla Blows Out 50 Birthday Candles--Incinerating Them By Katherine Moore from Columbia News] - "... to a daylong symposium titled "Global Fantasies: Godzilla in World Culture. ... in earlier forms of popular representation and commercial culture in Japan. ..."
* [http://www.popmatters.com/features/godzilla/8luc.shtml PopMatters Feature] - Godzilla at 50: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GODZILLA By Steven Luc
* [http://www.pacificcitizen.org/content/2006/columnists/july21-sakugawa-godzilla.htm Godzilla: Destroying Tokyo and my Social Life] - "Further research on the subject reveals just how big of an influence Godzilla still has on global popular culture."
* [http://www.kuconnection.org/2004june/news_1.asp Coming soon to a conference at KU: Godzilla returns] - "... addition to academic sessions featuring leading scholars in Japanese popular culture, film, literature, history and anthropology, "In Godzilla's ..."
* [http://www.fortmason.org/features/2007/07/feature09.shtml East Meets West — Again] - "The “Godzilla” half refers to the current fascination with Japanese pop culture..."