Mechagodzilla

Mechagodzilla (メカゴジラ - Mekagojira) was a fictional robot monster from various films in the Godzilla series, introduced in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974).

Related Topics:
Godzilla - Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - 1974

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The first Mechagodzilla was created as a weapon of destruction by a race of ape-like aliens. It was eventually destroyed by Godzilla and the lion-dog god King Caesar, upon which King Caesar continued his hibernation, and Godzilla retired back into to the sea. Mechagodzilla was rebuilt the next year, this time allied with the aquatic dinosaur Titanosaurus, but both were beaten by Godzilla.

Related Topics:
King Caesar - Titanosaurus

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The second Mechagodzilla was created by the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center as a measure of defense against Godzilla's attacks. Though it crippled Godzilla in battle, he eventually recovered and blew Mechagodzilla apart with a hyper-powered spiral ray.

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The third Mechagodzilla, known as Kiryu, was similar in origin to the second incarnation, except this time it contained the skeleton of the original Godzilla from 1954 within its metal. Kiryu was built by AMF, the Anti-Megalosaurus Force, and operated by the J.X.S.D.F, the Japan Xenomorph Self Defense Force. After two fights with Godzilla and an encounter with Mothra, Kiryu now rests at the bottom of the sea. It should be noted that Kiryu, though it normally acted as commanded via computers, could overturn those commands and act on its own, and apparantly knew some of the people involved in working on it both before and after it was fully completed. Kiryu's final appearance in Tokyo SOS, harkens back to the days of a Heroic Godzilla, as Kiryu voluntarily plunged himself, along with Godzilla, into the Japan trench with the flesh and blood Godzilla in a death grip. Kiryu also worked to save a mechanic whom had worked on him for four years, who was trapped within his auxiliary control room, preventing him from being taken underwater with the two titans. And also scrolled the message 'Sayonara Yoshita' to said mechanic before he turned in such a way to be caught by a member of the AMF and then continued on his way to the Japan trench.

Related Topics:
1954 - Mothra

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All three MechaGodzillas have appeared in videogames. MechaGodzilla I first appears in digital form in Godzilla: Monster of the Monsters for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (called the Famicom in Japan, and often shorthandedly known as the NES in America and other parts of the world). The Japanese version of Super Godzilla for the Super Famicom (the Japanese name for the Super Nintendo/Super Nintendo Entertainment System aka SNES) featured MechaGodzilla II, while the American version of the game features the original MechaGodzilla. MechaGodzilla I appears in a videogame called simply Godzilla, for the now defunct TTI Duo, a secondary system created by the makers of the also defunct game system called Turbo Graphics 16. This was essentially a 'Street Fighter' type game using characters from the Godzilla franchise. This game was at one point going to be rereleased on the SNES as Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters. However the game never materialized. During the 32 bit/64 bit craze of the late 1990s, fans of the Sega systems in Japan were treated to a game called Godzilla Generations and a followup called Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact. These games featured the majority of creatures from both the Showa and Heisei series. Maximum Impact also featured the 1998 Godzilla (or Gino, as he is often called. An acronym meaning 'Godzilla In Name Only'.) Although Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters never surfaced on the SNES, Another game released in the early 2000s, however, did appear on both the Nintendo Gamecube and the XBox, called Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, and featured MechaGodzilla II, along with most (about three fifths) of the Heisei series cast of characters, and a few of the more popular Showa Era monsters along with Godzilla 2000 and Orga, from the Shinseki (Millenium) series. MechaGodzilla 3 (Kiryu) appeared on the XBox version of this game. In Japan, BOTH MechaGodzilla II and Kiryu appear in Melee. MechaGodzilla II returned to videogames on American shores along with Kiryu, for the sequel to Melee which was titled Godzilla: Save the Earth, along with the original cast from Melee and a fair number of the Shinseki era monsters as well, which is for both the XBox and the Playstation 2. (For whatever reason, the sequel never made it to the Gamecube, which was ironically, where Melee had it's greatest success.) and at least one of these two MechaGodzillas (Presumably II but may also be Kiryu) appears in Godzilla: Domination for the Game Boy Advance.

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