ゴジラ

初代ゴジラ • 1st Generation Godzilla

Height: 50 meters
Length: 100 meters
Weight: 20,000 tons
Abilities: Incadescent Light, Tail Whip, Organizer G-1

History: From the legends of Odo Island comes an atomic dinosaur hell-bent on destroying everything in its path. Godzilla started his reign of terror on August 13th, 1954 with the first ship wreck. Other ships followed to investigate, and eventually the monster made landfall on Odo Island. After a failed attempt to kill Godzilla with depth charges, Godzilla landed in Tokyo breifly before turning back out to sea. When he returned, Godzilla was greeted with an electrified barrier surrounding the city. Godzilla made short work of the barrier and marched into Tokyo, completely devastating the city overnight. It was this devastation that provoked Emiko Yamane into pleading Dr. Daisuke Serizawa into using his terrible weapon, the Oxygen Destroyer. The doctor eventually agreed, under the condition that it would be the only time the weapon would ever be used. The Oxygen Destroyer was deployed at the bottom of Tokyo Bay, where it claimed the lives of both Godzilla and Dr. Serizawa, holding the world to his promise.

History (GMK): What remained of Godzilla's body rested at the bottom of Tokyo bay for nearly 50 years before its body was possessed and regenerated by the vengeful spirits of the victims of Imperial Japan's war crimes, creating a larger, more powerful Godzilla¹.

History (GMMG): The skeletal remains of Godzilla collected by the Japanese government, and after the appearance of another Godzilla in 1999, surviving genetic material from inside the spinal column was used to clone Godzilla's cells. The revived Godzilla cells were used to create a "bio-robot" organic computer used to control the new weapons project of the JXSDF, Mechagodzilla.

二代目ゴジラ • 2nd Generation Godzilla

Height: 50 meters
Length: 105 meters
Weight: 20,000 tons
Abilities: Incadescent Light, Atomic Breath, Megaton Punch, Tail Whip, Bite, Organizer G-1

History: After being mutated in the same test as the first Godzilla, the second Godzilla spent some time in 1954 conceiving a child², the egg of which was laid on Solgell Island in the south Pacific at some point before 1955. Humanity first sighted this Godzilla on Iwato Island in January of 1955, where it was in the middle of a territorial battle with Anguirus (1st). He later made landfall at Osaka, as did Anguirus, and the two continued their battle until Anguirus was killed. Godzilla was spotted next swimming up into the north Pacific, surfacing at Kamiko Island, where a plan was carried out by the JSDF to bomb the frozen cliffs of the island, starting an avalanche that buried Godzilla. Godzilla remained frozen for 7 years, at some point dislodging from the island and going adrift as an iceberg. He awakened again when a nuclear sub crashed into the iceberg, reviving him. Godzilla once again made a bee-line for Japan, going through a military base somewhere in the north Pacific before and making landfall in Tohoku. There he had a brief scuffle with King Kong (1st), who quickly retreated after witnessing Godzilla's atomic breath, both monsters going their own ways. The military launched more plans to stop Godzilla, the first involved dumping him in a pit, which obviously didn't work. The next plan mirrored one used to deter the first Godzilla, and involved another electric barrier, which was surprisingly effective, altering Godzilla's course towards Mt. Fuji. It was here that King Kong was air dropped near Godzilla in the hopes of getting the two to take care of each other. Godzilla gave Kong a beating at first, but the tide started to turn when a thunderstorm started, empowering King Kong. Ultimately the two monsters fell off a cliff clutching each other, as you do.
     Godzilla was later washed up onto Kurada beach by typhoon 8 in 1964. When he awoke, he headed for Nagoya, destroying the castle among other things. He came upon a Mothra egg being incubated artificially by Happy Enterprises. Before he could destroy the egg, the elder Mothra (1st) came to its defense. Mothra fought valiantly, giving it's life to protect the egg and trying to drive Godzilla away. The military then stepped in with another attempt to electrocute Godzilla, which at first seemed successful, until the voltage was pushed too high and the transformers melted. When the egg hatched into twin Mothra (2nd) larvae, they followed Godzilla to Iwa Island where they were able to cocoon him and push him into the sea Using teamwork. You know, again. By January, Godzilla landed again in Japan, this time in Yokohama, crashing through the city late one night following Rodan (2nd) in the sky. This eventually led Godzilla back to the Mt. Fuji area, where Godzilla and Rodan battled each other. The fight ended in a draw when the monsters were approached by the surviving baby Mothra, who asked them to work together to help defeat the space monster King Ghidorah (1st) and defend the whole planet. Godzilla and Rodan both refused, forcing Mothra to go after King Ghidorah alone. Witnessing Mothra's bravery, and that she stood no chance against King Ghidorah on her own, Godzilla decided to lend a hand after all, and with Rodan and Mothra, defeated King Ghidorah and sent him packing back into space.
     Godzilla's whereabouts after this became more of an open question³. According to information from the Xiliens, Godzilla was somehow within Japan, sleeping in Lake Myojin in southern Japan⁴ after presumably swimming there through undersea tunnels. The Xiliens made a deal with the Earth men to borrow the monsters Godzilla and Rodan to use against King Ghidorah, who had invaded their planet, referred to by Earthlings as simply "Planet X," also known as Jupiter XIII⁵. After awakening on Planet X, Godzilla and Rodan successfully drive Ghidorah away, and the Earth men return home, leaving the monsters on the alien world. In exchange for the monsters, the Xiliens gave Earth what was said to be the cure for all diseases, but the whole thing turned out to be a ruse to gain control over Godzilla and Rodan themselves, as it turns out the Xiliens had been controlling Ghidorah the whole time. Refusing to capitulate to the aliens' demands, Earth fought back with the development of the A-Cycle Light Ray Cars, which broke the magnetic control systems over the monsters, causing them to rever to their natural behaviors with Godzilla and Rodan once again scaring Ghidorah back off into space. Godzilla's location once again became unknown but was later discovered sleeping in a cave beneath Letchi Island where the terrorist organization Red Bamboo had built a nuclear facility on top of the island, possibly after Godzilla had migrated there. A group of shipwreck survivors used a lightning storm to awaken Godzilla, who battled against the giant crustacean Ebirah (1st) and the giant condor created by the nuclear waste products of the Red Bamboo. The Red Bamboo were unable to deal with Godzilla and both of their monsters were killed, with the now adult Mothra arriving to rescue the shipwrecked sailors as well as the Infant Islanders the Red Bamboo were using as slave labor. Godzilla's attack on the Red Bamboo facilities caused their nuclear reactor to go critical, and after Mothra deterred Godzilla from harrassing her people, both monsters escaped the island before the whole thing went up in a nuclear explosion.
     Godzilla was next spotted by a plane headed in the direction of Solgell Island, drawn by the high frequency signal coming from the egg laid around a decade ago. When he arrived on the island, he found the newly hatched infant Godzilla (II) being attacked by a trio of Kamacuras (1st). The adult Godzilla quickly killed two of them and chased off the remaining monster, and began raising the child on his own, teaching it to fire atomic breath. Godzilla later arrives to protect the baby from Kumonga, and eventually kills it after fighting together with his son. The island is plunged into an artificial winter by the scientists conducting tests, causing the two to hibernate. The whereabouts and fate of this adult Godzilla are unknown after this point, with it never having been verifiably spotted since the late 60's⁶.

三代目ゴジラ • 3rd Generation Godzilla (VS-1)

Height: 80 meters
Length: 156 meters⁷
Weight: 50,000 tons
Abilities: Atomic Breath, Nuclear Pulse, Organizer G-1

History: When a nuclear sub sank in the Bering Sea in the late 70's, the Godzillasaurus from Lagos Island was mutated into a second Godzilla. It remained hidden to humans, but after being disturbed by an eruption on Daikoku Island in 1985, it was encountered by the Japanese fishing boat Yahata Maru. A few days later, Godzilla sinks a Soviet nuclear submarine, nearly sparking World War III until his existence is disclosed to the public by the Japanese government. He later makes his way onto land to feed off of the nuclear power planet in Mihama before heading back out to see following a flock of migratory birds. Godzilla eventually makes his way into Tokyo and devastates the JSDF forces in his path, before being successfully knocked out by the Super X's cadmium missiles. After being revived by the explosion of an accidentally fired nuclear missile intercepted in the stratosphere, Godzilla destroys the Super X and follows a signal designed to affect his magnetoception to Mt. Mihara. Here an eruption of the volcano is induced, sending Godzilla into it. After 5 years, the US corporation Biomajor threatens to cause an explosion at Mt. Mihara that will release Godzilla if Japan doesn't hand over A.N.E.B., a weapon developed to stop Godzilla should he return. Things go poorly, and despite capitulating to the demands, the explosion still goes off and Godzilla heads into the Uraga channel where he battles the JMSDF and Super X2. From here his course diverts towards Lake Ashi due to the call of Biollante, a creature made from his own cells. The two monsters lash out at each other, but Biollante retreats into the sky after being abnormally affected by Godzilla's heat ray. From there, Godzilla goes back out to sea and surfaces in Osaka, where he is lured into Osaka Business Park by the Super X2, which he finally destroys. There he is ambushed by infantry who attack Godzilla with shells infecting him with A.N.E.B.. From there, Godzilla travels towards a cluster of nuclear power plants by Wakasa Bay, seemingly unaffected by the bioweapon. After walking through a T.C. field in an attempt to raise his temperature to provoke the proliferation of the bacteria, which doesn't seem to work, Biollante descends back to Earth to battle him again, this time heavily transformed from the effects of the radioactivity. The battle ends anticlimactically as Godzilla finally begins to feel the effects of the A.N.E.B. and heads back to sea. Eventually, the infection becomes so great that Godzilla never really recovers, and dies sometime before the turn of the 21st century.

三代目ゴジラ • 3rd Generation Godzilla (VS-2)

History: After mutating in the late 70's, the second Godzilla first appeared in 1985, and like the first caused great destruction in Tokyo, destroying the capital defense weapon Super X during their rampage. It was lured to Mt. Mihara where an induced eruption kept the monster away for 5 years. After this time, it was released by an explosion caused by Biomajor in an attempt to extort Japan into giving them the A.N.E.B. bioweapon planned for use against Godzilla. They failed, and after a battle with the hybrid monster Biollante and the JSDF superweapon Super X2, Godzilla was successfully infected with A.N.E.B., although it took some time to fully take affect, with Biollante again returning to stall Godzilla before it fully kicked in. Godzilla retreated back into the Bering Sea. Slowly dying from the A.N.E.B. infection, Godzilla is revived by the submarine Musashi No. 2, which carries torpedos used to store nuclear waste. This causes Godzilla to mutate even further, growing and becoming more powerful. He heads on land to Hokkaido after his revival where he encounters the Futurian clone of King Ghidorah. Godzilla defeats Ghidorah, blowing its middle head off with his spiral heat ray, and heads south, destroying Sapporo, and eventually arriving in Tokyo. Although revived with the intention of defeating King Ghidorah, this Godzilla is far worse and more destructive than he was before, and his destruction can't be stopped by 20th century technology. His rampage continues until Japan's economy tanks, and most of the country is rendered uninhabitable because of the heavy radiation he emits. It is unknown what happens to him after this, but after his rampage, Japan as a country ceases to exist.

三代目ゴジラ • 3rd Generation Godzilla (VS-3/4)

History: Appearing near the end of the cold war era as a result of Soviet nuclear proliferation, the new Godzilla came to Tokyo to resume the path of destruction of the original, which included the flying fortress Super X. After being swallowed by an artificial eruption of Mt. Mihara, Godzilla emerged 5 years later after a second induced eruption released it. The JSDF responded to the threat with the new Super X2 and the bioweapon A.N.E.B., with the genetic tribrid Biollante also complicating the situation. It took a combination of the JSDF's experimental TC system and the further mutated Biollante to finally occcupy Godzilla and get them to feel the effects of A.N.E.B. at Wakasa Bay to finally drive the monster out to sea. Here it was revived in 1992 by a submarine owned by the Teiyo corporation which carried nuclear material which mutated the monster further into an even larger and more powerful form. It then appeared in Hokkaido where rogue members of the E3 sent their monster King Ghidorah (2nd) to battle it, but the fight ended in Godzilla's favor when a blast of their spiral heat ray severed Ghidorah's central head, causing the monster to flee. Godzilla continued to rampage through Japan, taking a path down into Tokyo, where it was again confronted with a monster from the future, this time a new future created by their actions in a future where their rampage was unopposed. The time traveling monster Mecha-King Ghidorah was successfully able to subdue Godzilla and carry them out to sea, although the cyborg itself did not survive the ordeal.
     Godzilla lay dormant for most of the rest of the year until they were awakened by a meteor impact. They were next spotted early the following year intercepting a Marutomo ship over the Phillipine Trench carrying the egg of Mothra (4th). The egg hatched and managed to defend the ship, but Battra soon appeared as well, with Godzilla and Battra focusing their attention on each other while Mothra and the Marutomo ship, sans monster egg, got away. Godzilla and Battra battled on the sea floor until an undersea eruption consumed them both. Godzilla, swimming under the plates through the asthenosphere, emerged from underground and again endangered Japan, wiping out a fleet of newly developed Maser Planes before reaching Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama. This caused the fueding, now adult Mothra and Battra to work together to stop Godzilla, and were able to, like the cyborg, carry Godzilla back out to sea. In another similarity, Battra did not survive the journey, and so Mothra cast a seal over the sea where Godzilla and the body of Battra lay. This seemed to pacify Godzilla for some time, as over a year passed before Godzilla was sighted on Adonoa Island in the Aleutians, following the signal of a Godzillasaurus egg. Instead, Godzilla found Rodan (3rd) defending the nest site, and made short work of the pterosaur monster. Godzilla again traced the egg into Japan after it hatched into a baby Godzillasaurus but was ambushed by the future-tech UNGCC Mechagodzilla (UX-02-93) in an attempt to stop it from reaching Kyoto. Although initially appearing to work, Godzilla's Nuclear Repulse shifted the power flow of Mechagodzilla's shock anchors, causing the mecha's circuits to fry and make it inoperable. After plowing through another battalion of tanks and masers, Godzilla finally reached the site of the baby, but after being kept in the basement to try and hide the chick's signals, Godzilla eventually left.
     Godzilla's ability to home in on the signals of the baby was utilized by the UNGCC, who lured Godzilla in for a rematch with Mechagodzilla and its new "G-Crusher" strategy. Combining with the earlier mech, Garuda, Mechagodzilla transformed into Super Mechagodzilla, and with Miki Seagusa onboard was able to deploy the G-Crusher strategy using shock anchors to destroy Godzilla's posterior nerve cluster, crippling and seemingly killing the monster. Rodan, who had earlier been wounded in a battle with Garuda, got one last wind to fly over to Godzilla, disappating into energy which Godzilla absorbed, accelerating their regenerative abilities and healing the nerve cluster, along with supercharging their nuclear fuel. Using the excess energy, Godzilla used a more powerful Red Heat Ray and Red Nuclear Pulse to overpower and destroy Super Mechagodzilla. Unopposed, Godzilla finally found the baby Godzillasaurus and adopted it, with the small pod heading out to sea, where they eventually settled together on Birth Island. They lived here together peacefully until late in the year when the arrival of a monstrous mutant offshoot of Godzilla's own cells, Spacegodzilla, arrived from space, presumably following a similar signal to Earth. Spacegodzilla antagonized the two Earth Godzillas, placing the little on in a crystal growth structure before knocking the adult over and flying off to Japan. Godzilla followed suit, heading towards Fukuoka, but was intercepted in Kumamoto by the newly repaired UNGCC mecha MOGUERA, acting against orders. MOGUERA's path was corrected and eventually both it and Godzilla ended up in the same place anwyas, where both battled Spacegodzilla in their crystal palace created aroond Fukuoka Tower. Working together, MOGUERA brought down the foundation of the tower and destroyed Spacegodzilla's shoulder crystals, severing their ability to absorb cosmic energy, and Godzilla landed the killing blow, obliterating the monster with a Red Spiral Heat Ray.
     After a year and a half, Birth Island itself exploded, presumably due to the crystal formations interacting with the underground uranium deposits. This caused Godzilla's heart to go critical and sent the monster towards a complete meltdown. This Burning Godzilla was first seen in Hong Kong, rampaging through the city before heading back out to sea, causing the UNGCC to reevaluate their options on how to deal with Godzilla in light of the new situation. When Godzilla headed towards Ikata nuclear plant, the new Super X3 was sent out outfitted with cadmium missiles and a freezer weapon to attempt to get Godzilla's fission under control in the Bungo channel. This worked for a while until the monster thawed, and a new plan arrived with the appearance of the new monster Destroyah, a product of the Oxygen Destroyer used to kill the original Godzilla 42 years ago. Now the UNGCC planned to lure Godzilla into a battle with Destroyah in hopes the Oxygen Destroyer-based monster could kill Godzilla before the meltdown endangered the whole planet. This first appeared to be a failure as the juvenile Godzilla stopped Destroyah before Burning Godzilla arrived, but after further mutating Destroyah revived and attacked the younger Godzilla, apparently killing them. This enraged Godzilla, and although the final form of Destroyah was a formidable opponent, the continual increase in output as Godzilla came closer to meltdown was too overwhelming even for them, and so Destroyah perished after being attached by the Super X3 and a squad of Cryomasers while trying to flee from Godzilla just before the meltdown. These same weapons were used in an attempt to stop Godzilla's meltdown as well, but at this point the situation became completely out of control. Godzilla's death unleashed a frightening level of radiation, making much of Tokyo uninhabitable. However, the worst possible scenario didn't unfold, as in death, Godzilla's radiation revived the younger one, creating a new king of the monsters.

ゴジラ • Godzilla (Minus)

First Appearance: Godzilla -1.0 (2023)
Subtitle: King of the Monsters
Origin: A Godzillasaurus mutated by the Baker nuclear test on Bikini Atoll in 1946.
Emergence: First spotted in the south Pacific by the US Navy in the later half of 1946.
Alignment: Neutral Evil

Height: 50.1 meters
Length: 100.2 meters¹⁰
Weight: 20,000 tons
Abilities: Atomic Breath, Organizer G-1

History: After their mutation from the Baker nuclear test, Godzilla heads slowly towards Japan, intercepted by multiple US battleships, tearing each of them apart, and eventually taking down the old Imperial battleship Takao, which was saved from scuttling for just such a purpose. Godzilla made landfall in Ginza, where it tore through the newly rebuilt ward, eliminating a battalion of Imperial tanks with its atomic breath, creating an enormous mushroom cloud. Because of Cold War tensions and lack of means in the post-war world, the effort to stop Godzilla lands on the shoulders of private citizens, who come up with a plan to kill Godzilla by crushing it with deep sea pressures by submerging it at an accelerated rate, and if that fails, quickly raising it back up and killing it with explosive decompression. Neither work, but Godzilla is ultimately killed when a plane bearing heavy explosives flies into their mouth and detonates. Although destroyed, Godzilla leaves behind an infection on some survivors of the atomic blast in Ginza, and pieces of slowly regenerating tissue, which over the course of 3 years regenerate into a new Godzilla¹¹.

1. They're all the 2nd generation Godzilla, meaning that at some point the baby Godzilla from Son died off screen. There's absolutely no explanation for the stock footage in Gigan, Godzilla's sudden superhero personality makes no sense, and he's entrusted with another child in DAM for likewise baffling reasons.
2. It's the 2nd generation Godzilla throughout the 70's, the stock footage from Gigan is showing us a still young Minilla that was born later than 1967, and Godzilla's superhero turn is a result of a parental protective instinct, and it isn't until DAM that we see the adult Minilla and the new baby. An alternate version of this theory has the 2nd generation Godzilla only be present up to when they start using the Megaro-Goji suit, which looks a lot more like an adult Minilla than the Shoshingeki-Goji suit, and that's the only evidence for that.
3. It's all the adult version of the baby from Son from Hedorah up through DAM, and it's the 2nd generation Godzilla who's unaccounted for. The Gigan stock footage is just outdated public understanding from the late 60's or a flashback, and the new personality of Godzilla is the easiest to explain because it was raised with friendly humans.