Godzilla

Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira) is a Titan who first appeared in the 2014 Legendary Pictures film, Godzilla.

The MonsterVerse Godzilla is the second incarnation of Godzilla to be featured in an American-made film, after the TriStar Godzilla from the 1998 film, and the tenth onscreen incarnation of the character overall. A colossal apex predator hailing from a time in Earth's past where surface radiation levels were considerably higher, Godzilla retreated deep underwater as this radiation declined to feed on the planet's natural geothermal radiation. Godzilla occasionally surfaced throughout history, inspiring some of humanity's mythology. In the 20th century, the advent of the nuclear age drew Godzilla to the surface along with the deadly Shinomura, attracting the attention of the American military, which carried out a campaign of nuclear strikes against the two clashing monsters in the South Pacific under the guise of nuclear testing. While Shinomura was vaporized by the blast of the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb, Godzilla survived and vanished up until 2014 when parasitic creatures from his time period dubbed MUTOs were unleashed and prepared to begin reproducing. Godzilla hunted the MUTOs down to San Francisco, where he engaged in a protracted battle which ended when he killed them both and returned to the ocean. After subsequently slaying the MUTOs' mother, MUTO Prime, Godzilla disappeared into the depths of the ocean for five years, though Monarch kept tabs on him. When a group of eco-terrorists awakened his ancient nemesis King Ghidorah from his icy tomb in Antarctica, Godzilla confronted the newly-awakened three-headed Titan. King Ghidorah escaped their first battle, but Godzilla tracked him down to the waters off of Mexico and nearly defeated him in an underwater clash before being interrupted by the military's Oxygen Destroyer. Godzilla retreated to his underwater lair to heal, but his rejuvenation was accelerated by the sacrifice of Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, who set off a thermonuclear warhead in his vicinity. Godzilla made his way to Boston for a final battle with Ghidorah, and with the intervention of Mothra was finally able to triumph. The surviving Titans who had been following Ghidorah congregated around Godzilla and submitted to him, accepting him as the King of the Monsters.

This incarnation of Godzilla is set to return and battle King Kong in the fourth entry of the MonsterVerse, Godzilla vs. Kong.

Toho productions

#	Title	Year	Director(s)	Effects director	Monster co-star(s)	Current U.S. licenses
Shōwa era (1954–1975)
1	Godzilla	1954	Ishirō Honda	Eiji Tsuburaya	None	The Criterion CollectionTemplate:Efn
2	Godzilla Raids Again	1955	Motoyoshi Oda		Anguirus
3	King Kong vs. Godzilla	1962	Ishirō Honda		King Kong, the OodakoTemplate:Sfn	Universal Pictures Home Entertainment The Criterion Collection<ref name="Criterion Set"/>
4	Mothra vs. Godzilla	1964			Mothra	The Criterion Collection<ref name="Criterion Set">Template:Cite web</ref>
5	Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster				King Ghidorah, Rodan, Mothra
6	Invasion of Astro-Monster	1965			King Ghidorah, Rodan
7	Ebirah, Horror of the Deep	1966	Jun Fukuda	Sadamasa Arikawa	Ebirah, Mothra, the OokondoruTemplate:Sfn
8	Son of Godzilla	1967			Minilla, Kumonga, Kamacuras
9	Destroy All Monsters	1968	Ishirō Honda		King Ghidorah, Rodan, Mothra, Anguirus, Minilla, Kumonga, Manda, Gorosaurus, Baragon, Varan
10	All Monsters Attack	1969		Ishirō Honda	Gabara, Minilla
11	Godzilla vs. Hedorah	1971	Yoshimitsu Banno	Teruyoshi Nakano	Hedorah
12	Godzilla vs. Gigan	1972	Jun Fukuda		Gigan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus
13	Godzilla vs. Megalon	1973			Megalon, Jet Jaguar, Gigan, Anguirus, Rodan
14	Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla	1974			Mechagodzilla, King Caesar, Anguirus
15	Terror of Mechagodzilla	1975	Ishirō Honda		Mechagodzilla 2, Titanosaurus
Heisei era (1984–1995)
16	The Return of Godzilla	1984	Koji Hashimoto	Teruyoshi Nakano	Giant Sea LiceTemplate:Sfn	Kraken Releasing
17	Godzilla vs. Biollante	1989	Kazuki Ōmori	Koichi Kawakita	Biollante	Lionsgate
18	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	1991			King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah, the Dorats, Godzillasaurus	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
19	Godzilla vs. Mothra	1992	Takao Okawara		Mothra, Battra
20	Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II	1993			Mechagodzilla, Super Mechagodzilla, Rodan, Fire Rodan, Baby Godzilla
21	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	1994	Kensho Yamashita		SpaceGodzilla, Moguera, Fairy Mothra, Little Godzilla
22	Godzilla vs. Destoroyah	1995	Takao Okawara		Destoroyah, Godzilla Junior
Millennium era (1999–2004)
23	Godzilla 2000: Millennium	1999	Takao Okawara	Kenji Suzuki	Orga, the Millennian	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
24	Godzilla vs. Megaguirus	2000	Masaaki Tezuka		Megaguirus, the Meganulons, the Meganulas
25	Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	2001	Shusuke Kaneko	Makoto Kamiya	King Ghidorah, Mothra, Baragon
26	Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla	2002	Masaaki Tezuka	Yûichi Kikuchi	Mechagodzilla (Kiryu)
27	Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.	2003		Eiichi Asada	Mechagodzilla (Kiryu), Mothra, Kamoebas
28	Godzilla: Final Wars	2004	Ryuhei Kitamura		Monster X a.k.a. Keizer Ghidorah, Zilla, Rodan, Mothra, Gigan, King Caesar, Anguirus, Minilla, Kumonga, Kamacuras, Manda, Hedorah, Ebirah
Reiwa era (2016–present)Template:Efn
29	Shin Godzilla	2016	Hideaki Anno Shinji Higuchi	Shinji Higuchi	None	FunimationTemplate:Efn
30	Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters	2017	Kōbun Shizuno Hiroyuki Seshita	N/A	Servum, Dogora, Dagahra, Orga, Kamacuras, Anguirus, Rodan, Mechagodzilla	Netflix
31	Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle	2018			Mechagodzilla City, Servum, Vulture
32	Godzilla: The Planet Eater				King Ghidorah, Mothra, Servum

Hollywood productions

#	Title	Year	Director(s)	Effects director	Monster co-star(s)	Current U.S. licenses
TriStar Pictures (1998)
1	Godzilla	1998	Roland Emmerich	Volker Engel	Baby Godzillas	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Legendary Pictures / MonsterVerse (2014–present)
2	Godzilla	2014	Gareth Edwards	Jim Rygiel	MUTO (male and female)	Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
3	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	2019	Michael Dougherty	Guillaume Rocheron	King Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan, King Kong (archival footage), female MUTO, Behemoth, Methuselah, Scylla<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
4	Godzilla vs. Kong	2020	Adam Wingard	John “DJ” DesJardin	King Kong

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