Gamera/Characters

There aren't as many Kaiju in this series of films as Godzilla, but they are certainty memorable, so let's learn about them. The main page is here.

Gamera



 * Badass
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space: In the Showa era, he could spin through space without much harm coming to himself.
 * Blade Below the Shoulder: Has spikes on his elbows but they aren't used much.
 * Breath Weapon: In the Showa era, he pretty much has flamethrower breath. In the Heisei era, he shoots fireballs.
 * Everything's Better With Spinning: His mode of transportation.
 * Friend to All Children: The Trope Namer
 * Good Is Not Nice: In the final film in the Heisei trilogy
 * Sea Monster: Dwells in the sea a lot.
 * Turtle Power
 * What the Hell, Hero?: So determined to destroy the Gyaos, he kills and injures 15,000 - 20,000 citizens in the Shibuya ward.

Toto



 * Badass Adorable: Fights against Zedus even when the cards are stacked against him.
 * Breath Weapon: Has only flamethrower breathe at first but upon eating the red rock thing, he uses a fireball as a finisher against Zedus.
 * Everything's Better With Spinning: Can do this when young but is incapable in monster form until eating the red rock thing.
 * Green Eyes: Strangely, his eyes were black until he grew to monster size.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Toru persuades him to not pull this in order to defeat Zedus.
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up: In the space of a week, Toto grows from a cute hand-sized turtle to a cute house-sized turtle.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Turtle Power

Barugon



 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: A diamond was used to lure Barugon into a lake but he just snapped it up with his tongue instead.
 * Awesome but Impractical: His rainbow attack as he learned the hard way.
 * Everything's Better With Rainbows: Can shoot a rainbow beam out of his back for long distance attacks!
 * Kill It With Ice: Can shoot ice out of its Overly Long Tongue. Even froze Gamera in place for some of the movie!
 * Kill It With Water: He's drowned by Gamera
 * Meaningful Name
 * Overly Long Tongue
 * Super Drowning Skills: Cannot swim and the military and Gamera uses this to their advantage.

Gyaos



 * Arch Enemy: To Gamera. At least in the Heisei series.
 * Breakout Villain: Appeared in more than one Showa film, which led to their revival in the Heisei era and further cemented their iconic image. They even cameo in Gamera The Brave!
 * Giant Flyer:
 * I'm a Humanitarian: In the Showa era, Gyaos ate humans and livestock for their blood. In the Heisei era, he just likes munching on them.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: Their cuttings beams are actually super sonic screams.
 * One-Gender Race: In the Heisei series, reproducing asexually.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Became the most frequent monster in the Heisei series.
 * Vampire Bites Suck: In the Showa era, the bites suck since you could be killed by a single chomp.
 * Weakened By the Light: The Showa version doesn't like the sun, and in fact would die if exposed to the ultraviolet rays for too long. The Heisei ones also preferred night at first but after growing protective eye plates they could fly during the day without much hassle.

Space Gyaos



 * Apocalypse How: Almost a Class 3. Makes you wonder why they haven't gone after earth next.
 * Family-Unfriendly Death: How Guiron dismembers the Space Gyaos. Its head even lives a few seconds longer beyond decapitation!
 * Giant Flyer
 * I'm a Humanitarian: To the Terrans and probably other races and animals.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Shiny Silver Gyaos from space that are immune to sunlight and attack planets.
 * Palette Swap: Basically the Gamera vs. Gyaos suit painted silver. But it's so shiny!
 * Recycled in Space: Gyaos, but shiny silver and IN SPACE.
 * The Swarm: Attacked Terra offscreen and wiped out most of the inhabitants, the last two protected by Guiron.
 * Weakened By the Light: Averted. The Space Gyaos attack the planet Terra during the day without any apparent harm. Can Presumably fly through space surviving starlight.
 * The Worf Effect: It took Gamera a whole movie to get the hang of killing Gyaos. The Space Gyaos has no sunlight weakness and is carved up by Guiron in a few minutes.

Viras



 * Alien Invasion: Want to colonize Earth for unknown reasons. Talk about how it's similar to their planet hint their world maybe dying.
 * Combat Tentacles: It fights Gamera with six of them.
 * Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: Can combine his three head tentacles into a razor sharp weapon to skewer opponents with.
 * Sea Monster: Can swim underwater, but from another planet.
 * The Swarm: Was originally just the leader of an invasion force with underlings using human disguises. Then those underlings combined with Viras for a Kaiju battle!

Guiron



 * Angry Guard Dog: Is pretty dang determined to butcher any intruders.
 * Attack Reflector: Reflected the Space Gyaos's beam back and cut off its foot!
 * BFS: Has a Big Effing Knife for a head and he isn't afraid to use it!
 * The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: How he meets his end.
 * Brainwashed: How he's persuaded to do his guarding duties by the brain eating Human Aliens.
 * Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Normally walks on all fours but can stand on his hind feet.
 * Fuuma Shuriken: Has a pair of shurikens in its head which can be launched and guided by psychokinesis.
 * Meaningful Name: Named after the guillotine.

Jiger



 * Beware My Stinger Tail: Has a deadly stinger hidden in her tail she can use to implant her offspring in other monsters.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: Spends the entire film trying to destroy the one weapon capable of defeating her, impales Gamera's arms and knocks him on his back to disable him, and generally proved to be one of the most cunning foes Gamera has faced. In fact, she's the Gamera foe who came the closest to killing him in the Showa Era!
 * Disintegrator Ray: Her heat ray vaporizes flesh and entire city blocks. Doesn't have the same affect on Gamera, but still damaging nonetheless.
 * Female Monster Surprise: Her gender is discovered when she implanted an egg in Gamera's lung. And it hatched.
 * Face Full of Alien Wingwong: Implanted an egg into Gamera's lung, stunning him. It hatched in his lung and would have probably made its insides a meal if the heroes hadn't killed it.
 * Hell Is That Noise: In Universe, her main weakness is an idol that makes a sound that's able to both weaken her and cause severe illness in humans. White noise is also discovered to be this to her. Her Disintegrator Ray also opperates on this.
 * Monster Is a Mommy: And she will use the nearest monster as the incubator for that egg. Gamera is free.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: In Universe, her name is described as a Mu word meaning Devil.
 * Sealed Evil in A Can: Was sealed away under the earth by the Devil Whistle thanks to it making a special sound which weakens her, keeping her in suspended animation.
 * Superpower Lottery: Can shoot quills that keep Gamera in place and take down jets, a massively destructive heat ray, the ability to suck opponents toward her, and impregnate opponents with her stinger tail.

Zigra



 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: His fins act like this and are his preferential weapon.
 * Alien Invasion: Wanted to enslave the humans as cattle for his race.
 * Brainwashed: Mind controlled a captured woman to be her agent and even gave her some brainwashing powers as well.
 * Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks: An alien with the resemblence of a Goblin Shark!
 * I'm a Humanitarian: His race eats humans. They want a fresh supply of them, so...
 * The Paralyzer: The beam from the jewel-like organ above his beak can freeze an opponent in time.
 * Sea Monster: Like Viras, he is FROM SPACE!

Garasharp



 * Breath Weapon: She could have possibly breathed fire or let out poisonous smoke.
 * Monster Is a Mommy: Upon dying, two babies wriggled out and Gamera rescued them from the military, since he's the friend of monster children as well!
 * Multiple Head Case: One plan for her was to have two heads.
 * Poisonous Person: One of her proposed powers was unleash a poisonous smog.
 * What Could Have Been: Her entire story. Her movie was being planned when Daei fell into bankruptcy. One of her powers was a Sonic Rattler.

Legion



 * Alien Invasion: Though the conflict comes from the fact the conditions perfect for the Legion are negligable to the humans and the human technology interferes with Legion communication.
 * Bee People: Her soldiers are this. They even seem to reside in a Honeycomb-like part of her body.
 * Giant Flyer: Played straight with the soldiers, but the queen gets her wings destroyed soon after her appearance and relies on burrowing thereafter.
 * Hive Queen
 * I Am Legion: One of the characters quotes from the bible passage and that's the creatures' name from then on.
 * Not So Stoic: Upon her horns being ripped off, she goes ballistic and starts using red energy whips!
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Upon her horns being ripped off which reveals she's Not So Stoic.
 * Tunnel King: Her ability after being dewinged.

Iris



 * Combat Tentacles: His shoot lasers and can be used to make him fly.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Gamera.
 * Giant Flyer: Flies with some wing-like membranes between some tentacles.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Manipulates Ayana's hatred for Gamera for a power up.
 * Multiple Choice Past: Is he an evil spirit? A monster created to stop Gamera that was corrupted by Ayana's hatred? Or a mutated Gyaos? The film never really gives a clear answer.
 * Naughty Tentacles: Gets a little frisky with Ayana at one point.
 * Sealed Evil in A Can: Was confined to the Moribe shrine where a turtle-like rock sealed it. A sumo wrestler couldn't pick it up. Ayana could.
 * Ultimate Lifeform: One possible explanation for his existence is that he's the ultimate evolution of the Gyaos.

Zedus



 * Everything's Better With Dinosaurs: A sea monster that resembles a therapod for some reason.
 * I'm a Humanitarian: His recent preferred food source that kicks off the conflict.
 * Overly Long Tongue: Uses it to stab Toto repeatedly.
 * Sea Monster: A monster that just decided to munch on humans one day.

Kusanagi Asagi

 * The Heart: To Gamera. He's more savage once their connection is severed.
 * Ho Yay: Vibes of Les Yay with Nagamine near the end of Gamera 3.
 * The Lancer: To Gamera in a way.
 * She Is All Grown Up: She was a high schooler in the first movie. In college by the third film.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Asagi grows up to be a bit of a tomboy by the time she reunites with Nagamine in the third film.

Inspector Oosako

 * Butt Monkey
 * He's Back: Gamera 3.
 * Plucky Comic Relief:
 * Took a Level In Badass: Actually kind of helpful and heroic in Gamera 3.
 * Weirdness Magnet: Can't catch a break.
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?

Nagamine Mayumi

 * Beware the Nice Ones: If she sees someone spouting nonsense, she won't hesitate to call them out.
 * The Smart Gal: Bird expert.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Is a bit quieter and more reserved in the third film, while Asagi has matured into a bit of a tomboy.
 * The Worm Gal: Bird expert brought in to study the Gyaos.

Honami Midori

 * The Smart Gal: Like Nagamine, but more quiet and softspoken
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Hirasaka Ayana

 * Evil Counterpart: To Asagi though she's not outright evil but hurt.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Starts to regret her bond with Iris near the end of the film.
 * The Quiet One
 * Weirdness Magnet

Mito Asukura

 * Big Bad Wannabe:
 * Hoist By His Own Petard
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * Too Dumb to Live

Tatsunari Moribe

 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Ayana.
 * Fake Ultimate Hero: Not that he really believed it but he did snap Ayana out of a trance.