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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The first sequel, ''Gamera vs. Barugon'', didn't feature any children, opting instead for a plot that starts out with three men trying to recover a giant opal (which is actually {{spoiler|Barugon's egg}}) from the New Guinea jungle, and ultimately had some pretty grim material including a graphic death by scorpion sting.
* [[Death By Materialism]]: Onodera in ''Gamera vs. Barugon.''
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* [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] / [[Swallowed Whole]]: In ''Gamera vs. Monster X'', Monster X injects Gamera with debilitating parasites that turn Gamera's skin a sickly white. The kids must venture inside Gamera's body to hunt down the parasites and wipe them out.
* [[Follow the Leader]]
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* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Onodera from ''Gamera vs. Barugon.'' That's right: Try and snatch the giant diamond... ''The one explicitly being used as monster bait.''
* [[Too Long; Didn't Dub]]: The children's nickname for police officer Kondo, "Kon-chan", was left untouched in the Sandy Frank dub - where it makes no sense. This led to a running gag in the [[MST3K]] episode he appeared in where the cast mishears it as "Cornjob".
* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]: The plots of the Showa films usually involved Gamera's opponent have a major advantage over him then engage and defeat him in combat, Gamera retreats. The protagonists discover the opponent's [[Achilles Heel]] and attempt to defeat the opponent with it but it only weakens it or backfires. Gamera returns and uses the opponent's weakness to his own advantage, defeating the Monster.
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Gamera gets top billing in ''Gamera Vs. Barugon'', even though he has almost nothing to do with the plot.
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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Surprisingly averted. While technically Legion, Gyaos(and by extension, probably Irys) are genderless, Gyaos was played by a female actor specifically to give it a feminine quality, while Legion tends to be referred to with female pronouns due to being the queen. In a sense, this means that all the monsters besides Gamera are female(ish).
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Gamera's Mana Beam.
* [[We Come in Peace, Shoot To Kill]]: In the first film, the military gets which of the giant monsters they should actually be trying to destroy ''very'' wrong. The Gyaos are ''not'' just a nuisance, and Gamera is trying to stop them -- he's tremendously destructive and his victories come at a high cost in human life, but given that the Gyaos ''wiped out the civilization that preceded humanity'', he's definitely the lesser of two evils.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Justified. Gamera has an extremely powerful weapon built into his chest that could utterly obliterate Legion, or anything else, in one shot. He uses it as a last resort because it drastically drains the Earth's life energy and causes the Gyaos' numbers to grow to staggering numbers.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Gamera holds off the Legion at Sendai.
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