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* [[Our Dragons Are Different|Voltaire]] and [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Hakutenou]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. The two of them even get to battle in a heavily damaged city.
** It was really more of a staring contest while Erio and Caro tried to bring Lutecia out of her [[Heroic BSOD]], but they both fit the trope all the same.
** The monstrous form of the Book Of Darkness also counts as a Kaiju.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' has an example that involves {{spoiler|Espada #0}} Yammy Rialgo, whose release 'Ira' transforms him into a monstrous Kaiju.
** Gilean-class Menos (and Arrancar formed from them) are probably big enough to count, too, even if they are considerably weaker.
* In the [[CLAMP]] series ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Touya's pet name for his sister is "Kaiju", which is usually followed by Sakura shouting about how much she isn't one, complete with monstrous stomping about the house. Which naturally only adds to Touya's argument that she is a noisy kaiju.
** And then she gets ''The Big'' card, and has to battle something and actual kaiju with the Create card.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' had a massive human-like Kaiju that came from the sea and seemed intent on attacking an island town. {{spoiler|Turns out that it's just a girl whose wish of living with the whales was granted by [[Mad Scientist|Professor Madaraki]]. She's just there to find her mom so she could give her the great news that she's now pregnant. [[Everybody Lives|Happy end!]]}}
* All members of the [[Blood Knight|Heroic Tribe]] in ''[[Heroic Age]]'' are essentially GIANT SPACE MONSTERS. Which destroy planets on a regular basis.
* The Mimetic Beasts from ''[[Shinkon Gattai Godannar]]'' definitely qualify as Kaiju.
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* Cenco and the other monsters in ''[[Cencoroll]]''.
* Done hilariously in ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' when Nagasumi is [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|turned into a giant]]. San's father summons a large octopus to attack him.
* The largest summoned animals in ''[[Naruto]]'' fit the bill in terms of size. The giant serpent is even named Manda after the Godzilla beast.
** The Bijuu are just made of this. 9 giant monsters, at least one of which was once referred to as a natural disaster, which is far more in theme with the iconic Kaiju.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', the Sacred Beast of the Hellas Empire recently started attacking a gigantic shadow monster, causing local [[Strange Girl]] Haruna to start squeeing about kaiju battles. And [[Eldritch Abomination|Lovecraft]].
* ''[[Bokurano]]'' is about [[Humongous Mecha]], not kaiju, but the confused populace in the work can't tell the difference, [[Destructive Savior|for a good reason]].
* In the ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]'' both Genma and Happosai have a secret Ki-technique that lets them grow to Kaiju-esque proportions. [[Rule of Funny|Then immediately collapse in exhaustion]].
* The demon beasts that the [[Big Bad]] Nightmare creates in ''[[Kirby:
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** Foom is a holdover from when Marvel published monster comics as a major source of revenue. Today, Marvel's [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Monster Island]] houses lots of [[Jack Kirby|Kirby]]-designed and inspired Kaiju. Some others who show up in modern continuity are [[Guardians of the Galaxy|the tree-like alien Groot]] and the lovable giant ape-monster Gorgilla.
** Speaking of which, Marvel briefly had the rights to publish [[Godzilla]] comics, and featured him as part of the [[Marvel Universe]]. As with Marvel's [[Micronauts|other]] [[ROM Spaceknight|licensed]] [[Conan the Barbarian|property]] titles, he accrued a supporting cast of friends and enemies whom Marvel ''does'' own and who still pop up once in a while, such as Yetrigar the giant [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|yeti,]] a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]] named Red Ronin, and a [[Mad Scientist]] named Dr. Demonicus who specializes in mutating animals into Kaiju.
** The [[Marvel Mangaverse]] version of [[Incredible Hulk]].
** The Monster Hunters are a [[Five-Man Band]] set in the 1950's who travel the world [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|hunting down dangerous kaiju.]] They made friends with Gorgilla the ape monster, though.
** During Walt Simonson's run of ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'', Fafnir the dragon sure had the size to qualify.
* ''[[Batman]]: Gotham After Midnight'', a very bizarre miniseries, featured Bat-foe Clayface ''devouring people whole'' and growing into a gigantic mud-monster... which the Dark Knight fought with ''a Bat-mecha'' he had built for just such an occasion. [[Crazy Prepared]], indeed...
* ''[[Exiles]]'' had the Monster World arc, which envisioned Curt Connors, Bolivar Trask, Tony Stark, and Hank Pym as a team of Action Scientists fighting Kaiju in a transforming mecha. They fight it out with Fin Fang Foom in Japan at the end of the arc. It was awesome.
* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers: The Initative]]'': When the new 3-D Man is sent to a superhero team in Hawaii he finds out one of his missions is to protect the state from the occasional kaiju that wanders over from Japan.
* [[Fire Breather]] anyone? Duncan's daddy, Belloc, actually calls himself king of the Kaiju and wants his son to one day take his place.
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== Film ==
* The earliest example of the familiar Kaiju formula is present in the 1925 film ''[[The Lost World (novel)|The Lost World]],'' in which a dinosaur wreaks havoc in London, setting the template for the genre before the sound era.
* [[Godzilla]] ranges from antagonist to [[Anti-Hero]] with a [[Protectorate]]. His allies and enemies also count.
** Mothra, usually trying to either aid humanity (and her friends the fairy twins) or defend her eggs from Godzilla.
*** Her [[Distaff Counterpart|Spear Counterpart]] is the eviler and spikier Battra.
** ''Rodan'', ''Manda'', ''Baragon'', and ''Varan'' all had their own movies as well before being brought into Godzilla's gang.
* Godzilla's English [[Distaff Counterpart]] [[Fan Nickname|Zilla]] from ''[[Gorgo]]''. Gorgo himself counts too, but he gets [[Distress Ball|captured]] and held by those [[This Loser Is You|damn humans]].
* The [[Friend to All Children]], [[Gamera]], a heroic giant space turtle.
** "♪[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|KRAAAAAAAGERRRRAAA!!!]]♪ [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|Friendtoallchildren, here to help!]]"
** "[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Gamera is really neat! Gamera is filled with meat! We've been eating Gamera!]]"
* [[King Kong]] is effectively the one memorable Western example, who assaults the [[Big Applesauce]].
** He is also - [[wikipedia:King Kong Appears in Edo|assuming this film actually existed]] - the earliest ''Japanese'' example!
* ''[[Cloverfield]]'' is a reconstruction of all kaiju attack movies, reminding people that Kaiju has its roots in the Disaster film and how terrifying, deadly, and incomprehensible such an attack would be to an average citizen as it did in the first Godzilla film (before the American edits).
* Insectosaurus of ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', down to having the same backstory as Godzilla, though generally being a homage to Mothra.
** The gigantic alien probe-robots also.
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* The Kraken in ''[[Clash of the Titans]]''. City-destroying? Check. [[Immune to Bullets|Impervious to normal weapons?]] Check. Huge? Check. [[The Remake]] takes that last part [[Up to Eleven]]; one of the thing's tentacles is about half as long as ''the city of Argos.''
* ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'' has a tribute to these, with Zangief and E. Honda duking it out in a model city.
* Referenced in ''[[Deep Rising]]'', at the end of which something unseen but HUGE moves toward the beach and the survivors, knocking down trees as it approaches. Not to mention its own multi-armed, lamprey-headed octopus with mouths at the end of each arm. Its head fills a ballroom and its tentacles can reach throughout an ocean linear.
* ''Thunder of the Giant Serpent'' has one of the largest snakes in cinema—it's head being bigger than a car when it gets big enough.
* ''[[The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms]]'' is an early prototype of this genre.
** Since the film ''The Giant Behemoth''/''Behemoth: The Sea Monster'' ([[Department of Redundancy Department]] or [[Sadly Mythtaken]], your choice) [[Whole-Plot Reference|is basically the same film]], it counts as one as well—with the only addition of it being able to project radioactive waves from its whole body.
* ''[[The Blob]]'' can be seen as a [[Blob Monster]] taken to this level as it grows larger. The 1980s Remake's climax is a full on Kaiju rampage.
** A lot of Blob Monsters get Kaiju like as they get bigger.
* ''Gappa: The Triphibian Monster'' fits the bill.
* ''Yonggary: the Monster from the Deep'' and its remake ''Yonggary'' are basically Korean Godzilla-knockoffs. The later film has it fight another Kaiju, named Cykor.
* Aside from ''[[King Kong]]'', there are other giant ape Kaiju. These include ''The Giant Peking Man'', ''Konga'', ''A.P.E.'', and ''King of the Lost World''.
* ''It Came From Beneath The Sea'' features an Octopus of Kaiju Proportions. Several other films (usually titled things like ''Octopus'' and ''Octopus 2: River of Fear'') feature similarly large giant cepholopods, but aren't as good as the [[Harryhausen Movie]].
* The title monster from ''Supercroc'' is a Kaiju-sized Crocodilian, with appropriately thick armor.
* The dragons from ''[[D-War]]'' fit the bill.
* The Kraken from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
* Iron Golem/Minotaur in ''Pulgasari'' isn't too big, but given its attacking medieval villages, it fits the bill. Notable for being from North Korea, and eventually banned there.
** An American [[Direct to Video]] film called ''The Adventure of Galgameth'' reset it in Medieval Europe, but has the same plot as Pulgasari, right down to the titular monster's weakness to salt water and growing by eating iron and its derivatives.
* The ''Daimajin'' series' titular monster is an ancient demon-god. It too battles medieval forces, but with a stone body and mystical powers. It also exists to punish the wicked—but has unreasonably high standards. So, each time after it frees the oppressed villagers from the evil warlord/king, it goes on to attack ''them''.
* The space monster Guilala from ''The X From Outer Space'' is one of the most bizarre Kaiju to have its own films.
* Talos from ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'' is made of bronze, but definitely fits the bill.
* The Giant Amoeba and "Rat-Bat-Spider" from ''Angry Red Planet'' fit the bill.
* ''Kraa: The Sea Monster'' is actually from Outer Space, but is 200 ft tall.
* ''Zarkorr: the Invader''
* The last shot of ''Deadly Spawn'' features one of the monsters grown larger than a house.
* The Ymir from ''20 Million Miles to Earth'' just scrapes in as it constantly grows as it remains on earth.
* The giant amoeba-like life form from the finale of ''[[Evolution (film)|Evolution]]'' certainly counts.
* The oliphants from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Return Of The King]]'', while smaller and less invulnerable than other examples, should get special mention for being an entire ''herd'' of Kaiju. And dressed up for battle, no less.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'' ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sando_aqua_monster Sando aqua monster] would qualify, as it spends most of its screen time devouring smaller [[Sea Monster|sea monsters]].
* Though not as huge as many on this list, the monster of the Korean film ''Gwoemul'', or ''[[The Host (2006 film)||The Host]]'', is in many ways a tribute to the genre.
* Numerous films by [[SyFy Channel Original Movie]] and [[The Asylum]].
* Jack Frost at the end of ''[[Jack Frost (1997 film)|Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman]]''.
* A commercial for the fast food chain Hella Burger in the [[Slasher Film]] '''''Drive Thru''''' depicts [[Monster Clown|Horny the Clown]] as one of these.
* ''[[The Troll Hunter]]'' has the giant Jotannar Troll, at over 200 ft tall.
* The fairly obscure ''Daigoro vs. Goliath'', produced by [[Ultra Series|Tsubaraya Productions]].
* [[Sharktopus]], anyone?
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== Live Action TV ==
* Abbadon from ''[[Torchwood]]'' is a giant life-sucking daemon which, when released, goes on a rampage in the streets of... [[Aliens in Cardiff|Cardiff]].
* Rampant in ''[[Super Sentai]]'' as well as their American import ''[[Power Rangers]]''; less common in ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', where the monsters tend to stay small-sized. (Except [[Kamen Rider J]].)
* ''[[Kaiju Big Battel]]'' is one giant [[Professional Wrestling]]-based parody of this.
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* ''[[SCTV]]'' had a sketch called "The Tim Ishimuni Show", which featured a giant [[Talking Animal|TALKING]] monster named Grogan ([[People in Rubber Suits|played by John Candy in a monster suit]]), who doesn't really go by the Kaiju stereotype of crushing things.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3ccJDplzs This] memorable GARMIN commercial from the superbowl.
* ''Agon: The Atomic Monster''/''Giant Phantom Monster Agon'' is one of the earliest attempts at a TV show about a giant monster. It only had 4 episodes.
* A ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story called ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' contained [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** Another story called ''The Seeds of Doom'' features an alien plant called a Krynoid, which eventually grows to a size of several tens of feet tall. The Doctor says it will max out at about the size of St Paul's Cathedral (at which point it will release thousands of seeds, dooming all animal life on Earth).
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== Mythology ==
* [[Norse Mythology]] brings us Jormugandr, the World Serpent. Enormous reptilian beast that will rise from the sea surrounding the world and has deadly breath. [[Unbuilt Trope|Sound Familiar?]] Regular monster, no way. You wanna take this down, your name best be Thor, god of thunder. Not to mention the giant wolf Fenrir.
* There's also the giants, especially Ymir.
* [[Kraken and Leviathan]] is gigantic.
* [[Classical Mythology]] has a few of these as well. Part of this was due to the idea that the Heroes of their myths were thought to have been giants themselves, standing roughly 3-4 times the size of modern men with the Gods and Titans being roughly that scale to them. But to bring up specifics, the titan Typhon with his multiple heads and burning body definitely counts. The original Chimera was treated as such, as were many of the monsters defeated by Hercules (Nemean Lion, Hydra, and the taming of Cerberus). The monsters Scylla and Charybdis also fit the Kaiju mold, being unstoppable by mortal men.
* Many of the most dangerous [[Our Giants Are Bigger|Giants]] and [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragons]] were essentially prototype Kaiju.
* In [[Hindu Mythology]], there's many a Rakshasha and Naga of immense size. Of note are Kumbhakarna, who was a giant even among the monstrous Rakshasha. His brother, Ravana, for his many heads and hands. Then there's Ananta-Sesha, a world serpent of a much more benevolent bent.
** Then there's Mada, an Asura that can make itself so large that it's capable of swallowing the universe.
** Some accounts of the Garuda depict this gigantic bird as being so large, it could pick up Godzilla and carry him off.
* From Abrahamic traditions and ''[[The Bible]]'', we have the lords of the animals: Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz. One's a giant aquatic dragon, the other an immense beast with a massive tail, and the last a giant bird.
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: From the mythology of the Babylonians, there's the monstrous [[Eldritch Abomination]] goddess Tiamat and her progeny. Mesopotamian myth also involves gigantic dragons.
* There's a Native American legend (which nation is unknown) involving a giant rattlesnake several hundred miles long.
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== Politics ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgfQwhKkVR8 This UKIP Party Political Broadcast] turns the EU into a [[Giant Squid|Giant Blue Octopus]] that attacks London with [[Combat Tentacles]] whilst warning against the EU attacking UK culture and ideals. UKIP - short for the UK Independence Party - is mainly concerned with Euro Scepticism.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** The old Basic/Expert/etc version of the rules had a method for super-sizing normal monsters. They also had critters that qualified as this trope right out of the box, like the earthquake beetle.
** No discussion of giant monsters in ''D&D'' is complete without mentioning the legendary Tarrasque. Only one exists on any given world; this reptilian monstrosity awakens every century to destroy everything in its path, devouring all life and reducing the countryside to rubble, and is completely unkillable without resorting to godlike magic.
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** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' has Witchlight Marauders, which function as both this and [[Enemy Summoner|hatchery]] for a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]. That's the Primaries at 200' to 500' long (Secondaries are still massive, but much smaller, derivatives of the Primaries at 20', and Tertiaries are human sized at 4' to 6' and still deadly), which were created with the explicit purpose of stripping life-bearing planets down to the bedrock. For true cosmic horror, there are the Space Marauders at over 1000' long, which create Primaries and drop them onto planets and function as living spacecraft as well.
* The collectible miniatures game ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'' is all about giant monsters (along with [[Humongous Mecha]] and alien invaders) duking it out.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has its share of giant, rampaging monsters. Most of these are behemoths, created either by the [[Fair Folk]] for use in their reality shaping battles, or by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Primordials]], for shits and giggles. Occasionally, an [[Our Dragons Are Different|elemental dragon]] will ascend to such a level of spiritual development that it goes insane. Also, elder Lunar Exalted can use their [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] to change into an incredibly strong monster that dwarfs cities.
** One of the more distinctive behemoths of the setting is Juggernaut, Mask of Winters' [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|undead citadel-beast]] that aided him in sieging Thorns.
** And then you've got the hekatonkhires, which are often what happen when behemoths die. One of them, Vodak, ate a ''city''.
* The game ''Gammarauders'' featured gigantic cyborg animals and dinosaurs with a variety of weapons sprouting from their bodies. Few things are more terrifying than a giant cybernetic [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguin]] waddling toward you, wrecking buildings as it comes.
* ''[[The Creature That Ate Sheboygan]]'', a wargame from SPI, is about the title city being attacked by a giant monster. One player defends the city with the National Guard and the other plays the monster.
** ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]'' includes a number of Monsters of various types (some living, some not), mostly for solo scenarios. One such scenario pays homage to the above game with the subtitle "The Creature that ate Sheboygan III".
* In ''[[Warhammer
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Resistance]] 2'' has the Leviathan, a giant monster that roams the flooded streets of Chicago.
* Spoofed heavily by the Lungfishopolis level of ''[[Psychonauts]]'': one mind is portrayed as a city of tiny lungfish-like creatures, meaning that Raz is gargantuan compared to them. Due to his [[Goggles Do Nothing|distinctive headgear]], the citizens immediately nickname him Goggalor. The [[Boss Battle]] of the level is the [[Villain with Good Publicity]] kaiju, who's hailed as a hero to protect them from "Goggalor" (and a [[Shout-Out]] to Ultraman)
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]] 2'' has the "Kojira Kaiju Battle" mission, a ''[[Godzilla]]'' parody complete with someone screaming "Kojira! Aieeee!", [[Breath Weapon|atomic breath]], and those weird anti-Kaiju tanks common in Godzilla films. Naturally, it takes place in Japan.
* ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]: Apocalypse'' has the Overspawn, giant aliens dropped by the [[Flying Saucer|Mothership]] for the sole purpose of rampaging all over the cityscape. They're actually pretty weak since they're usually up against the best of X-COM manufactured vehicles and weapons by the time they appear. Some players just leave them alone since they have a tendency of accidentally killing themselves when they get too close to a building they knock over.
* Speaking of rampaging, the characters you use in the ''[[Rampage (video game)|Rampage]]'' series of games.
* ''[[War of the Monsters]]'' is a [[Fighting Game]] in which the player can choose one of ten different Kaiju, including [[Captain Ersatz|pastiches]] of King Kong and Godzilla and an old school Japanese giant robot. [[Retraux|The game has a noticeable cheesy 1950s sci-fi feel to it]], featuring huge, fully destructible city environments.
* ''[[King of the Monsters]]'', a Kaiju wrestling game.
* Kyogre and Groudon of the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games. Sootopolis was the unlucky city that had front row seats to their coming. Heck, when the time came for ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' to adapt the Ruby/Sapphire games, the artist said that he wanted to recreate scenes from his favorite monster movies when he was drawing the volumes that involved those two's disaster-filled awakening and eventual battle.
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* The Weapons of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' are quite distinctly Kaiju, right down to incoherent roars, being vaguely humanoid, coming from the depths of the ocean, attacking major population centres and making craters on the main map screen when finally killed.
* ''[[Age of Mythology]]'''s expansion brings Titans to the battlefield. They're huge, they can trash a city on their own, and it takes a ton of firepower to bring one down. Don't let your enemy summon one.
* ''[[Spore]]'' gives us Epic creatures which you can encounter early on in the creature stage. Later on in the space phase, you can make your own and send them to destroy cities for you!
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' has at least two. First and foremost is Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric prince of destruction, and Jyggalag, Daedric prince of order. Although Jyggalag is the smallest of the two, he is taller than the city walls and is very powerful.
* ''[[Crush Crumble and Chomp]]'' gave the player four cities to destroy (Tokyo, New York City, Washington DC and San Francisco) and six monsters to destroy with (along with the ability to make your own monster).
* [[Big Bad|Kabuto]] from, well, ''[[Giants: Citizen Kabuto]]''.
* The whole idea is sort of deconstructed in ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''.
* Being a spinoff of [[Ultraman]], Kaiju Buster Powered naturally has plenty of Kaiju. However as it's also heavily inspired by [[Monster Hunter]], said Kaiju are more then capable of being taken down by humans with swords and energy weapons.
* Inspired ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. By [[Word of God]], the character designer Yoji Shinkawa was disappointed with the design of [[Godzilla]] [[In Name Only]] in the [[They Just Didn't Care|notoriously half-assed]] [[Roland Emmerich]] ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'', and so designed [[Walking Tank|Metal Gear RAY]]'s body, movements and [[Mighty Roar]] after how ''he'' [[Ascended Fanfic|would have redesigned Godzilla to look]]. There's also allusions made both in-game and in [[Word of God]] comparing Solid Snake to Godzilla and Raiden to King Kong, although this is more of a Kaiju version of [[Faux Symbolism]].
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== Web Original ==
* In the ''[http://www.sapphireplace.com/stories/corbin.html Of Masks and Marvels] Lady Lightning'' stories there is an attack by a Kaiju-sized sea-snail.
* Lord Sock in [[Coyle Command]] and the [[New Villain Order]] is a genetically engineered green and black serpent...that looks suspiciously like a sock.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' frequently fight Kaiju assaulting their [[City of Adventure]] when not engaging their [[Rogues Gallery]]. One is actually called a [[Robeast]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has four of these: The Unagi in Kyoshi Bay (that needs water, and therefore cannot attack the village); The Serpent from the Serpent's Pass (hence the name); Koizilla, the [[Fan Nickname]] for the Aang/Ocean Spirit Cross-fusion; and the currently unnamed Vine Monster that can be created by Huu.
* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode 'Partners', [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Drakken]] and [[Mad Scientist|DNAmy]] create a gigantic [[Godzilla]]-like creature that proceeds to destroy the town's fast food area. [[Reset Button|It doesn't stay destroyed, though]].
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* Trypticon, the city-form Decepticon from the original ''[[Transformers]]'' cartoon, resembles Godzilla in his robot mode, and is an obvious homage to classic kaiju films.
** Even more so in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'', he's taken the Godzilla homage [[Up to Eleven]], with some Mechagodzilla added in to boot. And not forgetting the titanic Decepticon City Transformer, Skorponok.
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' features several kaiju. More memorable ones involve an extra-dimensional horror with many eyes and tentacles (the start of a [[Stable Time Loop]]) and iconic Dexter "oops". Another episode involved Dexter and Dee Dee becoming giant monsters by drinking Dexter's monster potions and having an all out battle (complete with [[Calling Your Attacks]]). Finally, there's Badaxtra, the monster of the original Finale who nearly destroyed the world.
* An episode of ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' parodying anime and other Japanese tropes had a kaiju called Maninsuit.
* The ''[[Inhumanoids]]'' premiere episode had Tendril shambling through [[San Francisco]], trashing streets and tossing cars at helicopters.
* ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'' features the Zillo Beast, which is a Kaiju for the Star Wars Universe, though its plot is similar to that of King Kong...initially...
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' had a rampaging blue bear that was covered in stars and was as large as your average house even when it's on all fours. This is the Ursa Major{{spoiler|'s baby, the Ursa Minor. The actual Ursa Major makes that one look absolutely puny}}.
* In one episode of ''[[What's New, Scooby
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** Lisa is sentenced to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island, where she is chased by monsters despite its [[Non-Indicative Name]].<ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|It's actually a peninsula.]]</ref>
** As the family is leaving Tokyo, the plane warning lights for Godzilla holding the plane light up.
{{quote|'''Captain''': Uh, folks, we're experiencing some moderate Godzilla-related turbulence at this time, so I'm going to go ahead and ask you to put your seatbelts back on. When we get to 35 thousand feet, he usually does let go, so from there on out, all we have to worry about is Mothra, and, uh, we do have reports he's tied up with Gamera and Rodan at the present time. Thank you very much.}}
** A hobo tells the story of [[Paul Bunyan]] where he pushes Rodan, who then falls over Babe the ox. Lisa informs him that never happened.
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