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[[File:negadon.jpg|frame|(I guess "Miroku 2" doesn't make for a good movie title.)]]

'''Negadon, The Monster from Mars''' is a short CGI film that pays homage to the [[Kaiju|Giant Monster]] movies from the 1960s. This includes having a grainy-old-film look, spaceships that look like toy models, etc. Despite this, its story is played completely straight (and it's a [[Tear Jerker]] too) and the quality of the graphics is very high.

The story takes place in the future, when humanity begins exploring Mars for colonization. They find a strange object there and, [[Too Dumb to Live|of course]], bring it back to Earth, where it turns into a monster and starts destroying Tokyo. A scientist named Dr. Narasaki, who has been in seclusion ever since the accidental death of his small daughter, is stirred into action and brings his old [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]] out of storage to fight this menace.

You can watch it [https://web.archive.org/web/20111230155735/http://www.hulu.com/watch/117925/negadon-the-monster-from-mars-negadon-the-monsters-from-mars here].

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* [[All CGI Cartoon]]
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Dead Little Daughter in this case.
*  {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Predictable, but still very moving.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Narasaki blames mankind for bringing Negadon upon themselves. Then again he's [[Unreliable Narrator|not exactly in the mood to be fair.]]
* [[Narm]]: To be honest, the monster looks like a giant umbrella...
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: "May my final gift to humanity...be sending you to oblivion!"
* [[Retro Future]]
* [[Shared Universe]]: With [[Planzet]], that takes place 22 years later.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A close up of a moth might be a homage to [[Mothra]].
** Narasaki is a scientist with a missing eye (he has a bionic replacement) and has the only weapon capable of killing the monster but refuses to use it, [[Godzilla|sound familiar?]]
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Subverted- the film intentionally imitates the old [[Kaiju]] movies complete with their bad SFX, but the movie itself is ''very'' detailed; even its human characters manage to avoid the [[Uncanny Valley]] for the most part.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Negadon is an alien monster that's not even vaguely humanoid and resembles some form of shellfish more than anything else on Earth.
* [[Super Robot]]: The Miroku was created to be an exploration and construction device, not a weapon, but it still came even with built-in drills and a (sort of) [[Rocket Punch]].
* [[Terraforming]]: What people planned to do with Mars.
* [[This Is a Drill]]: The Miroku 2's primary weapon is an arm mounted drill.
* [[Tokyo Fireball]]: Negadon lands in Tokyo like a meteor, causing a huge crater, then proceeds to obliterate everything in its path.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The story takes place in 2025.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: The alien monster is never named within the film itself.
* [[The Woobie]]: Narasaki.

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