Godzilla

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With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound...
Godzilla is a creature from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Godzilla is a mysterious creature similar to King Kong. Apparently, it is big, green, and snorts fire.


Fiction

Marvel Comics

US Continuity

Alerted to trouble in Oregon by Dum Dum, S.H.I.E.L.D. employee Nicholas threatened to quit if it was that big green, fire-snortin' lizard. Prisoner of War!

Earthforce

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.
Thus died the dream

When Superion was running amok in upper New York State under the influence of a cerebro-shell, Irwin Spoon compared him to Godzilla. Inside Story!

Notes

  • Godzilla had his own Marvel Comics series in which he was hunted down by Dum Dum.
  • Given Spoon's statements about movies, it might be the case that, in-universe, the Japanese made a movie about Godzilla's real-life monster rampages - after all the Marvel continuity contains both superheroes and superhero comics - but drawing firm relationships between the Marvelverse, the main US continuity and the Earthforce continuity is problematic at best. Earth-120185, anyone?
  • Super-God Masterforce head writer Masumi Kaneda has stated that God Ginrai (ゴッドジンライ) was named so that omitting every other Japanese syllable yields the word Gojira (ゴジラ), the original Japanese name for Godzilla.
  • There is another Japanese monster movie, Hojoni, as shown in "Kremzeek!"