Godzilla
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Godzilla | |
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Species | Monster (kaiju) |
Gender | Male |
Member of | Calico crew |
Affiliation | Captain Carl Majors Doctor Quinn Darien Brock Borden Pete Darien |
Other relative(s) | Godzooky |
Children | One unnamed daughter in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School |
First appearance | GZ: "The Firebird" |
Played by | Ted Cassidy |
Godzilla is a giant monster and the titular character of the Godzilla animated television series. His vocal effects were provided by Ted Cassidy.
Godzilla is the mighty protector of the Calico crew, and he is called upon whenever they fall prey to giant hostile monsters.
Character description
Appearances
TV series
- Godzilla
- 1.1 "The Firebird"
- 1.2 "The Eartheater"
- 1.3 "Attack of the Stone Creature"
- 1.4 "The Megavolt Monster"
- 1.5 "The Seaweed Monster"
- 1.6 "The Energy Beast"
- 1.7 "The Colossus of Atlantis"
- 1.8 "The Horror of Forgotten Island"
- 1.9 "Island of Lost Ships"
- 1.10 "The Magnetic Terror"
- 1.11 "The Breeder Beast"
- 1.12 "The Sub-Zero Terror"
- 1.13 "The Time Dragons"
- 2.1 "Calico Clones"
- 2.2 "Microgodzilla"
- 2.3 "Ghost Ship"
- 2.4 "The Beast of Storm Island"
- 2.5 "The City in the Clouds"
- 2.6 "The Cyborg Whale"
- 2.7 "Valley of the Giants"
- 2.8 "Moonlode"
- 2.9 "The Golden Guardians"
- 2.10 "The Macro-Beasts"
- 2.11 "Pacific Peril"
- 2.12 "Island of Doom"
- 2.13 "The Deadly Asteroid"
Movies
- Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (another incarnation; foot only)
Shorts
- "Godzilla vs. the Y2K Bug" (mentioned)
Comics
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
- Issue #43: "Nothing is Impossible"
Books
- Godzilla Jokes and Riddles Coloring Book
- Godzilla Dot-To-Dots
- Godzilla Search-A-Word Shapes
- Godzilla Puzzlers
Biography
Development
Gallery
- Main article: Godzilla/Gallery
Behind the scenes
- Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla has several key differences that separate him from his film counterpart:
- Godzilla is depicted here as a green monster, whereas almost all other incarnations of the character have a black-to-grey color palette.
- Godzilla's roars were performed by Ted Cassidy, rather than the traditional sound effect created by Toho. He performed similar work for the live action TV series The Incredible Hulk, which began airing the same year.
- Godzilla's signature attack is to breathe fire in the cartoon, while most iterations have a radioactive, atomic breath beam. Despite its appearance, Godzilla's fire breath in the cartoon is also noted to be atomic in nature.
- He is the only incarnation of the character to shoot lasers from his eyes.
- Godzilla's size is inconsistent throughout episodes, but he is implied to be 30 stories high (roughly 325 feet; 99 meters) according to the show's theme song.
- Despite Hanna-Barbera's rights to the character expiring after the series' conclusion in 1979, Godzilla made an unlicensed cameo in the 1988 film, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, alongside his unnamed daughter. His foot was only shown in that appearance.
- Godzilla and several monsters from the series also cameo in one panel of DC Comics' Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #43.
- Ted Cassidy's roars for Godzilla were later used as sounds for Zod in the Challenge of the GoBots episode "Battle for Gobotron," the Rockasaurs in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, and for El Chupacabra in Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.
- Outside of Hanna-Barbera productions, they were also used for Dogadon in the game Donkey Kong 64, and Pisces in the Fairy Tail episode "Kagura vs. Yukino".