Gamera
What Is It? A giant turtle thing. Created by a rival studio to head up an alternative to the Godzilla franchise. But he&rsquဣo;s a good guy, so, politics permitting, a team-up with Godzilla could work - as long as the film’s villain monster doesn’t live in 🙈a lettuce patch.
First Seen In... Gamera (1965)
Origin: Slept under Arctic ice until an atomic bla🅰st woke him up.
Powers: Flying, breathing fire, walking upright, eating really slowly, fal✱ling off the ed🎉ge of tables.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Christian Bale.
Mothra
What Is It? A giant woman moth thing. Usually accompanied by two little fairy butterflies who do the talking for her. Genuinely popular with J♛apanese girls.
First Seen In... Mothra (1961). Met Godzilla for the first time in Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964). Godzilla won.
Origin: A big blue egg from, it would seem, space.
Powers: Emits poisonous dust, shoots laser rays from antennae, zaps ꦦlightning bolts from wings, telepathic. Can’t throw a b🎃all to save its life, though.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Dakota Fanning.
Rodan
What Is It? A giant green pterodactyl thing. Looks worryingly chicken-like from some angleꦚs.
First Seen In... Rodan (1956)
Origin: Unearthed by an ill-advised ༒mining operation - along with a swarm of prehistoric, people-eating insects.
Powers: It can create hurricanꦫe-force winds and blast out destructive sonic booms. Also, flies really fast, weighs 16,000 tons, tears up buildings with titanic talon🃏s and is forced to bob its head backwards and forwards as it walks for some reason.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Ray Liotta.
King Ghidorah
What Is It? A giant dragon thing. With three heads.
First Seen In... Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Origin: Space. Controlled by evi🌺l beings fro♊m Planet X, just outside Jupiter.
Powers: Breathing fire, flying really fast, making hurricane winds come out of his wings, really annoying high-pitched squawking.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Anne Hathaway.
King Ghidorah
What Is It? A giant dragon thing. With three heads.
First Seen In... Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Origin: Space. Controlle🦄d by evil beings from Planet X, just outside Jupiter.
Powers: Breathing fire, flying really fast, making hurricane winds come out of his wings, really annoying high-pitched squawking.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Anne Hathaway.
Gigan
What Is It? A giant spiky monster thing. Not really something y🌜ou would care to meet down a dark alley. Unless you're blind.
First Seen In... Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Origin: He's a mate of King Ghidorah's. Both of them took tꦚhe trip from space to Earth together, possibly sharing the driving and popping sweets into each other's mouths.
Powers: He's got enormous great metal hooks inste𝄹ad of hands which, should frantic stabbing prove ineffective, he can also use to shoot out explosive charges at your face.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Seth Rogen.
Hedorah
What Is It? Jesus, we don’t know. It’s supposed to be an evolved tadpole (from space). But it’s more like a child’s plasticine model that’s been left alone in a daycare centre during a summer heatwave, mocked by spiteful Ben 10 action figures and f𝓡orced to remain still and stoical as sun-sheltering house spiders scuttle across its forehead.
First Seen In... Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
Origin: A pond in space.
Powers: According to some frightening fansite we’ve found, Hedorah is Godzilla’s most powerful adver💞sary. It 🎐can squirt CHUNKS OF ITS OWN ACIDIC BODY at opponents, as well as firing a laser gun from out of its eye.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Carey Mulligan.
King Kong
What Is It? A giant ape thing. Obviously.
First Seen In... King Kong (1933)
Origin: Prehistoric gorilla who, according to Godzilla l𒐪o💎re, loped across a land bridge from Asia to Skull Island where he lived like a lord and ate women.
Powers: Grunting, roaring, chest-beating, ice-skating.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Colin Firth.
Varan
What Is It? A giant flying�🙈� squirrel thing with horns on its back.
First Seen In... Varan (1958)
Origin: He’s the 'mountain god' of an understandably coꦆmpliant village. Annoyed by a nearby scientific study of butterflies (really) he emerges from his mountain lair and attacks Tokyo. Pre-Godzilla, he’s eventually destroyed by bombs containing “special gunpowder&rdq𒊎uo; (really again).
Powers: Membranes under his arms let him leap and glide around disturbingly. He can also level buildings with a swish of his tail and, in some incarnations, fire a ball of energy out of his mouth. Godzilla then bats💞 it back at him. Astonishingly, this dual monster weapon interplay was responsible for table-tennis being big in Japan in the ‘50s.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Morgan Freeman.
Manda
What Is It? A giant snake thing. Or possibly a dragon with a long neck... Sorry.♍ Godzilla.com doesn’t really make it clear.
First Seen In... Atragon (1963)
Origin: He was a dragon (ah!) who lived in the sea and attacked warships which fought him off with electric shocks and he tried to swim away but he was shot by a powerful freezing cannon and aliens came🙈 dow෴n and took control of Manda and made him attack humans until humans freed him from alien mind control and made him attack them back.
Powers: Crushing wi🍨th his body, fast swimming, breathing underwater, strategic hissing.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Brenda Blethyn.
Mechagodzilla
What Is It? Godzilla, only in robot form.
First Seen In... Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974)
Origin: The ‘mecha’ layer was a disguise conceived by sneaky ape-like aliens who pl๊anned to fool people into thinking he was the real Godzilla. But the real Godzilla breathed on him and 💟burned off the ‘pseudo-flesh’, thus exposing the ruse. He then had to go back to space for repairs (really, really).
Powers: Shoots a laser from his mouth and missiles from his fingers꧅. Cool!
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Anthony Hopkins.
Space Godzilla
What Is It? Godzilla, only from space. It’s a modified, outrageously pimped super-Godzilla clone, carefully designe💎d to be toy-friendl♚y.
First Seen In... Godzilla vs Space Godzilla (1994)
Origin: It came from a 'white hole' with plans to take over Earth by defeating Proper🅰 Godzilla. Guess how that goes...
Powers: Energy beam from mouth, telekinesis, EMP wave... Has also beඣen known to pat his head and rub his tummy at the same time.
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Ryan Gosling.
Jean Reno
What Is It? A huge, secret-service monster thing, hell-bent on killing Godzilla and, in order to prop up Roland Emmerich'ꦿs idea of Frenchness (even though he's Belgian) getting a “decent ꧒cup of coffee” and a quality croissant.
First Seen In... Godzilla (1998)
Origin: Belgium, not France.
Powers: Scowling, baritone grunting, abysmal Elvis impersonating, avoiding being in a decent film since Ronin .
Who Should Do The Voice-Over If It Speaks Or Roars? Golden Voice Homeless Guy.
