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Since this seems to be going by debut order, Megaguirus did come before 'GMK.


[[folder:Yuri Tachibana]]
!!Yuri Tachibana
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-> '''Played By:''' Chiharu Niiyama

The protagonist ''Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack''. She is a tabloid news reporter who follows Godzilla during his rampage through Japan and battle with the Guardian Monsters.

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[[folder:Yuri Tachibana]]
!!Yuri Tachibana
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[[folder:Kiriko Tsujimori]]
!! Kiriko Tsujimori
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-> '''Played By:''' Chiharu Niiyama

Misato Tanaka

The protagonist ''Godzilla, Mothra, main character of ''[[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus Megaguirus]]'', Kiriko is the Captain of a G-Graspers unit that fights Godzilla. She holds a grudge against the King Ghidorah: Giant of the Monsters All-Out Attack''. She is a tabloid news reporter who follows Godzilla during his rampage through Japan and battle with the Guardian Monsters.
for killing her Major.



%%* ActionGirl: She follows Godzilla closely during the events of the movie, and repeatedly finds herself right smack dab in the middle between him and the Guardians.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: As a reporter, she frequently pursues Godzilla, hoping to get the best story of him. Its safe to say that by the end of the film, she has become something of a celebrity thanks to her story.
* IntrepidReporter: What she ends up by the end of her movie, though she starts off as a tabloid reporter thanks to the channel she works for.

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%%* ActionGirl: * AcePilot: She follows somehow manages to wrestle the ''Griffon'', a fairly big and bulky prototype VTOL, onto a Shibuya rooftop even after the controls have been rendered almost inoperable. Later, she pilots the same VTOL up high enough for a satellite tracking system to lock onto it, then dives back down and slams it into Godzilla closely during in a kamikaze attack, only bailing out at the events of last second.
%%* ActionGirl
* InconsistentSpelling: Kiriko's surname, Tsujimori, is romanized as "Tuzimori" on
the movie, and repeatedly finds herself right smack dab back of her helmet, despite a computer screen in the middle between him and the Guardians.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: As a reporter, she frequently pursues Godzilla, hoping to get the best story of him. Its safe to say that by the end of the film, she has become something of a celebrity thanks to her story.
* IntrepidReporter: What she ends up by the end of her movie, though she starts off as a tabloid reporter thanks
film later reading "Tsujimori." That not even getting to the channel she works for.
fact that the English subtitles on Sony's Blu-ray release of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus instead romanize her name as "Tujimori."
%%* PrimAndProperBun
* ShipTease: With Hajime Kudo.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality



[[folder:Yuri Tachibana]]
!!Yuri Tachibana
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-> '''Played By:''' Chiharu Niiyama

The protagonist ''Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack''. She is a tabloid news reporter who follows Godzilla during his rampage through Japan and battle with the Guardian Monsters.

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%%* ActionGirl: She follows Godzilla closely during the events of the movie, and repeatedly finds herself right smack dab in the middle between him and the Guardians.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: As a reporter, she frequently pursues Godzilla, hoping to get the best story of him. Its safe to say that by the end of the film, she has become something of a celebrity thanks to her story.
* IntrepidReporter: What she ends up by the end of her movie, though she starts off as a tabloid reporter thanks to the channel she works for.

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[[folder:Kiriko Tsujimori]]
!! Kiriko Tsujimori
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-> '''Played By:''' Misato Tanaka

The main character of ''[[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus Megaguirus]]'', Kiriko is the Captain of a G-Graspers unit that fights Godzilla. She holds a grudge against the King of the Monsters for killing her Major.

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[[folder:Kiriko Tsujimori]]
!! Kiriko Tsujimori
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[[folder:Akane Yashiro]]
!!Akane Yashiro
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-> '''Played By:''' Misato Tanaka

Yumiko Shaku

The main character of ''[[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus Megaguirus]]'', Kiriko is the Captain of a G-Graspers unit that fights Godzilla. She holds a grudge against the King pilot of the Monsters for killing her Major.
Millenium Era Mechagodzilla, Akane is one of the main protagonists of ''Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla''.



* AcePilot: She somehow manages to wrestle the ''Griffon'', a fairly big and bulky prototype VTOL, onto a Shibuya rooftop even after the controls have been rendered almost inoperable. Later, she pilots the same VTOL up high enough for a satellite tracking system to lock onto it, then dives back down and slams it into Godzilla in a kamikaze attack, only bailing out at the last second.

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* AcePilot: She somehow manages was able to wrestle the ''Griffon'', (In a fairly big and bulky prototype VTOL, onto a Shibuya rooftop even after the controls have been rendered almost inoperable. Later, she pilots the same VTOL up high enough for a satellite tracking system to lock onto it, then dives back down and slams it into damage mech no less) force Godzilla in into a kamikaze attack, only bailing out at the last second.stalemate.



* InconsistentSpelling: Kiriko's surname, Tsujimori, is romanized as "Tuzimori" on the back of her helmet, despite a computer screen in the film later reading "Tsujimori." That not even getting to the fact that the English subtitles on Sony's Blu-ray release of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus instead romanize her name as "Tujimori."
%%* PrimAndProperBun
* ShipTease: With Hajime Kudo.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality

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* InconsistentSpelling: Kiriko's surname, TheAtoner: Believes she has to make up for her failure to defeat Godzilla on her first outing against him.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'''s Kiriko
Tsujimori, is romanized whose actress makes a cameo as "Tuzimori" on the back of a nurse rescued by Akane.
* TheScapegoat: After
her helmet, despite a computer screen in the film later reading "Tsujimori." That not even getting to the fact that the English subtitles on Sony's Blu-ray release of initial attempt at defeating Godzilla vs. Megaguirus instead romanize her name as "Tujimori."
%%* PrimAndProperBun
fails, she is blamed for all of the military's losses and transferred to a desk job.
* ShipTease: With Hajime Kudo.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality
project scientist and Mechagodzilla technician, Tokumitsu Yuhara.
* TookALevelInBadass: Seems to take one everytime Mechagodzilla III does.
* WorthyOpponent: She and Kiryu seem to view Godzilla as one. He may just reciprocate.



[[folder:Akane Yashiro]]
!!Akane Yashiro
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-> '''Played By:''' Yumiko Shaku

The pilot of the Millenium Era Mechagodzilla, Akane is one of the main protagonists of ''Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla''.

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[[folder:Akane Yashiro]]
!!Akane Yashiro
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[[folder:Captain Douglas Gordon]]
!!Captain Douglas Gordon
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-> '''Played By:''' Yumiko Shaku

Don Frye

The pilot non-mutant captain of the Millenium Era Mechagodzilla, Akane is one of ''Gotengo'', Gordon leads the main protagonists of ''Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla''.
remaining resistance against the Xiliens.



* AcePilot: She was able to (In a damage mech no less) force Godzilla into a stalemate.
%%* ActionGirl
* TheAtoner: Believes she has to make up for her failure to defeat Godzilla on her first outing against him.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'''s Kiriko Tsujimori, whose actress makes a cameo as a nurse rescued by Akane.
* TheScapegoat: After her initial attempt at defeating Godzilla fails, she is blamed for all of the military's losses and transferred to a desk job.
* ShipTease: With project scientist and Mechagodzilla technician, Tokumitsu Yuhara.
* TookALevelInBadass: Seems to take one everytime Mechagodzilla III does.
* WorthyOpponent: She and Kiryu seem to view Godzilla as one. He may just reciprocate.

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* AcePilot: She was able AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Manda learned the hard way that his crew respect his authority enough to (In risk getting fried near a damage mech no less) force Godzilla into volcano if it means killing a stalemate.
kaiju.
* BadassBoast: "There are two things you didn't know about Earth. One's me. And the other's [[GodzillaThreshold Godzilla.]]"
* BadassNormal: The most ass-kicking normal person in the movie.
* BigShutUp: Delivers one to his superior when she calls up to chastise him about almost sinking the Gotengo.
* GratuitousEnglish: Gordon's dialogue in ''Final Wars'' is always in English. Even if he's the only person in the conversation speaking it.
%%* ActionGirl
KatanasAreJustBetter
* TheAtoner: Believes she has to make up for her failure to defeat Godzilla on her first outing against him.
* {{Expy}}: Of ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'''s Kiriko Tsujimori, whose actress makes a cameo as a nurse rescued by Akane.
* TheScapegoat: After her initial attempt at defeating Godzilla fails, she is blamed for all of the military's losses and transferred to a desk
ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: NOTHING, not even court martials can stop him from doing his job.
%%* TheCaptain
* ShipTease: With project scientist and Mechagodzilla technician, Tokumitsu Yuhara.
* TookALevelInBadass: Seems to take one everytime Mechagodzilla III does.
* WorthyOpponent: She and Kiryu seem to view Godzilla as one. He may just reciprocate.
WouldHitAGirl: Would bitchslap her in fact, ''killing her.''



[[folder:Captain Douglas Gordon]]
!!Captain Douglas Gordon
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-> '''Played By:''' Don Frye

The non-mutant captain of the ''Gotengo'', Gordon leads the remaining resistance against the Xiliens.

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!!Captain Douglas Gordon
[[folder:Shinichi Ozaki]]
!!Shinichi Ozaki
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-> '''Played By:''' Don Frye

Masahiro Matsuoka

The non-mutant captain main character of the ''Gotengo'', Gordon leads the remaining resistance against the Xiliens.
''Final Wars'', Ozaki is a mutant who manages to escape Xilien mind control thanks to his special "Keizer" heritage.



* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Manda learned the hard way that his crew respect his authority enough to risk getting fried near a volcano if it means killing a kaiju.
* BadassBoast: "There are two things you didn't know about Earth. One's me. And the other's [[GodzillaThreshold Godzilla.]]"
* BadassNormal: The most ass-kicking normal person in the movie.
* BigShutUp: Delivers one to his superior when she calls up to chastise him about almost sinking the Gotengo.
* GratuitousEnglish: Gordon's dialogue in ''Final Wars'' is always in English. Even if he's the only person in the conversation speaking it.
%%* KatanasAreJustBetter
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: NOTHING, not even court martials can stop him from doing his job.
%%* TheCaptain
* WouldHitAGirl: Would bitchslap her in fact, ''killing her.''

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* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Manda learned the hard way that his crew respect his authority enough to risk getting fried near a volcano if it means killing a kaiju.
* BadassBoast: "There are two things you didn't know about Earth. One's me. And the other's [[GodzillaThreshold Godzilla.]]"
* BadassNormal: The most ass-kicking normal person in the movie.
* BigShutUp: Delivers one to his superior when she calls up to chastise him about almost sinking the Gotengo.
* GratuitousEnglish: Gordon's dialogue in ''Final Wars'' is always in English. Even if he's the only person in the conversation speaking it.
%%* KatanasAreJustBetter
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: NOTHING, not even court martials can stop him
{{Expy}}: Of Neo from doing his job.
%%* TheCaptain
Franchise/TheMatrix.
* WouldHitAGirl: Would bitchslap her in fact, ''killing her.''TheHero: Share this role with Godzilla.
* LastOfHisKind: By the end of the film, he is the last surviving Mutant on Earth.
* {{Mutant}}: And a special one at that.
* ShipTease: With Otonashi.
* ShockAndAwe: Has the same powers as the Xilien leader X.



[[folder:Shinichi Ozaki]]
!!Shinichi Ozaki
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-> '''Played By:''' Masahiro Matsuoka

The main character of ''Final Wars'', Ozaki is a mutant who manages to escape Xilien mind control thanks to his special "Keizer" heritage.

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!!Shinichi Ozaki
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!Reiwa Series
[[folder:Rando Yaguchi]]
!!Rando Yaguchi
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-> '''Played By:''' Masahiro Matsuoka

Hiroki Hasegawa

The main character of ''Final Wars'', Ozaki closest thing to a protagonist that ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has. Yaguchi is a mutant who manages the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Japan, and heads the task force created to escape Xilien mind control thanks to his special "Keizer" heritage.
research Godzilla and find its weaknesses.



* {{Expy}}: Of Neo from Franchise/TheMatrix.
* TheHero: Share this role with Godzilla.
* LastOfHisKind: By the end of the film, he is the last surviving Mutant on Earth.
* {{Mutant}}: And a special one at that.
* ShipTease: With Otonashi.
* ShockAndAwe: Has the same powers as the Xilien leader X.

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* {{Expy}}: Of Neo from Franchise/TheMatrix.
* TheHero: Share this role with Godzilla.
* LastOfHisKind: By the end of the film, he
AgentMulder: Yaguchi is the last surviving Mutant on Earth.
* {{Mutant}}: And a special
only one at that.
* ShipTease: With Otonashi.
* ShockAndAwe: Has
to dare to believe that the same powers as "massive entity" is indeed a living creature. Initially, [[CassandraTruth nobody takes his claims seriously]]. Then the Xilien leader X.creature's tail shows up.
* BadassBureaucrat: He does everything he can to deal with Godzilla and minimize the kaiju's threat over the country. He gets help from all over the government to put together a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to assist him to that end.



!Reiwa Series
[[folder:Rando Yaguchi]]
!!Rando Yaguchi
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-> '''Played By:''' Hiroki Hasegawa

The closest thing to a protagonist that ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has. Yaguchi is the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Japan, and heads the task force created to research Godzilla and find its weaknesses.
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* AgentMulder: Yaguchi is the only one to dare to believe that the "massive entity" is indeed a living creature. Initially, [[CassandraTruth nobody takes his claims seriously]]. Then the creature's tail shows up.
* BadassBureaucrat: He does everything he can to deal with Godzilla and minimize the kaiju's threat over the country. He gets help from all over the government to put together a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to assist him to that end.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to his own creation, the Oxygen Destroyer. He's horrified that all he's been able to produce is a weapon.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
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His reaction to his own creation, the Oxygen Destroyer. He's horrified that all he's been able to produce is a weapon.weapon.
** There's also his injuring Ogata during their fight over using the weapon to destroy Godzilla, when he realizes how Emiko feels about Ogata.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Played by then 26 year old Akihiko Hirata. Given that World War II ended in 1945, this would have implied that he was at least 17 years old when he was a soldier. Being that young while in the warzone makes ''a lot of sense'' for being shell-shocked as he is.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Twice over. His hesitance in shooting Godzilla in Odo Island costs the lives of the engineers except Tachibana and the latter calls him out on it. Then after Godzilla detonates a nuclear explosion with his atomic breath, he blames himself when Noriko pushes him to a nearby building to shield him from the blast, but gets blown away. This causes him to be a DeathSeeker and wants to kill Godzilla personally.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Willingly assisted the Simians’ invasion of Earth simply to satiate his revenge against human society for ostracizing him, with Mugal promising a lofty position in Earth’s “improved” government to sweeten the deal. [[spoiler: Considering how eager they were to use Mafune as a {{Human Shield}}, it’s more likely they were planning to pay him back [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness with a laser blast to the back of the head]].]]
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A colonel in the JSDF and one of the leaders of the Defend Against Godzilla unit. He is a supporting character in Godzilla vs. Biollante, and is later referenced in Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla.

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The protagonist of ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne''. Koichi is a former Kamikaze pilot who was heavily traumatized by Godzilla's attack on Odo Island, and after World War II ended, his hometown of Ginza was burned to the ground by American B29 Firebombing, killing his parents. However, he takes in a thief named Noriko and a baby girl named Akiko who both parents died in the firebombings. As life seems to turn around, he takes a minesweeping job, but his war isn't over as he once again faces Godzilla, who was mutated by Operation Crossroads nuclear test.

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The protagonist of ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne''. Koichi is a former Kamikaze kamikaze pilot who was heavily traumatized by Godzilla's attack on Odo Island, and after World War II ended, his hometown of neighborhood near Ginza was burned to the ground by American B29 Firebombing, killing his parents. However, he takes in a thief named Noriko Oishi and a baby girl named Akiko who both parents had died in the firebombings. As life seems to turn around, he takes a minesweeping job, but his war isn't over as he once again faces Godzilla, who was mutated by Operation Crossroads nuclear test.



* TraumaCongaLine: Jesus Christ... First, his hesitation lead to the deaths of the engineers except Tachibana. Then Tachibana shows him the photos of their families, which already puts enough guilt on his conscience. Then he finds out his parents were killed by the Firebombing of his hometown. Then Godzilla directly attacks Ginza, leading to Noriko's ([[spoiler:apparent]]) death, and is surrounded by the destroyed city caused by Godzilla's atomic breath.

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* TraumaCongaLine: Jesus Christ... First, his hesitation lead to the deaths of the engineers except Tachibana.Tachibana on the Odo Island garrison. Then Tachibana shows him the photos of their families, which already puts enough guilt on his conscience. Then he finds out his parents were killed by the Firebombing Tokyo firebombing of his hometown.neighborhood. Then Godzilla directly attacks Ginza, leading to Noriko's ([[spoiler:apparent]]) death, and is surrounded by the destroyed city caused by Godzilla's atomic breath.
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* DeathSeeker: After Godzilla destroys Ginza, he feels he has nothing to live for, save giving Akiko a better future. [[spoiler:He decides against dying with Godzilla]].


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* ShellShockedVeteran: His [=PTSD=] is very severe, he has night terrors over Godzilla's attack on Odo Island, and he's convinced that he's DeadAllAlong. He snaps out of it when he saw the photos of the engineers and their families.
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[[folder:Koichi Shikishima]]
->'''Played By:''' Ryunosuke Kamiki

The protagonist of ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne''. Koichi is a former Kamikaze pilot who was heavily traumatized by Godzilla's attack on Odo Island, and after World War II ended, his hometown of Ginza was burned to the ground by American B29 Firebombing, killing his parents. However, he takes in a thief named Noriko and a baby girl named Akiko who both parents died in the firebombings. As life seems to turn around, he takes a minesweeping job, but his war isn't over as he once again faces Godzilla, who was mutated by Operation Crossroads nuclear test.
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* DirtyCoward: How he saw himself when Godzilla attacks Odo Island. His hesitation lead to the deaths of the engineers, and Tachibana [[WhatTheHellHero hates him for not pulling the trigger]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Jesus Christ... First, his hesitation lead to the deaths of the engineers except Tachibana. Then Tachibana shows him the photos of their families, which already puts enough guilt on his conscience. Then he finds out his parents were killed by the Firebombing of his hometown. Then Godzilla directly attacks Ginza, leading to Noriko's ([[spoiler:apparent]]) death, and is surrounded by the destroyed city caused by Godzilla's atomic breath.

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