History Film / Gamera

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date. The trailer was released in early 2023, and the show premiered on September 7th, 2023.

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date. The trailer was released in early 2023, and the show is currently scheduled to premiere on September 7th, 2023.

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date. The trailer was released in early 2023, and the show is expected to premiere late in the summer of 2023.

* ElementalPunch: Gamera's Plasma Fist in ''Gamera 3''.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Gamera's Mana Beam. While it's his most powerful weapon and capable of completely destroying the immensely powerful Legion in one shot, utilizing it drains the Earth's life energy and will result in the Gyaos' numbers skyrocketing to massive levels.

** ''Gamera 3'' being the biggest, what with it explaining that because Gamera used the Mana Cannon in the preceding movie, more Gyaos are appearing around the world, as well as implying that even the use of simple fireballs costs mana. It also demonstrates that, for good or not, a monster out to kill worse monsters will cause ''major'' damage in a city. ''Gamera 3'' is also more human-driven than even the other two movies; it's about people in a world with monsters, and Gamera is the best one.

* FantasticNuke: In ''Gamera 2'', when the Legion Flower launches its seeds into space, it does so with the force of a nuclear explosion. Gamera stops one from doing so near the beginning of the movie, but when he tries to stop a second one, it literally blows up in his face, utterly destroying the city and killing the mighty turtle ([[FirstLawOfResurrection he gets better]]).

* GodzillaThreshold: Legion forces Gamera and mankind to cross this in the second film. She's so powerful and her kind such a threat to the planet that the military has to backup Gamera for them to have a chance to stop her. Even this proves to not be enough to stop her and Gamera ultimately has to resort to his strongest weapon, the Mana Beam, to kill her. This ironically forces him to cross it further in the third film because this act not only revives the Gyaos, but does so in such staggering numbers to the point Gamera has to disregard humanity to hunt them down and destroy them.

** Well, except for the Plasma Fist... Though it's not that weird it was merely Gamera re-taking his own element back - fiery mana he originally accumulated - and since he suddenly had a limb missing, he had a place to store it.

* WaveMotionGun: Gamera's Mana Beam.

* BigBudgetBeefUp: ''Gamera vs. Barugon'' was made as an A-list film and it clearly shows compared to all the other films. No kids, darker and edgier, the suits look awesome, ''and'' an attempt at forming an actual story !

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date. The trailer was released in early 2023, and the show is expected to premiere in late in the summer of 2023.

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date. The trailer was released in early 2023, and the show is expected to premiere in late in the summer of 2023

In 2022, a new Creator/{{Netflix}} anime series titled ''Gamera: Rebirth'' was announced for a yet unknown date.

** Many of the children in the films have this problem as well. Toshio from the original ''Gamera'' is probably the worst such example. The kids in ''Gamera vs Guiron'' think it's a good idea to hop inside an unoccupied UFO and just start playing around with the controls. Even the kids in ''Gamera vs Jiger'', who are brave enough to venture inside of Gamera with a mini sub in order to find Jiger's baby or larva inside, don't bring any weapons or think of what to do when they actually encounter said baby kaiju, and are nearly killed because of it.

* CaptainErsatz: The Xenon/Zanon mothership in ''Gamera Super Monster'' isn't even a Captain Ersatz of an Imperial Star Destroyer from ''StarWars'', it just IS one.

In 2022, a new Netflix film titled Gamera: Rebirth was announced for a yet unknown date.

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-->-- '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel and the bots]]''' provide [[GagDub their translation of the theme song]]

* Gamera: Rebirth

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Inexplicably, if a giant turtle spins fast enough, it becomes capable of controlled flight. To be fair, he isn't just spinning. He's firing rocket jets out of each of the four holes of his shell, causing spin-flight much like your standard spinning UFO does.

!!And, naturally, all incarnations contain:

* TurtlePower: Duh.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Like the Showa example above, Gamera is ridiculously light for his size. In his Heisei incarnation, Gamera is 80 meters tall yet weighs only 120 tons. Even weirder is how the environment around him responds to him as if he was at least a thousand times heavier, such as when him just landing in the third movie throws around a considerable amount of rubble.

* ''[[{{VideoGame/Gamera2000}} Gamera 2000]]'' (1996)

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: The earlier "Roman" ELDA dubs (''War of the Monsters'' and ''Return of the Giant Monsters'') insist on pronouncing Gamera's name as "Guh-MARE-uh", as does ''Super Monster'''s HongKongDub.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The first sequel, ''Gamera vs. Barugon'', didn't feature any children, opting instead for a plot that starts out with three men trying to recover a giant opal (which is actually [[spoiler: Barugon's egg]]) from the New Guinea jungle, and ultimately had some pretty grim material including a graphic death by scorpion sting.

* FantasticVoyagePlot / SwallowedWhole: In ''Gamera vs. Jiger'', Jiger injects Gamera with her parasitic offspring that turns Gamera's skin a sickly white. The kids must venture inside Gamera's body to hunt down the baby.

* MonsterIsAMommy / FemaleMonsterSurprise: Jiger.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot / [[RecycledInSpace Recycled For Space]]: ''Gamera vs. Guiron'''s Space Gyaos.

* TooLongDidntDub: The children's nickname for police officer Kondo, "Kon-chan", was left untouched in the Sandy Frank dub - where it makes no sense. This led to a running gag in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] episode he appeared in where the cast mishears it as "Cornjob".

** The final film in the trilogy takes this far further, with [[spoiler: Gamera causing tons of collateral death and destruction protecting Earth from other monsters]], and ending on a [[spoiler: severely wounded and bloodied Gamera preparing to begin a fight he'll probably die in.]]

* EnigmaticMinion: Asakura Mito is partially this in ''Gamera 3'' to the government. [[spoiler: She tries to take control of Iris, thinking Gamera is the enemy... and gets crushed for it.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Iris, compared to the more savage-looking Gamera, looks like the more peaceful creature. [[spoiler: It isn't.]] Also the large and powerful Legion was a rather nonthreatening light gray color, but was the antagonist of the story.