History Film / Gamera2AdventOfLegion

* HotScientist: Midori Honami can certainly count as one.

* TurtlePower: Gamera.

* shoutOut: The Legion Flower is a reference to the Mammoth Flower from ''Series/UltraQ.''

''Gamera 2: Advent of Legion'' is the 1996 sequel to ''Film/GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse'' and the second installment in the Heisei trilogy. It is directed by Creator/ShusukeKaneko and written by Kazunori Ito.

''Gamera 2: Advent of Legion'' is the 1996 sequel to 1995's immensly popular ''Gamera: Guardian of the Universe''.

* YouShallNotPass: Gamera holds off the Legion Queen at Sendai to give the helicopters a chance. He succeeds in holding her off, but she soon defeats him anyway, much like how the [[LordOfTheRings trope namer]] was also taken down by his enemy, although both ended up getting better.

Gamera soon retreats, and shortly afterward a giganitc Queen Legion emerges from the ground, flying away into night. Fighter jets intercept the queen, but afterwards, there is no sign or trace of her to be found, other than her wings. Less than a day or so later, another Legion Flower emerges in Sendai, and this time it is much closer to launch than the previous one. Realizing that they cannot hope to stop it this time, the JSDF evacuates Sendai. At an airport, where civilians, including Asagi Kusanagi, are being loaded onto helicopters, Gamera soon appears again as he prepares to attack the Legion Flower. Before he can even land, however, gamera is ambushed by the Queen Legion, who once again emerges from the ground and battles Gamera to a draw while he tries to protect the helicopters from her advance.

Now fighting against two foes, the Legion Queen begins using increasingly vicious attacks and abilities in an attempt to win. Working alongside Gamera, the JSDF succeed in damaging the Legion Queen, giving Gamera a fighting chance against her. The battle with the Legion Queen soon reaches it's pparent end when gamera manages to rip the Queen's horns off of her head, seemingly killing her. However, this only makes her angrier than ever before, and she starts using vicious melee attacks and sending out Symbiotic Legion, which the military counter by drawing them towards power lines. With the battle now reaching fever pitch, Gamera unleashes his ultimate weapon, the Manna Cannon. Gamera completely obliterates the Legion Queen. Gamera roars a salute of sorts to his human allies before flying into the sky. Humanity now realizes just how valuable of an ally Gamera is, and fear what should happen if they ever get him angry with them, and then the film ends.

* AlienInvasion: Most likely. After all, what are the Legion going to do after launching another spore into space? Just sit back and relax?

Gamera 2: Advent of Legion is the 1996 sequel to 1995's immensly popular Gamera: Guardian of the Universe.

* {{Badass}}: Gamera, Colonel Watarase, and even the Legion Queen. They each have their moments.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub from ADV, Colonel Watarase has the same voice as [[Manga/ElfenLied Kurama]], and Hanatani has the same voice as [[Manga/CromartieHighSchool Hayashida]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub from ADV, Colonel Watarase has the same voice as [[Manga/ElfenLied Kurama]], and Hanatani has the same voice as [[CromartieHighSchool Hayashida]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Gamera does this three times, although the second instance is heavily subverted when the Legion Queen soundly defeats him.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub from ADV, Colonel Watarase has the same voice as [[ElfenLied Kurama]], and Hanatani has the same voice as [[CromartieHighSchool Hayashida]].

A strange meteor shower strikes Hokkaido, Japan, in the first of several unusual occurances in Winter of 1996. Meanwhile, strange lights, much like aurora borialas, appear in the sky over the countryside, not too far from where the meteor shower hit. An investigation is headed by a scientist named Midori Honami (played by Miki Mizuno), and her colleague Obitsu (played by Mitsuru Fukikoshi). The next day, another investigation headed by JSDF colonel Watarase (played by Toshiyuki Nagashima), looks into these strange incidents and the impact crater of one of the meteors. The impact crater, despite its size, appears to be normal, however, one of the witnesses of this meteor noted something strange: the meteor was ''slowing down'' as it neared the ground. A beer factory soon experiences a break-in, but the culprits are nowhere to be found, except for the testimony of two scared security guards (including a job-switching Mr. Osako).

As the military tries to combat and understand these strange creatures, a large, plant-like structure bursts through the ground above the subway, destroying a building in the process. It is soon discovered that oxygen levels are rising to dangerous levels in the subway, especially near the location of the creatures and the plant. As Honami and Obitsu study these strange beings, they make a terrible discovery, alongside the JSDF: The plant is a seed pod, and it will soon depart, causing an explosion that will destroy nearly all of Sapporo. The JSDF prepares to destroy the pod before it can launch, but this proves ineffective. Fortunately, Gamera has appeared and he soon arrvies in the city, destroying the seed pod before the strange aliens retaliate. As the space-bugs cover Gamera like ants on a sugar cube, two men on the ground, Colonel Watarase and Hanatani, make a biblical reference, with the aliens then being dubbed, "Legion."

* HeroicBSOD: When viewing the computer simulation of the blast radius of the Legion Flower's launch, Honami realizes that she and Obitsu would never be able to escape in time, and she ends up having a brief BSOD until gamera shows up and destroys the flower.

* OhCrap: When Obitsu and Honami see the simulation of hwo large the Legion Flower's explosion lauch will be, Obitsu has this look written all over his face.

* ButtMonkey: Mr. Osako.

** "Why do I always have to put up with this shit?"

* YouShallNotPass: Gamera holds off the Legion Queen at Sendai to give the helicopters a chance. He succeeds in holding her off, but she soon defeats him anyway, much like how the trope namer was also taken down by his enemy, although both ended up getting better.

* WaveMotionGun: Gamera's Mana Cannon.