History Film / GameraVsJiger

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The native ambassador is clearly speaking gibberis when he goes on his ForeignLanguageTirade protesting the removal of the idol.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** In ''Film/PacificRim'', a team enters the body of a downed kaiju and are attacked by a baby monster inside.
** ''Film/{{Alien}}'' could count as well, in the way Jiger injects a parasitic egg into her victim's chest. This predates the Xenomorphs by 9 years!

The film escaped being featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in its initial run alongside several others in the franchise despite the crew trying long and hard to get the rights, but they finally [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S13E07GameraVsJiger succeeded]] with the show's second relaunch in 2021. For tropes about the MST3K episode click [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S13E07GameraVsJiger here]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* MonsterIsAMommy: Jiger, who also tries to turn Gamera into an example of [[MisterSeahorse M-Preg]]. Fortunately, this plan is thwarted.

The film escaped being featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in its initial run alongside several others in the franchise despite the crew trying long and hard to get the rights, but they finally [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S13E07GameraVsJiger succeeded]] with the show's second relaunch in 2021.

When an ancient, and rather large, idol, called the Devil's Whistle is removed from its resting place on Wester Island, the monster Jiger emerges from her slumber and is soon attacked by Gamera...for relatively unknown reasons, to be perfectly honest. After defeating Gamera, Jiger makes her way to Osaka, Japan, where the idol is being held at the World Expo. Jiger destroys everything in her path, both before and after arriving in Osaka, until Gamera returns for a rematch. Gamera is once again defeated when Jiger injects him, via her barbed tail, with an embryo of hers. Gamera soon falls into the bay unconscious, and it is up to two young boys to take a small submersible into Gamera's body and destroy the embryo, in the first onscreen act of abortion ever seen in a giant monster movie. After discovering that the baby Jiger has a weakness to radio waves, it is discovered that the idol, which the adult Jiger has finally reached and has buried under tons of rubble, is hollow and channels air and wind through it at a frequency that harms Jiger. After Gamera has been revived, he battles Jiger a third time. This time, however, Gamera is wise to Jiger's tricks and soon defeats her when he stabs her in the head with the idol. The movie ends after Gamera flies away.

''Gamera vs. Jiger'', when compared to the other films after ''Gamera vs. Gyaos'', is actually one of the more mature films in the Showa Gamera series. Its child protagonists are almost teenagers, and thus older than every other child seen in a Showa Gamera movie, and they aren't annoying either...well, they're nowhere near as ''life-threateningly stupid'' as the boys from ''Gamera vs. Viras'' and ''Gamera vs. Guiron'', or as annoying as the children from ''Gamera vs. Zigra'', and they prove to actually be helpful, for a change. Overall, ''Gamera vs. Jiger'' is an underrated entry in the series that deserves more attention.

The film escaped being featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in its initial run alongside several others in the franchise despite the crew trying long and hard to get the rights, but they finally succeeded with the show's second relaunch in 2021.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not to the extent of Gamera vs. Barugon, but definitely when compared to the two previous films and the two succeeding ones.

* MonsterIsAMommy: Jiger, who also tries to turn Gamera into an example of M-Preg. Fortunately, this plan is thwarted.

** ''Film/{{Alien}}'' could count as well, in the way Jiger injects a parasitic egg into her victim's chest. This predates the Xenomorphs by 10 years!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Two young boys commit abortion while inside of a giant monster. The baby is referred to as a larva, but it's clearly being terminated before it can be "born," so to speak.
** It appears to be aleady fully developed and looks like the adult Jiger. It may actually even be a ChestBurster.

''Gamera vs. Jiger'', when compared to the other films after ''Gamera vs. Gyaos'', is actually one of the more mature films in the Showa Gamera series. Its child protagonists are almost teenagers, and thus older than every other child seen in a Showa Gamera movie, and they aren't annoying either...well, they're nowhere near as ''life-threateningly stupid'' as the boys from ''Gamera vs. Viras'' and ''Gamera vs. Guiron'', or as annoying as the children from ''Gamera vs. Zigra''. The music in this film, while nowhere near the level of the first three movies, is somewhat more tolerable than usual, although the Gamera Song is still as grating as ever.

Gamera vs. Jiger, when compared to the other films after Gamera vs. Gyaos, is actually one of the more mature films in the Showa Gamera series. Its child protagonists are almost teenagers, and thus older than every other child seen in a Showa Gamera movie, and they aren't annoying either...well, they're nowhere near as ''life-threateningly stupid'' as the boys from Gamera vs. Viras and Gamera vs. Guiron, or as annoying as the children from Gamera vs. Zigra. The music in this film, while nowhere near the level of the first three movies, is somewhat more tolerable than usual, although the Gamera Song is still as grating as ever.

* SpiritualSucessor: In ''Film/PacificRim'', a team enters the body of a downed kaiju and are attacked by a baby monster inside.
** [[Film/Aliens]] could count as well, in the way Jiger injects a parasitic egg into her victim's chest. This predates the Xenomorphs by 10 years!