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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' generally focuses on smaller monsters, but it has had the odd kaiju storyline:

** To be honest, Dune is probably a bigger influence.

--> [[MasiOka Second]] [[HeyItsThatGuy guy:]] [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright law, it's not.]]

* The Rockgagong in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' is big enough [[WombLevel for its insides to serve as a dungeon]], and is easily the largest monster you can fight in the entire series, having hands that can hit almost the entire battlefield because of its sheer size.

* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sue]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs the dinosaur]] from the DresdenFiles.

* ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has them accidentally awaken the massive ''Zillo'' Beast in one episode [[spoiler: and bring it to Coruscant the next, with predictable results]].

* In cult comedy director "Savage" Steve Holland's film ''OneCrazySummer'', inspired by childlike wonder and curiosity, actor BobcatGoldthwait dons a costume which bears a striking resemblance to, but is never specifically referred to as one of the Giant Rubber Monster incarnations of Godzilla. When he is unable to remove the costume after a lit cigar is thrown into the open mouth of the suit, he goes on a terror-driven rampage (coincidentally destroying a scale model of a proposed housing development in the process, mouth smoking all the while, to Godzilla-like music) to the delight of the attending Japanese investors.

* The first {{Superman}}/SpiderMan team-up opens with LexLuthor attacking Metropolis with a [[HumongousMecha giant robot.]] Because that's just the kind of thing Lex does. Supey defeats it, the whole thing only lasting a handful of pages. It's really just to set-up Lex going back to prison where he will meet Doc Ock and get the real plot rolling.
* A classic {{Superman}} story with Lori Lemaris has Superman traveling to Atlantis and getting attacked en route by a sea serpent. It's no big problem for Supes, and he defeats it and continues on his way. Years later, JohnByrne would comment that these days, it would likely take multiple issues to explain where the sea serpent came from, whereas here it only took a few panels.

* Both of ''GIJoe's'' original [[FiveEpisodePilot Five Episode Pilots]] have kaiju in them. While hunting for radioactive heavy water to power the MASS device, the Joes and Cobra are attacked by giant tube worms. And while retrieving part of the Weather Dominator from the tropical Palace of Doom, the Joes are attacked by a giant animate statue -- and saved when it gets distracted by a convenient giant Cobra robot, and the two destroy each other. Both incidents feel like weird genre-shifts in the middle of these stories. But still still fun of course because, y'know, giant monsters, hey.

* The FantasticFour fought a lot of giant monsters in their earliest issues, even if the monsters were only peripheral to the main plot (the baddie is on the ropes, so what's he going to do? Summon a giant monster, of course!). This was of course the period when MarvelComics was transitioning from comics about {{Kaiju}} to comics about super heroes, so it's only natural that their earliest superhero stories have kaiju in them.

* The FantasticFour fought a lot of giant monsters in their earliest issues, even if the monsters were only peripheral to the main plot (the baddie is on the ropes, so what's he going to do? Summon a giant monster, of course!). This was of course the period when MarvelComics was transitioning from comics about {{Kaiju}} to comics about super heroes, so it's only natural that their earliest superhero stories have kaiju in them.

* The FantasticFour fought a lot of giant monsters in their earliest issues, even if the monsters were only peripheral to the main plot (the baddie is on the ropes, so what's he going to do? Summon a giant monster, of course!). This was of course the period when MarvelComics was transitioning from comics about {{Kaiju}} to comics about super heroes, so it's only natural that their earliest superhero stories have kaiju in them.

Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, or some LawyerFriendlyCameo, [[FountainOfExpies is a common choice, of course.]]

Not to be confused with NotZilla, which is specifically about [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (though Rent-a-Zilla can and does use that one frequently).

Not to be confused with NotZilla (though this trope can and does use that one frequently).

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A SisterTrope to InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha, InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons, LikeThatShowButWithMecha. Not to be confused with NotZilla, though this trope can and does use that one frequently.

A SisterTrope to InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha, InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons, LikeThatShowButWithMecha.

* The Tarrasque in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial is not in any way, shape or form lifted from]] ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Tarrasque None]] [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FANmdEFwSV4/TpeqVbEhA8I/AAAAAAAAAmI/7VZ-yvfc_yo/s1600/Godzilla98.jpg whatsoever]].
** in fact, it is probably not related to Godzilla. The tarrasque is a legendary dragon, appearing in several tales from south of France [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque]].

* In ''Manga/ToAruKagakuNoRailgun'' when the Level Upper network of 10000 espers went out of control a giant growing fetus-monster-thing made of ambient psychic power spontaneously appears and starts rampaging around Academy City ([[TheTokyoFireball which is located right next to Tokyo]]). The randomness of this is lampshaded when it starts heading for a nearby nuclear power plant.
-->Mikoto: Am I in some kind of {{Kaiju}} movie?
** No events in the series explain how this happened, but events in the parent series ToAruMajutsuNoIndex imply that this was not quite so random, and was in fact a CallForward to [[spoiler: the creation of the Fuze=Kazakiri artificial angel]].

* Name comes from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', where there was a [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1060 service called this]]. In addition, there was a rampage by TheAlcoholic uncle of the {{Gamera}} family.

* ''MagicTheGathering'': During the ''Dissension'' tie-in novel, Ravnica is attacked by giant monsters. First there's some Nephilim that grow giant-sized and start smashing things, then the Izzet's dragon guildmaster Niv-Mizzet flies in to fight them off, and eventually Experiment Kraj and Rakdos the Defiler join the fray as a result of a GambitPileup. Widespread destruction ensues.