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* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has used a couple (not counting all the ones during the ''{{Voltron}}'' parody). There's the [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19991214 Crudosaur]] as well as [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070223 one of]] Aylee's [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting transformations]].

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* The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', and the second film had them using positive ghost slime to turn the Statue of Liberty into one.
* The statue of Abraham Lincoln comes to life near the end of ''NightAtTheMuseum II'' and fights the bad guys.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'': Squidward's house becomes one in "Good Neighbors"

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': Squidward's house becomes one in "Good Neighbors"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy accidently wishes one up through sleep wishing.

** Another episode has Dexter and Dee-Dee mutating themselves into bigger and bigger monsters.

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

* The second book in ''TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' gives us the Nidhogg, who starts out as an oversized Komodo Dragon but soon begins walking on two legs like Godzilla and smashing buildings and cars in Paris.

* An episode of ''MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'' had a shrine statue turned into one when imbued with a lot of dark magic.

* MarvelComics also has Red Ronin, a SuperRobot (based in ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'') created to fight Franchise/{{Godzilla}}; it becomes a rent-a-zilla after that series when it is used in comics such as Comicbook/TheAvengers.

* An issue of CaptainAmerica from the 1970s had him attacked by the statue after it was animated by the [[{{telekinesis}} telekinetic]] villain Animus. Yes, ''Captain America battled Abraham Lincoln.''

* The first {{Superman}}[=/=]SpiderMan team-up opens with ComicBook/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.

* In one WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon, he's a big fan of Schmodzilla, a near-identical version of Godzilla.
* In WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, season 2, episode "Secret of my Excess", when Spike is expossed to greed, he grows prematurely into a giant adult dragon which promptly rampages through Ponyville, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. He also parodies ''Film/KingKong1933'' by kidnapping Rarity and climbing to the tallest building with her clutched in his hand.

* [[TropeNamers 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Hexenringe}}'' introduces [[http://hexenringe.blogspot.jp/2013/10/002-prologue-2.html The Blarg]], a {{Kaiju}} character whose destructive presence fails to faze the main character.

* ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' ends with the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment, which includes a demon lord so big, his wings fold up into the peak of the mountain.

* 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.

* Ultra-Peepi from ''InvaderZim''

* A Gojira CaptainErsatz shows up in ''TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'', along with other Japanese cultural stereotypes.

* ''{{Rugrats}}'' had the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe]] Reptar, a child-friendly BrandX knock-off of Godzilla.
* ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' had one named "[[GoshDangItToHeck Golly]]zilla."

* ''TheSmurfs'': In "Papa's Big Snooze", the Smurfs have to cross a lake inhabited by a monster fish called 'Carpzilla'.
* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians the Series]]'' featured a ''literal'' example when [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Cecil B. de Vil]] borrows the "Choc-zilla" animatronic from his studio to attack the Dearly farm.

* ''{{Disney/Fantasia}}'' ends with the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment, which includes a demon lord so big, his wings fold up into the peak of the mountain.
* 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 fun of course because, y'know, giant monsters, hey.

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* AustinPowers has a scene where a giant inflatable T-rex is unmoored and goes careening down the street, at which point two Japanese bystanders start up this conversation:

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 2'', Shrek storms the castle with the help of a giant gingerbread cookie named Mongo.

** Likewise, the 1962 film Gorath features a brief scene where the heroes fight against a giant walrus (Yes, you read that right) named Magma. Interestingly enough, the dub of the film removes this scene since, well, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment it has nothing to do with the main plot of the film]].
* In cult comedy director "Savage" Steve Holland's film ''OneCrazySummer'', inspired by childlike wonder and curiosity, actor Creator/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.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', the titans are portrayed as gargantuan-sized elemental monsters who wrought havoc on Earth at the time of its creation until Zeus defeated them and imprisoned them in Tartarus. They are freed by [[BigBad Hades]] at the climax and help him take control over Olympus, but, thanks to [[BigDamnHeroes Herc's intervention]], they are defeated again and destroyed once for all. Likewise, the hydra which Herc fights earlier on the movie and many other monsters he confronts count as well.

* In WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, season 2, episode "Secret of my Excess", when Spike is expossed to greed, he grows prematurely into a giant adult dragon which promptly rampages through Ponyville, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. He also parodies KingKong by kidnapping Rarity and climbing to the tallest building with her clutched in his hand.

* In one DaffyDuck cartoon, he's a big fan of Schmodzilla, a near-identical version of Godzilla.

* Preceding all the other "Animated Lincoln Statue" references in this page: An issue of CaptainAmerica from the 1970s had him attacked by the statue after it was animated by the [[{{telekinesis}} telekinetic]] villain Animus. Yes, ''Captain America battled Abraham Lincoln.''
* And, once again, the statue of Abraham Lincoln (well, Abraham Linkid) comes to life in an issue of ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''.

* This trope gets a fair bit of mileage out of Honest Abe, it seems: The first season of Telltale Games' ''SamAndMax'' series has an episode in which the VillainOfTheWeek converts the Lincoln Memorial into a giant robot that claims to be the reincarnation of the original, to run for President when the previous robot president is "assassinated" by the famous duo.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Dexter and Mandark bring Abraham Lincoln and George Washington to life, using their heads off Mt. Rushmore. Giant Abraham Lincoln is almost a subtrope in and of itself.

* In a ''{{Simpsons}}'' "Treehouse of Horror" episode giant advertising mascots come to life and terrorize the town

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy accidently wishes one up through sleep wishing.

* ''MagicTheGathering'': During the ''Dissension'' tie-in novel, Ravnica is attacked by giant monsters. First there's some [[OurMonstersAreWeird 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 [[BlobMonster Experiment Kraj]] and [[BigRedDevil Rakdos the Defiler]] join the fray as a result of a GambitPileup. Widespread destruction ensues.
* The Tarrasque in ''DungeonsAndDragons''.

* The giant rampaging Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of [[TheUmbrellaAcademy TUA:Dallas]]

* 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Hexenringe}}'' introduces [[http://hexenringe.blogspot.jp/2013/10/002-prologue-2.html The Blarg]], a {{Kaiju}} character whose destructive presence fails to phase the main character.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Super Best Friends:" David Blaine brings the statue of AbrahamLincoln to life and it rampages across Washington DC. It's subdued by a giant stone John Wilkes Booth.

* In ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon The Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'', the background of one cutscene features hot giant-octopus-on-Konami-building action.