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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe]] Reptar, a child-friendly BrandX knock-off of Godzilla.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''Literature/DeadBeat'' gives us [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sue]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs the dinosaur]].

* Anime/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou's gimmick is to throw every known superhero and villain into Showa-era Japan. Obviously, kaiju have gotta be part of it (although they're known as "beasts" in the English subs)- Jirou even says [[Film/PacificRim "kaiju groupie"]] at one point! Specifically, three of the kaiju involved are Ga Gon, its baby Mini Gon and a side character jellyfish kaiju.

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

* Played with in ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' when Judy chases Duke into [[MouseWorld Little Rodentia]], where they (a rabbit and a weasel, respectively) are kaiju sized by comparison.

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* The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', and the [[Film/GhostbustersII second film]] had them using positive ghost slime to turn the Statue of Liberty into one.
** In the [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}} 2016 reboot]], ''the team's own logo'' becomes one of these.
* The statue of Abraham Lincoln comes to life near the end of ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumBattleOfTheSmithsonian'' and fights the bad guys.

-->'''First guy:''' RUN! It's Godzilla!
-->'''[[Creator/MasiOka Second]] guy:''' [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright law, it's not.]]
-->'''First guy:''' Still, we should run like it ''is'' Godzilla!
-->'''[[Series/{{Heroes}} Second guy:]]''' Though it isn't. [[AsideGlance (Winks at the camera.)]]
-->(Both run off screaming)

* The 1962 film ''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]].

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' almost always focuses on small monsters, but it has had the odd kaiju storyline:
** "Robot" ends with [[MakeMyMonsterGrow the robot growing to giant size]] and stomping its way through an English village.
** The Loch Ness Monster rampaging through Scottish roads in "Terror of the Zygons" - also a CryptidEpisode.
** "The Next Doctor" has Victorian London being torn to pieces by a giant Cyberman called the Cyberking.
** "Deep Breath" has Victorian London being besieged by a Big Ben-sized dinosaur.
** "The Seeds of Doom" finale has the Krynoid plant-monster grow to titan size.
* Hannibal from ''Series/TheATeam'' takes time from his carere as a mercenary escaping justice to play a Godzilla expy in {{BMovie}}s.
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* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sue]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs the dinosaur]] from the ''Literature/DresdenFiles''.
* While Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles has always had summoning monsters as a standard form of magic, and hinted that they can get loose, the 50-foot god of demons at the end of Spellbound comes as a bit of a surprise. WordOfGod [[http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/03/20/ask-correia-16-outlining-vs-pantsing/ says]] that the scene wasn't in the original outline, but since the previous book ended in a massive [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninjas vs. Pirates and Zombies fight atop a flaming zeppelin]], this one needed a comparable action climax.

* The climax of ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', in which the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions use movie magic to escape into the real world, involves a giant woman climbing the Tower of Art while clutching an ape. The other characters can't shake the feeling there's something wrong with this picture.[[note]]in fact, ''two'' pictures, with overtones of a third; a two-for-one ShoutOut to ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman, Film/KingKong1933'' and possibly ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''[[/note]]

* The Tarrasque in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' Season 2 episode "Secret of my Excess", when Spike is exposed 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. Season 8 episode "Molt Down" would eventually clarify that this premature growth isn't at all like a dragon's natural maturity, showing Spike going through the dragon equivalent of puberty [[spoiler:capped off with growing a pair of wings]].

* In ''VideoGame/CosmicSpaceHeroine'', after the heroes have defeated a mecha all by themselves, its pilot unleashes the Blobmith, an artificial creature that grows into humongous proportions in seconds. To defeat it, the heroine Alyssa hijacks the mecha and starts a fistfight with the monster, and when it is defeated she activates the mecha's self-destruct command to wipe them both out. The whole scene [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment has nothing to do with anything]] besides being a homage to kaiju films and/or ''Pacific Rim''.

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'' the Harmony Affinity has a unique unit called a “Xeno Titan” unit; which was described by Firaxis, the developers, as “basically a Kaiju.”

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

* The climax of ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', in which the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions use movie magic to escape into the real world, involves a giant woman climbing the Tower of Art while clutching an ape. The other characters can't shake the feeling there's something wrong with this picture.[[note]]in fact, ''two'' pictures, with overtones of a third; a two-for one ShoutOut to ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman, Film/KingKong1933'' and possibly ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''[[/note]]

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

* Creator/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.

--> First guy: RUN! It's Godzilla!
--> [[Creator/MasiOka Second]] guy: [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright law, it's not.]]
--> First guy: Still, we should run like it ''is'' Godzilla!
--> [[Series/{{Heroes}} Second guy:]] Though it isn't. [[AsideGlance (Winks at the camera.)]]
--> (Both run off screaming)

* In ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', Pee-Wee disrupts the filming of a Godzilla movie.

* The climax of ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', in which the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions use movie magic to escape into the real world, involves a giant woman climbing the Tower of Art while clutching an ape. The other characters can't shake the feeling there's something wrong with this picture.[[note]]in fact, ''two'' pictures, with overtones of a third; a two-for one ShoutOut to ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman, Film/KingKong'' and possibly ''Film/{{Godzilla}}''[[/note]]

* A classic Franchise/{{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.

* [[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.

* The climax of ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', in which the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions use movie magic to escape into the real world, involves a giant woman climbing the Tower of Art while clutching an ape. The other characters can't shake the feeling there's something wrong with this picture.[[in fact, two pictures, with overtones of a third; a two-for one ShoutOut to ''Film/AttackOfTheFiftyFootWoman, Film/KingKong'' and possibly ''Film/{{Godzilla}}''[[/note]]

* The climax of ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', in which the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions use movie magic to escape into the real world, involves a giant woman climbing the Tower of Art while clutching an ape. The other characters can't shake the feeling there's something wrong with this picture.

* ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' starts out with two stoner dudes looking for their car, but ends with them running from a giant alien babe.

* The ComicBook/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.

* Hannibal from the ''Series/TheATeam'' takes time from his carere as a mercenary escaping justice to play a Godzilla expy in {{BMovie}}s.

* Red Ronin and the boozy father monster from ''TopTen'' seem kinda... odd.

* One scenario in the original ''VideoGame/SimCity'' has a Godzilla-like monster attacking Tokyo in 1961. This monster is replaced with Bowser in the SNES version.

* A classic Franchise{{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.

* Ultra-Peepi from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''

** And the "Mecha Streisand" episode.
** Don't forget [[spoiler: MickeyMouse]] suddenly and inexplicably growing to large size and destroying Denver with his firebreathing powers in the JonasBrothers episode.

** In another episode, they go to Japan; when they leave the pilot makes the following announcement: