History Quotes / Kaiju

->''Every country has a monster''
->''They’re afraid of in their nation''
->''Every monster has a country''
->''Yeah, a station they call their home''
-->-- '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Jonah & The 'Bots]]'''

->''He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock.''

->The point is, Kaiju movies frequently make statements about the world, the things that scare us, and what we can do about them, and as a result, they are sometimes extremely political when you look at them. Sometimes they say we can't do anything about them, sometimes they say that problems are our fault, and sometimes they bounce back to wish-fulfillment and imagine that the giant unstoppable force is a good thing that will fix our giant unfixable problems. And sometimes they say is up to us to work together and face the problem head on, to admit that things are bad and fight to the very end to make them better again. And also, sometimes it's just ''fun'' to watch two incomprehensibly giant monsters kick the crap out of each other.

->''"I was fifteen when the first kaiju made land in San Francisco. By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down, six days and 35 miles later, three cities were destroyed. Tens of thousands of lives were lost."''

-->--'''Yuriko Akaishi''', ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise''

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

Named after the renowned paleontologist who discovered it, the huge Calvinosaurus can eat an Ultrasaur in a single bite!

->''"[[TragicMonster Monsters are tragic beings]]. They are born too [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever tall]], too [[SuperStrength strong]], too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them]]."''

->''"He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock."''

-->-- ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

->''"[[AntiVillain Monsters are tragic beings]]. They are born too [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever tall]], too [[SuperStrength strong]], too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them]]."''

->He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock.
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

His most memorable quotation: "Monsters are born too tall, too strong, too heavy—that is their tragedy," when he spoke of his film Rodan. This statement alone would give fans the impression that his intent was to give all kaiju a distinct personality instead of just being a monster-on-the-loose.

->''"[[AntiVillain Monsters are tragic beings]]. They are born too [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever tall]], too [[SuperStrength strong]], too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/IshiroHonda'''

->He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock.
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''
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->''"[[TragicMonster Monsters are tragic beings]]. They are born too [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever tall]], too [[SuperStrength strong]], too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them]]."''

->''"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them."''

-->-- '''Ishiro Honda'''