History WesternAnimation / TheGodzillaPowerHour

** COBRA is most likely based on the "Red Bamboo" from ''Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep''.

** Judging by both her M.O. and her hairstyle, Morphea is likely based on Magaera from Creator/HammerHorror's ''Film/TheGorgon''.

** COBRA is most likely based on the "Red Bamboo" from Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep.

* COBRA is most likely based on the "Red Bamboo" from Film/EbirahHorrorFromTheDeep.

* CurbStompBattle: Godzilla effortlessly takes down a paramilitary organization known as 'COBRA', ''[[Franchise/GIJoe no not that COBRA]]''.

!!''The Godzilla Power Hour'' provides examples of:

* {{Atlantis}}: Actually hidden from the rest of the world in a manner similar to Brigadoon.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Godzilla himself, natch, as well as most of the creatures he was pitted against. Godzooky probably also counts, as he's so big his ''head'' is larger than most doorways and he tends to tower over his human companions. It's shown in the episode ''The Firebird'' that the main reason the Calico rarely uses what appears to be a set of optional hydrofoils to reach fairly impressive speeds is that he's so damn heavy he puts a lot of strain on the ship. Yet in the episode ''The Ghost Ship'' the Calico was able to use them while Godzooky was on board.

* AlternateUniverse: The world where the people of ''The City in the Clouds'' came from. Godzilla got trapped there for a while until Quinn used the thought amplifier to make a portal for him.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Godzilla himself, natch, as well as most of the creatures he was pitted against. Godzooky probably also counts, as he's so big his ''head'' is larger than most doorways and he tends to tower over his human companions. It's shown in the episode ''The Firebird'' that the main reason the Calico rarely uses what appears to be a set of optional hydrofoils to reach fairly impressive speeds is that he's so damn heavy he puts a lot of strain on the ship. Yet in the episode ''The Ghost Ship'' the Calico was able to use them while Godzuki was on board.

** Godzooky resembled Minya from the actual Godzilla movies and has often been confused for the same character by casual viewers. He also has a resemblance to [[VaranTheUnbelievable Varan]] being a triphibian (a creature that can operate on land, sea, and air).

* HotScientist: Dr. Darien

** Also the Atlanteans
* HumongousMecha: The Colossus of Atlantis

* MoodWhiplash: Starts out with a kick-ass theme song until "...and Godzoookeeee..." turns it into a kiddie tune.

* SolidClouds: The city in the clouds in ''The City in the Clouds'' has these.

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: In the episode ''The Colossus of Atlantis'' the Calico was destroyed this way

** Godzooky resembled Minya from the actual Godzilla movies and has often been confused for the same character by casual viewers.

** Godzilla himself can breathe fire instead of having an Atomic Breath. Said fire can reach temperatures that can melt rock as seen in certain episodes such as ''The Sub-Zero Terror''.
** Godzuki's attempts results in smoke rings.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Godzilla himself, natch, as well as most of the creatures he was pitted against. Godzooky probably also counts, as he's so big his ''head'' is larger than most doorways and he tends to tower over his human companions. It's revealed in the episode ''The Firebird'' that the main reason the Calico rarely uses what appears to be a set of optional hydrofoils to reach fairly impressive speeds is that he's so damn heavy he puts a lot of strain on the ship.

* EyeBeams: Godzilla has laser vision in addition to fire breath in this version (probably because lasers are easier to animate)

* HumanPopsicle: The frozen German submarine. Interestingly, since these Germans are from the ''First'' World War (and therefore ''not'' Nazis), they turn out to be perfectly decent folks once they finally realize they're in the future and the war is long over. [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Then a]] {{giant squid}} attacks!

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Watchuki tribe

* HumanPopsicle: The frozen German submarine. Interestingly, since these Germans are from the ''First'' World War (and therefore ''not'' Nazis), they turn out to be perfectly decent folks once they finally realize they're in the future and the war is long over. [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Then a giant squid attacks!]]

* OhCisco

* AcousticLicense: Godzilla is some 300-400ft tall here, yet hears the humans down below with no difficulty. They shout out [[DevelopersForesight to make themselves heard]], so we know it's not SuperSenses being employed here, but unless he were holding them up to his head, it's still a stretch.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: "The Time Dragons" is rife with them. The Calico crew is threatened by a fang-toothed diplodocus, which is a real-life species that's one of the most famous herbivorous dinosaurs in the world. Only later when we meet [[{{AnachronismStew}}the nearby cavemen do we learn that the crew has travelled back in time only seventy thousand years!]]

* BrainyBrunette: Dr. Quinn Darien

* ChekhovsGun: One episode had Dr. Darien inventing a new automated microscope that can orient itself and home in on a small target to visualize within a room. As it happens, Godzilla is later shrunken to microscopic size and accidentally was released from his Petrie dish into the same room as that microscope and that device proves invaluable to locating the shrunken monster and delivering the cure to get him back to normal size.

* CousinOliver: Godzooky. Technically averted as the character is there from the start, but definitely a Cousin Oliver when the franchise as a whole is taken into consideration. And, yes, that includes the Son of Godzilla.

* DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: The entire reason why Godzilla's helping mankind. After the crew of the Calico come to Godzooky's aid, the giant Kaiju is grateful [[DisproportionateReward and repays them with his continued protection]].

* EnergyAbsorption: The energy beast fed on power from a hydroelectric dam to grow bigger and stronger. Also, in a different episode, a turtle fed on on magnetic fields in order to increase in size and power.

* EvilTwin: In one episode, a MadScientist clones the crew. In another episode, an alien [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]], the Energy Beast, impersonates Godzilla.

** TheLeader: Capt. Majors

** When the crew find a cure for him, [[MakeMyMonsterGrow he starts to quickly rebound back to his normal size]], ''[[OhCrap while he's still on-board the ship]]''.

* NighInvulnerability: Godzilla for the most part. No matter what the threat, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin he always triumphs no matter what]]. Admittedly, even the Toho version of Godzilla is depicted as being a nigh unstoppable force of nature.

* SummonBiggerFish:

* YourSizeMayVary: And vary it certainly does. Godzilla's size (and to a lesser extent Godzooky) shifts radically, sometimes within a single episode or even one scene. For instance, Godzilla's claw can wrap around a large ship, and only minutes later the team of scientists fit rather neatly on Godzilla's palm.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Godzilla himself, natch, as well as most of the creatures he was pitted against. Godzooky probably also counts, as he's so big his ''head'' is larger than most doorways and he tends to tower over his human companions. It's revealed in the episode ''The Firebird'' that the main reason the Calico rarely uses what appears to be a set of optional hydrofoils to reach fairly impressive speeds is because he's so damn heavy he puts a lot of strain on the ship.

* ChekhovsGun: One episode had Dr. Darien inventing a new automated microscope that can orient itself and home in on a small target to visualize within a room. As it happens, Godzilla is later shrunken to microscopic size and accidentally was released from his petrie dish into the same room as that microscope and that device proves invaluable to locating the shrunken monster and delivering the cure to get him back to normal size.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Godzilla may be benign in this incarnation, but the human cast are never complacent around him, sometimes nervous, knowing full well the monster can [[GiantFootOfStomping crush them out of existence at any given moment]], even if he didn't mean to. This is curious because Godzilla behaves more like a BruiserWithASoftCenter. Such as plucking up a construction worker from a certain death. For comparison - ever tried to pick up a tiny bug without killing it? [[CrushingHandshake Its not that easy...]]

* MoralityChain: Godzuki to Godzilla. Otherwise you'd be dealing with a more [[PersonOfMassDestruction traditional representation]] of the character.

* SummonBiggerFish

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Due to a translation error in the American version of the first G-film, [[LostInTranslation most Americans incorrectly believed that Godzilla]] was a LOT bigger than his actual canonical size at the time. Therefore the writers depicted him as being "30 stories high", which puts him in the region of a whopping 300-400ft in height. The Showa Era Kaiju King of monsters was actually topped at 160 feet. Its not until [[CanonUniverse Heisei Era]] does the monster [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation reach that size and scale]]. And even then, this Godzilla is bigger and yet is dwarfed in the franchise by both the Monsterverse version and Godzilla Earth of the anime movie trilogy.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Due to a translation error in the American version of the first G-film, [[LostInTranslation most Americans incorrectly believed that Godzilla]] was a LOT bigger than his actual canonical size at the time. Therefore the writers depicted him as being "30 stories high", which puts him in the region of a whopping 300-400ft in height. The Showa Era Kaiju King of monsters was actually topped at 160 feet. Its not until [[CanonUniverse Heisei Era]] does the monster [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation reach that size and scale]]. And even then, this Godzilla is bigger and actually the second largest in the franchise after the anime version.

** The Magnetic Monster, a giant turtle arising from arctic ice, is a ShoutOut to Franchise/{{Gamera}}.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Due to a translation error in the American version of the first G-film, [[LostInTranslation most Americans incorrectly believed that Godzilla]] was a LOT bigger than his actual canonical size at the time. Therefore the writers depicted him as being "30 stories high", which puts him in the region of a whopping 300-400ft in height. The Showa Era Kaiju King of monsters was actually topped at 160 feet. Its not until [[CanonUniverse Heisei Era]] does the monster [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation reach that size and scale]].

!! This series contains examples of:

* AGodAmI: Axor, a mutant cobra-eque kaiju, uniquely demands to be worshipped by humans as a god. By [[MindManipulation shooting mind-control rays]] over them (or any creature for that matter) will [[{{Mooks}} become his slave]].

** The mad biologist Dr. Votrang strongly resembles Charles Laughton as [[Literature/TheIslandOfDrMoreau Dr. Moreau]] in ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls.''
** Judging by both her M.O. and her hairstyle, Morphea is likely based on Magaera from Creator/HammerHorror's ''Film/TheGorgon.''

* GoodIsNotSoft: Godzilla may be benign in this incarnation, but the human cast are never complacent around him, sometimes nervous, knowing full well the monster can [[GiantFootOfStomping crush them out of existence at any given moment]], even if he didn't mean to.
** This is curious because Godzilla behaves more like a BruiserWithASoftCenter. Such as plucking up a construction worker from a certain death. For comparison - ever tried to pick up a tiny bug without killing it? [[CrushingHandshake Its not that easy...]]
* Myth/GreekMythology: The sirens and their pet chimera.

* {{Kaiju}}: Of course.

* HumanPopsicle: The frozen German submarine. Interestingly, since these Germans are from the ''First'' World War (and therefore ''not'' Nazis), they turn out to be perfectly decent folks once finally they realize they're in the future and the war is long over. [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Then a giant squid attacks!]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Carl and Brock (who, with the ship, have been ''[[BellyOfTheWhale swallowed whole,]]'' along with a lot of other random objects) are prepared to sacrifice themselves to save the world from the Magnetic Monster. They make it through okay, though.

* BellyOfTheWhale: Carl, Brock, and the ship get ''eaten'' by the Magnetic Monster.

* XMeetsY: Godzooky's characterization was Minya meets Franchise/ScoobyDoo.

* {{Expy}}: Godzooky resembled Minya from the actual Godzilla movies and has often been confused for the same character by casual viewers.

** Morphea is likely based on Magaera from Creator/HammerHorror's ''The Gorgon.''

* EnergyAbsorption: The energy beast fed on power from a hydroelectric dam to grow bigger and stronger. Also, in a different episode, a turtle fed on on magnetic fields in order to increase in size and power.
* EnthrallingSiren: Morphea and her sisters.

* NighInvulnerability: Godzilla for the most part. No matter what the threat, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin he always triumphs no matter what]].

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: "The Time Dragons" is rife with them. The Calico crew is threatened by a fang-toothed diplodocus, which is a rel-life species that's one of the most famous herbivorous dinosaurs in the world. Only later when we meet [[{{AnachronismStew}}the nearby cavemen do we learn that the crew has travelled back in time only seventy thousand years!]]