History YMMV / Gamera

** [[Film/GameraVsZigra Gamera Vs. Zigra]]: While most of the monsters are mindless rampaging beasts, this is not the case with Zigra. Arriving on Earth to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer it]] and [[ToServeMan use humanity as a food source]], Zigra has his agent [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lora Lee]] cause a massive earthquake that destroys all of UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, just to prove how powerful they are. Zigra also sends Lora Lee to [[WouldHurtAChild kill two children]] who [[HeKnowsTooMuch have seen the inside of their spaceship and know what they look like]]. Zigra also uses his ship's lasers to destroy a ship that could have picked up the children, and some fighter aircraft that attacks his spaceship. After his VillainousBreakdown, Zigra decides to forgo any plans of merely conquering Earth, instead opting to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all life on it]].
** [[Anime/GameraRebirth GAMERA -Rebirth-]]:

* CompleteMonster: [[YMMV/GameraVsBarugon Onodera]] & [[YMMV/GameraVsZigra Zigra]]. See those pages for details.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: From the ''[=MST3K=]'' showing, when Joel was riffing in an annoying voice just before the commercial break:
-->'''Joel''': Mmmmm, welcome back to our teatime movie! Ted Bessell and Georgie Jessell in Lance the Wonder Dog!
-->'''Crow''': (annoyed) Ahem! Stop, please. You can be replaced by [[Series/TheTonightShow Leno]], you know.

* WhatAnIdiot: The military for most of the third film. Lets see, Gamera, in the process of killing Gyaos who have been ''confirmed'' to be capable of destroying an entire civilization that's ''more'' advanced than humanity, causes a good deal of damage to the city. The military instantly turn on him, not considering the possibility the Gyaos may be the bigger threat. Then, when Gamera is fighting Iris, the military decide to concentrate on killing Gamera...who has ''never'' been an ''active'' threat to humanity and is presently locked in combat with a known ''maneater''. At least the finally get it together at the end of the film, but still, had they just let Gamera kill Iris instead of slowing him down and letting Iris make landfall, a ''lot'' of death and destruction would've been avoided.

* FanNickname: "Kenny/Kendra/Kennys" for all the child characters who's actual names the audience don't bother to remember. In two cases they literally were named "Kenny" though.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7DN7UeGCA "Gamera Always Wins", also from the first film.

* SoBadItsGood: Most of the Showa series, though the Heisei series is just good, as is the newer film.

* SnarkBait: The terrible special effects, ridiculous plots, and atrocious dubbing of the Showa movies have made them a prime target for mockery, as exemplified by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s famous viewings.

** In ''Gamera vs. Barugon'',Gamera stabs Barugon in the face with his claws, causing gallons of purple blood to gush out and get all over the place.

** In ''Gamera vs. Jiger'', Gamera getts impaled through his arms and legs by long spears, , which make pulling the limbs back into the shell an impossiblity. He is able to pull the spears out of his legs, but not without grimacing and roars of pain.

* EarWorm: The Gamera song.

* HoYay: Asagi had vibes of Les Yay with Nagamine near the end of Gamera 3.

* SnarkBait

* SpecialEffectFailure

** It should be noted that the WhatCouldHaveBeen american [[Script/Godzilla1994 Godzilla incarnation]] had a similar origin to the Heisei Gamera. With the success of this Gamera, and the hype in Japan for the Godzilla 1994, this would have probably been a ContrivedCoincidence.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/GameraVsBarugon Onodera]] and [[Film/GameraVsZigra Zigra]].

** It should be noted that the WhatCouldHaveBeen american [[Film/Godzilla1994 Godzilla incarnation]] had a similar origin to the Heisei Gamera. With the success of this Gamera, and the hype in Japan for the Godzilla 1994, this would have probably been a ContrivedCoincidence.

-->'''Crow''': (annoyed) Ahem! Stop, please. You can be replaced by [[TheTonightShow Leno]], you know.

* HomegrownHero: The Showa-era films have token American children shoehorned into stories set in Japan. Daiei did this specifically because their film distributor assured them the movies would be better-received in the US if there were Americans in the cast.

*** Speaking of WhatCouldHaveBeen, there was a theatre play in the 70's planned Godzilla/Gamera movie crossover around 2002. Imagine if they were basically the Kaiju Avengers.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The {{Space Battleship Yamato}} scene in ''Gamera Super Monster''.
** Oh, and the {{Galaxy Express 999}} scene in the same movie.

!!! ''See: Film/GameraTheBrave''

* HilariousInHindsight: Gamera's Mana beam is one when you realize it's basically a KamehameHadouken. In ''Manga/DragonBall'' not only was Master Roshi a trainer of Turtle-Style Martial arts, but also rode a baby Gamera, and the KamehameHa can be translated as "'''Turtle''' Destruction Wave". Even better, it's a combined energy attack using the power of the planet akin to Goku's Spirit Bomb.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: From the ''{{MST3K}}'' showing, when Joel was riffing in an annoying voice just before the commercial break: