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15''[[http://allone-works.com/ngc/index.php/2015/06/09/chapter-1-earth-mars/ NES Godzilla Creepypasta]]'' (Blogspot mirror [[http://nesgodzillacreepypasta.blogspot.com/2012/03/chapter-1-earth-mars.html here]]) is the work of sprite artist Cosbydaf. It relies on a combination of first person narrative and edited video game screencaps to tell its story. It was originally [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140216165844/http://z3.invisionfree.com/bogleech/index.php?showtopic=1896 posted]] on the Website/{{Bogleech}} forums in 2011.
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17One day, Zachary, our protagonist, is given a bunch of NES games by an old friend of his. Being an enormous ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fan, he starts with a nostalgic favorite, ''Videogame/GodzillaMonsterOfMonsters''. Shortly after beginning, he finds that the game is glitched, presumably from a hack. At first he's delighted to find that the game includes monsters that weren't in the original. He becomes suspicious when he faces extremely recent Godzilla enemies from films that came out long after the game's release.
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19Things take on a decidedly darker turn as a shapeshifting beast known only as "Red" appears, displaying awareness of Zach's existence; from there, environments become ever more sinister, cheesy monsters transform into indescribable abominations, and twisted worlds spawn, seemingly independent of Zach or even the game itself. The game reveals knowledge about Zach that it couldn't possibly have as the mind games of the insidious entity leading it all grow more and more aggressive...
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21A sequel to the original story, named ''Godzilla: Replay'', is currently being created. It involves the game cartridge falling into the hands of another gamer named Carl, who plays through an entirely different adventure alongside Godzilla (of course), Rodan, and King Ceasar, facing a group of giant monsters based off of the SevenDeadlySins. The fifth chapter was released in 2013 and, after a long hiatus, the first part of the sixth chapter would release in March 2023, showing the story was still in production.
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23A playable adaptation of the original creepypasta is now in development with the developers of ''VideoGame/BlazingChrome'' and Cosbydaf's assistance, featuring new content previously unseen in the story. The demo with Earth, Mars and Pathos can be downloaded [[http://www.allone-works.com/ here,]] while development livestreams can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5DpUeZ_MNbuRly6k9bio-A/videos here.]]
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26!!List of tropes:
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29[[folder: ''NES Godzilla Creepypasta'']]
30* EleventhHourRanger: In a way, [[spoiler:Acacius.]]
31* AbandonedLaboratory: Extus. It's even brimming with cybernetic monstrosities.
32* AfterActionReport: The story is structured exactly as one, with a lot more narrative than is usual.
33* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Zach ends up like this in the final battle]], where he cannot move his body to do anything but play the game. Fortunately, it's temporary.
34* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: The three main entities in the game act this way towards Zach, with the benevolent Angel [[spoiler: (Melissa)]], the evil Red, and the enigmatic and sometimes-helpful, sometimes-obstructing Face.
35* AnimalJingoism: When two species of monster in the "Organic level" face each other, they'd attack each other and leave the player alone.
36* ArtShift: In a non-comedic example, the graphics start out as fairly plausible for NES graphics, but from the Titanosaurus battle onwards begin to subtly shift into more advanced fare, culminating in Zenith's {{Womb Level}}s which look like rotoscoped meat, complete with the Canimorph, a monster that appears to be comprised of a skinless dog's head atop a fleshy stalk, and gigantic tapeworm-like creatures that extend from the ground. At the same time, these levels still feature some monsters that remain as traditional sprites, serving to only exemplify the bizarre ArtStyleDissonance at play.
37* AscendedDemon: [[spoiler:Solomon. Coming back to life after turning against his master changes his eyes from red to blue, implying his demonic nature, which previously barred him from going to any level marked with a Cross and guarded by the Angel, has been purged.]]
38* BackForTheFinale: After two worlds in which he doesn't appear, [[spoiler:Anguirus]] comes back for the final world.
39* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:All of the killed monsters and Face are revived after Red's defeat.]]
40* BadMoonRising: The empty stages in the third level, Pathos, are marked by a sinister blood-red moon hanging in the sky, and this is the part in the game where it becomes abundantly clear that this is not just a glitched or hacked cartridge. The playable version of the game makes it even worse by subtly painting Red's face in the moon.
41* BeastWithAHumanFace: Not-Mechagodzilla is a quadrupedal mechanical creature possessing a human face. Zach even lampshades that its human face gave it a very uncanny look.
42* BerserkButton: Red ''really'' hates [[spoiler:Solomon]].
43* BigBad: Red, the hell beast, is the entity corrupting the game and forcing Zach to [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame play for his life]].
44* BigGood: The blue angel, or [[spoiler:Melissa]]. Acacius, her [[SixthRanger greatest fighter]], also counts.
45* BittersweetEnding: The narrator survived the game, [[spoiler:defeated Red, saved Melissa's soul, and everyone who died in the game came back to life]]. However, the experience left him horribly depressed and [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow not so sure what to do anymore]]. And the game cartridge is still out there...
46* BlackEyesOfEvil: Red, whenever they're not {{glowing|EyesOfDoom}}.
47* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:After being killed by Red, loads of blood leaks from Face's mouth]].
48* BloodyBowelsOfHell: The second-to-last level in Zenith is a nightmarishly hellish world. There's a visceral look to everything; the landscape appears to be made entirely out of flesh and gore, and the enemies are all skinless aberrations. The whole level's graphical fidelity is beyond what an NES could possibly pull off.
49* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:Face]] does not appear to comprehend human morality (among other concepts) and seems genuinely curious about it. Its emotional response to many of Zach's answers are equally incomprehensible.
50* BodyHorror: Plenty, but in particular the mutated creatures on Entropy and pretty much everything on Zenith.
51* BodyMotifs: Faces.
52* BonusStage: The Heart Temple is full of harmless enemies that the narrator uses to refill his health.
53* BossRush: The end of "Extus" contains a battle with all of the "replacement" monsters one after another. [[FusionDance It ends with their combined form, the Chimera.]]
54* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: The last three questions of Face's first quiz. "Do you like dogs?" "Is the president good?" "Does your dog like the president?"
55* BreathWeapon: It's a Godzilla game. [[spoiler:Red has one too, as demonstrated in the final battle, in the form of fire. Fire with a ''NightmareFace'', no less.]]
56* BreatherLevel: invokedThe snowy forest in Entropy, in stark contrast to the vast majority of the other levels, is downright relaxing. Subverted when the narrator runs into a massive field of frostbitten animal corpses and raptors driven mad by the cold, then [[spoiler:having to fight the Moon Beast with Mothra, ''then'' being brutally reminded of Melissa's death with Red's face popping out of a mass of "Kill" text.]] OUCH.
57* BringMyBrownPants: Downplayed. After Red looks at him in Trance, Zach nearly pees himself. He gets to the bathroom on time.
58* ButThouMust: During Trance, Zach attempts to enter the base at the end of the map without fighting [[Film/Godzilla2000 Orga]], only for the game to claim that there is no monster there and proceeds to put his monster near Orga.
59* TheCameo: In Zenith Part 1, there is what appear to be a shrine with two statues. One of them is Red, the other is a reference to one of Cosbydaf's other stories, involving a cursed statue.
60* CharacterSelectForcing: Zach is forced to use Mothra on Entropy. Though this is justified, since it'd be impossible with any other character.
61* ChekhovsGun: Acacius, the monster who appears in the last level [[spoiler:which Red won't let Zach use until Melissa intervenes after all of the other monsters are dead.]]
62* CloudCuckooLander: Face has a tendency to ask strange questions like, "Can it spin in all directions?"
63* ColorfulThemeNaming: The BigBad is named "Red".
64* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: invokedZachary prefers the MightyGlacier Godzilla to the faster and stronger Anguirus and Solomon. It's not even a case of Godzilla being DifficultButAwesome; Zach just happens to be really good with Godzilla. It shows, too, since he takes down some very difficult bosses with Godzilla even when those monsters have obvious advantages over Godzilla in particular. Solomon is so much more powerful than Godzilla that Zach will turn to him for the hardest challenges, though.
65* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Although Red purports to play by the rules, his monsters cheat by altering the base game's mechanics and programming, giving them additional powers and even switching out easy bosses for tougher ones. [[spoiler:And at the end of the game, ''Red himself'' attempts to directly kill off Zach by stopping his heart, blatantly contradicting his earlier statements. Thankfully, this either caused Red to lose the power to lock out Acacius from the game, or gave another higher power an opening to intervene on Zach's behalf and unlock Acacius for his use.]]
66* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:After Red takes out all four of Zach's active monsters]], Zach [[HopeSpot tries to activate the last one]], but Red paralyzes his heart and the screen flashes "GameOver"...
67* DarkIsNotEvil: Solomon is a demon [[spoiler:who used to serve Red]] and is also one of the good guys.
68* DeathGlare: Red doing this after the second chase stage is the first hint Zach gets that TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
69* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Solomon]] would rather die than serve Red.
70* DemonicSpiders: In an in-universe example, the narrator runs across a fair amount of these once [[spoiler:Red takes over.]] [[Film/SonOfGodzilla Kumonga, a gigantic - but not necessarily demonic - spider]] also shows up as one of the non-original but new bosses.
71* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Acacius]] comes in at the most convenient time for Zachary, has no really backstory or lead up to his character, comes completely out of nowhere, [[spoiler:KILLS Red, AND brings back Godzilla, Mothra, Anguirus, and Solomon, whom have been either killed or eaten by Red prior to his appearance]].
72** [[spoiler:Melissa's intervention]] seems to be the bigger Deus Ex Machina here, [[spoiler:Acacius]] being only part of it.
73* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:In the ending of the first story, Red finally dies after Acacius finishes him off.]]
74* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Red gives an armour-piercing stare straight at Zach after the latter decides to insult the former at the end of one of the Run stages. This backfires for Zach when Red [[spoiler:stops his heart after killing all of his monsters]].
75* DramaticDisappearingDisplay: Every display is gone in the chase stages, replaced by one word: RUN.
76* DualBoss: The pyramid monsters.
77* EarlyBirdCameo: At first, Zach thought Biollante's appearance was this. He assumed that her appearance in this game was to "build up excitement" for ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'', but that the developers changed their minds.
78* EarnYourHappyEnding: Well, BittersweetEnding. [[spoiler:Zachary beats Red and saves Melissa from his torment, and the monsters who died (and Face) are revived, but Zach is unsure of what to do anymore after that.]]
79* EldritchAbomination:
80** The Moon Beast and the various replacements for the Toho monsters qualify.
81** Face is a much more subtle version. It doesn't seem to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality understand human morality]], and judging from its questions ("Is water wet?") it comes from / perceives / is a location where conventional physics are unreliable at best. While not as evil as Red, it is also kind of a dick.
82** By the time Zach gets to Zenith, most of the enemies are grotesque, scarcely-describable colossi at least the size of the playable {{Kaiju}} themselves, and more often than not larger. Not even ''Godzilla'' can face them without significant harm; the best course of action if they notice the player boils down to running away from them as fast as possible. The [[BloodyBowelsOfHell Organic Levels]] are particularly poignant examples, turning everything just mentioned up to eleven.
83* EldritchLocation: The levels gradually begin taking on aspects of this, ceasing to become a series of obstacles and transforming into entire worlds where entities live out their lives independently.
84* EmotionlessGirl: According to Zach, Melissa had her moments of this.
85* EscapeSequence: "RUN". And you'd better!
86* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:By the end, Melissa, Godzilla, Mothra, Anguirus, Solomon, and even Face are all resurrected.]]
87* EvilIsVisceral: Red certainly thinks so, if the fleshy Organic Levels and monsters within are any indication.
88* EvilSoundsDeep: Red's voice in the audio adaptation is a deep, menacing whisper that verges on VoiceOfTheLegion.
89* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[BigBad Red]] and Face, who... are.
90* {{Expy}}: Solomon heavily resembles the legendary cryptid Mothman. They're both humanoid figures with glowing red eyes, fur and wings.
91* FanService: Not in the "cute girls in short skirts" variety, the "nerdy indulgence" variety. Appropriate enough for something from Bogleech, it's got kaiju, old video games with strange, abstract enemies, cool sprite work and pixel art, and of course good ol' fashioned NightmareFuel on top of it.
92* FetusTerrible: The boss of Zenith's "Blood Lake" level is a particularly nasty version of this.
93* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The setting of every chase level, the last level, and the final battle. They all contain copious amounts of fire, and the second also includes lakes of lava and hellish demons.
94* FissionMailed: After Red [[spoiler:eats Godzilla, it looks like it's curtains for Zach... until Melissa saves him and unlocks the previously unusable monster.]]
95* FlunkyBoss: The Not-Hedorah boss can shriek to summon a swarm of horse-bat enemies.
96* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As the unfortunate Zach finds out at the final stage of World 4, Trance, when he makes the mistake of calling Red an asshole.
97** Near the end we learn that [[spoiler:Red has been watching Zach well before he started playing, and that ''he'' was the one who killed Zach's girlfriend Melissa. Red's attacks during the final battle also cause him physical pain and he even attempts to kill him by stopping his heart.]]
98* GaiasLament: The aptly-named Entropy shows a beautiful world decay and mutate under the strain of industrialization. The harmless giraffe-herons become gruesome mummy-birds when exposed to toxic waste, the raptors turn homicidally insane, and [[spoiler:the moon itself gives birth to a fetal humanoid that transforms into a titanic abomination.]]
99* GainaxEnding:
100** [[spoiler:As more than a few readers have pointed out, the [[ThePowerOfLove True Love Conquers All]]-style happy ending is rather... out of place for a Creepypasta.]]
101** [[https://lolpasta.fandom.com/wiki/NES_Godzilla_Creepypasta_Alternate_Ending Then there's the alternative joke ending.]] [[spoiler:Red turning into John Madden? What?]]
102* GameBreaker: In-universe subversion with Solomon. He is essentially the best about both Mothra and Godzilla rolled into one monster (who in addition hits significantly harder than either of them), prompting Zach to call him "overpowered", but as the difficulty of the game mounts his high power becomes invaluable.
103* GenreShift: The cartridge features jumping puzzles that were not in the original game.
104* GiverOfLameNames: Zach is not very creative with naming the face in the "quiz levels", replacement monsters, and level types.
105* GlowingEyesOfDoom: This is the most obvious way Red emotes.
106* GuestStarPartyMember: The [[{{Film/Atragon}} Gotengo]] shows up to help in the battle with Manda. It is short-lived though, because Manda crushes it in no time.
107* HandWave: When [[spoiler:Red froze Zach to the chair and didn't let him move except to work the controls]], it was noted that Zach's computer had somehow begun taking screenshots on its own without him having to do it manually. Not much effort was put into explaining or theorizing about how this could be, but [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality it sure was convenient how it allowed for the story to still be illustrated by screenshots even when the plot wouldn't allow Zach to take them.]]
108** When Godzilla was burned by Red, Zach said that merely looking at the screenshot made him feel uncomfortable. Maybe on the slim chance that he'd beat Red, the screenshots that the computer took would haunt him. It doesn't sound like something Red would be above doing.
109* HappyFunBall: What looks like a perfectly normal cartridge for an obscure NES game turns out to be a haunted device that serves as a medium to interact with otherworldly beings in alternative realities (including possibly even the afterlife) that just might very well ''kill'' you.
110* HeartbeatSoundtrack: During the Red chase levels. The "music" is described as "slow, steady drum sound resembling a heartbeat."
111* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Solomon pulls one]] before the game begins.
112* {{Hell}}: Zenith is basically this, mostly invoking BloodyBowelsOfHell but with plenty of FireAndBrimstoneHell mixed in.
113* HellIsThatNoise: Invoked. Much of the soundtrack, but special mention goes to [[http://www.mediafire.com/?26130d5zbx9yy65 Unforgiving Cold]].
114** The glacier levels' theme song compared to another subtle, eerie winter theme from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1''. Red delights in contorting the soundtrack in unrecognizable ways.
115* ItCanThink: Zachary has his suspicions about the game being sentient, beginning about halfway through. [[spoiler:It can indeed think.]]
116* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Face. Yeah, he took Godzilla and Anguirus from Zach, leaving him only with Mothra... [[spoiler:because some levels in Entropy would be impossible to beat with them, for example, Gold Labyrinth, while playing some others might have been either extremely difficult due to all the ground enemies (The Toxic Waste level) or might have lead to some awkward yet unavoidable KickTheDog moments (the forest level with the deer and creatures might have gone far different had he played it as Godzilla for example)]]. [[spoiler:And the fact he got revived by the Blue Angel at the end of the game should tell you he's not that bad.]]
117* {{Kaiju}}: Obviously. It's as much a love letter to obscure and fan-favorite ''Godzilla'' Kaiju as it is a creepypasta.
118** WordOfGod has stated that Red was partially inspired by the idea of [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Giygas]] as a kaiju.]] It explains so much.
119* LandSeaSky: Red's three [[spoiler:main]] forms.
120* TheLastStraw: Zach is able to put up with a lot of the game's quirks, such as disturbing visuals and unpleasant reminders of his past, but when [[spoiler:Red actually inflicts pain upon him every time he attacks his monsters during the final battle]], that's where he drew the line.
121* LightIsGood: Acacius, ''The Golden Light''.
122* LowTierLetdown: Mothra is regarded as this InUniverse, with Zach not liking how awkwardly she played in the original game.
123* MacroZone: Zenith appears to be one, as all the playable monsters have their sprites shrunk to about half their normal size in the levels there.
124* MarathonBoss:
125** In Extus, [[spoiler:Chimera takes Zachary a long time to kill. And that doesn't count the BossRush of Replacement Monsters that precedes it.]]
126** [[spoiler:Red's final form]] and his absolutely ''massive'' health bar. It's implied that, even using [[spoiler:Acacius]], it took a while to defeat.
127* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Played with in the end. Zachary considers destroying the titular hacked ''VideoGame/GodzillaMonsterOfMonsters'' game in case Red goes after him again, but he decides not to, as finishing the game had set Melissa's soul free. He decides to sell it online instead, but he advises anyone who buys it to shut the game off if they feel like it's messing with their mind.
128* MeaningfulName: Acacius: A quick search on Wikipedia shows that the majority of the notable Acaciuses of history were [[HolyBurnsEvil saints]], [[BadassPreacher clergymen]], or representatives of the imperial law.
129** The first creepypasta in general has these with the chapter titles. Extus is the term for exodus, Zenith is the term for full potential (once Red takes over the game), Entropy is decay over time, etc.
130* MinusWorld: The first half of the "KILL" stage seems to deliberately {{Invoke|dTrope}} this. It's accessible normally, but the level graphics are just repetitions of the word "KILL" and the "music" is a haphazard cluster of 8-bit noises.
131* MixAndMatchCritters: The enemies and boss of the "KILL" stage. And in a way, Chimera.
132* MonsterClown: Bobo, a bat-like creature with clown nose and makeup that serves as the boss of the Blood Lake stage.
133* MoodWhiplash:
134** [[https://lolpasta.fandom.com/wiki/NES_Godzilla_Creepypasta_Alternate_Ending The alternate joke ending]].
135** The television sets of "Entropy" are all bizarre yet comical animations of [[NonHumanHead characters with unusual heads]]... except for the third one Zach comes across, which depicts a gruesome execution. This catches him off guard and leaves him in anticipation of the remaining television sets on the board.
136* {{Mordor}}: Red's homeworld, Zenith.
137* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: [[spoiler:Vaguely implied to be a conduit to other worlds, and possibly the afterlife. And it's still out there.]]
138* MultipleLifeBars:
139** The last boss in the BossRush of Extus, [[spoiler:the Chimera]], has two life meters with 20 bars of life each.
140** [[spoiler:Red's Final Form]] takes things a step further; having ''three'' life meters with 23 bars of life each.
141* MysteriousPast: Who exactly is Solomon? What role did he play as [[spoiler:one of Red's henchmen]]? What caused [[spoiler:his betrayal]]? Why did [[spoiler:Red state "I ALWAYS HATED YOU"]]? And how does Face know him so well to entrust him to Zach? And most of all... What is the significance of STILL THE BEST 1973? Guess we'll never know...
142* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Red"? Not scary. "''Hellbeast''"? Scary.
143* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:One look at the health bars during Red's demise, and you can see that Acacius, and Zach by extension, were one hit away from death]].
144* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Red during the final boss fight. Up until that point he apparently had been rather careful not to "break the rules," until the last moment.]] This leads to the EleventhHourRanger being usable.
145* NightmareFace: The Hell Beast has one, utilized to great effect when [[spoiler:it pops out from a screen-full of "KILL" to shock Zach — and audience. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Face]] is killed and becomes a bleeding skull in the final world, Zenith.]]
146* NintendoHard: The original game was hard enough, but [[InUniverse Red's alterations?]] BulletHell, GoddamnBats up to eleven, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating bosses]], [[FakeDifficulty random glitches designed to kill the PC, zero warning one-hit kills, no instructions for entirely new game mechanics]], and then finally the game actually made the room warm and made Zach dehydrated. Zach still beat it in ''one sitting'', with only ''one'' game-over that was itself actually just Red cheating.
147* NothingIsScarier: Implemented to pants-wetting effect. Most prominent in the "Unforgiving Cold" level, which is a completely uneventful seven-minute trek down a blue stone hallway with a static effect on the screen, stone {{Nightmare Face}}s lining the ceiling, and eerie music in the background.
148* OhCrap: Every time the narrator discovers a new way that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the fourth wall fails to protect him.]]
149** One word: Run!
150-->'''Zachary:''' Do you know that feeling your body has when you feel like you're in extreme danger? You start to recoil and tense up as the adrenaline flows through your veins, and your nerves start to feel very cold? That's the feeling I had when I took this screencap.
151* OneWingedAngel: Some of the new Godzilla monster bosses keep their alternate forms: Biollante, Battra, and [[spoiler:Destoroyah]]. Mecha-Godzilla starts off looking like normal Godzilla before the RoboticReveal [[spoiler:and then later changes into a "replacement" monster]]. In the last stage, [[spoiler:King Ghidorah apparently uses the replacement monster glitch to become Mecha King Ghidorah]]. And of course, there's [[spoiler:Red]].
152* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The "angel" that's featured in the center of the site's banner [[spoiler:blocks the Hell Beast (and promptly gets killed, crying TearsOfBlood as it happens) to give Godzilla time to escape. It is eventually revealed to be the spirit of Melissa, an old flame of the narrator, and later returns to save him from Red's wrath.]]
153** [[spoiler:A skull-faced red angel with a similar design appears in the red temple stage on Zenith — but is nowhere near as friendly.]]
154** [[spoiler:Acacius]], while not outright called an angel, certainly gives this impression.
155* OurGiantsAreBigger: Some of Zenith's monsters completely ''dwarf'' the Kaiju.
156* OurMonstersAreWeird: Are they ever. [[EvilIsVisceral Even]] [[EldritchAbomination more]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent so]] [[{{Hell}} in the Zenith levels]].
157* PerpetualFrowner: Red never smiles, not even triumphantly.
158* PhallicWeapon: The monster that replaces Baragon in Dementia attacks with a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] that emerges from its crotch. Fittingly, [[GroinAttack attacking it causes extra damage to the beast]].
159* PragmaticAdaptation: An audio adaptation can be found on Youtube. The narrator actually sounds terrified during the frightening moments. There are also a few {{Jump Scare}}s that the original version couldn't do.
160* {{Prehistoria}}: Parts of Entropy. A number of prehistoric animals appear in the past versions of the hourglass levels, and the deerlike creatures appearing throughout Entropy are based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia Macrauchenia]], which did live with giant sloths, but not with raptors.
161* PsychoticSmirk: Face's appropriately-dubbed "Maniacal" expression, brought out when [[spoiler:he takes Godzilla and Anguirus from Zach, forcing him to use Mothra]].
162* PurposelyOverpowered: Solomon can fly and does about twice the damage Godzilla does, and attacks twice as fast. While Zach loves using him, he [[RuleOfCool still prefers Godzilla]]. [[spoiler:Acacius is even more overpowered, doing about 4-10 times as much damage as the other monsters and his beam attack combines both regular eye beams and a stream of light from his hands.]]
163* QuicksandSucks: Replace sand with [[MeatMoss flesh]], and the entire floor of the "Organic level" is this.
164* RecurringBoss: Red, [[spoiler:if this was a normal video game at all]]. The end of each stage starting with "Pathos" is an EscapeSequence where he chases after you and his touch is a OneHitKill. In the final level [[spoiler:you fight him instead. Fortunately he can't OneHitKill you... [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it's against the rules.]]]]
165* RecycledSoundtrack: The new Kaiju bosses use the same songs as the original roster. When King Ghidorah and Destoroyah go OneWingedAngel during their respective battles, on the other hand, the music changes to the Stage 5 battle theme from ''VideoGame/SuperGodzilla''. Meanwhile, the level at the end of Extus features "Prayer for Peace" from [[Film/Godzilla1954 the very first film]].
166* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Take a wild guess. It helps that he was inspired by [[spoiler:Giygas from ''EarthBound'']].
167* RedIsViolent: Both figuratively and literally.
168* RevisedEnding: PlayedForLaughs [[http://nesgodzillacreepypasta.blog.com/2012/03/18/alternate-ending/ here.]]
169* RiversOfBlood: Zenith's "Blood Lake".
170* RousseauWasRight: Downplayed and Zig-Zagged, but, when compared to most other Creepypastas, there are more monsters here that are either [[BenevolentMonsters allies to the hero]] or [[NonMaliciousMonster just minding their own business]] then there are for most other Creepypastas believe it or not. [[spoiler:Averted with the enemies of [[VillainWorld Zenith]] and [[BigBad Red]], as expected from a Creepypasta.]]
171* RunOrDie: What Red's levels boil to. The screen reads '''RUN''' for a reason...
172* {{Satan}}: Essentially what Red represents.
173* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Red, though to a limited extent; he can modify whole levels and even boards, but even warped and tweaked as the game is, he has to follow the rules of the game engine. Trying to force a GameOver to prevent Zach from using [[EleventhHourRanger Acacius]] is ''not'' within these rules, and he pays for it.
174* SealedEvilInADuel: [[spoiler:Red forces this upon himself after killing Godzilla, forcing Red to break a rule as he still won't let Zach use the last monster.]]
175* SensoryAbuse: During Zenith, the music for the first part of the "KILL" level is a cacophony of NES sounds.
176* SequelHook: The game cartridge is still out there...
177* ShoutOut:
178** [[VideoGame/{{Eversion}} MOTHER]]
179** "[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 I'll tell you a secret...]] [[spoiler:''I killed Melissa!'']]"
180** Acacius the Golden Light looks less like a Kaiju and more like a deliberate nod to [[Franchise/UltraSeries the Giant of Light himself]], ''Series/UltramanTiga - more specifically, his golden Glitter Mode.
181* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "STILL THE BEST 1973" appears after Solomon finishes a level or beats a boss.
182* TheSilentBob: Red ''never'' speaks [[spoiler:until Chapter 5. He gets real chatty in Chapter 8, though]].
183** In contrast (possibly to differentiate him from his predecessor), Warlock from the sequel speaks quite frequently.
184* SixthRanger: There are ''three'' in the original: Anguirus, Solomon, and [[spoiler:[[EleventhHourRanger Acacius]]]].
185-->"Would you like a new monster?"
186* SpeculativeBiology: In an Entropy level called "Time warp", the third act of the level shows what Zach perceives as it showing animals that could exist in thousands, if not, millions of years in the future. One particular creature looks like an iconic speculative biology creature called "Troodon Man".
187** The other levels in Entropy, namely the forest levels, also portray creatures that resembled real-life animals behaving vaguely like their real life counterparts. It's pretty interesting for a Creepypasta to dabble in a subject like this, even though it isn't mentioned prominently outside of Entropy. As Zach quotes:
188-->''It was very surreal watching these creatures interact. I didn't feel like I was playing a video game, but rather that I was traveling through a forest in some other dimension.''
189* {{Spinoff}}: While ''Webcomic/CreaturesOfZenith'' started out as an attempt to translate the story into a sprite comic format, it very quickly morphed into an ExpandedUniverse that took inspiration from the story's events.
190* SpotTheImposter: Mothra's fight with Mechagodzilla. Zach wasn't fooled.
191* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: The penultimate level Extus provided not only the extremely powerful Solomon, but also "heart temple" levels with harmless creatures that provided health recovery. [[spoiler:Both of these things would be invaluable for [[BossRush what was to come]].]]
192* {{Synchronization}}: In the final battle, whenever Red damages one of Zach's monsters, he feels the pain of it. [[OhCrap And some of Red's attacks include breathing a giant cone of fire and eating the opponent alive.]]
193* TakeThat:
194** Zach isn't very fond of a [[Film/Godzilla1998 particular incarnation]] of Godzilla, given what he says when [[Film/Godzilla2000 Orga]] shows up in Trance.
195-->''Those guys at Toho may be smart, but I'm sure they couldn't see that far into the future. If they could, they never would have gave Creator/RolandEmmerich the rights to make [[Film/Godzilla1998 a Godzilla movie]].''
196** Among the other games he got is "some stupid thing called ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}''".
197** Zach remarks that he traded his copy of the original game for ''VideoGame/{{Amagon}}'' when he was 11, and quickly regretted it when he found out what the latter was like.
198* TearsOfJoy: After [[spoiler:defeating Red and learning the deceased monsters were revived]], Zachary cries out of happiness.
199* TechnicolorDeath: Red.
200* ThatOneBoss: Red [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel in his final form]]]] is an [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme]] InUniverse example: he has [[MarathonBoss a gargantuan amount of health]], and all his attacks make short work of Zach's monsters. Even Solomon, the strongest monster [[spoiler:(other than [[EleventhHourRanger Acacius]])]], stands no chance against the beast; the narrator comments that the battle was "like trying to fight a mountain." [[spoiler:Zach is also forced to stay through the experience, feeling the excruciating pain each of his monsters go through.]]
201* ThatsNoMoon: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Moon Beast.]] In this case, the moon seems to be an egg, which hatches into an embryo and falls into water, before emerging as the titanic Moon Beast itself.
202* ThisIsUnforgivable: Zach first starts ''truly'' hating Red at the end of "Extus" when [[spoiler:he kills and devours the blue angel after she sacrifices herself to buy Zach time to get away from him]].
203* ToneShift: While the first two chapters are unsettling at most, it's when Red first appears that the game starts becoming nightmarish.
204* TranquilFury: Zach's reaction to Red gruesomely devouring the blue angel:
205-->''"You're going to pay."''
206* TrickBoss: Of all the replacement bosses, Ghidorah's replacement is... a [[Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah Dorat]] [[ActuallyPrettyFunny that sends Zach into a brief laughing fit]] from its BossRush buildup [[AntiClimaxBoss and quickly dies after two slashes from Solomon]]... [[spoiler:then Chimera appears]].
207** Ghidorah himself reappears in Zenith, but uses the same replacement glitch [[BaitAndSwitch to turn himself into Mecha-King Ghidorah!]]
208* UglyCute: InUniverse, Zachary considers the Canimorph not as disturbing as he feared the "Organic Level" boss would be.
209* UnbuiltTrope: One of the very first creepypastas, being written in 2011, to be around TheMostDangerousVideoGame, complete with cliches such as high-fidelity graphics displaying violent material, the player being forced to continue unwillingly, and malicious forces within the game actively attempting to kill the player. It may come as a surprise to readers used to the bleakness of other creepypastas about haunted video games to see that there are also benevolent forces in the game willing to help Zach, [[spoiler:and the ending is not a DownerEnding, but rather a relatively upbeat one where the BigBad is killed, the heroic monsters are revived, and the player escapes with his life]].
210* TheUnreveal: How alive is the game? What was up with [[spoiler:Face's questions? The TV screens? What was Solomon's past connection with Red? What does "Still The Best 1973" mean? What even ''was'' Red? How did Red know Zach? For how long has he been watching him? How and why did he kill Melissa? How is she in the game]]? By the end, Zachary still doesn't know, and he doesn't care to know.
211* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: "Zenith". [[spoiler:The setting is basically Hell, the quiz game and television screens are broken, and the final two bosses before Red are King Ghidorah and Destoroyah, both being among the strongest and equally most (in?)famous villains of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise.]]
212* VideogameCaringPotential: In Entropy, Zachary feels it would be wrong to attack the deer-like creatures he finds there, and leaves them be. At times, he even chases away some raptor-like animals that appear to be their natural predator. [[spoiler:For good reason, in that these creatures might actually be alive.]]
213* VillainBall: One gets the impression that ''Red'' of all "people" [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't quite think his plans for the last world through]] - that is, separating Acacius from the main board, forcing Zach to use his other four monsters until only Acacius is left. Cue FridgeLogic: while this means that he can't use Acacius on Red... this also means Red has no way to kill his last monster, essentially making the game Unwinnable ''for both Zachary and Red''. This ''forces'' Red to break the rules and go in for the kill, which in theory should allow Red to get past the unwinnable situation he had set in play, but also allowing [[spoiler:Melissa to step in and bring Acacius out for the final battle]]. Red really wrote his own demise when you think about it.
214** If Red initially had nothing to do with the supernatural cartridge — simply being a demon haunting Zach's life — deciding to use the game to screw with Zach in the first place ultimately sealed his fate.
215* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Red has a running form, a swimming form, and a flying form, which it uses to chase Godzilla, Anguirus, and Mothra, respectively. [[spoiler:And, as revealed in the final chapter, a [[OneWingedAngel giant form]].]]
216* WhamEpisode:
217** The first Hell Beast chase.
218-->'''Zachary:''' "Run? From what?"
219** The second part of "Entropy", in the "white tree" stage. The deer are dying, and the raptors that were their natural predators are now going mad from the bitter cold. [[spoiler:And the end segment of the level draws directly from Zach's memories.]]
220** The end of "Extus".
221* WhamLine:
222** At the end of the Moon Beast fight, Zachary sees text on screen that confirms once and for all that this game isn't just a hack:
223-->[[spoiler:"Melissa... '''kill yourself.'''"]]
224** Red reveals just how he knows Zachary so well:
225-->"[[JustBetweenYouAndMe I'll tell you a secret]]... [[spoiler:I KILLED MELISSA]]"
226* WhamShot: The relief after Zachary cheers over completing one of the "Run" levels is immediately put asunder when Red ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou looks directly at him]]'' [[DoNotTauntCthulhu after being taunted]].
227* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: InUniverse. After the end of Pathos, back when he still thought the game was a prototype; Zach wanted to know why someone would put something like Red in a children's game.
228* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Invoked. [[spoiler:"If you're going to cheat, then why do you even let me use the controller?!" "CAN'T BREAK THE RULES"."]] Apparently Justified, since Red's attempt to break the rules lets Zach use the [[EleventhHourRanger Eleventh Hour Supermonster.]]
229* WombLevel: The "organic levels" in Zenith. The monsters and obstacles are truly sickening, so much so that Zach nearly puked.
230* WorthyOpponent: Zach considers Chimera this as the fight ends.
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233[[folder: ''Godzilla: Replay'']]
234* AlwaysABiggerFish: Happens with the BaitAndSwitchBoss in the Tempest world — the fake boss is tongue-grabbed and eaten by the real, toad-like boss.
235* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:The Transcendence Project]] has shades of this via journal entries.
236* ArtEvolution: The sequel's screencaps use the NES's screen resolution and more plausible glitch graphics.
237* BaitAndSwitchBoss: At one point during one of the stages in Tempest, Carl (playing as King Caesar) comes across a large crocodile-like monster. Said monster is then grabbed by a weird-looking tongue and eaten alive. The tongue belongs to the real mini-boss: a giant, grotesque Surinam toad.
238-->''(Carl comes across the fake boss)''\
239'''Carl:''' I think we're at a boss.\
240''(The real boss kills the fake one.)''\
241'''Carl:''' Definitely a boss.
242* BigBad: Warlock is shaping up to be one. At least for the first five parts.
243* TheCameo: Several. A blue version of [[Videogame/GodzillaUnleashed Krystalak]] is the boss of an Ice Cave stage, and Gorosaurus appears in the Lost Way, accompanying Godzilla to the exit.
244** Gabara is a miniboss in the Reflect stage of Corona.
245** Titanosaurus shows up in the Reef stage in Amorphis as a miniboss, and Manda appears as an NPC in the Depth stage.
246** Zilla appears as a regular enemy in the Falls stage of Amorphis.
247** Triax, a fairly obscure monster from the [[ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977 1977 Marvel Godzilla run]], shows up as a minor encounter in Alkali Pt. 1.
248* ChangingOfTheGuard: Carl is the one who buys up Zach's old game out of curiosity. He's actually in contact with Zach and read the original creepypasta, so he has a general idea of what he's getting into. However, the game has altered itself again, so now Carl has his own adventure.
249** Unlike Zach, Carl doesn't know much about Godzilla or how to play the game, nor does his share Zach's crazy skills. He is, however, apparently very good at platformers, so the game's difficulty hasn't caught up to him.
250** Also notable is the fact that he plays the game one level at a time with long breaks between (Zach finished the entire game in one sitting). This probably helps him maintain his sanity.
251** The story that we read on the blog is him taking notes ''while'' he's playing and screen-capping, so he comes off as not very talkative but very analytical and observant, relying on his pictures a little bit more than narration. In contrast, again, Zach put together his entire story after he finished the game, looking for some sort of catharsis in the process.
252* ColorfulThemeNaming: Averted. [[http://nesgodzillacreepypasta.blogspot.com/2012/03/regarding-sequel-and-other-stuff.html The announcement for the sequel]] says that the one for the second story is "not named after a color".
253** Chapter 5 confirms Grey's real name: Warlock.
254* DoorOfDoom: A large gate appears between stages with seven empty slots that are filled whenever Carl defeats a boss. Presumably, beating them all opens it.
255* EldritchAbomination: The Warlock.
256* EscortMission: In the "Gelid" world, Carl ends up escorting Gorosaurus (who he doesn't recognise, of course) and a little green creature from the "Amorphis" world named Usol out of the "Lost Way" level.
257* GenreShift: It's early yet, but Godzilla Replay has more sci-fi aspects, such as inexplicable minigames that appear to be experiments of some sort, possibly on Carl, as well as an ApocalypticLog called "The Transcendence Project", which a previous owner from 1997 added into the game cartridge.
258* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Godzilla gets them in his very first true appearance.
259** Warlock, an otherwise completely grey demon, has glowing green eyes.
260* InterfaceScrew: The game screen turns bright colors and tilts crazily from side to side during King Caesar's MushroomSamba (a result of hitting a tree covered in syringes).
261* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:The game can create anomalies based on the players playing it. The effects are quite unsettling.]]
262* MathematiciansAnswer: Carl tries asking one of the creatures in Amorphis how are they able to hear him in the game when he talks. The answer? "I hear with my ears".
263* MeaningfulName: Plenty. One example is that Carl states that he's rusty at chess, and a Patzer is someone who's bad at chess. Another is the world of [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Gelid]], which is a term for anything icy or cold, and so on and so forth. [[spoiler:Then there's Warlock, named for his sorcery and usage of black magic.]]
264* MeleeATrois: In the chess stage, it's mentioned that while the black and white pieces do attack the player, they're spending more time fighting each other, and the player can attack both sides.
265* MushroomSamba: The syringe tree in Tempest induces this.
266* OriginStory: Carl's playthrough depicts Godzilla's origins, loosely based on the official origin story for Godzilla's Heisei era incarnation given in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah''. He starts out as a Godzillasaurus traversing an island, before the other dinosaurs become inexplicably violent. The level ends with Godzilla dueling a triceratops, while in the background a bomb drops slowly. Carl beats the triceratops before the minute is up, but the bomb explodes anyway. There's a photorealistic shot of a nuclear mushroom cloud before Godzilla pops into the screen with glowing red eyes. A lovely introduction to the game.
267* {{Prehistoria}}: The first stage, which shows Godzilla's origins in the Mesozoic.
268* SevenDeadlySins: ''Replay'' has levels based on the Deadly Sins.
269** Gelid is Sloth. The level and the monsters are light blue, the level's motif is ice and cold (which slows down), there is a monster too lazy to research who the first person to land on the moon was, the boss's name is Lethar (as in "lethargic") and Carl beats it by jumping around a lot (being the opposite of slothful).
270** Corona is Pride. The level's color is purple, it has a lot of mirrors, one of the monsters calls itself "the prettiest thing there could ever be" while looking at itself in a mirror and the boss' name is Exalton (exalted).
271** Amorphis is Envy. The level is green, a monster complains that it's not fair that it can't be strong, and the boss Odia (as in "odious") takes the form of Godzilla sometimes (being envious of him).
272** Tempest is Lust. The level's color is blue (a lesser used color for Lust), there's a lot of Freudian imagery (like piercing) and plenty of wind-related levels (in Dante's Inferno, the Lust circle is described as an endless windstorm), one of the monsters looks like it's masturbating, many of the monsters (including the boss) can call in "child" monsters, one of the minibosses violently explodes (as if climaxing), the boss' name is Salaac ("salacious").
273** Alkali is Greed. [[https://www.deviantart.com/cosbydaf/gallery?q=+Alkali As first shown in the teasers Cosbydaf has shared on his deviantart]] about this world, the level's color is golden yellow and is heavily industry-themed with sapient Kaiju working tirelessly to sate the demands of a creature named Avidus (as in "avarice"). There is also a currency exclusive to this world called "Daru" which is used to buy items from markets. Some Kaiju aren't so lucky and live in poverty while their competitors get richer.
274* ShoutOut:
275** The king that appears in the "Patzer" stage during Carl's playthrough is the king from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames''.
276** The first level of Tempest, the world based off of lust, takes place in heavy winds. The punishment for lust in [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]] was to be blown around by violent winds for eternity.
277* SixthRanger: Rodan serves as a new monster on Carl's side, that Zach didn't have access to.
278* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:Warlock pretends to be a new playable monster who quietly teleports the boss of Chapter 5 around until the player gets rid of his playable form.]]
279* WhamEpisode: Chapter five has [[spoiler:Usol getting kidnapped. It also turns out that Warlock, the grey monster that has pursued Carl, is a shapeshifter.]]
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