Werner's Godzilla: New Era is a series of Godzilla fanfiction written by C.L. Werner, a professional author of fantasy and science fiction best known for his work on novels for Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000. Despite the similar titles, it is completely unrelated to Godzilla: New Era.
- Godzilla vs. Frankenstein
: The head of the Red Bamboo discovers the Nazi Mad Scientist Dr. Frankenstein hiding in remote Africa, and recruits him to create a giant monster with which to conquer Japan. But Frankenstein has his own plans... He wants to defeat Godzilla, and use the King of the Monster's corpse to build the ultimate monster! - Godzilla vs. Cthulhu
- Kodzilla vs. King Kong
- The Return of Rodan
- Scourge of the Super-Saurs
- Koumajutsu: The Coming of Bagan
- Frankenstein Has Risen From The Grave
- Sorrow of Manchuria
- Godzilla vs. Deutalios
Originally, the New Era was hosted on the Kaijuphile fan website, but sadly the website has been taken down. Fortunately, the website has been archived by web-hosts, so the stories can still be read by interested browsers. Most of the stories, with the exception of Sorrow of Manchuria and Godzilla vs. Deutalios, can also be read on Werner's Fan Fiction Dot Net page.
This series includes examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: Dr. Frankenstein, in this universe, is an actively practicing Nazi. Even his inspiratory counterpart in Frankenstein Conquers the World was at least ambiguous about his connection to the Nazi regime.
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: Godzilla fires his atomic breath point blank at King Kong as the latter charges at him. The beam leaves a bloody hole in Kong's stomach. This doesn't kill Kong, and the two keep battling.
- An Arm and a Leg: The Ginko's defeat in Godzilla vs. Frankenstein starts with Godzilla ripping its arm off. Godzilla doesn't stop until he's literally pulled it to pieces, first removing its othe arm, then tripping before rending it asunder.
- And I Must Scream: Frankstein's creations are described as literally unable to die, even when rent into the tiniest pieces — all it would take is the skill of Frankenstein to reconstruct them, and they will become animate once more. Godzilla vs. Frankenstein ends with the Ginko torn to pieces by Godzilla and left to rot on the beach, still alive but never to be restored.
- Bad Boss: Frankenstein reigns over his African slaves with horrific cruelty. In the opening paragraphs, he's shown to have deliberately released tse-tse flies carrying the dread sleeping sickness into their ranks to have an excuse to claim victims for his experiments in biomanipulation. One of his test subjects is a boy, and the boy's own father pleads with Frankenstein not to be made to take the thing that Frankenstein has made of the boy back to the boy's mother. Before leaving the tribe to join the Red Bamboo, he orders them to kill all the villagers.
- Bear Hug: Kong attempts this on Gigan during their battle in Alaska.
- Bioweapon Beast:
- Invoked in Godzilla vs. Frankenstein. The titular Mad Scientist uses a Flesh Golem made from African megafauna to enforce his brutal reign over a remote corner of Africa. This is what draws General Yamato of the Red Bamboo to seek him out; he lampshades how their attempts to create giant attack beasts were disasters, and declares that their failure was due to having to continue to deal with animal instincts in a Kaiju. Thus, Frankenstein's Flesh Golem creations, which are The Needless, are a more reliable way of carrying this out.
- The Deutalios is a disease-laden genetically-engineered rat created by the nation of Saradia in hopes it could be used to kill Godzilla and thus allow his precious G-Cells to be harvested.
- Bloodier and Gorier: The kaiju battles throughout the series are very violent, with the monsters ripping chunks out of each other. The monters are often left bloodied by the end of their battles.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Frankenstein revels in how he is hated and despised by his African slaves, boasting about how they privately call him "Mahiba-palu", meaning "God of Cruelty" in their tongue.
- Choke Holds: King Kong tackles Godzilla to the ground and chokes him during their second battle in Tokyo. He nearly succeeds in strangling Godzilla until Gigan unintentionally intervenes.
- Close-Range Combatant: King Kong is portrayed as a skilled melee fighter: punching, biting, grappling, and throwing his opponents.
- Commie Nazis: Invoked and Zigzagged. Godzilla vs. Frankenstein has the Red Bamboo, here established as a Communist terrorist group, seeking the aid of Nazi Mad Scientist Dr. Frankenstein due to the destruction of their Letchi Island base thirty years prior and the recent fall of the Soviet Union, which has left them bereft of funds. Frankenstein wastes no time in pointing out how much they must hate asking a Nazi for help, rubbing in that he's enjoying seeing them compromise their ideological principles to beg for his aid.
- Cut Short: The author, C.L. Werner, stopped writing the series when he was only four chapters into Godzilla vs. Deutalios in 2006, instead choosing to focus on professional writing.
- Darker and Edgier: The series takes full tonal inspiration from the Heisei Era, and pulls no punches in describing how terrifying the rampages of the Kaiju are.
- Darkest Africa: Frankenstein is introduced having spent the last forty years or so hiding in a remote region of deep Africa, whose natives address him as "Mahibu", or "God". More justified than some examples, though, as Frankenstein ordered them to address him by such a moniker, and if a crazy man shows up with unkillable horrors wrought from the bodies of the dead to enforce his will and orders you to call him a god, well, most people will.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Frankenstein deliberately summons Godzilla to the island where he has been working with the Red Bamboo to enlarge the Ginko into a proper kaiju, with every confidence his creation will kill Godzilla so that Frankenstein can craft his ultimate Flesh Golem from Godzilla's remains. Instead, Godzilla rips the Ginko asunder and then seemingly vaporizes Frankenstein with his Atomic Breath.
- Dumb Muscle: The Ginko is enormously strong and tough, but it has no initiative or thoughts of its own, instead mindlessly obeying its master Frankenstein's orders. This proves its downfall when the smarter Godzilla realizes he can easily sidestep the brute's charges and then grab onto it to rip its limbs off; the Ginko is too mindless to change its tactics and so is swiftly defeated.
- Evil Old Folks: The series is implicitly set in the 90s, whilst Dr. Frankenstein served as a Mad Scientist for the Nazis during World War II, making him somewhere between his 70s and his 90s. His age doesn't stop him from being a Mad Scientist with blatant Nazi sympathies who views himself as a new god charged with shaping a new man from the bodies of the old.
- Flesh Golem: Frankenstein is able to not only reanimate dead tissue, but also surgically sculpt and manipulate it into new forms of his own design. Said creations have no need of food, drink, sleep or air, and they Feel No Pain. Thus, Frankenstein considers them an improvement over natural life.
- A God Am I: Frankenstein openly revels in being worshiped as a god by his African slaves. Before departing with the Red Bamboo, he orders them killed, so they will "never serve lesser gods".
- Heroic Rematch: Godzilla comes to Japan to stop King Kong’s rampage. Kong wins the first fight in Kyoto. The two have a rematch in Tokyo, where Godzilla beats Kong.
- Godzilla is defeated by Bagan in their first encounter. He defeats the demon in their second fight.
- Human Hammer-Throw: King Kong grabs Godzilla by the tail and swings him into a nearby building during their initial encounter in Kyoto.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gigan's preferred method of attack.
- Irony: When showing off the Ginko to the Red Bamboo, Frankenstein notes he went to the trouble of surgically shaping hands from a white rhino's forelimbs instead of attaching an ape's arms because no ape ever lived that would compare to the Ginko's stature. Two stories later, Godzilla faces off against King Kong, who is the very definition of an ape big enough to match the Ginko in scale.
- Make My Monster Grow: The Red Bamboo's bartering chip to persuade Frankenstein to ally with them is access to their size-boosting heavy water. This makes the Ginko grow from its original fifty feet to a creature of comparable height to Godzilla.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The Ginko is a Flesh Golem created from African megafauna. It has the body of a hippo, the legs of an African elephant, and the forelimbs and head of a white rhino (with African crocodile fangs, for intimidation). Frankenstein has also sculpted the creature's anatomy, altering its spine and pelvis for bipedal locomotion and surgically reshaping its forelimbs into arms with crude, three-fingered hands.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: Kong is described as being very muscular. He possesses immense physical strength, overpowering Godzilla several times during their battles.
- Neck Snap: King Kong attempts this on Godzilla.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Performed several times during the series.
- Poisonous Person: The Deutalios is the disease variant; it's so infected with viruses and bacteria bred for bio-warfare that getting too close to it can leave people infected with an incurable plague that causes them to basically melt into a puddle of noxious slop.
- Primal Chest-Pound: King Kong does this after defeating Godzilla in Kyoto.
- Primate Versus Reptile: Godzilla is brought to Japan to battle a rampaging King Kong.
- Shock and Awe: Like his Showa counterpart, Kong is made stronger through electricity. He gains the ability to channel electric shock through his hands and body.
- Sore Loser: A gravely wounded King Kong refuses to concede to Godzilla after being taken out of the fight by Gigan. While prone on the ground, he grabs Godzilla's leg as the saurian is leaving Tokyo; trying to continue their battle. Resulting in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from an enraged Godzilla.
- Tail Slap: Godzilla uses this method of attack throughout the series.
- He smacks King Kong across the chest with his tail during their battle in Tokyo.
- He batters a severely wounded King Kong with his tail at the end of their second fight, after Kong refuses to stay down.
- Victory Pose On Person: King Kong places a foot on Godzilla's body after defeating him in Kyoto. Godzilla returns the favor after defeating Kong in Tokyo.
- Victorious Roar: Godzilla, King Kong, and other Kaiju do this throughout the series.
- Villainous Rescue: Gigan unintentionally saves Godzilla from being strangled to death by King Kong. The cyborg bumps into Kong’s back while retreating from Mechani Kong. Enraged, Kong releases his grip on Godzilla’s throat and attacks Gigan.
- You Dirty Rat!: The Deutalios is a Kaiju-scale Bioweapon Beast genetically engineered from a common rat. It resembles a deformed rat covered in necrotizing wounds and leaking plague-ridden bile, with a tail covered in filth-smeared thorny barbs. Genetically engineered with a combination of stolen G-Cells and Soviet viral weaponry, its a walking pestilence, carrying a disease so potent it can even cancel Godzilla's regenerative powers. It's also fundamentally cautious (read: cowardly), being quick to flee if the battle is going against it.
