History Film / Gorath

* AwesomeButImpractical: Using rocket thrusters to ''push the Earth out of Gorath's way''. It's such an awesome concept, but is also highly impossible to pull off in real life.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Partway through this DisasterMovie a giant walrus {{Kaiju}} appears and it becomes a standard monster movie for a brief period of time.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The Earth cannot function properly if it’s moved off its axis. Subsequently it’s physically impossible to move the Earth in the first place.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Using rocket thrusters to ''push the Earth out of Gorath’s way''. It’s such an awesome concept, but is also highly impossible to pull off in real life.

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! ''Gorath'' provides examples of:

* GravitySucks: The first rocket to analyze Gorath learns the hard way that, despite being slightly smaller than Earth, it is so dense that it has a gravity well that is ''6,000 times stronger''. Cue a TotalPartyKill of the rocket's crew

* GravitySucks: The first rocket to analyze Gorath learns the hard way that, despite being slightly smaller than Earth, it is so dense that it has a gravity well that is ''6,000 times stronger'''. Cue a TotalPartyKill of the rocket's crew

* DisasterMovie: A truly unique example as the disaster itself is a moving hyper-dense collapsed star.

* DisasterMovie: A truly unique example as the disaster itself is a moving planet.

* RealityEnsues: When Gorath approaches the Earth near the climax, it destroys the moon and warps the tides so severely that Tokyo and several other cities are flooded.

In 1982, astronauts have made a startling discovery: an enormous rogue star called Gorath is hurtling through the Solar System directly towards Earth, threatening to engulf our world with its gigantic gravitational field. With two separate space expeditions to study Gorath having fallen victim to the rogue star's immensity, the world's nations band together to avert global catastrophe. Since destroying Gorath is certainly out of the question, the United Nations requests a team of the world's leading scientists to conduct a truly preposterous endeavour - install enormous rocket thrusters at the South Pole to push Earth safely out of Gorath's way. With precious time running low for humanity, the fate of the world rests upon the seemingly impossible task of moving Earth away from Gorath before it is too late.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The earth cannot function properly if it’s moved off its axis. Subsequently it’s physically impossible to move the earth in the first place.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Using rocket thrusters to ''push the earth out of Gorath’s way''. It’s such an awesome concept, but is also highly impossible to pull off in real life.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Partway through this DisasterMovie a giant walrus Kaiju appears and it becomes a standard monster movie for a brief period of time.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film was released in 1962, and takes place in the far off year of 1980.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The Film was released in 1962, and takes place in the far off year of 1980.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The Film was shot and released in 1962, and takes place in the far off year of 1980.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Partway through this DisasterMovie a giant walrus Kaiju appears and it becomes a standard monster movie for a brief period of time.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Using rocket thrusters to ''push the earth out of Gorath’s way''. It’s such an awesome concept, but is also highly impossible to pull off in real life.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The earth cannot function properly if it’s moved off its axis. Subsequently it’s physically impossible to move the earth in the first place.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The earth cannot function properly if it’s moved off its axis.

! ''Gorath'' provides examples of:

''Gorath'' (''Yosei Gorasu'', or ''Calamity Star Gorath'') is a 1962 science-fiction disaster film from Creator/{{Toho}} Studios produced by many of the same minds behind ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', ''Film/{{Rodan}}'', and ''Film/{{Mothra}}'', like director Creator/IshiroHonda, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, and special effects director Creator/EijiTsuburaya. The film's script was written by Jojiro Okami, a former Japanese Air Force pilot who also gave the original ideas to ''Film/TheMysterians'', ''Film/TheBattleInOuterSpace'', and ''Film/{{Dogora}}''.