History ReferencedBy / Godzilla

* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': The OVA episode "The 450-Million-Year-Old Trap" is a WholePlotReference to ''Film/Godzilla1954'', with a sea monster that rises out of Tokyo Bay, a character resembling Dr. Serizawa, Godzilla's roar being used, and the monster being defeated with a weapon resembling the Oxygen Destroyer.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'': The episode "An Epic Defense Force!" is a big reference to ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'', featuring an in-universe movie where a giant Tyranitar (already the Pokémon most heavily based on Godzilla) appears, only for it to turn out to be a mecha covered in fake skin, used as the war machine of a conquering alien. Iris and a Zorua also play twin priestesses as a reference to Mothra's Shobijin (although in this case, it's a giant Golurk), and Ash plays a member of the "Unova Defence Force" as a reference to the Earth Defence Force.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Several Pokémon are rather obvious references to Toho kaiju. For example, Butterfree (a reference to Mothra, since it can even learn Psychic moves), Nidoking and Nidoqueen (both having very close resemblance to Baragon), Tyranitar (Godzilla himself, it's made especially obvious in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', where Tyranitar is the star of a "Big Monster" movie with a human villain called [[Film/Godzilla1954 Serizawa]]), Hydreigon (A dark version of King Ghidorah; its Japanese name, Sazandora, also ends in -dora), Duraludon (Mechagodzilla, with an official description noting how it's a rival of Tyranitar), and Baxcalibur (Godzilla again, with its signature move, Glaive Rush, having it shoot a beam of energy from its mouth to propel itself at an opponent in the exact same manner that Godzilla made himself fly during ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'').

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'': In the first episode, when Peacemaker hears about Project Butterfly, he assumes the name is literal and asks if he's going to have to fight Mothra.

Expies of the titular {{Kaiju}} should be sorted under {{Notzilla}}.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Several Pokémon are rather obvious references to Toho kaiju. For example, Butterfree (a reference to Mothra, since it can even learn Psychic moves), Nidoking and Nidoqueen (both having very close resemblance to Baragon), Tyranitar (Godzilla himself, it's made especially obvious in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', where Tyranitar is the star of a "Big Monster" movie with a human villain called [[Film/Godzilla1954 Serizawa]]), Hydreigon (A dark version of King Ghidorah; its Japanese name, Sazandora, also ends in -dora), and Duraludon (Mechagodzilla, with an official description noting how it's a rival of Tyranitar).

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* The band {{Music/Gojira}} is named for the franchise.

* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. In a flashback scene, Kincaid fights Godzilla while serving as the child pilot of a giant mecha.
-->He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock.

* ''Film/TheCannonballRunII''. J.J. and Victor pose as a military NEST team for the illicit cross-country race. Victor overdoes the ploy when he tells a skeptical highway patrolman that they've been irradiated and as a result he has atomic breath.

* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'': In the first scene, a man has a stand selling Godzilla toys when someone's dog attacks some of the toys. The stand owner yells at the dog's owner for this until the city suddenly gets bombarded by meteors. Likely also a TakeThat, since ''Film/Godzilla1998'' had only come out a few weeks earlier.

* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'': Robo-Gadget scares some citizens by projecting a Godzilla shadow puppet and emitting Godzilla's roar.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In the episode "Wingin' It", one of the dangers of flying presented is that after they crash into the sea, they could be attacked and eaten by Godzilla (much to Flaky's horror). At the end of the episode, after Flaky manages to crash-land the plane in the ocean, an ominous roar is heard and Flaky screams.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In the episode "The Matchmaker", Sylvia is trying to stop Wander from delivering a letter and eventually the two chase each other through different alternate dimensions. One dimension is titled "The {{Kaiju}}", where Sylvia turns into a three-headed winged dragon, and Wander turns into a spike-backed dinosaur.