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Putting the "God" dorsum in "Godzilla". (Pictured from left to correct: Mendel, Elsie, Nick, Randy and Monique.)

Godzilla: The Series (1998-2000) was an animated television serial and the Sequel Series to the 1998 American version of Godzilla , produced past the Adelaide Productions segmentation of Sony Pictures Television, and lasted a total of 40 episodes on Play a joke on Kids.

In the first episode, the final egg that Godzilla laid ^note Seen hatching at the cease of said picture show is found, it hatches and imprints on The Hero from the moving-picture show, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos. Naturally, he subsequently forms HEAT (the Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team) with iv other humans, Drs. Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven (both from the picture, besides), besides equally Randy Hernandez and Monique Dupre. With Godzilla Inferior loyal to Nick, they defend the world from diverse Kaiju that take abruptly sprung upwards, crazy and/or sinister humans and, eventually, invading psychic aliens (naturally).

This serial provides examples of:

90% of Your Brain: Nick states this is the reason as to why the aliens were able to copy their minds into human brains.
Acid Attack: Several of the giant monsters spit out acrid that melt various materials, unremarkably metal and plastic. How fast the acid eats away any information technology'due south spat on varies.
Action Girl: Monique is a French spy who is more than capable of taking care of business when information technology comes to helping combat regular Mooks or other monsters. In fact, Roache is the 1 who sent her to H.E.A.T to sentry over them and Godzilla.
Adapted Out: Animal's wife Lucy isn't seen in the series, but always mentioned in passing.
Accommodation Dye-Job: Mendel's originally a short-haired brunette in the moving-picture show. Here, he's a blonde with a ponytail.
Adaptational Heroism: The lead monster is the third nigh heroic version of Godzilla, behind the Showa Godzilla after his Heel–Confront Turn, and the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla whereas his father was the antagonist of his movie. His siblings were also the secondary antagonists, attacking humans because they scent similar fish, and thus started hunting them out of hunger. While he nearly eats Nick, he instantly realizes Nick was his "father", and thus is very protective of him. His own protectiveness brings to mind the Gentle Giants Minilla and Godzilla Junior in the Toho catechism.
Aesop Amnesia: The movie this spun off from had Audrey somewhat harshly learning the lesson that the big scoop isn't worth screwing over your friends and/or love interests. Most of the conflict involving her in the drawing has her conveniently forgetting this.
Conflicting Invasion: The Leviathan aliens' endgame was to invade Globe which comes to fruition in "Monster Wars."
Aliens Are Bastards: The aliens seen in the serial want to invade the Earth and and assimilate the minds of humanity into their Hive Mind. They do nonetheless, observe human architecture aesthetically pleasing and planned to rebuild every bit much equally they could afterwards the invasion.

American Customary Measurements: Measurements in whatever form tend to switch betwixt this and the metric system at times, which isn't surprising because the prevalence of scientific discipline and the fact that the team travels all effectually the world.
Animal Mecha: Cameron Wintertime's "Cyber flies" and the JSDF's Robo-Yeti.
Animal Wrongs Grouping: Due south.C.A.50.East. (Servants of Creatures Arriving Late to Earth) are effectively terrorists trying to "protect" mutants such as Skeetera no matter how dangerous they are. They originated as a spin-off/splinter faction from another fauna rights group, but judging from Audrey'due south report, that one averts this trope and is in fact quite reputable. Historically, the group's tactic had been peaceful until the inflow of the fanatically insane Alexandra Springer, whose extensive military grooming and vast weaponized resource transformed the arrangement into an unpredictable band of terrorists.
Animation Crash-land: The intro has slightly more than fluid animation than the rest of the show, and is noticeably digitally inked and painted, resulting in a broader colour palette; the show itself used traditional cel animation.
Capricious Skepticism: Mocked in "Leviathan":
Monique: Indeed. It is almost as laughable a notion as ane breathing atomic fire.
- Played straight in "Deadloch": Nick doesn't believe in the Loch Ness Monster despite being the adopted begetter of a giant fire-breathing lizard, who is the son of some other radioactive monster who reproduced asexually. Oh, and said burn down is radioactive.
- Elsie, existence a fan of Alien Invasion theories and below trope, patently forgotten virtually a certain event that took place a year ago. And existence Mind Controlled as a result.
Area 51: And the rumors of aliens are a coverup for what's actually going on.
Armor-Piercing Question: The team'southward lawyer gives one to the jury in the state of Florida, asking them if the holding damage set off past HEAT'south weapons to stop Shreetka is more than important than homo lives caught in the crossfire. Though the squad left before they could hear the last hearing, they were alleged innocent.
The Artifact: Nick wondering if Komodithrax is the same genus as Godzilla, even though the onetime is obviously a Komodo Dragon and the latter a marine iguana, is due to the fact that she was originally going exist a mutant marine iguana as well.
Artistic License – Biology: Extremely numerous and inevitable since this is a children's cartoon centering effectually behemothic monsters.
- One case is the Shrewster, a shrew that was spontaneously mutated after information technology was caught in a radioactive explosion near an experimental wind-nuclear fusion energy plant, which fused its DNA with a tornado, giving it the ability to generate a cyclone around it. Yes, its Deoxyribonucleic acid fused with a tornado. How the Shrewster fifty-fifty generates the tornado is never explained.
- "Trust No Ane" has a shapeshifting genetic experiment whose abilities are explained as being due to "pure Deoxyribonucleic acid", a genetic blank slate, which is nonsensical for the same reasons Pure Energy is. Evidently that translates into the ability to assimilate the genes of whatsoever living thing it touches, condign a perfect copy, yet it also still has 2 singled-out sexes required for reproduction even though it regularly switched between characters of different sexes and again was a "bare slate". The only explanation is that beingness engineered everything just sexual practice chromosomes were made a blank template.
Artistic License – Chemistry: The behemothic protrude in "Cash of the Titans" spews out a billowing cloud of deadly gas every bit its attack, which Elsie identifies every bit ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate occurs as a crystalline solid, which is inert and harmless (although extremely flammable, so they should've been more worried about the room blowing up), and dissolves into not-toxic nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and water.
Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: Granted, it's a kids' show, but if Godzilla's atomic breath is as deathly radioactive as in the Japanese films, no one would live. One example is when Craven picks upward a recently toasted NIGEL after the Big G fried him for disturbing his slumber in "Vision." Yous'd retrieve he'd exist ill a few moments later from it.
Artistic License – Physics: Godzilla is threescore meters, simply tends to stand up/climb on structures smaller than he is, such as a edifice frame when he faces the Techno-Sentient monster.
Ascended Extra: Elsie and Chicken actually announced in the 1998 movie, though yous won't be blamed for not remembering them.
Asteroids Monster: The silver monster in "Shafted."
Attack of the l-Foot Whatever: Take a approximate.
Back from the Dead: Godzilla'southward father (the i from the picture show), every bit Cyber-Godzilla in the "Monster Wars" trilogy.
Bad Future: The episode "Future Daze" has the coiffure sent frontward through fourth dimension to one of these, where bio-engineered monstrosities have killed all the other kaiju (Including Godzilla) and overrun the world.
The Bad Guy Wins: An episode featured Corrupt Corporate Executive Cameron Winter breaking three criminals out of jail and giving each one of them a Humongous Mecha then they could hunt downwards Godzilla. When the three hunters were captured, Winter got off by accusing them of stealing their mechas and the Government fifty-fifty hired him to make them mechas of their own.
Behemoth Battle: Godzilla versus Monster of the Calendar week.
Large Creepy-Crawlies: Permit'due south encounter - the Megapede, Fire Monster, Behemothic Scorpion, Giant Spider, El Gusano Gigante, the Giant Bees, Behemothic Termites...
Bloodshot Catastrophe: In "Cadger Season", the hunters are sent back to jail for trying to chase and kill Godzilla. But their mastermind, Cameron Winters, walks abroad scot-complimentary, and fifty-fifty rubs information technology in Nick'due south face that Winters got exactly what he wanted out of the incident.
Blow You Away: The Shrewster'due south mutation allowed information technology to generate a tornado around itself, which both protected it from attack and drew nutrient up to the Shrewster for easy consumption.
Body Horror: The Chameleon, every bit well every bit the aliens.
Brainwashed: The majority of the monsters in "Monsters Wars", and parts of the US armed services, easily indicated by their optics being green.
Breath Weapon: They got it right this fourth dimension, except for how information technology'southward green.
- Funnily enough, when Cyber-Zilla attacks Tokyo, its diminutive jiff is the traditional light bluish. And speaking of which, the atomic breaths themselves are more than or less a heat ray of the original 1954-1975 ray than a solid beam of the 1984-1995 rays.
Bullying the Dragon: "Freak Show" opens up with some VERY stupid people trying to capture Godzilla as Tobias Wilson had placed a bounty on him. It goes equally well as you'd expect information technology to.
Captain Ersatz: Reasonable facsimiles of Anguirus, Kumonga and many others similar Cyber-Zilla.
The Chew Toy: Mendel's robot Due north.I.Thou.E.L. dies as often as Kenny McCormick.
North.I.Thou.E.L.: "Aaargh—"

Mendel: "N.I.K.Eastward.L., nooooo!"
Urban center of Adventure: New York, though the H.E.A.T. team is just equally often elsewhere in the globe...and inevitably, Godzilla will follow.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Cameron Wintertime.
Continuity Nod: Multiple ones back to the pic.
- The get-go scene of the series is a giant i: a shortened, animated version of the climax of the cab chase from the cease of the flick and Godzilla, Sr.'s demise on the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Nick having an aquarium tank of earthworms in the first episode, his use of "annelid" when referring to El Gusano in "D.O.A." ^note The formal name is Annelida, the phylum for a lot of worms., and knowing how an earthworm looks like on a hot sidewalk on a sunny mean solar day. All refer back to his studying of worms.
- Mendel sneezing into his hand so offering information technology for a shake to Nick, which is repeated when Nick introduces him to Randy in the first episode. Obviously, Randy suggests that they just wave.
- The pronunciation joke/argument on Junior's proper noun. Randy corrects Ifukube'due south "Gojira" with "Hey! It's 'Godzilla', lady!" in the episode "Competition", which is the complete reverse to Caiman using "Godzilla" and Audrey correcting "Information technology'due south 'Gojira', you moron!'"
- Animal'due south afraid of Lucy hurting him. His son in "Hereafter Shock" asks to be dismissed to become home or his mother was "gonna thrash" him.
- In "Cat and Mouse," as the redneck hunters target Godzilla, he passes by a crane hoisting up a new top to the Chrysler Building, which the army destroyed in the movie. The hunters accidentally hitting that instead, leading to their abort at the end of the episode.
Continuity Snarl: At the finish of the movie, the last Godzilla egg hatched while completely alone. Here, it hatched while Nick was present, allowing Godzilla Jr. to imprint on him.
- Also, Major Hicks was a Colonel in the film; it'south non clear why he was of a sudden reduced in rank.
Conveniently Empty Building: A remarkable amount of people manage to not be killed during diverse monster fights. Sure information technology'due south technically a kids show, but however.
Monique: Would you still be cheering if there were people in those warehouses?
Absurd Boat: Provided past Monique, Randy ends up dubbing it the "HEAT Seeker" and quickly paints the bow to wait like a shark. It'south got hydrofoils equipped for spped and state-of-the-art radar equipment to keep runway of Godzilla and other monsters they encounter, every bit well as a landing area for the HEAT helicopter.
Cryptid Episode: Godzilla fights the Loch Ness Monster.
Curbstomp Boxing: There volition exist a rare hazard Godzilla defeats an enemy kaiju unscathed. The Mutant hummingbirds in "Vision" is one of those cases.
Cut the Knot: In "Monster Wars":
Mendel: We can generate a radiopathic feedback to overload the dampers—
Monique blasts the console
Mendel: —or we could just blow it up.
Darker and Edgier: The "Monster Wars" trilogy is perhaps the darkest episodes in the series with the team splitting upward, the Earth under threat of the Alien Invasion by the Leviathans, all monsters are completely loose, and Godzilla meets his biological father... in cyborg grade.
Deadpan Snarker: Elsie's the most prodigious squad snarker, Monique being a close second. Mendel Craven has his moments as well, after the other two.
Destructive Savior: To be off-white, Godzilla's the size of a building, and his principal abilities involves tunneling through the ground and breathing diminutive fire. It's kind of unavoidable. An early episode has Godzilla causing so much damage to New York Metropolis while trying to hunt down an infestation of giant mutated rats that the military believes he'southward simply on the attack.
- "Underground Movement" had the urban center of Miami suing HEAT for damage caused not by Godzilla merely by their own weapons. Their lawyer gets them off on a technicality.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Godzilla's father was killed by 12 missiles to accept him down and falls horizontally. In this serial, he's just taken out by 4 missiles and falls on his side so expires immediately.
Downer Ending: " Finish of the Line" doesn't take a happy ending for either Godzilla or Nick.
Energy Absorption: Several of the monsters had this blazon of ability, whether it be against burn or some other form of energy.
Escaped Animal Rampage: The epsiode "Southward.C.A.L.E." has the titular terrorist grouping releasing mutations from their habitats on Monster Island, causing them to run amok on the isle until H.E.A.T. is able to corral them back into their pens.

Exact Words: Expanse 51 is not hiding aliens, the sight was used for nuclear testing. And at present they are hiding the mutations created past the radiation.
Expy: Hell, everything. Early on in development several of the monsters were fifty-fifty named after the Toho kaiju, although they were all In Proper name Only and never meant to really exist used. But some more specific examples in the series proper include:
- The Nanotech Creature, a garbage-eating microorganism able to evolve and grow larger past feeding on pollution, is able to shape-shift, and has a semi-fluid body that it tries to kill Godzilla by smothering him in? Sounds exactly like Hedorah.
- The Crackler, a dream kaiju with electric punches? Fits the clarification of Gabara too (although otherwise the two look nothing alike).
- The Robo-Yeti, a mecha bearded with a costume to resemble a kaiju, which is burned off by Godzilla's diminutive breath? The aforementioned thing happened with the Showa Mechagodzilla. Funny enough, the concept of Cyber-Godzilla, a mechanized kaiju that uses the remains of the previous Godzilla every bit its base, would afterward discover apply in a Toho motion picture as the Millennium Mechagodzilla (Kiryu).
- Quetzalcoatl (Q) is a pterodactyl-similar creature which emerges from a volcano, drawing a number of parallels with Rodan.
- Case in point, Cameron Wintertime is most probable an expy of Lex Luthor. A Corrupt Corporate Executive? Bank check. Attempt to control the most powerful creature on the planet (Superman's example, the virtually powerful alien on the planet)? Check. Attempt to destroy it? Check. Unlimited resources, and impossibly brusque prison time? Check. Hire Mooks and sometimes idiots? Checkmate.
Family-Friendly Firearms: A rare case of the shift to family-friendly lasers really being part of the story. Real guns are used at first, but afterwards "Monster Wars," where the invaders left some of their weapons behind on Earth, lasers start appearing in the military'due south hands.
Family-Unfriendly Death: All over the place. Many of the kaiju that are killed are given rather nasty demises. The most notable are probably the Chameleon'south death, which is Taken for Granite and crumbles to dust, Cyber-Zilla getting disemboweled on-screen, and the multiple times Godzilla finishes off an enemy by burning them alive.
"Fantastic Voyage" Plot: "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been". Of class, since they're going inside Godzilla, no shrinking is required. The Large Guy has some massive blood vessels.
Feed It with Fire: Several times had Zilla fire his plasma breath at both the Fire Monster ("Ring of Burn down") and the Crackler manifested from dreams ("What Dreams May Come"), each fourth dimension causing them to abound bigger and more powerful equally a upshot. "D.O.A." had a military force utilise a biological weapon confronting El Gusano Gigante, merely information technology turned out to exist derived from its natural nutrient, so it fed on the weapon to abound bigger, stronger and pointier.
Foreshadowing: Cameron Winter mentions his work on cloning in "The Wintertime of Our Discontent". In "An Early Frost", he reveals the fruits of this effort in the class of the Chameleon, an Evil Knockoff of Godzilla.
Frail Speedster: The mutant hummingbirds in "Vision" are and then fast, they're virtually impossible to spot to the naked eye unless yous're traveling at the same speed equally they are. Godzilla manages to land a lucky shot at one of them, knocking it out. Once the master characters give him specialized spectacles, it's a full-blown Curb-Stomp Battle to them.
Friend or Idol Decision: Mendel briefly has this in "Leviathan" when he realizes that Dr. Preloran, a xeno-biologist that he looked upwardly to, was siding with the Tachyon aliens on acquisition Earth.
- Of a sort. During "Monster Wars", Godzilla is reunited with his (cybernetically reconstructed) biological father, and joins the aliens with More Than Listen Control. In the last episode of the three-parter, he's torn between staying loyal to his adopted begetter or joining his biological father.
Fungus Humongous: "Cloak-and-dagger Motion," where an enormous fungus was sucking annihilation with any sort of nutrients live dry in Michigan.
Fun with Acronyms: Randy originally intended "H.Due east.A.T." to mean "High-performance Ecology Assault Team". Nick wisely changes it.
- S.C.A.L.E. for Servants for Creatures Arriving Late to Earth.
- The Dragmas in "Future Shock" got their proper noun from Insley'due south website, the Democratic Resurgence Against a Global Mechanized Armageddon.
Funny Groundwork Event: Monique threatened to hurt their lawyer Ray if he calls her "sweetie" in the episode "Clandestine Movement". He does then, and every bit Ray goes into details almost the destruction caused, Nick has to restrain Monique from punching their lawyer from behind his back without his knowledge.

General Ripper: Averted with Major Hicks, who while (understandably) skeptical about the prospect of allowing Godzilla to roam free, is frequently among the first military officers to come to Estrus's defense force, and understands that Godzilla is the best chance humanity has got confronting the other mutants.
Genetic Engineering is the New Nuke: How the Chameleon is created.
- Likewise equally the D.R.A.G.M.A.'s in "Hereafter Stupor", and the DNA Mimic in "Trust No One".
Behemothic Equals Invincible: Unlike the film, this is played straight. The merely fourth dimension a monster would die in this series is by fighting each other or a specialized weapon past the main grapheme. Even when information technology's specially meant to impale, it could have the possibility to injure Godzilla himself, as Nick had to be careful when the DNA creature turns into Godzilla and Elsie says it could impale him. Notwithstanding, Godzilla is still shown to at least be able to be hurt by conventional weapons, and in "Monster Wars", when the heed control over the monsters is cleaved and they turn the aliens, the aliens' warships swiftly kill them.
Giant Flyer: Skeetara, Giant Bat, Quetzalcoatl, Giant Cicada, the Giant Hummingbirds, the Giant Bees and their Queen...
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Well-nigh notably, Big Chiliad Junior himself. Likewise, any creature under the Tachyon aliens' mind control had eyes glowing a sickly dark-green.
Godzilla Threshold: Somewhat the trope namer. While Godzilla comes to the human'due south aid past himself, H.E.A.T decides to use his computerized vocalism to summon him when there's a kaiju that gives them trouble.
Happily Adopted: Interestingly enough, it was Godzilla that technically adopted Nick as his father since the behemothic lizard imprinted on him (Nick was the first matter he saw and was covered in egg slime). Since so, the ii have formed a bizarre male parent/son bond and protect one some other from danger.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Usually by the climax or the episode'south end.
- Dr. Jonathan Insley was killed by his ain genetically-created Dragmas in the Bad Future and is almost killed by the infant versions in the present in "Time to come Shock".
- Maximilian Spiel in "Cash of Titans" gets his comeuppance when the very Giant Water Protrude he sent to attack H.East.A.T. at the beginning gets tossed onto him in the end.
- Colonel Charles Tarrington nigh gets killed past his own bio-engineered scorpions in "Where Is Thy Sting".
- Paul Dimanche's greed for money lands him in prison when Animal taped him admitting bribery in "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais".
- Tobias Wilson in "Freak Testify" is hinted to have gone to prison house when he tries to steal abroad a liquefied Medusa nether the squad's and Hick's noses despite the havoc created and obvious danger she presented .
- Milo Sanders's greed for fame and money has him getting arrested for stealing the team's helicopter in "Tourist Trap".
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Sometimes, the human antagonists bear witness to exist merely as dangerous equally, if non more unsafe than, the mutants. Cameron Winter, Full general Albondinga, the supervisor backside the petroleum-eating nanotech, the three hunters who tried to purse Godzilla, Dr. Hugh Trevor, the Antarctic trek leader Chad Gordon, the creator of the DNA mimic, Jonathan Insley of D.R.A.G.M.A., Maximilian Spiel, Due south.C.A.50.E., Tobias Wilson, Paul Dimanche, Colonel Charles Tarrington...
- Non to mention the mutations simply arose because of the deportment of humanity in the kickoff place.

Hunter of His Own Kind: Many of the mutations were caused past radiation like in Godzilla's origin story. Not quite so tragic as about examples every bit many of them would but as before long as kill Godzilla every bit look at him.
Hypocritical Humor: In "Future Shock":
Kid: Become go become!
Nick: Child's kind of bossy, isn't he?
- And in "Underground Movement".
Randy: Dinner is served. *produces berries in one hand and insects in the other*
Mendel: Sorry, Rambo, simply I am non putting those in my mouth. *proceeds to drink h2o being filtered through a sock*
Randy: *stares* Ditto.
I Dear Nuclear Power: Quite a few mutations are the result of radiation, mostly from human testing simply one occasion was a radioactive volcano.
Imprinting: The entire serial' plot depends on Godzilla imprinting on Nick.
In Medias Res: The outset scene of "New Family unit: Part One" is the tail cease of the cab chase from the film and the F-18s' run on Godzilla, Sr.
- "Due south.C.A.L.East" opens with Audrey addressing the camera for her written report during Godzilla's fight with Monster of the Week. The rest of the episode details How We Got Here.

Ink-Arrange Actor: Inverted in with Mendel Craven and Mayor Ebert. Despite Malcolm Dunare and Michael Lerner coming dorsum to reprise the corresponding roles, Craven was now blond with his hair in a ponytail instead of short brunet hair and Ebert was sporting a mustache instead of his original clean-shaven await and his hair was styled differently.
Intrepid Reporter: Nick's girlfriend Audrey. Godzilla existence the biggest scoop of all, they disharmonism oftentimes.

Isle of Giant Horrors: Monster Isle is where the military keeps all monsters that accept been captured over the course of the serial (barring those that demand a Tailor-Fabricated Prison instead).
Jerkass Has a Bespeak: Multiple people point out to Nick that Godzilla is a major threat, and rightfully point to Zilla, Sr. equally their proof - after all, he had totaled Manhattan, and that was without the ability to breathe burn .
Jurisdiction Friction: A variation in "Contest". The Japanese SDF had Robo-Yeti and head scientist Dr. Yukiko Ifukube had assumed that Godzilla was the ane who was the crusade of the hikers' disappearance. They somewhen work with H.E.A.T. on dealing with the real culprit, the King Cobra.

Killer Finale: El Gusano, Queen Bee, Cyber-Zilla, and the Cryptocliedus die in the finale of "Monster Wars".
King Kong Copy: Played with in regards to Robo-Yeti. Initially presumed to exist a giant, albino yeti, it is just thought a King Kong Copy. When revealed a robot, it goes from King Kong Copy to Mechani-Kong Copy.
Laser-Guided Karma: In "Tourist Trap", Milo tries to have Nick'southward personal video documenting the latter'south bond with Godzilla. He intends to bring information technology to the news, make wild claims that Nick is grooming Godzilla as his assail dog, and make a quick buck off of it. However, Animate being intercepts the video and makes it so that Milo'south stealing of the H.E.A.T. helicopter makes the news instead, almost likely sending the sleazy man to jail.
Left Hanging: Some plot points were left hanging:1. The Fire Monster has been accidentally released by a shark. ii. Colonel Tarrington asks when Third Wave is in production. 3. Nick suspects the Tachyons will return. four. Cameron Winter nonetheless is at large. 5. Dr. Preloran'due south fate isn't revealed after he walked through a portal.

Let's Separate, Gang!: Nick suggests this later on encountering a brute he's already seen is capable of shapeshifting and just after seeing it impersonate someone. He but suggests everyone continue each other inside line of sight afterwards the third incident of it impersonating a friend.
Lighter and Softer: The series is intentionally family-friendly while keeping deaths restricted only towards the monsters. Unlike the motion picture, at that place is less human bodycount, and anyone getting caught in the cross between Godzilla and his opponent will exist miraculously saved at the terminal infinitesimal. The sole exception is the miners who were victims to the Argent Hydra in the 1940s.
Long-Altitude Relationship: While Nick and Audrey are both based in New York, the corporeality of time they spend traveling the globe on separate assignments turns them into this.
MacGyvering: His Butt-Monkey status aside, Mendel'due south the i who ordinarily rigs something up on brusk notice that saves the teams' lives. Best example is using Creature's camera and his ain watch to make a tuning fork to permanently disable Spiel'southward loftier-beam spotlight that was preventing Godzilla from fighting properly in "Greenbacks of the Titans". All of them have done some MacGyvering, but not as much as Mendel.

Married to the Job: Audrey states that between herself and Nick when Nick tries to advise to her.
Perchance Magic, Mayhap Mundane: The Swamp Monster and Georges of "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais". While Nick sticks with the scientific thinking of the Swamp Monster being a mutation, Georges responds dorsum with "We all believe what nosotros wanna believe".
Mega Manning: Skeetera, the behemothic mosquito whom could drain other monster'south powers with their blood. Including Godzilla's fire.
Mistaken for Dying: Craven is this in "Vision", after Randy snoops in his email and gets the wrong idea.
Monster of the Week: Although many of the most notable creatures would render in the "Monster Wars" 3-parter.
- The series was known for odd however real-looking kaiju designs, so information technology was function of the fun to come across the latest monster, and whether it was a bird or a fungus.
Awe-inspiring Impairment: In the Monster Wars trilogy, with this many kaiju and locations, it'south inevitable. With a homage of Destroy All Monsters to kick.
Mythology Gag:
- A good number of the Mutations pay tribute to Godzilla's foes (Nanotech monster: Hedorah, Megapede/Giant Cicada: Battra (although there is as well a Behemothic Bat Mutation), Crackler: Gabara, Nessie: Manda, and Cyber-Zilla: Mechagodzilla, though the fact that organic flesh is visible in the creature is reminiscent of Mecha-King-Ghidorah).
- When Randy is mentioning ideas virtually Monster Island, he does so with a hand puppet that looks very similar to the Marvel incarnation of Godzilla.
- During Godzilla'due south fight with the Megapede and after the Giant Cicada, both fights happen in an amusement park, kinda what happened in Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth . Hell, at that place'southward even a ferris cycle involved.
- Komodithrax and Cyber-Zilla both utilize blueish flames, a reference to the fact most of the time, Godzilla's diminutive ray is a neon blue. Speaking of atomic fire, Junior's flames are more akin to the more fiery await of the Showa series equally opposed to the more than solid and laser like blasts in later installments.
- The entire episode of "Contest" is this from start to finish. First off, the Robo-Yeti is an homage to King Kong and his robot duplicate Mechanikong, the car has electric command powers (every bit Kong had in his brawl with Godzilla), the bot's creator is named Yukiko Ifukube, a huge homage to Akira Ifukube and finally there's a total scale brawl in Tokyo.
Nanomachines: The Nanotech animal was originally designed to bio-degrade plastic. Naturally, it grows out-of-control and eats all the petroleum-based things it can notice.
Nobody Can Dice: Since this is a kids show, no human characters can explicitly die, no affair how ludicrously implausible it would be for them to survive. For example, at the end of the second episode, every single civilian kidnapped past the mutant squids is recovered alive and unharmed after several days at the bottom of the ocean despite the tar surrounding them explicitly said to assimilate its victims. Apparently kaiju handle their prey actually delicately! To make upward for this, N.I.G.E.L. is completely obliterated in hilarious means almost every episode (since, as a robot, he can be rebuilt).
Noisy Nature: Literally every monster has some sort of roar or growl and constantly show it off, even things like the Nanotech Creature (which is a colony of single-celled microbes) and the Santa Marta Found (which is a pile of vines and roots), both of which have no possible organs for sound to come out of.
Non-Action Guy: Craven wants and then badly to be one of these. Unfortunately, circumstances only won't let him.
Non-Malicious Monster: The series makes a note of pointing out that most of the monsters are just acting out their natural life cycles like any other animal, such equally feeding and reproducing. Unfortunately, their size means that they can no longer deed out said life wheel without causing rather severe devastation. Exceptions include the aliens, and arguably the Dragma and Crackler. ^note The erstwhile is a genetically engineered creature that supplants humanity every bit the dominant species, and the latter is an id monster created by a man'southward suppressed rage that goes later anyone who he's angry at.
- The Spirit of the Swamp zigzags this trope. Its primary goal is to defend the swamp (and by extension the people of said swamp) that the Corrupt Corporate Executive is pillaging, but in doing so, information technology has a trend to target innocent people.
No 1 Could Survive That!: Near constantly; usually, Godzilla. And of grade, many a Monster of the Week turned out to exist Not Quite Dead come "Monster Wars."
Off-Model: The show would be horribly inconsistent with the size of enemy monster Male monarch Cobra. In ane scene, he would be massive enough to tower over Godzilla and completely envelope him in his coils. In another, he's small enough for Godzilla to seize with teeth down on his cervix and toss effectually like a rag doll. It thankfully didn't happen too often, but when it did, it was jarring.
- The Cadger Male monarch himself would either the size of his male parent, to existence every bit big every bit Heisei Godzilla. There's also the coloring problems. He would be colored grayish-silverish, to charcoal gray, and two shades of majestic.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In "D.O.A.," Randy and Monique intermission into a facility to obtain samples of the poison affecting Godzilla. Randy is made to stand baby-sit and ends up surrounded by iii armed guards. Monique steps out of the supply room, appraises the situation, and the scene cuts to a shot of the outside of the facility with the sounds of the fight cut over information technology. It moves back to show the iii guards tied up.
- In the Bad Future featured in "Time to come Shock," Hicks says that, to combat the Dragmas, he released all the monsters from Monster Island (which included, at least, C-King, Male monarch Cobra and the Giant Bat), but that they all fell in battle. None of this conflict is shown at all.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Nick'south original field is radiobiology (radiation's furnishings on living things, which is notwithstanding in event even if they don't always get into particular) and Elsie'south a paleontologist, so it would stand that they would know biology. Elsie has too been mentioned to exist the animal behavior expert a few times. While Mendel's exact field wasn't mentioned in the film, he's established equally the team's roboticist (what with the repairs N.I.Chiliad.E.L. goes through) and is shown to exist quite the computer programmer, biochemist, and mechanical engineer. All three have some knowledge of the various branches in chemistry, biochemistry, phytology and peculiarly zoology, because what they're dealing with. Elsie fifty-fifty lampshades their scientific omnidiscipline by mentioning Mendel having two PhDs in the starting time episode.
Papa Wolf: Inverted. Godzilla Jr. goes to crazy lengths to protect his adoptive father, which is often pointed out.
- It is played directly fairly often too, if y'all are human being and you do something that can impairment Godzilla, Nick volition cut a bitch.

Plot Pigsty: The Expanse 51 episode, which shows people who believe that aliens are existence housed at Area 51 are crazy and wrong, and Elsie is mocked for believing in such things... despite that the previous twelvemonth, not only did they notice an conflicting spaceship, just said aliens orchestrated a massive, world-wide invasion plan, suborned members of the military, took control of Elsie herself, and resurrected the original Godzilla as a cyborg. It'south an especially strange upshot from a production standpoint, since the aliens non only played a central function in the serial' just 3-part story, simply also a episode which set up that 1 ("Leviathan") and the backwash was the impetus for making Monster Island. (Presumably it had been written earlier "Leviathan" and/or "Monster Wars", only wound up existence both produced and aired afterwards thanks to Animation Pb Fourth dimension.)
Primate Versus Reptile: The battle betwixt Godzilla and Robo-Yeti in "Competition", consummate with homages to the original King Kong.
Protagonist-Centered Morality: Kind of a strange instance in the first two episodes, when Nick claims that the military was "wrong" for trying to kill Godzilla Junior, every bit "He wasn't hurting anyone." This despite the fact that the previous specimen nearly leveled the city, and the current one is seen shooting atomic burn down out of his rima oris, even earlier the armed forces showed up. In fact, Nick was previously advocating the creature'due south destruction, and was trying to force the military to practise that exact matter. He gets a petty better.
Raised by Humans: Godzilla imprinted on Nick as his adopted male parent. He will relieve other humans if he has to. While knowing that there are humans who are bastards.
Reasonable Authorization Effigy: Major Hicks. He does sympathize with the heroes, but at the same time he has to remember of larger concerns or about the potential damage creatures such as Godzilla can cause. That being said, once it becomes clear Godzilla is on our side, he becomes increasingly accommodating to Nick and the coiffure calling him in, defends Godzilla from other government authorities who turn down to admit his usefulness, and even coordinates the military to aid Godzilla numerous times.
Recurring Monsters: In "Monster Wars," Crustaceous Male monarch, Rex Cobra, El Gusano, Queen Bee and Cryptocleidus all fabricated return appearances. In the later on episode "S.C.A.L.Eastward.," Crustaceous Rex and King Cobra (too as the Giant Bat introduced in "Monster Wars"') appeared again, this time equally captives on Monster Isle.
Red Optics, Take Warning: Godzilla originally glows orangish eyes before launching his atomic jiff. It becomes red after on, indicating that his Breath Weapon is becoming stronger.
Remember the New Guy?: Randy is introduced in the first episode of the serial as Nick'due south 14 calendar month long assistant, pregnant he would accept been nowadays, but offscreen during the events of the film. Similarly, Nick also owns his own private enquiry facility on Staten Island (which becomes HEAT's base) that was never mentioned in the film, which is where Randy plainly was during that time.
Ridiculous Future Sequelisation: A movie marquee in "Future Daze" displays Ghostbusters 10.
Robot Names: Side by side-Millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison, or N.I.G.E.50.
Randy: "Wouldn't that be 'Nmigel?'"
- This makes Randy'due south intended "Loftier-performance Ecology Attack Team" line for their group'due south name a bit of Hypocritical Sense of humor in the third episode, "Talkin' Trash".
Running Gag: Y'all can count on N.I.G.East.L. being smashed to pieces by the Monster of the Calendar week or Junior at to the lowest degree one time per episode.
Craven: *sigh* I should only gild spare parts in bulk.

Shoehorned Acronym: Mendel Kraven'southward Robot Buddy is named N.I.One thousand.E.Fifty., which stands for "Next millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison". Randy Hernandez immediately establishes what his relationship with Kraven volition exist by pointing out the acronym should exist "N.G.I.G.E.L."
Shooting Superman: Naturally, though not equally bad as the Japanese films since this is set as the same continuity where shooting a giant monster worked, and the regular army unremarkably avoids it, merely it still has some breathy cases like soldiers trying to shoot the C-Rex with pocket-size arms. Though fifty-fifty this tin be forgiven to a degree, since this is the dawn of the age of Kaiju in this world, and they don't know what will or will not piece of work against monsters. Several methods of shooting monsters with human weapons are shown to work a few times in the show.
Shout-Out:
- Several pop civilisation references an episode is the norm. And then, Elsie mentions a giant lobster attacking the declension of Manila. Also a Mythology Gag: When Nick tries to awaken Godzilla, he shouts to him if he's gonna let those "Space Monkeys" defeat him and take over Earth. "Contest" has one where JSDF Dr. Yukiko Ifukube is named later composer Akira Ifukube, who composed many of the haunting soundtracks for the Godzilla films.
- The mutated Ice Borers in the Antarctic from the episode "Freeze" are a twofold example. Kickoff is they are very much based off the Hotheaded Naked Water ice Borer Apr Fools joke pulled by Discover magazine iv years earlier. Second is that they live cloak-and-dagger and hunted their casualty by tunneling under them before pulling them downwards, significant patently someone on the staff was a fan of Tremors .
- In "Bird of Paradise," Elsie's ex-fiancé is named Lawrence Cohen. Larry Cohen wrote and directed Q: The Winged Serpent . Both the motion picture and the episode feature the Aztec god Quetzlcoatl - nicknamed "Q" - as an antagonist, and the episode based the monster design on the ane in the film.
- Exterior of the Mythology Gag with Robo-Yeti to the first ii Mechagodzilla incarnations (not to mention "King Kong Vs. Godzilla," and the monster Mechanikong), it's skeleton appearance also serves as a Shout-Out to Terminator .
- Nick puns on The Taming of the Shrew when turning on the air current turbine to negate the Shrewster's tornado.
- In "The Winter of our Discontent," the signal that is driving Junior nuts sounds similar the siren from Ghostbusters , simply lower in pitch. (This is probable because Adelaide Productions had previously produced Extreme Ghostbusters before this bear witness, so they already had the sound effect on hand.
- The trio of redneck hunters are named Dale, Hank and Bill, though they neither look or sound anything similar their apparent namesakes. (It might count as Bitter-the-Hand Humor, because both Godzilla and KOTH were aired on Play a joke on.)
Shown Their Piece of work: Granted, Artistic License is in force on various aspects (such equally Hollywood Acid multiple times), merely well-nigh of the material shown and talked nigh did have footing in real life science at the time of the show's airing. Other subjects non scientific discipline-based is too demonstrated, such equally:
- Mendel uses a sock to filter water from a river for drinking purposes in "Hole-and-corner Movement", a real wilderness survival technique.
- Monique makes note that Japan's constitution doesn't allow their armed services to take offensive weapons, to which Yukiko insists that Robo-Yeti is defensive in "Competition".
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Randy and Monique.
Something Completely Unlike: "S.C.A.L.E" plays out as a found footage episode, framed as a report Audrey does on the events of the episode, comprising of footage from Animal's photographic camera as well as interviews with the HEAT team and security footage from Monster Island.

Spiritual Successor: The series has quite a chip in mutual with The Godzilla Power Hour : a team of scientists travelling effectually the earth on a Cool Ship (bonus points for the Heat-Seeker having a hydrofoil manner for loftier-speed travel, only like the Calico) who can summon Godzilla with an audio bespeak, a heroic Godzilla that heavily deviates from standard depictions of the character (both in appearance and abilities), and a Monster of the Week format that pits Godzilla confronting all manners of giant monsters.
- Alienators: Evolution Continues could be considered every bit one to this series, with a specialized team fending off the Genus, an conflicting Monster of the Week species whose character designs are quite similar to the mutations of this testify.
Spoiler Opening: The first episode spoils the ending of the movie where Godzilla'south male parent was killed by the armed services.
Spot the Impostor: The shapeshifting Dna Mimic began mimicking Junior at the climax of "Trust No One", and Nick had to tell them apart. The unabridged episode is substantially an homage to the classic sci-fi movie The Matter (1982) .
Stock Scream: N.I.Grand.E.L.'southward robotic "AAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!"
Story-Breaker Power: Godzilla often ends upwardly disabled or otherwise occupied to prevent him from simply roasting the monster with his atomic breath or otherwise killing it; sometimes the Estrus team is prevented from profitable him, other times they're occupied past figuring out the real solution to the problem with Godzilla keeping the kaiju busy in the meantime.
Stiff Flesh, Weak Steel: Likely in office because of censors regarding violence, mankind and blood giant monsters are always more durable than annihilation mechanical, most notably shown in "Competition" Godzilla manages to stay in the fight subsequently the King Cobra tries to vanquish him, but the Robo-Yeti gets knocked out of the fight both times, the second time actually leading to it'due south head getting cleaved off.
Superior Successor: Zilla Jr ends upwards defeating cyborg Zilla Snr. (this is also symbolic of Series surpassing the movie past managing to make the character a true "Godzilla").
Surprisingly Realistic Result: Godzilla Jr. is repeatedly shown to be far more powerful than his parent, shrugging off damage as a teen that killed the original as an developed. Equally a consequence, the actual fight between Godzilla Jr. and Cyber-Godzilla is a complete Curbstomp Battle in Jr.'s favor. Even with the mechanical weapons, Cyber Godzilla's base frame is however the original, much frailer and weaker (not to mention decomposed) Godzilla, and Jr. is smart enough to evade those weapons and shred it in melee.
Swamp Monster: The Swamp Beast is a possibly supernatural fauna made of plant and animal matter.
They Killed Kenny Again: The previously-mentioned N.I.G.Due east.L.-cracking.
- His voice role player is even named Kenny!!
- This led to a perceived rivalry with said trope namesake.
Thematic Theme Tune: The opening theme to the show is very serious in tone, unlike The Godzilla Ability Hour , which fits the very serious tone of the prove incredibly well.
Likewise Dumb to Live:
- Full general Albondinga's just solution to dealing with Godzilla and El Gusano is using a biological weapon, and while is works on Godzilla, it only makes El Gusano larger and more powerful, and even after seeing this starting time-hand for himself, he still insists on using it against them.
- Circus Mutant Mania ringmaster Tobias Wilson in "Freak Show", in particular regards to Medusa. Had he washed some inquiry on observing Medusa after capturing her only before debuting her, information technology wouldn't take led to her escaping and creating havoc throughout NYC on dehydrating anything with water.
- The lead researcher of the Manhattan Institute for Avant-garde Technology in "Talkin' Trash" forces the creator of petroleum-eating microbe nanotech have information technology ready for utilize by tomorrow despite its creator telling him it's nevertheless weeks from completion, and is present when the nanotech breaks loose and attacks a worker just seconds later, only barely beingness recaptured. Despite being told it isn't finished and also witnessing its aggressive behaviour firsthand immediately afterwards he notwithstanding wants information technology ready past tomorrow. Big shocker, the microbes break loose and outset attacking people when they are put to apply the next day, just now it's too big to be recaptured.
- Milo Sanders, the "tour guide" of the Manhattan Monster Line in "Tourist Trap", kept putting his passengers and himself in damage's way despite being warned multiple times to leave the area when Godzilla was fighting the Deep Dweller. It'due south a surprise the city hasn't close his "bout ride" operation down before his arrest at the end for stealing H.E.A.T.'s helicopter.
Took a Level in Badass: Purposefully done with Junior. He's much tougher than his daddy and much closer to the Power Levels of the Japanese Godzilla.
- Likewise, Nick is much more than active than he used to be when Matthew Broderick portrayed him in the flick.
- Aforementioned with Craven, who gets more into the action every bit the show goes on.
- Cyborg Godzilla from "Monster Wars." Unlike Inferior, this is the original monster from the film this spun off of, only at present can exhale fire, shoot lasers, and burn down missiles.
Tornado Move: "The Twister" featured the Shrewster, a shrew that had somehow fused with a tornado.
True Companions: Snarking at each other aside, the team always take each others' backs, even Godzilla. Hicks also.
Tunnel Male monarch: Godzilla, like his daddy, simply even better at it than he was.

Ungrateful Bastard: Despite Godzila defeating the Monster of the Week, the military would sometimes fire on him.
- Almost the terminate of "New Family, Part 2", Hicks was getting prepare to signal an air strike on Godzilla, fifty-fifty though Godzilla had just defeated the C-rex, and located the missing swimmers and boats. Nick convinced him to spare Inferior past pointing out they will demand his assist with all of the new mutations that would inevitably show upwardly.
- In "Spider web Site", two soldiers fire on Godzilla afterward the Spiders got paralyzed, simply Hicks stops them.
- In "Where Is Thy Sting", after Godzilla takes a shot from First Wave, Colonel Tarrington orders his men to fire on Godzilla. Hicks calls him out on this, saying Godzilla took a hit for Tarrington.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: After Godzilla saves several people in a Delinquent Railroad train (using his hands, though that probably hurt a bit for a kaiju like him), the passengers seem to not panic after he saves them, and just walks off casually.

Western Terrorists: SCALE (Servants of Creatures Arriving Belatedly to Earth), the Animal Wrongs Grouping who frees imprisoned Kaiju to purge humanity.
We Tin Rebuild Him: Zilla Senior is brought back equally Cyber-Godzilla by aliens to fight the star of the show. Also, NIGEL. A lot. No seriously, a lot.
Wham Episode: "Monster Wars" which has an Alien Invasion, near of the kaiju being mind-controlled as weapons, Cyber-Zilla, the Oestrus squad facing its Darkest Hour, and more. Just to top information technology off, several of the recurring kaiju are Killed Off for Real in the big finale.
What a Piece of Junk: The "Rut Seeker" boat Monique provided the squad with looks pretty beat up, with rust everywhere on the hull. However, it has hidden hydrofoils that tin exist activated for a speed boost.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: By and large, most administrative figures or those with some power tend to always opt for the perspective of seeing the kaiju as only monsters, animals at best (if that could even be considered "best", given beast cruelty cases). Examples include: the captain from Fort McKinley in "End of the Line" evoking with "a monster is a monster"; just seeing them as weapons every bit demonstrated in "Where Is Thy Sting"; or just "toys" tied to coin, as seen in "Freak Evidence", "Winter of Our Discontent", and "Tourist Trap". Major Hicks is about the merely authoritative person to at to the lowest degree consider alternative options and requite the kaiju a smidgen of respect for their abilities.
What the Hell, Hero?: Nick calls Georges out on this in "The Carol of Gens Du Marais" when the Swamp Monster trashes Dimanche'southward paddle boat during a Mardi Gras commemoration. Nick points out that Georges was no different than Dimanche on not caring who gets hurt in the process during the pursuit of their goals.
Whole Plot Reference:
- The "Monster Wars" three-parter was based on the Godzilla movie Destroy All Monsters .
- "Trust No One" is basically a PG-version of the The Thing (1982) .
- "Future Shock" is Reign of Burn down , which is impressive because it came out three years before the movie.
Who'south Laughing At present?: "What Dreams May Come." A rather literal case there, as the Crackler monster, has this weird chuckle growl when active.
Why Isn't Information technology Attacking?: The reason why Junior didn't swallow Nick, in the first episode, on their second encounter? Because he imprinted on Nick non long subsequently hatching, and sees Nick equally his "dad."

Your Size May Vary:
- Inevitably, almost all the monsters end upward appearing to alter size from scene to scene due to animation inconsistencies, although this ordinarily isn't besides drastic.
- Godzilla's size is peculiarly increased in the episode when Nick and Monique enter his body to fight Bacillus.