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Showa MechaGodzilla is the MechaGodzilla. There is no question of this.

Showa Mecha-Godzilla would also do it for me as well. Give him artificial diamond coating similar to Heisei-Mecha-Godzilla, let him loose on a metropolis, well you get the idea.

In fact, at times I have this odd deja vu idea of comparing Showa Mecha-Godzilla to the Terminator. Weird I know.

i agree. there's only one true MechaGodzilla.

David

SHOWA - yes sir, it got my vote!

This is probably my favorite MechaGodzilla art imagery, the Basil Gogos Bionic Monster poster art which was loosely based on the Japanese one sheet. And it was then also used for the cover of Famous Monsters #135.

Definitely Showa Mechagodzilla but I would say Kiryu is awesome enough to be a close second.

The Heisei one was bland as hell.

Off all the incarnations of MechaGodzilla - I have to say I like the Heisei version the least. Not that the design was bad, it just strikes me as somewhat unremarkable. And Heisei MG seems the most limited fighter as he is really only effective at distance - and even then MechaGodzilla required the power and weapons boost from Garuda to be a genuine threat to Godzilla.

I rather like the Millennium MechaGodzilla. I consider Kiryu to be all around more capable than his Heisei counterpart due to his effective melee combat ability and ranged weaponry. However, as other's have mentioned, Kiryu is perhaps ultimately limited due to the need for a human pilot.

Showa MechaGodzilla has always been a favorite of mine, and perhaps still the most powerful incarnation. Showa MG is a powerful melee fighter and has potent ranged weapons and proved a tough opponent for Godzilla even with the aid of King Caesar. So right now - I'm going to go with Showa MechaGodzilla as the quintessential incarnation of the character.

what's funny is ten years ago almost everyone loved MechaBarney, and five years ago almost everyone loved the new MG... now not a single vote for either as THE MechaGodzilla.

time always tells.

David

While I like Showa Mecha-Godzilla, I still give props to Heisei Mecha-Godzilla. I know what you all say but to play the realism card for a moment here, well think about the fact that despite the access to technology from the future and the fact that the Heisei Mecha-Godzilla was built with the best technology Japan had to offer, well it's still 20th century technology and if I recall, we didn't have the capabilities when building robots to build things that could be just as good as the Showa Mecha-Godzilla.

Just had to put it in there.

G-Force should have taken lessons from the Super Sentai series, seeing as how Heisei MG needed a pilot, but the Robots from the Super Sentai series are potent melle and distance combatants. >o>

I have things about all 3 that I like. I think that the key that sets the original apart from the others, and this was not touched on, was the fact it was the enemy, it was evil, it was a device to destroy mankind.

Heisei was a tool, it acted like a tool...(no pun intended) it was simply an impliment that was not fully thought out, but again, it was limited and had no real spirit, good bad or otherwise.

Kiryu's appearance harkened back to showa MG in that it had a more edgy and scary look than the rather sterilized Heisei version, but again, it was a defender, and ultimately the fact that it could have been a true robotic version of G with it's spirit, they killed that and again, made it nothing more than a tool for man to use.

For MG (IMO WARNING!!!) to be truly great in the context of it's history, it sould be a impliment of destruction towards man with bad intentions. I could even stomach it being man made and controlled by AI and goes bezerk or is programmed to destroy man, but that is kind of played out too....So if it ever gets done again, make it a creation of an alien race studying the most destructive thing we have.....

Oooh, this would be funny, have the aliens who are all advanced and stuff, catch a Godzilla movie and they study it as if it were real and they develop a Mechagodzilla to help them take over, only to find out there is no real Godzilla and we are now screwed....LOL

TPR