Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Borrowing a page out of the recent "AFI’s Most Famous Movie Lines", here is what I think are some of Toho’s most memorable lines at least for me (some are more famous than others, and there are probably ones I completely forgot, but here is the list anyway.).

20. Godzilla has a brain about this size.
(Harry Holcombe from KK vs. G.)

19. Please, return the egg!
(The Peanuts from G. vs. The Thing)

18. King Kong is under my sponsorship!
(Ichirô Arishima from KK vs. G)

17. You’d steal Niagara Falls for a drink of water.
(Rhodes Reason from KK Escapes)

16. Go on… Megalon!!
(Robert Dunham from G. vs. Megalon)

15. Even in Latitude Zero, we never discuss the age of a woman.
(Joseph Cotton in Latitude Zero)

14. Let’s get all of the hip kids we know and stage a great big party on Fuji.
(Toshio Shiba from G. vs. The Smog Monster)

13. Every time you keep checking on a woman’s past, you’ll never fall in love.
(Nick Adams from Monster Zero)

12. I'm not as afraid of Godzilla as I am of the editor... he's meaner.
(Yu Fujiki from G. vs. The Thing)

11. They were probably on a bad LSD trip.
(Russ Tamblyn from War of the Gargantuas)

10. Well, if he saw a monster, he’s had too much saki!
(Raymond Burr from Godzilla, King of the Monsters)

9. My corns always hurt when they're near a monster!
(Yu Fujiki from KK. vs. G.)

8. Superman beats them all!
(Hiroyuki Kawase from G. vs. The Smog Monster)

7. He probably fell in love with a whale.
(Russ Tamblyn from War of the Gargantuas)

6. Banana Oil!
(Hiroshi Koizumi from Gigantis)

5. Oh, Godzilla what terrible language.
(The Peanuts from Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster)

4. You stinking rats!!
(Nick Adams from Monster Zero)

3. It’s a powerful pipe!
(Masaaki Daimon from G. vs. MechaG)

2. Aww, these monsters are as stupid as human beings!
(Yosuke Natsuki from Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster)

And, I guess my favorite would be:

1. I say you have nothing to fear from us…but we are going to control you now!
(Kyôko Ai, the Kilaak Queen from DAM – AIP version of course)

Like I said before, there are probably more I haven't thought of.

I can only remember this one from the dubs(BEEN a long time since I've seen them.)

Gasoline...keep us warm
Islander in Yog

"You shoulda kept your sister packed in ice!"
~Nick Adams, Monster Zero

"Take that you dinosaur!"
~Naval Officer, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah

You rat finks!

They're for youuuuuuu.

He must of thought it was a gun!

Now Kong...he's a thinking animal.

"A dinosaur! A gigantic dinosaur is attackin' our boys!"
American soldier in "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah."

"Nice try, a-----e."
Takehiro Murata in "Godzilla 2000"

"You let all the monsters loose while the chief was gone!"
Akira Kubo in "Destroy All Monsters"

"Stupid bird-lizard!"
Magazine publisher in "Gappa"

"It's Godzilla!"
My favorite, by any number of people in various Godzilla movies

"A burning monster? I've never heard of one."
~Destroy All Monsters

"Quit your b!tching!"
~Newspaper Editor, Godzilla 2000

"Ba$tard. You really think you can kill Godzilla?"
~Shinoda, Godzilla 2000

I suprised that number one wasn't

You have your fears which could become reality, and you have Godzilla which is reality

"If this thing you call Rodan is extinct, how come it is still alive?"
- Military Officer, Rodan

"Everything is numbered here. The monster is Zero."
- The Controller, Monster Zero

"You rats. You stinkin' rats, what did you do to her?!"
- Glen, Monster Zero

"Godzilla says I have to fight my own battles, you know."
- Minya, Godzilla's Revenge

"A monster! A monster will set fire to the city, and trample on the people who try to run away!"
- Princess Minami, Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster

"When mankind falls into conflict with nature, monsters are born. "
- Dr. Hayashida, Godzilla 1985

"And just for the record: Thirty years ago, they never found any corpse."
- Steve Martin, Godzilla 1985

"Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain... "
- Steve Martin, Godzilla 1985

"Men of your time would call it a time machine. But not us. We call it our Mothership."
"Ahh, so this ship is a time machine."
- Wilson and Dobashi, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

"Maybe because... Godzilla is, inside, each one of us."
- Shinoda, Godzilla 2000

"Listen, kid. There are two things you don't know about the Earth. One is me. And the other is... Godzilla."
- Captain Gordon, Godzilla: Final Wars

"I knew that tuna-eating monster was good for nothing!"
- The Controller, Godzilla: Final Wars

"Turn...180 deegres"
- Douglas Gordon, Final Wars

"Someday, I'll show you around a monster-free Tokyo"
- Yonemori, Gamera: Guardian of the universe

"Hey....HEY! Stop this damn thing!"
- Bad actor, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2

"I suppose this scientist is sort of like...grumpy, old, and irritating"
- Ozaki on Miyuki, Final Wars

"If this Rodan creature is extinct then why is it still alive"

"Somebody let all the monsters out while the cheif was gone!"

"What a beautiful house it is" (out of nowhere while discussing Hedorah)

[b]"Everybody wants me[/b]."
Kumi Mizuno in Matango

"Just feelin' lonely, cuz I got no friends..."
- Minya, Godzilla's Revenge

"I kinda rike dis face"

" Ozaki, nice work."

"Go right into it."

Let's not forget some famous quotes from our non-actor American friend:

"The artificial diamond is melting!"
"The time has come finally to put our technology to the final test."
~Dr Asimov, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II

"It sure is murder when you're so darn small!" - Ichiro

"Godzilla's the one with the bad breath!" - Minya

"Ah, come off it - Hedrah's not real and you know it!" - that policeman from 'Godzilla vs. Hedorah' (international dub)

"Come on and shoot. You can't kill me anyways, so what do your bullets matter?" - Mugal, 'Terror of MechaGodzilla'.

"Superman beats them all!" - Ken, 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster'

And my favourite one....
"No! I won't allow King Kong to be blown up! What'll our sponsors say?" - Mr. Tako, from the dubbed 'King Kong vs. Godzilla' trailer

I like this droll exchange from the American version of KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, right after the paleontologist declares that Godzilla will head for and attack Japan (sorry if I don't have this precisely correct):

ERIC CARTER (turning to the correspondent in Japan):

How do you feel about that, Yutaka?

YUTAKA:

Not so good, Eric.

Let's see how many I can think off of the top of my head (in no particular order):

"Don't. He'll get angry. And then... he'll destroy the city."
- Akira Takarada's character in King Kong Escapes.

"...For there is a legend among the island people that somewhere off their shores there exists a monster too terrible for a mortal to percieve."
- Tomo in Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

(In reference to Tadafumi's killed comrades lying on the ground at his execution): "Now you have plenty of men to accompany you!"
- The evil warlord in Daimajin

"I'll undergo your court marshal or anything else you have... so just keep your mouth shut!"
- Captain Douglas Gordon in Godzilla: Final Wars

"Hmph. Gotengo is our last hope you say? Nah you're wrong."
- Gordon in Final Wars

"Godzilla. The most destructive weapon on Earth.
- Gordon, yet again from Final Wars

"The world is ruined, and the war is already lost. Hell, it's a matter of pride. It's whether we die hiding... or die fighting."
- Another tasty Gordon quote from Final Wars

"I wish I would have had more of those sandwiches earlier."
- "I wish you hadn't said that."
- Jim and Masao in AIP's Destroy All Planets (Gamera vs. Viras)

"When the weather gets bad, some people go mad! So, let's have fun, here we go!"
- The lead singer of the lakeside band in Legend of the Dinosaurs

"Ah! That's good! The beer hasn't tasted this good in a long time!"
- A spiritually revived Osako in Gamera 3.

"We, the Lagos garrison of the Japanese Army, will never forget how you saved our lives! ... Never!"
- Shindo in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

"King Kong can't make a monkey out of us!"
- Mr. Tako in King Kong vs. Godzilla

"It's okay! They're all smoking!"
- Sakuri in King Kong vs. Godzilla

"We asked you to return the Thing's egg to us. But you refused us. Your people are being punished, their time has come! May your land be ruined like ours!"
- The Infant Island Cheif in Godzilla vs. the Thing

"Just as you distrust us... we distrust others as well. It's wrong. We're all human... Refuse us and you abandon your brothers."
- Akira Takarada's character in Godzilla vs. the Thing

"That's it! You're a genius!"
- "That's what I think. Do you think I should get a raise?"
- The editor and Fujiki from Godzilla vs. the Thing

"If I wanted to make up a story, I would have come up with something more believeable... than a Gargantua!"
- The lone boat attack survivor in War of the Gargantuas

"I wondered if I, a twentieth century man, could ever hope to die as well."
- Kenji Sahara's character in Rodan