Best Revived Monster of the Heisei Series

[CyHunter]

I always took it to be not so much that he was at "full power" but that absorbing Mothra's being enhanced only his ability to fly (his dinky, half-grown and useless wings fully sprouted after absorbing Mothra's power), he absorbed the ability to burrow from Baragon (thus explaining why he appeared out of the ground), and he gained his own *complete* gravity beam weapon once he came into contact with his own stone. This at least gives some "method to the madness" of why Kaneko had him ressurected three times.

[Giganfan]

[CyHunter]

[Trenton Fella]

[Stadawim]

I gotta go with the Baby G here. At least he wasn't a shaved-down ape, like Minya looked. There was genuine family resemblence (but i'm not even going into whatever the hell Little G was), especially when he grew into Junior.

King Ghidorah was, for the most part, the same monster. Not much really changed here. He was used/performed much better, but the look was generally the same.

I felt Rodan was done well simply because you never really got any good clear close ups of him before. And the ones you had made the monster look lame (what were those spikes on his belly, anyway?).

Mothra. Well, Mothra's a moth. Not much you can do there.

Mechagodzilla's look was definitely better (remember the rubber joints?), but still the premise and use of the 'bot really couldn't change much. I thought having the Garuda strapped to its back was a little over the top, though. All those weapons and nothing did any harm.....

And i can't voice an opinion about MOGUERA because i have never seen it in its' original guise. Looked decent, though.

[CyHunter]

[Trenton Fella]

[anguirus23]

Is this a bad time to point out that all of MG'93's beams KILLED Godzilla? The G-Crusher paralyzed him, but then he was pounded to death.

Say what you want about beam battles, but MG was hurting Godzilla. The '93 one was actually pretty vicious.

[CyHunter]

Yeah, but save for an actual use of strategy by G-Force (Op. G-Crusher), the beams would've been innefectual. I'm sure if they had used G-Crusher in the first place, they wouldn't have needed the backpack (the name fails me at the moment...).

[anguirus23]

You are not going to tell me that the Plasma Grenade was ineffectual.

MG was kicking Godzilla's ass with beams in their first fight until Godzilla recovered with the shock cables.

[CyHunter]

[Trenton Fella]

[anguirus23]

[CyHunter]

[anguirus23]

[CyHunter]

, perhaps, but I think the battle didn't seem as long to me because it wasn't focuesed so much on the battle. That's what I like about the GxM final battle; it goes from the Gryphon to Kudo and the scientists, to Godzilla fighting Megs, to the DT, and it kinda cycles through all these different points. In the GvsMG'93 battle, it seems like too much emphasis was put on the fight itself. The battle between the MG airship and Rodan, for instance, went on for a few minutes and never once interested me, and the same goes for the final battle, only magnified because of the length of the battle. I guess it's a matter of taste, really.

Oh, and again making the contrast to GxM: What was cool about it was how because we had no clear-cut hero, since the characters hated Godzilla and Megs at the same time, it made the final battle interesting (added to this was the "falling" motif that literally had me on the edge of my seat--The DT, the Gryphon, Kiriko...all falling ever-rapidly towards the earth). However, the GvsMG'93 battle had three undefined characters, who just seem to kinda knock each other over until it all comes to one sublimely hackneyed cop-out of an ending.

I guess my point is that regardless of how bad the SG battles were, in my eyes the MG battles were just as bad, and GvsSG didn't linger so much on it. Also, you mention emotion in the GvsMG final battle, namely regarding G, Rodan, and Baby G. Well, again, I guess it really depends on the person, because for some reason this movie made me feel zero emotion for any of the monsters whatsoever, especially Rodan, who feels like he was there just to provide another slow-moving laser battle. In GvsSG, I actually cared what happened to the characters.

[anguirus23]

[CyHunter]

[TheMaster]

[Trenton Fella]

[Jiger X]

[CyHunter]

[anguirus23]

[CyHunter]

[Jiger X]