Godzilla, the most famous Kaiju in Japan, first appeared in the 1954 movie Godzilla. He's a giant Kaiju that breathes heat rays from his mouth and destroys the city. A great number of Godzilla movies have been made in Japan up to the present time and Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence) was a major hit in 2016.
The kaiju genre is a subgenre of tokusatsu entertainment. The 1954 film Godzilla is commonly regarded as the first kaiju film.
Mothra (Japanese: モスラ, Hepburn: Mosura) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that first appeared in the 1961 film Mothra, produced and distributed by Toho Studios.
And while some kaiju got much more time in the spotlight than others, all 17 did indeed make appearances. Some of them were only briefly seen, and others merely alluded to in the in-credits footage, but all are accounted for.
Minilla (ミニラ Minira) is an infant Godzilla kaiju who first appeared in the 1967 Toho Godzilla film Son of Godzilla.
Mothra is a major character in Monster Island Buddies. She is a Divine Moth Kaiju and is married to Rodan. The love triangle between her, Rodan, and King Ghidorah, as well as her relationship with Ghidorah as a whole set off the show's story.
Mothra Leo is the son of Mothra and the main protagonist in the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy.
The MonsterVerse incarnation of Mothra returns the character to her Toho incarnations' roots as a mystical being of resurrection; being capable of returning from death by laying an egg, from which she is reborn as a larva when her previous form dies - she has conquered death many times this way, to the point that she ...
That left the major question of whether to approve it or not." Though TriStar's Godzilla was referred to by the film's characters as a "he", Patrick Tatopoulos stated on a DVD audio commentary that the effects crew sculpted female genitalia into the CG model of the creature.
Ghost Godzilla (ゴーストゴジラ Gōsuto Gojira) is an unused kaiju who was considered for inclusion in various proposals for the seventh and final Heisei Godzilla film. It is the restless spirit of the original Godzilla who was killed by the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954.
The 1954 Godzilla was eventually killed by the Oxygen Destroyer, a weapon that contained a chemical compound designed to remove all oxygen from water when put into contact with it, causing living creatures to die of asphyxiation as their remains are liquefied by the now-highly corrosive surrounding water.
It is revealed in Kaiju World War: Part 2 that Chaos is one of the many names and assumed identities of the Absolute God, the Final God Azathoth-Omega.
Bijira (ビジラ) is a female Godzillasaurus and Godzilla's girlfriend in the Japanese version of the Game Boy Godzilla game Gojira-kun: Kaijū Daikōshin.
Battra (バトラ Batora) is a dark, evil divine moth kaiju created by the Earth itself to kill lifeforms that were destroying it as well as Mothra's twin brother and archrival. Like Mothra, Battra has both larva and imago (adult) forms.
Mothra is a descendant of the Kaiju of Earth, Gigamoth, along with her brother Battra. Having hatched from same egg, both siblings carried a strong bond between each other and acted as the respected guardians, Mothra being the Guardian of Mortals, and Battra as the Guardian of Terra.
Mothra returned in Mothra vs. Godzilla, where she traveled to Japan to battle Godzilla when he threatened her unhatched egg that had washed ashore there. Mothra was killed in the battle, but two twin larvae hatched from her egg and carried on her battle against Godzilla, eventually triumphing over him.
Personality. A loyal Earth Guardian and evolved to protect humanity from many threats, Mothra appears to be more friendly towards humanity than most fellow kaiju.
When it comes to Mothra, the creature is at least 10,000 years old, and in all that time, has found reference in multiple human cultures as an object of worship.
Biollante is a genetically-modified rose Kaiju hybrid created from Godzilla's DNA by the Devonians, making her Godzilla and SpaceGodzilla's half-sister. She fought against Godzilla on the Monster Islands, but was defeated and escaped into the planet's atmosphere.