American Godzillas are versions of Godzilla that originated from America. Many people believe that the first American Godzilla was the monster from the 1998 film GODZILLA, but it was actually the Godzilla in Marvel's Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
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Marvel[]
Godzilla was awakened by nuclear testing in 1956 and ravages Japan and battles the Avengers and other monsters in the modern day.
The Godzilla Power Hour[]
Godzilla and his son, Godzooky team up with the Calico crew to defend the world from multiple threats.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters 3D[]
Godzilla rampages around San Francisco looking for his son, but if he finds out that his son died from destroying a nuclear submarine, he goes berserk and attacks the city.
Dark Horse[]
Godzilla retains the appearance and behavior of his Heisei incarnation and defends the world from multiple threats.
Godzilla[]
A genetically engineered guardian Godzilla battles an alien probe called the Gryphon who was created as a bioweapon by an extraterrestial civilization that wants to exterminate the life of entire worlds to colonize them.
GODZILLA[]
Following a nuclear test in French Polynesia, a marine iguana nest is exposed to radioactive fallout. Decades later, an unseen creature attacks a Japanese fishing vessel in order to obtain fish to eat. The lone survivor of the attack told French secret service agents that the monster he saw was Gojira, or Godzilla, the legendary atomic giant monster that had attacked Japan 44 years ago. The U.S. government sent a team of scientists to search for the cause of the shipwreck, and witnessed its path of destruction through several islands. Sometime later, it arrived in New York City and ran rampant across Manhattan. Due to its speed and camouflage, the U.S. military had difficulty hitting it with weapons. Dr. Niko Tatopoulos discovered that it had the capacity to reproduce asexually and had nested somewhere in Manhattan. The U.S. military believed they had successfully killed it when submarines successfully hit it with torpedoes in the Hudson River. Tatapoulos and a team of French agents found its nest in Madison Square Garden. The eggs hatched and the team was attacked by hundreds of baby Godzillas. Upon learning of the nest, the military ordered a bombing of Madison Square Garden, apparently killing all of the infants. The parent Godzilla however had survived its encounter with the submarines and emerged from underground to find its offspring killed. Enraged, it chased Tatapoulos and his allies through New York City. Using a taxi cab, the team managed to lure it onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where it became entangled in the suspension cables. Fighter jets opened fire on the helpless Godzilla with tomahawk missiles, killing it.
Godzilla: The Series[]
Following the first Godzilla's death, a second one hatches, gets adopted by Nick and protects mankind from other giant and mutated monsters.
Godzilla[]
In 1954, Godzilla, an ancient alpha predator is lured to an island to kill it with a nuclear bomb. In 1999, Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate a colossal skeleton unearthed in a collapsed mine in the Philippines. They find two giant spores; one dormant and one hatched with a trail that leads to the sea. In Japan, the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant experiences unusual seismic activity; Supervisor Joe Brody sends his wife Sandra with a team of other technicians into the reactor. A tremor breaches the reactor, leaving Sandra and her team unable to escape while the plant collapses. Fifteen years later in 2014, Joe's son Ford, a U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer, returns from a tour of duty to his family in San Francisco but has to immediately depart for Japan after Joe is detained for trespassing in the Janjira quarantine zone. Joe is determined to find out the cause of the Janjira meltdown, and he persuades Ford to accompany him to their old home in the quarantine zone to retrieve vital data while discovering that the zone is not toxic. They successfully retrieve the data but are discovered by soldiers and taken to a secret facility in the power plant's ruins. After several power failures, a giant winged creature emerges and escapes, destroying the facility. Joe is severely wounded and dies as he and Ford are taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Saratoga. The incident is reported around the world as an earthquake. Serizawa, Graham, and Ford join a U.S. Navy task force led by Admiral William Stenz to search for the creature, called a "MUTO" (Massive Undentified Terrestrial Organism). Serizawa and Graham reveal to Ford that a 1954 deep sea expedition triggered the appearance of Godzilla and nuclear tests in the 1950s were really attempts to kill him. Project Monarch was established to secretly study Godzilla and other similar creatures such as the MUTO, which traveled from the Philippine mine to Janjira and caused the meltdown, and how they are connected with each other. Ford reveals that Joe had monitored echolocation signals that indicated the MUTO was communicating with something. The MUTO attacks a Russian submarine and drops it on land in Hawaii to eat the sub's nuclear material. Godzilla arrives, causing a tsunami in Honolulu and briefly engages the MUTO in battle, until it flees. Meanwhile, a second, larger, wingless MUTO emerges from the other spore in Nevada and devastates Las Vegas. The scientists deduce the second MUTO is female, the female was the one the male was communicating with, and that the two MUTOs will meet to breed in San Francisco. Over the scientists' objections, Stenz approves a plan to use nuclear warheads to lure and destroy the monsters. Ford returns to the U.S. and ends up joining the team delivering the warheads by train, but the female MUTO intercepts the train and devours most of the warheads. The single remaining warhead is airlifted with Ford to San Francisco and is activated after a confrontation between the military and Godzilla at the Golden Gate Bridge. The male MUTO steals the warhead and takes it to the female, who forms it in the Chinatown area. While Godzilla and the MUTOs battle, a strike team, including Ford, enters the city via HALO jump to find and disarm the warhead. Unable to access the timer, the rest of the team sets the warhead on a boat for disposal at sea. The MUTOs are eventually able to get the upper hand, but Ford blows up the MUTO nest, ultimately distracting the MUTOs enough to allow Godzilla to emerge victorious in the end, killing the male MUTO by slamming him with his tail into the side of an office building and the female by firing his atomic breath down her throat, beheading her. Godzilla then collapses on the city shore. With the rest of the team wiped out, Ford uses the last of his energy to get the boat with the warhead out to sea. He is rescued before the warhead explodes and reunites with his family at the Oakland Coliseum emergency shelter the following morning. Godzilla awakens, rising from the destroyed San Francisco, and returns to sea while the media hails Godzilla as "King of the Monsters - savior of our city?".
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- While Japanese Godzillas are the original Godzillas, American Godzillas are just adaptations of the character.
- While Japanese Godzillas were originally created by Toho, American Godzillas were originally created and eventually recreated countless times by many American media companies, although most versions are based on Toho's Godzilla.
- According to some Godzilla fans, if any alternate history Godzilla not created by Toho was the real first American Godzilla to appear in a film, it would change the history of cinema forever.
- Japanese Godzillas has become more iconic than American Godzillas.
- American Godzillas may be seen as rivals of Japanese Godzillas.
- While the first Japanese Godzilla appeared in the 1954 film Godzilla, the first American Godzilla appeared in Marvel's Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
- While Japanese Godzillas has always been symbols for nuclear destruction and metaphors for America, American Godzillas, according to some Godzilla fans, probably represent people spending money on monster movies.
- According to some Godzilla fans, America was very greedy when it comes to adapting Godzilla because it has been decades that America got Godzilla its own way, probably for money making purposes, although some of its Godzillas tried their best to be Godzilla itself.
- This also means Japanese Godzillas always has their iconic appearance which has changed for years and almost always has their most recognized traits which also has changed for years along with their origins sometimes with new features added or sometimes replace some of them and are almost always described as ancient creatures and portrayed as forces of nature while American Godzillas probably has many alternative appearances and traits of their own which would replace Japanese Godzillas' iconic appearances and some of their most recognized traits and has also changed for years along with their origins also sometimes with new features added or sometimes replace some of them and probably are alternatively described as different kinds of creatures and portrayed as different kinds of beings, usually just animals, although some of them would resemble their Japanese counterparts and retain Japanese Godzillas' origins and some of their most recognized traits and are described as ancient creatures and portrayed as forces of nature like Japanese Godzillas, most American Godzillas missed the mark when Japanese Godzillas became icons due to their unfaithfulness to them and what America leaves out the most while adapting Godzilla are its important messages.
- According to some Godzilla fans, Japanese Godzillas are the real metaphorical hydrogen bombs and Kings of the Monsters, American Godzillas are just versions of the character that sometimes miss the mark.
- According to some Godzilla fans, the legacies of Japanese Godzillas continues to this day while the legacies of American Godzillas or other versions of Godzilla that originated from other countries other than Japan that are very or somewhat unfaithful to Japanese Godzillas are dying.
- While Japanese Godzillas were inspired by nuclear warfare, King Kong, and the Rhedosaurus from The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, American Godzillas were probably inspired by Japanese Godzillas due to their international popularity.
- While Japanese Godzillas has inspired countless other giant monster movies, American Godzillas probably has spawned countless terrible ripoffs of Godzilla.
- American Godzillas or other versions of Godzilla that originated from countries other than Japan that are very or somewhat unfaithful to Japanese Godzillas would be the reasons why these other giant monster movies beat Godzilla at its own game.
- According to some Godzilla fans, if the American Godzilla or any other version of Godzilla that originated from countries other than Japan has a very different appearance and lacks some of Japanese Godzillas' most recognized traits then it has to be re-branded as a separate character with a new name that fits its differences from Japanese Godzillas, and a good example of this is Godzilla 1998 which was later renamed Zilla due to its unfaithfulness to Japanese Godzillas.
- Godzilla 1998 is the most unfaithful to Japanese Godzillas.
- According to some Godzilla fans, American Godzillas that are more faithful to Japanese Godzillas are Japanese Godzillas in spirit while American Godzillas that are somewhere in the middle are real American Godzillas while Godzilla 1998 is just Zilla.
- The Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla are the most faithful to Japanese Godzillas.
- Legendary's Godzilla is both more realistic and more faithful to Japanese Godzillas.
- According to some Godzilla fans, the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla are Japanese Godzillas in spirit.
- According to some Godzilla fans, the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla are also real American Godzillas. However, it is important to note that the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla are both, Japanese Godzillas in spirit and real American Godzillas.
- According to some Godzilla fans, only Japan can get Godzilla right, although the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla are Japanese Godzillas in spirit.
- Despite the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla being the most faithful to Japanese Godzillas and the Godzilla from Godzilla: The Series and Legendary's Godzilla, according to some Godzilla fans, being Japanese Godzillas in spirit, there are some things that Godzilla 2014 did wrong, but thankfully the later MonsterVerse films fixed these.
- Marvel's Godzilla, Hanna Barbera's Godzilla, Steve Miner's Godzilla, Dark Horse's Godzilla and Stan Winston's Godzilla are close to resembling their Japanese counterparts.
- According to some Godzilla fans, it's not only America that haven't been able to get Godzilla right, even if it's just the raw emotion, but it's also other nations other than Japan worldwide that haven't been able to get him right.
- American Godzillas are not as active as Japanese Godzillas.
- Many real facts about Godzilla would always be overshadowed by American Godzillas or other versions of Godzilla that originated from countries other than Japan that are very or somewhat unfaithful to Japanese Godzillas.
- American Godzillas foster the popular myths that: Godzilla breathes fire (although it is also called atomic fire breath), he is 400 feet tall, he is green and his species are any real life animals.
- Japanese Godzillas are still much better than American Godzillas.
- According to some Godzilla fans, Japanese Godzillas are marriage to the Godzilla franchise, while American Godzillas are flirtation to the Godzilla franchise.
- Although Godzilla 1998 was heavily panned due to its unfaithfulness to Japanese Godzillas, the things it did right so far are: it still carries the same message as the 1954 original (although it's a bit toned down), it's close to carrying the same plot and tone as the 1954 original, its version of Godzilla is a bit similar to its Japanese counterpart and it spawned an animated series featuring a version of Godzilla that is more similar to its Japanese counterpart than its live-action predecessor.