What minor kaiju do you think has the most potential?

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What minor kaiju do you think has the most potential?

Mystery Bones of Infant Island
5
12%
Ookondoru
1
2%
Mondo Sea Serpent
1
2%
Ootokage
0
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Skeleturtle
6
14%
Shockirus
12
28%
Oodako
18
42%
 
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Varan is long overdue for a glorious return. Make him a full-blown apocalyptic beast like in the unused 1995 script.

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Shockirus. I can see a potential horror movie with these creatures as the main threat.
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Shockirus in that its the only one with a mildly-interesting backstory, but at most I just feel its scene in the movie could have been executed better. I don't particularly want it to make some glorious comeback or anything.
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Spuro wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:36 pm
Al Diplodocus wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:33 am Oodako in a house
Look, man, I barely survived House Shark, I don't think I can handle Housetopus.
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Or someone could see that title Housetopus here and decide to make it.

As much as I want to see Oodako return, Shockirus shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes we see what happens after Godzilla's rampage, but it's almost always an afterthought or used to create drama. With the mutant lice, we could create a scenario where those trapped in wrecked areas and the people searching there face an unexpected danger. It's a perfect horror set up.
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Honestly i just wanna see Oodako back just so we get a full fledge fight between him and Gezora. For whatever reason, the idea of two giant cephalopods fighting in grand looking special effects has yet to cross any movie makers mind..
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Really not getting the appeal behind Shockirus. If you want a human sized, arthropodal threat, that’s why we have the human-sized Kamacurai.
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Shockirus is so forgettable that people label G84 as a 'solo' film. ;)
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Rando Yaguchi wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:08 pm Shockirus is so forgettable that people label G84 as a 'solo' film. ;)
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That'd be me. I don't even consider it a kaiju....

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Shockirus isn't a Kaiju and I don't know why it is considered one TBH.
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^This 100%. It's just an animal.
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Voyager wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:06 pm ^This 100%. It's just an animal.
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Voyager wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:06 pm ^This 100%. It's just an animal.
An animal whose size was dramatically increased by feeding on Godzilla. It's no less a kaiju than Oodako or the giant condor, which are also just large animals.
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goji89 wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:50 pm
Voyager wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:06 pm ^This 100%. It's just an animal.
Aren't we all animals? Destined to just die, bones layering the soil, and ultimately forgotten in this darkness void standing at the edge of the crossroads.
Do you by chance happen to write for the Godzilla anime trilogy?
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godjacob wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 2:10 pm
goji89 wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:50 pm
Voyager wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:06 pm ^This 100%. It's just an animal.
Aren't we all animals? Destined to just die, bones layering the soil, and ultimately forgotten in this darkness void standing at the edge of the crossroads.
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goji89 wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:50 pm
Voyager wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:06 pm ^This 100%. It's just an animal.
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Shokirus is a monster in the conventional sense at least.

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I really don't understand the argument that it isn't a kaiju. Its size is evidence that it's not supposed to be a natural animal and we even have a character comment (even in the U.S. version) that that abnormal size is because of its exposure to Godzilla. Kaiju literally means strange beast -- how is it not?
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Cause Kaiju is a term more reserved for giant monsters of well a much larger scale than Shokirus. It just seems too small to be considered one on its own. It's a monstrous animal no doubt but a Kaiju us stretching it for me.
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godjacob wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:12 pm Cause Kaiju is a term more reserved for giant monsters
Reserved by whom? It literally means "strange beast" without any qualification to size.

"Giant monsters" are "daikaiju" in Japanese usage, but "kaiju," like "monster," is pretty versatile and can describe anything monstrous regardless of size.

Edit: I should clarify that I understand that for a lot of people "kaiju" = giant monster, but that's not the default definition.
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