Giant Monsters continued

Two posts in one day! Will miracles never cease!

Anyway, I found a page just now listing the vital statistics of Godzilla and Gamera, and was surprised to find out that Gamera is bigger (at least in some movies) ! I always thought Godzilla was the biggest giant monster around, always and forever!


So here goes:

GAMERA (the giant flying turtle, Friend to Children, Guardian to the Universe):

Height: 200-275 feet
Weight: 30,000 tons

Abilities:
Toughness: impervious to conventional weaponry and the vacuum of space
Atomic breath
Retractable limbs and head
Flight

(not to mention the ability to shoot fire-like flames from his mouth, and from the holes where his head, legs, arms and tail go when he is retracted)

GODZILLA a.k.a GOJIRA (giant reptillian T-Rex-style super scary monster, Destroyer of Tokyo on a movie-to-movie basis): 

Height: 150-350 feet
Weight: 20,000-60,000 tons

Abilities:
Toughness: impervious to conventional weaponry
Atomic breath
Magnetism
Regeneration
Flight: used atomic breath for this purpose in a regrettable fight

I've always liked Godzilla - had many Godzilla-based nightmares over the years - and thoroughly enjoyed getting up at silly times of the night to watch Godzilla movies with my Dad when I was young.

But Gamera is just so terribly cute! I've never found him frightening (though he is supposed to be), and always loved watching movies where he is the star. I know there are annoying children involved, and a super-tacky and rather lame theme song, but he is just so cool. Even the 1990s movies, where he was a beefed-up version of his old self, and could be classed as seriously scary, he was just so adorable.

I would never describe Godzilla as adorable though! Terrifying, yes. Scary, most certainly. But adorable? Never!