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<b>Ancient insects</b> {{Nihongo|古代昆虫|<br>Kodai Konchū}}<ref name="AncientInsect">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/takuyaz/status/1124077519550984193|title=ギャオスの巣、図解。昭和版ではギャオスの幼虫となっていた虫が、平成版ではギャオスの餌の古代昆虫に変更。そうだよなぁ|work=Twitter|author=@takuyaz|date=2 May 2019}}</ref>
<b>Ancient insects</b> {{Nihongo|古代昆虫|<br>Kodai Konchū}}<ref name="AncientInsect">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/takuyaz/status/1124077519550984193|title=ギャオスの巣、図解。昭和版ではギャオスの幼虫となっていた虫が、平成版ではギャオスの餌の古代昆虫に変更。そうだよなぁ|work=Twitter|author=@takuyaz|date=2 May 2019}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center" | '''''[[Gamera vs. Gyaos (Asahi Sonorama book)|Gamera vs.<br>Gyaos]]'' (1965)'''
| style="text-align:center" | '''''[[Gamera vs. Gyaos (Asahi Sonorama book)|Gamera vs.<br>Gyaos]]'' (1967)'''
| In a diagram of the [[Gyaos]]' settlement inside a volcano, a species of prehistoric insect larvae are shown to live inside the monsters' breeding chamber and are fed upon by the juvenile Gyaos.
| In a diagram of the [[Gyaos]]' settlement inside a volcano, a species of prehistoric insect larvae are shown to live inside the monsters' breeding chamber and are fed upon by the juvenile Gyaos.
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*The breeding cave larvae bear a striking similarity to the [[Meganulon]] from ''[[Rodan (film)|Rodan]]'' in both their role and appearance. In the film, the Meganulon inhabit the Rodans' underground cave system and are fed upon by the newborn [[Rodan/Showa|Rodan]].
*The breeding cave larvae bear a striking similarity to the [[Meganulon]] from ''[[Rodan (film)|Rodan]]'' in both their role and appearance. In the film, the Meganulon inhabit the Rodans' underground cave system and are fed upon by the newborn [[Rodan/Showa|Rodan]].
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Revision as of 17:07, 3 April 2020

The following is a list of minor monsters from kaiju-related media, sorted by the medium in which they appear. This is defined as any kaiju, kaijin, animals, or other beings whose roles have little overall relevance in the media they are featured in, have limited screentime, or do not have enough information to warrant a dedicated page, and which are generally not trademarked.

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Lists

Films

Toho

Main article: List of minor Toho monsters#Films.

Daiei / Kadokawa

Name Image Appearance(s) Description Trivia
Small Jiger
(小ジャイガー,  
Ko Jaigā
)

Baby Jiger
(子ジャイガー,  
Ko Jaigā
)


Jiger II
(ジャイガー二世,  
Jaigā Nisei
)

Baby Jiger - 3.png
Gamera vs.
Jiger
(1970)
Length: ~2 meters

After Jiger injected an egg inside of Gamera's lung, her baby hatched inside the monster's body and began draining him of his blood. When Hiroshi Kitayama and Tommy Williams entered Gamera's body in a submarine, they found the baby Jiger, which began to chase them through the corridors of Gamera's insides. It shot a slimy white substance from its snout, causing Hiroshi's feet to become stuck to the ground. Luckily, he managed to free himself and the pair escaped to their submersible. As the Jiger began shooting more of the substance, the kids threw their communication device at it, causing it to stick to the juvenile monster's face. A team of humans on the surface then broadcast a special frequency through the communicator which the Jiger was susceptible to, ultimately killing it.

Gallery
Dodzilla
(ドジラ,   Dojira)
Dodzilla.png
Gamera: Super Monster (1980) After touching down in Japan on Giruge's orders to destroy the Earth, the rampaging Gamera knocked over a sign advertising a monster movie entitled Farewell Dodzilla (さらばドジラ) which was having a roadshow theatrical release at the Izumi Hall in Shinjuku.
Gallery
  • Dodzilla is a clear reference to Godzilla, in both the monster's name and appearance. Dodzilla specifically resembles the MegaroGoji suit, but with less pronounced dorsal plates. The film title "Farewell Dodzilla" may be in reference to Godzilla's hiatus from 1975 onward; the first Heisei era film, The Return of Godzilla would not premiere until 1984, four years after the release of Gamera: Super Monster.
Baby Garasharps
Gamera vs. Garasharp Storyboard 10.png
Gamera vs.
Garasharp
(1991)
After Gamera defeated the attacking Garasharp by slicing off her head, twin juvenile Garasharps emerged from her body. The military attempted to fire on them, but Gamera rescued them by flying them on his shell to a remote island.
Gallery
Beta version Gameras
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Gamera 3:
Revenge of Iris
(1999)
While surveying the ocean floor, a submarine crew discovered a graveyard of shelled skeletons resembling the monster Gamera. Shinya Kurata later proposed that these were deceased "beta versions" of Gamera; failed prototypes created by the Atlanteans which had once been imbued with Mana, but were discarded upon Gamera himself being successfully created.
Gallery
Concept art
Production
Screenshots
  • The skeletal Gameras were designed by Mahiro Maeda, who aimed for them to appear slightly mechanical.[1] They were portrayed primarily using shells from Gamera model kits by M1 and Kaiyodo, though a miniature skull made from styrofoam and a hard skull model roughly in scale with the Gamera suit were also used for closer shots.[2]
Unnamed tentacled monster
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GAMERA (2015)
Main article: Unnamed tentacled monster.

Legendary Pictures

Main article: List of MonsterVerse monsters.

Miscellaneous

Name Image Appearance(s) Description Trivia
Unhatched egg
The Giant Claw (1957) The real purpose behind La Carcagne's journey to Earth was the laying of a single giant egg, resting in a huge nest of broken trees and shrubbery, located deep within the wilds of Canada. Unfortunately, La Carcagne never gets to see her offspring's birth due to the violent interference of the humans Mitch MacAfee and Sally Caldwell who destroy the unhatched egg with riffle fire from a snipers' distance. Sent into a maddening rage by her loss, La Carcagne flies off and begins a global rampage of death and destruction far worse than what had come before.
Gallery
Abyssal fish
Gorgo-Abyssal-Fish-February-01.jpg
Gorgo (1961) After a devastating undersea earthquake tore up the seabed, the corpses of bizarre deep-sea fish floated up to the surface around Nara Island - grotesque omens for Gorgo's imminent arrival.
Gallery
Cosmic spores
Guilala-Cosmic-Spores-X-From-Outer-Space-February-2020-01.jpg
The X from Outer Space (1967) Somewhere beyond the outer orbit of Earth's moon, the spaceship AAB Gamma encounters a mysterious UFO that coats the vehicle's booster with a strange radiant substance, later dubbed Guilalanium, which houses strange cosmic spores. All but one of the cosmic spores is removed from AAB Gamma by crew members Captain Sano and Lisa. The collected sample is later brought back to Earth where it soon transforms into the giant destructive monster Guilala.
Obelisk Island bird
(オベリスク怪鳥,   Oberisuku Kaichō, lit. Obelisk Monster Bird)
Obelisk Bird.png
Gappa (1967)
Main article: Obelisk Island Bird.
Baby Gappa
(仔ガッパ,  
Ko Gappa
)
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Main article: Baby Gappa.
Giant Shark
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A*P*E (1976) Having just escaped from his imprisonment onboard an oil tanker, the giant ape swims out to shore only to then be attacked by a giant shark. After a quick tussle, the giant ape kills the shark by ripping its mouth wide open.
Gallery
Monster Reptile
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While stumbling through the countryside, the giant ape finds a giant snake—noted as "Monster Reptile" on the film's poster—wrapped around a tree. The ape grabs the snake, but immediately tosses it away.
Pteranodons
(プテラノドン,   Puteranodon)
Last-Dinosaur-February-2020-20.png
The Last
Dinosaur
(1977)
Main article: Pteranodon#The Last Dinosaur.
Ceratopsian
(セラトプシアン,   Seratopushian)
Uinta 3.png
Main article: Ceratopsian.
Giant turtle
(大ガメ,   Ōgame)
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Journalist Francesca Banks stood on a partially submerged giant turtle while taking photos, mistaking it for a rock. When it began to stir, she stepped off of it immediately in alarm. Unperturbed, the turtle swam away.
Gallery
Screenshots
Releases
Giant fish
The Last Dinosaur Publicity Still 2.jpg
While on its daily hunt for food, the Tyrannosaurus spots a giant fish in the water and snatches it in its jaws, swallowing it whole.
Boneyard
Last-Dinosaur-February-2020-02.png
The lair of the Tyrannosaurus is littered with the giant bones of numerous fallen prey. Among the remains are the skulls of a two-horned warthog, numerous mastodons, an ox with a singular horn like that of a unicorn, a separate ox skull with three unusual horns, an unspecified giant reptile, a long-faced cow, a sitting pair of bull skulls, a large headless humanoid skeleton hanging from a dead tree, numerous Pteranodons, the scattered jawbones of prehistoric rhinoceroses such as the Embolotherium and the Arsinoitherium, and skulls heavily resembling those of the dire wolf, the Archaeotherium, the Pakicetus, and the Daeodon.
Gallery
Production
Screenshots
Triceratops
(トリケラトプス,   Torikeratopusu)
Last-Dinosaur-February-2020-11.png
Main article: Triceratops#The Last Dinosaur.
Genetically-edited rat
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Rampage (2018) An experiment on board the satellite Athena-1 turns a lab rat into a ravenous monster. It kills all of the crew members except Dr. Kerry Aktins and compromises the satellite’s hull integrity during its deadly rampage. Claire Wyden, the owner of Athena-1 and CEO of the biotech company Energyne, informs Aktins that she will not be let into the escape capsule until she retrieves the other samples of the substance which caused the rat’s mutation, that being the compound R-19. Aktins evades the murderous rat and departs Athena-1 just before it explodes with three canisters in tow. Unfortunately, the scratches the creature left on a glass window of the capsule soon cause it to shatter, killing Aktins and sending the R-19 canisters hurtling towards the United States, eventually leading to the creation of three far more powerful mutated animals.

Books

Name Image Appearance(s) Description Trivia
Gyaos breeding cave larvae
(ギャオス幼虫飼育洞窟,  
Gyaosu Yōchū
Shīku Dōkutsu
)

Ancient insects (古代昆虫,  
Kodai Konchū
)
[3]

Gyaos cave breeder larva.png
Gamera vs.
Gyaos
(1967)
In a diagram of the Gyaos' settlement inside a volcano, a species of prehistoric insect larvae are shown to live inside the monsters' breeding chamber and are fed upon by the juvenile Gyaos.
Gallery
  • The breeding cave larvae bear a striking similarity to the Meganulon from Rodan in both their role and appearance. In the film, the Meganulon inhabit the Rodans' underground cave system and are fed upon by the newborn Rodan.

Comics

Name Image Appearance(s) Description Trivia
Arsinoitherium
The Last Hope - Arsinoitherium.png
The Last Hope (2017) In the advanced civilization of the Atlanteans, a harnessed Arsinoitherium and its owner can be seen standing by a building.

See also

References

This is a list of references for List of minor monsters. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Heisei Gamera Perfection. ASCII MEDIA WORKS. 8 February 2014. p. 109. ISBN 9784048918817. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris Super Complete Works. Shogakukan. 20 April 1999. pp. 51, 57. ISBN 4-09-101468-2.
  3. @takuyaz (2 May 2019). "ギャオスの巣、図解。昭和版ではギャオスの幼虫となっていた虫が、平成版ではギャオスの餌の古代昆虫に変更。そうだよなぁ". Twitter.

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