List of minor monsters
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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.
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Lists
Films
Toho
- Main article: List of minor Toho monsters#Films.
Daiei / Kadokawa
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Dodzilla(ドジラ Dojira) |
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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.
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Legendary Pictures
- Main article: List of MonsterVerse monsters.
Miscellaneous
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Obelisk Island bird(オベリスク怪鳥 Oberisuku Kaichō, lit. Obelisk Monster Bird) |
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Gappa (1967) |
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Baby Gappa(仔ガッパKo Gappa) |
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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.
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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) |
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The Last Dinosaur (1977) |
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Ceratopsian(セラトプシアン Seratopushian) |
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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.
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Giant fish |
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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 |
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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.
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Triceratops(トリケラトプス Torikeratopusu) |
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Books
| Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description | Trivia |
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Gyaos breeding cave larvae(ギャオス幼虫飼育洞窟Gyaosu Yōchū Shīku Dōkutsu) Ancient insects (古代昆虫 |
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Gamera vs. Gyaos (1965) |
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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References
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