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|occupation =Wikizilla | |occupation =Wikizilla writer and editor,<br>library clerk | ||
|birthday =1993 | |birthday =1993 | ||
|birthplace =Rochester, NY | |birthplace =Rochester, NY | ||
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==Signature | ==Selected filmography== | ||
*''G-Fantis: Worlds Collide!!!'' (2011) - Mothra puppeteer [uncredited] | |||
*''[[Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters and Us]]'' (2012) - Self [uncredited] | |||
*''Godzilla vs. Gamera'' (2013) - Co-director / screenplay / editor / pyrotechnics / stop-motion / monster wrangling | |||
*''Godzilla Battle Royale'' (2015) - Sprinting civilian [uncredited] | |||
*''Gamera Forever'' (2015) - Editor / additional dialogue | |||
*''Redman'' (Web 2016) - Redman / editor | |||
*''[[Wikizilla:YouTube|Wikizilla]]'' (Web 2016-) - Editor [7 episodes] / writer [44 episodes] / narrator [3 episodes] | |||
*''Monster Island Buddies'' (Web 2010-) - Move-It-Along Godzilla (voice) [episode 123] | |||
==Signature achievements== | |||
*Transcribing complete credits for film pages | *Transcribing complete credits for film pages | ||
*Writing numerous pages for actors and staff | *Writing numerous pages for actors and staff | ||
*Writing synopses for many obscure kaiju films (including some tragically exiled Asylum masterworks) | |||
*Banishment of non-Godzilla kaiju design pages | *Banishment of non-Godzilla kaiju design pages | ||
*Replacement of the site chat with a Discord server | *Replacement of the site chat with a Discord server | ||
* | *Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for painstaking analysis of Godzilla's regenerative capabilities in ''Godzilla 2000: Millennium'' | ||
==Physical | |||
==Physical media collection== | |||
{{Under Construction}} | {{Under Construction}} | ||
===Godzilla | ===Godzilla=== | ||
<gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small"> | <gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small"> | ||
Godzilla Movie DVDs - Gojira -Classic Media 2006-.jpg|''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'' (1954) - 2006 Classic Media DVD | Godzilla Movie DVDs - Gojira -Classic Media 2006-.jpg|''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'' (1954) - 2006 Classic Media DVD | ||
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I also have ''[[Godzilla vs. Hedorah]]'', ''[[Godzilla vs. Mothra]]'', and the ''Rebirth of Mothra'' trilogy taped off the Sci-Fi Channel. | I also have ''[[Godzilla vs. Hedorah]]'', ''[[Godzilla vs. Mothra]]'', and the ''Rebirth of Mothra'' trilogy taped off the Sci-Fi Channel. | ||
=== | ===Toho=== | ||
<gallery widths="120" position="center" spacing="small" captionalign="center"> | <gallery widths="120" position="center" spacing="small" captionalign="center"> | ||
Classic Media Rodan and WotG DVD.jpg|''[[Rodan (film)|Rodan]]'' and ''[[The War of the Gargantuas]]'' - 2008 Classic Media DVDs | Classic Media Rodan and WotG DVD.jpg|''[[Rodan (film)|Rodan]]'' and ''[[The War of the Gargantuas]]'' - 2008 Classic Media DVDs | ||
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</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
===Daiei | ===Daiei=== | ||
<gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | <gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | ||
S-l1600 (1).jpg|''[[Gamera (film)|Gamera]]'' - 1999 Neptune Media VHS | S-l1600 (1).jpg|''[[Gamera (film)|Gamera]]'' - 1999 Neptune Media VHS | ||
91E8XTmA08L SL1500 .jpg|''[[Gamera (film)|Gamera]]'' - 2010 Shout! Factory DVD | 91E8XTmA08L SL1500 .jpg|''[[Gamera (film)|Gamera]]'' - 2010 Shout! Factory DVD | ||
Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA LEGACY COLLECTION -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Legacy Collection DVDs | Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA LEGACY COLLECTION -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Legacy Collection DVDs | ||
Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA COLLECTION VOLUME 1 -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Ultimate Collection (Volume 1) Blu- | Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA COLLECTION VOLUME 1 -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Ultimate Collection (Volume 1) Blu-ray | ||
Mill Creek Daimajin Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Daimajin (film)|Daimajin]]'', ''[[Return of Daimajin]]'', ''[[Daimajin Strikes Again]]'' - 2012 Mill Creek Blu-rays | Mill Creek Daimajin Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Daimajin (film)|Daimajin]]'', ''[[Return of Daimajin]]'', ''[[Daimajin Strikes Again]]'' - 2012 Mill Creek Blu-rays | ||
Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA COLLECTION VOLUME 2 -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Ultimate Collection (Volume 2) Blu- | Godzilla Movie DVDs - GAMERA COLLECTION VOLUME 2 -Mill Creek-.png|2014 Mill Creek Gamera: Ultimate Collection (Volume 2) Blu-ray | ||
Mill Creek Gamera 1 and 2 Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe]]'' and ''[[Gamera 2: Attack of Legion]]'' - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray | Mill Creek Gamera 1 and 2 Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe]]'' and ''[[Gamera 2: Attack of Legion]]'' - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray | ||
Gamera 3 Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris]]'' - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray | Gamera 3 Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris]]'' - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray | ||
Gamera The Brave Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera the Brave]]'' - | Gamera The Brave Blu-ray.jpg|''[[Gamera the Brave]]'' - 2013 Tokyo Shock Blu-ray | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
=== | ===Miscellaneous=== | ||
===Books=== | ===Books=== | ||
====English, non-fiction==== | |||
*''Godzilla'' by Ian Thorne (1977) | |||
*''[[Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films]]'' by Stuart Galbraith IV (1998) | |||
*''Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G"'' by Steve Ryfle (1998) | |||
*''Reptilicus: The Screenplay'' edited by Kip Doto (1999) | |||
*''Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of the Monsters'' by William Tsutsui (2004) | |||
*''King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson'' by Ray Morton (2005) | |||
*''King Kong Cometh!'' edited by Paul A. Woods (2005) | |||
*''Meet Godzilla'' by Robert Greenberger (2005) | |||
*''Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction: A Thematic Survey'' by Allen A. Debus (2006) | |||
*''In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage'' edited by William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito (2006) | |||
*''[[Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters]]'' by August Ragone (2007) | |||
*''Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda'' by Peter H. Brothers (2009) | |||
*''Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties'' by Bill Warren (2010, both volumes) | |||
*''Pacific Rim: Men, Machines & Monsters'' by David S. Cohen (2013) | |||
*''[[Godzilla: The Art of Destruction]]'' by Mark Cotta Vaz (2014) | |||
*''The Art of Japanese Monsters'' by Sean Linkenback (2014) | |||
*''The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Vol. 1: 1954-1982'' by John LeMay (2016) | |||
*''[[The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island]]'' by Simon Ward (2017) | |||
*''[[The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films]]'' by John LeMay (2017) | |||
*''Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture'' edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr (2017) | |||
*''Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa'' by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski (2017) | |||
*''Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema'' by Sean Rhoads and Brooke McCorkle (2018) | |||
*''Terror of the Lost Tokusatsu Films'' by John LeMay (2018) | |||
*''Kaiju for Hipsters: 101 "Alternative" Giant Monster Movies'' by Kevin Derendorf (2018) | |||
===Comics=== | ===Comics=== | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://astoundingbeyondbelief.tumblr.com/ Tumblr account] | *[http://astoundingbeyondbelief.tumblr.com/ Tumblr account] | ||
*[https://twitter.com/AstoundingBB Twitter account] | |||
*[http://astoundingbeyondbelief.blogspot.com/ Blogger account] | *[http://astoundingbeyondbelief.blogspot.com/ Blogger account] | ||
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhYytfAdAsB9FFYMGIFvrg/feed YouTube channel] | *[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhYytfAdAsB9FFYMGIFvrg/feed YouTube channel] | ||
[[Category:Bureaucrats]] |
Latest revision as of 04:08, 12 March 2023
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Astounding Beyond Belief is a Wikizilla bureaucrat, and also the person writing this, so I feel weird using the third person. After making a few random edits to the site during its time on Wikia, I formally joined the site in December 2016 and rose through the ranks at terrifying speeds.
History as a Kaiju Fan
To be added.
Selected filmography
- G-Fantis: Worlds Collide!!! (2011) - Mothra puppeteer [uncredited]
- Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters and Us (2012) - Self [uncredited]
- Godzilla vs. Gamera (2013) - Co-director / screenplay / editor / pyrotechnics / stop-motion / monster wrangling
- Godzilla Battle Royale (2015) - Sprinting civilian [uncredited]
- Gamera Forever (2015) - Editor / additional dialogue
- Redman (Web 2016) - Redman / editor
- Wikizilla (Web 2016-) - Editor [7 episodes] / writer [44 episodes] / narrator [3 episodes]
- Monster Island Buddies (Web 2010-) - Move-It-Along Godzilla (voice) [episode 123]
Signature achievements
- Transcribing complete credits for film pages
- Writing numerous pages for actors and staff
- Writing synopses for many obscure kaiju films (including some tragically exiled Asylum masterworks)
- Banishment of non-Godzilla kaiju design pages
- Replacement of the site chat with a Discord server
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for painstaking analysis of Godzilla's regenerative capabilities in Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Physical media collection
This article is a work in progress. Please help in the creation of this article by expanding or improving it. |
Godzilla
Godzilla (1954) - 2006 Classic Media DVD
Godzilla (1954) - 2012 Criterion Blu-ray (autographed by Akira Takarada)
Godzilla Raids Again - 2006 Classic Media DVD
King Kong vs. Godzilla - 1987 GoodTimes VHS
Mothra vs. Godzilla - 2007 Classic Media DVD
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster - 2007 Classic Media DVD
Invasion of Astro-Monster - 2007 Classic Media DVD
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep - 2005 TriStar DVD
Son of Godzilla - 2005 TriStar DVD
Destroy All Monsters - 2011 Tokyo Shock DVD
All Monsters Attack - 2008 Classic Media DVD
Godzilla vs. Hedorah - 2004 TriStar DVD
Godzilla vs. Gigan - 1997 Anchor Bay VHS
Godzilla vs. Megalon - 2012 Tokyo Shock DVD [no extras]
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - 2004 TriStar DVD
Terror of Mechagodzilla - 2008 Classic Media DVD
The Return of Godzilla - 2016 Kraken Releasing Blu-ray
Godzilla vs. Biollante - 1992 HBO VHS
Godzilla vs. Biollante - 2012 Echo Bridge Blu-ray (autographed by Megumi Odaka)
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II and Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah and Godzilla vs. Megaguirus - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
GODZILLA (1998) - 2009 Sony Blu-ray
Godzilla: The Series - 2014 Mill Creek DVD
Godzilla 2000: Millennium - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Godzilla: Final Wars - 2014 Sony Blu-ray
Shin Godzilla - 2017 Funimation Blu-ray
I also have Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Mothra, and the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy taped off the Sci-Fi Channel.
Toho
Rodan and The War of the Gargantuas - 2008 Classic Media DVDs
The Mysterians - 2005 Tokyo Shock DVD
Varan - 2005 Tokyo Shock DVD
The H-Man, Battle in Outer Space, and Mothra - 2009 Sony DVDs
Matango - 2005 Tokyo Shock DVD
Atragon - 2006 Tokyo Shock DVD
Dogora - 2005 Tokyo Shock DVD
Frankenstein vs. Baragon - 2007 Tokyo Shock DVDs
King Kong Escapes - 2005 Universal DVD
Latitude Zero - 2007 Tokyo Shock DVD
Space Amoeba - 2006 Tokyo Shock DVD
Rebirth of Mothra, Rebirth of Mothra II, and Rebirth of Mothra III - 2014 Sony Blu-rays
Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 - 2016 Funimation Blu-ray/DVD
Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 - 2016 Funimation Blu-ray/DVD
Daiei
Gamera - 1999 Neptune Media VHS
Gamera - 2010 Shout! Factory DVD
Daimajin, Return of Daimajin, Daimajin Strikes Again - 2012 Mill Creek Blu-rays
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Gamera 2: Attack of Legion - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris - 2011 Mill Creek Blu-ray
Gamera the Brave - 2013 Tokyo Shock Blu-ray
Miscellaneous
Books
English, non-fiction
- Godzilla by Ian Thorne (1977)
- Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films by Stuart Galbraith IV (1998)
- Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G" by Steve Ryfle (1998)
- Reptilicus: The Screenplay edited by Kip Doto (1999)
- Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of the Monsters by William Tsutsui (2004)
- King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson by Ray Morton (2005)
- King Kong Cometh! edited by Paul A. Woods (2005)
- Meet Godzilla by Robert Greenberger (2005)
- Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction: A Thematic Survey by Allen A. Debus (2006)
- In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage edited by William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito (2006)
- Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters by August Ragone (2007)
- Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda by Peter H. Brothers (2009)
- Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties by Bill Warren (2010, both volumes)
- Pacific Rim: Men, Machines & Monsters by David S. Cohen (2013)
- Godzilla: The Art of Destruction by Mark Cotta Vaz (2014)
- The Art of Japanese Monsters by Sean Linkenback (2014)
- The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Vol. 1: 1954-1982 by John LeMay (2016)
- The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island by Simon Ward (2017)
- The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films by John LeMay (2017)
- Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr (2017)
- Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski (2017)
- Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema by Sean Rhoads and Brooke McCorkle (2018)
- Terror of the Lost Tokusatsu Films by John LeMay (2018)
- Kaiju for Hipsters: 101 "Alternative" Giant Monster Movies by Kevin Derendorf (2018)