Super Godzilla (monster)
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- Professor Ogata: “How much power does this Super Godzilla have?”
- Miss Yano: “I can't measure it. However, there is no doubt that it is a monster that far exceeds any monster that has come before!”
- ― Professor Ogata and Miss Yano's reactions to Godzilla transforming into Super Godzilla (Super Godzilla)
Super Godzilla (スーパーゴジラ Sūpā Gojira) is an alternate form of Godzilla created by Toho that first appeared in the 1993 Godzilla video game Super Godzilla and would go on to inspire the design of SpaceGodzilla in 1994's Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. Super Godzilla later re-appeared in 2024 as a character in Godziban to encounter Bagan once again.
Name
The Japanese manual for Super Godzilla writes Super Godzilla's name completely in katakana, as スーパーゴジラ (Sūpā Gojira). The Godzilla 1954-1999 Super Complete Works instead uses the kanji
Design
As Super Godzilla, Godzilla's appearance changes. His skin tone changes from the original greenish-gray to an indigo color, his chest and abdomen is colored neon green, and below his chest, there is a rib cage pattern that holds his lower abdomen. His dorsals have now changed from their usual white to a neon green coloration. Super Godzilla's head is adorned with a neon green, crown-like crest, and he also sports two small tusks on either side of his mouth. Godzilla's size increases to a small degree, and he becomes far more muscular and bulky, with two massive spikes sprouting from his large shoulders. The tip of his tail sports thagomizer-like spikes in the shape of his dorsal fins.
In the U.S. version of the game, every sprite of Super Godzilla has been altered to remove the crest from his head, though the character's other unique design aspects are left intact.
Super Godzilla's design in Godziban is essentially identical to his video game counterpart, simply updated from pixel art into a physical effect, though his shoulder spikes have a more crystalline appearance.
History
- Godziban (web 2019-)
Godziban
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Video games
- Super Godzilla (1993) - Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom
- Godzilla Battle Line (2021; added in 2025) - Android, iOS, PC
Super Godzilla
When reaching stage 5 of the game, the player is faced with a choice to face the resurrected King Ghidorah, via Mecha-King Ghidorah as Godzilla in his base form or as Super Godzilla. Requirements for Godzilla to change into Super Godzilla in this stage is to collect three special energy capsules marked "S". However, during this time, Mecha-King Ghidorah is causing mass destruction in Tokyo, and the research center that carries the Super Energy Bank that is another requirement for Godzilla's transformation will be on the verge of being wiped out if the destruction of Tokyo reaches 50%.
When fighting Mecha-King Ghidorah as Super Godzilla, the damage that Super Godzilla takes as opposed to the amount of damage Godzilla would take in his normal form is reduced by more than half. Super Godzilla's attacks can inflict massive damage to Mecha-King Ghidorah, allowing the cybernetic kaiju to be defeated with minimal effort. It is apparent at this point that Super Godzilla is superior to Mecha-King Ghidorah.
In stage 6, if the destruction of Tokyo is less than 50% despite Mecha-King Ghidorah's attacks, then Godzilla can easily become Super Godzilla through obtaining the Super Energy Bank produced by the research center. If the destruction of Tokyo is more than 50%, then Super Energy Bank is non-existent and the Super X2 will have to be used to collect the energy needed. However, the player must stall Bagan as Godzilla while this is happening.
Super Godzilla is widely regarded as a requirement to defeat Bagan, as Godzilla in his base form takes high levels of damage from Bagan's attacks, and Godzilla's offensive attacks will do little to no damage to Bagan. Bagan is seen as a difficult opponent even when playing as Super Godzilla, but one of the best tactics to use against Bagan is Super Godzilla's Super Punch (where the player charges the attack by holding the punch button and releases the attack by letting go of the button) to heavily stun Bagan in order to activate Super Godzilla's special attacks. Damage done to Super Godzilla by Bagan is reduced by more than half (just like with Mecha-King Ghidorah) and Super Godzilla's attacks can inflict far greater damage to Bagan than normal Godzilla's attacks. Both Super Godzilla and Bagan have the same amount of life points, showing that the two monsters are equal in strength.
Abilities
Physical capabilities
All of Super Godzilla's attacks are more powerful than Godzilla in his regular form.
Super Punch
Super Godzilla's Super Punch (超パンチ) move is significantly empowered compared to the version of the punch used by his normal form; Super Godzilla lunges forward, his arm covered in blue fire, and strikes the opponent.
Super Godzilla charges his Super Punch
Body Strike
Super Godzilla can use a Body Strike (体当たり)[1] to ram into his opponent with his broadened shoulders, causing numerous blue explosions to erupt on the enemy.
Super Godzilla using his Body Strike
Radioactive Flame
Super Godzilla's Radioactive Flame (火炎放射)[1] is a powered-up version of the Atomic Breath. However, it is orange-yellow in color, and it deals significantly more damage.
Stomach Beam
Super Godzilla's Stomach Beam (腹ビーム)[1] is his most powerful attack. His navel core shines as energy swirls around it, before unleashing a blue blast from his navel core that eventually morphs into the shape of Super Godzilla's head and continues to blaze through until it hits the opponent, causing massive damage.
Super Godzilla's Stomach Beam
The beam forming into the shape of Super Godzilla's face
Tail Attack
Super Godzilla's Tail Attack (しっぽ攻撃)[1] has Super Godzilla channel energy into his tail as electricity crackles around it, and then launches that energy toward the opponent. Unlike the regular Godzilla's Tail Swipe, Super Godzilla does not slam its tail into the target.
Durability
In Super Godzilla, Super Godzilla has more health than his base form, takes roughly half damage from boss attacks and no damage from non-boss attacks, and loses no energy when he destroys a building.
Roar
In Super Godzilla, he uses the Godzilla roar from 1992's Godzilla vs. Mothra onwards. In Godziban, he uses the Milliennium Godzilla roar. In Godzilla Battle Line, he uses a slightly higher-pitched version of Godzilla's The Return of Godzilla (1984) roar.
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Gallery
Production
Godziban
Screenshots
Godziban
Video games
Super Godzilla
Super Godzilla as he appears in the U.S. version of the game
Merchandise
Bandai Movie Monster Series Super Godzilla
Trivia
- Super Godzilla inspired the design of SpaceGodzilla. The shoulder spikes have been replaced by two large crystals, the "crown" that appeared in the Japanese Super Godzilla can be seen on SpaceGodzilla, and the Navel Core has been removed. Both Super Godzilla and SpaceGodzilla were designed by Minoru Yoshida.[3]
- A form of Godzilla called "Super Godzilla" also appears in the 1995 Game Gear game Godzilla: Giant Monster March; however, here it refers to the Godzilla from Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II after he has been empowered by Fire Rodan's energy.
- The name is also used for Godzilla's superhero alter ego in a 2019 Robot Chicken sketch.
References
This is a list of references for Super Godzilla (monster). 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]
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