Tanzania

A map of Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country located in East Africa. It has been featured in limited capacity across kaiju media; in particular its dormant volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro.

History

• Godzilla (TV 1979) [episode 19]
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) [on map]

Godzilla

"Valley of the Giants"

In Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, a construction crew working on a highway passing through a forest ended up opening a crack in a nearby valley, releasing Giant Ants which attacked the workers.

Later, the crew of the Calico discovered the same valley after being beached on Tanzania's coast, which housed plant life of enormous proportions, and was protected by an orange haze cloud. The plants and insects of the valley were vastly bigger and far more threatening than usual. When the Calico crew was taken by surprise by a Giant Dragonfly, the commotion also got the attention of a Giant Black Widow, who gave chase to the crew - forcing Majors to call upon Godzilla. Godzilla climbed the waterfall and confronted the Giant Spider just as it had the Calico crew cornered. With the help of his flames, Godzilla managed to successfully drive the spider away. Shortly after, a Giant Beetle that briefly tried to attack the Calico crew as well, only to be hurled away by Godzilla.

Taken in by the giant plant-life, Godzilla curiously explored the valley on his own. The Calico crew decided to leave the valley while they still could, but their original entrance was destroyed by an unknown explosion and thus the crew instead tried to find a new way out, by following another water channel. The water channel they followed however created a fork, thus the crew split up, (with Brock and Godzooky going one way, and Majors, Quinn, and Pete going the other). Suddenly, Majors and Quinn were quickly abducted by a pair of Giant Bees. Things only got worse for the crew when Brock was caught by and about to be eaten by a Giant Venus Flytrap, and Pete became trapped and at the mercy of a Giant Antlion when he followed the Giant Bees who kidnapped Majors and Quinn. Lastly, when Godzilla (who was called upon by Majors after being kidnapped by the Giant Bees) headed off after the signal, the Monster King was ambushed by a sneak attack from the Giant Black Widow from before, who poisoned Godzilla, paralyzing him, and leaving him to be cocooned by the spider's webbing.

Majors and Brock were left to try and cut Godzilla free from his webbing, while Quinn, Pete, and Godzooky continued searching for a way out. In the process however, the three of them were ambushed by a stray Giant Ant and the Giant Black Widow, who wanted to finish business with the Calico crew. While trying draw their attention away from Quinn and Pete, Godzooky accidentally wound up trapped in the spider's Web, leaving him at the mercy of the Giant Black Widow, and the Calico crew at the mercy of the Giant Ant. Luckily, Godzilla awakened, shaking off what was left of his paralysis and freeing himself of the webbing with his lasers. The Monster King frightened away the Giant Ant and then re-engaged the black widow in battle. Despite the Giant Black Widow gaining an even bigger size-advantage after being briefly exposed to the valley's hazy sunlight, Godzilla managed to outsmart the spider by tricking it into poisoning itself with its own poison, which paralyzed and incapacitated the spider.

Godzilla proceeded to carry the Calico crew and Godzooky all the way out of the valley and smashed through the original entrance's blockage. After returning the crew back to their ship, Godzilla returned to the valley's entrance and blocked it up with several boulders and then melted the rock formation with his flames, sealing off the entrance to the valley for good.

Monsterverse

A map of Monarch bunkers around the world.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

A Cold War-era map showed that Monarch had built a bunker inland in southern Tanzania.

Trivia

• The character that wears a Godzilla-like costume in the mobile game Head Soccer is named Tanzania.

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