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The suffix -zilla has seen wide usage in popular culture, most recently in a slew of Internet website and product titles. It is unknown exactly how it first came into being, but its first usage was in the American version of the Japanese film Gojira. Many shows, games, and movies have featured characters with names ending in -zilla, usually to emphasize their size or prowess (after that of Godzilla).

The following entries are in order of when their respective media was released.

Television

If a character using the suffix zilla appears in multiple series or episodes, only their first appearance is listed.

• 1995/02/05: In The Simpsons episode "Bart's Comet," Bart made a blimp called Buttzilla that looks like Seymour, but with a big butt.
• 2003/08/04: In The Fairly Odd Parents, Dogzilla appears when Catman comes into the Chin's webisode and takes over the role of superhero. Although he more closely resembles Mechagodzilla, he uses Godzilla's roar. Timmy wished up a gigantic robotic dog, equipped with fleas, a hose, and an assortment of other things that cats hate.
• 2003/10/03: In Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Bonzilla is a parody of Godzilla that first appears in the episode "The Retroville 9." Though only about 1 foot tall, Bonzilla breathes real fire.
• In Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Brainzilla is a nickname for Jimmy.
• 2010/12/09: In Total Drama World Tour, Izzy becomes highly intelligent for a time, and in the episode "Aftermath: Revenge of the Telethon," takes on the persona "Brainzilla."
• In one of the Wishology Trilogy episodes of The Fairly Odd Parents, Cosmo uses magic to make himself a few stories tall and says "Say hello to Coszilla!"
• In the episode "Fartzilla" of Grossology, a robotic version of Hermes was used to break into the school cafeteria in order for Ty and Abby to investigate.
• In another Simpsons episode, Bart made a drawing of "Fartzilla", a farting Godzilla.
• In an episode of Viva Piñata, Fergy becomes a mecha called Fergyzilla and destroys most of the island before returning to normal size.
• Gorgonzilla is a Godzilla-like action figure in Dexter's Laboratory.
• Gorizilla is a giant gorilla-like Akumatized villain that debuts in an episode of the same name in the series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, and reappears occasionally in the series.
• In one episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, King Koopa grows to massive proportions and attacks a city as Koopzilla.
• In Teen Titans, Wrexzilla was a Mechagodzilla-like monster that was instantly killed by a larger Mothra-like monster named Silkie.
• In Smart Guy, T.J. coins the phrase "flyzilla", figuring "these stupid phrases have to start somewhere."
• In Reba, Barbara-Jean says she was called "Blondzilla" growing up, because of her height and hair color.
• In Loud House, Vanzilla is the nickname for the Loud family van.
• Also in Loud House, the Loud Family's RV is nicknamed "Camperzilla".
• A Spidey and His Amazing Friends episode is titled "Gob-Zilla".
• In the Heather Locklear episode of Muppets Tonight, Kermit the Frog plays the role of "Frogzilla" in Andy and Randy Pig's nonsensical Hardy Pig Boys sketch.
• The "Outer Space" episode of The Jim Henson Hour features a fake movie trailer sketch for a movie called "My Dinner with Codzilla".
• In Tickety Toc, they read a book titled "Cogzilla".
• In DuckTales (1987), when underwater, they encounter a giant frog named Glubzilla.
• In Animaniacs, a monster named Gollyzilla terrorizes Tokyo.
• In My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, Hitch had a dream about Kenneth the bird as Birdzilla.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, when a member of a species of chinchilla-like creatures turned massive, Discord called it a Winter-zilla.
• In Ninjago, there was an ancient sea serpent named Wojira.
• In the episode of Rocko's Modern Life titled "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic," when Rocko was using the Suck-O-Matic he accidentally sucked up a miniature city, whose citizens dubbed the machine Suck-O-Zilla.
• In The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" segment "Homerzilla", Homerzilla is the main antagonist.
• In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Shell", Gumball gives Patrick Fitzgerald the nickname of "Bobzilla".
• In the episode "The Snowman Cometh" in the 2015 series Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse calls the Snowman a "snowzilla."
• In Hazbin Hotel, though not spoken in the series, the overlord Zeezi is also called Missi Zilla.
• In an episode of Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, "The Day the Ed Stood Still," Ed dresses up as a monster named "Edzilla", then goes on a rampage and terrorizes the other kids in the cul-de-sac.

Film

• 1997/12/19: In Mouse Hunt, the crazy cat Catzilla tried to hunt and kill a mouse that was destroying the house, but the mouse ultimately slaughtered it through a hidden elevator after breaking the strings. Catzilla also mimicked Godzilla's roar.
• 2007/11/28: In Shrek the Halls, the Gingerbread Man's rendition of Santa eats his girlfriend and roars like Godzilla.
• 2009/02/05: In Coraline, while Wyborn is looking for banana slugs in the fog, he finds a particularly large one and remarks, "Dang! Check out Slugzilla!"
• 2009/07/01: In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, when Momma Dino pushes Rudy into a chasm, Sid calls her Momzilla.
• 2017/08/06: In Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, a shark swarm attacking Tokyo in the shape of a giant shark is named Sharkzilla.

Videogames

• 2009/10/22: An item in Roblox called Bookzilla first went on sale. Two retextures of the item exist: Mathzilla (May 10, 2010) and Bookzilla: University Edition (August 27, 2014).
• 2012/06/13: Burgerzilla is a term first used in Papa's Wingeria as a minigame.
• 2013/06/05: Burgerzilla is the name of an enemy that appears in Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack!
• 2019/10/31: Ghostzilla is a massive ghost first seen in Luigi's Mansion 3 that is able to spit fireballs.

Books and comics

If a character using the suffix zilla appears in multiple series or issues, only their first appearance is listed.

• 1986/03/25: Hog-zilla is a Tyrannoswinus rex kaiju in the Marvel Spider-Ham comics. There is also a robot duplicate of him called Mechano-Hog-zilla.
• 1990/04/22: In The Buckets, Dogzilla is the family dog.
• 1993/09/29: The children's book Dogzilla and its titular monster, which both parody Godzilla.
• 2008/09/10: Fredzilla is the kaiju superhero alter ego of Fred in the Marvel Comics series Big Hero 6 and its animated Disney adaptations.

Websites and programs

• 1996/11: Shopzilla, a comparison-shopping search engine, formerly BizRate.com
• 1998/03/31: Mozilla, a group of Internet-related programs created by the Mozilla Foundation, also the name of the group's widely-known web browser.
• 1998/08/26: Bugzilla, an open-source bug tracking software, with a web-based interface.
• 2001/06/22: FileZilla, a FTP program.
• 2002/07: Quizilla, an online personality quiz website, which contains its own "Zillapedia".
• 2005/02/05: Podzilla, an open-source user interface for the IPodLinux project, which allows for alternative functionality of Apple Computer's iPod.
• 2005/07/22: Wikizilla, a Godzilla-focused wiki.
• 2008/03/05: Go!Zilla, a download manager program.
• 2016/11/08: ChatZilla, an Internet relay chat program.
• STOPzilla, an adware/spyware protection program personal uses.
• Feedzilla, real-time news and online content solutions for webmasters and bloggers.
• Sharedzilla, a file sharing service (one-click hosting).
• Clonezilla, a disk cloning/partitioning tool similar to Symantec Ghost.
• Gzilla, a free web browser.
• Creazilla, a free graphic website.

Miscellaneous

• 1988: Rodzilla was a Hot Wheels toy manufactured in numerous colors until 2015.
• 2004/06/17: Hogzilla, a famous pig in Georgia. According to popular legend, it was 12 feet long and 1,000 pounds, with 9-inch tusks.
• 2005: Snowzilla is a giant snowman erected in the front lawn of Billy Powers in Anchorage, Alaska, before Christmas.
• At Nickelodeon HQ, kids will win a random prize when they drop a coin in a machine with a red Godzilla-like kaiju (called Dropzilla) that will mimic Godzilla's roar.
• In 2023, Funko released a vinyl pop of Homerzilla from The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" alongside King Homer from the episode "Treehouse of Horror III".
• Pretzilla is the name of a company that sells pretzels and other baked goods.
• Codzilla is the name of a speed boat attraction in Boston.
• Baconzilla is the name of a burger sold by the fast food chain Checkers & Rally’s.

See also

• Godzilla in popular culture

References

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