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In the old Japanese radioactive monster movies with Mothra ..?

and Godzilla there was a flying turtle in a couple of them. Do you remember his name?

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  • Dan S
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Gamera

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    Anguirus is not a turtle, he was just one of the other monsters.

    Here is the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera

    "Gamera was a gigantic, prehistoric species of tortoise, reawakened by an accidental atomic blast in the Arctic during a dogfight between US and Russian fighters. The film mentioned that Gamera had appeared before, from pictographs depicting Gamera, and warning of his ability of flight. Gamera's origin was given that he was a leftover from eons in the past. Gamera was already capable of flight and breathed true flames, rather than radioactive energy when he was reawakened. And while it was known that he fed on flames (and even radioactive materials such as plutonium, much like his counterpart, Godzilla), the explanation for this power is that the age in which he lived lacked oxygen but was volcanically active thus causing Gamera to feed on fire. This caused a continuity error as it was stated that Gamera lacked lungs in the first film but in "Gamera vs. Jiger", Jiger's offspring was implanted in Gamera's lung by Jiger. It was left unexplained as to why he attacked most of humanity in general, yet spared the life of (and indeed actively saved) a young boy who became central to the original film's plot. This later led to him being referred to as the 'friend to all children in the world' in future films.

    In the Heisei era films, however, the origin of Gamera was changed, giving him a much more directly heroic themed origin: A bio-engineered guardian of the Earth created by the lost city of Atlantis with the purpose of defeating Gyaos, another ancient creation capable of killing all human life. The giant turtle is found floating adrift in the Pacific, encased in rock and mistaken for an atoll. Within the rock, investigators discover a large monolith explaining Gamera's purpose, as well as dozens of magatama, which allow a psychic link between Gamera and humans. In the third film of the Heisei era, an undersea graveyard is found with many other Gamera skeletons, suggesting Gamera was not the only member of his kind created by Atlantis. One character in the film refers to these skeletons as "beta versions" of Gamera, possible failures in Atlantis' attempts to create the final version. Another scene provides Gamera with a link to Asian folklore, with a character relating a story in which a giant tortoise is considered the Guardian of the North, with separate, rival creatures defending the East, West, and South.

    Gamera's continuity was rebooted again in the first (and currently only) film of the Millennium era. Gamera - The Brave begins with the "original" Gamera (whether this is intended to be the Gamera from the earlier Shōwa era series is unknown and unlikely, as the film mixes elements from both continuities) sacrificing himself to destroy a flock of Gyaos birds sometime in the 1970s. Decades later, a young boy finds a strange, glowing red rock near his home, with a small egg lying on top of it. A fairly normal looking baby tortoise soon hatches from the egg, but begins to grow at an alarming rate. The turtle, now named "Toto" by his child owner, also quickly develops Gamera's classic abilities to breath fire and fly, and attempts to ward off another attacking monster but is too weak to succeed. Only after eating the glowing rock found with its egg does the new Gamera achieve its full power, defeating its enemy and flying off into the sky."

    According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguirus

    "Appearance-wise, Anguirus is a four-legged dinosaur that looks similar to an Ankylosaurus. He has several horns at the top of his head and a single horn above his nose like a rhinoceros."

  • ynez
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Tonite's Celebrity Death Match presenting ....Streisand's making a song might do Godzilla's head in. Mothra to clobber Streisand to close her up and Godzilla to conclude them off with one in all his four,000 horsepower breaths....Well Nick I bet there is not any replacement for unhealthy breath. No Johnny, that is why I give up utilizing the sponsor's mouthwash.

  • CB
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    There was Anguirus and Gamera

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