Godzilla | |
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Godzilla, voiced by Nice Peter | |
Character information | |
Full name | ゴジラ (pronounced Gojira) |
Nickname(s) | Godzilla King of the Monsters The God of Destruction Gigantis Goji Big G Monster Zero-One Titanus Gojira |
First appearance | October 27, 1954 Godzilla (1954) |
Physical description | |
Hair | None |
Eyes | Yellow |
Based on | |
Rap battle information | |
Appeared in | Godzilla vs King Kong |
Vs | King Kong |
Release date | February 23, 2024 |
Official vote(s) | TBD |
Location(s) | Tokyo, Japan Pacific Ocean Summit of Mount Fuji A nuclear power plant (preview in Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones) |
“ | From the depths of the sea, it's the King of the Monsters!
— Godzilla
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Godzilla battled King Kong in Godzilla vs King Kong. He was voiced and portrayed via motion capture by Nice Peter.
Information on the rapper[]
Godzilla is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film Godzilla and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, four American films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. Godzilla has been dubbed the "King of the Monsters", a phrase first used in Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), the Americanized version of the original film.
Godzilla is an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the memories of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Castle Bravo disaster still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear war and its dangers. It has been further suggested that Godzilla is a metaphor for the United States being woken from its slumber and taking terrible vengeance on Japan after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. As the film series expanded and was taken on by Hollywood, some stories took on less serious undertones, cutting out the original film's anti-nuclear message and portraying Godzilla as an antihero, or a lesser threat who defends humanity (a point that many of the American Godzilla films were criticized for). Later films address themes including Japan's forgetfulness over its imperial past, natural disasters, and the human condition.
Godzilla's adversaries include his arch-rival, King Ghidorah, along with other formidable foes like Mechagodzilla, Gigan, SpaceGodzilla, Hedorah, Megalon, Orga, Biollante, Kumonga, Ebirah, Battra, Destoroyah and Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah. On the other hand, his allies consist of his offspring Minilla and Godzilla Junior, Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus, King Caesar, Baragon, Jet Jaguar and Manda. Godzilla has also engaged in a "fight" against Charles Barkley on two occasions through a basketball match; however they have not faced off since then.
Lyrics[]
Verse 1:[]
From the depths of the sea, it's the King of the Monsters!
I'll chew you up, dawg. This Kong's getting conquered!
I roll with Rodan, Mothra, and the homies
For a social primate, you sure seem lonely!
Your only friend is a damsel in distress
Who cringes while you sniff on her ripped-off dress!
You're a simp-anzee, I'm a lizard of thunder!
When I'm "crushing on a girl", it means the foot she comes under!
You're pathetic with the humans, enduring their abuse,
Getting chained up and roofied on some goofy berry juice!
I eat up a whole city like some Tokyoplait!
You get spoon-fed hot lead like, "Here comes the airplane!"
How did dropping off the Empire feel?
You're like Jussie Smollett, 'cept this beatdown is real!
I got this battle covered like a bento lid!
I'll make an ass out of you like Nintendo did!
Verse 2:[]
You must be from Hollow Earth, all your threats are empty!
I can blow you out with one breath — don't tempt me,
Monkey, that was some shit you just threw!
Worst kaiju comeback since Pacific Rim 2! (Ooh!)
This is kids' stuff, send in Minilla!
You couldn't measure up to the Shin of Godzilla!
Stick to tongue wrestling T. rexes and sea snakes!
You're such a joke, Jack Black's in your remake!
Verse 3:[]
Oh, you shouldn't try to talk about the atom
With the beast The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms couldn't fathom!
You could come at me with Iron Man and Thor, I'll still destroy ya!
I'm Bigger than Bridges and I'm slinging digits in triplets like Ghidorah!
My voice cuts deep like I'm rubbing on a double bass
I spit the verse to turn Skull Island into Pompeii!
Serving up some animated rabbit fur flambé!
It's the saddest death of a gorilla since Harambe!
Damn I despise you, you make weak tokusatsu
Soft like some tofu; that's a Kaiju haiku!
Monkey-see me outdo you like I did to Mechani-Kong
Fuck you and the balloons you rode in on!
Trivia[]
- A preview of Godzilla was first shown in the end of Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones, then again at the end of Henry Ford vs Karl Marx, alongside with Tom Cruise and Evel Knievel.
- A behind the scenes tease of Godzilla was shown in a YouTube Short.[1]
- The preview in Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones was later cut out, as the sponsor portion of the video was removed a year after release.
- He is the first rapper to be teased across multiple battles.
- He is the fifth animated rapper, the first rapper to be recorded in motion capture, and the first one not animated in Lego.
- While the design used for him in the first preview appears to be the one from the 2016 film Shin Godzilla, the design used in the second teaser onwards, including in the actual battle, is the Heisei-era Godzilla.
- Godzilla's model is labeled as Godzilla Heisei 1994, which means this specific incarnation is based off of 1994's Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.[2]
- According to the Behind the Scenes video, EpicLLOYD originally wanted to portray Godzilla with the Shin Godzilla design, however the Heisei-era design was chosen for being the most "timeless" look of the character. In particular, the look for Godzilla was inspired by the cover for a G-FAN magazine, specifically Issue #32.
- He is the largest rapper ever in an ERB, with the incarnation used to portray him being 328 feet tall. The next-largest is King Kong, who is shown in-battle to be nearly as tall (reaching up to around his chest), and whose largest depiction in media reaches 337 feet.
- Going by the versions presented in the previews, the Shin Godzilla incarnation stands at around 389 feet tall while the Heisei-era incarnation ranges from 262 to 328 feet.
- The largest Godzilla has ever been in any piece of media is the Polygon anime movie trilogy, where he is 984 feet tall.
- He is the first fictional rapper of Japanese origin to not originate from a manga/anime or video game.
- He is the fifth fictional rapper from Japanese media in general, after the Mario brothers, Goku and Ash Ketchum.
- If Grant Imahara (who was Japanese-American) were counted, he would be the sixth Japanese rapper overall to appear in ERB.
- He is the third rapper who does not speak in their source material, the first two being The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
- He was previously mentioned in a scrapped lyric from Adam vs Eve, in which Eve said, "Your back is hairy, and your balls smell like Godzilla."
- Had this lyric been used in the battle, he would have been the nineteenth rapper to appear in a battle after being mentioned in a previous episode.
- Godzilla is the first rapper to be mostly obstructed in their battle's cover art.
- After Santa Claus, Moses, Zeus, Thor, and Thanos, Godzilla is the sixth character whose face is not entirely visible in their cover art.
- Not including modified pitches, Godzilla is the sixth rapper to have a filter applied to his voice throughout the entirety of the battle, after Stephen Hawking, the Wright Brothers, RoboCop, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.