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Godzilla (Gojira) is a monster originating from a series of Japanese films of the same name. The character first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, three Hollywood films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. It is dubbed the King of the Monsters, a phrase first used in Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, the Americanized version of the original film. Godzilla is depicted as an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Lucky Dragon 5 incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. As the film series expanded, some stories took on less serious undertones, portraying Godzilla as an antihero, or a lesser threat who defends humanity. With the end of the Cold War, several post-1984 Godzilla films shifted the character's portrayal to themes including Japan's forgetfulness over its imperial past, natural disasters and the human condition. Godzilla has been featured alongside many supporting characters. It has faced human opponents such as the JSDF, or other monsters, including King Ghidorah, Gigan and Mechagodzilla. Godzilla sometimes has allies, such as Rodan, Mothra and Anguirus, and offspring, such as Minilla and Godzilla Junior. Godzilla has also fought characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as the RKO Pictures/Universal Studios movie monster King Kong and the Marvel Comics characters S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four and the Avengers.
During 1954, Tokyo was affected by a devastating "earthquake" that led to the destruction of the city. After, the US Government and Japanese Government worked together to capture the classified creature, Godzilla, in which they sucessfully neutralized with the Oxygen Destroyer. 100 years later, as technology advanced in Japan and all around the world, the very same city that was reconstructed, Tokyo was striked again by Godzilla. As Godzilla returns and the public was finally known the truth, public panicked, rallies, protests and revolutions were going around Japan and the US. A soldier named Cyrus then decided to join the United Nations Godzilla Kaiju Neutralization Force in an effort to avenge his long lost friend from Tokyo. As the UNGKNF team up with Aromoto Tech to build a new prototype against Godzilla, Cyrus uncovers secrets about the 100 year war between mankind and a monster who could destroy an entire city with its flame breath, a nightmare incarnate. Will they defeat Godzilla? Or somehow, Godzilla would ironically save them all?
