Godzilla



Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ Hepburn: Gojira) (/ɡɒdˈzɪlə/; [ɡoꜜdʑiɾa]) is a monster originating from a series of Japanese films of the same name. The character first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1954 Japanese science fiction kaiju film, Godzilla, and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 31 (thirty-one) films produced by Toho, three Hollywood films, and numerous video games, novels, comic books, television shows. It is often dubbed the "King of the Monsters," a phrase first used in a 1956 Japanese-American science fiction kaiju film, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, the Americanized version of the original film.