Anguirus
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Anguirus (アンギラス), or Angilas, is a daikaiju first featured in the 1955 Toho film Godzilla Raids Again (also known as Gigantis the Fire Monster).
Anguirus is one of the few kaiju from the Godzilla movie series that is not humanoid. He stands sixty meters high and is one hundred meters long. Weighing in at thirty thousand tons, Anguirus has many rows of spikes along his back and large horns on his head. Anguirus was the first monster to face Godzilla in battle but was defeated and killed. Anguirus either revived, or another of his species appeared, and he later helped Godzilla take on King Ghidorah and the cyborg Gigan. When Monster Island was wrecked by nuclear tests, he was swallowed up by the land, and was not seen again until he unsuccessfully took on Mechagodzilla, who was disguised as Godzilla. Anguirus was one of the many monsters enslaved by the Kilaaks in Destroy All Monsters and acted as a guard for the aliens’ forward command center. He took part in the battle against King Ghidorah atop Mt. Fuji, biting the creature with his gargantuan teeth.
Anguirus returned to the screen in Godzilla: Final Wars as an enemy of Godzilla and has been featured in the Atari video games Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee and Godzilla: Save the Earth. Anguirus has also been modelled in plastic action figures and plush toys.
Some identify Anguirus as physically similar to the prehistoric ankylosaurus.
Filmography
- Godzilla Raids Again (a.k.a. Godzilla Raids Again) (1955)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (a.k.a. Godzilla on Monster Island) (1972)
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (a.k.a. Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster) (1974)
- Godzilla Final Wars (2004)
External link
- Anguirus page (http://www.tohokingdom.com/web_pages/kajiu_bios/angilas.htm) at Toho Kingdom (http://www.tohokingdom.com)ja:アンギラス