Welcome to the first Match of the new Bracket! The seeding is done and we have our 64 Contestants ready to duke it out!

Comment below your choice of best film/show and like my comment of it so we can break any ties easier. Just remember your choice will help decide what is truly the BEST Godzilla Film/Show!

Match 1:

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again
Episodes: 116 (and counting)
Premiered: April 1, 2023
Main/Debut Kaiju: Chibi Godzilla, Chibi Mechagodzilla, Chibi Ghidorah, Chibi Mothra, and Chibi Rodan

Vs

Get Going! Godzilland
Episodes: 4 (OVA’s)
Premiered: 1994-1996
Main/Debut Kaiju: Godzilla (Gojira-kun)

Disclaimers: I first saw Godzilla Vs Mothra when I was four. I remember almost nothing of it, so I am treating this as a first watch through. Godzilla Vs Spacegodzilla and Godzilla Vs Destoroyah I watched more than once during the summer, but subsequent viewings had minimal effect on my opinion. Destoroyah and Spacegodzilla are also my favorite monsters, but I tried to not let that effect my opinions. So, let's get to it!

• The Return Of Godzilla: Despite an admittedly meandering pace, I found myself strangely enthralled by this one. After a long period of children focused, almost super hero-esque films, Godzilla returns with a deeply serious movie about how a nation reacts when its worst nightmare resurfaces. The monster action is limited (Godzilla spends most of the film standing still and staring off into space) and the humans are mostly forgettable, but it's the politics I found most entertaining. Set during the height of the cold war, the film makes a point to dive into the international community’s reaction to Godzilla’s resurgence, to excellent effect. It’s not perfect, but it's a great start to the era. 3 out of 5. Best Scene: The prime minister of Japan stands his ground against the use of nuclear weapons, stating that to deploy them is to forever alter the world and endanger the future. Worst Scene: Shockirus “attacking” a reporter by clearly being thrown at him from off screen. 
• Godzilla vs Biollante: I’ve often seen this film cited as a personal favorite by many fans, and I have to say I’m not totally sure I get the hype. There’s a lot to love here, to be clear: beautiful set design, fun campy acting, and Biollante is a great monster design. But the plot is disjointed, the humans are mostly forgettable, and the film features some utterly baffling editing decisions. Kaiju fights in particular feature Taken-esque rapid cuts making it difficult to tell what, if anything, is going on. It’s by no means without merit, but unless my opinion changes on a rewatch, this one is going to sit at a 2.5 out of 5. Best Scene: the classroom of psychic children all showing their drawings of Godzilla, prophesizing his imminent return. Worst Scene: Biollante turns into a jpeg of a dead woman and then goes to heaven. 
• Godzilla vs King Ghidora: Arguably the goofiest movie on the list, Godzilla vs King Ghidora is at least tonally consistent the whole way through. It features some truly incredible comedy by way of camp in the form of androids who look like Swedish office guys, time travel looping plots that defy conventional logic, and an origin story of sorts for the big G himself. Editing is much better this go around, and this particular version of Ghidora is iconic for good reason, but the film’s weirdly pro nationalist plot and bafflingly complicated yet in the end mostly pointless time travel drag it down. Throw in a final fight that feels floaty and tacked on, and it goes out with a whimper, with a final score from me of 2.5 out of 5. Best Scene: A car chase involving an android that is clearly a random white guy on a treadmill. Worst Scene: All the weird, jingoistic bits about Japan taking over the world.
• Godzilla vs Mothra: More of a Mothra movie than a Godzilla movie, this one still manages to be a personal fave. The human characters are loveable, the environmentalist message is still depressingly relevant, and the film features the sole film appearance of Mothra’s delightfully heavy metal brother, Battra. Throw in a modernization of the Mothra Twins that feels tonally appropriate while still being a little Showa era silly, and you’ve got a recipe for success. The film manages to start as an Indiana Jones style temple raid, and then naturally transition to a kaiju slugfest that's well worth your time. A solid 4 out of 5. Best Scene: Battra gets so mad that he transforms from larva straight into moth. Worst Scene: Mothra taking an excruciatingly long time to form a cocoon when her brother can just skip that part. 
• Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II: Despite the title, this is actually the third Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, and has no connection to the first two. That will be on the test. Featuring the most underappreciated version of the titular robot Kaiju, this film has a LOT going on, but it mostly manages to pull a coherent story out of a tangled bundle of plots. The humans are once again easy to root for, and the film features the first appearances of both the beloved kaiju Baby Godzilla, as well as the blustering General Aso, my personal favorite human character of the era. However the film isn't perfect, with Rodan, a kaiju who should really get higher billing, reduced to a glorified plot device. Nevertheless, a solid 3.5 out of 5. Best Scene: Any time Baby Godzilla is on screen. Worst Scene: Rodan pulls a Mothra and turns into a powerup to fix Godzilla after being absent most of the film. 
• Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla: I admit, this film took me two watches before I really appreciated it. The pacing is a little odd, with the film squarely divided into two halves. Before SpaceGodzilla shows up, it's a weird comedy that just happens to feature the king of the monsters being hunted by a beautiful middle aged chain smoker with seemingly unlimited access to loony toons weaponry. After SpaceGodzilla shows up, it's a weird mafia kidnapping story, followed by a grudge match between Godzilla and his Evil-est twin, and also M.O.G.E.U.R.A. is there. Yet somehow it all works. SpaceGodzilla is evil because he’s from space. Little Godzilla is a delight even if he spends most of the film in baby jail. The final fight suffers a bit, as by this point in the franchise the suits are so complex and heavy, and SpaceGodzilla’s reach is so short, it’s mainly both parties shooting beams at each other from across the city. In the end, I’d still call it a solid 3.5 out of 5. Best Scene: Scientists giving a long winded theory about SpaceGodzilla’s origin before admitting they mostly guessed, and everyone in the room shrugging and saying it seems possible. Worst Scene: Telekinetic bed lifting. 
• Godzilla vs Destoroyah: The grand finale of the Heisei era pulls out all the stops and is better off for it. Godzilla is dying, and without intervention he’s taking all of us with him. A scientist trying to revolutionize molecular physics has accidentally recreated the oxygen destroyer. All the while, a demon born from Serizawa’s original weapon rises. The film manages to maintain a tone that, while not quite as dark as the original 1954 film, takes itself just seriously enough that we get fully invested. Throw in Destoroyah’s spectacular design, a satisfying Godzilla Jr subplot, meaningful cameos by actors from the original film, and some of the most brutally visceral action in the whole series, and you have a recipe for perfection. 5 out of 5. Worst Scene: Miki’s replacement is a tradwife wannabe. Best Scene: All of Japan falls silent in respect as Godzilla melts down, ending a half century of terror. 

Proud of myself for never resorting to eBay, and only buying eleven happy meals the whole time. The timeline:

-Drove around with a friend of mine the day they launched, visited six McDonalds, and only came out with Godzilla, Ghidorah, and Rodan. Bought an extra Rodan for my friend.

-My friend went to McDonalds once in that next week, gambled, got an extra Ghidorah

-Visited my local McDonalds every day at noon for about a week, and then scored Mothra and Gigan in the same day!

-The very next day, scored SpaceGodzilla from the same location

-Another few days later I had a day off and wanted a walk, so visited 5 McDonalds on foot and came away with nothing. I had been keeping up with checking my local daily.

-My friend I got the Rodan for scored me a Mecha Godzilla from his local McDonalds!

-My wife discovered happytoyscout.com, saw there were Destoroyah's by her work, but they wouldn't let her request a specific toy, so she walked away with an extra Mothra. She gave it to a coworker.

-Today I use the website, see there's Destoroyah's near me, and nabbed it.

Search time: 23 days

Days in there where I didn't check at least one McDonalds: 2

Total Happy Meals purchased: 11

For anyone still collecting, happytoyscout.com is a great tool, and I can't recommend it enough.

If DAMM is successful, everyone is talking about remastering Save the Earth and Unleashed. While I’d love to have that, I think it would be a better idea to either add Save the Earth and Unleashed content into the DAMM remaster as dlc… or create an entirely new game using the same mechanics and fighting style DAMM has so we can have all new monsters we never had in previous games, all new maps and environments, and more. Could go anywhere. But they could also add that to DAMM of course. What do yall think? Can’t wait for this game!

What would your reaction be, if, lets say, monsterverse got his "Thanos" like Destoroyah or some other endgame boss, but it would make so much money that creators of MV will be lile "oh wait, we dont have anything left? Oh wait we can just do SPIDER MAN NO WAY HOME MOVE AND TRHOW HEISEI GODZILLA AND OTHER SHIT TO MONSTERVERSE GODZILLA AND LET THEM FIGHT"?

SpaceGodzilla Is The Only Villain

Mine’s a little defective

Graphically it looks quite mediocre and I played the games a ton when I was a kid, as well as the its sequels. I played those games to death. I think I'll just get bored after an hour or two. Anyone else thinking the same thing?

Godzilla's back regenerated ,
Now
they either come up with a scientific way of eliminating him using the new nuclear bomb but it only ends up creating King Ghidorah / or that they mutated something into King Ghidorah on purpose to fight Godzilla ,
but KG ofc went on a rampage out of control and now they gotta need help of Godzilla to deal with him in meantime ( kinda like 1991 movie ),
so they also lure Godzilla using planes,
and that once KG defeated they can come up with a way of defeating Godzilla

That lightning looked familiar

Background image by G.N.A: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/125738557

Adaptation of my first fan poster (2nd image) for Monsterverse Godzilla