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Godzilla VS Gamera is the 35th episode of Death Battle, featuring Godzilla from the Godzilla series and Gamera from the Gamera series in a battle between iconic movie kaiju.
Interlude
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Wiz: Kaiju: the Japanese word for—
Boomstick: A giant monster that destroys everything around it! Like Godzilla, the King of the Monsters.
Wiz: And Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe. Despite being box office rivals for half a century, these two enormous creatures have never met... until today.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Godzilla
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Wiz: The year was 1954, less than a decade after Little Boy and Fat Man had decimated Japan.
Boomstick: The nuclear age had begun.
Wiz: As the United States tested their shiny new hydrogen bombs across the Pacific, one of them woke something up.
Godzilla roars.
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End Roll - Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack by Akira Ifukube
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Boomstick: Godzilla, the radioactive rampaging savior/destroyer of Japan.
Wiz: Mutated by nuclear energy, Godzilla stands over 300 feet tall and weighs 90 thousand tons. He is an unstoppable force of nature.
Boomstick: And for some reason, Godzilla has made Japan his personal playground and has been stomping through it for 60 years.
Man: Couldn't he have picked on some other country?
Boardroom: (Laughs)
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Requiem - Godzilla vs. Destoroyah by Akira Ifukube
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Wiz: Godzilla's radioactive mutation leaves everything in his wake contaminated: water, plants, even people. Godzilla's presence alone turns a city block completely uninhabitable.
Boomstick: Like that noisy upstairs neighbor or people who let their dog shit in your front lawn.
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Wiz: But Godzilla does not simply walk past his enemies to destroy them.
Boomstick: His strength is insane. He once lifted and threw his arch-rival Keizer Ghidorah, who weighs 100 thousand freakin' tons.
Wiz: He channels this strength through his claws, teeth, tail—
Boomstick: AND EPIC GRAVITY-DEFYING DROPKICKS!
Godzilla performs his sliding dropkick on Megalon.
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Godzilla vs. Kumonga/Kamacuras - Godzilla: Final Wars by Keith Emerson, Nobuhiko Morino & Daisuke Yano
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Wiz: Hilarious abilities aside, Godzilla would not be such a legendary kaiju without some serious firepower. He can emit atomic energy from his body for a short-range Nuclear Pulse.
Boomstick: Or fire his signature Atomic Breath, a goddamn laser beam of pure radiation! That's like microwaving at least a hundred balls of tinfoil.
Wiz: Well, give or take a few... million...
Godzilla fires the Atomic Breath directly to the army from Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah.
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Boomstick: The Atomic Breath can melt, burn, or blow up just much anything, and you know it just can't smell good! I mean.... that's a lot of fish!
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Wiz: NO! No, no, no! That right there is Zilla, the bastardized and shamed American version that Toho literally bought the rights and completely re-branded... just to murder on-screen.
Boomstick: (chuckles) Take that, America!
Wiz: And that was just the real Godzilla's standard Atomic Breath.
Boomstick: Yep. After absorbing a giant pterodactyl's soul... oookay...
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Boomstick: ...he gained the power to boost his breath to the red spiral ray.
Wiz: An attack so deadly it only took a few blasts to obliterate the more powerful clone of himself, SpaceGodzilla.
Boomstick: What?! SpaceGodzilla?!
Wiz: Yes, SpaceGodzilla is a thing, moving on...
Boomstick: Ohh...
Wiz: Godzilla's cell structure can quickly regenerate from all manner of wounds, and despite being vulnerable to man-made electricity, he possesses magnetic properties. Like a lightning rod, he can attract thunderbolts from the sky and use nature's power to enhance his own abilities... or turn himself into a giant living magnet.
Boomstick: Magnets... how do they even work? Well believe it or not, that isn't the weirdest thing that Godzilla can do. If Big G needs to get somewhere quick, he bends over, charges up, and does this...
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Godzilla uses his Atomic Breath to propel himself through the air.
Wiz: Well, at least Japan is... creative?
Boomstick: Wait, can that even happen?
Wiz: Scaling to the present, to actually lift his body means his Atomic Breath must have a force of over 328 trillion psi.
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Ominous Godzilla - Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah by Akira Ifukube
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Wiz: That's the equivalent of 1 TRILLION riot control fire hoses, enough to wrap around the earth 38 THOUSAND times.
Boomstick: Damn!
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Godzilla's Theme - Godzilla: Unleashed by Neil Goldberg, Dave Fraser & Ari Winters (Heavy Metal Melody)
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Boomstick: Godzilla has 44 known victories, largely due to his insane durability. He's fallen into a volcano, survived a black hole, and tanked a meteorite point-blank... without a scratch.
Wiz: But despite popular belief, Godzilla is not invincible. His regeneration takes time, his speed is lacking, and despite having two brains, one in his skull and the other where his tail meets his torso, he's pretty darn clumsy.
Boomstick: Where were you on that one, ass brain?
Wiz: He officially lost a fight against King Kong and he's even died in four separate films.
Boomstick: But Godzilla's victories definitely outweigh his failures. There's a good reason they call him the "King of the Monsters".
Godzilla roars.
Gamera
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Wiz: The year was 1965, the apex of the Space Race. Technology was advancing further and faster than ever before, but no one could've anticipated the bio-engineered marvel hidden beneath the waves.
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Wiz: Eons ago, the ancient people of Atlantis learned how to construct life and foolishly decided to play God.
Boomstick: But instead of creating something safe like a dog or a bunny, they created giant flying laser-shooting murder birds.
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Gyaos Flies Over - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Kow Otani
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Boomstick: Surprise, surprise, they couldn't be controlled, and they turned 100% of Atlantis into ocean front property.
Wiz: So what was their solution to counter these giant destructive monsters? Why, ANOTHER giant destructive monster, of course!
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Gamera Appears - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Kow Otani
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Gamera roars.
Wiz: Enter Gamera, Guardian of the Universe and Friend to All Children.
Kid 1: Hurry, let's go!
Kid 2: He won't harm us. Gamera doesn't hurt people. He likes us.
Boomstick: "Friend to All Children"? That's a terrible title. How about "Gamera, the flying fire-breathing ninja turtle of doom!"
Wiz: That's... actually not far off. For a 260-foot, 10,000 ton turtle, Gamera is quite agile.
Gamera spins around on a horizontal bar before flipping through the air and landing on his feet.
Boomstick: And he sticks it!
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Gamera vs. Iris: Air Battle - Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris by Kow Otani
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Boomstick: His arsenal includes two huge tusks, twin elbow spikes, and a fire breath so strong it can be used underwater, despite being... you know... fire.
Wiz: Technically, it's highly-concentrated plasma, the fourth state of matter. The hottest plasma ever created by man exceeded 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than the surface of the sun. Gamera's fire balls can burn through practically anything.
Boomstick: And when he's not spitting hot fire, he fucking eats it!
Wiz: It's true. A fiery four-course meal can quickly heal and re-energize him.
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Boomstick: Naturally, as a giant turtle monster, he can retract his limbs and head into his shell for extra defense.
Gamera spews jet fire out of the shell.
Boomstick: And then fire rocket jets out of the holes and freakin' fly?! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?! And why can't my turtle do that? Some day, Mr. Snappy, some day...
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Gamera vs. Iris: Air Battle - Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris by Kow Otani
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Wiz: Gamera can fly at speeds breaching Mach 3, over 22 hundred miles per hour. That's faster than the world record-holding SR71 blackbird.
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Demolition Plans - Gamera 2: Attack of Legion by Kow Otani
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Boomstick: But how the hell does he know where he's going, and more importantly, how does he not puke his guts out?
Wiz: The Atlanteans built Gamera using mana, an ethereal energy force connecting all things, places, and people. Everything has a finite pool of mana, which can be measured using a... Sega Dreamcast.
Boomstick: (sighs) But it still can't play DVDs.
Wiz: A person's mana is dependent on how much influence and authority they possess over others. As Gamera literally holds the world's fate in his claws, his mana levels are off the charts.
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Appearance of Soutai - Gamera: Attack of Legion by Kow Otani
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Boomstick: Gamera can manipulate his mana in combat, which is useful when you've lost your arm and need to give your enemy a kaiju-sized Falcon Punch.
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The Red Lotus Flame - Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris by Kow Otani
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Gamera uses the Vanishing Plasma Fist to defeat Iris.
Boomstick: Fuck yeah!
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Enormous Legion Confirmed - Gamera 2: Attack of Legion by Kow Otani
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Wiz: And if Gamera ever runs low on mana, he can summon more from the Earth itself.
Gamera uses the Ultimate Plasma Mana Cannon to defeat Legion.
Boomstick: ...I think he got him.
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Gamera in Danger at Mt. Fuji - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Kow Otani
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Boomstick: Gamera is fast enough to catch a missile going Mach 10, capable of flying through outer space, and tough enough to survive a nuclear explosion which leveled the entire city of Sendai.
Wiz: As Sendai is about 152 miles across, this explosion must have yielded nearly 112 megatons of force.
Boomstick: Gamera has a fierce will to fight. No matter how much pain he's in, he'll keep pushing forward for the win.
Wiz: And he's not just determined; he's actually quite brilliant. He tactically seeks to exploit enemy weaknesses and is apparently smart enough to repair an alien spacecraft.
Boomstick: He does machines.
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Terror Has Come Ashore - Gamera: The Brave by Yoko Ueno
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Wiz: But despite his intelligence, he is not infallible. Gamera's supposedly impenetrable defenses have been pierced before. And remember, Gamera is explicitly the Guardian of Earth, which does not necessarily include humanity. In fact, Gamera fears mankind may one day become the earth's greatest enemy.
Boomstick: I knew he sounded too good to be true. He's a hippie turtle...
Wiz: And yet Gamera has a strange fondness for children.
Boomstick: Umm...
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Gamera Theme (Instrumental) - Gamera vs. Guiron by Kow Otani
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'Boomstick: ♫Gamera! Gamera! He will bring kids to his van! Touch them like no other can! Please don't tell on Gamera!♫ (stops singing) ...no, really.
Wiz: Actually, he's sacrificed his life to save children on multiple occasions, even used his ultimate self-destruct move all for the safety of innocent children.
Boomstick: Oh. That's pretty cool.
Gamera roars.
Prelude
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
Death Battle
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The God of Destruction Appears - Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack by Kow Otani
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Nearby a large city, Godzilla emerges from the water and roars. Tanks quickly mobilize and as Godzilla approaches the city, fire upon him. Godzilla then stomps on the ground, taking them out instantly, and proceeds to destroy a building and knock away a missile. He roars again when Gamera flies past him, then lands on the ground. The two trade roars.
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Air Battle - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Kow Otani
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Godzilla begins to approach Gamera, who picks up and throws a small building at him. Godzilla is unfazed and continues as Gamera unleashes his fire breath. Afterward, he proceeds to swing both of his hands at Godzilla and strikes him with his head. Godzilla then grabs onto Gamera and slams him into a building twice, the first push damaging it and the second knocking it over. Godzilla then grapple and tosses Gamera over him, knocking him into another small building on his stomach. Godzilla backs up and fires his Atomic Breath upon Gamera, then fires upon more of the city, turning it into a flaming wreck.
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Gamera vs. Gyaos - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe by Kow Otani
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The fire then dissipates, as Gamera absorbs it. He fires off three fireballs, all of which strike Godzilla. Godzilla then strikes the ground with his tail twice, then proceeds to do his dropkick, with his tail dragging across the ground. Gamera backs up to no avail as Godzilla lands it and then lands on him, slamming his back into the ground. Godzilla roars and then prepares to stomp when Gamera retracts his head into his shell. Godzilla strikes the ground with his foot, then turns his head in confusion at what happened. He backs up when Gamera's shell begins spinning and then flies into the air. Godzilla roars, then is struck from behind by the spinning shell.
Rain begins to pour and thunder strikes as Godzilla roars once again and fires his beam multiple times at his flying opponent to no avail. Gamera flies toward Godzilla, who catches him, then flies backward out of his grip. He flies toward Godzilla again, who once again catches him, but this time fires jets from his back holes and grips Godzilla with his hands. Godzilla is lifted off of the ground, grabbing onto the shell, as the two begin flying into the air. The two roar, then Godzilla begins firing Atomic Breath multiple times to no avail. The two eventually reach space, with Godzilla floating helplessly as Gamera circles around him. He grabs onto Godzilla's sides from his back and then flies downward towards Earth. The two breach the atmosphere and are back in the rainy skies. Godzilla's back spikes begin attracting lightning and he uses that power to create a Nuclear Pulse, knocking Gamera off of him. Gamera falls towards the water below, slowing his fall drastically by spinning in his shell, before going into the water. Godzilla then uses his Atomic Breath to slow down his fall before crashing into the water.
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Baragon's Theme - Godzilla: Unleashed by Neil Goldberg, Dave Fraser & Ari Winters (Heavy Metal Melody)
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Both emerge from the water roaring, then grab each other by their hands. Gamera strikes Godzilla with his head, but Godzilla responds by biting Gamera's left hand. He tears it off with little effort, with Gamera reeling backward in pain, as Godzilla spits it out. Gamera then absorbs the planet's mana as Godzilla prepares to fire his Atomic Breath. Gamera then opens his chest to fire his Ultimate Plasma Mana Cannon, which hits Godzilla before he can use his own blast. The blast is so devastating that it goes through a bridge, destroying the whole thing. Godzilla then roars as he is enveloped in it.
Gamera then stands in the water, his green blood pouring out of the socket, where his left arm once was. He overlooks the destroyed bridge and roars.
However, Godzilla emerges from the water behind him only much bigger, bleeding after surviving the attack. He roars as lightning strikes again, Gamera looks back, then Godzilla grabs onto Gamera. Gamera retreats into his shell and tries to use his Fireball Ejection Suicide as one last attempt to kill Godzilla, but Godzilla throws him straight into the air over him. His spikes then turn red as he fires his Spiral Atomic Breath, which strikes Gamera's shell's back. The beam eventually pierces the shell and Gamera is then obliterated, with a few pieces of his shell scattering into the water below, Godzilla roars.
Godzilla roars as whatever is left of Gamera is now deep in the water and out of sight.
Results
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Godzilla! - Godzilla (2014) by Alexandre Desplat
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Boomstick: Add "Master of the Culinary Arts" to his title, 'cause Godzilla just made turtle soup!
Wiz: Gamera may have held the speed advantage, but Godzilla's sheer size and power won this bout.
Boomstick: He's nine times heavier! Plus, while Gamera tanked a city-busting nuke and almost died, Godzilla tanked a similar explosion from a meteorite and didn't even flinch.
Wiz: Gamera's shell was once pierced by Viras, a physically weaker foe. There's no doubt Godzilla could overpower this giant turtle.
Boomstick: Hell, he's strong enough to match goddamn Thor, and since Godzilla's Atomic Breath is composed of pure radiation, not fire, Gamera could not feed off of it.
Wiz: But most importantly, Gamera has a history of winning through retreating. He usually takes one round to analyze his foe and another to win the day. On paper, this sounds like a smart idea.
Boomstick: But unfortunately for Gamera, Godzilla don't play like that. Looks like Godzilla put Gamera through living... shell.
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Godzilla.
Trivia
Production
- The connections between Godzilla and Gamera are that they are both iconic reptilian kaiju who originated from black-and-white films. Both have the ability to breathe out a form of energy as their signature attack (Godzilla's Atomic Breath fires atomic radiation and Gamera breathes fire/plasma) and possess enough destructive power to threaten mankind, and, depending on the incarnation, chose to either use it against them or use it to defend them against other kaiju. Both are also prehistoric animals who laid dormant for a long period of time (Godzilla is a prehistoric sea monster who laid dormant underwater, while Gamera is a gigantic prehistoric tortoise who was frozen in ice) before being awakened by nuclear bombs due to American activity (Godzilla was awoken by American hydrogen bomb tests, while Gamera was freed from ice after an aircraft carrying an atomic bomb was shot down by an American jet fighter and exploded) and being exposed to its radiation, which gave them powers as a result.
- Additionally, Gamera was heavily inspired by Godzilla, as he was created to rival Toho's Godzilla franchise, with his name having a similar suffix shared by other kaiju characters, such as Godzilla himself (Gojira) and Mothra (Mosura).
- The two have a history of crossovers:
- They officially had a crossover for the first time in the stage show Godzilla vs. Gamera at the 1970 Osaka World's Fair.
- In 2002, Kadokawa approached Toho and offered to produce a crossover film between the two, but Toho had declined.
- In the 2004 Tokusatsu show, Ultraman Max, the episode "Prophecy of Baradhi" features a group of kids briefly playing with a Godzilla and Gamera toy, comparing the two monsters.
- Years after this episode released, Gamera would have a crossover event in the mobile game Godzilla Battle Line to promote GAMERA -Rebirth-.
- This battle was intended to be uploaded shortly after the ScrewAttack Gaming Convention, but due to a hardware failure, the upload of the episode was delayed.
- The city backdrop used in the fight was used earlier in Terminator VS RoboCop and would later be reused again in Deadpool VS Deathstroke.
- Years after this episode's release, Therewolf Media would make a track for this matchup called "History Shows Again & Again" as part of his "What If?" commission tracks.
- This makes it the fifth episode to receive its own commission track after its release, after Master Chief VS Doomguy, Dante VS Bayonetta, Kirby VS Majin Buu, and Yang VS Tifa.
- This is the first one to be done by Therewolf Media.
- This makes it the fifth episode to receive its own commission track after its release, after Master Chief VS Doomguy, Dante VS Bayonetta, Kirby VS Majin Buu, and Yang VS Tifa.
- The episode's thumbnails use uncredited fan art for both Godzilla and Gamera.
- Both the original and current thumbnails use this piece of Godzilla fan art by Alex Alcanter, who has complained about this on Twitter years after the episode's release. His work can be found here.
- The current thumbnail also uses this piece of Gamera fan art by Grimbro on DeviantArt.
- This makes it the eighth episode where at least one of its thumbnails uses fan art, Zitz VS Leonardo, Kratos VS Spawn, Bomberman VS Dig Dug, Vegeta VS Shadow, Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Ivy VS Orchid, and Fulgore VS Sektor, and with the next 13 being Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, Lucario VS Renamon, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Nightwing VS Daredevil, All Might VS Might Guy, Black Canary VS Sindel, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Blake VS Mikasa, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Sauron VS Lich King, Frieza VS Megatron, and Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor.
- This is the second episode where said thumbnail uses fan art for both combatants instead of just one, after Ivy VS Orchid, and with the next one being Frieza VS Megatron.
Easter Eggs
- Boomstick saying "Magnets... how do they even work?" in response to Godzilla's magnetic powers is a reference to the meme of the same name.
- Nine years after this episode's release, Boomstick would make the same joke at the end of the post-analysis of Magneto VS Tetsuo.
- Gamera's "Strengths & Feats" slide states that he "Blew up a Star Destroyer [No joke]" as one of his feats. This is a reference to Gamera: Super Monster, where Gamera destroyed the Zanon, which was represented with footage of a Star Destroyer from Star Wars.
- Boomstick saying that Gamera "does machines" is a reference to another turtle, Donatello, and how it is stated that he "does machines."
Errors
- Godzilla's "Strengths & Feats" slide states that he "Regenerated from a beating heart," referring to Godzilla's fate in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, where he was reduced to a beating heart. However, that Godzilla was never shown regenerating from that heart and his true fate is never revealed.
- In Gamera's "Abilities" slide, "Mana manipulation" is listed twice.
Other
- This is the second Movies-themed episode, after Terminator VS RoboCop, and with the next three being Boba Fett VS Predator, James Bond VS John Wick, and Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers.
- This is the sixth Animals-themed episode, after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, Zitz VS Leonardo, Yoshi VS Riptor, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, and Pokémon Battle Royale, and with the next six being Donkey Kong VS Knuckles, Pokémon VS Digimon, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Lucario VS Renamon, Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog, and Crash VS Spyro.
- This is the fourth Reptiles-themed episode, after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, Yoshi VS Riptor, and Pokémon Battle Royale, and with the next one being Pokémon VS Digimon.
- This is the first episode to have an Antagonist defeat a Protagonist, with the next 10 being Ryu VS Scorpion, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Hulk VS Doomsday, Sephiroth VS Vergil, Gray VS Esdeath, Hulk VS Broly, DIO VS Alucard, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, and Bill Cipher VS Discord.
- This is the first episode to have a Next Time trailer for an episode that wouldn't end up being next (as the version of the episode at SGC showed Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon's reveal trailer, but delays related to hardware failure led to Batman VS Captain America taking its place by the time of its proper upload), with the next two being Ryu VS Scorpion and Venom VS Crona.