Anguirus
| Anguirus | |
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| Godzilla film series character | |
Anguirus from a Godzilla Raids Again poster
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| First appearance | Godzilla Raids Again (1955) |
| Last appearance | Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) |
| Created by | Motoyoshi Oda |
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| Aliases | Angilas |
| Species | Dinosaur-like |
Anguirus (Japanese: アンギラス Hepburn: Angirasu?) is a fictional character who first appeared in Toho's 1955 kaiju film Godzilla Raids Again. It is the second monster to appear in Toho kaiju films. Anguirus appeared only a year after Godzilla. Though being the first monster Godzilla ever fought, he has allied with Godzilla in several other films against more dangerous threats. WatchMojo.com listed Anguirus as #5 on their "Top 10 Godzilla Villains" list.
According to the English subtitles of the 1955 Japanese language film Godzilla Raids Again, Anguirus (spelled "Angilas" in that film) was properly called an "angilosaurus," (which in Japanese is pronounced roughly the same as "ankylosaurus"), a dinosaur described as "one of the stronger dinosaurs that lived in the prehistoric era." It's described in a textbook by Polish world animal specialist Plateli Hondon as "one of the few creatures that had a thorough hatred for war-like predators," which explains Anguirus' eagerness to fight Godzilla. The dinosaur angilosaurus lived (according to the film) from 150-70 million years ago, and its remains were affected by the same hydrogen bombs that awoke Godzilla. In the English-dubbed version of Godzilla Raids Again, the name of the dinosaur is pronounced ""ANG-will-o-Saw-rus," and given the sub-moniker "Killer of the Living." They ruled the Earth at one time, according to the film, then disappeared suddenly. From an unnamed textbook in the movie (the same book that in the Japanese-language version was written by Hondon), a scientist reads that these creatures (the angilasaurs) may return from hibernation due to radioactive fallout. Anguiras is said to have "brains in several parts of its body, including the head, abdomen, and the chest."
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