Gigan

Gigan
Godzilla film series character
Gigan, as it appears in Godzilla vs. Gigan
First appearance	Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Last appearance	Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Created by	Kaoru Mabuchi Jun Fukuda
Portrayed by	Shōwa Series Kenpachiro Satsuma Millennium Series Kazuhiro Yoshida
Aliases	Future Monster Cyborg Monster Borodan

Gigan (Japanese: ガイガン, Hepburn: Gaigan^?) is a kaiju from Toho's Godzilla and Zone Fighter franchises who first appeared in Godzilla vs. Gigan. Gigan is a cybernetic space monster sporting a buzzsaw weapon in its frontal abdominal region and large metallic hooks for hands. Gigan is considered one of Godzilla's most brutal and violent opponents, being the first monster in the Toho sci-fi series to cause Godzilla to visibly bleed. WatchMojo.com listed Gigan as #4 on their "Top 10 Godzilla Villains" list, while Complex listed the character as #2 on its "The 15 Most Badass Kaiju Monsters of All Time" list.

Created during the early seventies, when Godzilla films had undergone a comic book-like shift in tone and special effects budgets were greatly reduced, Gigan was designed as both a marketing ploy for children's toys and as a completely alien creature whose design would not have necessitated the same attention to detail needed for Godzilla's previously more animalistic opponents.

The character was first conceived by Kaoru Mabuchi in his script Godzilla vs. the Space Monsters - Earth Defense Order, which contained elements that would later be incorporated into Godzilla vs. Gigan, including having a mind-controlled Gigan being teamed up with King Ghidorah, though the script also included Megalon, and the mastermind behind the space monsters' actions was a living brain called Miko.