'Kaiju'

Kaijū (from Japanese "strange beast")is a Japanese film genre that features giant monsters, usually attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle. It is a sub-genre of tokusatsu entertainment. I'm sure that most guys my age grew up watching Ultra man, Godzilla or some other show with the same concept. Giant monsters fighting each other, simple as that. Somehow this has tickled the fancy of many boys. Heres some of my absolute favorite kaiju in film. 

1) Godzilla 

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This is not the most creative pick, but it's inevitable. Godzilla is King of the Monsters and is the Lebron James/Michael Jordan of kaiju movies, which are informally known as Godzilla movies. He's been in at least 32 films, taking on a nasty beast or dozen each time, and always comes out on top.

With so many movies, each one attempting to bring the audience something new, Godzilla's powers have come to include a vast range of attacks and abilities. Add them all up and the question is really what can't Godzilla do. Aside from his basic appearance—giant T-rex-ish creature with Stegasaurus-style plates down his spine and a crazed, up-for-whatever snarl—Godzilla is known for a his "atomic breath," which becomes a "spiral ray" after he defeats Rodan and inherits the winged kaiju's mojo. In some films, Godzilla is able to generate powerful magnetic fields or an electromagnetic pulse. Godzilla can breathe (and atomic-breathe) underwater, where he strolls along the sea floor like it's no big thing or swims by flapping his tail like a gator.

Godzilla uses a pool of magma like a jacuzzi, doesn't usually feel puny weapons like guns and missiles, and once survived a direct hit from an asteroid. His skin is rarely pierced, and even when it is, he regenerates rapidly. Godzilla can lift buildings and monsters that are much larger than him, and throw them great distances. Chuck Norris is afraid of Godzilla.

2) King Kong 

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Yes, King Kong. Although most kaiju are freaky monsters or robots with a Japanese origin, a few of the behemoths in kaiju movies came from western stories. King Kong was just 18 feet high in the original 1933 film, which would hardly have worked in Godzilla movies, so he was pumped up to a solid 145 feet, and given powers to absorb and release electricity just to make things interesting.

King Kong was the first monster to survive a fight with Godzilla, and the first to defeat him. Climbing the Empire State Building? Meh. Beating up a giant dinosaur-monster who shoots fire (actually "atomic breath") from his pie-hole? Now that's something to be proud of.

3)King Ghidorah

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King Ghidorah isn't actually the most gifted of Godzilla foes, but the three-headed dragon is iconic. He simply looks cooler than some of the more powerful bugs, crabs ,and robots. Badass: he has three heads, he flies at mach 3, he can unleash tornadoes with a wag of his two tails, and he shoots gravity beams from his mouth. Not-so badass: He's almost always under mind control(poor writing if you asd me) , he may just be an under-developed Orochi (the mythical Japanese eight-headed hydra), and worst of all, he has no arms.

                                     

4) Raiju 

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The youngest and shortest lived kaju on this list, Raiju is a kaiju from the popular Pacific Rim movie franchise. Raiju was one of the kaiju that emerged from the breach at the end of the first movie.  An aquatic creature, Raiju invokes a Galapagos iguana and Crocodile in appearance and behaviour. Broad shouldered, Raiju is heavily armoured along its back and head. The "head" itself is a tripartite jaw that encases the creature's bioluminescent head for protection. Its feet are bent, enabling it to swim quicker through the water.