History Film / SonOfGodzilla

* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: The only real effective way of escaping Spiga/Kumonga's threads.

Titled ''Kaijū-tō no Kessen Gojira no Musuko'' (''Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Godzilla's Son'') in Japan, ''Son of Godzilla'' is the eighth film in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise, notable for the introduction of Minya and further Godzilla development into a hero. At least in the English-speaking fandom, this received a mixed reaction. Minya became one of the least-loved monsters in the franchise, and the LighterAndSofter direction isn't exactly welcomed [[BrokenBase by some]], but the movie itself isn't bad. It garnered a 71% at Rotten Tomatoes, and the scenes between Godzilla and Minya can be heartwarming.

* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Film]]: Sans the prologue (which still takes place away from civilization), the entire film is shot on an island, All the monsters are operated with wires, and only two monsters require suitimation: Godzilla and Minilla.

* GiantSpider: Kumonga.

* IntrepidReporter: Goro Maki.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Kamacuras, two meters tall even before hit with a dose of ILoveNuclearPower.

** Godzilla does as well. Impressivly despite shooting spider webs but big, Kumonga manages to stalemate Godzilla's Atomic Breath years before Mechagodzilla's eye lasers would.

* [[HumanPopsicle Monster Popsicle]]: Godzilla and Minya are put into suspended animation by the final and successful test.

* MythologyGag: Minya accidentally swipes a boulder at a Kamakuras with his tail, but it deflects it with its foreleg, hitting Minya in the face. The Kamakuras then [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla claps in amusement]].

* BeamOWar: Minya actually engages in one with Kumonga briefly, using his heat-ray to deflect the monster's webbing.

* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Film]]: Sans the prologue (which still takes place away from civilization), the entire film is shot on an island, All the monsters are operated with wires, and only two monsters require suitimation: Godzilla and Minya.

* EyeScream: Godzilla gets a drop of Spiga's venom shot into his right eye after letting his guard down for a moment, resulting in a lot of agony and the first ever Godzilla FacePalm.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The first radioactive sonde climate experiment goes awry after the mysterious radio waves from the center of the island jam the frequencies sending commands to the apparatus, and Kusumi and the others aren't able to detonate it in time, resulting in the opposite of the intended freezing effect: A fucking hot radioactive thunderstorm. Keep in mind that this is all Minya's fault.

* KillItWithFire: Godzilla catches on pretty quick that the Gimantises are extremely flammable.
** Godzilla and Minya finally set their dreadful arachnid adversary aflame by [[WonderTwinPowers firing their heat-rays together simultaneously]]. It seems Spiga [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters got better though]], with the massive blizzard raging around its flaming "carcass" and whatnot.
* {{Leitmotif}}: This being a Masaru Sato scored picture, the soundtrack is a bit more of a ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack-type score than the usual Ostinato stuff, with several memorable motifs, like Minya's theme, Riko's theme, Godzilla and the Gimantises' jazzy dirges, and the whimsical experiment preparation march.

* MythologyGag: Minya accidentally swipes a boulder at a Gimantis with his tail, but it deflects it with its foreleg, hitting Minya in the face. The Gimantis then [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla claps in amusement]].

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While most of the film is LighterAndSofter, with Minya providing cute antics and Godzilla's violence limited to an isolated island, [[GiantSpider Kumonga]] is a genuinely frightening creature.

Titled ''Kaijū-tō no Kessen Gojira no Musuko'' (''Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Godzilla's Son'') in Japan, ''Son of Godzilla'' is the eighth film in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise, notable for the introduction of Minya and further Godzilla development into a hero. At least in the English-speaking fandom, this recieved a mixed reaction. Minya became one of the least-loved monsters in the franchise, and the LighterAndSofter direction isn't exactly welcomed [[BrokenBase by some]], but the movie itself isn't bad. It garnered a 71% at Rotten Tomatoes, and the scenes between Godzilla and Minya can be heartwarming.

* MissingTrailerScene: While he was a bit reluctant towards Minya after the battle with Spiga/Kumonga was over in the finished film, Godzilla actually tries to escape the freezing of Solgell Island in the trailer.
* TheOtherDarrin: This is the first film in which Haruo Nakajima doesn't play Godzilla.

* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: The only real effective way of escaping Spiga/Kumonga's threads.
* YouLookFamiliar: Dr. Kusumi is played by [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla Tadao Takashima]], Goro is played by [[Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster Akira]] [[Film/{{Matango}} Kubo]], Fujisaki is [[Film/{{Gojira}} Akihiko]] [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla Hirata]], Morio is [[Film/{{Rodan}} Kenji]] [[Film/MothraVsGodzilla Sahara]], etc, etc...

* POVCam: There's an out of focus glimpse of Kumonga seen through Godzilla's eye in the final brawl.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While most of the film is LighterAndSofter, with Minya providing cute antics and Godzilla's violence limited to an isolated island, Kumonga is a genuinely frightening creature.

* VileVillainSaccarineShow: While most of the film is LighterAndSofter, with Minya providing cute antics and Godzilla's violence limited to an isolated island, Kumonga is a genuinely frightening creature.

* NeverTrustATrailer: While he was a bit reluctant towards Minya after the battle with Spiga/Kumonga was over in the finished film, Godzilla actually tries to escape the freezing of Solgell Island in the trailer.

* DubNameChange: In the English dubbing script (also used as a basis for the Titan dub), Kamacuras and Kumonga were anglicized as Gimantis and Spiga, respectively. Saeko's name was also changed, to Raeko in the Frontier dub, and Riko in the Titan dub.

* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Film]]: The entire film is shot on an island, All the monsters are operated with wires, and only two monsters require suitimation: Godzilla and Minya.

* DubNameChange: In both English dubs, Kamacuras was changed to Gimantis, Kumonga was changed to The Spiga, and Saeko's name was changed to Riko.

* KillItWithFire: Godzilla and Minya finally set their dreadful arachnid adversary aflame by [[WonderTwinPowers firing their heat-rays together simultaneously]]. It seems Spiga [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters got better though]], with the massive blizzard raging around its flaming "carcass" and whatnot.

* KillItWithFire: Godzilla and Minya set their finally set their dreadful arachnid adversary aflame by [[WonderTwinPowers firing their heat-rays together simultaneously]]. It seems Spiga [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters got better though]], with the massive blizzard raging around its flaming "carcass" and whatnot.