History WesternAnimation / GodzillaTheSeries

* DarkerAndEdgier: The "Monster Wars" trilogy is perhaps the darkest episodes in the series with the team splitting up, the Earth under threat of the AlienInvasion by the Leviathans, all monsters are completely loose, and Godzilla meets his biological father... [[spoiler: in cyborg form]]. still this series Is darker than the previous cartoon.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The "Monster Wars" trilogy is perhaps the darkest episodes in the series with the team splitting up, the Earth under threat of the AlienInvasion by the Leviathans, all monsters are completely loose, and Godzilla meets his biological father... [[spoiler: in cyborg form]].

* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Mendel, on learning the likelihood of his Scottish ancestry, tortures Randy with this twice in "Deadloch," much to Randy's utter dismay and Mendel's delight.

* EscapedAnimalRampage: The epsiode "S.C.A.L.E." has the titular terrorist group releasing mutations from their habitats on Monster Island, causing them to run amok on the island until H.E.A.T. is able to corral them back into their pens.

''Godzilla: [[RecycledTheSeries The Series]]'' (1998-2000) was an animated television series and the SequelSeries to the 1998 American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'', produced by the Adelaide Productions division of Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision, and lasted a total of 40 episodes on Creator/FoxKids.

** When Randy is mentioning ideas about Monster Island, he does so with a hand puppet that looks very similar to the Marvel incarnation of Godzilla.

** Outside of the MythologyGag with Robo-Yeti to the first two Mechagodzilla incarnations (not to mention "King Kong Vs. Godzilla," and the monster Mechanikong), it's skeleton appearance also serves as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''.

* InconsistentColoring: Godzilla would be colored either grayish-silver, to charcoal gray with brown, and occasionally two shades of purple. About the only consistent coloring would be his eyes being yellow-orange and dorsal fins being at least some shade of light blue/teal.

** The entire episode of "Competition" is this from start to finish. First off, the Robo-Yeti is an homage to King Kong and his robot duplicate Mechanikong, the machine has electrical control powers (as Kong had in his brawl with Godzilla), the bot's creator is named Yukiko Ifukube, a huge homage to Akira Ifukube and finally there's a full scale brawl in Tokyo.

* OffModel:
** The Lizard King himself would either the size of his father, to being as big as Heisei Godzilla. There's also the coloring issues, where he would be colored grayish-silver, to charcoal gray with brown, and two shades of purple.
** The show would be horribly inconsistent with the size of enemy monster King Cobra in "Competition." In one scene, he would be massive enough to tower over Godzilla and completely envelope him in his coils. In another, he's small enough for Godzilla to bite down on his neck and toss around like a rag doll. It thankfully didn't happen too often, but when it did, it was jarring.

* RunningGag: You can count on N.I.G.E.L. being smashed to pieces by the MonsterOfTheWeek or Junior at least once per episode.

** Nick puns on ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' when turning on the wind turbine to negate the Shrewster's tornado.

** Godzilla's size is especially increased when Nick and Monique enter his body to fight the Mutant Bacillus infecting him in "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been."

** The mutated Ice Borers in the Antarctic from the episode "Freeze" are a twofold example. First is they are very much based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotheaded_Naked_Ice_Borer Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer April Fools joke]] pulled by Discover magazine four years earlier. Second is that they live underground and hunted their prey by tunneling under them before pulling them down, meaning apparently someone on the staff was a fan of ''Film/{{Tremors}}''.

%%* AmazonChaser: Randy after Monique.

* TheBadGuyWins: An episode featured CorruptCorporateExecutive Cameron Winter breaking three criminals out of jail and giving each one of them a HumongousMecha so they could hunt down Godzilla. When the three hunters were captured, Winter got off by accusing them of stealing their mechas and the Government even [[CutLexLuthorACheck hired him to make them mechas of their own]].

* HypocriticalHumor: In "Future Shock":
-->'''Kid:''' [[CatchPhrase Go go go!]]\\

** And in "Underground Movement".

* NobodyCanDie: Since this is a kids show, no human characters can explicitly die, no matter how ludicrously implausible it would be for them to survive. For example, at the end of the second episode, every single civilian kidnapped by the mutant squids is recovered alive and unharmed after several days at the bottom of the ocean despite the tar surrounding them explicitly said to digest its victims. Apparently kaiju handle their prey really delicately! To make up for this, N.I.G.E.L. is completely obliterated in hilarious ways almost every episode (since, as a robot, he can be rebuilt).

** The series makes a note of pointing out that most of the monsters are just acting out their natural life cycles like any other animal, such as feeding and reproducing. Unfortunately, their size means that they can no longer act out said life cycle without causing rather severe destruction. Exceptions include the aliens, and arguably the Dragma and Crackler. [[note]]The former is a genetically engineered creature that supplants humanity as the dominant species, and the latter is an id monster created by a man's suppressed rage that goes after anyone who he's angry at.[[/note]]

** The show would be horribly inconsistent with the size of enemy monster King Cobra. In one scene, he would be massive enough to tower over Godzilla and completely envelope him in his coils. In another, he's small enough for Godzilla to bite down on his neck and toss around like a rag doll. It thankfully didn't happen too often, but when it did, it was jarring.
** The Lizard King himself would either the size of his father, to being as big as Heisei Godzilla. There's also the coloring issues, where he would be colored grayish-silver, to charcoal gray, and two shades of purple.

* PapaWolf: Inverted. Godzilla Jr. goes to crazy lengths to [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild protect his adoptive father]], which is often pointed out.
** It is played straight fairly often too, if you are human and you do something that can harm Godzilla, Nick ''will'' cut a bitch.

* RaisedByHumans: Godzilla imprinted on Nick as his adopted father. He will save other humans if he has to. While knowing that there are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans who are bastards]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Major Hicks. He does sympathize with the heroes, but at the same time he has to think of larger concerns or about the potential damage creatures such as Godzilla can cause. That being said, once it becomes clear Godzilla is on our side, he becomes increasingly accommodating to Nick and the crew calling him in, defends Godzilla from other government authorities who refuse to acknowledge his usefulness, and even coordinates the military to assist Godzilla numerous times.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Randy is introduced in the first episode of the series as Nick's 14 month long assistant, meaning he would have been present, but offscreen during the events of the film. Similarly, Nick also owns his own private research facility on Staten Island (which becomes HEAT's base) that was never mentioned in the film, which is where Randy apparently was during that time.

* RobotNames: ''Next-Millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison'', or N.I.G.E.L.

** This makes Randy's intended "High-performance Environmental Attack Team" line for their group's name a bit of HypocriticalHumor in the third episode, "Talkin' Trash".

--> '''Craven:''' ''*sigh*'' I should just order spare parts in bulk.

** General Albondinga's only solution to dealing with Godzilla and El Gusano is using a biological weapon, and while is works on Godzilla, it only makes El Gusano larger and more powerful, and even after seeing this first-hand for himself, he still insists on using it against them.

** The lead researcher of the Manhattan Institute for Advanced Technology in "Talkin' Trash" forces the creator of petroleum-eating microbe nanotech have it ready for use by tomorrow despite its creator telling him it's still weeks from completion, and is present when the nanotech breaks loose and attacks a worker just seconds later, just barely being recaptured. Despite being told it isn't finished and also witnessing its aggressive behaviour firsthand immediately afterwards he still wants it ready by tomorrow. Big shocker, the microbes break loose and start attacking people when they are put to use the next day, but now it's too big to be recaptured.
** Milo Sanders, the "tour guide" of the Manhattan Monster Line in "Tourist Trap", kept putting his passengers and himself in harm's way despite being warned multiple times to leave the area when Godzilla was fighting the Deep Dweller. It's a surprise the city hasn't shut his "tour ride" operation down before [[spoiler:his arrest at the end for stealing H.E.A.T.'s helicopter]].

** Near the end of "New Family, Part 2", Hicks was getting ready to signal an air strike on Godzilla, even though Godzilla had just defeated the C-rex, ''and'' located the missing swimmers and boats. Nick convinced him to spare Junior by pointing out they ''will'' need his help with all of the new mutations that would inevitably show up.

* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler: Zilla Senior]] is brought back as [[spoiler: Cyber-Godzilla]] by aliens to fight the star of the show. Also, NIGEL. A lot. No seriously, a lot.
* WhamEpisode: "Monster Wars" which has an AlienInvasion, most of the kaiju being mind-controlled as weapons, [[spoiler: Cyber-Zilla]], the HEAT team facing its DarkestHour, and more. [[spoiler: Just to top it off, several of the recurring kaiju are KilledOffForReal in the big finale.]]

* WhosLaughingNow: "What Dreams May Come." A rather literal case there, as the Crackler monster, has this weird chuckle growl when active.

** Inevitably, almost all the monsters end up appearing to change size from scene to scene due to animation inconsistencies, although this usually isn't too drastic.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The series makes a note of pointing out that most of the monsters are just acting out their natural life cycles like any other animal, such as feeding and reproducing. Unfortunately, their size means that they can no longer act out said life cycle without causing rather severe destruction. Exceptions include the aliens, and arguably the Dragma and Crackler. [[note]]The former is a genetically engineered creature that supplants humanity as the dominant species, and the latter is an id monster created by a man's suppressed rage that goes after anyone who he's angry at.[[/note]]
** The Spirit of the Swamp zigzags this trope. Its primary goal is to defend the swamp (and by extension the people of said swamp) that the CorruptCorporateExecutive is pillaging, but in doing so, it has a tendency to target innocent people.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mocked in "Leviathan":
--> '''Monique''': Indeed. It is almost as laughable a notion as one breathing atomic fire.

** Elsie, being a fan of AlienInvasion theories and below trope, apparently forgotten about a certain event that took place a year ago. And being {{Mind Control}}led as a result.

* TheArtifact: Nick wondering if Komodithrax is the same genus as Godzilla, even though the former is obviously a Komodo Dragon and the latter a marine iguana, is due to the fact that she was originally going be a mutant marine iguana as well.

* CollateralDamage: ''Everywhere.'' Cars, bridges, warehouses, forests... whatever it is, a kaiju can wipe it out with a footstepp or a swipe of their tail. It happens so often that entire skyscrapers can fall due to a single unfortunately-timed attack and no humans will even bat an eye.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Cameron Winter.

** The pronunciation joke[=/=]argument on Junior's name. Randy corrects Ifukube's "Gojira" with "Hey! It's 'Godzilla', lady!" in the episode "Competition", which is the complete reverse to Caiman using "Godzilla" and Audrey correcting "It's 'Gojira', you moron!'"

** In "Cat and Mouse," as the redneck hunters target Godzilla, he passes by a crane hoisting up a new top to the Chrysler Building, which the army destroyed in the movie. The hunters accidentally hit that instead, leading to [[spoiler: their arrest at the end of the episode]].
* ContinuitySnarl: At the end of the movie, the last Godzilla egg hatched while completely alone. Here, it hatched while Nick was present, allowing Godzilla Jr. to imprint on him.
** Also, Major Hicks was a Colonel in the film; it's not clear why he was suddenly reduced in rank.

* CoolBoat: Provided by Monique, Randy ends up dubbing it the "HEAT Seeker" and [[NoseArt quickly paints the bow to look like a shark]]. It's got hydrofoils equipped for spped and state-of-the-art radar equipment to keep track of Godzilla and other monsters they encounter, as well as a landing area for the HEAT helicopter.
* CryptidEpisode: Godzilla fights the Loch Ness Monster.
* CurbstompBattle: There will be a rare chance Godzilla defeats an enemy kaiju unscathed. The Mutant hummingbirds in "Vision" is one of those cases.

''Monique blasts the console''\\

* DestructiveSavior: To be fair, Godzilla's the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever size of a building]], and his main abilities involves [[TunnelKing tunneling through the ground]] and {{breath|Weapon}}ing [[KillItWithFire atomic fire]]. It's kind of unavoidable. An early episode has Godzilla causing so much damage to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity while trying to hunt down an infestation of giant mutated rats that the military believes he's simply on the attack.
** "Underground Movement" had the city of Miami suing HEAT for damage caused not by Godzilla but by their own weapons. [[spoiler:Their lawyer gets them off on a technicality.]]

* ExactWords: Area51 is not hiding aliens, the sight was used for nuclear testing. [[spoiler:And now they are hiding the mutations created by the radiation.]]

** The Crackler, a dream kaiju with electric punches? Fits the description of Gabara too (although otherwise the two look nothing alike).

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Mendel briefly has this in "Leviathan" when he realizes that [[spoiler: Dr. Preloran, a xeno-biologist that he looked up to, was [[BrokenPedestal siding with the Tachyon aliens on conquering Earth]].]]

* FunWithAcronyms: Randy originally intended "H.E.A.T." to mean "High-performance Environmental Attack Team". Nick wisely changes it.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: How the Chameleon is created.
** As well as the [[HeroKiller D.R.A.G.M.A.'s]] in "Future Shock", and the DNA Mimic in "Trust No One".

* GodzillaThreshold: Somewhat the trope namer. While Godzilla, Jr. comes to the human's aid by himself, H.E.A.T decides to use a recording of Godzilla, Sr.'s call to summon him when there's a mutation that gives them trouble.

-->'''Randy:''' Dinner is served. ''*produces berries in one hand and insects in the other*''\\

%%* {{Kaiju}}: Of course.

* OffModel: The show would be horribly inconsistent with the size of enemy monster King Cobra. In one scene, he would be massive enough to tower over Godzilla and completely envelope him in his coils. In another, he's small enough for Godzilla to bite down on his neck and toss around like a rag doll. It thankfully didn't happen too often, but when it did, it was jarring.
** The Lizard King himself would either the size of his father, to being as big as Heisei Godzilla. There's also the coloring issues. He would be colored grayish-silver, to charcoal gray, and two shades of purple.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In "D.O.A.," Randy and Monique break into a facility to obtain samples of the poison affecting Godzilla. Randy is made to stand guard and ends up surrounded by three armed guards. Monique steps out of the supply room, appraises the situation, and the scene cuts to a shot of the outside of the facility with the sounds of the fight cut over it. It moves back to show the three guards tied up.
** In the BadFuture featured in "Future Shock," Hicks says that, to combat the Dragmas, he released all the monsters from Monster Island (which included, at least, C-Rex, King Cobra and the Giant Bat), but that they all fell in battle. None of this conflict is shown at all.

** Several pop culture references an episode is the norm. And then, Elsie mentions a [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep giant lobster]] attacking the coast of Manila. Also a MythologyGag: When Nick tries to awaken Godzilla, he shouts to him if he's gonna let those "[[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla Space]] [[Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla Monkeys]]" defeat him and take over Earth. "Competition" has one where JGSDF Dr. Yukiko Ifukube is named after composer Music/AkiraIfukube, who composed many of the haunting soundtracks for the ''Godzilla'' films.

* TookALevelInBadass: Purposefully done with Junior. He's much tougher than his daddy and much closer to the PowerLevels of the Japanese Godzilla.
** Also, Nick is much more active than he used to be when Creator/MatthewBroderick portrayed him in the movie.

%%* {{Wormsign}}: Junior, of course.

** Godzilla's size is especially increased in the episode when Nick and Monique enter his body to fight Bacillus.

* GiantFlyer: Skeetara, Giant Bat, Quetzalcoatl, Giant Cicada, the Giant Hummingbirds, the Giant Bees and their Queen...

* GodzillaThreshold: Somewhat the trope namer. While Godzilla comes to the human's aid by himself, H.E.A.T decides to use his computerized voice to summon him when there's a kaiju that gives them trouble.
* HappilyAdopted: Interestingly enough, it was Godzilla that technically adopted Nick as his father since the giant lizard imprinted on him (Nick was the first thing he saw and was covered in egg slime). Since then, the two have formed a bizarre father/son bond and protect one another from danger.

%%* HiveQueen: Queen Bee (or rather, giant radioactive volcano bee) and Termite Queen.

'''Mendel:''' Sorry, Franchise/{{Rambo}}, but I am ''not'' putting those in my mouth. ''*proceeds to drink water being filtered through a sock*''\\
'''Randy:''' ''*[[{{Beat}} stares]]*'' Ditto.

* InMediasRes: The first scene of "New Family: Part One" is the tail end of the cab chase from the film and the F-18s' run on Godzilla, Sr.

%%* IndyPloy: Executed more often than plans fully thought through.
* InkSuitActor: Inverted in with Mendel Craven and Mayor Ebert. Despite Malcolm Dunare and Michael Lerner coming back to reprise the respective roles, Craven was now blond with his hair in a ponytail instead of short brunet hair and Ebert was sporting a mustache instead of his original clean-shaven look and his hair was styled differently.

* JerkassHasAPoint: ''Multiple'' people point out to Nick that Godzilla is a major threat, and rightfully point to Zilla, Sr. as their proof - after all, he had totaled Manhattan, and that was ''without'' the ability to ''[[BreathWeapon breathe fire]]''.
* JurisdictionFriction: A variation in "Competition". The Japanese SDF had Robo-Yeti and head scientist Dr. Yukiko Ifukube had assumed that Godzilla was the one who was the cause of the hikers' disappearance. They eventually work with H.E.A.T. on dealing with the real culprit, the King Cobra.

* LeftHanging: Some plot points were left hanging:1. The Fire Monster has been accidentally released by a shark. 2. Colonel Tarrington asks when Third Wave is in production. 3. Nick suspects the Tachyons will return. 4. Cameron Winter still is at large. 5. Dr. Preloran's fate isn't revealed after he walked through a portal.
%%* LegionOfDoom: "Monster Wars."
* LetsSplitUpGang: Nick suggests this after encountering a creature he's already seen is capable of shapeshifting and just after seeing it impersonate someone. He only suggests everyone keep each other within line of sight after the third incident of it impersonating a friend.
* LighterAndSofter: The series is intentionally family-friendly while keeping deaths restricted only towards the monsters. Unlike the film, there is less human bodycount, and anyone getting caught in the cross between Godzilla and his opponent will be miraculously saved at the last minute. The sole exception is the miners who were victims to the Silver Hydra in the 1940s.

* MadScientist: Dr. Insley in "Future Shock," [[spoiler:who created the D.R.A.G.M.A.s out of a misplaced fear of the current society, and the reason for a BadFuture where the team--sans a sick Mendel--brings back the laser rifles that could take out the baby-versions of the D.R.A.G.M.A.s before they grow into their nigh-invulnerability against conventional weaponry.]]

** It is played straight fairly often too, if you are human and you do something that can harm Godzilla, Nick * PrimateVersusReptile: The battle between Godzilla and Robo-Yeti in "Competition", complete with homages to the original ''Film/KingKong''.

** It is played straight fairly often too, if you are human and you do something that can harm Godzilla, Nick ''will'' cut a bitch.
* PlotHole: The Area 51 episode, which shows people who believe that aliens are being housed at Area 51 are crazy and wrong, and Elsie is mocked for believing in such things... despite that the previous year, not only did they find an alien spaceship, but said aliens orchestrated a massive, world-wide invasion plan, suborned members of the military, took control of Elsie herself, and resurrected the original Godzilla as a cyborg. It's an especially strange event from a production standpoint, since the aliens not only played a central role in the series' only three-part story, but also a episode which set up that one ("Leviathan") and the aftermath was the impetus for making Monster Island. (Presumably it had been written before "Leviathan" and/or "Monster Wars", but wound up being both produced and aired after thanks to ProductionLeadTime.)
* PrimateVersusReptile: The battle between Godzilla and Robo-Yeti in "Competition", complete with homages to the original ''Film/KingKong''.

* PlotHole: The Area 51 episode, which shows people who believe that aliens are being housed at Area 51 are crazy and wrong, and Elsie is mocked for believing in such things... despite that the previous year, not only did they find an alien spaceship, but said aliens orchestrated a massive, world-wide invasion plan, suborned members of the military, took control of Elsie herself, and resurrected the original Godzilla as a cyborg. It's an especially strange event from a production standpoint, since the aliens not only played a central role in the series' only three-part story, but also a episode which set up that one ("Leviathan") and the aftermath was the impetus for making Monster Island. (Presumably it had been written before "Leviathan" and/or "Monster Wars", but wound up being both produced and aired after thanks to AnimationLeadTime.)

* AdaptedOut: Animal's wife Lucy isn't seen in the series, but always mentioned in passing.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: About every MonsterOfTheWeek.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The previously-mentioned N.I.G.E.L.-smashing, much to Mendel's constant dismay. [[note]]N.I.G.E.L.'s voice actor was Creator/TomKenny, which led to a perceived rivalry with said trope [[Characters/SouthParkKennyMcCormick namesake]].]]

* AsteroidsMonster: The silver monster in "Shafted."
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Take a guess.

-->'''N.I.G.E.L.:''' ''"Aaargh--"''
-->'''Mendel:''' ''"N.I.G.E.L., [[BigNo nooooo]]!"''

%%* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Craven]] in "[[BadFuture Future Shock]]".
%%** Also N.I.G.E.L. and Hicks.
%%* GaiasVengeance: In "The Ballad of Gens Du Marais".

%%* HiveMind: The Tacyhon aliens.

%%* HumongousMecha: Robo-Yeti; the "Lizard Slayer" machines.

%%* ManipulativeBastard: Cameron Winter.

* PapaWolf: Inverted. Godzilla Jr. goes to crazy lengths to protect his adoptive father, which is often pointed out.

** Several pop culture references an episode is the norm. And then, Elsie mentions a [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep giant lobster]] attacking the coast of Manila. Also a MythologyGag: When Nick tries to awaken Godzilla, he shouts to him if he's gonna let those "[[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla Space]] [[Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla Monkeys]]" defeat him and take over Earth. "Competition" has one where JSDF Dr. Yukiko Ifukube is named after composer Music/AkiraIfukube, who composed many of the haunting soundtracks for the ''Godzilla'' films.

** Monique makes note that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan Japan's constitution]] doesn't allow their military to have offensive weapons, to which Yukiko insists that Robo-Yeti is defensive in "Competition".
* SlapSlapKiss: Randy and Monique.
%%* SpikeShooter: The Giant Bees in "Hive" and the Thorny Devil in "Area 51".
* SpoilerOpening: The first episode spoils the ending of the movie where Godzilla's father was killed by the military.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Zilla Jr ends up defeating cyborg Zilla Snr. (this is also symbolic of Series surpassing [[{{Film/Godzilla1998}} the movie]] by managing to make the character a true “Godzilla”).

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The previously-mentioned N.I.G.E.L.-smashing.
** His voice actor is even named Kenny!!
** This led to a perceived rivalry with said trope namesake.

%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Craven and Randy.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Quite a few mutations are the result of radiation, mostly from human testing but one occasion was a ''radioactive volcano''.

%%* TurtlePower: The giant turtle in "End of the Line."

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Godzilla Jr. is repeatedly shown to be [[SuperiorSuccessor far more powerful than his parent]], shrugging off damage as a teen that killed the original as an adult. [[spoiler:As a result, the actual fight between Godzilla Jr. and Cyber-Godzilla is a complete CurbstompBattle in Jr.'s favor. Even with the mechanical weapons, Cyber Godzilla's base frame is still the original, much frailer and weaker (not to mention decomposed) Godzilla, and Jr. is smart enough to evade those weapons and shred it in melee.]]

%%* MadScientist: Dr. Insley in "Future Shock."

* {{Nanomachines}}: The {{Nano|machines}}tech creature was originally designed to bio-degrade plastic. Naturally, it grows out-of-control and eats all the petroleum-based things it can find.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The series makes a note of pointing out that most of the monsters are just acting out their natural life cycles like any other animal, such as feeding and reproducing. Unfortunately, their size means that they can no longer act out said life cycle without causing rather severe destruction. Exceptions include the aliens, and arguably the Dragma and Crackler.[[note]] The former is a genetically engineered creature that supplants humanity as the dominant species, and the latter is an id monster created by a man's suppressed rage that goes after anyone who he's angry at.[[/note]]

%%* PlayfulHacker: Randy.

* PrimateVersusReptile: The battle between Godzilla and Robo-Yeti in "Competition", complete with homages to the original Film/KingKong.

%%* ScienceHero: A whole team of them, really. Even Monique has HiddenDepths like translating ancient Arabian glyphs.
* ShoehornedAcronym: Mendel Kraven's RobotBuddy is named N.I.G.E.L., which stands for "Next millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison". [[PlayfulHacker Randy Hernandez]] immediately establishes [[SitcomArchNemesis what his relationship with Kraven will be]] by pointing out the acronym should be "N.M.I.G.E.L."

** In "The Winter of our Discontent," the signal that is driving Junior nuts sounds like the siren from ''[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]'', but lower in pitch. (This is likely because Adelaide Productions had previously produced ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' before this show, so they [[HeyItsThatSound already had the sound effect on hand]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series has quite a bit in common with ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'': a team of [[ScienceHero scientists]] travelling around the world on a CoolShip (bonus points for the Heat-Seeker having a hydrofoil mode for high-speed travel, just like the ''Calico'') who [[SummonBiggerFish can summon Godzilla]] with an audio signal, a heroic Godzilla that heavily deviates from standard depictions of the character (both in appearance and abilities), and a MonsterOfTheWeek format that pits Godzilla [[BehemothBattle against all manners of giant monsters]].
** ''WesternAnimation/AlienatorsEvolutionContinues'' could be considered as one to ''this'' series, with a specialized team fending off the Genus, an alien MonsterOfTheWeek species whose character designs are quite similar to the mutations of this show.

** A good number of the Mutations pay tribute to Godzilla's foes (Nanotech monster: Hedorah, Megapede/Giant Cicada: Battra (although there is also a Giant Bat Mutation), Crackler: Gabara, Nessie: Manda, and Cyber-Zilla: Mechagodzilla, though the fact that organic flesh is visible in the creature is reminiscent of Mecha-King-Ghidorah).