History WesternAnimation / TheGodzillaPowerHour

* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfUnits: As well as making errors in translation over Showa-era Godzilla's size, the writing staff by describing the King of monsters as ''"thirty stories high"'', went even further and made erroneous assumptions over ArtisticLicenseEngineering as well. A storey is not ever a measure of height, because there is '''no standard definition''' of how high a building storey should be. Because of this, Godzilla could be towering [[YourSizeMayVary anywhere between 300 to 400 feet tall]].

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Due to a translation error in the American version of the first G-film, [[LostInTranslation most Americans incorrectly believed that Godzilla]] was a LOT bigger than his actual canonical size at the time. Therefore the writers depicted him as being "30 stories high", which puts him in the region of a whopping 300-400ft in height. The Showa Era Kaiju King of monsters was actually topped at 160 feet. Its not until [[CanonUniverse Heisei Era]] does the monster reach that size and scale. And even then, this Godzilla is bigger and yet is dwarfed in the franchise by both the Film/MonsterVerse version and Godzilla Earth of the anime movie trilogy.

* KingKongCopy: As noted under Expy, the Great Watchuka is for all intents and purposes a stand-in for Kong.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: There would be a brief exposition on a scientific instrument or phenomenon in each episode, thus providing an [[AnAesop educational segment for the show]].

* {{Crossover}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jktj_nd76aU With the Flintstones.]]

* AcousticLicense: Godzilla is some 300-400ft tall here, yet hears the humans down below with no difficulty. They shout out [[DevelopersForesight to make themselves heard]], so we know it's not SuperSenses being employed here, but unless he was holding them up to his head, it's still a stretch.

** There's also "Island of Lost Ships", where Godzilla fights a giant Chimera, and "The Beast of Storm Island", where a giant cobra monster with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] enslaved the entire human population of the island. Along with " The Colosseus of Atlantis", where Godzilla faces the the titular HumongousMecha that has gone out of control. Given that the series follows the adventures of a scientific research vessel and thus spends a lot of time at sea, the writers certainly got a lot of mileage out of this trope.

* IsleOfGiantHorrors: In one episode, appropriately titled "The Horror of Forgotten Island", the crew of the Calico found themselves on an island surrounded by a force field which imprisoned a mutant {{cyclops}} that could turn [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]].
** There's also "Island of Lost Ships", where Godzilla fights a giant Chimera, and "The Beast of Storm Island", where a giant cobra monster with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] enslaved the entire human population of the island. Given that the series follows the adventures of a scientific research vessel and thus spends a lot of time at sea, the writers certainly got a lot of mileage out of this trope.

* ClassicalChimera: A chimera one of the monsters, in the episode ''Island of Lost Ships.'' It spends most of the episode trapped inside a cage, being too powerful for the sirens to control. It is eventually released in the climax were it is mind-controlled (and merged with) by [[FusionDance the fused sirens,]] in order to fight Godzilla. It is defeated by being tricked to run over the edge of a cliff, where it falls into the water and is destroyed. It is depicted as a dragon-like beast, with the head of a lion and horns of a goat.

* OffModel: Godzilla himself, not surprisingly.
** Multiple times, his size varies immensely, with no idea of what his size is.

See ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' for TheNineties' ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' 'toon.

* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Godzilla]]: He even gets small enough in "[=MicroGodzilla=]" that ''bacteria in a petri dish'' become potential foes.

* OneMillionBC: "The Time Dragons" has humans living side-by-side with dinosaurs.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Due to a translation error in the American version of the first G-film, [[LostInTranslation most Americans incorrectly believed that Godzilla]] was a LOT bigger than his actual canonical size at the time. Therefore the writers depicted him as being "30 stories high", which puts him in the region of a whopping 300-400ft in height. The Showa Era Kaiju King of monsters was actually topped at 160 feet. Its not until [[CanonUniverse Heisei Era]] does the monster reach that size and scale. And even then, this Godzilla is bigger and yet is dwarfed in the franchise by both the Film/MonsterVerse version and Godzilla Earth of the anime movie trilogy.

* HotScientist: Dr. Quinn Darien

The giant radioactive dinosaur from the Japanese films headlined this animated ActionSeries, co-produced by Creator/HannaBarbera and Creator/{{Toho}} for Creator/{{NBC}} in United States in 1978, and TV Tokyo in Japan. It is an animated adaptation of the Japanese Godzilla films produced by Toho. The show continued to air until 1981, for a time airing in its own half-hour timeslot until its cancellation.

* BeneficialDisease: What Godzooky ''gives'' to Pete, thereby making him immune to Axor's MindControl.

* AGodAmI: Axor, a mutant cobra-eque kaiju, uniquely demands to be worshiped by humans as a god. By [[MindManipulation shooting mind-control rays]] over them (or any creature for that matter) will [[{{Mooks}} become his slave]].

* MindControl: Axor, the Monster of Storm Island