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As with most Kaiju, Gamera is no stranger to some rather offputting imagery. While the Showa Era doesn't have that many creepy moments, the Heisei Era is when things start to kick into high gear.- The Heisei incarnation of Gyaos are nothing but this, being soulless, endlessly evolving, endlessly reproducing, all-devouring murder machines that not only already wiped out Atlantis, but are fully capable of doing the same for us. It's incredibly telling that the creator of Attack on Titan claimed that they were the inspiration for the titular man-eaters of the manga.
- It should be noted that their iconic screech has been altered into Hell Is That Noise status, and the additional sound effects, some of which sound like nauseated groaning, aren't much better.
- Pictured is the incarnation used in the 2015 short film. It's basically everything stated above about them cranked past 11. Just listen to how they sound
- Gamera 3: Revenge Of Irys is chock full of these. In particular, the scene where Gamera is fighting against several Gyaos and pretty much just destroys the area with no regard for human life (except for one child he deliberately saves from a Gyaos). The people who survive the ordeal aren't grateful that Gamera stopped the Gyaos, they're terrified that they were nearly killed. Needless to say, all governments of the world put quite a bounty on Gamera's head.
- The mortally-wounded Gyaos screeching in pain as its on the ground before Gamera roasts it alive. One of its eyes is hanging from the socket.
- Gamera's design in this movie is nothing short of monstrous, going from the gentle-looking, rather expressive and even vulnerable turtle Kaiju of the previous two movies to a beady-eyed, hulking, spike-covered Implacable Man.
- When Gamera blasts a Gyaos out of the sky and it explodes sending molten chunks of burning Gyaos-flesh raining down on unsuspecting civilians.
- Irys. Imaging a creature that starts off as an Ugly Cute tentacled...thing with a shell, but quickly grows into an Eldritch Abomination. To make things worse, it feeds by impaling you with its tentacles and draining you of your body fluids. And, it tries twice to absorb a little girl so it can consume her and become strong enough to kill Gamera.
- Zedus makes up for his lack of grandiose powers or an overtly scary design with his sheer aggressiveness and blood-thirst, as well as his tendency to appears out of nowhere for a good old Jump Scare. He is scary enough that the entirety of the film's tone turns darker the second he becomes active in the plot. To exemplify, his very first scene does a very effective homage to Jaws where a man that survived one of Zedus' rampages on a fishing boat is stranded at sea, and can only try and vainly swim away in horror when he sees blood-covered fishing equipment surfacing from the sea, right before Zedus pulls him underwater and eats him, noticeably a pool of gushing blood comes out as the scene ends.
- In comparison to other franchises of the same genre, this series has no qualms about showing monsters eating people. Barugon, Gyaos-which have destroyed entire civilizations due to their ravenous appetite, Zigra (he never actually ate anyone on screen, but he wanted to use earth's population as a food source), and Zedus.
