"I am Greenman. An envoy of God. I'm here to protect the children."
Go! Greenman is a 1973 Toho tokusatsu tv series that lasted 52 episodes (broken up into 156 segments). It was a follow-up series to Go Godman (1972-1973), however, they had almost nothing to do with each other.
The plot revolves Satannote , who got sealed to Underworld by God, trying to get out by using the blood of children. In order to do this, his servant, Cretin, creates all different kinds of monsters and sends them to get blood from the kids. However, God creates a robot (Greenman) to fight against them. Yeah....
Greenman would later appear in the 2008 film, Go! Godman, in which he teams up with Godman to fight several monsters.
The series has became semi-famous due to Greenman fighting several kaiju from the Godzilla franchise including:
- Gaira (Episode 4)
- Gabara (Episode 14)
- Sanda (Episode 31)
- King Kong note (Episode 38)
- An evil version of Minya (Episode 46)
Go! Greenman contains examples of:
- Big Bad: Satan
- Defeat Equals Explosion
- Dirty Coward: Cretin
- The Dragon: Tonchiki, who creates the monsters of the week.
- Flanderization: Besides being made evil in this series, Minilla's baby like qualities are greatly exaggerated: at one point taking a break from his fight to drink from a giant baby bottle and almost always having a pacifier in his mouth.
- Friend to All Children: Greenman
- Hell: Referred to as the "Underworld".
- Expy: Of Ultraman and Godman.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: As listed above.
- Kaiju: Oh yes.
- Make My Monster Grow: Typically the monster of the week would do this at Tonchiki's command.
- Monster of the Week: As is common in Japanese kids shows.
- Satan: The Big Bad of the series.
- Shapeshifter: The Phantoms can transform into various monsters.
- Super Power Lottery: Greenman has many powers and abilities including:
- Flight
- Ear Boomerangs
- Eye Beams
- Leg Arrows
- Pyrokinesis
- Shock and Awe
- Sizeshifter
- Teleportation
- Greenman Breaster (his finishing move)
- Toku
- Versus Title: Every episode was titled "Greenman vs. [Monster of the Week]
- Would Hurt a Child: Satan will gladly get the blood of children. Also extends to the minions he sends to retrieve them.
