Godzilla Junior

nihongo|Godzilla Junior|ゴジラジュニア|Gojira Jiunia, also known as Little Godzilla is the son of Godzilla featured in the last few movies of the Heisei Series.

Film history

Junior first appeared in "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II" as a "Godzillasaurus" egg alloparented by Rodan. Presuming it to be a "Pteranodon" egg, a scientific team unearthed it from Adona Island and shipped it to Japan for study. The egg displayed strange psychic properties, even imprinting itself upon the biologist Azusa Gojo, before finally hatching to reveal an infant "Godzillasaurus", dubbed "Baby". When Godzilla later appeared, having sought out the baby through an unexplained psychic link, Baby accepted his new guardian and left with Godzilla, later settling on Birth Island.

By the time of "Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla", Baby, who had by now had grown to almost a third of Godzilla's height due to naturally occurring radioactive deposits on Birth Island, and being around Godzilla, taken on a green skin tone, and learned to spew radioactive sparks reminiscent of Minilla's smoke rings. Known then as "Little One" and "Little Godzilla", it interacted periodically with the human characters for a portion of the movie, taking a particular liking to Major Yuki of G-Force and establishing a psychic bond with Miki Saegusa. Little One was injured and imprisoned in a cage of crystals by his "uncle" SpaceGodzilla upon its arrival to Earth and remained caged until the defeat of SpaceGodzilla by the combined might of Godzilla and MOGUERA.

Little One continued to grow, and in "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" was renamed "Godzilla Junior" (or just "Junior" for short). It had reached nearly half Godzilla's height, taken on a strong likeness to the original, and learned to fire an atomic breath. Junior proved itself to be quite a capable fighter, successfully defeating Destroyah's Aggregate form, though with difficulty. Junior was seemingly killed during its second bout against Destoroyah at Haneda Airport, where Godzilla and Destoroyah soon fought. However, the radioactivity resulting from Godzilla's subsequent nuclear meltdown reanimated Junior, who appeared in the final shot as the new adult Godzilla.

ee also

* Minilla
* Godzooky