Favorites - 12 Favorite Opponents from the Godzilla Franchise

I couldn’t just stop at one post about Godzilla, couldn’t I? I also realized that while I like the big monster, I’ve barely talked about him here, so here we go for a bit of a stint. I could say that it’s RANDOM THOUGHTS’ HALLOWEEN GODZILLATHON or something. There is one story I definitely want to cover here (Godzilla: Half-Century War), but I gotta find the dang book. So, here’s something else for y’all.

Godzilla is one monster that sits in an interesting position. He’s been a villain, a hero, and even something in between. The monster’s still gone up against a variety of adversaries. He’s gone up against other giant monsters, aliens, the environment, and humanity itself. So, who are my favorite Godzilla opponents? I have to go with this wording because the G-Man hasn’t always been the hero of the movie. It’s not in particularly any order, but the best ones will be up at top.

Favorites - Scariest Godzilla Movies

I think it’s time to break from superheroes for a bit. Besides, there are a lot of cool stuff out there, and one of them is the kaiju genre. The biggest of them (ha ha) is the G-Man himself: Godzilla. Now, I could do a list of my favorite Godzilla movies, but that seems too easy. Besides, the spooky season is upon us.

I started thinking about something recently: are there any scary Godzilla movies? I mean, Godzilla does kind of fit in the horror genre. Heck, his first film from 1954 was in a lot of ways a horror movie. Now, Godzilla didn’t stay that way after that first introduction. Heck, by the late 1960’s, he was a sometimes goofy friend to humanity. Also, it’s tough to make a guy in a rubber dinosaur suit scary. It wasn’t until the mid-80’s with the Heisei Era where Toho decided to make Godzilla a threat again. These days, he’s all over the place. He’s a god, a protector, an evolving and grotesque behemoth, a danger to all humanity, ghost, and an overall bad mofo.

So, here are what I could consider the scariest movies in the Godzilla franchise. These are ones where I kinda got a little creeped out. While most of these don’t creep me out as an adult, some movies are just weird enough to do it. It’s not in order from best to worst. In fact, I might as well handle this chronologically. So, let’s start with the legitimate horror that is Gojira.

Tales from the 50 Cent Bin! - Superman: The Death of Clark Kent

Well, it took a few days to get to this, but I’m usually a late bloomer. September was pretty busy in general. It’s 2020, I’m dating again, there was a family emergency, and there’s still a lot of housework to do, so the blog and some comic reading needed a break. Sometimes, you need a break from certain things. Still, I wanted to get back and finish what I started.

The 90’s was a big time for Superman since He got married, he died, and he grew long hair (NOT A MULLET!). He also had a crapton of stories where stuff would go wrong. “The Death of Clark Kent” is definitely such a story. Before I get to that, I need to touch on a newer character that showed up after Zero Hour: Kenny Braverman, aka Conduit. Kenny was basically a rival to Clark back in high school and even beyond. He was imbued with Kryptonian radiation as a child (he was born the night Kal-El landed in Kansas) which left him sickly sometimes. As an adult, he got with the government and had a suit created to channel that energy. He also had a mad hatred for Clark Kent since he always felt inferior to him. When he found out that Clark Kent was also Superman, his hate went into overdrive.

“The Death of Clark Kent” spun through the four Superman books in 1995. 

• Superman #100-101
• Adventures of Superman #523-524
• Action Comics #710-711
• Superman: Man of Steel #46-46
  

While it ended with Man of Steel #46, it truly came to an end in Adventures of Superman #525. I covered that a couple of years ago as well as Conduit’s first issue in Man of Steel #0. I’ll list the creative teams below since it got to be quite a lot. We also had a few changes around this time. Dan Jurgens draws his last issue with Superman #100, and Gil Kane takes over afterwards. Stuart Immonen had already replaced Tom Grummett a few issues before this. So, what does happen when a jilted jock decides kill his rival’s family and friends?