Godzilla (Godzilla: The Series)

Godzilla; Gojira; Godzilla Junior; Zilla Junior; Big Guy; G-Man; American Godzilla; Junior

1.8 meters (6 feet; Baby Godzilla); 35 meters (115 feet; juvenile); 55 meters (180 feet; adult)

90 meters (300 feet)

25,000 metric tons (27,557 short tons)

• Atomic breath
• Impressive physical strength; able to borrow and excavate the thick tar and concrete beneath New York City
• Able to strategize and coordinate fighting maneuvers to bamboozle his enemies
• Mild healing factor
• Amphibiousness

• Susceptible to high voltage electricity
• Vulnerable to being poisoned

This Godzilla's personality strays from that of his late father. Like most incarnations of Godzilla, he will usually fight his attackers rather than fleeing from them. Godzilla also exhibits planning and strategy in his fighting style, though he will resort to brute force if he is angered enough. While he is aggressive when provoked, Godzilla is generally docile and peaceful and will avoid causing destruction or bringing harm to humans or other creatures unless he or his adoptive father are threatened.

In 1998, the monster known as Godzilla made his nest in the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. There, the creature laid about 200 eggs which hatched into Baby Godzillas. The U.S. military carried out a plan to bomb Madison Square Garden and kill the Baby Godzillas. Godzilla, angry at the death of his offspring, gave chase to the humans he deemed responsible until he was killed by several missiles from F-18 Hornets. Unknown to everyone, an egg survived among the fires and ruins of Madison Square Garden.

Having survived the obliteration of Madison Square Garden, Godzilla hatched in front of Dr. Nick Tatopoulos. Nick at the time was covered in amniotic fluid from the other eggs after slipping into a pool of it while searching the ruins for more eggs. Godzilla imprinted upon Nick since he was covered with the scent of his kind. Nick scared off the infant by causing a spark, and it fled into the Hudson River.

Some time later, the hatchling, now grown to 35 feet in height, appeared at the base of operations Nick and his scientist colleagues had set up in a warehouse by the sea. Despite initially being aggressive, Godzilla remembered Nick as his "parent" and became friendly. At the same time in Jamaica, swimmers and ships were disappearing under mysterious circumstances, leading the U.S. government to believe the newly-hatched Godzilla was behind it. As Nick studied and even trained Godzilla, the military intervened under the command of Major Hicks after being tipped off about the creature's existence by Monique Dupre, a French Secret Service agent trying to ensure Godzilla was wiped out for good. The military engaged the monster near Nick's facility, wounding the creature with artillery and apparently killed him with an airstrike while in the water.

Later on, the now fully grown Godzilla revealed himself to still be alive as he rescued Nick and his colleagues from a shoal of Mutant Giant Squids in Jamaica. However, it turned out that these squids were actually fleeing from a much larger predator, Crustaceous Rex. Godzilla engaged the sea beast as well, eventually defeating it after causing a cliff to collapse onto it. Godzilla subsequently freed the lost ships and swimmers stuck to the seafloor in tar produced by C-Rex. As a result, Major Hicks decided to spare Godzilla. Godzilla followed Nick back to New York, and taking up residence near H.E.A.T.'s headquarters.

The animated Godzilla has a stance similar to modern depictions of theropod dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and dromaeosauridae, in contrast to Godzilla's traditional upright humanoid posture.

The color of Godzilla's skin is a very desaturated purple that is lighter on the undersides in the series itself. The design has powerful, long legs and arms, which enable for very swift movement; something it was specifically designed to have.

Godzilla has a notably enormous underbite with a huge chin, and teeth that stick out of the mouth, much like crocodiles'. In contrast to Godzilla's traditional maple leaf-shaped dorsal plates, the ToraGoji has curved, spike-like dorsal plates, curving towards the front, described as looking somewhat like reversed shark fins.

Additionally, he has red eyes with orange pupils and lacks the fifth vestigial digit on his hands that his father and brethren possessed. When firing his Atomic Fire Breath, which is emerald green in color, his dorsal fins and eyes briefly light up blue.