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[23 Oct 2012|09:19pm] |
The Grogg movie series are all based on actual events and, whenever possible, use pieces of footage from those actual events, combined with special effects. In more recent years, participation from Grogg has made these films even more successful and easier to produce.
GROGG: THE TERRIBLE TERRAPIN
In a mostly accurate retelling--including using some actual footage from that day--of Grogg's reawakening in the mid-fifties world, a nuclear test awakes and mutates a prehistoric turtle frozen in the ice. It travels through the ocean, where it has a battle with and defeats a monstrous squid, before reaching Tokyo. There, most military power proves useless, until an experiment MASER -cannon hurts the beast enough to cause him to return to the ocean. The creature is named Grogg because of the sound of the roar it frequently makes.
GROGG VS. GIGANTO: MARINE MENACES
Two years after the initial attack by Grogg, alien forces arrive on Earth and awaken the great giant whale with arms, Giganto. The JSDF marine force proves powerless to stop the giant whale, which heads further inland, with its eventual goal being revealed to obtain an experimental energy reactor for the aliens. In the meantime, a submarine discovers and accidentally awakens sleeping Grogg, recovered finally from the events of the first movie. Receiving radio contact from Japan, the sub manages to lure Grogg back to Japan, where it battles and defeats Giganto, returning it to the ocean, before turning on the aliens as well. MASER-Cannons manage to cause Grogg to return to the ocean again too, but prove less effective than last time.
GODZILLA: CHALLENGE OF THE TERRAPIN
When scientists capture Godzilla and return him to Japan for study, evil communist agents seek out a monster of their own and locate the powerful Grogg. Leading Grogg to Japan, they turn him loose on the country, giving the JSDF no choice but to release Godzilla when their MASER technology proves ineffective. Godzilla battles Grogg to a standstill, until the JSDF subdues both monsters with a special gas. Transporting the two monsters to a secure facility, both are freed when the communist agents sabotage the transport. The two resume their fight, but their battle threatens to endanger a boss full of children on a class trip. Grogg purposefully shifts the battle away from there, but is ultimately tossed back into the ocean by Godzilla. This is the first film to begin to establish Grogg as the "Friend to All Children" he would later become.
GIANT MONSTER BATTLE!
An evil cult resurrects King Ghidorah. While Godzilla battles the evil kaiju, his ally, Rodan, seeks out help from other monsters and finds and battles the mighty Grogg! The flying kaiju proves no match for the terrible terrapin, until help comes in the form of another monster... MOTHRA! Grogg refuses to battle Mothra and follows her to Japan, where the four monsters combine their strength against Ghidorah. When Motha is badly injured, Grogg becomes enraged and fiercely battles Ghidorah, giving Rodan and Godzilla the chance they need to recover as well. Ghidorah is defeated, but seemingly at the cost of Grogg's life. Godzilla and Rodan return to their natural habitats, but Mothra remains by his side, even as the military arrives.
GROGG: FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN
Widely seen as a turning point for the series, it picks up where Giant Monster Battle! left off, with the mighty Grogg seemingly having been killed by King Ghidorah. Mothra and her fairy companions remain in Japan, believing that Grogg is not yet dead, but not really alive either. With Grogg's body being taken for study, the government builds Mecha-Grogg, a mecha-counterpart to Grogg to use in defense against other Kaiju. But when agents of HYDRA steal the Mecha-Grogg, they attempt to force Japan to surrender to their rule. Even the JSDF and SHIELD prove ineffective against the mecha, and Mothra is forced to intervene, but proves no match for its mechanical might. It is only when Mecha-Grogg threatens to destroy a stadium full of school children that the Shobijin lead the children of Japan to sing, resurrecting the mighty Grogg to defeat his mechanical counterpart with renewed energy and strength. Grogg is seen at the end of the film leaving with Mothra.
GROGG: DEFENDER OF THE EARTH
In this installment, Grogg fully takes on heroic status. When the evil Doctor Demonicus unleashes an army of mutated monsters on Japan, the JSDF unleashes the powerful robot, Red Ronin, to fight them off. Driven away from Japan, Demonicus returns to Monster Island, where agents of the government have tracked him. Demonicus discovers them, however, and has them incorporated into a giant monster that is a fusion of several different animals. When he turns this creature on Japan, the call and song go out for a hero, and Grogg is summoned from the ocean. With the help of Red Ronin, Grogg defeats the creature and Doctor Demonicus is seemingly killed... but is revealed to have survived in a post-credits stinger.
GROGG: RACE FOR THE COSMIC EGG
When Mothra falls in battle defending Infant Island from giant spider-monsters, the mighty Grogg surfaces from the ocean to defend her home. He defeats the monster and mourns the loss of Mothra, but is comforted by the Shobijin, who explain to him, and a group of visiting scientists and their children, that Mothra will be reborn from the egg she had laid not long ago. Terrorists also arrive, however, and steal the egg with their giant robot, Mechano. But Doctor Demonicus also wants the egg and has assumed control of the kaiju Gorosaurs, mutating him further. Thus begins a three-way race, leading to a showdown where Grogg battles to protect the twin offspring the hatch from the egg, a male and female child. When Grogg begins to falter, the children grow at an accelerated rate into a reborn Mothra and a male Leo Mothra, who, together with Grogg, defeat both Mechano and Doctor Demonicus, saving Japan yet again.
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