“You are now flying Air Gamera. “
I know I should be doing a Christmas-themed article as December has begun, but Bounding Into Comics just posted an article by JB Augustyne about attempts to make a Godzilla Vs Gamera crossover and why it never happened, and I had to show that off.
I’m of two minds on this one. On the one mind, this would be one sweet monster battle, and Gamera is as much a Godzilla rival as King Kong. On the other I grew up with Godzilla during his “guardian monster” phase and always heard Gamera was one as well. The one time I tried to watch a Gamera movie as a kid was the one where aliens eat kid brains, and as a kid I dropped out of that as fast as I could reach the channel changer, but it was during the “friend to all children” period. I later got to see the first two movies in the 90s trilogy and the Dark Horse comics, where he was still protecting people. I don’t want to see heroes fight other heroes, I want them to fight villains, in this case the more evil monster.
Imagine if Gyaos and Ghidorah individually causing trouble, with Godzilla dealing with Gyaos and Gamera barely holding out against Ghidorah, both fights in a stalemate. At the climax the two threats are somehow merged into Superking Gyaosdorah, and it takes the combined power of Godzilla and Gamera to bring it down. Who wouldn’t want that story sitting underneath their Christmas tree?
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