Giant Monsters In Love

It's Valentine's Day, and what better way to celebrate than to take a quick look back at bizarre moments in giant monster history, when the air was thick with romance.

"Inhumanoids: Primal Passions

The 1980's cartoon (loosely inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft), was a fairly strait faced affair when it came to its main villains, the subterranean beasts which included the demonic tyrant Metlar, the dinosaur zombie D.Compose, and the destructive plant being Tendril. But as with all cartoon shows from this era, even the Inhumanoids had their silly moments, with this as a particularly infamous example!

A failed chemical experiment puts our three monstrous villains...well...in the mood, who then seek out worthy mates for each of them. Though to be honest, only D.Compose ends up somewhat successful, by re-hooking up with the human heroine Sandra Shore. You can watch this surreal episode in the following link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9qQK…

Godzilla's Dr. Pepper Commercials

In an early example of a movie product tie-ins, the US distributor of "Godzilla 1985", New World, teamed up with Dr. Pepper for mutual exposure. And resulted in some truly awkward product placement in the American version, while Godzilla stared in some surprisingly decent comedy ads on television.

The second of which featured a brand new monster, either called 'Newzilla' or 'Mrs. Godzilla', of whom the King of the Monsters becomes instantly smitten to (must be those blue spotlight eyes of her's). Warning, the following videos have low audio.

Ad #1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhUTn…
Ad #2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ZBxL…

"Godzilla the Series: End of the Line"

Of course you can't talk about Newzilla without mentioning a far more beloved suitor to the King of the Monsters...or at least the animated American incarnation, that fans can tolerate better than the 1998 movie that spawned it.

Komodithrax is a mutated Komodo Dragon who is discovered on an isolated arctic oasis, heated by geothermic features. And because Komodithrax is somewhat similar to the mutant iguana version of Godzilla (or Zilla), the two fall in love, with Godzilla becoming a surrogate father to the female monster's unhatched egg. Unfortunately, both a trigger happy US military, and a Giant Arctic Turtle, threatens this makeshift monster family.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8R1s…

Other Notable Giant-Sized Couples

The following are just quick shout outs to some notably happy monster items, of whom I couldn't find any good videos to. And yes, I fully understand a lot of these characters met tragic ends, but what you going to do...

It's Valentine's day; of course there's going to be some disappointment!

"Rodan" (1956) - the two Rodans

"Monsters From A Prehistoric Planet" (1967) - Mister and Misses Gappa (youtu.be/2cLu8ibs6nQ)

"The Return of Ultraman" Episodes 13-14 - Seamons and Seagorath

"Ultraman Taro" - The Ultra Father and Ultra Mother

"Ultraman 80" - Ultraman 80 and Yullian

"King Kong Lives" (1986) - King Kong and Lady Kong

"Ultraman: Towards the Future" Episode 10 "Tourists from the Stars" - Ryugulo and Veronica

"Ultraman Dyna" Episode - the Gigantes primates

"Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger" - Grifforzar and Lamie (AKA Goldar and Scorpina)

"Power Rangers Jungle Fury: Dance The Night Away" (EP 6)
- Toady and Stingarella

"Power Rangers Zeo" - Prince Gasket and Archerina

"Engine Sentai Go-Onger" - Engine Speedor and Engine Bearrv