Varan (バラン, Baran ) is a giant gliding monitor lizard kaiju that first appeared in the 1958 Toho film Varan and was later incorporated into the Godzilla series in Destroy All Monsters in 1968.
Decades later, the creature changed back into a turtle, its shell being whole. The first time this feat was used it took days, as the turtle changed into a woman. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured … [1] Gamera is a giant, flying turtle-like creature from a popular series of daikaiju eiga monster movies produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. The second Gamera film, also known as War of the Monsters, but best known as Gamera vs. Baragon, and the first to be filmed in colour, retrieves the flying turtle from outer space by way of a meteor to face an obvious third-rate Godzilla rip-off with ice breath instead of fire and a dorsal fin that makes rainbows.

The following is a list of minor monsters from kaiju-related media, sorted by the medium in which they appear.


Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho Studios' Godzilla during the kaiju boom of the mid-to-late 1960s, Gamera has gained fame and notoriety as a Japanese icon in his own right. The tale of how Frankenstein’s Monster arrived at Toho films is a long and storied one. This process saw the shell crack and be left behind. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho Studios' Godzilla during the kaiju boom of the mid-to-late 1960s, Gamera has gained fame and notoriety as a Japanese icon in his own right. In the mid-'90s, Toho (who now owns the Gamera brand), rebooted the series with a trilogy of movies directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It damaged the ship, but left no casualties. The Red Turtle was able to shape shift. The Toho Timeline is a complex and confusing franchise from all cinematic universe. The giant turtle was first seen off the coast of Alaska when it sank the Borealis, the ship that Niko Tatopoulos and Audrey Timmonds were having a romantic cruise on.

Gamera.

Gamera is a giant, flying turtle-like creature from a popular series of daikaiju eiga monster movies produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo (大怪獣東京に現わる, Daikaijū Tōkyō ni Arawaru) is a 1998 kaiju comedy film co-produced by Yoshimoto Kogyo, Marubeni, and Tokyu Agency and distributed by Shochiku. It was released to Japanese theaters on September 26, 1998. The Giant Turtle (ジャイアントタートル Jaianto Tātoru) is a kaiju that appeared in the Godzilla: The Series episode, End of the Line. Varan somewhat looks like a cross between a turtle and a lizard, though his specific species is a monitor lizard. A flying turtle with questionable dental work, he began as a knockoff of Godzilla by a rival studio in the mid-'60s. This is defined as any kaiju, kaijin, animals, or other beings whose roles have little overall relevance in the media they are featured in, have limited screentime, or do not have enough information to warrant a dedicated page, and which are generally not trademarked. It's unknown if the Red Turtle could change into other shapes besides a human being.