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So the poorly translated [[Fan Nickname|Deanzilla]] [[Godzilla (Film)|movie]] got a noticeably [[More Popular Spinoff|more appreciated spinoff]] as ''Godzilla: [[Recycled: theThe Series|The Series]]''. In the first episode, one of the eggs that movie-[[Godzilla]] laid is found, it hatches and imprints on [[The Hero]] from the movie, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos. Naturally, he subsequently forms HEAT (the '''H'''umanitarian '''E'''nvironmental '''A'''nalysis '''T'''eam) with four other humans, Drs [[Deadpan Snarker|Elsie Chapman]] and [[The Smart Guy|Mendel Craven]] (both from the movie, as well), as well as [[Playful Hacker|Randy Hernandez]] and [[Action Girl|Monique Dupre]]. With Godzilla Junior loyal to Nick, they defend the world from various [[Kaiju]] that have abruptly sprung up, crazy and/or sinister humans and, eventually, invading psychic aliens.
 
Contrast the earlier ''[[The Godzilla Power Hour]]''.
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=== This series provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Action Girl]]: Monique.
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* [[Energy Absorption]]: Several of the monsters had this type of ability, whether it be against fire or some other form of energy.
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: Monique.
* [[Family -Friendly Firearms]]: A rare case of the shift to family-friendly lasers actually being part of the story. Real guns are used at first, but after "Monster Wars," where the invaders left some of their weapons behind on Earth, lasers start appearing in the military's hands.
* [[Fantastic Voyage]]: Of course, since they're going inside ''Godzilla'', no shrinking is required.
** Big Guy had some massive blood vessels, though.
* [[Feed It With Fire]]: Several times had Zilla fire his plasma breath at both a fire monster and a monster manifested from dreams("What Dreams May Come"), each time causing them to grow bigger and more powerful as a result. "D.O.A." had a military force use a biological weapon against a massive worm creature, but it turned out to be derived from its ''natural food'', so it fed on the weapon to grow bigger, stronger and pointier.
* [[Five -Man Band]] <!-- (drawn from loose memories; edit where appropriate) -->
** [[The Hero]]: Nick.
** [[The Lancer]]: Monique.
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* [[Nanomachines]]: The [[Nanomachines|Nanotech]] creature was originally designed to bio-degrade plastic. Naturally, it grows out-of-control and eats all the petroleum-based things it can find.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Averted with Monique and Randy.
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: Craven wants ''so badly'' to be one of these. Unfortunately, circumstances just won't let him.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Almost constantly; usually, Godzilla. And of course, many a [[Monster of the Week]] turned out to be [[Not Quite Dead]] come "Monster Wars."
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: In "D.O.A.," Randy and Monique break into a facility to obtain samples of the poison affecting Godzilla. Randy is made to stand guard and ends up surrounded by three armed guards. Monique steps out of the supply room, appraises the situation, and the scene cuts to a shot of the outside of the facility with the sounds of the fight cut over it. It moves back to show the three guards tied up.
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* [[Raised By Humans]]: Godzilla imprinted on Nick Tatapolous as his adopted father.
* [[Recurring Character|Recurring Monsters]]: In "Monster Wars," Crustaceous Rex, King Cobra, El Gusano, Queen Bee and Cryptocleidus all made return appearances. In the later episode "S.C.A.L.E.," Crustaceous Rex and King Cobra (as well as the Giant Bat introduced in "Monster Wars"') appeared again, this time as captives on Monster Island.
* [[Recycled: theThe Series]]
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]
* [[Ridiculous Future Sequelisation]]: A movie marquee in "Future Shock" displays "[[Ghostbusters (Film)|Ghostbusters]] ''10''"
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Craven and Randy.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: SCALE (Servants of Creatures Arriving Late to Earth), the [[Animal Wrongs Group]] who frees imprisoned [[Kaiju]] to [[Gaias Vengeance|purge humanity]].
* [[Whole -Plot Reference]]: The "Monster Wars" three-parter was based on the Godzilla movie ''Destroy All Monsters''.
** "Trust No One" is basically a PG-version of the ''[[The Thing (Film)|The Thing]]''.
** "Future Shock" is pretty much ''[[Reign of Fire]]'', which is impressive considering [[Older Than They Think|it came out three years before the movie]].
* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Zilla Senior is brought back as Cyber-Godzilla by aliens to fight the star of the show.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Cameron Winter
* [[WhosWho's Laughing Now?]]: "What Dreams May Come." A rather literal case there, as the Crackler monster has this weird chuckle-growl when active.
* [[Why Isn't It Attacking?]]: The reason why Junior didn't eat Nick in the first episode on their second encounter? Because he imprinted on Nick not long after hatching and sees Nick as his "dad".
 
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