Mechagodzilla
Mekagojira

AKA
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Mechagodzilla II
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The character evolved yet again in 2002, when the Millennium series took it's crack at this established 'Zilla foe.  In Godzilla X Mechagodzilla, Mechagodzilla became partially organic.  45 years after his original attack on Tokyo, another Godzilla surfaces in 1999.  After the devestation, the Japanese gevernment acts by surfacing the bones of the original Godzilla and building a giant cyborg around them.  The cyborg, codenamed Kiryu, is controlled via a separate vehicle in the sky by Akane Yahiro, who has vowed revenge upon Godzilla for the deaths of her fellow soldiers in the 1999 attack.  Akane and Kiryu are launched into battle when Godzilla surfaced once again in 2003.  Kiryu is remarkably effective on the beast, but freezes to a halt when Godzilla releases a massive bellow.  Awakening the former monster inside of him, Kiryu goes bezerk and starts attacking Tokyo, with nothing Yuri can do to stop him.  Soon, Kiryu's power source is run out, and the giant cyborg halts.  Kiryu is taken back to headquarters and taken offline.  But plans to keep Kiryu out of commission were dropped when Godzilla surfaced once again and attacked the cities of Japan.  Akane and Kiryu are launched into action once again, and this time Godzilla is ready.  In the ensuing battle, Godzilla knocks Kiryu off line and Akane is given no choice but to drop into Kiryu and opperate him manually.  Getting Kiryu back to it's feet, Akane takes the cyborg and thrusts him toward Godzilla, gripping onto the beast and flying him out to sea.  Akane fires Kiryu's ultimate weapon, Absolute Zero, a freezing ray that turns everything in front of it into ice.  When the weapon is fired, the small portion of the sea become frozen, but as the ice breaks, Godzilla arises once again.  However, Godzilla turns around in defeat and returns to the watery depths.  Kiryu rises as well, but is out of power.  Akane stands upon it's sholder and watches Godzilla swim away.

In the 2003 sequel
Godzilla:  Tokyo S.O.S., a year has passed since the great battle between monster and machine.  Kiryu is still under repair, the Asolute Zero cannon is destroyed, Akane has stepped down as it's pilot, and Godzilla is still out at sea as the world awaits his return.  In the upcoming days of the final decisive battle, the twin fairy Shobijin of the giant protector of the Earth, Mothra, warns the human race that the bones of the original Godzilla must be returned to sea or consequences will be suffered.  Appalled at the notion of losing their one and only weapon capable of matching Godzilla, the Prime Minister of Japan believes that the disposal of Kiryu would bring disaster to the nation.  However, the dispute remained unresolved, for Godzilla has arisen in Tokyo.  The Shobijin offer the services of Mothra, and the giant moth was sent into battle with the King of the Monsters.  While the battle was great and long, Mothra was outmatched.  Unable to wait any longer, Japan is forced to launch Kiryu once more to assist Mothra and defend their country.  His appearance prolongs the battle, yet Mothra becomes mortally wounded and Kiryu is knocked offline, allowing Godzilla to continue his rampage.  However, off-shore, Mothra's egg had hatched and the twin larvae went off in search of their mother.  Upon reaching the scene of the battle, they find their mother dying and join the battle to defend her.  As the battle rages on, the adult Mothra is killed and the babies are left to defend Japan by themselves.  However Kiryu was brought back online in time to help the inheretors of Mothra's legacy to defeat the beast once and for all.  The twin larvae spin a cocoon around Godzilla, and Kiryu grasps Godzilla and flies him out to sea once more, only this time humanity sacrifices their greatest weapon and bury it in the depths of the ocean along with the beast.  But what if Godzilla were to return?

That question, however, was never answered.  Godzilla did return, but in an alternate timeline where Kiryu did not exist.  Will Mechagodzilla rise ever again?  The character is too popular not too (hell, there was even an interpretation in 1998's Godzilla:  The Series called Cyber-Godzilla, not to different than Kiryu in concept, either).  Chances are, when G rises again, Mechagodzilla won't be far behind.  Give them a few movies to get to him, though.

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