Paramount vs Tristar! Two American Kaiju go claws-to-claws in a battle to the death!
Interlude[]
Tabashi: Ah, New York. Home to many people, businesses, attacks, and-
Angel: A few giant monsters! Like Zilla, the Giant Lizard.
Tabashi: And Cloverfield, the Large Scale Aggressor.
Angel: He’s Tabashi and I’m Angel!
Tabashi: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win in a Death Battle!
Zilla[]
Tabashi: The year was 1968, just 14 years after Godzilla's surfacing.
Angel: There was a nuclear test going on in the Maruroa Atoll Islands, and it seemed fine at first. But little did those fools know that they had mutated an innocent marine Iguana, which would one day become the biggest pain in Godzilla's ass!
Tabashi: Enter Zilla, the Giant Lizard and King of the Mistakes.
Angel: I must say, I do like Zilla now, but there IS something we still need to address.
Tabashi: The Zilla from 1998 is legally a Godzilla, as well as his son.
Angel: Yeah, it turns out that when Toho bought Zilla's rights from Tristar, they had some kind of agreement or something. So legally, Godzilla 1998 and Zilla are "entirely separate creatures".
Tabashi: Correct. Anyways, 30 years after his mutation, Zilla sought out revenge. So, like any pissed off Giant Lizard, Zilla went to New York City, and terrorized it.
Angel: The military tried to fight back (luring him out with 20 metric tons, or 20,000 pounds, of fish), but Zilla defeated them and rampaged through the city.
Tabashi: Zilla was then battled by the military again, and seemingly killed by a torpedo.
Angel: I can hear all you anti-Zilla people shouting "hooray!", but-
Tabashi: I said "seemingly." Yeah, long story short, the torpedo did NOT kill Zilla, so he resurfaced when his asexually-reproduced offspring-
Angel: Blech!
Tabashi: -Were blown all to hell.
Angel: Aw, poor guy, all he wants is to start a family! Anyways, Zilla got pissed, and ended up on the Brooklyn Bridge, where his scutes got him stuck, and he was killed by at least 12 F-18 Hornet missiles.
Tabashi: …Or was he? Anyway, Zilla weighs about 500 metric tons (pretty lightweight for a Kaiju), and has a plethora of abilities, not counting his Cybernetic form.
Angel: He's got 6-foot long claws (huh, look more like 12 feet.) which are great for burrowing and slashing.
Tabashi: His son has a variation of the Atomic Breath, called the Power Breath, and that stuff is able to exert at least 1.3 Megatons of TNT.
Angel: And since Zilla and Zilla Jr. are the same species, we can safely assume that Zilla possesses Power Breath as well.
Tabashi: Oh, and did we mention that Zilla is one speedy bastard? Well, he is!
Angel: Zilla’s top speed has been said to be around 300-500mph (well, in the Tristar era, anyway), and by factoring that into a Kinetic Energy calculator, we found it to be around 1.07469-2.98525 tons of TNT! Or, for simplicity's sake, 1.1-3 tons of TNT.
Tabashi: Zilla can react fast enough to dodge missiles and torpedoes at close range, as well as catch an AH-64 Apache Helicopter in his mouth!
Angel: Holy crap, this guy is fast to react! How much caffeine stuff do you think this guy drinks in the morning?
Tabashi: Zilla hasn't really shown any strength feats, but he should logically be strong enough to push around his own weight, 500 metric tons.
Angel: However, Zilla’s not without his weaknesses. Zilla’s a big, skinny coward, as he ran away from a few helicopters when they started shooting at him.
Tabashi: Also, his scutes, while able to tear most things with ease, can be caught up in things like suspension cables.
Angel: And as we said before, Zilla was killed by the F-18 Hornet missiles, though it should be worth noting that it took at least 12 to do so.
Tabashi: But even with those weaknesses, Zilla’s still a Kaiju, and you don’t want to stand in his way!
Cloverfield[]
Tabashi: The year was 2008, just 10 short years after a certain Giant Lizard attacked New York, and 75 years after most versions of the King of Skull Island did so.
Angel: But, just when you thought that there would be some peace and quiet, some submarines had to go down to the depths of the ocean in order to investigate investigate something.
Tabashi: Seriously, what the hell is it with people using submarines? They just end up waking up Kaiju! You'd think they would learn something at least ONCE! Anyways, instead of finding the sunken corpse of the Titanic, some kind of ancient treasure, or even Atlantis (in all of its incarnations), they awakened something huge. Something powerful. They awakened the Kaiju known as Cloverfield.
Angel: Cloverfield stands at 240-300 feet tall on all fours (and 351 feet tall when biped), weighs 5,806.04 metric tons. So he's a lightweight that has multiple arms. Great! He spends his time destroying New York, and tried to eat the Statue of Liberty's head.
Tabashi: It must not have tasted good, because Cloverfield straight-up THREW THE HEAD ALL THE WAY TO MANHATTAN! Damn, he'd fit right in on that one Godzilla-Ultraman-Gundam-Kamen Rider baseball game! Well, amazing throwing skills aside, Cloverfield’s origins are unknown. Sure, the subs may have AWAKENED him, but we don't know where he came from.
Angel: Well, there IS that rumor that since Clover was mentioned (at some point) in Pacific Rim: Uprising, he could've originated from their realm. And possibly during The Cloverfield Paradox, he was brought to the CloverVerse instead of the Anteverse. However, since that has not been confirmed yet, just take it with a grain of salt.
Tabashi: Anyways, Clover's relatives include parasites that are the size of dogs, and they number in at just about 2,000. Both Cloverfield and his parasites have one thing in common... they have toxic bites.
Angel: The venom is so strong, it can kill a monster, as long as they don't have a decent healing factor. Cloverfield also has super thick skin, which is how he survived the intense pressure of the bottom of the ocean. As a bonus, it's fire-resistant!
Tabashi: In addition to that, Cloverfield is invulnerable to military weapons. In fact, in 2008, New York was sacrificed as a war zone in order to SUPPOSEDLY kill the monster. But in The Cloverfield Paradox (which DOES take place after the events of Cloverfield), the monster shown as an adult was confirmed to be the original Cloverfield.
Angel: But since it has not yet been shown what the adult Clover can do, the form does not belong here. Aside from that, though, Clover's got a few major weaknesses. His only combat experience is with the military, and not another Kaiju. Kind of like Shin Godzilla.
Tabashi: Cloverfield also isn't that intelligent (given that he's just a 351-foot tall baby), although what he lacks in smarts he makes up for in tenacity.
Angel: Also, towards the end of his movie, when we thought this destructive monster was dead, he pounces on a group of civilians, looked right at the main character's camera, and literally BIT HIM IN HALF!
Tabashi: Cloverfield is definitely one of the most viciously tenacious Kaiju to have made his way into the world, and I wouldn't dare try to cross his path.
Death Battle![]
Tabashi: All righty then. The combatants are set, and we've run the data through all possible outcomes.
Angel: It's time for a New York Death Battle!
Pre-Fight[]
Skull Island Coastline
It's a pretty good-looking day on Skull Island. The Sun is shining, the ocean is calm, and a Kaiju is scrounging around for food. This Kaiju is Zilla, the Giant Lizard, and he is scrounging around for food. Zilla sniffs the sand, he spots a few dead carcasses, and runs over to investigate them.
Upon arriving at the carcasses, Zilla identifies them as a pod of whales, with rather mysterious bite marks in them. Zilla wants to eat the remains before anything else can get to them, but when he sniffs one of the whales, Zilla smells something unfamiliar and toxic. Zilla decided to leave the whales for the other creatures, hoping the toxin would lessen their numbers. Zilla was worried, for he needed food for the offspring he had just laid, or they would all starve.
Just as Zilla was about to leave the whales and proceed with sniffing the area, however, the sound of a tree branch snapping caught his attention. Zilla turned towards the noise and squinted, hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever made the branch snap. Zilla could see nothing, and the glare of the sunlight certainly did not help. But just as Zilla turned his head away from the spot, a large creature almost as big as Zilla leapt out of the foliage, ramming Zilla full force! Zilla was knocked back, and tumbled into the water as the other creature stood up.
The creature was none other than Cloverfield, the Large Scale Aggressor, and he was hungry, too. Zilla stood back up in the water, and gave an angry roar. Cloverfield roared back, clearly mad that the tackle didn't kill Zilla. The two Titans charged each other, each filled with both hunger and murderous intent.
Cloverfield and Zilla collide, creating a miniature shockwave that stopped a wave from coming in. Clover tries to bitch-slap Zilla with his long arms, but Zilla ducks under the swipe, letting loose a stream of Power Breath. The green flames hit Cloverfield in the stomach, with Clover screaming out in pain as his stomach was being scorched. Clover decided to put a stop to the burning pain, so he raised an arm, and smacked Zilla on the top of his head. The force of the blow forced the Giant Lizard to stop the onslaught of Power Breath, knocking his chin on the sand.
Cloverfield, sensing the opportunity, ran at Zilla to tackle him, but the Giant Lizard had already come to his senses. Zilla sidestepped Cloverfield, jumped onto his back, and started clawing and slashing the light gray skin. Clover roared in pain and used his long arms to grab Zilla, lift him off his back, and hurl the Giant Lizard several hundred feet away into the ocean water. Zilla realized he was not going to be able to defeat his opponent physically, so he needed another strategy. As Zilla got to his feet, he had finally figured out how to end this battle.
Zilla suddenly sped around Cloverfield in a circle, releasing streams of Power Breath in the process. Clover screamed in pain and agony as he tried to slap Zilla with his long arms, failing every time. Finally, Zilla ran towards Cloverfield, blasted the LSA with a stream of Power Breath to blind him, and used his scutes to slit Clover’s throat open! Cloverfield gurgled our one last roar before falling to the ground, death having taken over.
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Zilla went over to Cloverfield’s dead body and sniffed it, hoping that it could be edible. The Giant Lizard was disappointed, however, to detect the same toxin that was on the whales. Zilla decided to swim out to sea, eying a fishing boat that housed a teenager wearing a Freddy Krueger hat. Meanwhile, the other creatures were fighting over Cloverfield's carcass, as well as the whale carcasses.
Results[]
Angel: Holy God damn, that was awesome! Poor Zilla, though. All that fighting for nothing.
Tabashi: Yeah, I’ll admit, that was a bit cruel. Logical, though, since Clover’s toxin flows through his bloodstream. Anyways, sorry to all you Abrams fans out there. I know Clover needs a win, but this just wasn't the one.
Angel: To be fair, Cloverfield was indeed the stronger of the two. He weighs 5,806.04 metric tons, while Zilla only weighs 500 metric tons. Also, Zilla can generate 3 tons of TNT at best, while Cloverfield can generate 21 tons of TNT at least.
Tabashi: That puts Cloverfield at 11.6 times stronger, as well as generating 7 times more tons of TNT at absolute minimum. Because of this, we can assume that the Large Scale Aggressor was more durable (since characters that generate kinetic energy logically are able to survive that amount of energy). In addition, Clover was slightly larger, being up to 300 feet tall (when quadruped), while Zilla was, at his best, 295 feet tall.
Angel: Unfortunately for Cloverfield, though, that's where the tide starts to turn the other way.
Tabashi: Zilla was, at best, a little over twice as fast as Cloverfield, able to run 500mph at his best. In contrast, Clover can run 224mph at his best. But hey, speed alone ain't winning a fight, right? Well, intelligence helps.
Angel: Zilla is able to regularly outsmart humans, and even faked his own death at one point! Cloverfield is just a baby, and is mostly driven by instinct or emotion.
Tabashi: So Clover had strength and Zilla had speed. At first glance, it seems like Clover could just wear Zilla out, and then tag the Giant Lizard with a fatal blow. Fortunately for Zilla, though, that Power Breath changes everything!
Angel: That stuff can reach, at absolute least, 1.3 Megatons of TNT, or 1,300,000 tons of TNT! That's 61,905 times more powerful than Cloverfield's kinetic energy!
Tabashi: Now, I know what you're thinking: "These guys are crazy. Zilla doesn't have any Power breath, just that stupid flame attack!" Well, you'd be right and wrong at the same time.
Angel: While it is true that Zilla never showed the ability to use Power Breath in the film, Zilla Junior has. And since Zilla and Jr. are the same species (and even bloodline), it is NOT outlandish to assume that Zilla can do the same.
Tabashi: Honestly, the only reason this fight lasted so long is because Zilla would not immediately realize that the Power breath was such an effective weapon. If he HAD, the fight would've been over in 10 seconds FLAT.
Angel: Oh, by the way, for those of you who think using the TriStar Zilla was too unfair, literally every other incarnation of Zilla is more powerful than this. So don't even start with us.
Tabashi: Also, even if we were to allow Cloverfield outside help from his parasites, then that means Zilla would get to have his offspring too. Sure, the offspring would be quite literally outnumbered 10 to 1, but Zilla cares more about his offspring than Cloverfield about his parasites, so he would be more likely to help them out.
Angel: Well, I guess Zilla is the true Big Apple of this fight!
Tabashi: Bad New York joke?
Angel: Bad New York joke.
Tabashi: The winner (so glad to finally say this) is Zilla.
Next Time, Baby![]
Tabashi: Next time on Death Battle!
(Cloverfield roars, angered at having been found)
(King Kong beats his chest and roars in rage)
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Trivia[]
- The connection between Cloverfield and Zilla is that they are both ugly-looking, lightweight Kaiju that have terrorized New York.
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