Godzilla (Showa) vs. Superman (Super Friends)

## Description

*The King of the Monsters takes on the Man of Steel with a campy twist.*

## Interlude

Hiro: These two great protectors of the Earth are gods amongst men...

**MBStarscream: And goofy goobers! Gotta love a little camp.**

Hiro: Godzilla, the King of the Monsters from the Showa era.

**MBStarscream: And Superman, the Man of Steel from the Super Friends.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Godzilla (Showa)

Hiro: As Godzilla perished at the hands of the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954, a dark shadow was cast over the future of the human race. Nuclear weapons had created Godzilla in the first place; who was to say that continued testing of these destructive weapons wouldn't create another one in the future?

**MBStarscream: The answer to that question came less than a year later, when a second Godzilla was sighted on Iwato Island, locked in battle with a giant ankylosaur named dAnguirus. Like his predecessor, this Godzilla was awakened by nuclear testing in the South Pacific, causing him to absorb huge amounts of radiation and driving him from his natural underwater habitat.**

Hiro: In revenge, Godzilla would attack humanity various times for causing him general trouble and pain. During this period, Godzilla also picked fights with just about any monster he ran into, even if there was no real benefit from it.

**MBStarscream: Until one day, the space monster King Ghidorah came to Earth. Upon seeing Mothra's brave attempts to fight the alien, Godzilla was inspired to join the battle and with her and Rodan's help, repelled the three-headed terror. Godzilla would go on to become a frequent defender of the Earth, rising whenever the planet's well-being was threatened by malevolent forces, whether they were other monsters or sinister alien races.**

Hiro: Standing 50 meters tall and weighing 20,000 tons, Godzilla's strength is also almost unparalleled, able to lift monsters many times his size. An accomplished melee fighter, Godzilla fights like a boxer in addition to using more savage techniques owing to his powerful jaws, sharp teeth and claws. His tail is also a formidable weapon in addition to balancing his body and allowing him to walk on land. It has been shown to be very flexible and powerful, able to lash out quickly and topple over buildings and enemy monsters with ease.

**MBStarscream: It can support his sheer weight, propel him into the air, and let him slide a great distance to deliver a wicked dropkick.**

Hiro: As expected, Godzilla is covered in tough scales that repel military assault as well as other monster attacks. More than that, Godzilla has incredible pain tolerance that allows him to fight on through horrible wounds.

**MBStarscream: Later in his career, Godzilla developed a healing factor that let him recover from having his entire right hand burned to the bone by Hedorah, and cuts that caused severe bleeding from Gigan and Mechagodzilla. Godzilla is also much faster than his lumbering bulk would suggest, being quite deft in his movements and able to overwhelm many a monster with his speed.**

Hiro: Godzilla is quite intelligent for a kaiju, able to think up strategic plans, communicate with other monsters, sometimes *talking*...

*Godzilla: Something funny's going on, you better check!*

Hiro: ...and generally understand the world around him. He even built a house once.

**MBStarscream: That's not the weirdest Godzilla can get. He can absorb radiation and electricity, survive in outer space, turn himself into a living magnet, and carries a virus called "G-virus" that makes plants and animals that are touched by him slowly grow giant-sized. Yeah.**

Hiro: But Godzilla is best known for his signature Atomic Breath, which actually started out as a white radioactive mist before being replaced with a more focused, blue beam. Both stages of this Atomic Breath are devastating in their own right, as the mist form alone could melt metal, causing raging fires, and burned Anguirus to death.

**MBStarscream: Other monsters have shown a greater resistance to the Atomic Breath, but it's still able to destroy whole buildings and military weapons with ease. It reaches temperatures of up to 100,000 degrees Celsius, and just to put that in perspective, the hottest flame is produced by carbon subnitride which, at one atmosphere pressure, can generate a flame calculated to reach 4,988 degrees Celsius. So yeah, it's pretty hot.**

Hiro: Oh, it's more than hot. It was able to shoot Gigan out of the air, who could fly at speeds of up to Mach 3 while in Earth's atmosphere and Mach 400 in space, and Godzilla can use it to achieve flight by aiming it at the ground and lifting off like a rocket. In order to propel 20,000 tons of Godzilla through the air at speeds of up to Mach 1, the Atomic Breath would have to generate a force of up to 328 trillion PSI.

**MBStarscream: He's immune to poisonous attacks like Mothra's dust and Kumonga's stinger, and he's survived point-blank shots from Ghidorah's Gravity Beams, which get their name from the fact that they can "destroy the gravity of its opponents". Bet you didn't know that.**

Hiro: Ghidorah was also the greatest weapon of the Garogas, making him superior to their nukes, which could destroy gas giants. And Godzilla has repelled him several times, albeit with help. And at the end of the 20th century, Godzilla and his monster friends would finally put an end to Ghidorah and his masters, allowing Godzilla to live out the rest of his days in peace.

**MBStarscream: He's been paired up with Zone Fighter, who fought Dorola, a kaiju with fourth-dimensional abilities that had to be removed for Zone Fighter to win against him, meaning Godzilla can scale to fourth-dimensional shit. Going back to Ghidorah real quick, the guy can literally convert stars and cosmic rays into energy, and Godzilla's taken hits from him.**

Hiro: Despite his impressive showings, Godzilla isn't exempt from weaknesses. While he originally had a weakness to electricity, this weakness was overcame. However, he never managed to overcome his weakness to freezing temperatures and has been defeated by them twice.

**MBStarscream: He also reacts strongly to flares and bright lights in general due to them reminding him of the flash of the nuclear bomb he was irradiated by, and he's rather slow and clunky.**

Hiro: Other kaiju have been a match for him, with some like King Kong and Mothra's Larvae even besting him outright, while others like Ghidorah, Gigan and Mechagodzilla have required outside aid for Godzilla to triumph over them. But it is precisely his trials to becoming a savior instead of a destroyer that have earned him the moniker of King of the Monsters.

*Godzilla does a victory dance after driving away King Ghidorah.*

## Superman (Super Friends)

Hiro: Good stories are worth retelling, like the birth of Kal-El on the planet Krypton, home to the Kryptonians.

**MBStarscream: It may seem like we've covered this already, but don't worry, there'll be plenty of differences from comic Supes later.**

Hiro: Everything was fine and dandy until Jor-El, the head scientist on the planet, presaged that Krypton was going to explode. In an effort to save his son, Jor-El and his wife, Lara, put their only child inside a spaceship and sent him to a small backwater planet named Earth, in the hopes that he would live and be made strong by its yellow sun. More on that later.

**MBStarscream: Kal would end up in a small town in Kansas called Smallville and was raised by two loving parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent. Raised with the name Clark Kent and taught high morals, he lived a double life: acting as a reporter for the Daily Planet on one end and leading the Super Friends on the other.**

Hiro: From then on, he wouldn't be just a mere man. He would be... Superman.

**MBStarscream: With this Superman being based on the Silver Age incarnation of the character, he retains the abilities you'd expect from the Man of Steel. This includes the abilities that come with being a Kryptonian, which are granted to him by the radiation of a yellow sun.**

Hiro: His super strength allows him to push planets and part of the moon, and his super speed, while not on the same level as the Flash, still lets him break through the time barrier and therefore travel through time. And he isn't called the Man of Steel for nothing; bullets simply bounce off him, and he can clash with the likes of Bizarro, whose strength equals his own. He's even tanked a full power blast from Lord Darkon's flagship, which would've destroyed the planet Exxor.

**MBStarscream: His x-ray vision can see past almost anything, and I say almost because lead is inexplicably one of the only materials it doesn't work on. Good thing Superman's got that ol' heat vision to burn through it.**

Hiro: Or anything else for that matter. Heat vision is hot enough to instantly melt blocks of ice and evaporate large masses of water, and if he prefers it cold, he can expel air from his body at a superhuman rate; with focus, he can lower the temperature of this super breath, which can freeze objects he blows at.

**MBStarscream: With precise muscle control, Superman can also enhance his own voice as if speaking through a microphone. He can even throw his own voice superhuman distances, making it seem as though someone else far away from him is talking rather than him.**

Hiro: Superman can breathe and clearly talk underwater, tunnel through the ground at super speeds, alter radioactive energy and alter its effects, grab and ball up electric forcefields, hold his breath indefinitely, and deflect any attack, from planet-destroying laser beams to a blast from Sinestro's Qwardian Power Ring. He can see great distances, see objects at the microscopic level, and see the infrared and electromagnetic spectrums.

**MBStarscream: Over the course of his life and acquisition of power under a yellow sun, Superman has learned how to place mental inhibitors on his own power. These "limiters" as he calls them are used to keep his power in check so that he doesn't accidentally "flex and cause the tectonic plates to shift."**

Hiro: Though it is known that he has placed several of these limiters within his own mind, it is unknown how many and just how powerful he would be if he decided to release them all. To him, they are the barriers that allow him to be human enough to live a normal life, and he only ever releases one of them when fighting a particularly powerful opponent or performing a predominately difficult task. When he punches a normal human, his punch is considerably pulled, otherwise they could be knocked clear to another planet, and die instantly.

**MBStarscream: Superman has been trained in various forms of combat, allowing him to take on supervillains his own strength. Even Zi-Kree, the Super Friends equivalent of General Zod, couldn't defeat the Man of Steel in a hand-to-hand battle.**

Hiro: One type of hand-to-hand combat Superman is skilled in is the martial art of boxing, and in addition to that, Superman is also skilled in at least two forms of Kryptonian martial arts. And while Batman has the Batmobile, Superman's got the Supermobile, a space car that he uses for transportation through outer space... even thought he can just fly.

**MBStarscream: Man, a lot of comic characters had their own vehicles back in the day, didn't they?**

Hiro: Superman has also studied the art of ventriloquism, an act of stagecraft in which a person speaks in such a way that it looks like their voice is coming from a different location. He can throw his voice even in the vacuum of space so that he can be heard there, which would otherwise normally be silent. This indicates that when he talks, he is able to release and manipulate the air molecules inside his body, to the extent that sound is present once the air molecules reach the person he intends to communicate with.

**MBStarscream: Superman has resisted the effects of radiation and extreme temperatures alike, noting that no radiation can affect him aside from Kryptonite. This includes the cosmic radiations of space, and a different radiation that had mutagenic effects on his teammates. He can submerge in lava without sustaining injury, endure his own heat vision, urvive in close proximity to the sun, endure super flares, and survive being frozen at absolute zero.**

Hiro: With his godlike powers alongside other legendary heroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Cyborg, Robin, Firestorm and more, Superman has save the whole planet and even the universe at large from countless threats. From Lex Luthor and his Legion of Doom to the New Gods of Apokolips, Superman has fought them all in pursuit of the highest forms of good: Truth, Justice, and the American way.

**MBStarscream: But even he's not perfect. As mentioned, Kryptonite is the one thing that can destroy him, with each variant of it having different effects. The standard green Kryptonite renders him painfully weak, while red Kryptonite turns him into a little kid who is very ill-behaved, with his brattiness exploited by Mr. Mxyzptlk to cause havoc, and gold Kryptonite gets rid of his powers permanently.**

Hiro: Many forms of magic can also hurt Superman, since those forms of magic are as powerful or more powerful than he is, and his superhuman senses can be a curse to him at times, because his ears are far more sensitive to loud noises. And for how much he relies on solar energy, a red sun will also cause him to lose his powers.

**MBStarscream: But even in the darkest of days, one can always count on Superman to be the embodiment of a true hero - one who will never stop fighting for what is right while also being a Super Friend to all.**

*Superman: Up, up and away!*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, Godzilla takes the point in territory, but can the King of the Monsters keep his crown?

**MBStarscream: This is gonna be super, man!**

*Mount Fuji*

The Supermobile was on the move. After cruising through the stars, it had entered Earth's atmosphere once more and was circling Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan which had been involved in many... incidents that involved giant monsters. Not that **Superman** would know about that. He'd been too busy solving some other inter-planetary problem with the rest of the Super Friends, and was now ready to call it a day, first taking the time to admire the peaceful sceneary Japan had to offer upon landing on the mountain's surface and floating outside to take in the view from the mountain's summit.

A mighty roar would take the Man of Steel out of his thoughts.

"Great Krypton, what was that?!" He exclaimed before getting back into the Supermobile and adjusting the controls, flying towards the direction where he thought he'd heard the bellowing roar. He did not get far before a massive shape rose out of the trees, right in the Supermobile's flight path! Superman was forced him to pull up. When he turned the ship around, he got a good look at what he had nearly crashed into; and what had just let out that horrible sound.

It was a gigantic, bipedal reptilian creature with rough, bumpy, charcoal gray scales with a tree bark-like texture, a fairly small head with prominent eyebrow-like ridges over the eyes, moderately long, humanoid arms with four fingers including an opposable thumb, thick, muscular legs, a long, powerful, segmented tail, and three rows of bone-white dorsal plates the shape of maple leaves running down its back.

Rearing his head into the sky, **Godzilla** let out another roar that pierced the air, a challenge to the Man of Steel.

Landing the Supermobile on the ground, Superman rose out of it and folded his arms as he floated up to Godzilla's eye level, his cape billowing behind him as he faced the monster king.

"This looks like a job for a Super Friend." He declared sternly.

**FIGHT!**

Godzilla roared yet again in response before throwing a punch at Superman, who to his shock, casually blocked it with but a fist before planting a flying uppercut into the giant's chin. Superman punched Godzilla in the chest a few times before the latter lashed out with a swing of his tail, Superman catching it and using it to slam Godzilla into the ground. Godzilla got up and threw a punch that Superman matched with a punch of his own, before the two engaged in an all-out boxing match as they exhanged blows with each other.

"You should know that boxing a lizard is the *least* strangest thing I've ever-- huh?"

Superman's lighthearted bragging was interrupted when a tail poked him on his right shoulder, giving Godzilla the opportunity to send the distracted Super Friend flying with a devastating punch.

**POW!**

After skidding on the ground and coming to a stop, Superman looked up while spitting out dirt to see his opponent - and he had to do a double take when he saw this - doing a victory dance while a bell rang in the background, a disembodied audience cheering him on.

Superman clenched a fist and took off, flying at Godzilla with a sucker punch at the ready. The blow launched Godzilla a good distance as he smashed through trees before stopping himself. Superman's eyes glowed red with heat vision before he fired it off at Godzilla, the monster ducking under the lasers as dozens of trees were sliced through like butter. Godzilla saw an opportunity to charge at Superman while lowering his head, only to feel his head and the rest of his body freeze over as Superman blew out his ice breath, encasing the atomic beast in a giant ice cube.

Confident in his victory, Superman folded his arms again and floated backwards, looking smugly at his handiwork.

"That should teach you a lesson, big guy."

His smirk vanished when Godzilla's frozen dorsal plates began to glow an ominous blue, before the monster king broke free of the ice and fired his Atomic Breath skyward with an enraged roar. Godzilla turned his fury towards Superman, sending his next atomic blast the Kryptonian's way. It came too quickly for Superman to react in time; the blast pushed him all the way back into Mount Fuji, pinning him there until the beam dissipated.

Superman put a hand on his head, trying to get his bearings. That blast had contained a good dose of radiation; nothing he couldn't handle, but this radiation felt very... nuclear in nature. Radioactive. It wasn't like Kryptonite, but it reminded him of it nonetheless. He would have to use his x-ray vision to get a clearer look at this beast's energy.

But when he looked up, what he saw made him cry out, "Great Krypton!" in alarm.

Sliding on his tail toward him with both feet outstretched and poised to ram into him like a runaway train was Godzilla.

His soles only hit the side of the mountain by virtue of Superman being fast enough to fly away in time. The ground shook beneath him as Godzilla regained his footing, only to feel a sharp tug on his tail that sent him crashing stomach-first onto the trees below. Superman dragged him backward before floating into the air and spinning Godzilla around, until he let go and sent the King of the Monsters flying into Mount Fuji, creating another earthquake.

As Godzilla slid down the side of the mountain, Superman looked at him more closely, able to use his x-ray vision to examine his anatomy. What he saw confirmed his suspicion.

"He's *full* of nuclear radiation." Superman deduced, watching Godzilla pull himself up to his feet and wondering how he could use the monster's own nature against him. "Maybe I can alter its radioactive effects and use them against him..."

Godzilla then turned to look at the Man of Steel and roared, charging up his Atomic Breath once more. Superman clenched his fists, his eyes burning with charging heat vision as he prepared himself.

Man and beast fired their respective attacks at once, the Atomic Breath meeting Superman's heat vision head on in a beam lock. As their beams clashed, Superman narrowed his eyes as he used his x-ray vision once more. "Let's hope this works!" He said before focusing on Godzilla's DNA, trying to alter his radioactive properties.

To both combatants' shock, Godzilla's Atomic Breath began condensing into a white mist. Superman's head vision easily passed through it, allowing hit to hit Godzilla and push him back into the mountain, the monster howling in agony as his mouth burned.

"Eureka! It worked!" Superman cried out in delight, amazed that his trick had worked.

Godzilla pushed himself to his feet, steam billowing out of his mouth as he glared daggers at the Man of Steel. He hit his tail against the mountain in a fit of frustration.

Big mistake.

His eyes widened as he heard rumbling come from above, and both looked up to see an avalanche coming right down towards Godzilla!

"I've got it!" Superman declared as he flew over to stop the avalanche. Turning himself in a tornado to catch the falling rocks, Superman floated up to the top of the mountain and set them down in a shape of a house, wiping his brow with a sigh of relief.

A roar from Godzilla shook the rock house, before it crumbled to pieces like a house of cards before a frustrated Superman's eyes.

"Oh, come on." He said flatly before flying down the mountain to face Godzilla once more. The Kryptonian's body started crackling with bio-electricity, his limiters officially disabled. It was time for the monster king to get a taste of his true power.

"Alright, you big lizard! Time for me to show you just how powerful I really am!" Superman declared, which Godzilla met with a roar that he *knew* meant "Bring it!"

It only took a single punch from Superman to send Godzilla flying through Mount Fuji with such force that the entire mountain exploded. Superman did not stop pummelling Godzilla as they flew over the countryside; they soon found themselves smashing through city after city, building after building (despite Superman's attempts to avoid as many as possible), until they reached the ocean, Godzilla crashing into the water. Superman looked down at the surface, detecting Godzilla retreating to the depths. Superman nodded; the monster king had learned his lesson.

As he turned to fly away, he suddenly detected something else, and his face quickly fell with horror as he turned around. He could see where Godzilla was swimming, and what he was swimming towards; a nuclear submarine in his vicinity.

"Oh, no!"

Superman dived into the water as quick as he could, racing to stop Godzilla from destroying the sub. Godzilla's jaws were only inches from the submarine before his tail was grabbed, and he was thrown deeper into the water. Just to ensure that Godzilla couldn't get his claws on the sub, Superman lifted it out of the water and floated towards a beach, leaving the sub there before heading back into the water to confront Godzilla.

His bio-electricity strengthening, Superman put his hands on his hips in a stern manner as Godzilla narrowed his eyes at him with a growl, bubbles emerging from his mouth and nostrils.

"Listen, big guy. You may not care about these people, but I do. I was raised to help those in need, to fight for those who can't fight for themselves. To be... a Super Friend. This, my Super Friend, is between you and me. And as long as you continue hurting people..."

The water bubbled as Superman clenched a fist.

"...I'll fight you TOO!"

On that note, Superman punched Godzilla's snout hard enough to send him flying through the ocean. The Man of Steel was taking the fight more seriously than ever before, as he and Godzilla exchanged blows all over the ocean. Godzilla tried hitting Superman with either snaps of his jaws, swings of his tail or blasts of his Atomic Breath, but all he hit was either rock structures or nothing at all as Superman flew around him in circles, pummelling him every which way. He nicked Godzilla's shoulder with a blast of heat vision, causing bloody bubbles to pour out of the reptile as Godzilla roared in pain. Superman attempted to land another punch, only for Godzilla to smack him away with his tail.

Superman hissed as his back hit another rock structure, and braced himself as Godzilla charged towards him with his jaws ready. Godzilla clamped down on Superman as he smashed through the rocks head-first, shaking the Man of Steel in his mouth like a shark, but quickly finding that he could not bite through Superman's Kryptonian flesh. His teeth were able to tear through his suit just fine though, and as he released Superman's body, a sizable bite mark was left on the suit, the cape also partially torn from Godzilla's assault. Refusing to give Superman any respite, Godzilla head-butted him away before finishing it off with an atomic blast that pushed Superman into more rocks. He kept firing until he decided to stop and let Superman's body sink to the depths, letting out a victorious roar before swimming away.

As Superman's body sunk like a stone, bio-electricty started cracklingly around his hand, which soon clenched into a fist.

Oblivious to his opponent's survival, Godzilla burst from the water while unleashing another roar. He turned and started walking in the direction of dry land, hoping to find either Japan or Monster Island. Whichever came first, he'd welcome it.

His departure came to a halt as Superman came out of the water like a bullet and stopped in mid-air, glaring at Godzilla with his arms crossed.

"Going somewhere?"

Godzilla couldn't even answer before Superman started flying around him in a tornado formation, lifting him up higher and higher. With a cry of "Up, up and away!", Superman flew underneath Godzilla and sent him hurtling and helpless in the air with a single punch. As Godzilla entered the atmosphere, Superman quickly flew away from Earth and into the sun to prepare for his finishing move. Godzilla quickly got his bearings and began charging up with atomic energy, the most reserves of it he'd used up to this point. Whatever finisher Superman had in mind, Godzilla would hit back twice as hard.

Superman, now glowing yellow from his dip in the sun, began charging towards Godzilla at full speed, prompting the King of the Monsters to fire his mightiest Atomic Breath. The blast did little to slow Superman down, as he pushed through and prepared a punch. With a tremendous blow, Godzilla was sent flying back into the water, causing a giant splash. Superman pushed him forward with another burst of sun-powered speed, charging towards the Earth with another blow prepared to finish off Godzilla. Emerging from the water, Godzilla futilely fired another atomic blast up at the diving Superman, the attack barely even phasing the Man of Steel as he powered through it.

An even bigger splash, the shape and size of a mushroom cloud, soon burst forth as Superman hit his mark. A moment passed as the explosion/splash dissipated, leaving only a waving ocean, until small fleshy chunks rose to the surface... and a small figure flew out of the water with a smile on their face and crossed arms.

The King of the Monsters had been slain... by a Super Friend.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: Oh, we should totally composite both next time. That was awesome! And delightfully campy.**

Hiro: Godzilla had size and regeneration on his side, but only for so long against a foe like Superman.

**MBStarscream: Godzilla may be able to tussel with monsters his size or bigger, but Superman's literally strong enough to move planets. Godzilla could tag speedsters like Rodan and Gigan, but Superman could move fast enough to travel through time itself.**

Hiro: While both were capable of flight, Superman had more *conventional* means of doing so, while Godzilla relied on his Atomic Breath to accomplish it. Speaking of which, not only was Superman more than tough enough to *resist* the Atomic Breath and certainly fast enough to dodge it, it should be noted that Superman's x-ray vision can alter various radioactive effects, so he could always weaken Godzilla's radioactive abilities or use them against him in some way.

**MBStarscream: Godzilla's magnet powers also wouldn't work, given that Superman isn't made of steel despite that being his nickname. If he's not a Man of Steel, then magnet powers mean jackshit.**

Hiro: Both have fought large varieties of foes, making the two equal in experience, and Godzilla's intelligence could certainly match that of Superman's, but the Super Friends leader had all he needed to score a win against the King of the Monsters.

**MBStarscream: Godzilla may have been a king, but he wasn't super, man.**

Hiro: Superman wins.

**MBStarscream: (Flatly) Again...**

## Advantages

### Superman (Winner)

* Stronger
* Faster, especially when travelling through time
* Had more conventional means of flight
* Immune to Godzilla's Atomic Breath or magnetic abilities
	+ Could also alter his radioactive properties with x-ray vision