Godzilla (1983: Doomsday)

Godzilla (Japanese: Gojira) is a famous Japanese movie Icon. first introducded in 1954 in Toho Pictures film Godzilla, the iconic Creature has become a beloved movie monster with several films to it's credit.The creature was, and is a example of what can happen from Nuclear Weapons usage.Due to this, it has become a symbol of Doomsday.

Pre-Doomsday
With the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Daigo Fukuryū Maru incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a monster created by nuclear detonations and a metaphor for Nuclear Weapons in general. As the film series expanded, the stories took on less serious undertones portraying Godzilla in the role of a hero, while later movies returned to depicting the character as a destructive monster.The first movie was made in 1954 by Ishiro Honda entitled Gojira (English; Godzilla, King of the Monsters!), and soon skyrocketed to fame, with showings in both Japan and the United States.Due to the success of the orginial, Toho Pictures Ltd launched an entire series of Godzilla related films.The series concluded for the time being in 1975 after the poor performace of Terror of Mechgodzilla.In 1980 Toho began to write the script for a reboot of the series.However, horrific events would not only stop production of the film, but nearly wipe out humanity.