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Anguirus 1998

American Anguirus

Anguirus as a mutated Red Eyed Crocodile Skink, mutated by atomic testing in French Polynesia, ala Zilla and Baragon 1998. I'll leave it up to you to figure so many exotic lizard species were affected by it.

In 1998 American Godzilla movie, Godzilla's name is depicted as a mispronunciation of the original name Gojira, which in the film's world is derived from a Japanese "mythological sea dragon that filled their hearts with fear". This certainly was meant to be some filler text to justify the movie's title name, and, but what if there was more to it? What if in the movie's setting it's part of an international disinformation campaign to cover-up an occurrence in 1954 Japan, the events of the original Godzilla movie? Or what if in this world Godzilla and all associated monsters are actually elements of east Asian mythology, with Gojira literally being a dragon/lóng? What if they weren't just myths?

Anyways, the idea is that this Anguirus got his name because he's buddies with Zilla Junior, and in the myth, Gojira's ally had the same name.

Plateo-Zilla

Godzilla as a Plateosaur.

One idea I've read is that Godzilla might be derived from some sort of carnivorous or omnivorous plateosaur, sort of like the inverse of therizinosaurs. An interesting idea.

I was surprised to learn while researching for this that prosauropods aren't really a scientifically classified clade anymore. They've been absorbed into the sauropodomorph suborder.

Anguiro-suchus

Anguirus as an Aetosaur

Originally based upon Desmatosuchus, which features of Riobarrisuchus/Heliocanthus, which might all by synonyms for the same creature anyways.

Cephalo-Zilla

Godzilla as a pacheycephalosaur. Godzilla is ostensibly a theropod dinosaur in some of the movies, so I thought it would be a nice exercise to apply Godzilla features of other families of dinosaurs.

Lystrosaurus baragonsis

Baragon as a dicynodont, specifically a lystrosaur. I feel like it fits.

A Baragon By Any Other Name

I like the idea of reinterpreting Godzilla monsters using the 1998 Godzilla/GINO/Zilla design rationale as a basis. No dinosaurs, no prehistoric beasts, no magic, everything is basically a giant mutated creature. As an iguana mutated and became Godzilla, a frilled lizard mutated and became Baragon, who first appeared in Frankenstein Conquers the World (incidentally, one of my favorite movies).

This originally started out as an excuse to draw a folded up frilled lizard frill, before I thought that the frill could be a stand in for a redesigned Baragon's ear flaps.