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Japanese fans initially had some trouble with the 1998 American movie “Godzilla.” The monster looked totally different from their iconic monster, and the film just didn’t fit in with their established lore. However, instead of wholesale rejection of the foreign knock-off, famous Japanese film studio Toho welcomed the Hollywood Gojira into the universe they manage. Newly dubbed “Zilla” (other candidate names included “Fraudzilla”), several Godzilla movies suggested that American scientists had mistaken it for the original Godzilla.

Japanese filmmakers re-created the American Zilla for a short battle with the Real Deal Godzilla in the 2004 film “Godzilla: Final Wars (Gojira: Fainaru uozu)”

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