Gigan - Appearances in Other Media

Appearances in Other Media

• Gigan appeared as a villain in the 1988 Nintendo game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!

• Gigan also appeared in the 1998 PlayStation game Godzilla Trading Battle.

• Gigan was originally considered to be a playable character in Godzilla: Domination! but was canceled because of budgetary reasons.

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• The Showa Gigan is a playable character in Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Godzilla: Save the Earth and the PlayStation 2 version of Godzilla: Unleashed. The Millennium version appears in the Wii version of Godzilla: Unleashed.

• Gigan appeared in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy movie, living on Monster Island.

• Gigan is also a rapper featured on the Take Me to Your Leader album.

• The character Ponygon from Zatch Bell has a toy that is similar in appearance to Gigan.

• Guitar virtuoso Buckethead wrote a song called "Gigan", as well as another named "Mecha Gigan". They appear on his 2006 albums The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock and Crime Slunk Scene, respectively.

• In Marc Cerasini's Godzilla at World's End, Gigan is one of six genetically engineered monsters created to destroy mankind.

• In the video game Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, there are two tracks called Gigan Rocks and Gigan Device. Each has a statue of a birdlike creature with a sharp beak, which looks similar to Gigan himself.

• In the anime Negima!? a robotic chupacabra is featured that looks similar to Gigan.