<![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Kroll is Doctor Who's only entry?

What about the bizarre devil-thing in the (new series) Doctor Who ep "The Satan Pit"?

Icarus One

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> actually the aliens at the end of Men in Black would countas biggest because they take multiple solar systems as marbles and place them into a sack at the roll credits.

Hypenotist

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> well if your going by spfx standards then galactus in FF2 is the biggest so far but he isn't in the beast category.
Looked to be about 1/4 earth size in the form of a tornado before surfer rammed a bannana up his tailpipe anywayz.

Hypenotist

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> This guy from Doctor Who looks pretty big.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Alano

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> The Statue of liberty is itself about 46 meters tall, but it's on a pedestal that's about 49 meters tall. I'd bet Clover is closer to 100.

guypatsy

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @NYCJason: I seriously wanted to include Mothra in this listing... but wasn't sure if "length" was the same as "height" in this context.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> I'd like to see the whole picture the inital one is from of Godzilla.

Robert Isbell

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> I love mothra, but phalanx (357 meters long) would give her a run for her money: [www.youtube.com]

running across this thing's back is probably the coolest thing in a video game EVER.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Mothra also had the hot japanese twin tinkerbelles as traveling companions...that's just pimpin'

905

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Can't believe no one has mentioned Mothra yet - 65m long, 175m wingspan that can generate hurricane force winds, flies at Mach 3 (in space no less), shoots lasers...I mean, what more could you ask for?

Plus the best monster theme music ever...

[youtube.com]

NYCJason

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mik3cap: Gold star for the day! Great work.

To answer my own question, here are the heights (or lengths in the case of flying Colossi) of the beasties in Shadow of the Colossus:

(Player Character) Wander: 1.70m
Colossus #01: Valus: 41m
Colossus #02: Quadratus: 63m
Colossus #03: Gaius: 61m
Colossus #04: Phaedra: 61m
Colossus #05: Avion: 87m
Colossus #06: Barba: 49m
Colossus #07: Hydrus: 184m
Colossus #08: Kuromori: 10m
Colossus #09: Basaran: 46m
Colossus #10: Dirge: 167m
Colossus #11: Celosia: 6m
Colossus #12: Pelagia: 58m
Colossus #13: Phalanx: 357m
Colossus #14: Cenobia: 6m
Colossus #15: Argus: 46m
Colossus #16: Malus: 124m

Note to giant monster fans who haven't played SotC... PLAY IT NOW. Essentially, it is a game in which you kill monsters the size of Godzilla with just a sword and bow & arrows. P.S. The end of the game made me cry my brains out.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> How tall was the Kraken? Jet Jaguar in his expanded version?

What about The Beast from Krull? The Jolly Green Giant? I mean, he wasn't even... but neither was Gamera as we all know. I'm sure if you pissed him off though he'd whale you upside the head with a giant club of broccoli.

I'll have you know all my hard drives are named after kaiju.

I love you guys.

theManhandler

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> GOD. the Christian god Jehova (or whatever they call him) is the biggest and scariest monster of 'em all.

k0zure0kami

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about Spectreman?
[www.youtube.com]

Or the Gargantuas?
[www.youtube.com]

jasono

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about the Stay-puff marshmallow from Ghostbusters?

kharsh

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Eac_O_System: Well, Buddha does have his hand out for a handout...

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> How do I steal that Buddha Statue? I want it. Do I have to buy it? Where's my credit card...

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mik3cap: For reference, Galactus appears like whoever sees him, and he has a starship/base that he built by hand the size of an entire solar system.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mik3cap: No way Galactus is 9m. Sure, can he shrink if needed, but at most times, he is atleast bigger then the Baxter/Freedom building.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Comma separated monster heights list:

Monster,Height,UOM
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Kroll,8000,m
Burj Dubai,600,m
Freedom Tower,415,m
Empire State Building,381,m
Ushiku Daibutsu Amida Buddha,120,m
Mechagodzilla (modern),120,m
Destroyah,120,m
Biollantine,120,m
Godzilla (modern),100,m
Gamera,80,m
Cloverfield,60,m
Godzilla (vintage),50,m
Yongary,50,m
Mechagodzilla (vintage),50,m
Statue of Liberty,40,m
The Blob (80s),20,m
King Kong (vintage),15,m
King Ghidora (modern),15,m
King Kong (80s),15,m
The Blob (vintage),10,m
King Ghidora (vintage),10,m
Galactus,9,m
King Kong (Peter Jackson),8,m
Ymir,4,m
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I wanted to put Voltron on this list, but couldn't find a stat for his height... Unicron is just right out, he totally blows out the scale.




























mik3cap

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> I would love to see a massive comprehensive chart showing the relative sizes of the monsters like the starship chart mentioned earlier. Also, do comic/manga/video game monsters count? There are some damn big critters in video games (Serious Sam lava boss for one)And where does the Sarlac fit into this or the Dune Spice worms? Lets see some equal representation for subsurface critters!

Lost_Thought

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @KFowler (fmr startingaces): But the distance the head traveled can just as easily be kinetic energy given off by Clove being at top speed in the water, instead of just brute strength. Just because Clove is definitely durable doesn't mean he is just as offensively strong.

@Project Thanatos: Galactus, sure, but Unicron is about as truely sentient as a vulture. While both Galactus and Unicron can think past their hunger, Galactus does it for essentially benevolent reasons (Kick starting the next universe when this one dies) while Unicron is just about the nom nom nom that is planet devouring. If that doesn't describe mindless Monsterism, then I don't know what is.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> BUDDHA SMASH PUNY MORTALS!!!

RagingTowers

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> I think people need to understand that Kaiju are monsters.. Galactus and Unicron CANNOT be take in consideration due to the fact they are INTELLIGENT/SENTIENT beings.

I think being a force of nature or of animal mind is a big definition of Kaiju. The reason some mechas can be considered Kaiju is due to their limited intelligence and/or limited human control.

Project Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @cde: I feel like the Cloverfield monster would need motivation to attack the statue of liberty, without being scared. Being a similar (slightly larger or smaller) size to the statue gives it a reason to knock the head off - thinking it might be a threat. Also, when you think of how far it traveled, it might have needed to be rather large.

I feel like the theorized size of 250 feet tall, 500-750ish feet long makes sense to me.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> That monster in The Mist that strides over their car was pretty damn big. Big enough to send a little kid into shock. Di-zamn!

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about the monolith monsters from the 1950's giant-creature era? They were skyscraper height. On that note what about any of the giant creatures from the Universal movies in the 50's? We have a lot to choose from: ants, tarantulas, mantis, etc.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Ohh, and just because Cloverfield took a swipe at the Statue of Liberty, doesn't mean anything about his height. He's a sea based creature, and as most sea based creatures, has no trouble jumping in and out of the water. So ol' CLove just did a dolphin/shark jump, swiped at the Statue at the apex of the jump and landed back in the ocean.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Annalee: In my head, giant Buddhist statues always secretly have rockets.

@mik3cap: That would be rad.

It's not really sci-fi, but what about the Kraken (the one from Pirates of the Carribean or otherwise)?

urukhaifive

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @cde: err:
Lil Formers: Unicron vs Galactus vs Pluto

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Szin: Biollante was also pretty tall (50% taller than Godzilla according to wikipedia).

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Belabras: Galactus and Unicron:

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about the monsters from Shadow of the Colossus (specifically the final one)? I'd like to see a definitive size comparison of many of these beasties in one place.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Belabras:
the cloud wasn't THAT big.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @smcallah: Damn you smcallah, you beat me to it...

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> The final form of Destroyer was also pretty tall as well. I don't know if he was taller than Ghidorah, but he was pretty huge nonetheless. Kiryu/MechaGodzilla 3 also had some height on him as well.

God I love this site!

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mik3cap: Maybe we should put that together.....

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @EracMan: Yeah, maybe one of Cloverfieldy's powers is changing his size....

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> ...or colverfield. Apparently I have lost all abilities to spell monster names today.

EracMan

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> When Hiyata used the beta capsule to transform into UltraMan, he must have been at least 30 or 40 meters tall...he had some bad-ass monster-fighting skills too

905

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> That was supposed to be CLOVERFIELD not CLOVERFILED. Darn it for not being able to edit posts.

EracMan

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> CLOVERFILED SPOILER (Sort of):

Just saw CloverField yesterday and would agree that the colverfield monsters size seemed to change based on where he was. When filmed overhead by helicopters he was pretty big. When he was looking down on a certain someone and decided to have a taste he was considerably smaller. The individual should have been a tiny drop in his mouth rather than a bite worth chewing on.

Does anyone else agree?

EracMan

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Is somebody making a comprehensive image of all giant monsters to scale like that Buddha diagram?? Like that starship comparison chart? I TOTALLY WANT THAT. Like as a poster even, or like The Usual Suspects.

mik3cap

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> And, of course, Galactus.

Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Seth L:
Damn you, Seth!
Now I'll have that MST3K song in my head all day!

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about the giant "Satan" from the Dr. Who 2-parter from the new 2nd series?

He was pretty damned big.

smcallah

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> thanks

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mitchel_stevens:

Mogo:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Mogo the G.L. Planet, still appearing monthly in DC Comics Green Lantern Corp!

Can't even start bringing comics into this discussion, though, or everything else would be a footnote. I mean, Red Ronin, all those Kirby monsters, etc etc.

MrFrogMan

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Annalee:
but damn it, what was the green lantern planet name? ego was the marvel planet-creature...

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Jeff-Minor:

My nerd-fu is strong.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Gawd, that was fast. And I just found it too: Kronos. Finally, after all these years I can put a name to the Robot of my nightmares!

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Oops: it's Kronos.

[www.imdb.com]

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Jeff-Minor:

Chronos. Yes, I would say it counts

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Who can answer this: A giant, tall robot lands on Earth and its piston-like legs crush everything below. It has a square, black head and a dome and some antennae. What was the movie, and does this count as a monster?

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Well, I feel much better equipped for future drunken movie monster arguments. But has anyone made a chart comparing the different sizes of Godzilla himself in that God-awful remake? He dramatically changed heights from scene to scene, depending on where he needed to be. Christ, that movie was a hunk of shit...

demonbaby

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> What about the cruiseship eating octopus in Deep Rising?

/now what?!

wingbatwu

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @Project Thanatos: Ghidorah*

Damn my kaiju sized hands and these tiny keyboards.

Project Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> what about Kaiser Ghidorag from Final Wars? He TOWERED over Goji.

Project Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Um, who is the biggest sentient planet, Mogo or Ego?

Seriously, a fun article. Never knew Godzilla was so darn tall. I always remember his height being described as, "Out of the water, 40 stories high, he breathes fire, he stands in the sky..."

7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @mitchel_stevens: I cannot believe Charlie left out Green Lantern, because I happen to know that she is a GIANT FAN of Green Lantern.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @xoff: I know. Gamera = good. Remember when Monster X froze Gamera and those kids had to go inside Gamera's body and fight the little Monster X by themselves to rescue him? Man that was awesome.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> so is this kaiju only, or can we include the green lantern that was a planet?

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> @xoff:

Word! He's the guardian of earth, friend to all children!

Gamera is really neat!
He is made of Turtle meat!

Oh and I think Destroyah and Biollantine were even taller then 90's godzilla.


Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> That right, bitches! Buddha will slap your asses straight to Nirvana!

CMG

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Gamera isn't evil! He's a good monster (better than Godzilla) and referred to as the Children's Monster. See [en.wikipedia.org]

xoff

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Buddha kicks ass!!!

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> Kroll indeed! This site makes me do a sex wee and hop around with joy. Daily.

IntoAshes

]]> <![CDATA[Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?]]> This post makes me weep with joy. Especially learning that Buddha is bigger than everybody.

Annalee Newitz

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