The 'How did you come up with your kaiju?' thread

[DinoHunter2]

Acteon - An idea I had had laying around since November that I finally got around to drawing. I wanted a mantis of some kind, but I wanted to also make sure it was unique- so instead of giving it the typical giant scythe arms you see on mantis kaiju, I gave it short, blunt claws for pounding, more like hammers. I also gave it a frost element, since most people probably wouldn't associate the words "mantis" and "arctic".

[Monster Master]

Jantwan - Not sure where he came from... He literally came outta' left field, even for me. Was just trying to go to sleep.. And the idea of him came to me.

Manticore - Well, IR has ALWAYS wanted to see a Solfugae (Camel Spider) kaiju, and I know I wanted one more bug before I finish up Neo Generation. Manticore was the result. I wanted a burrower and a flier, so I modified one. He came out pretty nice, IMO.

[Perfect Chaos Zero]

M501T GAV: Well...firstly, since I've wanted to come up with a decent and(somewhat) original creation for a while, and having been playing Halo 3 lately, I started imagining a modified or improved Scarab walker as a viable candidate.(I still have plans for such a creation, but I'd like to see if I can put together at least a sketch of the finished product instead of just trying to verbally lay it all out, as it's probably going to be a serious overhaul from the original design.)

But...call me anal-retentive if you will, but I wanted to keep my design within some measure of logic and reason; not just slap it together for the sake of having it without any sound reasoning behind it. So I also thought, why would the Covenant just whip up an even bigger and badder Scarab...unless the original just wasn't big and bad enough?

*WARNING: SOME HALO 3 SPOILERS BELOW. HIGHLIGHT AND READ AT OWN RISK.*

Now, I know it could be argued that the regular Scarabs already weren't big and bad enough if they couldn't stop the Master Chief...but, he's long gone now with the end of Halo 3, and I don't think the Arbiter is much interested in becoming his replacement. What's a crippled, beseiged Earth to do?

Why, pull out the(other) big guns.

Over a couple of sessions of sitting down, reviewing the three games' instruction books and the novels written by Eric Nylund and Joseph Staten, and my own deliberation on what kind of beast would be big and tough enough to stand up to a fifty-foot, four-legged, purple-plated Marine muncher, and working to combine all those elements into something that could stand up against not just the Scarab, but some of the colorful crazies here in the Arena that could literally eat a Scarab for breakfast.....the Bronto was born.

Officially known as the M501T Giant Assault Vehicle. Armed with a miniature MAC gun(mostly inspired by the Berserk Fuhrer's charged-particle gun), two batteries of Archer missiles, six anti-tank rocket launchers in its joints, and a belly bay that can hold - and remotely operate - a Scorpion tank, this behemoth represents the pinnacle of UNSC weapon-platform engineering.(On the ground, at least; even a frigate-class warship could probably wipe the Bronto out with one MAC blast...to say nothing of what any Covenant ship would do.)

[Inferno Rodan]

Garaga: Inspired by the same show that inspired MM's Big Cattie. I'd been toying with the idea of a fish kaiju since MM made Dunkleoder, and I love gars. Seeing alligator gars on that show just kinda made the lightbulb go on in my head. His name comes from a character in Zoids: Genesis.

Didontops: Baragon tried to be a cute burrower. Didontops IS a cute burrower. Pretty much inspired by the segment of Before the Dinosaurs featuring Diictodon. His name means "Two-toothed face."

Skolex: I've had the idea for a velvet worm kaiju since like last May, but never really got around to actually working on it until about a week ago. His name is the Greek word for "worm." Despite the fact that velvet worms aren't technically worms, the name sounded cool.

[gyaos]

Viper: The film "Project V.I.P.E.R" has a large roll in this. I was also inspired by Biollante and Godzilla.....and hedorah.

Frog Fish: Zilla and the Giant Gila Monster inspired me belive it or not...

Devastasaur: Deathsaurer, Mechagodzilla, a T-rex and Kiryu inspired me to make him.

Zeus: not much, I was just in the mood for drawing dragons...

FROST: Krystalak has a major impact on his design.

Solarus: Was inspired by Obsidius and Meltdown Godzilla

Bio Soldier: Master cheif....

Mutant: Orga and the Millenian inspired the last two stages of the Mutant's life cycle.

Terrosaurus: Gomola, T-rex, Baragon and Zarkorr where directly responsible for the inspiration.

Cockatrice: Read a book about mythology, this happend to pop up so I decided to bring it to life as a kaiju.

Black Corvo: Dark raven from billy hatcher *this game was amusing at once, now it's really gay* and my own monster Cockatrice.

Symbiotic Godzilla: Venom was directly the inspiration.

[Omegarex24]

C.O.B.R.A.- Obviously inspired by Bio's Megarelia, with a touch of GTS's King Cobra, and my own usual array of cybernetics. I started doodling him in Microbiology class last week, and, well, here he is.

Anoils- An older kaiju of mine for a failed RPG attempt. He was originally V. Rex sized, but I scaled him up for the Arena.

Cocytus- A prototype for TyrantisTerror's contest of DeviantArt. Still trying to come up with a good origin story though.

Keizar Claws- MM had been bugging me about making crab kaiju. IR took my mecha though, and TG took IR's Spacegodzilla, so I'm taking MM's Ghidorah. The idea just hit me today.

[Monster Master]

Chaos Felsic - The 'rebirth' of Felsic was something many knew was coming, and since Deadly Alliance, I REALLY wanted to get Felsic back to his more ruthless style. While he's still a guardian in a sense and is out for revenge for Scutes' death, the creature has been re-birthed in a form that no longer cares about humans, but the world itself, making him much more unique than Scutes, and I also feel this'll make for some great tension moments between he, Scutes, and Argus in future stories.

Gorgs - Many know I have a Bearded Dragon for a pet and that it's name is Gorgo. Originally, Gorgs wasn't actually something I was gonna' make... But he just clicked with me. While I know Razor has some dragon elements... Gorgs IS a Bearded Dragon... uberfied.

[Omegarex24]

Gorgonoxis- A female kaiju (a rarity for me), and one that's more like a big cat rather than a reptile. Partially inspired by IR's Didontops, the Gorgonopsid off of Primeval, and Koobine's Kralmarg

[†KaneLocke†]

Big O: Taken from the anime. I intend to utterly revamp his origins when my writer's block fades.

Bahamut: The idea is something I came up with during one of OR's RPGs. Bahamut is a dragon god almost as old as time itself. At one point, his power was great enough to annihilate an entire planet without so much as working up a sweat. As time wore on, he grew weaker and weaker. While still powerful by most means, he's but a fraction of the god he once was. The rest is still in the works, but he was originally planned to have been rescued by my human faction and had his life saved (and power enhanced) by technology (hense the ring on his back).

Daedalus: Based on the card from YGO. One of my favorite monster designs of all time. The powers are almost totally unique, however. Some of them (such as his freezing ray) were moderately inspired by Pokemon. Others were inspired by comics (manifesting a wall of ice to block attacks), and others even by video games (his ability to create shards of ice was inspired by Edea's Ice Sorcery from FFVIII). I've always loved serpentine kaiju, and I've an affinity towards water. While not being 'original,' its still one of my favorite monsters.

[Bio]

Dimantis - All I can say is take THAT, uberfied zoid fad!

[THE GODZILLA]

I believe it's time for an update...

Space Claws- This one is pretty simple. MM came ot me asking to make a SpaceGodzilla version of King Claw, since IR alreayd made a MechaGodzilla version of the killer crab. And so I did. Hard to imagine what this thign would look like when levitating...

T.I.E.R.- Tier was an idea I had for awhile before he was finally posted. I decided to go to Bio and DH for help, both imputting good information for him. I added piston arms to buff up his already great melee, and gave him some other neat things. His inspiration is from Bio's Harpy, who, IMO, is a magnificently made mecha and holds true to Bio's point of view on mechs.

Azrael- As odd as this may sound, this guy is actually my Rygama to Bio, Neo-SG to IR, etc. Was one of my first created monsters, but never got him on the forums. I love this guy's concept, and can't wait to use him. He's been updated from his old nuclear spawned origin to a shadow energy corrupted monster. You'll probably see more of these shadow energized monsters in the future.

Lightning Saix- Everyone was making zoids. I brought in one as well. And I needed a speed demon. I also love cheetahs, so he fit the bill perfectly.

Destoroyah- This should have been posted awhile ago, but kept forgetting. Basically my version of Destoroyah, since everyone is pulling SpaceGodzillas out of their asses.

B.A.R.R.A.G.E.- Should have been posted alongside of Tier, but never got to it, like Destoroyah. Basically the ranged fighter to fight alongside the melee fighter, who is Tier. Ridiculous amount of weapons for such a small mech eh?

[alienhulk2099]

Tristegotops- My idea came mostly from the "natural" saurian reptiles from movies like Journey to the Center of The Earth and The Lost World (both 60s versions). Both are quadripedal herbivore dinos, so uh yeah.

Chainborg- Give Heavyarms Kai a skinny Robo 47 look and add a small knife between the gatling guns.

Sharkosaurus- Peter Benchley's Creature with Titanosaurus's origin. Increase size and bam.

Terroroid- Desghidorah with Cretacious KG's design and make it a tank.

Centithon- Make a centipede that kicks a$$ and balls especially after that f*cking sh*t fest that was Centipede.

Protovaljrog- Spoof of Tyrant from Ultraman Taroh. Added what I thought would be Octalus's tentacles until I actually watched Deep Rising, Graboid parts, xenomorph tail, raptor claws, chainsaw with hooks, a claw for grabbing, and reflective dorsal fin which was inspired from Guiron. Of course, that's the first version. This one, just paint it from blue with grayish tint to white and add proto to the name.

Aljubell- A combination of Bulkhead from TA meets Devastator's movie design. What? I thought he was a BAMF.

Dimensional Fragment- A parody of all that is classified as Unknown. Wait, I didn't add him yet! :oI will later though.

[Monster Master]

Wow..

Nessie - Was watching a show with IR about the Lake Champlaign monster and we both got the idea of doing a form of Plesiosaurus kaiju. I did Nessie and he did Champ.

Thresher - Thresher is a kaiju I was always thinking about. He was gonna' be Taninim, but the fact he seemed to much like Carcharius made me redo him. His concept later returned for an idea that would then transform into Dunkleoder. Now, thinking of him even more, I just went for it and tried to make him as different from Carcharius as possible.

Arindo - Arindo is a kaiju from Ultraman Taroh and, about a year ago, I got my friend Ash to do a revamped picture of him for a failed fan fic. The picture was saved on my computer for years and hasn't been used since... Until now. He's been revamped to be a Nebulan kaiju like Thresher.

Monkra - Believe it or not, Cloverfield wasn't on my mind while designing him. He's based on the spider monkey and, while doing his design, added a turtle shell and head armor.

Pandora - A panda was one of the animals that could have been voted on to be kaijuized by the Arena members and as the poll went on, I got to thinking about how kickass a gigantic Grizzly Panda would be.

Jiminy - A cricket. Really don't know why I began drawing a gigantic, evil cricket... But I drew a gigantic, evil cricket.

Gnatra - The winner! A simple gnat was voted on to be kaijuized by the Arena members. He is the result.

Hermes - Hermes was a minor character in my Kaiju Origin Tales at TK. When Argus was betrayed by Heaven, Hermes helped him fight back. Now, as Kaiju 2 approaches, I wanted to bring Hermes back. What's funnier than a rabbit warrior? A rabbit warrior that was sent to Hell and has developed a Spawn-like origin.

[Omegarex24]

Roly- A giant pillbug. Not much more than that. Probably go up for adoption soon.

Sunder- Another cyberdragon. Her, along with a planned partner named Ruckus, were supposed to show the full extent of the ancient pre-KWND war's effects on the soldiers, namely the cyberdragons. Orginally crafted as fully organic, the lack of genetic materials to make new ones with led to the cybernetic enhancements designed to help them keep fighting.

Shoggot- I've been reading a lot of Lovecraft lately. In hsi works, he directly references a creature known as the shoggoth, but no concise, or even partial description is ever given. I wanted somethign really wierd and horrifying for this critter, and I figured that gnizable shapes added together in nightmarish ways was a good start. Shoggoth's Prismatic Spray is based on the Color From Space, which had some of the same effects on humans.

[THE GODZILLA]

Update time...

Fel Therizarr- One of the first monsters who will be the result of shadow energy corrupting it. This is definitely one of my stranger monsters too...

Blight- One of my old Bio-Weapons from awhile ago, but not zombified. Decided to stick with the name, but gave him the blood to make his name mean something.

Shadowfiends- Consider them as my "Gyaos pack". These guys serve under a single master, who is the creator of the mysterious shadow energy.

Gomola- Basically the Ultra-Galaxy Daikaiju version of Gomola. Was going to have him be a good guy in my fan fic, but just don't think he would fit the role. He'll probably either be deleted or kept on my roster just for the hell of it.

Tursion- Yeah bitches, a dolphin kaiju. It's a good kaiju, and will probably fall under the lines of helping out Tier and Barrage in my upcoming fan fic. Oh, its female too. Unique points, I score.

Fel Tursion- The corrupted version of Tursion. Uhh, that's basically it with this thing...

Cultivus- Probably going to be a "boss" sort of monster in my fan fic. Basically a plant that got heavily mutated by shadow energy. I really like this guy, especially since he's different from most plant monsters thanks to shadowsynthesis.

Stonespine- A gargoyle. Unlike what many probably would think, this is actually going to be the Rodan of my fan fic. Yeah, that's right. He's good. Just like gargoyles' purposes were for, so to speak.