I' am doing this to acknowledge the movies, books, t.v. shows and video games I was paying tribute to here in the story you just red. Or blantly ripped off if you wanna be a dick about it (line taken from "How High", dont take seriously).
First of all is the alien invasion angle, a favorite amongst the Sci-Fi genre. From "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers", to" War of The Worlds", even to more recent films like "Independence Day" Plus it's also a favorite in the Godzilla series, with films like "Monster Zero", "Godzilla vs Gigan" and the most recent film, "Godzilla: Final Wars", which this story shares continuity with. In my opinion, you cant have a story called "Godzilla In Space" without putting in aliens.
Secondly, the giant blob monster. This is directly taken from the Steve Mcqueen film, "The Blob", as well as it's 1980's remake. Did you all know they're trying to remake it again? A little unneccesary if you ask me.
Third, the giant spider. I understand that there were actually quite a few different giant spider movies in the 1950's. Like, there was "Tarantuala" and "Earth vs The Giant Spider". I know there was at least one other giant spider film, but I don't know it's name. Oh yeah, it was" The Three Stooges: Half Rocket Will travel". Also, Godzilla has fought a few different giant spiders in his own fims, comic books, and t.v. cartoons. It was hard for me to get through writing the spider sequences because I'm a big time aracnaphobe, but since it seems to be a favorite, I felt I had to put in the spider.
Fourth, the giant octopus attacking the golden gate bridge. I admit, that was taken directly from the Ray Harryhausen film, "It Came From Beneath The Sea". Except the original film didn't have an alien ship flying overhead, as they were no aliens in the film. Oh and there was no Godzilla in the original either. Actually there were quite a few different 50's Ray Harryhausen films I was inspired by for this paticular story.
Fifth, the insectoids (aka Giant Ant men) and the giant worm steeds in the moon battle. That was taken from the H.G. Wells novel and the Ray Harryhausen film adaptation, "Men on the moon". I just thought it would be a nice little tribute.
Sixth, the four armed rock and lava monster on Mercury. That was directly stolen from the video game, "War of the Monsters", which is itself a tribute to the 1950's B-movies that I wanted to pay tribute to here.
Seventh, the Ymir on Venus. Yeah, it's pretty obvious, I just recycled the same monster from the Ray Harryhausen film, "20'000'000 Miles to Earth". I just thought it would be cool to have Godzilla and The Ymir fight. It might be my personal favorite fight from the story, not to toot my own horn, I'm just sayin'.
8th, the giant, generic aliens. Honestly, this was just filler, since I felt the "In Space" part of the story was going by way too fast. So I just had Godzilla fight the generic aliens to keep the space part of the story going as long as possible.
Ninth, Mars Rock Monster & Gort-like robot. I put in the Rock monster because I thought that the idea of Godzilla fighting a monster made completely out of Mars rocks was cool. And the robot was obviously as I wrote before was inspired both by Gort from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and the robot from the "Thor" movie, which I thought looked similar to Gort.
Tenth, the giant, living fly trap plants. I got inspirations for the man-eating plants in New York sequence from the ending of the director's cut of the Rick Morranis film "Little Shop of Horrors". I prefer the happy ending, but when I saw the director's ending, I thought, "This could've been it's own movie." So I decided to kind of pay tribute to that with the New York sequence.
Eleventh, the giant bees. In both of Godzilla's cartoons, he has fought a hive of giant bees and I thought that since there were many giant insect movies in the 50s (like "Them"), Iand since Godzilla has fought bees before, why not?
Twelfth, the giant robot suits and bug monsters. I decided, "Aliens need giant robot suits if there going against Godzilla." So that explains that. The bugs I envisioned as looking like that one bug at the end of the first "Men In Black" movie, except scaled up to fight Godzilla.
Thirteenth, Reptillian/Yongary. I admit I haven't actually seen the remake of "Yongary", I just saw the review done by James Rolfe of that he did for "Monster Madness: Camp Cult." I did however see the original on T.V. Not a super good monster movie, but it was alright. But when I heard the "Compared to this guy, Godzilla's a pussy" line, all I could think about is how much I wanted to see Godzilla get that panzy ass, poorly computer generated exscuse for a kaiju.
Anyways, those were the things I was paying tribute too (,or ripping off if you wanna be a dick about it). I hope you got just as much enjoyment out of reading this story as I did writing it. Please, I beg of you, leave a review of what you thought of the story as a whole. Tell me your favorite parts of the story, what your least favorite parts were, and the parts you flat out didn't like and felt could've been fixed. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, BEGGING FOR REVIEWS! as long as the critisms that may come are constructive.