''-zilla'' is an English

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, a libfix

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derived from the English name of the Japanese movie monster

Godzilla is a fictional monster, or ''kaiju'', that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films p ...

. It is popular for the names of

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and

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. It is also found often in popular culture to imply some form of excess, denoting the monster-like qualities of Godzilla. This trend has been observed since the popularization of the Mozilla Project, which itself included the

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client Client(s) or The Client may refer to: * Client (business) * Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer * Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable ...

ChatZilla. The use of the suffix was contested by

Toho is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. ...

, owners of the trademark

, in a lawsuit against the website

Davezilla {{no footnotes, date=January 2009 Davezilla.com is a humor website, run by Digital Strategist, Dave Linabury since December, 1994. It began as a link portal to items of interest to Linabury, humor and hacking links. In 1996, Linabury began adding ...

and also against

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

for their mark Bagzilla. Toho has since trademarked the word "Zilla" and retroactively used it as an official name for the "Godzilla In Name Only" creature from the 1998 film.

List of items ending in -zilla

Some uses of the suffix -zilla include:

Businesses and products

* AmiZilla, an

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-b ...

port of

Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curren ...

* Chipzilla, a humorous

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for the

Intel Corporation Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing ...

* Clonezilla, an

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disk cloning software *

FileZilla FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), whil ...

, an

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and dat ...

program * Go!Zilla, a

download manager A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet, which may be built into a web browser, or as a standalone program. Functions A download manager manages files being downloaded from the internet. ...

program * Hubzilla, an

social network, part of

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Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institution ...

, a group of

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

-related programs created by the

Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the Open-source software, open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...

, also name of the group's widely known

web browser A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...

Bugzilla Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 19 ...

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, with a web-based interface. ** ChatZilla, an

program **

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*** Classilla, a rebranded

, an

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for the

classic Mac OS Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Mac (computer), Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and end ...

*** Ghostzilla, a web browser *** GNUzilla,

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's fork of the Mozilla Application Suite *** Warpzilla, the Mozilla Application suite for

OS/2 OS/2 is a Proprietary software, proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers. It was created and initially developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft, under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci, ...

* Newszilla, the

Usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...

server of the Dutch internet provider

XS4ALL XS4ALL was an Internet service provider (ISP) in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1993 as an offshoot of the Hacker (computer security), hackers club Hack-Tic by Felipe Rodriquez, Rop Gonggrijp, Paul Jongsma and Cor Bosman, while based in Amster ...

* Podzilla, an

user interface for the

IPodLinux iPodLinux is a μClinux-based Linux distribution designed specifically to run on Apple Inc.'s iPod. When the iPodLinux Linux kernel, kernel is Booting, booted it takes the place of Apple's iPod operating system and automatically loads Podzilla ...

project, which allows for alternative functionality of

Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Co ...

iPod The iPod is a series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices that were designed and marketed by Apple Inc. from 2001 to 2022. The iPod Classic#1st generation, first version was released on November 10, 2001, about mon ...

* Quizilla, an online

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, which contains its own "Zillapedia" * RevZilla.com, an online motorcycle gear retailer *

Shopzilla Connexity Inc. is a privately held Los Angeles operator of shopping web sites, including Shopzilla.com. Originally started as comparison shopping website Bizrate.com, the company changed its name to Shopzilla in 2004, and changed again to Conn ...

, a comparison-shopping search engine, formerly BizRate.com * Godzilla (Nissan GT-R), a grand touring/ sports vehicle produced by Nissan

Entertainment

* Bongzilla, a rock band from

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* " Bootzilla", a song recorded by Bootsy's Rubber Band * Bridezilla (band), an Australian indie rock band ** ''Bridezilla'' (EP), a recording by the band Bridezilla * '' Bridezillas'', a reality show which airs on the WE: Women's Entertainment network * Broadzilla, a rock band from

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

, a humor website * ''Godzilla'', the franchise from which the ''-zilla'' suffix originates ** ''Godzilla'' (1954 film), the first film in the franchise ** Zilla, a fictional character originally known as Godzilla, from the 1998 American Godzilla film * Illzilla, an Australian hip hop group featuring live instruments * '' Popzilla'', an animated TV series in production for

MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...

* ''

Rapzilla Rapzilla is a Christian hip hop online magazine. The website contains recent news, albums reviews, articles, interviews, music downloads, videos, release dates, and columns. History Rapzilla was founded in 2003 by Philip Rood, who was the chi ...

'', a Christian hip hop online magazine * ''

Tekzilla Revision3 was a San Francisco, California, San Francisco–based Multi-channel network, multi-channel television network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. Founded in 2005, it operated as a subsidia ...

'', a weekly

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on the

Revision3 Revision3 was a San Francisco, California, San Francisco–based Multi-channel network, multi-channel television network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. Founded in 2005, it operated as a subsidia ...

network * "Throatzillaaa", a song recorded by Slayyyter

Miscellaneous

* axizilla, a heavy form of

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in an extension of the

Standard Model The Standard Model of particle physics is the Scientific theory, theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetism, electromagnetic, weak interaction, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the unive ...

. * bitchzilla, a severely disagreeable or aggressive woman. * couplezilla, a couple who, in the course of planning their

wedding A wedding is a ceremony in which two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnicity, ethnicities, Race (human categorization), races, religions, Religious denomination, denominations, Cou ...

, display difficult, selfish, narcissistic behavior relating to the event. * cuntzilla, a term of abuse for a severely disagreeable or aggressive woman. * Fedzilla, the

federal government A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a political union, union of partially federated state, self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a #Federal governments, federal government (federalism) ...

regarded as a rapacious monster with an appetite for political power, money, etc. * groomzilla, a demanding and perfectionist groom (man who is to be married). * Hogzilla, a large male wild hog hybrid that was stabbed and killed in 2004 in Georgia, United States. * momzilla, a controlling or over-involved mother. * Pigzilla, another large feral pig or possible hoax shot in 2007 in Alabama, United States. * Squawkzilla, a nickname for a prehistoric parrot species. * promzilla, a teenage girl who is obsessed with preparing for her

prom A promenade dance or prom is a formal dance party for graduating high school students at the end of the school year. Students participating in the prom will typically vote for a ''prom king'' and ''prom queen''. Other students may be honored ...

and ensuring it turns out the way she envisions. * Snowzilla (disambiguation) * weddingzilla, a person overly concerned with ensuring that a wedding goes exactly as they envision it. * wimpzilla, a theoretical superheavy

dark matter In astronomy, dark matter is an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light or other electromagnetic radiation. Dark matter is implied by gravity, gravitational effects that cannot be explained by general relat ...

particle, trillions of times more massive than other proposed types of dark matter.

For derived words

* Words ending with -zilla (List of examples in English

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) * -zilla (explaining the suffix in English Wiktionary)

References

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