Coming soon to the theatre near you, Godzilla faces his most fierce nemesis yet... Comcast! Literally two giants are about to do battle. Apparently Comcast launched a new ad camapign earlier this year called "Comcast Town" in which commercials and print ads showed a small Simcity-like town where people have Comcast. Honestly Will Wright should be suing too probably... Anyway in a few of the ads they have a Godzilla cartoon fighting a giant robot.


Now Toho, Godzilla's parent company, is claiming copyright infringement. It's interesting because the creature is clearly Godzilla, but it's not like they referred to him as such. However since the depiction is so close, Toho feels they were slighted.

It's interesting to me that Toho is fighting this battle as Godzilla is one of the most ripped off pieces of merchandise of all time. His iconic roar is often put into toys without permission. His likeness is used in a variety of things, but usually the people are smart enough to just slightly change the appearance... Like King of the Monsters the video game that gave him a horn.

Comcast is a powerhouse media giant, but I don't think they're any match for big G-Money. Toho may be fighting this battle just to avoid some measure of Genericized trademark. We'll see when Godzilla gets his day in court.