reptoid vs bugicus

director's commentary

i believe that genuinely good parody can only really exist when it's created by someone with an intimate knowledge of the thing they are parodying.

anyone can make surface level jokes and references, but understanding and accurately emulating the source material is integral to making parody believable (and by proxy, funny.)
good parody should, even while making jokes at the expense of it, be structurally indistinguishable from the original.

parodying whatever is currently culturally relevant may be good for exposure, but one can only be this familiar with so much.

this is why i decided that godzilla was a safe bet to parody. i'm a huge fan of the original toho films and have been since i was a child.
despite this, however, reptoid vs bugicus still manages to be a pretty crummy parody!

obviously the whole thing with the gun was to tease the 'power-scaling' part of the fandom, and the copyright screen at the end was included to poke fun at toho's litigiousness; but when it comes to the content of the movies themselves, there aren't really any jokes here.

this is also one of my lazier looking animations for sure. visually it just looks so incredibly half-assed that i'm kind of embarrassed to have it public. i think angel reptoid is cute though!

bonus facts: reptoid's name comes from those lizard-man conspiracy theories; some people call them reptoids!

bugicus' name has kind of a fun origin too. many many years ago i was talking to one of my friends about futurama. neither of us could remember the name of Mom's youngest son and for some reason i thought it was bifficus. appending '-icus' to words and names became a running joke with us. crab would become crabicus, etc.

original description

reptoid + 1