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'''Gargantuans''' is the 25th [[event match]] of the 51 event matches in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. | '''Gargantuans''' ({{ja|ガルガンチュア|Garuganchua}}, ''Gargantua'') is the 25th [[event match]] of the 51 event matches in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. In this match, the player's character is [[Giant Bowser]] and the enemy is [[Giant Donkey Kong]]. The objective is to beat [[Giant Donkey Kong]]. Tiny {{SSBM|Mario}} and Tiny {{SSBM|Peach}} also appear. But they do not impose a threat since they might both probably be KO'd by Giant DK's first attack anyway. Donkey Kong will sometimes [[self-destruct]] between the two buildings on the right of the stage. Plus, the player can also survive at high damage (around 200%-999% damage) due to their size when they are damaged by Giant DK. | ||
This event acts as an homage to monster films and the {{s|wikipedia|kaiju}} genre; the inclusion of [[Giant Donkey Kong]] is a reference to {{s|wikipedia|King Kong}}, a well-known American movie monster, and [[Giant Bowser]] (the player's assigned character for this event) acts as a reference to {{s|wikipedia|Godzilla}} (a movie monster hailing from Japan). As a result of these two appearing on Fourside, a large city environment like those seen in typical monster films, the entire Event Match is similar to the concept of the film {{s|wikipedia|King Kong vs. Godzilla}} (with Giant DK as King Kong and Giant Bowser as Godzilla). The inclusion of Tiny Mario and Tiny Peach emulates the frequent use of helpless civilians in such movies. | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The tiny Mario and Peach do not make | *The tiny opponents (Tiny Mario and Tiny Peach) present do not make sounds during this event and do not have to be KO'd to clear the event. | ||
*While the name of the event has to do with the size of both Giant DK and Giant Bowser, it is also a reference to the 1966 kaijuu film "War of the Gargatuas," otherwise known in Japan as "Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda Vs. Gaira". Sanda is a brown Gargantua while his brother Gaira is green; unlike in the film where the brown one is the protagonist and the green one is the antagonist, this event reverses the roles so the green one is the protagonist and the brown one is the antagonist. | |||
* | *This event is the only one that has a [[Melee]] [[newcomer]] [[starter character]] as an assigned character ({{SSBM|Bowser}}). | ||
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