Horiguchi: “It's an oversized lizard! What is it?”

Kenji Uozaki: “It could be a Varan.”

Horiguchi: “Varan?”

Kenji Uozaki: “But it's unbelievable that Varan can still be alive after millions of years.”

― Horiguchi and Kenji Uozaki discuss the emergence of Varan (Varan)

In his debut film, Varan was a huge prehistoric reptile that lived beneath a lake near a Japanese mountain village in Tohoku, whose inhabitants came to fear him as the "Baradagi Mountain God". Varan eventually emerged from the lake, destroying the village and making his way to Tokyo, where he was finally defeated by the JSDF at Haneda Airport.

(For those confused why I am doing Varan, I am doing Toho monsters in order of when they came out now that the big 4 are done, Might only be focusing on the ones that connect to Godzilla only however)