Gotengo
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The Goten-go (轟天号 or ごうてんごう Gōten-gō?, "Roaring Heaven"), also known in the West as Atragon, is a submarine battleship that has appeared in several tokusatsu films of Toho Company, Ltd., beginning with Atragon (1963). It was first conceived by author Shunrō Oshikawa in his 1899 novel Kaitei Gunkan ("Undersea Battleship"), of which Atragon was a 1963 adaptation produced by Toho Studios. The submarine is heavily armed and armored, but its trademark tactic is to ram and sink enemy ships. In cinema, the submarine is easily identifiable by the enormous drill on its bow, a feature conceived by for the feature film; it is also notable for being able to burrow underground and fly (even, in The War in Space, into outer space).
[edit] Godzilla: Final Wars
The Goten-go is used mostly for battling monsters in Godzilla: Final Wars. For instance, in the first sequence it is battling Godzilla, resulting in Godzilla's burial under hundreds of feet of ice. Later on, during the Xilian-induced monster attacks on major cities, the Goten-go is dispatched to destroy them. However, the only weapon that truly works to destroy the alien threat is Godzilla himself.
[edit] Video Games
The Goten-go also appeared in the video game Godzilla: Unleashed, instead called "Atoragon". General Gyozen steals the vehicle to destroy Godzilla, and in such mission the player must destroy it. The Atoragon functions as one of the game's only bosses. The Atoragon can be encountered in London and New York along with a GDF mecha and the real fight with the ship takes place in Osaka where it is just the monster and the Atoragon. It also seems to have the ability to freeze kajiu (PS2).
