Togera

“	"Togera is our reptilian sea monster," Giam smiles. "He's a spiny gargantuan awakened from his long dormancy by nuclear bomb. We went through several disparate sea-creature designs during the course of the game, (one of which ended up as a skin for another, guess which one!), but in the end, the best result we got was the result of Koji Saito of SCEI. He and the others at SCEI gave us great feedback on the game and monster design, and it was from some of his people's excellent concept art that Togera was born."	„
	~ Official U.S. Playstation Magazine, Issue #64 1/03

Background

Togera is a gargantuan dinosaur said to be the last of his kind that survived extinction by hibernating beneath the ocean. Spending untold centuries in hibernation at the bottom of the Pacific ocean, Togera was awoken by leaking fuel from one of the disabled UFOs which sunk to the depths in the proximity of the slumbering beast. Togera is believed to be a descendant of the gigantic dinosaurs that once roamed the earth millions of years ago. Now it is possibly the last of it's species. Survival drives it to fight, savagely-morphing it's body to protrude deadly bone spikes and using its body's nuclear energies. It is a scaly horror from the deep, able to make use of glowing plasma-nuclear breath.

General Information

Name: Togera

Origin: War of the Monsters

Sex: Male

Age: Possibly over millions of years old (A descendant of the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, being the last of its species)

Classification: Mutated Dinosaur

Species: Dinosaur

Occupation: None

Status: Alive in his ending, Deceased otherwise (Killed by the Monster the player selected)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (All of the monsters thrive on destruction around them, only wanting to crush buildings hurl cars, and wish to destroy one another)

Codex Statistics

Tier: High 8-C, Higher with Special Attack

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Large Building level (Monsters can easily destroy large buildings along with destroying planes which would require this kind of strength, can harm the alien invaders who are immune to conventional weapons), Higher with Special Attack (Special attacks do far more damage then a monsters regular attack)

Durability: Large Building level (Monsters can tank being punched through buildings hard enough to cause them to fully crash apart)

Striking Strength: Large Building Class

Lifting Strength: Class K (Togera can casually lift a tank and monsters can easily send each other flying)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Through sheer size, Togera should be able to move at these speeds)

Combat Speed: Superhuman

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: High (Togera can fight in multiple fights and can keep fighting at full capacity even if heavily damage)

Range: Tens of Meters through sheer size, Higher with plasma-nuclear breath

Intelligence: High Animalistic (Despite being animals, the monsters strategically decide what, where and how they will cause the most destruction, with them choosing their battleground for what monsters can and can't participate. With the counter mechanic, monsters can stop an attack and stun their opponent by timing just as the opponent is about to attack)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Bloodlust (All of the monsters thrive on destruction around them, only wanting to crush buildings hurl cars, and wish to destroy one another), Large Size (Building Sized; Monsters are nearly as tall as buildings in size), Surface Scaling (Monsters can scale buildings), Weapon Usage (Unique Weaponry; All monsters can use improvised Weapons), Supernatural Resilience (Monsters can survive getting stab in the chest, being able to pull the object out of their chest and use it in combat), Berserk Mode & Rage Power ((With enough stamina, monsters can enter a "monster rage", allowing them to move faster and do more damage), Perfect Guard, Counter, & Status Effect Inducement (With the counter mechanic, monsters can stop an attack and stun their opponent by timing just as the opponent is about to attack).

Resistance to Radiation Manipulation and Plasma Manipulation (Monsters can tank Togera's plasma-nuclear breath), Extreme Heat and Fire Manipulation (Monsters can recover quick from catching on fire. Monsters can fight within volcanoes just fine), Poison Manipulation (All monsters were formed from the the toxic vapors of the aliens spaceships)

Longevity (A descendant of the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, being the last of its species), Aquatic Breathing (Tegora was asleep underwater for centuries), Self-Sustenance (Nutritional Self-Sustenance; Togera has been asleep for centuries), Body Control, Penetration Damage (Bladed Penetration), and Natural Weaponry (Togera can extend his own bones to attack his opponent), Reactive Adaptation (Survival drives Togera to fight savagely, due to this, he adapted the ability to morph his body to protrude spikes and spit out deadly streams of energy), Breath Attack, Radiation Manipulation and Plasma Manipulation (Togera can breath plasma-nuclear breath)

Healing (Can pick up green spheres in order to gain health back), Restoration (Can pick up blue spheres to restore stamina), Invisibility (With the cloaking cube, a pick-up created by the aliens that allow the collector to be temporarily invisible and prevents target lock).

Resistance to Lock-On (Only when using the cloaking cube, prevents target lock)

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Pick Up Equipment

• Green Sphere: Act as the health pickup items, the monsters use this when being gravely injured.
• Blue Sphere: Act as the stamina pickup items, the monsters use this to restore their stamina and enter their "Monster rage" state.
• Red Sphere: Act as a special move pick up item, the monsters pick this up in order to use their special move.
• Cloaking Cube: A cloaking device made by aliens that allow the user to be temporarily invisible and prevents target lock.
• Throwing Objects: Throwing objects vary greatly in what it can be in War of the Monsters. They can be of the following different classes:
  • Spears: Items that can pierce and stab an enemy, best for stunning them. These are the following spear types:
    • Radio Tower
    • Broken Pipes
    • Bars
  • Clubs: Items that can deal extra impact damage to monsters. These are the following club types:
    • Steel Bars
    • Parts on Buildings
  • Explosives: Items that explode upon being thrown at the enemy. These are the following explosive types:
    • Cars
    • Planes
    • Tanks
    • Boats
    • Helicopters
    • Propane Tanks
    • Planes
    • Rocks
    • Debris
    • Ventilation Systems
    • UFOs
    • Gas Trucks

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Notable Techniques

• Plasma-Nuclear Breath: Togera's Long Range attack is radioactive breath that reaches a medium distance and does average damage, his armor is average and his projectiles fire at a medium rate, dealing medium damage.
• Long Flight: H-H-H
• Blade Smash: L-L-L-L
• Head Impale: H-L-L-L
• Tail Whip: L-L-L-H-H
• Triple Tail: L-L-UH-H-H
• Whiplash: L-H-L-H-L-H-L
• Chomp-Chomp: H-H-L-UL-UL-H-H

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Other

Standard Tactics: The monsters use the environment around them in combat along with using their melee attacks and special moves. Togera will physically attack his opponent who shooting projectiles, and also uses his plasma-nuclear breath.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Trivia

• Togera is an obvious tribute to Godzilla, as well as the British film Gorgo (1961).
• Togera's second costume is actually an inverted version of the first costume's colours.
  • It is also based on Super Godzilla.
• Togera's third costume is most likely based on Mechagodzilla.
• Togera's fourth costume is based on Minion the Demon, another character from the Twisted Metal series (Incog is the creator of both games).
• Togera's forearm blades are a reference to Baraka, a Mortal Kombat character who also has forearms blades and uses them in combat.
• His original design had fins and he had a more amphibian look, which was originally one of Togera's earlier skins. It was scrapped, but was used as a skin for Kineticlops' 4th skin.
• Togera, Zorgulon and Raptros are the only monsters who don't appear in the behind-the-scenes featurette of War of the Monster's development.
• Togera, Goliath-Prime, Raptros, Vegon, Robo-47, Magmo, Zorgulon and Cerebulon are the only monsters which appeared the least in artwork and promotional material).
• In the opening cutscene of War of the Monsters, Togera has webbed hands. However this is not reflected in game where he does not have webbed hands or even webbed feet. This contradicts the idea that he is an aquatic monster but is likely due to the limited processing power of the PS2.
• In one of his victory animations, Togera is celebrating his triumph - until he catches sight of his tail where he will then proceed to chase it around in circles.
• If you highlight Togera's character portrait and boost the brightness and contrast up, you can actually see 3D vertices and polygonal geometry that was used to make the arms.
• Togera's roar, much like the rest of the cast - is a stock roar.
• Togera is one of only few monsters in the game that are fought once only, while other monsters had at least 2 versions of themselves that appeared throughout the game.

Battle Records

This battle record is with the Togera Adventure Mode in mind.
14-0-0

• Congar - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Midtown Park

• Togera - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Gambler's Gulch

• Robo-47 - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Gambler's Gulch

• Preytor minions - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Rosdale Canyon

• Goliath Prime - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Rosdale Canyon

• Preytor & Congar (Mechanized) - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Metro City

• Raptros - Fight
  • Conditions: Two Raptros were teaming up.
  • Location: Century Airfield

• Kineticlops - Fight
  • Conditions: Kineticlops kept spawnning from the factory, requiring the factory to be destroyed.
  • Location: Atomic Island
  • Note: The Kineticlops kept regenerating from the radiation factory, requiring the entire factory to be destroyed in order to kill them for good.

• Vegon - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Atomic Island (Destroyed)

• Robo-47 - Fight
  • Conditions: Two Robo-47s were teaming up.
  • Location: Bay Town

• Agamo & Magmo - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Club Caldera

• Ultra V - Fight
  • Conditions: Two Ultra Vs were teaming up.
  • Location: Tsunopolis

• Zorgulon - Fight
  • Conditions: Three Zorgulons were teaming up.
  • Location: UFO

• Cerebulon - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Capitol

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