
TAMARA HASHIOKA
Real Name: Tamara Hashioka
Identity/Class: Human;
Japanese
citizen
Occupation: Scientific assistant to Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi
Group Membership: Formerly
the Godzilla
Squad/"Green Team" (Timothy "Dum-Dum" Dugan,
Dr.
Gladstone Hawkins, Hugh
Howards, Gabe Jones, Yuriko
Takiguchi, James "Jimmy" Woo);
Affiliations: Fantastic Four (Human Torch/Johnny
Storm, Invisible Girl /Sue Richards; later the Invisible Woman, Mr.
Fantastic/Reed Richards, Thing/Ben Grimm), Godzilla, John Hawkes, POTUS/President of the
United States of America, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement
Division; notably Dum-Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones, and Jimmy Woo),
Tony Stark, Rob
Takiguchi;
mildly antagonist role with the Champions
of Los Angeles (Angel/Warren Worthington, Black Widow/Natasha
Romanoff, Hercules/Heracles, Iceman/Bobby Drake), who inadvertently
caused the Behemoth helicarrier to crash while battling Godzilla;
she shared a close friendship and an extremely
limited romantic relationship with Jimmy Woo;
indirectly the Avengers (Iron Man/Tony Stark, Thor
Odinson, Vision/Victor Shade, Wasp/Janet Pym, Yellowjacket/Hank Pym),
Enemies: Indirectly Mega-Monsters (Krollar, Rhiahn, Triax), Warlords of Mega, Yetrigar
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Tamar" (from Jimmy Woo)
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
formerly the Behemoth
helicarrier;
at last formerly Japan
First Appearance: Godzilla#1 (August, 1977)
Powers/Abilities: Tamara Hashioka is experienced
with robotics technology to an unspecified degree, but she assisted Dr.
Yuriko Takiguchi in the design of what would become the Red Ronin
robot. She served as Yuriko's assistant in general.
She had something of a maternal or
materteral (aunt-like) relationship with the young Rob Takiguchi,
sympathizing with his concerns and seeking to protect him.
She is friendly, compassionate, loyal
to her friends and co-workers, and dedicated to her work.
Height:
Unrevealed (approximately 5'2"
Weight: Unrevealed (perhaps 110 lbs.)
Eyes: Apparently blue (see
comments)
Hair: Black
History:
(Godzilla#1 (fb) - BTS) - After Godzilla surfaced
on the coast of Alaska, the Pentagon and the White House (presumably the
President of the United States of America/POTUS) granted security
clearance to Dr. Takiguchi and his assistant, Tamara Hashioka, based on
their plans for a way to stop Godzilla (a giant
robot temporarily designated SJ3 RX, which would become known as Red
Ronin).
(Godzilla#1 (fb) - BTS) - S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury flew the two, along with Yuriko's twelve-year-old grandson, Robert, to meet up with the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier/mini-carrier in Alaska to confront Godzilla.
(Godzilla#1) - Fury flew Yuriko,
Rob, and Tamara to Alaska in an experimental VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and
Landing) fighter jet. As they passed over northwest Canada, Tamara
remarked that it would be a tragedy if more lives were lost before we --
Rob interrupted, asking about Godzilla's and noting that the Americans
would probably try to kill him without trying to understand him. After
Yuriko noted that Godzilla was the most dangerous and unpredictable
being alive, Tamara noted that even she was beginning to experience
doubts, but that she hoped she was wrong and that their plan would
succeed.
Tamara and the others arrived as Godzilla fought off and escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D. forces led by "Dum-Dum Dugan," confirming that this was indeed Godzilla. After they landed, Fury introduced Tamara and the others to Dugan.
(Godzilla#2) - Aboard the
S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier/mini-carrier, as Godzilla assaulted Seattle,
Washington, Yuriko revealed his history with Godzilla and concluded that
this made him both unpredictable and dangerous.
After asking the doctor's permission to demure, Tamara countered that
Godzilla was like an elemental force, a primitive lifeform displaced in
time, but "not without his curious dignity." Therefore she considered
that he could not fairly be judged to be evil. 
After Rob had an outburst about
Godzilla and Yuriko disciplined him, Tamara distracted from the tension
by pulling out the plans/schematics (for
SJ3 RX) she had designed
with Yuriko and going over them with Dugan.
Dugan continued to express doubts.
Yuriko and Tamara were present as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s efforts led to Godzilla being knocked back into the ocean, after which Godzilla swam away.
(Godzilla#3 - BTS) - The S.H.I.E.L.D. "Godzilla Squad" contingent unsuccessful opposed Godzilla in San Francisco (with their mini-carrier ultimately/inadvertently being caused to crash by Hercules of the Los Angeles-based Champions).
(Godzilla#3) - Yuriko, Rob, Tamara, and Jimmy Woo's plane landed at Tony Stark's private Detroit airstrip, and they soon met with Stark himself at his Detroit Stark International facility. After Yuriko introduced Stark to Tamara and Rob, Stark took the group on a tour of inspection of his facility, noting that all available equipment and manpower would be at their disposal. As Jimmy and Tamara left together to check out the facility's coffee shop, Yuriko apparently disapproved of their growing closeness.
(Godzilla#7)
- Tamara found Jimmy and told him about Rob being missing, after which
they were drawn to the sounds of the rampaging robot that Jimmy had
unwittingly activated (and been knocked out in the process). They arrived
as the robot approached the gas storehouses, and Tamara appreciated and
told Jimmy that the robot could only be activated with a pilot in the
control module in its head, and the only who could be inside was Rob.
(Godzilla#14
(fb)) - Tamara called out Rob's name as Rhiahn decapitated Red Ronin. 



Comments: Created by Doug Moench, Herb Trimpe, and Jim Mooney.
However, I believe characters created in the Godzilla
series are not owned by Marvel, but rather by Toho Co, Ltd.: see here.
Slim pickings on quality full body
images of Tamara.
Jimmy and Tamara were watching Rob
visit Godzilla in #18, and it was implied that Rob unlocked Godzilla's
cage when he went into a trance-like state, from which he could not
recall anything. They should have seen what happened.
Given Rob's past behavior, it would have been
insanely negligent for them to have left Rob unsupervised or to have
gotten all twitterpated and distracted from Rob by their own
attraction/emotions.
Tamara was primarily a technical assistant, but Jimmy
Woo was a seasoned S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. There's no excuse...other than
plot device.
Reed Richards...idiot?
He intended to send Godzilla to "the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era -- 900 million years in the past."
The
Cretaceous Period was indeed within the Mesozoic era (its third and
final period), but it was not 900 million years ago, but rather 145-66
million years ago...right up to the point of the apparent asteroid
strike that brought about the end of the age of dinosaurs.
So...they could have been dropping Godzilla off the
night before the asteroid strike that would have killed him. That's not
cool.
900 millions years ago is the division between the mesoproterozoic period (1600-900 million years ago) and the neoproterozoic period (900-543 millions years ago).
Dinosaurs first appeared during the Mesozoic era circa 250 million years ago, and the giant dinosaurs into which Godzilla might have fit would indeed by the Cretaceous period.
However,
Reed was off in his time settings by 800 million years (or perhaps by a
factor of 10, and he meant 90 million years ago)...and the time machine
did not send Godzilla into the past but rather to another reality.
Did he mean to do that to avoid massively disrupting the past and potentially changing the future by sending a giant fire-breathing reptile who would have dominated any other creature in that time period (and perhaps inadvertently set massive, uncontrollable fires)?
Or was there error just because computers weren't so accessible in the 1970s, there was no internet, and someone just checked and misreported information from an encyclopedia?
Don't you make my brown eyes blue?
Both Rob and
Tamara fairly consistently are shown with light blue eyes.
Per my
understanding and some half-@$$ internet searching, most Japanese people
have dark brown eyes and others have light brown eyes. There is
reportedly a population of Japanese people known as the Ainu or the
indigenous people of Japan, who live in Hokkaido, with blue eyes (and
other different physical features than other Japanese people). That's
definitely the case - watch the excellent Golden Kamuy movies and
series on Netflix (or the anime it is based on), and the blue-eyed
Ainu are a major story element - Loki. There are also people with
partially blue eyes in Akita and Aomori with "partially blue eyes"; it
is speculated that this originates from Russian people mixing with the
local population thousands of years ago.
Other sources note that Japanese people with mixed
European ancestry (especially with mixing on the side of both parents)
may have blue eyes.
It's also possible to wear colored contact lenses,
etc., but those were not common at the time of the original stories.
I would speculate that choosing the unlikely eye color was not intentional, but perhaps the colorist and editor were not aware of the typical brown eye color in people from Japan.
I did not see Tamara in #5 , #11, nor did the Marvel Chronology Project,
so probably good...I also did not see her in #12 or #16.
The license issues are a mystery to me. The indicia of the Godzilla issues notes Godzilla to be the property of Toho Company LTD, but all other characters to be the property of Marvel. Apparently some settlement was reached at some point that gave Toho possession of all characters originating in the Godzilla series? Obviously Red Ronin and Dr. Demonicus appeared a few times, Yetrigar showed up as well, and Yuriko was part of the X-Club/X-Men Science Team for a time, but the appearances have been limited, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe was not allowed to profile Red Ronin...but we were allowed to profile Dr. Demonicus...
This profile was completed 3/18/2024, but its publication was delayed for the 25th anniversary event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Yuriko Takiguchi should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads)
Godzilla#1, pg. 16, panel 4 (full);
pg. 17, panel 1 (face with briefcase);
#4, pg. 6, panel 4 (upper, green blouse);
#6, pg. 6, panel 3 (red outfit, walking away after
kiss);
#7, pg. 8, panel 5 (green outfit; distraught);
#14, pg. 10, panel 1 (kneeling over dazed Rob);
#17, pg. 5, panel 4 (face);
#19, pg. 12, panel 1 (upper);
#22, pg. 5, panel 6 (face talking to Jimmy Woo);
#24, pg. 14, panel 4 (comforting
Yuriko);
last page, panel 6 (waving...to Rob or
the already gone Godzilla?)
Appearances:
Godzilla#1 (August, 1977) - Doug Moench (writer),
Herb Trimpe (pencils), Jim Mooney (inks), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Godzilla#2 (September, 1977) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Frank Giacoia & George Tuska (inks), Archie Goodwin
(editor)
Godzilla#3 (October, 1977) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Tony DeZuniga (inks), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Godzilla#4 (November, 1977) - Doug Moench
(writer), Tom Sutton (pencils), Tony DeZuniga (inks), Archie Goodwin
(editor)
Godzilla#6 (January, 1978) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe (artist),
Archie Goodwin (editor)
Godzilla#7-11 (February-June, 1978) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Fred Kida (inks), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Godzilla#12-13 (July-August, 1978) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Fred Kida (inks), Jim Shooter (editor)
Godzilla#14 (September, 1978) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Dan Green (inks), Jim Shooter (editor)
Godzilla#15-17 (October-December, 1978) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb
Trimpe (pencils), Dan Green (inks), Bob Hall (editor)
Godzilla#18 (January, 1979) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Dan Green (inks), Jim Shooter (editor)
Godzilla#19 (February, 1979) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Dan Green (inks), Jo Duffy (editor)
Godzilla#20-21 (March-April, 1979) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Dan Green (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Godzilla#22 (May, 1979) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe (pencils),
Jack Abel (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Godzilla#23-24 (June-July, 1979) - Doug Moench (writer), Herb Trimpe
(pencils), Dan Green (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Avengers I#199 (September, 1980) - David Michelinie (writer), George
Perez (pencils), Dan Green (inks), Jim Salicrup (editor)
First posted: 09/18/2026
Last updated: 11/02/2025
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