Atomic breath is the signature attack of Godzilla, the giant monster of Toho's long-running Japanese film franchise that began with 1954's Godzilla. The beam — a blast of radioactive energy fired from the monster's jaws — is always telegraphed by a rising charge, with glowing dorsal spines, a sound design tradition kept across decades of films. Online, the charge-and-blast audio became shorthand for overwhelming power, sampled into edits, memes and gaming montages whenever a creator wants a joke or a moment to land with kaiju-sized force.