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Philippe Roaché is a french secret serviceman and supporting protagonist in the 1998 film, Godzilla, he also reappears in Godzilla: The Series.

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Godzilla[]

Philippe was assigned by the French government to help "clean up" a "mess" the country had made as the result of nuclear testing in French Polynesia in the late 1960s. This nuclear bomb test had spawned a giant monster that by 1998 had matured and was wreaking havoc in the ocean. Philippe and his team of secret servicemen were first sent to investigate the sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel. Only one crew member survived, and Philippe went to interview him. The man was terrified and heavily irradiated, and Philippe calmly asked him what he saw. The man replied only the name "Gojira" several times.

Afterwards, Philippe went to Jamaica posing as an insurance agent to get close to the wreckage of a ship that had been pulled ashore by the monster. When the monster came ashore in New York, Philippe and his team set up their operations there, monitoring the creature's movements and the United States military's handling of the situation. Eventually, Philippe abducted scientist Niko Tatopoulos, who was studying the creature, and brought him to their base of operations.

Niko stressed that the monster, now dubbed "Godzilla" by the American media, had laid eggs somewhere in the city and that they would soon hatch. Philippe and his team along with Nick tracked the creature's movements under the city, and eventually found its nest inside Madison Square Garden, where it had laid hundreds of eggs. The eggs soon hatched, and the juvenile Godzillas saw the human intruders as prey. Philippe and the others fled from the juvenile Godzillas, but the other members of Philippe's team were killed. Eventually, Philippe and Nick encountered Nick's ex-girlfriend Audrey Timmonds and her cameraman Victor "Animal" Palotti, who had come into the Garden to get footage of Godzilla's nest.

Using broadcasting equipment in the building, Audrey broadcast live footage of the juvenile Godzillas to all of New York, warning about what would happen if they broke out. Colonel Hicks, the leader of the U.S. military's task force against Godzilla, ordered the Garden to be destroyed and warned Philippe and the others to escape beforehand. Philippe and the others successfully escaped the building before it was destroyed by a missile strike, destroying Godzilla's nest and all of his offspring.

However, all was not yet well as the adult Godzilla rose from under the streets and saw the ruins of his nest next to Philippe and the other humans. Enraged, Godzilla chased them across the city. Philippe hijacked a taxi cab and drove away from Godzilla with Nick and the others as passengers, and at the military's urging lured the beast onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where it was entangled in the suspension cables. With Godzilla helpless, the military sent three F-18 Hornets to attack the beast, bombarding it with missiles until it collapsed and died. His mission successful, Philippe bid farewell to his new allies and slipped away in the crowd.

Godzilla: The Series[]

Philip appears at the HEAT Seeker, where he talks to Monique about a new chemical weapon and that the French government has ordered him to assassinate Godzilla, Monique opposes this but finally helps Philip find Godzilla using the HEAT Seeker's radar, but Randy discovers them and sends false signals to the radar to confuse them, however, he is discovered and locked up, Philip prepares the weapon and when Godzilla comes to the surface he is about to shoot, but Monique frees Randy, who pushes him and makes him miss, Philip subdues Randy but Monique intervenes and both fight, but Philip manages to immobilize her and throws her on Randy, causing the ammunition from the weapon to fall into the ocean and now he only has one shot, at that moment Chameleon appears and begins to fight with Godzilla Philip picks up the gun to kill Godzilla but decides to ignore his orders and shoots the Chameleon, petrifying it and causing it to fall apart. After Tatopoulos is rescued from the sea after escaping from Cameron Winter's trap, Randy begins to talk to him about Philip and what happened while he was gone, at which point Philip appears from behind, greets Tatopoulos and allows Monique to stay longer. time in the HEAT team.

He later stow aboard the HEAT Seeker, surprising Monique and asks her if she is familiar with the work of Dr. Anton Fleurie, he tells her that Fleurie was once one of French's brillant Geneticist until his experiments became "unsound". Fleuire was arrested in French New Guiena and his Lab was never found until a local Treasure Hunter found it and released the DNA Mimic and asks her and HEAT to deal with it for them.

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