Among the heavy hitters whose roles you can assume are the three-headed dragon King Ghidorah, and Megalon, whose drill-like hands allow it to burrow underground and attack from beneath.
Which is not to say much for the president, whose drill-baby-drill administration only looks good compared to the petroleum servants he faces, when he bothers to face them and isn't just one of them.
It makes Marie into a historical sleuth whose observations drill down through layer after layer of difference.
It was a view bequeathed by another gilded age, the 19th century one that gave rise to the Park Avenue Armory, in whose vast drill hall all this art-historical re-enacting was taking place.
You have to wait for the low tides of the full and new moon to cull and harvest the oysters, all the while protecting them as best you can from their natural enemies: wind and weather, disease and predators like moon snails, whose tongues drill holes as perfect as a paper punch through shells so as to suck out the meat.
Russia, where onshore oil reserves are slowly dwindling, last month signed an Arctic exploration deal with the British petroleum giant BP, whose offshore drilling prospects in the United States were dimmed by the Gulf of Mexico disaster last year.
Mark Miller, chief executive of Cuadrilla – the shale gas company whose initial drilling near Blackpool was found to be "highly probably" responsible for two minor earthquakes last year – will confront a new set of opponents in the south-east's stockbroker belt.
I played with friends in the small prefab estate on Long Causeway in Leeds as a boy, built on the site of an anti-craft gun emplacement whose shouted drills – 'Number one gun ready?
Aristida stricta, a little wiry grass whose seed drills itself into the ground with the help of three whiskery hairs that act as a windmill, was collected on top of a 200-foot-high sand dune created by an old titanium mine near Lakehurst, N.J. "I looked down on this old air hangar, and somebody said, 'That's where the Hindenburg crashed,' " he said.
"Well what if someone came in and said, 'You're not going to be like this anymore.' How do you make that adjustment?" Some are turning the question on BP, the multibillion-dollar corporation whose deepwater drilling accident has upended their lives.
