French Toast

Gaston Bourzat was born in Grenoble, France, in 1920 to poor shoe makers, Amélie and Jean-Pierre Bourzat. Jean-Pierre died when Gaston was a child, and Amélie was chemically poisoned in a photo-booth accident while Gaston was a teen. By early 1940, before Italy invaded from over the alps, Bourzat was a tall, scrawny orphan, and a culinary student specializing in pastry.

Disturbed by the devastation of his homeland by the Axis powers, Bourzat attempted to join the resistance but was rejected due to his frail body. His resolution attracted the notice of Eugène Chavant and Dr. Juliet Enfant. Bourzat was used as a test subject for the Super-Syrup project, receiving a special syrup made by Dr. Juliet Enfant. The syrup was a success, and Gaston Bourzat was now able to transform at will into a giant waffle-being, with peak strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence.

After the success of the program, Enfant felt unsure about replicating the experiment on other human beings and refused to write down the crucial elements of the treatment, leaving behind a flawed and imperfect knowledge of the steps. Thus, when the Nazi spy Heinz Siebenundfünfzig killed her, Enfant’s method for creating an army of Breakfast-Soldiers died with her. French Toast, in his first act after his transformation, avenged Enfant, killing the spy, by punching him into an industrial steam press.

Unable to create new Breakfast-Soldiers, and willing to hide the fiasco, the French underground cast Bourzat as a patriotic superhero, able to counter the menace of the Axis powers as a counterintelligence agent. He was supplied with a patriotic beret and cape of his own design, and a petrified piece of fried chicken to use as a weapon. He would go by the codename French Toast and would pose as a clumsy librarian at The University of Grenoble. There he formed a friendship with the school’s cafeteria worker, Paul “Poulet” Reynoard.

Reynoard learned of Bourzat’s dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become his sidekick. French Toast presented Reynoard with his petrified piece of fried chicken, and gave him the code name Poulet Garçon. Throughout World War II, French Toast and Poulet fought the Nazi menace both on their own, and as members of the French Resistance.

August 22, 1944. German troops evacuated the city, as French Toast and Poulet Garçon tried to stop the villainous Baron Zima from destroying an alpine castle. Zima planted an experimental explosive on the roof and fled as Bourzat and Poulet arrived in a borrowed hot air balloon. The pair loaded the bomb into the balloon and took off, planning to diffuse the bomb in mid-air. In a devastating turn of events, the bomb exploded in mid-air as soon as Poulet tried to defuse it, hurling Bourzat into a glacier. Both he and Garçon were presumed dead after the hot air balloon explosion.

Decades later, alpine hikers discovered French Toast’s body frozen in a glacier like a cheap Eggo. The only trace of Poulet Garçon was his trusty piece of petrified chicken, which French Toast wields to this day. French Toast had been preserved in the block of ice since 1944, surviving because of his Super Syrup enhancements. French Toast would soon realize that, due to his prolonged deep freeze, he could no longer revert to his human form.

French Toast spent years in a deep depression, aimlessly wandering the countryside until he inadvertently foiled an armed robbery. This chance encounter caused him to once again find purpose in his life. Soon, French Toast was offered membership into the European Division of Kaiju Big Battel. His experience as a soldier quickly became a valuable asset to French Toast, and he quickly assumed the mantle of Kaiju Big Battel, Le European Champion.

In 2006, French Toast found himself in a new chapter of his life, as he entered a new warzone. He found himself in a transatlantic war of words with Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder, in a disagreement over the culinary tastes of the world. After months of buildup, and reams of immigration paperwork, the two finally met in Brooklyn New York, to settle it once and for all. Steam-Powered Tentacle Boulder defeated Toast in a resounding victory. French Toast might have been literally crushed that day, but his resolve stood fast. He will not stop until the day he becomes the greatest Kalju hero the world has ever seen!

The Death and Rebirth of French Toast

In October 2023, there was a flood at Kaiju Big Battel HQ while many monsters were in stasis, healing up for the next fighto. French Toast was the only conscious Hero nearby, and he bravely sacrificed himself to protect the other monsters. The flood left our Parisian Pugilist far beyond soggy. He wilted away under the immense pressure of the flood, leaving behind only trace DNA.

On March 9, 2025, French Toast was rebuilt and returned to help Unicorn Party defeat Hell Monkey and the evil Dr. Cube.