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“ | The entire human race will perish from the Earth. Where the monster Ghidorah passes, only flaming ruins are left. | „ |
| ~ Princess Maas Doulina Salno |
Background[]
King Ghidorah (キングギドラ Kingu Gidora) is a three-headed dragon kaiju that first appeared in the 1964 Godzilla film, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster.
Having been featured in four films and a television series, the Showa King Ghidorah is the incarnation of the character with the most onscreen appearances to date. An evil extraterrestrial three-headed dragon, King Ghidorah attacked Venus over 5,000 years ago, effortlessly eradicating the planet's advanced civilization. In the 20th century, King Ghidorah arrived on Earth inside of a meteor and prepared to do the same to it. However, Mothra was able to convince Godzilla and Rodan to join forces with her to fight King Ghidorah off and send him back into outer space. In the year 196X, King Ghidorah was now terrorizing Planet X, and was known by the native Xiliens as "Monster Zero." The Xiliens convinced humanity to allow them to bring Godzilla and Rodan to Planet X, where they fought and defeated King Ghidorah once again. However, the Xiiens had double-crossed mankind, and unleashed King Ghidorah, Godzilla, and Rodan on the Earth under their mind control, demanding the planet's surrender. A group of scientists and astronauts were able to sever the Xiliens' mind control and defeat the invaders, while the now free Godzilla and Rodan fought King Ghidorah off once again. Sometime later, King Ghidorah was now under the control of the M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens, and was sent to Earth alongside their cyborg monster Gigan to assist in their invasion. Godzilla and his ally Anguirus both escaped from Monster Island and battled Gigan and King Ghidorah in Tokyo, with the battle eventually moving to the Nebulans' base of operations at World Children's Land. With the assistance of a group of humans, Godzilla and Anguirus were able to send King Ghidorah and Gigan retreating into space. King Ghidorah next returned to Earth as a pawn of the Garogas, and was fought and defeated by the hero Zone Fighter. At the end of the 20th century, the Kilaaks deployed King Ghidorah to battle the legion of Earth's monsters at Aokigahara after their mind control over them was severed. This time, King Ghidorah would not escape with his life, and the space demon was brutally and decisively killed by Godzilla and his allies.
Powers and Stats[]
Keys: Second Generation | First Generation | End of Showa
Tier: 3-A | At least 3-A | 3-A
Dimensionality: 3-D
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Extra Body Parts (Has 3 heads), Flight (Capable of naturally flying around with his wings), Large Size (Type 1), Danmaku (Capable of launching off three Gravity Beams at all once), Air Manipulation (Can cause large hurricans and strong winds by flapping his wings), Breath Attack, Longevity, Self-Sustenance (Type 1: Can naturally breath in space), Energy Manipulation and Projection (With Gravity Beams), Radiation Manipulation, Natural Weaponry (Teeth), Camouflage, Smoke Manipulation and Poison Manipulation (Capable of releasing a poisonous gas to kill targets), Absorption (Is capable of absorbing cosmic energy into himself), Madness Manipulation (Can release gases which make the opponnent mad), Extrasensory Perception (Capable of sensing life forms across multiple light years), Telepathy (His horns are also said to be capable of telepathy according to an official anatomy guide), Magnetism Manipulation (Can magnetically control over objects around himself), Paralysis Inducement (Described that his fangs contains numbing liquid), Transformation (Can switch between his Meteorite form and normal form), Resistance to Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations
Attack Potency: Universe level (Stated by the Garoga Leader to be the most destructive and powerful weapon of all their arsenal despite having their own nukes, and they choosed Ghidorah over them. Was capable of absorbing the Sun's power to himself. His mission was to completely destroy Earth. Could fight against Zone Fighter) | At least Universe level (Far stronger than Second Generation Ghidorah. Indentified as a planet obliterator in various guides. His mere power was enough to completely shook the entirety of Venus and eliminated all of it's life in a single day. Stated to be completely invincible in space. Needed the efforts of Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra to be defeated) | Universe level (Has gotten stronger in the end of the Showa Era, as it is capable of equally fighting against an End-Showa Godzilla after he trained himself and defeated the likes of Mechagodzilla)
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Capable of keeping up with Godzilla and react to many of his attacks. Comparable to Gigan who can fly from the Space Hunter M Nebula to Earth in seconds and keep up with Zone Fighter, who could react and keep up with Ghidorah mid flight)
Lifting Strength: Class T (Comparable to Gigan who is officialy stated to be capable of uprooting whole mountains) | Class T | Class T
Durability: Universe level (Can tank Zone Fighter's attacks) | At least Universe level (Far stronger than Second Generation Ghidorah) | Universe level
Stamina: High
Range: Hundreds of meters via sheer size, higher with attacks
Standard Equipment: Teeth and Tails
Intelligence: Below Average
Weaknesses: Though more than a match for Godzilla in a one-on-one battle, King Ghidorah tends to become overwhelmed when facing multiple kaiju at once. This proves to be his downfall in Destroy All Monsters, where he is killed in a battle against all of Earth's monsters at the same time. King Ghidorah also tends to become confused when the mind control of his alien masters is severed, which leaves him open and vulnerable to attack.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Gravity Beams: King Ghidorah's arguably most famous ability is the golden, lightning bolt-like Gravity Beams (引力光線 Inryoku Kōsen) he spits from his three mouths, also variably referred to as Lightning Beams (電撃光線 Dengeki Kōsen) or Zero Gravity Beams (無重力光線 Mujūryoku Kōsen). These beams are roughly equal in power to Godzilla's atomic breath, and are capable of causing large-scale explosions when fired at buildings. King Ghidorah uses these beams to cover a large radius or strike multiple targets by firing them from each of his mouths. King Ghidorah can also fire these beams one at a time, demonstrated in Godzilla vs. Gigan when he turns one of his heads to blast Anguirus, who is attempting to sneak up behind him.
- Hurricane Wind: King Ghidorah can produce hurricane-force winds by flapping his wings, which are capable of blowing away buildings and knocking other kaiju off their feet.
- Magnetism: In Zone Fighter, King Ghidorah seems to retain his control over gravity/magnetism, managing to suspend several cars midair above a research institute, though how he achieves such a feat goes unexplained.
Note: Do not try to upgrade Heisei monsters via guidebooks saying that they're comparable to Showa monsters, as no such thing is supported anywhere else, with the fact that Heisei feats are nowhere near as strong as Showa's feats and the scaling between different continuities being disallowed.
- Additionally, Heisei King Ghidorah is not a clone of the Showa Ghidorah. Not only is the statement that he is made out of DaM Ghidorah's DNA blatantly stated to be a theory alongside another one, but the official novelization for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah completely contradicts both by stating that the Heisei Ghidorah is based from a dead Ghidorah on Venus, something of which never happened in the Showa Era. Therefore, attempts to scale Heisei Ghidorah to this through this are invalid.
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