Talk:King Ghidorah/@comment-5234191-20141207090841

In response to provenbeat

Uh uh, I don't think number of appearances is the point. If it is, why Gamera is more known as an atlantean creation as he is in a trilogy rather than a prehistoric monster he is in the whole Showa movie?

People might think what grounds King Ghidorah character is his origin as an alien, this is not neccesarily (or even at any extent) true. What actually sticks with his characters the most are his role in the story to "cast shadow on Godzilla" be it his size or power, his role as a mass destroying being with no empathy (be it to serve his master or independent will) and of course some of his key characteristics.

You are forgivable to say that his malice incarnation defines him more than his sacred embodiment in GMK, but to claim that any of his previous backstory is his trademark is just oblivious in my view, his background has been changed to suit the movies he's in, even there are two seperate alien origins to fit him respectively in Showa era (where all kinds of strange things are) and in RoM trilogy (where extra terrestrial sentients that controls him would be out of place, wouldn't it?

Relatively speaking, backstory does marginal to moderate when it comes to affecting the identity of a character that already has multiple intrepetation, but it does affect the atmosphere of the story he's in and the atmosphere of that verse (About the hubris of men and the force of nature and suddenly an extra terrestrial element is blended in, focus point probably gone). If there's a better origin for him to relate in the 2018 film, why not?

What? He look too unearthly? Ohoho, I think even the MUTOs look more alien than even KG. I would accept that if its for Gigam or Hedorah, but KG's key feature actually ressemble what there are on earth more than most "Alien Kaiju" TOHO ever made, Gigantic draconic/bat-like wings (anyway if a creature was to be adaptive to the various gravitational force of different planets, what's with the massive build and the wings? Anti-Gravity power? Does that seem ok in LegendaryVerse?), shiny prominent Arowana-like scales, and the looks of dragons which is a mythical creature shared upon by many cultures across the earth (And suddenly something from across the stars crash down to earth and show off a face with striking similarity with dragons, pretty unlikely for a grounded verse eh?), Three heads (you think two headed turtles and three heades snakes are things that came from Mars? They're very Earthly infact, This trait could be reasoned for Genetic defects if anything)

I think an earthly and ancient Ghidorah will be the best for the next movie, and my opinion goes the opposite for alien and magical origin