Kamacuras (MA)

The Kamacuras カマキラス (Kamakirasu) of the Planet of the Monsters continuity is a species of giant mantis-like created by  that first appeared in Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse, a prequel novelization for the 2017 film, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters.

Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse
Kamacuras was the first monster recognized to humanity.

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
Kamacuras was one of few monsters that briefly appeared in the prologue of the film.

Appearance
Subadult was described to be about a size of a train with its sickles extending for 2 meters, and had a triangular head, profusely big yellow eyes, and emit high-pitched sounds that made inside a train tremble.

This Kamacuras had symmetry sickles like its predecessor in 2004 film Godzilla: Final Wars.

Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse
On May 4, 1999, Kamacuras appeared from Upper New York Bay at midnight, then moved to northeast wrecking cities. For the following 72 hours, it caused massive damages on east coast, trampling down for 330km in one line distance and caused more than 2.5 million causalities. The US force utilized Bunker Buster(s) against it from B-2 fighter(s), and defeated the monster nearby Portsmouth.

Gordon Castle who along with two black civilians and policemen used themselves as decoys to lure the individual which attacked the train they were on down the East River, to release other passengers. They succeeded in luring the monster to cut an old pipe for heating and entrapped the monster, steaming it to death.

It is unclear how many immature individuals had appeared, but Gordon Castle who along others indicated that there were many.

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
Kamacuras was one of few monsters that briefly appeared in the prologue of the film.

Abilities
Adult was able to cause a havoc on humanity in rather short period.

Immature individuals, while their sickles were sharp enough to slice metals easily, shots of pistols caused pains on it and angered it. It was killed by being enclosed in a chamber which was filled with hot steam.

Mice that inhabit train stations and surroundings fled away when one of immature individuals appeared.

Trivia

 * The description of the destruction of the World Trade Center by adult Kamacuras strongly resembles that of September 11 attacks.
 * Gordon Castle was a financial trader and was working at an investment bank on Wall Street, but later became an inspector of 27th plantation in the autonomous territory of Brazil to cultivate "mana corn" provided by Bilusaludos, a DNA modified crop to deal with shortened food supplies.
 * Gordon was conversed to Exif's religion in 2043, five years prior to Akira Sakaki's interview to Gordon.
 * When a Kamacuras attacked a train which Gordon and others were on, Gordon actually mistook that the civilians and policemen who rushed out at the very beginning, were escaping and he followed them to do so as well, and he later described that the two civilians who were trying to mug from Gordon before the appearance of Kamacuras were "unbelievably affected by hero air".

List of appearances

 * Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse
 * Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters