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Ghidorah's true, final form includes it's entire body with legs, wings, and two tails.
The King Ghidorah (キングギドラ Kingu Gidora?) of the AniGoji continuity is the fifth Ghidorah of the Godzilla franchise, and the first within the Toho reboot series of films.
King Ghidorah was first alluded to in the 2018 film, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, where Metphies says the name of an unspeakable destructive force that destroyed his home planet, to Haruo Sakaki, that being Ghidorah.
He plays a role in Godzilla: The Planet Eater as the main antagonist, where he finally descends unto the planet to fight Godzilla Earth.
Design
Appearance
While Ghidorah retains the classic image of a three-headed dragon with two wings, two tails, and two legs, he is mostly different than his past incarnations. Despite having feet, he doesn’t stand upright and is positioned horizontally rather than vertically. The body of Ghidorah looks like fiery energy, and Ghidorah's heads feature a Servum-like aesthetic, with long, narrow, tooth-filled mouths and multiple eyes, a first for the iconic kaiju.
This Ghidorah is also partially transparent, as per the film's poster, which shows him engaged in battle with Godzilla Earth.
Roar
The roar of Ghidorah was first heard in The Planet Eater's first teaser, and was a loud, high pitched bellow, followed by a raspy snarl.
Like his Heisei incarnations, Ghidorah has a modified Rodan roar. When communicating with the Exif and Haruo through the Gematron Operation, it emits the shrill cackle of its Showa incarnation.
Origins
This incarnation of King Ghidorah is an extraterrestrial energy being from another dimension.
History
Pre-City on the Edge of Battle
Ghidorah was discovered by the Exif clergy when they attempted to see beyond the boundaries of the universe, and in despair at the finiteness of existence they summoned it to destroy their homeworld. The few surviving members of the Exif clergy took to worshipping Ghidorah as a god of destruction, locating planets with sentient life and converting the inhabitants to their religion before sacrificing them to their god in an attempt to enable it to permanently manifest and destroy everything.
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Ghidorah was first alluded to as Endurph leads a prayer on the Aratrum, during which he references waiting for the day where their god will descend into the world.
Later, Metphies speaks to Haruo in a cave, confirming the latter's question that their civilization was destroyed by kaiju, leaving behind nothing but their words and culture. Metphies goes on to say that Godzilla is not even worth fearing in comparison to the kaiju who destroyed the Exif homeworld, and surreptitiously shares its name - which the Exif consider sacred - with Haruo: Ghidorah.
Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Following the fall of Mechagodzilla City, and the gaining of followers through Haruo's survival of the events there, Metphies and Endurph conspire to finally summon Ghidorah. Metphies decides to act as Ghidorah's host in lieu of Haruo's non-involvement, and he and Endurph succeed in summoning it, killing off his cult followers in the process, including Adam Bindewald.
Ghidorah then manifests in the space above the Earth and proceeds to attack and destroy the Aratrum, with its presence distorting space and time around it. It then descends upon the planet, and attacks Godzilla, with the latter being powerless as Ghidorah drains it of its energy over time, while being impervious to damage due to its ethereal nature.
Martin Lazzari later speculates that the nature of the beast is due to its extra dimensional origins, which have it abiding by a completely different set of laws of physics, and also require it to possess a host. Haruo later finds out this is Metphies, and after the two engage in a battle of wills, Metphies' anchor over Ghidorah is shattered and the creature is finally rendered vulnerable to Godzilla's attacks. When it attempts to flee, Godzilla slays it with atomic blasts, and succeeds in destroying it and its portals.
After Martin shows Haruo he has repaired the last Vulture and intends to use nanometal harvested from Yuko Tani's body to rebuild human civilization, Haruo has a Gematron-induced vision of Metphies' voice saying that Ghidorah will return to devour the Earth if this occurs - indicating that it survived its battle with Godzilla. This prompts Haruo to take the Vulture and Yuko's body, sacrificing himself in order to destroy them and break the cycles of destruction and hatred.
List of appearances
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (First appearance) (mentioned)
- Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (mentioned)
- Godzilla: The Planet Eater
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