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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 was the fifth Ghidorah of the Godzilla franchise, and the first and last within the Toho reboot series of films.
King Ghidorah was first alluded to in the 2017 and 2018 films, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters and Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, where Metphies referred to, and stated the name of an unspeakable destructive force that destroyed his home planet to Haruo Sakaki, that being Ghidorah.
He played a role in Godzilla: The Planet Eater as the main antagonist, where he finally descended 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 the Showa incarnation.
Origins
This incarnation of King Ghidorah is an extraterrestrial energy being from another dimension, which had its physical body discarded due to its evolution, and simply evolved into a purely energy-based form.
History
Pre-AniGoji trilogy
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: Planet of the Monsters
The seeds of Ghidorah's existence were first planted when Metphies referenced how all shall be according to "god's will".
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Ghidorah was later alluded to as Endurph lead a prayer on the Aratrum, during which he referenced waiting for the day where their god will descend into the world.
Later, Metphies spoke 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 went 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 conspired to finally summon Ghidorah. Metphies decided 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 manifested in the space above the Earth and proceeded to attack and destroy the Aratrum, with its presence distorting space and time around it. It then descended upon the planet, and attacked Godzilla, with the latter being powerless as Ghidorah drained it of its energy over time, while being impervious to damage due to its ethereal nature.
Martin Lazzari later speculated that the nature of the beast is due to its extra dimensional origins, which had it abiding by a completely different set of laws of physics, and also required it to possess a host. Haruo later found out this was Metphies, and after the two engage in a battle of wills, Metphies' anchor over Ghidorah was shattered and the creature was finally rendered vulnerable to Godzilla's attacks. When it attempted to flee, Godzilla slew it with atomic blasts, and succeeded in destroying it and its portals.
After Martin demonstrated to Haruo that he had repaired the last Vulture and intended to use nanometal harvested from Yuko Tani's body to rebuild human civilization, Haruo had a Gematron-induced vision of Metphies' voice saying that Ghidorah would return to devour the Earth if this occurred - indicating that it survived its battle with Godzilla. Haruo also had a vision which Metphies tells him that Ghidorah will always keep eyes on Haruo and Haruo noticed Ghidorah watching him from far distant sky (novelization). This prompted Haruo to take the Vulture and Yuko's body, and sacrifice himself in order to destroy them and break the cycles of destruction and hatred.
Abilities
King Ghidorah is truly the "king" and is the apex predator of universal-scaled ecosystem including Godzillas, and Metphies noted that countless other "Godzillas" along with their planets were devoured by King Ghidorah. In the official pamphlet, it has been suggested that King Ghidorah, with fully manifested body using Haruo's body, will destroy the Earth instantly.
Ghidorah is also physically powerful to lift Godzilla Earth with its necks.
Electricity emissions
Ghidorah can emit powerful thunderbolts from its body, and can electrify targets by sending electricity and sparks through its fangs.
Energy siphoning
Ghidorah was shown to be able to siphon energy from Godzilla, as when the latter began to give off immense waves of heat, similar to that seen at Mechagodzilla City, Ghidorah sucked the heat from its body. It then began to cool it further.
Extra-dimensional nature
This Ghidorah being ghost-like in essences affords it the advantage of not being able to attack, while not being attacked in response. In addition, it also bends reality's space and time around it, resulting in Godzilla's beam attacks curving erratically off target into the air, and ground.
During its manifest on the Earth, Ghidorah firstly emerged as a shadowy presence and initially devoured victims' shadows then their physical bodies, however victim's didn't show any signs of pains or agony while being eaten partially.
Gravitational powers
Ghidorah's mere presence results in extreme gravitational pressures being exerted upon anyone nearby. The Aratrum itself began to crumble under these powers, with both external plating and internal structures breaking down under the immense pressure.
Spacetime distortion
This Ghidorah can bend space and time around it. This results in improper readings pertaining to its presence or actions, and even abnormalities in how events play out. Takeshi J. Hamamoto and Halu-elu Dolu-do held a conversation before the latter's death, which in reality had occurred around 40 seconds prior to the transmission being had. Following this, the Aratrum's crew foresaw their own demise, as they lost life signals in their location moments before Ghidorah's final attack.
Weaknesses
Physical strength
Once pushed into the physical dimension, Ghidorah showed rather meek strength in comparison to Godzilla, who was able to grapple with the monster effectively, and tear it apart.
Trivia
- This Ghidorah was conceptualized as a Godzilla with a completely different evolutionary path, while also being similar to a Servum.
- This is the third incarnation of King Ghidorah to be an extraterrestrial monster.
- This Ghidorah's ability to electrify the targets by biting is similar to that of King Ghidorah (GMK).
- This Ghidorah's power to lift Godzilla with its necks and drains Godzilla's internal energy is similar to that of Keizer Ghidorah.
List of appearances
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (First appearance) (mentioned)
- Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (mentioned)
- Godzilla: The Planet Eater
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (Novelization)
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