Hydra

The Main monster from the 2009 movie, Hydra: The Lost Island.

## Physiology

The Hydra has a serpentine body with a dark green hide while having multiple heads, each one attached to a long serpentine head. Each head has a large mouth with a big underbite that is filled with needle-like teeth and a pair of beady eyes.

## Background

The Hydra is a monster of Greek mythology where it had faced against Hercules. Unlike the original mythology, Hercules did not kill the Hydra and it has since lived on an uncharted island where Hercules' sword, the only weapon that can kill it, is kept at.

## Biography

Four archaeologists discover the island and decided to explore the place just as a bad storm starts. There, the Hydra kills and eats three of them while the last one manages to run off, only to discover the ship sinking into the ocean due to the storm, stranding her on the island along with the Hydra.

Later, a rich man uses the island for a manhunt of captured felons where the Hydra devours his porters and his customers when they land on the island. The felons manage to find the archaeologist where she tells them that the only way to kill the Hydra for good is by using the magic sword of Hercules to cut off its heads completely. While one of them gets the sword kept in a cave, the archaeologist sacrifices herself to the Hydra in order to give them time. When they manage to get the sword, slice off each of the heads, seemingly killing the Hydra. However, the last head didn't get sliced off completely and it manages to heal itself. The Hydra gets on the ship they arrived on as a one-headed serpent and devours the rich man and his wife. The remaining survivors manage to cut the last head completely off, causing the body to disintegrate and carry the sword of Hercules away, killing it for good.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Vision**: While not physically shown, one of the characters states that the Hydra can stalk it's prey with heat and movement like a snake.
* **Head Regeneration**: Just like in the original Greek legends, whenever the Hydra gets one of its heads sliced off, it can regenerate two more heads.
* **Accelerated Healing**: This Hydra seems to have the ability to heal itself quickly when it's last head wasn't completely cut off.

## Kills

* **Panos**: Legs bitten off and devoured off-screen.
* **Shin**: Torn in half from the waist.
* **Dr. Kim**: Torn in half from the waist and each half is eaten.
* **Horst**: Torn up into four pieces
* **Otto**: Torn apart and gets eaten alive.
* **Knut**: Gets body bitten (off-screen)
* **Gunner**: Gets each shoulder bitten and is eaten alive (off-screen).
* **Williams**: Constricted by the Hydra's necks and gets eaten alive (off-screen).
* **Sean**: Torn in half from the waist.
* **Broughton**: Torn apart into pieces.
* **Captain Sweets**: Head and left shoulder bitten off.
* **Dr. Valerie Cammon**: Eaten alive.
* **Dixie Camden**: Bitten at the waist and eaten alive (off-screen).
* **Vincent Camden**: Devoured whole.

## Trivia

* The movie says that the Hydra can only be killed by the sword of Hercules, when really according to mythology, Hercules cut off the heads and uses a torch to burn the head stumps so it wouldn't grow more heads.