Mothra

* Imago (Current)
* Imago (Ep. 1)
* Larva

### Aliases

Mosura, Mosla, Giant Moth, Divine Moth, Guardian Moth, Giant Moth Monster, Giant Supersonic Moth, Sun Goddess, Symbol of Light, Symbol of the Sun, Sun Guardian, Light Guardian, Butterfly, LordMosura, LordMosu

## Production Information

### Creator

DinoMania (LordMosu)Teizo Toshimitsu, Kanju Yagi, Yasuei Yagi, Keizo Murase (Original character)

**Mothra** (モスラ *Mosura*) is a giant divine moth Titan who appeared in *Godzilla: Lord of the Galaxy*.

Mothra's goal is not only to save Earth from invasive space threats, but is also to protect life on planet. Her healing powers can help other Titans in recovering and gaining strength, and her ability to reincarnate makes her nearly immortal. She can also use her psychic abilities to see things or events that no other creature can see.

Mothra does have symbiotic relations with the Gojira species, and she will do anything to protect them. Back in 1995, she sacrificed herself to help Rozan defeat Destoroyah, and in 2014, she helped Godzilla during his fight with Jinshin-Mushi.

## Name

The name "Mothra" is the suffixation of "-ra" (a common last syllable in kaiju names) to "moth." Since the Japanese language does not have dental fricatives, it is approximated "Mosura" in Japanese. Originally, Mothra's name was approximated in English as "Mosla," but it was later corrected to "Mothra" by the time of the release of her debut film.

## Design

The old design of LordVerse incarnation has the exact same basic design as the MonsterVerse Mothra, with subtle differences. Her winged color patterns are a difference. While the MonsterVerse Mothra goes from Green-Cyan to Orange to Red, the LordVerse Mothra goes Blue-Green to Red to Orange-Yellow. The LordVerse Mothra has more notable eyelashes, a fur layer at the front of her wings, hind limbs and has curved horns.

The new design has this basis as well, only its abdomen is a lot thinner, reminiscent of the GMK Mothra. She retains most of the traits of the MonsterVerse Mothra.

Mothra's larval stage was based on MonsterVerse and Millennium Mothra Larva. This incarnation has also some traits from real life caterpillars. She has 4 small blue eyes, small tusks, hairs on her back and a tail spike. She's brown in color with grayish-blue belly and yellow dots on her sides.

## Origins

Mothra is a divine Titan that lives in Crystal caverns below Infant Island. Ancient civilizations worshipped her as a Goddess and Guardian. A magical symbol that resembles Sun could've been used to either summon kaiju, contact with her or call for help. To help humans understand her, Mothra created Shobijin fairies, who can appear in minds of people as a vision.

## History

### *Episode 1 - The Arrival*

Mothra appeared to scientists Tom and Polly in a vision. There, the Shobijin, Mothra's priestesses, told the two that the Xiliens were servants of evil and that they will take humanity as their slaves.

After Godzilla was rescued by Rodan, Mothra gathered up with the two and Anguirus, as Godzilla roared defiantly.

Mothra is seen with Godzilla after the EDF examines and takes pictures of Odo Island.

### *Episode 2 - The Impostor*

Mothra, Anguirus and Godzilla are seen on Birth Island, discussing how they should defeat Mechagodzilla. While Godzilla swims towards the Odo Island, Mothra and Anguirus both go through the Underground, so that Xiliens won't spot and attack them. When arriving, Mothra drags Mechagodzilla away from Godzilla. She damages mecha's right eye, which makes him furious. Impostor leaves Godzilla and chases Mothra in the sky, at one point shoots her down with his plasma blast. Before Mechagodzilla manages to kill Mothra, Godzilla blasts him away with his atomic breath.

## Abilities

Mothra is said to have many notable abilities, although not all of them were shown onscreen yet.

### Clairvoyance

Mothra can see into the future and predict what will happen, but only vaguely will she tell you. She uses this to warn humanity about the Xiliens' true intentions. In episode 2, Mothra looked into the future several times, with all of her visions later coming true.

### Telepathy

Mothra can telepathically communicate with the Shobijin, being her priestesses. She can also telepathically communicate with the Godzilla species.

### Flight

Mothra cab fly at impressive speeds up to Mach 3.

### Gale-Force Winds

By flapping her wings, Mothra can create Hurricane-like winds that can destroy buildings. She used this ability to destroy Mechagodzilla's missiles.

### Claws

Like the MonsterVerse incarnation, Mothra can use her front limbs as claws to slash other Titans. Her claws were shown to be strong enough to damage Mechagodzilla's eye, although still unable to pierce his armor.

### Silk

Like all Mothra incarnations, she can spit silk, which can temporarily restrain stronger Titans. Mothra used her silk to prevent Mechagodzilla from finishing her off with a heat ray.

### Immortality

Mothra is able to reproduce without having to breed. She can summon an egg before she knows she's going to die. This grants her immortality, where she is reborn by her egg, while keeping her old memories intact. According to DinoMania, Mothra can reincarnate even if she dies before summoning the egg, but it will take much more time for her to return, up to several years.

### Poisonous Stinger

Mothra has a stinger at the end of her thorax, like the MonsterVerse Mothra.

### Durability

Mothra is durable enough to endure against heavy conventional weaponry. However, any energy-based attacks from other Titans can damage her severely. She took a direct hit from Mechagodzilla's plasma blast and survived, although it still blasted her off the sky and burned her shell.

### Strength

As shown in Episode 2, Mothra possesses impressive physical strength, when she drags the much heavier and stronger Mechagodzilla across, using her claws.

### Deflector Scales

Like the Heisei Mothra, the LordVerse Mothra has scales that can reflect any energy-based beam attacks. She used this ability to deflect Mechagodzilla's heat ray.

### Healing Mist Powder

She can heal the terrain and wildlife around her by releasing a mist of some beneficial substance. Mothra can also use this ability to heal other Titans from fatal injuries.

### Energy Transferral

Like the MonsterVerse Mothra, when Mothra is killed, her life force (as ashes) will rain upon a Titan to empower it.

### Bioluminescence

Mothra can emit very brightly in the sky.

#### God Rays

A variation of her use of Bioluminescence, she can flash this at her opponent, which can blind them temporarily.

### Weaknesses

Mothra's wings cannot last long after a direct hit from a Titan's attack.

She also cannot use her healing powers to heal herself.

## Trivia

* Mothra's scientific name, *Gigamoth Mosura*, is a reference to Gigamoth, an unused Kaiju that was supposed to appear in 2 unmade Godzilla movies.
* Just like Godzilla, Mothra got a redesign in second episode.
* The LordVerse Mothra has the largest wingspan compared to all official incarnations, surpassing the 250 meter wingspan of the Showa Mothra.
	+ However, she's still not the heaviest Mothra, behind the 25,000 metric ton weight of Final Wars, 20,000 metric ton weight of the 1992 Heisei Mothra, the 15,000 metric ton weight of the Showa Mothra and 12,000 metric ton weight of Tokyo SOS Mothra.