King Ghidorah (Anime)

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## King Ghidorah (Anime)

### Name

King Ghidorah, Ghidorah, Gidrah, God, Wings of Death, Universal Intelligence

### Aliases

God of the Void, King of the Void, Higher-Dimensional Monster, Golden Demise, Golden King, Golden Nothing

## Summary

**Ghidorah** (**ギドラ *Gidora***) is a three-headed dragon kaiju who is mentioned in the 2018 animated Godzilla film *GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle*, and goes on to appear in the film's sequel, *GODZILLA: The Planet Eater*. It is the fifth onscreen incarnation of King Ghidorah, and marks the character's first appearance in a film since 2001.

A monstrous entity that takes the form of a golden three-headed dragon and inhabits the void between dimensions, Ghidorah has used super gravity to consume countless worlds throughout the millennia. 100,000 years ago, Ghidorah destroyed the planet Exifcalus, while the surviving members of the native Exif race took to the stars to find new worlds and appease their God. With each new world the Exif found and converted to their faith, Ghidorah was fed a new planet. The Exif eventually made their way to Earth, where the native humans faced extinction at the hands of Godzilla. They cooperated with the fellow refugee alien race the Bilusaludo and the humans to try and defeat Godzilla, but were unsuccessful. Following a failed plan to relocate all three races to Tau Ceti e, they returned to try and reclaim the Earth. With the humanoids' latest methods failing to stop the now even larger and stronger Godzilla, the Exif archbishop Metphies and cardinal Endurph manipulated the desperate surviving refugees into praying for Ghidorah to come forth and eliminate Godzilla. Their manipulation succeeded, and Ghidorah arrived in this dimension, promptly killing the majority of the surviving refugees before turning his wrath against Godzilla. Realizing that Ghidorah would destroy the Earth itself along with Godzilla, Captain Haruo Sakaki and his allies managed to sever Metphies' link to Ghidorah, allowing Godzilla to fight back and banish Ghidorah back to the dimension from whence he came.

## Power and Stats

**Powers and Abilities**:

* Weakened
* True Form
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses, Large Size (Type 3), Immortality (Type 1), Flight, Electricity Manipulation (Able to discharge electrical energy through his bite), Body Control (Able to extend his necks to a length of several kilometers)

All previous abilities with also Higher-Dimensional Existence (King Ghidorah himself is a higher-dimensional entity capable of interacting with lower dimensional planes through the assistance of the Exif), Intangibility (Due to its higher dimensional physiology, King Ghidorah cannot be physically interacted with unless its Exif guide is incapacitated or killed), Incorporeality (Ghidorah's body is made of pure energy with no true physical form), Reality Warping (Ghidorah's mere presence causes reality to erode), Darkness Manipulation (Able to interact with the physical world without entering it itself by controlling shadows, and can attack and kill things by attacking their shadows), Portal Creation (Able to create portals that allow him to travel from higher to lower spatial dimensions), Black Hole Creation, Gravity Manipulation (His mere presence causes severe gravitational distortion, to the point that creatures as heavy as Godzilla Earth can float in mid-air), Spatial Manipulation (His presence alone breaks down and distorts space), Time Manipulation (His presence alone distorts and breaks down time, including causing time loops and causing time to flow out of order), Light Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Weather Manipulation (Able to cause powerful storms with his gravitational field alone), Attack Reflection (Able to redirect and deflect attacks by bending space around himself), Energy Manipulation and Absorption (Absorbed the heat of Scarlet Godzilla and drained it to the point that its overall body temperature dropped below 32 F despite it constantly vibrating its molecules to increase its body temperature), Resistance to Black Holes (Unaffected by its black holes) and Void Manipulation (Can move normally in his void dimension)

**Dimensionality: 3-D** | **4-D**

**Existential Status: Concrete** | **Energetic**

**Attack Potency:** **Multi-Continent level** (Able to slightly harm Godzilla Earth but is overall inferior) | **Universe level+** (Stated to have destroyed and swallowed everything in the universe in the future, with everything in being a mere sacrifice to Ghidorah)

**Durability:** **Multi-Continent level** | **Universe level+**

**Speed:** **Supersonic+** (Mach 3.8, Crossed 20 km in 15 seconds) | **Unknown**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Stamina:** **Extremely High**

**Range:** **20 kilometers** by virtue of sheer size, **Thousands of kilometers** with powers. **Interdimensional** with portals.

**Weaknesses:** Relies on an Exif Priest and the Sacred Stone to achieve 4-dimensional powers if said priest is killed or the stone is destroyed, Ghidorah will become a 3-dimensional being.

**Key:** **Weakened** | **True Form**

## Arsenal

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Interdimensional Travel**: Due to being composed of energy rather than physical matter, Ghidorah has the ability to pass through dimensions. His heads pass into other dimensions through three black portals, and his necks can extend to incredible lengths. During his summoning ritual, Ghidorah initially manifests in this dimension as a shadow that bites down on the shadows of the cultists present at the summoning, which causes their actual bodies to be dismembered.

* **Super Gravity**: Ghidorah is said to have eaten thousands of planets through the use of **Super Gravity** (**超重力 *Chō Jūryoku***). He demonstrates an ability to control gravity when he attacks the *Aratrum*, generating a strong gravitational field around the ship which allows him to trap it and crush it until it explodes. While Ghidorah cannot be detected by United Earth technology, the gravitational anomalies he produces are detectable.
* **S****pace-Time Distortion**: When summoned into this dimension, Ghidorah can alter space-time. When he surrounds the Aratrum, Ghidorah interferes with its systems, constantly giving it different data and run time errors. Ghidorah can also override the ship's steering and navigation systems. He also alters the the passage of time on the ship. For example, when the crew on the bridge receive a transmission from Halu-elu Dolu-do from the engine room, it turns out the engine room was already destroyed 40 seconds ago. The Aratrums systems also show that all life signs on the bridge have ceased even while moments before Ghidorah finally destroys the ship. When fighting Godzilla Earth, Ghidorah is able to interfere with his atomic breath by shifting space-time and causing the beam to curve around his head or be reflected to the ground. He is also able to bypass Godzilla's Asymmetrically Permeable Shield and absorb the heat he generates by converting his electromagnetic energy. Even the United Earth's tracking system are unable to track Ghidorah's electromagnetic and infrared waves, only detecting gravity waves. Martin Lazzari determined that this was due to Ghidorah coming from another dimension, meaning the laws of this dimension do not apply to him.

* **Intangibility**: Another effect of Ghidorah's energy-based body composition and his extradimensional nature is selective intangibility. Both physical and energy based attacks from Godzilla Earth are shown to pass harmlessly through Ghidorah's body, while Ghidorah is able to bite down on Godzilla and restrain him.
* **Electrical Bite**: Like both Mecha-King Ghidorah and the *GMK* King Ghidorah, this incarnation of the character is able to discharge electrical energy through his bite in order to injure Godzilla. Additionally, he can drain energy through his bite thanks to his space-time distortion abilities. He uses this to drain Godzilla Earth's electromagnetic energy and the intense heat he produces as fast as he generates it.
* **Electrical Properties**: While he does not spit the character's traditional gravity beams, Ghidorah possesses several electrical properties. In addition to his electrified bite, Ghidorah emits bolts of electricity from his neck as he coils around the *Aratrum*, dealing severe damage to the ship. There is visible electrical sparking when Godzilla makes contact with Ghidorah's body after his connection to Metphies is severed and he becomes bound by this dimension's physics. His arrival into this dimension is also heralded by storm clouds which project repeated lightning strikes.
* **Gematron Calculation**: Ghidorah has the capacity to communicate with Exif clergy through a technology called Gematron calculation. The Exif pick up Ghidorah's messages through a device wielded by Endurph and Metphies known as the Garbetrium. Gematron calculation can be used to develop advanced artificial intelligence and carry out complex mathematical calculations, as well as provide the Exif with probabilities and even predict the future. The Garbetrium is also a key component in the ritual to summon Ghidorah.