Agon

**Agon**(アゴン *Agon*) is the main Kaiju of the 1964 black-and-white Japanese miniseries, Giant Phantom Monster Agon.

**Subtitle**: Large Phantom Monster(幻の大怪獣 *Maboroshi no dai kaijū*), or Atomic Dragon.

## Appearance

Agon has the appearance of a bipedal dinosaur while standing up tall. He is covered with thick scales all over his body while having an exposed stomach and features abs, a small dorsal fin on top of his head, has a tall thick neck, rows of short spikes on his back, and has three-fingered claws on each hand.

## Biography

### Agon Appears: Part One

During a typhoon in Japan, a vehicle containing Uranium, called Uran X, falls down a cliff and into the ocean, resulting in the National Atomic Energy Center to search for it with the police. As soon as Detective Yamato, along with Dr. Ukyo and a journalist named Goro Sumoto, figure out what happened to the vehicle when they come across a boy, named Monta, who found a flashlight belonging to the vehicle, one of their Geiger counters suddenly starts picking up high traces of radiation from the ocean. Just then, they see bubbles coming out of the ocean and are shocked when a giant dinosaur rises out. Everyone hides behind the rocks as they see the monster rising out of the water. Goro manages to take some pictures before the beast vanishes and they’re posted throughout the newspapers. Later, Goro and Yamato meet up with Dr. Ukyo at his laboratory at the National Atomic Energy Center to discuss about the giant monster. Ukyo names the monster Agon and reveals a biology report that Agon is a dinosaur from the Jurassic period that has been laying dormant underwater and has become mutated, which Dr. Ukyo theorizes was caused by nuclear bombs. After Dr. Ukyo introduces his research assistant, Satsuki, to Goro and Yamato, they suddenly get a call from the Center’s uranium storage and they say the checking meter is showing an abnormality. Realizing this means that Agon is nearby, all the scientists from the Center follow Dr. Ukyo to the Center’s beach and where they see that their Geiger counter is picking up high traces of radiation like last time. Just then, Agon rises out from the water and surfaces onto the beach, creating big tidal waves that hit some of the scientist as they try to evacuate. Agon chases after the scientist into the woods where it knocks down the trees in it’s path. Most of the scientists manage to escape while others got crushed by the trees. Satsuki, unfortunately, gets her legs pinned underneath a tree and gets spotted by Agon. As Satsuki stares at him with fear, Agon stomps his foot onto the ground, creating a big fissure underneath Satsuki and causing her to fall in.

### Agon Appears: Part Two

Goro and Yamato manage to rescue Satsuki from the fissure as Agon continues knocking down all the trees in his area and makes his way to the National Atomic Energy Center to destroy it. All of the scientists manage to evacuate the Center where Agon starts demolishing each of the buildings until he destroys the Center’s nuclear reactor, resulting in it blowing up in front of him. Goro, Yamato, and Satsuki were able to evacuate alongside with Dr. Ukyo and they witness Agon getting caught in the nuclear reactor explosion. Goro believes that Agon perished in the nuclear reactor explosion, but Dr. Ukyo wasn’t willing to jump to conclusions.

## Powers/Abilities

**Adapted Swimming**: Agon is shown timing be amphibian as he can swim through water and walk on land.

**Strength**: Agon is shown to be very strong as he’s able to create giant fissures in the ground by stomping his feet.

## Trivia

* Agon bares an unncanny resemblance to Godzilla(*Gojira*).
	+ Both are mutated dinosaurs
	+ Both were created from atomic/nuclear bombs
* Agon might have gotten his name from the Greek term, Agon, for conflict or struggle.