Gezora

A kisslip cuttlefish mutated by the Space Amoeba off the coast of Sergio Island, Gezora was regarded as a mythical beast by the island's natives. The monster took its first victim in the form of a man named Sakura, whose friend Yokoyama managed to escape the scene but was later tracked down and killed by Gezora in his temporary residence on the island. Gezora attempted to kill an islander named Rico, who was a witness to the death of Yokoyama, but was repelled by the ultrasonic waves emitted from a nearby colony of native bats, leaving the man in a near-unresponsive state and with a number of frostbitten wounds. Gezora was later encountered underwater by Taro Kudo and Dr. Kyoichi Mida, and took to land shortly after to decimate a native outpost, but was ultimately killed by Taro, Mida, and the rest of their group with help from a few natives by drenching a field in gasoline and luring the monster to it with gunshots before setting him ablaze with torches. Gezora retreated to the ocean floor where he finally died from his wounds, however the Space Amoeba escaped his host and sought out new creatures to mutate.

* **Release the Kraken!** Assistant special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano has openly expressed dissatisfaction with the names of Gezora, Ganimes, and Kamoebas, even rather jokingly suggesting "Gesoi" as a better name for Gezora, saying at a panel at G-Fest in 2004, "We made a mistake in naming those kaiju! One reason that *Space Amoeba* was not successful was because no one liked their names. Since Gezora is a big squid, it would have been better to call him *Gesoi* because that's what people say when they order sushi! But then everyone would think you're ordering sushi! So the names of the kaiju were bad" and "The names of these kaiju in Japanese are lousy. The names don't fit, and the kaiju just aren't scary. Maybe if we named the three differently, the movie would have been better. It was the names that killed the three kaiju."
* **Kraken Attack:** In *Space Amoeba*, Gezora is a kisslip cuttlefish native to the waters around Sergio Island. He was possessed by the Space Amoeba after the space probe Helios-7 crashed into the waters near the island, and mutated into a gigantic monster. The natives gave the creature the name "Gezora" after a squid deity spoken of in their folklore, believing the creature itself to be this entity.
	+ **Creature Features**
		- **Name:** Gezora (instead of name: Zegora)
		- **Weapons:** Tentacles
		- **Enemies:** Ganimes

## Chaos Effect

In *Godzilla: Rulers of Earth*, Gezora's origins are never directly stated, however it is implied to be an ancient creature belonging to the Earth's natural order, as he is depicted on a mural located on Infant Island showing the planet's many natural kaiju. The mural specifically classifies Gezora as a water kaiju, along with Zilla, Varan, Ganimes, Ebirah, Titanosaurus, Manda, and Kamoebas. In the present day, Gezora was captured and taken control of by the aquatic alien race known as the Devonians, and used along with several other of the water kaiju in their attempted invasion of Earth.

* **Sealife:** Gezora was created when the Space Amoeba, which had been taking refuge on the spaceship Helios-7, possessed and mutated a cuttlefish in the waters off Sergio Island, where the ship had previously crash landed. The natives of the island regarded the monster as akin to a creature of legend, and the island's elder Onbo warned of the beast's wrath. Two foreigners, an engineer named Yokoyama and his friend Sakura, decided against heeding the warnings of the native people, believing it to be mere superstition, and sneaked off to a beach near the ocean to fish. Although Sakura warned that the air and water felt unusually cool, Yokoyama reassured him that it was nothing more than a temperature drop due to the time of day and a current of cold water, and cast his line into the waters. Immediately, to their shock, the water lit up with a blinding streak of blue light before none other than Gezora emerged. Fearing for their lives, the men attempted to flee from the kraken-like sea monster, but Sakura stumbled on the rocky terrain and fell to the ground. Realizing this, Yokoyama turned back and attempted to help his companion, but it was too late. Gezora ensnared Sakura in his giant tentacle and dragged the man under the water, drowning and presumably consuming him. As the monster descended back under the murky depths, Yokoyama continued to frantically flee but was met by Onbo and a number of his followers, to whom he dejectedly recounted the experience.
* **Kraken Gets Killed:** Later, after being confronted about the incident by the recently-arrived Taro Kudo, Kyoichi Mida, Ayako Hoshino, and Makoto Obata, Yokoyama agreed to transport the group to an underground cavern which they intended to survey. There, they discovered a large reservoir of water which came in from the sea at high tide. Not long after, the water lit up with a blue glow not unlike that previously experienced by Yokoyama and Sakura, the former warning the rest of the group that it was a sign of the monster. As the water churned and several waves crashed against the cave floor, the light disappeared and it was concluded that the monster had left. One of the waves created washed up a Japanese wristwatch which Yokoyama recognized as Sakura's, sending him into a panic and prompting him to speed off in his vehicle, stranding the rest of the group. As Yokoyama and an islander named Rico who had tagged along in the jeep arrived at the hut which Yokoyama had been temporarily taking residence in, Gezora emerged from the ocean and came on land. The monster wasted no time in making his attack, arriving at the building and bursting through the ceiling and window with its tentacles to terrorize the men inside. Gezora quickly constricted Yokoyama with one of the tentacles and ripped him from the shack, before doing the same with Rico, tossing the latter to the ground outside. After further dismantling the building, Gezora prepared to finish Rico off, but was suddenly driven off by a colony of bats flying overhead, due to the ultrasonic waves which they had been emitting. Although Rico managed to keep his life, he was left in a near-comatose state, responding only to light shined in his eyes, and with a number of frostbitten wounds on his body, both of which concluded by Dr. Kyoichi Mida to be the doing of Gezora.
	+ **Did You Know?** Gezora was inspired by the giant sea monster called Kraken.

## Monsters of the Mind

Conspiring against the beast, Taro, Dr. Mida, and Ayako concluded that using fire against Gezora may prove effective, as Ayako noticed that at one point his tentacle was scalded by a small fire in the village. With help from a number of natives, Taro and the doctor began to fire at Gezora with rifles to catch his attention and lure him into a clearing. Once there, the field was drenched in gasoline from an old munitions dump and lit with torches, setting Gezora ablaze. With massive burns and sores covering his body, the giant cuttlefish ran back to the ocean and began to attempt to swim away, but ultimately perished on the seafloor. The Space Amoeba then escaped from the monster's corpse, only to travel back to the island to continue his attack.

* **Release the Kraken!** Assistant special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano has openly expressed dissatisfaction with the names of Gezora, Ganimes, and Kamoebas, even rather jokingly suggesting "Gesoi" as a better name for Gezora, saying at a panel at G-Fest in 2004, "We made a mistake in naming those kaiju! One reason that *Space Amoeba* was not successful was because no one liked their names. Since Gezora is a big squid, it would have been better to call him *Gesoi* because that's what people say when they order sushi! But then everyone would think you're ordering sushi! So the names of the kaiju were bad" and "The names of these kaiju in Japanese are lousy. The names don't fit, and the kaiju just aren't scary. Maybe if we named the three differently, the movie would have been better. It was the names that killed the three kaiju."
* **Kraken Attack:** In *Space Amoeba*, Gezora is a kisslip cuttlefish native to the waters around Sergio Island. He was possessed by the Space Amoeba after the space probe Helios-7 crashed into the waters near the island, and mutated into a gigantic monster. The natives gave the creature the name "Gezora" after a squid deity spoken of in their folklore, believing the creature itself to be this entity.
	+ **Creature Features**
		- **Name:** Gezora (instead of name: Zegora)
		- **Weapons:** Tentacles
		- **Enemies:** Ganimes