Mothra

## Name

Mothra is given her name due to the fact she resembles a gigantic moth. The name "Titanus Mosura" comes from the Latin term "Titanus", meaning Titan, with "Mosura" being a Japanese translation of Mothra. The novelization of the film reveals that "Mosura" is the name that is given to her by the natives of a small Indonesian island that worship her, and that the name itself means "giver of life".

## Appearance

Mothra's egg was fleshy rather than hard, and appeared to be coated in vine-like structures which fell away during Mothra's birth (whether these were a part of the egg or due to Mothra's life-attracting influence is unknown). When metamorphosing, her chrysalis (from what little was seen of it through the waterfall) appeared to resemble a gigantic version of a moth chrysalis with a long and slender shape, producing bright and flashing bioluminescent lights which highlighted blue- and yellow-seeming segments.

Her larval form is much more insectoid in appearance compared to other incarnations; possessing a vaguely armadillo-like segmented back, double-jointed and somewhat caterpillar-like legs, and three arthropod-like mandibles and teeth, as opposed to past incarnations which only possessed two mandibles. Her back-segments can shift and vibrate slightly with her emotion when she's aggravated. Her head is somewhat round with beady, surprisingly vertebrate-like blue eyes. She prominently produces a bioluminescent glow from under her skin - this glow is normally colored bright-blue, but she changes color to red when provoked to aggression.

Mothra's imago form overall bore a resemblance to a gigantic moth; with a hair-lined body consisting of numerous colors, feathery antennae ('varied-antennae'), and four large wings which sweep or drag behind her body when they're not extended. Her wings are patterned with black, orange, yellow and blue colors and possess prominent eye patterns (akin to her Ancestors and *Descendants* designs). When her wings are bioluminescent, they glow with a series of brilliant colors. Her wings are also much longer and narrower in proportion to the rest of her body than in most incarnations.

Her main body's hair is white and brown, and her head is stockier than most incarnations. She retains a facial resemblance to her larval form in the form of her mandibles, whilst her blue eyes are now larger and slanted, making them appear vaguely more insectoid. She possesses an abdomen shaped like a wasp's (much like her Old Self) with a large, retractable stinger. She possesses three pairs of insectoid legs - a double-jointed front and middle pair (the latter pair are often kept tucked between and under the former) which she uses as blade-like offensive weapons, and a triple-jointed pair of hind legs.

## Personality

Mothra appears to be a particularly intelligent and loyal Titan: unlike the other Titans, she defies King Ghidorah after the latter has usurped Godzilla's position as alpha in favor of remaining loyal to Godzilla and immediately seeks him out, and her flight against Ghidorah in a weakened state (which led to her death and also to her remains allowed Godzilla to defeat Ghidorah) implies she has a concept of and capacity to commit self-sacrifice. It's also implied in the novelization that Mothra, when she was hovering above Castle Bravo before the humans' expedition to revive Godzilla set off, intentionally led the submarine to the underwater Vile Vortex leading to Godzilla's resting place so they could revive him, indicating an ability to understand complex concepts such as common goals and needs.

In stark contrast to Ghidorah, Mothra, true to her association with life, is by far the most benevolent Titan yet seen and is highly gentle towards humans when not provoked. She shows mild curiosity to find herself confronted by The Savers Of Earth personnel upon hatching from her egg and cocoon respectively, and she leans her head towards The Team close enough for the latter to touch after being calmed by the ORCA. In her earlier encounter with Gods, Mothra only became warier after their failed attempt to use a containment field on her (which she observed killing several of the flying insects that were drawn to her), and she only attacked outright after one of the humans fired on her with a stun gun. Even then, Mothra went out of her way to dispatch the humans present in non-fatal ways (demonstrated most prominently when she grabbed one of the fleeing guards in her mandibles, and instead of crushing or devouring him proceeded to throw him into a web, which immobilized him and cushioned his impact); and in her aggressive state, she still allowed a submissive Team to cautiously approach her with the ORCA. Even when defending herself against Rodan, Mothra was somewhat less aggressive than her opponent, and she dispatched him in an ultimately non-fatal manner.