Giant Condor

The **Giant Condor**  (大コンドル,   *Ookondoru*?, lit. *Large Condor*), also known as the **Giant Eagle**  (大ワシ,   *Oowashi*?, lit. *Large Eagle*), is a giant bird kaiju created by Toho that first appeared in the 1966 Godzilla film, *Ebirah, Horror of the Deep*.

## Name

Godzilla jp. says the Giant Condor (大コンドル,   *Ookondoru*?, lit. *Large Condor*) is his Ebirah, Horror of The Deep name, and Giant Eagle (大ワシ,   *Oowashi*?, lit. *Large Eagle*) in All Monsters Attack.

## Origins

The origins of the Giant Condor is unknown, as it could by a Prehistoric Bird, or mutated by The Red Bamboo. Also if The Condor was controlled by the Red Bamboo or not.

## History

### Showa Series

#### *Ebirah, Horror of the Deep*

The Giant Condor attacked Godzilla on Letchi Island, but Godzilla burned him easily into the sea.

## Abilities

The Giant Condor has the Abilities of any large bird of prey.

## Facts

* The Giant Condor was meant to be an opponent for King Kong, who was featured in the screenplay for the unmade film *Operation Robinson Crusoe: King Kong vs. Ebirah*, which ultimately became *Ebirah, Horror of the Deep*. King Kong was replaced with Godzilla during production due to problems with Rankin/Bass, the company who provided Toho with the rights to Kong.
* The Giant Condor's shrieking screech was reused for some of Minilla's vocalizations in *Son of Godzilla*, *Destroy All Monsters*, and *All Monsters Attack*.
* The Giant Condor is one of the four minor Showa era monsters, who include the Giant Lizard, the Giant Octopus, the Giant Condor, the Giant Sea Serpent, and Skeleturtle, to have received an official toy. The others are the Giant Octopus, Skeleturtle and the Giant Sea Serpent.
* The Giant Condor could be related to the Argentavis species, the largest flying birds ever discovered. However, since the Argentavis and its relatives lived in South America, it is possible that the Giant Condor is not related to this species.
* Godzilla's battle with the Giant Condor is one of the shortest battles in the Godzilla series, along with Godzilla's battle with Zilla in *Godzilla: Final Wars*.
* The puppet used to portray the Giant Condor is actually a heavily-redesigned and altered Rodan puppet from *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster* and *Invasion of Astro-Monster*, having been altered multiple times by Tsuburaya Productions to portray the monsters Litra and Larugeus in the series *Ultra Q*, then sent back to Toho and redesigned again.

## References

This is a list of references for **Giant Condor**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ Club Tokyo

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