King Ghidorah

The Devil with Three Heads (Art by InkyBrain)

> King Ghidorah, the One Who is Many.
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> **A scientist.**

**King Ghidorah** is one of the most powerful and vilest daikaiju in Earth history and is the greatest adversary of Godzilla.

## Overview

King Ghidorah is a powerful extraterrestrial that ancient peoples believed to be a powerful demon who came from the stars to battle the "Incarnation of God". He was trapped beneath the ice in the depths of planet Earth for countless eons until the ice melted and he escaped to the surface to battle the Monster King and avatar of the Primordial Beast known as Behemoth, Godzilla.

He is a force of darkness, destruction, death, The usurping king of the monsters. In times when Godzilla is an anti-hero, Ghidorah would be there to be his villain. Unlike Godzilla who is a defender of Mother Nature and Planet Earth, Ghidorah seems to be the exact opposite, causing several natural disasters around the Earth while awakening the various Kaiju.

## Appearance

King Ghidorah has the appearance of a colossal bipedal dragon with golden scales, its most notable features being its three heads and its enormous wings that are even larger than itself. King Ghidorah is about 158 ​​meters tall, being bigger than Godzilla. Its body weight is 141,056 tons.

## Personality

It appears that each of King Ghidorah's heads can think separately, although the middle head appears to be dominant. King Ghidorah is said to be Evil Incarnate by Gabriel and has destroyed civilizations on several planets for the sake of it. He tried to destroy Earth and its civilization, but he fought the three monsters that got in his way and eventually retreated. Some say that King Ghidorah caused the extinction of the dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period, then returned to Earth in modern times to feed on humanity.

## Powers and Abilities

King Ghidorah is a powerful extraterrestrial dragon, being as powerful as Godzilla. Ancient legends placed him as a demon being compared to the Devil himself or the Dragon of the Apocalypse and the Beast, all beings related to destruction on a planetary level that put the Earth and life on it in danger. King Ghidorah was able to be hit by a powerful nuclear warhead that was able to nearly kill Godzilla many times.

### Powers

* **Dragon Titan Physiology:** As an extraterrestrial Titan in resemblance to a three-headed dragon, Ghidorah was incredibly powerful, and one of the few Titans in existence who is in the same weight class as Godzilla as an alpha Titan. He possesses several physical and borderline-supernatural attributes that surpasses that of other Titans. The only Titan who is capable of rivalling him in terms of "raw power" is Godzilla.
	+ **Advanced Strength:** Due to his gigantic size, Ghidorah possesses a tremendous level of immense strength as he is far greater than that of other Titans, thus he is the third strongest Titan after Godzilla and Kong. However, Titans of similar strength like Godzilla can harm Ghidorah and, potentially, kill him. He is strong enough to restrain Godzilla with his serpentine necks, pin him to the ground and even carry his 99,634-ton body into the Earth's troposphere with little effort, before dropping Godzilla thousands of feet below. However, it is implied that the electricity Ghidorah consumed in Boston greatly increased his strength in order for him to do this.
	+ **Advanced Durability:** Ghidorah's armored golden scales and advanced bodily tissues provide him much greater resistance to physical injury as he is capable of withstanding conventional weaponry. He was able to withstand a full-force charge from Rodan or Godzilla, as well as the sheer power of Godzilla's atomic breath. Ghidorah even used his wings as a shield to protect his heads from missiles. He was also completely immune to the blast of the Oxygen Destroyer, which was designed to exterminate all terrestrial life-forms caught in its blast and which was able to almost kill Godzilla. However, Ghidorah could not withstand thermonuclear pulses released by Godzilla in his burning form, which easily burned away his wings and heads within seconds.
	+ **Advanced Speed:** Ghidorah's three heads are extremely flexible and quick as they are able to lash out and quickly strike their intended targets as well as using their flexible necks and numbers to dodge attacks such as Godzilla's atomic breath. When Ghidorah was flying at top speed, he could reach up to 550 knots, although he seemingly wasn't as agile or acrobatic in the air as the smaller airborne Titan Rodan.
	+ **Advanced Stamina:** Ghidorah's musculature is considerably efficient. His virtually inexhaustible stamina enables him to exert himself at peak capacity for an undefined period of time, allowing him to fight against Godzilla and Rodan without tiring. Even when he is flying in the air, Ghidorah does not even seem to have any obvious signs of fatigue.
	+ **Advanced Endurance:** Ghidorah's endurance is shown to be high, capable of enduring attacks from Godzilla and Rodan and able to fight with all his might while ignoring the pain.
	+ **Advanced Senses:** Ghidorah is granted with powerful senses, such as his sense of smell and hearing. He is able to sense Godzilla's approach in Antarctica and also able to track down the ORCA in Boston.
		- **Advanced Vision:** Ghidorah possesses excellent vision, aiding him in fighting off against Godzilla and enabling him to locate things from far distances easily.
	+ **Accelerated Healing Factor:** Ghidorah could heal/regenerate much faster as he was able to regenerate one of his three heads that was torn off by Godzilla in less than fifteen seconds. He was also able to heal tears in his wing membranes during his fight with Godzilla in Boston. The novelization specifies that Ghidorah absorbs energy from external sources (such as the thermal energy of a volcano or the electrical energy of the Boston power grid) to make this power work. Dr. Stanton specifically comments that this ability "violates everything we (humans) know about the natural order" and it's an indicator of Ghidorah's extraterrestrial true nature.
		- **Longevity/Semi-Immortality:** Ghidorah's exceptional healing factor coupled with self-sustenance provide him with an incredibly long lifespan as he is capable of living for practically long periods of time seemingly without aging or weakening, thus he still retains the appearance of a three-headed dragon in his prime. However, close-call instances such as Godzilla in his burning form confirmed that Ghidorah can still be killed.
	+ **Consciousness Transferal:** Ghidorah's decapitated left head, though seemingly dead to the point that it decomposed to just a skull, retained Ghidorah's telepathic capabilities and with them some vestiges of Ghidorah's will and intent; enough that when Mechagodzilla was fully powered up with a Hollow Earth element, Ghidorah caused the mech to operate independently of a human pilot and begin killing any human it came across as well as trying to kill Godzilla.
	+ **Self-Sustenance:** As an alien Titan, Ghidorah does not need to eat or sleep.
	+ **Flight:** Ghidorah can use his humungous bat-like wings to fly through the air at high speed and high altitudes.
	+ **Advanced Bite:** Ghidorah has a particularly strong and powerful bite, either because of his sharp teeth, jaw-muscles, unusual jaw-structure or some other reason. Exactly what he could bite depends on the jaw-strength, resilience of his teeth/bite-surface and his shape.
	+ **Rattling:** Similar to rattlesnakes, Ghidorah can use the spikes on his twin tails to create a rattling sound as a form of intimidation.
	+ **Bio-Electrical Nature:** Ghidorah's skin was covered with traces of gold which act as a conductor that carries bio-electrical currents throughout his body. Besides it being hinted in the Antarctica battle to have enabled him to draw a lightning-bolt to himself and Godzilla, it aids Ghidorah's meteorokinesis.
	+ **Energy Drain:** Ghidorah was able to bite down onto power lines and absorb the power to himself, significantly boosting his strength. He was also able to siphon the energy out of Godzilla (who was empowered with both a nuke's energy and Mothra's Burning Godzilla-unlocking radiation) through his heads' bites, and the process caused excruciating agony to Godzilla which made the latter outright roar in pain.
	+ **Gravity Beams:** Ghidorah's most prominent ability and main weapon of choice is his gravity beams, powerful beams of concentrated gravity particles which he unleashes from his jaws in the form of golden, electrical lightning-like energy. Much like how Godzilla's dorsal plates glow whenever he is about to release his atomic breath, Ghidorah's throats glow before he fires his gravity beams. The beams are yellowish golden in color and they are more than powerful enough to tear through buildings and disintegrate humans. Ghidorah's gravity beams are so powerful that when Mothra was struck by all three at once, she was almost immediately disintegrated. This did not affect Godzilla in his fiery form, as it had no effect on him and instead, it seemingly charges up his last nuclear pulse attack.
		- **Wing Lightning:** As well as his gravity beams, Ghidorah can also project powerful lightning from the tips of his wings, seen after absorbing a large amount of electricity from a power grid. In addition to damaging aircraft it strikes, this lightning also blinds and temporarily incapacitates Godzilla, allowing Ghidorah to press his advantage.
	+ **Hurricane Winds:** Promotional materials state Ghidorah has hyper-tensile muscle tendons in his wings that are capable of generating hurricane-force winds while he is in flight. It doesn't really show, with the only hint being a scene where rhythmic winds implied to be generated by giant wingbeats battering Fenway Park before Ghidorah is anywhere in sight.
	+ **Meteorokinesis:** Ghidorah had electro-receptor molecular biology and could conduct electrical currents, make water vapor heat up to extreme levels. From the moment he was awakened, he caused unnatural winds on the ground and a storm of yellowish golden lightning. The longer Ghidorah was active, the bigger and more powerful his storm got: rapidly evolving into a ginormous typhoon, and finally to a Category 6 hurricane, and Ghidorah's storm furthermore produced offshoot tornadoes and water-spouts. It's also implied in the film and confirmed in the novelization that after Ghidorah takes over the other Titans, he begins creating other offshoot storms (without the yellow lightning) all over the planet to aid his extinction event.
	+ **Telepathy:** Due to the fact the immense length of Ghidorah's necks would normally interfere with how quickly the beast could receive and interpret sensory information, Ghidorah possesses telepathy so that his heads could communicate with each other instantaneously, thus bypassing any information lag he might experience. Later on, when his remains were used to construct Mechagodzilla, the remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness in the left head's upper-skull would take advantage of the psionic technology Apex Cybernetics had hardwired into the skull in order to hijack the robot and turn it against its own creators.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level Intellect/Leader:** Ghidorah was amazingly intelligent, and each of his heads possessed different levels of cognitive function and independent thought. His middle head was the most intelligent by acting as the leader and being quicker-acting, more resourceful, as well as more goal-oriented than the other two. The right head displayed a combative spatial awareness when the other two were incapacitated in combat while the left head was an observant sentry. Ghidorah shows his intelligence during combat, such as when he bites down on electrical wiring during his battle with Godzilla in Boston, allowing him to temporarily stun his nemesis long enough to subdue and incapacitate him. While attempting to free his other heads from Mothra's silk, the right head was able to very quickly recognize Godzilla was behind him by looking at his own reflection. Ghidorah also seems to call in Rodan directly before the latter arrives and keeps Mothra occupied, which if the case shows Ghidorah knows when it's overwhelmed by Godzilla and Mothra's combined assault. Ghidorah also recognizes the ORCA frequency as a potential threat and makes several attempts to take out the source, such as when he destroys the Fenway Park speakers to cut off the sound.
* **Advanced Combatant:** Ghidorah's intimidation style is very similar to that of a king cobra. Much like cobras rise up their head and spread their neck, Ghidorah rises up his three heads and spreads his ginormous wings, making himself appear twice as large as Godzilla. Ghidorah can also use his wings, jaws, claws and two tails in combat against other kaiju such as Godzilla. Although he resembles a three-headed dragon, his combat style is similar to that of snakes as they quickly lash out and bite onto their opponent(s). Also like that of a snake, Ghidorah was seen coiling his serpentine necks around Godzilla several times in an attempt to strangle him to death. Ghidorah could also use his massive wings as a shield, tucking his heads behind them to protect himself from projectiles.
* **Alpha Call:** When Ghidorah became the ruling alpha Titan, he was able to let out a powerful call that could be heard by Titans all over the world and made them compliant to his commands. However, this cry only works on lesser Titans and did not work on other Titans with their own alpha status; such as Godzilla, Mothra and Kong, who were unaffected by Ghidorah's cry.
* **Sharp Teeth:** Each of Ghidorah's three heads have powerful jaws lined with sharp teeth that are capable of biting through most materials, able to bite into Godzilla's reptilian skin.
* **Twin Tails:** Ghidorah possesses two prehensile tails with retractable spikes on the ends that he can use as formidable weapons, help balance himself, use them to hold opponents in their grasp and even prefers using them as a threat display. During his fight with Godzilla in Boston, Ghidorah is capable of using his tails as prehensile limbs to restrain him while lifting Godzilla into the atmosphere before dropping him.
* **Constricting Necks:** Similar to that of constrictor snakes, Ghidorah can use his three serpentine necks to wrap around and squeeze opponents in combat, possibly to constrict them to death.

## Weaknesses

* **Freezing Temperatures:** Ghidorah was neutralized by freezing solid in ice after being rendered inert by Godzilla in Antarctica; this incapacitated him for centuries to millennia, and Ghidorah only recovered due to human interference deliberately freeing him from the ice.
* **Water:** Because Ghidorah's physical structure was that of an airborne creature; he was not entirely suited to move underwater. When Godzilla dragged him into the ocean near Isla de Mara, Ghidorah struggled to fight back and ended up getting his left head easily decapitated by the former. The *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* director indicates it was a combination of this and freezing temperatures that caused Ghidorah to become frozen in Antarctica.
* **Limited Durability:** Although Ghidorah was incredibly durable, he did have his limits; for example, he could not withstand the thermonuclear pulses that Godzilla released in his burning form; which incinerated Ghidorah's wings and two of his heads in a matter of seconds.

## Quotes

> Glistering, golden, grimace of doom
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> His wings scrolls of legend, they blot out the moon
> Three heads for three legions of beasts into one
> A creature whose beauty steals light from the sun
> Each glamorous scale can sever ahead
> And his earth-rocking roar drives a man to be dead
> For a fire of terror burns hot in his soul
> And this Tyrant’s dominion is utterly whole
> From his shrewd, sneering eyes to the horned tails that sway
> To the sharp, taloned feet that crush kingdoms like clay
> He is unknown to some to be a hinder or hero
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> A god of the sky, and his name, Monster Zero.
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> **A storian.**