Hedorah

* Aquatic Stage
* Landing Stage
* Flying Stage

**Unknown**

**5-B**

## Summary

**Hedorah** (**ヘドラ *Hedora***) is an alien pollution kaiju who first appeared in the 1971 Toho *Godzilla* film, *Godzilla vs. Hedorah*.

A bizarre alien lifeform that arrived on Earth in a comet, Hedorah quickly grew to gigantic size by feeding on humanity's pollution. Beginning as a huge tadpole-like creature, Hedorah transformed into a terrestrial form and came ashore in Japan, where it battled Godzilla. Continuing to grow and evolve, Hedorah took on an airborne form capable of spreading clouds of toxic mist and finally a colossal bipedal form that dwarfed even Godzilla. Hedorah was finally destroyed by a combination of Godzilla's efforts and a device constructed by humanity, but the threat of rampant pollution giving rise to another Hedorah remained.

## Mentality

**Personality**: Hedorah seems to be primarily driven by instinct and the will to survive, and the horrific death and destruction it causes are mostly derived from its bizarre biological properties rather than any true malice. However, it does demonstrate aggression and an ever-increasing amount of intelligence and awareness in its encounters with Godzilla. When first confronted by Godzilla, Hedorah answers Godzilla's taunts and seems to mimic his gestures. During the final battle, Hedorah even laughs while brutally maiming Godzilla, and when it attempts to drown him in sludge.

**Intelligence: Below Average**

## Power and Stats

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1), Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Intangibility (Can disperse into water and pollution), Flight, Regeneration (Rank D), Reactive Evolution, Shapeshifting (Able to change back and forth between Flying form and Final form, can also combine with other Hedorah's and change form and size), Energy Projection, Acid Manipulation (Can fire chunks of its acidic body and preads sulfuric acid mist in Flying form), Absorption and Statistics Amplification (Able to absorb pollution to increase his size and power), Duplication, Resistance to Radiation Manipulation

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Existential Status: Concrete**

**Attack Potency:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Planet level** (Defeated and nearly killed Godzilla. Stated to have a goal of snuffing the planet with sludge and toxic gas)

**Durability:** **Unknown** | **Planet level** (Survived being attacked by Godzilla and tanked several of his Atomic Rays) | **Planet level** (Survived being knocked out of mid-flight onto the ground by Godzilla) | **Planet level** (Withstood many of Godzilla's Atomic Rays without any harm)

**Speed:** **Unknown** | **Subsonic**, with **Subsonic** Attack Speed | **Massively FTL** Attack, Combat and Reactions speed (Scaling from Godzilla) | At least **Subsonic** (Should be superior to its Land Form), **Massively FTL** Attack, Combat and Reactions speed (Scaling from Godzilla)

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Class M** (Weighs 48,000 metric tons, fought with and pushed around and knocked down Godzilla)

**Stamina:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **High**

**Range:** **Standard melee range** | **Standard melee range**, **Hundreds of meters** with projectile attacks | At least **several hundred meters**, **several kilometers** with acid mist | **Several dozen meters** by virtue of sheer size, **several hundred meters** with Hedrium eye rays, likely **Planetary** with smog and toxic gas.

**Weaknesses:** Because Hedorah's body is composed of a moist, sludge-like substance, it is vulnerable to being dried out by strong electrical currents.

**Key:** **Aquatic Stage** | **Landing Stage** | **Flying Stage** | **Perfect Stage**

## Arsenal

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Acidic Sludge**: Hedorah is composed almost entirely of a mineral called Hedrium, an acidic, sludge-like material, which it uses as its primary means of attack. Hedorah can launch pieces of its body at opponents, which will burn or smother them. Hedorah can also discharge large quantities of sludge without impacting its size in any way.

* **Sulfuric Acid Mist**: Having originated from the Dark Gaseous Nebula of the Orion where oxygen does not exist, but compounds that exist as pollutants on Earth are present in great amounts, Hedorah does not require oxygen to survive, but rather thrives on inhaling toxic pollutants. The byproduct of Hedorah consuming these pollutants is a highly concentrated **Sulfuric Acid Mist** (**硫酸ミスト *Ryūsan Misuto***), also called **Sulfate Mist**, which is capable of corroding any metal and completely disintegrating organic life. In its Flying Stage, Hedorah was also able to fly by propelling itself through the air with this mist, spreading the mist across a large area in the process. Hedorah's sulfuric acid mist was even able to make Godzilla collapse and gasp for air.

* **Hedrium Ray**: Hedorah is capable of firing a crimson laser beam from its eye known as the **Hedrium Ray** (**ヘドリューム光線 *Hedoryūmu Kōsen***), also called the **Crimson Beam**, which is capable of setting objects on fire and burning Godzilla's flesh. Both Hedorah's Flying and Perfect Stages are capable of firing this beam.