King Ghidorah

*"Ghidorah, the one who is many."*
―Ilene Chen[src]
**King Ghidorah** was an extraterrestrial dragon who invaded Earth in the past and was sealed away by Godzilla and Mothra. Monarch discovered his resting place and named him **Monster Zero**. In 2019, eco-terrorist Alan Jonah and Monarch defector Dr. Emma Russell unleashed Ghidorah from his frozen tomb to restore balance. However, Ghidorah continued annihilating the global ecosystem, awakening other Titans and bending them to his will. Godzilla and Mothra, with Monarch's help, engaged Ghidorah in a final confrontation in Boston. Ghidorah summoned Rodan to deal with Mothra, while Godzilla was defeated in one-on-one combat. Mothra sacrificed her life to save Godzilla, reinvigorating him with her energy and allowing him to finally destroy Ghidorah. With Ghidorah vanquished, Godzilla became the King of the Monsters, ending the rampages of the Titans previously under his control.

After the death of the three-headed monster, Jonah bought a head from fishermen and sold it to Apex Cybernetics. The skull was used in the control system for Mechagodzilla, which was powered by an untested Hollow Earth power source. King Ghidorah's consciousness merged with Mechagodzilla's AI, driving it berserk. After killing its creators, Mechagodzilla rampaged in Hong Kong but was destroyed by Godzilla and Kong, ending Ghidorah's brief resurgence.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Imprisoned in Ice

Ghidorah arrived on Earth around the time early humans evolved in 298,000 B.C. Ghidorah was responsible for slaughtering humans and Titans alike. He established himself as a rival alpha to Godzilla, and the two battled each other several times before they vied for supremacy in ancient Antarctica. Godzilla eventually blasted a hole through one of Ghidorah's wings, causing him to fall into icy waters, while Shimo took advantage of the situation and caused an ice age that would freeze Ghidorah while Godzilla's natural heat let him avoid freezing.

### Regarded As a Ruler

In 1973, Houston Brooks and San Lin briefed James Conrad and Mason Weaver on multiple other monsters who once ruled the world alongside Kong. This included Ghidorah, along with Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan, who were all shown to the two via classified Monarch cave paintings.

### Discovered by Monarch

Ghidorah was discovered under the ice via the Aeolus satellite, which detected an extreme electromagnetic pulse fluctuation from the frozen creature. In 2016, Vivienne Graham led an effort to build a containment and research facility (Outpost 32) around Ghidorah. Her classified field notes contained the mysterious footnote, "The devil has three heads." The creature was later dubbed 'Monster Zero' by Monarch scientist Dr. Emma Russell.

### War for Power

#### Escape from Antarctica

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―To be added[src]In 2019, Ghidorah can be seen frozen in Antarctic ice at Outpost 32. Eco-terrorist organization leader Alan Jonah and rogue Monarch agent Emma Russell free him with explosives and awaken him with the ORCA.

Upon awakening, Ghidorah slaughters the G-Team forces on the ground before turning his attention to a grounded Osprey aircraft. Shortly after, Godzilla emerges from the ice, and the two Titans engage in battle, decimating the remains of Outpost 32. Upon briefly gaining the upper hand over Godzilla, Ghidorah targets and eats Dr. Graham alive, but is distracted from targeting the remaining humans on the ground by Monarch's aerial forces firing missiles to distract him. When Godzilla recovers amid Ghidorah's distraction, Ghidorah escapes into the sky and flees Antarctica, rapidly forming a growing cyclone around himself as he passes over Brazil.

#### Battle of Antarctica

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―To be added[src]Upon sensing Rodan's awakening at Isla de Mara, Mexico, Ghidorah's typhoon immediately changes course as he makes a beeline towards the avian Titan's location. Monarch attempts to goad the two monsters into fighting each other, with Ghidorah easily defeating Rodan by sending him falling into the ocean. Ghidorah proceeds to target and attack the USS *Argo*, but Godzilla emerges from the sea to fight him off. Godzilla tears off Ghidorah's left head in the ensuing struggle, but before Godzilla can finish Ghidorah off while the latter is prone and helpless in the ocean, they are both struck by the military's Oxygen Destroyer missile. While Godzilla is crippled by the blast (specifically designed to eliminate all lifeforms in the area by removing all surrounding oxygen) to the point of near-death and is forced to retreat to recuperate, Ghidorah emerges from the ocean unscathed due to his unearthly biology, and with Godzilla crippled to a point where it would likely take him years to recover, Ghidorah is now unopposed as the top Alpha Titan.

Ghidorah flies to Rodan's volcano, where he regenerates his missing head. He then calls out to the other Titans around the world, Rodan included, who all acknowledge him as their new alpha. Ghidorah immediately instructs the Titans to behave hyper-aggressively, attacking major cities and triggering rapid cataclysmic natural disasters around the world (massive wildfires, mass die-offs, and volcanic eruptions polluting the atmosphere with gigatons of ash and volcanic gases), which begin rapidly wiping out the planet's ecosystems faster than the terrestrial Titans' effects can regenerate them and threaten to spell a rapid global mass extinction. Ghidorah himself meanwhile begins spawning offshoot massive storms from his hurricane and spreading them around the world, further adding to the cataclysm; and Ghidorah personally roosts in Washington, D.C. (which he completely destroys), with Rodan acting as his vanguard. Ilene Chen subsequently deduces, based on Ghidorah's demonstrated abnormal characteristics coupled with legends about his origins, that he's an extraterrestrial and thus has no ties to maintaining Earth's natural balance. Realizing they need Godzilla more than ever; Dr. Serizawa sacrifices himself to detonate a bomb to bring Godzilla back to full strength.

#### Last Duel against Godzilla

Ghidorah is lured to Boston when Madison Russell broadcasts the ORCA's signal from Fenway Park, spontaneously disrupting Ghidorah's control of his global Titan army sans Rodan, as he seeks to destroy the signal's source as a rival to his dominance. Godzilla appears to challenge his rival once more, with Mothra and Monarch joining by his side. However, Ghidorah calls upon Rodan to distract Mothra while he takes on Godzilla himself. At first, the battle goes in Godzilla's favor, until Ghidorah manages to absorb massive amounts of electrical energy by biting down on a nearby transformer. Using the excess energy, he decimates Godzilla's entire airborne military escort and forces the surviving craft to immediately retreat, while Godzilla at this point rapidly tires. Ghidorah proceeds to pick up Godzilla using his tails and talons, carries the injured Titan seemingly above the stratosphere, and then drops him, making him plummet tens of thousands of feet down to Earth. After slamming into the ground and mortally wounding himself, Godzilla lies defenseless. Mothra, who is grievously injured from her fight with Rodan, attempts to defend him but is killed by Ghidorah's gravity beams. As she dies, however, she releases a cloud of energy, which Godzilla absorbs, causing him to glow a fiery orange.

Seemingly realizing the threat posed by this energy, Ghidorah grapples with Godzilla and begins draining it out of him via bites. However, a repentant Emma Russell reactivates the ORCA in order to distract Ghidorah from completing the drainage process, and the three-headed dragon promptly chases her through the city, mortally injuring her and destroying the ORCA when his gravity beams overturn Emma's jeep.

The few moments were enough for Godzilla to recover, who then enters the scene supercharged and glowing a burning red. Ghidorah manages to shield himself against Godzilla's first thermonuclear pulse, which incinerates his wings in the process. Panicking, Ghidorah tries to stop Godzilla with his gravity beams, to no effect, before Godzilla unleashes a second pulse, incinerating Ghidorah's two side heads. The remaining middle head struggles vainly as Godzilla ferociously roars and steps on the fallen Ghidorah's chest, bursting out all of his energy from his body as well as triggering a final thermonuclear pulse that obliterates Ghidorah's body.

After the storm ceased immediately when the pulse dissipated, Godzilla rose from the rubble with Ghidorah's middle head dangling from his mouth, still frantically struggling. Godzilla fires his atomic breath through Ghidorah's neck, incinerating it, seemingly leaving behind no remains and presumably killing him for good, thus avenging the deaths of Mothra, Graham, Emma, and countless other humans.

Sometime after Godzilla's victory, it's revealed that Ghidorah's earlier-severed left head in Mexico has been recovered by fishermen from the ocean and is now discolored and swarming with flies, seemingly dead. Alan Jonah, seeing a potential use for it upon being led to it by the fishermen, purchases it from a trader.

### Legacy

#### Influencing the Pacific Ocean

Although Ghidorah is dead, his passage by Isla de Mara left a perpetual superstorm anchored above the Pacific Ocean that didn't dissipate with his other storms, described by Houston Brooks as "a gift from the Devil to remember him by." After two years raging in the same spot above the ocean, Camazotz's influence on Skull Island draws the storm away from its original position and causes it to merge with the island's perpetual storm barrier in a Fukushima effect, permanently enshrouding the island itself in an endless storm that rendered it uninhabitable over the following couple years.

#### Used by Apex

At some stage after Alan Jonah acquired Ghidorah's severed left head, it was obtained by Apex Cybernetics in secret; the flesh at this point has apparently rotted away to leave only the skull. Jonah sold the skull to Walter Simmons in 2020 via a black-market deal. Apex fashioned the upper skull (minus the jaw) into a psionic uplink cockpit that could remotely control Mechagodzilla by harnessing the skull's lingering telepathy, with Ren Serizawa acting as the pilot. Bernie Hayes speculated that a separated piece of Ghidorah's DNA was hardwired inside Mechagodzilla itself, acting as a receiver where the skull cockpit acted as a transmitter. However, every time Apex activated the psionic uplink, Ghidorah's remains broadcasted a corrupted version of the three-headed monster's original bioacoustics, which Godzilla detected, provoking him to attack Apex's facilities looking for the source.

After Apex charged Mechagodzilla (being held in Apex's Hong Kong headquarters alongside the skull) with energy from the Earth's core, remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness from the skull corrupted the system and took over Mechagodzilla, enabling the Mecha to calculate and act independently of a human pilot, whilst causing it to exhibit murderous and genocidal impulses much like Ghidorah's own. At the same time, a massive power surge was drawn to the skull and electrocuted Ren in the pilot chair. While the skull itself was presumed to be destroyed during Mechagodzilla's escape from the Apex facility, Ghidorah's influence through Mechagodzilla was ended when Kong and Godzilla destroyed the Mecha.

## Personality

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## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Titan Physiology**: To be added
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: To be added
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: To be added
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: To be added
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: To be added
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: To be added
		- **Longevity**: To be added
	+ **Flight**: To be added
	+ **Self-Sustenance**: To be added
	+ **Bio-Electricity Manipulation**: To be added
	+ **Energy Drain**: To be added
	+ **Gravity Beam Emission**: To be added
	+ **Storm Manipulation**: To be added
	+ **Telepathy**: To be added

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect**: To be added
	+ **Expert Tactician**: To be added
* **Skilled Combatant**: To be added

### Weaknesses

* **Limitations**: To be added
* **Freezing Temperatures**: To be added
* **Water**: To be added

## Relationships

* Godzilla - Rival, Attempted Victim and Killer
* Mothra - Attempted Killer and Victim
* Rodan - Former Thrall and Attempted Killer
* Scylla - Former Thrall
* Methuselah - Former Thrall
* Mokele-Mbembe - Former Thrall
* Behemoth - Former Thrall
* Kong
* United States Navy
	+ William Stenz
* Apex Cybernetics