Matango

* Male
* Female

Matango (マタンゴ, Matango) is a mushroom-mutant kaiju redesign by DarthRaptor97 and created by Toho who appears in Godzilla: Hotlines Season 1! Matango soon returns in Season 3 after Mechagodzilla released all of it's OM Missiles towards the nearby city.

## Name

The Half Matango/Human Hybrids were named after Operation Matango when the ASI discover that the man-made spores they created can infected humans into freakish hybrids.

## Design

When infected, the Matango have an underbite sharp teeth, two long tendrils, and red bumps all over their skin. They also have small white mushrooms all over their body and torn up clothes, depending on the host. The human's upper head is replaced with a fungus cap, and a brown oak skin with black eyes and mouth that replace the human eyes and mouth.

## Behavior

The Matango acts like a blood thirsty beast. Seeking blood of it's prey or anything it can get its hands on.

## History

### 2009 - Infecting the host (S1 Episode 5)

After the monsters fought and were scared away by the OM Missiles, a few of the spores enter Kenji's nose and ears, infecting him with the Matango virus. The next day, the host known as Kenji looked dead but still went to school. During school hours, Kenji transforms into the creature the ASI nicknamed him "Matango" and went on a rampage.

### 2009 - School Massacre (S1 Episode 6)

The Matango monster went on a killing rampage, causing a school massacre as most of the exits were blocked by gray blobs by Hedorah who had showed up at the time. Then it attacked Kim who was searching for Asaka. As he attacked Kim, Asaka was gonna stab the Matango with a sharp pipe until Jess shouted no and stop her from doing so. Getting his attention as he notice the two girls falling down the stairs but Kim stabs the Matango and he fell down the stairs, landing hard. Matango then rip the sharp pipe and threw it at the humans, stabbing Jess in the chest as he chuckled. However, the ASI force arrived in time and tried to put a stop to the monster until it had the upper hand, killing the forces. Jess walked to the Matango, thinking that the good in Kenji is still in it until the school was flatten by Godzilla and Hedorah, killing them both off.

### 2011 - Fujisawa Apocalsye (S3 Episode 4)

When Mechagodzilla released all of its OM Missiles towards Fujisawa, the citizens of Fujisawa were either killed or turned into the Matangos. By far, the ASI, Kim, and Jasmine were the only ones to not have been affected. When Kim and Jasmine being to invastgate on if anyone else had surivied the OM missile attack, they discover that any survivor would have been turned into Matangos as they quickly got surrounded by Male and Female Matangos. Each one possessing different abilties but just in time, the ASI arrived on time to hid Kim and Jasmine in their underground base while they were loading Mechagodzilla back in for recharging.

## Abilities

### The Matango Virus

The Matango virus is a deadly virus and can infect anything it infects. When infected, the host will look dead-ish and gray-ish at first. Then followed with some black in his eyes and extreme rage. Thus, the final stage is when the host transforms into the hybrid known as Matango with long tendrils and sharp claws.

### Tendrils/Tentacle

The Matango have two long tendrils it uses for long range attacks. The tendrils are strong enough to hold the creature in place or lift a human up for the slaughter. While the males possess the two tendrils, the females possess a hidding single tentacle within the palm of their hand.

### Claws

The Matango have silver claws attach to their hands as the main weapon for slaughter. Both the Males and Females have claws.

## Weaknesses

### The Host's Body

Depending on what kind of host the Matango spores infect, they will take on the weaknesses of them. Most of the host's weaknesses is no durability, thus making it weak to kill.