Mothra (MonsterVerse)

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## Mothra (MonsterVerse)

* Larva
* Imago

### Aliases

Queen of the Monsters, Master of the Skies, Defender of Light

## Summary

**Mothra** (**モスラ *Mosura***) is a Titan who appears in the 2019 Legendary Pictures film *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*. She is the first incarnation of the character to appear in an American-made film.

A lineage of benevolent lepidopteran Titans, Mothra defended the natural world in the ancient past and was revered as a goddess by ancient human civilizations. Mothra possessed a symbiotic relationship with Godzilla, and possibly aided him in battle against the extraterrestrial King Ghidorah long ago. In 2009, the scientific organization known as Monarch discovered Mothra's egg within an ancient temple in China's Yunnan Rainforest. She hatched in 2019, and subsequently escaped Monarch's Outpost 61 after a group of armed eco-terrorists raided it. Mothra cocooned herself under a nearby waterfall, and emerged in her imago stage to help Monarch locate Godzilla so together they could stop Ghidorah from destroying the world. Mothra led Monarch to Godzilla's underwater lair in the Hollow Earth, where Dr. Ishiro Serizawa sacrificed his life to revitalize Godzilla using a nuclear warhead. Mothra joined Godzilla in Boston to confront Ghidorah, but the three-headed Titan summoned the winged Rodan to intercept Mothra. Despite being badly injured in the battle, Mothra incapacitated Rodan by stabbing him with her venomous stinger. She then crawled onto the wounded Godzilla before Ghidorah could finish him off and defiantly flew at her enemy, who disintegrated her with his gravity beams. Mothra's energy flowed into Godzilla, triggering the final stage of their symbiosis in which Godzilla gained the ability to emit intense heat and generate pulses of nuclear energy which took the form of Mothra. In this empowered state, Godzilla easily destroyed Ghidorah once and for all, and took his rightful place as the King of the Monsters.

## Mentality

**Personality**: Mothra was worshiped as a benevolent goddess by ancient civilizations, even receiving a temple built for her in China, suggesting that she was able to coexist peacefully with humanity. Monarch classifies her behavior as that of a "protector," calling her the "mother of the natural world." When Mothra first hatched, she showed aggression towards the Monarch soldiers surrounding her egg, attacking them with her webbing. However, when Emma and Madison Russell calmed her down with the ORCA, Mothra showed curiosity and even friendliness towards them. During the final battle in Boston against King Ghidorah, Mothra showed protectiveness toward Godzilla, shielding his injured body with her wings and taking the full force of Ghidorah's Gravity Beams, ultimately giving Godzilla the power needed to kill him.

**Intelligence:** At least **High Animalistic**

## Power and Stats

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Larva
* Imago
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses (Mothra’s larval form can sense thermal radiation), Light Manipulation, Silk Projection, Immortality (Types 1 and 4), Large Size (Type 1), Camouflage, Sound Manipulation (Mothra's scream can shook entire buildings), Transformation (Can create a cocoon to transform into her Imago form), Natural Weaponry (Teeth), Radiation Manipulation (Can emit and absorb radiation), Resistance to Electricity Manipulation

All previous abilities, Limited Telepathy (Mothra has a psychic connection with the twin sisters born into each generation of the Chen family), Large Size (Type 2), Flight, Power Bestowal (When she died, she empowered Godzilla with her energies), Natural Weaponry (Claws and Stinger), Weather Manipulation (Can disperse clouds, changed the rainy weather to normal during her metamorphosis), possibly Poison Manipulation via Stinger, Resistance to Radiation Manipulation and Heat Manipulation

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

**Existential Status:** **Concrete**

**Attack Potency:** **Small Building level** via sheer size (Casually destroyed Monarch's containment, and harmed/killed humans with ease) | Possibly **Country level+** (Fought Rodan, who momentarily traded blows with King Ghidorah, though he was clearly weaker. Briefly restrained Ghidorah with her silk)

**Durability:** **Small Building level** | Possibly **Country level+** (Withstood Rodan's attacks)

**Speed:** At least **Superhuman** | **Supersonic** travel speed, **Massively Hypersonic+** reactions (Comparable to Rodan)

**Lifting Strength:** At least **Superhuman** (Easily flung fully dressed soldiers) | **Unknown**, possibly **Class GN**

**Stamina:** **Extremely High**

**Range:** **Extended melee range** via size, higher with silk | **Dozens of meters** via size, **Hundreds of meters** with God Rays

**Weaknesses:** None notable.

**Key:** **Larva** | **Imago**

## Arsenal

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Thermal Vision**: Mothra’s larval form can sense thermal radiation. It is unknown if she possesses this sense in her imago form.
* **God Rays**: Mothra can emit concentrated beams of beta-wave bioluminescence from the patterns on her wings. Mothra's God Rays are yellowish-white in color and are powerful enough to completely dispel storm clouds. While they produce blinding light, Mothra does not use her God Rays offensively and seems to use them like a beacon to communicate with Godzilla and lead Monarch to him.

* **Silk Attack**: Mothra's natural defensive ability is to spit silk at enemies. Unlike past incarnations of the character, she can use her silk attack even in her imago stage. This silk is shown to restrain humans with ease when she first hatches and is strong enough to restrain two of King Ghidorah's heads long enough for Godzilla to recover and attack him again.
* **Stinger**: Mothra possesses a wasp-like stinger at the end of her abdomen that is powerful enough to punch a hole through Rodan's chest. While not lethal, this blow from Mothra's stinger was sufficient to immobilize and incapacitate Rodan for the remainder of her and Godzilla's battle against King Ghidorah. Presumably, her stinger also injects venom, though its properties are unknown.