Gamera (character)

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 Alignment | Chaotic Good (Showa)Lawful Good (Heisei Trilogy)

**Gamera** is the titular main kaiju protagonist of the *Gamera* film franchise.

## Background

Many millennia ago, an ancient advanced civilization known as Atlantis found a way to play God and created life, called the Gyaos. Soon though, they got out of control, somehow being able to asexually reproduce themselves. To stop them, the Atlanteans created another creature, none other than Gamera, who had managed to defeat the Gyaos, however it was too late as the Gyaos had already destroyed Atlantis in the process. Gamera realized that before defeating them all, some of them had layed eggs, but the earth's mana was too great for them to hatch. Knowing that they would one day emerge, Gamera went into hiberation, until it happened.

In the present day, because of the rising levels of carbon dioxide and nitric acid compounds caused by global warming, the Gyaos eggs hatched, since it was now the right environment for them. Gamera would awaken to defend the modern day civilization and the planet from his nemesis, the Gyaos and any other threats.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Plasma Breath:** Gamera can both breath fire and shoot plasma fireballs from his mouth.
* **Absorption:** Gamera can absorb mana and various materials such as fire, heat, nuclear fuel, electricity, and oil and use it to restore his stamina, heal his wounds, and enhance the power of his fire and plasma attacks.
* **Jet Propulsion:** By retracting his head and limbs into his shell, Gamera not only gains extra defense, but also a means of flight by projecting fire out from the holes like rocket engines. Gamera can either retract all his limbs to fly like a flying saucer or just his legs and tail to act like a jet plane. He also can turn his arms into flipper like a sea-turtle to act as wings for areodynamics. Gamera flight speed clocks in at Mach 3, which is over 2,000 miles per hour, and beats out the SR-77 Blackbird's speed, which is record holding.
* **Longevity:** Gamera is an ancient creature, with his creation going back millennia.
* **Elbow Claws:** Gamera has sharp spikes on both elbows; they are strong enough to tear into the flesh of a Gyaos. In *Gamera 2: Attack of Legion* they could also damage Legion, who lost her Egg Chambers to them. Originally they were tucked away inside the body, in the second movie they were always out by default and in the third movie they had two tips for extra damage.
* **Chromosomal Manipulation:** Like the Gyaos of the Heisei era, Gamera could manipulate his own genetic structure to adapt to his environments. Although his mass never changed, his appearance altered over the course of the three movies as his body evolved for combat.
* **Mana Manipulation:** Gamera's abilities are based around something known as Mana, which is ethereal force that connects all things, both living and inanimate. For some reason, Mana can be measured using a Sega Dreamcast. Everything has a finite pool of Mana, but how much of it they possess depends on how much influence and authority over others that they have. Since Gamera controls the fate of the world, his Mana level is almost immeasurable. Gamera can control his Mana, even during combat.
* **Telepathy:** Gamera was created to communicate with people using the jewels left behind by the ancient civilization. With these, he could sense Asagi Kusanagi's spirit. He can also sense when children are in danger in the Showa era.
* **Intelligence:** Gamera often prefers to retreat after his first encounter with an enemy where he learns its strengths and weaknesses, then return with a specific strategy in mind to defeat it. Gamera responds to human speech, particularly distress calls from children, and is able to repair a spaceship by welding it back together with his fire breath.
* **Durability:** Gamera is extraordinarily tough for a kaiju, able to survive and operate even with horrific injuries.
	+ **Resilient Shell:** Naturally as a turtle, Gamera wears a durable shell with edges that are sharped like blades.
* **Techniques:**
	+ **Banishing Plasma Fist:** Gamera severs his hand and fuses two plasma fireballs, creating a plasma fist before flying full speed at his opponent.
	+ **Ultimate Plasma Cannon:** If Gamera ever runs low on Mana, he can summon it from the Earth itself, allowing him to fire a giant chest beam as wide as his own body.
	+ **Fireball Ejection Suicide:** As a last resort, Gamera can overload his internal furnace until he explodes, destroying the surrounding area and any enemy in his range.

## Feats

### Strength

* Stabbed a hole in Barugon's face, something conventional weapons couldn't do.
* Lifted and slammed Jiger around with ease.
* Shook the earth enough to send Zigra airborne with a foot stomp.
* Shattered an asteroid by flying into it.
* Able to smash through buildings and skyscrapers.
* Smacked back Super Gyaos with his elbow claw.
* Punched through Iris' body and ripped out the human girl he was trying to absorb.
* Pushed over the Legion Flower.
* Slapped a Gyaos hard enough to break apart several pipes and cause an explosion.
* Decimated a city block just by burrowing underground.
* Bit down on Super Gyaos hard enough to not be dislodged and proceeded to attempt to piledrive them both back to the Earth from the atmosphere.
* Held off Legion's charge.
* Wrenched Legion's horn off her face.
* Despite having been beaten badly by Legion, Gamera maintained the strength to tear down a second Legion Flower.
* Took a bite out of Iris in mid-air and ripped pieces of him off.
* Far stronger than Toto, who puushed over Zedus.

### Speed

* Stated to fly at 500 knots.
* Gamera and Gyaos flew from planet surface to the planets orbit in less than a minuet time frame.
* Scales to a spaceship traveling to a planet on the opposite side of the Sun.
* Can keep pace with the Gyaos in flight.
* Can do a take-off from a flat position.
* Dodged a swipe from Super Gyaos.
* Exited the atmosphere very, very quickly.
* Despite being wounded from many, many bites from the Legion Soldiers, he’s able to spin his way out of there and shake them off his shell.
* Tagged Hyper Gyaos with his fireballs.
* Kept pace with Iris and attacked him in mid-air.
* Did a spinning slam into Iris continues to do so even through his sonic beams.
* After getting his propulsion shut down by some missiles, he quickly reactivates to continue chasing down Iris.

### Durability

* Stated to have a body stronger than any known metal.
* Withstood a massive artillery barrage.
* Brushed off 350,000 kilowatts of electricity.
* Survived deep freezing missiles, although they managed to slow him down.
* Barugon's deep freeze takes a while to work on him; this attack could freeze tanks instantly.
* Unaffected by Jiger's frequency attack, which could destroy a tank battalion and a large section of a city.
* Can brush off the Gyaos' Supersonic Scalpel with no issues.
* Guiron had issues getting through his shell, and he could chop a Gyaos into pieces.
* Survived being impaled by Viras multiple times.
* Unharmed after flying into an asteroid hard enough to shatter it.
* Was hit by some SAMS which knocked him from the air and sent him plummeting to the ground.
* Got bombed repeatedly.
* Survived atmospheric reentry.
* Fell from the atmosphere onto a factor which exploded and was fine.
* Survived being impaled by Legion.
* Had a chunk of his shoulder and shell blasted away by Legion’s beam and is knocked around by the splash damage of her attack.
* Survived an explosion that destroyed Sendai.
* Was still standing after being hit with Legion's energy whips.
* A Hyper Gyaos' sonic beam bounced off his hand.
* Iris' sonic beams made him spurt blood, but he continued to spin into him.
* Survived being run through by Iris' spear arms and then thrown into a building.
* Despite having been raked by Iris’s sonic beams, being impaled by his spears twice, having his energy drained, and ripping off his own arm, Gamera is still ready to fight a horde of Hyper Gyaos.

### Skill

* Showa Gamera has fought monsters such as Barugon, Gyaos, Viras, Guiron, Jiger, and Zigra.
* The Heisei version was created by the Atlaneans to protect them from the Gyaos.
* Became the guardian of the Earth.
* Has fought alien monsters such as Legion.
* Defeated the corrupted guardian Iris.
* Sacrificed himself to destroy several Gyaos.
* Blew up a star destroyer.
* Repaired an alien spaceship.
* Managed to destroy two of Legion's flowers.
* Destroyed Tokyo.

## Weaknesses

* Is immobile while using Ultimate Plasma.
* The underside of his shell is weaker than the top.
* Prefers to win by retreating and thinking of a new strategy.
* Relies on human connection to maintain power.
* Puts the Earth's safety above his own.
* Vulnerable to his own plasma.
* Vulnerable to cold temperatures.
* Some enemies have exploited Gamera's allegiance to children to gain leverage against him or lure him into a trap by kidnapping or threatening children.
* Fireball Ejection Suicide is a last resort.
* Was lured into a rocket ship and sent to space.