Mothra vs. Gamera

## Description

*Only one of these kaiju guardians can survive when they come to blows in a Fatal Fiction. Is the Queen of the Monsters a match for the Guardian of the Universe?*

## Interlude

Hiro: When the world is threatened by a global catastrophe of biblical proportions, the planet summons a guardian avenger to set things right.

**MBStarscream: And for these two skyscraper-sized examples, it's hard to keep Earth safe without a little bit of collateral damage here and there.**

Hiro: Mothra, the divine queen of monsters.

**MBStarscream: And Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Mothra

Hiro: On a distant land called Infant Island, a race of natives dwell, praying day and night to a mighty god, bathing her mythical spirit with praise and utmost devotion to her greatness.It was not until the encroachment of man, did the natives know of death, suffering, and evil.

**MBStarscream: Invaders from Rolisica took over the island and stole a pair of small six-inch high ladies, the Shobijin priestesses, while gunning down anyone who tried to stop them. Desperate, the natives went to a temple, where a giant egg was held. And soon enough, that egg hatched into a larva.**

Hiro: This was Infant Island's mighty deity, the Goddess of the Cosmos. Mothra.

*Mothra chirps.*

**MBStarscream: Mothra was naturally upset that her priestesses were kidnapped, and laid waste to Tokyo and New Kirk City in her quest to recover them and return them to Infant Island. But while other kaiju like Godzilla frequently menace humanity with their very existence, she'd much prefer fight to protect humanity from monsters that threaten it. And for a giant bug, she does a pretty good job with that.**

Hiro: In her larval stage, Mothra's primary form of physical attack involves using her mandibles to bite opponents. Typically she bites onto an enemy's tail, causing them physical pain while she holds on. In her imago stage, Mothra slams her massive body into enemies and sometimes strikes them with her wings. She also uses her sharp claws to scratch or stab opponents.

**MBStarscream: Mothra's surprisingly strong, able to drag and even lift monsters like Godzilla. She has several other abilities, like emitting scales from her wings, a yellow poisonous powder that can incapacitate enemies.**

Hiro: These scales initially only served to asphyxiate Godzilla and cause him to fall over, while in subsequent incarnations her scales have been given the ability to reflect attacks back at her enemies. Mothra also possesses telepathic abilities which she can use to communicate with her Shobijin across great distances, spit a stream of silk at her enemies to either disorient or entrap them. Usually this ability can only be used in her larval stage, but in the MonsterVerse she is able to use her silk attack even as an imago.

**MBStarscream: In her imago stage, Mothra can flap her wings to create gales which tear apart buildings and knock other kaiju down, and fire twin laser beams from her two antennae. She can also fire arcs of lightning through her wings or release this electrical energy through her touch.**

Hiro: In GMK, Mothra can fire a hail of poisonous dart-like stingers from her abdomen, while in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, she possesses a single 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.

**MBStarscream: Mothra is capable of flight, usually at supersonic speeds, while in her imago stage, cuz I don't know what moth can't fly. She isn't just able to fire lasers from her antennae; she once fired blue beams from her eyes during her fight against her dark counterpart Battra on Infant Island.**

Hiro: In the games Godzilla: Save the Earth and Godzilla: Unleashed, while in her imago form, Mothra can shoot white balls of energy from her rear that hone in on targets before exploding. In Save the Earth specifically, Mothra also uses this technique to enhance some of her melee attacks. Also in the Pipeworks Godzilla games, while in her imago form, Mothra can send out a rainbow colored shockwave while crying out loudly. Opponents caught in the shockwave receive minor damage but are stunned for a couple of seconds.

**MBStarscream: Mothra can also emit concentrated beams of beta-wave bioluminescence from the patterns on her wings that 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.**

Hiro: Mothra is effectively immortal due to her ability to asexually lay an egg from which she will be reborn following her death. Each new Mothra born from an egg is not simply an offspring, but rather a true reincarnation that genetically inherits the memories of her ancestors.

**MBStarscream: Mothra possesses a symbiotic relationship with Godzilla, which manifests in several ways. For instance, the pattern on her wings is meant to mimic Godzilla's eyes. Mothra is able to communicate with Godzilla over long distances through sonar and uses this ability to guide Monarch to Godzilla so they can revive him.**

Hiro: Most dramatically, upon her body's destruction, Mothra's energy can enter Godzilla's body and provide him with a substantial increase in power. This manifests as Godzilla's skin becoming covered in glowing orange cracks and emitting intense heat, a state known as Burning Godzilla. In this state, Godzilla can perform his most powerful attack which takes the form of a nuclear pulse shaped like Mothra's wings that produces the sound of her roar, which allowed him to finally destroy King Ghidorah.

**MBStarscream: Speaking of fire forms, in Final Wars, Mothra briefly entered a state called Fire Mothra when she was hit by Gigan's Gigarium Cluster, which caused her to erupt into flames. While in this form, Mothra flies into whoever's in her path in a kamikaze attack that seemingly kills her opponent along with her in a fiery explosion.**

Hiro: Mothra's title as the Queen of the Monsters isn't to be taken lightly. She's defeated the likes of Godzilla himself, Rodan, Gigan, Battra, Megaguirus and Desghidorah, who managed to devastate Mars. She's fast enough to dodge atomic blasts from Godzilla and keep up with him in combat, even showing the durability to withstand the Atomic Breath and continue fighting.

**MBStarscream: Mothra can even change the course of asteroids big enough to destroy Earth and tank Godzilla's Spiral Heat Ray, an attack known to cripple or destroy opponents in only a couple of shots.**

Hiro: These feats, however, do not mean that Mothra doesn't have weaknesses. Compared to other kaiju in her franchise, Mothra is relatively lightweight, meaning that larger and stronger kaiju can easily overpower her physically. She's died several times in various continuties, whether it be at the hands of Godzilla, Desghidorah or King Ghidorah, and using her poison dust attacks can weaken her wings, affecting her flight capabilities.

**MBStarscream: But don't be fooled by Mothra's looks; if this moth can hold her own against Godzilla and planet-busting space dragons, underestimating her isn't a good idea.**

*Mothra arrives in Boston to help Godzilla battle King Ghidorah, chirping loudly as she descends from the heavens.*

## Gamera

Hiro: Thousands of years ago, the Atlanteans were under attack by serpentine monsters called Garasharps. To battle the creatures, they genetically engineered the perfect organism as a weapon, the bat-like Gyaos.

**MBStarscream: The good news is that the Gyaos were able to dispatch the Garasharps. The bad news is, with their food source gone, the Gyaos turned on humanity and destroyed their civilization. As a last-ditch effort to stop their own creations, the Atlanteans created guardians who would each be psychically linked to a human via magatama beads.**

Hiro: These guardians... were Gamera.

*Gamera roars.*

Hiro: All but one of them fell in battle, but successfully repelled the Gyaos. Unfortunately, the Gyaos returned years later to raid Atlantis, and worse, a massive Garasharp joined their assault. Realizing that humanity would never know peace if his creators kept consuming mana, the last Gamera chose to destroy both the city and the monsters attacking it.

**MBStarscream: In the present day, the rising levels of carbon dioxide and nitric acid compounds caused by global warming allowed more Gyaos eggs to hatch, since it was now the right environment for them. But Gamera awakened once more to defend the modern day civilization and the planet from his nemesis, the Gyaos and any other threats.**

Hiro: And Gamera had plenty of skills to ensure that Earth was safe. His immense strength allows him to overpower his enemies in physical combat and lift, throw, or drag them effortlessly.

**MBStarscream: Due to his incredibly dense body tissues, Gamera is immune to all conventional weaponry, while his shell protects him from most attacks from other monsters. He's also resistant to extreme heat, and can submerge himself in molten magma without sustaining any injury.**

Hiro: Gamera has sharp claws protruding from each of his elbows and two large tusks which he uses to hold onto enemies. But his most unique ability is his capacity for flight, achieved by means of rocket propulsion from the arm and leg holes in his shell.

**MBStarscream: Gamera possesses two distinct flight modes: High Mobility and Rotating Disc, between both of which he can seamlessly transition. In his High Mobility flight mode, Gamera tucks his legs and tail into his shell and flies through the air like a jet, with his head extended and his arms held at his side. His other flight mode, Rotating Disc, involves him retracting his head, limbs, and tail into his shell and firing jets from all four limb holes.**

Hiro: Gamera is able to breathe underwater and on land. While underwater, Gamera can swim at a speed of 50 knots. He also demonstrates the ability to breathe in a vacuum for an extended period of time, shown in the instances where he flies through space, and he is very intelligent for a kaiju, let alone a reptile.

**MBStarscream: He 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.**

Hiro: Gamera feeds on fire, electricity, lava, coal, oil, and nuclear material, all of which contribute to his ability to generate thermal energy, which he uses to sustain his bodily functions, propel himself into the air, or spit a stream of fire from his mouth. And by fusing and compressing plasma energy and oxygen stored in his body within a chamber in his throat, Gamera ionizes the condensed energy and forms a Plasma Fireball, which he expels from his mouth in his signature attack.

**MBStarscream: Gamera can also fire more powerful High Plasma Fireballs which are emitted at an power output of 120% or more compared to his standard Plasma Fireballs. His abilities are based around something known as mana, which is an ethereal force that connects all things, both living and inanimate.**

Hiro: 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, which quite literally came in handy when he used a one-shot attack called the Banishing Fist to destroy Iris.

**MBStarscream: Ha ha, I see what you did there.**

Hiro: Even if Gamera runs low on mana, he can summon forth a huge amount of it to use his most powerful attack: Ultimate Plasma, which can obliterate almost any enemy in an instant.

**MBStarscream: While incredibly powerful, Ultimate Plasma consumes a large amount of mana, the life energy of the Earth, meaning its use can disrupt the planet's environmental balance. It is suggested that Gamera's use of this attack depleted the Earth's Mana to the extent that Hyper Gyaos were able to arise in massive numbers.**

Hiro: But even then, Gamera still showed that he was the Guardian of the Universe for a reason. He’s faced and defeated hordes of Gyaos and Garasharp, almost singlehandedly destroyed the Legion Queen, and defeated Iris, which is thought to be a creation designed to defeat Gamera.

**MBStarscream: He can jump hundreds of feet in the air, has blown up a star destroyer (no joke), repaired an alien spaceship, survived orbital re-entry, including a crash landing, can fly through space, and survived a nuclear explosion strong enough to destroy Sendai.**

Hiro: However, while Gamera has great strength, he also has quite a number of weaknesses. While he is very durable, his so called impenetrable defenses have been pierced before, mostly through the bottom since it is weaker than the top.

**MBStarscream: That makes sense, and doesn't seem too bad until you realize that Gamera stands on his hind legs during almost every fight he's in.**

Hiro: He has a strategy of running after a fight, which means he's usually very badly hurt, and he can be left open if his opponent is faster or has better range on him. He has to rely on human connection in order to maintain his Mana, and will put the Earth's safety above his own. He's vulnerable to his own plasma, and, unfortunately, couldn't care less about the life on Earth so long as the Earth itself doesn't get destroyed.

**MBStarscream: Still, his capabilities speak for themselves. He may not be perfect, but his deeds have solidified his place as the Guardian of the Universe.**

*Gamera roars again.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Can you really blame us for choosing Tokyo as the stage for our combatants? Anyways, only one of these kaiju will stand tall when the dust clears.

**MBStarscream: I guess you can say... *one will fall*.**

*Tokyo, Japan*

It was an ordinary afternoon in the city of Tokyo, people patrolling the streets as usual. It was peaceful, but this being Tokyo, it did not take long for the peace to be shattered. The citizens suddenly stopped in their tracks as a large shadow covered the city. Looking up, the people could only see the form of a great deity soaring above them.

A gigantic, multicolored moth-like creature with large blue lensed eyes flew over the city, her wings beating strong currents of wind to propel her body through the air. As a large shriek escaped the great moth's mandibles, the humans below her recognized the magnificent creature as the ancient goddess of Infant Island, the Guardian of the Cosmos.

**Mothra** let loose a shriek as she soared over Tokyo, its citizens in awe of her visage. Any other kaiju like Godzilla or the evil King Ghidorah would send them into a panic, but they knew Mothra would never willingly unleash destruction upon them and their city.

She would not be the only monster here, however.

Mothra suddenly stopped and looked up. There was a glow in the sky, steadily growing bigger as it seemed to be heading towards the city. Soon, it was shown to be a circular disk, spinning fast with azure flames emitting from its sides. The disk hovered above the ground, ceasing its spinning as the flames kept it hovering above the ground, before the flames halted, and arms, legs, a tail, and a head all emerged from what was in fact a shell, the form landing square on its feet, raising up a cloud of dust.

Mothra looked on as the monster in front of her looked up to meet her gaze. After a few more seconds, the monster, **Gamera**, let out a roar towards Mothra as the goddess responded in kind with a shriek. Gamera stepped forward as Mothra starting flying towards him. Taken by surprise, the people spread apart like ants, fleeing for cover as the two guardians charged.

**FIGHT!**

Turtle and moth collided with enough force to cause a shockwave. Placing her legs against Gamera's shell, Mothra pushed him back as the reptile tried to push her back with his hands, his feet digging into the ground as he was pushed back. He was then caught by surprise as he fell backward, Mothra following down after him. As he hit the ground, Gamera could feel Mothra's weight pressing down on his chest, effectively pinning him in place. He struggled against the mass on top of him, trying to lift himself off the ground as Mothra looked down at him. Mothra then flew up, Gamera still in her grasp, and dropped him to the Earth below. Gamera got up as Mothra flew backward and roared, the Queen of the Monsters chirping in reply.

Taking a deep breath, Gamera launched a plasma fireball at Mothra, but the projectile was easily dodged by the moth. Mothra flew towards Gamera, but the Friend to All Children launched another fireball. Mothra shrieked in pain as the fireball caught her chest, forcing her to move back. Gamera shot another fireball and started walking in Mothra's direction. Upon recovering, Mothra met Gamera with a blast of energy from her antennae, the turtle roaring in surprise and pain. Mothra flew above Gamera and released arcs of lightning from her wings, Gamera shrieking as the bolts struck his shell. Gamera angrily fired a stream of fire at Mothra, the attack pushing her further into the sky and burning her body.

Mothra fired her Antenna Beams down at Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe jumping back to dodge the blasts. He spat a fireball up at Mothra, but the lepidopteran dodged and flew down towards him, spitting a stream of silk at the reptile's face. Flying away as Gamera tried to remove the silk from his face, Mothra spat more silk at her opponent, pinning him against a building. Before Gamera could do anything, Mothra charged into him, tackling him through the building as it collapsed into rubble. On the floor, Gamera looked up to see Mothra flying into the sky. Growling, he retracted his legs into his shell as fire started to come out of the holes, propelling him after her.

Hearing Gamera roaring behind her, Mothra turned her head to see him catching up to her in his flight mode. Gamera tried to hit Mothra's wing with multiple fireballs, but the deity was too fast in the air for him to hit his target. Then an idea formed in Gamera's mind, and he flew underneath his opponent. As he started to ascend towards Mothra, he retracted all of his limbs into his shell and started spinning rapidly before slamming into Mothra from below, slicing into his foe using the edge of his shell like a circular saw. He followed up by biting onto Mothra's legs with his fangs and tearing it off, the limb falling down to Earth as green blood spilled out of Mothra's wound.

Screaming in pain, Mothra fired more lightning from her wings at Gamera, forcing him to move back down. Mothra flew down after Gamera and grabbed him with her legs, diving down towards the city and hitting the ground with an enormous crash. Lifting Gamera up again, Mothra started dragging him across the city before throwing him towards a building, the turtle crashing into it as she flew away. Gamera got up and stood to his full height as he faced Mothra before sending a stream of fire her way. The goddess, however, used her scales to reflect the attack back at her opponent, the Friend to All Children screaming as he was hit by his own flame.

Mothra then started flapping her wings dangerously, creating a powerful gust of wind that caused buildings to collapse as Gamera was pushed back by the gales. Glaring at the insect, Gamera roared before charging at her, but was hit by Mothra's Antenna Beams once again. Mothra flew at him and lashed out with her wings, striking multiple times until the Guardian of the Universe managed to grab her and threw her into a building. Gamera picked up the downed moth and pinned her against another building, fire churning in his mouth. He was about to spit a fireball...

...But then winced in pain as something sharp pierced through his shell.

Looking down, he saw Mothra pull a huge stinger out of his body, causing blood to gush out of the newly formed hole. Immobilized by the sting, Gamera fell onto his back while shrieking in agony. As he lay face-up, Mothra grabbed him with her claws and carried away from the city, eventually flying above the ocean. She let Gamera fall towards the water, and he disappeared with a massive splash. Seeing no sign of the terrapin, Mothra chirped and started to fly away, the battle seemingly over.

She would be proven wrong.

Emerging from beneath the waves, Gamera put a mighty roar into the air, catching Mothra's attention even from where she was. She turned to see Gamera standing a few hundred feet away, still determined to keep this fight going. Chirping in a manner that almost resembled a sigh, Mothra reluctantly charged at Gamera to continue the battle.

Gamera fired a blast of plasma from his maw as Mothra's Antenna Beams met the stream, locking both kaiju in a beam clash. The Antenna Beams eventually won out, overpowering Gamera's plasma blast and hitting him in the face, knocking him down. Mothra flew towards Gamera while he was down and fired beams from her eyes that hit him in the chest as she soared over the gargantuan reptile. Gamera got up as Mothra turned to face him, firing a blast of white energy from her rear as Gamera jumped to the right. Flyng above a plasma fireball shot in her direction, Mothra charged at Gamera and crashed into him, grappling with the larger kaiju. Gamera swatted Mothra's face, then wrapped one of his claws around Mothra's throat. He was about to disembowel her with his elbow blade, but was forced to let go as Mothra conducted electricity through her touch, shocking him with lightning. As he stepped away from her, Mothra created more gales by flapping her wings, creating huge waves and knocking Gamera down.

Mothra released a poisonous powder from her wings as Gamera tried to keep up, the terrapin grunting in pain as he was enveloped in the harmful cloud. He tried to launch a fireball, but it was blocked by the powder as Mothra flew behind him, hitting him in the back with her Antenna Beams. Stumbling forward, Gamera managed to escape Mothra's cloud before turning around to see Mothra flying toward him, slamming into him at full speed. Mothra threw more jabs at Gamera with her wings until the Last Hope managed to catch her directly in the face with a fireball, blinding her. As she flailed, Gamera grabbed her by the head and slammed her body into the water. Turning Mothra onto her back, Gamera pushed her underwater and bit onto her limb, spinning around like a crocodile as Mothra tried desparately to escape his clutches. Lifting his head out of the water with his fangs still biting on Mothra's leg, Gamera slammed the lepidopteran into the water, then tore that limb clean off as well before stepping away.

Mothra frantically flapped her wings to stay above the surface, taking in whatever air she could. As she writhed, Gamera started charging up and fired a stream of fire at the drowning moth. Mothra screamed as the flames licked her body, Gamera refusing to give her any respite until she was thoroughly cooked.

What he had not expected was for Mothra to suddenly let out a tremendous shriek as she lifted herself out of the water and charged at incredibly fast speed. Gamera barely managed to jump over the flaming moth, which looked like a phoenix as her burning body flew over the water. Landing on his feet, Gamera turned and stared at Fire Mothra, the goddess screeching as she too turned around. The guardians glared at each other, both ready to end this once and for all.

Gamera cried into the sky. From all over the world, from all the corners of the Earth itself, the very living essence of the planet gathered into one single spot on the globe. Gamera, the epicenter, gathered all the mana he could into his body. Mothra, sensing this, prepared for her own final strike. She rushed towards Gamera in a kamikaze attack as the plastrons on Gamera’s shell opened. Gamera fired his Ultimate Plasma attack, but to his horror, Mothra somehow powered through the raging blast of raw mana and plasma, slamming into his open shell.

The result?

An absolutely massive explosion of fire that sent waves in all directions. When the water calmed and the explosion cleared, both Mothra and Gamera were gone.

*Infant Island*

On Mothra’s home island, there was a chamber that was held sacred by the natives there. This gigantic chamber held an enormous egg that is twitching, and a small crack appeared. Soon, within moments, the egg hatched a new Mothra, but this was not just an offspring. This was a reincarnation, one that held the memories of the same Mothra who had destroyed herself and the Guardian of the Universe. Now that she was reborn, she had truly won, and she let out a shriek to let the world know it.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: (Sighs) I've missed kaiju fights, man.**

Hiro: Surprising as it is, Mothra had plenty of advantages over Gamera in this battle that led to her victory. Don't let the size different fool you; Mothra has actually had better showings of strength than Gamera, as shown in her battles with kaiju that vastly outweigh Gamera like Godzilla, King Ghidorah and Battra.

**MBStarscream: Gamera was pretty fast, especially in flight mode, but Mothra can literally cross frickin' galaxies in only a few moments, far faster. She can also take far more punishment than Gamera, tanking attacks from kaiju as powerful as Godzilla and Ghidorah; tanking the former's Spiral Ray attack meant that even Gamera's strongest attacks wouldn't help him much.**

Hiro: When taking their respective enemies into account, Gamera has taken on some serious threats and came out on top, with Iris and the Legion Queen easily being his toughest adversaries. While those two are powerful on their own, when you consider that Mothra has battled King Ghidorah, a life-wiping threat able to turn whole planets into barren wastelands, it becomes pretty clear that she faces far worse than Gamera does regularly.

**MBStarscream: Gamera's shell was also pierced by the squid monster Viras, who is much weaker than Godzilla, meaning Mothra could easily pierce Gamera's shell. Mothra was, after all, able to destroy a meteor big enough to destroy the whole Earth.**

Hiro: Mothra had several other abilities that put Gamera at a disadvantage, like her reflective scales that could block and reflect any attack Gamera threw at her. Even if she did die in the battle, remember that upon death, she will be reborn as a reincarnation with the memories of the previous Mothra, meaning that this wouldn't really have been a true victory for Gamera if he did manage to kill her.

**MBStarscream: Yeah, Gamera could reincarnate too, as shown in Gamera the Brave, but for this fight, we only included the stuff Gamera's done through the Showa and Heisei eras prior to that movie, neither of which have featured Gamera reincarnating after death.**

Hiro: With all this in mind, Mothra ultimately took the win with her strength, durability, experience and immortality.

**MBStarscream: Aw, don't feel too *bugged* about your loss, Gamera.**

Hiro: Mothra wins.

## Advantages

### Mothra (Winner)

* Stronger
* Faster
* More durable
	+ Has taken attacks stronger than even Gamera's strongest moves
* Battles stronger kaiju on a regular basis
* Can easily pierce Gamera's shell
* Scales can reflect Gamera's attacks
* Immortality meant that she could reincarnate even if she died