Gyaos

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**Gyaos** (ギャオス *Gyaosu*) is a winged kaiju that first appeared in the 1967 Gamera film, *Gamera vs. Gyaos*. hey are one of the most famous gamera kaiju (monsters) of all time wow!

## History

### *Gamera vs. Gyaos*

Gyaos appeared in Japan from a large cavern, and feasted on blood, principally that of livestock and humans. Soon, Gamera confronted Gyaos, and after a battle Gyaos fled while Gamera slept in the ocean to recover. It was soon learned that light caused Gyaos' skin to shrink, so the light of the city stadium of Nagoya kept Gyaos at bay. Gamera soon returned to finish Gyaos off and, after a battle in the air, Gyaos cut off its own foot to escape from the sun.

Humanity developed a plan to place artificial blood on a rooftop in Nagoya to keep Gyaos drinking the blood for so long that the sun would come up and kill it. But Gyaos proved more cunning than originally thought and used a strange fog attack to protect itself from the sun. The next plan was to lure Gamera to Gyaos' lair in the forest by setting the forest alight. Gyaos used its fog attack to put out the flames, but Gamera arrived and eventually defeated Gyaos by throwing the beast into a volcano.

### *Gamera vs. Guiron*

A swarm of silver **Space Gyaos** (宇宙ギャオス *Uchū Gyaosu*) had attacked the planet Terra, an undiscovered planet in our solar system, being kept at bay only by the Terrans' guardian monster, Guiron. A Space Gyaos arrived near Guiron and tried to attack with its laser beam, but it was reflected by Guiron's bladed face, and instead sliced off Space Gyaos' right leg. Gyaos flew into the air in order to continue the fight, but in a swooping maneuver Guiron sliced off Space Gyaos' wing. With its prey grounded and immobile, Guiron cut off Gyaos' other wing before decapitating it and slicing its body into disc-like chunks before deciding that Space Gyaos was not fit to eat. After Gamera had killed Guiron, the planet was seemingly abandoned to the Gyaos.

### *Gamera: Super Monster*

The space criminal Zanon revived Gyaos along with Gamera's other foes in an attempt to stop Gamera from interfering with his plans to conquer the Earth. However, Gamera once again destroyed Gyaos by dragging it into the crater of a volcano.

### *Gamera: Guardian of the Universe*

Three Gyaos appeared on an island archipelago on the coast of Japan, where they wiped out an entire village on Himegami Island, eating every human being they could find. Ornithologist Mayumi Nagamine and police inspector Tsutomu Osako were sent to the island to investigate, where they saw the three creatures up close. Together with the JSDF, Nagamine and Osako formulated a plan to lure the Gyaos to the Fukuoka Dome in Fukuoka, using hunks of raw meat. By nightfall, the three Gyaos arrived at the stadium and descended. Soldiers then opened fire on the Gyaos with tranquilizer darts. Two of the Gyaos were sedated and captured, but one escaped. The Gyaos tried to fly over the ocean, but was suddenly swatted into a nearby refinery and destroyed by Gamera, who proceeded toward the Fukuoka Dome. The two Gyaos awakened and used their sonic beams to cut free of the cages restraining them. The Gyaos flew out of the stadium, avoiding Gamera, and retreated.

The two Gyaos later attacked a village in the Japanese countryside, but were intercepted by Gamera. Gamera destroyed one of the Gyaos with a fireball, but the other escaped. When Gamera was attacked by the JSDF near Mount Fuji, the surviving Gyaos attacked him with its supersonic scalpel. Gamera was seriously wounded by the JSDF and Gyaos' attacks and was forced to rest underneath the ocean. Gyaos began feeding on wildlife, livestock, and humans and eventually grew into the 85 meter-tall **Super Gyaos** (スーパーギャオス *Sūpā Gyaosu*). Super Gyaos flew to Tokyo, where it fed on the helpless populace. Super Gyaos later built a nest on the Tokyo Tower and laid eggs. Gamera traveled underground and surfaced in the center of Tokyo to challenge Super Gyaos. Gamera blasted the nest with a fireball, destroying all of the eggs. Super Gyaos and Gamera fought throughout Tokyo, causing major damage to the city. Eventually, the two kaiju took their battle to the sky, engaging in a supersonic dogfight that reached the top of the atmosphere. Gamera and Super Gyaos plummeted down to Earth, and Gamera crashed into a factory which exploded. Super Gyaos stared at the fireball, believing itself victorious, when suddenly the fire was absorbed by Gamera, who stood unharmed. Gamera fired a massive fireball at Super Gyaos, which blasted its head clean off. Super Gyaos' headless corpse then fell backwards and exploded.

Stock footage of Super Gyaos and its battle with Gamera was later shown in *Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris*, where it is revealed to be the cause of the death of Ayana Hirasaka's parents.

### *Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion*

The Gyaos do not appear in *Gamera 2* physically, but they are mentioned and are the subject of a book in the film.

### *Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris*

After Gamera's Ultimate Mana Blast attack used to destroy Legion depleted the Earth's Mana, thousands of Gyaos began appearing all over the world in new evolved forms known as **Hyper Gyaos** (ギャオス・ハイパー *Gyaosu ・ Haipā*, lit. *Gyaos Hyper*). The corpse of one Gyaos was found in a village in the Philippines, where it had eaten an old woman's son and grandson. Gamera was reportedly seen in several locations across the planet battling the Hyper Gyaos, causing terrible destruction in the process. One night, two Hyper Gyaos appeared in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, where they battled Gamera. Gamera killed both Gyaos, but at the cost of thousands of human lives, ending humanity's trust in Gamera and causing them to designate him as an enemy. Meanwhile, a powerful creature related to the Gyaos, Iris, was awakened from a shrine in Nara Prefecture and raised by the vengeful orphan Ayana Hirasaka to kill Gamera, who she blamed for the deaths of her parents in 1995. Iris and Gamera battled in Kyoto, with Iris being killed and Gamera brutally maimed. After the battle, a swarm of thousands of Hyper Gyaos approached Kyoto, intent on finishing Gamera once and for all. However, humanity's faith in Gamera had been restored and they were ready to fight side-by-side with him against the Gyaos.

### *Gamera the Brave*

Original Gyaos in *Gamera the Brave*
A flock of **Original Gyaos** (オリジナルギャオス *Orijinaru Gyaosu*) attacked the small village of Iseshima, only to be confronted by Avant Gamera. Gamera overloaded his internal furnace and self-destructed, sacrificing himself to destroy the flock. The creature called Zedus was later mutated by feeding on the corpses of Gyaos.

### *GAMERA*

Gyaos appears in the 2015 film first screened at New York Comic-Con to commemorate Gamera's 50th anniversary. Swarms of Gyaos are shown attacking Tokyo ten years in the past, and one of them eats the main character's father. The main character is saved when Gamera smashes through a building and kills the Gyaos by stomping on its neck. Gamera then destroys the incoming swarm of Gyaos with a powerful blast of fire.

## Abilities

### Flight

In all of its incarnations, Gyaos is an agile flier. It can fly at a speed of Mach 3.5 in the Showa series, while the juvenile Gyaos from *Gamera: Guardian of the Universe* can reach speeds of up to Mach 1. Super Gyaos can reach Mach 4.2, while Hyper Gyaos can reach Mach 4.5. Their impressive flight speed and agility allowed Super and Hyper Gyaos to dodge the majority of the Plasma Fireballs Gamera fired at them.

### Supersonic Scalpel

Gyaos' signature ability is the **Supersonic Scalpel** (超音波メス *Chōonpa Mesu*) it fires from its mouth. This attack takes the form of a thin yellow beam which can slice apart objects with incredible precision. In the Showa series, Gyaos' spine was bifurcated at the neck, acting as a tuning fork that allowed it to fire the Supersonic Scalpel at the cost of not being able to turn its head. This does not apply to the Heisei versions of Gyaos, which can move their heads and necks freely. The Supersonic Scalpel can slice cleanly through aircraft and buildings as well as Gamera's flesh, and is even used by Gyaos twice to sever its own foot in order to escape Gamera's grasp. The mutant Gyaos Iris possesses its own version of the Supersonic Scalpel which it fires from its tentacles.

### Regeneration

The Showa Gyaos has a powerful healing factor, which renders it capable of regrowing its severed foot after only an hour.

### Fog

In *Gamera vs. Gyaos*, Gyaos could emit a fog-like gas from vents on its chest to obscure the sun and douse flames.

### Claws

In the Heisei series, Gyaos attacks with its hind claws. While this is never addressed onscreen, the Heisei Gyaos emits a neurotoxin through its claws.

### Asexual reproduction

In the Heisei trilogy, Gyaos are born female but can manipulate their own chromosomes to reproduce asexually. This allows Gyaos to reproduce very quickly and overrun both ancient Atlantis and the modern world by the events of *Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris*.

### DNA manipulation

In the Heisei trilogy, Gyaos are born with a single pair of two perfect chromosomes which they can alter in order to evolve in response to stimuli. Not only does this allow Gyaos to reproduce asexually, but also to develop adaptations such as shield plates over its eyes in order to protect it from sunlight and allow it to be active during the day.

### Growth

The Heisei Gyaos can grow and evolve quickly as long as it continues to eat. By eating continuously, one Gyaos grew from a 10 meter juvenile to the 85 meter-tall Super Gyaos.

### Durability

Super Gyaos is able to shrug off missiles and can survive orbital re-entry.

### Weaknesses

Gyaos possesses an aversion to sunlight, and as such can only be active at night. In the Showa series this weakness extended to the point that exposure to sunlight could injure Gyaos by causing its flesh to dry out and shrivel up. In the Heisei series, Gyaos was blinded by sunlight and was rendered helpless and disoriented if exposed to any light. However, Super Gyaos was able to overcome this weakness by forming shield plates over its eyes.

Gyaos is critically weak to extreme heat, which is how Gamera manages to kill it in each incarnation. In *Gamera vs. Gyaos*, Gamera kills Gyaos by dragging it into the mouth of an active volcano, while in the Heisei series he kills each Gyaos with a Plasma Fireball. While the juvenile Gyaos can be exterminated by a single Fireball, Super Gyaos required a direct hit to the head from a High Plasma Fireball while Hyper Gyaos could withstand several hits.

In the Showa series, the source of Gyaos' Supersonic Scalpel beam is its forked-shaped throat, but this prevents it from turning its head sideways. Space Gyaos was also vulnerable to its own Supersonic Scalpel after it was reflected by Guiron. Space Gyaos is susceptible to being instantly and fatally dismembered by the blade on Guiron's head.

## Films & TV

* *Gamera vs. Gyaos* (1967)
* *Gamera vs. Viras* (1969) [stock footage]
* *Gamera vs. Guiron* (1969)
* *Gamera vs. Jiger* (1970) [stock footage]
* *Gamera: Super Monster* (1980) [stock footage]
* *Gamera: Guardian of the Universe* (1995)
* *Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion* (1996) [mentioned; photograph]
* *Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris* (1999)
* *Gamera the Brave* (2006)
* *GAMERA* (2015)

## Roar

Eiichi named **Gyaos** after 'the sound he makes', though its **roar** hardly sounds like **gyaos**. **Gyaos** is the only enemy monster in the Gamera Series to appear in Gamera vs. Gyaos.