Long Neck

**Long Neck**(ロングネック *Rongunekku*) is an alien amoeba-originated dinosaur Kaiju from Episode 16 of Fireman.

**Subtitle**: Long-neck Monster(長頸怪獣 *Chōkei kaijū*)

## Appearance

Long Neck has an entirely bright red-colored body with a tile-like pattern. It has clawed hands and feet, a long tail, and a long neck, hence its name. It also has bright red head with a short snout, a mouth filled with sharp teeth, white eyes with black pupils, and bright red petals surrounding the head.

## Biography

When two aliens called the Atla Seijin arrive on earth, they watch footage of Misaki transforming into Fireman with the Fire Stick. After realizing they must steal the Fire Stick so Fireman won’t interfere in their mission, they see Misaski befriending a little girl, named Jun, who’s watching after an injured bird and they decide to use her to steal the Fire Stick.

To lure Misaki back to a lake that he was patrolling earlier, the Atla Seijin plan to turn an amoeba they brought from Planet Alpha into a monster.

After two days, Jun is at the lake where her friend, Taro, meets up with her and the two suddenly witness the amoeba, now fully turned into a monster, named Long Neck, rising its head from out of the lake and scaring the two kids off. As they make their separate ways, the Atla Seijin kidnap Jun and bring her back to their space ship where they hypnotize her, give her hairpin devices that allow her to give off telepathy, and a laser beam weapon.

As S.A.F is investigating the lake for any monster activity, Misaki gets lured away by Jun’s telepathy. With Misaki away from the lake, the Atla Seijin send Long Neck from out of the lake, exposing itself. S.A.F start attacking the Kaiju with their laser beams as Misaki realizes the Kaiju has reveal itself around the same time he discovered Jun was telepathically calling for him. Jun uses the weapon she was given to shoot Misaki’s right arm, injuring him and preventing him from using the Fire Stick as Long Neck starts shooting its Fire Breath at S.A.F.

Despite his efforts, Misaki gets shot again by Jun, making him drop the Fire Stick and allowing her to steal it. With their goal completed, the Atla Seijin call Long Neck back as the Kaiju is their main form of protection.

S.A.F starts to look around for Misaki until they discover the Atla Seijin’s space ship on the lake. They start attacking the ship with their Marringon and Marine Car, so the Atla Seijin send out Long Neck again where it shields the ship from S.A.F.’s attacks and uses it Fire Breath to bring the Marringon crashing into the lake.

The Atla Seijin ride their space ship off of the lake as Long Neck starts to walk out of the lake and onto the land. Not allowing the Kaiju to make it ashore, S.A.F. shoots back with the Marine Car. Despite their efforts, Long Neck makes it onto the land where it starts destroying a nearby village.

Fortunately, with help from Taro, Misaki was able to get his Fire Stick back from Jun and the Atla Seijin and he uses it to transform into Fireman. Long Neck immediately fights against Fireman and the two start duking it out.

Long Neck splits its tail open to grapple Fireman’s legs, but the giant hero grabs the Kaiju’s split-open tail and ties it around its neck. After beating Long Neck down, Fireman heads down into the lake to rescue the Marringon just as Saburo and Futoshi are running low on oxygen.

Long Neck starts going after Taro and Jun, who is no longer under the Atla Seijin’s control, until Fireman arrives back and resumes their fight. Long Neck uses its Split-open Tail to strangle Fireman until Fireman chops its tail off. Long Neck then swings Fireman around, but the giant kicks the Kaiju back into the lake. Long Neck stands back up in the lake as Fireman uses Fire Flash to launch a fire ball and blows the Kaiju up into pieces.

## Powers/Abilities

**Adapted Swimming**: Long Neck is able to swim and breath through water

**Fire Breath**: Long Neck is able to breathe out a stream of flames from its mouth.

**Super Strength**: Has enough strength to fling its opponents away by just its neck and to swing them around.

**Split-open Tail**: Long Neck can split open its tail to grapple and choke its opponents with it.