Shin Godzilla

**Shin Godzilla** is a hybrid between Godzilla and Xilien. He serves as one of two main antagonists of season 3, second being his offspring.

## Appearance

Shin Godzilla's appearance was constantly changing, as monster was able to continuously evolve.
His first form features a small creature with yellow skin. His legs are long and rather thin. His arms barely developed and completely lacks of any fingers. His snout is short and rugged. Monster posses also red gills on neck.
His second form is far longer and thinner than the first form. His legs are extremely slender with birdlike feet. Arms are still short and barely developed. Neck is longer and thinner. Snout is more elongate. His back grow small, brown dorsal plates.
Third Form is larger and more massive than previous forms. Gills are now closed. His skin is now orange. Legs are more muscular to better support immense weight. Arms have now three small fingers. His posture is also more upright.
Fourth Form has drastically changed. His posture is now completely upright. Legs are far longer and more massive with less birdlike feet. Skin is completely burned and dark reddish. His eyes are far smaller with more developed irises. Snout is more flat with sharper teeth and black borders. The tail is now much longer and tip is red with skeleton-like structure. There also some exposed muscles in some areas.
After being fused with Biollante, one of Shin Godzilla's legs became covered in plant structure. His exposed muscles emits a yellow glow. Shin Godzilla-Biollante posses also four tentacles growing from his back.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Asexual Reproduction:** Unlike regular Godzillas, Shin Godzilla is able to reproduce asexually. At the end of the episode 14, Shin Godzilla gave a birth to at least six humanoid monsters.
* **Energy Manipulation:** Unlike other Godzillas, Shin Godzilla produces an energy by nuclear fusion. However, this doesn't mean that Shin Godzilla can't absorb energy, as he was able to absorb Mothra's dust. He was also able to project energy from various places in his body.
* **Physical Durability:** Just like Godzilla, Shin Godzilla is very durable. His skin is almost immune to damage, as most of monsters were shown to be unable to pierce through it. The only thing that successfully pierced through Shin Godzilla's skin was his own Radiation Heat Ray. The dust produced by Mothra was also able to temporary knock him out.
* **Physical Strength:** Despite having a small arms, Shin Godzilla posses an immense strength. It was shown that he can send an adult Skullcrawler flying with a single kick. After fusing with Biollante, Shin Godzilla was able to effortlessly lift other monsters, such as Chameleon.
* **Radiation Heat Ray:** Similar to Zillas and Godzillas, Shin Godzilla posses his own variant of Atomic Heat Ray. It starts a flammable cloud of grey gas, then it changes into steam of fire. Finally, it becomes a narrow, purple photon ray. Before using a Radiation Heat Ray, Shin Godzilla's body emits a purple glow, similar to Female Godzilla's green glow and Neo Shin Godzilla's red glow. Radiation Heat Ray has a cutting properties, and it's able to penetrate through skin of other monsters. Unlike Godzillas and Zillas, Shin Godzilla can shoot his rays from snout, dorsal plates and tail.
* **Reactive Adaptation:** Shin Godzilla's unique feature is ability to actively evolve in order to adapt into new environments and enemies. After first landfalling, Shin Godzilla has doubled his size and adapted his body into land environment. During his fight against a pack of Skullcrawlers, Shin Godzilla has developed a Radiation Heat Ray.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** In addition to an enhanced durability, Shin Godzilla has also extremely fast and advanced healing factor that allows him to immediately heal wounds. After being hurt by his Radiation Heat Ray, Shin Godzilla regenerated an injury within seconds. Even a large open wound in a chest couldn't kill a monster, as instantly healed it.

## Weaknesses

Despite being an extremely powerful, Shin Godzilla posses a multiple weaknesses.

* **Dust:** A special dust produced by Mothra was able to temporary knock him unconscious in his Shin Godzilla-Biollante Form.
* **Power Limit:** Shin Godzilla's biggest weakness is his power limit. If he uses too much energy at once, Shin Godzilla will enter a hibernation state, where he mostly needs a couple of days to recharge his energy.
* **Silk:** When Mothra shot her webs at his vine like arms, they instantly pinned the appendages to the ground, and later on, it possibly killed him by means of asphyxiation when Mothra fired her webs down his throat.

## Trivia

* Shin Godzilla's appearance was based on his *Crayon Shin-Chan vs. Shin Godzilla*.
* Unlike his movie version, Shin Godzilla does not cover his eyes or split jaw open.
* Also unlike his movie version, Shin Godzilla is here hybrid between Godzilla and Xilien, not marine creature that feed on radioactive waste for 60 years.
* His Shin Godzilla-Biollante Form seems to be inspired by *Marvel Comics* villain, Doctor Octopus.