King Ghidorah

**King Ghidorah** (キングギドラ *Kingu Gidora*) is a three-headed dragon kaiju created by Toho that first faced Godzilla in the 1964 *Godzilla* film, *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*.

In Heisei era, it is first faced Godzilla in the 1991 *Godzilla* film, *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*.

In Millenium era, it is first faced Godzilla in the 2001 *Godzilla* film, *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*.

## Name

King Ghidorah's name is composed of "King" (キング *Kingu*) and "Ghidorah." The "Ghidorah" part of King Ghidorah's name comes from the Japanese word for "hydra" (ヒドラ *Hidora*), which is spelled very similarly to the Japanese katakana for Ghidorah.

King Ghidorah was referred to as either "Ghidrah" or "Ghidorah" in the American versions of his first three movies, *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*, *Invasion of Astro-Monster* and *Destroy All Monsters*, presumably because they sounded more like "hydra." He wasn't referred to as "King Ghidorah" in an original American release of one of his movies until *Godzilla vs. Gigan*.

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, the guardian monster Ghidorah's name is spelled in kanji but pronounced the same: 魏怒羅 (*Gidora*). When Ghidorah is revived to fight Godzilla again, he is now known as *King Ghidorah*.

## Appearance

King Ghidorah is a golden dragon monster with two legs, three heads on long necks, giant bat-like wings, and two tails. King Ghidorah's multiple heads were inspired by Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed dragon from Japanese mythology.

King Ghidorah was brought to life on the movie screen by a stunt actor inside an elaborate three-piece suit, with a team of puppeteers to control the suit's many appendages allowing realistic movement. His design was mostly created by Eiji Tsuburaya based on a minimal description in the script: "It has three heads, two tails, and a voice like a bell."

## Design

### SokogekiGhido

The SokogekiGhido suit is based on the original ShodaiGhido suit, but with more modern updates. The wings are more dragon-like in appearance, the heads looks very similar to that of a mythological dragon, the scales are very dragon-like in appearance as well, and the feet are also very dragon-like in appearance. As with the HeiseiGhido suit, the eyes on the SokogekiGhido suit are also colored red, but the pupils appear more human-like in appearance, much like the ShodaiGhido suit.

One thing to note about the SokogekiGhido suit is that it has Varan-like fins on each side of all three heads. This is mainly because Fuyuki Shinada, who designed the suits for all the monsters in *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, was disappointed that Varan, his all-time favorite monster, wasn't going to be in the film. Seeing as Varan, along with Anguirus, were supposed to be in the movie at first instead of Mothra and King Ghidorah, he compromised by putting Varan's facial fins on each side of all three heads of this suit.

## Roar

King Ghidorah's roar in the Showa era is very much akin to laughter, albeit at a higher pitch.

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, King Ghidorah's new roar was modified from his Showa roar.

## Personality

King Ghidorah does not have much of a developed personality because he is under someone's control in most of his appearances. The only times he was not under mind-control throughout most of the film were *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*, *Rebirth of Mothra III*, and *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*. Whenever he isn't, he became confused due to no longer receiving commands from his masters and was overwhelmed by Godzilla and other opponents, eventually trying to retreat.

He temporarily was free of mind-control in *Invasion of Astro-Monster*, *Godzilla vs. Gigan* and *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*. In each instance, he became confused due to no longer receiving commands from his masters and was overwhelmed by Godzilla and his allies, eventually trying to retreat. It seems that each of King Ghidorah's heads can think for themselves separately, although the middle head appears to be dominant which could easily be a cause of not being coordinated.

In *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*, King Ghidorah was said to be evil, and he destroyed civilizations on several planets for unknown reasons. He tried destroying Earth and its civilizations, but he fought the three monsters that got in his way and retreated eventually.

It seems that each of King Ghidorah's heads can think for themselves separately, although the middle head appears to be dominant which could easily be a cause of not being coordinated.

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, King Ghidorah is one of the Guardian Monsters, being the God of the Sea. King Ghidorah was a protector of Japan, making Ghidorah a protagonist for the first, and so far, only time.

## Origins

King Ghidorah has traditionally been depicted as an evil destructive creature from outer space, although his origin has varied throughout his appearances.

In the Showa series, King Ghidorah is an alien dragon said to have attacked Venus under his own power many thousands of years ago, wiping out the planet's entire civilization. He later attacked Earth, but was repelled by Earth's monsters. At some point, he was taken control of by the Xiliens and used as a pawn in their invasion of Earth. King Ghidorah was destined to be taken control of by different alien races, losing his history on the way. The Garogas later claimed to have created King Ghidorah, but whether this is true or not is never definitively explained, given the monster's ancient history.

In *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*, King Ghidorah is part of a scheme by time-traveling terrorists known as the Futurians to destroy Japan in the past to prevent it from becoming a global economic superpower. He is the result of the Futurians placing three genetically-engineered creatures from the future called Dorats on Lagos Island in the year 1944.

In 1954, the Dorats were exposed to the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test conducted at nearby Bikini Atoll, which caused them to merge and mutate into King Ghidorah. According to the novelization of the film, the Dorats were engineered using DNA recovered from the corpse of another King Ghidorah found on the surface of Venus, suggesting that like in the Showa series King Ghidorah is originally an alien creature, but the one created by the Futurians is simply a clone of him and not the original.

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, King Ghidorah is reinvented as a heroic monster for the first, and so far only time. In this film, King Ghidorah is the God of the Sky and one of the threeGuardian Monsters, along with Mothra and Baragon. An ancient Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed dragon from Japanese mythology, King Ghidorah was slain by Japanese warriors thousands of years ago and laid to rest underneath Mount Fuji. The warriors prayed for King Ghidorah's soul, and, over the next several centuries, he slowly regenerated, empowered by the souls of Japan's honorable dead. However, he was awakened before he could grow back all eight of his heads, instead growing only three.

## History

### *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*

Thousands of years ago, King Ghidorah attacked the planet Venus, eradicating the planet's advanced civilization and rendering Venus an uninhabitable wasteland. The few Venusians that survived the monster's attacks fled to Earth, where they interbred with the native humans and gradually began to lose their identity.

In the present day, a meteor shower was visible in the skies above Earth, with one meteor crashing down in the Kurobe Valley in Japan. A scientific team led by Professor Murai traveled to the valley to examine the meteor, which exuded a strange glow and even produced its own magnetic field that fluctuated in strength. After several days of study, Murai and his colleagues observed that the meteor was actually growing in size. One day, the meteor began producing an extremely powerful magnetic field before splitting open and launching a ball of fire into the sky above. The fireball exploded several times before finally taking the form of King Ghidorah, having come to do to to Earth what he did to Venus in the past.

King Ghidorah flew over Japan, leveling cities effortlessly with his gravity beams. As the cosmic terror approached the Mount Fuji area, Mothra tried to convince her fellow Earth monsters Godzilla and Rodan to cease their fighting and join forces against King Ghidorah. The monsters refused, forcing Mothra to take on King Ghidorah by herself. King Ghidorah blasted the larva with his gravity beams, arousing the anger of Godzilla and Rodan, who finally entered the battle. While King Ghidorah was more powerful than the three monsters individually, he was no match for their combined might, and was beaten into submission and covered in a silken cocoon. As Godzilla pelted King Ghidorah with boulders and threw him off a cliff, King Ghidorah finally retreated and flew back into the void of outer space.

### *Invasion of Astro-Monster*

When astronauts Fuji and Glenn arrived on the newly-discovered Planet X, they encountered an intelligent and technologically advanced alien race called the Xiliens. The Xiliens' leader, the Controller of Planet X, explained that his people lived in constant terror due to the attacks of a horrific space monster known as Monster Zero. The Controller showed the two a video feed of the creature, revealing it to be none other than King Ghidorah.

The Controller explained that he knew Godzilla and Rodan drove off King Ghidorah when the monster attacked Earth, and asked that his people be allowed to "borrow" the two monsters to fight off King Ghidorah on Planet X. When the two astronauts returned to Earth and received the support of the world's leaders, the Xiliens revealed themselves, having already been operating on Earth in secret. The Controller apologized for the secrecy, but thanked Earth's leaders and ordered the Xiliens' UFOs to transport Godzilla and Rodan to Planet X, with Glenn, Fuji and their superior Dr. Sakurai accompanying them to oversee the mission. When the monsters were placed on Planet X, King Ghidorah flew overhead and attacked them. Godzilla and Rodan joined forces again, and managed to force the space monster to retreat. The Controller remarked that this was a triumphant day for Planet X, and provided Glenn and Fuji with a tape he claimed contained the cure for cancer. The Controller sent the astronauts on their way, keeping Godzilla and Rodan on Planet X.

When the astronauts returned to Earth, they found the tape was actually an ultimatum demanding that Earth surrender to Planet X and become a colony. King Ghidorah had actually been under the Xiliens' control the entire time, and now both Godzilla and Rodan had become their pawns as well. When humanity refused to surrender, the Xiliens released the mind-controlled Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah on Earth to destroy its major cities. Thankfully, Fuji and several Earth scientists discovered a device capable of breaking the aliens' control over the monsters. The device was activated, while the J.S.D.F. assaulted the Xiliens' hidden base.

The Xiliens lost their control over the monsters, while their forces were defeated by the J.S.D.F. When Godzilla regained consciousness, he woke up Rodan and the two attacked King Ghidorah once again. During the battle, Rodan grabbed Godzilla and carried him in the air, slamming into King Ghidorah and sending all three monsters plummeting into the sea below. After a few moments, King Ghidorah flew out of the water and retreated back to outer space, while Godzilla and Rodan disappeared beneath the waves.

### *Destroy All Monsters*

When the crew of the Moonlight SY-3 destroyed the device the Kilaaks were using to control Earth's monsters, Godzilla and his fellow monsters assembled near the Kilaaks' base at Mount Fuji, preparing to assault it. The Kilaaks proceeded to unleash their trump card, King Ghidorah, to defend their base.

King Ghidorah descended and attacked the Earth monsters, managing to hold his own against several opponents. Anguirus bit down on King Ghidorah's neck, causing him to take flight and send Anguirus falling to the Earth. King Ghidorah landed and stomped Anguirus into the dust, then reentered battle against Godzilla and his allies. Anguirus, undeterred, got back up and attacked King Ghidorah again. As King Ghidorah battled Godzilla and his allies, Gorosaurus landed a devastating kangaroo-kick on his back, knocking him to the ground. Godzilla proceeded to stomp on King Ghidorah's necks, causing him to cough up blood. Minilla fired a smoke ring that choked King Ghidorah's remaining head and caused it to fall limp to the ground.

When Godzilla found the Kilaaks' base and destroyed it, it caused a huge fissure to open in the ground, with King Ghidorah's lifeless body falling into it. With King Ghidorah defeated for good and the alien invasion thwarted, Godzilla and the other monsters returned to Monsterland to live out their days in peace.

### *Godzilla vs. Gigan*

As part of their plan to conquer the Earth, the M Space Hunter Nebula Alienstook control of King Ghidorah and allied him with their own cybernetic monster, Gigan. Controlling the two monsters from the Godzilla Tower located in World Children's Land, the Nebulans unleashed Gigan and King Ghidorah in Tokyo. The space monsters razed the city and withstood all of the J.S.D.F.'s attempts to stop them, leaving humanity helpless. Thankfully, Godzilla and Anguirusbecame aware of the invaders' scheme, and swam to Tokyo to battle Gigan and King Ghidorah. However, King Ghidorah and his cybernetic ally proved to be more than a match for the Earth monsters. Godzilla was badly wounded by Gigan's hook-tipped appendages and the Godzilla Tower's laser beam, leaving Anguirus at the mercy of both space monsters. Fortunately, a group of humans managed to destroy the Godzilla Tower, severing the Nebulans' control over Gigan and King Ghidorah and leaving them confused. Godzilla and Anguirus regrouped and assaulted their foes once more, seizing the upper hand. Gigan eventually retreated, allowing Godzilla and Anguirus to double-team King Ghidorah. Godzilla held King Ghidorah still from behind while Anguirus rammed him with his spiky carapace. King Ghidorah soon retreated as well, leaving Godzilla and Anguirus victorious and the Earth safe once again.

### *Zone Fighter*

King Ghidorah was taken control of by an evil race of aliens called the Garogas, who claimed to also be his creators, and was deployed to Earth. While on Earth, King Ghidorah was confronted by Zone Fighter, who defeated the space demon after a vicious struggle. King Ghidorah managed to escape with his life, something few of Zone Fighter's enemies, not even Gigan, managed to do.

### *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*

Planning to destroy Japan in the past and prevent it from becoming a corrupt economic superpower by the 23rd century, a group of time-traveling terrorists known as the Futurians traveled to 1992 Japan and claimed that Godzillawould return to destroy Japan in the near future, rendering the nation uninhabitable in the future. The Futurians assembled a team of Japanese citizens and traveled to Lagos Island in 1944, where it was believed aGodzillasaurus would later be exposed to the Castle Bravo H-bomb test conducted at nearby Bikini Atoll in 1954 and transform into Godzilla. The Futurians teleported the Godzillasaurus to the Bering Sea, where they believed it would die, and in its place secretly left behind three genetically-engineered creatures called Dorats. In 1954, the Dorats were exposed to the H-bomb test and merged together into King Ghidorah, who was taken control of by the Futurians in 1992 and unleashed against Japan.

King Ghidorah first attacked Fukuoka, tearing the metropolis apart with his gravity beams. The Futurians demanded that the Japanese government surrender to them and follow their demands for rebuilding the country. The government, unwilling to comply, sent a nuclear submarine owned by a private corporation to the Bering Sea, believing the Godzillasaurus was still dormant there and could be transformed into a new Godzilla by the sub's torpedos. Instead, the sub was intercepted en route by Godzilla, who was never actually erased from the timeline in the first place. Godzilla fed on the submarine's radiation, curing his Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria infection and causing him to grow to 100 meters in height. Godzilla came ashore in Hokkaido, much to the Futurians' irritation. The Futurians sent King Ghidorah to kill Godzilla, and the two titans battled near Hokkaido. King Ghidorah seemed to have the upper hand, until Emmy Kano and her android M11, defectors from the Futurians, assaulted their comrades' ship MOTHER and destroyed the computer controlling King Ghidorah. King Ghidorah was stunned, allowing Godzilla to knock him to the ground and sever his central head with his spiral breath. Emmy used MOTHER's subship KIDS to teleport MOTHER in front of Godzilla, who promptly destroyed it with his atomic breath. King Ghidorah tried to fly away, but Godzilla blasted out his wings with his atomic breath and caused him to fall into the North Sea. The empowered Godzilla began a new rampage across Japan, leaving the nation helpless. Emmy believed that King Ghidorah could be revived with technology from her time so long as his corpse was preserved by the cold water, and traveled back to 2204 in KIDS.

### *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*

#### Ghidorah

Thousands of years ago, King Ghidorah, an eight-headed dragon known as a Yamata no Orochi, was slain by ancient Japanese warriors and laid to rest in the forests around Mount Fuji, with the warriors praying for his soul so that he would rise again one day to defend Japan. In 2002, the still-regenerating**Ghidorah** (魏怒羅 *Gidora*?), who had only grown back three of his eight heads, was discovered dormant underground by a suicidal man. Hirotoshi Isayama, a prophet attempting to revive Japan's ancient Guardian Monsters to stop Godzilla, traveled to Ghidorah's grave and channeled the souls of Japan's honorable dead to revive him. King Ghidorah rose and traveled to Yokohama, where his fellow guardian Mothra was battling Godzilla. Ghidorah arrived and bit Godzilla, electrocuting him through his bite. Godzilla swatted Mothra aside with his tail and bit down on Ghidorah's necks before slamming him onto a building. Before Godzilla could finish Ghidorah with his atomic breath, Mothra flew in front of the beam and was blasted away. Godzilla turned his attention to the J.S.D.F., attempting to wipe out their battleships with his atomic breath. Mothra tried to surprise Godzilla from behind, but was vaporized by his atomic breath.

#### Thousand-Year-Old Dragon, King Ghidorah

Mothra's energy flowed into the unconscious Ghidorah, reviving him as the**Thousand-Year-Old Dragon, King Ghidorah** (千年竜王 *Chitose ryūō*, lit.*Thousand-Year Dragon King*). King Ghidorah took flight and surrounded himself with an energy shield, which deflected Godzilla's atomic breath. King Ghidorah launched his energy shield at Godzilla, blasting him out of the harbor and into the ocean. King Ghidorah flew over the water and kicked Godzilla when he surfaced, only for Godzilla to drag him underwater. As the monsters battled beneath the waves, the *Satsuma* attempted to fire a D-03 Missile at a wound on Godzilla's neck, but it struck King Ghidorah's neck instead and rendered him unconscious on the sea floor. Godzilla swallowed the *Satsuma* whole and surfaced, destroying a suspension bridge and sending Yuri Tachibana and her friend falling into the water.

Yuri dropped a sacred stone into the water, which revitalized King Ghidorah and allowed him to fly out of the water. King Ghidorah blasted Godzilla with his golden gravity beams, but Godzilla managed to absorb them into his dorsal plates. Godzilla fired a powerful blast of atomic breath wrapped in a golden spiral, which obliterated King Ghidorah in a single hit. King Ghidorah's spirit, along with the spirits of Mothra and Baragon, flowed into Godzilla and caused him to sink. The *Satsuma* then fired a D-03 Missile from inside Godzilla that expanded Godzilla's neck wound. When Godzilla surfaced and fired his atomic breath, it fired out of the wound and caused him to fall back underwater.

As the *Satsuma* floated out of Godzilla, Godzilla charged his beam one more time, only for it to cause him to explode. When the *Satsuma* surfaced, Taizo Tachibana exited the submarine and saluted the sacrifices of the J.S.D.F. soldiers and the Guardian Monsters that had died to stop Godzilla.

## Abilities

King Ghidorah has had a number of changes made to himself over the years, but most of his traditional battle characteristics have remained the same. His different forms in the different movies have their own abilities.

### Constricting Necks

In *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*, King Ghidorah constricted his necks around Godzilla in an attempt to strangle him, causing him to foam at the mouth.

### Durability

King Ghidorah is usually portrayed as being extremely durable and resistant to damage, often to an extent close to Godzilla. He withstands conventional weaponry with no noticeable effect, and can even shrug off point-blank blasts from Godzilla's atomic breath. In *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*, he survives having his middle head decapitated and his wings shredded, and remains alive but comatose for over 200 years laying on the sea floor.

King Ghidorah tends to use his durability to his advantage, as he often prefers to escape from a battle that he can't win before he suffers more injuries than necessary.

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, King Ghidorah's durability is reduced, but he still survives being knocked out by Godzilla multiple times and withstands multiple blasts from his atomic breath.

### Electric Bite

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, Ghidorah can release a strong electric shock through his bite. After absorbing Mothra's power and becoming King Ghidorah, this ability is replaced by his traditional gravity beams.

### Flight

King Ghidorah is able to fly up to speeds of mach 3 in the Earth's atmosphere. He exceeds this speed while flying through space. In *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster* and *Rebirth of Mothra III*, King Ghidorah can encase himself within a meteorite while traveling from planet to planet. In *Godzilla vs. Gigan* he encases himself in a large diamond-like structure while traveling through space.

### Gravity Beams

King Ghidorah's most famous ability is the golden lightning bolt-like gravity beams he spits from his three mouths. These beams are roughly equal in power to Godzilla's atomic breath, and are capable of causing large-scale explosions when fired at buildings. King Ghidorah's younger form from *Rebirth of Mothra III*, Cretaceous King Ghidorah, spit fireballs from his mouths instead of gravity beams.

### Hurricane Winds

King Ghidorah can produce hurricane-force winds by flapping his wings, which are capable of blowing away buildings and knocking other kaiju off their feet.

### Energy Shield

In *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack*, after absorbing Mothra's energy, King Ghidorah can form a golden round energy shield that deflects Godzilla's atomic breath. King Ghidorah can release this energy shield and send it colliding with the ground, which will cause a massive explosion.

### Magnetic Powers

In *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*, while encased in the meteorite, King Ghidorah had the ability to generate what appeared to be magnetic fields that varied in strength from time to time. While it was never stated directly what purpose they served, it was stated that they were somehow connected to its powers.

It seems possible that King Ghidorah used them as a form of levitation. In the Game Boy Advance video game *Godzilla: Domination!*, the space monster King Ghidorah has two new, never-before-seen fighting abilities: first, the ability to emit devastating magnetic beams from his mouth, and second, the ability to produce a powerful magnetic pull around him which will draw nearby monsters closer and injure them. King Ghidorah is able to maintain the presence of his magnetic pull for roughly ten seconds before halting the attack and needing to recharge in order to reuse the attack.

## In other languages

* Spanish: Rey Ghidorah
* Russian: Кинг Гидора
* Chinese: 王者基多拉
* Cantonese (*Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*, VHS dub): 大水怪
* Cantonese (*Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*, DVD dub): 三頭金龍王

## Trivia

* King Ghidorah can be considered the primary antagonist of the *Godzilla* franchise due both to his popularity and his film count of six.
* King Ghidorah is possibly the most potent of Godzilla's enemies. This is evidenced by how in every one of his appearances, Godzilla defeated him only with some form of assistance, either from humans or other monsters. The prime example of this would be when Godzilla teamed up with Rodan and Mothra to defeat him in *Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster*.
* King Ghidorah was the very first alien monster to fight Godzilla.
* King Ghidorah is one of few monsters to appear in all three series, the others being Mothra, Rodan,Mechagodzilla, Godzilla's son, and Godzilla himself. King Ghidorah has also been confirmed to be appearing in Legendary's Godzilla series, along with Mothra and Rodan.
* King Ghidorah, along with Mothra, were offered to TriStar to oppose Godzilla for the original 1994 American film, but the price they offered was too high, so it was declined by TriStar. Instead, the monster Godzilla was going to face was the Gryphon. This too was scrapped in favor of the 1998 film directed by Roland Emmerich.
* King Ghidorah bears a resemblance to a Russian dragon of legend named Zmey Gorynych.
* King Ghidorah's made numerous appearances in media related to and unrelated to *Godzilla*. Such appearances are listed below:
	+ King Ghidorah appears four times in *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, notably two episodes when LeQuack turns on a TV with King Ghidorah on it, and shoots fire from the TV. Another time is when Courage opens a door and King Ghidorah is behind it giving a loud roar. Both clips were from *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*.
	+ In the film *Independence Day*, a young boy is seen playing with a King Ghidorah toy.
	+ In *Growing Up Creepie*, King Ghidorah was seen in a drive through movie screen, the clip was also from *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*.
	+ In one episode of the TV series *T.U.F.F Puppy*, Dudley Puppy, the show's protagonist, turned into a giant, 3-headed monster that could breathe fire.
	+ An episode of *Histeria* covering Ancient Rome described the strength of Roman architecture, but saying it couldn't stand up to Ghidorah. The segment ended with the host being crushed by Ghidorah's foot, similar to "Bambi Meets Godzilla."
	+ In the Cartoon Network television show *M.A.D.*, there's a skit involving the Jonas brothers where a fan sends them a letter asking how they stay so close. They reply by saying they are a giant three headed monster and go on attacking a city.
	+ In the anime series *Shinzo*, a similar monster named "Grandorah" was the antagonist in a few episodes.
	+ King Ghidorah appeared briefly in a Crest commercial.
	+ In an episode of the *Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy* titled "Giant Billy and Mandy All Out Attack", there was a parody of King Ghidorah called "Kitty Rah" and barfed hair balls as opposed to King Ghidorah's gravity beams.
	+ The Pokémon Hydreigon resembles King Ghidorah strongly.
	+ In August of 2014, the 1998 film was mocked by RiffTrax Live, which was created by and shares many of the former members of *Mystery Science Theater 3000*. During the riffing, they made witty references to King Ghidorah and Mothra.
	+ In the film *Pee Wee's Big Adventure*, during a chase scene through a movie studio, both Godzilla and King Ghidorah can be seen on a set during the filming of a movie.
	+ In the Cartoon Network television show Teen Titans Go!, The Twin Destroyers of Azarath were transformed into a giant 2-headed monster by Starfire's affection.
	+ In Tsuburaya Productions' original *Ultraman* series, King Ghidorah's roars were recycled as the ringtone for the Science Patrol's telephone.
	+ In the Nickelodeon animated series *The Loud House*, main character Lincoln Loud owns a green-colored toy of King Ghidorah which he has in his bedroom.
	+ In the videogame *Cuphead*, the dragon boss Grim Matchstick grows two additional heads in the final phase, making him resemble King Ghidorah.

## List of appearancesEdit

### Films

* *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster* (First appearance)
* *Invasion of Astro-Monster*
* *Destroy All Monsters*
* *Godzilla vs. Gigan*
* *Terror of Mechagodzilla* (Stock Footage)
* *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah*
* *Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack* (As Millenium and as Heisei Prop reused for a brief scene)

### Video games

* *Godzilla vs. 3 Giant Monsters*
* *Gojira-kun*
* *Godzilla*(Gameboy)
* *Godzilla: Monster of Monsters*
* *Battle Soccer: Champion of the Field*
* *Super Godzilla* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla, King of the Monsters* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla*(Arcade) (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Battle Legends* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Great Monster Battle*
* *Godzilla: Giant Monster March* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Archipelago Shock*
* *Godzilla: Heart-Pounding Monster Island!!*
* *Godzilla Movie Studio Tour*
* *Godzilla: Trading Battle* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla Generations*
* *Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Domination!* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Save the Earth* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *CR Godzilla 3S-T Battle* (As Showa and as Heisei, Slot icon)
* *Godzilla: Unleashed* (Wii and PlayStation 2, also Mecha-King Ghidorah) (Hybrid design)
* *Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash* (also Mecha-King Ghidorah)
* *Godzilla: Pachislot Wars*
* *Godzilla: Monster Mayhem*
* *CR Godzilla: Descent of the Destruction God*
* *Godzilla On Monster Island*
* *Godzilla*(2014 video game)
* *Godzilla: Kaiju Collection*