King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse)

### Hobby

* Attacking and killing any humans he encounters with excessively sadistic pleasure

### Goals

* Kill his arch-rival Godzilla.
* Maintain his tyranny as the new King of the Monsters (both failed).
* Enslave Rodan and all of Earth's non-Alpha Titans so that he can have them carry out his bidding (temporarily succeeded).
* Kill Mothra (succeeded, until he crossed the line).
* Have the Earth Titans personally destroy humanity's cities.
* Replace humanity, Godzilla and Mothra as the dominant species on Earth.
* Reshape the Earth into a more preferable habitat for only himself with global storms and Titan-instigated natural disasters to a point where all multicellular life perishes, leaving only him. (all failed).

### Crimes

Mass Murder (Heavily Multiple Implied And Including Child, Adult, Old Adult, Animal, And Titan Murder)
Mass Destruction
Damage And Destruction Of Property And Civilizations
Attempted Omnicide
Attempted Homicide
Attempted Genocide
Mass Mundicide
Attempted Regicide
Attempted Cataclysm
Attempted Planeticde
Attempted World Domination And Conquering
Attempted Universal Domination
Attempted Omniversal Domination
Attempted Location Domination And Conquering
Planetary Destruction
High Treason
Breach Of Autohority
Libel
Usurpation
Kidnapping
Desertion
Insurrection
Conspiracy
Conquest
Incrimination
Man-eating
Cannibalism
Enforced Cannibalism
Terrorism
Terrorizing
Torture
Invasion
Piracy
Jailbreak
Assault And Battery
Trespassing
Vandalism
Mutilation
Enslavement
Corruption
Breaking and Entering
Brainwashing
Mind Controlled
Blackmailed
Possession
Defilement
Madness Inducement
Multiple Other Offenses
Mayhem
Manslaughter
Fighting
Starvation
Stalking
Death Threats
Fraud
Theft
Abuse (Physical and Physiological, Including Child Abuse)
Animal Cruelty
Nigh-omnicide
War Crimes
Abuse Of Power
Crimes Against Peace, Paradise And Humanity
Malefic/Dark Magic
Usage Of Dark Magic

### Type of Villain

Hegemonic Dragon
Cataclysmic Dragon

**King Ghidorah**, simply known as **Ghidorah** and dubbed **Monster Zero**, is the main antagonist of the *MonsterVerse*, serving as the main antagonist of the 2019 science fiction monster film *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* and the posthumous overarching antagonist of the 2021 sequel/crossover *Godzilla vs. Kong*. He is a malevolent, extraterrestrial, three-headed draconic Titan who invaded Earth in the ancient past and clashed with Godzilla and his sidekick Mothra, who succeeded in sealing him away beneath the Antarctic ice. The organization Monarch discovered Ghidorah's resting place in 2016, and established Outpost 32 to study him, dubbing him "Monster Zero". He is also Godzilla's arch-nemesis. In 2019, the eco-terrorist Alan Jonah, working alongside Monarch defector Dr. Emma Russell, unleashed Ghidorah from his frozen prison in an attempt to release all of the Titans to restore the natural order. But as an invasive species, Ghidorah had no interest in restoring balance and resumed annihilating the global ecosphere, awakening all of the other Titans himself and bending them to his will. Assisted by Monarch, Godzilla and Mothra joined forces and engaged Ghidorah in Boston for a final confrontation. Ghidorah summoned Rodan, whom he had previously enslaved, to his aid to deal with Mothra, while he overwhelmed Godzilla in one-on-one combat. After defeating Rodan, Mothra sacrificed her life to save Godzilla from Ghidorah, reinvigorating him with her energy and allowing him to finally destroy Ghidorah once and for all. With his arch-nemesis vanquished for good, Godzilla took his place as the King of the Monsters, ending the rampages of the Titans previously under Ghidorah's control. Years later, in 2024, Ghidorah's severed left head's skull was used to control the mecha-kaiju Mechagodzilla, with his consciousness later taking over the mecha. Thankfully, his short-lived reign of terror was stopped by Godzilla and Kong. Ghidorah's heads were portrayed by Jason Liles, Richard Dorton and Alan Maxson in motion capture.

**King Ghidorah** (キングギドラ *Kingu Gidora*?), also dubbed **Monster Zero**, **Titanus Ghidorah** or just simply **Ghidorah**, is a giant extraterrestrial three-headed dragon daikaiju created by Legendary Pictures. The main antagonist of the MonsterVerse, Ghidorah was first alluded to during the final moments the 2017 film, *Kong: Skull Island*, became the main antagonist of the 2019 film, *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, and was one of the overarching antagonists of *Godzilla vs. Kong*. A rival apex predator to Godzilla, Ghidorah was discovered by Monarch lying dormant inside an Antarctic glacier. In 2019, he was freed by Emma Russell and Alan Jonah's eco-terrorist paramilitary as part of their plan to manipulate the Titans and renew the world's ecosphere; unaware that Ghidorah was an alien who was incompatible with Earth's established natural order. Proving impossible to control with the ORCA, Ghidorah temporarily succeeded in usurping Godzilla's dominance, spontaneously awakening the other Titans and commanding them to begin destroying both humanity and the world's ecosystems. Ghidorah managed to cause worldwide destruction and loss of life before he was defeated and killed by the combined efforts of Godzilla, Mothra, the military, Monarch and the Russell family. Following Ghidorah's apparent demise, the skull of his leftover severed head was converted by Apex Cybernetics into a semi-organic psionic control system for Mechagodzilla. This unwittingly enabled what remained of Ghidorah's consciousness to reincarnate into the Mecha for a brief time, before it was destroyed by Godzilla and Kong with the aid of Madison Russell, Bernie Hayes and Josh Valentine.

## Name

Ghidorah's full name is likely based on Zmey Gorynych from the 1956 Soviet film *Ilya Muromets*, the inspiration source of the monster who was called **King Dragon** in Japan. The word "Ghidorah" itself is a direct translation of the pronunciation of *Hydra* in the Russian language. This incarnation of Ghidorah is initially primarily referred to by the characters as Monster Zero, until they discover legends indicating its alien origin which call it "Ghidorah, the One Who Is Many". From then on, the characters of *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* primarily call the alien monster "Ghidorah". He's only ever referred to as "King Ghidorah" by Diane Foster and by a label on a digital map during the military Castle Bravo meeting after Ghidorah has become the new reigning alpha. It's indicated following Ghidorah's death that the original name "Monster Zero" is the name which most humans apart from those who personally fought him have remembered him by. The names given to Ghidorah's heads during production, **Ichi**, **Ni**, and **San** (the middle, right and left heads respectively), are the Japanese words for "one", "two", and "three". San is also given the nickname "**Kevin**", which likely refers to how he is easily distracted. This has become a joke amongst the *Godzilla* fanbase and a source of numerous memes.

## Development

Though clearly recognizable as Godzilla's arch-rival, this incarnation of King Ghidorah deviated from past designs in two key ways: a more muscular chest to support his three necks and a willingness to walk on his wings like a bat. Early concepts explored emphasizing the creature's extraterrestrial origins, but a more traditional design won out. According to sculptor Simon Lee, "I didn't want the creature to have the wings spread all the time, as that can actually create a problem with the camera framing, because of how big he is." Lee made nearly 60 concept sculptures of Ghidorah, including the final maquette, with Timothy Martin making some final tweaks during production. The artists were inspired by Asian dragons, reptiles, bats, dinosaurs, giraffes, horses, and various marine life. Once Ghidorah's design progressed to 3D modeling, his wings took on the texture of a bat, while his skin drew from corn snakes, iguanas, and chameleons. Originally, he possessed manes of hair-like tendrils on each of his heads. Although they were ultimately absent in the film, one shot of Ghidorah charging at Rodan shows him sporting them. At one point in his life, *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* director Michael Dougherty owned three dogs, each with their own temperament. Ghidorah's heads followed suit, with a commanding center head, aggressive right head, and curious left head. Dougherty nicknamed them Ichi, Ni, and San, respectively, though fans embraced a second sobriquet he came up with for the left head: Kevin. A different actor played each of Ghidorah's heads for motion capture reference: Jason Liles in the center, Richard Dorton on the left, and Alan Maxson on the right. VFX supervisor Guillaume Rocheron explained that this helped the animators understand "how 3 different brains perform the same action at the same time." For battles against Godzilla, they worked with TJ Storm, reprising his role from *Godzilla*. Liles had experience in the genre as well, having played George in *Rampage*. In an interview with Nerd Alert News, he recounted the day that one of Dougherty's dogs visited the set. Much as Ghidorah whipped Titans around the world into a frenzy, the actors' performances were compelling enough to drive him "berserk [...] barking like crazy" as the staff tried to calm him. With three heads, a pair of wings, and two tails, rigging and animating Ghidorah was no easy task, even in the pre-visual stage. The filmmakers based his fighting style on bears and Komodo dragons, giving him overlap with Godzilla. One of his most devastating moves was inspired by golden eagles, who kill goats by picking them up and dropping them off mountains. There was one physical Ghidorah prop on set, which was ultimately cut from the movie: a tooth that Madison Russell backed into while trying to evade him in Fenway Park.

## Design

Like most of his past incarnations, Ghidorah is larger than Godzilla. Ghidorah's wings are much larger and more bat-like in appearance than most incarnations - the membrane of each wing is supported by four bat-like phalanges extending from Ghidorah's wrists, and an additional three phalanges that extend from the sides of Ghidorah's torso. All these phalanges end in blade-like tips that emerge from the wing membrane. Though Ghidorah takes on a bipedal stance when standing still, unlike past incarnations, Ghidorah is able to move on his legs and uses his wings as forelimbs to support his massive body for crawling or even running when needed. Ghidorah still has his traditional twin tails with spiked bludgeons at their tips that can rattle as an intimidation display. His legs are digitigrade and stocky with avian-like feet, similar to the 2001 incarnation. When Ghidorah's left head is ripped off, his blood is shown to be black and oil-like. Each head has a crown of ten horns similar to the Heisei incarnation, which tend to flare depending on Ghidorah's current mood. There are subtle differences in each head's horn array. The horns of the middle head are notably longer, more curved, and more decorative than the other two, while the left head has straighter horns than the right head. Furthermore, one of the right head's left horns is chipped. The left head appears to have a slightly more rectangular facial structure with slightly further-apart eyes than the other two. The middle head's neck has two rows of spines while the left and right necks only have one. Ghidorah's heads each have crocodilian-looking jaws with flaring nostrils, forked tongue, and brows with a generally furrowed appearance. His eyes are beady and have a fiery reddish-orange color and circular pupils, and they tend to glint or glow blazing yellow at a distance (particularly noticeable in the dark) or when he prepares to fire his gravity beams. Ghidorah's necks also emit golden light of electricity from within whenever he charges up and fires his gravity beams.

### Portrayal

Ghidorah is portrayed through a mix of motion capture and CGI. Jason Liles, who starred in *Rampage*, performed the mo-cap for Ghidorah's middle head, with Alan Maxson and Richard Dorton portraying the other two, while unnamed colleagues play the monster's body. When designing Ghidorah, the VFX crew studied wolf packs and based the heads' movements on how wolves move around their pack alpha (the middle head). Rather than using direct motion capture to create Ghidorah, the animators merely used the actors' movements and facial expressions as references.

### Roar

Ghidorah possesses a high-pitched, wailing roar with an underlying scratching quality - it is similar to some of the vocalizations of Vastatosaurus rex in *Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie*. He also at times produces serpentine hisses, and low growls not dissimilar to a lion's. According to Michael Dougherty, Ghidorah's roar in the MonsterVerse is meant to emulate his original high-pitched cackling roar from the Showa series, but far more intense and louder. The unique point of this incarnation's roar is that sometimes Ghidorah's heads will roar one by one continuously three times. The filmmakers recorded sounds of snakes such as pythons and rattlesnakes to emulate Ghidorah’s serpentine traits and some of lion's growls. Prior to his landing in Boston, Ghidorah's high-pitched ringing from the Showa films can be heard. During his fight with Godzilla in Boston, Ghidorah uses a roar from his Heisei incarnation.

## Personality

Ghidorah, as he often is in the *Godzilla* franchise, is a malicious creature who frequently commits sadistic acts. He targets and attacks any humans he encounters even though he doesn't consider them a threat - when the G-Team fire on him in Antarctica, San/Kevin responds with curiosity before all three heads kill them anyway, plus Ichi devours Dr. Graham and Ghidorah attacks the *Argo* when both were fleeing from Ghidorah. As explicitly pointed out in the novelization and demonstrated in the film, the other way that Ghidorah's sadism manifests is that he tends to use overkill instead of mere efficiency when he's killing his opposition - he attempts to vaporize Madison, a single human, using all three heads' Gravity Beams, and in the novelization's expansion of the Washington D.C. battle, Ghidorah goes out of his way to fire Gravity Beams on an already-sinking battleship. Though Ghidorah is still a destroyer being, his mysterious past makes it unknown whether or not he has visited and destroyed others planets before coming to Earth like most of his other incarnations have. It's briefly speculated in *King of the Monsters* that this specific incarnation's motive for attempting to create a biosphere-ravaging extinction event is because he seeks to terraform (xenoform) the Earth in his own image when he takes over. However, the *King of the Monsters* novelization draws attention to the fact that this is merely speculative, and it's at one point speculated in the novel that Ghidorah isn't really xenoforming Earth but rather he simplistically hates and desires the destruction of every living thing that isn't him. The *Godzilla vs. Kong* novelization indicates when describing Ren's perspective or that of Ghidorah's neural pathways that Ghidorah is *filled* with pure, ceaseless, reason-less hatred and malevolence and that his thought-processes are highly inhuman. Despite being an alien, Ghidorah is still capable of understanding the terrestrial Titans' hierarchy and how it works, and he seeks to dominate the other Titans and force them to aid it in destroying the Earth. Ghidorah and Godzilla have been archenemies for an unspecified amount of time, and their body language when they interact indicates they mutually despise each-other. Interestingly, Ichi appears to be the most confrontational towards Godzilla while San/Kevin actually seems to be slightly timid to the idea of fighting Godzilla (although Kevin still goes all in alongside the other two heads). Ghidorah seems to have a taste for control or a paranoia of any potential challenge to his dominance: besides his aforementioned rivalry with Godzilla, after he's usurped Godzilla's dominance as the King of the Monsters, Ghidorah relentlessly hunts down and seeking to destroy the ORCA whenever it emits a rival Alpha signal (whereas before Ghidorah took over, he didn't bother going after the ORCA when it woke him up or when it briefly disoriented his heads in Antarctica). Ghidorah's heads each have different personalities, and are described by the director as being akin to conjoined triplets. Ichi (the middle one) is obviously the leader with the other two heads acting as his subordinates. He's the colder, more focused head and also the more psychopathic, sadistic and intelligently evil, as he in particular grins sadistically when about to kill humans and he's the head who ate Dr. Graham for the heck of it in Antarctica. Ni (Ghidorah's right head) is more focused on battle, angrier with his mouth almost-perpetually fixed in a crooked, teeth-bearing grimace, and he's not as calm as the others but doesn't show that much sadism compared to Ichi. San or Kevin (Ghidorah's left head), is the calmest of the three and also the least intelligent and seemingly the least violent; being unfocused on battle, quite distractible, and preferring to analyze what is happening out of curiosity. San/Kevin initially shows curiosity towards humans when Ghidorah wakes up, as he responds to the G-Team shooting at Ghidorah by bending his neck to take a closer look and even nudging one of them with his chin; he attacks the G-Team in unison with the other two heads only after Ichi forcefully pushed him back to work. When Ghidorah sees Godzilla for the first time since waking up, San/Kevin seems hesitant to face him, unlike the other two heads who challenge Godzilla with defiance; although the left head looks a little more confident when Godzilla is fighting Ghidorah for the alpha position in Boston. San/Kevin likewise reacts with open fear when he and Ichi first hear the sound of Burning Godzilla's approach in Boston, whereas Ichi is more focused on immediately detecting where the sound is coming from and Ni remains distracted snarling hatefully at the dying Emma Russell. San/Kevin seems to be genuinely clumsy - at Fenway Park, he at one point misfires his Gravity Beam at buildings surrounding the stadium whereas the other two heads were careful enough to focus their Gravity Beams on the stadium (with all three heads having seen Madison was inside it), and when Ghidorah is chasing Emma's Humvee, San/Kevin knocks his head through a skyscraper that's in their way. San/Kevin appears to function as a sentry during the battle in Antarctica, rearing up and looking mainly while the other two heads engage Godzilla, and watching when Godzilla's tail fins light up before he uses his atomic breath. Michael Dougherty even stated that San/Kevin would probably not cause destruction or mayhem if it was up to his own will. However, San/Kevin is not devoid of a violent side in his own right, shown when he actually seems more eager than the other two heads to use his Gravity Beam at Fenway Park. It's hinted in Boston that San/Kevin might hold a grudge towards Godzilla after the latter ripped off his head, with San/Kevin savagely tearing into Godzilla's neck when the heads are all sucking out Godzilla's energy. San/Kevin's antics lead to Ichi sometimes being disappointed and expressing annoyance towards the former, as shown by Ichi occasionally snapping at Kevin and by Ichi ripping the protective membrane off Kevin's regenerating head seemingly prematurely. The director has confirmed that after San/Kevin's head is ripped off, the regrown left head retains his personality and memories due to Ghidorah having an octopus-like decentralized nervous system with neurons scattered in his body and limbs. The mo-cap actors who portrayed Ghidorah's heads shared additional thoughts on the heads' personalities. According to them, Ni wishes he was the dominant head instead of Ichi, and Ni is something of an unpredictable wild card among the three. San/Kevin meanwhile, attempts to follow Ichi's orders to the best of his ability without thinking much for himself. Faced with imminent death, Ichi grows visibly afraid as Godzilla begins to cremate Ghidorah with thermonuclear impulses and disintegrates the other two heads. Overall, when Ghidorah doesn't have the upper hand, he starts to panic as seen during the under water battle with Godzilla. In *Godzilla vs. Kong*, it's ambiguous in the movie how much of Ghidorah's mind and personalities is left in San/Kevin's skull; it's unclear whether Mechagodzilla once it becomes independent is housing one of or all three of Ghidorah's intact minds, or if traces of Ghidorah's subconsciousness merely merged with the Mecha's AI to make it violent. The novelization indicates that the consciousness in Ghidorah's remains has no memories of who or what it was in its past life when it enters Mechagodzilla and merges with its AI, and it makes it clear that even this mere fragment of Ghidorah's consciousness is filled with black malice. This shows Ghidorah is a fundamentally evil monster who only cares about death and destruction. Ghidorah is arguably the most malevolent and hostile Titan encountered so far. Unlike the other Titans, who attack humans or cause damage due to provocation, carnivorous hunger or merely by being indifferent to the humans and structures surrounding them, Ghidorah displays true malice. He willingly tries to kill as many humans as he can, whether they're trying to pose a threat to him or not, and there are glimpses of all three of his heads seemingly smiling when he's just killed or is about to attack (more information on that below). Ghidorah also initially displays a willingness to toy with or curiously investigate humans before killing them, such as when his heads attempted to slowly crush the human-filled Osprey in Antarctica. Ghidorah notably prefers killing humans with his gravity beams, despite this being overkill for such comparatively small creatures. Ghidorah actively seeks to usurp command of Earth's Titans from Godzilla, and upon successfully doing so, he immediately commands the other Titans to join him in creating natural disasters and wreaking destruction on a global scale, to a point where the likely end result if the global rampage continues will be the eradication of all multicellular life except for Ghidorah within a few years. Upon becoming aware of Ghidorah's extraterrestrial nature, Rick Stanton compares him to an invasive species and suspects that the purpose of his apocalypse is terraforming (xenoforming) the planet into a more ideal place for Ghidorah to live. Ishiro Serizawa, Mark Russell and Emma Russell all run with the same assumption; but Mark at one point alternatively speculates that Ghidorah perhaps simply hates every living thing that isn't him and desires to destroy it all as a motivation and an end-goal in and of itself. Upon usurping Godzilla's position as the reigning alpha, Ghidorah seems to exhibit a controlling streak and possessiveness of his new position that he didn't have before; whereas he'd previously disregarded the ORCA's Alpha signal in Antarctica as soon as it ceased broadcasting, during the Boston battle to maintain his control of the other Titans, Ghidorah instead went as far as immediately abandoning the fight with Godzilla once he sensed the ORCA signal challenging his dominance. Ghidorah possesses a strong rivalry with Godzilla, the reigning alpha of Earth's Titans. Ghidorah's right and middle heads were particularly confrontational and exchanged scowls with his ancient enemy when Ghidorah and Godzilla met again after Ghidorah's awakening, and the Titans attempted to size each other up before engaging. Ghidorah likewise maintained a one-on-one battle against Godzilla for the position of alpha in Boston despite Mothra's interference, allowing Rodan to keep Mothra occupied. Each of Ghidorah's three heads, though capable of working in sync towards Ghidorah's overall goals (particularly in combative situations where they work as a single creature), has a level of independent thought from each other and a distinct personality. The middle head (Ichi) is the most dominant and intelligent-seeming head of the three and appears to be the leader over the other two. It's also debatably the most gleefully sadistic of the heads and the most determined to go out of its way to be cruel; pulling a lopsided smirk directly before obliterating the G-Team, likewise seemingly grinning when Ghidorah was attacking the *Argo*, and targeting and devouring Vivienne Graham in Antarctica. The middle head appears to be quicker-acting and more focused on Ghidorah's priorities than the other two heads; being the most attentive head when Ghidorah first sensed Godzilla's approach in Antarctica and upon Emma Russell's apparent death, and twisting its neck slightly quicker than the other two heads when pursuing Emma and the ORCA. Because of this, the middle head appears to take Ghidorah's rivalry with Godzilla more personally than the other heads when challenging the terrestrial Titan. The middle head is somewhat creative in battle, such as when it bit down on a power station in Boston. The middle head was only known to show fear at the end of Ghidorah's life, being visibly terrified by a thermonuclear Godzilla's advance after the latter destroyed the other two heads. The right head (Ni) is the most irritable and aggressive of the three, often sporting a crooked, grimacing expression which sets it apart from the other two heads. It appears to be particularly bloodthirsty and eager for battle, such as when it feebly attempted to fend Godzilla off while the other heads were incapacitated by Mothra's webbing. The right head displays pragmatism and better spatial awareness of its foes while fighting, such as when it was attempting to free the other heads from Mothra's webbing (first checking Mothra wasn't in a position to immediately strike again before the head got to the task, and quickly noticing Godzilla's approach in a building's reflection); and also at Fenway Park, where it was the first head to notice and begin disabling the Fenway Park speakers broadcasting the ORCA's signal (although this may have been frustration). Despite being mainly known for its angry-seeming disposition, the right head smiled sadistically when watching the middle head devour Vivienne Graham. This head is an obedient follower towards the middle head and is capable of interacting with the middle head without violence; often chirping suggestively to the middle head or being consulted by the middle head first (such as when Ghidorah was confused by the ORCA's deactivation in Antarctica). The middle head in turn seems to be less violent towards this head towards the left head, such as when it didn't berate the right head for getting distracted feeding on the G-Team's ashes the same way it berated the left head. With all this in mind, the right head appears to rank second on the trio's pecking order, devouring the crushed ice falling from the middle head's jaws (after flicking its tongue seemingly in a request) when it devoured Graham. The left head (San, also called "Kevin") seems to be the least intelligent and least aggressive of the heads; and based on its facial expressions (or lack thereof) compared to the other heads when Ghidorah is engaged in action, it appears to be somewhat docile. The left head is easily distracted and unfocused, to the frustration and disappointment of the middle head who has to forcibly get its companion back on task. Possibly because of its behavior, the left head appears to be at the bottom of the three heads' pecking order. This head notably displays more of an inquisitive side than the other two, most prominently when Ghidorah first awakened. Its unique first reaction among the heads was to immediately look around when they were emerging from the ice, and it responded to the G-Team shooting at Ghidorah by bending its neck to get a closer look (even nuzzling one of them with its chin). It attacked the G-Team in unison with the other two heads only after the middle head had forcefully pushed it back to get it back on task, and even so, it was quick to get distracted again moments later, licking the team's ashy remains alongside the right head. Its curiosity towards humans seemed to ebb after this, although it still seemingly scented the air with its tongue when the heads were approaching Emma Russell after injuring her, appearing mildly curious about the human who'd broadcasted the ORCA's signal. The left head also at times seems more clumsy or careless than the other two heads, seemingly firing its gravity beam in a more unfocused and broadly-destructive manner than the other two at Fenway Park, and smashing its head directly through a building when Ghidorah was pursuing Emma's Humvee through a cramped street. This head appears to be somewhat timider than the other two when the heads aren't working together, at times casting worried looks towards the other heads such as when facing Godzilla in Antarctica - the left head furthermore openly displayed fear of Godzilla at the time of Emma Russell's death when Ghidorah sensed Godzilla's approach (unlike the other two heads, who never openly showed such emotion except when Ghidorah was about to be killed). However, the left head behaves much more confidently when engaging alongside the other two in battle with Godzilla, since it does not hesitate to strike. The left head seems to function as a sentry, mostly rearing back and watching while the other two heads engaged Godzilla in Antarctica (and observing when Godzilla's tail-fins lit up before he used his atomic breath), and at other times scanning in the direction Ghidorah's back is facing. This head seems to be more eager for food than the other two, based on its aforementioned action after the G-Team's deaths, and when it turned its attention to the remaining humans after watching the other two heads devour Graham and the ice she'd been standing on. Despite its docile streak, the left head does at times display its own savagery; being particularly eager to bite down on Godzilla's neck compared to the other two heads when Ghidorah was draining Godzilla's energy, and seemingly smiling when Ghidorah was attacking the *Argo* - additionally, it was this head's skull which granted Mechagodzilla an extremely violent and murderous personality of its own, even if the Mecha lacked some of the left head's key individual personality traits. Despite the heads' differing personalities (or perhaps because of the middle head's dominance, given its aforementioned focus), Ghidorah tends to be persistent to a point bordering on obsessive when something has his attention. This was seen when, after being briefly and painfully distracted by the ORCA's signal from investigating a nearby Osprey, instead of pursuing the source of his pain once it ceased, Ghidorah resumed approaching the Osprey and toying with the humans inside. However, this can also be a weakness for Ghidorah, as seen when the Russells used the ORCA to draw him away from a downed Godzilla and kept him chasing the ORCA through Boston until Godzilla recovered.

Ghidorah Is Extremely Selfish, Malicious, Psychopathic, Ruthless, Arrogant, Sadistic, Cruel, Sadism, Destructive, Pure, Careless, Reason-Less Hatred, Hatefully, Malevolence, Highly Inhuman Intelligent, Observant, Cunning, Hunting, Evil, Angrier, Rage, Manipulative, Monstrous, Violent, Quite Distractible, Curiosity, Savagely, Crooked, Bloodthirsty, Eager, Aggressive, And Murderous.

## Biography

### Arriving on Earth

While Ghidorah's past is largely unknown, there are some hints to where he came from. In the *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* novelization, the legends of the Taza people in Highland New Guinea (legends which describe Ghidorah with disturbing accuracy) state that one possible origin is that he was a younger son who came to Earth seeking to make it his own territory because he could not inherit any portions of his home for himself, which implies there may have been even stronger members of his species on his homeworld; but there would be no conceivable way the ancient humans to have known this. It is known that he arrived on Earth in the past, seeking to bring destruction to the planet, and he attacked humans and Titans alike. Ghidorah's goals would then bring him into conflict with Godzilla a number of times, as Ghidorah would battle Godzilla a number of times seeking to usurp the latter as the ruling alpha of Earth's other Titans; turning the two into bitter enemies. Though not mentioned in the movie, it's speculated in the novelization and confirmed by the director on Twitter that Ghidorah and Godzilla fought for kingship in ancient Antarctica, and the battle ended with Ghidorah losing and being thrown into icy waters where he froze solid. In 1973, after the discovery of Kong on Skull Island by James Conrad and Mason Weaver, Ghidorah appeared as a cameo on two cave paintings during a brief slide show, the first was by himself and the other depicting an epic battle between him and Godzilla.

### Controlling the Other Titans

In the present, Emma Russell, Madison Russell, Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorist organization go to Antarctica to free Ghidorah, as they believe that he will be able to complete their goals to let the monsters decimate humanity and replenish the world's ecosystems, unaware that Ghidorah is in fact an invasive alien who doesn't conform to Earth's natural order. Upon being released, Ghidorah instantly destroys everything in his path, before Godzilla arrives and tries stopping him, but Ghidorah manages to defeat Godzilla by shooting him with his gravity beams and knocking him into the crater Ghidorah came out of. Ghidorah proceeds to target and eat Dr. Vivienne Graham, and then flies away after being fired upon by Monarch jets and the Argo when Godzilla recovers. He subsequently forms a hurricane around himself. After Rodan is awakened by Emma at a Mexican island, Ghidorah senses it and his hurricane immediately changes direction, headed straight for the island. Monarch manage to lure Rodan into Ghidorah's hurricane planning to have the two kill each other, but it ends up with Ghidorah easily defeating Rodan, before going after the Argo. However, before Ghidorah can kill them, Godzilla arrives and tackles Ghidorah into the ocean. In the water, Ghidorah is at a severe disadvantage due to his body being ill-equipped for being underwater, whilst Godzilla is at an advantage. Godzilla rips off Ghidorah's left head, but before he can end Ghidorah, the Oxygen Destroyer that was fired by the military in response to Ghidorah and Rodan's presence strikes Ghidorah and Godzilla and detonates. Godzilla is seemingly killed along with all terrestrial life within a two-mile radius of the blast, but Ghidorah due to his alien biology survives the weapon's effects unscathed, flying away and preparing to get his plan in motion now that his main opposition is dead. Ghidorah flies to the volcano that Rodan had emerged from, and regenerates his lost head by absorbing the volcano's thermal energy (confirmed by the novelization). Then he lets out a call that's heard around the world, awakening the other Titans across the world to become his new minions. Rodan flies to Ghidorah and submits to him by bowing, recognizing him as the new Alpha. With Ghidorah in charge, he leads the other Titans towards actively destroying humanity's cities and unleashing devastating natural disasters on a global scale, with Ghidorah himself creating climate-altering massive storms - the *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* and *Godzilla vs. Kong* novelizations specifically note that Ghidorah's actions threaten to rapidly eradicate most of the world's ecosystems faster than the Earth Titans' biological byproducts can regenerate them, and are likely to cause the extinction of all life except for Ghidorah and bacteria. Ghidorah accompanied by Rodan flies to Washington D.C. to set up a roost there, and his hurricane inundates the city.

### Clash of Two Kings

However, Godzilla is revealed to be barely alive and recuperating in his lair within the submerged and highly radioactive ruins of an ancient city; and, knowing that it will take years for him to return to his full strength without aid and that the world doesn't have that kind of time with Ghidorah rampaging; Dr. Serizawa sacrifices himself to manually detonate a nuclear warhead which fully rejuvenates and empowers Godzilla. Madison activating the ORCA from in Fenway Park disrupts Ghidorah's control over the other Titans around the world, making them stand down, and it prompts Ghidorah to immediately fly to Boston in order to hunt down and destroy what he perceives as another rival Alpha's call. Upon arriving there and discovering Madison with the ORCA, Ghidorah roots Madison out of the stadium while firing his Gravity Beams, then he destroys the ORCA and attempts to kill Madison anyway. Fortunately, the revived Godzilla arrives just in time to indirectly save Madison, and he challenges Ghidorah again. Mothra and Rodan start fighting, while Godzilla and Ghidorah battle to the death. At first, the overpowered Godzilla is winning, until Ghidorah bites into a transformer and absorbs the full electrical power of the city's power grid, at which point the two super-empowered monsters become more evenly matched; meanwhile, Godzilla seems to grow weaker from the energy overload inside him threatening to kill him. Ghidorah manages to get Godzilla down on the ground by carrying him up in the sky before dropping him back to earth. But just afterwards, Mothra comes to Godzilla's aid and flies at Ghidorah, who promptly kills her with all three heads' Gravity Beams. However, Mothra's death releases a radioactive cloud which seeps into Godzilla and saves him from his fatal overload. Ghidorah starts biting into Godzilla and sucking his energy out. Meanwhile, the Russell family repair and reactivate the ORCA, and its Alpha signal catches Ghidorah's attention; making him immediately abandon the prone Godzilla to hunt down and kill the rival Alpha signal's source again. Emma keeps Ghidorah distracted chasing her and the ORCA in a Humvee through the ruins of Boston long enough for Monarch and her family to escape by Osprey without Ghidorah attacking them and long enough for Godzilla to recover. Ghidorah fatally injures Emma and destroys the ORCA, but the recovered Godzilla approaches, having unlocked a glowing fiery form full of atomic energy and maximum radiation due to Mothra's sacrifice. Godzilla unleashes a nuclear pulse that obliterates Ghidorah's wings. Ghidorah attempts to use his Gravity Beams on Godzilla, which has no effect before Godzilla unleashes his next nuclear pulse explosion; this time disintegrating Ni and San/Kevin's heads. Finally, Godzilla stomps on top of Ghidorah's body and crushes it in an electrical explosion. Once the explosion dies out, the city of Boston is left in ruins. When the dust clears, Ghidorah's last remaining still-living middle head emerges from the rubble, but is hanging from Godzilla's jaws, though the head is still alive and panicking. After a struggle, Godzilla fires his atomic breath which disintegrates the head, finally destroying Ghidorah for good. With it, the deaths of Mothra along with Graham, Emma and countless others Ghidorah had killed are avenged. Nevertheless, the other Titans who were awakened, including Rodan, bow to Godzilla as their new leader. However, the post-credits scene shows Ghidorah's severed head that was previously ripped off intact in Mexico has been dredged up by fishermen and is being obtained by Alan Jonah.

### Effects on the World

In *Kingdom Kong*, it's revealed that Ghidorah's passage through Mexico during the film has left a perpetual superstorm that didn't disperse with the other storms upon his death, raging in the same spot above the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Houston Brooks comments that it's "a gift from the Devil to remember him by." Two years after Ghidorah's downfall, Camazotz stirring on Skull Island draws the superstorm to the island and causes it to merge with the island's perpetual storm barrier, which permanently envelops the island in an endless storm and causes its ecosystem's destruction in *Godzilla vs. Kong*. Five years later, the upper skull of Ghidorah's severed head is in the possession of Apex Cybernetics. It's unexplained in the film how the skull made its way from Jonah's possession to Apex's (given that their goals are diametrically opposed), but the novelization depicts a man heavily implied to be Jonah selling it to Walter Simmons in a prequel scene. Apex is using Ghidorah's skull's telepathic pathways to control Mechagodzilla, with the skull itself having been turned into a cockpit from which Ren Serizawa can pilot the Mecha and with another piece of Ghidorah's DNA incorporated into the Mecha as a receiver. The novelization states Apex actually bought two Ghidorah skulls from Jonah: besides the one being used by Ren as the cockpit, there's another skull inside Mechagodzilla as a receiver; although it's unknown where the second skull could have come from since in both the film and novelization of *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, all of Ghidorah's heads, except the severed one, were disintegrated. Thanks to the Hollow Earth, Ghidorah's subconsciousness hijacks the uplink to Mechagodzilla and infects the machine, causing the Mecha to become independent and actively attempt to kill all humans it encounters as well as attempting to kill Godzilla. Ghidorah's influence was ultimately ended when Godzilla and Kong destroyed Mechagodzilla. However, even though Ghidorah is back in his inactive state, his skull has not been shown to be destroyed, meaning he still may have a chance at returning.

## Origins

From the Hydra to the Rainbow Serpent, myth was the compass that led us to the resting place of the three-headed Titan. A name, unspoken through millennia of whispered nightmares. A living extinction event, named "the One who is Many". We call it Monster Zero. At a Monarch containment facility deep in the frozen tundra of Antarctica, a three-headed winged serpent of ancient yet unknown origin lies frozen within a glacial tomb of ice. This is without question the largest superspecies ever discovered, easily dwarfing Godzilla at a height of over five-hundred feet tall. Cranial scans reveal a divergent frontal lobe density in the brains of the three heads, denoting each head has disparate levels of cognitive functions and possibly even independent thought. Monster Zero's dermal layer is gilded with trace amounts of aurum (See Ark Record # 73.126). Metallurgical studies theorize the scales act as a conductor capable of carrying bioelectrical currents through the creature's body. Injuries have been discovered on several locations on the beast's body, reminiscent of claw and scorch marks. Exo-Forensics are currently investigating. Muscle tendons on the wings are so hyper-tensile that their massive aerodynamics could generate hurricane-force winds when in flight. Coupled with its body's electro-receptor molecular biology capable of conducting electrical currents, water vapor in the air would be heated at extreme levels creating its own localized storm system as it travels. Simply put, if Monster Zero were to fly again, the stratosphere would be torn open by an otherworldly tempest of thunder and lightning our sky has never seen. Cryptolinguistics has analyzed translations of every worldwide case study of Monster Zero in the Monarch database across tens of thousands of years. The ancients called it Ghidorah.

― Cryptid Profile

The MonsterVerse incarnation of King Ghidorah returns the character to his original roots as a villainous extraterrestrial life form. Monarch initially assumed that Ghidorah was part of Earth's natural order as one of the many Titans roaming the Earth, until it was discovered that Ghidorah survived the Oxygen Destroyer blast and regenerated his severed head in seconds. According to information pieced together from ancient mythological texts by Ilene Chen, Ghidorah "fell from the stars", which Monarch subsequently took as indicating alongside Ghidorah's non-terrestrial biology that he was an extraterrestrial lifeform who acts like an invasive species to Earth's biosphere. It is unknown where Ghidorah came from, or if there are other members of his kind in existence. Ghidorah arrived on Earth around or during the time early humans evolved. Apparently, Ghidorah's arrival occurred some time after the original *Titanus Gojira*-*Titanus Kong* feud's formation. Numerous mythological deities such as the Hydra from Greek mythology and the Rainbow Serpent of the Aboriginal Australian religion are credited as misremembered encounters with Ghidorah by ancient civilizations, while the Taza people of Highland New Guinea remembered him as Mandandare Aqenomba. Still, ancient people left very few writings about Ghidorah, as if willfully trying to erase the malevolent Titan from memory. If the aforementioned ancient texts are to be believed, Ghidorah was responsible for slaughtering humans and Titans alike. He established himself as a rival alpha to Godzilla, and the two battled each other several times before they vied for supremacy in ancient Antarctica. The latter battle ended with Godzilla's victory, and Ghidorah being rendered inert and left in icy waters to freeze solid near the tip of the continent (specifically the Scott Mountains). Ghidorah was frozen no more than a few miles away from Antarctica's vortex to the Hollow Earth, which was encased in thirty-million-year-old ice older than the ice surrounding Ghidorah, indicating that Ghidorah likely tried to enter the Hollow Earth but was stopped by Godzilla in their last battle.

## History

### *Kong: Skull Island*

In 1973, Houston Brooks and San Lin briefed James Conrad and Mason Weaver on multiple other monsters who once ruled the world alongside Kong. This included Ghidorah, along with Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan, who were all shown to the two via classified Monarch cave paintings.

### 2016

Ghidorah was discovered under the ice via the Reolus satellite, which detected an extreme electromagnetic pulse fluctuation from the frozen creature. In 2016, Vivienne Graham led an effort to build a containment and research facility (Outpost 32) around Ghidorah. Her classified field notes contained the mysterious footnote, "The devil has three heads." The creature was later dubbed 'Monster Zero' by Monarch scientist Dr. Emma Russell.

### *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*

Ghidorah is first seen frozen in Antarctic ice at Outpost 32. Eco-terrorist organization leader Alan Jonah and rogue Monarch agent Emma Russell free him with explosives and awaken him with the ORCA. Upon awakening, Ghidorah slaughters the G-Team forces on the ground before turning his attention to a grounded Osprey aircraft. Shortly after, Godzilla emerges from the ice and the two Titans engage in battle, decimating the remains of Outpost 32. Upon briefly gaining the upper-hand over Godzilla, Ghidorah targets and eats Dr. Graham alive, but is distracted from targeting the remaining humans on the ground by Monarch's aerial forces firing missiles to distract him. When Godzilla recovers amid Ghidorah's distraction, Ghidorah escapes into the sky and flees Antarctica, rapidly forming a growing cyclone around himself as he passes over Brazil. Upon sensing Rodan's awakening at Isla de Mara, Mexico, Ghidorah's typhoon immediately changes course as he makes a beeline towards the avian Titan's location. Monarch attempts to goad the two monsters into fighting each other, with Ghidorah easily defeating Rodan by sending him falling into the ocean. Ghidorah proceeds to target and attack the USS *Argo*, but Godzilla emerges from the sea to fight him off. Godzilla tears off Ghidorah's left head in the ensuing struggle, but before Godzilla can finish Ghidorah off whilst the latter is prone and helpless in the ocean, they are both struck by the military's Oxygen Destroyer missile: whilst Godzilla is crippled by the blast (specifically designed to eliminate all lifeforms in the area by removing all surrounding oxygen) to the point of near-death and is forced to retreat to recuperate, Ghidorah emerges from the ocean unscathed due to his unearthly biology, and with Godzilla crippled to a point where it would likely take him years to recover, Ghidorah is now unopposed as the top alpha Titan. Ghidorah flies to Rodan's volcano, where he regenerates his missing head. He then calls out to the other Titans around the world, Rodan included, who all acknowledge him as their new alpha. Ghidorah immediately instructs the Titans to behave hyper-aggressively, attacking major cities and triggering rapid cataclysmic natural disasters around the world (massive wildfires, mass die-offs, volcanic eruptions polluting the atmosphere with gigatons of ash and volcanic gases); which begin rapidly wiping out the planet's ecosystems faster than the terrestrial Titans' effects can regenerate them, and threaten to spell a rapid global mass extinction. Ghidorah himself meanwhile begins spawning offshoot massive storms from his hurricane and spreading them around the world, further adding to the cataclysm; and Ghidorah personally roosts in Washington, D.C. (which he completely destroys) with Rodan acting as his vanguard. Ilene Chen subsequently deduces based on Ghidorah's demonstated abnormal characteristics coupled with legends about his origins that he's an extraterrestrial, and thus has no ties to maintaining Earth's natural balance. Realizing they need Godzilla more than ever, Dr. Serizawa sacrifices himself to detonate a bomb to bring Godzilla back to full strength. As Ghidorah is lured to Boston when Madison Russell broadcasts the ORCA's signal from Fenway Park, spontaneously disrupting Ghidorah's control of his global Titan army sans Rodan, as he seeks to destroy the signal's source as a rival to his dominance. Godzilla appears to challenge his rival once more, with Mothra and Monarch joining by his side. However, Ghidorah calls upon Rodan to distract Mothra while he takes on Godzilla himself. At first, the battle goes in Godzilla's favor, until Ghidorah manages to absorb massive amounts of electrical energy by biting down on a nearby transformer: using the excess energy, he decimates Godzilla's entire airborne military escort and forces the surviving craft to immediately retreat, whilst Godzilla at this point rapidly tires. Ghidorah proceeds to pick up Godzilla using his tails and talons, carries the injured Titan seemingly above the stratosphere, and then drops him, making him plummet tens of thousands of feet down to Earth. After slamming into the ground, mortally wounding himself, Godzilla lies defenseless. Mothra, who is grievously injured from her fight with Rodan, attempts to defend him but is killed by Ghidorah's gravity beams. As she dies, however, she releases a cloud of energy, which Godzilla absorbs, causing him to glow fiery orange. Seemingly realizing the threat posed by this energy, Ghidorah grapples Godzilla and begins draining it out of him via bites. However, a repentant Emma Russell reactivates the ORCA in order to distract Ghidorah from completing the drainage process, and the three-headed dragon promptly chases her through the city, mortally injuring her and destroying the ORCA when his gravity beams overturn Emma's jeep. The few moments were enough for Godzilla to recover, who then enters the scene supercharged and glowing a burning red. Ghidorah manages to shield himself against Godzilla's first thermonuclear pulse, which incinerates his wings in the process. Panicking, Ghidorah tries to stop Godzilla with his gravity beams, to no effect before Godzilla unleashes a second pulse, incinerating Ghidorah's two side heads. The remaining middle head struggles vainly, as Godzilla ferociously roars and steps on the fallen Ghidorah's chest, bursting out all of his energy from his body, as well as triggering a final thermonuclear pulse that obliterates Ghidorah's body. After the storm ceased immediately when the pulse dissipates, Godzilla rises from the rubble with Ghidorah's middle head dangling from his mouth, still frantically struggling. Godzilla fires his atomic breath through Ghidorah's neck, incinerating it, seemingly leaving behind no remains and presumably killing him for good; thus avenging the deaths of Mothra, Graham, Emma and countless other humans. Sometime after Godzilla's victory, it's revealed that Ghidorah's earlier-severed left head in Mexico has been recovered by fishermen from the ocean, and is now discolored and swarming with flies, seemingly dead. Alan Jonah, seeing a potential use for it upon being led to it by the fishermen, purchases it from a trader.

### *Kingdom Kong*

Although Ghidorah is dead, his passage by Isla de Mara left a perpetual superstorm anchored above the Pacific Ocean which didn't dissipate with his other storms, described by Houston Brooks as "a gift from the Devil to remember him by." After two years raging in the same spot above the ocean, Camazotz's influence on Skull Island draws the storm away from its original position and causes it to merge with the island's perpetual storm barrier in a Fukushima effect, permanently enshrouding the island itself in an endless storm which rendered it uninhabitable over the following couple years.

### *Godzilla vs. Kong*

At some stage after Alan Jonah acquired Ghidorah's severed left head, it was obtained by Apex Cybernetics in secret - the flesh at this point has apparently rotted away to leave only the skull. According to the novelization, a globally-wanted man who's heavily implied to be Jonah sold the skull to Walter Simmons in either 2020 or 2022 via a black market dealing. Apex fashioned the upper-skull (minus the jaw) into a psionic uplink cockpit which could remotely control Mechagodzilla by harnessing the skull's lingering telepathy, with Ren Serizawa acting as the pilot: Bernie Hayes speculated that a separated piece of Ghidorah's DNA was hardwired inside Mechagodzilla itself, acting as a receiver where the skull cockpit acted as a transmitter. However, every time Apex activated the psionic uplink, Ghidorah's remains broadcasted a corrupted version of the three-headed monster's original bio-acoustics which Godzilla detected, provoking him to attack Apex's facilities looking for the source. After Apex charged Mechagodzilla (being held in Apex's Hong Kong headquarters alongside the skull) with energy from the Earth's core, remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness from the skull corrupted the system and took over Mechagodzilla, enabling the Mecha to calculate and act independently of a human pilot, whilst causing it to exhibit murderous and genocidal impulses much like Ghidorah's own - at the same time, a massive power surge was drawn to the skull and electrocuted Ren in the pilot chair. While the skull itself was presumed to be destroyed during Mechagodzilla's escape from the Apex facility, Ghidorah's influence through Mechagodzilla was ended when Kong and Godzilla destroyed the Mecha.

## Physical Appearance

Like Ghidorah's previous incarnations, he resembles a gigantic bipedal dragon with three heads on long serpentine necks, two twin tails, and two large bat-like wings at his sides, which stands upright on his two hind legs. His body is covered in overlapping golden scales, which according to Monarch actually contain trace amounts of gold. The membranes of Ghidorah's wings are still gold in color, but are made of smooth skin and not covered in scales. Like his past designs, the fronts of King Ghidorah's necks are also not covered in scales, but rather skin with a ridged texture. This skin pattern extends to King Ghidorah's chest, a trait unique to this incarnation. This King Ghidorah's heads are designed similarly to his Heisei incarnation, with a set of horns on each side as opposed to his Showa incarnation's single pair of horns and manes of hair. Unlike the Heisei Ghidorah, each of Ghidorah's heads has ten horns, five on each side instead of eight and one of the right head's horns is chipped. These horns are also slightly larger and more curved, while the left head's horns appear to be straighter than the others, as opposed to the thin straight horns of the Heisei design. Depending on Ghidorah's emotions, the horns can also flare up or flare down. There is also a small ridge atop each head. All three of King Ghidorah's necks are very muscular in addition to being very long. Two rows of spikes run down the back of his center neck, while the left and right necks feature one row apiece. The undersides of his necks glow yellow when he is charging his gravity beams. King Ghidorah's central neck is positioned in front of his left and right necks much like Keizer Ghidorah's, whereas all of his previous incarnations of the character had their middle neck positioned behind the others. Ghidorah's heads each have crocodilian-looking jaws with flaring nostrils, forked tongues, and brows with a generally furrowed appearance. Ghidorah's body was considerably thinner than that of his past incarnations, with the outline of his ribcage visible through his skin. Unlike Ghidorah's past incarnations, he had defined arms which extend into his wings, with talons at the end of each fold. His wings are much larger than those of his past incarnations and attach to his body well below his hips. When fully outstretched, they extend well above his heads. This incarnation also uses his wings for support when standing at times. King Ghidorah's legs are thin but muscular, with his knees bent forward in such a way that he has a slight forward hunch while his feet have at least four digits with defined claws. King Ghidorah's tails end in spiky retractable fans similar to his Heisei incarnation. When Ghidorah's left head is ripped off, his blood is shown to be black and oil-like.

## Background

An evil alien dragon who invaded Earth in the ancient past, King Ghidorah clashed with Godzilla and Mothra, who succeeded in sealing him away beneath the Antarctic ice. The organization Monarch discovered Ghidorah's resting place in the present day, and established Outpost 32 to study him, dubbing him "Monster Zero." In 2019, the eco-terrorist Alan Jonah, working alongside Monarch defector Dr. Emma Russell, unleashed Ghidorah from his frozen tomb in an attempt to release all of the Titans to restore the natural order. Being an invasive species, Ghidorah had no interest in restoring balance and resumed annihilating the global ecosystem, awakening all of the other Titans himself and bending them to his will. Assisted by Monarch, Godzilla and Mothra joined forces and engaged Ghidorah in Boston for a final confrontation. Ghidorah summoned Rodan to his aid to deal with Mothra, while Ghidorah overwhelmed Godzilla in one-on-one combat. After defeating Rodan, Mothra sacrificed her life to save Godzilla from Ghidorah, reinvigorating him with her energy and allowing him to finally destroy Ghidorah once and for all. With the three-headed terror vanquished for good, Godzilla took his place as the King of the Monsters, ending the rampages of the Titans previously under Ghidorah's control. Years later, in 2024, Ghidorah's brain was used to power the mecha-kaiju Mechagodzilla, with his consciousness later taking over the mecha. Thankfully, his short-lived reign of terror was stopped by Godzilla and Kong.

## Powers And Abilities

* **Anti-God Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Living Metal Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Giant Animal Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Superior Animal Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrical Animal Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Energy Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Transcendent Animal Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Giant Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Superpowered Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Winged Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Reptilian Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Balaur Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Daikaiju Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alien Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Half-Alien Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alien Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alien Kaiju Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Bat Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Giant Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alien Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Superior Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Transcendent Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Dragon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alpha Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) or *Monster Zero* is an invasive species befitting an extraterrestrial three-headed dragon being able to rival the Alpha Predator, Godzilla for centuries and became able to control over all the Titans after the presumed death of Godzilla.
* **Predator Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Apex Predator Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Hybrid Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Mutant Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alpha Monster Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) stole the alpha title from godzilla.
* **Berserker Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Demon Physiology:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Supernatural Body:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Upper Arm Strength:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Lower Leg Strength:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Dragon Titan Physiology:** As An Extraterrestrial Alien Draconic-Like Titan In Resemblance To A Three-Headed Gigantic Bipedal Dragon, King Ghidorah Is Incredibly Strongest And Powerful As He Possessed Supernatural Physically Serval Incredibly Attributes That Surpassed Than That Of Other Titans. Not Unlike Regular Dragons Albeit In Massive Scale, Thus Making Him A Formidable Titan As Well As Among Few Who Nearly Equals Others In Terms Of Overall Combat Parameters. King Ghidorah Was The Only Most Powerful Titan in Existence; Rivaled Only By Godzilla In Terms Of "Raw Power".
* **Supernatural Strength:** Due To His Gigantic Bipedal Size, A Lack Of Wings , And Like His Old Previous Ghidorah Incarnations, King Ghidorah Has Possesses Varied Levels Of Extremely, Colossal, Monstrously Amounts Of Immense Impressive Advanced Tremendous Physical Raw Considerable Strength As He Is Far Greater Than That Of His Race And His Old Ghidorah Incarnations, Thus He Is The Third Incredibly Exceptionally Strongest And Powerful Titan After Godzilla And Kong. However, Titans Of Similar Strength Like Godzilla Can Harm King Ghidorah And, Potentially, Kill Him But Not Anymore. For A Example He Is Strong Enough To Restraining Godzilla With His Serpentine Necks, Pin Him To The Ground And Even Carry His 99,634-Ton Body Into The Earth's Troposphere Without Little Effortlessly, Before Dropping Godzilla Thousands Of Feet Below. However, It Is Implied That The Electricity Ghidorah Consumed In Boston Greatly Increasing His Strength In Order For Him To Do This Making Him Nigh-Unstoppable.
* **Supernatural Durability:** King Ghidorah Is Very Insanely Incredibly Impressively Tremendously Powerfully Durable, King Ghidorah's Tough Resilient Armored Thick Nigh-Indestructible Golden Dragon Scales Extremely Advanced Highly Bodily Tissues Are Substantially Harder Than Other Titans, Provide Him Much Greater Resistance To Physical Injury, Blunt Force Trauma, Edged, Stabbing Attacks, Extreme Temperatures, And Energy Projectiles. He is Nearly Invincible, The Greatest Testament Of King Ghidorah's Increased Superior Immune Durability Is Surviving Impact, As He Is Capable Of Withstanding Conventional Weaponry. He Was Able To Withstand A Full-Force Charge From Rodan Or Godzilla, As Well As The Sheer Power Of Godzilla's Atomic Breath. Ghidorah Even Used His Wings As A Shield To Protected His Heads From Missiles. He Is Also Naturally Resistance And Immune To Any Conventional Weaponry Such As Weapons, Heavy Gunfire, Missiles, Tank Shells, And Various Others, Making Him Nearly Impossible And Nigh-Unbeatable To Damage, Defeat, Destroy, And Killed With No Noticeable Effect. To The Blast Of The Oxygen Destroyer, Which Was Designed To Exterminate All Terrestrial Life-Forms Caught In Its Blasted And Which Was Able To Almost Kill Godzilla. He Is One Of The Few Enemies That Can Almost Completely Resist A Blows From Godzilla's Abilities And Including Atomic Breath. The Only Means Of Piercing It Is A Concentrated, Prolonged Attack On One Spot In Particular; A Very Difficult Feat In The Midst Of Battle With Him. However, King Ghidorah Could Not Withstand Thermonuclear Pulses Released By Godzilla In His Burning Form, Which Easily Burned Away His Wings And Heads Within Seconds.
* **Supernatural Speed:** Due To His Massive Sise, King Ghidorah Is Impressively Fast Runner And Flyer On The Land And Also The Sky, Ghidorah's Three Heads Are Extremely Flexible And Quicker As They Are Able To Lashed Out And Quickly Strike Their Intended Targets As Well As Using Their Flexible Necks And Numbers To Dodged Attacks Such As Godzilla's Atomic Breath. When King Ghidorah Could Reach Up To 550 Knots As He Is Capable Of Moving At Walking, Running Or Fly At Top Exhibits Incredible Advanced Greater Movement Increased Speed He Is Even Faster In Outer Space, Although He Seemingly Wasn't As Agile Or Acrobatic In The Air As The Smaller Airborne Titan Rodan.
* **Supernatural Stamina:** King Ghidorah's Advanced Musculature Is Considerably More Efficient Than Other Monsters, Kaijus, And Other Titans. As A Result, His Muscles Produce Practically No Fatigue Toxins During Extreme Physical Activity, His Virtually Inexhaustible Unlimited Stamina Enables Him To Physically Exert Himself At Peak Capacity For An Long Undefined Periods Of Time Without Tiring Or Slowing Down At All, Is Showing To Be Very Extremely High, Allowing Him To Fighting Longer Durations Against His Formidable Opponents Such As Godzilla, Rodan, And Mothra. Even When He Is Flying In The Air, In The Time Window Between His Awakening And His Death (Spanning At Least One Sunset And Sunrise), Despite Flying From Antarctica To Mexico And Finally To North America During That Time, And Despite Engaging In Multiple Battles With Other Titans. After Fighting Godzilla For A Certain Amount Of Time In Boston, King Ghidorah Does Not Even Seem To Have Any Obvious Signs Of Fatigue, Or Exhaustion.
* **Supernatural Agility:** Each of Ghidorah's heads was very nimble and quick; able to lash out and quickly strike their intended targets like snakes, and also using their flexible necks and numbers to dodge attacks such as Godzilla's atomic ray. When flying, Ghidorah's top speed could reach up to 550 knots - however, unlike Rodan and Mothra, he appeared to be a somewhat heavy flyer without their aerial agility, making up for this with strength, speed, ferocity, as well as his electrical and meteorokinetic abilities.
* **Supernatural Reflexes:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Flexibility:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Balance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Supernatural Senses:** King Ghidorah Is Granted With Advanced Increasing Perception Powerful Far More Greatly Highly Developed Heightened Significantly Sharpened Senses Of Smelling are Nonetheless Remarkably Acute Thanks to his Dragon-Like Kaiju Nose.
* **Enhanced Smell:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Supernatural Hearing:** King Ghidorah Is Granted With Advanced Increasing Perception Powerful Far More Greatly Highly Developed Heightened Significantly Sharpened Senses Of Smelling are Nonetheless Remarkably Acute Thanks to his Dragon-Like Kaiju Ears.
* **Advanced Vision:** Ghidorah possesses excellent vision, aiding him in fighting off against Godzilla and enabling him to locate things from far distances easily.
* **Advanced Sight:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Touch:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Superhuman Tracking:** King Ghidorah Is Granted With Advanced Increasing Perception Powerful Far More Greatly Highly Developed Heightened Significantly Sharpened Senses Of Tracking are Nonetheless Remarkably Acute. He is able to sense Godzilla's approach in Antarctica and also able to track down the ORCA in Boston.
* **Supernatural Endurance:** King Ghidorah's Advanced Incredibly Impressively Immensely Massively Far More Greatly Developing Physical Natural Raw Heightened Keen Enormous Monstrously Superior Immune Unlimited Endurance, As He Is Able To Surviving And Keeping On Fighting The Kaijus, Monsters, Titans And Alpha Titans For Days Is Showing To Be Extremely High As He Is Capable Of Enduring Strongest And Powerful Attacks From Godzilla, Rodan, And Mothra Able To Fight With All His Might While Ignoring The Pain From Injuries Sustained From Combating Either Opponents And Still Fight Back Without Showing Any Obvious Signs Of Fatigue, Exhaustion, Winded, Pain, Agony, Or Flinching From Daily Physical Activities Easily.
* **Genius-Level Intelligence:** Cranial scans indicate each of Ghidorah's heads possessed different levels of cognitive function and independent thought. The middle head was the most intelligent; acting as the leader and being quicker-acting, more resourceful, as well as more goal-oriented than the other two. Meanwhile, the right head displayed a combative spatial awareness when the other two were incapacitated in combat, and the left head was an observant sentry. Ghidorah is also very intelligent overall, capable of tactical fighting and improvization. According to cranial scans, King Ghidorah has a divergent frontal lobe density in the brains of all three heads, indicating that each of his heads can have disparate levels of cognitive functions, possibly including independent thought. Monarch has determined that each of King Ghidorah's heads exhibits its own individual personality. King Ghidorah shows his intelligence during combat, such as when he bites down on electrical wiring during his battle with Godzilla in Boston, allowing him to temporarily stun his nemesis long enough to subdue and incapacitate him. While attempting to free his other heads from Mothra's silk, the right head was able to recognize Godzilla was behind him by looking at his own reflection. Realizing that he was overwhelmed by both Godzilla and Mothra, Ghidorah wisely calls in Rodan to keep the Queen of the Monsters occupied. King Ghidorah also recognizes the ORCA frequency as a potential threat and makes several attempts to take out the source, such as when he destroys the Fenway Park speakers to cut off the sound. Posthumously, when Mechagodzilla was powered by the energy from the Hollow Earth, King Ghidorah's consciousness took the opportunity to possess the mecha, severing its neural link with its pilot, Ren Serizawa. Under Ghidorah's influence, Mechagodzilla killed its creators, and the mecha effectively utilizes its new body and abilities to overpower Godzilla.
* **Genius-Level Intellect/Master Tactician/Leader:** King Ghidorah is Proven To Be Very One Of The Most Impressively Amazingly Thinking Intelligent Of The Titans, Cunning, And Smart, As He Displayed The Ability To Learn, And Strategize To Solve Problems At Hand Owing To His Millennia-Worth Experience; But He Also Studied Their Pattern And Weaknesses and each of his heads possessed different levels of cognitive function and independent thought. His middle head was the most intelligent by acting as the leader and being quicker-acting, more resourceful, as well as more goal-oriented than the other two. The right head displayed a combative spatial awareness when the other two were incapacitated in combat while the left head was an observant sentry. Ghidorah shows his intelligence during combat, such as when he bites down on electrical wiring during his battle with Godzilla in Boston, allowing him to temporarily stun his nemesis long enough to subdue and incapacitate him. While attempting to free his other heads from Mothra's silk, the right head was able to very quickly recognize Godzilla was behind him by looking at his own reflection. Ghidorah also seems to call in Rodan directly before the latter arrives and keeps Mothra occupied, which if the case shows Ghidorah knows when it's overwhelmed by Godzilla and Mothra's combined assault. Ghidorah also recognizes the ORCA frequency as a potential threat and makes several attempts to take out the source, such as when he destroys the Fenway Park speakers to cut off the sound.
* **Advanced Roaring:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Jumping:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Leaping:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Hyper Climbing:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Stealth:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Dexterity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Strike:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Attack:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Mauling:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Quick-Draw:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Weaponry:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Charisma:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Clawmanship:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Catching:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Throwing:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Instincts:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Wits:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Breath:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Lung Capacity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Supernatural Condition:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Violence:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Acrobatics:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Athleticism:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Advanced Lifting:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Slashing:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Immune System:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Superhuman Contaminant Immunity:** King Ghidorah is immune to all types of Diseases, Illnesses, Sickness, Drugs, Poisons, Venoms, Acid, Drugs, Toxins, Radiation, Disorders, Disabilities, etc, thanks to his accelerated healing factor. King Ghidorah has an immune system that enables him to survive what most can't, but only if his Healing Factor is active.
* **Supernatural Regeneration:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) possesses vast regenerative abilities, up to and including regrowing his severed heads, only dying when Godzilla completely reduced him to ash.
* **Advanced Expert Monster Combatant:** Ghidorah's intimidation style is very similar to that of a king cobra. Much like cobras rise up their head and spread their neck, Ghidorah rises up his three heads and spreads his ginormous wings, making himself appear twice as large as Godzilla. Ghidorah can also use his wings, jaws, claws and two tails in combat against other kaiju such as Godzilla. Although he resembles a three-headed dragon, his combat style is similar to that of snakes as they quickly lash out and bite onto their opponent(s). Also like that of a snake, Ghidorah was seen coiling his serpentine necks around Godzilla several times in an attempt to strangle him to death. Ghidorah could also use his massive wings as a shield, tucking his heads behind them to protect himself from projectiles.
* **High-Speed Regeneration Healing Factor:** Using the radiation from Rodan's volcano, Ghidorah was able to regenerate the head that was decapitated by Godzilla almost instantaneously. The process was somewhat brutal, requiring that the severed head's tongue regrow first, followed by the skull (producing a bright-golden membrane, which the middle head seems to tear away from the regenerating left head prematurely), then muscle, skin, and scales. During the battle in Boston, after absorbing the Boston power grid's energy and blasting the military's airborne vehicles out of the sky, Ghidorah was able to regenerate holes in his wing membranes within seconds. King Ghidorah possesses an exceptional healing factor. After having his left head severed by Godzilla, he was able to completely regenerate it in a matter of moments. According to director Michael Dougherty, when one of King Ghidorah's heads is severed and a new one grows, "the newly regenerated head retains the memories and personality of the old one. Most of Ghidorah's neurons are scattered throughout his body and limbs, much like an octopus." However, he needs to absorb radiation or electricity to do this. During his final battle with Godzilla in Boston, Ghidorah regenerated holes and tears in his wings after absorbing electricity from a nearby power substation. Though his regeneration was unable to keep up with Burning Godzilla's nuclear pulse, he survived having his wings, two of his heads, and the entirety of his body incinerated by the attack, and was only finally killed once Godzilla burned away his last head. According to the *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* novelization, Ghidorah was instantly regenerating any other wound or injury Godzilla was inflicting on him.
* **Accelerated Healing Factor:** Ghidorah could heal/regenerate much faster as he was able to regenerate one of his three heads that was torn off by Godzilla in less than fifteen seconds. He was also able to heal tears in his wing membranes during his fight with Godzilla in Boston. The novelization specifies that Ghidorah absorbs energy from external sources (such as the thermal energy of a volcano or the electrical energy of the Boston power grid) to make this power work. Dr. Stanton specifically comments that this ability "violates everything we (humans) know about the natural order" and it's an indicator of Ghidorah's extraterrestrial true nature.
* **Regenerative Cranium Addition:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Healing Augmentation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Regrowth:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Tooth Regrowth:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Limb Regrowth:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Head Regrowth:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Longevity/Decelerated Aging/Immortality:** Ghidorah's exceptional healing factor coupled with self-sustenance provide him with an incredibly long lifespan as he is capable of living for practically long periods of time seemingly without aging or weakening, thus he still retains the appearance of a three-headed dragon in his prime. However, close-call instances such as Godzilla in his burning form confirmed that Ghidorah can still be killed.
* **Telepathy:** Due to the fact the immense length of Ghidorah's necks would normally interfere with how quickly the beast could receive and interpret sensory information, Ghidorah possesses telepathy so that his heads could communicate with each other instantaneously, thus bypassing any information lag he might experience. Later on when his remains were used to construct Mechagodzilla, the remnants of Ghidorah's consciousness in the left head's upper-skull would take advantage of the psionic technology Apex Cybernetics had hardwired into the skull in order to hijack the robot and turn it against its own creators.
* **Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Reincarnation:** King Ghidorah (*Monsterverse*); via the construction of Mechagodzilla.
* **Terraforming:** King Gidorah (Monsterverse) is an extraterrestial who trying convert the earth ina new home.
* **Personal Weather:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) can generate his own Category 6 storms.
* **Monster Force Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Balance Negation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Shockwave Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Cold Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Cold Immunity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrical Immunity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Sacred Wind Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Lighting Manipulation/Summoning:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Lighting Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Storm Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Thunderstorm Creation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse), can create localized storm systems and outerworldly tempests of thunder and lightning.
* **Poison Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Poison Immunity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Poison Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Venom Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Thermal Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Radiation Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Radiation Generation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Extreme Temperature Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Caelumkinesis/Sky Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Air Manipulation/Aerokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Atmokinesis/Weather Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Audiokinesis/Sound Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Manipulation/Electrokinesis:** While lacking character's trademark gravity beams, King Ghidorah can generate and manipulate extra-dimensional electricity, allowing him to bombard his targets with lightning bolts emitted from his body or discharge electricity through his bite. King Ghidorah is also capable of creating thunderstorms upon his arrival on Earth.
* **Bio-Electricity Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (*MonsterVerse: Godzilla: King of the Monsters*).
* **Cryo-Electrokinesis/Cryo-Electricity Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electro-Agrikinesis/Electric Field Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Energy Manipulation/Ergokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Destructive Energy Manipulation/Hakai-Ergokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Dracokinesis/Draconic Energy Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Demonic Weather Manipulation/Inferna-Atmokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Demonic Lightning Manipulation/Inferna-Electrokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Demonic Sound Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Meteorokinesis:** Ghidorah had electro-receptor molecular biology and could conduct electrical currents, make water vapor heat up to extreme levels. From the moment he was awakened, he caused unnatural winds on the ground and a storm of yellowish golden lightning. The longer Ghidorah was active, the bigger and more powerful his storm got: rapidly evolving into a ginormous typhoon, and finally to a Category 6 hurricane, and Ghidorah's storm furthermore produced offshoot tornadoes and water-spouts. It's also implied in the film and confirmed in the novelization that after Ghidorah takes over the other Titans, he begins creating other offshoot storms (without the yellow lightning) all over the planet to aid his extinction event. Ghidorah could conduct electrical currents, making water vapor heat up to extreme levels and creating localized storm systems, as well as otherworldly tempests of thunder and yellow lightning. As a result, Ghidorah was effectively constantly wrapped in or accompanied by lightning-filled, otherworldly typhoon, which seemed to worsen the longer Ghidorah was active after escaping the ice - starting as anomalous winds and near-constant flashes of thunder and lightning in Antarctica, afterward progressing to the equivalent of a tropical storm the size of Central America, and subsequently to a Category 6 hurricane when Ghidorah invaded Washington DC. Ghidorah's cyclone-like storms also produced tornadoes or water spouts in his immediate surroundings. Ghidorah's storms seemed to be somewhat radiation-influenced, as a radiation-supercharged Godzilla's presence in Boston caused the lightning to turn blue like the latter's bioluminescence in his immediate vicinity. When Ghidorah becomes the Titans' new alpha and begins using them to actively destroy the Earth, his main hurricane begins producing hundreds of offshoot super-cells, squall lines, tornadoes and thunderstorms which rapidly spread over the planet - Mark Russell notes that if these storms continue pelting the planet for even a matter of weeks, the long-term dramatic decrease in sunlight alone will cause plant and animal food chains around the planet to collapse and create mass extinction, never mind the mass flooding, mass over-saturation of reefs and mass displacement of freshwater that the storms will also cause. When Ghidorah's body apart from its middle head was obliterated by Godzilla's thermonuclear pulses, his hurricane immediately dissipated - whether this was due to the destruction of Ghidorah's body or the thermonuclear pulses' effects is uncertain. However, at least one of the superstorms that Ghidorah's effects on Earth's atmosphere generated continued to rage in a fixed location above the Pacific Ocean years after his death.
* **Wing Lightning:** As well as his gravity beams, Ghidorah can also project powerful lightning from the tips of his wings, seen after absorbing a large amount of electricity from a power grid. In addition to damaging aircraft it strikes, this lightning also blinds and temporarily incapacitates Godzilla, allowing Ghidorah to press his advantage.
* **Hurricane Winds:** Promotional materials state Ghidorah has hyper-tensile muscle tendons in his wings that are capable of generating hurricane-force winds while he is in flight. It doesn't really show, with the only hint being a scene where rhythmic winds implied to be generated by giant wingbeats battering Fenway Park before Ghidorah is anywhere in sight.
* **Alpha Call:** When Ghidorah became the ruling alpha Titan, he was able to let out a powerful call that could be heard by Titans all over the world and made them compliant to his commands. However, this cry only works on lesser Titans and did not work on other Titans with their own alpha status; such as Godzilla, Mothra and Kong, who were unaffected by Ghidorah's cry.
* **Bio-Electrical Nature:** Ghidorah's skin was covered with traces of gold which act as a conductor that carries bio-electrical currents throughout his body. Besides it being hinted in the Antarctica battle to have enabled him to draw a lightning-bolt to himself and Godzilla, it aids Ghidorah's meteorokinesis. Ghidorah had electro-receptor molecular biology, and his skin was covered with traces of gold that acted as a conductor that carried bioelectrical currents throughout his body. Besides his Gravity Beams and Meteorokinesis (see below), this seemingly enabled him to draw his storm's lightning to himself as a living conductor, as he seemed to do when fighting Godzilla in Antarctica. Immediately after absorbing electricity directly from a city transformer, Ghidorah blasted lightning bolts from the bladed tips of his wings, disabling numerous aircraft in the surrounding skies and injuring Godzilla.
* **Consciousness Transferal:** Ghidorah's decapitated left head, though seemingly dead to the point that it decomposed to just a skull, retained Ghidorah's telepathic capabilities and with them some vestiges of Ghidorah's will and intent; enough that when Mechagodzilla was fully powered up with a Hollow Earth element, Ghidorah caused the mech to operate independently of a human pilot and begin killing any human it came across as well as trying to kill Godzilla.
* **Oxygen Impendency:** Due to being an extraterrestrial alien, Ghidorah did not require oxygen to survive, which made him completely immune to the Oxygen Destroyer. He appeared to produce some fogged exhalation in Antarctica however, though notably not as thick as Godzilla's breaths. As an extraterrestrial creature, King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) likely doesn't need to breathe in order to survive, making the Oxygen Destroyer that destroys natural lifeforms useless against him.
* **Antigravity, Poisonous Gas, Telepathy, Bioradar, Tail Blades, And Additional Brains:** These abilities are described in some official publications; King Ghidorah can emit poisonous gas from its mouths and tails, antigravity from its wings, and its tail has sharp tips that can be weaponized.
* **Spatial-Temporal Manipulation:** King Ghidorah possesses ability to manipulate and distort space-time around himself. He can generate localized wormholes by collapsing space-time, creating singularities in the process, which allow him to travel between dimensions. Due to their nature, King Ghidorah's form gets distorted when passing through and cannot enter three-dimensional space fully. He can also use this power offensively, amplifying gravity around the objects to crush them, which he primarily uses for planetary destruction. In the movie, he uses it to destroy Aratrum. Energy beams emitted by Godzilla have no affect on King Ghidorah, as he can simply distort reality around them to make them refract from him.
* **Ultimate Intangibility:** Lacking physical body, King Ghidorah utilizes an advanced form of intangibility, allowing him to attack and interact with his targets while simultaneously making them pass through, even in direct contact. As such, King Ghidorah is the only being in existence able to bypass Godzilla's Assymetrically Permeable Shield and is unaffected by immense heat.
* **Technology Manipulation:** Correlating with his electrical nature, King Ghidorah can subconsciously manipulate advanced technology, even from another dimension. Most of the time, he send messages on a device called Garbetrium to Exif, which can be used to develop artificial intelligence and carry out complex mathematical calculations, to the point where aliens can predict the future. Ghidorah uses this power offensively during his attack on Aratrum, jamming their system readings and causing their ship's core to explode. Forty seconds prior to the ship's explosion, the bridge received a message that the engine room was destroyed despite just picking a transmission from Dolu-do.
* **Detection Immunity:** Because of his technological powers, King Ghidorah is impossible to be detected by advanced electronic devices and only naked eye can see him. However, the gravity distortion around him is detectable.
* **Terraforming:** King Gidorah (Monsterverse) is an extraterrestial who trying convert the earth ina new home.
* **Personal Weather:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) can generate his own Category 6 storms.
* **Advanced Bite:** King Ghidorah Has A Particularly Super Strong And Powerful Bite, Either Because Of His Sharp Teeth, Jaw-Muscles, Unusual Jaw-Structure Or Some Other Reason. Exactly What He Can Bite Depends On The Jaw-Strength, Resilience Of His Teeth/Bite-Surface And His Shape.
* **Sharp Teeth:** King Ghidorah Has Razor-Sharp Pointy Teeth Which Granting Him An Incredibly Deadly Lethal Bite Capable Of Biting And Piercing, He Was Able To Bite Into The Bodies Of The Titans. Each of Ghidorah's three heads have powerful jaws lined with sharp teeth that are capable of biting through most materials, able to bite into Godzilla's reptilian skin.
* **Sharp Claws:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Retractable Fangs:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Retractable Claws:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Retractable Heads:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Retractable Limb:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Natural Weaponry:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Regenerative Durability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Nigh-Invulnerability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Bulletproof Skin Durability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Injury Immunity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Unfettered Body:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Dermal Armor:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Unnatural Size:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Hollow Skeleton:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Cat Falling:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Vertical Pupils:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Prehensile/Barbed Forked Tongue:** Similar to monitor lizards and snakes, King Ghidorah possesses three forked tongues in each of his three mouths which he can use to smell using the forked tips and allow him to sense Godzilla's arrival. Similar to monitor lizards and snakes, Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) has three forked tongues which he can use to smell, navigate his surroundings or even allow him to sense from which direction a smell is coming.
* **Prehensile Necks:** Similar to that of constrictor snakes, Ghidorah can use his three serpentine necks to wrap around and squeeze opponents in combat, possibly to constrict them to death.
* **Prehensile Wings:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Twin Prehensile Tails:** King Ghidorah Has Possesses A Two Considerably Extremely Longer Muscular Prehensile Surprisingly Flexible Fast Whip Slide Very Thin Pointed Tails With Retractable Spikes On The Ends That He Can Use To Help Balance Himself, Use As A Formidable Weapon, Use It To Hold Opponents In Its Grasp and even prefers using them as a threat display. During his fight with Godzilla in Boston, Ghidorah is capable of using his tails as prehensile limbs to restrain him while lifting Godzilla into the atmosphere before dropping him.
* **Rattling:** Similar to rattlesnakes, Ghidorah can use the spikes on his twin tails to create a rattling sound as a form of intimidation. The spikes on Ghidorah's tails could be used to create a rattling sound as a form of intimidation, similar to a rattlesnake.
* **Prehensile Feet:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Digitigrade Legs:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Quadrupedalism:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Master Hunter:** Bernie is a master of hunting, using his senses of smell to find and hunt down his prey. As a hunter, he is skilled in tracking and determining what sort of prey he is following and how best to take it down easily.
* **Fear Inducement:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Megaton Kick:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Megaton Stomp:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Night Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Thermal Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Color Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electromagnetic Vision/Magnetic:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Microwave Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Movement Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **360-Degree Vision:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Echolocation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Expert Tracker:** King Ghidorah is capable of tracking things, determining what sort of prey he is following.
* **Feral Mind:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Predatory/Predator Instincts:** King Ghidorah possesses extraordinary predatory instincts for hunting all things such as Humans, Animals, And Titans. he can track anything under any conditions, sense the weaknesses of his prey and exploit them before finally succeeding in killing them.
* **Killing Instinct:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Camouflage:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Self-Sustenance:** As A Draconic Dragon, King Ghidorah does not need to eat or sleep.
* **Self-Regeneration Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Archetype:Pure Evil:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) is an alien monster who only seeks to take over the earth and kill all life on it, especially Godzilla, his greatest enemy and defender of the planet.
* **Energy Absorption:** King Ghidorah Is Able To Absorbing, And Feeding On Several Different Types Of Energy Through His Mouths, Particularly Radiation, Nuclear Energy. The More Energy He Absorbs, The Stronger/More Powerful His Supernatural Physically Attributes Would Become. He is shown doing this twice in his final battle with Godzilla. At one point, he bites down on a nearby power substation and absorbs the electricity, which he projects through the tips of his wings. Later, he constricts his necks around Godzilla before biting down on him and draining his atomic energy. The energy is visible coursing through Ghidorah's necks as he bites down on Godzilla. *Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization* notes that King Ghidorah absorbed radiation from the Isla de Mara volcano to provide the nourishment necessary to regenerate his severed left head.
* **Life-Force Absorption:** King Ghidorah (*MonsterVerse/Godzilla: King of the Monsters*).
* **Energy Drain:** Ghidorah was able to bite down onto power lines and absorb the power to himself, significantly boosting his strength. He was also able to siphon the energy out of Godzilla (who was empowered with both a nuke's energy and Mothra's Burning Godzilla-unlocking radiation) through his heads' bites, and the process caused excruciating agony to Godzilla which made the latter outright roar in pain.
* **Energy Regeneration:** King Ghidorah (*MonsterVerse*).
* **Gravity Manipulation/Gyrokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Darkness Manipulation/Umbrakinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Storm Manipulation/Tempestakinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electromagnetism Manipulation/Electromagnokinesis:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Flight:** Ghidorah can use his humungous bat-like wings to fly through the air at high speed and high altitudes. Ghidorah's massive and powerful wings allowed him to fly with great speed at 500 knots (575.39 mph) over long distances, and he only needed to pump them downwards to get airborne off the ground. This allowed him to easily chase down Emma Russell and attempt to attack the USS *Argo*. The muscle tendons in King Ghidorah's wings are described as being incredibly hyper-tensile, and their massive aerodynamics could generate hurricane-force winds when flying. When combined with his body's electro-receptor molecular biology, water vapor in the air would be superheated, creating a localized storm system as he flies, equivalent to a Category 6 hurricane. The power of King Ghidorah's flight is so great that as a result, "the stratosphere would be torn open by an otherworldly tempest of thunder and lightning [Earth's] sky has never seen." When he assumes the position of alpha Titan, he begins creating multiple offshoot storms around the world. The novelization notes this on its own would be enough to cause the Earth's biosphere to suffer an extinction event even without the other Titans contributing to the destruction. King Ghidorah flies at a speed of 550 knots, or about Mach 0.8, while all previous live-action incarnations of the character could reach at least Mach 3 while in the Earth's atmosphere. Nonetheless, he was able to swiftly carry the 99,634-ton Godzilla into the troposphere before dropping him. This allows to gain the aerial advantage when in combat with other kaiju. And by flapping his wings, King Ghidorah can create great winds to blow opponents away.
* **Flight Bestowal:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **High-Speed Flight:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Gilding:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Scale Wing Manifestation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Lightning Bolt Projection:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **City Destruction:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Planet Destruction:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse), destroyed Venus and sought to do the same to Earth.
* **Gravity Beams:** Ghidorah's most prominent ability and main weapon of choice is his gravity beams, powerful beams of concentrated gravity particles which he unleashes from his jaws in the form of golden, electrical lightning-like energy. Much like how Godzilla's dorsal plates glow whenever he is about to release his atomic breath, Ghidorah's throats glow before he fires his gravity beams. The beams are yellowish golden in color and they are more than powerful enough to tear through buildings and disintegrate humans. Ghidorah's gravity beams are so powerful that when Mothra was struck by all three at once, she was almost immediately disintegrated. This did not affect Godzilla in his fiery form, as it had no effect on him and instead, it seemingly charges up his last nuclear pulse attack. Ghidorah could shoot yellow gravity beams (concentrated, lightning-like beams of electrical energy) from each of his three mouths. Much like how Godzilla's dorsal plates glow whenever he is about to release his atomic breath, Ghidorah's necks, throats, and sometimes his eyes glowed before he fired his gravity beams. The beams were extremely powerful, as they could easily obliterate buildings, seemingly caused humans to instantly combust to ashes, singed Godzilla's scales and knocked him over, and incinerated a weakened Mothra within seconds during their battle in Boston, though they did no lasting damage to the former. They were also able to generate a great amount of static electricity that shorted out the circuits of all nearby electronics, as happened in Antarctica. Monarch describes King Ghidorah as "bio-electrical." Monarch scientists theorize that King Ghidorah's scales are gilded with trace amounts of aurum which act as conductors, capable of carrying bio-electrical currents throughout his body. This allows Ghidorah to conduct electricity through his body and project it in different ways. His signature attack is spitting bio-electrical golden gravity beams from each of his mouths. These are powerful enough to tear through buildings and disintegrate human beings. The fronts of his necks glow yellow while charging this attack. This attack is also shown to cause physical harm to other Titans. With only one shot, Ghidorah was able to shoot Rodan down and a concentrated barrage was enough to disintegrate Mothra. This attack also had enough force to drive Godzilla off the ice during their first battle in Antarctica, though it does no lasting damage to the Titan. He can charge his gravity beams far faster than Godzilla can charge his atomic breath.
* **Scale Beam Barrier:** King Ghidorah’s scales work to distribute the force of energy and impact of beam attacks across his body. This makes punching through his scales with energy projectiles all but impossible to anything except overwhelming force or condensed rays specifically made for cutting.
* **Gravity Mastery:** King Ghidorah’s core power is gravity alteration, being able to both shut off, intensify, and redirect the flow of gravity between matter. This, in essence, gives him both matter alteration and telekinetic powers, able to lift, reshape, and set matter around him. This can vary from assembling himself a throne out of debris fields to pulling something closer to him. The most extreme example is, after a lengthy charge time, sending out a massive wave of graviton particles that drastically increase the gravitational attraction between everything around him and the ground. If done to another Kaiju, this can knock them to the ground and pin them down. If done in the middle of a city, it would cause all the buildings to be pulverized under their own weight and the less said about the lifeforms within them the better.
* **Gravity Breath:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Atmospheric Adaptation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrically Enhanced Condition:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Empowerment:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Arts:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Aura:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Breath:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrokinetic Combat:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Field Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Mimicry:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrical Immunity:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Lightning Absorption:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Lightning Summoning:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Plasma Absorption:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electricity Attacks:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Gravity Beam Emission:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) breathing out destructive beams of gravitons from his mouths.
* **Elemental Fangs:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Gravity Negation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Gravity Attacks:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Gravitational Downforce:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Breath Powers:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Meteor Summoning:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Hurricane Creation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Bio-Weather Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Weatherly Presence:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Planetary Reshaping:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Neck Manipulation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Multiple Heads:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Energy Shield Construction:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Archetype:Monster Ruler:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Archetype:Ancient Evil:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Sharp Tails:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Regenerative Replication:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Genetic Memory:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Multiple Vine Tongues:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Indomitable Rage:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Master Strategist:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Alpha Call Technique:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Space-Time Distortion:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Planetary Parasitism:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Space Survivability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Lifting Ability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Enhanced Striking Ability:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Sharp Horns:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Sharp Spikes:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Aerobatics:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Charge!:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Attack Reflection:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Transmutation Resistance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Martial Arts Mastery:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Low Clairvoyance:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Shockwave Creation:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Breathing:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electric Ball Projection:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrokinetic Flight:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Electrokinetic Attacks:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).
* **Fear Breathing:** King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse).

## Weakness

* Even though Ghidorah is extremely powerful, he has several notable weaknesses.
* While a skilled fighter on the ground and in his element when in the air, King Ghidorah demonstrates considerable difficulty when fighting in the water, as shown when Godzilla dragged him underwater in Mexico and nearly killed him then and there if it were not for the interference of the Oxygen Destroyer. His regeneration takes time and he wasn't able to regenerate his wings and left and right heads after they were disintegrated by Burning Godzilla's nuclear pulse, nor when he was reduced to a single head before Godzilla incinerated it with his atomic breath. Godzilla also comes close to matching his strength. Because each head is capable of independent thought, they may become distracted and require the dominant middle head to get their attention and give them orders. However, all three were distracted by and pursued the ORCA when they had Godzilla at their mercy in Boston, giving him time to recover and ultimately leading to Ghidorah's downfall.
* **Limited Durability:** Although Ghidorah was incredibly durable, he did have his limits; for example, he could not withstand the thermonuclear pulses that Godzilla released in his burning form; which incinerated Ghidorah's wings and two of his heads in a matter of seconds.
* **Freezing Temperatures:** Ghidorah was neutralized by freezing solid in ice after being rendered inert by Godzilla in Antarctica; this incapacitated him for centuries to millennia, and Ghidorah only recovered due to human interference deliberately freeing him from the ice.
* **Thermonuclear Pulses:** Despite Ghidorah's immense durability, he could not withstand the thermonuclear pulses that Godzilla released in his burning form, which incinerated Ghidorah's wings and two of his heads in a matter of seconds.
* **Water:** Because Ghidorah's physical structure was that of an airborne creature; he was not entirely suited to move underwater. When Godzilla dragged him into the ocean near Isla de Mara, Ghidorah struggled to fight back and ended up getting his left head easily decapitated by the former. The *Godzilla: King of the Monsters* director indicates it was a combination of this and freezing temperatures that caused Ghidorah to become frozen in Antarctica.

## Relationships

### Godzilla

Godzilla was Ghidorah's primary arch-enemy. Dr. Serizawa described their rivalry as "unique". They both despised each other as both wished to rule as the Alpha Titan, as well as because Ghidorah was a threat to the natural order Godzilla embodied. Godzilla had opposed Ghidorah and successfully fought him off many times in the past when Ghidorah attempted to usurp Godzilla's dominance over the other Titans and destroy the Earth. When Godzilla and Ghidorah met again in Antarctica, it was clear from their body language and facial expressions as well as their intimidation displays that they both despised each-other and regarding the other as a serious threat. Ghidorah seemingly took pleasure in brutally torturing Godzilla in the process of draining his excess energy out of him.

### Mothra

Mothra is one of Ghidorah's enemies. She rejected his Alpha Call and immediately sided with Godzilla over him. In Boston, Mothra attacked him without hesitation and it was shown she had no problem killing him. Even when she and Godzilla were brutally beaten, she still refused to back down to him and was willing to sacrifice herself for Godzilla. Ghidorah killed her with all three of his Gravity Beams for opposing him, without hesitation.

### Rodan

When Rodan woke up from his volcano, Ghidorah's storm immediately changed his course as he flew towards Rodan, with the novelization indicating Ghidorah's goal was to dominate Rodan to his will from the start. Rodan at first reacted with fear when he flew into Ghidorah's storm and encountered him, but still refused to back down and engaged Ghidorah in battle. Ghidorah won and blasted Rodan into the ocean, though he didn't kill Rodan and spared him likely due to later use. After Ghidorah seemingly defeated Godzilla and became the Alpha Titan, Rodan bowed to Ghidorah and became his right-hand man. Rodan stayed by Ghidorah's side throughout the Titans' subsequent global rampage, accompanying Ghidorah to Washington D.C. and later to Boston. When Mothra intervened in the final battle on Godzilla's behalf and Ghidorah was thus outmatched, Rodan intervened to keep Mothra out of Ghidorah and Godzilla's fight.

### Mechagodzilla

Five years later after Ghidorah's death at the hands of Godzilla, Apex Cybernetics used his skull to control the robotic kaiju Mechagodzilla, who was built to destroy all Titans besides Godzilla and Kong. It is revealed every time the mecha is activated, Godzilla arrives while sensing Ghidorah's presence, showing that he is been provoked by Apex in the first place. After Apex gather samples from the Hollow Earth to power up Mechagodzilla, the robot was possessed by Ghidorah's consciousness, becoming his host and new reincarnation. As a result, Ghidorah would take control of Mechagodzilla until his short-lived reign of terror is eventually stopped by both Godzilla and Kong.

### Kong

When Ghidorah summons all the Titans to be his followers as the true king, Godzilla, Mothra and Kong were the only ones not to submit to him. Ghidorah and Kong have never really attacked each other (due to Kong spending much of his life on Skull Island) until 2024, where Ghidorah was reincarnated into Mechagodzilla which he later used to overpower Godzilla and Kong in his new form. Not only he wants revenge on Godzilla for defeating him in their last encounter, but also wants revenge on Kong for refusing to join and submitting for him. However, Ghidorah unfortunately met his match at the hands of both Godzilla and Kong, who work together to defeat Mechagodzilla and end the robot's reign of terror, leaving Ghidorah's death in vain.

## Fun Facts

* Excluding the King Ghidorah featured in *Godzilla: The Planet Eater* which is an estimated 20 kilometers (65,616.8 feet) in length with no definite "height," this is the tallest incarnation of the character, standing 521 feet (158.8 meters) in height - approximately 29 feet taller than the Heisei King Ghidorah, who was 150 meters. The MonsterVerse King Ghidorah is also the tallest monster featured in a Godzilla film besides Godzilla Earth, who stands over 1,000 feet tall.
	+ The MonsterVerse King Ghidorah is also the heaviest incarnation of the character at 141,056 tons, which is nearly double the weight of the Heisei King Ghidorah, and the heaviest member of the Ghidorah group. He is also one of the heaviest kaiju in the Godzilla series, behind the Heisei Mechagodzilla at 150,000 metric tons, Super Mechagodzilla at 150,482 metric tons, M.O.G.U.E.R.A. at 160,000 metric tons, Biollante's Plant Beast Form at 200,000 metric tons, Bagan at 280,000 metric tons, and SpaceGodzilla's Flying Form at 720,000 metric tons.
* This is the first incarnation of King Ghidorah to have the ability to regenerate his heads.
* This, the Showa Ghidorah, and the *Rebirth of Mothra* Ghidorah are the only versions to be Pure Evil.
* Director Michael Dougherty revealed on his Twitter that, during the production of the film, he named King Ghidorah's individual heads from left to right; **Ichi**, **Ni**, and **San**, aka **Kevin**.
* It might be possible that this King Ghidorah could have attacked other planets prior to the events of *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*.
* Unlike the M.U.T.O.s and Skullcrawlers, who were simply animals (if intelligent ones) acting on instinct, King Ghidorah is the only monster in the MonsterVerse who is genuinely malevolent and evil, and ultimately acting on a plan with an actual endgame rather than simple instinct.
* The script for *Kong: Skull Island* called for the Iwi petroglyphs inside the *Wanderer* to depict many monsters, including "one with three heads." In the completed film, only Kong and the Skullcrawlers were shown. The film's novelization, however, does mention a three-headed creature depicted on the murals, along with several other creatures.
* Monarch's designation for King Ghidorah, Monster Zero, is the name given to King Ghidorah by the Xiliens in *Invasion of Astro-Monster*.
* The location where King Ghidorah is frozen in Antarctica, Outpost 32, is a reference to the 1982 film *The Thing*, in which the primary location is an outpost in Antarctica called Outpost 31. The titular alien monster in *The Thing* is also discovered frozen in the Antarctic ice, much like King Ghidorah.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

### In General

* He is considered to be the most heinous villain in the *MonsterVerse* as he had the highest kill count while showing that he is far more malevolent, sadistic, heartless, ruthless and even a much bigger threat than his previous incarnations since he only cared about death and destruction as his plan would destroy the entire Earth rather than just a specific, localized place.
	+ Not only is he the arch-nemesis of Godzilla in the franchise, but he is also one of the most powerful and dangerous foes he has ever fought in the *MonsterVerse*.
* Like his previous incarnations, he shows cruelty and hatred towards all living beings, human or not, that he encounters, even when they pose no threat to him, and he just maliciously slaughters them simply for pleasure rather than just mere hunger, self-defence or a desire to survive.
	+ This is demonstrated when he disintegrates the G-Team with his gravity beams while they are firing on him to no effect in Antarctica, devours Dr. Vivienne Graham even though she was fleeing from him, tries to kill the Monarch team and all the rescued civilians inside the *Argo*, and even attempts to kill Madison Russell (who was only a 12-year-old child) in Boston. In the novelization's expansion of the Washington D.C. battle, he also goes out of his way to fire his gravity beams at humans on an already-sinking battleship.
* He cares nothing about Rodan and the other Titans, viewing them only as useful slaves to assist him in his plans to destroy the world. This is shown by how he attacked and brutally beat Rodan into submission and only refused to attack him and the other Titans once they had proclaimed their loyalty to him.
	+ He also provides no assistance to Rodan after he is injured by Mothra during the final battle in Boston, although it maybe possible that Ghidorah may not have known about Rodan's defeat because he was distracted fighting Godzilla when it happened.
* Unlike the other Titans who are driven by their own survival, it is explicitly stated that Ghidorah chose to ignore his own purpose since he is not part of the Earth's natural order, thus the reason why he became archenemies with Godzilla in the first place. This proves that despite being a predator that would need to kill in order to survive, he is a genuinely evil being with a clear moral agency, and is only out for himself as he attempted to destroy the Earth and remake it in his own image.
	+ Even worse is the fact that he sadistically smirked multiple times throughout the film, showing he is indeed enjoying all of the suffering that he caused.
* In the past, it's implied that he likely conquered and destroyed many planets just for fun prior to arriving on Earth and his rivalry with Godzilla.
* Had he succeeded in his plans, Earth would have been destroyed, humanity would have perished, he and the Titans would have become the dominant species and Godzilla would have died from the effects of the Oxygen Destroyer if he hadn't been revived by Dr. Serizawa with a nuclear warhead to stop Ghidorah's rampage and end his reign of terror.
* He doesn't show any care for the Titans who had answered to him, meaning he was just using them as tools to wipe out mankind and all life as well as being the new alpha Titan to destroy Earth, showing that he actually cared about nobody but himself. While the Titans did lay waste to the planet under orders from him, this is because Ghidorah was forcing them to do it by slavery, making this his actions and not theirs.
* Despite his left head's comedic moments, it, along with his other two heads, isn't played for laughs as he is still taken seriously as a dangerous threat to all life on Earth.
* It's implied that he planned to go on to destroy more planets and eventually the whole universe once he has conquered and destroyed Earth.
* Although his death was horrific as he was killed by Godzilla, it wasn’t played for sympathy and he indeed deserved it for his heinous actions.
* Even though he is back in his inactive state after Mechagodzilla is destroyed by Godzilla and Kong, his skull has not been shown to be destroyed, meaning this could possibly foreshadow his return.

### *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*

* In the past, it is possible that he arrived on Earth from another world or dimension, seeking to destroy and recreate the planet into a more preferable habitat for himself, although his goals would then bring him into conflict with Godzilla a number of times, as Godzilla would continuously foil his archenemy's attempts to terraform Earth, turning the two into bitter enemies.
* When emerging from his icy prison, he vaporized Monarch's G-Team soldiers by burning them to a crisp with his gravity beams upon eyeing them with curiosity when they started to open fire on him, even though they were no real threat to him.
* When Madison used the ORCA to catch his attention in order to save her father Mark, he attempted to fire his gravity beams at Alan Jonah's Osprey, which would've led to him killing Madison, Emma, Jonah and his terrorists hadn't it been for Emma, who reclaims the ORCA from Madison and turns it off to prevent Ghidorah from attacking.
* He sadistically toyed with the Monarch team in one of their Ospreys when they are unable to escape due to their aircraft being affected by Ghidorah's gravity beams which caused all the electronic equipment to stop working, thus would've led to him killing them if not for Godzilla's intervention.
* He devoured Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's assistant Dr. Vivienne Graham, leaving him distraught over the loss of his friend. Like the G-Team soldiers and basically all non-Titan organisms whom Ghidorah killed, Graham posed no threat to him as she was fleeing from him, yet Ghidorah chose to devour her for no reason other than for his own sadistic amusement.
* When coming across Rodan, whom Monarch had lured out of his volcanic nest to fight against Ghidorah, he maliciously attacked and beated the latter into submission.
* He pursued the *Argo* containing the Monarch crew and innocent civilians which would've led to him killing them inside hadn't it been for Godzilla, who was able to save the group before Ghidorah could attack.
* When he became the alpha Titan, he forcefully awakened and enslaved all the Titans on Earth (except Godzilla, Mothra, and Kong) with an alpha call and made them his servants before ordering them to attack human cities and actively unleash natural disasters of apocalyptic proportions (such as massive wildfires, mass die-offs, volcanic eruptions polluting the atmosphere with gigatons of ash and volcanic gases, etc.) around the world, leaving only him and the Titans as the dominant species once the human race has been wiped out. He even made Rodan into his bodyguard, despite having engaged him in battle when he first encountered him.
	+ In the novelization, he awakened the Skullcrawlers, who attempt to leave Skull Island to join Ghidorah and the other Titans upon hearing his call and would have succeeded if not for Kong's intervention.
* During his evil reign as the new alpha Titan, he spawned offshoot massive storms and spreads them around the world to aid in his extinction event while he personally roosts in Washington DC, which he completely destroys and turns into a nest.
* After tracking down the ORCA in Boston when Madison activated it which broadcasted sonar pulses through Fenway Park's speakers that caused all the Titans to cease their rampage and become docile, Ghidorah attacked her for using the ORCA to foil his plans and would have killed her if not for Godzilla's intervention, even though Madison was only a 12-year-old child at the time and posed no threat to him.
	+ His actions are also implied to have caused Madison to be afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after her encounter with him.
* When Mothra arrived to support Godzilla, Ghidorah called upon Rodan for assistance so that he can prevent Mothra from intervening while he takes on Godzilla himself.
* During his battle with Godzilla, he absorbed electricity from a nearby power substation and projected it from his wings which incapacitated the latter. Not only did this wound Godzilla, but it also decimated the military to the point that the survivors were forced to retreat.
* He carried Godzilla into the Earth's troposphere and let him plummet tens of thousands of feet back down to Earth until he slams into the ground, mortally wounded.
* He killed Mothra with his gravity beams after she refused to bow to him and sacrificed herself to protect Godzilla.
* After killing Mothra, he sadistically tortured Godzilla by siphoning Mothra's energy out of him through his bites, causing excruciating agony and pain to the Titan. If Ghidorah hadn't been distracted by the Russell family using the ORCA to lure him away, he would've ended up having Godzilla killed in such a painful way after absorbing all of his energy and thus would become unstoppable.
* He fatally injured and killed Dr. Emma Russell after she gave her life up to him to allow her family to escape with Monarch and give Godzilla enough time to recover.
	+ He even maliciously smiled at her as he prepared to kill her while she lays dying, only to be confronted by Godzilla in his burning form. While it was hard to feel sympathy for Emma since she betrayed Monarch and worked with Alan Jonah and his group of terrorists to awaken the Titans so that they would create a new world order where humanity can co-exist with Titans, this changed once their plan goes wrong when Ghidorah awakens all the Titans himself and orders them to lay waste to Earth, endangering and killing billions of people in the process. When Madison later stole the ORCA and used it to make all the Titans cease their rampage, Emma, realizing that she made a mistake, defects from Jonah to rejoin Monarch and save her daughter, though her death is somewhat undeserving when she sacrificed herself to distract Ghidorah with the ORCA in order to protect her family.
		- However, it was shown that Emma was actually the one who freed and awakened Ghidorah earlier in order to reset Earth to its natural order, not knowing that he was a dangerous and heartless alien as well as not realizing how incredibly heinous Ghidorah really is because he had no interest in restoring balance due to being an invasive species.

### *Kingdom Kong*

* Even after his death, Ghidorah's actions would leave a perpetual superstorm that didn't disperse with the other storms upon his death, raging in the same spot above the Pacific Ocean. Two years after Ghidorah's downfall, Camazotz stirring on Skull Island would draw Ghidorah's storm to the island, causing it to merge with the island's perpetual storm barrier, which permanently envelops the island in an endless storm and leading to its ecosystem's destruction. This would also result in Monarch containing Kong inside a dome-shaped facility to keep him safe.

### *Godzilla vs. Kong*

* He is indirectly responsible for all of the events of *Godzilla vs. Kong*, including the creation of Mechagodzilla by Apex Cybernetics, who acquired Ghidorah's severed head from Jonah after it was torn off by Godzilla during his battle against Ghidorah off the coast of Isla de Mara in 2019, using the skull's telepathic pathways to control the robot.
* He is indirectly responsible for Godzilla turning dangerously aggressive due to the fact that Apex activated Mechagodzilla which sent out signals that involved a familiar alpha call (which later revealed to be the construction of the robot). While Godzilla disposed of thousands of people and destroyed countless buildings in his way which resulted in an immense number of damage in the process, this is because he was under the influence of Apex who are controlling Mechagodzilla and mistakenly thinks humans are evil, making this as Apex's actions and not his as this basically means that it was entirely their fault for causing all of this since they were responsible for provoking Godzilla into war. This results in public opinion turning against Godzilla, even though Apex are actually manipulating humanity that Godzilla has turned against them by using Mechagodzilla to brainwash him into killing millions of people while also wanting to unleash Mechagodzilla to kill him and all the other Titans so that humans can become the Earth's dominant species.
	+ This would also lead to Godzilla and Kong's rivalry in which Godzilla mistakenly believes Kong is a threat and thinks that he is in league with Ghidorah, even though Kong had nothing to do with it because he posed no threat to Godzilla and that Apex had manipulated him and his allies to travel into the Hollow Earth to extract samples in order to upgrade Mechagodzilla to defeat Godzilla.
* When reincarnated into Mechagodzilla, Ghidorah used his new body to kill Apex's CEO Walter Simmons and electrocutes his chief technology officer Ren Serizawa (although they both deserved it) before attempting to finish what he started by destroying all life once again. He also sought revenge on Godzilla for defeating him in their last encounter, using the mecha to brutally beat him to the brink of death to the point the Titan is visibly afraid for the first time and would've led to him killing Godzilla hadn't it been for Kong, who saves Godzilla from near-death. This leads to Kong and Godzilla working together as a team to take down Ghidorah controlling Mechagodzilla after both of them realize the error of their ways when Kong was encouraged by Jia to help Godzilla after he was convinced by her that Godzilla was not really his enemy since Mechagodzilla was actually the "real" one the whole time while Godzilla even realized his mistake as right after Kong saved his life, he came to understand that his rival is not the enemy he thought he was since Mechagodzilla was really the true adversary he had been searching for, not Kong. Eventually, Ghidorah's influence was ultimately ended when Mechagodzilla meets its match at the hands of Godzilla and Kong, leaving Ghidorah's legacy in complete vain.

## Trivia

* This is the first incarnation of Ghidorah to appear in an American-made film.
* At an estimated 521 feet in height, this is the largest live-action incarnation of King Ghidorah and the second largest Kaiju in the entire franchise (next to his anime counterpart, who debuted in the same year as this incarnation).
* This is the second incarnation of King Ghidorah to have the ability to regenerate his body parts. Grand King Ghidorah regenerated an entire body from a tail.
* This incarnation of Ghidorah is the second kaiju to almost kill Godzilla in the MonsterVerse, following the M.U.T.O.s.
* Director Michael Dougherty revealed on his Twitter that, during the production of the film, he named King Ghidorah's individual heads. The center one being named **Ichi**, the right head is named **Ni**, and the left head is named **San**, sometimes jokingly named **Kevin**.
* Unlike the M.U.T.O.s and the Skullcrawlers as they were simply animals (if intelligent ones) acting on instinct, King Ghidorah is one of the two monsters in the MonsterVerse who are genuinely malevolent, alongside with the Skull Devil (the alpha of the Skullcrawlers). Though Ghidorah is more evil because his plan concerns the whole Earth rather than just a localized place, and Ghidorah maliciously slaughters humans for pleasure rather than mere hunger.
* The theme of Ghidorah has a Buddhist chant, the Heart Sutra, which refers to the phenomenon of Sūnyata, that everything comes from nothing and comes back to nothing. In fact, Sūnyata also means Zero, as his nickname Monster Zero.
* Although this incarnation of King Ghidorah possesses the sadism of earlier incarnations, it's conveyed more subtly here. In *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, it's speculated that Ghidorah's goal is converting the Earth into a suitable home for himself as an alien outsider to its existing ecosphere, whereas most previous incarnations of Ghidorah have been portrayed as serial planet destroyers who have seemingly little to no reason for committing their omnicidal actions except for the sake of it; furthermore, this incarnation only went out of his way to massacre the G-Team and attempt to kill Madison Russell when they provoked him first. The main clues to this Ghidorah's sadistic nature are that he also equally attacks humans who have done nothing to provoke him and who are trying to evade him, and his heads tend to smile when doing this (though Ichi is the most prominent, San/Kevin and Ni are both respectively shown sporadically smiling when Ghidorah is sadistically attacking humans it doesn't consider a threat); and Ghidorah tends to utilize overkill when attacking humans, something expressly pointed out in the novelization.
* Ghidorah was intended by the filmmakers to represent the climatic change. He is released from Antarctica, creates powerful hurricanes which destabilize the global weather, and he seeks to rapidly change the Earth's climate in a way that'll be too rapid and too destructive for the Earth's biosphere to adapt.
* Although he is obviously the archenemy of Godzilla, he shares more contrasts with Mothra:
	+ Mothra is associated with insects, Ghidorah with reptiles.
	+ Mothra's passage clears the sky of any clouds while Ghidorah creates catastrophic tempests.
	+ Mothra is actively worshipped by some humans even in the present time, while ancient humans seemingly tried to deliberately forget Ghidorah by leaving little writings about him.
	+ Mothra is actively benevolent towards humans and (normal-sized) insects and is the most benevolent Titan; Ghidorah, on the other hand, is the total opposite.
	+ Mothra is associated with life and has a theme who is associated with grace and hope, while Ghidorah brings death and has a very dark theme associated with fear.
	+ Mothra is multicolored while Ghidorah's colors are only yellow and gold.
	+ Mothra's relationship with Godzilla is symbiotic and possibly romantic while Ghidorah's relationship with Godzilla is one of animosity and shared hate.
	+ Mothra allies with humans and other Titans via symbiosis and common goals whereas Ghidorah dominates Titans to force them into obedience.
	+ Mothra was greatly injured fighting Rodan while Ghidorah was more or less easily able to defeat him.
* Ghidorah's inability to cope with the water is the reason of his congelation and imprisonment in the ices of Antarctica. Long time ago, he fought with Godzilla and the latter dragged him into the water. The water froze, imprisoning the dragon for centuries.
* Ghidorah's presence has inspired several myths in the universe, like the Greek Hydra and like him; as he can regenerate his head. He also gets destroyed the same way, with fire which neutralizes the extra heads until only the main head is left.
* When designing the dragon, Mike Dougherty wanted to create a "unique" design that still looked like the previous versions of Ghidorah and worked closely with Toho to make sure the new design respected past incarnations. He also studied various animals, especially king cobras, in order to add a sense of realism to the design.
* The way Ghidorah is presented has many satanic undertones. Dr. Graham's notes call him the Devil; in the last book of the Bible, the devil appears as a dragon with many heads; in *Dante's Inferno*, the devil is pictured as a three-headed monster stuck in a frozen lake in the last circle of hell. In the movie proper, he is stated to be a great dragon fallen from the stars (an analogy with the heavens). But the most blatant reference is in a scene where he makes his powerful call to the Titans on Rodan's volcano under a scorching sky while a cross in foreground occupies an half of the screen.
* Like his other counterparts, he can lift Godzilla off the ground.
* Outpost 32, the location where King Ghidorah's frozen body was preserved, is a reference to The Thing, which was preserved in Outpost 31.
* This is the first incarnation of King Ghidorah to appear in an American-made film.
* In the official Monarch timeline posted on the Facebook page for *Kong: Skull Island*, the label given to Ghidorah is 'Monster Zero', which was the name given to him by the Xiliens in *Invasion of Astro-Monster*.
* The trait where monsters had inspired humanity to create mythical creatures from the real world is very similar to the cases seen in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera Trilogy and his Godzilla. Both incarnations of King Ghidorah have bird-like with three large claws and a smaller fourth digit, and wings with phalanges that can be folded at the side. They also possess electrical abilities along with the traditional gravity beams. Shusuke Kaneko also pointed multiple similarities between his *GMK* and *King of the Monsters* including "King Ghidorah in ice" and "a father in a submarine".
* This is the largest live-action incarnation of Ghidorah as well as the second-largest next to the anime incarnation.
* Monarch Outpost 32, where Ghidorah was contained, functions as a reference to Outpost 31 of the 1982 film *The Thing*. This is backed up by his location that is set in a tundra environment.
	+ Additionally, it is a more subtle homage to 1964, the year *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster* was released (as 32 is half of 64).
* This is the second incarnation of Ghidorah that can fire lightning from his wings, with the first being his *Rebirth of Mothra III* incarnation.
* Ghidorah has been described by MPC animation supervisor Spencer Cook as the film's most complicated monster to bring to life.
* Although this incarnation of King Ghidorah possesses the sadism of earlier incarnations, it's conveyed more subtly here. In *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, it's speculated that Ghidorah's goal is converting the Earth into a suitable home for himself as an alien outsider to its existing ecosphere, whereas most previous incarnations of Ghidorah have been portrayed as serial planet destroyers who have seemingly little to no reason for committing their omnicidal actions except for the sake of it; furthermore, this incarnation only went out of his way to massacre the G-Team and attempt to kill Madison Russell when they provoked him first. The main clues to this Ghidorah's sadistic nature are that he also equally attacks humans who have done nothing to provoke him and who are trying to evade him, and his heads tend to smile when doing this; and he tends to utilize overkill when attacking humans, something expressly pointed out in the novelization.
* According to Michael Dougherty:
	+ Although *King of the Monsters* is not a comedy, he likened Ghidorah to Rip Van Winkle in the sense that he's puzzled by waking up to the modern world's technology; having "a very cruel personality" with a "sense of humor and mischief" as well as curiosity.
	+ He likened Ghidorah's three heads to triplets or brothers or physically-identical dogs, with different personalities and ways of expressing themselves and with interactions with each other. He described Ichi as the "*big brother*", "*alpha*" and "*most serious*" of the three as well as the head who's "*calling the shots*", and said of Ni and San/Kevin: "*So if you're facing Ghidorah, [Ni] is batshit crazy. He will throw down with anybody; he is always ready and ready to go into a fight. And then [San/Kevin] is a little more curious. I would say maybe a little slower on the draw.*"
	+ He commented that Ghidorah loves playing cat-and-mouse with his prey due to his malice.
	+ Additionally, when designing Ghidorah, he wanted to create a "unique" design that still resembled Ghidorah and worked closely with Toho to make sure the new design respected past incarnations; he also studied various animals, specifically king cobras, to add a sense of realism to the design.
	+ He also told the design team to maintain an eastern dragon influence, and to avoid any western dragon influences, stating "They're not traditional western dragons. So those were marching orders from the beginning... We don't want it to look like *Game of Thrones* dragons".
	+ He's also jokingly suggested that San/Kevin probably wouldn't be so antagonistic if not for the influence of Ghidorah's other two heads.
	+ He's jokingly suggested that San/Kevin has been losing his head regularly over Ghidorah's long life as something of a running gag, and it's gotten to a point that the head has gotten particularly skilled at regenerating itself.
	+ Most of Ghidorah's neurons are scattered throughout his body and limbs much like an octopus, which enabled the regrown left head to retain the severed head's memories and personality.
	+ Had the U.S. military not intervened in Ghidorah and Godzilla's underwater battle using the Oxygen Destroyer, Godzilla would have won the battle.
	+ Among the film's four main Titans, Ghidorah was intended to represent the element Air, and the Tarot card the Devil.
* According to the three actors who portrayed Ghidorah's heads:
	+ Alex Maxson thinks that Ni (the right head) wishes he was the leader head, and he obeys Ichi (the middle head) begrudgingly.
	+ Maxson and Jason Liles both think Ni is more of a wild card and the most unstable of the heads, while San/Kevin obeys Ichi's commands without thinking to question it.
	+ Mike Dougherty wanted Ghidorah's heads to have different personalities and different actors, including one head that was full of rage, before casting.
* Spencer Cook backed up Mike Dougherty's description of Ni's personality by calling him "the impulsive and angry [head]" who is "always ready to attack and is hyperactive"; and he said said of San/Kevin: "The left head is more curious and playful; he’d wait to see what the others did and followed that."
* In *Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization*:
	+ Unlike in the films, the novelization seems to portray Ghidorah's heads as lacking any independent personalities, only hinting that they can operate independently of each-other when necessary.
	+ The novelization outright states Ghidorah lives for killing. Mark at one point speculates about the MonsterVerse's god/kaiju allegory that Ghidorah is essentially an insane god.
	+ It's confirmed that Ghidorah was in pain when regenerating his severed head at Rodan's volcano
* *Godzilla vs. Kong* director Adam Wingard believes that Mechagodzilla's sentience when hijacked by Ghidorah's subconsciousness is the result of Ghidorah's remnant consciousness merging with the Mecha's AI to create a new personality. The film's novelization meanwhile states when Mechagodzilla gains sentience, "It did not know who it was, or what it was, but it was full of rage and the black joy of finally *being*, and having limbs, and teeth, a boundless, unending energy at its command" and it suggests Ren Serizawa's devoured consciousness was essentially *digested* to form the Mecha's personality.
* According to *Godzilla vs. Kong - The Official Movie Novelization*:
	+ The bone matter in Ghidorah's skulls is an integral cognitive component in its own right, making the skulls double as part of Ghidorah's brain rather than being a mere brain casing.
	+ Apex Cybernetics obtained Ghidorah's skull/s two years before the main time frame, when a man indicated to be Alan Jonah sold them to Walter Simmons.
	+ The chamber containing Ghidorah's skull in Apex Cybernetics' Hong Kong headquarters, called the Skull Room in the novel, is obliterated when Mechagodzilla kills Walter Simmons and the skull possibly shattered along with it, unlike in the film where the chamber and skull are shown to be intact when Simmons dies.
	+ Whereas the only reference in the film to the existence of an extra Ghidorah skull was Bernie Hayes speculating there was "another one" inside of Mechagodzilla, the novelization explicitly states that there was a second Ghidorah skull of unknown origin which Alan Jonah sold to Apex alongside San/Kevin's skull. Where the second skull came from after all three of Ghidorah's attached heads were vaporized alongside his body in Boston is unexplained.
* Several features of this King Ghidorah could have been inspired by Smaug the Golden from the live-action *Hobbit* trilogy, specifically the collapsible wings that can be used as front limbs for walking, similar facial structures, menacing facial expressions, and their throats glow when using breath attacks. Additionally, both Smaug and King Ghidorah were portrayed via motion capture.
	+ Weta Digital Workshop participated in the CGI effects for both film series. The studio is known for its introduction of motion capture into live-action films, and Andy Serkis, known for his usage of motion capture for Gollum in the *Lord of the Ring* and the *Hobbit* trilogies, later played King Kong in the 2005 film.
* Ghidorah's heads having independent personalities is a trait similar to the octopus on which Ghidorah's decentralized nervous system was based: octopi have a central brain which is able to receive information and exert some control, but the arms each are able to receive and respond to sensory information independently, and it's been alleged that an octopus' arms can each exhibit distinct behavior habits. Although based on the explanation of Ghidorah's heads' telepathy in *Godzilla vs. Kong*, this particular resemblance to octopi is probably only superficial, or at least operates on different mechanics to an octopus, in Ghidorah's case.
* Ghidorah was originally designed with a mane of tendrils at the back of each head, most likely a reference to the original iteration's maned design in his debut, *Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster*. This trait was apparently removed at the last minute, but it's still visible in a single shot of the finished film when Ghidorah is fighting Rodan.
* The coordinates on the official Monarch website indicating Ghidorah's location according to the Raolus satellite in actuality lead into the South Atlantic Ocean.
* The dragons from the 2002 film *Reign of Fire* share similarities to the facial structures of this King Ghidorah: the male dragon from *Reign of Fire* and the middle head of this King Ghidorah have more curved horns, and both play the "alpha" role, while the female dragons from *Reign of Fire* and the other heads of this King Ghidorah possess more linear horns and their heads are less built than their "alphas".
* This is the fourth incarnation of King Ghidorah to have an extraterrestrial origin and the third to act solely on his terms much like his debut film and *Rebirth of Mothra III*.
* The scene where Alan Jonah collects the severed Ghidorah head could be a reference to *Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II*, where the mechanical head of King Ghidorah was salvaged for the creation of Mechagodzilla.
* Some of Ghidorah's deeper vocalizations are that of the Vastatosaurus rex from Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, such as when he is struck by Godzilla's atomic breath upon entering Boston.
* The opening credits of *Godzilla vs. Kong* display Ghidorah's weight as 121,000 tons, but it is miswritten as "121,00".

## External Links

* King Ghidorah on the Pure Evil Wiki
* King Ghidorah on the *Godzilla* Wiki