Ghidorah

* Ghidorah
* Mecha-King Ghidorah

"*When Monarch discovers an extraordinary superspecies sealed beneath the Canadian ice sheet, Dr. Vivienne Graham leads the effort to build a covert containment and research facility around the dormant creature. Her classified field notes contain a mysterious footnote: "The devil has three heads."*"
―Monarch file
**King Ghidorah**, also known as **Monster Zero**, is a giant extraterrestrial three-headed dragon and the overarching antagonist of the MonsterVerse. Ghidorah arrived on Earth on a meteor during the Younger Dryas impact event 13 thousand years ago. Ever since that time, he had brought catastrophic natural disasters with his electromagnetic nature, including creating a perpetual storm around Skull Island.

Ghidorah had lived on Earth for thousands of years until he was defeated and forced to hibernate to recuperate his powers after an angry Godzilla defeated him for killing his family. In 2016, the Monarch organization discovered his location and established an outpost upon where he slumbers.

In 2018, a series of terrorist attacks led by Alan Jonah, a disguised xilien led to his awakening. He returned to power and resumes his destructive campaign to be the alpha MUTO of the Earth, and that led him to face his archenemy once again, Godzilla. He was ultimately defeated by the combined forces of Godzilla and Mothra, and his corpse mysteriously disappeared in the aftermath.

It was later revealed that his corpse were taken by the xiliens on Earth, in order to use him to defeat their enemies (another faction of xiliens from space), the rebuilt him with cybernetic parts, making him **Mecha-King Ghidorah**.

## Biography

### Arrival to Earth

Ghidorah came from an unknown planet on a comet that would land on Earth in what's known as the Younger Dryas impact event, shortly after impact he awakened and settles on this planet.

### Fighting Mechagodzilla

A thousand years after his arrival to Earth, the Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens came to Earth in an attempt to retrieve him using Mechagodzilla

### Visiting Skull Island

In 9,260 BC, Ghidorah casually flew over Skull Island and the storm he brought, mixed with the environment surrounding the island, eventually created a perpetual storm that isolated the island from the rest of the world. His alpha call also caused a swarm of skull crawlers to resurface and clash with the *Giganteroplis kongs*, in an event dubbed the Skull Island Massacre.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

"*Metallurgical studies theorize the scales act as a conductor capable of carrying bioelectrical currents through the creature's body.*"
―Monarch file
* **Extraterrestrial physiology**: King Ghidorah possesses a physiology unique to other MUTOs in that he is an alien.
	+ **Bio-electrical nature**: 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, this seemingly enabled him to draw his storm's lightning to himself as a living conductor.
		- **"Gravity beams"**: Ghidorah could shoot yellow 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.
	+ **Flight**: Ghidorah's massive and powerful wings allowed him to fly with great speed over long distances, and he only needed to pump them downwards to get airborne off the ground.
	+ **Alpha call**: When Ghidorah became the alpha, he let out an extremely loud and powerful call that could be heard by the other Titans all around the world. Upon hearing the said call, the Titans would immediately come to Ghidorah's aid, assisting him in destroying the Earth. This call however did not affect Godzilla, who was a rival alpha, or Mothra, who was loyal only to Godzilla.
	+ **Hurricane generation**: Ghidorah had hyper-tensile muscle tendons in his wings that were capable of generating hurricane-force winds while in flight.
	+ **Telepathic transferral**: Ghidorah had some form of telepathy as he was able to rewrite Mechagodzilla's consciousness into that of his own.
	+ **Energy drain**: Ghidorah could drain energy and electricity directly into himself by biting down on power sources. He gained a catastrophically-immense burst of electrical power by biting down on a live power station in Boston; and he was also able to slowly drain and siphon Godzilla's excess radiation by biting down on the latter.
	+ **Vacuum adaptation**: Due to being an extraterrestrial alien, Ghidorah did not require oxygen to survive. He appeared to produce some fogged exhalation in Canada however, though notably not as thick as Godzilla's breaths.
	+ **Instant regeneration**: Using the radiation from the Volcán de Agua, Ghidorah was able to regenerate the head that was decapitated by Godzilla almost instantaneously. Ghidorah was also able to regenerate holes in his wing membranes within seconds.
	+ **Twin-tails**: Ghidorah has two tails with retractable spikes on the ends that he can use as formidable weapons.
	+ **Meteorokinesis**: 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 typhoon.
	+ **Super strength and combat**: Ghidorah was a tactical combatant. Ghidorah's jaws and his gravity beams were his primary and preferred weapons, with all three heads tending to work together (and often firing their gravity beams in unison) to combat Ghidorah's foe
	+ **Super speed and agility**: Each of Ghidorah's heads was very nimble and quick; able to lash out and quickly strike their intended targets like snakes.
	+ **Super stamina**: Ghidorah was able to fly straight from Canada to Guatemala to fight Rodan. When he arrived, he was able to quickly take down his target with ease and then caught in a fight with Godzilla right after.
* **Cybernetic enhancements**: Ghidorah was revived by the xiliens and received cybernetic enhancements.
	+ **Grappling cables**: Mecha-King Ghidorah was equipped with Capture Cables and a large machine hand restraint that can also discharge electricity.
	+ **Triple proton scream**: Mecha-King Ghidorah can fire a triple proton scream from his left head inspired by Mechagodzilla's technology.
	+ **Fireballs**: Mecha-King Ghidorah could spit orange fireballs from hiss left and right heads and green fireballs from its central head.
	+ **Heat-seeking missiles**: Mecha-King Ghidorah was equppied with limited missiles that can lock target an enemy.
	+ **Force field**: Mecha-King Ghidorah could manifest a protective barrier around himself, temporarily rendering him immune to all energy based damage by opponents.

### Abilities

* **High 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.
	+ **Tactical analysis**: Ghidorah overall is seemingly also capable of tactical fighting and improvization.

### Weaknesses

* **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 Mecha-King Ghidorah's immense durability, he could not withstand the thermonuclear pulses that Godzilla released in his burning form, which incinerated Ghidorah's mechanical parts in a matter of seconds.
* **Water**: Since Ghidorah's physical structure was that of an airborne creature, he was not entirely suited to move underwater.

## Relationships

Allies* Xiliens
* Mechagodzilla - former enemy and telepathic host
* Megaera - victim
* Godzilla's children - victim
* King Kong
* Mothra - victim
* Rodan - former thrall, betrayer, and victim
* Quetzalcoatl - former thrall and betrayer
* Drukr
* Typhon - victim
* Behemoth - former thrall and betrayer
* Scylla - former thrall and betrayer
* Wukong - former thrall and betrayer
* Crimson MUTO - former thrall and betrayer

## Trivia

* A considered idea for his origin story was to have him be the cause of either the Permian-Triassic extinction event or the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

## External links

* King Ghidorah (MonsterVerse) on Gojipedia