Godzilla

**Godzilla** (Japanese: ゴジラ, Hepburn: *Gojira*, /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/; [ɡoꜜ(d)ʑiɾa] ⓘ) is a fictional monster, or *kaiju*, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films produced by Toho Co., Ltd., five American films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. Godzilla has been dubbed the "**King of the Monsters**", an epithet first used in *Godzilla, King of the Monsters!* (1956), the American localization of the 1954 film.

Godzilla is a prehistoric reptilian monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the *Lucky Dragon 5* incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Others have suggested that Godzilla is a metaphor for the United States, a giant beast woken from its slumber which then takes terrible vengeance on Japan. As the film series expanded, some stories took on less serious undertones, portraying Godzilla as an antihero, or a lesser threat who defends humanity. Later films address disparate themes and commentary including Japan's apathy and neglect of its imperial past, natural disasters, and the human condition.

Godzilla has been featured alongside many supporting characters. It has faced human opponents such as the JSDF, or other monsters, including King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla and Gigan. Godzilla sometimes has allies, such as Rodan, Mothraand Anguirus, and offspring, such as Minilla and Godzilla Junior. Godzilla has also fought characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as King Kong, as well as various Marvel Comics characters, including S.H.I.E.L.D.,the Fantastic Four and the Avengers.

As Burning Godzilla, his appearance has not changed much. Only visible difference is reddish skin with glowinh
g orange abdomen. Godzilla's eyes are now red.
In episode 23, titled *SpaceGodzilla: Awakening*, Godzilla's appearance has drastically changed. His skin is now black with dirty red abdomen. His tail is far longer and thinner. From shoulders, back and tip of tail erupts a giant crystal spikes. His eyes are now orange. In episode 30 Spacegodzilla scanned Female godzilla's head about her death.

## Powers and Abilities

**Godzilla's Physiology:**

* **Atomic Heat Ray:** Godzilla posses ability to fire an Atomic Heat Ray. It appears as focused, fiery beam in blue colour. Before using this ability, Godzilla's dorsal plates glows in blue colour. Atomic Heat Ray posses heat and explosive properties. It was shown that Atomic Heat Ray is powerful enough to damage Mechagodzilla I and Kong, but is mostly useless against King Ghidorah. When Atomic Heat Ray was fired into middle throat of dragon, it almost instantly caused one of his head to enter coma state. In clash with Gravity Beams, Atomic Heat Ray created a massive explosion that knocked Godzilla off his feet.
* **Burning Heat Ray:** After absorbing a massive amount of energy from Rodan's volcano, Godzilla gained ability to fire more powerful variant of Atomic Heat Ray. Burning Heat Ray is orange in both glow on dorsal plates and beam. It was shown that Burning Heat Ray is powerful enough to seriously damage King Ghidorah and match Rodan's Uranium Beam.
* **Corona Beam:** After becoming Spacegodzilla, Godzilla develop a Corona Beam. Corona Beam is golden in colour and electric in appearance. Unlike Atomic Heat Ray and Burning Heat Ray, Corona Beam has properties to negate gravity after directly hitting the target.
* **Photon Reactive Forcefield:** Spacegodzilla posses ability to generate a temporal forcefield in order to reflect beams.
* **Flight:** Despite lacking of wings, Spacegodzilla can fly. In order to escape planet's orbit, Spacegodzilla can cover his body in crystals.
* **Physical Strength:** Godzilla has great physical strength that allows him to match most of monsters. He fought on pair with Mechagodzilla I and temporary hold his own against King Ghidorah. As Burning Godzilla, he was able to easily rip one of dragon's heads off.
* **Physical Durability:** Godzilla posses an insane amount of durability. Mechagodzilla's rockets only stuns Godzilla for a couple of seconds, while Zilla instantly dies. Both Mechagodzilla's and King Ghidorah's physical attacks was shown to cause a little damage to Godzilla. Both Gravity Beams and Uranium Beam were unable to damage Burning Godzilla. Godzilla was also shown as immune to extreme temperatures. After being frozen by Mechagodzilla, Godzilla almost immediately freed himself with Atomic Heat Ray. However, lava from Rodan's volcano was shown to be able to hurt Godzilla, as he roared in pain after being thrown into by King Ghidorah.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Similar to other Godzillas in the series, Godzilla posses a regenerative healing factor. He could regenerate from remaining heart, although it took him a couple of months. When he became Spacegodzilla, he could easily heal from blast wounds from xilien weapons in seconds.
* **Telekinesis:** When he became Spacegodzilla, he was able to redirect enemy rockets back at his enemies, this ability can also pick up King Kong and Mechagodzilla off the ground and into the air.

## Weaknesses

* **Heart:** As shown on Female Godzilla, Godzillas cannot regenerate if their hearts are crushed.
* **Gravity Beams:** King Ghidorah's Gravity Beams were shown to cause a lot of damage to Godzilla in his base form. However, it is no longer a weakness in his burning form.
* **Mind Control:** As shown on base form, Godzilla is vulnerable to mind control though a highly advanced technology.
* **Rockets:** As shown in episode 29, when being hit with a rocket from a enhanced Mechagodzilla, he was knocked out, and fell on his back, and would have died had a cyborg King Kong not have attacked Mechagodzilla from behind.