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Ghidorah

Scientific name: Titanus Ghidorah

A malevolent extraterrestrial Titan which was responsible for instigating the Titan Mass Awakening before being defeated by Godzilla. It consists of three draconic brothers with a single body, who each have control of one of the three heads: San (later San's other self, San-2/San-Who-Could-Have-Been) who is known to the other heads as "Youngest Brother" or "the Third"; and the "Eldest Brother" (the central head, Ichi, "the First") and "Elder Brother/Younger Brother" (the right head, Ni, "the Second").

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Tropes applying generally or to all three heads

A-H

• Accuser of the Brethren: All three heads towards a once-destructive character who feels guilt. Ichi, Ni and San-2 are all too eager to play on San's guilt and tell him that his Heel–Face Turn and love for Vivienne mean nothing.
• Adaptational Abomination: Ghidorah was already portrayed in MonsterVerse canon as a Draconic Abomination; but in Abraxas, its leftover head's telepathy is even more potent and it has an even more intense Brown Note, than anything it displayed in Godzilla vs. Kong. It's also worth noting, the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization states Ghidorah's skull is composed of metals and minerals that are rare on Earth, whereas in AbraxasVerse, most of the elements Ghidorah's biology is composed of aren't even on the periodic table.
• Adaptational Backstory Change:
  • Like the Showa version's later appearances, Ghidorah in this fic has a history with advanced humanoid aliens, as their Bioweapon Beast for waging destruction against another planet's populace. Unlike the Showa version, AbraxasVerse Ghidorah is not acting on their orders at all since it invaded Earth, because Ghidorah turned on them and rendered them extinct billions of years ago.
  • Like the Heisei version, Ghidorah was originally created by technologically-advanced humanoids mutating and fusing three Dorats into their current three-headed, mass destructive form. Unlike the Heisei version, the original Dorats in AbraxasVerse were naturally-occurring wild animals on an alien planet billions of years ago rather than genetically-engineered pets from the future, and they were mutated in an alien lab facility instead of being mutated via planting them on Bikini Atoll just before the Castle Bravo atomic bombing.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Besides the points racked up by MonsterVerse canon Ghidorah relative to earlier licensed continuities' portrayals, there's also the fact that this story's version of Ghidorah was able to break free of its alien former-masters' control without any assistance, if they even had any real control over it to begin with (but from what the author has said, it's possible that those aliens probably just didn't value their lives enough to try placing restraints on their own creation).
  • Ghidorah's Psychic Powers even when it's reduced to a single head are demonstrably more intense here than in MonsterVerse canon, retaining and exploiting psychic links to severed pieces of itself that are hundreds of miles away. Ghidorah in this fic is also able to regenerate fully From a Single Cell with all three minds intact, whereas MonsterVerse Ghidorah's remains were an Undead Abomination that only demonstrably retained Ghidorah's Soul Fragment.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Downplayed somewhat — "Sympathy's" a stretch, it would probably be more accurate to call it "Adaptational Pity". Ghidorah is still a planet-destroying Omnicidal Maniac who enjoys the suffering it inflicts, and the middle and right heads are just as irredeemable as any of the three-headed dragon's canon portrayals ever were; but unlike all of Ghidorah's movie portrayals, this version has a very dark and compelling Freudian Excuse. Long story short, Ghidorah was viciously experimented on and thoroughly tortured by Abusive Precursors, and after Ghidorah killed said Precursors, the lingering biological consequences of their experiments continued to torment Ghidorah into killing just so it could get some reprieves from the torture, and it drove Ghidorah insane over billions of years; moulding its heads' minds into the depraved, genocidal sadists they now are. "Damnatio Memoriae" recounts Ghidorah's emotionally excruciating Start of Darkness.
• The Ageless: Its Backstory indicates as much, confirming that it's been around for eons.
• Ancient Evil: On top of Ghidorah's points from MonsterVerse canon, it's been destroying entire worlds for billions of years before it came to ancient Earth, most likely making Ghidorah older than all the Earth-born Titans and the physical planet itself. Ghidorah considers itself a "deathless" being that can never be permanently defeated, because its regenerative abilities are so powerful that it's died and grown back multiple times before.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: In Chapter 17, it decides on a whim to try assimilating Thor into the Many and then ripping Mothra limb from limb, solely so that it can see Godzilla and Monster X's reactions.
• Arch-Enemy: On top of its rivalry with Godzilla carrying over from King of the Monsters, Ghidorah has a more personal enmity with Monster X than any of the fic's other antagonists. Although Alan Jonah and MaNi's transgressions against Viv and San also make the hybrid's conflicts with them personal, Ghidorah poses a much bigger threat and is more competent than either of them. Ghidorah psychically traumatized and haunted Vivienne for years, and it's directly responsible for setting off her Trauma Conga Line, continuing to actively throw wood on the fire. The middle head in particular represents what Vivienne could become if she fully succumbs to Ghidorah's efforts to turn her into a monster like itself. Ghidorah's middle and right heads fostered a lot of San's issues via abusing him over the eons that he was part of Ghidorah, while the resurrected Ghidorah's current left head is quite literally a mirror image of what San would still be like if he didn't have Vivienne.
• Artifact of Doom: The severed Ghidorah head inside the abandoned Monarch outpost, which is implied to still have some of Ghidorah in it after San's consciousness has left.
• The Assimilator: Its ultimate plan for Vivienne — it intends to turn her into its fourth head (Shi). In Chapter 17, Ghidorah manages to partly assimilate Thor into its partly Many-composed body.
• Ax-Crazy: Ghidorah (particularly Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother) is just as relentlessly depraved, cruel and bloodthirsty here as the three-headed monster has ever been in any licenced Godzilla continuity. Ghidorah's backstory here expands on the "crazy" when describing what caused Ghidorah to become the sadistic Omnicidal Maniac we all know it as.
• Back from the Dead: San states that Ghidorah can regenerate and return from death via its Healing Factor so long as any trace of its DNA remains — apparently, San and his brothers have died and resurrected this way before — and thus Ghidorah will one day return via the decapitated head or its DNA. It eventually comes true.
• Badass Boast: Has this for a Bone Singer who communicated with it, in the past in Chapter 5:^note The below capitalization, font and lack of grammar is how each of the trio's dialogue is respectively written in the fic

  Ichi: WE ARE DEATHLESS
  Ni: WE ARE ETERNAL
  Ichi: WE ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS
  Ni: CONSUMED EMPIRES OF FLESH AND BONE AND METAL
  San: we live forever cut off our heads and they will grow back
  Ichi: THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
  Ni: THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
  San: the head is the seat of the soul

• Bad Boss: Ghidorah actually regards the Titans it once commanded as "lowly beasts" who have no higher purposes than being lapdogs to Ghidorah's whims.
• Beauty Is Bad: It's acknowledged as having been a beautiful and elegant creature, as utterly evil and destructive as it was. In its incomplete, Body Horror form, the heads are about the only part of it that retain this.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Ghidorah's creators methodically tortured it, implicitly to make it a more effectively violent Bioweapon Beast, and this was the beginning of Ghidorah's path into evil before it exterminated the Makers in revenge. The Old Noise the Makers had programmed into Ghidorah's minds finished what the Makers started, slowly tearing apart and erasing what goodness Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother still had in them until Ghidorah became the vicious monster we all know it as.
• Belly Mouth: Keizer Ghidorah has a giant, vertical mouth with teeth in its Many-made chest.
• Big Bad: It casts a lingering influence on San and Vivienne. Once it starts coming Back from the Dead, it serves as the main Kaiju antagonist of the story.
• Big Brother Instinct: Not anymore – now the relationship between Ghidorah's three heads is just a dark, toxic echo of what it used to be, but there was a time when all three of them were affectionate and fiercely protective of each-other, especially Ichi/Eldest Brother; as shown in the Abraxas: Empty Fullness one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae".
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Its Evil Plan after regenerating involved inflicting Being Tortured Makes You Evil on their "sister-daughter" Vivienne to make her like them, with the Many as Ghidorah's thralls, and both San-2/Youngest Brother and the Many outright call it a family.
• Bioweapon Beast: Once, long ago. It's implied the alien civilization who turned Ichi, Ni and San into Ghidorah intended them to be this.
• Blood Knight: The right head, Ni, is generally the most prominently battle-thirsty of the three (see his section for details), but Word of God says that Ghidorah generally loves a good fight, and San's own love of battle proves that the left head isn't above relishing a fight.
• Body Horror: Once the Monster Delay ends in Chapter 17, it's revealed that Ghidorah's unwhole body, which it's incorporated the Many into, is so horrible to behold that the entire G-Team go pale-faced despite themselves.
• Break Them by Talking: Is attempting to drive Monster X down a Start of Darkness, using techniques varying from tempting to belittling, to striking when Vivienne is mentally vulnerable.
• Brown Note: The decapitated head's psychic influence seems to cause this, driving to suicide those who don't suffer The Corruption type Sanity Slippage. According to Word of God, there's a constant risk that any undisciplined Bone Singer who doesn't have their guard up around Ghidorah can be psychically pushed and negatively influenced by its telepathy.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Ghidorah has never had a concept of dishonesty before, to the point where even metaphors and allegories are alien. How straight the trope is played actually depends on the head after Ghidorah learns more of humanity's socio-culture through the Many: according to the author, whilst none of the heads technically lie; Ichi/Eldest Brother is happy to use exact words and mislead others, whereas Ni/Elder Brother (like San and presumably also like San-2/Youngest Brother) sees anything less than complete brutal honesty as a disinteresting waste of his own brain-power.
• Clip Its Wings: During the Chapter 17 battle, Godzilla burned a hole through one of Ghidorah's wings with his Atomic Breath to disable its flight advantage.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The author has described what Ni and Ichi's mental voices sound like here, and San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother has the same voice as the main San (the dragon Grigori) — also see here for an example of what Ichi would sound like when he raises his voice based on his casting.
• Composite Character: King Ghidorah and Keizer Ghidorah are considered by Wikizilla to be separate characters due to Toho officially making separate trademarks for them. In Abraxas, they're the same character in different forms.
• The Corrupter: This seems to be its plan for Vivienne, utilizing Break Them by Talking and attempting to drive her into a full Sanity Slippage so it can turn her into another Ax-Crazy extension of Ghidorah.
• Create Your Own Hero: It's done this by planning before San's decapitation to bring Vivienne Back from the Dead as a part-Ghidorah hybrid. If Ichi/Eldest Brother had just been able to settle for killing her and letting her stay dead, the course of events from when Ghidorah starts regenerating would probably go differently.

  Vivienne: [to the Many] "Your 'great one' should have let me stay dead!"

• Dark Lord on Life Support: Played With. It's reliant on its own surviving DNA traces to regenerate From a Single Head after it was previously obliterated, and until it can fully regenerate, it's reliant on the Many to act physically.
• The Darkness Gazes Back: During Ghidorah's confrontation with Thor underground, it became visible by its glinting eyes when enraged, then also by the glow of its Gravity Beams charging.
• Decomposite Character: Ghidorah here becomes Keizer Ghidorah in spirit after merging with the Many and forming a pair of forelegs, making this continuity's version of Keizer Ghidorah a separate character from Monster X.
• Dehumanization: A variation. It considers any of its heads that have detached from Ghidorah's main body and become autonomous creatures to be nothing more than "shed skins" or "shadows" which are inferior to Ghidorah, despite said shed skins retaining their personalities. Word of God has talked more about how and when Ghidorah developed this attitude in its backstory.
• Demiurge Archetype: Ghidorah is presented as a demiurge as well as the Satanic Archetype via the Many's belief that they're Pieces of God and reverence of their three-headed draconic originator. Word of God (1 2) notes that Ghidorah, particularly Ichi/Eldest Brother, manipulates the Many it creates and the non-suicidal victims of Ghidorah's Brown Note into believing that Ghidorah is the true God, and Ghidorah itself might believe its own lie due to its own attitude, though it's not as supreme as it claims to be in the face of equally immortal, and more natural and cosmically-aware Titans like Mothra.
• Determinator: Implied. Compared to the old Toho incarnations who would flee back into space when defeated, in this story, it seems Ghidorah truly will not stop until it's successfully conquered and destroyed the Earth before it can move on to doing the same to another world. Bear in mind, it's explicitly confirmed in this story that Ghidorah is capable of interstellar travel (whereas King of the Monsters kept Ghidorah's history before falling to Earth shrouded in mystery), yet it tries to kill Godzilla and destroy his world every time it comes back from death.
• Detrimental Determination: Not only did Ghidorah unwittingly create their own hero by transforming Vivienne into a hybrid Titan, but Ghidorah remains fixated on getting her back and completing its end-goals for her. This ultimately leads to Monster X alerting Godzilla and his allies (both human and Titan) to Ghidorah's hiding place once Ghidorah has had Monster X brought there; triggering the Final Battle of the fic, and ruining Ghidorah's chance to remain in hiding until it was fully regenerated.
• Doomed Protagonist: Of "Damnatio Memoriae", which chronicles Ghidorah's descent into madness and evil due to their capture and traumatic captivity by the Makers, and due to further groundwork being set by their infection with the Old Noise.
• Draconic Abomination: True to its film characterization, Ghidorah is an inexplicably powerful and ancient creature even by the standards of the Titans, and has a Healing Factor and biology that can't be explained by human science, not to mention the results of experimenting on its DNA.
• The Dreaded: Vivienne completely feared Ghidorah when it was still frozen, humans who encountered Ghidorah during the Mass Awakening tend to be left with some psychological trauma to varying degrees, and both humans and Titans alike take the idea of Ghidorah one day returning From a Single Head very gravely. According to Word of God here and here, Gigan's fleet of sense freak worshippers have known of Ghidorah for generations and are absolutely terrified of it, partly because it's almost killed Gigan himself several times.
• Elemental Absorption: San explicitly says that Ghidorah can feed on electrical energy from manmade constructs and from other bio-electrical Titans to make itself stronger.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Subverted. During Keizer Ghidorah's confrontation with Thor, it looks like Ghidorah is going to emerge to attack, but then it pulls back and has its Elite Mook attack him.
• Enemy to All Living Things: It threatens pretty much all other life, it's confirmed here to be a serial Planet Destroyer, and it's despised by Earth's native Titans (forces of nature embodied) as "the Enemy".
• Eternal Villain: Discussed. Ghidorah believes itself to be one, since it knows it will always regenerate if even a small piece of it remains intact somewhere.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Multiple posts by the author have made it clear that unlike San, Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother have absolutely no capacity to change for the better: there simply isn't enough good left in them anymore. If Ichi and Ni were confronted with anything that challenged their straw nihilism, they would have an Ignored Epiphany or just immediately brush it off.
  • Subverted with San-2/Youngest Brother in Chapter 17. He at first can't understand why Vivienne won't respond to him or his brothers the way she responds to Mothra and San, but after he has a lengthy psychic talk with Viv and San coupled with seeing Thor's memories of his family, San-Who-Could-Have-Been ends up making a Redemption Equals Death.
• Evil Counterpart: It has a Good Counterpart in Monster X, who ultimately has similar powers, a similar Two Beings, One Body nature and a very similar origin story to Ghidorah but is benevolent and wants to live in peace, in contrast to Ghidorah's malicious cruelty and Omnicidal Mania. Monster X's individual minds grow close and learn to be siblings through their trauma, whereas the Ghidorah heads' once-loving relationship fell apart due to their trauma. Ichi/Eldest Brother specifically is an Evil Counterpart to Vivienne (see the heads' folder for details).
• Eviler than Thou: It's far too much for Jonah to control even when it's mostly dead, leading to Ghidorah becoming the one pulling Jonah's strings. Driving this trope home is the regenerated heads' utter contempt for Jonah in Chapter 13.
• Evil Is Hammy: Sometimes, especially with Ichi/Eldest Brother, as the Badass Boast and the No Indoor Voice demonstrate, although it's relatively subdued.
• Evil Is Sterile: Downplayed if not averted. Ghidorah's tissue, when tampered with or when one of the heads wants to do Super-Empowering, is capable of giving rise to new monster forms such as Monster X, the Zmeyevich and the Many, but these forms are created by transforming and/or merging with other pre-existing creatures – even the Zmeyevich are the result of hijacking humans' fertility treatment. Ghidorah however believes it can conceive actual offspring the natural way with its own creations.
• Evil Is Visceral: Ghidorah's incomplete remains which haven't yet properly reconstituted, and which have the Many integrated into them, have internal organs visible on the outside and make for a pretty horrifying sight.
• Evil Laugh: It's hinted in this story that some of the times when Ghidorah's heads produce their high-pitched roars (which Godzilla viewers have historically compared to deranged cackling), they really are cackling in their Kaiju Talk. See the Tropes applying to Two Heads folder for another example.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Both San and Mothra consider Ghidorah's utilization of the Many to be a new debasement even by Ghidorah's standards, and... Well, if Ghidorah's part-Many temporary body could make the military team who fought at Washington DC and Boston want to throw up, that's gotta be saying something.
• Evil Versus Evil: According to Word of God, Ghidorah is rivals with Gigan, and they've clashed and tried to kill each-other multiple times before Ghidorah's galactic omnicide brought it to ancient Earth.
• Family Theme Naming: Although Ichi, Ni and San are technically nicknames that Vivienne gave to Ghidorah's three heads rather than being considered by Ghidorah its real names, nevertheless, not only Vivienne but also San-2/Youngest Brother think she'd be called Shi^note The Japanese number four, just as Ichi, Ni and San are one, two and three in Japanese if Ghidorah were to succeed in turning her into its fourth head.
• Fatal Flaw: Like in King of the Monsters, it's Ghidorah's overt thirst for senseless agony that does it in. Ichi/Eldest Brother pulled a Create Your Own Hero by ordering San to turn Vivienne into an Artificial Hybrid because just eating and killing her wasn't enough to satisfy the former, and Ghidorah might have actually won at the story's end if it had gone through with fleeing to the Hollow Earth instead of going back to have some "fun" at its enemies' expense out of sheer spite and malice.
• Faux Flame: Keizer Ghidorah's red-themed storm makes the sky look like it's alive with hellfire.
• Flesh Golem: When Ghidorah uses the Many to form a rudimentary body, the result has vestigial limbs, bones and innards visible all over its body, although these fade as the body reshapes itself and increasingly resembles the Toho portrayal of Keizer Ghidorah.
• Foil: Apart from the Evil Counterpart, Ghidorah is this to Alan Jonah. Despite their Mirror Character (see below), Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother have absolutely zero redeeming qualities and are very much Eviler than Thou. Jonah is ultimately a mortal Smug Snake, whereas Ghidorah is technically a Smug Super as an Alpha-class Physical God.
• Foregone Conclusion: Ghidorah's Start of Darkness in "Damnatio Memoriae".
• For the Evulz: Word of God comments that Ghidorah will personally wipe out some species just for pleasure during its conquest of a planet.
• Freudian Excuse: It's one of the very evilest and most vicious characters in the entire fic, but when its backstory is revealed, it's no wonder that it became so bad. "Damnatio Memoriae" even implies that the Dorats who became Ghidorah's three heads were juveniles when the Makers first captured them and started torturously altering them.
• From a Single Cell: Ghidorah can regenerate its entire body and all three heads' minds from just a single decapitated head, although it implicitly takes years for it to fully regrow without outside assistance, probably not least because the head needs to conserve or expand its internal power according to Word of God.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Ichi, Ni and San began their shared existence as a small, weak type of animal that was not at the top of the food chain, on some faraway alien world. Eons later, they're a spacefaring, murderous Draconic Abomination that has ravaged entire worlds that once had intelligent life, and they're Godzilla's nightmarish Arch-Enemy on Earth.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: An alien wild animal to alien giant Person of Mass Destruction variation, but Ghidorah is this compared to Monster X; having long ago grown to like and then embrace its sadistic instincts which were hardwired into it against its will.
• Genetic Memory: With time, it can regenerate all three heads' individual personalities and memories from just a single decapitated head.
• Genius Bruiser: It's vicious but not dumb at all, and it's highly tactical.
• Genocide Backfire: It's responsible for exterminating the rest of Thor's people long ago, and Thor in the Final Battle plays a significant part in killing Ghidorah. It's also heavily implied that Ghidorah caused or at least contributed to the near-extinction of Godzilla's species.
• A God Am I: It's implied Ghidorah's heads view their single-bodied self this way, and at best consider the terrestrial Titans that oppose them to be second-rate.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Ghidorah's gold color scheme becomes the Evil Color compared to Monster X's bone armor being infused with visible silver traces, in addition to a Bright Is Not Good / Dark Is Not Evil contrast after Monster X's second Metamorphosis.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Besides its points listed under Posthumous Character, its Psychic Powers also caused Jonah's Sanity Slippage and the creation of the Many. Subverted when Ghidorah's three minds regenerate, and it takes over from Jonah as the true Big Bad of the story.
• Hated by All: Everyone In-Universe, from Viv and San to the Titans Ghidorah fought or controlled to the humans who were in any way involved in fighting it during King of the Monsters, hate Ghidorah's guts, and the feeling renews when Ghidorah comes Back from the Dead. San-2/Youngest Brother is somewhat exempt from this trope during and after his Redemption Equals Death, but the other two heads not so much.
• Hate Sink: It's responsible for relentlessly and viciously trying to get under Viv and San's skin via the Psychic Link, and the heads all to varying degrees take glee in physically or psychologically hurting something. Ghidorah's Evil Plan to undo all of Vivienne's work towards mental recovery and reduce her to an irrevocably Ax-Crazy monster, its willingness to forcibly use her as a monster Baby Factory if it'll make her scream to that end, and its wish to physically separate her from San (with no small amount of needless cruelty) and turn her into Ichi, Ni and San-2's fourth head; all of these go quite a way to purge any Rooting for the Empire tendencies that even a sadistic reader might otherwise have, and they make the reader very much root against Ghidorah and want it to fail in its Evil Plan as well as making Ghidorah quite loathsome.
• Having a Blast: In Chapter 17, it's revealed that Keizer Ghidorah has gained Godzilla's ability to pull this off, due to the Many assimilating Godzilla's dorsal plate fragments leftover from the events of Godzilla: Aftershock.
• Healing Factor: It turns out that it can regrow From a Single Cell with enough time.
• Held Gaze: All three heads get stared down by Monster X before the latter unleashes a war cry. Considering how much pain Ghidorah had previously caused this particular Titan, it's no surprise that Ghidorah got the Antagonistic version of this trope, as described in Chapter 17.
• Hero Killer: Ghidorah is the reason why the rest of Thor's species, whom were implicitly Protector Titans, are gone, his valiant son included. San mentions that Ghidorah has also killed several members of Godzilla's species. By the fic's end, Ghidorah indirectly causes Thor's death as well.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": In the film, Ghidorah's name was merely what ancient humans called it, whereas it's explicitly shown in the fic that it's also the name by which Ghidorah's heads identify themselves when they communicate. Special ancient humans who were capable of Kaiju Talk probably picked up and recorded the name. "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ghidorah took its name based on a word it heard on its very first planetary destruction: "Ghee'haszhra".
• Hive Queen: Ghidorah's three minds control the Many, which are originally created from Ghidorah's DNA, this way.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Of the Create Your Own Hero kind. Things would've probably gone very differently if Ghidorah hadn't resurrected Vivienne to turn her into an Artificial Hybrid. What's more, Ghidorah is directly responsible for instigating Monster X's metamorphosis into its final form, enabling them to contribute heavily to the final fight against Ghidorah.
• Hostile Terraforming: San's memories and Word of God confirm that Ghidorah has converted the skies of once-inhabited alien worlds that it attacked before Earth into a planet-wide version of the tempest which forms around Ghidorah on Earth, likely killing off all multicellular life on those worlds that was neither highly adaptable nor used to similar environmental conditions, and the same fate would've eventually befallen Earth if Ghidorah's reign in the Mass Awakening hadn't been stopped. The trope is somewhat subverted in that Ghidorah's AbraxasVerse characterization lines up with the King of the Monsters novelization's briefly suggested alternate character interpretation of Ghidorah; that Ghidorah isn't truly trying to convert Earth or any of those previous worlds it destroyed into an ideal habitat for itself, but is simply using the destruction as a means to accomplish its true end goal of killing off all life on those worlds before it moves on to its next target.
• Hypocrite: Ichi/Eldest Brother is enraged when San points out in Chapter 14 that Ghidorah's creation and utilization of the Many is a lot like what the aliens who turned them into Ghidorah did to them. Word of God comments that Ghidorah really wouldn't care if it realized its hypocrisy and would rationalize the contradiction. See the heads' sub-section for another example from Ichi/Eldest Brother.

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• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Keizer Ghidorah starts out with corpse-filled skin and gangly forelegs, but as its body reshapes itself, it looks increasingly faithful to the original Keizer Ghidorah movie design.
• I'm Melting!: Keizer Ghidorah's body minus its severed head is melted down and vaporized, and then the severed head is cooked and melted by Monster X.
• Immortality Through Memory: Monster X hopes that Ghidorah will die permanently, and that apart from the redeemed San who forms half of Monster X, Ghidorah itself will then be nothing but a bad memory which all will eventually forget.
• Immortals Fear Death: Averted and somewhat deconstructed. Whilst Ghidorah isn't exactly afraid of death, it apparently doesn't fear it much more than the average person either. According to Word of God, this is mainly rooted in Ghidorah's self-awareness that it will always come back from death so long as even a small piece of it survives (at least, that's why Ichi/Eldest Brother, who had a Villainous Breakdown when Monster X suggested he could be killed permanently, isn't overly afraid of dying). Even San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother is less thanatophobic than the main San, having never been terrified by seeing Vivienne's memories of temporary death.
• In-Series Nickname: In Canon, Ghidorah's heads were only named Ichi, Ni and San as a Production Nickname and they were never called this In-Universe. In the fic, it's revealed in Chapter 2 that Vivienne gave the heads their names while she was monitoring Outpost 32. Ichi and Ni seemingly don't answer to these names, and they're referred to by San as Eldest Brother and Elder Brother respectively. San-2/Youngest Brother eventually earns the name San-Who-Could-Have-Been from Monster X.
• Insistent Appellation: They refer to Vivienne solely as "Bone Singer", or later as "the Fourth" or "Sister-Daughter", despite knowing her given name. Ghidorah also solely refers to the other Titans with often derogatory descriptors such as "the Deep One" (Godzilla) or "the Queen Gnat" (Mothra).
• Instant Expert: The Many's Hive Mind enables Ghidorah to read the socio-cultural knowledge of all the Many's human victims at its leisure.
• It Gets Easier: Deconstructed. Word of God reveals that Ghidorah experienced this when it started out trying to only commit Pay Evil unto Evil in its backstory, but desensitization to committing mass genocide eventually gave way to liking it.
• I Want Grandkids: A dark case. Ghidorah was eager to impregnate its "sister-daughter" with a Death Child, and it also wants the Zmeyevich to procreate more of their kind with humans so as to infiltrate human society and grant Ghidorah its own Evil Counterpart Race to the Earthborn Titans' humans – Word of God notes that Ghidorah made the Zmeyevich to be highly desire-oriented for this purpose.
• Join or Die: Word of God says that when Ghidorah encounters any indigenous lifeforms powerful enough to rise up against it (i.e., other Titans) on a world it's attacking, those creatures have two choices: either submit to Ghidorah and further its planet-wide omnicidal campaign via wiping away any existing cities on that world, or face almost-certain eradication by Ghidorah which is implicitly effective immediately.
• Joker Immunity: Discussed. Ichi/Eldest Brother is confident Ghidorah has this, and the fact that Ghidorah has fought Godzilla and Mothra, lost, and come back from the dead several times before (resurrecting from its death in Godzilla: King of the Monsters being one such case) means it's not an empty boast at all. Monster X however is optimistic that Ghidorah will die permanently if all the pieces of it are found and destroyed.
• Karmic Death: The partly-regenerated Ghidorah is eventually beaten in battle by an alliance of the Two Beings, One Body Titan it caused so much pain to, the Queen of the Monsters it previously killed, said Queen's symbiotic partner and implicit mate, the Thunderer whose son it brutally slaughtered and whose kind it exterminated, and several of the Titans whom it enslaved and tried to manipulate into destroying their own planet. Monster X, who has arguably suffered the most pain by Ghidorah's actions, is the one who finishes Ichi/Eldest Brother off once the latter's head is all that's left.
• Kidnapped for Experimentation: In Ghidorah's backstory, they were kidnapped out of their home in the wild by the Makers, who experimented on them in an effort to make them their Bioweapon Beast.
• Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed in that the work is already dark and edgy even without Ghidorah's direct presence. But once Keizer Ghidorah returns to center stage, things turn even more serious: it torments Monster X underground, and it absorbs an entire city's population in advance of the Monster Delay's end. It helps that whereas Alan Jonah is a Smug Snake and MaNi/Elder Brother is Stupid Evil, Ghidorah is more of a Smug Super.
• Large and in Charge: It's regenerated enough to tower above MaNi/Elder Brother and logically the Many's other Skullcrawler Mind Hives, in Chapter 17.
• Leaking Can of Evil: While it was frozen, its heads were still partly conscious and still able to exert a limited psychic and electromagnetic interference.
• Life Energy: Ghidorah can suck this power out of other living creatures via Vampiric Draining like it tried to do to Godzilla in King of the Monsters, but more than that, Word of God says that Ghidorah's severed pieces utilize a kind of onboard backup storage of its life energy to stay animate, and that this energy store can run out if it isn't well-charged.
• Light Is Not Good: Like in MonsterVerse canon, Ghidorah produces lightning even in its Keizer form, and it's a monster in every sense of the word. Word of God even comments on Ghidorah, "The Three came in Light".
• Literal-Minded: It turns out that Ghidorah lacked a concept of dishonesty, and even metaphors alluded it. According to Word of God, this has caused Ghidorah to take the most literal interpretation of humanity's mythology when it read our socio-cultural knowledge through the Many.
• Logical Weakness: Apparently, Ghidorah's electrical powers can be crippled by a MUTO EMP.
• Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Quoted in verbatim by Monster X in Chapter 17. Ghidorah's efforts with Vivienne can be considered a villainous inversion of the smaller scale version of this trope: Ghidorah's regenerating minds frankly invest a lot in trying to make Vivienne become like Ghidorah, but it ends with Monster X contributing to Ghidorah's defeat and becoming a protector Titan, the complete antithesis to what Ghidorah wanted.
• Mass Hypnosis: The severed head's psychic influence affects a number of Jonah's paramilitary, inducing Sanity Slippages and causing those who aren't Driven to Suicide to aid Ghidorah's resurrection.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Ichi, Ni and San originally had many brothers and sisters at their birth, all of whom were devoured by predators on their homeworld while they were still young, small and defenceless.
• Master of Your Domain: After the middle head ate Vivienne alive, her body was willfully regurgitated into the left head's (San's) neck to keep her intact so she could be revived and biologically reshaped to Ghidorah's desires, though not before she'd been partly digested by Ghidorah's stomach acids.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Ghidorah is not only the name which ancient and modern humans know this beast by, it's revealed that it's also the name by which Ghidorah's heads call themselves: it's implied in "Damnatio Memoriae" that Ghidorah during its Start of Darkness came up with its name based on a word that it telepathically heard the first ever civilization it exterminated screaming; "Ghee'haszhra", which is the name of an ancient text feauring the Rule of Three which the Makers based Ghidorah's design on.
  • Word of God suggests that the Japanese numeral nicknames which Vivienne originally gave the individual heads, specifically which head she gave each nickname to, was influenced by Ghidorah psychically leaking details about itself into Vivienne's head, like which head was the First and which head was the Third.
• Mind-Control Music: Ghidorah attempted to force the lesser Titans accompanying Mothra to obey it and turn on Mothra using its own Alpha Call, but its call was interrupted before it could do any more than momentarily paralyze them in place.
• Mind Hive: Ghidorah has assimilated the Many into itself to make itself mobile whilst its regeneration is incomplete. And well, most of the resulting body looks like a medieval artwork of eternal damnation at first. Early planning notes by the author even compared the connections among Ghidorah's attached heads to a Hive Mind.
• Mind Rape: Ghidorah has used its Psychic Link to Monster X to torment them, inducing excruciating seizures and just intrusively attempting to shout breaking words at Vivienne which, in Ichi/Eldest Brother's case, get increasingly sensual. The Brown Note effect that the decapitated Ghidorah-head has on Jonah's paramilitary is outright torturous for some humans in the long term.
• The Misophonic: Like in canon, Ghidorah reacts to the sound of the ORCA with murderous intent. It's revealed that this isn't just because the ORCA sounds like another Alpha Titan challenging Ghidorah's dominance, but because the artificial sound brings back bad memories for Ghidorah and can make the Old Noise flare up again.
• Monster Delay: It isn't until one chapter after Ghidorah's first appearance in the flesh following its partial regeneration and use of the Many that we see what its body below the necks looks like.
• Mook Maker: It's revealed that the regenerating remains of Ghidorah have been shedding pieces to feed the Many's ranks.
• Moral Myopia: It despises its long-dead alien makers, yet none of its attached heads seem to quite realize (or just don't care) that they've become exactly the same as them – something which San after his Heel–Face Turn calls his brothers out on. Ichi/Eldest Brother in particular is extremely vindictive when anything besides himself and his brothers reminds him of the makers. The author said that the heads honestly wouldn't care if they realized their hypocrisy and would just rationalize that they're a god while the Makers were mortal.
• More than Mind Control: Word of God indicates it psychically and subtly manipulated Jonah before his Sanity Slippage got really bad, giving his thoughts a slight nudge that ultimately made him obsessively believe he could resurrect a lost loved one. The author further commented that anyone who's able to communicate with the Titans but lacks the necessary training to resist Ghidorah's Brown Note is vulnerable to being "influenced" by Ghidorah's psychic power into acting a certain way.
• Mother of a Thousand Young: Gender-flipped, but Ghidorah is this by the end of the fic; having effectively spawned Monster X, the Many and an unknown number of Zmeyevich.
• Motive Decay: Ghidorah is revealed via its backstory to be an In-Universe case. It began killing beyond its Turned Against Their Masters because it was at first just trying to make "the Old Noise" stop, and it aimed to kill Asshole Victims; with Word of God even suggesting that at least some of these early victims Ghidorah targeted were extraplanetary survivors of the Makers' species. As time passed however, Ghidorah wholly devolved into an Omnicidal Maniac, concerned only with hatred of all life that even vaguely resembles the Makers and with satisfying its endless bloodlust.
• Multiple Head Case: Each of its three heads has a distinct personality and mind of their own, and they're considered brothers to each-other. This is because Ghidorah used to be three separate beings. Played for Drama, as the heads' relationships with each-other, particularly the left head's relationship with the middle, are anything but loving and positive, and they're not Played for Laughs in this fic.
• My God, What Have I Done?: As transcribed in "Damnatio Memoriae", all three of Ghidorah's heads at the end of their first ever planet-wide omnicide appeared to be horrified to varying degrees at the scope of what they'd done.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: It's called the Destroyer of Worlds for a reason.
• Near-Villain Victory: Word of God confirms that Vivienne comes within a hair's breadth of going irrevocably Ax-Crazy as Ghidorah wanted of her, in Chapter 16. It's suggested in Chapter 17 that if it weren't for a combination of Monster X weakening Ghidorah and Ghidorah choosing to forego retreating to the Realm Below, Ghidorah might have succeeded in corrupting Vivienne and destroying the world from the inside-out.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As seen in the story and further elaborated on by the author; not only did Ghidorah Create Your Own Hero, but by making Monster X's final form more powerful, Ghidorah ends up giving its enemies a very powerful extra ally against in the fight against Keizer Ghidorah.
• The Night That Never Ends: San's memories indicate that Ghidorah converted the skies of alien worlds it previously attacked into a global version of the alien superstorm which forms around Ghidorah on Earth, which naturally blotted out those worlds' sunlight permanently among the storms' other destructive effects. Word of God confirms that if Ghidorah hadn't been stopped during the Mass Awakening, it would've covered the Earth in sunlight-blocking and biosphere-ravaging perpetual storms.
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Thor accusing it of being afraid to face him successfully pissed it off in Chapter 17.
• No Indoor Voice: Its heads' voices are usually shouting or screaming according to the narration, except for after the O.O.C. Is Serious Business.
• No Ontological Inertia: When Keizer Ghidorah is killed, the storm it was generating disperses within a matter of minutes.
• The Nose Knows: All three heads have a strong sense of smell that can track other creatures and identify traits invisible to the naked eye. "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that they possessed this trait when they were Dorats.
• Not Enough to Bury: Keizer Ghidorah gets thoroughly vaporized, in an attempt to ensure Ghidorah can't regenerate again.
• Not So Invincible After All: Discussed. Ghidorah considers itself to be "deathless", but in Chapter 17, Monster X points out to Ichi/Eldest Brother that Ghidorah will die permanently if its enemies can find and destroy all its remains after killing it.
• Not Worth Killing: Invoked. Ghidorah's heads claimed Thor wasn't even worth taking their time to fight and kill because of his past cowardice, but since this is Ghidorah saying so, it's ambiguous if they really meant it or were just trying to get under his skin.
• Oh, Crap!: In "Damnatio Memoriae", all three heads have a very justified reaction of horror to realizing that after all the sanity-fracturing trouble they went to to silence the Old Noise, it's only abated temporarily and is already starting to come back. See the Middle Head's sub-section for another example.
• The Older Immortal: Whereas the Titans native to Earth are believed to be thousands, millions or hundreds of millions of years old depending on the individual; Word of God describes Ghidorah as being literally eons (billions of years) old.
• Omnicidal Maniac: It's made clear that from Ghidorah's perspective, everything besides itself is either a toy for extending its destructive rampage, or otherwise consists of food and insects which exist solely to be played with and then killed. As revealed by San's memories and further elaborated on by Word of God (1, 2, 3, 4), Ghidorah has been traveling from world to world for eons, wreaking biosphere mass extinction (if not total extinction) on each one while asserting its dominance; often covering the attacked worlds' skies in Ghidorah's endless tempests, which grind away all life; systematically hunting down any undesirable indigenous lifeforms that survive this initial onslaught, and finally leaving whatever indigenous creatures Ghidorah enthralled as its servants to die once Ghidorah has no more use for them – and we're next. Word of God also indicates that Ghidorah's new plan to consume the Zohar at the Earth's core would most likely physically shatter the planet around it. This trope is even reflected in Ghidorah's Terrible Ticking which ultimately moulded Ghidorah's personalities into this trope in the first place; simplistically screaming at the backs of Ghidorah's heads, "KILL THEM ALL".
• One-Man Army: It's arguably this even amongst the Titans. Even when Ghidorah was being fought and overwhelmed by eight other Titans including Godzilla (and when Ghidorah was in an incomplete state no less); it still put up quite a fight.
• Our Clones Are Different: When a piece of Ghidorah's body like one of its heads is severed, Ghidorah's Healing Factor will regrow a new appendage from the body, with pre-severing memories and personality fully backed up and intact if it's a head that's being grown back... And the old severed head, meanwhile, will also retain all of its pre-severing memories and personality fully intact, and it will also begin to regenerate the rest of Ghidorah's body from itself (albeit at a much slower rate) if it comes into contact with energy, backing up and restoring the other two heads' own minds and personalities as it does so; unless the severed head merges with another organism which permanently rewires its biology to form a new Kaiju body instead of re-forming the rest of Ghidorah (as MaNi does). Ghidorah's heads can also transfer complete copies of their minds onto another body or organism, via mutating a pre-existing organism into an Artificial Hybrid inside the head and forcing the hybrid to form an extra Ghidorah-like brain and head on itself which the Ghidorah head can upload a complete copy of its own mind into (as San does with Monster X). Although copies of a Ghidorah head which exist at the same time as each-other through any of the above means are separate entities, there's still a psychic link between them due to Ghidorah's telepathic nature.
• Out-of-Character Alert: In Chapter 13, Vivienne is unnerved by how calm Ichi, Ni and San-2's voices are after she rips apart one of the Many's Mind Hives, cluing her in that they've grown to enjoy watching her lose control and become more like them.
• Parental Abandonment: San and his brothers originally came from a clutch of eggs, with no parents around to play a nurturing role. Vivienne believes this indicates the species Ghidorah originally hailed from would leave their eggs to fend for themselves, similar to sea turtles.
• Patchwork Fic: AbraxasVerse Ghidorah is based on the MonsterVerse Ghidorah, but combines even more traits from pre-MonsterVerse incarnations of the character.
  • Like the original portrayal in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Ghidorah in AbraxasVerse is a spacefaring Planet Destroyer which has wiped various worlds that had intelligent civilizations clean of life, and Earth is just the latest target which it's been stuck on conquering; instead of being an invasive species seeking to xenoform the planet into a more suitable habitat, which might be stuck on Earth for all anyone knows.
  • Also like the Showa version's later appearances, this version of Ghidorah was a humanoid-looking alien civilization's Bioweapon Beast – the difference being that this version of Ghidorah isn't operating under its former-handlers' powers anymore and hasn't been for a long time, having turned on them and caused their extinction before it became the Destroyer of Worlds.
  • It also shares similarities with the Heisei version of Ghidorah in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. Both versions of Ghidorah originate from three relatively-innocent fantastic animals being forcibly fused and transmutated into a single-bodied, three-headed gigantic monster by the actions of technologically-advanced humanoids who were seeking to use the resulting creature as their weapon.
  • And it shares similarities with the Rebirth of Mothra version of Ghidorah. Both versions, reduced to a single still-living appendage (a head instead of a tail here) after losing a previous battle against the Earth’s kaiju, wait underground where they'll slowly regenerate.
  • Like the Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! incarnation, the post-mortem remains of Ghidorah in AbraxasVerse end up underground in the wilderness near a mountain where it slowly regenerates, and Ghidorah draws power from thousands of dead humans to restore and empower itself. The piece of Ghidorah which was originally buried also ends up being an agent of good eventually.
  • In this version, Ghidorah and Keizer Ghidorah are a Composite Character (see below).
  • Like the AniGoji incarnation, Ghidorah is worshipped as a deity by and is served by cultish beings who seek to convert other beings including humans to the same, with the story's human(oid) antagonists eventually being counted among said faith; although the Many are The Assimilator with a literal Hive Mind rather than a literal religious movement.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: It's revealed that the second species-wide genocide Ghidorah ever committed billions of years ago was this. Word of God also reveals that Ghidorah originally tried to stick to committing this trope when it committed more genocides, before its Slowly Slipping Into Evil.
• People Puppets: Downplayed. Ghidorah ends up on the receiving end of this trope when Keizer Ghidorah partly assimilates Thor, enabling the latter to wrestle with Ghidorah for control of the forelegs Keizer forms from Thor's body.
• Perpetual Storm: As revealed by San's memories and further confirmed by Word of God, Ghidorah's standard M.O. when conquering a planet includes covering the world in endless storms, which block out sunlight and reshape worldwide terrains; causing the ecosystems to break down and preventing their regrowth. Ghidorah has successfully inflicted this fate on numerous alien worlds it previously destroyed, and it would've done the same to Earth during its reign of terror in the Mass Awakening if Godzilla hadn't killed it.
• Phlebotinum Rebel: Ghidorah's wasn't born with its immense power originally, and it destroyed the creatures responsible for giving it its current form and power. Ghidorah gained its current form and powers courtesy of the Makers converting it into their bioweapon beast, and Ghidorah afterwards turned against them and wiped them out. Ghidorah is also poetically on the lower end of this trope from Monster X.
• Pitiful Worms: It's called humans, including a brave Bone Singer who communicated with it long ago when it was frozen, "insects".
• Planetary Core Manipulation: Keizer Ghidorah's new plan involves feasting on the Zohar within the Hollow Earth, with Word of God suggesting this could make the planet shatter like an egg.
• Planet Destroyer: Slightly downplayed in that Ghidorah doesn't (usually) destroy the physical planets themselves so much as turn them into barren, storm-wreathed wastelands (liably causing biosphere extinction), while going to even further lengths to exterminate any native species that Ghidorah finds distasteful (i.e., any aliens advanced enough to build civilizations), and finally leaving any native Titans that Ghidorah kept alive as slaves to also die once their usefulness has ended. Ghidorah already turned a long line of alien worlds into barren, hypercane-covered trophies to its name over billions of years and numerous conquests before it arrived on ancient Earth and came into conflict with Godzilla.
• Posthumous Character: It's dead following the battle in Boston before the fic's main time frame (at first), but its actions have caused San and Vivienne's transformation into Monster X, and it's hinted the severed head still has some of Ghidorah's minds in it. Then Ichi, Ni and San-2 start regenerating From a Single Head.
• Post-Mortem Comeback: It's responsible for Vivienne's death and her and San's rebirth as Monster X, and San's brothers feature through memories, flashbacks and dreams. Subverted when Ghidorah has regenerated its minds, and their aforementioned dream appearance turns out to be Real After All.
• Power Copying: By assimilating fragments of Godzilla's dorsal plates, Keizer Ghidorah gains the ability to unleash nuclear pulses, similar to a weaker and more electrical form of Burning Godzilla's pulses from King of the Monsters.
• The Power of Hate: Ghidorah's "storm" powers are fuelled by hatred — which Ichi, Ni and San are altogether wealthy in, unlike the two-headed Monster X who has more trouble drawing on such powerful negative feelings regularly.
• Pragmatic Villainy: If you've read what it plans to do to Vivienne, then you'll know that Ghidorah saving Monster X is not gonna be a good thing if Ghidorah gets its way with them immediately afterwards. There's also San-2/Youngest Brother protesting to his brothers causing too much physical damage to Monster X more because he's concerned it'll irreparably break what San-2 sees as a beloved toy than out of humaneness.
• Precursor Killer: The alien Abusive Precursors who turned Ichi, Ni and San into Ghidorah eons ago were among Ghidorah's first victims.
• Psychic Powers: It exhibits a powerful psychic influence on humans around it which can have Mind Rape effects or worse, in addition to its Psychic Links with Monster X, the Many and implicitly one of the Zmeyevich broodmothers respectively.
• Psychic Link: Has one with Monster X, which it uses to try and Break Them by Talking. It also has a psychic link with the Many as their Hive Queen, and it's hinted it might even have one with the Zmeyevich-carrying Esfir.
• Psychoactive Powers: It's revealed Ghidorah's electrical powers work this way, relying mainly on hatred.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: Ghidorah used to be this before its epoch-spanning slip into becoming the evil monster we know it as was complete. As shown in "Damnatio Memoriae", the first few or so times that Ghidorah committed genocide and wiped worlds clean of life, it was acting purely on desperation to make the Old Noise ("kill them all") stop torturing its heads by doing what the Old Noise said to do, futilely hoping that the Noise would eventually stop permanently if Ghidorah found the right way to "kill them all" via trial and error on one planet after another. By the present time however, eons of being tortured by the Old Noise and killing endlessly in increasingly creative ways have turned Ghidorah into the malice-driven Omnicidal Maniac that we all know it as. Billions of years have now eroded the Old Noise to tolerable levels, but it doesn't matter to Ghidorah anymore.
• Pyrrhic Victory: The Abraxas: Empty Fullness one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae" shows that Ghidorah's first ever act of planet-wide omnicide was this. They annihilated all visible life on the planet, but not only were the heads apparently further traumatized by what they'd done; they also discovered shortly thereafter that it had only made the Old Noise abate temporarily, even with nothing left to kill.

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• Rasputinian Death: And boy, is it epic. Ghidorah's the target of a long Combination Attack by eight Titans working together — major points include Ni/Elder Brother's head suffering severe Palate Propping Jawbreaker, the lots of bone-breaking and being sliced open, and Ichi/Eldest Brother's gullet getting exploded open from the inside; before Ghidorah's body is vaporized. Ichi/Eldest Brother's decapitated head gets finished off by Monster X performing their own Kiss of Death◊ which cleaves the head in two. The trope gets lampshaded by Lieutenant Commander Pasternak:
  "Make that Rasputin worm hurt!"
• Recursive Creators: What Ghidorah ultimately becomes. They were forcibly mutated and fused into their current Titanic form by the Makers; and billions of years later, Ghidorah forcibly mutates and fuses Vivienne, and other humans who become part of the Many, into new Ghidorah-like monsters who can fight on the Titans' level. Ghidorah furthermore grows keen on the idea of siring monster offspring in their own image. Word of God even postulates that if Ghidorah were to ever realize that they'll have nothing more to do if they ever succeed in wiping out all life in the reachable universe, Ghidorah will get past that realization by taking to the idea of repopulating the worlds they've killed with Ghidorah-born monsters in their image.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: The storm generated by Keizer Ghidorah has red highlights as well as casting black shadows, unlike Ghidorah's storm in King of the Monsters.
• Red Baron: Its titles mentioned during the story include the Devil, the Enemy, the Dragon, the Destroyer of Worlds, the One Who Is Many, That Which Came From The Stars, the Golden Demise, the Snake Father, the World Eater, the Song of Entropy, the Death Knell of Three Storms and the Great One.
• Reluctant Psycho: Ghidorah was once this in the beginning, as shown in "Damnatio Memoriae". Ghidorah's three brains had a horrific mental "noise" forcibly programmed into them, with a command to "kill them all" behind it, and the noise drove Ghidorah to try again and again without success to make the noise permanently stop by sating it with one omnicide of every living thing in sight after another, across multiple worlds. The author suggested the noise probably faded to something like tinnitus after eons, but by then, Ghidorah's minds had been so warped by all that agony and all that killing over all that time that the Old Noise's fading didn't change anything anymore.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: It's presumed by the world at large to be permanently dead, until Monarch find out about San's old head and Monster X confirms that Ghidorah will regenerate in the future.
• Revenge by Proxy: Part of what made Ghidorah decide against pragmatically retreating at the Berezniki battle was the idea of seeing the look on Godzilla's face if Ghidorah managed to kill Mothra and use the Many to assimilate Thor.
• Rite of Passage: Word of God indicates that Ghidorah intended to make the destruction of Earth after assimilating Vivienne to be a kind of baptizement for its new female fourth head via Where I Was Born and Razed.
• Rule of Three: Ghidorah itself lampshades this trope in Chapter 16, noting Ghidorah has three heads and the number three is considered sacred among humans. "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that this trope was deliberately invoked by the Abusive Precursors who created Ghidorah: they based it on an alien religious text called the Ghee'haszhra which emphasizes "three times, but never four," and on the holders of that text whom the Makers made Ghidorah to destroy provoking the Makers by rejecting their "offers" three times.
• Sadist: King of the Monsters already makes it clear that Ghidorah is an Omnicidal Maniac with For the Evulz and There Is No Kill Like Overkill tendencies, but this story goes more into showing how depraved Ghidorah (particularly Ichi/Eldest Brother) is capable of being when it wants to torment an individual without killing them, and also how Ghidorah became that way.
• Salt the Earth: True to how San's memories reveal Ghidorah converts the atmospheres of the worlds it conquers into a global version of Ghidorah's hurricane, Word of God indicates Ghidorah will do everything in its power to make sure a conquered planet can never grow new complex life again before Ghidorah moves on.
• Satanic Archetype: Like in the movie. Vivienne always called it the Devil or the Dragon in her notes, it's often compared by human characters' narration to a devil, and it serves as the Trigon to Monster X's Raven. Ghidorah's descent into darkness began with it turning against its creators (similar to Satan's rebellion against God), and the Evil Makes You Ugly (see above) brings to mind Satan's transformation from a beautiful angel into a devil as a consequence of his crimes. The fates of humans who fall victim to Ghidorah's use of the Many, and Ghidorah primarily residing in subterranean tunnels where its psychic influence is strong and it rules over the Many, both bring to mind the idea of Hell with Satan ruling over its denizens and damned humans, while Keizer Ghidorah assimilating the Many brings to mind a devil taking souls inside itself for power. Ghidorah's heads also quote the Serpent in the Book of Genesis, specifically when the Serpent is tempting Eve, and Ghidorah shows an aptly Satan-like level of hubris in how the heads misinterpret or deliberately pervert the verse's meaning^note Genesis 3:5 refers to how humans can't be like God, but Ghidorah uses the verse in reference to its plan to turn Vivienne into what Ghidorah views as a true god as well as in reference to her and the Many becoming enslaved to the Devil's (Ghidorah's) corruptive influence. It's hinted in Chapter 13 that the Devil might literally be humanity's mythical memory of Ghidorah.
• Serpent of Immortality: Ghidorah is implicitly the oldest living creature in a fic which features an aged atomic dinosaur, and it can never permanently die so long as a viable piece of its regenerative DNA remains.
• Seven Deadly Sins:
  • Lust: Both the traditional and modern forms. Ghidorah is driven by bloodthirsty and sadistic impulses that have been ingrained over billions of years as a result of enduring the Old Noise ("Kill Them All") past the point of The Dark Side Will Make You Forget, making Ghidorah commit its immortal existence to constantly conquering and killing all life it encounters across the universe. In the present, Ichi and Ni's desire to torture Vivienne eventually takes a turn for the sexual after a couple things happen that make an impression on Ghidorah.
  • Gluttony: In Ghidorah's opinion, any other lifeforms that aren't sport and playthings are just food waiting to be devoured. In a more indirect but literal sense, Ghidorah's flesh gives rise to an Undead Abomination that's fueled by Horror Hunger to constantly and desperately assimilate all other organic matter in sight. Ghidorah itself eventually consumes the Many back into itself for strength. Ghidorah also threatens to devour the Zohar at the Earth's core (which Word of God reveals would literally cause the planet to break apart) in order to grow more powerful.
  • Greed: The middle head's other driving goal besides making other things suffer for fun is "unceasing hunger for power or domination" over other Titans. Ghidorah's favored method of killing every inhabited planet it comes across is by establishing itself as the apex predator over all the indigenous lifeforms and making slaves out of the indigenous Titans, before it uses its new authority to wipe out everything on the planet that's worth killing. Once there's nothing left or Ghidorah decides it's done with that world, it moves onto the next planet and restarts the cycle of conquest and extermination.
  • Sloth: Throughout the fic's present, Ghidorah relegates almost all the dirty work to humans under its sway, the Many, and its shed skin MaNi. This is justifiable given the weak and vulnerable position that Ghidorah's in when faced with Godzilla and his allies hunting it — the one time that Ghidorah does decide to do the dirty work itself out of indulgence, it leads to Ghidorah being set back again.
  • Wrath: Being a gleeful Omnicidal Maniac, Ghidorah is murderous and sadistic on the best of days. But if you've truly pissed it off, then it'll do everything to make sure that you either die screaming, or that you'll be begging for death long before it comes. Just look at what Ichi decided to do to Vivienne just because she accidentally brought back some of his worst and oldest memories.
  • Envy: Leaving aside Ghidorah's desire to usurp Godzilla's Kingship of the Monsters as a means to conquer and destroy Earth; Ghidorah, for all its hatred of humanity and of the Makers, eventually starts emulating its hated enemies to a degree. It gets pointed out that Ghidorah has become no better than the Makers by creating and exploiting the Many just as the Makers themselves created and exploited Ghidorah, Ghidorah also creates the Zmeyevich as its own Evil Counterpart Race to the humans whom the Earthborn Titans have allies in; and Ghidorah, in its own horribly twisted way, becomes increasingly interested in mating, and creating new monsters the natural way, just as the natural lifeforms of Earth do with each-other. For a head-specific case, San-2 becomes understandably envious that Vivienne won't show him the same love and affection that she shows the San who's attached to her.
  • Pride: Ghidorah has a very high opinion of itself as it clearly sees itself as the supreme lifeform, and although it's mostly a Smug Super who has legitimate reason to view itself so highly, some of its boasts and self-assurances do cross into the realm of arrogance. The Earthborn Titans have kicked its ass and set it back from destroying Earth multiple times? It's just a delay, they can't stop it from ending everything they know forever. An ancient Bone Singer suggests that one could claim Ghidorah's power via claiming one of its heads? Impossible, no-one can claim Ghidorah's heads, past the point where it objectively happens!
• Sharing a Body: It at one point endured a very detrimental case of this with another Titan. During the Final Battle, Keizer Ghidorah partly absorbing an infected Titan into itself before the Many have fully assimilated the Titan's mind enables the Titan in question to mentally fight with Keizer's heads for control of Keizer's own limbs, putting Keizer at a significant disadvantage against its enemies.
• Sibling Fusion: As indicated in Chapter 10, and further stated in "Damnatio Memoriae", Ghidorah's three heads went through such a fusion in the past: Ghidorah was originally three alien brothers that were involuntarily, and brutally, fused together by the Makers. And boy, those three heads are a very far cry from a loving, happy family billions of years after the event.
• Sibling Team: "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ichi, Ni and San were a close-knit team of brothers fending for themselves in the wild before their Sibling Fusion into Ghidorah, and they were a lot more functional and caring to each-other back then.
• Sickening "Crunch!": An In-Universe case. During the final battle with Godzilla, the latter ground his foot down on Ghidorah's back until he heard bones popping.
• Sleep Deprivation: In "Damnatio Memoriae", Ichi, Ni and San are unable to sleep; first because of the Old Noise when it's still new to them, then because their mounting, overwhelming trauma at the Makers' hands is making their dreams unbearable.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: As described by the author here, Ghidorah gradually suffered this in its Backstory until it became the sadistic Omnicidal Maniac we all know it as.
• Smug Super: Ichi/Eldest Brother shows the ego part of this trope the most, but all three heads express a high opinion of Ghidorah in the Badass Boast — it's not an understatement, as a badly weakened Ghidorah was capable of holding its own against seven Earth Titans plus Monster X, and the ending heavily implies Ghidorah can still come Back from the Dead again. Word of God comments and the penultimate chapter shows that Ichi is confident Ghidorah will always win in the end by virtue of it outlasting its enemies due to its resurrective immortality, and he has the age and past experience from Ghidorah's galactic conquests to back this up.
• Space Nomads: Before arriving on Earth, it's been moving from world to world, conquering each one and then moving on.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: All three heads have done this at some point or another. All of them speak lowly of Jonah shortly after he's killed, and Ni/Elder Brother called Thor's kind whom Ghidorah exterminated "misbegotten" after the act.
• Spectacular Spinning: Keizer Ghidorah spins gracefully whilst performing Tail Slaps against its Titan foes in Chapter 17.
• Sssssnaketalk: Only when the three heads all say this word in unison:
  "YESSSSSSSSssssss"
• Stalker without a Crush: It psychically haunted Vivienne for years when she was monitoring Outpost 32. Ichi/Eldest Brother, Ni/Elder Brother and San's Evil Doppelgänger are stalking Vivienne and San even more viciously after Monster X's creation. This trope is nightmarishly Zig-Zagged when Ghidorah, including a particularly In Love with Your Carnage Ni/Elder Brother, plans to forcibly use Vivienne as a monster Baby Factory whilst torturing her.
• Start of Darkness: The Abraxas: Empty Fullness one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae" chronicles Ghidorah's beginnings and the events which set it on the path to becoming the way that it is billions of years ago.
• Straw Hypocrite: Word of God comments that Ghidorah basically exploits the Many's deification of it to manipulate them.
• Straw Nihilist: It has shades of this, viewing all other life as temporary and worthless, and believing that nothing besides Ghidorah has any real value because Ghidorah is the only thing which lasts forever. According to the author, it's rooted in Ghidorah's own realization during its Slowly Slipping Into Evil that there was no reason why it was the victim of such tragedy, and that asking what the point of its Reluctant Psycho programming was was equally pointless.

  San-2: we tried at first tried to find meaning in their screams tried to find meaning in yours there was nothing to find [...] that is the meaning we found it is nothing there is no meaning we conquered we hunted we killed every world was mindless the ones who made us screamed when we killed them nothing left all gone lives wasted honors meaningless

• Super-Empowering: There's what San did to Vivienne when he transformed her body into an Artificial Hybrid by feeding his Ghidorah biology's enzymes into her inside his neck's "womb". Plus, the Many are a lot more durable and deadly than when they were autonomous living creatures.
• Tactical Withdrawal: An aversion is described in Chapter 17. In response to its enemies locating it and arriving in force, Ghidorah nearly pulled a semi-orderly retreat to the Hollow Earth's "Realm Below", but its own sadism prompted it to change its mind and go straight back to the battlefield.
• Tail Slap: Ghidorah's twin tails make for useful whipping and clubbing weapons against other Titans.
• Talkative Loon: It's rather jarring reading Ghidorah's three minds talking over each-other at the same thing.
• Teach Him Anger: San suspects in retrospect that Ghidorah was on the pupil end of this trope. He suspects that the tortures the Makers inflicted on him and his brothers, whom were not nearly as vicious back then, were intended to make them nightmarishly angry and hateful so they would be a more aggressive and effective Bioweapon Beast. Unfortunately for the Makers' continued existence, this process led Ghidorah to turn against and exterminate them in revenge for what they put it through, then in their absence, Ghidorah would go on to become a planet-destroying Omnicidal Maniac with a special hatred of any civilization that looked too much like the Makers.
• Telepathic Spacemen: Ghidorah is an extraterrestrial Titan with outright telepathic capabilities, such as its Psychic Link to its creations; a trait which "Damnatio Memoriae" implies it gained or unlocked due to the Makers' experimentation. This story introduced the trait to Ghidorah long before Godzilla vs. Kong explicitly revealed that the MonsterVerse canon version of Ghidorah was telepathic.
• Terrible Ticking: A nasty variant. As detailed in "Damnatio Memoriae" and the author's Tumblr, an alien noise which Ghidorah calls "the Old Noise" was deliberately programmed by Ghidorah's creators into it and exists in its three minds: the author described it as an aggressive, mentally-horrible sound, comparing it to a superheated ice pick being shoved into one's brain. The aggravating noise itself has an underlying clear message programmed by the Makers which Ghidorah's heads are fully aware of: "Kill Them All". It's actually the Old Noise that drove Ghidorah to repeatedly commit planetary omnicides in the first place. The author thinks the Noise has faded to something like tinnitus after billions of years, but it had long since fully extracted its toll on Ghidorah's minds by then.
• Tested on Humans: "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals this occurred during Ghidorah's backstory. When it was still held captive by the Makers, they gave Ghidorah both objects and living things to kill and destroy, apparently testing Ghidorah's capabilities after the Makers experimented on it.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Naturally, the Titans have to employ this on Ghidorah whenever they kill it, trying to kill every last bit of it present in the hopes there'll be nothing for it to resurrect from and that there won't be another next time.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Ghidorah is this trope made flesh. Even when Ghidorah is in suspended animation in a glacier, and when it's reduced to nothing but a single decapitated head, it still produces enough of a Brown Note to mess up any humans who spend too much time in close proximity to the head; and this effect will turn outright catastrophic if caution and awareness of Ghidorah's effect isn't exercised. Jonah's experiments on Ghidorah's tissue accidentally create a hungry, all-consuming Undead Abomination, and using refined Ghidorah DNA inside a fertility treatment results in malformed, half-Ghidorah baby-thingies.
• Third Act Stupidity: In the penultimate chapter, Ghidorah, having spent most of the fic hiding its body away while it recuperates, has a clear opening to escape into the Hollow Earth where it's unlikely anything will be able to stop it from winning, but Ghidorah's glee at the thought of making its enemies suffer and driving Monster X to rage tempts it to turn back and join the Final Battle.
• Time Abyss: The author stated Ghidorah is eons old. It's at least millions of years old, more than likely billions based on its backstory.
• Token Flyer: At one point, during the Final Battle, Ghidorah commanded a monster army against Godzilla and his allies, but was the only explicitly flying creature among its forces. The closest to a fellow flyer on Ghidorah's side is MaNi, who has spinal wings from a Warbat but is never shown to be capable of flight.
• Tortured Monster: Ghidorah began as this billions of years ago with its Terrible Ticking, but Slowly Slipping Into Evil eventually turned it completely gleefully evil.
• Truer to the Text: A slight case. Whereas King of the Monsters made its adaptation of Ghidorah out to be an extraterrestrial monster whose past before falling to Earth is completely unknown and whose motives are presumed to be xenoforming Earth into a home for itself, the AbraxasVerse's expansion on Ghidorah's past and character from the movie partly returns Ghidorah to its original portrayal's roots in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster; as a Planet Destroyer who has previously eradicated alien civilizations and reduced inhabited planets to desolate wastelands.
• Turned Against Their Masters: It's heavily implied Ghidorah was created and made Ax-Crazy to be a Bioweapon Beast. Unfortunately for Ghidorah's alien creators, Ghidorah turned on them and killed them all whilst doing exactly what they'd wanted it to.
• Three Beings, One Body: It's heavily implied in Chapter 10 that Ichi, Ni and San were originally three single-headed creatures, and the brothers were turned into the three-headed destroyer by alien experiments.
• Vampiric Draining: Like in MonsterVerse canon. San notes Ghidorah uses the ability to strengthen itself while draining its enemies' Life Energy, and it's revealed Ghidorah inflicted this on Thor's son.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Played With. It apparently reacted this way to killing the alien beings who'd created and tortured it, albeit mainly because their deaths didn't quell the noise they'd programmed into Ghidorah's heads.
• Villainous Incest: It's revealed in Chapter 16 that Ghidorah intends to make Monster X a Baby Factory, despite its heads admitting that they consider Vivienne their sister and their daughter.
• Villain Takes an Interest: It's pleased by Vivienne's capacity for Unstoppable Rage as Monster X in Chapter 13 and plans to "teach" her to be just as bad as Ghidorah is. Ni/Elder Brother in particular becomes more interested in taking an active role in his brothers' plans for Vivienne after this.
• Voices Are Mental: Played With. When communicating with those who can understand Kaiju Talk, Ghidorah's three heads each have a distinct-sounding voice from each-other.
• Walking Spoiler: Take a look at the rest of this page.
• Weather Manipulation: Word of God conforms that Ghidorah has voluntary control over the world-ending hypercane that it generates, and it can calm the storm down in the (very rare and unlikely) event that Ghidorah so desires to.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Make no mistake, Ghidorah (especially Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother) is as vile, psychopathic, genocidal and sadistic as in MonsterVerse canon or in any Godzilla licensed canon, but it has a pretty valid reason for being as broken and monstrous as it is. As described in Chapter 10 and further elaborated on by the author and by "Damnatio Memoriae"; Ichi, Ni and San were originally just three critters in an alien ecosystem fighting together to survive, before they were captured, forcibly transformed into Ghidorah and methodically tortured. Ghidorah exterminated its tormentors in a combination of revenge and desperation to satiate the Terrible Ticking they'd programmed into the three heads, but this failed to bring Ghidorah any peace or satisfaction. Ghidorah inflicted mass destruction again and again trying to make the Ticking stop, and Slowly Slipping Into Evil gradually destroyed what goodness Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother still had in them until they became the monstrously cruel Omnicidal Maniac we all know Ghidorah as.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: In Chapter 12, its psychic attacks on Monster X seem to lull, then it takes advantage to attack Vivienne ferociously when she's most vulnerable during her reunion with her mother.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: It's confirmed by Word of God that when Ghidorah destroys a world, the Titans that it enthralls will outlive everything else that they, Ghidorah, and Ghidorah's storms destroy, but even they will die once Ghidorah has no more use for them, presumably due to either Ghidorah killing them itself per the Old Noise's instruction to "kill them all", or due to Ghidorah's actions rendering their world too inhospitable to support them anymore.

Tropes applying to the heads individually

Tropes applying to Two Heads

• Adaptational Villainy: Ghidorah in the movie was already a homicidal Omnicidal Maniac with an unambiguous sadistic streak when it came to exterminating humans, but this fic's character expansion reveals Ichi and Ni to be even more despicable. Leaving aside how their abusive relationship with the left head is Played for Drama instead of comedy; Ghidorah prefers to torment and kill its enemies in the most physically- or psychologically-torturous ways that are available to it, Ichi went out of his way to try and see Vivienne suffer a Fate Worse than Death as an Artificial Hybrid purely because she accidentally stirred up Ichi's traumatic memories which she had no way of knowing about when she was peacefully monitoring Ghidorah's frozen body, and both Ichi and Ni are more than willing to forcibly give Vivienne a Child by Rape or two as just another way to make her mind break for their own pleasures; in contrast to San-2, who is mainly just going along with this because he wants his favorite transhuman back and out of submission to his brothers. The fic also supports the King of the Monsters novelization's one-off suggestion that Ghidorah wants to destroy all life on Earth for the sake of killing everything, not out of any necessity to carve out a suitable home for itself.
• Alternate Self:
  • San-2/Youngest Brother, who is the result of San's original head following his mind transfer to the hybridized Vivienne re-forming San's pre-transfer personality and memories whilst it regenerated the rest of Ghidorah. As a result, San-2 lacks San's Character Development that led to his Heel–Face Turn. Vivienne is able to tell the two San's apart when the evil one speaks to her in Chapter 11, as San-2's voice sounds the same as when San first fused to her.
  • There's also MaNi/Elder Brother. After the partly-restored Ghidorah sheds its right head which in turn forms an autonomous body for itself, it eventually regrows that head. Unlike MaNi, who becomes even more deranged and reckless without a connection to Ichi/Eldest Brother to keep him in check, the regrown Ni retains his pre-MaNi personality.
• And I Must Scream: Being frozen in the glacier and aware of the humans building a "cage" around it was this fate for Ichi/Eldest Brother in particular, and to a lesser extent Ni/Elder Brother. Whereas San could at least take some satisfaction in curiously watching the humans around them, the other two heads were pissed off and Ichi's Berserk Button was utterly pressed, yet they couldn't do a damn thing except mentally froth in rage and loathing until Ghidorah was freed from the glacier. Word of God also makes it clear that Vivienne becoming the immortal Draconic Abomination's fourth head would have very much been this trope thanks to Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother's cruelty and capabilities.
• As the Good Book Says...: Ni/Elder Brother and San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother at one point paraphrase Genesis 3:5, when referring to Ghidorah's plan to corrupt and then assimilate Vivienne.
• Baddie Flattery: San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother and also Ichi/Eldest Brother compliment Monster X (specifically Vivienne) a couple times on how strong and ferocious a creature she's grown into, and on her impressive performance against Keizer Ghidorah.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: "Damnatio Memoriae" shows that Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother went through this in Ghidorah's Backstory. They were originally nurturing, protective and encouraging big brothers towards their respective youngers with a powerful Big Brother Instinct – a very far cry from the vicious, abusive, belittling, hateful assholes that they are towards each-other and their Youngest Brother billions of years later, only putting up with the latter because he's physically a part of them.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that when they were young and small, Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother looked forward to growing too big and strong for any of their kind's predators on their homeworld to threaten them anymore. They certainly got their wish, but not in a pleasant way at all – in fact, their wish came true in the most horrifying way.
• Berserk Button: Ichi/Eldest Brother specifically was ticked off by humans (namely Vivienne) building a "cage" around Ghidorah while it was frozen. It's also revealed that Ghidorah has such an extreme reaction to hearing an ORCA signal because it brings back bad memories from Ghidorah's Backstory as a Tortured Monster. It's heavily implied in the story, and confirmed by Word of God, that Ghidorah goes into Kill All Humans mode when it encounters humans and has actively obliterated similar civilizations on other worlds purely because Ichi and Ni (Ichi especially) despise any reminder of the human-like Abusive Precursors who tortured them.
• Big Brother Bully: Ichi and Ni. They didn't show San a shred of affection nor allow him to indulge in anything that didn't involve eating and killing; roaring in his ears and biting at his horns when they disapproved of his curious tendencies. Ichi is also willing to get equally physical with Ni when the middle sibling tests his boundaries, as shown here.
• Big "SHUT UP!": In Abraxas, both Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother snapped at San-2/Youngest Brother with this for doing little more than raising his voice. In "Damnatio Memoriae", both Ni and Ichi at separate points repeatedly scream for the Old Noise in their heads to shut up, and Ichi eventually shouts at San to shut up so he can think.
• Brutal Honesty: Word of God comments that Ni/Elder Brother is "too direct and in-your-face" to care about trying to lie or even use exact words if he were to gain an understanding of the concept of lying (which he does). It can also be safely presumed that San-2/Youngest Brother would have the same derision for dishonesty as San does.
• Cain and Abel: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother are the Cain to San's Abel.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother are proud of their omnicidal history, as the Badass Boast demonstrates.
• Cowardice Callout: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother expressed disdain for Thor to his face over his decision to flee into hibernation for his life instead of fighting to the death against Ghidorah like the rest of his kin.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Ghidorah wasn't always the way it is now. In the beginning, Ichi and Ni used to be much more innocent and protective, but after literally billions of years of them using Ghidorah's rage- and hatred-fueled power to kill entire worlds again and again in a vicious cycle (on top of excessive childhood trauma), every last positive quality that those two heads once possessed has been long since corrupted, ground away, or forgotten, leaving them as they are now.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother have moments, particularly during the Villainous Breakdown's early stages. Word of God confirms these two inhuman minds picked it up by gaining mental access to the Many's victims' socio-cultural knowledge.

  San-2: brothers there is a problem
  Ichi: THERE IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM WHAT NOW
  […]
  Ni: WHAT A NUISANCE I'VE ONLY JUST COME BACK

• Disowned Sibling: During San's character development, he subtly but clearly disowns his elder brothers as his allegiance changes to Vivienne and as he gets a taste of what it's like to be loved and cared for, something Ichi and Ni haven't done for him in billions of years. In a more literal and physical sense, the fact Ghidorah's heads directly associate siblinghood with sharing a body in Multiple Head Case means that San thinks the other two Ghidorah heads literally ceased to be his physical brothers from the moment his head was severed.
• Empty Promise: Two of the heads made a couple such promises in the distant past, as revealed in "Damnatio Memoriae". Ichi and Ni told San that they would protect him and that he would be okay after the Makers captured them, and Ichi promised San that the Old Noise wouldn't get him. They most certainly were not okay from there on, and the Old Noise most certainly did catch them; the Noise just didn't kill them (which would have probably been a mercy compared to the alternative).
• Even Evil Has Standards: Ghidorah seems to despise outright cowardice, with Ichi and Ni vocalizing utter contempt at Thor fleeing to hide himself while the rest of his kin died fighting against Ghidorah's onslaught, although it's uncertain how much this is genuine standards and how much it's just the heads saying things that they know will make Thor squirm. True to Ghidorah's King of the Monsters portrayal and unlike its pre-MonsterVerse portrayals in Toho, Ghidorah in Abraxas is a lot of evil things but a coward is not one of them.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Ichi/Eldest Brother displays the Sick Sense of Humor. His response to a Titan he wanted captured alive seeking to flee his presence was to say the Titan could go free, then have his brother break said Titan's legs so it couldn't do more than squirm in pain on the ground in an immobile state, and it's implied that Ghidorah has done this before. Word of God also says that Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother find the dark side of humanity outright amusing.
• Evil Laugh: In "Damnatio Memoriae", when Ghidorah is still young, the middle and left heads both cackle in Kaiju Talk when musing on how they'll use their growing power to make the Makers suffer for everything they did to them. See Tropes applying generally for another example.
• Evil Sounds Deep: The mental voices of Ichi/Eldest Brother in particular, and also San-2/Youngest Brother. See Comic-Book Fantasy Casting.
• Eye Scream: In Chapter 17, both Ni/Elder Brother and Ichi/Eldest Brother lose an eye to Monster X and Mothra respectively.
• Forced to Watch: Two of the Three were on the receiving end in "Damnatio Memoriae". Ichi and Ni were helpless to do anything but watch and scream in protest against their cage when the Makers started cutting open a conscious San, until it was Ni's turn, and then Ichi's.
• Hope Crusher: Ichi/Eldest Brother in particular, and also Ni/Elder Brother. If they can communicate with you and they don't intend to kill you, they will try to break you by communicating with you.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Very much downplayed. Word of God confirms that Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother's Deadpan Snarker moments and the latter's He-Man Woman Hater mouth are the result of exposure to the Many's human socio-cultural knowledge stores, but that's about where humanity's influence on them ends.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Both Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother react this way towards Vivienne after witnessing Monster X's capacity for savagery. They subsequently want to mentally destroy Vivienne until this violent streak becomes the entire definition of her personality, with Word of God noting Ni in particular is interested in the raping part.
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: Whilst the left head is genuinely Intrigued by Humanity, Word of God says the only aspect of humans that Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother can appreciate is finding amusement in humanity's very worst acts.
• Men Don't Cry: In-Universe. "Sermones ad Mortuos" mentions that one if not both of the elder brothers used to savage San's neck if they ever caught him so much as whimpering.
• Plagued by Nightmares: In the Empty Fullness one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae", shortly after the three Dorats are fused into Ghidorah, Ghidorah stops sleeping because, after enduring overwhelming trauma, Ichi can't bear what he and Ni see when they sleep anymore.
• Pretender Diss: Both Ichi/Eldest Brother and San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother scorn MaNi/Elder Brother for claiming he's still part of Ghidorah.
• Real After All: Implied with Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother. In Chapter 5, San hears his brothers' voices beating him down when he has his Heel Realization. Since all three of Ghidorah's heads have regenerated enough to be conscious a few chapters later, it's possible that what San heard was the real Ichi and Ni rather than a guilt-fueled hallucination.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Monster X is experiencing face-to-face torment from Ghidorah and thus re-encountering the supposedly-dead hydra's middle head alongside San-2/Youngest Brother, San gives the two heads an epic one in retort to the one he's received; in Chapter 16:

  "AND WHAT ABOUT YOU?! YOU ARE ME! CHANGING [Vivienne] WAS MY TASK! BUT I CHOSE TO STAY WITH HER! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE TORMENT BEGAN?! WHERE WERE YOU TO TEACH HER CONTROL?! YOU WERE PLAYING AT BEING MAKERS!"

• The Sociopath: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother. Lack of Empathy and Devoid of Conscience? Oh, definitely yes. They're not Consummate Liars solely because they've never had a concept of dishonesty before, but they're quite knowledgeable on exploiting what psychologically makes their victims tick when they need to. They exhibit the Pathological Need for Stimulation in their eternal life goals: conquering and killing every sentient lifeform they encounter with extreme prejudice and maximum enjoyment. They have a Shallow Effect in how they have no emotional attachment towards each-other, their Youngest Brother nor anything else. And they definitely have a Grandiose Sense of Self-Importance as the Badass Boast, combined with the fact they consider themselves the only true god compared to Earth's Titans, demonstrate.
• Terms of Endangerment: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother calling Vivienne "Bone Singer" is somewhat this, according to the author.
• Trash Talk: Played With. Both Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother viciously taunted Thor before a fight, leading Thor in turn to try provoking Ghidorah into accepting his challenge, in Chapter 17.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As stated by the author and more explicitly shown in "Damnatio Memoriae", Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother both used to be genuinely nurturing older brothers and protective creatures, before they became the utter monster that they are now. Ichi in particular was kind and selfless to his brothers. Then the Makers came, and the Old Noise plus the toll of committing countless genocides corrupted Ghidorah. The author's posts even compare Ichi's original personality from his youth to Vivienne Graham.
• Villainous Breakdown: Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother have a gradual one over the course of Chapter 17. They get more and more frustrated with all the Titans' opposition and Ghidorah's increasing disadvantage, and they're caught off-guard when San-2/Youngest Brother turns on them. When Ichi's head is all that's left of Ghidorah, he's proverbially shitting his pants when Monster X is about to execute him.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: Inverted by Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother; they told Thor to the latter's face that he was even lowlier than the rest of his "misbegotten kind" (Ni's words) for fleeing Ghidorah's genocide instead of fighting back.
• You Fool!: Ni/Elder Brother snarled "FOOLISH" in response to Vivienne daring to get close to the glacier holding Ghidorah despite her fear of it, not that she could directly hear him. Ichi/Eldest Brother derided Jonah as "THE OLD FOOL" for his hubris, and he also labelled MaNi/Elder Brother foolish for his Stupid Evil nearly compromising Ghidorah's plans.
• You Remind Me of X: Slightly downplayed, twice.
  • Part of the reason why Ichi/Eldest Brother hated Vivienne as much as he did was because her building a "cage" around Ghidorah reminded him of creatures from his past that he really hates: Ghidorah's Makers. Word of God suggests that Ni/Elder Brother initially has a more adverse hatred of Vivienne than Ichi's obsessive hatred because Vivienne actually reminds Ni of Ichi, back when the latter still had goodness in him.
  • Word of God confirms the implications that Ichi/Eldest Brother's and possibly Ni/Elder Brother's genocidal hatred of humans stems from humans (and many other alien little ones that Ghidorah exterminated) reminding Ichi and Ni of something from their past – the Makers. Word of God has even suggested that some of the civilizations Ghidorah exterminated in its past were off-world remnants of the Makers' species.
    Hrodvitnon: Ghidorah also hates Little Ones, [...] with the fury of a thousand suns. They don’t even have to look remotely like the Makers, they just bring up those terrible memories just by doing their own thing without realizing it.
  • Part of the reason why Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother came up with a specific villainous incestuous part of their plan for Vivienne? It's because they came to see themselves in her in more ways than one, and they're aroused by the violence she's capable of after becoming part of Monster X.

Tropes applying to One Head

The Middle Head (Ichi, "Eldest Brother", the First)

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In "Damnatio Memoriae", the creature that Ichi used to be pleads for his brothers' lives when the Makers are cutting into them.
• Attack the Mouth: In Chapter 17, Monster X destroys his head by firing their Destroyed Thunder into his mouth.
• Broken Tears: He used to be a very different creature in Ghidorah's earliest life before he became what he is now. In "Damnatio Memoriae", he breaks down crying in despair and defeat over his overwhelming pain and failure to protect his brothers, after the Makers convert them into Ghidorah.
• Cruel Mercy: Zig-Zagged. He originally ordered San to bring Vivienne Back from the Dead transformed into a part-Ghidorah monster as a way to torment her, never mind what Ichi probably would've done to her afterwards if Ghidorah had never been killed at Boston.
• Defiant to the End: After his head was ripped off and he was forced to watch the rest of Ghidorah get destroyed, in Chapter 17. However, he did freak out at the very end, partly due to a little Break Them by Talking from Monster X.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He wanted to grant Vivienne a Fate Worse than Death purely because she unwittingly hit his Berserk Button hard by leading humans in building a "cage" around the glacier Ghidorah was frozen inside.
• Evil Counterpart: Monster X overall is a Good Counterpart to Ghidorah, but Vivienne has an Evil Counterpart in Ichi/Eldest Brother. He's essentially what Vivienne could've become if she completely snapped and gave in to rage and madness during her Trauma Conga Line, and if she became hateful, lost her positive character traits, and turned to abusing San as an outlet just like Ichi does. Indeed, Ichi before Ghidorah's corruption was much more like Vivienne towards San. Interestingly, Vivienne and Ichi both have a degree of Parental Abandonment with their biological parents, but whereas Vivienne found a Parental Substitute, Ichi had to be a Parental Substitute. Vivienne has people she loves like family or outright adoptive family (Serizawa, Madison and San), whereas Ichi never had anyone other than his brothers.
• Exact Words: It's hinted in the story and confirmed by Word of God that Ichi/Eldest Brother (unlike his brothers) would be all too happy to use this trope as a way to manipulate or toy with others in order to get what he desires, if Ghidorah were to wrap its heads around the concept of lying. Which it does, with Ichi manipulating the Many into believing they are Pieces of God.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's started displaying this kind of attitude in Chapter 14. According to the author, he's mainly using it as a psychological warfare tactic against Vivienne.
• Feed It a Bomb: During the Final Battle, Godzilla holds the middle head's jaws open whilst the military drops a GBU-57 which lands down the head's gullet and explodes there. For the record, the GBU-57 is called a "bunker buster" bomb in Real Life.
• Grin of Audacity: He sported such a grin when Ghidorah is surrounded by multiple Titan foes before fighting back.
• Hypocrite: Ichi/Eldest Brother once insisted that death is the end of all things, and shortly thereafter he boasted alongside his brothers that Ghidorah is deathless and eternal. An ancient Bone Singer called Ghidorah out on this. See the General section for another example.
• I'll Kill You!: In "Damnatio Memoriae", he screams these words over and over with unending rage, hatred and vitriol at the Makers when they torturously mutilate Ni, San and then him as part of transforming the trio into Ghidorah.
• It's Personal: Apart from how Ghidorah is on the receiving end of this from a lot of characters; Ichi/Eldest Brother eating Vivienne alive and wanting San to grant her a Fate Worse than Death was done because she hit his Berserk Button.
• Karmic Injury: He's the head who ate Vivienne alive, and he's force-fed a bomb which blows up in his neck.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He gets a couple doses of this. On top of getting a Karmic Injury in battle, after he spent so much time viciously getting into Viv and San's heads trying to inflict Break Them by Talking, they get to turn the tables on him before his Karmic Death.
• Losing Your Head: His head gets ripped off, and he remains conscious and animate until he's executed, in Chapter 17. Justified, as Word of God reveals Ghidorah's heads rely on internal power reserves to remain animate after being decapitated.
• Mirror Character: It turns out both Alan Jonah and Ichi/Eldest Brother despise humans/"little ones" due to the latter's involvement in the traumatic events that shaped either character into the villains they now are. They also both had similar intentions for Monster X (particularly the creature's Vivienne half). Jonah and Ichi/Eldest Brother are both older than most characters in their class (Jonah is Evil Old Folks, Ghidorah is The Older Immortal) as well. One has to wonder if Ghidorah used these parallels to manipulate Jonah during his Sanity Slippage.
• No One Gets Left Behind: In "Damnatio Memoriae", the creature that Ichi originally was refuses to leave his youngest brother behind with the Makers closing in, even when said brother has just been paralyzed.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: At one point, he's shown unsuccessfully attempting to fire a Gravity Beam into Godzilla's face at close range.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He says as much about Vivienne when conversing with Monster X, twice. The first time leads to a Not So Similar speech from her.
• Oh, Crap!: Being confronted with the idea that Ghidorah's enemies might actually be able to hunt down all the pieces of it and thereby make his impending death become permanent was enough to make his eyes fractionally widen, despite his efforts to save face. See the General folder for another example.
• The Promise: "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that back when he was a much nicer creature, he made a promise to San that he wouldn't let the Old Noise which they thought at the time was a predator catch San. Tragically, both Ichi and San realized at the end that the Old Noise had captured all three of them, something which San called Ichi out on.
• Promotion to Parent: San mentions in Chapter 10 that Ichi/Eldest Brother had to rear Ni and San himself in the absence of any adults of their kind willing to care for them.
• Restraining Bolt: The author has described Ichi/Eldest Brother as being this to the other two heads, keeping the left head's Token Good Teammate curiosity and the right head's otherwise Stupid Evil-inducing psychotic desires (which manifest unrestrained in MaNi) in check.
• Slasher Smile: He just smiles confidently when Vivienne declares they're Not So Similar in Chapter 14, and he also pulls a smirk in the style of the Antarctica scene in the face of the Titans' war cry in Chapter 17. It gets lampshaded that Ichi is the head who sports this expression the most prominently out of the three.
• Sleep Deprivation: In addition to the General example above, Ichi/Eldest Brother in "Damnatio Memoriae" couldn't sleep shortly before he and his brothers were physically fused into Ghidorah because his dreams apparently became too much.
• Take Me Instead: Believe it or not, there was a time when he was selfless and willing to sacrifice himself for his brothers, as shown in "Damnatio Memoriae", where he desperately cries at the Makers to take whatever they want from him if they'll just stop cutting his brothers open and leave them alone.
• Teeth Flying: In Chapter 17, Godzilla forces Ichi/Eldest Brother's jaws shut so violently that this happens.
• Villain Respect: He has a moment of this when his decapitated head (confident he and his brothers will still come back eventually) compliments Monster X after the destruction of Keizer Ghidorah's body.
• We Will Meet Again: Ichi/Eldest Brother tells Monster X during Keizer Ghidorah's destruction that they will be back.
• You Have Failed Me: Downplayed. He was harsh and belligerent to his Youngest Brother the left head at the best of times, but when the latter failed at an assigned task (namely at using Vivienne's soft spot for San to settle her down), an irate Ichi got even more physically and verbally abusive with the Youngest Brother than usual.

The Right Head (Ni, "Elder Brother", "Younger Brother", the Second)

• Blood Knight: He particularly enjoys fighting and killing for their own sakes even more than the other two heads do, relishing in the heat of an intense fight (although he's still somewhat more restrained than MaNi) . The author compares Ni to a combat adrenaline junkie, and it's furthermore revealed Ni was more irate than gleeful when the Oxygen Destroyer cut Godzilla and Ghidorah's battle unceremoniously short, not caring that Ghidorah was seriously losing that battle before the O.D. hit. See the General folder for another example.
• Every Scar Has a Story: "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals the origin of his permanent horn chip from the movie: it was damaged by the Makers in the process of capturing him, before they forcibly transformed the brothers into Ghidorah and caused the beginning of their spiral into madness and evil.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice sounds like Steve Blum, as described under Comic-Book Fantasy Casting.
• He-Man Woman Hater: He picked up a nasty case, due to a combination of learning humanity's socio-cultural knowledge and his "murder boner" towards Monster X.
• Jawbreaker: In Chapter 17, he inflicts this on himself when his head is impaled on Methuselah's horn, pulling himself free but ripping half his jawbone away.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Word of God indicates that Ni/Elder Brother considers weakness of any kind to be unacceptable partly because of what he and his brothers went through when they were small and weak, at the Makers' hands long ago.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:
  • According to this snippet by the author, Ni/Elder Brother hoped during the movie's events that Godzilla survived the Oxygen Destroyer's impact when he disappeared, solely because Ni wants Ghidorah to be the thing which fells Godzilla. Ni reacting this way to Godzilla's disappearance was originally introduced in the Recursive Fanfiction Shi AU by Tardisspacemug.
  • In "Damnatio Memoriae", the right head is enraged that the first generation of Makers he and his brothers met have apparently left and died with a younger generation replacing them due to the passage of time, snarling that he was supposed to be the one to kill them for what they did to the three brothers and that they've robbed him of that right.
• Palate Propping: Somewhat inverted. During the Final Battle, his jaws get jammed shut by Methuselah's horn getting stabbed upward through his jaw and skull.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed with him, but he seemed to enjoy talking about females fucking or negatively comparing San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother's complaints to "A BITCH IN HEAT" after he has assimilated humanity's socio-cultural knowledge.
• Scars Are Forever: Ever wondered why Ni in King of the Monsters has a perpetually-chipped left horn that Ghidorah's Healing Factor doesn't seem to affect? "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ni's horn was broken in a struggle billions of years ago, with the implication that the damage remains because Ni and his brothers didn't yet have their present day Healing Factor because the Makers hadn't yet started altering their biology.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Downplayed, but he seems to have taken on a slight vulgar side after Ghidorah absorbed humanity's collective knowledge from the Many, going hand-in-hand with the fact he's the head who most looks forward to committing rape on Monster X.
• Two-Faced: During the Final Battle, half of the right head gets reduced to a crater on one side.
• Virtue Is Weakness: Word of God notes that Ni/Elder Brother in particular associates goodness with weakness and considers it unacceptable.
• We Have Reserves: He expresses this attitude after San has fused with Vivienne, because Ghidorah can just regrow its left head, and both Ni and Ichi consider San/San-2 little more than a worthless load anyway.

The Left Head (San-2, San-Who-Could-Have-Been, "Youngest Brother", the Third)

• Affably Evil: San-2/Youngest Brother is arguably the Zig-Zagged form. He's just as brutal as the other two heads in battle or when you're just in Ghidorah's way, and he views other living things which aren't a direct part of him as mere tools and toys, but he's the type of Psychopathic Manchild who prefers playing lovingly with his toys and hates it when they get broken. Word of God even comments that he tolerates the Many partly because he thinks Ghidorah can "fix" them.
• Alternative-Self Name-Change: In-Universe, he's differentiated from San by being exclusively referred to as the Third, the left head, Youngest Brother, or San-Who-Could-Have-Been.
• As You Know: He provides a little exposition while observing the partly-regenerated Ghidorah's situation aloud, which annoys Ichi/Eldest Brother, in Chapter 17.
• Being Evil Sucks: He suffers this exactly like San did; getting no love and only the scarcest respect from his abusive brothers, and being more interested in having a new sister than Omnicidal Mania.
• Copied the Morals, Too: Being a clone of San as he was before fusing to Vivienne, San-2/Youngest Brother has the same affection and desire for affection towards her that pre-character development San had, and he has the same potential for a Heel Realization.
• The Dog Bites Back: Downplayed. He doesn't hesitate to snap at, bite and threaten to kill MaNi/Elder Brother without consequences, since said version of Ni is no longer considered part of Ghidorah.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Averted hard by Vivienne in regard to him, as she has no interest in fulfilling this trope nor the implications of doing so. However, during the Final Battle, Monster X recognizes San-2 as indeed being "San-Who-Could-Have-Been" and mourns his Redemption Equals Death Heroic Sacrifice.
• Ear Ache: He gets bitten by Ichi/Eldest Brother and harshly dragged around by his horns a lot.
• Evil Doppelgänger: He's the result of San's old Ghidorah head retaining or regrowing an exact copy of San's mind as he was when San's mind transferred to Vivienne. And San-2 has no apparent compunctions against using Break Them by Talking and Mind Rape on San and Vivienne.
• Evil Mentor: He particularly shows an interest in being this to Vivienne.
• Go Out with a Smile: He reacts with a genuine smile to Vivienne referring to him as her brother, before he resumes his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Heel Realization: Word of God confirms that he experienced one parallel to the main San's earlier one, as a result of reading Thor's memories.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Chapter 17, he has a Redemption Equals Death; using his final minutes to attack his evil brother heads with his jaws and aid the other Titans, before Ghidorah is cooked to nothing once more.
• Hope Is Scary: He admits to feeling this way when he's faced with the prospect of existing without Ghidorah, in Chapter 17.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: San-2/Youngest Brother has the same unfulfilled craving for affection as San did, being a clone of the latter San as his personality was before his Character Development.
• Meaningful Look: During his Redemption Equals Death, he makes it clear just by giving Monster X a look that Thor is almost done for.
• Obliviously Evil: Zig-Zagged. He hates himself and he's under no illusions about how vicious and barbaric his brothers are, but he genuinely doesn't seem to understand how turning Vivienne into a monster or forcibly inducting her into Keizer Ghidorah's Big, Screwed-Up Family is anything other than helping her, until he gets some Talking the Monster to Death.
• Other Me Annoys Me: Played for Drama. He expresses disgust at San for allegedly failing to do his job right, and Word of God confirms that San-2 projects the same self-loathing and self-deprecation he feels for himself onto his shed skin.
• Pet the Dog: Like the real San before the latter's Character Development, he regards Vivienne the way a child would regard their favorite toy, and he ferociously intervenes when MaNi/Elder Brother causes too much damage to Monster X. San-2 at one point fleetingly attempts to exploit this trope when telepathically contacting Vivienne.
• Psychological Projection: Word of God notes San-2/Youngest Brother does an entirely justified, doppelgänger-on-doppelgänger form when he joins Ichi/Eldest Brother and MaNi/Elder Brother and gives San "The Reason You Suck" Speech on his shortcomings.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Just like San was before his Character Development. He initially reacts like a petulant child when he and his brothers aren't getting their own way with Vivienne in Chapter 17.
• Redemption Equals Death: After some Talking the Monster to Death and viewing Thor's memories, San-2/Youngest Brother ultimately turns on his evil brothers, helping Monster X and the benevolent Titans to destroy Ghidorah including himself.
• The Runt at the End: Like pre-decapitation San, San-2 is the Youngest Brother, the most childlike and the least vicious of the three heads, and he views Vivienne as something to treat with affection rather than something to tear at the seams like Ichi and Ni want to.
• Sympathy for the Hero: Implied. Word of God describes him as having a "strange pre-mortem understanding" towards Thor as a result of viewing Thor's memories of his family and relating them to San-2's own craving for love.
• Taking You with Me: Him and Thor pull one on Keizer Ghidorah, fighting with Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother until Ni, San-Who-Could-Have-Been and Thor are all vaporized together in Chapter 17.
• Talking the Monster to Death: San-2/Youngest Brother is on the receiving end from San and Vivienne when psychically conversing with them in Chapter 17. This is part of what leads to him pulling a Redemption Equals Death.
• Third-Person Person: San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother exclusively refers to himself as "this one" or doesn't use first-person pronouns at all, the same as San before his Character Development.
• This Cannot Be!: Ichi/Eldest Brother ends up reacting with denial before Monster X cooks his head to nothing in Chapter 17.
• Token Good Teammate: Like San before he fused with Vivienne, San-2/Youngest Brother is the least vicious of the three heads but still not devoid of sadism, and he hates it when his brothers damage their "toy" too much.
• Tragic Villain: Besides Ghidorah's Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds backstory; both the author and a reviewer have also noted that it's actually quite tragic that San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother has the same potential for a Heel–Face Turn as Vivienne's San does, but him remaining attached to his brothers limits that from happening, a fact which San-Who-Could-Have-Been himself laments towards the end. Think Nebula in Avengers: Endgame...
• Unnervingly Heartwarming: His affectionate side. He's just as eager to have Vivienne as his sister as pre-character development San was. Even though in his case, this involves going along with his brothers' plans to take turns torturing and sexually assaulting Vivienne into insanity, plus he doesn't understand why Vivienne won't feel the same way towards him as she does towards the shed skin of him that she already has, nor why severing San from her will be a serious issue.
• Villainous BSoD: In Chapter 17, he seems to be in one whilst he's viewing Thor's loving memories of the family he lost.
• What Is This Feeling?: He's somewhat confused by the hurt he feels in his chest at Vivienne not wanting to bond with him.
• When He Smiles: San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother gives Monster X a sad smile just like San's after he turns on his brother heads in Chapter 17.
• White Sheep: Downplayed by San-2/Youngest Brother due to having the same personality as San before his Character Development, expressing disapproval at MaNi/Elder Brother for going too far and almost killing Vivienne. Played Straight when San-2/San-Who-Could-Have-Been betrays his brothers.

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