Characters / Godzilla: The Ghidorahs

Film Appearances: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster | Invasion of Astro-Monster | Destroy All Monsters | Godzilla vs. Gigan | Terror of Mechagodzilla^note stock footage | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Rebirth of Mothra | Rebirth of Mothra 3 | Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! | Godzilla: Final Wars | Godzilla: The Planet Eater | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Godzilla vs. Kong^note stock footage

The One Who Is Many in his many incarnations – with one head apiece.^note Clockwise from top: Showa King Ghidorah, Heisei King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah, King Ghidorah from the Trendmasters toyline, Desghidorah, Cretaceous Ghidorah, Grand King Ghidorah, GMK Ghidorah, Keiser Ghidorah, Anime King Ghidorah, MonsterVerse King Ghidorah, and Shin King Ghidorah
Art by pyrasterran. Used with permission.

"Bow down and worship the Golden Demise."

— Metphies, Godzilla: The Planet Eater.

A character page for Godzilla's three-headed Arch-Enemy and all of its variants and subspecies. Godzilla's most persistent foe, King Ghidorah has appeared in every continuity, and his rivalry with Godzilla has a deeply personal edge to it. Generally portrayed as an absolute bastard, his origin varies depending on the continuity.

To return to the main character index, go here. For the Legendary King Ghidorah from the MonsterVerse, go here.

Due to Wiki Policy, this page contains numerous unmarked spoilers for each Ghidorah involved. You Have Been Warned.

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General Tropes Shared Across Media

"The Devil has three heads."

—Dr. Vivienne Graham's field notes

• Aliens Are Bastards: The first in a long line of extraterrestrial menaces Godzilla and company face off against (although not the first one in the entire Toho canon), setting a franchise-wide precedent that nothing good ever comes from space.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Or rather Draconic Personification, to quote the Official Godzilla Compendium: "Thanks to the force of its evil personality, Ghidorah never engenders any sympathy, coming across less as a pawn than merely the logical extension of its masters' hostile intentions".
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Simply put, wherever there is a Godzilla, there will also be a King Ghidorah, and they will fight; he's opposed Godzilla across eight movies and five continuities. Even in GMK where Godzilla is a completely evil villain, Ghidorah has been made into a defender of Japan. Both he and Godzilla seem to take it personally too.
  • The Rebirth of Mothra trilogy made the species as a whole one to Mothra Leo. Desghidorah was Leo's first major opponent and the murderer of his mother. The trilogy's incarnation of King Ghidorah on the other hand was the Final Boss of the trilogy and came the closest to killing Leo.
• Armless Biped: No arms, just wings. In fighting games, he uses his left and right heads as arms to lift an opponent up.
• Ax-Crazy: Whether he's a Psycho for Hire or not, it's guaranteed he'll be laughing throughout all of his massacres.
• Blow You Away: King Ghidorah can create hurricane-force winds by just flapping his wings.
• Breakout Villain: Ghidorah is one of the definitive Godzilla villains, having had an incarnation in every film series.
• Breath Weapon: Lightning-bolt like beams of energy described as gravity beams.
• Civilization Destroyer: One frequent trait of Ghidorah is that he travels the cosmos, landing on planets and wiping out their populations.
• Draconic Abomination: The common trait he has for almost every version is that he's a Cosmic Horror in the form of a giant three-headed space-dragon that wields electricity, though some iterations are more eldritch than others. He is always depicted as extraterrestrial and sometimes even extra-dimensional, is extremely ancient, is able to survive and travel across great distances of space, is practically immortal with a regenerative healing ability that makes him virtually unkillable, can usually manipulate lightning or gravity (sometimes both), can create storms and atmospheric disturbances (at times by sheer accident) and — except for one iteration of Ghidorah — wants to wipe out all intelligent life on Earth (possibly all life). If you were describing this to someone who doesn't know Ghidorah or didn't mention that he was a giant space dragon, they would think you were talking about one of the Old Ones from the Cthulhu Mythos.
• Dragon Their Feet: If Ghidorah plays the role of The Dragon, odds are he'll outlive his superiors. Showa Ghidorah's final chronological appearance in Destroy All Monsters is an exception, as he dies before the Kilaaks are defeated.
• Dynamic Entry: King Ghidorah is never without one. In every movie he's in, he somehow makes his entry epic.
• Evil Is Bigger: One of the most consistently evil monsters, and one of the few to dwarf Godzilla himself, usually being at least 1.5 times Godzilla's height. Indeed, the Heisei Ghidorah was the tallest (but not the heaviest) kaiju in a Godzilla film all the way from 1991 until 2017, where it was trumped by the trilogy's incarnation of Godzilla...who was in turn trumped by the trilogy's Ghidorah the following year.
• Foil:
  • Godzilla is an Earth-born, manmade mutant who destroys out of pain and anger rather than malice, and who can usually be counted upon to come through for humanity in the end. Ghidorah is an alien (whether to the planet or the time period) who destroys life for kicks, works for various other alien menaces, and poses a colossal threat to planet Earth. The contrast couldn't be much more stark.
  • Design-wise, Godzilla is based on older portrayals of real-life dinosaurs (namely, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Iguanodon, and Stegosaurus) while Ghidorah is based upon mythological portrayals of dragons (namely the hydra and the Yamata-No-Orochi). This provides a solid contrast in having a comparatively more grounded prehistoric monster and a more mythological-themed monster.
• Giant Flyer: Emphasis on the giant part. He towers over Godzilla himself.
• Hero Killer: Billed as such and usually lives up to it, forcing one team-up after another in order to take him down.
• Horns of Villainy: All of his incarnations are usually depicted with having horns on all three of his heads that are highly identical. The horns of his Legendary incarnation are noticeably a lot more visually distinctive, making it easier to tell each head apart that displays their personalities. Subverted with his GMK appearance as he's portrayed as a benign ancient protector.
• It's Personal: He and Godzilla certainly seem to take their rivalry this way. Made explicit in the Scott Ciencin novel, Godzilla vs. The Space Monster where Ghidorah's mockery of his victims, revelry in destruction, and general sadism have Godzilla wanting his head(s) on a platter.
• Joker Immunity: No matter how many times he's killed, blown up, or reduced to atomic dust, King Ghidorah always finds a way to return from any sort of death, largely due to his popularity as a villain (typically ranking 2nd to Godzilla himself in popularity polls), though Showa Ghidorah's immunity runs out by the time of Destroy All Monsters, where he's unambiguously killed.
• Large and in Charge: He's often the Big Bad, or at least the Dragon-in-Chief, and is one of if not the largest of Toho's monsters, towering far above Godzilla's head.
• Lightning Bruiser: Very big, has the standard kaiju extreme durability, incredibly strong, and often surprisingly fast too. This could also count as a pun, since his Gravity Beams take on the appearance of electric bolts, and seem to have the same effect on living organisms.
• Multiple Head Case: Three heads, but mostly subverted as they don't typically have much personality to distinguish each one from the other. Played straight with the Monsterverse Ghidorah, though; see that page for details.
• Multiple-Tailed Beast: He has two long tails, which are typically tipped by spiked clubs.
• Our Dragons Are Different: King Ghidorah is a civilization-destroying three-headed alien.
• Our Hydras Are Different: Loosely based on the Lernean Hydra of Greek myth (as well as the Japanese Yamata no Orochi and the Russian Zmey Gorynych), with his name being derived from the pronunciation of "hydra" in Japanese (ヒドラ, or "hidora"). He shares the general similarity of being a multi-headed serpent-like monster, but other similarities vary between the incarnations.
• Psycho Electro: Has Shock and Awe powers and is a sadist Civilization Destroyer who has razed numerous worlds in the past just because he could.
• Psycho for Hire:
  • When in the employ of various aliens, as is usually the case. In the Showa continuity, he acts of his own free will in only his first appearance — Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla Vs. Gigan and the TV series Zone Fighter all have him controlled by a different alien race, while in the Heisei series, he's controlled by the Futurians.
  • The "Psycho" part, on the other hand, comes from the fact that he really seems to get a kick out of his work, letting out one Evil Laugh after another. Made explicit in the novel Godzilla vs The Space Monster, where Ghidorah's constant mockery of his victims is one of the many, many things that makes Godzilla want to kick his ass. The only real difference between Ghidorah under mind control and Ghidorah not under mind control is his creators get to pick which planet he'll to destroy.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Ghidorah is regarded as Godzilla's greatest foe, despite Mothra and her kin joining forces with the King of the Monsters to battle him in the Showa era. In the Rebirth movies, where the fights between Ghidorah's kin and Mothra Leo unfold in a distinct universe, Godzilla is notably absent from both epic clashes.
• Shock and Awe: All versions spit lightning, or gravity bolts.

Showa King Ghidorah

The King in Yellow.

First appearance: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster , 1964
AKA: Ghidrah, Ghidora, King of Terror, Monster Zero, Space Super Monster, Emperor of the Cosmos, Venus Hellfire, Space Super Terror-Beast, Supreme Ruler of the Cosmos
Portrayed by: Haruya Sakamoto (Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster); Shoichi Hirose (Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster — Invasion of Astro-Monster); Susumu Utsumi (Destroy All Monsters); Kanta Ina (Godzilla vs. Gigan); Isao Zushi (Zone Fighter)

In the Showa continuity, King Ghidorah is a rapacious space-faring alien dragon who wanders the galaxy destroying worlds for his own amusement. In the ancient past, Ghidorah annihilated Venus' advanced civilization and reduced the planet to an inhospitable wasteland. Arriving on Earth in a meteor, he is opposed by Mothra; who is eventually joined by Godzilla and Rodan. Repelled by the combined onslaught of the three monsters, Ghidorah retreats into space.

In subsequent appearances, he is mind-controlled and used as a weapon by various alien races, who hope to use him to help subjugate the Earth.

His appearance is partially based on Zmei Gorynych from Ilya Muromets.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: The planet that King Ghidorah devastated in the distant past was Venus in the original Japanese, but the English dub changed it to Mars.
• Alien Invasion: In Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster, King Ghidorah attacks Earth of his own initiative, but in subsequent films he's mind-controlled by other invading aliens.
• Ancient Evil: Has been destroying planets for fun for 5,000 years before the events of the Showa continuity (1954-1999), with Venus being one of the planets whose civilizations he's destroyed.
• Asshole Victim: From the destruction he's caused to the earth as well as the pain he's given to the other kaiju with no remorse, can you actually sympathize with him as he's getting pummeled to death in Destroy All Monsters?
• Big Bad: King Ghidorah not only became Godzilla's arch-nemesis in the original Showa series, but he even fought Zone Fighter on his own show twice and ended the fight in a draw.
• Blood from the Mouth: As apart of the much needed beating he's gotten in Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla brutally stomps on one of his throats in a second time as blood splashes out his mouth.
• Brains and Brawn: When he was partnered with the psychopathic Gigan in Godzilla vs. Gigan, he's gradually seen more as the "anvil" of the evil duo. He flaps his golden wings to fully blindside Godzilla, allowing the far more cunning Gigan to deliver a diving aerial buzzsaw slash to the shoulder to draw blood from him. Later in the film, Gigan is also seen to be instructing King Ghidorah, given the way how he was "telling" him what to do with a tapping claw gesture to his space dragon ally to dispose of Godzilla, after he dragged his unconscious body all the way to his feet, and he gratefully obliged by brutishly sending him flying into the destroyed Godzilla Tower. It's also worth mentioning that both of their combat strategies are heavily contrasted, as King Ghidorah, like in most of his appearances in the Showa films, usually stands from a distance as he resorts to chaotically Beam Spam his Gravity Beams everywhere to be threatening that will force his enemies to become defensive until they actually reach him while Gigan uses close-ranged abilities to inflict ungodly pain towards Godzilla and Anguirus, especially when Gigan used his hooked claw to repeatedly dent into Godzilla's cranium until his forehead starts bleeding out.
• Confusion Fu: In the earlier films, monsters would sometimes have a hard time even getting close to King Ghidorah because he'd keep moving his heads around erratically. It was hard to predict which volley of gravity beams would hit or miss, if he would rake them across an enemy monster's body, or if he would readjust his aim for another direct shot; there was no warning or delay when he spammed those rays like there was no tomorrow. True, he became a planet-destroying monster in part due to strength, but his wild fighting was his true edge; he was chaos incarnate!
• Create Your Own Hero: Apparently his malevolent and evil destruction bestowed upon the Earth as well as his assault against Mothra is what causes Godzilla himself to instantly change his ways and goes over a Heel–Face Turn. Since the Earth itself is Godzilla's home, his response towards the evil hydra makes it highly personal for him to drive him off whenever he sets his sights on him and rightfully shows the alien who he's dealing with.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: As a way to show off his strength and power for his grand debut in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster the very first kaiju he attacks is Mothra after she failed to form an alliance with Godzilla and Rodan, she crawled off to fight him alone, only to get tossed around like a rag doll the very second he sees her. The one-sided battle was so horrible that some of the human characters recoiled in nothing but anguish every time she got hit. When Godzilla comes to her aid to fight him, he immediately puts him on the ropes in an instant by firing his Gravity Beams at him and forcefully knocked him onto a bridge so hard that Godzilla struggled to regain his footing. His brief fight with Rodan didn't even phase him either when the pteranodon rammed into him at full speed, with both kaiju falling to the ground hard. Rodan was left dazed from the impact whereas King Ghidorah was still standing after shrugging it off. Even when the Earth kaiju tried to take him on they were either floored to the ground or resorted to using other ways to distance themselves from his attacks. It wasn't until all three monsters used their combined forces at once to properly defeat him.
• Demoted to Dragon: In his first appearance he was built up as a dreaded Civilization Destroyer and interplanetary scourge. By the very next film, he became the mind-controlled pawn of another alien race. And that's how he remained for the rest of the Showa Era.
• Dirty Coward: Not as much as fellow alien Gigan, but every time he found himself in the receiving end of a beatdown Ghidorah would usually get out and fly away. His other incarnations tend to be braver and stick around for a longer fight.
• The Dragon: Plays this role to various aliens. He's also literally a dragon himself.
• Dragon-in-Chief: The fact that aliens have mind controlled him is typically what makes them a threat. Usually when his mind-control is broken, he continues fighting without a care in the world that he was being controlled or simply leaves unless he is defeated. No matter the outcome, the aliens are always helpless against Godzilla's might without Ghidorah or another giant monster.
• Draconic Abomination: Showa Ghidorah is an ancient evil that travels through space (presumably faster than light or being able to create wormhole given the fact that inhabited worlds are so far apart and he has a reputation as a destroyer of civilizations) just to stomp out all life on inhabitable planets For the Evulz, manipulates energy and electricity, regenerates, causes natural disasters from the atmospheric disturbances caused by his presence, and is virtually unkillable.
• Dragons Are Demonic: He is a gigantic evil alien dragon who annihilates civilizations for fun and was the cause of the extinction of life on Venus or Mars.
• The Dreaded: The Venusian (Martian?) princess from Ghidorah's debut film speaks of his coming like it's the impending apocalypse. And whenever he arrives on the scene, every kaiju (including Godzilla himself) becomes visibly concerned, if not terrified.
• Dynamic Entry: The first appearance of Ghidorah as he erupts from a meteor is a very famous one.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: In some of the Japanese movie posters during his debut he had a purple body with red, yellow, and blue colored wings as that was how he was originally going to be colored. But his color was changed to gold because it matched the color of Venus, the planet he destroyed.
• Evil Laugh: Showa Ghidorah's iconic roar is a shrill cackle — derived from instructions that his voice sound like a bell.
• Final Boss: The Kilaaks deploy him at the end of Destroy All Monsters, after their control over Godzilla and the other monsters is broken; he proceeds to fight all ten of Earth's monsters at once. As far as video games go, the Showa King Ghidorah has been the final boss in Godzilla: Monster of Monsters and Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters.
• For the Evulz: In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, King Ghidorah causes massive amounts of destruction because he can, and enjoys every second of it.
• Genki Guy: A very dark example. He seems gleefully sadistic as he destroys stuff.
• Giggling Villain: His cackling roar gives the impression that he's laughing constantly, even when he's being beaten to death!
• Handshake Substitute: He briefly uses one of his wings as a way of giving Gigan a "high-five" of sorts to one of his hooked claws after him and Gigan had Godzilla down for the count in Godzilla vs. Gigan.
• Humiliation Conga: Each of his defeats for his appearances are rubbed in salt wounds whenever he's been thwarted by Godzilla and other kaiju.
  • Starting with his debut in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, as soon as all 3 monsters fully cooperate to take him down he kept getting covered more and more by the Mothra's silk with Rodan carrying her to ensure it, causing him to be All Webbed Up while his 2 tails are seized by Godzilla and gets tossed off a cliff. Right as the hydra tried to depart, his blind side was getting bombarded with thrown boulders numerous times. He then flies off into space while still being covered by parts of the web around his heads in utter humiliation.
  • For his second outing in Invasion of Astro-Monster, during his battle with Godzilla and Rodan on Planet X, the fight comes to a close with Rodan lifting a boulder and dropping it onto his back as Godzilla leaps into him with a lunging bodyslam, forcing him to cut his losses and leaves the scene. Godzilla then comically dances in celebration after besting him. While he does get some good hits on Godzilla with his Gravity Beams in the final battle, he loses again when Rodan carries Godzilla into the air by combining both mass and momentum together as the two Earth monsters collide into the dragon with all 3 piling onto one another, plummeting directly into the depths. After a minute or two has passed, King Ghidorah quickly flees into space once again.
  • Undoubtedly, his worst fate to ever be seen when it comes getting unquestionably trounced, bashed, brutalized, and put on a silver platter was the grand climax of Destroy All Monsters. Despite being the Kilaak's powerful trump card for world domination, all of Earth's kaiju made sure to deliver all sorts of payback to their foe. Most notably were Godzilla, Anguirus, and Gorosaurus for brining the smackdown to King Ghidorah with Godzilla blasting him point-black with his Atomic Breath to weaken him, Anguirus sinking his teeth right into one of his heads, and of course, Gorosaurus using his Kangaroo Kick to knock down the space beast, leaving him pinned to get horrifically curb-stomped to no end. None of the monsters allowed him to either retaliate and/or getting right back up, as one head tried to move about to attack only for Godzilla to strangle him and began stomping his throat in so hard, he hacked up his own blood. And the worst of it all? He's pathetically finished off by Minilla of all monsters, even though he's the weakest of them all. The golden space dragon was already critically injured from the overwhelming combined forces of the 3 kaiju that has beaten the crap out of him and the most humiliating way to ever be killed is having a blown smoke ring around the middle head's neck to cut off little oxygen he had left in his body, falls limp, and kicks the bucket. How the mighty have fallen indeed.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Usually manages to escape alive in most of the other Showa movies despite being one of the more actively malicious kaiju, albeit after getting roughed up by Godzilla in each appearance. His luck finally runs out in Destroy All Monsters when his fight against the other monsters goes poorly and he's kicked to the ground, resulting in them beating him to death and ending his threat once and for all.
• The Kirk: The 1992 art book Special Graphix Godzilla vs. Mothra compares and contrasts him with Mechagodzilla and Gigan, claiming Ghidorah is a "dignified villain".
• Light Is Not Good: Showa Ghidorah has golden scales, but is a malevolent civilization-destroying alien dragon.
• Magnetism Manipulation: His meteor form draws dozens of pick axes and other various metallic objects that latch onto it as keeps growing as time goes on. In Zone Fighter, he levitates multiple cars in mid-air.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Has been given the nickname "the King of Terror" for good reason.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: His three heads all have dark-brown/golden lion-like manes on them.
• No-Sell: He's capable of effortlessly shrugging off Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
• Omnicidal Maniac: In the Showa continuity, he apparently lives simply to wipe out all life that he encounters.
• Orochi: He's loosely based off of the Yamata-no-Orochi, and Ghidorah (or "Ghidora" in Japanese) is a slightly altered version of the Japanese word "hidora", which is "hydra".
• Planet Eater: In the Showa era, Ghidorah was the stuff of cosmic nightmares, renowned for his cosmic buffet of entire planets.
• Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": He never stops cackling, usually intensifying it as he reduces major metropolitan centres to rubble.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Arrives concealed in a meteor in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster.
• Shadow Archetype: To Showa Godzilla. He is what Godzilla would have become if he never changed his ways and fully embraced his destructive nature.
• Signature Roar: Showa Ghidorah had an iconic high-pitched cackle, though this was discarded in favor of recycling and speeding up Rodan's roar for subsequent iterations.
• Super-Strength: Even though he constantly uses his Gravity Beams left and right to keep most of his enemies at a distance, he's still shown to be colossal threat without them. His own jaws are strong enough to ward off Anguirus by biting his neck until he dropped him from a massive height in Destroy All Monsters, and by then he starts stomping on the already fallen ankylosaur until he knocks him unconscious. He doesn't hold back his strength whenever he's encountering Godzilla in close-range as he can easily crash him into a bridge and has even floored him to the ground several times. In Godzilla vs. Gigan, he's also more than capable of sending Godzilla flying into the air with no effort by slamming all 3 of his heads into his defeated body from a standing position.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: He basically went out of his way to strike Mothra with his Gravity Beams purely out of nothing but vileness and cruelty. Godzilla and Rodan did not respond so positively after witnessing the onslaught, especially Godzilla as he's gotten enraged so much that he charges towards him without hesitation and this gives Godzilla something worth fighting for and kickstarts his way to become more heroic because of Ghidorah's villainy.
• Vocal Dissonance: An ominous 3 headed alien draconic planet destroyer who's struck fear across the galaxy, who dwarfs Godzilla as well the other kaiju in overall size, and is considered one of his most challenging enemies. You'd think he'll sound as menacing as he looks right? Instead he has high-pitched vocals that sounds almost completely dolphin-like with an ounce of unsettling laughter, but perhaps that was the intention in contrast to his appearance.

Heisei Ghidorahs

Dorats

First appearance: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, 1991

These small creatures are genetically-engineered pets of the Futurians. After relocating the injured Godzillasaurus from Lagos Island to the Bering Sea in 1945, Emmy Kano left three Dorats in its place on the island. There the creatures stayed until 1954, when the nuclear bomb test that originally mutated Godzilla instead caused the Dorats to fuse together and mutate into the Heisei incarnation of King Ghidorah.

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• All Animals Are Dogs: They sound like whimpering puppies.
• All There in the Manual: According to the Japanese novelization of the film, the Dorats were genetically engineered from DNA recovered from the preserved corpse of another King Ghidorah found on Venus.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from three cute, harmless pets to a giant, three-headed monster that could hold its ground against Godzilla.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: They look like some strange hybrid between a cat, a bat, and a dragon with green hair on their heads. The fact that they fuse and mutate into King Ghidorah is even weirder. The novelization justifies it by explaining that they were cloned from the corpse of an existing King Ghidorah.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The Dorats went from being a trio of adorable-looking monsters to being fused into one of the biggest threats to the planet.

King Ghidorah/Mecha-King Ghidorah

First appearance: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, 1991
AKA: Mecha-Ghidrah
Portrayed by: Hurricane Ryu

In the Heisei continuity, King Ghidorah is born after the three Dorats left on Lagos Island are fused into a single three-headed dragon. Initially under the control of the Futurians, King Ghidorah is able to fight evenly against and even overwhelm the upgraded Godzilla, but after their control over him is broken Ghidorah loses his edge and is killed — having his middle head blown off and his wings torched. In the future, Emi recovers King Ghidorah's corpse and rebuilds it as a cyborg equipped with an internal command center. The revivified Mecha-King Ghidorah is then sent back to the present to try and stop the rampage of Godzilla, incapacitating him and dragging him to the bottom of the ocean before being destroyed.

Though Mecha-King Ghidorah has never appeared in any subsequent films (besides a very brief appearance in the opening of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2 where the mechanical head is being reverse engineered to create Mechagodzilla), he has appeared in a number of video games and other media.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: Showa Ghidorah was just a random space monster who decided to make the solar system his stomping ground one day. Heisei Ghidorah was explicitly born from the nuclear blast that was meant to mutate a certain dinosaur into Godzilla.
• Adaptation Species Change: Instead being an interstellar hydra that travels through space that eradicates planets in the Showa series, the Heisei incarnation was previously 3 futuristic genetic bat-like critters that were eventually combined into a nuclear empowered mutation, not unlike Godzilla, after the atom bomb tests have occurred. The novelization in turn claims said bat-like critters were cloned from the corpse of an existing King Ghidorah who, like the Showa version, was an alien.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Goes from an Omnicidal Maniac who kills for his own amusement to three innocent creatures who were forcibly fused into the Big Bad's attack dog.
• Adaptational Villainy: Mecha-King Ghidorah gets hit with this a few times: in Marc Cerasini's novel Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters, the comics Rulers of Earth and Monsters Unleashed, and the video game's Super Godzilla and Destroy All Monsters: Melee he's turned into an evil super weapon working under either aliens invading earth or malicious humans (though the sequels to Melee later retcon him with an alignment and origin closer to the movie version), while in the video game Godzilla: Domination he's the Big Bad behind the monsters going on a destructive frenzy.
• Alien Blood: Instead of bleeding out bodily fluids, golden dusty powder is seen being spewed out when his middle head gets blown off from Godzilla's powerful (blue) Spiral Ray. This was a decision for child audiences being exposed to bloodshed.
• Anti-Hero: Type V in the finale of Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, where Mecha-King Ghidorah is a villain being controlled by the heroes to stop a rampaging Godzilla.
• Anti-Villain: Yes, really. Unlike the Showa King Ghidorah, this version is less outright malicious and more a victim of circumstance. The three Dorats were innocent pets that never harmed anyone, while the giant hydra only does as its masters order it to. The only thing we see it attack is Godzilla, and that's after he's been furiously trying to kill it even after the mind control was broken.
• Back from the Dead: Heisei Ghidorah was killed, but got resurrected as a cyborg in the distant future.
• Big Damn Heroes: Mecha-Ghidorah returns from the future just in time to stop Godzilla from destroying the rest of Tokyo.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: He has 3 hearts within his body (similar to an octopus) as they're functioned for storing up leftover energy to extend his longevity, where he's shown to be in a comatose state lying motionless on the ocean floor and the sound of his beating hearts are still being detected in the year 2204.
• Breath Weapon: Two of the lightning-bolt gravity beams of his original incarnation, plus a laser from his new cybernetic head. Originally, each head was going to shoot a different colored bolt, and they were to be able to combine each into a massive laser attack, but this was cut for budget reasons.
• Chest Blaster: Not quite, but Mecha-King Ghidorah can deploy an enormous clamp and electrical cables from his chest armor.
• Clip Its Wings: After suffering a horrific decapitation, he attempted to actually escape with his life until Godzilla, who decided that fleeing is futile in his eyes, blasts his Atomic Breath that punctures a gaping hole in his wing, which in turn, sends him plummeting into the oceanic depths where he becomes comatose for over two centuries. This misfortune happens to him again as Mecha-King Ghidorah where he carries Godzilla with his Machine Hand, but being suspended in the air didn't stop Godzilla from fighting back as he repeats this process by firing his ray at his solar panel metallic wings and falls into the ocean once again, although this time Godzilla's with him.
• Choke Holds: As a response from getting overpowered by Godzilla, he wraps his middle head around Godzilla's neck as a brutal method to finish him off to the point where Godzilla starts foaming at the mouth. It was a bad idea to begin with since Godzilla proceeded to use a Nuclear Pulse that sent him flying dozens of feet away.
• Converging-Stream Weapon: One storyboard panel for the film demonstrated Mecha-King Ghidorah using the power of his Gravity Beams from his organic heads alongside the mechanical head firing his Gravity Laser Cannon, which combines all 3 of his Breath Weapons into a powerful electrical beam. This attack itself was further implemented as one of Grand King Ghidorah's powers 7 years later. The MonsterVerse incarnation also uses this power as well.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: After him and Godzilla exchanged their respective beams at each other, King Ghidorah begins to take advantage of his flight speed to outmaneuver Godzilla where he's unable to attack him besides using his Atomic Ray as an attempt to bring him down. The hydra starts gaining the upper hand by resorting to brute force when he pulls off a mid-air kick so powerful that it floored Godzilla to the ground, and repeatedly stomps him with his mass so hard that Godzilla's body gets engraved into the earth with each powerful stomp. Even the humans were becoming anxious that Godzilla is losing the fight badly... until the device that the Futurians were controlling him with gets destroyed.
• Cyborg: Mecha-King Ghidorah, who has a mechanical head and wings, plating over his chest and legs, and a vast array of built-in weapons. How much of him is mechanical tends to vary depending on the media and the continuity.
• Death by Cameo: The opening to Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II reveals the remaining mechanical head of Mecha-King Ghidorah. The sufficiently advanced 23rd century technology became the key factor for the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center and G-Force to construct Mechagodzilla.
• Disc-One Final Boss: In Godzilla vs King Ghidorah where Godzilla beats him and takes over as Big Bad. King Ghidorah doesn't take this lying down, returns as Mecha-King Ghidorah and fights Godzilla to a Mutual Kill. King Ghidorah and Mecha-Ghidorah also serve as literal Disc One Final Bosses in several of the Godzilla video games.
• Dragon-in-Chief: As per usual, this Ghidorah was the only reason the Futurians were a threat.
• Evil Counterpart: This one especially compared to Godzilla. In addition to the usual contrasts other Ghidorahs have to Godzilla or Mothra, this one was another mutant born from an atomic explosion. Unlike Heisei Godzilla, this was deliberate, making Heisei King Ghidorah a "synthetic" Godzilla, used as a weapon to destroy entire cities like another living atom bomb.
• Energy Absorption: In the Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy, Mecha-King Ghidorah takes increased damage from most weapons. To counter this, if he is struck by them while he has his defense shield up, the power will be absorbed and either completely nullified or heal him.
• Energy Weapon: Mecha-Ghidorah can fire a laser from his central, mechanical head.
• Final Boss: Is the final villain in Godzilla: The Half-Century War alongside Gigan.
  • In the Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy, Mecha-King Ghidorah serves as the final opponent in Mechagodzilla 2's Adventure Mode, as well as the final foe in Godzilla: Domination.
• Fossil Revival: In an early draft of the script, Heisei Ghidorah was said to be a clone created from the corpse of an older extraterrestrial Ghidorah that was discovered on Venus. This extraterrestrial Ghidorah was intended to be revealed to be alive and fight Godzilla, but after it was scrapped the idea was recycled into Grand-King Ghidorah from the Mothra trilogy.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Heisei King Ghidorah starts out as three tiny bat-like creatures. One nuclear explosion later and you've got a monster who's ready to take out most of the planet. Played With in that the novel reveals the Dorats were genetically engineered from an alien King Ghidorah found dead on Venus.
• Glass Cannon: While most versions of Ghidorah can tank Godzilla's attacks and then some, this Ghidorah is badly injured by the Nuclear Pulse and defeated when the Atomic Breath clips his wings, causing him to plummet to the ocean. Mecha-King Ghidorah fits this trope even better, as he has more firepower but a massive Achilles' Heel in the form of Emiko.
• Humongous Mecha: In a weird way, Mecha-King Ghidorah, who had a cockpit built into his chest from which Emi could operate his weapons systems and direct his actions.
• It's Personal: King Ghidorah did not take well to Godzilla killing him in Marc Cerasini's novel Godzilla 2000 and was keen to act on his displeasure in a later book by the same author, Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters, which featured a three-on-one battle as Mecha-King Ghidorah battles Godzilla, Moguera, and Mechagodzilla. But it's Godzilla and Mecha-King Ghidorah who have the most interaction as the two of them hate each other with a passion and act on it in brutal fashion.
• Magnetism Manipulation: While this wasn't discussed in the movie, the PC game Godzilla Movie Studio Tour informs that he has a "protective magnetic casing" around himself, which could explain why he's able to sustain many blasts from Godzilla's Atomic Ray without so much as a simple scratch on him, making his Breath Weapon ineffective. This power basically vanishes when his mind control gets severed where after the fight came to a close, his wing was punctured with a gaping hole after Godzilla fired his beam through it.
• Meaningful Name: His English name hints at both his cyborg nature and the fact he is more a piloted mecha than a living Kaiju.
• Mighty Glacier: His ground speed is sloth-like since he's one of the slowest monsters in the Pipeworks trilogy to the point where even his own flight mobility is significantly hindered. Besides that, he has numerous attacks that are undeniably powerful and have great reach from the length of his necks and tails, along with sporting incredible defense where he's less susceptible to heavier attacks that can send other kaiju flying. Mecha King Ghidorah also possess these traits as well, although in Save the Earth he goes through Divergent Character Evolution as his attacks are far more energetic and are heavily differentiated from his organic counterpart.
• More than Mind Control: Emiko may be piloting Mecha-King Ghidorah but it's pretty clear he wants to be there.
• Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: He's a genetically engineered radioactive dragon cyborg zombie Humongous Mecha.
• Not Quite Dead: Everyone assumed that Godzilla killed King Ghidorah when he fell into the depths while he tried to retreat. He was still dormant on the ocean floor for the past 200 years as his heartbeats were still detected.
• Nuclear Mutant: King Ghidorah was born when three Dorats were exposed to the radiation of an American hydrogen bomb test, merging them together.
• Off with His Head!: The middle head gets brutally blown off of his body from Godzilla's Atomic Ray after being subdued by his Nuclear Pulse. The effect of the blast was so deadly that what seemed to be an "esophagus" exploded out of his neck.
• Prehensile Tail: Both King Ghidorah and Mecha King Ghidorah use their 2 tails as their second grab to swing around and toss an opponent if any kaiju happens to be placed behind them.
• Robeast: Mecha-King Ghidorah's mechanical parts seem every bit as alive and enraged as his living ones.
• Token Evil Teammate: He may be stopping Godzilla's rampage by fighting him, but it doesn't mean he's redeemed or had a change of heart — he is merely allowing Emiko to pilot his middle (robotic) head so he gets a proper rematch against Godzilla.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah succeeds in stopping a superpowered Godzilla where King Ghidorah could not.
• Walking Armoury: Mecha-King Ghidorah, who boasts lasers, electric cables, and a massive clamp in addition to King Ghidorah's lightning spitting heads and his own immense size. Some of the video games add even more weaponry into the mix, like tasers and shields.
• We Can Rebuild Him: The Heisei King Ghidorah was rebuilt into Mecha-King Ghidorah; this plotline also appears in Marc Cerasini's novels and several of the video games.
• Wing Shield: At the start of the match, he pulls his wings inward to guard his front by rendering any damage from Godzilla's beam. This form of defense can be justified since he's surrounded by magnetic casing.
• The Worf Effect: Occurs in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah to show how tough Godzilla is, albeit a Godzilla who got pumped up into an even more powerful monster by a nuclear sub. He then promptly returns as Mecha-King Ghidorah and fights Godzilla to a Mutual Kill.

Desghidorah / Death Ghidorah

First appearance: Rebirth of Mothra, 1996
Portrayed by: Mizuho Yoshida

Returning to the roots of King Ghidorah, Desighidorah is a demonic space beast that ravages living worlds and leaves them as apocalyptic wastelands. Whereas the Cretaceous King Ghidorah had arrived on Earth 130 million years ago, his relative Desghidorah destroyed the population of Mars before moving on to Earth 65 million years ago, where he engaged the ancient civilization (good grief, how many of these did Earth have?!) of Elias and their guardians, the Mothras. Desighidorah was defeated and sealed away, but not before destroying the Elias, most of the Mothras, and the dinosaurs (and in eliminating the latter, finishing the job the first Ghidorah had started). In the present, he was released by one of the three surviving Elias, Belvera, and began his destruction anew, defeating Mothra and her son. The larval Mothra matured to Leo Mothra and battled Desighidorah again, defeating him and sealing him away once again.

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• Aliens Are Bastards: Much like his inspiration.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Desighidorah's wings had atrophied and become useless during his imprisonment, as well as his powers diminishing. After draining enough life energy his wings were restored and his power returned to full. It didn't help.
• Dragon-in-Chief: While he works for Belvera, he's the main reason she's even a threat. As soon as he's sealed away, she runs away screaming.
• Expy:
  • Of King Ghidorah. In-universe, they're related; Death Ghidorah apparently having modeled his body off of the King Ghidorah after they fought once.
  • He's also one of Bagan from the unmade Mothra vs Bagan script, essentially taking his role from the script.
• For the Evulz: His main reason for making planets barren and lifeless.
• Giant Flyer: He's big, and he's got wings (though they were inaccessible for his fight with the adult Mothra and her son and only came back for the fight with the adult Leo).
• Ground Pound: Does this to split open a fissure and create a giant lava pit.
• Life Energy: Desighidorah feeds on the life energy of plants, draining worlds dry of all plant energy and leaving them to die.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He looks too detailed (not to mention demonic) for a Toho-based monster. Also he's a rare quadruped.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Unlike King Ghidorah, Desighidorah is a quadruped, but still has wings. His abilities are also fire-based, and his color is a dark charcoal gray/black with red wings.
• Psycho Electro: He does have a defensive measure for the giant blind spot on his back; he electrifies himself and sends the foe flying.
• Planet Eater: In the same sense as the original Ghidorah, he scours planets clean of life.
• Playing with Fire: Spits fireballs from his mouths, has a fiery bite, and can open rifts in the ground to scorch foes with lava.
• Sadist: Takes his time torturing Mothra Leo's larva form to death, rather than simply blasting him and being done.
• Stock Sound Effects: His roars are altered off of stock Elephant sounds performed by Frank Welker.

King Ghidorah (Rebirth of Mothra 3)

Cretaceous King Ghidorah / Modern Type King Ghidorah

The King of Terror

First appearance: Rebirth of Mothra III, 1998
AKA: Grand King Ghidorah, Super Dragon King Ghidorah
Portrayed by: Tsutomu Kitagawa

In the Rebirth of Mothra series, King Ghidorah is depicted as a space-traveling living disaster that takes cruel delight in the destruction of life, arriving on Earth in the ancient past as Cretaceous King Ghidorah, and causing the K/Pg extinction event. Ultimately, this King Ghidorah is seemingly destroyed by Mothra Leo when he drops the alien dragon into an active volcano. However, a severed tail burrows away and regenerates into the Modern-Type King Ghidorah — also known as Grand-King Ghidorah, who is even more powerful and is only vanquished when Mothra Leo becomes Armor Mothra.

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• Ancient Evil: He arrived on Earth 130 million years ago, intending to wipe out all life on the planet.
• Barrier Warrior: He's able to spawn an impenetrable barrier that can defend him from almost all of Rainbow Mothra's powerful beam attacks.
• Beam Spam: As Modern Type King Ghidorah, it could fire up to six Antigravity Beams from its wings.
• Big Bad: Of Rebirth of Mothra 3, as the sole villain for the first time since his debut.
• Breath Weapon: In its Cretaceous form it can spit fireballs from its mouth, but its Modern Type form has the traditional Gravity Beams.
• Character Check: After years of being an attack dog for every new alien race, Ghidorah is once again an independent villain, acting entirely on his own.
• Child Eater: Grand King Ghidorah feeds on the souls of children to fuel his power and lifeforce.
• Clip Its Wings: Literally — during the final battle between he and Armor Mothra, Mothra flies past him and slices off one of his wings, though he's still able to hover in midair before Mothra delivers a Transcending Fate attack, flying through him and causing him to slowly crystalize before exploding.
• Curbstomp Battle: Even in his weaker Cretaceous form he effortlessly defeats Rainbow Mothra in a fight and then tortures him while almost killing him, whereas previous antagonists monsters never went beyond the curbstomp, further highlighting his power and abilities.
• Defiant to the End: In Rebirth of Mothra 3 he refuses to flee from Mothra Leo after his wing is cut off, instead merely glaring at him in pure anger before resuming his fight.
• The Dreaded: The sheer mention of his arrival is enough to scare the Elias, the fact that Belvera helps the heroes due to fearing Ghidorah (and the fact that Belvera previously attempted to control another Ghidorah who wiped all life from Mars and Dagahra, who destroyed an ancient civilization much more advanced than humanity on its own) should speak for itself.
• Eye Beams: It could fire hypnosis beams from its eyes, using them to bend other beings to its will.
• Final Boss: Of the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy, as Mothra Leo's last and most powerful adversary and his last obstacle in ensuring the safety of the Earth.
• For the Evulz: King Ghidorah is shown to be perfectly capable of mass kidnapping his prey without destruction, but does it anyway just to occupy himself while waiting for his meal to be ready.
• From a Single Cell: Mothra Leo kills his past self in the past... except for one of his tails, which buries and regenerates into a new body which eventually evolves into his adult stage.
• It's Personal: When Armor Mothra humilliates him in a fight he glares at him and refuses to flee out of anger proving that wounding his ego by making him vulnerable is a way to make things personal for him.
• Knight of Cerebus: Moreso than even Desghidorah and Dagara, he is the only monster that Belvera does not attempt to control in any way, and drives Leo into what was quite his most brutal fight ever.
• No-Sell: Grand King Ghidorah shrugs off everything Mothra Leo throws at him, until Armored Mothra comes into the picture and Ghidorah finds himself on the receiving end of this trope.
• Mind Manipulation: A rather weaker variation as he uses his Eye Beams to take control of other beings, but the hypnosis isn't too hard to remove.
• Not Quite Dead: Mothra Leo tries to prevent Grand King Ghidorah from coming into existence by travelling 130 million years into the past to vanquish it when it was younger and weaker. However, one of Ghidorah's tails was severed and escaped, eventually being revealed to have regenerated a new body and evolved again into its adult form.
• Playing with Fire: His much younger Cretaceous King Ghidorah form could eject streams of Fireballs out of his mouths.
• Psycho Electro: It's Ghidorah, who in this incarnation destroys a city even after getting what he wants (children's souls) without a fight, simply because he's bored and wants to destroy and kill for his amusement while he awaits his meal of children's souls to be ready. Of course he has this power.
• Red Baron: The King of Terror, a title he earned for the worst possible reasons.
• Sadist: Per the norm for Ghidorah, even when he has Leo dead-to-rights, he decides to instead torture him as much as possible. Also he destroys an entire city right after taking all the children's souls without a fight, all because he's entertaining himself while waiting for the children's souls to be ready for him to devour.
• Soul Eating: Grand-King Ghidorah enjoys feeding on the souls and life-force of its victims, and has a taste for children.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: The hue of his Antigravity Beams that he blasts from the membrane of his wings are hot pink.

GMK King Ghidorah

Guardian Ghidorah

First Appearance: Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monster All Out Attack, 2001
AKA: God of the Sky
Portrayed by: Akira Ohashi

Vastly different from any other of Ghidorah's characterizations, in the Millennium era King Ghidorah is depicted as a guardian monster, as well as an immature Yamato no Orochi. One of the three Guardian Monsters, King Ghidorah is only concerned for the balance of nature and cares not for humanity (at first), and is awoken to fend off the revived Godzilla and put the souls of those lost in the second World War to rest. He joins Mothra at Yokohama in the night to confront Godzilla, but is ultimately overwhelmed and left vulnerable for Godzilla to deliver a fatal blow; however, Mothra sacrifices herself to save her comrade, and the energy of Mothra flows into the heavily-wounded King Ghidorah, reviving the great serpent and allowing him to carry on the fight with Godzilla; in which King Ghidorah opens a wound on Godzilla's neck. After a long battle, King Ghidorah is destroyed by Godzilla, but the wound he created is what ultimately causes Godzilla to destroy himself.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Unlike the other Ghidorahs, this one is actually a heroic kaiju.
• Adaptation Species Change: While the Showa King Ghidorah was an alien that just resembles a dragon, whereas the Heisei version being an atomic monster that were originally synthetic pets from a distant future, this Ghidorah, in particular, is the Yamato no Orochi. But instead of having eight heads in total, he's down to three since he hasn't been fully developed and matured to be at the peak of his power.
• Adaptational Wimp: Most versions require multiple monsters to put down; this one can barely get much of an offense on Godzilla, thus he's considered to be by far the weakest incarnation of King Ghidorah yet.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: The moment he gains his 11th-Hour Superpower is when he truly becomes "King" Ghidorah.
• Breath Weapon: He can spit bolts of lightning.
• Composite Character: He has fins on the sides of his heads as an artifact of the fact his role in the story was originally intended to be played by Varan. The suit-maker, Fuyuki Shinada, was disappointed his favourite kaiju was replaced and added one of Varan's physical attributes to Ghidorah.
  • In the Wii version of Godzilla Unleashed, his appearance was hugely changed from his Heisei look as his physical appearance in the game resembles the GMK incarnation, his multiple roars and shrills are used from both his Showa and Heisei incarnations, and the sound effects of his Gravity Beams are basically ripped right from the Showa era.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: He too goes through the exact same fate as his fellow Guardian Monster ally, Baragon, did when Godzilla completely destroys him with his Atomic Breath, (that's empowered by his own thunder beams) as the explosion itself being so gigantic that it even covered most of Godzilla's head.
• Deflector Shields: Temporarily gains one after his Heroic Second Wind, which blocks Godzilla's nuclear breath. He then throws it at Godzilla, forcing the monster into the ocean.
• Dragons Are Divine: In contrast to his other incarnations, GMK Ghidorah is a benevolent entity that protects Japan from threats.
• Eleventh Hour Super Power: Gains one after absorbing Mothra's spirit. This is also when the characters start calling him King Ghidorah, rather than just Ghidorah.
• Energy Ball: Uses a shield that was meant to block Godzilla's nuclear breath from attacking him, but he forges the blast into a massive spherical blast that he hurtles towards against him. When the attack comes in contact with Godzilla, it packed quite a punch as it managed to actually wound him moments later.
• Expy: In a sense of a GMK incarnation of Varan. As awesome as Guardian Ghidorah turned out, the designer for Ghidorah put Varan's facial features into GMK Ghidorah.^note As revealed in the What Could Have Been section, Varan was originally meant to be the final guardian monster that Godzilla would face but was swapped out for Ghidorah due to the latter's popularity and fears that a Godzilla film that had a Kaiju as the Final Boss who hasn't been seen since The '60s wouldn't sell at the box office.
• Gaia's Vengeance: A defender of nature specifically. It's pointed out that the Guardian Monsters don't care for humans, but for the 'trees and rocks and forests and things.'
• Giant Flyer: He doesn't start out as one, but becomes this after he gets powered up by Mothra.
• Glass Cannon: Managed to actually hurt Godzilla with his electrical bites and was the only monster in the movie to even wound him with his Energy Ball however Godzilla's beam can easily turn the tables and when he goes down he literally goes down hard.
• Good Counterpart: The only truly heroic incarnation of a Ghidorah monster.
• Heel–Face Reincarnation: He was originally the mythical Yamata no Orochi, but due to being lain to rest and blessed by those that slew him, he reincarnates as a heroic monster.
• Heroic Second Wind: Gets defeated by Godzilla easily at first, but when Mothra sacrifices herself to save him, he absorbs her spirit and rises again to fight Godzilla.
• The Hero: GMK Ghidorah was The Hero and The Big Guy of the Guardian Monster Trio.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: How he dies. He lets loose his electrical beams at Godzilla but instead of harming him he actually absorbs it's power as his dorsal fins become electrified and glowing gold. When Ghidorah fires all of his beams at once unaware that Godzilla is being empowered by them, the nuclear beast blasts his ray (with golden spirals wrapped around it) at the orochi point-blank putting an end to the last guardian monster.
• Light Is Good: Begins as golden scaled, before gaining a heroic golden glow, as seen in the picture.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Gets blown to smithereens by Godzilla's empowered Atomic Ray. Chunks of his flesh are seen falling into the ocean.
• Man Bites Man: Basically his essential approach to fighting Godzilla (due to lacking arms) such as when all three of his heads clamped their jaws on his body whilst heavily electrocuting him which proved to be effective altogether.
• Multiple-Tailed Beast: He has two tails.
• Orochi: He is an immature Yamata no Orochi, and only has three heads and two tails.
• Redemption Demotion: Nowhere near as imposing or as big a threat to Godzilla as his villainous showings were.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He first appears hibernating inside crystalline rock underground. He is supposedly growing in his torpor, and is growing into a Yamato no Orochi.
• Shock and Awe: One of his only similarities to other Ghidorahs, bar his appearance. He spits lightning after his Eleventh Hour Super Power. Before that, he could electrocute Godzilla through his bite.
• Super Mode: A Golden Super Mode to be exact after being revived by Mothra's essence it gave him the power of flight and an energy reflecting shield to send Godzilla's Atomic Breath right at him.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: After getting the upper hand on Godzilla, the battle continues into the sea. While Godzilla seems to be in his element, Ghidorah was fighting rather fine being highly unaffected in the ocean and stayed a lot longer than he should without even unquestionably drowning.
• Worf Had the Flu: Didn't have time to mature fully before being revived, resulting in him only having three heads instead of the eight he's supposed to have and being much weaker. It's noted that if he'd been at his full power, he'd probably have fared a lot better. He also has the upper hand on Godzilla after his upgrade from Mothra's spirit, and only loses it when the humans accidentally hit him when aiming for Godzilla.

Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah

Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah

First appearance: Godzilla: Final Wars, 2004
AKA: Monster X II
Portrayed by: Motokuni Nakagawa (as Monster X), Toshihiro Ogura (as Keizer Ghidorah)

The last and most powerful monster Godzilla fought in Final Wars, or to put it more bluntly, the only monster in the film that could actually prove a match for him. Sent down in a meteor that destroyed Tokyo, he and Godzilla fight, Monster X initially holding the upper hand. The Xiliens then send an upgraded Gigan to make sure Godzilla dies, but Gigan is killed in the battle by Mothra's Heroic Sacrifice. After a Beam-O-War between Godzilla's atomic breath and Monster X's eye beams, which ends in a draw, Monster X transforms into the quadrupedal dragon Keizer Ghidorah and nearly kills Godzilla. Godzilla is saved however, by being sent power from the mutant soldiers, which allows him to overwhelm and kill Keizer Ghidorah.

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• All There in the Manual: Neither Monster X or Keizer Ghidorah ever have their names spoken in the movie. And Toho's official documents refer to Ghidorah as "Monster X-II", likely to avoid spoilers with their trademark logos. Their names are seen in the end credits, though, with the actors who played them.
• Aliens Are Bastards: A sadistic bastard, much like the original Ghidorah.
• Beam-O-War: Fights two with Godzilla, the first as Monster X ends in a draw, the next, after turning into Keizer Ghidorah, Godzilla loses.
• Canon Character All Along: The previously unseen Monster X turns out to be a form of Ghidorah.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Turning into Keizer Ghidorah has him dishing this out initially against Godzilla, and then he's put on the receiving end of it after Godzilla gets powered-up.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: Godzilla destroys the rogue planet Gorath with his breath. When the smoke clears, down floats Monster X. He was inside Gorath, but until then there was no hint of him at any point.
• Dragon Ascendant: Keeps fighting long after the Xillians are defeated (in fact he doesn't turn into Keizer Ghidorah until they have been) and serves as the True Final Boss of the film. It happens again in the IDW comics after Godzilla kills SpaceGodzilla.
• Dragon Their Feet: He only transforms into Keizer Ghidorah after all the other Xiliens have been killed/defeated.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Being blasted into the stratosphere by Godzilla's Red Spiral Beam does that to you.
• Dynamic Entry: Monster X floats down slowly from an exploding meteor behind Godzilla, while his Transformation Sequence to Keizer Ghidorah is equally awe-inspiring.
• Evil Laugh: Gives a pretty creepy one when he begins transforming.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As X, his snarls and roars sound demonic and booming with a slight sense of rasp.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Keizer's shrills sound noticeably dry, husky, and outright hoarse. Some of which sort of sound like a cat hacking up a hairball.
• Expy: Is King Ghidorah's stand-in for Final Wars. Also superficially resembles Desghidorah due to being dark in coloration and quadrupedal.
• Eyebeams: As Monster X, he fires blasts of electricity from his eyes.
• Final Boss: Of Final Wars, and consequently of the series as a whole for now.
• Giant Flyer: Double subverted. He has wings, but doesn't use them in the film. When he becomes Keizer Ghidorah in the IDW comics, though, he puts them to good use.
• Gravity Master: Keizer Ghidorah's gravity beams finally act like such. He lifts Godzilla and throws him around using his beams, and drags him across the ground through buildings and debris.
• Hell Is That Noise: While Monster X sounds threatening in his own right, Keizer takes this even further by having echoing high-pitched screeches that sound completely otherwordly and ghastly.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When Godzilla is released from of his grasp, Keizer Ghidorah blasts him at point-blank. In retaliation, Godzilla does so in kind by blowing off his middle head. The left head tries to fight back but gets grabbed by Godzilla, by forcefully grabbing his head to have him "intentionally" fire another Gravity Beam at the right head, which outright decapitates him from the power of the blast.
  • In one scene when Monster X and a newly resurrected Gigan double-team Godzilla, X brings him closer to Gigan just have him shredded by his pronged chainsaws. Gigan attempted to graze him a second time, but instead, the Big G successfully moves out of the way by forcing Monster X to turn all the way around and tank a painful slice himself that causes him to howl in momentary pain.
• Large and in Charge: Monster X is of a size with Godzilla; Keizer Ghidorah is even larger.
• Lean and Mean: X has a rather thin but muscular humanoid figure and is also the most cruel, brutal, and vicious monster to ever face Godzilla in the climax of the film altogether.
• Lightning Bruiser: Monster X is extremely fast and can fight Godzilla hand to hand.
• Made of Iron: The only monster to survive Godzilla's breath weapon in the film. Not only does it not kill him, he nearly No Sells it. When both monsters unleash their own beams at each other in a brief Beam-O-War, the enormous explosion from their combined blasts seemed to do a number on them. Both him and Godzilla remain intact.
• Mighty Glacier: Keizer Ghidorah has very little in the way of agility, exchanging what he had as Monster X for sheer power and mass.
• Near-Villain Victory: If it weren't for Ozaki's Energy Donation of his Keizer power to re-energize Godzilla at full power he would've sapped him dry and the Earth as well as the rest of humanity would be wiped out.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Monster X has one of the darkest and gothic designs that a Godzilla movie monster could have.
• Off with His Head!: Loses two of them towards the end of the battle.
• One-Winged Angel: From humanoid Monster X to quadruped three-headed Keizer Ghidorah. The IDW comics also show he can change back into Monster X.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Like Desighidorah, Keizer Ghidorah is a quadruped, but has King Ghidorah's heads, wings and golden color.
• Power Floats: After the Gorath asteroid obliterates Tokyo (with Godzilla dead center of the destruction), X is seen slowly descending into the Earth many meters behind Godzilla as if he's a DBZ villain.
• Psycho Electro: Kaizer Ghidorah can spit bolts of lightning that can effect the gravity of things they hit.
• Psycho for Hire: If his behavior in the battle is anything to go by. Like Gigan and King Ghidorah, Keizer Ghidorah tries to kill Godzilla as slowly and painfully as possible, draining the life from the big lizard instead of simply blasting him with lightning. Not to mention the fact he continues his rampage AFTER his boss gets taken out with the same sadism as before, if not more.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His beady red eyes along with the pitch-black color combined with having a white rigid skeletal looking armor around him isn't exactly the most welcoming appearance a terrifying kaiju could possibly have. His Keizer Ghidorah form however, keeps the red eyes but dons a golden coloration with shades of a black and blue.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: One look of this menace displaying his piercing blood-red eyes is not to be taken lightly, since he did have Godzilla on the ropes way longer than the other monsters he's defeated so easily.
• Shock and Awe: Monster X fires electrical beams from his eyes and the "eyes" on his "shoulder pads". Once he becomes a Ghidorah, he reverts to form and fires lightning from his mouth.
• Shout-Out: To both Bagan and Desghidorah. Likewise, his entrance of arriving from inside a meteor is similar to how the original King Ghidorah first appeared way back in 1964.
• Skull for a Head: His facial design surely gives off the impression as such and looks all the more intimidating because of it. His design in his first form as a whole has a skeletal motif to him.
• Super-Strength: Proved himself to be a rather physically dominating challenge to Godzilla. He's decked him with a wicked backhand to the jaw, as well as effortlessly suspending him in the air regardless of his weight while he's violently clutching and twisting his wrists. He's even managed to shove Godzilla's mouth away from his face for a few seconds to avoid getting blasted by his Atomic Breath. In his Keizer Ghidorah form he's even way stronger. Not unlike what Titanosaurus did beforehand, he's sent Godzilla flying just by simply kicking him off the ground as if he was a football, and used his powerful neck strength to carry his entire body just to sap his life energy.
• Tail Slap: He's spun himself around in mid-air so quickly that his tail thwacked Godzilla right in his jaw.
• Vampiric Draining: During the climax of the film he bites Godzilla's arms, and neck, and proceeds to try to drain the life-force from him.
• Villain Team-Up: In the IDW comics alongside SpaceGodzilla, Gigan and Hedorah.
• The Worf Effect: Godzilla easily stomps everything in the film with barely a scratch on him until this guy shows up, and is the only monster to not only still be standing hit from his Breath Weapon, but he flat out shrugs if off.
• Xenomorph Xerox: Monster X's skeletal body and elongated head make him look somewhat like a Xenomorph.

Anime King Ghidorah/"Otaru Ghidorah"

Ghidorah as he appears in the films, 3 golden heads projecting from another dimension.

Ghidorah's full body.

First appearance: Godzilla: The Planet Eater, 2019
AKA: The Golden Demise, Wings of Death, God of the Void

A godlike extradimensional monster that resembles a three-headed 20 kilometer-long dragon comprised of golden energy. Before the series began, Ghidorah destroyed the Exifs' homeworld and is worshipped by the survivors as a god of destruction, to whom they sacrifice planets. The Greater-Scope Villain of the anime, Ghidorah set the entire plot in motion to finally get his jaws on Earth.

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• Adaptational Abomination: Not that the other versions of Ghidorah were normal-looking, but this one is from another dimension, emerging from black holes to consume entire planets, literally warping spacetime around him, and is massive on a scale measured in kilometres. It's indicated that he is eternal and will probably live beyond the heat death of our universe.
• Adaptational Badass: Godzilla Earth is the biggest and baddest incarnation of the character and King Ghidorah makes him look tame by comparison. So yes, this trope is definitely in play. Notably, this is the first Ghidorah to be a true Planet Eater and capable of destroying planets with his gravity powers. However, there's a trade-off...
• Adaptational Name Change: The "King" part of anime Ghidorah's name is written as "Otaru"/王たる rather than the standard "Kingu"/キング.
• Adaptational Wimp: While the above is true when he has a tether and isn't able to be attacked in any way, he's entirely reliant on his intangibility to be a threat to Godzilla. The moment he's tangible, Godzilla is able to knock him around by turning around and banish him in a few fairly casual hits, making him likely the physically frailest and weakest of all the Ghidorah incarnations, including GMK. This is barring the fact that the ritual to summon him went wrong because Haruo didn't accept Metphies' offer to sacrifice himself for Ghidorah thanks to Mothra's vision.
• Alternate Self: Urobuchi and Seshita conceptualized Ghidorah as a "completely differently evolved Godzilla," essentially making it a giant three-headed Flying-Type Servum made of living energy. Also he is this to his other incarnations, to the point where Metphies refers to him as "Otaru Ghidorah" in Japan, rather than the usual "Kingu Gidora" spelling.
• Ambiguous Situation: Metphies' dying words and the Gematron Calculation vision that Haruo has indicate that Ghidorah isn't dead, or that others of its kind exist and could be summoned in its place. The former is likely seeing as Haruo seems to still have a connection with it at the end of the film.
• The Anti-God: To Godzilla's God, since they're both capable of destroying worlds. Taken to a new level with Ghidorah, who eats entire planets and cannot be truly killed.
• Big Bad: Of Godzilla: Planet Eater.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Godzilla Earth in the third film.
• Botanical Abomination: A downplayed example. To better act as a foil towards the more obviously plant-like Godzilla Earth, his spiky design was influenced by thorny rose stems, and he's implied to be a sort a of hyper-evolved Servum.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Ghidorah is everything Mechagodzilla was not as an antagonist. Mechagodzilla City was a permanently grounded creation of science Gone Horribly Right, an artificial god designed to trap and kill Godzilla Earth. Otaru Ghidorah is an ancient alien eldritch monster, and spends the entire movie attacking from the heavens. Mechagodzilla City used nanometal to shield itself from Godzilla's heat ray; Ghidorah used his gravity manipulation to simply curve it in another direction. Ghidorah is immune to all the weapons Godzilla used to destroy the City.
• The Chessmaster: The Exif reveal that Ghidorah has been pulling the strings on the operations for a long while. It commands the exif to feed it planets, and everything that happened after the escape from earth in 2048 has been directly calculated in order to prepare Earth for Ghidorah.
• Civilization Destroyer: It did to the Exifs' homeworld what Godzilla did to Earth, and is the reason they are wandering missionaries. What makes this more sinister is that the Exif actively seek out civilized worlds to sacrifice to Ghidorah, converting the inhabitants to their religion and tricking them into summoning it. However, it turns out that the Exif willingly gave themselves to Ghidorah, and without a host, Ghidorah would not be able to enter our dimension.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Tears into the concept of King Ghidorah the same way Shin Godzilla did Godzilla, by looking at how a being which is wholly alien, and hence completely different to the laws of our universe, would function if summoned there. This Ghidorah is an Energy Being capable of devouring worlds, making him even more powerful and unnatural than the technically local Godzilla Earth. By being from another universe, he has no need to worry about his path of destruction negatively impacting him for long, so is free to be as destructive and evil as he likes. However, since he's not from this dimension, he's also helpless here without his followers directing him into battle, as an entity in territory unnatural to him would be. His nature means he can direct his powers in new ways which break the laws of physics and reality, but he's also incredibly fragile without a tether, since he's made of energy; energy can dissipate without a conduit. He has the sadism of the other Ghidorah incarnations, and again it's deconstructed; taking his time and drawing out Godzilla's death is what allows Godzilla Earth to last long enough to retaliate. Even the idea behind him always coming back as Godzilla's Arch-Enemy is picked apart; Haruo realizes that Ghidorah has the opportunity to return so long as he and his anger towards Godzilla exists, so ends his own life to prevent Ghidorah from coming back.
• The Dreaded: While Godzilla is capable of wiping out entire civilizations on Earth, King Ghidorah bears the epithet of "Planet Eater" and is worshiped as a deity by the Exifs due to it having destroyed their homeworld, to the extent that even saying its name is regarded with terror. Metphies explicitly states that Ghidorah is much worse than Godzilla.
• Dirty Coward: Ghidorah, despite all his vast power, screams in terror after Godzilla touches one of his necks. Once Godzilla is able to fight back, the dragon frantically tries to escape.
• Draconic Abomination: Ghidorah is a giant three-headed extradimensional dragon that is made entirely of energy and eats planets. When he manifests on Earth at first, just his shadow coming across the shadows of other people causes them to lose parts of their bodies as if they are bitten off and die as a result. He actually warps time and space around him and is invincible as a result, but since he is from another universe he can't normally sustain himself in other dimensions. He needs a vessel to summon and control him, and without it he becomes vulnerable and weak. Since the sacrifice wasn't performed properly, Ghidorah can't manifest correctly when Metphies is killed, leaving him open to Godzilla's counterattack.
• Energy Being: Rather than a physical beast that's been portrayed in every other adaptation, this Ghidorah is a three-headed dragon composed of cosmic energy. Its body remains in its homeworld, with its heads being projected through black hole-like portals.
• Evil Is Bigger: Utterly dwarfs the already colossal Godzilla Earth, and his necks are stated to have a length of twenty kilometers (with no given height or weight considering his... composition).
• Eviler than Thou: Metphies describes him as such compared to Godzilla, stating that he's so much worse that Godzilla isn't even worth fearing.
• Extra Eyes: To emphasize his alien nature (even more so than other Ghidorahs of alien origin), he has numerous beady red eyes on each of his three heads.
• Fermi Paradox: All but stated that Ghidorah is this, as Metphies says that civilizations will eventually grow advanced enough to birth monsters like Godzilla, and then Ghidorah arrives to harvest them.
• Foil: Another one to Godzilla. Like Godzilla Earth, Ghidorah's design was inspired by plants. But while Godzilla Earth was based on trees, Ghidorah's design was patterned after roses and other plants with thorns, an influence which is visible in the numerous spikes sprouting from Ghidorah's necks and heads. According to Hiroyuki Seshita, Ghidorah was designed to appear both fearsome and divine. As in a rival god to Godzilla, a true one rather than an artifically made one like Mechagodzilla. Just like Godzilla Earth, Ghidorah is almost invincible, but rather than weathering attacks and guarding against them with a shield, Ghidorah renders himself intangible.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: In contrast to the usual Sadist habits of most versions of the character, this Ghidorah is instead a flying apocalypse. Ghidorah simply is destroying everything for the sake of destroying everything, and in some ways this makes it worse than the usual sadistic tyrant King Ghidorah normally is.
• Giant Flyer: Given King Ghidorah is normally even bigger than Godzilla, he makes the Flying-Type Servum look like insects in comparison, but downplayed because we never actually see him use his wings. He does however spend most of the movie hovering above ground in his portals.
• Gravity Master: Ghidorah uses "Super Gravity" to destroy planets and conjure black hole-like portals.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Moreso than Godzilla Earth. It turns out that basically everything that happened since the Exif appeared on Earth was influenced by Ghidorah's orders to the Exif. Ghidorah has been communicating with the Exif via the Gematron devices, revealing that the Gematrons aren't just amazingly advanced supercomputers that tell the future, they're actually devices Ghidorah uses to communicate orders to the Exif. The immigration, the dump of info on Godzilla's weakness in the database, the return to Earth, and the events that happened on Earth were all intentionally done on Ghidorah's orders to prepare a great sacrifice for him.
• Intangibility: Godzilla's physical attacks phase right through Ghidorah's body because since he's from another dimension, the laws of physics of our universe don't apply to him. When Metphies control over Ghidorah is broken, he becomes solid, allowing Godzilla to actually hit him and he goes down in a few hits.
• Invincible Villain: In Ghidorah's normal state in our universe, he's literally untouchable since he's able to bend space and time around him to redirect attacks, or the attacks just go through his body with no effect because he's not of tangible matter. Subverted when his tether is destroyed, he's no match at all for Godzilla. Some of Metphies lines near the end do imply that he can't be truly killed however.
• Light Is Not Good: Shinier than ever, with a form even made of golden energy. Does make it any less destructive.
• Multiversal Conqueror: Since this King Ghidorah is from another universe, he is completely intangible to anyone in the universe he attacks and can carry out feats that break the laws of physics (but are within the laws of those of the universe he’s from), provided his ‘controller’ with the Garbetrium is alive. We don’t get to see what would happen if he had enough time to get a chance to recover from the loss of the controller (Metphies) before Godzilla defeats him, so who knows how strong he is without this benefit.
• Mythology Gag: Ghidorah, much like Mechagodzilla City before him, is a calvacade of these.
  • Like the original Showa Ghidorah, he's a giant alien space monster summoned by the Xilien race. He is also a sadist, a planet killer, and behind all the horrible power he is also a coward. He also at one point makes the signature cackle that the Showa Ghidorah made when communicating with the Exif.
  • Like the Heisei Ghidorahs, this Ghidorah dwarfs Godzilla in both size and power, and requires some kind of direction to function. Once stripped of this direction, Ghidorah is disoriented and Godzilla is able to get the upper hand. Also, this Ghidorah is designed to be as much of a foil to Godzilla as the 90's Ghidorah was, both of them being monsters designed after plants but taken in vastly different directions. He is also thwarted by a Mothra just like in Rebirth of Mothra 3, and mind rapes people the same way that Ghidorah did.
  • Like the Milliennium King Ghidorah and Keizer Ghidorah, this Ghidorah has a vicious bite that electrifies Godzilla and slowly drains the life from him. On top of that, this Ghidorah is also the Final Boss the same way Keizer Ghidorah was.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The moniker it's given in the title of the third movie, Hoshi wo Kuu Mono, variously translates to "Planet Eater" or "Eater of Stars". The Exif consider his name this, to the point they rarely if ever speak it.
• No-Sell: Ghidorah effortlessly deflects Godzilla's Atomic Breath and phases through his physical attacks.
• Not Quite Dead: Implied. After Ghidorah is defeated by Godzilla Earth, Metphies tells Haruo that Ghidorah will still be watching and will return again, and Ghidorah's roar can be heard in Haruo's thoughts. Still, Haruo pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to ensure Ghidorah won't be back for a long time, if ever. It's totally possible that King Ghidorah is technically unkillable and can only be sent back to his home dimension.
• Oh, Crap!: Causes a major one for the crew of the Aratrum when he first appears and attacks it, especially after they see their own deaths 40 seconds early.
  • Gets one himself when Haruo doesn't comply and sacrifice himself to allow Ghidorah to exist on his own. Instead, he kills Metphies, trapping Ghidorah's projection here and allowing Godzilla to actually hurt him.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Ghidorah is a cosmic entity of destruction that resembles a three-headed two-tailed dragon, though only its heads are seen in full — its body remaining ensconced in its home dimension.
• Physical God: Like Godzilla, he is worshiped by the Exif as a god of destruction. Metphies describes him as being so much worse than Godzilla that Haruo should use the fact he's not fighting Ghidorah as a motivator not to fear Godzilla.
• Planet Eater: Ghidorah has devoured countless worlds, including the Exif homeworld Exifcalus.
• Psycho Electro: Ghidorah retains the electric bite a few other versions of himself used in previous movies.
• Red Baron: The Wings of Death, the Golden Demise/Death, the One Who Devours All, King/God of the Void, to name a few.
• Sadist: Ghidorah notably does not use his gravity powers to kill Godzilla Earth quickly, instead choosing to slowly torture Godzilla to death. Taking his time like this is his undoing.
• Speak of the Devil: The Exif believe this is the case, and as such rarely if ever speak his name out loud. When they do, it's only in whisper. This is because King Ghidorah is summoned by chanting his name.
• You Are Already Dead: Ghidorah is capable of causing time dilation as a result of him being immune to the laws of physics of the dimensions he is sent to invade. His first action is to use his immense gravitational pull to destroy the Aratrum, killing all onboard. Ghidorah's time dilation means that not one member of the crew is aware this has even happened until the bridge's computer announces that it couldn't detect any life signs in the area.

Shin King Ghidorah

First appearance: Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D

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• Aliens Are Bastards: As with the Showa, Rebirth, Anime, and Legendary incarnations, he's a space monster who seeks to destroy Earth.
• Alien Blood: When injured he bleeds blue glowing energy.
• Big Bad: The true main antagonist of the movie, as Godzilla only appeared at all to confront and destroy him.
• Evil Slinks: His movements are much more serpentine than previous incarnations.
• Gravity Master: Notably his Gravity Beams actually allow him broad gravity manipulation, with him throwing entire buildings at Shin during their fight. And he doesn't really fly so much as swim through the air by manipulating gravity.
• Jagged Mouth: Much like Godzilla Earth, his teeth are a part of his jaws.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Shinji jumps off the buildings he was levitating with his gravity powers to stab him in the wound Godzilla opened in his chest.
  • Godzilla ends up absorbing his Gravity Beams to recharge and finish him off in a Beam-O-War.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Shinji badly injures him by driving a sword through a wound Godzilla opened in his chest. He survives, but is weakened enough for Godzilla to kill him.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His gravity beams are what revive Godzilla after his energy is depleted, enabling him to defeat Ghidorah.
• Outside-Context Problem: If NERV sent out the EVAs, mistaking Godzilla for an Angel until after they'd arrived, they sure as hell weren't expecting that Godzilla was only on land to head Ghidorah off.

Chibi Ghidorah

First Appearance: Do Your Best, Chibi Godzilla (2018)

Voiced by: Saori Takamiya (I'm Home, Chibi Godzilla), Takuya Eguchi (Chibi Godzilla Raids Again)

The chibi version of the King Ghidorah, as appear in the Chibi Godzilla media.

As with some of the incarnations of King Ghidorah, each of Chibi Ghidorah's heads has different personalities. Sometime they sing together and sometime they bickering with each other.

In Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, Chibi Ghidorah is a resident on Monster Island and one of Chibi Godzilla's friends. The center head is a friendly guy, the left head is quick-tempered, and the right head seems normal at first but quickly show a dark side.

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Tropes that applies to Chibi Ghidorah in general

• Adaptational Nice Guy: Unlike the King Ghidorah in the film continuities, Chibi Ghidorah is a friend to Chibi Godzilla and friends.
• Eyes Always Shut: Chibi Ghidorah's right head always has his eyes shut even when the other two have them open.
• Multiple Head Case: It is stated that each of Chibi Ghidorah's heads has different personalities. Episode 2 of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again showcased this in the fullness.

Tropes that applies to Chibi Ghidorah in Chibi Godzilla Raids Again

• Adaptational Personality Change: While each of the heads' personalities was never elaborate upon in the children's book series and I'm Home, Chibi Godzilla, Chibi Godzilla Raids Again showcases the distinct personalities of Chibi Ghidorah's heads.
• Affably Evil: The right head, whose eyes always shut, plot to exploit friendship for financial gain. Chibi Mechagodzilla even remarks that said head is the scariest.
• Breath Weapon: Chibi Ghidorah is capable of firing Gravity Beams in this adaptation. The left head had threatened to do so against Chibi Mechagodzilla.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The left head is quick-tempered, and threaten to fire the Gravity Beam against Chibi Mechagodzilla.
• The Nicknamer: The center head always calls his friends by nicknames, such as Godzi-yan for Chibi Godzilla and Mego-yan for Chibi Mechagodzilla.

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