Ghidorah was acting specifically under the control of aliens in 1965’s Invasion of Astro-Monster, in which the seemingly benevolent Xiliens ask the people of Earth if they can “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan to wage war on Ghidorah (initially referred to as “Monster Zero”) before he destroys their planet. Read more: Designing Godzilla: King of the Monsters Their combined efforts finally defeat Ghidorah and send him back into space, but the film marks the first time of several in which some of Earth’s most fearsome and gigantic monsters would team up to defend the planet against a common enemy.
Only Mothra is initially determined to stop Ghidorah as he levels city after city, but when she bravely goes it alone against the beast, her courage convinces Godzilla and Rodan - previously foes - to join the battle with her. Ghidorah was not actually under the control of aliens in this film: he emerges from a meteor and begins his mission of destruction for reasons known only to him, although it’s established that he had destroyed an advanced civilization on Venus some five thousand years earlier. Ghidorah’s debut came in 1964’s Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, still one of the most popular and beloved of Toho Studios’ first wave of kaiju movies. It has been the task of Godzilla, Mothra and other assorted Earth kaiju to band together and defeat Ghidorah, often despite their own differences or hostility toward humans. The creature’s origins have shifted over the years, but most of the movies in which he’s appeared essentially portray him as a monster from outer space, usually brought to Earth by an alien race as a sort of “ultimate weapon” with which to subjugate or wipe out humankind. While some readings of the Toho films suggest that Ghidorah is a metaphor for China - an existential threat to Japan at the time - director Ishiro Honda dismissed that idea. Other dragons out of Japanese and even Russian legends were an influence.
Inspired by the eight-headed dragon Orochi out of Japanese folklore, as well as the Hydra from Greek mythology, Tanaka wanted a creature with multiple heads to battle Godzilla but cut the number down to three, thinking that eight was too many. The concept came from Tomoyuki Tanaka, the film producer who also created Godzilla himself. He can also generate massive electrical bolts from its wingtips in certain films and is generally an incredibly disruptive force on a global scale (something that is explored to some degree in Godzilla: King of the Monsters). Ghidorah (who was also briefly known in America as “Ghidrah” early in his career) is a massive, armless, golden-scaled winged dragon, with three heads, two tails and one hell of a powerful energy beam that he can discharge from his heads.
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After making his last live-action appearance in a Japanese monster movie in 2001, Ghidorah will arrive in an American kaiju film for the first time next week, when he stars in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
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He is King Ghidorah, the three-headed flying dragon of alien origin who first showed up in the Toho series of giant monster movies back in 1964 and has reappeared a number of times ever since, always out to destroy Earth, Godzilla and the latter’s allies. The Thanos to the kaiju monsters’ Avengers. He’s considered Godzilla’s greatest nemesis, the Joker to the big green guy’s Batman.
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