1. King Ghidorah
The three-headed dragon from outer space, King Ghidorah is a kaiju you do not want to mess with.
Originally hailing from the far reaches out of outer space, Ghidorah would go on to feature in four more movies in the Showa era including being the main villain in melee movie Destroy All Monsters. As the series moved into the 90s, Ghidorah (renamed to King Ghidorah) would be the device of a plan set by aliens from the future who place three creatures named Dorats in the past so they would be affected by the nuclear blast that created Godzilla. The three creatures formed to make King Ghidorah, who destroys Tokyo at their will. When Godzilla kills him and runs his own destruction, the good guys travel to the future to rebuild King Ghidorah to be Mecha-King Ghidorah to fight in the present against Godzilla.
In the Millennium series, King Ghidorah would take on the role of a good guy in the epic Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack before being the main villain in Godzilla: Final Wars, albeit disguised as Monster X for the most part. He would also feature in the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy and a handful of Zone Fighter episodes.
There’s a reason why King Ghidorah was the focus of Godzilla: Final Wars – he’s awesome. His can shoot lightening from each of his heads and can even destroy buildings simply by flying over them!
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Luke Owen is the Deputy Editor of Flickering Myth and the host of the Flickering Myth Podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @LukeWritesStuff.
Originally published October 27, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
