User blog:BigBadSquid/PE Proposal: Desghidorah

Wrapping up the missing Approved Evil Articles for King Ghidorah starting with Desghidorah.

What's the Work
Rebirth of Mothra is a 1996 spinoff to the Godzilla series staring Mothra and her son Mothra Leo. In this lighter and softer film compared to the other Heisei Godzilla films, Mothra is the goddess of the Elias, tiny humanoid fairies that existed before humanity. Only three Elias are left: Moll, Lora, and Belvara. While Moll and Lora teach children to respect nature with environmental messages, Belvara wants to destroy humanity so the Elias can thrive on the planet once more. Then Desghidorah shows up...

Who is Desghidorah? What does he do?
Desghidorah aka Death Ghidorah is an ancient evil from the past with one major goal = spreading cataclysm to all worlds. More specifically, this giant dragon appeared 65 million years ago where he first invaded a terraformed Mars and proceeded to absorb EVERY source of life on the planet before coming over to Earth, where his destructive ways were responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Mothra defeated the evil cerberus dragon and sealed him away within an ancient prison, but at the cost of all but the mentioned above three Elias surviving the war. Belvara was corrupted by darkness from the destruction of her race and sought to one day release Desghidorah once more.

The prison would be discovered by lumberjacks in 1997, where Belvara instantly took advantage of stealing the "Seal of Elias" that not only unlocked the prison, but also made the evil monster follow the user's commands. After a struggle with her sisters, Belvara claims the pendant and unleashes Desghidorah on the Earth once more. Under Belvara's orders, Desghidorah goes on a mass rampage to destroy the natural planet.

Mothra arrives to stop her long lost nemesis; however, she's currently weak as she recently laid an egg. Desghidorah easily pummels Mothra until Mothra Leo hatches prematurely to help his mother by covering the evil dragon with silk, but Desghidorah shows no hesitation in grabbing the larvae with his teeth and sadistically tosses him around before continuing to overwhelm Mothra as she attempts to protect her son. Mothra tricks Desghidorah into destroying a dam to wash him away, but she ultimately succumbs to her wounds and sinks into the water despite Leo's efforts to keep her afloat.

Now determined to avenge his mother, Leo metamorphosizes into his imago form to save the day. Meanwhile, the three-headed space demon casts a black storm cloud over the island of Hokkaido and has absorbed enough energy to sprout wings to spread his destruction around the world. Fortunately, Leo arrives and with his faster agility and ability to split into multiple little Leos, he defeats Desghidorah and renews the seal, imprisoning the evil dragon back within his ancient prison once again.

Mitigating Factors
It's a Ghidorah, guys, you ain't gonna find redeeming qualities here. While he does consume life energy for food, the film deliberately reveals him to also do it for sadistic thrill by draining planets of every source of life, as shown in the beginning when he kills off all life on Mars. Even if he was following Belvara's orders to cause mass destruction, that doesn't excuse the fact that he took his time torturing both Mothra and Leo during their efforts to defeat him. His abilities prove that he could have just obliterated them, but no, he wanted them to suffer first.

Heinous Standards
Because Rebirth of Mothra is not completely canon to the Godzilla series, I won't consider Desghidorah standards to those of the other Ghidorahs, SpaceGodzilla, Gigan, Destoroyah...

Anyways, as I said, Desghidorah definitely stands out in such a more light-hearted film. There's also Belvara, but the film does give her a Fredrian excuse for hating all lifeforms, and she redeems herself later on in the trilogy to save her sisters from bigger threats.

Sure in Rebirth of Mothra III, a bigger and badder Ghidorah appeared that attempted to obtain all souls starting with children, but I still think Desghidorah still stands out for his extreme sadism, unexpectedly dark appearance in a lighter and softer movie, onscreen destruction of all life on Mars, tormenting Mothra by torturing her son, and the fact that he succeeded in killing Mothra nearly two decades before the Monsterverse Ghidorah.

Final Verdict
I won't judge who people may think is the most sadistic Ghidorah out there, but Desghidorah is definitely somewhere up there. That and the horrific way he scarred Mothra Leo's life by slowly killing his mom makes him stand out from the others. That is why I believe he should be approved.