King Ghidorah (キングギドラ Kingu Gidora), is the main antagonist of the 2021 five-minute 3D-animated ride film Godzilla: The Ride. (full name: Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle). He is a giant three-headed dragon daikaiju whose goal is to destroy Japan (or potentially; the whole world).
Biography[]
King Ghidorah is first seen ravaging the city with his Gravity Beams, and is spotted by a Japanese Self-Defense Force (JSDF) soldier, Ghidorah's enemy Godzilla arrives in the city approaching from the sea. The unnamed JSDF soldier delivers a safety briefing just before Ghidorah smashes in a wall of the theatre and roars at the guests, only to fly away.
Ghidorah's Gravity Beams strike a building near the lead vehicle, crushing it with rubble. Ghidorah lands in front of the vehicle, but it drives between his legs. He gives chase, trying and failing to bite it with all three of his heads. Finally he flies ahead of it, lands, and charges forward at full speed.
The vehicle soon reverses and hides in the shell of a building, but Ghidorah soon finds the vehicle and snatches it up in the jaws of his middle head. As he flies off from Japan, Rodan shows up and attacks head-on. Ghidorah repulses him, but drops the vehicle.
The vehicle then deploys its parachutes as the winged-kaijus clash each other. Ghidorah prevails easily, throwing Rodan to the ground before assailing him with Gravity Beams. He then breaks the top of the Tokyo Tower off, which the vehicle narrowly avoids, as Godzilla arrives in the city and meets up with Ghidorah. They both roar a challenge and the vehicle lands on Godzilla's side and climbs up his shoulder before driving down his tail, soaring into the air once more, and landing on a roof.
Ghidorah throws Godzilla to the ground near the building, forcing the vehicle to drive off the roof and deploy parachutes again. Godzilla grabs Ghidorah by the heads and throws him towards the vehicle, which just slips through a gap between his wing and leg.
Ghidorah recovers and pounces, but Godzilla intercepts Ghidorah with a powerful blast of atomic breath, suspending him in mid-air and blasting a hole through his chest. Godzilla roars in victory as the vehicle lands, one of Ghidorah's still-living heads then shows up out of nowhere and kept attempting to attack the vehicle. Godzilla squishes the final head of Ghidorah, splashing blue blood fluid and brains everywhere, ending Ghidorah and resulting in Godzilla roaring a victory.
Abilities[]
- Gravity beams - King Ghidorah can shoot gravity beams from his mouths that are powerful enough to destroy part of Saitama, killed Rodan and caused Godzilla on top of a building.
- Bite effectiveness - King Ghidorah uses his powerful jaws and his massive size to overpower his foes and is capable of aerial-terrestrial combat when fighting other kaiju.
- Agility - Despite his large size, King Ghidorah is shown to be quite agile, being able to fly in the air at fast speeds, being able to catch up to a bus, along Rodan and seems to be much stronger in the sky, as he quickly overpowered Rodan in the air.
Trivia[]
- This is the first time in 20 years that King Ghidorah has appeared in a live-action Toho production, since Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
- This is the first time Ghidorah has had talons on the tip of his wings.
- This King Ghidorah is depicted with blue blood after Godzilla stomps its head to death.
- This Ghidorah sharing a resemblance to GMK King Ghidorah and Legendary King Ghidorah.
- This is the second time that King Ghidorah appeared in a ride attraction with the first being the King Ghidorah from Godzilla vs Evangelion.
