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The leviathan, Godzilla, wakes up in a hellish landscape. The abysmal plain of the underworld presenting all which has failed or gone wrong: once great cities in ruins, industrial disasters run amok, and a familiar unearthly fire of man rends the sky with colossal mushrooms. Countless lost souls have been hurled, not as participants, but as witnesses into a crumbling and hopeless void. This is not his final destination, but a journey, a test...
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Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira) is a kaiju who appears in IDW Publishing's 2015 comic book series Godzilla in Hell. After plummeting into Hell itself following a cataclysmic battle with SpaceGodzilla and banishment by celestial agents of peace, Godzilla fought his way through many powerful foes and harsh environments to return to life.
Name
- Main article: Godzilla#Name.
Godzilla's Japanese name, Gojira (ゴジラ), comes from a combination of the Japanese approximation of "gorilla" (ゴリラ gorira), and kujira (クジラ), the Japanese word for "whale."
Design
Godzilla's appearance changes repeatedly throughout Godzilla in Hell, although each artist's depiction of the monster is based on one of his Millennium era film designs. Bob Eggleton, the writer and painter of the second issue, explained the differences between the Godzilla in his issue and the Godzilla in the first issue thusly: "I figured it was 'Hell' and some strange alternate dimension where Godzilla is kind of changing anyway as he`s changed from film to film."[1]
In issues #1 and #5, Godzilla's design is based on the KiryuGoji suits. In the former, his eyes are a dark pale lavender color and lack visible pupils. Additionally, his snout is relatively short and the underside of his neck is faintly red in certain panels. Artist James Stokoe previously drew a KiryuGoji-inspired Godzilla in Godzilla: The Half-Century War. In the latter, his design is less stylized and more closely recreates the KiryuGoji suits, although he has blueish-grey eyes with white scleras.
In issues #2 and #3, Godzilla resembles the MireGoji design. His appearance in the former is less stylized. In the latter, he is more expressive and anthropomorphic, his face possessing a much shorter snout and very noticeable lips in some panels. He has orange scleras in the second issue and white scleras in the third.
In issue #4, Godzilla is modeled on the GMKGoji design. His head bears an inconsistent shape throughout the issue.
In issue #5, after reforming his body using the Hellbats, Godzilla retains the same silhouette, although his entire body is red save for his dorsal plates, teeth, and claws.
Personality
Godzilla’s defining trait in the comic series is his drive for survival, never ceasing his goal of returning to life even with the array of celestial and demonic forces opposing him.
In issue #3, chronologically the first installment, he rejected demands to join the forces of both Heaven and Hell. He was equally uninterested in being worshiped, killing some of the angels and demons praising him after SpaceGodzilla's defeat.
In issue #1, he immediately responded to a towering stone structure that read "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here" by destroying it with his atomic breath. Soon after, he took interest in a nuclear power plant, peeking down one of the reactors before being attacked by the demon within. After emerging from a storm of souls, Godzilla approached the Doppelganger demon curiously while it was disguised as him, even appearing to sniff its neck, and only engaged it in battle after it unveiled its true nature.
In issue #4, Godzilla soon turned his attention to breaking out of the walled city rather than engaging King Ghidorah and Destoroyah in endless battle. He tricked them into firing their beams at the back of his head while he fired his own at the wall, then ducked, allowing their combined strength to blast a hole in the fortification. His willingness to endure repeated "deaths" at their hands foreshadowed his even more dramatic sacrifice in the following issue.
Coming to the foot of the mountain with the torii out of Hell at its peak in issue #5, Godzilla displayed visible annoyance at the sight of the God-demon. After the creature forced him off the mountain and Hellbats continued to swarm around him, Godzilla demonstrated a willingness to put himself through pain in order to acquire the power he needed. He invited the Hellbat flock to consume his flesh to the bone, only to take possession of them and harness them in his favor, winning his freedom.
History
- Godzilla in Hell #1-5 (2015)
Godzilla in Hell
After falling down from the mouth of Hell, Godzilla destroyed an enormous rock tower reading "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE", and moved on, passing through two nightmarish cities before coming across a nuclear power plant. When he peeked down one of the cooling towers, a demon resembling a pile of organs burst out and grappled him, though Godzilla quickly killed it with a stomp. As Godzilla moved on, he came upon an enormous cloud of souls blown around by a tremendous storm. After forcing his way through the cloud, he fell to his hands before finding what appeared to be another Godzilla. He approached the creature curiously. It suddenly transformed into another demon that lashed out with tentacles and slammed him into the ground. He severed the tentacles with atomic breath and pummeled it; the demon responded by consticting him again and dragging him towards its enormous mouth. Just as he entered its maw, the King of the Monsters released a nuclear pulse to destroy the demon from the inside out. But the blast also weakened the ground beneath him, causing him to plunge deeper into Hell.
Godzilla looked out over a hellish city, dotted with representations of human-made disasters, when a demonic Rodan flew overhead. The Demon Rodan evaded his atomic breath, but he smacked it on the head with his tail and moved on to an icy region. He found Demon Anguirus frozen in ice; the monster soon burst free and challenged him, biting his arm. Godzilla hurled Anguirus away, cracking the ice and causing the King of the Monsters to fall into an endless ocean. There he encountered the Demon Varan, quickly repelling him with atomic breath. No sooner had Varan departed than King Ghidorah appeared behind him - the kaiju responsible for Godzilla's arrival in Hell. Ghidorah rained down gravity beams, forming a whirlpool which sucked Godzilla down into another level of Hell.
Prior to his death, Godzilla fought SpaceGodzilla in a ravaged Rio de Janeiro, the rest of the world appearing to be in a similar state as the city. SpaceGodzilla blasted his Corona Beam at Godzilla at full intensity as the Christ the Redeemer statue behind him shattered. Godzilla withstood the attack and countered by firing his atomic breath at point blank range, knocking SpaceGodzilla down. After roaring in victory, Godzilla shot another ray down at his foe as SpaceGodzilla returned fire. The collision of their beams triggered a gargantuan explosion which destroyed the entire Earth killed and both kaiju. Godzilla woke up in a celestial field, where a God-mountain and angels attempted to persuade him to "submit, serve peace." After he crushed an angel between his hands, they sent him into Hell, where he landed in an icy cavern. There, he was confronted by a swarm of demons and SpaceGodzilla. Godzilla targeted the demons first, giving SpaceGodzilla an opening to tackle him. Enormous icy fingers held him in place as demons flew down his throat. Angels arrived, with many of them flying down his throat as well, imbuing him with a powerful force field. SpaceGodzilla fired his Corona Beam, but Godzilla shrugged it off and shattered his shoulder crystals. Another Corona Beam reflected back at SpaceGodzilla, blowing him to pieces. The angels made a second attempt to persuade Godzilla to join them, but Godzilla retaliated by destroying the emergence point from whence they came with his atomic breath. Godzilla threw some of the angels and demons that had begun worshiping him into his mouth before continuing on his way.
Godzilla roared in victory after defeating devilish versions of King Ghidorah and Destoroyah in a walled city. As Godzilla walked away from his foes, their injuries suddenly healed and they stood up, blasting him with their beam attacks. This round concluded when Ghidorah picked up Godzilla and dropped him onto a replica of the Tokyo Tower, impaling him. Despite the seemingly fatal injury, Godzilla freed himself. He tried blasting through it with his atomic breath, even after an interruption by Destoroyah, but the wall appeared untouched. While Godzilla was distracted, Destoroyah decapitated him. He swiftly returned to the battlefield, staring at his own head. King Ghidorah and Destoroyah attacked him savagely until he laid still, causing King Ghidorah and Destoroyah turn on each other. Watching their beams collide, he formulated a plan. Godzilla directly his atomic breath at the wall again. When King Ghidorah and Destoroyah blasted him in the back of the head, he ducked down, causing their beams to join his, making a hole in the wall. His foes and the city dissolved, leaving Godzilla in a white void.
Godzilla traveled through the void, eventually reaching an icy realm in the midst of a blizzard. Even as icicles formed on his skin, he pressed onward. He attempting crossing a large bridge at the edge of a waterfall of blood, but fell through, tumbling into a pit of large stalactites. Swatting some of the spires with his tail in anger, he awakened a swarm of Hellbats, which emerged from the spires and pursued him. Godzilla kept the swarm at bay with his tail as he arrived at his final trial: an impossibly tall mountain that completely dwarfed even him, atop which slept the God-demon, who guarded the entrance to the living world. Godzilla tried to blast the demon with his atomic breath, but could produce only a tiny flame. Ever determined, the King of the Monsters began climbing the mountain, but the demon took notice and caused a landslide to knock Godzilla down and bury him under the rubble. Though he rose out of the rubble, Godzilla appeared defeated and closed his eyes, allowing the Hellbats to devour him alive. The Hellbats fed ravenously, leaving only his bones. The Hellbats dispersed, then found themselves each sprouting an eye, emitting atomic flame, and screeching miniature versions of Godzilla's roar. They flew back to his skeleton, swarmed around it, and reformed Godzilla's body with their own. The Hellbat-Godzilla then collectively roared at the God-demon in challenge, followed by each Hellbat firing its atomic breath simultaneously, thus causing a Godzilla-sized atomic blast to slam into the God-demon, killing it. The Hellbat-Godzilla then climbed the mountain and reached the gate. In the living world, a fully alive and reformed Godzilla burst from the ocean, roaring in great triumph.
Abilities
Physical abilities
Godzilla exhibits impressive strength, stomping the nuclear reactor demon to death, sending Demon Rodan hurtling to the ground with a swing of his tail, and throwing Demon Anguirus at the surrounding environment with enough force to inadvertently plunge himself deeper into Hell. He appeared to have broken off the devilish Destoroyah's horn prior to the events of issue #4 as well. In issue #3, he shattered SpaceGodzilla's shoulder crystals with his bare hands without struggle, although it is possible that his strength was enhanced by the aura granted to him by the angels.
After the Doppelganger demon hurled him upwards, Godzilla forcefully body-slammed the creature and pummeled it with his fists. When the devilish King Ghidorah rushed him, Godzilla retaliated by throwing the three-headed demon dragon into a building. He is skilled at striking flying opponents; apart from hitting Rodan with his tail, he killed an angel with a sudden clap in issue #3, and swatted away some Hellbats in issue #5.
Godzilla slamming his body into the Doppelgänger Demon
Godzilla pummeling the Doppelganger Demon
Godzilla standing victorious above the bodies of Demon Destoroyah and Demon King Ghidorah
Godzilla crushing an Angel with his hands
Amphibiousness
Though afforded few opportunity to swim in Hell, Godzilla traverses the Eternal Ocean in issue #2, easily defeating Varan there.
Godzilla engaging Demon Varan in battle
Atomic breath
Godzilla relies heavily on his blue atomic breath in combat. In Rio de Janeiro, he employed it to knock SpaceGodzilla to the ground, setting blue fires all around him. SpaceGodzilla responded to his second blast with a Corona Beam; when the beams collided, the resulting explosion destroyed the Earth. Using what appeared to be the last of the energy granted to him by the angels, he unleashed a purple ray surrounded by smoke rings to seal the portal to the God-mountain's realm, at the same time creating a hole in the surrounding environment that would eventually lead him into another realm in Hell. In issue #1, he reduced a tall stone structure many times his height to rubble by strafing his atomic breath, and later freed himself from the doppelganger demon's grasp by blasting through its tendrils. In issue #2, he scared off Varan with just one blast of his atomic breath. In issue #4, Godzilla's atomic breath matched the devilish King Ghidorah and Destoroyah's combined breath weapons, then knocked back Destoroyah. In issue #5, he produced only a small atomic flame when attempting to use his atomic breath against the God-demon, for unknown reasons. When he possessed and altered the Hellbats, each of them became able to fire his atomic breath, resulting in a massive beam of energy that obliterated the God-demon. The same cleaved a path up the mountain for him to reach the torii that provided his exit to Hell.
Nuclear energy absorption
Like many past incarnations, this Godzilla is suggested to feed on nuclear energy, peering down the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant in Hell.
Nuclear pulse
Godzilla discharged a nuclear pulse to obliterate the doppelganger demon after it attempted to consume him. His dorsal plates glowed orange before unleashing this attack.
Godzilla unleashing his nuclear pulse
Godzilla charging up his nuclear pulse
Intelligence
Godzilla demonstrates strategic thinking both in and out of battle. When the doppelganger demon dragged him towards its jaws, Godzilla ran headfirst into the demon’s mouth, obliterating it from the inside with his nuclear pulse before it could release him. In his fight against the devilish King Ghidorah and Destoroyah, Godzilla learned that his atomic breath couldn’t destroy the wall surrounding the city where they were battling on its own. After enticing his opponents to fire their own beam weapons at the back of his head while he blasted the wall again, he ducked down, causing the combined power of all three monsters to destroy the wall. Earlier in the battle, Godzilla crept through the city undetected to surprise King Ghidorah with a blast of atomic breath. When he realized he was left with no other way to defeat the God-demon, Godzilla allowed himself to be devoured by the Hellbats, then harnessed them to recreate his body and slay his enemy.
Godzilla analyzing his enemies’ power and strategizing accordingly
Godzilla exploiting Demon King Ghidorah and Demon Destoroyah
Durability and pain tolerance
Godzilla falls from staggering heights on two occasions, quickly recovering each time. Godzilla showed to be capable of taking attacks even from enemies that rival his strength and power such as Demon King Ghidorah, Demon Destoroyah, the Doppelganger demon, and Demon SpaceGodzilla. Even without enhancements, Godzilla traversed Hell with minuscule difficulty, gaining no injuries from his surroundings as he fought for his escape. When he allowed himself to be devoured by the Hellbats, he showed no signs of pain as the creatures slowly picked off his flesh to the bone. When Anguirus bit his arm, Godzilla showed no signs of pain, let alone any kind of reaction aside from countering the attack.
Godzilla is visibly unaffected by the extreme temperatures of his surroundings in Issue 2. Godzilla proved to be resilient against the extreme conditions of Hell, walking through a massive soul-composed storm in Issue 1 and a gigantic blizzard in Issue 5 all with faint struggle.
Godzilla falling down into Hell itself
Godzilla landing in Hell
Possession
After they devoured his flesh and left nothing but bones, Godzilla suddenly possessed and altered the Hellbats into cyclopean versions of themselves. Through them, Godzilla reformed his own body structure around his bones, vocalizing his roar through the countless Hellbats, and acquiring the ability to fire his atomic breath from the Hellbats themselves.
Aura
Godzilla temporarily gained a purple aura around his entire being after absorbing the energy of the angels and devils that flew down his throat in his rematch with demon SpaceGodzilla, which seemed to possess some forcefield-like properties given that it managed to reflect the monster's corona beam back at him, destroying him.
Weaknesses
As shown in Issue #5, Godzilla lacks unlimited energy and power. Additionally, he was still prone to pain or even fate given that his hide was not enough to keep King Ghidorah from impaling him via dropping him on a tower, Destoroyah from decapitating him, and the Hellbats from devouring him. As indirectly explained by the narrator in Issue #2, Godzilla came into Hell after being killed by King Ghidorah in the living world. Godzilla was shown struggling and reacting in pain from the combined efforts of demon King Ghidorah and demon Destoroyah. Godzilla's flesh, as tough as it is, was completely eaten away by the swarms of Hellbats.
Though he may seem all-powerful, Godzilla is just barely equivalent in power to God and the God-demon.
Gallery
Trivia
- This is the first main Godzilla in an American comic book to use the design from Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and would be the only representation of the design until receiving a cameo as an alternate universe version of the titular Godzilla in Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5 in 2022.
- The narration in Godzilla in Hell #2 identifies King Ghidorah as "[t]he reason [Godzilla] was brought into this horrific netherworld." Despite this, Godzilla is later shown to have been killed and sent to the afterlife by the explosive result of a beam-fight with SpaceGodzilla in issue #3 before being cast into Hell by God, seemingly contradicting or retconning the previous explanation.
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