Godzilla (Godzilla in Hell)
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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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— Narration (Godzilla in Hell issue 3) |
Godzilla is a kaiju that appeared in the comic book series Godzilla in Hell. After Godzilla was sent to Hell, he clawed his way back out through the many demonic foes and hellish environments that challenged him.
Name
- See also: 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
Throughout the series, Godzilla’s design is reminiscent of his Millennium Era designs. In issues #1 and #5, Godzilla is identical to the KiryuGoji design with some elements of the FinalGoji design. In issues #2 and 3, Godzilla’s design uses the look of the MireGoji and GiraGoji suits. In issue #4, Godzilla’s design is identical to the GMKGoji design. In issue #5, after reforming his body with the Hellbats, Godzilla becomes entirely red with the exception of his skeleton.
Personality
Godzilla is persistent and defiant beyond compare, never ceasing his march to escape Hell. Upon reading a stone structure that read, “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”, Godzilla destroyed the structure with his atomic breath out of retaliation. He proves completely impervious to the influences of both Heaven and Hell themselves. Godzilla expresses a lack of interest in being worshipped when he kills some of the angels and devils praising him after demon SpaceGodzilla’s defeat. Despite entering combat with every other being he came across, Godzilla stopped and inspected the Doppelgänger Demon while it was disguised as him, not attacking it until it revealed its true form. Before that, Godzilla took an interest in a nuclear power plant, peeking down one of the reactors before being attacked by the Nuclear Reactor Demon. When he came at the foot of the mountain that lead to the gate out of hell, Godzilla displayed visible annoyance at the sight of the God-demon.
History
- Godzilla in Hell (2015)
Godzilla in Hell
Godzilla in Hell issue 1
After falling down from the mouth of Hell, Godzilla destroyed an enormous rock tower rising from the ground with the famous line "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE", and moved on, passing through two alien-looking cities before coming across a nuclear reactor. He was ambushed by a demon resembling a pile of organs crawling out from the smoke stacks, which Godzilla was able to stomp out.
As Godzilla moved on, an enormous cloud of souls blown around by a tremendous storm appeared. After making his way through the cloud, Godzilla found what appeared to be another Godzilla. Suddenly, it transformed into another demon that lashed out with tendrils and attempted to devour Godzilla, however the King of the Monsters used a nuclear pulse to destroy the demon from the inside out. The blast also weakened the ledge of Godzilla's current level, causing him to plunge deeper into Hell.
Godzilla in Hell issue 2
Godzilla was looking out over a city when a demon representation of Rodan appeared. Godzilla fought and attempted to use his atomic breath, but Rodan dodged and began charging towards Godzilla. The latter readied his tail and smacked Rodan with it, sending him hurtling to the ground. Godzilla moved on and entered an icy region where Demon Anguirus was frozen in ice. Anguirus was freed and the two start to fight, but as Godzilla hurled Anguirus away the ice cracked and Godzilla fell into an endless ocean where he encountered Demon Varan. Godzilla's atomic breath drove off Varan, but a demon King Ghidorah appeared behind him, who the narration states is the reason for Godzilla's arrival in Hell. Ghidorah's appearance created a whirlpool, which sucked Godzilla down deeper.
Godzilla in Hell issue 3
With the world in ruins, Godzilla and SpaceGodzilla are seen fighting in Rio de Janeiro. SpaceGodzilla blasted his Corona Beam at Godzilla at full intensity, but Godzilla withstood the attack and countered by firing his atomic breath at point blank range, knocking SpaceGodzilla down. After roaring in victory, Godzilla fired his atomic breath down at his foe as SpaceGodzilla fired his Corona Beam at Godzilla, causing them to lock and explode, destroying the entire Earth and killing both kaiju. Godzilla woke up in Purgatory, where the angels and God tried to persuade Godzilla to join Heaven's army, but Godzilla was not interested in the slightest. After crushing an angel between his hands, Godzilla was thrown into Hell, where he landed in an icy cavern. There, he was confronted by a swarm of demons and a demonically-enhanced SpaceGodzilla. SpaceGodzilla tackled Godzilla and held him in place so the demons could make him a permanent servant of Hell. Angels arrived and help Godzilla by giving him a powerful force field, which destroyed the clone after it reflected his beam back towards him. The angels tried to persuade Godzilla to join them again, but Godzilla was still not interested and responded by sealing the entrance to Heaven with his atomic breath. Godzilla eats some of the angels and demons that had begun worshiping him before continuing on his way.
Godzilla in Hell issue 4
Godzilla was seen roaring in victory after defeating King Ghidorah and Destoroyah. As Godzilla walked away from his foes, their injuries healed very quickly and the two monsters got back up to resume their battle with Godzilla, blasting him with their beam attacks. Destoroyah's flying form threw Godzilla into a building, and King Ghidorah and Destoroyah's flying and aggregate forms joined in. King Ghidorah grabbed Godzilla and dropped him onto a Hellish version of the Tokyo Tower, impaling him. Despite the seemingly fatal injury, Godzilla freed himself and noticed that a gigantic wall surrounded the city. Godzilla tried to blast it with his atomic breath, but the wall regenerates. While Godzilla was distracted, Destoroyah decapitated him with his horn, only for Godzilla to instantly grow his head back. King Ghidorah and Destoroyah then continued their assault until Godzilla allowed himself to be defeated, causing King Ghidorah and Destoroyah turn on each other. Godzilla tried to destroy the wall again, with King Ghidorah and Destoroyah seeing him and trying to use their beams again, but Godzilla fired his atomic breath while ducking to avoid King Ghidorah and Destoroyah's attack. Godzilla managed to make a hole in the wall and continued on his way.
Godzilla in Hell issue 5
Godzilla appeared from a white void, being bombarded by severe blizzards, but he pressed onward. Coming to a large bridge at the edge of a waterfall of blood, Godzilla burst through it and tumbled below into a pit of large stalactites. Swatting some of the spires with his tail in anger, he moved on, causing swarms of Hellbats to emerge from the spires. Godzilla kept the swarm at bay with his tail as he neared the end of his journey. Godzilla 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 it doesn't move. 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. Bursting forth, Godzilla appeared defeated and closed his eyes, allowing the Hellbats to devour him alive. The Hellbats swarmed around Godzilla and left only his bones. The Hellbats then began to fly away before all suddenly convulsing and each growing one eye. The Hellbats started screeching miniature versions of Godzilla's roar and 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, and in living world from the ocean bursted out a fully alive and reformed Godzilla, roaring in his ultimate triumph.
Abilities
Physical capabilities
Godzilla’s strength is beyond compare, as he was able to stomp the Nuclear Reactor Demon to death, use his tail to thwart an oncoming Demon Rodan and send him hurtling to the ground, throw Demon Anguirus away from him, and King Ghidorah and Destoroyah were seen with visible damage, such as scarred eyes and a broken horn, after Godzilla defeats them from the first time. When thrown in the air by the Doppelgänger Demon, Godzilla used it to his advantage and body slammed the creature before beginning to pummel it with his hands. Godzilla was also shown to be resilient against the extreme weather of Hell, making his way through a massive soul storm and a gigantic blizzard. Godzilla also attempted to climb the enormous mountain the God-demon was perched atop before the latter collapsed a portion of the rock onto him, but he was able to make it to the top after besting the foe from afar.
Godzilla uses his hands to pummel the Doppelgänger Demon
Godzilla stands temporarily victorious ontop of the mauled corpses of Destoroyah and King Ghidorah
Atomic breath
Godzilla is able to fire the character's trademark atomic breath, which was able to seal off the entrance to Heaven, knock down and deter foes such as Varan, SpaceGodzilla, and Destoroyah and, when entering a beam-fight with SpaceGodzilla, the resulting explosion blew the Earth to pieces. When he possessed and altered the Hellbats, each of them could fire his atomic breath, resulting in a massive beam of energy that obliterated the God-demon, an opponent that did not even move after being hit with Godzilla's single atomic ray.
Godzilla seals the entrance to Heaven
Nuclear pulse
Godzilla is able to discharge a nuclear pulse from his body, which obliterated the Doppelgänger Demon after it attempted to consume him. Godzilla’s dorsal plates glow orange before unleashing this attack.
Intelligence
Godzilla possesses remarkable intelligence both in and out of battle. When it seemed that he was about to be consumed by the Doppelganger Demon, Godzilla ran into the demon’s mouth, obliterating it from the inside with a nuclear pulse. In his fight with demon King Ghidorah and demon Destoroyah, Godzilla learned that his atomic breath couldn’t destroy a wall surrounding the battlefield, thus took advantage of the two firing their beam attacks at him, dodging before the three of them destroyed the wall. When he depleted his atomic breath and had no options regarding the God-demon, Godzilla allowed himself to be devoured by the Hellbats, taking possession of them and gaining what was needed to kill the God-demon.
Regeneration
While in Hell, Godzilla is able to regenerate at an astonishing rate, and even come back to life after suffering fatal injuries. After impalement through the torso, Godzilla instantaneously recovered as if no harm occurred. After being decapitated by demon Destoroyah’s aggregate forms, Godzilla came upon his fallen head with a new one regenerated.
Durability
Godzilla is shown falling from incredible heights on multiple occasions, and his scales were able to resist attack from his foes. Even without enhancements, Godzilla traversed Hell with minuscule difficulty, gaining no injuries from his surroundings as he fought for his escape.
Possession
After they devoured his flesh and left nothing but bones, Godzilla was able to possess and alter the Hellbats into cyclopean versions of themselves that reformed Godzilla's body structure around his bones, vocalized his roar, and fired atomic breath.
Forcefield
Godzilla was temporarily granted a powerful barrier by the angels of Heaven to aid in his rematch with demon SpaceGodzilla, which was able reflect the monster's corona beam back at him, destroying him.
Godzilla's forcefield reflects SpaceGodzilla's beam back at him
Weaknesses
As shown in issue #5, Godzilla can’t fire his atomic breath once he is depleted of energy, and his durability was not enough to keep King Ghidorah from impaling him on a spiked tower, Destoryah 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's durability was shown to be insufficient in defending against the combined efforts of King Ghidorah and Destoroyah, and Godzilla's flesh was completely eaten away by the swarms of Hellbats.
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 recieving 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 issue #2 states that: "The reason the leviathan was brought into this horrific netherworld...King Ghidorah, the great three-headed dragon, the golden devil", implying Godzilla was killed by King Ghidorah. Despite this, Godzilla is 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 the previous explanation.
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