Sea Baragon

Sea Baragon Alternate names Baraguma, Shi Baragon, Shibaragon Species Genetically modified and enhanced Baragon Forms Baragon Controlled by Doctor Oniyama Relations Doctor Oniyama (Creator and Master) Allies None Enemies Godzilla First appearance Godzilla, King of the Monsters

Sea Baragon (シーバラゴン,   Shī Baragon) is an aquatic version of Baragon that first appeared in the first volume of Kodansha's Godzilla, King of the Monsters manga.

Appearance

Sea Baragon appears to be a fusion of the two Toho kaiju, Baragon and Maguma, with a large, narwhal-like horn extending out from the center of its forehead along with slanted walrus-like tusks. Sea Baragon lacks the large, floppy crescent-shaped ears of his earthly counterpart, and also has a slightly stubbier face. It has no special attacks or beam weapons, and relies entirely on melee moves that involve its horn. From his illustrations in the manga, he appears to have areas of lighter skin. Similar to a shark in real life, this may be so that Sea Baragon's back is camouflaged into the ocean's colors, and so he is harder to see from above, whereas his belly blends in to the sun's rays entering the water, in a technique called countershading.

History

Godzilla, King of the Monsters

In 1992, Baragon was revived after his fight with Frankenstein's monster, by the mad scientist Doctor Oniyama, who revived several other monsters, with Baragon being the most heavily modified. Using the DNA of narwhals and walruses, Baragon now became Sea Baragon, and resided in the waters of Izu Oshima where he began attacking ships. Like all of the revived monsters, Sea Baragon was sent to fight Godzilla and clambered ashore to fight him. The two monsters exchanged blows until Sea Baragon managed to gore Godzilla's chest with his horn. Godzilla, enraged by this attack, snapped Sea Baragon's horn in half. Even without his horn, Sea Baragon wouldn't give up, and leapt through the air towards Godzilla, but Godzilla grabbed him by the tail. Godzilla swung Sea Baragon around and threw him away. Before Sea Baragon could react, Godzilla fired his atomic breath at the creature, disintegrating him instantly. After the dust settled, Godzilla inspected the bloodied piece of Sea Baragon's horn, the only piece of him left. Godzilla then dropped the weapon and continued on his way.

Abilities

• Sea Baragon can use his narwhal horn to stab and gore opponents. In one panel it is also seen spinning like a drill, although he never uses this when using the horn to injure Godzilla.
• Sea Baragon is an extraordinary jumper, being able to leap long distances.

Gallery

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  Sea Baragon stabs Godzilla straight through his chest, causing the monster great pain

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  Godzilla breaks Sea Baragon's horn

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  Godzilla kills Sea Baragon with a blast of his Atomic Breath

Trivia

• The way Sea Baragon is composed (one monster's head, on another's body, with minor alterations) is somewhat similar to many Ultra kaiju, who were designed in similar ways.
• Sea Baragon, Flying Ebirah, Machine G and King Godzilla make up a tetrad of monsters which were developed by Kodansha specifically for the Godzilla, King of the Monsters manga series. All the other monsters featured in the manga are either rebuild versions of previous mechas, or new generations of existing monsters, an exception being Megalon, who simply returned. While Machine G is a variation of Mechagodzilla, he was also created specially for the manga, and therefore is included among the four original monsters.