Ebirah

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Ebirah
Ebirah in Godzilla: Final Wars
Alternate names The Sea Monster,
Horror of the Deep, Evirah
Species Giant Lobster
Height Showa: 50 meters[1][2]
Millennium: 50 meters[3]
Length Showa: 60 meters[1]
Millennium: 100 meters[3][4]

Wingspan Showa: 15 meters (Right), 13 meters (Left)[2]
Millennium: 20 meters (Right), 15 meters (Left)[3]
Weight Showa: 23,000 metric tons[1][2]
Millennium: 50,000 metric tons[3][4]
Forms Flying EbirahKM
Controlled by XiliensGFW
Relations None
Allies HedorahGFW
Enemies Godzilla, MeganulonGRoE, MegaguirusGRoE
Created by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Shinichi Sekizawa
Jun Fukuda

Played by ShowaHiroshi Sekita
MillenniumToshihiro Ogura
First appearance Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Latest appearance Godzilla: Final Wars
Design(s) ShowaShodaiEbira
MillenniumFinalEbira
Roar(s)
ShowaMillenniumMore roars

Ebirah (エビラ,   Ebira) is a giant lobster kaiju created by Toho that first appeared in the 1966 Godzilla series film, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep.

Name

Ebirah's name is derived from the Japanese word ebi (海老), meaning shrimp, even though he's actually a lobster. The "ra" (ラ) part of Ebirah's name is a common suffix for kaiju names.

Appearance

Ebirah generally looks like a giant lobster. His body is red all throughout, and he has one pincer that is bigger than the other one. He also has two antennae and a giant nose-like shell piece. Ebirah additionally has multiple legs and multiple segments in his body, leading up to a normal lobster tail.

History

Showa Series

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

A terrorist organization known as the Red Bamboo secretly operated on the remote Letchi Island in the South Pacific, where they enslaved natives of Infant Island while producing nuclear weapons. Guarding the waters of the island was Ebirah, who destroyed any ship that came too close to the island. Ebirah was successful at this and no ship could reach the island. The Red Bamboo ships used a special extract from the island's fruit to protect themselves from Ebirah. When a small group of people stranded on the island saw Godzilla sleeping in a cave, they woke him so he could fight Ebirah. Godzilla easily won and injured the crustacean with the atomic breath. The day after, a Red Bamboo ship appeared, but they accidentally used a placebo and not the fruit extract. Ebirah attacked and tore the ship apart. Godzilla reappeared, but this time, Godzilla pulled off Ebirah's claws. Ebirah escaped and was not seen again.

All Monsters Attack

Ebirah reappears on the sea near Monster Island alongside the Giant Condor in Ichiro's dream. He fights Godzilla briefly, and retreats back into the water after Godzilla defeats him.

Millennium Series

Godzilla: Final Wars

Ebirah returned in Godzilla: Final Wars as one of the many controlled monsters of the Xiliens. It destroys a factory near Tokai. The military forces try to destroy Ebirah, but the immense crustacean is too powerful, knocking over buildings in order to destroy tanks and resisting weaponry with its durable exoskeleton. But the mutant soldiers are called to stop the monster. The mutants successfully defeat Ebirah with specialized hand-held maser cannons and were about to kill it, when it disappeared. The Xiliens arrive and say that they destroyed the monsters to save Earth. However, it is soon found out that the monsters were controlled by the Xiliens. The Gotengo then frees Godzilla from Antarctica so he could fight the controlled kaiju. The plan is a success and Godzilla successfully defeats most of the kaiju. Then Ebirah and Hedorah are sent to destroy Godzilla in Tokyo bay. However, Godzilla blasts them out of the water with the atomic ray and the duo crash into a building, with Ebirah accidentally piercing Hedorah's large eye with his pincer. Godzilla then emerges from the waves and fires another atomic ray and defeats both Ebirah and Hedorah.

Abilities

Ebirah has no special powers, but he has strong claws and is an adept swimmer. Since Ebirah is a lobster, he could have the ability to regenerate his claws as well, but it's not seen.

In Godzilla: Final Wars, Ebirah can attack with both of its claws in a signature attack called "Crisis Scissors."

Weaknesses

In Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Ebirah showed a dislike of the spice Saffron. Red Bamboo used this weakness to prevent Ebirah from attacking their boats, which shot out jets of gas containing the Saffron to ward him off.

Filmography

Video Game Appearances

Godzilla: Save the Earth

Ebirah makes its only appearance in the Atari-Pipeworks games in Godzilla: Save the Earth in the final on-rail shooter-style level when playing as Godzilla 2000. Ebirah appears before facing the Vortaaks' underwater ship and must be defeated to continue.


Bandai Namco's Godzilla

Main article: Godzilla (2014 video game)/Kaiju Guide.

Comics

Godzilla, King of the Monsters

Main article: Flying Ebirah.

Ebirah appears in Kodansha's Godzilla, King of the Monsters manga series, where he is modified by the evil Dr. Oniyama into Flying Ebirah to battle Godzilla, but is defeated.

Godzilla: The Half-Century War

Godzilla: Rulers of Earth

During the battle between King Caesar and Megalon, the island's natives caught between the two kaiju's battle ran for cover, some escaping to the ocean. However, Varan and Ebirah started to devour any stragglers. Ebirah, Varan, Megalon and King Caesar all vanished as an alien ship crash landed into the ocean near by. Ebirah was later seen on the water monsters section of the mural on Infant Island.

Ebirah makes a full appearance in issue #17, where he abruptly attacks Godzilla, who is swimming back after his battle with the Mechagodzillas and Mecha-King Ghidorah. Godzilla throws Ebirah to the surface, and the two monsters arrive in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While Godzilla and Ebirah battle, Ebirah is swarmed by Meganulons, who break through his shell and draw blood. Ebirah snaps his claw shut on some of the Meganulons, cutting them in half. Megaguirus soon arrives and stings Ebirah. After repeated attacks from all of the monsters, Ebirah retreats to the ocean. Ebirah was not seen afterwards, and none of the Trilopods possessed his characteristics.

Godzilla: Cataclysm

In Godzilla: Cataclysm Issue 2, Arata's grandfather states that members of his village pray to Ebirah to bring them plentiful fishing trips.

Gallery

Main article: Ebirah/Gallery.

Sightings

  • Ebirah inspired two monsters who appeared in the Nintendo anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Ebifryer and Ebizou. Both are giant shrimp monsters who have abilities far stronger than the rest of the cast.

Roar

Ebirah's roars in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Ebirah's roars in Godzilla: Final Wars

In Other Languages

  • Russian: Эбира
  • Chinese: 伊比拉 (Yībǐ lā)

Trivia

  • Toho had first envisioned Ebirah to be King Kong's enemy instead of Godzilla's but rights problems with Rankin/Bass caused Kong to be dropped from the film and replaced by Godzilla.
  • In the English version of the 1966 tokusatsu film, The Magic Serpent, Tsunade's giant spider used edited Ebirah roars.
  • According to the German release of Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Ebirah was possibly created by Dr. Frankenstein.
  • In the original concept for Destroy All Monsters, known as All Monsters Attack Directive, Ebirah was supposed to appear as one of the guards for the Kilaak base, and one of Godzilla's main allies against King Ghidorah, along with Maguma. However, Ebirah and Maguma were left out due to the water damage sustained by their suits and were eventually replaced with Anguirus, Gorosaurus and Minilla in the final draft.
    • Baragon and Varan were supposed to take Ebirah and Maguma's roles as guards of the Kilaak base, but their suits were in poor condition as well and as such they were relegated to small cameo roles.
  • The version of Ebirah in Godzilla: Final Wars is nearly killed by Ozaki and the other mutants' handheld Maser Cannons, making Ebirah one of the few monsters to be defeated by humanity without the use of vehicles, super-weapons like the Oxygen Destroyer or other monsters.

References

This is a list of references for Ebirah. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Official Godzilla Compendium. Profiles of the Monsters; Page 123.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 ゴジラ完全解読 (別冊宝島 2207). The Monsters that Time Forgot; Page 103.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 ゴジラ完全解読 (別冊宝島 2207). The Monsters that Time Forgot; Page 114.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia. Godzilla: Final Wars; Page 118

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