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'''Maguma''' {{Nihongo|マグマ}} is a giant walrus [[kaiju]] created by [[Toho]] that first appeared in the [[1962]] [[Toho]] [[:Category:Films|film]], ''[[Gorath (film)|Gorath]]''.
'''Maguma''' {{Nihongo|マグマ}} is a walrus {{kaiju|dai=dai}} created by [[Toho]] that first appeared in the [[1962]] [[Toho]] [[:Category:Films|film]], ''[[Gorath (film)|Gorath]]''.
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Revision as of 18:32, 21 April 2017

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Maguma
Maguma in Gorath
Alternate names Magma
Species Giant Walrus
Height 50 meters[1]
Length None
Weight 25,000 metric tons[1]
Forms None
Controlled by None
Relations None
Allies None
Enemies Japanese military
Created by Ishiro Honda,
Takeshi Kimura,
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Played by Katsumi Tezuka
First appearance Gorath
Latest appearance Gorath
Design(s) ShodaiMaguma
Roar(s)
More roars

Maguma (マグマ) is a walrus Template:Kaiju created by Toho that first appeared in the 1962 Toho film, Gorath.

Name

Maguma's name literally means "magma."

Appearance

Maguma looks like a giant brown walrus with yellow eyes, pale tusks, smooth skin, and no visible hair. Maguma also lacks a tail.

History

Showa Series

Gorath

Maguma first appeared when it was awakened by missile fire at the North Pole. Maguma attacked the base and it went home to its valley. A VTOL aircraft was sent to kill Maguma, and it buried it under a pile of rocks. Maguma broke out of the rocks and attacked again. The aircraft attacked Maguma with energy beams, killing it.

Video Game Appearances

Gallery

Main article: Maguma/Gallery.

Roar

Maguma's roar was an elephant trumpeting sound, but was deepened and slowed down. Maguma's roar was later used for the Ultraman 80 kaiju, Salamandora.

Maguma Roars

Trivia

  • According to an interview with Ishiro Honda, an early draft for the 1968 film Destroy All Monsters called for "all monsters" to appear. Early art for the film shows that Maguma was going to guard the Kilaaks' base along with Ebirah. However, they were replaced by Baragon and Varan, whose roles were reduced due to the poor conditions of their suits.
  • Maguma was removed from the Brenco Pictures' American version of Gorath. The producers of the U.S. version reportedly thought Maguma was too funny-looking, even mockingly calling him "Wally the Walrus," and believed he would ruin the serious tone of the film. Only a shot of Maguma's corpse buried in rubble remains in the American release.
  • Tsuburaya Productions used the Maguma suit to depict the monster Todora in episode 27 of Ultra Q.

References

This is a list of references for Maguma. 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 ゴジラ大怪獣超百科 (テレビマガジン デラックス20). Monsters of Terror Attacking Humanity; Page 51.

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