Miki Saegusa

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Miki Saegusa
Miki in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Species Human
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Military Psychic
Related to Koji Shinjo (love interest)
First appearance Latest appearance
Godzilla vs. Biollante Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Played by Megumi Odaka

Miki Saegusa (三枝 未希,   Saegusa Miki) is a psychic character from the Heisei Godzilla series. Employed by the Japanese government and later G-Force, she uses her powers to communicate with and, in some instances, attempt to control Godzilla. She is the most frequently recurring human character in the Godzilla franchise, having appeared in six consecutive films.

History

Heisei Series

Godzilla vs. Biollante

At age 17, Miki Saegusa was already the most talented member of the Japan Psionics Center. As a favor to the reclusive Dr. Genshiro Shiragami, she visited his laboratory and attempted to communicate with the roses there, accompanied by her mentor Asuka Okouchi. She was unsuccessful, but as they prepared to leave, suddenly picked up a girl's voice calling out to Asuka. Unbeknownst to Miki, Shiragami had combined the DNA of one of his roses with genetic material taken from his late daughter Erika.

Soon after, Miki and the younger children at the Center began to have dreams about Godzilla's return. She detected that Godzilla was awake from a helicopter above his tomb in Mt. Mihara. As Shiragami worked with the Japanese government on Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria in the event of Godzilla's return, he secretly combined the monster's cells with the Erika-rose hybrid. The resulting creature, Biollante, broke out of his lab and headed for Lake Ashi. Miki, who foresaw Biollante's creation, convinced Asuka to drive her to the lake. There, she confirmed that the docile monster was driven by Erika's spirit. After Godzilla emerged from Mt. Mihara, however, Biollante called out to him and became feral.

Godzilla defeated Biollante and returned to the sea. With the JSDF unable to track him, Major Sho Kuroki asked Miki to again locate Godzilla by helicopter. She did so, but the helicopter ran low on fuel and was forced to head towards Osaka. The military incorrectly predicted Godzilla would attack the nuclear power plant near Nagoya; instead, he swam towards Osaka. Miki confronted him at the under-construction Kansai International Airport and they engaged in a psychic battle. She fell unconscious from the strain, but successfully bought time for the citizens of Osaka to evacuate.

After reviving, Miki drew a picture of a rose in space on an electronic sketch pad. She was present for Biollante's second, successful battle against Godzilla. After Dr. Shiragami vowed never to work on Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria or another Biollante again, Biollante returned to space, with Miki reporting that Erika thanked him.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Saegusa returns in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, where she joins a time-traveling expedition to the Marshall Islands in 1944 in an attempt to alter history by preventing Godzilla's mutation. Miki is able to identify the Godzillasaurus residing on Lagos Island as Godzilla, thus allowing its capture and transportation away from the future test site. This plan however proved flawed, as the site where the dinosaur was deposited would later become the site of a nuclear accident, which would result in the creation of Godzilla, thus setting history as it was.

Godzilla vs. Mothra

Saegusa was a less prominent character in Godzilla vs. Mothra. She is seen working at the JSDF base and appeared to show a moderate concern for Godzilla during his battle with the guardian monster Mothra and her dark twin Battra. She also assisted in the locating of the Cosmos when they disappeared.

During this time, Miki allied herself with the Cosmos secretly and kept a telepathic link with them, as they warned her of approaching danger. She is also seen wearing a earring with the Mothra symbol on it.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

In Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Miki is made a member of the newly created G-Force, a military alliance dedicated to the destruction of Godzilla. There, she befriends a Baby Godzilla and is appalled to learn that the baby will be used as bait to lure Godzilla. Despite her protests, Miki is assigned to use her powers to guide Mechagodzilla's long-range weaponry onto Godzilla's vulnerable second brain. Though she succeeds, Godzilla is revived by Rodan and destroys the mech. Miki then telepathically convinces Baby Godzilla to leave Japan to be with Godzilla.

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

In Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Miki receives a larger role than in previous films. By then she has come to develop a strong sense of empathy and compassion towards Godzilla. Throughout the film she defends him from those who wish to kill him, saying "Don't you see, he also has feelings, feelings the same as we do!" while also wrestling with her feelings for a G-Force soldier she held an attraction to

The U.N.G.C.C. now has its own department of psychic studies which Miki is director of, and she is met by people who wish to telepathically control Godzilla; the plan is called Project-T. Though she personally believes that it cannot be done and is immoral, her mind is changed after the Cosmos tell her that SpaceGodzilla is coming and that Godzilla must be there to stop him. That, combined with how she sees U.N.G.C.C.'s plan for controlling Godzilla as the lesser of two evils compared with killing him, makes her agrees to Project-T. While on Godzilla's island she meets a cheerful Little Godzilla, a grown up Baby, who recognizes her. When the adult Godzilla does arrive she and her team succeed on placing a mind control device on Godzilla and she does manage to control him. That is interrupted when SpaceGodzilla arrives. Miki is later kidnapped by the Japanese Mafia who had secretly bankrolled Project-T in the hopes of using Godzilla as a mercenary monster. She is later freed by her G-Force friends (which includes a scene of her using telekinesis to levitate the table she is strapped to and help one of her friends), the mobsters are killed by SpaceGodzilla, and she witnesses the last battle. After Godzilla's victory, she telekinetically removes the mind control device that had been placed on his neck at which he turns around to look at her, nodding. The Cosmos appeared and thanked Miki before saying goodbye.

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

She last appeared in 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. Depicted as a fully integrated member of G-Force with a variety of acquired technical skills, she reveals her psychic abilities are starting to weaken. At the films ending she says farewell to Godzilla and Godzilla Junior. Miki meets and befriends her replacement Meru Ozawa, who is the new head of the G-Force psychics. Although their methods are different, she comes to like Meru and even helps her in controlling Godzilla Junior telepathically. By this time, Miki had also become a pilot for G-Force, piloting a Hughes 500C to track Junior.

Comics

Godzilla: Legends

Secrets

Miki Saegusa appears in issue #3 of the miniseries Godzilla: Legends. In the comic, Miki was once able to communicate with Godzilla telepathically, and helped the United Nations form a school for psychic children. After collecting a student named Tristan, Miki began to train him and the other psychic children alongside Headmaster Mugal to get them to communicate to other monsters like she could communicate with Godzilla. Tristan was a particularly strong student, who unwittingly destroyed the school with Titanosaurus. After the incident, Mugal revealed that the U.N. had declared the school a failure, and that the children would be sent home. Miki then accused Mugal of being a monster for giving up on the idea, which she claimed had only failed because he had pushed Tristan too far.

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