Salunga
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Salunga (サルンガ Sarunga) is a kaiju that first appears in episode 5 of the 2021 animated Godzilla series, Godzilla Singular Point.
Name
Salunga's name is likely derived from the Japanese word saru (猿), meaning "monkey." Toho filed a trademark on its Japanese name サルンガ (Sarunga) on October 6, 2020.[2]
While Netflix's description for episode 5 renders サルンガ as "Salunga" in English, the June 2021 issue of CGWORLD magazine refers to it as Sarnga.[1]
Salunga is referred to in episode 6 as シャランガ (Sharanga), the name for the celestial bow of the Hindu god Vishnu. This serves as the local Indian name for the monster, with サルンガ (Sarunga) being applied by the Japanese media.[3]
Design
Salunga resembles a combination of the Showa-era monsters Baragon and Gabara. Like Gabara, he has warty green skin, a beige underbelly, a cat-like muzzle, and horns running along the top of his head, but lacks the red lock of hair. Much like Baragon, he has a long tail, a larger forward facing horn on his forehead, and a paired row of golden plates running down the length of his back. He also has additional, fungus-like plates on his shoulders and scutes on his hind feet and fingers, and his eyes are white in color. He has arms with three long fingers and opposable thumbs. His posture is much like that of a primate, having long arms, relatively short legs, and a prominently hunched back. This makes him capable of walking both bipedally and quadrupedally, and allows him to be an adept climber.
History
Reiwa era
Godzilla Singular Point
"Gadabout"
At the Upala research facility in India, Bela Bhan and his associates descended onto a massive containment hatch, opening it with a pair of access keys. From a control room, Tilda Miller was shown stills of what lay below: Salunga.
"Theorist"
As the hatch opened, clouds of red dust poured out from below. Amidst the haze, Salunga stood atop a perch and roared at the men before beginning to climb nearby scaffolding. As BB and the others began retreating, Salunga steadily approached the top. Operators in the control room scrambled to reseal the hatch, managing to close it just moments before Salunga could escape. Thwarted, the creature banged on the hatch and roared in anger.
"Omniarch"
Salunga broke through multiple hatches as it continued its attempt to climb out of its containment, eventually making it to a final hatch where guards began to shoot down at it, only for the bullets to bounce off. As it leaped around exploding rafters, Bela dropped an experimental Orthogonal Diagonalizer weapon that crystallized the red dust and impaled it on the rafter it was climbing up. Still alive, Salunga growled towards Bela as the containment doors closed.
"Encipher"
Salunga managed to break out of his containment facility and began going on a rampage in a small Indian town. Bela and his team utilized a new Orthagonal Diagonizer in the form of a missile, the first shot covering the kaiju in crystalline Archetype while the second impaled and paralyzed him.
"Explorer"
Salunga manages to break out of his impalement and continues his advance through India.
"Destroyer"
After breaking out it attacked the facility where the Super Dimension Calculator was stored and destroyed it. Whether he survived the explosion or the large scale Diagonalization event is unknown.
Abilities
Physical abilities
Salunga appears to be an excellent climber, being able to scale the metal rafters in his containment area. Additionally, as bits of rafters were detonated, causing them to collapse to prevent Salunga’s escape, he was able to leap to secure rafters to avoid falling.
Durability
The bullets from the guards' heavy caliber rifles proved to be ineffective in piercing Salunga's hide, only bouncing off after impact. The red dust that was crystallized by the Orthogonal Diagonalizer weapon pierced its skin and immobilized Salunga, although it was unable to kill the beast.
Electricity
When Salunga is attempting to lift a door, it unleashes electricity.
Filmography
- Godzilla Singular Point (TV 2021) [episodes 5, 7, 10, 12-13]
Gallery
- Main article: Salunga/Gallery.
References
This is a list of references for Salunga. 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]
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