Barem
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Barem (ベーレム Bēremu) are a starfish-like crystalline pollution-byproduct of Dagahra that first appeared in the 1997 Toho film Rebirth of Mothra 2.
Design
The Barem resemble red and yellow six-armed starfish. They sport barnacle-like growths on top of their bodies with yellow, hair-like tube feet on their undersides. The Barem also have small yellow tendrils.
Origins
The Barem were created as a byproduct when Dagahra absorbed pollution. They were even more toxic than the pollution itself and were what wiped out the Nilai-Kanai.
History
- Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997)
Heisei era
Rebirth of Mothra 2
After awakening once more in the present day, Dagahra began producing more Barem. The Barem first made themselves known to humanity when one attacked a pair of Japanese fishermen, burning one's face. Moll and Lora later investigated the Barem and concluded that they needed to stop them from spreading. Unfortunately, it did not take long for countless Barem to begin turning the sea red, threatening to eradicate all other marine life. Moll and Lora enlisted the aid of several young children and a creature named Ghogo to help them acquire the treasure of Nilai-Kanai, which they believed could help them stop the Barem and Dagahra. After locating a Nilai-Kanai pyramid and entering it, the children were followed by a Barem, who briefly menaced the lot before Moll and Lora arrived with Fairy, who blasted it away. Later, Dagahra used the Barem in a Thundering Toxic Crimson Vortex attack against Mothra Leo, which proved very effective and left the divine moth covered in Barem. With Fairy’s help, Moll and Lora desperately attempted to blast the Barem off, but to no avail. The creatures drained Mothra of his energy and caused him to collapse on the pyramid.
Eventually, the treasure of the Nilai-Kanai was revealed to be Ghogo, which used its healing waters to disintegrate the Barem off of Mothra’s body and transform him into Rainbow Mothra. In the subsequent battle against Dagahra, Mothra transformed again into Aqua Mothra and released tiny versions of himself into Dagahra's body to battle the Barem, destroying them all. The Guardian Beast dispatched Dagahra shortly thereafter.
Abilities
Urecot Eckax
Barem are capable of launching globs of slime tinged with highly toxic Urecot Eckax (ウレコット・エッカクス Urekotto Ekkakusu) venom from a gland on the top of their bodies.[1] Upon contact with skin, the acid foams up and causes severe damage. A single glob to the face caused a fisherman to be hospitalized.
Virulence
In GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse, Barem is a deadly and highly virulent form of bacteria spread through the ocean by Dagahra.
Video games
- Godzilla: Trading Battle (1998) - Sony PlayStation [card]
- Godzilla Defense Force (2019) - Android and iOS
Godzilla: Trading Battle
The offensive card "Barem Outbreak" causes non-water monsters to be dealt 20 damage upon moving.
Godzilla Defense Force
Dagahra can release several Barem as one of his attacks.
Dagahra launching Barem in Godzilla Defense Force
Books
- GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse (2017)
GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse
In December 2017, the United States Navy confronted the dragon kaiju Dagahra in the waters near American Samoa. Although anti-ship missiles fired by F-35 jets caused Dagahra to retreat, his wounds released the bacterial plague known as Barem into the ocean. Three days later, the Barem arrived at the port of Pago Pago, causing one-third of the city's inhabitants to die of bacterial infection.
When Dagahra was fatally wounded by the Australian military during his attack on the country on Christmas Day, he flew out to sea and died, releasing a massive amount of Barem into Australian waters. These Barem not only infected Australian citizens with a terrible plague, but heavily polluted the country's waters and killed the majority of marine life around the continent, in an event that would come to be known as the "Red Christmas Scourge" and claim 3 million lives.[4] Australia's waters became so heavily polluted that it could receive no foreign aid, causing the entire country to collapse as a result of the Barem infection.
Gallery
- Main article: Barem/Gallery.
See also
References
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