Eartheater

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Eartheater Subtitle(s) Mold Monster (カビ怪獣,   Kabi Kaijū) Place(s) of emergence San Francisco Enemies Godzilla, Godzooky, Calico crew First appearance Godzilla episode 2, "The Eartheater" Roar(s)

The Eartheater is a subterranean monster that first appeared in the 1978 Godzilla episode, "The Eartheater."

Design

The Eartheater is a quadrupedal, ankylosaur-like monster. Its head is colored orange on its upper half and brown on its lower jaw and has two brown prominent ridges over its orange eyes with a pair of small, orange antennae on them and a snout with zipper-like teeth and a pink tongue inside. Its round body is primarily brown with an orange patch running from the underside of its neck to its chest and olive green patches and blocky spikes running down its back to its tail, which has a gear-shaped tip that it uses as a weapon. Each of its feet have four blocky, olive-green toes.

History

• Godzilla (TV 1978-1979) [episode 2]

Godzilla

"The Eartheater"

Small earthquakes appeared in San Francisco, causing some buildings in the city to fall under the Earth's crust, around the same time Dr. Darian travelled for a meeting in the area. When the Calico crew arrived, they found giant holes in place of buildings, with the Eartheater in one of them. The crew used their headlights to escape the monster, but it continued to follow them. Godzooky called Godzilla, and the Eartheater started to fight Godzilla. The Eartheater attacked Godzilla, and Godzilla fought with laser eye beams. The Eartheater used a sonic blast to stun Godzilla and retreated underground.

The Calico crew planned to knock out the Eartheater with gas bombs but were interrupted when it resurfaced. Godzooky called Godzilla again, who saved their getaway car from more earthquakes before fighting the Eartheater again. Godzilla breathed fire on the Eartheater, and the monster used its sonic blasts, which Godzilla dodged. Godzilla grappled with the Eartheater until it escaped his grip and again used its sonic blasts to escape.

Godzilla and the Calico crew looked for the Eartheater, and finding it scaling the Golden Gate Bridge. Godzilla immediately used its laser eyes on the Eartheater. The Eartheater tried to crush Godzooky with its tail, but he flew out of reach and the Eartheater hit the bridge under it instead, causing it to collapse and the monster to fall into the water below where it turned into mud.

Abilities

Sonic blasts

The Eartheater can emit sonic blasts from its antennae that were effective at stunning Godzilla during their battles and reduced buildings to rubble. It also used them for burrowing, easily splitting open roads and allowing it to make an escape during their first battle.

The Eartheater's sonic blast attack

Gear-headed tail

The Eartheater's tail has a gear-shaped tip, which was used to destroy a building as well as part of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Weaknesses

Being a creature made of dirt, the Eartheater's main weakness is water. This proved to be the creature's demise as it fell from the Golden Gate Bridge, becoming mud in the water below. The Eartheater, being a subterranean monster, was also shown as being adverse to bright lights. This allowed the Calico crew to ward off the monster during their initial encounter, though by the time it caught up to them on the surface and fought Godzilla, Captain Majors noted that it was "getting accustomed to the light."

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In other languages

Language Name Meaning Japanese アースイーター Āsuītā Transcription of English name

Trivia

• The 43rd issue of DC Comics' Scooby-Doo Team-Up mentions that the Hanna-Barbera superheroes Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles defeated the likes of Godzilla, the Eartheater, and the Cyclops Creature, all of whom make a cameo in one panel alongside a recolored version of the Time Dragon with flaps under its arms and pointed spikes on its back. The monsters were apparently under the control of (if not created by) the Mad Inventor.

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