Gravity Goliath
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The Gravity Goliath (重力を操る月巨人 Jūryoku o Ayatsuru Tsuki Kyojin, lit. Gravity-Manipulating Moon Colossus) is a Moon monster created by Hanna-Barbera that appeared in the 1979 Godzilla episode, "Moonlode."
Design
The Gravity Goliath resembles a large, muscular hairless ape with purplish-grey skin littered with spots which flicker between white and bright yellow. It has a blue mask-like outline around its eyes as well as two thin blue lines that run down to the corners of its lips. Its nose is skeletal, and its white eyes are sank into its eye sockets. It has curved teeth the same color as its body, a pink tongue, a ridge running down the middle of its head, and its hands have four fingers and no nails.
History
- Godzilla (TV 1978-1979) [episode 21]
Godzilla
"Moonlode"
The Calico crew was up at night to witness a lunar eclipse with their brand-new astronomy-dedicated underwater base. Brock and Quinn witnessed a moonquake which launched some debris out of the Moon's orbit towards Earth, which unbeknownst to them contained the Gravity Goliath. The monster landed only a few miles from the Calico, triggering a tsunami and earthquake. Captain Majors called Godzilla, who lifted the Calico over the wave and set it down once the water settled. Shortly after, the Calico received a distress signal from a sinking ship and sailed off to rescue the crew before received another transmission from a jet, which they witnessed being sucked towards the sea by a strange yellow beam. Brock and Quinn soon noticed strange flashing lights and gravitational energy being emitted by the Moon towards Earth. Quinn and Brock soon surface to tell the rest of the Calico crew, and the ship followed the gravity readings. Majors noticed the Calico was picking up speed on its own and attempted to slow them down, but the yellow beam hit the ship and dragged it towards a whirlpool, from which the Gravity Goliath emerged.
Majors summoned Godzilla, who moved the Calico to safety before engaging the Gravity Goliath. It fired at him with beams from its spots and threw him aside once he closed the distance, and the two roared challenges at each other again before the Gravity Goliath shot a different beam which dragged Godzilla towards it. Godzilla cancelled it with his laser eyes, and the Gravity Goliath countered with its crater beams and another gravitational beam. As the two grappled, the eclipse began, raining lightning down to the sea and strengthening the Gravity Goliath. However, as the eclipse neared totality, the Gravity Goliath began to grow weaker and attempted to disengage before mysteriously disappearing, alongside all of its effects.
Quinn deduced that the Gravity Goliath gained power from the Moon and Majors had Brock contact the Coast Guard to conduct search-and-rescue missions until the eclipse ends. The crew devised a plan to lure the creature towards the seabase with the Calico's Mini-Sub, where they could use its force rays on the Gravity Goliath and neutralize its gravitational powers. However, Pete accidentally launched the sub while inspecting it, sending him out into the ocean while Godzooky pursued the vessel. Before Pete could turn the sub around, it was trapped in the Gravity Goliath's gravitational beam. Quinn and Majors quickly altered the plan and had Pete turn the sub around and head back to the seabase with the Gravity Goliath in pursuit, managing to ensnare the Mini-Sub with its beam even after Pete enabled the vessel's thrusters. Godzooky held it back and freed the sub after accidentally kicking a rock into the Gravity Goliath's beam, and the creature soon noticed and attacked the seabase, though it stayed outside of the force rays' range. It moved closer, but Brock fired the beams, briefly weakening it before the Gravity Goliath recovered, the creature's gravity waves rendering the Godzilla Signal useless and requiring Godzooky to call his relative. The crew fired more force rays at the Gravity Goliath until they exhausted power their power supply, and the monster began to pull away the room they were in, only for Godzilla to arrive and distract it with his laser eyes. Godzilla and the Gravity Goliath roared at each other and grappled again, the latter managing to lift and throw away the former. Godzilla shot his laser eyes at the monster's head, stunning it long enough for him to bear hug the Gravity Goliath and throw it into one of the Moon's beams, which put the alien in stasis and sucked it back to the Moon.
Abilities
Crater beams
The Gravity Goliath can fire beams the many spots on its body, which were strong enough to tear apart the Calico crew's seabase and push around Godzilla.
Gravitational beam
The Gravity Goliath can emit a yellow beam from its entire body or just its head, which drags objects towards it.
Moonlight absorption
The Gravity Goliath can gain even more power from the Moon.
Weaknesses
The Gravity Goliath is weakened if it is not exposed to the Moon's reflective rays and will disappear if not exposed to moonlight. Its energy was temporarily depleted by the seabase's force rays and Godzilla's laser eyes. The Gravity Goliath was rendered completely inert after being caught in the Moon's tractor beam.
Gallery
Gravity Goliath in his whirlpool
Gravity Goliath shooting Godzilla with his energy beams
Gravity Goliath grappling with Godzilla
Godzilla vs. Gravity Goliath (after gaining power from the Moon)
Gravity Goliath firing his energy beams at the Calico Crews underwater base
Godzilla getting the attention of the Gravity Goliath with his laser beam eyes
Gravity Goliath and Godzilla face off underwater
Gravity Goliath using his massive strength to lift Godzilla over his shoulder
Gravity Goliath getting blasted in the face by Godzilla's laser beam eyes
Trivia
- Like King Ghidorah, the Gravity Goliath is an alien monster with golden gravity powers who fights Godzilla.
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