Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and historically referred to as Persia, is a country in West Asia; bordering countries like Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan. In kaiju media, it has been featured in small capacity.
History
- Battle in Outer Space (1959) [mentioned]
- Kong: The Animated Series (TV 2001–2002) [episode 17]
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) [on map]
Showa era
Battle in Outer Space
After an unknown force began pulling objects into air and caused havoc and destruction throughout the world, the United Nations held a meeting at the Japan Space Research Center, in which Iranian delegate Dr. Ahmed took part in. While the meeting had begun, Ahmed mysteriously walked out as if he was hyponitzed and walked into the courtyard, where he was then abducted by a red light. Later on, he returns and attempts to sabotage the heat ray experiment at the meeting. He is caught before he can finish, but takes Space Research Center employee Etsuko Shiraishi hostage. He declares that Earth will become a colony of the planet Natarl. Major Katsumiya, Etsuko's lover, frees her, before Ahmed attempts to escape. A Natarl UFO soon appears and disintegrates him, leaving behind a radio transmitter which allows the UN to determine the aliens' location: the Moon.
Kong: The Animated Series
"Enlil's Wrath"
Dr. Jenkins discovered a vortex over Iran, which she bid them to investigate. The vortex was being created by a ritual being performed on one of De La Porta's Primal Stones. Jenkins reported that she believed that the storm system over Iran was being sent to Kong Island. They arrived in Iran, and traveled through the desert where they were separated from Kong, and captured by a nomadic tribe that took them prisoner for allegedly kidnapping their Shaman. Kong rescued them in the night, but the tribesmen noticed and regarded Kong as a demon, to whom they must pray to Enlil to be rid of. De La Porta began to grow impatient as he waited for the Shaman to use the Primal Stone to destroy Kong Island with the weather system. He ordered his henchmen search for Kong and his friends, and Frazetti found them and merged with a Hyena he found in a nearby cave to pursue them. Initially, the Cyber-Hyena's speed was too much for Kong, and Jason was too far away to merge with him, so Tann bid Kong to slide under the Hyena's feet, which caused it to fall forward and come un-merged. They captured Frazetti, who told them that they are too late to save Kong Island, and they let him go and rushed to the co-ordinates given to them by Dr. Jenkins. Kong and Jason climbed the mountain to the temple where De La Porta delivered an ultimatum: save the nomadic Shaman, or get the stone. Jason and Kong then un-merged to do both. Kong got the stone, but De La Porta escapes. When speaking to the Shaman about the Stone, he defended them from his tribesmen, by revealing that Chiros destroyed their ancestors' civilization, and so they prayed to Enlil, god of storms to aid The Protector when he returned, as he had defeated Chiros. He then reversed the damage on Kong Island, and Dr. Jenkins watched as a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.
Monsterverse
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
In a Cold War-era map of Monarch bunkers situated across the world, one is located in northwestern Iran, near the capital city of Tehran.
Books
- GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla (2018)
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization (2024)
GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla
In 2043, during "Operation: Great Wall" the Chikyu, a Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel, was tasked with the operation of injeccting nanomachines in various parts of the Indian ocean. It, alongside the JOIDES Resolution deep-sea drilling vessel, carried out the operation in similar fashion in the Persian Gulf; also bringing surviving offshore oil drillers together to conduct drilling operations using giant jack-up rigs. At this time, a Manda appeared in the Gulf and attacked the workers.
In 2045, after having his eyes gouged out by Godzilla in Raqqa, Syria; Gigan's eyes were replaced by artificial eyes resemblind red sunglasses at Tabriz, Iran.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization
After making landfall in Pakistan, Scylla moved west towards the United Kingdom, passing Iran on the way.
Comics
- Monsterverse Declassified (2024) [flashback in "Tiamat"]
Monsterverse Declassified
"Tiamat"
Mesopotamian drawings made on papyrus depicted unnatural floods in the Persian Gulf, with the efforts of early people that contended with the creature that caused them - Tiamat.
Trivia
- In 2020, a new species of Iranian spitting spider was even given the scientific name of Scytodes kumonga as a tribute to the Toho kaiju Kumonga.[1]
- In an earlier script for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the city of Chicago was intended to be destroyed by a combined nuclear and chemical attack from Iran.
References
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