Neo-Hedorah
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Neo-Hedorah (ネオヘドラ Neo Hedora) is an alien sludge kaiju who first appeared in the 1997 Godzilla television series, Godzilla Island.
Name
Neo-Hedorah's name comes from a combination of the words "Neo", a word meaning new or modified, and "Hedorah", the monster who directly inspired Neo-Hedorah. The exact spelling of Neo-Hedorah's name in English was confirmed by the official English translation of Godzilla Island on the YouTube channel.
Design
Neo-Hedorah looks similar to the normal Hedorah, but instead of being a dark green, Neo-Hedorah is light blue with cotton candy-pink patches. Like Hedorah, his eyes are red with yellow irises.
Personality
Neo-Hedorah is similar to many of the other Xilien pawns in that he is highly aggressive towards Godzilla Island's monsters and obedient to the Xiliens, specifically Randeth.
Origins
Neo-Hedorah's origins are unknown outside of its alliance with the Xiliens and its fungal cellular structure being identical to the mushrooms it spreads.
History
- Godzilla Island (TV 1997-1998) [episodes 200-202, 204-208]
Godzilla Island
Fire Rodan
While investigating a mysterious patch of mushrooms at Mt. Gaira after Junior passed out when massive mushrooms sprouted on his back, Misato Jinguji noticed Neo-Hedorah emerge and breathe a mysterious gas that caused even more mushrooms to grow. Neo-Hedorah spotted Misato piloting the Tart Coupe and fired red lasers from its eyes at the craft but missed, with Godzilla then appearing behind it and firing atomic breath at it. However, Neo-Hedorah harmlessly absorbed the ray and attempted to breathe its strange mist on Godzilla, only for Rodan to appear and flap his wings hard enough to generate winds which dispelled the gas and briefly knocked Neo-Hedorah down. Neo-Hedorah then watched as Rodan picked Godzilla up and the two retreated by flying away, leaving Neo-Hedorah unchallenged as it continued to spread mushrooms which infected the G-Guard food supply, Baragon, Gorosaurus and Anguirus, though Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and King Caesar were able to evade the monster.
Wishing to destroy Neo-Hedorah but with limited options due to airborne spores released by the monster lingering in the air, Misato journeyed in the Tart Coupe to King Caesar's fungus-free Forest of Awakening to speak to the monster about transforming Rodan into Fire Rodan. While the three of them struggled with the ritual to transform Rodan, Neo-Hedorah advanced on the G-Guard base and effortlessly defeated the heavy attack laser intended to defend the base by absorbing its laser and leaving it unable to function by spreading mushrooms onto it. Neo-Hedorah then attacked the G-Guard base with eye lasers but was interrupted by Godzilla, who attempted to use his atomic breath once again but was felled by Neo-Hedorah's eye lasers. Neo-Hedorah then infected Godzilla with mushrooms and attempted to kill him by throwing him around. Just as Neo-Hedorah was close to killing Godzilla, Rodan, having successfully transformed into fire Rodan, arrived on the scene and used his fire breath against Neo-Hedorah. Godzilla noticed this and combined his atomic breath with the fire breath, generating heat over 100,000°C so as to burn Neo-Hedorah to a crisp, ending the creature's reign of terror once and for all.
Abilities
Gas
Neo-Hedorah is capable of releasing a gas (similar to the normal Hedorah's sulfuric acid mist) that instantly causes mushrooms to grow and airborne spores to linger in the air. These mushrooms spread quickly and even grow on the bodies of the other monsters, sapping their energy and leaving them unable to fight back.
Eye lasers
Like the standard Hedorah, Neo-Hedorah can shoot red energy beams from its eyes which were effective in harming Godzilla.
Energy absorption
Neo-Hedorah can also absorb the energy of other monster's energy beam attacks such as Godzilla's atomic breath, leaving him unharmed. However, Neo-Hedorah is incapable of absorbing Fire Rodan's fire breath both on its own or combined with Godzilla's atomic breath.
Physical abilities
Neo-Hedorah also uses physical attacks against Godzilla, picking the monster king up and throwing him around.
Weaknesses
Neo-Hedorah and its mushrooms are vulnerable to extremely high temperatures of 100,000°C, allowing a combination of Fire Rodan's heat ray and Godzilla's atomic breath to burn it to death.
Gallery
- Main article: Neo-Hedorah/Gallery.
Trivia
- Though Matango mushrooms are mentioned to exist in this series, Neo-Hedorah does not have any confirmed association with either them or Matango Island, which was noted to exist in close proximity to Godzilla Island.
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