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The leviathan, Godzilla, wakes up in a hellish landscape. The abysmal plain of the underworld presenting all which has failed or gone wrong: once great cities in ruins, industrial disasters run amok, and a familiar unearthly fire of man rends the sky with colossal mushrooms. Countless lost souls have been hurled, not as participants, but as witnesses into a crumbling and hopeless void. This is not his final destination, but a journey, a test...
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Godzilla (ゴジラ is a Gojira)kaiju who appears in IDW Publishing's 2015 comic book series Godzilla in Hell. Plummeting into Hell itself following a fateful battle, Godzilla went on a quest for self-revival, fighting his way through many powerful foes and harsh environments to live once more.
Name
- Main article: Godzilla#Name.
Godzilla's Japanese name, Gojira (ゴジラ), comes from a combination of the Japanese approximation of "gorilla" (ゴリラ, and kujira gorira) (クジラ), the Japanese word for "whale."
In Godzilla in Hell #2, Godzilla is referred to as "The Leviathan" by the narrator.
Design
Godzilla's appearance changes repeatedly throughout Godzilla in Hell, but each depiction of the monster is based on one of his Millennium era film designs. Bob Eggleton, the writer and painter of the second issue, explained the differences between the Godzilla in his issue and the Godzilla in the first issue thusly: "I figured it was 'Hell' and some strange alternate dimension where Godzilla is kind of changing anyway as he`s changed from film to film."[1]
In issues #1 and 5, Godzilla's design is based on the suits made for the Kiryu series Godzilla. In the former, his pupil-less eyes are dark pale lavender, his snout is relatively short, and the underside of his neck is at times tinted red. Artist James Stokoe previously drew a KiryuGoji-inspired Godzilla in Godzilla: The Half-Century War. In the latter, his design is less stylized and more reminiscent of the source-material, although he has bluish-grey eyes and white sclera.
In issues #2 and 3, Godzilla resembles the suit design from Godzilla 2000: Millennium and Godzilla vs. Megaguirus. His appearance in the former is less stylized and more reminiscent of the source material. In the latter, Godzilla appears more expressive and anthropomorphic, his face possessing a much shorter and flatter snout with very noticeable lips in some panels. His sclera are orange in the second issue and white in the third respectively.
In issue #4, Godzilla is modeled on the GMK Godzilla, though his face bears an inconsistent shape throughout the issue, briefly resembling that of the MosuGoji design when he lands down from the tower that Devilish King Ghidorah dropped him on.
In issue #5, after reforming his body using the Hellbats as his flesh composition, Godzilla retains the same silhouette, although his entire body is red save for his dorsal fins, teeth, and claws. His teeth and claws are bone-yellow, while his dorsal fins appear dark gray despite normally being white.
Personality
Godzilla is defined by his unmatchable willpower and his immovable goal of reincarnation regardless of the endless celestial and demonic forces against him, even the God-mountain and God-demon themselves proving unable to stop him. Over the course of his journey, Godzilla sees through nonstop conflicts and resulting changes, possessing the stubbornness to persist but also the intellect to learn, which eventually allows him to achieve his goal of returning to the Living World.
In issue #3, he vividly rejected aligning with both Heaven and Hell in their existential feud. Equally uninterested in being worshiped, Godzilla killed a handful of angels and demons praised him after he killed SpaceGodzilla and sealed off the God-mountain.
In issue #1, Godzilla immediately retaliated against a towering stone structure that read "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here" with his atomic breath, seemingly smirking as he walked away. Later, he took interest in a nuclear power plant, peeking down one of its reactors before facing the demon within. Bursting through a storm of souls, Godzilla curiously approached the Doppelganger demon while it was disguised as him and even sniffed its neck before fighting it after it unveiled its true nature.
Issue #4 opened with Godzilla roaring triumphantly over the bodies of the Devilish King Ghidorah and Destoroyah. As their endless battle persisted however, he took a moment to observe his own head after losing it to Destoroyah and regenerating it, seemingly rationalizing the eternal cycle he and his enemies were enveloped in. Thus, Godzilla tricked the devils into firing their beams at him while he fired his own at the wall containing them, ducking so that their combined power blasted a hole in the fortification. Godzilla roared in success until he found himself alone in a white void. His willingness to endure pain without rest foreshadowed his even more dramatic sacrifice in the following issue.
Coming to the foot of the mountain with the torii out of Hell at its peak in issue #5, Godzilla displayed visible annoyance at the sight of the God-demon. After it forced him off the mountain and Hellbats continued to swarm around him, Godzilla demonstrated a willingness to put himself through pain in order to acquire the power he needed. He invited the Hellbat flock to consume his flesh to the bone, only to take possession of them and harness them in his favor, claiming his sought self-resurrection.
Upon his return to the living world, Godzilla roared in victory over his success. As inferred by the narration towards the end of the final issue of the comic series, Godzilla had "conquered himself" as deterred from "winning a thousand battles."
Origins
Godzilla's origins in Godzilla in Hell are very mysterious. Aside from dying prior to the events of the series, Godzilla's backstory is open to interpretation. Aspects of his nature are hinted at in each issue.
In issue #1, Godzilla's encounter with the Nuclear reactor demon suggests a correlation between Godzilla and humanity's use of nuclear energy. Later on, his encounter with the Doppelganger demon, which lured him in by mimicking his appearance, alluded to a seemingly solitary existence.
In issue #2, Godzilla's battles with Demon Rodan, Demon Anguirus, Demon Varan, and Demon King Ghidorah suggest that Godzilla had made numerous enemies throughout his life. The narration goes into detail about the nature of the multiple environments that Godzilla faces these monsters in, each one representing a distinct history involving Godzilla.
In issue #3, Godzilla's appearance in Heaven suggests that Godzilla possessed the capacity for a peaceful afterlife in Heaven rather than endless torment in Hell. In addition to that, Godzilla beared an inferably intense feud with SpaceGodzilla prior to arriving in such.
Issue #4 does not in any form acknowledge Godzilla's origins aside from hinting at the means of which he originally died: King Ghidorah dropping him from a height.
Following Godzilla's final triumph killing the God-Demon in Issue #5, the narrator abstractly suggests that Godzilla had at last resolved himself from a past of endless conflict.
History
- Godzilla in Hell #1-5 (2015)
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Godzilla in Hell
After falling down into Hell, Godzilla destroyed an enormous rock tower reading "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE" before moving on, passing through two nightmarish cities before coming across a nuclear power plant. When he peeked down one of the cooling towers, a demon resembling a pile of organs burst out and grappled him, though Godzilla quickly killed it with a stomp. As Godzilla continued on, he came upon an enormous cloud of souls blown around in a tremendous storm-like phenomenon. After forcing his way into the eye of the storm, he fell to his hands before discovering what appeared to be another Godzilla. He approached the creature to examine it. It suddenly transformed into another demon that lashed out with tentacles and slammed him into the ground. He severed the tentacles with his atomic breath and pummeled it; the demon responded by consticting him again and dragging him towards its enormous mouth. Godzilla attempted to resist being pulled in, but suddenly proceeded to charge headfirst instead. Just as he entered its maw, the King of the Monsters released a nuclear pulse to destroy the demon from the inside out. Unfortunately, the blast also weakened the ground beneath him, causing him to plunge deeper into Hell.
Godzilla looked out over a hellish city, dotted with representations of human-made disasters, when Demon Rodan flew overhead. The Demon evaded his atomic breath, but he smacked it on the head with his tail and moved on to an icy region. He found Demon Anguirus frozen in ice; the monster soon burst free and challenged him, biting his arm. Godzilla hurled Anguirus away, cracking the ice and causing the King of the Monsters to fall into an endless ocean. There he encountered the Demon Varan, quickly repelling him with atomic breath. No sooner had Varan departed than King Ghidorah appeared behind him - the kaiju responsible for Godzilla's arrival in Hell. Ghidorah rained down gravity beams, forming a whirlpool which sucked Godzilla down into another level of Hell.
Prior to his death, Godzilla fought SpaceGodzilla in a ravaged Rio de Janeiro, the rest of the world appearing to be in a similar state as the city. SpaceGodzilla blasted his Corona Beam at Godzilla at full intensity as the Christ the Redeemer statue behind him shattered. Godzilla withstood the attack and countered by firing his atomic breath at point blank range, knocking SpaceGodzilla down. After roaring in victory, Godzilla shot another ray down at his foe as SpaceGodzilla returned fire. The collision of their beams triggered a gargantuan explosion which destroyed the entire Earth and killed both kaiju. Godzilla woke up in a celestial field, where a God-mountain and angels attempted to persuade him to "submit, serve peace." After he crushed an angel between his hands, they sent him into Hell, where he landed in an icy cavern. There, he was confronted by a swarm of demons and SpaceGodzilla. Godzilla targeted the demons first, giving SpaceGodzilla an opening to tackle him. Enormous icy fingers held him in place as demons flew down his throat. Angels arrived, with many of them flying down his throat as well, imbuing him with a powerful force field. SpaceGodzilla fired his Corona Beam, but Godzilla shrugged it off and shattered his shoulder crystals. Another Corona Beam reflected back at SpaceGodzilla, blowing him to pieces. The angels made a second attempt to persuade Godzilla to join them, but Godzilla retaliated by destroying the emergence point from whence they came with his atomic breath. Godzilla threw some of the angels and demons that had begun worshiping him into his mouth before continuing on his way.
Godzilla roared in victory after defeating devilish versions of King Ghidorah and Destoroyah in a walled city. As Godzilla walked away from his foes, their injuries suddenly healed and they stood up, blasting him with their beam attacks. This round concluded when Ghidorah picked up Godzilla and dropped him onto a replica of the Tokyo Tower, impaling him. Despite the seemingly fatal injury, Godzilla freed himself. He tried blasting through it with his atomic breath, even after an interruption by Destoroyah, but the wall appeared untouched. While Godzilla was distracted, Destoroyah decapitated him. He swiftly returned to the battlefield, staring at his own head. King Ghidorah and Destoroyah attacked him savagely until he laid still, causing King Ghidorah and Destoroyah turn on each other. Watching their beams collide, he formulated a plan. Godzilla directly his atomic breath at the wall again. When King Ghidorah and Destoroyah blasted him in the back of the head, he ducked down, causing their beams to join his, making a hole in the wall. His foes and the city dissolved, leaving Godzilla in a white void.
Godzilla traveled through the void, eventually reaching an icy realm in the midst of a blizzard. Even as icicles formed on his skin, he pressed onward. He attempting crossing a large bridge at the edge of a waterfall of blood, but fell through, tumbling into a pit of large stalactites. Swatting some of the spires with his tail in anger, he awakened a swarm of Hellbats, which emerged from the spires and pursued him. Godzilla kept the swarm at bay with his tail as he arrived at his final trial: an impossibly tall mountain that completely dwarfed even him, atop which slept the God-demon, who guarded the entrance to the living world. Godzilla tried to blast the demon with his atomic breath, but could produce only a tiny flame. Ever determined, the King of the Monsters began climbing the mountain, but the demon took notice and caused a landslide to knock Godzilla down and bury him under the rubble. Though he rose out of the rubble, Godzilla appeared defeated and closed his eyes, allowing the Hellbats to devour him alive. The Hellbats fed ravenously, leaving only his bones. The Hellbats dispersed, then found themselves each sprouting an eye, emitting atomic flame, and screeching miniature versions of Godzilla's roar. They flew back to his skeleton, swarmed around it, and reformed Godzilla's body with their own. The Hellbat-Godzilla then collectively roared at the God-demon in challenge, followed by each Hellbat firing its atomic breath simultaneously, thus causing a Godzilla-sized atomic blast to slam into the God-demon, killing it. The Hellbat-Godzilla then climbed the mountain and reached the gate. In the living world, a fully alive and reformed Godzilla burst from the ocean, roaring in great triumph.
Abilities
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Physical abilities
Godzilla exhibits impressive strength, stomping the nuclear reactor demon to death, sending Demon Rodan hurtling to the ground with a swing of his tail, and throwing Demon Anguirus at the surrounding environment with enough force to inadvertently plunge himself deeper into Hell. He appeared to have broken off the devilish Destoroyah's horn prior to the events of issue #4 as well. In issue #3, he shattered SpaceGodzilla's shoulder crystals with his bare hands without struggle, although it is possible that his strength was enhanced by the aura granted to him by the angels.
After the doppelganger demon hurled him upwards, Godzilla forcefully body-slammed the creature and pummeled it with his fists. When the devilish King Ghidorah rushed him, Godzilla retaliated by throwing the three-headed demon dragon into a building. He is skilled at striking flying opponents; apart from hitting Rodan with his tail, he killed an angel with a sudden clap in issue #3, and swatted away some Hellbats in issue #5 with his tail.
Amphibiousness
Though given one on-panel opportunity to swim in Hell, Godzilla traversed the Eternal Ocean in issue #2, easily defeating Demon Varan there. In the following fight against Demon King Ghidorah, Godzilla fought against the conflicting forces of his enemy's gravity beams and the power currents enveloping him. To escape the fight, Godzilla swam down into the churning water with no fear of his next destination in Hell.
Atomic breath
Godzilla relies heavily on his blue atomic breath in combat. In Rio de Janeiro, he employed it to knock SpaceGodzilla to the ground, setting blue fires all around him. SpaceGodzilla responded to his second blast with a Corona Beam; when the beams collided, the resulting explosion destroyed the Earth. Using what appeared to be the last of the energy granted to him by the angels, he unleashed a purple ray surrounded by smoke rings to seal the portal to the God-mountain's realm, at the same time creating a hole in the surrounding environment that would eventually lead him into another realm in Hell. In issue #1, he reduced a tall stone structure many times his height to rubble by strafing his atomic breath, and later freed himself from the doppelganger demon's grasp by blasting through its tendrils. In issue #2, he scared off Varan with just one blast of his atomic breath. In issue #4, Godzilla's atomic breath matched the devilish King Ghidorah and Destoroyah's combined breath weapons, then knocked back Destoroyah. In issue #5, he produced only a small atomic flame when attempting to use his atomic breath against the God-demon, for unknown reasons. When he possessed and altered the Hellbats, each of them became able to fire his atomic breath, resulting in a massive beam of energy that obliterated the God-demon. The same attack cleaved a path up the mountain for him to reach the torii that provided his exit from Hell.
Nuclear energy absorption
Like many past incarnations, this Godzilla is suggested to feed on nuclear energy, peering down the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant in Hell.
Nuclear pulse
Godzilla discharged a nuclear pulse to obliterate the doppelganger demon after it attempted to consume him. His dorsal plates glowed orange before unleashing this attack.
Intelligence
Godzilla demonstrates strategic thinking both in and out of battle. When the doppelganger demon dragged him towards its jaws, Godzilla ran headfirst into the demon’s mouth, obliterating it from the inside with his nuclear pulse before it could release him. In his fight against the devilish King Ghidorah and Destoroyah, Godzilla learned that his atomic breath couldn’t destroy the wall surrounding the city where they were battling on its own. After enticing his opponents to fire their own beam weapons at the back of his head while he blasted the wall again, he ducked down, causing the combined power of all three monsters to destroy the wall. Earlier in the battle, Godzilla crept through the city undetected to surprise King Ghidorah with a blast of atomic breath. When he realized he was left with no other way to defeat the God-demon, Godzilla allowed himself to be devoured by the Hellbats, then harnessed them to recreate his body and slay his enemy.
Durability and pain tolerance
Godzilla fell from staggering heights on two occasions, quickly recovering each time. Prior to his death, he continued fighting even after SpaceGodzilla's Corona Beam set him ablaze. He also showed no signs of discomfort from the frequently-extreme temperatures of his surroundings, and pushed through a forceful soul-composed storm. When he allowed himself to be devoured by the Hellbats, he showed no signs of pain as the creatures enveloped his flesh to the bone. His skin was pierced twice prior to this, with the devilish King Ghidorah dropping him through a recreated Tokyo Tower's spire and the devilish Destoroyah decapitating him, although he returned to life each time.
Possession
After they devoured his flesh and left nothing but bones, Godzilla possessed and altered the Hellbats into cyclopean versions of themselves who could each fire atomic breath. Through them, Godzilla reformed his own body structure around his bones, vocalizing his roar through the countless Hellbats and unleashing their atomic breaths all at once.
Aura
Godzilla temporarily gained a purple aura around his entire being after numerous angels and devils flew down his throat during his rematch with SpaceGodzilla. The aura absorbed a blast of SpaceGodzilla's Corona Beam, then reflected the next one back at him, killing him. Godzilla also shattered his foe's shoulder crystals while the aura was in effect, although it is unclear whether he would have been able to do this otherwise. It faded after he used a purple atomic breath to close the portal to the God-mountain's realm.
Gallery
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Trivia
- This is the first Godzilla in an American comic book to be modeled on the design from Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001); it would not be used in a comic again until receiving a cameo as an alternate-universe Godzilla in Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5 in 2022.
- The narration in Godzilla in Hell #2 identifies King Ghidorah as "[t]he reason [Godzilla] was brought into this horrific netherworld." Despite this, in issue #3 Godzilla is killed and sent to the afterlife by the explosive result of a beam-fight with SpaceGodzilla before being cast into Hell by the God-mountain, seemingly contradicting or retconning the previous explanation.
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