Venus
Venus (金星 is the second-closest planet to the Sun, and the second inner planet of the Solar System. It is a planet which is known for its extremely hostile environment and intense heat. Venus is repeatedly mentioned in the Kinsei, lit. "gold planet")1964 Godzilla film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and is prominently featured in the 1977 tokusatsu space opera film The War in Space.
History
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Zone Fighter (TV 1973) [episode 6]
- The War in Space (1977)
Showa era
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
At some point long before the events of the film, Venus was home to a vast and heavily-developed ecosystem, complete with an advanced intelligent race of its own, the Venusians. King Ghidorah appeared from space and attacked the planet, eventually wiping out all life. The Venusians who escaped traveled to Earth, where they interbred with the native humans and over time lost their identity and unique mental abilities. Several years later, the Selginese Princess Maas Doulina Salno, a descendant of the assimilated Venusians, was contacted by a voice which awakened her Venusian identity. Salno then began to prophetically warn the people of Earth of Ghidorah's imminent arrival.
The War in Space
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Books
Novel: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
The Futurians discover the preserved corpse of a King Ghidorah on the surface of Venus and harvest its genetic material to engineer the Dorats.
Trivia
- The depiction of Venus possessing a developed civilization is similar to what people believed the planet to be like before space probes visited the planet in the 1960s. Due to Venus's similar size to Earth and other factors such as mythology and its status as the 'morning star,' people believed it to possess similar conditions, when the opposite was true. By the time that Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster was released, scientists had deduced that conditions on the planet were unsuitable for life.
- In the American dub for Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, all references to Venus are changed to refer to Mars instead.
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