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Zargorah (ザルゴラ Zarugora) is Titan who appears in the 2026 Final Ascension DLC for the 2022 video game GigaBash. Billions of years ago, Zargorah devoured the stars before eventually fracturing, leading to the Giga Core to emerge on Earth and release its Giga Energy. In 2021, the Titan Rawa, a fragment of Zargorah, began to travel the world to rouse and aggravate other Titans, forcing them to fight tire each other out in order for fellow Zargorah splinter Balzarr to collect their Giga Energy. Pursued by Gigaman, Thundatross, and R.O.J.A.K., the Dragon King and the Demon Star converged in Siberia, where they combined into Zargorah and proceeded to absorb the entire planet's Giga Energy. In the ensuing battle, Gigaman and Zargorah both ascended into more powerful forms; Gaya Gigaman eventually defeated Zargorah, who attempted to self-destruct. Gigaman shielded the blast, causing both Titans to sink deep into the Earth, their fates unknown.
Name
The origin of Zargorah's name is unexplained, though its ending, "-ra" (ラ), is known as a common suffix for kaiju names.
His name in the mythos of Tarabak Island, the "Cosmic Chaos", may have been based on the epithet of the Lovecraftian entity Nyarlathotep, known as the "Crawling Chaos".
Development
Built off of Rawa and Balzarr, Zargorah is designed to be overall bulky without compromising his agility. This presented several challenges in design and animation. While he possesses more horns and spikes, he is also given a more "flowy" look, making him appear to be constantly engulfed in flames. His form combines both exaggerated and powerful parts like his tendrils with stubby ones like his arms.[2] When bringing up the character's inspirations, the developers brought up the recent trend in fusion kaiju within the tokusatsu genre, with this being a prominent trope in the Ultra series as demonstrated by kaiju like Tyrant, Five King, the fusion monsters of Ultraman Belial, and, the most recent case at the time of the DLC's release — thus proving the point of the developers about the trend in fusion kaiju being on the rise — Zomera from Ultraman Omega.[3] Fittingly, Zargorah's nemesis, Gaya Gigaman, references Ultras that gain upgraded forms.
Zargorah (or at least, his general concept) was likely worked on and alluded to since around the 2024 Mighty DLC, as a report by the Global Titan Defense Initiative (GTDI) released by that time theorizes that Balzarr and Rawa's similar golden armor indicates their "celestial connection".
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Design
Zargorah combines and exaggerates the traits of Rawa and Balzarr, mostly copying the bipedal saurian form of the Dragon King, complete with his nose horn. However, he also has the blue mane of Balzarr, as well as the Demon Star's vaguely crescent-shaped cheek plates, albeit extended vertically (even more so the top half). Rather than Rawa's flame-like shoulder blades, each scapula of Zargorah bears a tendril that resembles one half of Balzarr's birfurcated tail, while Zargorah's broadened tail (which cannot split in half) more closely resembles Balzarr's tail when the two halves are joined, thus forming a double-tipped blade.
In S-Class form, Zargorah's nose horn becomes longer, with a convexity on its rear edge. The upper half of this horn, along with the tips of his tendrils (which overall became more serrated), glow a translucent violet, similar to Rawa's horn, the tip of which becomes translucent green when in S-Class. His mane, as with Balzarr's, turns red. Glowing purple blades form, two at the top and bottom of each tendril's base, one on each elbow, one on each side of his thighs, the last four pairs of spikes flanking his tail, and a curved one above his tail tip's fork. The forked tip itself becomes more serrated, glowing bright purple as well.
Zargorah's Ultimate Form is a quadrupedal serpentine, strongly resembling — and perhaps being the reason for — Rawa's original form prior to being assassinated by Skorak, and, in a broader sense, is closer to Rawa's original inspiration, the Phaya Naga. His underside has pairs of vertical glowing violet stripes, and similar Giga Crystals form his elongated nose horn and claws, as well as the blades on his tendrils' edges, flanks, and tail. The unarmored, extendable flesh of his tendrils also glow purple. Black, gold-tipped ribs encase the Giga Core of his chest.
Personality
As reflected by his components, Rawa and Balzarr, Zargorah is a power-hungry Titan. As almost all the Giga Energy of Earth, especially the essence of most Titans and the Giga Core itself, came from him, he is determined to reclaim what is his from the planet. As Gaya warned, once he is finished destroying Earth, he will only be temporarily sated before visiting and feeding on another planet. At least part of him had the intelligence to plan out his own return deliberately, with Rawa having orchestrated "Ascension", and Balzarr subconsciously following the plan out of predatory instinct,[4] though both are guided by the common goal and opportunity of attaining greater power, regardless of whether they understood what will become of their forms and who will actually benefit from the results. As with Rawa, who blew himself up with "Decimate: Supernova" and destroyed half of Tokyo in 2012 after losing to Gigaman, Zargorah, upon defeat, would resort to exploding in order to take his adversaries down with him, as demonstrated in his "Event Horizon" attack and his attempted self-destruction by the end of A Legend Reborn.
Origins
In ancient times, there was a "Cosmic Chaos" known as Zargorah, the Devourer of Stars and representation of evil in Tarabak mythology, opposite of a divine figure known as "Gaya". What exactly became of the former, a primordial being of malevolence, remains unknown, though it is believed that he fractured into many splinters, his power split into the Giga Energy that forms the core of the Hollow Earth, embodied and absorbed by many known Titans, each animalistic piece instinctually seeking to be whole once more. Zargorah's very body split into two dreadful beasts, the "Dragon King" and the "Demon Star", both only a few thousand years old, a fraction of the age of their combined form, which, according to samples collected from Siberia, may be anywhere from several hundred million up to two billion years in age.
In the modern day, the Global Titan Defense Force (GTDI) examined a recovered piece of Balzarr's armor, finding it incredibly similar to Rawa's scales. The organization took this as possible evidence of a "celestial connection" between the two golden-plated Titans, before expressing concerns over the possibility of Balzarr invading Tarabak for its massive underground reserves of Giga Crystals, fearing that conflict between the Demon Star and the Dragon King would wipe out the entire island, bringing up the time when Rawa fought Gigaman in 2012 and blew up half of Tokyo when he self-destructed. All of these would foreshadow the events of one timeline where the two beasts would indeed battle (albeit not on Tarabak, but in the Siberian wilderness) for power, with the result leading to a fusion jeopardizing not just one island, but the existence of the entire planet.
History
- GigaBash (2022; added in 2026) – Microsoft Windows, Sony PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X
GigaBash
A Legend Reborn
In 2020, the latent human form of Gigaman, Sho, was awakened by a dream of a clash between Gaya and Zargorah during Pipijuras' attack on Tokyo. Gaya insisted to Sho that it was instead a vision of what was to come.
One year later, Rawa defeated Gorogong on Tarabak Island and consumed the Luana Island artifact. With his power amplified, Rawa began waking other Titans and causing them to fight and condense Giga Energy into the strongest Titans. As the GTDI and OtomaTEC directed Thundatross and the recently-returned Gigaman to stop Rawa, Gaya mused to its host that an "Ascension" had began. Gigaman and Thundatross diverted to defend Yefan City, China, from an onslaught of Titans cumulating in an attack from Balzarr, who had been traveling in Rawa's wake and collecting the Giga Energy from the exhausted victorious Titans. OtomaTEC determined that Rawa and Balzarr were both converging in Siberia and directed the heroes, joined by R.O.J.A.K., to intercept the Titans.
Gigaman and company track Balzarr down, defeating the lion despite it having assumed its S-Class form. Rawa, now also in his S-Class state, landed nearby and shrieked at the leonine Titan. The Dragon King and the Demon Star attacked each other, their forms wreathed in flames as their duel fused them together into what Gaya considered as his nemesis, reborn, Zargorah. The Devourer of Stars began to absorb Giga Energy from all over the world, disabling all other monsters as well as Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K., leading Gigaman to attack the Titan alone. Zargorah overpowered the hero and pinned him down before repeatedly stabbing him in the chest. However, after affirming his resolve with Gaya, choosing to fight with him rather than take his last reserve of power and escape, Sho ascended into a new enhanced form, "Gaya Gigaman", and fought the Devourer of Stars on equal footing. Both Titans achieved their S-Class forms before Gaya Gigaman kicked Zargorah from behind, sending him outside Earth's atmosphere before assailing him in space and blasting him into Hollow Earth with a Pulsar Beam.
While Gaya Gigaman and a rejuvenated Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K. peered into the resulting crater, Zargorah burst forth and soared into the sky, having absorbed the Earth's Giga Core to assume his serpentine true form, simultaneously terraforming the surroundings into a violet stony landscape riddled with massive Giga Crystals. Gaya Gigaman urged his allies to flee before engaging in three grueling rounds against the Cosmic Chaos, each fight causing Zargorah to use increasingly more powerful attacks. Gaya Gigaman eventually engaged Zargorah in a beam clash, though neither Titan could prevail until Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K. returned, the latter configured around the former's blade to aid Gaya Gigaman with another beam, resulting in an explosive victory for the heroes. As it slowly fell to the Earth in defeat, Zargorah rose back up and, using what remained of his strength, blasted the core nested in his own chest in an attempt to take the Earth down with him. Gaya Gigaman contained Zargorah's attempt at self-destruction with a force field, briefly reassuring and thanking Thundatross pilot Yuuki Otoma before the Devourer of Stars exploded.
Later, Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K.'s pilots informed Yuuki's father and OtomaTEC CEO Kazuo Otoma of what happened during the battle, stating that Zargorah and Gaya Gigaman had both sank beneath the Earth, leaving the fates of Gaya, Sho, and Zargorah (and by extension, Rawa and Balzarr) unknown. Kazuo relayed that the Giga Core had been stabilized and the world was returning to normal, while Yuuki expressed hope that Gigaman would return one day.
Abilities
Physical abilities
Similarly to his components, Zargorah utilizes his claws, spikes, tail, and horn in combat, at times imbuing them with flames for extra damage. By default, like Rawa, Zargorah is slow yet powerful, using his great size to send enemy Titans flying with tail slams, rams, and tackles. However, by enacting King's Edict while in the air, Zargorah can slam down on the ground and walk on all fours at increased speed (up to three seconds in-game), reflecting the agility of Balzarr. Zargorah frequently stabs opponents with his shoulder tentacles and pierces enemies with them in both of his King's Edict: Ground attacks, the drill-like Tendril Rush and Demon's Spear, with the latter attack combining Balzarr's "Sky Piercer" block special strike with his "Hunter's Frenzy" buzzsaw-like flips, making Zargorah unusually acrobatic despite his size. In A Legend Reborn, Gigaman's latent human form Sho experienced a nightmare of Zargorah clashing with his power creditor Gaya. Later, Zargorah was able to pin down Gigaman during their fight and repeatedly pierce and crack his chest with his tendrils.
After ascending to his Ultimate Form, Zargorah frequently attacks with stabs from his shoulder tentacles, cleaving swings of his horn, and ramming into Gaya Gigaman.
Durability
Like Rawa and certain monsters when charging or winding up their block attacks, Zargorah is resistant to being staggered when he prepares to stab the ground to enact "Cascading Resonance", though he can still be damaged or grabbed.
Zargorah endured more than five rounds of combat against Gigaman, completely dominating the hero while he was in his normal form. After Gigaman transformed into Gaya Gigaman, Zargorah withstood being kicked past Earth's atmosphere and being subsequently blasted into the Hollow Earth and then having his head attacked by Gaya Gigaman for prolonged periods of time. Even after their final match, Zargorah remained physically undamaged. Although he was likely injured enough to be unable to continue the battle, he still had the strength to attempt self-destruction by destroying his own core, which, due to its own toughness, required an extended period of time to enact. A GTDI report stated that none of humanity's weaponry would have been capable of harming Zargorah had they have to fight him instead of Gaya Gigaman.
Flight
While primarily grounded, Zargorah is able to levitate (up to five seconds in-game) by performing King's Edict while on the ground, causing him to fly similarly to Rawa by emitting Ethereal Flames from his shoulder tentacles. From there, he can enact the comet-like Emberfall or the fiery blast known as the Cataclysmic Stream.
In his Ultimate Form, Zargorah was capable of flying without means of propulsion and frequently levitated parts of or all of his body in the air.
Flames
Zargorah uses several different kinds of fire to enhance his physical blows, and blast opponents directly. While airborne, Zargorah utilizes a blue-green fire similar to Rawa's Ethereal Flame for both flight and attacks such as his King's Edict: Air moves. On the ground, Zargorah utilizes the red flames that accompany Balzarr's attacks.[2] Combining both, Zargorah can form violet flames, likely possessing such a hue due to high quantities of Giga Energy.
In Ultimate Form, the flames Zargorah emits from his jaws and tendrils are purely violet. Additionally, during the third phase of his boss fight, whenever he flies over the ground, his trails form walls of these same purple flames.
Eradication Beam
One of Zargorah's most devastating attacks is his focused Eradication Beam, a miniature version of Rawa's "Extinction Beam" ultimate. With this move, the Devourer of Stars first exhales a spread-out cocktail of violet flames, which his tendrils slowly concentrate into a devastating crimson beam. After a holding fire for a few seconds, the Eradication Beam's path detonates, followed by a second explosion at the impact site of the beam.
In his Ultimate Form, Zargorah frequently uses the Eradication Beam in his second and third phases. Zargorah also fires a similar beam during his beam clash with Gaya Gigaman, Thundatross, and R.O.J.A.K. and subsequent attempt at self-destruction, as well as during his ultimate.
Giga Energy manipulation
When performing his block attack, "Cascading Resonance", Zargorah stabs the ground with his tail to produce jets of burning Giga Energy. When done on the ground, these geysers of energy travel outwards from his position, throwing foes away to keep them distant. When stabbing the ground from the air, these jets start off far and instead travel inwards to knock opponents towards Zargorah, allowing him to grab or further attack them at close range.
As the Cosmic Chaos, it is said that most of the Giga Core (except for a small portion formed by Gaya's power) and all the Giga Energy of Earth originated from Zargorah's essence, granting Zargorah an innate control over it as well as a high concentration within him. Most, but not all, Titans on Earth are derived from or mutated by Zargorah's energy, though the only known pieces of him are Rawa and Balzarr.[5] Due to Giga Energy's origins, Zargorah can influence any Titan imbued with his essence (hence Rawa's "Ascension" plan),[6] absorb Giga Energy on a global scale, and even assimilate the Giga Core.
Similar to Zyva, Zargorah can drain Giga Energy out of his foes by impaling them with his tendrils in his block special, "Royal Prominence", or his grab special, "Reclamation", with the latter sending the collected energy to the tip of his tail. In A Legend Reborn, he absorbs Giga Energy from all over the world, draining the power out of Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K. as well as unspecified Titans from throughout the globe even without contact, even briefly disorientating Gigaman.
After ascending to his Ultimate Form, Zargorah is able to summon Giga Crystals by stabbing the ground with his tentacles, tips charged with massive amounts of Giga Energy to generate gigantic, powerful explosions. Giant mountains of Giga Crystals also erupted form the Earth as Zargorah transformed the region.
Terraforming
When Zargorah absorbed the Giga Core and assumed his Ultimate Form, he produced enough Giga Energy to terraform the Yeti Sanctuary into a purple crystalline landscape similar to the Hollow Earth. In the analyses made following his battle with Gaya Gigaman, it is theorized that Zargorah's home world may have looked like this, and he either subconsciously terraformed the planet even though he was aiming to destroy it anyway, or excess amounts of Giga Energy simply transform environments into such states.
Event Horizon
Upon defeat, Zargorah channels his remaining energy into a devastating explosion, similar to Rawa's "Decimate: Supernova" ability, albeit by forming a giant ball of energy above him with his tendrils rather than building a massive pulse within him.
Following his true form's defeat, Zargorah fired a beam into the Giga Core nested in his chest, with his attempted self-destruction meant to destroy the Earth along with him had Gaya Gigaman not contained the blast.
Reincarnation
Despite breaking apart sometime in the past, Zargorah remained somewhat alive through Giga Energy and his direct shards such as Rawa and Balzarr. Once the two Titans battled and attained immense amounts of Giga Energy, the two were able to combine and rebirth Zargorah. After Zargorah's defeat, a GTDI report feared that Zargorah may somehow return again someday.
Planet-eating
Zargorah is said to have consumed stars in the ancient past, driven by an endless hunger. Gaya stated that should Sho follow its escape plan and flee Earth, Zargorah would devour the entire planet whole and be temporarily sated.
S-Class form
After gathering a sufficient amount of Giga Energy, Zargorah achieves peak power to grow to massive proportions, gaining great power and enhanced abilities. Giga Energy is gathered through dealing damage to other Titans, or gathering it from the surrounding environment.
Ultimate Form
Upon absorbing the Giga Core deep within Hollow Earth, Zargorah transformed into a massive serpentine "Ultimate" form. Zargorah also assumes this form for his ultimate attack. Zargorah's Ultimate Form is stated within GTDI documents to have destabilized the planet upon formation, likely due to the Giga Core being absorbed.
Hunger of the Cosmos
Zargorah channels his energy and ascends into the sky in his Ultimate Form before blasting the center of the arena with a beam of various flame types for a prolonged period of time, engulfing and destroying all of the arena's structures and terrain. Zargorah then drops a red fireball that slowly descends before causing one last arena-wide explosion upon contact with the ground, followed by Zargorah returning to his standard saurian form and landing back on his original position.
Weaknesses
Sometime in the past, Zargorah was fragmented due to unknown circumstances, allowing the Giga Core and Giga Energy to come to Earth.
Despite the vast strength and power of Zargorah's true form, Gaya Gigaman was able to stun the Devourer of Stars several times during their battle with enough hits. By the end of three rounds, Zargorah was locked in a stalemate with Gigaman's beam and was left severely damaged when Thundatross and R.O.J.A.K. aided the Champion of Justice. The beast attempted to self-destruct as a last resort, but this also failed due to Gaya Gigaman successfully shielding the blast and returning the Giga Core to its rightful place, allowing Giga Energy to redistribute all over the world.
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- Zargorah shares similarities with King Ghidorah, another extraterrestrial golden draconian kaiju. Like the Monsterverse Ghidorah, Rawa, a piece of Zargorah, used his dominant calls to his drive nearly all Titans throughout the world into a frenzy, with only living Titans as powerful as him being able to resist him (Godzilla, Mothra, and Kong for King Ghidorah, Gigaman for Rawa due to the presence of Gaya).[7] Their power has earned them both epithets denoting the eradication of life ("The Living Extinction Machine" for King Ghidorah,[8] the "Extinction Dragon" for Rawa). Additionally, Zargorah, known as the "Devourer of Stars", is a primordial malevolent being intent on feasting on worlds across the universe similar to the 2018 King Ghidorah, "The Planet Eater".
- Zargorah also shares similarities with SpaceGodzilla. He is an extraterrestrial saurian, is flight capable, formed from the body of the game's version of Godzilla (Rawa) combined with alien organisms (unknown crystal organisms for SpaceGodzilla, the space manticore Balzarr for Zargorah), possesses immense protrusions on his shoulders, and terraforms the surroundings into a crystalline environment.
- At 666 tons, Zargorah's normal form makes him the heaviest original playable Titan in GigaBash; meanwhile, his Ultimate Form makes him easily the largest overall Titan in the game.
- Additionally, the number 666 is often associated with the "Mark of the Beast" or Satan. In The Book of Revelation, Satan is described as being close to a dragon, much like Zargorah.
- Zargorah's "Cataclysmic Stream" attack appears to be a weaponized form of Rawa's "Thrusters Engaged" taunt, and was likely repurposed from the same animation. Both involve the monster flying in place, spinning themselves and their downward flame breath around.
- The boss fight against Zargorah's Ultimate Form marks the only change in camera angle during GigaBash's gameplay.
- Zargorah is the second original GigaBash Titan to be able to beam clash, or third if Gigaman and Gaya Gigaman are counted separately.
- One of Zargorah's taunts, "Power Overwhelming," shares its name with a mission from Godzilla: Unleashed.
- Zargorah's ultimate attack, "Hunger of the Cosmos", is likely a reference to "Sapphire Star of the Emperor", the ultimate attack of Safi'jiiva from Monster Hunter World. Both moves share a very similar sequence and execution, involving a giant draconian monster flying up then blasting its flames downwards to incinerate a wide area, before terminating the attack with a single slowly-descending luminous fireball that causes one final explosion upon contact with the ground.
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