Legion (Kaiju)

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Legion is a monster (kaiju) from the Heisei era, and is Gamera's principal opponent in the 1996 film Gamera 2: Attack of Legion. This kaiju came to Earth when a meteor crashed into the surface. They soon got into the Saporro subway line and raided a train. Only those holding trasmitting devices (cell-phones, radios etc.) were killed. The military investigated, attacked the Legion and killed them -- or so they thought. Later the queen Legion attacked a city but was destroyed by Gamera's mana ray.

The queen Legion's attacks include an EM Beam from its horn, flight, burrowing, sword like legs, a shield if needed, and laser whips if its horn is somehow torn off. Smaller Legion are spawned by the queen Legion and do most of her dirty work. The Legion have no muscles, instead moving their hollow joints via air pressure. The Legion are part of a symbiotic relationship with an enormous alien plant referred to as "the pod," a relationship compared to that of leafcutter ants and mushrooms. The plant feeds on silica fed to it by the Legion, in turn producing large amounts of oxygen used to cause an explosion sending its seed (and with it the Legion) into space, where it will find another planet to grow on.

The creatures are named by a member of the Japanese Self Defence Force, quoting a passage from the Bible: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.