List of Toho alien races
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This is a list of the fictional extraterrestrial races featured in the tokusatsu films and television series produced by Japanese production company Toho, including the various Godzilla films.
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[edit] Mysterians
The Mysterians (ミステリアン Misuterian?) (from The Mysterians, 1957) make their presence known on Earth following a sequence of disasters in the Fuji area: a forest fire, an earthquake, and the rampage of a giant robot called Moguera. Following these events their leader meets with five scientists and reveals their history: Originally inhabitants of the (formerly) hypothetical planet Mysteroid, ancient Mysterians had advanced nuclear power and subsequently destroyed themselves and their planet in a nuclear war (thereby creating the asteroid belt). Their descendants colonized Mars and remained there until Earthlings began claiming Martian land. In retribution, and to preserve their fading race, the Mysterians request a 3-kilometer patch of land on Earth and the right to marry Earthling women. They wrought destruction at first, they claim, to demonstrate their power and prevent humankind from foolishly instigating a nuclear war against them.
Despite their unprovoked attack, the Mysterians claim to be pacifists, using mild force at first to prevent large-scale conflict later. Mysterian uniforms consist of white bodysuits with color trim, boots, gloves, and helmets, with color indicative of rank (red the highest, then yellow, then blue). As would become the norm in Toho alien invasion movies, the Mysterians are basically human in form; however, unlike many future alien races, this is their true form, rather than a disguise. Their tactics are innovative and clever; during the Markalite raid on the Mysterians' dome, they destroy one of the devices with a flood and another by sacrificing a second Moguera.
[edit] Natarls
The Natarls appeared in Battle in Outer Space, the 1959 sequel to The Mysterians. This film itself takes place in 1965, several years after the formation of the Earth Defence Force, of which Etsuko Shiraishi and Dr. Adachi are now members.
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[edit] Mu Empire
[edit] Xiliens
[edit] Invasion of Astro-Monster
Hailing from the mysterious Planet X (located behind Jupiter), the Xiliens (X星人 Ekkusu Seijin?, X Planet People) (in Invasion of Astro-Monster, 1965) pleaded for assistance from the people of Earth, as it seemed King Ghidorah, having been driven off Earth the previous year by Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra, was now assaulting their planet. Mankind allowed the aliens to "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan, and the two monsters were transported to Planet X and were successful in driving Ghidorah away. However, shortly after this the aliens revealed their true colors, and revealed that they had complete control over Godzilla, Rodan, and Ghidorah. They gave humanity twenty four hours to choose between surrendering themselves to Planet X, or being destroyed by the monsters. They finally tired of waiting for an answer and unleashed all three kaiju upon Japan.
Water is very scarce on Planet X and is highly coveted by the Xiliens, and this was the main reason behind their invasion of Earth. The aliens were vulnerable to loud, high-pitched sounds, and humanity used this to defeat them.
The Xiliens were a completely emotionless race, letting their lives be run by computers. Their leader is known as the Controller. Everything on Planet X is numbered, according to the Controller, and King Ghidorah was known as Monster Zero. When the aliens gained control of Godzilla and Rodan, they were known as Monster Zero-One, and Monster Zero-Two.
The Xiliens' spacecraft were capable of traveling one-tenth the speed of light, and could fire explosive laser beams from the domes on their underside. Their ships could also encase targets as big as kaiju inside giant force-bubbles, then use tractor beams to haul them great distances, even from Earth to Planet X. They also possessed laser pistols that were capable of disintegrating a human being. Their greatest power, however, had to be their ability to take control of any creature's mind; they did this to Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah.
[edit] Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars' version of the Xiliens (X星人 Ekkusu Seijin?, X Planet People) invaded the Earth, masking their true intentions with peaceful purposes. They had the ability to control any creature with a certain DNA compound called M-Base, a compound which both the mutant soldiers of M-Force and most of the planet's daikaiju possessed. They used their control of M-Base to send the monsters on rampages across the globe - Rodan in New York, Anguirus in Shanghai, Kamacuras in Paris, Zilla in Sydney, King Caesar in Okinawa, Kumonga in Arizona, and Ebirah in Tokai. After allowing them to cause enough damage to their locations, the Xiliens teleported the monsters away, telling the people of the Earth that they rescued them, and want only peace between their planets (Earth and Planet X). They warned humanity of a small run-away planet known as Gorath, saying that unless we aimed all our firepower at it, Gorath would collide with the Earth.
Tension among the Xiliens' ranks soon rose, however. While the leader of the Xiliens wanted to take over the planet through as peaceful means as possible, the second-in-command believed in their superior firepower and technology, and wanted to return the monsters to Earth. It was soon discovered that the Xiliens were replacing high political leaders with Xilien clones, and that Gorath didn't actually exist. The Xiliens were exposed on national television, and with their plan revealed, the second-in-command (henceforth known as the Controller) shot and killed the leader, taking command of the invasion from that point on. He explained that the reason for their invasion was to use mankind as a food source - the Xiliens needed mankind's mitochondria to survive. Upon returning to the Mothership, he returned the monsters to Earth, and this time they were assisted by fleets of Xilien fighters. He also activated the Xiliens' ancient weapon - a cyborg kaiju named Gigan.
When Godzilla was awoken to battle the Xilien army of monsters, the Controller was unfamiliar with the beast, and sent the monsters to defeat him. One by one, Gigan, Zilla, Kumonga, and Kamacuras all fell, and even a team attack by Rodan, Anguirus, and King Seesar failed to stop Godzilla. Upon landing in Tokyo, Godzilla simultaneously obliterated Ebirah and Hedorah (Hedorah's location prior to this scene is a mystery, as he is not seen at any other time in the film. However, Hedorah was merely making a cameo appearance). Enraged, the Controller sent a secret, last monster, Monster X into battle via an enormous Asteroid in which he was contained. The monster was much more powerful than the previous monsters and overpowered Godzilla numerous times. When Mothra (whom the Controller was also unfamiliar with) arrived in Tokyo, a repaired and upgraded Gigan was sent to destroy her. Monster X and Gigan briefly double-teamed Godzilla before Gigan was destroyed by a kamikaze attack from Mothra. As the two monsters fought, the Controller revealed to the heroes that mutants were the product of interbreeding between humans and Xiliens in the past. He also revealed that he was a Kaiser (spelled as "Keizer" by some for unknown reasons) - an extremely rare type of mutant who is granted super powers due to the fusion of M-base and human DNA. Kaisers are able to control any other lifeform by telepathic means if that organism has M-base. Ozaki, one of the mutant soldiers, was also a Kaiser, and defeated the Controller in battle. Moments before the Xilien Mothership came crashing down around him, the Controller is seen screaming in anger and agony among the explosions, due to his defeat. Scenes change back to Monster X and Godzilla, who continue to rage in their war for ultimate defeat of the other. After they are both blown away by a massive conflagration when their energy beams collide, Monster X transforms into a hideous monstrosity known as Keizer Ghidorah.
The Xilien Mothership is immense, and is made of four parts: one massive orb-body, and three claw-shaped ships. These "claw ships" can travel on their own, and have the ability to teleport targets, even ones as large as daikaiju, with ease. Where the monsters were stored once they were teleported out of their designated cities is unknown, but it was presumably within the main body. The Mothership is protected by a powerful forcefield, the generator for which is in the core of the ship itself. The Mothership also houses hundreds of fighters.
[edit] Kilaaks
The Kilaaks (キラアク星人 Kiraaku Seijen?, Kilaak Planet People) (in Destroy All Monsters, 1968) were a race of female humanoids from the planet Kilaak, which was said to be between Mars and Jupiter. The aliens invaded Monsterland and assumed control of the kaiju and resident scientists. Soon the monsters were attacking cities across the globe - Godzilla attacked New York, Rodan assaulted Moscow, Mothra invaded Beijing, Manda attacked London, and Gorosaurus destroyed Paris. Despite the military's efforts to stop them, the aliens remained unscathed until their base on the moon was destroyed by the rocketship, Moonlight SY-3. When humanity broke the kaiju from their control, the aliens pulled out their trump card - King Ghidorah. However, up against the combined might of Godzilla, Anguirus, Gorosaurus, Rodan, Mothra, Kumonga, and Minilla, Ghidorah was easily slain. Godzilla then destroyed the Kilaaks' base on Earth, ending their threat.
The Kilaaks attempted to conquer Earth in order to create a great scientific civilisation, which they stated needed some death to create. The aliens thrived in high temperatures and were greatly susceptible to cold. When they were struck by low temperatures, they shed their human guises and reverted to their true forms: small, metallic snake-like creatures.
Aside from their mind control devices (that can enslave both humans and kaiju alike), they don't seem to have any great technology, though they do have forcefields that can't be penetrated even by bullets. Their flying saucers aren't much of a threat in and of themselves, but they have the ability to engulf their outer hulls in flames, burning anything the ship may touch. This mode is called a "Fire Dragon."
[edit] M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) had the aliens from an Earth-like planet in the M Space Hunter Nebula (M宇宙ハンター星雲人 M Uchuu Hantā Seiunjin?, M Space Hunter Nebula People) invade Earth in order to escape their own dying planet, long plagued by pollution caused by its previous (and now long extinct) inhabitants, a species just like humans. Using "action signal tapes" to control Gigan and King Ghidorah, the aliens had the two monsters demolish Tokyo until they were challenged by Godzilla and Anguirus. They were headquartered in a large Godzilla-shaped structure called the Godzilla Tower. The Tower was capable of firing lethal laser beams from its mouth, and these beams very nearly killed Godzilla until the Tower was destroyed by explosives smuggled into the head section, freeing Gigan and Ghidorah in the process.
The aliens called their human guises "uniforms," and could only use previously deceased humans for them. When their uniforms were killed (or perhaps simply sustained enough damage), the aliens' disguises dissolve, revealing their true forms: massive, human-sized cockroaches.
With the exception of the Godzilla Tower, the aliens possessed nothing impressive, and after their initial invasion, were never heard from again, except to send Gigan to assist Megalon in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973).
[edit] Seatopians
Though terrestrial, the Seatopians performed a very similar role to an invading alien species in Godzilla vs. Megalon, and even seemed to have an alliance with the M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens from the previous film.
The Seatopians lived under the sea, and wished to exact their revenge upon the human race, whom had obliterated most of their Kingdom through the testing of nuclear weapons. They sent their monster god Megalon to destroy the world, and captured the robot Jet Jaguar to guide him, and also to build an army of robots.
Eventually, control of Jet Jaguar was regained, and the robot teamed up with Godzilla to drive away Megalon and Gigan.
[edit] Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens
[edit] First Wave
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) introduces the aliens from the 3rd Planet in the Black Hole (ブラックホール第3惑星人 Burakku Hōru Dai 3 Wakuseijin?, Third Astray Planet in Black Hole People), sometimes called Black Hole Aliens or Simeons, humanoids that planned to conquer the Earth and settle in before their own homeworld was sucked into oblivion by a nearby black hole. When injured or killed, the first wave Planet 3 Aliens (or at least the wounded part of their human skin) would revert to their original form: humanoid apes with black fur and green skin.
The aliens' greatest weapon was Mechagodzilla, a mechanical version of Godzilla. At first disguised in a fake Godzilla skin, Mechagodzilla attacked Japan (badly injuring Anguirus in the process) until it was challenged by the real thing. Remotely shedding Mechagodzilla's skin, the Planet 3 Aliens had the robot unleash its fury onto Godzilla, and the ensuing fight resulted in a double knock out. Recalling Mechagodzilla back to their base for repairs, The aliens were also trying to steal the statue of King Caesar, an ancient daikaiju god, who they did not want to awaken. Though Mechagodzilla was eventually repaired, they failed in stealing the statue, and King Caesar rose, and was soon joined by Godzilla. Both monsters were very nearly killed by Mechagodzilla, but the machine finally met its match when Godzilla revealed a new magnetic power which attracted metal objects nearby including MechaGodzilla. As soon as Mechadodzilla was in Godzilla's grasp, the battle ended with a series of fatal blows from King Caesar and Godzilla twisting Mechagodzilla's head off. The Planet 3 Aliens were killed when a malfunctioning computer caused their base to explode.
[edit] Second Wave
A new army of Planet 3 Aliens returned the next year in Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) with a rebuilt Mechagodzilla, and a plan to destroy Tokyo to rebuild it as a high-tech city (and branch out from there). The second wave of Planet 3 Aliens were disfigured humans wearing rubber masks (similar to the underground mutant race depicted recently in Beneath the Planet of the Apes). This time the aliens joined forces with a vengeful scientist named Shinzo Mafune, who controlled the dinosaur Titanosaurus. The aliens didn't really care for the scientist, and merely saw Titanosaurus as a way to weaken Godzilla before he faced Mechagodzilla. After Mafune and the Planet 3 Aliens have since settled their differences, Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus attacked Tokyo, and were faced with Godzilla. After a long, long fight, Godzilla eventually triumphed over both foes, blowing up Mechagodzilla in a giant chasm and (apparently) killing Titanosaurus (this was never really confirmed, although that particular monster hasn't been heard from since, and in the actual movie apparently fell over a cliff). The Planet 3 Aliens tried to escape in their spacecraft, but they were blown out of the sky by Godzilla. All remaining aliens were already killed by Interpol agents and the military.
The Planet 3 Aliens, like the Nebula M Aliens, didn't seem to possess any impressive technology other than their ability to construct Mechagodzilla. The Second Wave aliens, however, wore silver bulletproof suits. Also like the Nebula M Aliens (and the Kilaaks), the Planet 3 Aliens' human appearance was merely a disguise.
[edit] Futurians
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The Futurians were a group of time travelers who appeared in the 1991 film Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. Although not actually aliens, the Futurians arrived in a large time machine called MOTHER which resembles traditional representation of an alien spaceship. The Futurians themselves consisted of two seemingly American men named Wilson and Gurenchiko (referred to as Glenn Chico in the English dub of the film), a Japanese woman named Emi Kano, and a crew of superhuman androids led by Unit M-11. Upon their arrival, they explained to members of Japan's government that they had come back from the year 2204 to save the country from total destruction at the hands of Godzilla. They proposed to do this by traveling back in time to 1944 and eliminating the dinosaur that would become Godzilla as a result of an atomic bomb test 10 years later. But after teleporting the Godzillasaurus to the depths of the Bering Sea, Emi "accidentally" left behind the three Dorat pet animals that had been brought along on the mission. The trio of creatures was exposed to the radiation in Godzilla's stead, and as a result fused together and mutated into the monster King Ghidorah. By the time Emi and our heroes returned to the present, Ghidorah was destroying major cities all across Japan, and the Futurians' true plot was revealed.
Apparently radical members of an organization called the "Earth Union", which is possibly the 23rd-century equivalent of the United Nations, Wilson and Gurenchiko had been dissatisfied with the balance of world power in their own time. In this age Japan was the only major superpower on the planet, and since nuclear weaponry was banned in 2204, Wilson was forced to come up with a different scheme: to travel back in time and cripple Japan in the past, making it weaker in their own time and thus resulting in a fairer balance of world power. With Godzilla gone, he reasoned, Japan would be defenseless; and the Dorats, which could be easily controlled through microwave impulses, would be the ideal template for a monster which would obey their commands.
In the end, Wilson and Gurenchiko's overconfidence proved to be their undoing. While Emi and Terasawa sabotaged the computer controlling Ghidorah, a resurrected Godzilla arrived and handed the three-headed monster a crushing defeat, then blasted MOTHER with his atomic breath, killing everyone aboard.
[edit] Millennians
The Millennians (ミレニアン Mirenian?) (from Godzilla 2000: Millennium, 1999) were a race of beings that, while traveling in space in their solar-powered spacecraft, crashed on Earth in the cretaceous period, and were reduced to anti-matter. In the year 1999, a submarine built by the Crisis Control Intervention Center (CCI) accidentally awakened it from its 65 million year old slumber by shining the submarine's lights on it. The revived Millennians needed a way to regain their physical form. Scanning a group of humans, they found their DNA insufficient, and so their saucer flew off to find DNA that met their needs. They found this DNA in Godzilla, who was just attacking Tokaimura. Scanning Godzilla, the Millennians found his eternally reproducing cells (dubbed "Organizer G-1", "Regenerator G-1" in the American version) to be ideal for their ambitions. The saucer attacked Godzilla with a powerful energy cannon, but when Godzilla returned fire with his fiery, powerful plasmatomic energy beam, the fight ended up in a double knock-out. The CCI tried to contain the saucer, but it easily broke free from its bindings and flew off, landing in Shinjuku. There, it began remotely absorbing any information it could from computers throughout the city.
When Godzilla arrived in Shinjuku to destroy his foe, the saucer was able to overwhelm him, knocking a massive skyscraper onto him and rendering him unconscious. While Godzilla was out, the saucer extracted a large amount of his DNA and began using it to take form. The Millennians took form as a single, gigantic squid-like creature. Unfortunately, the Millennian could not control the power of Organizer G-1, and began mutating much further than it had expected. The creature collapsed to the ground as the DNA changed its body. As this was happening, Godzilla regained consciousness and blasted the saucer out of the sky. As Godzilla moved in towards the wreckage to investigate, the Millennian stood up, revealing its new form - the monstrous Orga. Startled by the new creature's sudden appearance, Godzilla went on the attack.
The Millennians pilot the saucer using telepathy, which it also uses to tap into all technological devices, including computers, to gather their data, as well as transmit messages on all media machines. It also used telepathy to lasso Godzilla with underground cables, so that the alien can wear out the monster in order to gain the Organizer G-1. The Millennian also seems to not want to fight unless absolutely necessary; even once it has mutated into Orga, it is obvious that it does not want to battle Godzilla until it realizes that escape is not an option.
[edit] Planet
The atmosphere is very different from the earth's, most species won't survive on earth from this planet
| Toho Tokusatsu | |
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| Kaiju / Mecha: | Anguirus · Baragon · Battra · Biollante · Dagahra · Death Ghidorah · Destoroyah · Dogora · Ebirah · Frankenstein · Gabara · Ganime · Gezora · Giant Condor · Gigan · Godzilla · Godzilla Junior · Godzillasaurus · Gorosaurus · Hedorah · Jet Jaguar · Kamacuras · Kameba · King Caesar · King Ghidorah · King Kong · Kumonga · Leo · Magma · Manda · Mechagodzilla · Mechani-Kong · Megalon · Megaguirus · Minilla · Moguera · Monster X · Mothra · Oodako · Orga · Rodan · SpaceGodzilla · Titanosaurus · Varan · Zilla |
| Technology: | Oxygen Destroyer · Markalite · Gotengo · Super X |
| Other: | Fictional locations · Alien races · Monsterland and Monster Island |
