SpaceGodzilla
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| SpaceGodzilla | |
| Species | Mutant Godzillasaurus |
| Height | 120 metres |
| Weight | 80,000 tons |
| Origins | Biollante spores merging with crystaline organism |
| Relationships | Godzilla (Original host) Biollante (Progenitor) Godzilla Junior (Nephew) |
| Major enemies | Godzilla M.O.G.U.E.R.A Mothra |
| First appearance | Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla |
| Created by | Kensho Yamashita |
| Portrayed by: | Ryo Hariya |
SpaceGodzilla (スペースゴジラ SupēsuGojira?), is a modified clone of Godzilla featured in the VS Series of Godzilla films. In Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994), the film which introduced the creature, characters hypothesize that Godzilla cells somehow cast into space fell into a black hole and reemerged, mutated and now a partially crystalline life form, from a white hole. As to how its cells had entered space in the first place, the film offers two possibilities: either cells from Godzilla's previous clone Biollante escaped Earth orbit after the kaiju did battle (Godzilla vs. Biollante, 1989) or Mothra inadvertently carried the cells into space en route to deflecting a meteor headed for Earth (Godzilla vs. Mothra, 1992). The Trendmasters toyline introduced SpaceGodzilla in its Godzilla Wars line, and introduced a slightly modified origin based solely on the Mothra theory, in which Godzilla cells did not become a crystalline life form through the exposure to Black and White Holes, but rather a fusion with a pre-existing crystalline life form.
The kaiju has not appeared since its titular debut in any other films. Though an action figure of him and many other Kaiju can be seen in Godzilla Final Wars.
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[edit] Powers
SpaceGodzilla possesses powers similar to those of the original Godzilla, including an oral energy weapon called the Corona Beam and the benefits of Godzilla's near physical invulnerability. It can use gravity beams that emit from its shoulder crystals to move objects and hurl enemies through the air. It seems to have the ability to home in on Godzilla himself: the creature first lands on Birth Island, where Godzilla and Junior reside. SpaceGodzilla, unlike Godzilla, can power himself by means of crystalline growths which he can cause to spontaneously sprout out of the ground. It also turns the Fukuoka Tower into a massive energy conduit. SpaceGodzilla can control its crystal creations telekinetically, using them as projectiles. It can also generate a force field and throw lightning-like attacks from the crystals in its shoulders. Finally, SpaceGodzilla can transform between its grounded, Godzilla-like form and a massive crystalline flying form, providing both defensive and offensive advantage as in its battle with M.O.G.U.E.R.A. in the asteroid belt. When in its crystalline cocoon, SpaceGodzilla can discharge powerful energy pulses from his crystals. When in its crystal form, it is also capable of causing electrical disturbances by passing over electronic devices.
[edit] Notes
Unlike Godzilla, who in the Heisei series of films is depicted as a force of nature, neither good nor evil, SpaceGodzilla appears to have an element of true malice, as the monster was said by the Cosmos to be headed to Earth for the purpose of defeating Godzilla. Whatever further intentions the monster may have had, if any, are unknown. Though if Spacegodzilla and Biollante are the same being it is possible Biollante was after a rematch with Godzilla.
Like Biollante upon defeat, SpaceGodzilla's physical body changed into particles of energy and ascended skyward. As Biollante was claimed to be immortal, this could mean that SpaceGodzilla may not have died either. To date, SpaceGodzilla has only reappeared in the Trendmasters toyline, and in the videogame Godzilla: Save the Earth.
[edit] Conceptual origins
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla was an older idea that was originally planned to continue the Shōwa series (along with Godzilla vs. the Devil) after Terror of Mechagodzilla, but which had been scrapped. The concept would be pulled from obscurity in 1994, following the failure of TriStar Pictures to begin production on a planned Hollywood Godzilla film, which would be another four years in the making. The design was based on an alternate form of Godzilla featured in the 1993 Super NES videogame Super Godzilla; the design was reworked to incorporate crystals into the kaiju's form.
Original versions of the script called for SpaceGodzilla to face Godzilla and a second Mechagodzilla, a plan scrapped when it was realized that against the combined might of Godzilla and the machine which very nearly killed him the previous year would make the battle too one-sided. Instead, the less-powerful Moguera was revived and updated for this purpose.
[edit] Other Appearances
SpaceGodzilla's only other appearance is in the game Godzilla: Save the Earth. One of the last hidden monsters unlockable, SpaceGodzilla is a very strong weaponry-oriented combatant. Able to call up crystal towers to speed his energy recharge rate (which otherwise recharges very slowly), SpaceGodzilla can use a variety of energy and missile-based attacks, from crystal shards, slamming his foe with a large chunk of crystal, making the towers fire energy bolts at the foe to his powerful Corona Beam. SpaceGodzilla also uses energy in many of his melee attacks, and especially in his grabs and throws, levitating opponents and buildings into the air and catapulting them with his telekinesis. SpaceGodzilla is as tough defensively as Destoroyah, making him a powerful and difficult monster to defeat. He replaces Orga as the final opponent in Hard mode. There are screenshots of the next Godzilla game, Godzilla: Unleashed and the nineteen screenshots have crystals in the background but it's confirmed that these aren't SpaceGodzilla's doing. Though a DS screenshot has purple crystals in the same shape of Spacegodzilla's flying form from behind flying and another of the same shape emerging from a rocky landscape outside of the earth.
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