Meganulon

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Meganulon (メガヌロン, Meganuron^?) are fictional characters that were Mesozoic giant insects reanimated by mining operations in Kitamatsu village, Kumamoto Prefecture, in the 1956 kaiju eiga Rodan. (Presumably they are, like the titular daikaiju, Cretaceous.)

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The car-sized insects, which resembled overgrown earwigs, slaughtered several men before some were killed in a mine shaft. A mine collapse followed, separating engineer Shigeru from fellow miners and police. Before finding his way out of the mine, Shigeru witnessed the hatching of Rodan, who began to devour the comparatively tiny Meganulon. The Meganulon return again in Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, more ferocious looking than their Showa versions. During the testing of a weapon called the Dimension Tide, a giant prehistoric dragonfly enters the present. It deposits a single egg before exiting through the wormhole. A boy finds the egg and takes it with him when he moves to Tokyo. The egg starts oozing a strange liquid, so the boy throws the egg in the sewer. The egg, actually a mass of hundreds of eggs, splits up and starts growing. The eggs hatch into Meganulons that come out of the sewer to feed. They flood a portion of the city and moult on the sides of buildings, becoming Meganula.

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After evolving from Meganulon, the Meganula (also Meganuera) flood part of Tokyo. Congesting in their hollowed shells, the creatures broke free and rose into the noonday sun. Thousands upon thousands swamped the skies, shielding out the very light that warmed the land. Cutting across the voids of the turbulent seas, the countless waves of snapping fangs and clawing talons found their prey. They attacked Godzilla, during his battle with G-Graspers. Many were killed by Godzilla and the Dimension Tide, but few managed to drain some of Godzilla's blood which they gave to their sleeping mighty queen, Megaguirus.

[edit] Megaguirus

The 2000 Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus featured Megaguirus (メガギラス, Megagirasu^?), an extinct species of dragonfly, based on the Meganulon, as Godzilla's adversary. According to the film, Meganula and Megaguirus had originated in China during Carbiniforous times. The insects follow an odonatan life cycle of which the Meganulon is the nymph stage. After a hemimetabolic interim the winged Meganula moult and take flight. Megaguirus was in fact the chosen queen among the colony and allowed to grow to massive size. As such, she is one of few decidedly female creatures of the genre.

Megaguirus's descendant was created when a weapon that would send Godzilla into another dimension allowed a giant insect to arrive on Earth and lay an egg which would later be discovered by a young boy and then hatch into a Meganulon. Megaguirus has numerous abilities. At top flight speed she vanishes into a blur, enabling her to surprise an opponent from an unexpected quarter. This high-speed flight also produces high frequency sonic waves capable of shorting out nearby electrical equipment. Her sharp wings can even cut steel and concrete. Her large abdomen ends in a vicious stinger used to pierce into an opponents hide and drain energy from it. During this process, the opponent is incapable of launching any additional energy-based attacks upon her. The energy Megaguirus receives from her victims apparently creates something of a "link" between her and who or whatever it was originally siphoned from.^[1]

Though this energy is important in keeping her life-force stable, she will sacrifice some of it in times of dire need when an adversary is proving rather stubborn: she will project the previously absorbed energy as a massive ball of plasma towards an enemy.

Megaguirus breaks many laws of insect biology. She has neither ocelli nor compound eyes, the two kinds all insects have; her jaws open vertically, whereas real insects' jaws move horizontally; she has leathery wings, and she has six legs and two pincers—eight limbs in all, two more than insects. She is a mutant, so this could be a possible explination for these trait violations.

[edit] Other Appearances

• Megaguirus appeared as a playable character in Godzilla: Save the Earth. Extremely fast and moderately strong, Megaguirus could fly circles around her foes and pummel them with quick combos. Like Mothra, she is immune to sweep attacks and low attacks, though she is vulnerable to atomic attacks. She is unique in that she starts with no energy. Any attacks with her tail that connect steal energy from her foe and build her energy bar. When she stabs with her tail, Megaguirus can either drain a lot of energy, some health, or copy her opponent's beam weapon (this does not work with Destoroyah, Moguera 2, Baragon, Anguirus, Jet Jaguar, or larvae Mothra). She can fire either a glowing sphere that tracks her opponent and detonates on contact, or the opponent's beam weapon if she copied it (her energy bar must be at a certain high level to do this). Megaguirus' special ability, Inertia-less Flight, doubles her movement and attack speed for a time, allowing her to lay into opponents and beat them senseless with super-fast attacks. Her Rage attack sends three swarms of Meganula that chase the foe and latch on, stunning them and draining health and energy for their queen.

• Megaguirus is in the game Godzilla: Unleashed as a member of the mutants faction.

• Megaguirus was considered for Godzilla: Final Wars. Although she did not make the cut, she does appear in the opening titles via stock footage.

• In the games Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Yanma's evolved form Yanmega closely resembles Megaguirus mainly due to both of them based upon the ancient dragonfly, Meganeura.

[edit] References

1. ^ Google Image Result for http://www.kensforce.com/sitebuilder/images/05megaguirus17t-231x117.jpg