Ghidorah would return four more times in the '60s and '70s, in what's known as the Showa era of the Godzilla franchise. That's how bad Ghidorah was: He turned a walking metaphor for the horrors of the atomic bomb and nuclear power into the protector of Earth. The Three-Headed Monster marked the first time that Godzilla was ever "the good guy," the beginning of a transformation that would eventually lead Godzilla down some heroic and very goofy paths throughout the '60s and '70s. Ghidorah is so powerful and so evil that it usually takes more than one kaiju to defeat it. Though the beast lacks arms, it sports massive golden wings that allow it to fly and unleash destructive, lightning-like "gravity beams" from its three heads. Inspired by Chinese dragons and a Hydra-like dragon from Japanese folklore known as a Yamata no Orochi, Ghidorah stands taller than any other kaiju. Later films would tweak and change Ghidorah's origins, but the essential elements of the kaiju were all there in his first appearance. It takes the combined efforts of Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra to send Ghidorah packing, saving the Earth. In Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, the titular monster crash-lands in Japan in egg form, ready to hatch and destroy Earth as it had destroyed all life on Venus thousands of years before.
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