Hello internet - and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions - the place where no time
travelling, three-headed space dragon can stop us when it comes to laying out a play
by play on a hypothetical world-destroying Kaiju.
What’s going on guys - as per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch,
as we take to the skies and the deep depths of the ocean bed, flee in terror at the sight
of a Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and hope that no one kicks over the cabbage cart - and
curiously ask the question, What If King Ghidorah Was Real?
Roll the clip.
Well well, how do we even begin when it comes to addressing the Emperor of the Cosmos, the
Thousand-Year Dragon King, the Space Super Terror-Beast.
King Ghidorah.
He’s kind of a big deal when it comes to the Kaiju.
So much so that he’s had an incredible six appearances throughout the kaiju franchise
- cementing himself as the primary antagonist of the entire universe.
It’s safe to say that if King Ghidorah was real, alongside the myriad of kaiju monsters,
then the world would be a much different place.
Ever seen Pacific Rim?
Yeah, it’s time to suit up.
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King Ghidorah is the big-bad-baddy of the kaiju world - but sometimes he’s a benevolent
good guy - so don’t let that confuse you.
He’s a colossal, three headed golden wyvern-esque dragon with two large wings, two tails, zero
arms and an impenetrable cuirass of golden scales for skin.
His first film appearance was in 1964’s Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, a Japanese
sci-fi kaiju film produced and distributed by Toho - the company synonymous with creating
the Godzilla franchise.
Since he stepped onto the silver screen, his infamy has skyrocketed as Godzilla’s most
notorious arch-nemesis, making the likes of Mothra, Rodan and Gigan pale in comparison.
He’s seen an incredibly vast number of incarnations in cinema.
In the Showa era, as well as the Rebirth of Mothra III, Ghidorah is an all-evil space
monster solely responsible for wiping out all life on many planets across the universe,
often butting heads on Earth and being ultimately thwarted by the lizard king himself, Godzilla.
In 1991’s Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, his origin is the result of three genetically
engineered creatures from the future, known as Dorats - which were fused together with
a nuclear explosion.
However, in Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, King Ghidorah is an ancient Japanese spirit
guardian, slumbering beneath Mt.
Fuji and guarded by zealous warriors in the hope that he would one day rise again to defend
Japan in their hour of need.
In most other scenarios, King Ghidorah would wipe out all life on Earth like one would
take a stroll in a park.
He’d hitch up on his asteroid, plow into the planet - exterminate all visible life
and then flap off out into the deep depths of space to do it all over again.
He’s done it with Venus - twice - so Earth would be no different.
So, in essence - the Earth’s fate would rely on which incarnation of the great King
Ghidorah we had.
In one sense, if we had a version of the benevolent Thousand Year Old Dragon Guardian Ghidorah,
then we’d all be pretty kushty, actually.
Say if things happened the same way they did in the film, and the slumbering King Ghidorah
was discovered dormant underground, then the socio-political landscape would be shaken
to its core.
In the same way that nuclear arms define our global sense of territory, the discovery of
an ancient benevolent cosmic beast beneath Japan would put a severe strain on international
diplomacy.
Heck, just take a look at the way rogue nations deal with nuclear development - in both Iran
and North Korea, if there’s any sniff of weaponry that could potentially rival the
United States, Europe and Russia, then the United Nations comes down on them like a tonne
of bricks, quicker than a brown fox jumping over a lazy dog - Bob’s your uncle, etcetera
etcetera.
So how the hell do we compare that to a literal cosmic bomb?
A creature that can level cities with a mere flap of its wings, that’s already been proven
to be the individual trigger for wiping out all life on Earth throughout the Cretaceous
period?
Forget your nuclear warheads, King Ghidorah has gravity beams.
Even if he remained dormant, his deterrent alone would be more than enough to catapult
Japan to the level of global superpower.
It’s interesting, because this is equivalent to the role of the Futurians throughout the
kaiju franchise - a futuristic sect of humanoids from the 23rd century with the goal of destroying
Japan in the past before it can become a corrupt economic superpower in the future.
Although, in that respect - they use King Ghidorah as a pawn in an attempt to wipe out
Japan, but the sentiment remains the same.
Japan would be untouchable.
That is, unless, the rest of the world could actually do something about it.
There isn’t a lot that happens on our pale blue dot that goes uninterfered without the
involvement of either Russia, China or the United States.
Throw Europe in there too, for safe measure.
All of which have relatively sound diplomatic relations with Japan, barr Russia - who still
have strained relations surrounding the Kuril Island dispute - but that’s a topic for
another time.
The point is, there isn’t any particular reason for Japan to be threatened - or for
King Ghidorah to awake from his slumber and defend against invading forces.
But still - he remains the same - a deterrent.
A trap card to be played at the opportune moment.
Nations advance, and global powers rise and fall - we can visibly see it throughout history,
as technology stutters and starts to catch up.
But what if King Ghidorah was real, and we throw in a Thousand Year Space Dragon that
can wreak havoc with a single flap of his wings?
Well - it’s safe to say no one would be picking a fight with Japan any time soon.
Unfortunately folks, that’s all we’ve got time for in todays video - cheers for
sticking around all the way to the end.
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