Ebirah Bio

Species
Mutant Shrimp


Length
Showa

50 metres

Millennium

100 metres


Weight
Showa

23,000 tons

Millennium

50,000 tons


Major enemies
Godzilla


Allies
Hedorah


First appearance
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

Origin



Showa series


In the Showa era, there was an island owned by a terrorist
organization called Red Bamboo. The radioactive wastes on the island
mutated some of the animals living on it. One of them was a Giant Condor
that was used by the organization to guard the skies. Ebirah was used
to destroy any ship that came too close to the island. Ebirah was
successful at this and no ship could reach the island. The Red Bamboo
ships used a special extract from the island's fruit to protect
themselves from Ebirah. When a small group of people stranded on the
island saw Godzilla sleeping in a cave, they woke him so he could fight
Ebirah. Godzilla easily won and injured the crustacean with the atomic
breath. The day after, a Red Bamboo ship appeared, but they
accidentally used a placebo and not the fruit extract. Ebirah attacked
and tore the ship apart. Godzilla reappeared, but this time, Godzilla
pulled off Ebirah's claws. Ebirah escaped and was not seen again until
he appeared in Monster Island in Ichiro's dream. It could be that
Ebirah moved to the island, or whether it was just a dream.

Millennium series




Ebirah in Godzilla: Final Wars.





In the Millennium era, Ebirah makes an appearance in Godzilla: Final Wars as one of the many controlled monsters of the Xilians,
a race of extraterrestrial beings from Planet X. It destroys a factory
near Tokyo, and the military forces are sent to destroy it, but are
outmatched by the immense crustacean. Instead, the mutant soldiers are
called to stop the kaiju. The mutants successfully defeat Ebirah and
are about to kill it, when it disappears in a flash of light. The
Xilians arrive and say that they destroyed the monsters to save Earth.
However, it is soon found out that the monsters were in fact controlled
by the Xilians all along.
The Gotengo
then frees Godzilla from the Antarctic so he could fight the controlled
kaiju. The plan is a success and Godzilla successfully defeats most of
the kaiju. When he arrives in Tokyo Bay, he faces Ebirah and Hedorah.
However, they are no match for Godzilla, who blasts them out of the
water with his atomic ray and the duo crash into a building. Godzilla
fires another atomic ray and defeats both Ebirah and Hedorah, though it
is not seen if they are actually killed or not.

Video game appearences


Ebirah has been featured in as a non-playable kaiju in three video games:

• Godzilla, King of the Monsters
  
• Godzilla: Save the Earth
  
• Godzilla: Unleashed
  

Lost Project


Toho had first wanted Ebirah to be King Kong's (without the
electrical wire cables, or conduction threads) enemy instead of
Godzilla's but a rights problem caused Kong to be dropped and Toho
replaced him with Godzilla without enhancing Ebirah.
Ebirah was also to appear in All Monsters Attack Directive, along with Maguma, but the film has never seen the light of day.

Movie Appearances

• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
  
• All Monsters Attack stock footage (1969)
  
• Godzilla's Revenge stock footage
  
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
  

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebirah