Mechagodzilla Bio

Species
Mecha/Cyborg


Alias
Mecha-G

Mechagodzilla 2-3

Super Mechagodzilla

Kiryu

Form(s)
Fake Godzilla (Godzilla disguise)

Super Mechagodzilla (combination of Garuda and Mechagodzilla 2)


Height
50-120 metres


Weight
40,000-150,482 tons


Air speed
Mach 1-5


Relationships
Godzilla (Blueprint)

Mecha-King Ghidorah (Predecessor in Heisei series)

M.O.G.U.E.R.A (Upgrade in Heisei series)


Major enemies
Godzilla

Anguirus

King Shisa

Rodan


Allies
Titanosaurus

Mothra


First appearance
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla


Created by
Jun Fukuda


Portrayed by:
Shōwa series

Ise Mori

Heisei series

Wataru Fukuda

Millenium series

Hirofumi Ishigaki

Motokuni Nakagawa


Shōwa series




The first Mechagodzilla was created as a weapon of destruction by a
race of ape-like aliens, sometimes known as Simeons or the Black Hole
aliens (See: Alien races from the Godzilla films).
It first appeared in a pseudo-flesh outer covering, masquerading as the real Godzilla during attacks against Japan in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
Curiously, while the Simeons gave Mechagodzilla a laser in his mouth to
mimic Godzilla's atomic beam, they didn't bother replicating Godzilla's
unique roar. Godzilla's dinosaur friend Anguirus wasn't fooled by the impostor. Mechagodzilla broke his jaw and sent him fleeing underground. The battle went badly for Anguirus, but tipped humanity off to the charade.
Soon the true Godzilla appeared and exposed his rival's metallic
form completely. Interestingly, after losing its disguise,
Mechagodzilla's fingers lost all mobility and it lost the flamethrower
from its mouth (No explanation for this was ever given.) The battle
resulted in a tie, however, and in the end it took the combined might
of Godzilla and King Shisa to remove Mechagodzilla's head from its shoulders, ending the threat.
The Simeons rebuilt their dreadnought for another try in Terror of Mechagodzilla
one year later. Having learned the value of teamwork firsthand, the
Simeons called in an old debt to pair Mechagodzilla with the aquatic
dinosaur Titanosaurus.
(Any reasoning as to why they did not bother to recruit Titanosaurus in
the first film is never mentioned, though they may have simply thought
that Mechagodzilla was more than a match for Godzilla in the first
place, making the extra help unnecessary.)
This time, there were some modifications to it, mainly turning the
mecha into a true cyborg by giving him living human brain cells, as
well as moving Mechagodzilla's brain down into its neck so it could
function unimpaired with its head completely removed in order to
prevent Godzilla from defeating Mechagodzilla the same way he did the
first time. Godzilla's perseverance combined with the timely
self-sacrifice of Mechagodzilla's operator brought the machine down for
good. The King of the Monsters buried Mechagodzilla's shattered form
deep underground to prevent another repair job, and since this was the
final film of the original Godzilla series, he was successful.
The original Mechagodzilla is the only one to be referred to by
numerics within the movies themselves. When it is rebuilt in its second
appearance, the "MG" emblazoned on its arm has a "2" added to it. It is
still usually referred to as simply "Mechagodzilla" by the characters.


Arsenal


Showa Mechagodzilla has armour constructed out of a mysterious alloy known as "Space Titanium." It is also equipped with a staggering amount of firepower.
Mechagodzilla is capable of firing a rainbow coloured optical laser
that seems to be equal in power to Godzilla's atomic breath- its head
can rotate 360 degrees, allowing the robotic reptile to shoot down an
opponent that might attempt to approach from behind. Spinning its head
at high speed allows Mechagodzilla to raise a forcefield. This,
however, doesn't apply when the head is twisted ether without
Mechagodzilla doing so itself or in the oppsite direction (which one
was true was never mentioned in the flims) as both times when Godzilla
twisted the mech's head himself the head was torn from it. When
disguised as Godzilla, MG could fire a heat ray from his mouth.
Curiously, after the disguise was destroyed, MG never used the heat ray
again.
Showa MG is also equipped with powerful missiles in its fingers,
knees, and even its toes. These missiles can explode on contact with a
target, or they may lodge in the flesh of an enemy like darts. Located
under a hatch in MG's chest is a weapon that fires a jagged orange
energy beam with enough slicing power to cut a mountain in half. Showa
Mechagodzilla is no slouch in close combat either, as evidenced in its
combat against King Caesar. Mechagodzilla can also fly via rockets in
its feet. Mechagodzilla 2 also could fire a ray from under its head
when it got ripped off.

Video game appearances


The Shōwa Mechagodzilla appears in the video games Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Godzilla for the Game Boy, Super Godzilla for the Super Nintendo, Godzilla for TTI Duo, Godzilla Generations for the Sega Dreamcast and Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact for the Sega Dreamcast.
Since the VS Mechagodzilla's film had not appeared in America yet, the localization team of game designers for Super Godzilla changed the character to the more-familiar Shōwa Mechagodzilla for the American version. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters for the Super Nintendo was a cancelled game that would have featured the Shōwa Mechagodzilla. He is rumored to be playable in the upcoming Godzilla: Unleashed.

Heisei series

The VS Mechagodzilla was created by the United Nations Godzilla
Countermeasures Center using Futurian technology scavenged from the
remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.
When Godzilla attacked the city of Kyoto, Mechagodzilla was deployed
against him. The mechanical kaiju acquitted itself well, but was
eventually defeated due to a voltage backsurge during their
electrocution of Godzilla. One of the back-up pilots, Kazuma Aoki,
suggested merging Mechagodzilla with the Garuda, a smaller airship that
had been constructed by the UNGCC before Mecha-King Ghidorah's remains
had been salvaged.
Kazuma, in fact the chief designer and main pilot of Garuda to start
with, found some personal redemption as his idea is approved. The
combined form of the two mechs, dubbed Super Mechagodzilla, is
unleashed against the King of the Monsters and Fire Rodan.
In the heat of battle, Kazuma personally detaches Garuda and flies
against Fire Rodan while the other Mechagodzilla crew continue against
Godzilla. Kazuma is defeated, but manages to reattach the Garuda to
Mechagodzilla to form Super Mechagodzilla. Super Mechagodzilla proceeds
to destroy Godzilla's own reptilian secondary brain and moves in for
the kill. Fire Rodan reappears, but is killed by a blast from Super
Mechagodzilla. Upon dying, Fire Rodan's body dissolves, releasing the
radioactive energy within its body and healing Godzilla's injuries. As
Rodan dissolved, he filled the air with a superheated, radioactive
dust, which melted MG's diamond coating. As a result, Super
Mechagodzilla was rendered defenseless against the revived monster.
Godzilla, temporarily supercharged with radiation, destroys the mech
with a blood-red version of his atomic beam. Super Mechagodzilla's crew
escape uninjured.

Arsenal

Heisei Mechagodzilla is protected by an armor plating made from an
alloy called NT-1, which is coated in a layer of artificial diamond.
The coating allows it to absorb energy from Godzilla's atomic breath,
which is then transferred to its ultimate weapon, the Plasma Grenade,
which is located on its waist. Mechagodzilla was also able to absorb
energy from Rodan's heat beam. This weapon could be rendered inuseable
if the plasma pool used to channel the energy overheated. Heisei
Mechagodzilla also possesses laser cannons in its eyes and mouth. It
can fire tranquilizer missiles from its hips, paralysis missiles from
the shoulders, and shock anchor cables from its wrists, enabling the
robot to deliver powerful electrical shocks into a struck opponent -
this was later modified into a weapon called the "G-Crusher" which was
used to destroy a nerve cluster (similar to that of a Stegosaurus) in
Godzilla's spine, near the base of his tail.
Finally, Mechagodzilla can attach to the warship Garuda. Upon doing
so it gains Garuda's powerful maser cannons as well as added thrust
from the Garuda's jets. This version is known as "Super Mechagodzilla".

Video Game Appearances


The VS Mechagodzilla appeared in the video games Super Godzilla and Gojira - Kaiju Dai Kessen for the Super Nintendo, Godzilla: Domination! for Game Boy Advance, Godzilla: Save the Earth for Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 and Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee for Xbox, Nintendo GameCube.
VS Mechagodzilla was removed from the English version of Super Godzilla
in favor for the more-known Shōwa Mechagodzilla. This was due to the
fact that at the time of the game's release, the new Godzilla vs.
MechaGodzilla film had not been released on American shores.

Millennium series (Kiryu)




The Millennium Mechagodzilla or Mechagodzilla 3 first featured in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (Godzilla X MechaGodzilla in Japan), nicknamed Kiryu (機龍 Kiryū lit. “machine dragon”) was also a purely terrestrial creature.
Although the original Godzilla had been killed in 1954 by the Oxygen Destroyer, Japan still found itself under attack from other monsters such as Mothra over the decades. When a second Godzilla appeared in 1999,
this was the last straw. The Anti-Megalosaurus Force (AMF) division of
the Japan Xenomorph Self Defense Force (JXSDF) proposed a shocking
plan. What better way to defeat Godzilla than this: dredge up the
skeleton of the first Godzilla from Tokyo Bay and use it as a
skeleton/framework for constructing a Mechagodzilla?
Cloned DNA from the bones was also inserted into the quasi-organic
control computers, intended to take over subconscious motor control
functions for the crew. By 2003, the metal monster was ready. Mechagodzilla was unleashed, but the cyborg's latent memories
were reawakened by Godzilla's own roars. Mechagodzilla broke free of
its pilot, Akane Yashiro, and proceeded to trash the city (manual
overrides being ignored) without Godzilla's help for a couple of hours
until its fuel ran out.
The Japanese public was not amused. Hastily recalled, Mechagodzilla
received quite a few weapon upgrades in addition to new computer
control software routines. When Godzilla attacked again a few days
later, both branches of the JSDF tried stopping him without the steel
dragon's help, but it was useless. With Akane at the ROV controls
again, Mechagodzilla was sent out.
The second battle went well until Mechagodzilla's receiver was
damaged. Akane wanted to enter Mechagodzilla and affect repairs
personally, despite being orderted not to. She then piloted the cyborg
directly from its skull, carrying Godzilla out into the bay once more.
Akane tried to destroy Godzilla with Mechagodzilla's ultimate weapon,
the "Absolute Zero Cannon", but the fight ended in a draw. Godzilla
went back to the sea (though not before suffering a horribly shredded
chest) and Mechagodzilla went back to the body shop after suffering a
destroyed right arm, damaged Absolute Zero system, and empty powercells.
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.,
taking place one year later, saw Akane sent to America for further
flight training. Taking her place in case Godzilla appeared was Akiba,
but Mechagodzilla engineer Yoshito Chujo is the human focus of the film.
Mothra's twin fairies, the shobijin,
appear to warn Japan. They claim that building Mechagodzilla using the
real bones was a violation of the natural order of things, sure to keep
attracting the current Godzilla. The twins also claimed that Mothra
would gladly take Mechagodzilla's place in protecting Japan if they
agreed to dismantle the mechanical beast. Since Mechagodzilla had been
built partially to defend against a second attack from Mothra herself,
the Japanese declined at first.
But when Godzilla did appear and Mothra voluntarily engaged him,
Prime Minister Hayato Igarishi was shamed into aiding her.
Mechagodzilla flew into battle again. Despite this, the current adult
Mothra was killed and Mechagodzilla's transmitter damaged once again.
Just like Akane before him, Yoshito entered Mechagodzilla for repairs,
but remained inside the mech during the battle after Godzilla's beam
had accidentally struck one of the hatch doors jamming it.
Teaming up with the newly-hatched twin Mothra larvae, Mechagodzilla
was able to use his drill (right arm) and injured Godzilla's chest even
more. While Godzilla screamed in pain, Mechagodzilla fired his Three
Hyper laser at Godzilla, making Godzilla roar to show Mechagodzilla his
flash back to Yoshito. Godzilla was then wrapped up by the twin Mothra
larvae web. Unable to fight, Godzilla dropped to the ground, making
Mechagodzilla win the battle. Mechagodzilla broke free of Akiba
control. Instead of killing Godzilla, it merely subdued him, carrying
Godzilla out to sea. After releasing Yoshito to safety, Mechagodzilla
plunged into the depths with its captive and was never seen again. This
marked the first time that Mechagodzilla was able to defeat Godzilla
decisively by the end of a Godzilla film without Godzilla coming back
to destroy him.
Mechagodzilla was intended to return in the next film, Godzilla: Final Wars.
But with so many monsters being revived for the film, each with new
looks, the budget costs were enormous. So too was time needed to
squeeze all these kaiju into one film. Toho Studios finally nixed
Mechagodzilla completely from the movie.

Arsenal


This version of Mechagodzilla is sleeker then previous versions.
While Showa and Heisei Mechagodzilla are constructed of fictional
alloys, it is never specified what Kiryu's armor is made out of. It is
the first MechaGodzilla to include organic parts, built from the
skeleton of the original Godzilla and using Godzilla DNA in its
computer system. Also unlike the first two Mechagodzillas this one's
tail was able to move instad of being stiff.
Kiryu is a well balanced machine, and the most agile Mechagodzilla
to date, moving with a fluid, almost organic grace. Kiryu is equipped
with an oral maser cannon, two arm-mounted laser cannons, and a flight
pack that contains several missile launchers. The flight pack can
detach from Kiryu's body and be launched at an opponent. Once it
strikes its target, the rocket boosters can push it away from Kiryu.
The flight pack can also be remotely detonated. Its hand can also
transform into a drill, and a blade can extend from its wrist. Both the
drill and the blade proved capable of piercing Godzilla's flesh. The
blade was also used to discharge electricity into Godzilla's body.
Kiryu's most devastating weapon is the Absolute Zero Cannon, (a weapon also utilised by the Gotengo.)
It fires a beam of energy capable of freezing a target to Absolute
Zero. This weapon was replaced by a triple hyper maser cannon in Tokyo
SOS when it proved to be too expensive to repair.

[edit] Video Game Appearances


The Millennium Mechagodzilla appeared in the video game Godzilla: Save the Earth
for Xbox and PlayStation 2. This would be Kiryu's first and to date
only appearance on Playstation 2 so far in the United States.
Kiryu was available in Japan's version of Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
on the Nintendo GameCube. Since that film would take a few years to
reach U.S. shores, Kiryu was dropped from the American version of the
game. He did appear in the American Xbox version of the game as
alongside VS Mechagodzilla.
Kiryu has recently been confirmed as a returning character for the upcoming Godzilla: Unleashed, a Wii exclusive.

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