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Meganulon (メガヌロン, also translated Meganuron) 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.) 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.

Megaguirus

The 2000 Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
featured Megaguirus (メガギラス), an extinct species of dragonfly, based on the Meganulon, as Godzilla's adversary. According to the film, Meganulon, Meganula (also Meganuera) and Megaguirus had originated in China during medieval 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 has numerous abilities. At top flight speed she vanishes into a blur, enabling her to surprise an opponent from an unexpected quarter. On a pass her sharp wings can deliver stinging blows. 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. 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 in staying down: she will externally form the previously absorbed energy into a massive ball of plasma and project it, stunning the foe temporarily and likely causing it to buckle under the shock.

Aside from the square-cube law typically violated by daikaiju, Megaguirus breaks many laws of insect biology. She has neither ocelli nor compound eyes, the two kinds all insects have; her jaws open downward, whereas real insects' jaws move sideways; and she has six legs and two pincers—eight limbs in all, two more than insects.

Megaguirus appeared as a playable character in Godzilla: Save the Earth.

Category:Kaiju Category:Fictional insects

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