Movies - Rodan

	Movies - Rodan

Rodan (ラドン - Radon), is a daikaiju introduced in Rodan
, a 1956 release from Toho Studios, the company responsible for the Godzilla series. Like Godzilla, and Anguirus it is designed and named after a dinosaur—the pteranodon. (The Japanese name "Radon" is a contraction of "pteranodon ".) Two Rodans were unearthed and awakened by mining operations in Kitamatsu along with a swarm of prehistoric insects called Meganulons. After devouring several people and reducing Sasebo to ruins, the Rodans are apparently killed in a volcanic eruption triggered by a bombardment of their nest in Mount Aso.

Rodan (presumably one of the two creatures in Rodan) went on to crossover into the Godzilla series, appearing in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
in 1964 to help Godzilla and Mothra defeat King Ghidorah. Rodan starred in several other Godzilla films, and ties with Anguirus as the monsters who most often help Godzilla in battle. He was most recently in Godzilla: Final Wars
(2004), in which he was controlled by Xilians, who sent it to fight Godzilla. Rodan, Anguirus, and King Caesar were the only monsters Godzilla did not kill; Toho's way of paying homage to the times in the past all three had fought by his side.

Rodan's primary weapons are its speed and agility; it can create hurricane-force winds in its wake by flying at supersonic speeds at low altitude. It also uses its beak and talons effectively in battle, and its wings, despite their delicate appearance, are quite durable. Rodan can lift creatures several times its weight, for instance Godzilla. It also displayed a limited breath weapon in the 1956 movie, but this concept was not seen again until Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
, in which exposure to Godzilla's atomic ray endows Rodan with its own oral uranium heat beam; this incarnation is named Fire Rodan. Rodan also played a vital role in the film's climax, sacrificing its own life to revive Godzilla by transferring its life-energy to him. Like Anguirus and Mothra, Rodan is one of Godzilla's strongest and most popular allies and, depending on the film, opponents.

In Invasion of Astro-Monster
Rodan is called Monster Zero Two by the all-numbering denizens of Planet X.

Filmography

Rodan
(1956
)
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
(1964
)
Invasion of Astro-Monster
(a.k.a. Monster Zero, Godzilla vs. Monster Zero) (1965
)
Destroy All Monsters
(1968
)
Terror of Mechagodzilla
(1975
) (stock footage)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
(a.k.a. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) (1993
)
Godzilla: Final Wars
(2004
)

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Movies - Rodan

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