Kumonga
Godzilla film series character
Kumonga as featured in Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
First appearanceSon of Godzilla (1967)
Last appearanceGodzilla Singular Point (2021)
Created byJun Fukuda
In-universe information
AliasSpiga

Kumonga (Japanese: クモンガ, Hepburn: Kumonga) is a mutated, enormous spider-like kaiju that first appeared in Toho's 1967 film Son of Godzilla and went on to appear in the films Destroy All Monsters, All Monsters Attack (through only stock footage) and Godzilla: Final Wars. In the English dub version of Son of Godzilla, Kumonga is referred to as Spiga, while subsequent films refer to it by its original name.

In 2020, a species of spitting spider, Scytodes kumonga, was named after this kaiju.[1][2] Kumonga's scientific name in Godzilla Singular Point, Kumonga scytodes, pays homage to this species.[3][4]

Overview

Showa

First appearing in the film Son of Godzilla, Kumonga is depicted as a giant mutant spider who was initially found on Solgell Island. It captures Minilla and one of the Kamacuras in its web, killing the latter with its stinger. However, Godzilla arrives and defeats the monstrous spider with Minilla's help, who incinerate Kumonga with their atomic breath.

As of the film Destroy All Monsters, a second Kumonga was relocated on Monsterland, where it lives Earth's other remaining monsters. They were captured and brainwashed by the alien Kilaaks, who send them to attack Earth's major cities. After a group of human astronauts destroy the Kilaaks' control device, the Earth monsters converge on the aliens' Earth outpost. They summon King Ghidorah to defend them, but Earth's monsters join forces to kill the space dragon before returning to Monsterland to live in peace.

The Showa Kumonga was 45 meters (150 feet) tall and weighed 8,000 metric tons (8,818 short tons).[5]

Millennium

Kumonga appears in the 2004 film Godzilla: Final Wars as one of many mind-controlled monsters used by the alien Xiliens. After a group of humans free Godzilla from the Antarctica to stop them, the Xiliens dispatch Kumonga to New Guinea to battle Godzilla. The arachnid initially outmaneuvers and entangles its opponent in its thick webbing, but Godzilla uses the webbing to throw Kumonga across the horizon, Kumonga's fate in the film is unknown.

The Final Wars Kumonga was 60 meters (196 feet) tall, and weighed 30,000 metric tons (33,069b short tons).[6]

Reiwa

Kumonga appears in the 2021 anime series Godzilla Singular Point as a social species of arachnid kaiju that take over a shipyard warehouse and attack the workers, resulting in Jet Jaguar and the Otaki Factory team coming to their rescue.

This version of Kumonga is a composite character, taking many design elements from Kamacuras, Megalon, Gigan, and Hedorah.

Powers and abilities

The Showa Kumonga can spit silk and deploy a venomous stinger from its mouth while the Millennium incarnation can jump and spit silk that can transform into canvas nets. The Singular Point Kumonga are capable of surviving being dismembered through their blue shapeshifting innards and are accompanied by multiple congeners, such as the scythe-armed Kamanga and their respective flying variants Hanenga and Zenbunga.

Appearances

Films

Video games

Literature

References

  1. ↑ "Taxon details Scytodes kumonga Zamani & Marusik, 2020", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-02-01
  2. ↑ "New species of Filistatidae, Palpimanidae and Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from southern Iran". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  3. ↑ "Kumonga | Wikizilla, the kaiju encyclopedia".
  4. ↑ "完全新作TVアニメシリーズ「ゴジラ シンギュラポイント Godzilla Singular Point」公式サイト".
  5. ↑ The Official Godzilla Compendium. Profiles of the Monsters; page 134.
  6. ↑ Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia. Godzilla: Final Wars; page 117.
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