"We commit to the cradle of time the Last Hope, Gamera, May he awaken with the Shadow of Evil Gyaos" -Obelisk placed on Gamera's atoll
| Gamera | |||
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| Naming | |||
| Others | Gammera The Invincible Super Monster The Guardian of the Universe The Brave The Friend of All Children | ||
| Original | ガメラ | ||
| Romanization | Gamera | ||
| Morphology | |||
| Body type | Testudine | ||
| Average height | 35-80 meters | ||
| Average weight | 80-1,200 tons | ||
| Intelligence | |||
| Sentience | Sentient | ||
| Sapience | Sapient | ||
| Aggressivity | High | ||
| Language | Telepathic | ||
| Ecology | |||
| Place of origin | Atlantis | ||
| Habitat | Deep Ocean | ||
| Diet | Consumes fire, plasma, electricity, or radioactive materials | ||
| Locomotion | Bipedal (primary) Quadrupedal (secondary) | ||
| Lifespan | Indefinite | ||
| Related species | Toto | ||
| Status | Critically Endangered | ||
| Behind the Scenes | |||
| Universe | Gamera | ||
| Created by | Yonejiro Saito | ||
| Performed by | Showa series Teruo Aragaki Umenosuke Izumi Heisei series Naoaki Manabe Jun Suzuki Akira Ohashi Hirofumi Fukuzawa Millennium series Toshinori Sasaki | ||
Gamera is a powerful, enormous, flying turtle-like creature from a popular series of daikaiju eiga monster movies produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan.
Overview[]
Unlike most other species of turtles, Gamera has the habit of walking bipedally rather than on all fours, though he occasionally walks quadrupedally in his first three films. Gamera was capable of using his upper limbs in the same manner as Godzilla, as his forelegs had appendages much closer in construction to hands than feet, and was capable of grappling with opponents and manipulating objects. His mouth is filled with teeth, unlike any living modern turtle (several types of extinct prehistoric turtles were toothed, however), with a pair of large tusks protruding upward from his lower jaw. Gamera is also usually seen with very large human-like eyes, adding intelligence to his overall appearance.
Abilities[]
Gamera's shell is extremely resilient and strong. Missiles and other weaponry merely bounce off of it, along with most of his opponents' attacks. There have been a few times where his shell has faltered, most notably when Guiron hammered at the same spot several times and began cutting through. Gyaos' sonic Beam, Zigra's Paralyzing Beam, and Barugon's rainbow ray cannot penetrate Gamera's shell, shown in the films when he withdraws into his shell to avoid the attacks. Gamera's stomach, however, is softer and not as resilient, and he has been cut and gouged in his stomach to the point of bleeding (his blood is blue in the Shōwa era series, but green in the Heisei and Millenium era films).
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