God's Abomination: King Ghidorah Redesign and Lore

God's Abomination: King Ghidorah Redesign

Here we are. Holy shit. It's only been an entire year of build up to this guy. I really hope he's been worth the wait, I worked hard on his design. I had Ghidorah figured out very quickly, much like RED, but because I am not a huge Ghidorah fan, the first iteration felt half-assed. So, unwilling to short stick the Joker to Godzilla's Batman, I went back and continued updating the design.

Ghidorah is not my favorite, not by a long shot. But he's important. He's followed Godzilla through the years into every era (so far). Dragons are cool, and admittedly I enjoyed the King of the Monsters version of him, even if the movie wasn't my cup of tea. Wyverns are dragons too, goddammit. Sick of this rhetoric that there's a difference when the only difference is one has four legs and a set of wings while the other has two wings and two legs. A dog is a wolf, a wolf is a dog. One is wild, the other is domesticated. The difference is slight but the idea is the same.

The one iteration that really made me consider King Ghidorah as a primary villain for Godzilla, other than KOTM, was the Netflix anime version. Void Ghidorah is peak. Even if the film is buns.

Some heavy inspiration for this Ghidorah's design was taken from Void.

At the risk of people hating it, I just stuck with my guns on this one. I wanted to show a cosmic god of the void, not just a golden dragon. I would have used a blackhole, but it would seem that everyone and their mother started using blackholes when designing their Ghidorah, so I leaned away from it. I wanted him to look like he had passed through stars on his way to earth, the metallic sheen of his skin being blue and pink where the heat had collected the most.

The different heads have names too:
Right: Zylth
Middle: Thruv
Left: Klyth