Mechagodzilla Facts for Kids

The Millennium Mechagodzilla's Absolute Zero Cannon featured in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)

Mechagodzilla is a fictional monster who appears in movies in the Godzilla series. He is Godzilla's robotic doppelgänger. He first appeared in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, a 1974 kaiju movie from Toho Studios. He is one of Godzilla's most powerful enemies.

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The Showa Mechagodzilla stands 50-meter (160 ft) in height and weighs 40,000 metric tons. It is built from "space titanium", and is capable of launching missiles from its fingers, toes and knees, as well as firing Space Beams from its eyes and a Cross Attack Beam from its chest unit. It also possesses rocket boosters on its feet allowing it to fly. Its head can spin 360°, and can form a force field capable of repelling and shocking opponents. The upgraded model featured in Terror of Mechagodzilla included revolving missiles.

The Heisei Mechagodzilla stands 120-meter (390 ft) in height, weighs 150,000 metric tons, and is powered by a nuclear reactor, deriving its energy from heavy hydrogen and helium-3 in pellet form. Its frame is coated in an armor made of synthetic diamond codenamed T-1, allowing the robot to resist and repel Godzilla's atomic breath, as well as absorb its power to energize its Plasma Grenade, an energy weapon housed in its abdomen. Additional armaments include Laser Cannons in its eyes, a Mega Buster ray fired from its mouth, jet propulsors on its back, missiles and shock anchors capable of piercing Godzilla's hide and electrocuting him. The model is later combined with the flying battleship Garuda, thus allowing it to hover and adding two additional Maser Cannons to its arsenal.

Kiryu, the Millennium Mechagodzilla, stands at 60-meter (200 ft) in height, weighs 40,000 metric tons, and is piloted remotely from a control craft. The mecha can be remotely recharged from the ground using microwaves that are relayed through a power system on one of the command aircraft, and then beamed back down to the robot. Its armaments include a Twin Maser Cannon in its mouth, railguns on its hands, drill claws, a maser blade on its right hand, reactors in its feet to fly and two rocket launchers on its shoulders. Its most powerful and most energetically costly weapon is the Absolute Zero Cannon housed in its chest, which fires a beam capable of flash freezing enemies. In Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., the Absolute Zero Cannon is replaced with a Triple Hyper Maser Cannon.

The Anime Trilogy Mechagodzilla stands 50 meters in height, weighs 30,000 metric tons, and is powered by artificial intelligence and made from nanometal. In the novel: Project Mechagodzilla, its arsenal includes Blade Launcher, Convergent Neutron Cannon, Flight, Hyper Lance, Thermal Energy Buffer Layer, and Tail Blow. When it forms Mechagodzilla city, the defenses include gun cannons, EMP Harpoons, and a force field to protect itself when fired upon.

In Godzilla vs. Kong, Mechagodzilla towers over Godzilla, and is telepathically piloted through a cybernetic neural network developed from King Ghidorah's only surviving brain. Its weaponry includes a proton scream, missiles, jet boosters on its back, plasma punch, rotating buzzsaws in its fingers and drill pliers at the end of its tail.