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Also from that unwritten, post-apocolyptic Godzilla story. It's just a rough sketch so I might move it to scraps later.

Anyways, I was starting to outline the story and decide upon which monsters to use (and how they'd adapt to the new setting) when it dawned on me that I'd never written anything with Hedorah in it. I didn't have him in Godzilla Rising and I purposefully left him out of of Godzilla: Code Red and the first draft of Godzilla: Second Age... so I felt like I needed to work him in this time. Not that ANY of those stories ever got finished (or in this case, even started)... but anyway.
I'd always thought of Hedorah as being an animate pile of sludge, but for this redesign I decided to change that for two reasons:
1.) In the movies, Hedorah's always been solid. I mean, obviously a suit can't be made of liquid, but when I look at him in the film he doesn't really look like he's ooze.
2.) When you think about it, wouldn't it actually be a hundred times more gross if he looked like that and wasn't made of sludge...?

So my plan was to keep him looking more or less the same, but to actually be somehow organic. I knew it was going to be a very radiation-heavy setting, and that got me thinking about two things: cancer and frogs. Radiation mutates DNA and causes cancer, which often appears in the form of tumors and growths. Frogs are known to mutate a LOT for some reason... uh, I'm not a geneticist or a zoologist so I'm not really sure why that happens; does their natural metamorphasis make them more vulnerable to it or is it something to do with their skinbreathing? But anyway, you're always hearing about frogs with these huge mutations, like extra legs and such.

So I thought that Hedorah might be some form of amphibian who got exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Through that magical process that only works in movies, it caused him to grow to giant monster size and granted him regeneration powers... which is very important, because he needs them to live. He might be some kind of frog or salamander deep inside, but at this point, Hedorah is essentially a giant, cancerous mass of tumors and unecessary apendages. You can see that he's got warts and tumors all over him, and there also several spots where is skin is actually splitting open and oozing pus. He's literally tumors growing out of other tumors, with flaps of deformed skin and tentacles dangling off. He's also got some deep scars on him, presumably from scraps he's got into with Godzilla and other monsters.

So along with this came a change in powers. Mainly what I did was redesign the hands into multipurpose weapons. From above they look like a meaty stumps of growth, but underneath there are actually hands, and pretty mean looking ones at that. I added them because I felt he needed to have more melee capabilities, and also I wanted it to make the viewer wonder if he also has feet under all that growth or if they're just solid stumps.
On top of the arm are long, tube-like structures (he also has one on either side of his head); these pump out a noxious cocktail of poisonous gas and polluted air. The growths on the side of his arms have developed into tentacles, and these can retract and extend as needed to grapple with other monsters. Likewise for the two tentacles at the end of his tail.
I nixed the eyebeams, but felt that the pollution gas wasn't enough of a ranged attack to make up for it. So I took the nastiness one step further: exploding zits. Some of the growths on his body are completely full of pus, and he can "detonate" them at will, causing them to burst and drench everything nearby in mutagen-filled pus. Besides being absolutely disgusting, this would cause the victim to start suffering the same kind of vile growths Hedorah's covered in. So if the monster fighting him isn't careful, it could actually wind up turning into another Hedorah. How Godzilla would avoid that I'm not sure- I mean, he'd be bound to get some of the stuff on him just by coming into physical contact with him, so I guess he'd need some kind of immunity or antidote. I never got that far with the story, though, so I never figured that part out.

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Also from that unwritten, post-apocolyptic Godzilla story. It's just a rough sketch so I might move it to scraps later.

Anyways, I was starting to outline the story and decide upon which monsters to use (and how they'd adapt to the new setting) when it dawned on me that I'd never written anything with Hedorah in it. I didn't have him in Godzilla Rising and I purposefully left him out of of Godzilla: Code Red and the first draft of Godzilla: Second Age... so I felt like I needed to work him in this time. Not that ANY of those stories ever got finished (or in this case, even started)... but anyway.
I'd always thought of Hedorah as being an animate pile of sludge, but for this redesign I decided to change that for two reasons:
1.) In the movies, Hedorah's always been solid. I mean, obviously a suit can't be made of liquid, but when I look at him in the film he doesn't really look like he's ooze.
2.) When you think about it, wouldn't it actually be a hundred times more gross if he looked like that and wasn't made of sludge...?

So my plan was to keep him looking more or less the same, but to actually be somehow organic. I knew it was going to be a very radiation-heavy setting, and that got me thinking about two things: cancer and frogs. Radiation mutates DNA and causes cancer, which often appears in the form of tumors and growths. Frogs are known to mutate a LOT for some reason... uh, I'm not a geneticist or a zoologist so I'm not really sure why that happens; does their natural metamorphasis make them more vulnerable to it or is it something to do with their skinbreathing? But anyway, you're always hearing about frogs with these huge mutations, like extra legs and such.

So I thought that Hedorah might be some form of amphibian who got exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Through that magical process that only works in movies, it caused him to grow to giant monster size and granted him regeneration powers... which is very important, because he needs them to live. He might be some kind of frog or salamander deep inside, but at this point, Hedorah is essentially a giant, cancerous mass of tumors and unecessary apendages. You can see that he's got warts and tumors all over him, and there also several spots where is skin is actually splitting open and oozing pus. He's literally tumors growing out of other tumors, with flaps of deformed skin and tentacles dangling off. He's also got some deep scars on him, presumably from scraps he's got into with Godzilla and other monsters.

So along with this came a change in powers. Mainly what I did was redesign the hands into multipurpose weapons. From above they look like a meaty stumps of growth, but underneath there are actually hands, and pretty mean looking ones at that. I added them because I felt he needed to have more melee capabilities, and also I wanted it to make the viewer wonder if he also has feet under all that growth or if they're just solid stumps.
On top of the arm are long, tube-like structures (he also has one on either side of his head); these pump out a noxious cocktail of poisonous gas and polluted air. The growths on the side of his arms have developed into tentacles, and these can retract and extend as needed to grapple with other monsters. Likewise for the two tentacles at the end of his tail.
I nixed the eyebeams, but felt that the pollution gas wasn't enough of a ranged attack to make up for it. So I took the nastiness one step further: exploding zits. Some of the growths on his body are completely full of pus, and he can "detonate" them at will, causing them to burst and drench everything nearby in mutagen-filled pus. Besides being absolutely disgusting, this would cause the victim to start suffering the same kind of vile growths Hedorah's covered in. So if the monster fighting him isn't careful, it could actually wind up turning into another Hedorah. How Godzilla would avoid that I'm not sure- I mean, he'd be bound to get some of the stuff on him just by coming into physical contact with him, so I guess he'd need some kind of immunity or antidote. I never got that far with the story, though, so I never figured that part out.