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HEDORAH (Hedorah- Showa Era)
Created By: Yoshimitsu Banno
First Appearance: "Godzilla vs. Hedorah/The Smog Monster" (1971)
Role: Pollution Monster
Size: 60 meters (198 feet)
PL 15 (268)
STRENGTH 20
STAMINA 16
AGILITY -2
FIGHTING 7
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE --
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE --
Skills:
Intimidation 14 (+10, +19 Size)
Advantages:
Fearless, Ranged Attack 4
Powers:
"Kaiju-Sized"
Growth 19 (Str & Sta +19, +19 Mass, +9 Intimidation, -9 Dodge/Parry, +2 Speed, -19 Stealth) -- (210 feet) (Feats: Innate) (39) -- [40]
AE: "Tadpole Form" Alternate Form- Shrinking 16 (16)
Protection 4 (Extras: Impervious 27) [33]
Speed +2 (30 mph) [2]
"Pollution Entity"
Senses 4 (Detect Pollution- Ranged x2 & Acute) [4]
Immunity 10 (Life Support) [10]
Insubstantial 2 (Feats: Selective) [11]
Immunity 80 (All Damage) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect, Sustained +0) [40]
"Frog-Like Form" Morph 1 (Extras: Metamorph) [6]
"Flying Saucer Form" Flight 6 (120 mph) [12]
Regeneration 10 (Flaws: Requires Pollutants) [5]
"Acid Blob" Blast 22 (Linked to) Weaken Toughness 18 (Extras: Ranged, Affects Objects) (98) -- [102]
- AE: "Corrosive Wave" Weaken 15 (Extras: Area- 240ft. Burst +4, Affects Objects) (90)
- AE: "Giant-Size Smash" Damage 15 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (45)
- AE: "Energy Beam" Blast 22 (Feats: Extended Reach 4- 1,600 feet) (Extras: Penetrating) (70)
- AE: "Enveloping Blob" Suffocation 16 (Extras: Reaction +3) (Flaws: Touch Range) (96)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+20 Damage, DC 35)
Acid Blob +4 (+22 Ranged Damage & +18 Weaken, DC 37 & 28)
Suffocate +6 (+16 Affliction, DC 26)
Energy Beam +4 (+22 Ranged Damage, DC 37)
Area Attacks +15 Area (+15 Damage, DC 30)
Initiative -2
Defenses:
Dodge +0 (DC 10), Parry +0 (DC 10), Toughness +20 (+14 Impervious), Fortitude +16, Will --
Complications:
Disabled (Kaiju)- Hedorah cannot speak, nor use hands to easily manipulate objects.
Power Loss (Many Powers)- Hedorah is vulnerable to extreme heat, which will dry out it's gigantic body, rendering it more vulnerable, and removing it's Regeneration, Insubstantiability, and Immunity to Energy Damage.
Total: Abilities: -14 / Skills: 14--7 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 255 / Defenses: 15 (268)
-Hedorah is a VERY ahead-of-it's-time concept- a gigantic monster constructed by pollution, reflecting the damage humans were doing to their environment. This was
1971, people-
Captain Planet was twenty years away! This, along with Godzilla's warning against nuclear radiation, is pretty much a hallmark of the early part of the series- the dangers of over-doing it with the science.
-Hedorah's basically a mindless, gross monster made of garbage, radiation and flotsam (with some alien particles mixed in), and was nearly unstoppable- his immunity to most of Godzilla's attacks made him one of the hardest monsters to beat. It was only his vulnerability to heat that left him weakened and dried-out, and Godzilla killed him soon thereafter. His
Final Wars form, by contrast, went down like a jobber in seconds- a low fate for a one-off super-beast.
-Fun fact: Hedorah's eyes are deliberately designed to look like vaginas.
-Yeah, this guy's cheesey as all hell, and your players will rightly throw things at you if you toss Hedorah at them. An immunity to ALL Damage (ie. bludgeoning, slashing, energy, etc.), Limited to Half, plus his Impervious, makes him virtually unstoppable, especially with +20 base Toughness ANYWAYS. This, plus a Corrosive Wave (enough to decay human beings, iron and steel, buildings, etc- +15 intensity Weaken), Blast, Giant-Size Smash, a Suffocating Blob attack, and an Acid Blob (Disintegration, essentially), makes him VERY scary, though most attacks are PL 14-ish at-best. He has four forms hidden amongst his build, with a Flying Saucer thingie that can't use most of his regular attacks, to a Shrinking Form (he's not limited to Permanent Growth as a result), to a Frog-Like Morph. I could have went with Shapeshift, but each one offers him little the others don't already have, so I left it as a bunch of Alt-Effects of other abilities.