What makes a dragon more awesome?  Add MORE DRAGON!

This is the essence of what makes King Ghidorah so amazing.  He’s based on a monster familiar to even non-Kaiju fans who can look at him and go, “Oh hey, that’s a dragon!”  Yet, he’s still distinctly his own beast.  He’s also the monster I consider to be the ultimate foe in the Godzilla universe.  Not just for Godzilla, but for all of the monsters.  After all it took the combined efforts of Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra to defeat him in his first appearance.

And then Rodan And Godzilla after he became the pawn of the Xillians in Invasion of the Astro-Monster a.k.a. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero.

And then EVERYONE basically curb stomped him in the future year 1999 during Destroy All Monsters.  Still, he was still the ultimate foe in that film.

He was a bit less impressive in 1972′s Godzilla vs. Gigan where he got to play second fiddle to another monster for the first time.

After that, aside from stock footage appearances, we didn’t see the King again until his new origin as a time travel terrorist weapon in 1991′s Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.

Then, when he came back again to more or less something like his Showa self, he was Mothra’s ultimate foe in the third film of her trilogy.

When next we saw him, he took the ultimate turn to be a heroic defender of the Earth fighting a decidedly evil Godzilla in 2002′s Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack.

That’s not even talking about the related monsters such as Death Ghidorah (Desu Ghidorah) from the first of the Heisei Mothra movies.  I love the design of this monster!

Kaiser Ghidorah from Godzilla Final Wars who’s design I do not like at all.

And Mecha King Ghidorah who is just as awesome as that name implies.

Heck, he’s even been a living gravitational anomaly that doesn’t really exist in normal reality as we know it!

And now this year, we get a new version of the wicked Space Dragon in the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters and I cannot wait.