![]() Her origins have changed over the years, while her powers have included enormous blasts of air generated by her wings, a poisonous yellow powder (“scales”) that can suffocate her enemies, psychic abilities, and of course the silken web she can spray in her larval form to immobilize her opponents. The larval form was a large puppet operated by six stuntmen crawling in single file, while the adult version was a wire-operated mechanical puppet, with radio-controlled legs added in later films. Mothra was initially created for the screen through two different kinds of practical effects. She ultimately became second only to Godzilla in terms of total screen appearances, while also becoming the only kaiju of the Toho universe to get her own spin-off series. She was the first of the major kaiju to share the screen with the king of the monsters, who had previously only fought the relatively lesser monster Anguirus in 1955’s Godzilla Raids Again and the American-created King Kong in 1962’s 1962’s King Kong vs. Mothra was the first of the kaiju to receive title billing alongside Godzilla, in 1964’s Mothra vs. The book established the concept of the two tiny humanoid fairies who act as Mothra’s heralds, as well as Mothra’s origin as a divine larva hatching from an egg and later evolving into its winged form. She is actually known as Mosura in Japan and the first movie was based on a serialized novel called The Luminous Fairies and Mothra. ![]() Mothra made her debut in 1961, and alternated between appearing as either a giant larva/caterpillar or a massive moth. Her defense of the planet and its people continues in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, her first Hollywood movie. While colleagues like Godzilla and Rodan have been ambivalent about their relationship with humanity over the years - if not outright hostile on a number of occasions - Mothra has almost always seen it as her duty to protect those little creatures running around on the surface of the Earth, even if they often did not accord her the proper respect and understanding. She’s been called the Queen of the Monsters, and she is perhaps the most beautiful and mystical of the classic Toho kaiju.
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