Mothra Leo

    Mothra Leo, is a enormous flying creature which heights 180 meters. It has giant wings and it usually fights with or against Godzilla in a lot of movies. It seems the same as "Mothra" (Mothra Imago) and it is in some ways. But see the Mothra Leo for the first time 35 years after the debut of Mothra Imago (1961)

    Like many other kaijus, Mothra has a lot of appearances throughout the Monsterverse films, but it made it's debut in the movie "Rebirth of Mothra", released in 1996. We can see Mothra here as it's three forms: egg, larva and adult. We usually see Mothra in it's adult form.                                                                                   

                                              First Mothra Leo, appeared in Rebirth of Mothra


     Mothra is known for it's relationship with Godzilla in the Monsterverse. We can see this giant creature both teaming up with or against Godzilla, one too many times. It has lots of different weapons used throughout the movies, but the commonly used one is creating gust with it's wings. It can have an advantage of the sky but it's seriously weak to fire, as we can see in the Godzilla: King of the Monsters movie. It's also said to be immortal, since if she dies, a new one will born from the eggs she laid down.

    Like Godzilla and many other kaijus, Mothra has changed a bit since it's debut. It stayed mostly the same in it's early movies, but the most recent Mothra we've seen is the one in King of the Monsters. Here we can see Mothra changed a lot since it didn't appeared for a long time.




                                                    A drawing of Mothra appeared in KOTM


    As we can see, Mothra has changed a lot. It's stings are much bigger and it's wing pattern has changed a lot as well, resembling a pair of eyes. Most importantly, more than half of it's body is her wings, covering even more of her body.

    But like Godzilla, there wasn't only one Mothra in the universe. We've seen a bunch of different Mothra's, carrying different powers: Aqua Mothra, Rainbow Mothra, Eternal Mothra etc.


                                    
                                               Aqua Mothra appeared in Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997)

     The Mothra we see in this movie has an interesting role. It starts off the movie as a larva being kept in an enclosed area with humans, then it turns into it's adult form but escapes to avoid humans trying to hunt her.  After her escape, we don't see her until the end of the movie. In this scene, Godzilla is fighting King Ghidorah, but is in a really bad shape; until Mothra comes to rescue. A shining light comes from the sky, gaining Godzilla some time. After that, Mothra blocks the incoming attack from King Ghidorah, sacrifising herself. With the ashes left from her death and the aftermath of an exploded bomb, Godzilla is now fulfilled with radiation. Here in this scene, we can see Godzilla as the "Burning Godzilla", having literal nuclear meltdowns every second. Mothra has a big role in this scene. It kind of feels bad to see her long awaited return ending with a sacrifice, but at least she made a huge impact on the movie's ending.

    

     









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