What is Hedorah?

[Godzilla Ghidorah]

I dont know what the hell Hedorah is? First I thought a nuclear weapon mixed with trash. Then it said he came from Gigan's planet. Then he was a nuclear comet that landed in crap. What is Hedorah?

[Orga777]

Hedorah is a space monster that crashed on earth, mutated from pollution, and became a sludge ball.

Yeah, what do you want? The movie is bad.

[Gorjirus]

Where do you get "mutated" from pollution?

I always saw it as something that simply managed to feed and grow on our pollution, like that meteor was somekind of way of perpetrating the species (either as just a mode of transportation or some kind of meteor egg).

[Orga777]

Where do you get "mutated" from pollution?

I always saw it as something that simply managed to feed and grow on our pollution, like that meteor was somekind of way of perpetrating the species (either as just a mode of transportation or some kind of meteor egg).

It doesn't grow that big and able shoot pollution just by eating it. ;) I assumed it mutated.

[Godzilla Ghidorah]

I got a Theroy so read the title. Now Hedorah was from Planet Space Hunter Nebula M witch is Gigans homeplanet. Hedorah left the planet and what seems to be Gigan's work. It turns out that Hedorah as we know would own showa Gigan in a flash. Now I think that Hedorah bonds with elements. For starters Hedorah could be a giant rock like beast or a ice monster and even a water monster. Now I think it was rock since Hedorah landed in a form of a rock. Now I dont think that Hedorah was out Hedorah on Gigan's planet. Plus Hedorah crashed into a pile of dung and crap so It would be too ironic for Hedorah to be dung and crash in dung. Now inside hedorah was organs so it could of been anything and not just dung and crap.

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

I'm damn near positive that Hedorah SWIMS for a good deal of the movie in a Tadpole form..


and it's "Theory", BTW

[Raptor]

I would say our conditions were ideal for Hedorah, no matter what TYPE of lifeform it might be. You're not going to find certain plants or animals in areas where they can't sustain themselves, such as deserts. Just look at HUMAN population density and where the larger settlements are.
"Hedron" is often mentioned, possibly a base element of Hedorah, as carbon is to Earth life.
Although tadpole-like in appearance, those entities COMBINED into a larger unit. Usually, growth is by cell DIVISION.
I don't think how nuclear radiation affects Hedorah was properly covered as it was quite happy in Tokyo Harbor. ;) Mutation? Maybe ADAPTABILITY more than anything. Water did seem to be a vital part of the mix, bringing us back to our more familiar formula for life but there might well be other options for this "thing".
Anyway you look at it, a rather fascinating creature worthy of study!

[Zearatul]

Hedorah is a giant metaphor. :-p
Seriously, Hedorah is the embodiement of our continued destruction of the environment.
The crap we shoot into the atmosphere, polute in the bay, crap up the land or air with.
It's all there.

[yargh]

I think that Hedorah was an organism that when it reached Earth, was very hungry.

Maybe it landed in a pile of dung and pollution and fed on that, and its "special" metabolism might have converted it into organs and such.

It then associated dung and pollution with food and consumed those materials to expand in size.

Unlikely, but possible.

[Marczilla]

Hedorah is the male counterpart of Morpha from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
lol

I think he's a mutated virus. Not my best "think", but I'm kinda worn out.

[Egg-Zilla]

Hedorah could be anything. It is suggested that he is an alien, but he could have evolved right here on Earth. No one knows.

My theory? He was created by an ancient super civilization in the same vein as the Gyaos and Dagarah- to clean up pollution. Like the Gyaos he was mass-produced, but unlike them he was very small, perhaps microscopic, where he could thoroughly consume pollutants on the ground, in the air, and most effectively in the water. In order tackle large scale messes more effectively, the Hedorahs could aggregate into bigger life forms and tackles all kinds of terrain, be it in the water (as tadpoles), on land (as a giant tadpole with legs), or in the air (as a giant flying tadpole), hence his ability to take on multiple forms with diverse means of locomotion. However, as with Dagarah, there was an unforeseen side effect to Hedorah's consumption of pollution- he produced his own as waste. Acidic gas and sludge was hardly a good trade off for existing pollution, so the ancients (Seatopia, Mu, Atlantis, Cosmos, Elias, Nilai Kanai, take your pick) dehydrated Hedorah and put him away. However, some residue of the creature survived into modern times. By the time of Godzilla vs Hedorah, enough pollution had accumulated around the world that the organisms could thrive and reform, just as increased radiation levels in the fifties roused monsters like Godzilla from hibernation.