Kumonga
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Kumonga (クモンガ, Kumonga^?) is a giant spider daikaiju that appeared in the Toho produced Godzilla series.

Abilities

Kumonga can shoot a thick webbing and a stinger from his mouth. He is also a great jumper. Kumonga has prehensile pedipalps that can be used to grab small prey. The Showa version was able to survive multiple hits from Godzilla's atomic breath. The Millennium Kumonga's web was able to expand on contact with air from a single thread into a net for incapacitating foes.

Showa

In the Showa series, Kumonga was a giant spider who lived on Sogell Island. He first appeared when it trapped and poisoned Kamacuras. Then he trapped Godzilla's son, Minilla in webbing and closed in for the kill. However, Godzilla arrived and defended his son. Kumonga attacked and nearly succeeded in killing Godzilla, but Minilla helped his father and using their atomic breath, they burned Kumonga's body, severely injuring him. However, Kumonga was not dead and the scientists placed Kumonga on Monsterland, where he lived with many other monsters. In 1999, aliens known as the Kilaaks, captured and mind-controlled the monsters of the island. The kaiju were released in cities throughout the world. But in the end, the humans broke the mind-control and freed the monsters. The monsters were then sent to attack and destroy King Ghidorah. Kumonga took part in the fight by trapping King Ghidorah in his thick webbing. After King Ghidorah was killed, Kumonga and the other monsters returned to Monsterland.

Millennium

Kumonga was featured in the 2004 film, Godzilla: Final Wars, not that different in appearance, as one of the many mind-controlled monsters of the Xilians. He appears in a desert in Arizona where it destroys a trailer. Then suddenly, the Xilians teleport the spider and the other monsters around the world. They tell the humans that they took the monsters away to save Earth. However, the humans find that the Xilians were controlling the monsters and the Xilians release all the monsters again to finish destroying the cities they were attacking. When Godzilla is freed from the south pole and fights the kaiju, Kumonga is released in New Guinea to battle him. At first, Kumonga was able to trap Godzilla in thick webbing, but Godzilla grabs a webbing that was still attached to Kumonga and swings it around in circles before letting go of the webbing. Kumonga soars over the horizon and is not seen again. His fate is unknown.

Movie appearances

• Son of Godzilla

• Destroy All Monsters

• All Monsters Attack (stock footage)

• Godzilla vs. Gigan (stock footage)

• Godzilla: Final Wars

Video games

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1993-Game Boy)