Deadzone
The Deadzone is a fictional location featured in IDW Publishing's Kai-Sei Era, a shared universe of comics, and serves as the main setting of the comic Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone. The Deadzone is a region of the Pacific Northwest devastated by kaiju attacks and military experimentation with the strange energy known as Kai-Sei, now overrun with kaiju and mutants within its quarantined borders.
Description
The Deadzone is a wasteland spanning hundreds of miles, consisting of forests, deserts, mountains, mangrove-like swamps, and even small cities in the ruins of civilization. Strange, mutated monsters thrive here.
Most denizens of the Deadzone, called Deadzoners, fight for survival daily. They scrape by on whatever they can scrounge from the environment, searching through rubble or hunting their own food. Because of their dog-eat-dog world, trust is hard to come by, with some turning to groups like the Church of Godzilla just to feel a sense of community once more.
The United States government misleads their citizens into believing that the Deadzone is a barren place where no life remains, although some know the truth and/or have contact with those living in it.
The city of Portland, Oregon, has since been renamed Mutant City.
History
- Godzilla #1–3, 5–6 (2025–2026) [mentioned]
- Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1–6 (2025–2026)
Godzilla
G-Force USA member and heavy munitions expert Nadine "Nuki" Nuñez previously served as part of the Deadzone border patrol, ostensibly tasked with preventing kaiju from escaping the quarantined zone. However, Nuki told Jacen Braid that all she ever witnessed were starving, diseased people within the Deadzone's borders.
Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone
In the Deadzone, the half-man, half-kaiju known as the Wanderer sought a solitary life focused on survival in the area formally known as Seattle, Washington. The Wanderer soon ran afoul of the Church of Godzilla, a religious cult formed in the Deadzone, which captured him and brought him to their temple in the heart of the Deadzone. During this time, he met and rescued Glasseater and Runt from the clutches of the Church as he escaped himself. The trio battled a Kumongaling and witnessed Godzilla migrating through the Deadzone on their first night together, during which time the Wanderer learned more about the children and resolved to help them escape the Deadzone. A few days later, the trio encountered Sherry Dottsman, a young girl who was turned into a giantess by the Deadzone's volatile Kai-Sei energies after sneaking into the Deadzone to find Godzilla. Sherry revealed that the outside world knew nothing of the people that remained in the Deadzone, revealing that the government maintains the area to be nothing more than a kaiju-infested wasteland devoid of any remnants civilization. After Sherry and Runt were kidnapped by unknown forces, the Wanderer and Glasseater pursued them to a seemingly-idyllic suburban town, only to later discover that the townsfolk held regular kaiju fights to entertain the populace using monsters abducted from around the Deadzone such as Baragon.
Gallery
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A Deadzone desert known as Zone One -
The Church of Godzilla's temple in the Deadzone -
A forest in the Deadzone -
A swamp in the Deadzone
Trivia
- Sherry Dottsman wears a shirt reading "Bush Did the Deadzone", referencing real-world conspiracy theories purporting that President George W. Bush ordered the September 11 terrorist attacks.
See also
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