Garoga Gorilla
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The Garoga Gorilla (ガロガゴリラ Garoga Gorira) is a mutant ape kaiju who first appeared in the ninth episode of the 1973 Toho tokusatsu kaiju show Zone Fighter, "Find the Secret of the Red Spider!".
Design
The Garoga Gorilla is a gigantic deformed gorilla. He has patches of brown fur and beige skin, with numerous lumps and scars littering his body. Two of his bottom teeth are protruding from his mouth much like Gamera, forming short tusks.
History
- Zone Fighter (TV 1973) [episode 9]
Showa era
Zone Fighter
"Find the Secret of the Red Spider!"
The Garoga Gorilla was originally a normal zoo gorilla living inside an enclosure. After a Garoga disguised as a zoo worker facilitated its escape, the gorilla made its way into the mountains. It jumped away when a fight broke out between the Zone Family, who had pursued it, and the Garogas, but injured its leg in the process. As it stopped to nurse it, the Garoga Spider spotted the ape and flew down to it, landing on its shoulder. The Garoga Spider then stuck its stinger into it, causing the primate to mutate. Upon becoming the Garoga Gorilla, it hopped towards Yoichiro, Hikaru, Hotaru, and Akira, still locked in combat. After witnessing the spider fly away, Hikaru transformed into his human-sized form and chased after it, before encountering Spideros and battling the giant arachnid as Zone Fighter. This left the other three Zone members to continue fighting the Garoga horde, with Hotaru and Akira transforming into Zone Angel and Zone Junior to better combat them. Before it could reach them, the Garoga Gorilla halted after being blasted in the eyes by Angel's Maser Shot, fired by Yoichiro. A third blast from the Maser Shot, in combination with Zone Beams from Angel and Junior, caused the mutant ape to explode. After witnessing the death of the Garoga Gorilla, the Garoga agents quickly fled, with Angel and Junior departing to help Fighter in his battle against Spideros.
Abilities
Physical abilities
While the Garoga Gorilla lacks any special abilities, he is very strong and capable of inflicting serious damage to the surrounding area using just his fists as well as being able to shatter boulders with his fists. This is expanded upon in All Kaiju Kaijin (First Volume), which states the Garoga Gorilla has superhuman strength sufficient to crush a 400,000 metric ton tanker.[2]
Weaknesses
The Garoga Gorilla was easily injured by the Maser Shot fired by Yoichiro, with a second blast flooring the ape, both blasts aimed at the simian's eyes. The Garoga Gorilla was ultimately killed by a combination of a third blast from the Maser Shot and Zone Angel and Zone Junior's Zone Beams, resulting in the ape exploding, with bits of flesh raining down afterwards.
Gallery
- Main article: Garoga Gorilla/Gallery.
Roar
Garoga Gorilla's roars are shortened Gaira and King Kong growls.
Trivia
- Despite the Garoga Gorilla being a Terror-Beast, Hikaru never transforms into his giant form to fight with it at any point in the episode. Instead it is Zone Angel, Zone Junior, and Yoichiro Sakimori who fight and kill the mutated ape. This makes the Garoga Gorilla one of the two villanous kaiju in the series that Zone Fighter never defeated in battle (due to him never encountering it), with the other one being Shadorah.
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