Glasseater
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— Glasseater (Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #3) |
Glasseater is a human mutant who serves as one of the main characters in the 2025 IDW Publishing ongoing comic series Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone. Prophesied to bring humanity’s demise through Godzilla, she and her twin brother Runt were raised by the Church of Godzilla before being rescued by the Wanderer. Glasseater and Runt boast the unique ability to control kaiju through touch.
Name
Glasseater was never given a proper name. She instead chose "Glasseater" for herself because of the threatening connotations it had, though Mother A of the Church of Godzilla refused to use it.
Personality
Glasseater is a foul-mouthed, snarky, dismissive, aloof individual, all traits that she likely developed to cope with the Church of Godzilla's extensive abuse. Aside from her brother, Runt, she does not care much for anyone else, only using the Wanderer as a means to escape the cruel Deadzone. However, she is also easily enthused by things she finds cool, likely due to her sheltered upbringing and lack of exposure to the outside world. Though dismissive of the church's beliefs regarding her supposed mission, she has some reverence towards Godzilla as a god of destruction.
History
- Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1–6 (2025–2026)
Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone
Issue #1
In a desert of the Deadzone, a half-man, half-kaiju mutant known as the Wanderer encountered two dueling kaiju. After one of the kaiju was defeated, the Wanderer climbed atop the carcass, only for its abdomen to burst open, revealing a young girl inside. The Wanderer took the girl in his arms and asked if she was controlling the kaiju.
Issue #2
As the girl called out for her brother, a young boy emerged from the second kaiju, identifying the girl as Glasseater. As the Wanderer sought answers, all three were tranquilized by the Church of Godzilla, a cult-like group who have been holding the children against their will. Following their recapture, Glasseater and her brother, Runt, sat despondent in the Church's temple as their leader, Mother A, delivered a sermon. During her speech, the Wanderer, who had been imprisoned in the temple's basement, broke free of his restraints and attacked the churchgoers in a larger, monstrous form. As members of the Church quickly sought to return the children to their cells, the Wanderer heeded their pleas and violently attacked their captors. After killing one of their abductors, the Wanderer grabbed the kids and burst through the church's walls, fleeing deeper into the Deadzone.
Issue #3
While running with the children, the Wanderer eventually dropped the kids and collapsed in exhaustion as he reverted to his normal, smaller form. Glasseater admonished him for doing so in such a dangerous place and emphasized that they needed to keep moving, but the Wanderer demanded answers. Glasseater and Runt explained that they were the "chosen children of the Church of Godzilla", destined to reunite with Godzilla and bring about the end of humanity. Just then, a Kumongaling attacked the trio, prompting the Wanderer to grab the kids to flee. During his subsequent confrontation with the insectoid kaiju, the Wanderer was pinned by the Kumongaling, only for Runt to stop the kaiju by touching it before entering its body through its back, allowing him to assume control over the monster. Though the Wanderer was astonished by the children's abilities, Glasseater merely reiterated that they were special.
Glasseater and the Wanderer rode the Kumongaling to a cave, at which point Runt emerged from the creature, killing it. The children shared more details about themselves, with Glasseater revealing that they did not believe in their mission to bring about the end of humanity and instead expressed a desire to simply live freely in peace. Shortly after the Wanderer claimed that he would help get the children out of the Deadzone, the trio were astonished to witness Godzilla traveling through the Deadzone some distance away. Glasseater and Runt argued over what Godzilla thought of humanity while the Wanderer merely expressed contempt for the monster. Afterwards, Glasseater observed that all three of them had the same eyes, which the Wanderer dismissed as not meaning anything. Glasseater concurred and stated that she and her brother did not need the Wanderer to serve as a father figure for them, stressing that his only objective was to help them escape the Deadzone and nothing further.
The following morning, the trio left the cave and continued onward.
Issue #4
While traversing a desert in the Deadzone, Glasseater and Runt struggled against the heat, though the Wanderer assured them that they were merely dehydrated. Glasseater then noticed a stream of water nearby, though upon following it discovered the source to be a giant, 40-foot young girl bawling. While the Wanderer was immediately irritated by her sobbing and wanted the children to use their powers to get her under control, Glasseater and Runt flatly refused, disgusted by the suggestion. Runt calmly approached her and asked to know more about her, intrigued by her appearance. The giant girl revealed her name to be Sherry Dottsman before detailing her backstory, explaining that she became enamored with Godzilla and infiltrated the Deadzone in pursuit of the monster, where she was mutated by the Deadzone's Kai-Sei energies into a giantess. Though Runt was charmed by her passion for Godzilla, Glasseater described it as "disturbing".
Sherry was stunned to learn that human societies lived in the Deadzone, revealing that nobody in the outside world believed the Deadzone to be anything more than a desolate wasteland populated only by kaiju, devastating the Wanderer. Sherry subsequently invited the trio to her giant tent. After Sherry revealed her stockpile of weapons gathered to keep them out of the hands of kaiju poachers, Glasseater was surprised to learn that the Wanderer detested poachers, explaining that he only killed kaiju for survival and that the Deadzone was their home now, not humanity's. Though the Wanderer prepared to leave, Sherry guilted him and the twins into staying by detailing how lonely she had been by herself. That night, as Sherry and Runt bonded, a flaming arrow was shot into the tent, setting it ablaze. The occupants quickly scrambled out, only for Sherry and Runt to be ensnared in a trap before being pulled away into the darkness of night by an unseen force, theorized by Glasseater to be poachers. Glasseater and the Wanderer resolved to go after them.
Issue #5
Navigating through a forest, the Wanderer and Glasseater soon happened upon a strange, idyllic suburban town, which the duo found suspicious. After Glasseater began arguing with the locals, the two met the Mayor, who invited the Wanderer to attend a public forum so he could request the assistance of the whole community in searching for their missing companions. When the Mayor revealed that Glasseater could not attend the forum, the young girl scoffed at the idea of splitting up. However, though he shared her concerns that something was amiss, the Wanderer simply wanted to leave the creepy town as soon as possible and elected to leave Glasseater with chaperones who watched over all of the town's children during the forum, believing that she could handle herself. Glasseater nevertheless felt stung by the Wanderer's apparent betrayal and was led into a room containing a television set and the town's other children. As the TV was turned on, the children, including Glasseater, fell into a mysterious trance.
Abilities
Kaiju Puppeteer
Upon touching a kaiju, Glasseater is able to meld with the creature's body and pilot it like a sort of bio-mech. When finished controlling a kaiju, she bursts from its flesh, which typically causes great harm or even death to the kaiju.
Telepathy
Glasseater and Runt appear to be capable of reading the minds of kaiju they take control of.
Gallery
Concept art
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Concept art by Pablo Tunica
Scans
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The Wanderer with Glasseater and Runt
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