Homo erectus
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- Xilien: “Okay, remember what we taught you, right? Take the axe, build shelter, hunt... protect the harvest and female!”
- Homo erectus man: “A huh.”
- ― A male Homo erectus receiving orders from an Xilien (Godzilla: Rage Across Time #5)
Homo erectus is an archaic ancestor of Homo sapiens that lived from approximately 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago. A man and a woman of the species appear briefly in IDW Publishing's 2016 comic Godzilla: Rage Across Time #5, where they are sent to Earth by Xiliens during the Cretaceous period to colonize the planet, only to be killed by Godzilla. Their fossilized remains are discovered in Israel in 2016 alongside a Velociraptor that suffered the same fate.
Name
Homo erectus is Latin for "upright man."
Design
The Homo erectus seen in Godzilla: Rage Across Time have broad faces with pronounced brows and lips, adhering to stereotypical depictions of prehistoric humans. They wear clothing which appears to be composed of fur and mammalian hides.
History
- Godzilla: Rage Across Time #5 (2016)
Godzilla: Rage Across Time
"The Cretaceous"
In 136 million BC, during the Cretaceous period, the Xiliens invaded the Earth and repelled the giant monsters inhabiting it in order to deposit a Homo erectus man and woman on the planet. A Xilien departed his UFO with the pair in present-day northern Israel to explain their assignments. He handed an axe to the male, tasking him with creating shelter, hunting prey, and protecting his female counterpart, to which he grunted in agreement. The Xilien gave the female a vegetable to grow; she too grunted her assent. The Xilien elaborately that their broader purpose was to create a civilization whose harvest the Xiliens could exploit in the future, as they had done with many other planets. No sooner had he departed, however, than the ground quaked around the two Homo erectus. Godzilla burst from a vein of lava in the earth right behind the unfortunate humanoids. In a splash of molten rock, the man and woman were disintegrated down to their skeletons, ultimately thwarting the Xiliens' goal for millions of years to come. In the year 2016, a group of archeologists unearthed the fossilized remains of the would-be couple, Dr. Benjamin Thompson and PhD student Nikki Kasumi amongst them. To the surprise of the scientists, they discovered the preserved skeleton of a Velociraptor that had suffered the same fate as the two Homo erectus specimens. Dr. Thompson promptly remarked that if the discovery was what he thought it was, it would change everything.
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External links
- Homo erectus on Wikipedia
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