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I used to work the Deadzone border. The government tells you nothing is alive in there. But they trained us to be on the lookout for escaping kaiju. Mutant megafauna. Rogue mechas. Hnf. But the entire time I sat at my artillery station... all I ever saw... were starving people... disease-ridden and suffering from neglect. And I kept thinking... They warn you all about the big stuff... But it's the little stuff that actually kills you.
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Nadine Nuñez, better known by the codename Nuki, is a supporting character in IDW Publishing's 2025 ongoing comic series Godzilla. A former Deadzone border patrol agent and heavy munitions expert, Nuki joined G-Force USA's field team under Captain Riviera's command.
Personality
Nuki is primarily standoffish and antisocial, preferring solitude to the point of disparaging others for merely greeting her. However, she has found herself enticed by Jacen Braid's candor and willingness to be open and honest with others, expressing an interest in people who are real with themselves.
History
- Godzilla #1–8 (2025–2026)
Godzilla
Godzilla #1
Captain Riviera shared footage of Godzilla's recent attack on Manhattan with his G-Force USA field team, consisting of Nuki, Incense, Dr. Rumi Chiba, and the android Jet Jaguar. The footage depicted a kid named Jacen Braid surviving a direct blast of Godzilla's atomic breath and even delivering a supercharged punch to Godzilla's foot, much to the team's shock. Riviera proceeded to introduce the young man to the team as their latest recruit, revealing him to be a G-Mutant capable of harnessing Kai-Sei energy. Nuki showed Braid his quarters, winning her over with a bit of self-depreciating humor. Shortly thereafter, the team engaged in a combat training session, during which Braid identified the strengths and weaknesses of his new team. Incense teased Braid for a perceived crush on Nuki, causing Braid to unleash a burst of Kai-Sei energy to send Incense flying across the room. The team was then interrupted by reports of Anguirus had appeared off the coast of Florida, prompting them to rush off to confront the monster. Upon arrival, Riviera reiterated his philosophy that tiny targets such as themselves were harder for massive kaiju to focus on, hence their preference for combating kaiju without the use of tanks or jets. Nuki was the first to engage Anguirus, utilizing a massive gun as she rode on Jet Jaguar's back. Working together, G-Force USA managed to successfully repel Anguirus from the coast after a short bout and celebrated their victory with drinks on the beach.
Godzilla #2
In the aftermath of the team's battle with Anguirus, Dr. Chiba and Braid encountered giant leeches in Tampa Bay, with Chiba narrowly saving Braid while also bringing a specimen back to headquarters. Nuki and Incense were present as the team determined that the leeches fed on Kai-Sei energy and had already drained Anguirus of its energy, explaining how they were able to fight the monster back with such ease. As Riviera inspected the leech, two more burst forth from its stomach as it was revealed to reproduce asexually, prompting Chiba to order Nuki and Incense to destroy it. However, Riviera intervened, believing the team could use the leeches to weaken Godzilla. The team set sail on a cargo ship off the coast of Bermuda, hoping to lure Godzilla into a trap. Feeling down as a result of reminiscing about her past, Nuki interrupted a conversation between Braid and Chiba, mistaking their interaction for something romantic before hastily departing. She attempted to talk with Incense, only to find him shirtless as he filmed content for his followers, embarrassing them both. Just then, the ship came under attack by pirates led by the infamous Captain Carroñero, and despite Nuki's best efforts to fight them off without her equipment, she was promptly subdued and tied up before the rest of the team was similarly dispatched. The pirates unwittingly unleashed the leeches - including a massive, multiheaded one as a result of them self-propagating - upon the vessel, with Carroñero dubbing the creatures Yacumama.
Godzilla #3
Having suited up, Nuki quickly engaged the Yacumama in battle to protect Braid, telling him that recent events had her recalling her experiences as a Deadzone border patrol agent, sorrowfully reminiscing that all she ever witnessed in the Deadzone were starving, helpless people suffering from neglect. Incense generated a significant blast to incinerate to largest of the Yacumama, though as he celebrated, he and Nuki were nearly ambushed by a smaller leech until Braid saved them. The team subsequently subdued the pirates and forcibly docked at Bermuda, ignoring the demands of the European Kaiju Defense Force. After learning from G-Force's science division that the Yacumama were synthetic lifeforms created by an unknown intelligence at a test site in Nevada, Riviera departed with Nuki and Incense to locate the source of the Yacumama and acquire more while Chiba and Braid left with Jet Jaguar to intercept Godzilla, who recently appeared in Atlanta using Anguirus's tunnels.
Godzilla #4
At the Upshot-Knothole test site in Nevada, Riviera infiltrated a secret underground facility alongside Nuki and Incense. Riviera's subordinates bickered over Braid, with Incense believing that he and Nuki had chemistry while Nuki confessed to preferring Braid's company over Incense's shallowness. Soon, they came across a massive makeshift laboratory before detecting a giant kaiju approaching. As they turned to attack, the kaiju swatted Nuki and Incense away before revealing itself capable of speech as it identified Riviera by name, already aware of who they were and why they had come as it showed Riviera a vat of Yacumama, which it had created. Riviera quickly struck an alliance with the kaiju, Lament, and even helped the monster with its equipment, though Nuki and Incense expressed their reservations at working with a kaiju. As Lament cryptically alluded to its storied past, Jet Jaguar burst into the lab with Braid and Chiba, closely followed by Godzilla before a massive Yacumama from Lament's lab lunged at the King of the Monsters.
Godzilla #5
Braid reunited with Nuki and his teammates while Godzilla engaged the giant Yacumama. Chiba subsequently experienced an intense psychic episode in which she learned of Lament's origins in a catastrophic experiment where scientists attempted and failed to contain and exploit the Earth's natural Kai-Sei energies, giving rise to Lament, who she described as the "Anti-Kai Sei". Though Riviera ordered Braid and the rest of his team not to intervene, Braid sided with Chiba and attacked Lament while Jet Jaguar sought to pry Yacumama off of Godzilla. Nuki quickly joined the mutiny against Riviera, encouraging Incense to do the same as she began concentrating her firepower at Yacumama to break its body apart. The team's intervention allowed Godzilla to retreat from Yacumama, infuriating their commander. However, Yacumama grabbed Nuki and bounded after Godzilla down a tunnel. Braid raced to her location, finding her heavily wounded, though she still attempted to warn him that he had fallen into Yacumama's trap just as the creature attacked him from behind. Fortunately, Godzilla formed a temporary alliance with Braid to break Yacumama apart while the rest of Nuki's team arrived to rescue her, with Riviera joining the assault in retaliation for Yacumama's attack on one of his subordinates. Working together, Godzilla and G-Force USA destroyed all of the Yacumama, only to be confronted by Lament, whose taunts over knowing Braid's past piqued Riviera's interest. Lament went on to detail her own origins as the formerly-human head of the disastrous Kai-Sei experiment Chiba spoke of until Godzilla detected this and destroyed the facility in an act Lament framed as Godzilla's unwillingness to share its Kai-Sei power with humanity. Lament proceeded to identify herself as Braid's mother, horribly deformed and changed by the accident Godzilla caused, enraging Braid into violently attacking Godzilla, taking their fight to the surface.
Godzilla #6
While Braid battled Godzilla, Jet Jaguar brought the rest of the team to the surface, and they found themselves in Las Vegas. Though Chiba wished to help Godzilla, Riviera decreed their priority was saving the city. Nuki was disgusted by Incense's suggestion that they may have to take Braid out in order to stop him while Chiba believed that Braid could be reasoned with. Before they could act, Lament burst from the ground and confronted the team, believing Braid would carry out her wishes to kill Godzilla. Nuki attacked Lament first, managing to severe one of Lament's arms clean off in her assault, only for Lament to simply regenerate the appendage in seconds. As the fight continued, Lament batted Nuki and Incense away after depleting them of their respective arsenals, but Chiba saved them from further harm by launching a psychic attack against Lament. The team attempted to fight Lament further before she retreated just as Braid destroyed Godzilla's body, though the kaiju's Kai-Sei lifeforce merged with Braid's in the process.
After recovering Braid, Nuki and the rest of the team continued their service for G-Force USA, facing off against kaiju such as Kumonga as they sought to continue protecting the nation.
Abilities
Artillimech suit
Nuki is equipped with a specialized "artillimech suit" that specializes in long-range combat, capable of firing various projectiles.
Weapons
Nuki utilizes multiple weapons in the field to combat kaiju, most notably a massive gun that is nearly as large as she is.
Gallery
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Nuki with G-Force USA -
Nuki and G-Force USA in a training exercise -
Nuki and Jet Jaguar vs. Anguirus
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