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Meganulon
Species	Prehistoric Insect
Length	2-8 Meters
Weight	500 kg-1 Ton
Faction	Mutants
First appearance	Rodan Rodan is a fictional Japanese mutated pterosaur introduced in Rodan, a 1956 release from Toho Studios, the company responsible for the Godzilla series. Like Godzilla and Anguirus, he is designed after a type of prehistoric reptile...

Meganula
Species	Prehistoric Dragonfly
Length	2 Meters
Weight	1 Ton
Wingspan	5 Meters
Faction	Mutants
First appearance	Godzilla vs. Megaguirus Godzilla vs. Megaguirus Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, released in Japan as is a 2000 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura...

are fictional character

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s that were Paleozoic

Paleozoic

The Paleozoic era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon, spanning from roughly...

 giant insect

Insect

Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

s reanimated by mining

Mining

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 operations in Kitamatsu village, Kumamoto Prefecture

Kumamoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyushu Island. The capital is the city of Kumamoto.- History :Historically the area was called Higo Province; and the province was renamed Kumamoto during the Meiji Restoration. The creation of prefectures was part of the abolition of the feudal system...

, in the 1956 kaiju

Kaiju

is a Japanese word that means "strange beast," but often translated in English as "monster". Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu entertainment....

 eiga Rodan

Rodan (film)

Rodan, released in Japan as , is a 1956 Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. It was the studio's first Kaiju movie filmed in color...

. The Meganulon made a return in the film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, released in Japan as is a 2000 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura...

after a 34 year absence.

Appearance

Meganulon are prehistoric insects which resemble gigantic earwigs, they are green-gray in color and have two large pincer claws on each arm. The Meganulon from the 1956 movie Rodan

Rodan

is a fictional Japanese mutated pterosaur introduced in Rodan, a 1956 release from Toho Studios, the company responsible for the Godzilla series. Like Godzilla and Anguirus, he is designed after a type of prehistoric reptile...

were very big and bulky, with dragonfly faces. When the Meganulon made their second appearance 34 years later in the movie Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, released in Japan as is a 2000 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura...

their bodies were slender and brown in color. The new Meganulon maintained their sharp pincers on each arm.

Powers and abilities

The Meganulon from the showa era did not have any powers or abilities other than their ability to lay dormant in suspended animation for millions of years. The Meganulon from the millennium era however had a variety of abilities. They were able to scale walls with ease, and when attacking would fire a thick black liquid poison from their mouths to blind and disorient their prey, much like the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...

. The Meganulon were able to flood almost 90% of the city where they hatched, it is unknown if they produced the water from within their own bodies or if they simply backed up the sewer systems causing water levels to rise rapidly. The latter seems most likely.

Showa

In the film Rodan

Rodan (film)

Rodan, released in Japan as , is a 1956 Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. It was the studio's first Kaiju movie filmed in color...

, Meganulon slaughtered several people working in a mine. Many of the Meganulon were killed in a mine shaft by a number of workmen. A mine collapse

Mining accident

A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals.Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially in the processes of coal mining and hard rock mining...

 followed, separating engineer

Engineer

An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

 Shigeru from his fellow miners and police. Before finding his way out of the mine, Shigeru witnessed the hatching of Rodan

Rodan

is a fictional Japanese mutated pterosaur introduced in Rodan, a 1956 release from Toho Studios, the company responsible for the Godzilla series. Like Godzilla and Anguirus, he is designed after a type of prehistoric reptile...

, who began to devour the comparatively tiny Meganulon. The event traumatized Shigeru and he briefly suppressed the memory. It is believed that all the Meganulon were devoured by Rodan, and none remain in the mine.

Millennium

The Meganulon return in the Millennium film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, released in Japan as is a 2000 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura...

. During the testing of a weapon called Dimension Tide a device in orbit around earth which could fire black holes anywhere on the planet, a giant prehistoric dragonfly enters the present due to the weapons side effect of leaving a worm hole to an unknown location in time. The creature deposits a single egg before returning to its own period through the wormhole. A young boy finds the egg and takes it with him when he moves to Tokyo. The egg starts oozing a strange liquid, so the boy throws the egg in the sewer. The egg, actually a mass of hundreds of eggs, splits up and starts growing. The eggs hatch into Meganulon that come out of the sewer to feed. They flood a huge portion of the city and begin to moult on the sides of buildings, sprouting wings and stingers, becoming Meganula.

Meganula

When the Meganulon moulted they became Meganula, creatures resembling prehistoric vicious dragonflies, they had massive pincer claws and a thin stinger on their abdomen. After their evolution into Meganula the creatures set out to find the biggest source of energy they could find. They attacked Godzilla, during his battle with G-Graspers. Many were killed by Godzilla and the Dimension Tide Gun, but few managed to drain some of Godzilla's blood which they gave to their sleeping mighty queen, Megaguirus. In doing so the Meganula died, but their deaths were not in vane for their massive queen would arise once again.