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Gyaos (ギャオス,   Gyaosu?) is a vampire bat-like pterosaur kaiju created by Daiei and the titular main antagonist of the Gamera franchise, that first appeared in the 1967 Gamera film, Gamera vs. Gyaos.

Design

Appearance

Gyaos resembles a giant pterosaur or bat creature, with a flattened, arrow shaped head, leathery wings with three claws on each, taloned feet and a flat tail. It is reddish brown in both incarnations. The Gyaos in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe had a more streamlined appearance, with larger wings and a longer neck, as well as red eyes after its evolution in Tokyo. Space Gyaos, as seen in Gamera vs. Guiron, sports silver scales and has sickly yellow eyes with red pupils. This extraterrestrial variant of Gyaos also has purple blood, as seen when Guiron gores a Space Gyaos.

Origins

In the Showa series, Gyaos has no definitively explained origin, and is discovered living in a large cave. In Gamera vs. Guiron, it is revealed that there are multiple silver space-faring Gyaos, suggesting that Gyaos may be an extraterrestrial species, or that there are multiple species of Gyaos specific to other planets. These silver Space Gyaos seem to lack the weakness to sunlight of the black-hued earth variety.

History

Gamera vs. Gyaos

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Gyaos in Gamera vs. Gyaos

In Gamera vs. Gyaos, Gyaos appeared in Japan from a large cavern, and feasted on blood, principally that of livestock and humans. Soon, Gamera confronted Gyaos, and after a battle, Gyaos was forced to flee, and Gamera was forced into the ocean to recover. It is soon learned that light causes Gyaos' skin to shrink, so the light of the city stadium of Nagoya kept Gyaos at bay. Gamera soon returned to finish Gyaos off and, after a battle in the air, Gyaos cut off his own foot to escape from the sun.

The protagonists developed a plan to place artificial blood on a rooftop in Nagoya. The plan was to keep Gyaos drinking the blood for so long that the sun would come up and kill him, while a rotating platform would make him too dizzy to fly away and eventually burn in the sun. But Gyaos proved more cunning than originally thought and expelled a yellow fog attack from two nozzles in his armpits to protect himself from the sun (as well as put out the fires in the engine room). The next plan was to lure Gamera to Gyaos' lair in the forest by setting the forest alight. Gyaos used his fog attack to put out the flames, but Gamera arrived and eventually defeated Gyaos, wounding him many times and biting his throat, leaving him unable to escape the sunrise. Weakened by the light, Gyaos collapsed and Gamera finished him off by throwing the beast into Mount Fuji.

Gamera vs. Guiron

Gamera - 5 - vs Guiron - 17 - Guiron Cuts Space Gyaos' OTHER Wing

Space Gyaos in Gamera vs. Guiron

A silver Space Gyaos (宇宙ギャオス,   Uchū Gyaosu?) appeared briefly in Gamera vs. Guiron, as a victim of Guiron. A swarm of Space Gyaos had attacked the planet Terra, an undiscovered planet in our solar system, being kept at bay only by the Terrans' guardian monster, Guiron. A Space Gyaos arrived near Guiron and tries to attack, but Guiron, using its blade-head to reflect Gyaos' beams, severs one of its legs which sends it fleeing. As it tried to fly away, however, Guiron leaped up and sliced off its wing, causing it to crash, after which Guiron proceeded to mercilessly slice up the defenseless creature like a Christmas ham. After Gamera had killed Guiron, the planet was seemingly abandoned to the Gyaos.

Gamera: Super Monster

Stock footage of Gyaos was later featured in the Showa series recap Gamera: Super Monster along with the other Showa era Gamera kaiju.

Gamera

Gyaos in 2015 NYCC Footage

Gyaos in the 2015 NYCC footage for the upcoming Gamera film

Gyaos appears in the New York Comic-Con footage for the upcoming Gamera film. Swarms of Gyaos are shown attacking Tokyo ten years in the past, and one of them eats the main character's father. The main character is saved when Gamera smashes through a building and kills the Gyaos by stomping on its neck. Gamera then destroys the incoming swarm of Gyaos with a powerful blast of fire.[1]

Abilities

Flight

Gyaos have been shown to be astonishingly capable flyers, able to fly incredibly fast and perform agile aerial maneuvers with ease. The Gyaos in the original films can fly at mach 3.5, and can use their wings to create gusts of wind.

Fog

Gyaos is capable of emitting a fog out of its body. This fog is used for overcoming the sun to obscure the light and douse flames.

Glowing

Another ability Gyaos had in its original appearance was that, when it was hungry or angry, it would emit a glowing green light similar to some species of fish. This ability was not seen in any of the later movies.

Regeneration

The original Gyaos' possessed an ability to regenerate it's severed foot in only an hour.

Sonic beam

The main weapon of the Gyaos is a yellow beam that fires from their mouth called the sonic beam. The source of Gyaos' sonic beam is through the use of a special forked-shaped throat. This beam is extremely powerful, capable of slicing through Gamera's flesh with ease. The sonic beam can also apparently able to resonate at 3 million hertz and slice objects into halves.

Weaknesses

Neck

Due to the Gyaos' throat being forked-shaped, they can't turn their neck sideways.

Light

Being nocturnal creatures, Gyaos are adverse to light to the point where it can actually hurt them. Gyaos can overcome the sun by emitting its fog. Interestingly, the Space Gyaos in Gamera vs. Guiron seems to have no such aversion to sunlight: logical, given that it would be impossible for a space creature to avoid sun and star light.

Video games

Gallery

Main article: Gyaos/Gallery.

Trivia

  • The most notable feature among the biology of Showa Gyaos is that Gyaos, despite with the looks of vertebrate, has a form of "larva" as an infant, somewhat resembling both Kamacuras and Meganulon. Either single or pack(s) of Gyaos also create structured nest under the mount of Fuji which have structures being similar to those of moles and rodents, holding communities and infrastructures including a "graveyard". In this case, Gyaos moved from the fossa magna to the mountain. The fact Gyaos inhabit a volcano despite being not immune to magma, is very close to the habitat chose by Rodan.
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    Stracture of gyaos' nest within the Mt.Fuji.

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Close up view of the "larva".

  • Eiichi named Gyaos after 'the sound he makes', though its roar hardly sounds like "gyaos".
  • In several anatomical illustrations, Showa Gyaos was described to possess biological radars in ears and claws on wings, "psi liquid" in its brain to keep its stamina, and emit jets from its legs, and emit poisonous liquids from its claws, and poisonous powders from its chest, and its fog to stun foes.
  • Gyaos is the only enemy monster in the Gamera Series to appear in more than one film not counting stock footage.
    • Gyaos is considered to be the main antagonist of the Gamera Series and Gamera's archenemy.
  • Gyaos severing its own foot with its sonic beam seems to be a recurring theme, happening in Gamera vs. Gyaos, Gamera vs. Guiron, and Gamera: Guardian of the Universe.
  • Counting stock footage and photographs, Gyaos have appeared in every Gamera film since Gamera: Super Monster, and have also appeared in the NYCC trailer for the upcoming Gamera film.
  • Gyaos' roar was later altered for the The Return of Ultraman kaiju, Earthtron.
  • Gyaos possesses several stereotypically vampire-like qualities, most notably its taste for human blood and its weakness to sunlight.
  • The M.U.T.O. from the Legendary Godzilla film have distinctively angular heads that bear a striking resemblance to that of Gyaos.

References

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