

King Ghidorah was brought to life on the movie screen by a stunt actor inside an elaborate three-piece suit, with a team of puppeteers to control the suit's many appendages allowing realistic movement. The suit is also called DaisensoGhido in Invasion of Astro-Monster, SoshingekiGhido in Destroy All Monsters, and GiganGhido in Godzilla vs. The heads have two curved horns on both sides with a crescent in the middle and a mane on each one. King Ghidorah's multiple heads were inspired by Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed dragon from Japanese mythology.

King Ghidorah is a golden dragon monster with two legs, three heads on long necks, giant bat-like wings, and two tails. Originally, before production of Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Ghidorah's suit had purple scales and rainbow-colored detail on the wings, but later on, the entire body is recolored into a gold color. King Ghidorah was referred to as either "Ghidrah" or "Ghidorah" in the American versions of his first three movies, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster and Destroy All Monsters, presumably because they sounded more like "hydra." He wasn't referred to as "King Ghidorah" in an original American release of one of his movies until Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah's name is composed of "King" (キング, Kingu ?) and "Ghidorah." The "Ghidorah" part of King Ghidorah's name comes from the Japanese word for "hydra" (ヒドラ, Hidora ?), which is spelled very similarly to the Japanese katakana for Ghidorah. 6.6 Antigravity, Poisonous Gas, Telepathy, Bioradar, Tail Blades, Additional Brains.
