Baragon
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| First appearance | Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) |
| Last appearance | Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) |
| Created by | Eiji Tsuburaya |
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| Species | Kaiju |
Baragon (バラゴン?) is a kaiju film monster which first appeared in Toho's 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World. Baragon is a four-legged dinosaur with a horn on its head and large ears. Its main weapon is a heat ray that it can fire from its mouth. In addition, it can jump very high and burrow through the ground.
In Frankenstein Conquers the World, Baragon is a dinosaur which burrowed underground to escape the extinction of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures when they all died out. It adapted and survived. But when the sounds of a nearby factory disturbed and awakened it, it emerged from underground and attacked the factory. It later appeared at Shirane and destroyed the village. Then it emerged at a farm, where it ate the livestock. During these attacks, Baragon was not seen, so the mutant human Frankenstein was blamed. But there was a person who survived the destruction of the factory, claiming there was a second monster that had attacked the factory. When a small group of scientists searched for Frankenstein, an explosive woke Baragon from its sleep. It emerged to attack the scientists, but Frankenstein appeared to protect them from the monster. The two fought a climactic battle, with Frankenstein ultimately defeating Baragon by choking it and breaking its neck. In the end, a fissure appeared beneath the two and swallowed them both into the Earth.
In Destroy All Monsters, Baragon is seen as one of several monsters kept in captivity on Monster Island. Along with the rest of Earth's monsters, it is brought under the control of an alien race called the Kilaaks during their invasion of Earth and forced to destroy cities in their cause. It later breaks free from this mind control, and watches (but does not actually take part in) the fight against the Kilaaks and their remaining monster, King Ghidorah, before returning to Monster Island with the other Earth monsters. It is presumed this was the same Baragon that battled Frankenstein, apparently having recovered.
Of all the monsters in the Toho stable, the Baragon suit was borrowed and used the most by Tsuburaya Productions, the company made famous for its work on the TV show, Ultraman. The Baragon suit was reused several times to create the monsters in the series: Neronga, Gabora, and Magular, as well as Pagos from Ultra Q. Notably, Haruo Nakajima, the Godzilla suit actor as well as suit actor for Baragon in its initial debut, also played the suit actor for these monsters (with the exception of Magular).
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