▪️ Rodan ▪️

Skills
Claws. Main weapon.
Hooked and strong beak. For tearing flesh and exoskeletons.
Flight/Agility. Rodan is possibly the fastest titan in the Monsterverse. He can also fly with considerable mobility.
Hurricane-force winds. Due to its enormous size and supersonic speed, Rodan can pull a powerful current of wind while flying, capable of even dragging buses and damaging buildings.
Heat Immunity and Armor. Rodan's scales have insulating properties and contain volcanic sediment that acts as geothermal armor. Rodan even draws its energy from volcanic activity. All of this makes it immune to missiles, atomic breath, and it's very likely that it's also immune to Godzilla's Burning Mode.
It bursts into flames. Its wings have tips that allow it to release energy once it envelops its enemy. But that requires energy, just like Godzilla's atomic breath.

Weaknesses
Electricity. Although his armor and heat immunity provide him with a powerful defense, Ghidorah managed to knock him down with one of his lightning bolts, at least due to its shockwave force.
Mothra's stinger was strong enough to pierce her armor.

Personality
Rodan is a neutral, savage, and aggressive titan. He acts independently at first, but once he has been defeated by another titan, he recognizes it as superior, in the same way that many animals establish a hierarchy.

Monsterverse
Godzilla, King of Monsters
Rodan was hibernating at the post, inside the volcano on Mara Island in the Gulf of Mexico. This site would become Containment Facility Number 56 in 1991, under the guise of an environmental research project.

During the events of the film, Rodan was awakened by the ORCA, in the hands of Emma Russell and Jonah's terrorist team. Monarch had anticipated this and ordered the island evacuated, but Rodan awoke before the operation concluded. With Monster Zero approaching, Monarch planned to provoke and lure the monster toward Ghidorah (with its military forces) in an attempt to stop them. Although it ravaged part of the community and destroyed all the military units escorting the Argo-Jet, it fortunately encountered Ghidorah just before reaching the Argo-Jet. However, after a brief battle in freefall, Ghidorah quickly defeated Rodan, sending him plummeting into the sea. Later, when Ghidorah proclaims himself the alpha of the titans and calls them all, Rodan, being the closest, is the first to arrive and, humiliated, has no alternative but to obey and prostrate himself before him as Ghidorah settled on his own volcano.
Later on, he accompanies Ghidorah to cause havoc along his path, witnessing how they reduce Washington to rubble.

In the final battle, while Godzilla fought against Ghidorah, Rodan confronts Mothra to help his alpha, managing to dominate the fight and burn Mothra's wings, but before he could kill her, Mothra pierces him with her stinger and Rodan falls into the void.

In the end, when Godzilla wins the battle, with the arrival of the titans, Rodan reveals that he survived and initially confronts Godzilla, but soon realizes that he defeated the previous alpha and prostrates himself before him, acknowledging him as the new alpha, followed by the other titans.

Ghidorah The Three Headed Monsters
Rodan went on to cross over into the Godzilla series. Whether a completely different Rodan, or a survivor from 1956, this Rodan was resurrected by accumulated volcanic gas, appearing in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster in 1964, when he emerged from the volcano's crust and helped Godzilla and Mothra defeat King Ghidorah. In this appearance and all subsequent appearances in the Showa series, Rodan is as tall as Godzilla, with a wingspan slightly greater than his height.

Invasion of Astro Monster
He appeared with Godzilla again in Invasion of Astro Monsters, where both were mind-controlled by Xiliens to destroy Earth cities, and later fought King Ghidorah again when the mind control was broken.

Destroy All Monsters
In Destroy All Monsters, Rodan was once again controlled by aliens, the Kilaaks, to attack Moscow. Once again, the mind control was broken, and the monsters fought King Ghidorah. After King Ghidorah was defeated, Rodan was set ablaze by a rogue fire-dragon, but he recovered and was later shown peacefully inhabiting Monsterland with the other monsters. Rodan only reappeared in the Showa series in stock footage used for Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla vs. Megalon, and Terror of MechaGodzilla.

HISTORY
Showa series
Rodan (1956)
In the 1956 Rodan, there were two Rodans, a male and a female, who were mates. They were awakened by mining operations in Kitamatsu, along with a swarm of prehistoric insects called "Meganulons." One of the creatures, presumably the male, wandered elusively through several Pacific countries, including the Philippines and China, before finally revealing itself after emerging from the foothills of Mount Aso. As word of the monster's existence spread, no time was wasted, as the Japanese Air Force was able to track the threat's activities, leading them directly to the city of Fukuoka. After a ferocious aerial dogfight, a fighter jet crashed into Rodan's wing, injuring the beast and neutralizing its ability to fly at supersonic speeds, though this didn't stop the Pteranodon from laying siege to the city. Soon after, the second Rodan appeared to escort its mate to safety, putting an end to the carnage. As the two monsters prepare to hibernate and return to their nest on Mount Aso, Japan's defense force makes a final effort to defeat the Rodans by bombarding the active volcano, causing it to erupt. As the two companions attempt to escape, one is incapacitated by a missile and falls into the molten lava, burning to death. The second Rodan then flies toward his dying companion, causing him to also be engulfed in the lava, and both ultimately perish, saving the village.

Rodan is very similar to a Pterosaur, more specifically the Pteranodon species, only this one is gigantic and also walks upright on 2 legs.
Rodan usually has a skin that can be brown or burgundy with yellow tones, having a pointed chest and two or three horns on the back of its head.
Design
Its image is based primarily on a bird of prey, but with wings similar to those of a Pterosaur, reddish-brown scaly skin, and its two characteristic bony crests pointing backward on the back of its head.

Its beak has small, tooth-like protrusions. Its eyes are small but piercing (like an eagle's) and yellow. Its legs have two spurs. And in
The edges of its wings show traces of lava and/or veins that glow red-hot and release lava and ash when it flies.
This is the first version of the character that is quadrupedal like a pterosaur.
Its cry is much more like that of a bird of prey, with both high and low tones. Different types of birds, such as vultures, eagles, cranes, and penguins, were used to create its sound.

Rodan (ラドン?, Radon) is a giant pteranodon kaiju, created by Toho and first appearing in the 1956 film Rodan.
Etymology
Its Japanese name, Radon, comes from a contraction of pteranodon. Later, in the United States, the name was changed and licensed to Rodan.