Jiger
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Jiger is a monster from the 1970 tokusatsu film Gamera Vs. Jiger or, as it is also called in America, Gamera Vs. Monster X.
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- Jiger was a horned quadrupedal reptile, somewhat reminiscent of the extinct Triceratops. It could shoot deadly impaling venomous quills from her head. She also had a heat ray that could dissolve buildings and ships, plus a suction ability to pull things towards it. Finally, :Jiger's tail ends with a stinger that it can use to implant a paralyzing egg into its victim.
Jiger was vulnerable to certain sounds, and is kept nearly-paralyzed for part of the film by unpleasant sounds.
History
A statue was dig up in Osaka that annoyed her, so she attacked it, tearing through the city. When Gamera arrived, Jiger shot him with quills, then injected him with an egg using her ovipositor. An air strike attempts to stop Jiger, but she knocks down the F-104 fighter planes using her quills.
Gamera is paralyzed, and seemingly dead but in reality he is just infected by a baby Jiger, which grows in his lungs, threatening his life. Two boy scouts pilot a mini-sub inside Gamera's body, kill the baby using white noise and incidentally discovering Jiger's weakness.
- After the baby Jiger is killed, Gamera attacks Jiger, and ultimately kills her with the statue itself.
Jiger
Jiger is one of the few kaiju which is unambiguously female. She does not seem to have necessarily been "evil", since she is content to rest quietly until the statue is unearthed. However, she is certainly ruthless in her pursuit of the statue.
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