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Rodan (ラドン Radon) is a winged Titan who appears in the 2019 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. He is the first incarnation of the character to appear in an American-made film. With the ability to level entire cities simply by flying, Rodan was dreaded as a destroyer by ancient humans, who dubbed him the "Fire Demon." Rodan was discovered in pyrostasis within the volcano El Nido del Demonio (literally meaning "The Demon's Nest")[7] on Isla de Mara in Mexico by Monarch in 1991. Monarch built a containment facility around the Titan, but in 2019 he was unleashed by Monarch defector Dr. Emma Russell and eco-terrorist Alan Jonah as part of their plot to restore the planet's natural order. Rodan immediately engaged in battle with Monarch's G-Team before encountering the three-headed King Ghidorah, who soundly defeated him. After Godzilla was weakened by the Oxygen Destroyer and Ghidorah took his place as the alpha of the Titans, Rodan submitted to Ghidorah and began to do his bidding. Rodan fought against the military in Washington, D.C. before Ghidorah summoned him to Boston to aid him against Godzilla and Mothra. Rodan attacked Mothra and battled her across the city, nearly killing her before she drove her stinger through his chest. By the time Rodan recovered, Godzilla had defeated Ghidorah. Rodan approached Godzilla to challenge him, only to back down and submit to him, followed by all of the other Titans who had once served Ghidorah.
Deep within the volcanic mountains of the Pacific Rim, a team of scientists and explorers unearth signs of an impossible lifeform something ancient, winged, and slumbering beneath the magma. When the volcano erupts, the skies ignite in flame and the world meets Rodan, a colossal pterosaur born of fire and stone. Rodan’s awakening sends shockwaves through the planet, both literally and politically. Nations scramble to weaponize, study, or destroy him. But amid the chaos, Dr. Darius Kaelen, a geologist haunted by his father’s disappearance on the same mountain years ago, believes Rodan isn’t a random mutation — but the last guardian of an ancient ecosystem. As Rodan takes flight across continents, his mere presence triggers superstorms, fire cyclones, and seismic rifts. The world descends into panic — but hidden within Rodan’s path lies a pattern: he is not attacking at random. He is returning to something... or someone. When Mara and her team uncover a buried temple revealing that Rodan once protected humanity from something far worse, they must choose — continue humanity’s war against nature, or trust a creature that may be their only defense against a greater terror stirring beneath the earth.
