| “ | In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void. This is the planet Earth, newly born and cooling rapidly from a temperature of six thousand degrees to a few hundred in less than five billion years. The heat rises, meets the atmosphere, the clouds form and rain pours down upon the hardening surface for countless centuries. The restless seas rise, find boundaries, are contained. Now, in their warm depths, the miracle of life begins. In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive and of their eventual end. The record of life is written on the land, where fifteen million years later, in the upper reaches of the Amazon, man is still trying to read it. | „ |
| ~ The opening narration for The Creature from the Black Lagoon. |
| “ | Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this! | „ |
| ~ The tagline for Creature from the Black Lagoon. |
The Gill-man is the titular main antagonist of the 1954 classic horror film The Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels from 1955, being Revenge of the Creature and 1956, The Creature Walks Among Us.
Fanon wiki ideas so far[]
- Jason Voorhees vs Gill-man (Completed)
- Jaws VS The Gill-Man (Completed)
With the Universal Monsters[]
Battle Record[]
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Battle Record
- Wins: 1
- Losses: 1
- Draws: 0
Possible Opponents[]
- Man-Thing (Marvel Comics)
- Ripjaws (Ben 10)
- Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
- The Missing Link (Monsters vs. Aliens)
- Rana (Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake)
History[]
Most of the events of the Gill-man's life are unknown before the events of the film, however, Lucas, captain of the Rita, says that the natives claim nobody has ever returned from the lagoon, implying others have had (unsuccessful) encounters with the creature before. It is possible that Gill-man, or at least its kind, has been around that area for as long as several million years.
In Creature from the Black Lagoon, Gill-man encounters a geology expedition in the Amazon near his territory, referred to by locals as the "Black Lagoon".
They were uncovering fossilized evidence, a skeletal hand with webbed fingers, fossils of his people. The hand is from the Devonian period, and provides a direct link between land and sea animals, being seen as valuable in this regard. Territorial and possibly respectful towards dead members of his species, Gill-man kills the remaining crew members after some of them left with the hand.
The rest of the group returns aboard a vessel known as the Rita led by its captain Lucas, and investigate the waters, speculating the rest of the skeleton belonging to the hand must be underwater and unaware that the amphibious "Gill-man" has been watching them ever since their arrival. Taking notice of the beautiful Kay, the creature follows the Rita all the way downriver to the Black Lagoon. After two of the team's members, David and Mark, return from collecting rocks, Kay goes swimming and is stalked underwater by the Gill-man, who then gets briefly caught in one of the ship's draglines. Although it escapes, the creature leaves a claw behind in the net, revealing its existence.
Subsequent encounters with the Gill-man claim the lives of Lucas's crew members before the Creature is captured and locked in a cage aboard the Rita. It escapes during the night, attacking Edwin, who was guarding it. Kay smashes the Creature with a lantern, driving it off, but Edwin is severely injured. Following this incident, David decides they should return to civilization. Mark, obsessed with capturing (or killing) the Creature, objects.
As the Rita tries to leave, they find the Gill-man has blocked the lagoon's entrance with fallen logs. While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is killed while trying to capture the Creature single-handedly underwater. The Gill-man then abducts Kay and takes her to its cavern lair. David, Lucas, and Carl chase after the Creature, and Kay is ultimately rescued. The Creature is riddled with bullets before retreating to the lagoon, where it eventually seemingly dies, and its body sinks into the watery depths.
The second film, Revenge of the Creature, reveals that it is still alive. In this film, Gill-man is captured and sent to an aquarium in Florida to be studied. It escapes to the ocean and once again kidnaps a woman, the only scientist who had shown some degree of compassion for the creature, and once again it ends up being shot down and again seemingly dying and disappearing in the waters.
The third movie, The Creature Walks Among Us, shows the creature suffering a horrible accident and undergoing evolution as it adapts to land, and breathes only air, which makes it more human-looking. After unsuccessful attempts to integrate the monster into society, it finally escapes back to the ocean, though due to the fact that he could no longer breathe in the water, the ending likely implies the creature died from suffocating, as it cuts away into the credits before it reaches the water.
Death Battle Info[]
Background
- Height: 7 to 8 feet
- Weight: 300 lbs
- Age: Unknown
- Species: Unknown
- Diet: Carnivore
- Aggression Index: High
- Range: Standard melee range
- Date of Birth: Unknown
Abilities[]
- Sharp teeth
- Intelligence
- Claws
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman speed (underwater)
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Stamina
- Enhanced Senses
- Underwater breathing
- Regeneration
- Reactive Evolution
- Stealth Mastery
Feats[]
- Crushes human heads casually
- Can flip cars and nearly flipped a 35-40 foot long boat
- Sends people flying casually
- Has snapped a metal bar off a vessel with ease
- Can allegedly break crocodiles in two (likely referring to black caimans, as these are the only species in its territory)
- Has clawed through a man wearing a standard diving dress with ease
- Has thrown people at trees with enough force to kill them
- Has near-bulletproof armor
Weaknesses[]
- Has throuble breathing outside of water (before surgery)
- Slightly photophobic
- His skin appears to be flammable
- Can't breath underwater (after surgery)