Chimera (mythology) (that does not occur with depictions of male lions). Sighting the Chimera was an omen of storms, shipwrecks, and natural disasters (particularly volcanoes). While there are different genealogies, in one version the Chimera mated with her brother Orthrus and was the mother of the Sphinx and the Nemean lion (others have Orthrus and their mother, Echidna, mating; most attribute all to Typhon and Echidna). The Chimera finally was defeated by Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia, after terrorizing Lycia and nearby lands. Since Pegasus could fly, Bellerophon shot the Chimera from the
Kyodai Hero Kyodai Hero The inception of the Kyodai hero genre initially began with Godzilla in the film "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster". Godzilla is portrayed as a personified natural disaster at first but over the course of the film franchise's many monster battles he is gradually put into the position of protector of the human race, a key trope of the Kyodai hero genre. Though Godzilla established the minor concept of the Kyodai hero, the genre technically began with P-Productions live action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Maguma Taishi which predated the popular Ultraman franchise, by six days. Ultraman was created by Godzilla