Gavadon

Gavadon ( Gabadon) is a fictional quadruped monster from the Ultraman television series.

Gavadon was created when a colored chalk drawing on a concrete pipe, drawn by several school children, was exposed overnight to a strange radiation source. The concrete and chalk expanded and morphed into a creature. The creature's first incarnation was primitive and largely incomplete -- bearing a primitive eyehole and little else in the way of anatomical features -- after the first phase of drawing, since the graffiti-drawing children had been driven off by the boss at the concrete pipe yard. After another opportunity to embellish the drawing further, a colorful and articulated Gavadon formed in the second incarnation. Although not one of the more aggressive Ultraman monsters as he is content to sleep, the dangers to property, the damage to the city's economy with labor's refusal to work in the monster's presence, and the potential for inadvertent loss of human life drive the Science Patrol to attack it in their standard procedure.

Eventually Ultraman decides to resolve the situation and save Gavadon by carrying him off into space. In another rare instance of Ultraman speech, possibly mass telepathy, Ultraman explains to the children that they can look for a new "star" in the sky by which to remember Gavadon. Gavadon may have been placed in a geostationary orbit, and his body reflects the sun's light at night from his position overhead. (See information on the Monster Zone under the entry for the Ultraman creature called Seabouz.)

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