Miki Saegusa
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| Miki Saegusa | |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliations | Cosmos G-Force |
| Paranormal abilities | Telepathy Telekinesis |
| First appearance | Godzilla vs Biollante |
| Final Appearance | Godzilla vs Destoroyah |
| Portrayed by: | Megumi Odaka |
Miki Saegusa (三枝 未希 Saegusa Miki?), played by Megumi Odaka, is a recurring fictional character from the Heisei Godzilla film series. She's notable for being a psychic that uses her powers to control and communicate with Godzilla.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Saegusa made her debut in Godzilla vs Biollante. As well as being the head of an institution for psychic children, she also served as an assistant to Doctor Shiragami, a Saradian born scientist studying the psychic energy of Roses. Unbeknownst to Saegusa, Shiragami combines the DNA of one of his roses with genetic material taken from his late daughter Erika and Godzilla. The resulting monster, nicknamed Biollante, escapes from the laboratory and takes residence in Lake Ashino. For the duration of the creatures passivity, Saegusa sensed that it was in fact possessed by Erika's spirit. After Godzilla defeats Biollante for the first time, he heads toward a Nuclear Power Plant, intent on absorbing its energy. Saegusa confronts Godzilla and nearly puts herself into a coma by bending Godzilla's will into leaving the area.
Saegusa returns in Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, where she joins a time travelling expedition to the Bikini islands in 1944 in an attempt to alter history by preventing Godzilla's mutation. Miki identifies the Godzillasaurus residing on the island as Godzilla, thus allowing its capture and transportation away from the bomb sites. This plan however proved flawed, as the site where the dinosaur was dropped would later become the site of a nuclear accident which would result in the creation of Godzilla, thus setting history as it was.
Saegusa can be seen occasionally in Godzilla vs. Mothra. She is seen working at the JSDF base.
In Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, Miki is made a member of the newly created G-Force, the military arm of the UNGCC or United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center, a United Nations military alliance dedicated to the containing or destroying monsters such as Godzilla. There, she befriends a Baby Godzilla and is appalled to learn that the baby will be used as bait to lure Godzilla. Despite her protests, Miki is assigned to use her powers to guide MechaGodzilla's long range weaponry onto Godzilla's vulnerable second brain. To her shame, she succeeds in crippling Godzilla and begins crying for it. Godzilla is later revived by Rodan and destroys the Mecha. Miki then telepathically convinces Baby Godzilla to leave Japan to be with his new father.
In 1994's Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, she receives a larger role than in previous films. By then she has come to develop Ann Darrow/King Kong relationship with the monster. Through out the film she defends him from men who wish to kill him, saying "Don't you see, he also has feelings, feelings the same as we do!" Through the film, she wrestles with her feelings for her soldier boyfriend and for his enemy, Godzilla.
Miki is the head of psychic studies at UNGCC and is met by people who wish to control telepathically control Godzilla; the plan is called Project Telepathy. Though she personally believes that it cannot be done and that it is immoral, her mind is changed after the Shobijin or Cosmos tell her that SpaceGodzilla is coming and that Godzilla must be there so stop him. That, combined with how she sees UNGCC's plan for controlling Godzilla as the lesser of two evils compared with killing him, makes her agrees to Project T. While on Godzilla's island she meets a cheerful Little Godzilla, an older version of Baby, who recognizes her. When the adult Godzilla does arrive she and her team succeed on placing a mind control device on Godzilla and she does manage to control him. That is interrupted when SpaceGodzilla arrives. Miki is later kidnapped by the Japanese Mafia who had secretly bankrolled Project T in the hopes of using Godzilla as a mercenary monster. She is later freed by by her G-Force friends, the mobsters are killed by SpaceGodzilla, and she witnesses the last battle. After Godzilla's victory, she telekinetically removes the mind control device she had placed on his neck at which he turns around to look at her. He nods his approval.
She also appeared in 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah revealing her psychic abilities are waning. She also appears in the ending and says farewell to Godzilla and Junior.
[edit] Manga
Miki's origins are further explained when it is revealed that her parents died during Godzilla's attack in 1985/1984.
[edit] External links
- Miki Saegusa at the Internet Movie Database
- [1] - Fansite on Miki Saegusa.
