Gigashadow

Gigashadow

The Gigashadow is the last fully grown denizen of the long-lost Insect Civilization, in the sci-fi television series "Lexx".

The Back Story

Thousands of years in the past, back to the after events of the Brunnen-G war against the Insect Civilization, one last surviving insect managed to escape the chaos (given the insect civilization's renowned resiliancy and deviousness) and found refuge deep inside a neighboring planetoid (also known in the near future, to be the Cluster). It was from there, that the insect managed to survive by passing its own "essence" from itself, to an unfortunate member of a mining expedition. Then, the insect spread its influence throughout the galaxy, passing that essence from one host to another. Eventually, having achieved absolute dominance, the insect consciousness had gained such importance that it eventually ordained itself to become His Divine Shadow, an imperialist, theocratic leader and supreme commander.

The Story

As His Divine Shadow expanded continued his empire, he returned to his previous "home" where his true physical form lay dormant. Then on that wasteland, he built his capital city, and directed his revenge at humanity in one long, bloody coup. After many more thousands of years, His Divine Shadow gained revenge against the Brunnen-G by deploying the Foreshadow and thus "almost" eliminating the Brunnen-G civilization completely (season 1, I Worship His Shadow). After these events, and the events following up to the completion of the "Lexx", a process known only as the "Rebirth" was at hand. In this Rebirth, every citizen in the League of 20,000 planets was killed "en masse". Then, their protein and associated nutrients were used to nourish the Gigashadow body directly. With the "Lexx" stolen, His Divine Shadow now dead, and his essence upgraded to Divine Predecessor status, His Divine Shadow attempted to re-unite his essence to his true body. But this did not work entirely well, as his own Clerics betrayed him at the very end.

The Gigashadow used protoblood in order to revive one of the dead loyal Clerics, however the first to be awoken was one who betrayed him, and in the end, His Divine Shadow was forced to possess him, fighting for control over the body. The Cleric seeking to be killed by Kai, got sucked all the way up to the Gigashadow's brain and completed the processes of combining the Gigashadow with His Divine Shadow.

The crew of the Lexx attempted to destroy the Gigashadow with the powerful planet-rendering blast waves, but failed. Kai, still inside the Gigashadow, could not reach the brain to destroy it using the infant Cluster Lizard, Squish, who had adopted Kai as a surrogate mother. However, before being picked up by the Lexx, he threw the Lizard back into the Gigashadow.

The Gigashadow chased the Lexx all the way to the gravitational vortex which leads to the Dark Zone. Just before the Gigashadow reached the Lexx and crew, who managed to go through, the Cluster Lizard reached the brain, killing it and causing the Gigashadow to collide with the vortex, cancelling both out due to their size.

In the second series, Kai, who is possessed by the essence of the shadow, returned to the Light Universe, to possess one of the dormant children that were on the underside of the Gigashadow that survived. The Lexx managed to destroy this child before it could escape along with the planet it was on, but not before the urge to kill all human life was passed onto Mantrid.


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