While Mothra is initially hesitant to provide aid to the United Earth forces in Mechagodzilla City, refusing to make any proclamation regarding the situation, she later intervenes to help Haruo Sakaki resist Metphies' influence and stop Ghidorah from destroying the Earth. Nonetheless, her surviving Egg still resides in the temple of the Houtua 20,000 years into the future, guiding her people through her priestesses Maina and Miana. Her two offspring again attempted to bring down Godzilla for humanity, but they were both slain in combat by the increasingly powerful Godzilla. Mothra agreed to a proposal to relocate her eggs to Japan to ensure the survival of humanity into the future, and even gave her life for the operation's success. While she was wounded in the battle, she successfully forced Godzilla to retreat and allowed her priestess Lira to reveal her presence to the rest of mankind. As Godzilla hunted down and exterminated the ever-dwindling human population in 2048, Mothra selflessly stepped in to defend the last bastion of human resistance from Godzilla in Buenaventura. Mothra is suggested to have lived in harmony and seclusion with a tribe in the Amazon rainforest for many years, defending her people from threats and providing them with her healing scales. Mothra is a benevolent creature who, atypical of a kaiju, is friendly toward humanity. When Haruo Sakaki sees a vision of the imago Mothra, he mistakenly calls her a " butterfly" (蝶, chō), though this is translated as " moth" in the film's English subtitles. Rather, she is alluded to only as the Houtua's God (フツアの神, Futsua no Kami), while her unhatched offspring is simply referred to as the Egg (卵, Tamago). While Mothra is named in GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla, her name is never spoken in any of the films of the GODZILLA anime trilogy. Originally, Mothra's name was approximated in English as "Mosla," but it was later corrected to "Mothra" by the time of the release of her debut film. The name "Mothra" is the suffixation of "-ra" (a common last syllable in kaiju names) to "moth." Since the Japanese language does not have dental fricatives, it is approximated " Mosura" in Japanese.
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