Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

Plot[edit | edit source] One year after the defeat of SpaceGodzilla by the hands of Godzilla and the JSDF's mecha M.O.G.U.E.R.A., Miki Saegusa of the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center (UNGCC) travels to Baas Island to monitor Godzilla and his son Little Godzilla, only to find the entire island destroyed and both monsters missing. Godzilla, now covered in lava-like rashes, subsequently appears in Hong Kong, destroying great swathes of the city with an empowered atomic breath. The JSDF hires college student Kenkichi Yamane, a grandson of Dr. Kyohei who had encountered the first Godzilla, to unravel the mystery of Godzilla's condition. Yamane suspects that Godzilla's heart, which acts as a nuclear reactor, is undergoing a nuclear meltdown as a result of the monster absorbing the energy released from a uranium deposit on Baas Island by a volcanic eruption. Yamane theorizes that when Godzilla's temperature reaches 1,200 °C (2,190 °F), it will lead to a thermonuclear explosion with enough energy to destroy all life on Earth. The JSDF deploys the Super X III, an aerial combat vehicle outfitted with ultra-low temperature lasers, in an attempt to reverse Godzilla's self-destruction. While Godzilla's meltdown is not stopped, it is halted long enough to render Godzilla temporarily unconscious. Meanwhile, a colony of Precambrian organisms mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer used to kill the first Godzilla are awoken during the construction of the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line. The organisms combine into human-sized crustacean-like monsters and engage the JSDF in several deadly skirmishes. The monsters, dubbed "Destoroyah", are revealed to be vulnerable to subzero temperatures and are temporarily held at bay with low-temperature lasers. The Destoroyah respond to the threat by merging into a larger creature, which destroys the lasers and takes to the skies in its flying form. Godzilla awakens, his condition having deteriorated to the point that his meltdown could potentially destroy the Earth through a China syndrome-like incident. Miki locates the now grown-up Little Godzilla, redubbed "Godzilla Junior", and telepathically lures him to Tokyo, hoping that Godzilla will follow and be killed by Destoroyah. Junior arrives and battles Destoroyah, who absorbs Junior's DNA before being seemingly defeated. Godzilla arrives at Haneda Airport and reunites with Junior. Destoroyah, having mutated and grown larger, drops Junior onto the Ariake Coliseum and blasts him with a Micro-Oxygen beam, fatally wounding him. After driving off Destoroyah and unsuccessfully attempting to revive Junior, Godzilla's bereavement accelerates the rate of his meltdown. In the ensuing battle with Destoroyah, Godzilla's temperature reaches a critical state, allowing him to wound Destoroyah. As the injured Destoroyah tries to retreat, the JSDF fires their low-temperature lasers at its wings, causing it to plummet to its death onto the superheated ground. As Godzilla goes into meltdown, the JSDF is able to minimize the damage with their low-temperature weapons. While they are successful in preventing Earth's destruction, Godzilla dies from his meltdown, which renders Tokyo uninhabitable. However, the radiation in Tokyo abruptly decreases to background levels, as Junior's lifeless body absorbs Godzilla's radiation, resurrecting and transforming him into the new Godzilla.