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A character list for Toho's kaiju of the 1980s and beyond.

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Japanese Kaiju

Later Eras (Heisei, Millennium, Reiwa) — The Eighties and On

In 1975, Toho released what would turn out to be the last of the Showa era Godzilla films, before the King of the Monsters went dormant for almost a decade, the sole release being a single short story. It wasn't until 1984 that The Return of Godzilla was finally made, with Toho Eizo Inc. supplying the special effects.

In 1988, Toho Eizo subsequently merged with fellow spinoff company Toho Bijutsu to form Toho Eizo Bijutsu, who would supply the special effects for the Godzilla film series and other special effects pictures until the end of the 1990s, encompassing the entirety of what would become the Heisei-era Godzilla series and the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy, among other films, which reimagined old monsters and introduced new ones.

In 1999, Toho Pictures would resume full control over their films' special effects in time for the start of Godzilla's Millennium series. Running from 1999 to 2004, the series continued the Heisei era's trend of introducing a handful of new kaiju while reinventing old ones.

The Reiwa era of production would officially begin in 2017 with the release of Shin Godzilla, and go on to encompass the series' first trilogy of animated films as well as a number of short films.

This page covers the new giant monsters introduced in the 1980s and onward, encompassing the Heisei era, Millennium series and Reiwa era, along with a handful of Toho-made monsters produced for video games — Super Godzilla and Godzilla: Unleashed.

Bagan

Bagan

First appearance: Super Godzilla for the Super Nintendo, 1993

The phrase "Better luck next time, buddy" best describes Bagan, a creature intended to be used in a handful of Toho daikaiju movies, none of which ever came to be: the original draft of The Return of Godzilla, Mothra vs. Bagan, and Godzilla vs. Bagan, before finally appearing in the video game Super Godzilla'. The Bagan in The Return of Godzilla is completely different from the later version of the beast, which would stay more or less the same in each of his subsequent "appearances".

From a shapeshifting creature that heals with each change, to a protector of China freed from ice in the Himalayas seeking to punish mankind for global warming, to virtually unknown about what he was, to a creature from Earth's ultra ancient past controlled by alien invaders and containing the DNA of Godzilla and King Ghidorah, Bagan has possibly had the roughest history of all kaiju. His only appearance has been in a video game called Super Godzilla for the SNES as the Final Boss. Despite this, Bagan has managed to gain quite a following, in part because of how powerful he is in the game requiring Godzilla to turn into Super Godzilla to stand a chance against him. His attacks in the game consist of claw slashes, shooting white stars that look like shuriken from his horns, and a white energy beam.

For tropes pertaining to the numerous versions of the character from scrapped films see this page.

Over forty years after his 1980 conception, Bagan would finally get his screen debut in Godziban, utilizing a design almost identical to his appearance in the 1998 interactive video game Godzilla Movie Studio Tour.

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• Big Bad: Of Super Godzilla, though it could be argued he also shares this with Mecha-King Ghidorah.
• Barrier Warrior: He can create forcefields in Super Godzilla.
• Breath Weapon: A white plasma beam from his mouth that does more damage than anything else in the game.
• The Bus Came Back: He made an unexpected appearance in a 2022 episode of the Godziban web-series that also serves as an adaptation of Mothra vs Bagan. His last appearance in any canon before this was in the interactive video game Godzilla Movie Studio Tour (and even then, it was only a handful of screenshots), released in 1998. His design in Godziban is identical to how it was in that game. This episode would even get a limited theatrical release along with the rest of the episodes its packaged with.
• Butt-Monkey: Meta example. There have been several movie scripts and concepts featuring Bagan, yet every single time they've never been made into a film and he's never had a movie appearance to date. He was also considered for Godzilla Unleashed, and still failed to materialize there.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: In record time people go from saying "Bagan?" to freaking the hell out when he destroys Tokyo in mere seconds, and right after he's introduced.
• Final Boss: He's the last enemy in Super Godzilla.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Probably as a result of being a largely unused character, his motivations across various scripts beyond being an evil destroyer are vague. The Super Godzilla version simply has him as the Final Boss of the alien invasion.
• Godzilla Threshold: Bagan literally requires you to be Super Godzilla to have any hope in hell of beating him. One can argue that the aliens time traveling to capture Bagan and enhance him with Godzilla and Ghidorah's genetics also counts as by this point Godzilla's pretty much killed everything they threw at him and it seems they were getting incredibly desperate even with Mecha-King Ghidorah as a trump card.
• Made of Iron: He's got the most health any enemy, and Godzilla's attacks will barely do anything to him, some don't even hurt him at all.
• Magic Missile Storm: Downplayed in Super Godzilla; Bagan's Diamond Storm attack has him use his horns to create three star-like objects and then fire them.
• Meaningful Name: "Bagan" is Indonesian for blueprint and/or draft, which has meaning retroactively considering that Bagan was planned for several movies but ended up as a huge What Could Have Been. His first planned appearance was in the original story for The Return of Godzilla where he had multiple forms.
• No-Sell: Essentially what Bagan does to normal Godzilla's attacks in regular gameplay.
• One-Shot Character: While he wasn't intended to be one, Bagan showed up in one video game^note while he does show up in the obscure Godzilla Studio Movie Tour, he uses a different design there, and then disappeared from the face of the earth, not unlike Krystalak and Obsidius. He would finally subvert this when he'd make his return on Godziban.
• Red Sky, Take Warning: Happens in Super Godzilla after he destroys all of Tokyo.
• Rule of Three: For the original draft of Godzilla 1985, he was going to appear as a living giant totem pole of monsters, in Mothra vs Bagan, he was going to appear as a Chinese legend and for Super Godzilla, he is a monster brought to the modern day from Earth's "Ultra Ancient Past" by aliens and, aside from his own formidable form and powers, also gains extra powers after having the DNA strands of Godzilla and King Ghidorah spliced into him.
• Shock and Awe: In some storyboards for the scrapped Mothra vs. Bagan he is shown to be able to fire a type of lightning bolt attack out of his nasal horn.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Destoroyah and Monster X seem to act as substitutes of him, given that they take his shtick of having multiple forms.

Biollante

Biollante

First appearance: Godzilla vs. Biollante, 1989

Film Appearances: Godzilla vs. Biollante | Godzilla Vs Spacegodzilla^note stock footage

Played By: Masao Takegami

^{Click here to see Flower Beast Form}

After Godzilla's rampage in Godzilla 1985, his cells were collected from the wreckage and found their way to the hands of a scientist, who began using them to create a strain of bacteria that could feed on radiation and render it safe. However, his laboratory was bombed and his daughter killed in the roses she loved. Distraught, the scientist combined the G-cells with the rose bush, convinced that his daughter's spirit lived in the plant, giving rise to the gigantic repto-flora creature Biollante. Initially a towering plant with a toothy rose flower, she faced Godzilla and was defeated, her physical form burning into golden spores that ascended into the sky. Later, the spores returned when Godzilla was infected with the ANEB and Biollante revealed her newly-evolved crocodilian-like form, a towering behemoth of a creature. Fighting Godzilla to a draw, Biollante returned to the sky, where her particles could have later run afoul of a black hole and be changed into a creature of evil...

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• Adaptational Villainy: So far, all of her video game and comic appearances as well as the novel Godzilla at World's End have cast her as a villain, despite her being at worst neutral towards humanity. The one exception for the comics is Cataclysm, which portrays her in a positive light and even has her save some humans from Kamacuras.
• Alien Blood: Chlorophyll may be the reason her blood is green.
• Anti-Villain: Despite her downright horrific appearance and the savage fight she had with Godzilla, Biollante may actually be one of the most peaceful monsters in the entire Toho canon. She actively tries to protect humanity against Godzilla and has been also shown to still care for her loved ones due to regaining Erika's memories.
• Benevolent Monsters: She has a human soul and is shown to be kind and docile toward humans. Even in her more aggressive, savage plant beast form, she simply dissipates into spores once her final scuffle against Goji is over (though that was in part because Goji's atomic breath had hit her in a weak spot and fatally injured her) and departs from Earth without causing any further conflict, but not without Erika giving her father one last farewell.
• Botanical Abomination: She's a textbook example of this trope, being the end result of a humble rose that was imbued with human and Godzilla DNA and mutated into a towering, bizarre dino-plant hybrid as a result.
• Breath Weapon: She spits radioactive acidic sap from her fanged tentacles in her first form and is able to unleash it from her main mouth in her second form. It's worth noting that said acid caused red energy to flash across Godzilla's skin when it hit him, so while not a purely energy weapon like Godzilla's Atomic Breath it did seem to carry a current of some type of energy that would "zap" the target at the same time the acid burned their skin.
• But Now I Must Go: After helping the JSDF defeat Godzilla by raising Godzilla's body temperature and allow the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria to take effect, she dissolves into spores and ascends into space.
• Combat Tentacles: Even used one to pierce through Godzilla's hand! OW!
• Genetic Abomination: She's a genetic chimaera of rose, human, and Godzilla DNA that mutated from a towering plant with a toothy rose flower into a titanic, bizarre dino-plant hybrid. She's not actually malevolent, however, and is outright kind and docile towards humans due to having a human soul.
• Gentle Giant: Maintains some of her soul in her first form.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: She even regenerates the back of her head after Godzilla blows through her skull.
• Healing Factor: Arguably the best in the entire series.
• Hell Is That Noise: Her roar sounds rather mournful and haunting in both of her forms. They got those noises off of humpback whales.
• Impaled Palm: She skewers Godzilla's palm with one of her Combat Tentacles.
• Kaiju: A giant among giants. She is 120 meters tall (second only to Heisei King Ghidorah who is 150 meters tall) and weighs a whopping 220,000 tons. For comparison, Heisei Godzilla was 80 meters tall and only 50,000 tons—at the time. It's worth noting that all the other Heisei monsters with the exception of Mothra, Battra, and the aforementioned Ghidorah were 120 meters tall, and Godzilla received an increase to 100 meters in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. If Godzilla were 100 meters tall in Biollante's film and the scale between them were kept, then Biollante would be 150 meters tall too, just like Ghidorah.
• LEGO Genetics: Add one third rose, one third Godzilla, one third human and you get a horrifying, crocodile-mouthed flower monster with snapping tentacle-like vines.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite being the size of a small mountain she moves deceptively quickly!
• Long-Range Fighter: She makes use of her wrapping tendrils and vines to keep Godzilla restrained while letting her fanged mouthed parts that spray their acid to damage him and using sneaky methods by using her other vines to grope his ankles and have him thrashed around as she was fighting him for the first time. This is highly justified since her Flower Beast form was utterly motionless and was outright defeated. For her second fight against Godzilla, this gets subverted thoroughly in her Plant Beast form where she first uses her mouthed vines again to approach him but they get downed pretty quickly. By then she starts getting closer to him by moving herself forward with surprising mobility and uses her tendrils to puncture through his left hand and shoulder. Hell, she even got close enough to have her mouth around Godzilla's head.
• Mighty Glacier: How she plays in Godzilla Unleashed. Her overall strength is on par with Orga's since her attacks can reduce any monster's health to a minimum amount and can wipe out their health cells with no effort, along with having numerous vines that can be extended to insane lengths that gives her a massive attack range. This can give players a strategy by basically having her stay in one area while spamming her strongest attacks to dispatch opponents without having the need to use her mobility, since that's the only thing that's holding her back because her pace is undeniably pathetic as she's even slower than Destoroyah.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Is part Godzilla's DNA, part rose DNA, part human DNA. And with the ghost of said human inside.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In her second form, Biollante has so much teeth that even the roof of her mouth and her tongue are covered with them.
• One-Winged Angel: One of the most frightening in all cinema. It's a case of Fridge Brilliance as Biollante looks more like Godzilla in her second form as opposed to looking like a rose in her first; she loses the vulnerability to Godzilla's heat ray she had in her first form. She's adapting, mutating herself into becoming more like Godzilla so she is more resistant to his heat ray.
• Planimal: Between Godzilla, a rose and a human, though only the first 2 are obvious.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In her second form, Biollante was able to do massive amounts of damage to Godzilla and the fight even ended with Godzilla finally collapsing from exhaustion... but not before Godzilla struck her with a fatal blast that made Biollante break apart into spores.
• Sadly Mythtaken: She's named after a Norse nature goddess in-universe, but in reality there is no such deity in any pantheon with the name ('Biollante' actually came from the French word for violin, "violons", with the katakana character テ (te) added to it, so literally it was "violon-te"). There are a number of Norse nature deities however, and indeed, most of them are female.
• The Smurfette Principle: Downplayed. She's the only non-insectoid kaiju that's explicitly female.
• Superpowered Evil Side: The closest thing the Godzilla series has to one, given her Final Form loses all of her human soul and becomes practically unstoppable.
• Super Spit: She's able to spew globs of burning, glowing sap from her mouth.
• Took a Level in Badass: In her second form she is far bigger, far stronger, and far scarier.
• Tragic Monster: Biollante embodies this more than almost any other monster the franchise, being essentially a young woman trapped in the body of a monster by the grief of her father, and later being attacked unprovoked by Godzilla. Even her signature wails sound eerily like she's crying.
• Was Once a Man: In a sense. Biollante was just a rose that was mixed with the cells of Erika Shirakami in an attempt to preserve her soul. When she was conceptualized, one sketch displays her first form having a woman's face in the center of the flower petals.

Dagahra

Dagahra

First appearance: Rebirth of Mothra 2, 1997

Film Appearances: Rebirth of Mothra 2 | Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

AKA: Dagarla

A monster created by the advanced seagoing civilization Nilai Kinai, Dagahra was meant to consume the toxins and pollution his creators fouled the waters with. He did his work too well, however, and used the pollution he consumed to create toxic sea stars called Barems, which overwhelmed and destroyed the civilization. Falling into slumber, Dagahra later awakened from humanity's pollution of the oceans and resumed his mission, filling the waters with Barems and threatening the Earth. Challenged by Leo Mothra and temporarily defeating him, Dagahra was ultimately destroyed by Leo Mothra's new Aqua form, dissipating his Barems and purifying the oceans.

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• Blow You Away: He once created a water spout!
• Breath Weapon: Can unleash a bright red and black energy blast from his jaws called the Irabushan Beam.
• The Bus Came Back: Makes a very brief cameo destroying Sydney in the prologue of Planet of the Monsters, his first film appearance in twenty years.
• Expy: Of Hedorah, being a kaiju that feeds on pollution. His backstory also has similarities to the Gyaos from the Heisei Gamera Trilogy.
• Flying Seafood Special: He swims, he flies, he walks on land...
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Was created in order to clean up pollution. While he did eat all the pollution, he then spat it all back out in the form of the Bareem which then contributed to the civilization's downfall.
• Green and Mean: He's more a darker shade of sea-green (along with having orange and light beige tints) and is a deadly kaiju as he went out of his way by destroying to a small village after awakening from his slumber, almost drowned Leo and having him outmatched in the ocean, and has killed the all of the inhabitants of Nilai Kanai with his ceaseless amounts of Barems.
• Hollywood Acid: Before he was shown onscreen one of his Barems opened up and ejected an acidic venom on a fisherman's face.
• Logical Weakness: His own Barems are created from his biology, after eating nothing but pollution, thus Aqua Mothra uses his Illusion Mirage Aqua and manages to split himself into tinier versions and flew into the inside of his body and destroy all of them by blasting all of the Barems Galaga-style.
• Making a Splash: Dagarah can conjure up waterspouts and whirlpools whenever he chooses to.
• Man Bites Man: Takes a good bite out of Leo's left wing as he's getting dragged across the water.
• Mook Maker: His Barem. They're basically the result of Daragah's consumption of the countless pollutants from Nilai-Kanai. In fact, they're so deadly that not even Leo himself can endure them as he even flew out of the ocean with most of his body being covered in them and spent most of the time resting from his injuries.
• Our Dragons Are Different: A sea dragon created from an advanced civilization whose purpose was to feed on leftover pollution.
• Sea Monster: In more ways than one.
• Shoulder Cannon: Can fire his Irabushan Beams from them. Sometimes he'll shoot his Barems out of them.
• Super Mode: One scene shows him being underwater by sprouting larger protruding spikes from his shoulders that not only shows a visual sign that he's gotten stronger but it also gives him the power to fire two Irabushan Beams at once that are highly increased in range as well as power.
• Superpower Lottery: In addition to the regular heat beam, Dagahra has shoulder cannons, aerial and swimming capabilities, the ability to summon water spouts, his Barem, and laser discs. No wonder Leo had trouble with him!

Destoroyah

Destoroyah

First appearance: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, 1995

Film Appearances: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

Played By: Ryo Hariya and Eiichi Yanagida

AKA: Destroyer

Arising from the graveyard that was created by the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954, Destoroyah is a creature of nihilism, anti-life in origin and function. Near-microscopic crustaceans that lived in anaerobic conditions were awakened and mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer, and they grew in number until they made their existence known in 1995 when they first attacked an aquarium, then an abandoned building, facing the JDF in combat. The creatures have a hive mind and can combine into larger and deadlier forms, from man-sized long-limbed crown-headed crustaceans to a Godzilla Junior-sized crustacean and a flying squirrel-like airborne form to a towering demonic bipedal beast that looms over Godzilla. Their only weakness is extreme temperatures.

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• Achilles' Heel: Destoroyah does not deal well with extreme cold or extreme heat. Thermal shock is ultimately how he's brought down; Godzilla blasts him several times with his Infinite Heat Ray and then bombarded with cryoweapons by the military before falling back down to the superheated ground.
• Alien Blood: Destoroyah has lime green or yellow blood. He spits or bleeds huge amounts of it in the later phases of the final battle.
• Aliens Are Bastards: In the IDW comics continuity there was no Oxygen Destroyer. In order to circumvent this, Destoroyah became the result of an alien science project, created by the Devonians to both battle Godzilla, and give them the advantage over their nominal Cryog partners.
• Ambiguous Gender: Some fans speculate that the monster is female due to having certain anatomical traits particular to female crabs. Officially, however, Toho does not assign genders to its monsters besides Godzilla, the original Rodans, King Ghidorah or Mothra.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Just like how Godzilla is a walking organic atom bomb, Destoroyah is a monstrous living embodiment of the more lethal Oxygen Destroyer.
• Asteroids Monster: Can break apart into its Aggregate form at will.
• Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: Continuously attacks Godzilla for a while in the final battle; as soon as Godzilla hits critical mass it bolts. The army freezes it solid, causing it to plummet to the ground and explode on impact.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The floral pattern that's placed on his chest looks like a visible bull's eye target, which is something that Godzilla took advantage of. Three shots of his atomic breath forced the pattern open and inflicted serious damage to Destoroyah's exposed flesh, leaving him coughing up blood, then Godzilla got close enough to begin punching the still-open pattern, eventually forcing Destoroyah to split into a horde of aggregates, then reform just to survive.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: His tail ends with a pincer, fitting for a (mutated) crustacean.
• Blood from the Mouth: Destoroyah coughs up blood after getting hit with the Red Spiral Ray.
• Blood Upgrade: His very own blood oozes out of him right when Godzilla Jr. fired his Atomic Breath and it does quite a number on his spiked claws. His malevolent response was to eject his secondary mouth, and uses it to outright rip into his chest by draining energy out of him and affected his bloodstream by inserting Micro-Oxygen into it.
• Breath Weapon: It can spit a stream of Micro Oxygen, a chemical almost identical to Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer. This means it can suffocate another kaiju without being anywhere near it as well as dissolve organic material.
• Captain Ersatz: Posses a hive-like mind and extend-able mandibles, along with the fight with military, seems similar to the Alien.
• Chest Blaster: Originally planned on having this power but was never really carried out in the final version of the movie. [1] There was a deleted scene where Destoroyah's floral patterned chest opens up and blasts Godzilla into a building but the beam animation wasn't included by Special Effects staff. He had his chest beam that's a part of his arsenal in the manga version where it blew off chunks of Godzilla's dorsal spines and the tip of his tail.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: He uses his "tongue" to drill holes in Godzilla Jr and strangles (and drags) Godzilla with his tail.
• Curb-Stomp Cushion: Godzilla Jr eventually starts fighting back at one point. While he's no match for Destoroyah, he does at least manage to injure him somewhat.
• Depending on the Artist: Other traces of Godzilla media tend to have Destoroyah colored rather inconsistently at times. He'll either be colored as a brownish red, a very dark indigo, bright purple, or just fully red to invoke the Big Red Devil image.
• Death by Irony: Dies at the hands of Godzilla (indirectly), the creature the Oxygen Destroyer killed in the first film.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: He massively blows up when he dies. Thankfully, Godzilla is far enough away he doesn't get hurt.
  • After Godzilla overpowers him by ripping into his fractured chest plates, his body basically combusts into a puffy white smoke, although, in reality, he was basically splitting himself into his smaller Aggregate forms.
• Death from Above: His Limit Break in the fighting games, where he launches a large purple energy ball into the sky. A few seconds later it plummets right onto his opponent that deals horrific widespread damage.
• Dragons Are Demonic: Destoroyah's final form looks like a cross between a dragon and the devil itself. Subverted as they're "simply" a mutated micro-organism.
• Dynamic Entry: The reveal of Destoroyah's final form is AWESOME. After being blasted into an oil refinery by Junior earlier, Destoroyah had simply been biding his time, allowing the DNA he managed to get from Junior's body by biting him in the chest to be recombined into his own genetic code, giving him the endoskeleton he needed to transform into his Perfect Form. Right as Godzilla and Junior finally reunite, the refinery explodes, and as the flames part, there he is, accompanied by the blaring brass sting that commences his theme.
• Energy Absorption: The first time he using this power was when he violently slurps energy and blood right out of Godzilla Jr. like a vampire with his protruding second mouth in his Aggregate Form. At one specific point during the final battle of the film, he's used his pincer-tipped tail in his Perfect Form and leeches some of Godzilla's energy as it can even be visibly seen going into said tail when it was groping around his neck.
• Evil Counterpart: To Godzilla. Both creatures existed before the human race existed, and were woken up by a superweapon that caused their mutation. Unlike Godzilla, who holds a grudge against humans because of what he became, Destoroyah is an Ax-Crazy murderer that kills For the Evulz.
• Evil Is Bigger: Often thought to be the most vile kaiju to ever exist, and though his final form is only 120 meters tall like most other Heisei monsters, he has an utterly colossal wingspan.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Yes Kenichi, Destoroyah will "gladly" kill Godzilla for you when it was born from the Oxygen Destroyer, even though it had already killed several innocent people by the point he says this line.
• Evil Laugh: When dragging Godzilla by the neck. It also does this in the games.
• Final Boss: Of the Heisei Era.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: In the Godzilla: Rulers of Earth comic, several Juvenile Destoroyahs invaded a comic convention. Instead of fleeing in terror, the convention goers stayed and took pictures.◊ Until it became clear that they were the real thing.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: He's basically Godzilla's equivalent to Doomsday, an incredibly powerful opponent that appears suddenly to mark Godzilla's death, but with little coherent goal outside of bringing destruction. Similar to Doomsday however, this has not stopped him from being a very popular character among fans, despite his appearances since his debut being exclusive to side media, such as video games and comic books.
• Giant Enemy Crab: Well, giant enemy pincered monster with a shell. Officially, it's a "Micro-Oxygen based Precambrian Life-Form".
• Giant Flyer: Is even bigger than Godzilla in its final form, but those wings work...except in the video games.
• Hero Killer: Personifies the one weapon that killed Godzilla (however, the original Godzilla was the main villain at the time); and lives up to its namesake by killing Godzilla Jr and giving Godzilla himself one of his most difficult fights. It receives this treatment in Rulers of Earth as well, driving Zilla into fleeing to Honolulu, beating Godzilla unconscious, and then facing down he, Mothra, and two of her larvae at once, all in its first appearance.
• Hive Mind: The aggregate arthropods that form their body apparently have one.
• Hollywood Acid: Its Micro-Oxygen breath oxidizes anything it comes into contact with and is highly corrosive.
• Homing Projectile: In the Atari Pipeworks fighting game trilogy, he fires spherical versions of his Micro-Oxygen blast called Oxygen Mines that act as a Painfully Slow Projectile that'll travel towards his enemies, "magnetically" drawing them within range, and once they come into contact they instantly implode, which sends them flying.
• Horn Attack: His Perfect Form has the Variable Slicer. His singular horn glows with orange energy and becomes extended to increase its range to tear through a nasty chunk of Burning Godzilla's body, mostly around his breastbone and his shoulder, leaving behind a rather unpleasant injury as a result.
• Immune to Bullets: Even at point-blank range to the face, one of the Juvenile Destoroyahs shrugs it off. They're not immune to being shot by a rocket launcher or burned with a flamethrower though.
• It Can Think: There's definitely a brain in there, albeit a twisted, sadistic one. Case in point: according to Word of God, when Destoroyah dragged Godzilla into Tokyo Bay he was deliberately trying to kill him the same way the 1954 original Gojira died, by dissolving him in water. Would have worked too, if Godzilla's burning body hadn't made the water scalding hot, forcing Destoroyah to abandon it.
• An Ice Person: Oddly, despite being vulnerable to immense temperatures, he could exhale a short-ranged ice blast that can freeze enemy monsters in Godzilla Save the Earth.
• Inconsistent Spelling: It's pronounced "Destroyer" (in the English dub) but spelled Destoroyah due to odd rights with using the word. Alternately it's been spelled Destroyah.
• The Juggernaut: His battle with Godzilla shows what happens when two of these go head to head.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Attacks Godzilla while the latter is grieving over Junior.
• Knight of Cerebus: And for a good reason. He also appears to be this for the much lighter hearted Rulers of Earth comic.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: One of the few monsters to realize that retreating from a very pissed off Godzilla is a good strategy. The JSDF ensure that it doesn't pay off for him.
• Laser Blade: Its horn could extend into one and slice Godzilla apart. In the comics this is treated as its ultimate attack. In the Atari games it's used as his fierce attack where it can outright devour chunks of health as long he has enough power in the energy meter to do so... Not so much in Godzilla Unleashed where that attack doesn't even require energy to use and it can be outright spammed continuously, almost to the point where it can easily be seen as That One Attack for most players in this case.
• LEGO Genetics: According to the Godzilla vs. Destoroyah Super Complete Works and Godzilla Movie Studio Tour, Destoroyah can absorb the DNA of creatures it bites by dissolving their cells with Micro-Oxygen, and doing so to Godzilla Junior enabled it to transform into its final form.
• Made of Explodium: Destoroyah explodes after being hit by Godzilla's Infinite Heat Ray and a repeated barrage from the military's freezing weapons.
• Made Of Titanium: Despite being weak against extreme temperatures, Destoroyah survived repeated hits from Godzilla's red spiral breath - although two hits to his floral pattern managed to leave him coughing up blood - which killed Mechagodzilla and SpaceGodzilla, two of the toughest opponents in the series. Later on, he's able to survive a direct hit from Godzilla's Infinite Heat Ray, though it critically injures him, blowing off a huge piece of his head frill and a sizeable portion of one of his shoulders.
• Meaningful Name: Aside from being an incredibly destructive kaiju, it was also created by the Oxygen Destroyer.
• Metamorphosis Monster: From microscopic organism, to insect sized monster, to ten foot killers, to a Godzilla Junior sized Giant Flyer, to a towering demonic colossus larger than even Godzilla himself.
• Mighty Glacier: Once Destoroyah reaches his Perfect Form, he's so huge and so heavily armoured that his walking speed is noticeably slow. However, he's still capable of flying at high speed, and so for most of the final battle he uses his wings as the main means to get around. Don't let his glacial speed fool you; Destoroyah is stronger than ever before once he reaches this point.
• Mood Whiplash: To show how utterly monstrous Destoroyah is, he attacks Godzilla while the nuclear giant's grieving. Twice!
• Mook Maker: Played straight and inverted. The big Destoroyah grew from a bunch of little ones joining together. It can break apart into smaller kaiju ones and swarm Godzilla.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Has yellow colored pupil-less angular Glowing Eyes that gives him an outright vicious vibe.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The name is meant to sound like "Destroyer" after all.
• Nested Mouths: Present in its Giant Flyer and smaller mook forms, but not his final form.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Of Junior. In a infamous deleted scene, it was supposed to get a satisfying one from Godzilla but the directors decided to have humanity help in finishing it off to maintain the impact of Godzilla's death.
• Off with His Head!: In the manga version instead of being axed by the JSDF Godzilla decapitates the bastard. Before dying he fired his Micro Oxygen beam at him.
• One-Winged Angel: As James Rolfe said, "It looks like the GODDAMN DEVIL!"
• Our Dragons Are Different: His One-Winged Angel form looks very like a big red dragon.
• Out of the Inferno: How his Perfect Form announces his entrance in this matter, where the oil refinery he was previously hurled into by Godzilla Jr. violently explodes into a heap of fire, where his demonic appearance is shown in silhouette, emerges as he's seen standing while being surrounded by the constant flames.
• Prehensile Tail: His vicious pincer-tipped tail can be used for a multitude of ways, which can be used for either grabbing, strangling, or dragging. One of the Juvenile Destoroyahs held a SWAT team member suspended in the air with only his tail. His stronger and deadlier Perfect Form used his long tail by having it aggressively groped around Godzilla's neck for a brief strangulation, began taking to the skies, and was violently dragging and scrapping his body across Tokyo Bay at vast distances.
• Purple Is Powerful: Has a purple beam weapon that can penetrate any material. He's armored with a reddish purple carapace and is able to throw down with Godzilla at his uttermost strongest.
• Satanic Archetype: A giant monster that looks like a Big Red Devil, made from the folly of mankind. His Perfect Form even makes its entrance emerging from an explosion.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Desperately tries to bail as soon as Godzilla's overpowered meltdown proves too much for him to handle. The airborne menace is put down by the coldness of the freeze tanks and the Super X3's arsenal.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: It being a bunch of smaller monsters forming one larger monster, going through different forms throughout the film, and being defeated by the combined efforts of both humans and Godzilla rather than by Godzilla alone is also quite reminiscent of Hedorah.
• The Swarm: Can break apart into smaller monsters and attack from everywhere.
• Sword Beam: What its horn can do, as seen in Rulers of Earth and the Pipeworks video game trilogy.
• Time Abyss: He's the oldest monster of the Godzilla franchise born in the Precambrian Era. How old is he? Around 2.5 billion years old.
• Wipe the Floor with You: As an immensely vile act of demonstrating his sick-twisted sadism, he grasps Godzilla's windpipe with his tail, then he outright wipes and scrapes the King of the Monster's flesh across the solid ground in skids until he lets go of his grasp when Destoroyah attempted to bring him into the water since the blazing heat of Godzilla's temperature was far too hot for him.
• The Worf Barrage: Destoroyah is the first villain to tank Godzilla's Red Spiral Ray.
• The Worm That Walks: Made up of thousands of microscopic creatures pretending to be one giant one, functioning like individual cells for one enormous body.
• Would Hurt a Child: He seemingly kills Godzilla Jr (though to be fair, Junior is a young adult at this point).
• Villain Decay: In Godzilla Legends, it's defeated with one freeze bomb (which only freezes about half of it) followed by one hit from Anguirus. Granted, prior to the bomb it was seemingly a Curb-Stomp Battle in Destoroyah's favor. Averted in Rulers of Earth, where it takes on Godzilla, Mothra, and her larvae all at once and still gets away, after beating Godzilla once before in a fair fight.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Tries to fly away when Godzilla starts to take the upper hand, but gets frozen and downed by the military in the attempt.
• Zerg Rush: At one point, he breaks down into a number of smaller Aggregate Destoroyahs and swarms all over Godzilla.

Gigan Rex and Gigan Miles

Gigan Rex and Gigan Miles

First appearance: Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex, 2022

Film Appearances: Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex

Gigan Rex

Gigan Miles

Based on the Showa-era version of Gigan, but distinct enough to qualify as separate creatures. Debuting in the short film Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex, set twenty-five years after the last kaiju attack, Gigan Rex and his soldiers rampage across Japan and serve as the film's main antagonists against Godzilla.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: While the blades of the Gigan Miles can't cut through Godzilla's skin, they can effortlessly destroy the JSDF fighter jets with one slash, spike their tanks like meat on a skewer, and cut buildings in half. Gigan Rex is in a similar boat. Rex's chainsaw whips can't pierce Godzilla's skin, but they can stagger him a little and slice through structures just as smoothly.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: For the numerous Gigan Miles, the sharpened edges of their abdominal buzzsaws are colored red instead of silver and the green sections of their bodies are more of a bluish-teal. Gigan Rex is fully red all the way down along with having some shades of dark grey for his "flesh", and his visor is more of a dark magenta.
• An Arm and a Leg: One Gigan Miles activates his buzzsaw to carve Godzilla's flesh, only to be momentarily obliterated by getting blown away by his Nuclear Pulse. It was so powerful that it even severs one of his arms.
• Big Bad: Gigan Rex is the main antagonist of the short film and the leader of the Gigan Miles.
• Beam-O-War: Gigan Rex's fight with Godzilla ends with its Chest Blaster colliding with Godzilla's white Atomic Breath. Gigan Rex has the advantage until Godzilla pushes back and the resulting explosion kills Gigan Rex.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Gigan Rex and Miles have large metal spikes at the end of their tails, with one Miles attempting to stab Godzilla with his. Rex could split his tail into two and used it to stabilize himself after getting knocked off balance.
• Body Horror: When ordered by Gigan Rex, the Gigan Miles pull back the skin on their chests and their buzzsaw gruesomely enlarges and pulls out of their body.
• Chainsaw Good: Gigan Rex's Rex Blades can transform into long serrated whips that can effortlessly cut through buildings; while still unable to cut through Godzilla's skin, they were able to make him stagger.
• Chest Blaster: Gigan Rex trades out the buzzsaw for a powerful energy cannon. He can supercharge it by tearing out the cores of the Gigan Miles and linking with them.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: The first group of Gigan Miles clearly didn't go down without a fight as they were surely willing to bring Godzilla down even though he has them outmatched. The two cyborgs were able to briefly gang-up on him with one of them revving his buzzsaw into Godzilla's skin while the other fires his laser beam at him from a farther distance. While their attacks weren't enough to injure him outright, their tenacity and coordination deserves mention.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Instead of a buzzsaw, Gigan Rex has another eye in its chest that can fire energy beams.
• King Mook: Gigan is reimagined as an army of weaker Gigan Miles and one, much stronger Gigan Rex.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: The weaker Gigan Miles have the traditional yellow and green colorations from the original Showa incarnation but are easily trounced by Godzilla's might. Their master, Gigan Rex is a vivid red and is shown to be a more of a skilled fighter than his henchmen by being able to take on Godzilla without so much of a struggle but he will use them for strategic ways. His Chest Blaster, which had the same yellow color like the Eye Beams from the numerous Gigan Miles, takes on a blood-red coloration after removing their power cores.
• The Leader: Gigan Rex is the leader of the Gigan Miles in their fight against Godzilla.
• Made of Iron: Unlike the Gigan Miles, who go down in one hit when fighting Godzilla, Rex can withstand his physical attacks and atomic breath.
• Made of Plasticine: Despite being able to No-Sell conventional weaponry such as jet missiles and tank cannon rounds, the Gigan Miles are rather fragile by kaiju standard, being easily destroyed by Godzilla's onslaught. One of them gets his head caved in by his foot while the other gets sent flying by his Nuclear Pulse. A single blast of Atomic Breath was enough to make one combust into flames, leaving nothing behind.
• Man Bites Man: The Gigan Miles that was occupied by dealing with the JSDF's military futile assault of jets, lands from the sky with one last remaining fighter jet helplessly held in his beak, crushing the cockpit (along with its human pilot) into bits.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Miles is latin for soldier, and the Gigan Miles act as Mooks for the Gigan Rex.
  • Rex is latin for king, and Gigan Rex is the leader of the Gigan Miles.
• Mooks: The Gigan Miles serve as minions for Gigan Rex, being much weaker but there's at least 13 of them.
• The Pawns Go First: The first line of the Gigan Miles were the beginning challengers to take on Godzilla, who easily dispatches them as they drop like kaiju-sized flies. Right when it seemed like he won, Gigan Rex decides to arrive on the scene and proves to be a far more experienced combatant than any of his servants.
• Purple Is Powerful: Gigan Rex's visor illuminates a fuchsia colored light who has the power to give direct orders to his fellow Gigan Miles with telepathy. His forehead gem also glows purple when he telepathically instructs the other Gigan Miles to swarm Godzilla's blindside while he's keeping him distracted.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Gigan Rex is the leader of the Gigans and the only one capable of actually fighting Godzilla one on one.
• Razor Wind: During the battle against Godzilla, a single Gigan Miles sliced the air, making an aerial slash that cleanly split apart a nearby building.
• Red Is Violent: Gigan Rex has a deep crimson colored body who's far more wicked than any his servants, where right after Godzilla triggers his Super Mode, Gigan Rex uses the opportunity to outright yank the glowing power cores from the last surviving Gigan Miles left telepathically, and uses them to empower his Chest Blaster to counterattack Godzilla's juiced-up Breath Weapon.
• Slashed Throat: The one Gigan Miles that was tossed in front of the others had multiple wires exposed with red sparks showing that Godzilla had violently slit his neck open.
• Strong and Skilled: Gigan Rex is a way more formidable opponent compared to his underlings. Rex can fight Godzilla on equal footing and is surprisingly agile despite his size, using his power to fly, his chainsaw whips, and his control over the Miles to his advantage.
• Super-Toughness: While the Gigan Miles themselves are less resilient as they're easily killed by Godzilla's physical attacks, Gigan Rex is shown to not only tank a brutal Tail Slap from the King of the Monsters, but he even uses his bladed forearms as a shield to withstand a blast from Godzilla's Atomic Breath with no scorch marks on either of his hooked claws. This becomes extremely subverted for him when Godzilla's strengthened white-hot Atomic Breath overpowers his own Chest Blaster in a Beam-O-War.
• Takes One to Kill One: As with most giant monsters, the Miles are unaffected by the JSDF's weapons; one Miles bit down a jet in its mouth, which made it explode, but even that didn't do anything. In the JSDF's defense, it's been years since the last kaiju attack, and in that time, they got lazy and were woefully unprepared by the time of the Gigan's attack. As always, the only way to take Rex and Miles out was another monster: Godzilla.
• Tiny-Headed Behemoth: Their actual heads are strangely a lot more puny compared to their largely rotund torsos.
• Whip Sword: Gigan Rex's scythes can transform into whip swords. With chainsaws on the chain.
• Zerg Rush: The Gigan Miles are much weaker than Gigan Rex and Godzilla, but there's at least 13 of them and they can pose a threat to Godzilla if enough dogpile him at once.

Krystalak

Krystalak

First appearance: Godzilla: Unleashed, 2008

Appearing in the Wii version of Godzilla: Unleashed, Krystalak is a semi-sentient crystal organism, spawned by the same meteor shower that threatens to rip the earth apart. Born from the crystals, Krystalak seeks to bring all of their energies together to make himself into the ultimate monster. Like the crystals that spawned him, Krystalak is quite resistant to most forms of energy weapons, forcing opponents to fight him tooth and claw. Krystalak can expel crystal shards in a solid stream, bludgeoning foes from a distance. Krystalak can also overload his crystal heart — sacrificing his own physical integrity to damage everything nearby. With no ties to any existing alien or terrestrial powers, Krystalak seeks power at any cost. Like Obsidius, Krystalak is an original creation by Atari but is also considered part of the kaiju family by Toho.

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• Action Bomb: Can overload his heart to create a powerful shockwave that damages everything around him. The manual says he sacrifices his structural integrity to perform the move, but in the game itself it only consumes all of the energy bars to prevent self-inflicted damage that could put the player at a disadvantage.
• Beard of Evil: He has a row of spikes underneath his chin that's seen as a crystalized version of a goatee.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: One of his strong attacks is to whip his tail forward, jabbing the cluster of crystal spines at tend into an opponent's body, and quickly yank it back out to pull the opponent off its feet.
• Breath Weapon: A beam of crystal energy.
• Bootstrapped Leitmotif: His theme in the game is more-or-less just Battra's from the PlayStation 2 version of Godzilla: Unleashed as that version was released a month before the Wii version.
• Cast from Hit Points: The Crystal Overload attack has horrifically destructive power but unfortunately using it can drain a health cell or two if the player is reckless enough to do so.
• Combat Parkour: Performs a lot nifty and athletic flips for his most of kicks and fierce attacks.
• Crystalline Creature: He's a living physical matter of crystal given flesh after his initial creation, thanks to SpaceGodzilla breaking free from his prison and releasing an asteroids of various crystals into the Earth. He also has many organic components made entirely out of crystals in his genetic signature, such as a "heart" that releases destructive energy, a beard-like structure made of crystal formations protruding out of his chin, and his own flesh is said to be resistant to most beam attacks from other monsters similar to how the crystals themselves being immune to long-ranged projectiles in gameplay.
• Energy Ball: He's capable of shooting smaller blasts of crystallized spherical energy bullets out of his spiked tail for one of his fierce attacks and his weaker projectile weapons whenever the C button is tapped.
• Evil Counterpart: He's sort of this to Anguirus in a way. Both have massive amounts of spikes on their back, spiked tails, and they even run on all fours. He's also sort of The Lancer to SpaceGodzilla, who's the leader of the Mutant faction, just like how Anguirus is Godzilla's right-hand man and is the leader of the Earth Defenders.
• Evil Laugh: His victory animation has him chuckling rather quietly.
• Femme Fatalons: Both of his hands end with insanely lengthened and vicious-looking claws that are created for slashing and tearing into his opponents.
• Force and Finesse: Compared to his volcanic brother Obsidius, Krystalak lands his stronger attacks by using his greater agility, speed, and swiftness while combining vicious ferocity that makes him look absolutely feral, whereas Obsidius bludgeons his enemies with more weight and power with sluggish haymakers and grappling like a brutish wrestler. While both kaiju have good attack power at the most, Krystalak is more of a Lightning Bruiser while Obsidius is a Mighty Glacier.
• Gem Tissue: Has crystals running down his back and even has a beard of them.
• Godhood Seeker: Krystalak seeks to bring all of the crystal energies together to make himself into the ultimate monster.
• Immune to Bullets: Krystalak is very resistant to most breath and energy attacks, forcing foes to fight him in melee.
• Lean and Mean: Has a lithe and skinny physique and is partnered with the Mutant faction.
• Lightning Bruiser: Fast, agile, and pretty strong, but his ranged attacks are rather weak.
• Meaningful Name: His name is possibly based on the Czech word krystalizovat which means crystalize.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Even though he's merely a crystalline organism, his physical features however seem to be an odd blend somewhere between reptilian and mammalian. His extremely long claws and tail look closer to that of various reptiles while his rush attack takes the form of a quadrupedal sprint that's similar to any carnivorous big cat predator chasing after their prey and the crystals on his back can be either seen as his armored carapace or his "fur".
• One-Shot Character: Like Obsidius, Krystalak was created for Godzilla: Unleashed and hasn't appeared in anything else so far.
• Primal Stance: Seems to slouch down in a threatening position either while idle or in his fighting stance.
• Power Crystal: Born of the crystals that impacted Earth at the beginning of the game. A round reddish crystal sits in the center of his chest, and the fleshy parts of his body have a similar white-purple tone some of the crystal growths have.
• Purple Is Powerful: Crapload of purple pointy crystal spikes on his back, had some shades of purple on him, and is fast and surprisingly lethal for his frame.
• Running on All Fours: Breaks into this as a sprint whenever the player has him rushing.
• Slasher Smile: He does seem to sport a toothy and creepy looking grin. It's possibly that the idea of gaining power from the crystals is permanently stirring in his mind as he's on the hunt for them.
• Spikes of Villainy: His back is completely covered by crystal spines. His tail ends in a ball of crystal spikes. He even has a line of crystals as a beard!
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Aside from looking broadly similar to Spacegodzilla copy, Krystalak's playstyle is very aggressive and quick with weak ranged abilities, sort of like a Zilla-expy. Makes more sense when you realize Zilla was intended to be in Krystalak's debut; but was Dummied Out due to his then-current unpopularity.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Has yellow slits for eyes almost as if he's squinting, which appropriately fits his power-hungry nature.

Megaguirus

Megaguirus

First appearance: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, 2000^note species first appeared in Rodan

Film Appearances: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus | Godzilla: Final Wars^note stock footage

A gigantic mutant dragonfly and queen of the Meganulon insects. After an egg was laid by a time-displaced prehistoric dragonfly following the test run of the Dimension Tide, a boy brought the egg to Tokyo and later dropped it into the sewers, where it hatched into many larval Meganula. After causing the city to flood, they crawled up the buildings and metamorphed into adult Meganula, who flew off and found Godzilla and siphoned off some of his energy (during which Godzilla killed many of them). The survivors returned to Tokyo and gave the Godzilla energy as well as their own to their gestating queen, who grew enormous and much more fearsome as she became Megaguirus. One of the fastest kaiju, she can fly circles around her opponents and use her stinger to impale and siphon off their energy, which prevents them from using their special powers while she's draining them.

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• Artistic License – Biology: Her species definitely has a weird life-cycle that's nothing like any real insect. Most unusually, all the workers die after injecting the Megaguirus' egg the DNA they've stolen to create and strengthen their queen, so it's not made clear how they propagate their species.
• Ascended Extra: Her species began as a minor threat in Rodan, but was elevated to the main antagonist in Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: She looks like a cross between a dragonfly and a dragon.
• The Bus Came Back: The Meganulon first appeared in Rodan as bullet-proof village terrors, only to become lunch for a newly born Rodan. They weren't seen again until Godzilla X Megaguirus, over forty years later, where they're shown to be juvenile Meganula who serve a queen, Megaguirus.
• Dreadful Dragonfly: A prehistoric dragonfly species specifically, and because of her absorbed Godzilla DNA, she's an almost literal dragon-fly.
• Fireballs: After absorbing atomic energy from Godzilla, Megaguirus is able to project a massive fireball that's powerful enough to knock Godzilla off his feet.
• Flash Step: By flapping her wings at an incredible speed, Megaguirus can zip to and fro almost too quickly to see, easily evading attacks. In the games she can activate it as a consumable special ability, doubling her movement and attack speed to dart around the arena and pummel her opponent with rapid-fire attacks.
• Fragile Speedster: In contrast to Godzilla's Mighty Glacier. She's one of the fastest monsters in the series, and she can still take a physical beating like a champ. Fire, however, will bring her down easily, as demonstrated when she weathered all of Godzilla's attacks just fine, but went down immediately the second he got a direct hit in from his atomic breath.
• Glass Cannon: Proved strong enough to knock Godzilla around and even pick him up despite being smaller than he is, but is painfully weak to fire — a mere two blasts of Godzilla's atomic ray were sufficient to kill her.
• Hive Queen: Of the Meganulons.
• Life Drain: She can absorb the life essence of her enemy and heal herself, at least in the games. She can also siphon away weapon energy as well, filling up her weapon energy bar in the process.
• Made of Explodium: Blows up toku-style when she dies.
• Oh, Crap!: Once when Godzilla pretends not to know she's behind him, then grabs her stinger with his tail. The second when Godzilla pulls a monster of a jump attack. Another time when she seemingly pierces his head, only to find out he caught the tip of her stinger with his mouth.
• Power Copying: Megaguirus can utilize the beam weapons and powers of foes she drains energy from. In the film she creates atomic fireballs after drawing more of Godzilla's energy, and in the video games she can use an opponent's beam weapon by firing it from her stinger after absorbing it.
• Prehistoric Monster: Probably the only non-reptilian example, she and the Meganulon/Meganula are huge, vicious dragonflies from ancient times (clearly based on Meganeura) which have survived to the present day either in subterranean stasis (Rodan) or by a rip in spacetime (Godzilla vs. Megaguirus).
• Purple Is Powerful: The Hive Queen and strongest of the Meganula, and most of her carapace is a bright purple (with some yellow and red highlights).
• Razor Wings: Shows them off by cutting a building in two as she flies by.
• Single-Stroke Battle: All she did was lose a pincer, but the effect was the same.
• Slasher Smile: The Queen was rather expressive and got a few wicked grins before pulling a misdeed. My God.
• The Swarm: Her Rage ability in Godzilla: Save the Earth summons three swarms of Meganula who chase foes and, if they catch a foe, paralyzes them while draining a large amount of health and weapon energy to give to their queen.
• Took a Level in Badass: Went from being Rodan-food to being a threat to Godzilla. Justified in that the original Meganulons were just the larval forms and Megaguirus is a fully grown queen of her species.
• Visual Pun: She's a dragon-fly!

Obsidius

Obsidius

First appearance: Godzilla: Unleashed, 2008

An original monster created by Atari for Godzilla: Unleashed and the winner of a fan poll involving four monster ideas (the other three being Lightning Bug, Fire Lion, and The Visitor). Although most of the crystals deposited on Earth by the meteor showers (sent by SpaceGodzilla in order to escape from his prison in Godzilla: Save the Earth) embedded themselves in the surface, some of them managed to punch through the earth's crust and enter the lithosphere. There, brought together by the magma flows from within the earth, a sentient creature was brought to life by the accumulated power of the crystals and the raw, ferrous materials of the earth. Obsidius emerged from a volcano onto the surface world only recently in conjunction with fellow mutant Krystalak, and thus far has resisted all attempts at communication. His virtually impenetrable mineral exterior shields him against both physical and energy assaults. He advances single-mindedly toward the most unstable crystal formations on the surface, and as such should be considered extremely dangerous.

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• Breath Weapon: A spray of lava.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His body is composed mainly of solid rock and cooled magma.
• Flat Character: He was brought to life from a crystal embedded in magma and is attracted to the other crystals. That's all there really is to him in regards to "personality" (if one could even call it that).
• Magma Man: His Breath Weapon, his design...he's got it all
• Mighty Glacier: He's one of the slower monsters, but he packs a wallop.
• One-Shot Character: Like Krystalak, was created for Godzilla: Unleashed and so far hasn't been in anything else.
• Playing with Fire: Due to being formed from the crust and magma of the Earth, he can spew molten lava and is immune to fire-based damage.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Plays very much like an ape-like character who's been involved with a Nintendo system before.
• Power Crystal: Obsidius was brought to life by the crystals that impacted Earth at the beginning of the game. Some punched through into the interior of the planet, fusing with magma and rock and creating Obsidius.
• Red Sky, Take Warning: Justified, as he emerges from an erupting volcano that formed in the middle of Seattle during sunset.
• Stock Sound Effects: Obsidius' vocal vocabulary consists of classic Hollywood monster and creature vocalizations (mainly made by Frank Welker), most of them originally from Sharptooth.

Orga

Orga

First appearance: Godzilla 2000: Millennium, 1999

Film Appearances: Godzilla 2000 | Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

The villain of Godzilla: 2000, Orga is the freak result of a Millennian trying and failing to properly absorb Godzilla's DNA. The resulting mutant spent the remainder of the film trying to devour and consume Godzilla's genetic code, though whether this was instinctive, or out of a desire to save himself is unknown.

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• Adaptational Abomination: In the manga, Orga is a semi-amorphous Genetic Abomination that dwarfs Godzilla in size when it tries to devour him.
• Adaptational Badass: When he was introduced as a new enemy to challenge Godzilla, many of his combat abilities weren't exactly up to snuff in Godzilla 2000 as he was only able deliver one physical strike to Godzilla (along with biting into him), and he was noticeably sluggish to react to anything, making it far easier for Godzilla to attack him because of his clunkiness. For the Pipeworks fighting games though, Orga has a lot of grappling maneuvers and a full set of exceptional attacks with his dominant Wrestler in All of Us attributes, has the strongest attack strength out of any monster by far (alongside Biollante), and he also has a decently-ranged grab because of his elongated arms, thus making him a much more dominant physical fighter.
• Alien Blood: Bleeds brown in Rulers of Earth when Gigan pierced through the roof of his mouth with his scythed-blade and shredded his fingers with buzzsaw. His innards are shown to be more of a teal-ish color when Jet Jaguar destroys him internally.
• Alien Invasion: Intended to take over the Earth by copying Godzilla's DNA.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Invaded Earth, killed hundreds of people, and tried to eat Godzilla in order to save itself from its own failures. Further evidence that you just can't trust aliens.
• Almighty Idiot: The Millennians have successfully acquired the needed genetic structure from Godzilla's DNA and was able to gain a body to use. Godzilla's DNA was likely a blessing as well as a curse on the alien life form as soon as it mutated into Orga. The beast possesses a Healing Factor, high physical strength that's greater than Godzilla's, and a Shoulder Cannon to boot but the major problem is that Orga is... lacking in mobility, inexperienced in a battle, and doesn't even take full advantages of his newfound abilities. This is highly justified mostly because he was literally just created not too long after so the inexperience upon him is similar to an adopted pet being unfamiliar to new surroundings.
• The Assimilator: Basically the Millennians' plan in the film. Using someone else's physical forms can allow them to become solidified. It worked by sampling Godzilla's DNA, but the results weren't... pretty. Even after becoming Orga, he still went out of his way to want more of Godzilla by biting and absorbing him to become a superior clone. By the time he unhinged his jaw to fully devour the King of the Monsters it seemed to be all going according to plan. Until Godzilla started to glow...
• Big Eater: He tried to eat Godzilla! Doesn't get much bigger then that. In Rulers of Earth he tries to devour Godzilla, Moguera, and its own ally, Gigan, in turn.
• The Brute: To the Cryorg in the Rulers of Earth.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: How most of his roars were emitted in the original Japanese version of the movie as he made dozens of unsettling and screechy-sounding shrills, which can be extremely unexpected for him to have in contrast to his malformed and bulky outward appearance.
• Close-Range Combatant: Despite having an energy blast from his shoulder, Orga instead relies on up-close brute force attacks.
• Continuity Nod: His bio explains that he joined the Vortaak's campaign to have another go to fight and destroy Godzilla again as it even mentioned his defeat in the manual for Godzilla Unleashed. It's clearly evident that Orga has some unfinished business with the King of the Monsters, even going into high levels of It's Personal territory.
• Deader than Dead: He's violently blown apart by a much more destructive and powerful blast from the detonation of Godzilla's Nuclear Pulse. The explosion was so fatal that it destroyed the upper half of his body. His decapitated corpse falls over to the ground as it begins to dry up and starts collapsing into nothing but dust. There's no possible way for his regeneration to bring him from back that.
• Dumb Muscle: Not a particularly bright monster in the films, the games, or the comics.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In the US version of Godzilla 2000.
• Feet-First Introduction: A hand variant. When Godzilla glances at the burning Millennian UFO, Orga makes himself known as his gigantic knuckle/clawed hand is shown first and comes into view before the very next shot displays his hideously hulking appearance in full view for all to see.
• Final Boss: Of Godzilla: Save the Earth's Easy and Medium modes.
• Fingore: His Giant Hands of Doom gets bisected into chunks from Gigan's buzzsaw. Considering that Orga was actually attempting to eat him alive after going berserk earlier, Gigan practically had a good reason to respond to that.
• Giant Hands of Doom: Arguably the most prominent and well-known physical trait about Orga's form are his freakishly big and powerful clawed hands. Other than clobbering Godzilla up-close with a strong hook to his chin, he really doesn't use them as often as you would think strangely enough.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The Millennians spent the entire movie trying to get Godzilla's DNA to gain his regenerative abilities and restore their bodies. Instead of doing that, it mutated them into Orga.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Tends to tank a lot of damage thanks to his healing factor.
• Healing Factor: Has a pretty impressive one in the film, and an even better one in Rulers of Earth, where taking one of Gigan's blades through his upper jaw, or being blown apart from the inside out by Jet Jaguar, don't manage to kill him.
• Hive Mind: In the manga adaptation of Godzilla 2000, the Millenian were a group of alien entities who accidentally fused together into a single consciousness.
• Horror Hunger: Orga has to absorb new sources of DNA constantly or die in Rulers of Earth. This results in him trying to devour everything in sight, including his own allies.
• Hydra Problem: Every single attack that Godzilla does to him whether it's claw slashes, bites, tail bashing, and even blasts of his Atomic Ray will only be quickly nullified because of his advanced Healing Factor. The only proper method to kill Orga outright was to destroy him from the inside out, which is exactly what Godzilla planned when he purposely went inside of his mouth to use his Nuclear Pulse to finish him off for good.
• Impossibly Graceful Giant: Despite his monstrously humpbacked physique he's a lot more mobile and athletic in the Atari fighting games as he can perform a variety of agile attacks such dropkicks, elbow drops, and lunging bodyslams. This is even more shocking to see in Godzilla Unleashed as one of his kick attacks is called Vault Kick, where he completely balances his entire body with his gargantuan knuckles that holds up his mass to deliver a sideways kick and lands himself on the ground perfectly without even missing a beat.
• In a Single Bound: He may looked grounded due to his size, and Giant Hands of Doom but he can somehow leap somewhere between 100 to 300 meters. Even Godzilla looked up in confusion by his sudden agility.
• It Can Think: Regardless of his lesser intelligence when he was previously just a group of Millennians (that were more highly more intelligent originally), he does display some Combat Pragmatist qualities during his fight with Godzilla. At one point after their brief hand-to-hand battle, he hunches over to show off his glowing Shoulder Cannon to Godzilla, fooling him into thinking that he's going to fire another beam... instead he leaps across a city block and telepathically commands his UFO to have it plow into Godzilla's blind side.
• LEGO Genetics: Orga can absorb DNA through biting or consuming other beings, and seeks to assimilate Godzilla's. After absorbing Godzilla's DNA, he immediately begins morphing into a Godzilla-like beast.
• Living Ship: The Millennians' UFO is a Sapient Ship controlled by the collective consciousness of the alien Millennians, and in Rulers of Earth and Godzilla: Unleashed it transforms into Orga after copying Godzilla's DNA.
• Ludicrous Gibs: How Jet Jaguar destroys him in the IDW Rulers of Earth comic, where he flew into Orga's mouth, down his gullet, and grows from inside of his body, which made him graphically implode and erupt into dozens of Millennian pieces.
• Man Bites Man: Clenched his jaws into Godzilla's arm, which briefly caused him to squeal in momentary pain. Biting is also how he's able to collect genetic properties by extracting his victim's DNA. The longer he bites, the more DNA he absorbs. He was only able to bite long enough to temporarily change most of the skin on his hulking back from gray to green scales.
• Mighty Glacier: Lumbering, lethargic, and he doesn't take any effort to make himself move any faster than molasses. Encountering him in range can be really situational however, and he literally packs a punch, such as when he actually baited Godzilla by lowering himself to the ground and throwing an uppercut to his jaw so hard that it made Godzilla stagger from the blow.
• Nested Mouths: He can unhinge the entirety of his mouth to reveal a fleshy net-like casing as he tried to swallow Godzilla whole to gain more of his DNA and transform himself into a stronger Godzilla-clone. It almost worked.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He's still able to telepathically use what's left of the Millennian UFO and cleverly made it a battering ram into Godzilla. When he saw Godzilla preparing to use his Atomic Ray, Orga had the smartest idea to use the damaged UFO as a shield to block it, and given the Big G's animosity towards the space craft he obliterates it in one blast, thus forcing Orga to become rather desperate when Godzilla started to approach him for another fight.
• No Name Given: Significantly downplayed in the Japanese version of the film as his name is actually derived from the word, Organizer G-1, as that was also the name of Godzilla's substance in his regenerative cells. In the American version, his name was never even said out loud by any of the human characters.
• Not Quite Dead: One powerful blast of Godzilla's Atomic Ray was enough to make Orga erupt in nothing but massive flames, making the fight coming to a sudden conclusion as the King of the Monsters stares and snarls at the fire, thinking that his opponent has been killed... Orga lives through it all.
• Oh, Crap!: Eyes widen just before Godzilla, who is halfway down his stomach, unleashes his Nuclear Pulse and blasts him to pieces, giving the impression Orga just realized that was a bad idea.
• One-Handed Zweihänder: How he lifts up buildings in the Pipeworks games in this fashion by using only one hand as opposed to the majority of the monsters who carry buildings with two hands (or legs).
• Out of the Inferno: Slowly emerges from the explosion set off by Godzilla's beam, with most of his charred flesh sizzling and dangling off of him while continuously regenerating the burn wounds thereafter.
• Painful Transformation: Before Orga came to be, the Millennians ejected themselves out of their UFO after sampling most of Godzilla's cells in order to make their forms more adaptable to the Earth's atmosphere. As such, their cephalopod-like form suddenly begins to go through an unexpected metamorphosis when Godzilla's borrowed genes started to heavily affect them... very badly as the extraterrestrial begins howling gruesomely with a warbled and distorted yell as its once wiry-looking tentacles start to morph into enlarged thickened hands, sprouts clawed digits, and its head gets widened and stretched out into a mass of muscle that's so heavy, it becomes a prominent humpback as the newly formed abomination lands onto the ground with a thud from its increased mass. Needless to say, Orga's mutation wasn't exactly a welcoming feeling.
• Partial Transformation: After biting Godzilla he starts sprouting green scales; and in mere moments after he starts feasting on Godzilla, his complexion (for his upper body) goes from being a light brown-ish gray to a darkish green coloration and begins sprouting out a singular row of Godzilla's tyrian dorsal spikes out of his back as a result of absorbing Godzilla's DNA. One can only imagine what Orga would've looked like if he actually succeeded in swallowing Godzilla completely.
• Running on All Fours: His giant hands allow him to knuckle walk.
• Scaled Up: Started growing scales and dorsal spines as he absorbed Godzilla's DNA.
• Secret Character: In Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee and Godzilla: Save The Earth.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Lets out an high-pitched shriek when Godzilla clamped his jaws on his forearm until he elbowed him off.
• Shoulder Cannon: Has a replica of the Millenian ship's energy cannon in his left shoulder.
• Stock Sound Effects: A lot of his high-pitched screeches that he emits are actually recycled sounds that originated from Cretaceous King Ghidorah from Rebirth of Mothra 3 (that was only released a year prior before Orga's debut) where it's only heard in the Japanese version of the film.
• Super Spit: In the Atari fighting games trilogy, he has the power of hacking up and spitting out a short-ranged green goop out of his mouth that's able to torpefy kaiju opponents.
• Too Dumb to Live: You've just spent the last few minutes slugging it out with Godzilla, who has been blowing pieces off of you with his Atomic Beam. Best course of action? Let's try swallowing him head first!
• Villain of the Week: Only appeared in one movie, although he's certainly popular in the games. Although he did make a small cameo in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters attacking Turkey in the prologue.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the Japanese version his... "roar" doesn't quite match despite his hulking look. Lampshaded in the DVD Commentary. His roar was modified in the US version with an appropriate bellow.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Several official sources have given out several differing names for his long-ranged Shoulder Cannon attack, with one being known as Destructive Motion Attack. The secondary name is appropriately called Wave Motion Beam. The enormous width of the blast itself was so huge, it covered the majority of Godzilla's frontal body when it was directly fired at him.
• Wrestler in All of Us: While he does quite a few grapples in the movie, in the games it's taken up a notch...
• Your Head Asplode: Him trying to swallow Godzilla results in him getting his head blasted off.

SpaceGodzilla

SpaceGodzilla

First appearance: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, 1994

Film Appearances: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

A mutated clone of Godzilla who comes to Earth to fight the original, SpaceGodzilla is a vicious minded entity whose control over crystalline energies makes him a threat to everyone around him.

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• Achilles' Heel: SpaceGodzilla's shoulder crystals. They're not strong enough to withstand M.O.G.U.E.R.A's spiral grenade missiles and when M.O.G.U.E.R.A blasts them, SpaceGodzilla's power becomes drastically weakened. His fat frame and stubby arms don't help him in a fight.
• Acrofatic: Double subverted. While his ground speed is what you'd expect for his size, he moves/flies much faster in the air thanks to his anti-gravity powers.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the movie, he's the result of G-Cells getting inside a black hole, and combining with a crystal monster. In the IDW comics, he's just another monster that just looks like Godzilla.
• Alien Invasion: A one monster variant.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Godzilla's cruelest and most openly malicious opponent in the Heisei continuity. What do you expect from this universe's aliens?
• Ambiguously Human: If the first theory of his birth of how he's partially created from the remains of Biollante is any indication, it takes it to a rather disturbing thought that he has some aspects of human genes that originally belonged to Erika whose spirit was within a rosebush that was injected with G-Cells.
• And I Must Scream: After he is defeated by Godzilla, he gets trapped in the form of tiny crystal particles, floating in space for all eternity.
• Animalistic Abomination: He is created when Godzilla's cells are pulled into a black hole and fused with a crystalline entity.
• Attack Reflector: Capable of spawning a crystallized shield deflecting Godzilla's Atomic Ray right at him. Strangely he doesn't redirect Moguera's weaponry.
• Batman Gambit: Him attacking Little Godzilla is actually part of his plan to draw Godzilla out, believe it or not.
• Berserk Button: Destroying his shoulder crystals is a one-way ticket to oblivion. It's practically justified for his case, since he's able to draw large amounts of energy from the crystal foundations of his fortress. Without the use of those shoulder crystals, it weakens his power. The very moment Moguera launches its Spiral Grenade Missiles to blow up one of his shoulder crystals, he quickly turns around to blast his Corona Beam that completely blew off the robot's arm. When it fired another missile, it destroys his second shoulder crystal. By that point, the cosmic beast got so enraged that he actually stops using long-ranged attacks and resorted to using nothing but brute strength by using his crystalized spiked tail that punctured right into Moguera's chest, lifts it off the ground entirely, and tosses it into several buildings, which putted the machine out of commission.
• Big Bad: Of both his own film, and of the mutant faction in Godzilla: Unleashed, and of the game as a whole since he's responsible the crystals that are wrecking havoc on Earth, usurping the spot from the Vortaak aliens that were the Big Bad in the previous two games and actually created him.
• Bitch Slap: During his second encounter with Godzilla, at one point he pulled off one physical attack that actually damaged him, which was basically an energy enhanced bop to his shoulder whilst zapping him. It's strangely humorous since his arms, in comparison, are much shorter than Godzilla's.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: His crystal tip tail lets him stab things.
• Call-Back: SpaceGodzilla's physical design was heavily based off of the Super Godzilla design from the videogame of the same name for the SNES. In fact, aside from turning the spines along his back and tail and the massive growths on his shoulders into crystal, he's almost an Expy for Super Godzilla. Right down to the crest on his head, which was edited out of the American version of the game. SpaceGodzilla's mouth also shows some similarities to Biollante's mouth, and the way his body breaks down after death is similar to Biollante as well.
• Crippling Overspecialization: As much as a major opponent he is to both Godzilla and Moguera, his most devastating weapons are primarily long-ranged as he's practically efficient to use his powers to keep both of them at bay since he's overly reliant on his crystals that energizes his strength to great capacity. That said, fighting enemies up close isn't his specialty, such as when Moguera's nose started drilling into his flesh to draw blood, and even Godzilla was able to briefly overpower him in combat by landing a couple of physical blows ^note  Although earlier in the second fight, he did strike Godzilla with an energy enhanced claw attack, regardless of his inferior arm length. and was able to bite into him long enough for the G-Force soldiers to launch the Spiral Grenade missiles fired from Moguera to outright blow up one of his shoulder crystals.
• Co-Dragons: In Godzilla: Ongoing he, Hedorah, Gigan, and Kaiser Ghidorah are this to the Cryog, who remain offscreen.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's shown to be a surprisingly cunning and strategic space kaiju, he's apparently no stranger to demonstrating both brains and brawn. During his first battle with Godzilla, he takes a major advantage of his Papa Wolf instincts by flying into the air to blast Godzilla Junior. Godzilla, naturally, protects his flesh and blood by using himself as a meat shield as he's getting continuously blast by SpaceGodzilla's Corona Beam until he drops to the ground, allowing him to separate Junior from his father and places him inside of a makeshift crystalized prison.
  • It's also worth noting that because of his crystal-based fortress that he's created in Fukuoka, his power can be nearly limitless and is able to drawing out the battle much longer than not, due to being able to absorb and manipulate the energies from the surrounding crystals. Even if Godzilla manages to dispose of them, he would simply spawn more of them as he likes. That is until his shoulder crystals were blown off.
• Continuity Nod: The time travel plot of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah didn't really affect Biollante's existence at all. Because of that, she's one of the two logical possibilities of how SpaceGodzilla came to be.
• Crystal Spires and Togas: This is the theme of this behemoth.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: How his gruesome demise occurs after succumbing to the sheer might of Godzilla's all-powerful Spiral Ray.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of being incinerated by Godzilla's Burn Spiral Heat Ray in the film, Godzilla ends him by using one of his own crystals as a stabbing weapon to impale his clone in the manga adaptation.
• Disc-One Final Boss: In both Godzilla: Ongoing and Half-Century War he's set up as the big threat, only to be eclipsed by Kaiser Ghidorah in the former, and Gigan and King Ghidorah in the latter.
• The Dragon: Initially this to the Vortaak in the Godzilla games.
• Energy Ring Attack: Within his flying form, he's able to blast ring-shaped attacks with electromagnetic properties called the Photon Hurricane, which has the power to dismantle electronic equipments that made Moguera unable to function and fight back in the battle of the asteroid belt. He doesn't use this attack on Godzilla for whatever reason.
• Evil Is Bigger: At one-hundred and twenty metres tall, he is twenty metres taller than the Heisei Era Godzilla. His flying form is also said to weigh 720,000 tonnes, making him the most massive kaiju in the series by far.
• Evil Twin: A twisted clone of Godzilla, created when his cells fused together with an alien entity and some sort of crystalline lifeform within a black hole.
• Evil vs. Evil:
  • Opposes the Vortaak in Unleashed after having previously worked for them before in Save the Earth. Likely because the Vortaak want to take over Earth in order to plunder it for resources, something they won't be able to do if he destroys it in his quest for power.
  • Fights Gigan in Rulers of Earth and later fights the Cryog as well, reluctantly having to team up with Godzilla in the process.
  • The intro to the PS4 game shows him fighting King Ghidorah, another evil cosmic entity from space.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's a Godzilla from space.
• Expy: He might look like Godzilla, but his characterization, as an alien being who comes to earth for the express purpose of wreaking havoc and hurting people, coupled with his sheer enjoyment of what he does, and independent nature, make him the Heisei equivalent of the Showa King Ghidorah.
• Fat Bastard: While it's probably not actually fatty tissue, he is nonetheless outlandishly chunky (even compared to the other infamously bulky suits of the Heisei era), to the point where it actively impedes his movement. Combined with being one of the most unambiguously evil kaiju of the Heisei eras, this trope is definitely in effect.
• Final Boss: Of Godzilla: Save The Earth's Hard Mode and Godzilla: Unleashed's Story Mode.
• Flying Brick: A flying Godzilla clone.
• For the Evulz: Seems to be his motivation.
• Gem Tissue: Has a pair of giant crystals on his shoulders and depending on the design his back too.
• Genius Bruiser: Clearly possesses at least some degree of human intelligence, and is self-motivated, making it one of the smartest Kaiju in the franchise.
• Glass Cannon: In the games, its combat stats are sub-par but it has some pretty nasty ranged attacks.
• Gravity Master: A pro at this. He's used his gravity manipulation on Godzilla to hurl him into a building. (Even though that hardly even hurt him at all.)
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: As an Evil Counterpart to Godzilla, his own signature Breath Weapon, the Corona Beam, has a vibrant orange color that's accompanied by a slight reddish outline around it, in contrast to Godzilla's blue Atomic Breath. When he attacked Godzilla with his Space Claw, the energy that was generated from his physical blow is also colored red, whereas Godzilla's own strikes onto SpaceGodzilla's emitted blue colored energy.
• Healing Factor: Mougera's drill nose was able to shred into his flesh and drew blood from him. In the next shot, his wound is gone. Given that he's inherited Godzilla's regenerative healing power and being cloned from his G-Cells, it makes sense that he has this power. Although it's questionable if he can regenerate the crystals on his shoulders...
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Gets gruesomely impaled by one of his very own Power Crystals that Godzilla grabs and uses as an impromptu stabbing weapon to kill him in the manga version.
• Horns of Villainy: Probably one of the few villainous kaiju to sport a crowned appendage on his forehead.
• Hybrid Power: He's simultaneously a Godzilla-like beast (via highly evolved genetic clone), and a living crystal. Since the G-Cells became heavily infused with an unseen extraterrestrial crystalline organism, he has both of their powerful biological traits as he's greatly equipped with Godzilla's numerous powers such as having his potent Healing Factor, Super-Strength, and Super-Toughness, along with utilizing many crystal-based abilities. His power to spawn crystals, having a reflective crystal-like barrier, composing energy from sources, and gravitational manipulation is vaguely implied to be stemmed from the alien crystal he's (likely) originated from.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After getting his other shoulder crystal destroyed by Moguera's Spiral Grenade Missiles, he responds by lashing out his dangerously sharpened crystal-tipped tail to skewer Moguera directly in its metallic abdomen out of severe frustration, which is justified for him in particular as he's on the verge of becoming completely powerless with no traces of energy to draw and gain power from.
  • How he's murdered rather graphically in the magna's adaptation of his film appearance. Godzilla goes for the kill by grabbing a crystal, and he violently punctures SpaceGodzilla's chest, drawing their battle to a conclusion.
• It Can Think: This is arguably his most dangerous trait, as unlike most kaiju who attack on instinct or are being controlled, SpaceGodzilla possesses almost human-level intelligence, allowing him to be more strategic in his battles.
• Kick the Dog: After defeating Godzilla he goes out of his way to use his telekinesis to levitate Godzilla Jr. opening a crystal prison and places him in there that closes around him out of spite.
• Knight of Cerebus: In his first film, which wasn't all that light-hearted to begin with, he kidnaps Little Godzilla and imprisons him.
• Lightning Bruiser: Big, fast, hard to injure, and strong on offense. Until his crystals are busted, then he's a lot weaker.
• Logical Weakness: Since his energy is heavily drawn from the many crystals he creates, destroying the larger crystals on his shoulders takes a disastrous toll on him. Without the use of those blown up shoulder crystals, SpaceGodzilla's power, durability, and energy gets severely reduced. Even his Corona Beam hardly even affected Godzilla in his weakened state when he desperately attempted to hold him off as best as he can.
• Long-Range Fighter: Fairs better at this, since he tends to stay evidently stationary by firing his Corona Beam countless times at Godzilla and Moguera. Fighting up close is a huge struggle for him since Godzilla had the advantage in hand-to-hand seeing as how he's managed to bite him to keep him still, therefore giving the pilots of Moguera the opportunity to blow off his shoulder crystals.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Part Godzilla, part rose, part human, part crystalline space entity. Maybe. Two potential origins exist for this guy in the movies and a third was introduced by the Trendmasters Godzilla Wars toy line, and was considered definitive within the line. Both with at least one factor in common. One theory's starting point sees a few stray Godzilla cells parting ways from Biollante at the end of Godzilla vs. Biollante, and the other sees Mothra accidentally taking some of Godzilla's DNA into space with her at the end of Battle for Earth. In either case, the theories then state that somehow these cells were exposed to the energy of a black hole and emerged from a white hole, as a twisted and evil clone of Godzilla. The origin presented by Trendmasters take partly from the theory of Biollante being the one responsible for Godzilla cells ending up in space. However the twist is that these cells encountered a crystalline life form, one that may or may not have been malevolent from the outset. Whatever the case, the resultant creature, SpaceGodzilla, headed straight for Earth in both the films and the toy line with a singular thought: defeat Godzilla.
• Macross Missile Massacre: A crystal version.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Has a jaw full of numerous and serrated looking teeth. If that's not enough, he also has 4 tusks that are located from the outer layer of his maw.
• Multiple-Choice Past: The origin of the Godzilla cells that created him are stated to have either come from Mothra's wings when she travelled into space in Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth or when Biollante's spores floated in space in Godzilla vs. Biollante. He has the same tusk structure as Biollante and the core of his crystals resembles her belly, which suggests the latter might be the correct one.
• Off with His Head!: Beheaded by Godzilla in Half Century War.
• Power Crystal: The large crystals on his shoulders generate much of his power, and by seeding an area with crystal spires he can increase his own power greatly.
• Purple Is Powerful: Bluish indigo in color and one of the most challenging monsters Godzilla has ever encountered.
• Slasher Smile: Regularly sports a malicious expression, and desires only to cause destruction.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has piercing and fiery reddish-orange corneas within those sinister eyes of his, who's also a terrifying cosmic being in the form of Godzilla, and is a malevolently vile kaiju.
• Spikes of Villainy: Giant crystals on his shoulders, crystal spines along his back, a tail ending in a spiked club, and his flying form is a huge ball of crystal spikes.
• Shock and Awe: Possesses a few electrical attacks of his own as one of which is his preferred standard Breath Weapon the Corona Beam. He's also briefly fired electrical blasts from his shoulder crystals at Godzilla at one point.
• Shoulders of Doom: Giant spiked crystals protruding out of his shoulders which can allow him to distort gravity on a whim and draw power from the crystals he creates.
• Squishy Wizard: In the movie SpaceGodzilla isn't strong enough to withstand M.O.G.U.E.R.A's missiles and nose drill, and when his crystals are gone he's stuck trying to punch with his stubby limbs. But when he's at full power with his crystals intact, his power is incredible.
• Super-Strength: It may not look like it regardless of the short stature of his arms but he's actually even physically stronger than Godzilla. The latter was able hoist up Heisei MechaGodzilla who weighed around 150,000 tons. Moguera (a rebuilt version of MechaGodzilla) was even heavier weighing up to 160,000 tons. The crystal beast impales the mech while he lifted and chucked it into several buildings with just his tail alone!
• Stock Sound Effect: His screech is actually Gigan's roar slowed down.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Space G's appearance is mostly similar to his "brother" but with a lengthened snout and is colored midnight blue/purple. He also possesses tusks sprouting from his jaw, a well-known physical trait that Biollante had as well, which overall makes him sort of a mixture of the former kaiju.
• Tail Slap: His long tail lets him grab and throw things, something his short arms can't help him with.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In Rulers of Earth he gets copied by a Trilopod and both he and Godzilla are defeated and trapped inside a crystal prison by it. Though both he and Godzilla are utterly loathe to even think so, SpaceGodzilla realizes that they have to work together if they want to escape. They do so and defeat the SpaceGodzilla Trilopod immediately after, but after Godzilla collapses from exhaustion SpaceGodzilla nearly takes advantage of it to kill his nemesis until the arrival of the Trilopod hive forces him to retreat back into space.
• This Was His True Form: Spacegodzilla can change into a weird spiky crystal ball to fly in space with his body being just a small portion of it and his legs disappearing. When you recall that in one possible origin, he is the result of G-cells fusing with alien crystal life forms you realize that this was what it probably looked like before G-cells fused with it. Assuming the Trendmasters origin is true, this means you are seeing the alien itself when Spacegodzilla transforms into his flying form. ...Maybe.
• Turned Against Their Masters: In Godzilla: Unleashed, in the previous game he was a monster created by the Vortaak, but by Unleashed he seems to have turned on them and is focusing on conquering Earth himself.
• Villain of the Week: Only appeared in a single film, although his popularity has ensured a number of video game appearances.

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