History Film / GodzillaVsDestoroyah

* MoodWhiplash: To show how utterly monsterous Destoroyah is, he attacks Godzilla while the nuclear giant's grieving ''twice''!!

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the semi-soft hearted ''Film/{{Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla}}'', this film is ''really'' dark. As dark as the first film as people say, since it deals with Godzilla dying, a villain that has no qualms killing anything in its path, and the idea to use the weapon to kill the original Godzilla. Several reprise from the music drives this further.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the semi-soft hearted ''Film/{{Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla}}'', this film is ''really'' dark. As dark as the first film as people say, since it deals with Godzilla dying, a villain that has no qualms killing anything in its path, and the idea to use the weapon to kill the original Godzilla. Several reprise from the music drives this further.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the semi-soft hearted ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', this film is ''really'' dark. As dark as the first film as people say, since it deals with Godzilla dying, a villain that has no qualms killing anything in its path, and the idea to use the weapon to kill the original Godzilla. Several reprise from the music drives this further.

* ContinuityNod: Several connections with the original ''[[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' appear on this film:

The final film of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Heisei series. ''Godzilla vs. Destoroyah'' involves Godzilla suffering from a [[SuperpowerMeltdown nuclear meltdown]] with 2 scenarios: A. He will blow up, resulting a nuclear explosion that will destroy the world. Or B. He will meltdown at 1200 degrees to the point he will destroy the world from the inside. New problems arise when fish in aquariums are being reduced to skeletons caused by creatures awakened by the Oxygen Destroyer used to kill the first Godzilla in the original ''[[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]]''. Now the world rests on Godzilla and his newly grown son to take on this new threat, before the nuclear dinosaur dies.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Desotroayh can emulate the Oxygen Destroyer causing the target to be reduced to bones. Sounds cool right? The problem? He has to have them in a body of water and break up into a swarm of microbes for it to work. And even when he dropped Godzilla into the ocean he still couldn't use it because Godzilla's immanent meltdown was boiling the water and made it and him too hot to use this power. The only one to fall victim to this in the whole movie was an aquarium full of fish.

* HappilyMarried: Sadly averted in the Japanese version. Emiko did ''not'' marry Ogata after the events of 1954. In the Japanese version at least. We are assumed she married Shinkichi, since he's her ''adopted'' brother. It's not that strange for adopted siblings to marry each other though.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The Super-X III is one of the few Anti-Kaiju weapons to actually A: Survive the end of the movie, and B: [[spoiler: win a battle against the Kaiju. It actually puts Godzilla ''down'' and slows his meltdown for several precious hours, and at the end of the movie, it and the Maser Cannons work together to finish Destoroyah off.]]

* Awesome,ButImpractical: Desotroayh can emulate the Oxygen Destroyer causing the target to be reduced to bones. Sounds cool right? The problem? He has to have them in a body of water and break up into a swarm of microbes for it to work. And even when he dropped Godzilla into the ocean he still couldn't use it because Godzilla's immanent meltdown was boiling the water and made it and him too hot to use this power. The only one to fall victim to this in the whole movie was an aquarium full of fish.

* TookALevelInBadass: Junior, who in the previous film is portrayed as [[TheLoad annoyingly weak]] SuperDeformed [[TheScrappy Minilla]], actually grew up badass like his father after absorbing whole year of heavy radioactive activity following his birthplace's destruction. [[MiniBoss Kaiju Agregate]] on rampage fest? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Head on and kill it!]]

** Even better, [[spoiler:after he seemingly got killed by perfected Destroyoah, he actually absorb the REMNANTS of his father's melting body, grew further into massive, full fledged Kaiju, contnuing his father's legacy.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Damn.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Junior, who in the previous film is portrayed as [[TheLoad annoyingly weak]] [[TheScrappy Minilla]], actually grew up like his father. [[MiniBoss Kaiju Agregate]] on rampage fest? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Head on and kill it!]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Junior, who in the previous film is portrayed as [[TheLoad annoyingly weak]] [[TheScrappy Minilla]], actually grew up awesome. [[MiniBoss Kaiju Agregate]] on rampage fest? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Head on and kill it!]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Junior, who in the previous film is portrayed as [[TheScrappy Minilla]]. [[MiniBoss Kaiju Agregate]] on rampage fest? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Head on and kill it!]]

* ContinuityNod: Several connections with the original ''[[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' appear on this film:

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The Super-X III is one of the few Anti-Kaiju weapons to actually A: Survive the end of the movie, and B: [[spoiler: win a battle against the Kaiju. It actually puts Godzilla ''down'' and slows his meltdown for several precious hours, and at the end of the movie, it and the Maser Cannons work together to finish Destroroyah off.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the semi-soft hearted ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', this film is ''really'' dark. As dark as the first film as people say, since it deals with Godzilla dying, a CompleteMonster that has no qualms killing anything in its path, and the idea to use the weapon to kill the original Godzilla. Several reprise from the music drives this further.

* DestructiveSavior: For a teenaged Godzilla, Junior pretty much caused some destruction, but not at a collateral level as his father. Even if he's RaisedByHumans. However, being Godzilla's son and able to breath a stream of the atomic breath, it's kinda inevitable.

* MoodWhiplash: To show how utterly monsterous and CompleteMonster Destoroyah is, he attacks Godzilla while the nuclear giant's grieving ''twice''!!

* OneWingedAngel: Destoroyah evolves as the film progresses, each new form getting an appropriately epic reveal, but his Final Form is probably the best example.

* DestructiveSavior: For a teenaged Godzilla, Junior pretty much caused some destruction, but at a collateral level as his father. Even if he's RaisedByHumans. However, being Godzilla's son and able to breath a stream of atomic breath, it's kinda inevitable.