History Film / GodzillaVsDestoroyah

** Had Junior not been there to absorb the radiation, Godzilla's meltdown would have meant the end of the world as well.

* IronicDeath: Destoroyah dies in a similar manner to the way he killed Junior: Falling to the ground from a high altitude, with the impact killing him.

* DeadLineNews: Averted, as Yukari Yamane was about to fall victim to one of the Destoroyahs until Kensaku saves her when Destoroyah blasts a car in half and flips the car over.

* PosthumousCharacter: 3. Shinkichi Yamane (the boy in the photo with Dr. Yamane), Dr. Kyohei Yamane (Takashi Shimura), and Daisuke Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata).

** Serizawa's picture, which is Akihiko Hirata, plus Ken's room, with has Kyohei's stegasaurus.

** WordofGod says that it is Godzilla who kills Destoroyah off, not the military. As Destoroyah falls out of the sky, Godzilla refuses to move out of the way. This is because he has been superheating the ground. The sudden change in temperatures between freezing cold and blazing hot is what destroys Destoroyah, which is Godzilla's doing. Rather than through violence, Godzilla kills Destoroyah scientifically. But it is still his actions (however inactive it may be) that finishes the monster off.

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--> "''My job is done now... Godzilla.''"

* 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.

The final film of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Heisei series and the last times for everything: Kazuki Omori as a writer of the Heisei films, Akira Ifukube as composer (thus, several themes in remenisce of the original ''Godzilla''), Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla, Megumi Odaka as Miki Saegusa, Momoko Kochi as Emiko Yamane, and Tomoyuki Tanaka as producer for 40 years.

** Due to the nature of the Oxygen Destroyer, it became HighOctaneNightmareFuel when it's realized that while it's the only weapon to ever kill Godzilla, it ''mutated'' Precambrian life-forms that could survive without oxygen. This is similar to Godzilla's mutation from the H-Bomb testing, which could wipe out anything within proximity and mutated the poor creature. This returns to one of the dark themes of the original [[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]].

** HeroicRROD: Godzilla's SuperPowerMeltdown from nuclear energy, becoming the plot of the film.

** Emiko (played once again by Momoko Kochi mentioned on below RoleReprisal entry) senses Kensaku Ijuin's Micro-oxygen being simliar to Daisuke Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer, thus, the flashback (with the stock footage from the original Godzilla) making the connection.

** Due to nature of the Oxygen Destroyer, it became a high octane nightmare fueled worthy when while it's the weapon to ever kill Godzilla, it ''mutated'' Precambrian life-forms that could survive without oxygen. Similar to Godzilla's mutation of the H-Bomb testing, which could wipe out anything within proximity and mutated the poor creature. This returns one of the dark themes of the original [[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]].

* CatastrophicCountdown: Rather than counting down to Godzilla's meltdown, the countdown is his rather rise in tempature.

** Emiko (played once again by Momoko Kochi mentioned on below RoleReprisal entry) senses Kensaku Ijuin's Micro-oxygen being smiliar to Daisuke Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer, thus, the flashback (with the stock footage from the original Godzilla) making the connection.

** Due to nature of the Oxygen Destroyer, it became a high octane nightmare fueled worthy when while it's the weapon to ever kill Godzilla, it ''mutated'' precambrian life-forms that could survive without oxygen. Similar to Godzilla's mutation of the H-Bomb testing, which could wipe out anything within proximity and mutated the poor creature. This returns one of the dark themes of the original [[{{Film/Gojira}} Godzilla]].

''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, the weapon 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.

** 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.]] [[AccidentalHero Accidentally saves Japan from nuclear devastation.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Damn.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: In order to get Destroyah and Godzilla to fight each other, the humans decide to have Godzilla Jr. be Destroyah's bait. So let me get this down: you're using an offspring of a monster born of nuclear radiation and has used Japan as his own stomping grounds since the 50's as live bait? Granted, it all works out in the end, but did they not see where this will go wrong in the slightest?

* GentleGiant: Junior of course since Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla, he seems accustomed to humans than his father (for obvious reasons). Played straight ''AND'' horribly averted when he saves Miki and her psychic partner from Destoroyah from destroying their helicopter. The aversion is due to him attacking whales in an earlier scene.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Someone writing on the credits misspelled Kenpachiro Satsuma's name as Ken''HA''chiro on the English extended credits.

* 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 someone else, but kept her surname.

The film was made to briefly retire the franchise so that America could create their own film. But due to the negative reaction of the [[Film/{{Godzilla}} American Godzilla film]], they made ''Film/{{Godzilla 2000}}'', exactly one year after the American remake.

* Memetic Mutation: DESTOROYAH!!! In the Godzillathon review of this movie, James Rolfe always says "DESTOROYAH!" whenever he addresses him.
** He even does this in the AVGN episode "Godzilla".