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3->''"Humans survive... by doing... what they have to do."''
4-->-- '''Yuki''', espousing some "wisdom" to Professor Gondo.
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6The twenty-first ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' film and the sixth in the Heisei series. Toho decided Godzilla’s next foe would be a new creation, [=SpaceGodzilla=]. The film starts Godzilla's development as an {{Antihero}} and continues the plotline of his adopted son. Titled "''Gojira tai SupēsuGojira''" in Japan.
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8Originally, [[Film/GodzillaVsMechaGodzillaII MechaGodzilla]] was set to return and [[EnemyMine fight alongside Godzilla]], but it was decided three Godzilla-esque kaiju were enough for the movie. So he was replaced by [=MOGUERA=], a redesign of a {{Mecha}} from ''Film/TheMysterians''. While the film did well at the box office, the film was viewed somewhat more negatively. The plot was considered lumpy, [=LittleGodzilla=] resembled Minya for too many people’s liking, and there were odd editing choices. For instance, Godzilla was originally going to try to free his son from his crystal prison before going after [=SpaceGodzilla=], but that scene was inexplicably cut. [=SpaceGodzilla=] himself was well-received, though, and the movie has some fun monster action.
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10While Miki Saegusa is mulling over whether to join Project T (a plan to control Godzilla telepathically via a probe implant), the [[Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth Cosmos]] warn her of [=SpaceGodzilla=]’s plan to kill Godzilla and TakeOverTheWorld. His crystals have destroyed a [=NASA=] space station and an altercation between him and [=MOGUERA=] in the asteroid belt results in the damage of the mech. Meanwhile, Miki and the Project T team set up shop on Birth Island, where the sweet-natured [=LittleGodzilla=] and his stepfather are currently residing. After a brief rivalry with Akira Yuki, [[Film/GodzillaVsBiollante who holds a grudge against Godzilla for killing Gondo]], the probe is implanted and Project T is going smoothly. But then [=SpaceGodzilla=] appears.
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12In a one-sided battle, Godzilla is overwhelmed by his adversary and is helpless to stop his son from being imprisoned. Godzilla follows [=SpaceGodzilla=] to Fukuoka where he sets up base. Can Godzilla defeat his EvilTwin from space, and would the human heroes align with him to stop this menace?
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15Followed by ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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19* AntiHero: Unlike the previous Heisei Godzilla films where Godzilla is an outright villain or an AntiVillain, in this film he is the protagonist, out to rescue his son Little Godzilla from his abominable clone [=SpaceGodzilla=].
20* AttackItsWeakPoint: [=SpaceGodzilla's=] shoulder crystals turn out to be his vulnerability, as they're used to channel his energy. Godzilla figures it out first and the [=MOGUERA=] crew follow suit. Godzilla is only able to put [=SpaceGodzilla=] down for good once both of them are shattered, weakening him considerably.
21* AxeCrazy:
22** Yuki may qualify. He thinks that a bullet shot into Godzilla's armpit is going to kill him. Then again, he's been alone on that island for quite a while and Godzilla is a monster who has survived ''swimming in molten fucking lava!'' He says it has a blood coagulant in it, so basically he wants to give Godzilla a heart attack, and of course it doesn't do jack.
23** The eponymous [=SpaceGodzilla=] is also extremely AxCrazy.
24* ATeamFiring: Almost nobody ends up being shot during the shoot out against the Yakuza, and the one thug who is just gets shot in the legs and manages to retreat. Though there is the possibility that the Yakuza members could have been killed off screen during the parts of the gunfight we don't get to see.
25* BeehiveBarrier: [=SpaceGodzilla=] can generate these in order to reflect Godzilla's breath attacks.
26* BetaCouple: Yuki and Professor Gondo serve as this to Miki and Shinjo. Granted, neither relationship is really the focus of the movie overall, but the latter definitely gets more screentime.
27* BigBadWannabe: Dr. Okubo and the Yakuza ''try'' to be a gigantic threat by taking control of Godzilla using Project T, but are ultimately nowhere near as big of a threat as they ''think'' they are, can't maintain control of Godzilla for more than a few minutes, are taken down by ''three'' men (with Miki providing a little help using her telekinesis), and pale in comparison to Spacegodzilla as threats. Spacegodzilla kills Okubo and destroys their base without even realizing it.
28* BloodierAndGorier: The manga version at least.
29* BoyishShortHair: Miki sports a shorter haircut than previous films and the following one.
30* CanonWelding: According to collection books, MOGUERA isn't just based off the Mysterian's Moguera out of universe, but ''Film/TheMysterians'' is actually canon to the Heisei timeline and it's based off it in-universe.
31* CombatPragmatist:
32** [=SpaceGodzilla=] notices Godzilla is trying to protect his son, so he resorts to flying around taking shots at him knowing Godzilla will take the hits for him.
33** He also blasts Godzilla in his spinal brain, briefly paralyzing Godzilla's lower half long enough for him to imprison Little Godzilla.
34* CrazyPrepared: The G-force built [=MOGUERA=] specifically for fighting Godzilla, but for whatever reason also decided to make it capable of traveling and fighting in space. In other words, they were shockingly prepared for the wildly unlikely event of ''another Godzilla showing up from space'', even though the [=MOGUERA=] ended up not faring very well in that battle. May also quality them as extremely GenreSavvy.
35* CurbstompBattle: Things obviously don't bode well for [=MOGUERA=] if it suffers electronic malfunctions even before the battle begins.
36* EnemyMine: The threat of [=SpaceGodzilla=] is so great that ultimately [=MOGUERA=] and its crew have to help Godzilla out to have a chance of defeating him. This is especially true of Yuki, who decidedly wants revenge on Godzilla but puts it aside at least for the moment, yet that didn't stop him from ''targeting'' Godzilla after he lands in Kagoshima (though this was likely done to get Godzilla to follow them to where Spacegodzilla is as he didn't know the way), prompting Yuki getting knocked out by Koji, he finally changes his mind when he wakes up during the middle of their fight against Spacegodzilla.
37* EveryoneHasStandards: As big of a grudge as he has against Godzilla, even Yuki feels trying to kill him after Spacegodzilla beats him up and imprisoned his son in crystals is too much and leaves him alone for the rest of the day.
38-->'''Yuki:''' He's had enough of a bad day.
39* EvilerThanThou: [=SpaceGodzilla=] is such an evil monster, the human characters are forced to drop their grudge and help Godzilla in order to stop him. He also unintentionally pulls this on the Yakuza by causing their plans to control Godzilla to go haywire, and unknowingly kills their ringleader just by flying by their base.
40* FlyingFirepower: Spacegodzilla is capable of floating and firing a corona beam from his mouth he can control telekinetically.
41* ForTheEvulz: Dr. Okubo's response when Miki asks why he wants to control Godzilla:
42-->'''Dr. Okubo:''' Destruction!
43* FunWithAcronyms: [=MOGUERA=] (Mobile Operational Godzilla Expert Robot Aero-Type).
44* GentleGiant: [=LittleGodzilla=] is nice to everyone. He even approaches [=SpaceGodzilla=] with friendly curiosity.
45* GratuitousEnglish: The theme song that plays over the end credits, "Echoes of Love" by Date of Birth, has the lines "I don't wanna go anywhere/Will you keep me hanging on?" at the end of each chorus.
46* HomefieldAdvantage: By the time Godzilla and [=MOGUERA=] reach Spacegodzilla, he's created a crystal fortress that's constantly recharging him and provides him with plenty of projectiles to use. It takes destroying the Fukuoka Tower he's using to call down cosmic energy before, is when he begins to lose.
47* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Godzilla runs through [=SpaceGodzilla=] this way. Brutally with his own weaponized crystal in the manga.
48** In the movie, [=SpaceGodzilla=] stabs MOGUERA through the chest with his tail.
49* ImprovisedWeapon: In the manga, Godzilla tends to use [=SpaceGodzilla=]'s crystals, one time catching one ''with his mouth and shoots his atomic breath to spread the beam''.
50* {{Irony}}: MOGUERA was created to be another counter-Godzilla weapon like Mechagodzilla. Except it ultimately works with Godzilla to kill another Godzilla, but technically that still means it was used for its intended purpose.
51* ItCanThink: One of the larger showings of Godzilla's intelligence in the Heisei Era: he's the one to figure out Spacegodzilla's absorbing cosmic energy through his crystals and the city's tower and they need to be destroyed in order to defeat him. He also figures out that Spacegodzilla's shoulder crystals are his AchillesHeel and start targeting them, prompting [=MOGUERA's=] crew to comment that he's much smarter than they thought.
52* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Akira Yuki, who is driven to kill Godzilla for revenge and isn't the most sociable of people. However, he rescues one of the protagonists from a deadly spider and is part of the raid in freeing Miki. After Godzilla loses Little Godzilla in a crystal prison Yuki puts his revenge plan on hold since 'he's had enough of a bad day.' Though it didn't stop him from taking one last pot shot at Godzilla to get him to follow MOGUERA after he destroyed Kagoshima.
53* KarmicDeath: [=SpaceGodzilla=]'s death is similar to Biollante's. Godzilla shoots a supercharged atomic blast at the weakened Spacegodzilla, turning the evil monster into G-Cells.
54** In the manga: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Godzilla impales SpaceGodzilla with the latter's own weaponized crystal.]]
55* KickTheDog: [=SpaceGodzilla=] attacking and imprisoning [=LittleGodzilla=].
56* KnightOfCerebus: Once [=SpaceGodzilla=] shows up, the films gets a lot darker. [=SpaceGodzilla=] himself is easily the most vile of the villain monsters by far, forcing the humans to ally with Godzilla in order to stop him.
57* LickedByTheDog: [=LittleGodzilla=] is attached to gruff and revenge-seeking Akira Yuki. Despite plotting to kill his Dad, Akira seems to return the affection.
58* MarathonBoss: The FinalBattle with Spacegodzilla is one of the longest uninterrupted battles in the franchise. InUniverse it's even ''longer'' as it starts at day and lasts well into the night.
59* MilitariesAreUseless: The JSDF attempt to use a naval blockade to prevent Godzilla from reaching Fukuoka so that he can battle Spacegodzilla. Godzilla easily plows through them with his atomic breath.
60* MindOverMatter:
61** Spacegodzilla has this ability, which he uses both to hover and to lift Little Godzilla and Godzilla.
62** While captured and in the middle of a gun fight, Miki lifts the table she's strapped to in order for the hero to shoot at the enemies' legs. Miki later says this was her first time trying it.
63* MythologyGag: [=SpaceGodzilla's=] design is actually a heavily edited version of [=SuperGodzilla=] from the VideoGame/SuperGodzilla game.
64* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Telekinetic powers were never mentioned and never appeared in the previous movies, but both Miki and [=SpaceGodzilla=] suddenly manifest them at convenient moments.
65* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's possible that Mothra is the one that took Godzilla's cells into space, allowing [=SpaceGodzilla=] to be born, in which case, Nice Job, Mothra. Biollante also seems to have something to do with it, due to some physical similarities between her and [=SpaceGodzilla=], namely, the extra teeth.
66** Same also goes for Yuki, who uses MOGUERA to attack Godzilla after he leveled Kagoshima due to wanting revenge on Godzilla after he promised not to attack him after Spacegodzilla imprisoned his son. Not only does he get knocked out by Koji, but this ultimately leads to the mecha's destruction right after Spacegodzilla is killed.
67* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Really, Godzilla probably wouldn't have even bothered with [=SpaceGodzilla=] had he hadn't attacked (and kidnapped) [=LittleGodzilla=].
68* PapaWolf: Godzilla protecting his son from [=SpaceGodzilla=]'s attacks and later trying to kill [=SpaceGodzilla=] to free Little Godzilla.
69* ShipTease: Miki and Koji.
70* ShooOutTheClowns: The film becomes more dramatic after [=SpaceGodzilla=] traps Little Godzilla. It's only after Spacegodzilla's death that the movie returns to a lighter mood.
71* SpaceBattle: [=SpaceGodzilla=] and [=MOGUERA=] in the Asteroid Belt. It would have been impressive, if not for the asteroids looking like floating sacks of potatoes.
72* SpaceIsNoisy: [=SpaceGodzilla=] roars in space. Well, what'd you expect for him to do other than fly in space?
73* SpaceX: [=SpaceGodzilla=], who's a clone of Godzilla from space.
74* StabTheScorpion: Done early on, with the victim being a poisonous spider. In a twist on the usual formula, the stabber grabs the stabbee from behind and stabs the spider off his neck, drawing blood from him as well.
75* StockFootage: Reused the naval battle from Biollante, though they really didn't want to.
76** You can actually see the new shots they wanted to use in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN42gU6NZ44 unused footage compilation reel]]
77* SympathyForTheDevil: This is where Miki's infamous defense of Godzilla becomes most pronounced. She actually has a point, given Godzilla seems content to just hang out around Birth Island with his son rather than causing trouble since the events of the last movie, and only leaves the island to make a beeline straight for Spacegodzilla to rescue his son. He doesn't even seem to mind the humans hanging out on his island as long as they don't bother him.
78* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [=SpaceGodzilla=] can change into a weird spikey crystal ball to fly in space with his body being just a small portion of it and his legs disappearing. When you recall that he is the result of G-cells fusing with alien crystal lifeforms you realize that this was what it looked like before G-cells fused with it. You are seeing the alien itself when Spacegodzilla transforms into his flying form.
79* TooDumbToLive:
80** Yuki is even ''dumber'' in the manga as he tries to use the remaining strain of the ANB against Godzilla ''while he's facing [=SpaceGodzilla=]''. Godzilla ends up noticing him and ends up with a crystal in the knee.
81** [=SpaceGodzilla=]. He travels billions of miles across the universe to come to Earth and start shit with Godzilla. That is a bad idea of galactic proportions.
82** Dr. Okubo may have sabotaged the initial Project T test by messing with the power slider, but doing it for a second time during the yakuza's attempt at controlling Godzilla is just downright idiotic.
83* UnlimitedWardrobe: Miki has a new outfit every other scene...despite the fact that much of the movie takes place on an uninhabited island.
84* VillainousBreakdown: Dr. Okubo spends his last moments frantically trying to repair the Project T system to bring Godzilla back under control.
85* WhatTheHellHero: Once Yuki is in control of the MOGUERA, he deviates from G-Force's plan to fight [=SpaceGodzilla=] so that he can attack Godzilla, throwing a wrench into a time-sensitive plan to evacuate Fukuoka, no doubt sentencing hundreds of innocent people to death (though he likely did this to get Godzilla to follow the mecha to Fukuoka as ''Godzilla'' was the one off course as he was heading away from the city), Koji knocks Yuki out for his troubles.
86* TheWorfEffect:
87** Godzilla was previously supercharged by Rodan in order take an edge against Mechagodzilla. Here he is defeated by [=SpaceGodzilla=] the first time trying to protect his son while [=SpaceGodzilla=] blasts them.
88** MOGUERA is curbstomped by [=SpaceGodzilla=] in their first fight. This is despite MOGUERA being ''stronger'' than Mechagodzilla, who nearly killed Godzilla in the previous film. This is shown in the manga were MOGUERA fights a second Mechagodzilla and effortlessly destroys it.
89* WouldHurtAChild: What is the first thing [=SpaceGodzilla=] does when he comes to Earth? He attacks and torments the first thing he sees, Little Godzilla.

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