Godzilla (Heisei)

Godzilla; Gojira; King of the Monsters; Third Generation Godzilla; Powered-Up Third Generation Godzilla; Fourth Generation Godzilla; Strongest Monster on Earth

80 meters (262 feet; 1984-1989); 100 meters (328 feet; 1992-1996)

108 meters (354 feet; tail; 1984-1989); 140 meters (459 feet; tail; 1992-1996)

50,000 metric tons (55,000 short tons; 1984-1989); 60,000 metric tons (66,000 short tons; 1992-1996)

• Atomic breath
• Extreme physical strength and durability; totally immune and impervious to damage from conventional weapons
• Powerful regenerative healing factor
• Amphibiousness
• Nuclear Pulse
• Unknown level of psychic abilities; can follow the same geomagnetic frequencies birds do in order to travel anywhere in the world

• Cadmium can slow nuclear chain reactions in Godzilla's body
• Secondary brain in hips, which controls his lower body, is susceptible to destruction, which would leave Godzilla paralyzed and unable to walk
• Godzilla's meltdown killed him

The Heisei Godzilla does not retain the heroic personality of the Second Generation Godzilla of the Showa continuity, instead returning to the antagonistic persona of the original Godzilla. Godzilla gains nourishment from sources of atomic energy like nuclear power plants, seen during his raids on Japan in 1984 and 1989, making his attacks on humanity something of a biological imperative, although he destroyed cities with less clear intentions during and following these incidents. In 1994, Godzilla began transitioning into an anti-hero character, adopting an infant member of his species as his son. During the last two years of his life, Godzilla battled against monsters that were purely evil and villainous, SpaceGodzilla and Destoroyah, while the human psychic Miki Saegusa insisted that Godzilla was actually an intelligent being with human-like sentiments. This is proven in 1996, where Godzilla displays visible grief when Destoroyah kills his son.

The Heisei Godzilla is a member of a species of dinosaur called Godzillasaurus that was living on Lagos Island in the Marshall Islands. In 1992, writer Kenichiro Terasawa theorized that the dinosaur was exposed to the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test conducted at nearby Bikini Atoll in 1954 and transformed into Godzilla. A group of time travelers from the year 2204, dubbed the Futurians, confirmed this hypothesis through genetic analysis, determining that its chances of being incorrect were just 2%. As part of a scheme to rid the world of Godzilla, the Futurians led a time-traveling mission to 1944, in which they altered history by moving the Godzillasaurus off of Lagos Island and into the Bering Sea, where it would be free from the H-bomb's effects. However, in this altered timeline, a Soviet nuclear submarine crashed in the dinosaur's vicinity sometime before 1984, allowing it to feed upon the nuclear fuel and be mutated into Godzilla anyway.

Three months after a volcanic eruption on Daikoku Island, the Japanese fishing vessel Yahata-Maru No. 5 came face-to-face with a giant monster at sea that destroyed the ship and killed most of the crew, the rest of whom were killed by a parasite that fell off of the monster. The lone survivor of the crew, Hiroshi Okumura, was rescued by reporter Goro Maki and brought back to Japan, where he was interviewed by scientist Makoto Hayashida, who showed Okumura photographs of the first Godzilla's rampage in 1954. After viewing the photographs, Okumura confirmed that the monster he saw was, in fact, Godzilla. In order to prevent a panic from breaking out, the Japanese government kept Godzilla's return hidden from the public. Meanwhile, Godzilla encountered a Soviet nuclear submarine in the waters off Japan and attacked it, causing the Soviets to believe that the Americans were responsible. In order to prevent a nuclear war between the two superpowers, the Japanese government revealed to the world that Godzilla had returned.

Both the Americans and Soviets demanded that they be allowed to use their nuclear weapons against Godzilla, but the Japanese government denied both of their requests. The Soviets secretly placed the controls for a nuclear attack sattelite in a cargo ship called the Balashevo in Tokyo Bay should the need to use it arise. One night, Godzilla surfaced in Shizuoka Prefecture and attacked the nuclear power plant there, as Dr. Hayashida knew that Godzilla fed on radiation. While feeding on the reactor's radiation, Godzilla suddenly left and followed a flock of birds out to sea. Hayashida realized that Godzilla, being related to dinosaurs, shared a part of his brain with birds, and like birds used magnetic patterns in the atmosphere to navigate. Hayashida began work on a magnetic wave transmitter to try and use it to lure Godzilla into Mount Mihara on Izu Oshima and imprison him there.

Before Hayashida's plan could be completed, Godzilla appeared in Tokyo Bay. The J.S.D.F. scrambled and lined up on the coast to try and stop him. Godzilla dispatched both air and ground forces, critically damaging the Balashevo in the process. He rampaged through Tokyo, soon passing by Hayashida's laboratory. Hayashida activated his transmitter, which made Godzilla pause. Just then, the J.S.D.F.'s N1-00s opened fire on Godzilla, causing him to react and damage the building. Godzilla followed the N1-00s to Shinjuku, where the Super X, an aircraft designed in secret by Japan to defend the country against nuclear attacks, was sent to engage him. The Super X used its flares to distract Godzilla, then fired its cadmium shells down his throat as he roared. The cadmium slowed the nuclear reactions in Godzilla's body, causing his heart to stop and him to collapse against a skyscraper. The J.S.D.F. believed that Godzilla was dead, but Hayashida assured his assistant Naoko Okumura and Maki that Godzilla was still alive.

Hiroshi Okumura arrived in a helicopter and airlifted Hayashida and his device to Oshima, while Naoko and Maki were left behind and had to escape the building themselves, having been assured that another helicopter would be sent out to pick up both of them once they made their way to the streets below. Meanwhile, the Soviets' nuclear satellite had been accidentally triggered when Godzilla destroyed the Balashevo and a nuclear missile was headed straight for the heart of Tokyo. Fortunately, the Soviets warned the Japanese that the missile had been fired, giving the Americans enough time to shoot it down in the skies with another missile far above Tokyo. However, the radiation that resulted showered down onto Godzilla, reviving him. Godzilla reengaged the Super X, shooting it down with his atomic breath and toppling a skyscraper onto it, destroying it. Godzilla continued his rampage, until Hayashida activated the device on Oshima, causing Godzilla to leave Tokyo and swim there. Godzilla came ashore on the island and climbed to the summit of Mount Mihara. When Godzilla had reached the summit, explosive charges on the volcano were detonated, triggering a controlled eruption and sending Godzilla plummeting into the crater below, where he was finally imprisoned.

Five years after being imprisoned inside Mount Mihara, Godzilla began to stir within the volcano's crater. The J.S.D.F.'s anti-Godzilla unit, headed by Colonel Goro Gondo and Major Sho Kuroki, was placed on high alert, while the government began work on a weapon called the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria (A.N.E.B.). This bacteria, engineered from genes within Godzilla's own G-cells, was designed to consume the radioactivity inside Godzilla's body and then both weaken and ultimately kill him.

In order to engineer this bacteria, the government sought the help of geneticist Genichiro Shiragami, who accepted for the sole purpose of acquiring a sample of G-cells, which he spliced with a rose containing the cells of his dead daughter Erika, hoping to keep it alive forever. When the terrorist group Bio-Major learned that Japan had engineered the A.N.E.B., their agent John Lee placed explosives on Mount Mihara and demanded that the A.N.E.B. be handed over to him, or else Godzilla would be released. Gondo and scientist Kazuto Kirishima were sent to make the exchange, but it was sabotaged by the Saradian agent SSS9, who killed Lee and stole the A.N.E.B. The charges exploded, and Godzilla was released once again. As Godzilla swam toward the Japanese mainland, the J.S.D.F. scrambled the Super X2, a new aircraft built from the remains of the Super X, to engage him in the ocean. The aircraft held its own against Godzilla, but the heat of his atomic breath caused the Super X2's Fire Mirror to overheat and forced it to retreat. Godzilla made his way to Lake Ashi, where the result of Shiragami splicing Godzilla's G-cells with the rose, the plant creature Biollante, had taken root. Godzilla stared at the strange creature, which panicked and began to attack him. Biollante wrapped her vines around Godzilla, pulling him underwater. Godzilla surfaced and immediately retaliated by blasting Biollante with his atomic breath, causing her to hemorrhage and erupt in flames. Biollante broke apart into spores of energy and floated into space as Godzilla returned to the ocean.

Running low on nuclear energy, Godzilla began to search for a nearby nuclear plant. The JSDF expected Godzilla to surface at Iso Bay, where the nearest nuclear plant was, and lined up their defenses there. However, Godzilla unexpectedly surfaced at Osaka Bay instead, leaving the city of Osaka defenseless. The JSDF rushed to evacuate the city and send its units there.

Gondo and Kirishima managed to recover the A.N.E.B. from the Saradia Oil Corporation office in Osaka, and Gondo quickly assembled a commando team with rockets loaded with the A.N.E.B. Gondo and his men took point inside skyscrapers in the city center while Kuroki remotely piloted the Super X2 to distract Godzilla. Godzilla destroyed the Super X2 and made his way to the city center, where he was successfully injected with the A.N.E.B. rockets. Godzilla approached the building where Gondo was and roared, with Gondo firing a rocket straight into his mouth and mocking him. Godzilla retaliated by destroying the building and killing Gondo. The next day, Godzilla was showing no visible signs of being affected by the A.N.E.B. Kirishima concluded that Godzilla's body temperature was too low for the A.N.E.B. to take effect, and proposed a plan to raise it. The J.S.D.F. organized an assault with multiple MBT-MB92 Maser Cannons and the experimental M6000 T.C. System at Wakasa Bay. When Godzilla arrived, the onslaught of Maser beams and artificial lightning raised his temperature, causing him to weaken. Just then, Biollante's spores rained from the sky and traveled underground. Biollante emerged from underground in her colossal final form, wiping out all of the J.S.D.F.'s units and attacking Godzilla. Both monsters seriously wounded each other, but Biollante's corrosive sap spray raised Godzilla's body temperature even more and he became severely weakened. Godzilla tried to walk back to the sea, but collapsed headfirst into the water. Biollante then broke apart into energy spores again and floated back into space. The water washing over Godzilla caused his temperature to lower, and he regained enough strength to wade back out to sea and disappear beneath the waves.

The A.N.E.B. caused Godzilla to remain dormant underwater in the Sea of Japan for three years. The J.S.D.F. closely monitored Godzilla, but it appeared that he was too weak to even leave the water.

One day, a group of time travelers from the year 2204 arrived in their ship MOTHER and asked for an audience with the Japanese government. They claimed that Godzilla would return in the near future and completely destroy Japan, leaving it an uninhabitable wasteland by the 23rd century. They also claimed to know a way to prevent this future, by erasing Godzilla from history itself. They cited a book titled The Birth of Godzilla by Kenichiro Terasawa, which offered the theory that Godzilla was once a dinosaur living on Lagos Island in the Marshall Islands, which was exposed to the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test conducted at nearby Bikini Atoll in 1954 and subsequently transformed into Godzilla. They said they believed this theory was likely correct, and that they could travel back to 1944, when the dinosaur was seen by a Japanese garrison during a World War II battle on the island, and teleport it away. The Futurians sent their member Emmy Kano, their android M11, and a group of selected individuals from present-day Japan back to Lagos Island in 1944 in the ship KIDS. Once they arrived, they witnessed the battle between Japanese and American forces, where the Godzillasaurus appeared and fought off the Americans. The dinosaur was injured by American artillery and appeared to be left to die by the Japanese garrison. Emmy and M11 used KIDS to teleport the Godzillasaurus to the Bering Sea, where they believed that it would die, far away from nuclear testing. In the dinosaur's place, however, Emmy secretly left behind three genetically-engineered creatures called Dorats. When KIDS returned to the present, Wilson, the Futurians' leader, reported that Godzilla had vanished from the Sea of Japan, making the mission an apparent success.

However, a new threat had appeared, in the form of the giant three-headed dragon called King Ghidorah, which had seemingly taken Godzilla's place and was terrorizing Japan. Terasawa and the others learned that the Futurians had double-crossed them, using the Castle Bravo test to transform the three Dorats into King Ghidorah and attempting to remove Godzilla from history so that he could not defend them. The Futurians demanded that Japan surrender to them, so they could rebuild the country and prevent it from becoming a corrupt economic superpower in the future. Miki Saegusa, a psychic who was an expert on Godzilla, remarked that she could still sense Godzilla moving somewhere in the ocean. Terasawa and Emmy, who had defected from the Futurians after learning their true plan, remarked that it was strange that Miki still sensed Godzilla and that they all still remembered him. Emmy suggested it was possible that Godzilla was created through some method other than the Castle Bravo test. Meanwhile, the Japanese government, believing that Godzilla was the only defense against King Ghidorah and that the Godzillasaurus was still dormant in the Bering Sea, sent a nuclear submarine to transform it into a new Godzilla. Terasawa, after learning that Godzilla was never erased from history and was actually mutated by a Soviet nuclear submarine crash in the Bering Sea prior to 1984, tried to warn them against the plan, but he was too late. The submarine encountered Godzilla en route to the Bering Sea, who fed on it, purging his A.N.E.B. infection and causing him to grow from 80 to 100 meters in height. Godzilla came ashore in Hokkaido, prompting the Futurians to send King Ghidorah against him. Godzilla fought King Ghidorah, who eventually gained the upper hand and began to strangle him with his necks.

Terasawa, Emmy and the reprogrammed M11 mounted an assault on MOTHER, destroying the computer controlling King Ghidorah and allowing Godzilla to take the upper hand and sever King Ghidorah's middle head with his Spiral Heat Ray. Emmy then used KIDS to teleport MOTHER in front of Godzilla before it could time travel back to 2204. Godzilla blasted the ship with his atomic breath, killing Wilson and his assistant Grenchko and ending their scheme. King Ghidorah tried to fly away, but Godzilla blasted out his wings and sent him plummeting into the ocean below.

Revitalized and now more powerful than ever, Godzilla began a rampage across Japan, making his way through Hokkaido and reaching Sapporo. After destroying the Sapporo TV Tower, Godzilla was engaged by two MBT-MB92 Maser Cannons, which he destroyed with his atomic breath. As Godzilla approached Tokyo, Emmy formed a desperate plan: she would time travel back to 2204 and recover King Ghidorah's preserved corpse, then use the advanced technology of her time to transform him into a cyborg. Emmy and M11 returned to 2204 as Godzilla reached Tokyo. After Godzilla had leveled much of the city and reached its heart, Mecha-King Ghidorah appeared in the sky and descended. Godzilla battled Mecha-King Ghidorah, but his enemy's upgrades gave it an advantage over him. Mecha-King Ghidorah used its electrical capture cables and machine hand to restrain Godzilla and carried him out over the open ocean. Godzilla blasted out Mecha-King Ghidorah's wings, sending them both crashing into the sea. Thankfully, Emmy escaped the cyborg inside of KIDS, and returned to the future. Meanwhile, on the ocean floor, Godzilla regained consciousness and roared angrily.

When a large meteor crashed in the Pacific Ocean, it awakened both Godzilla and another dangerous creature, the black divine moth known as Battra. Godzilla appeared when a group of people working for the Japanese government were attempting to carry Mothra's egg from Infant Island to Japan. Godzilla attacked the barge carrying the egg, forcing it to hatch into a larva. Mothra fought Godzilla in the ocean, until Battra arrived as well (also as a larva), knocking Mothra into the air and dragging Godzilla to the ocean floor. As Godzilla and Battra fought underwater, a huge volcanic fault opened beneath them and both were pulled into the magma below. Both monsters were believed to be dead, but they had actually survived and simply swam through the magma. Godzilla emerged from the crater of Mount Fuji completely unharmed, and made his way toward Yokohama. The J.S.D.F. deployed a squadron of Maser Cannons, including MBT-MB92s, as well as the new MBAW-93 models and the ASTOL-MB93 Maser attack aircraft, to try and stop Godzilla before he could reach the city. Godzilla made short work of the J.S.D.F.'s forces and reached the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama, where the imagos of Mothra and Battra were fighting. Battra knocked Mothra aside and attacked Godzilla, who easily overpowered the Black Mothra and knocked him to the ground. Before Godzilla could kill Battra, Mothra intervened and saved him. Mothra and Battra communicated and ultimately decided to join forces against Godzilla. Mothra used her reflective scales to trap Godzilla in a 3D mirror, but he retaliated by sending Mothra flying with a nuclear pulse. Mothra fell near the Cosmo Clock 21, which began to collapse onto her before Battra caught it and threw it at Godzilla. Both of the divine moths assaulted Godzilla, with Mothra using her reflective scales to trap Battra's prism beams within a 3D mirror, allowing them to hit Godzilla multiple times.

Mothra and Battra's onslaught proved too much for Godzilla, and he was subdued. The divine moths began to carry Godzilla out to sea, but Godzilla bit into Battra's throat and then fired his atomic breath into the wound, killing him. With Battra dead, Mothra was unable to carry Godzilla any further, and dropped both Godzilla and Battra's lifeless corpse into the ocean. She then created a glyph from her glowing scales to commemorate the fallen Battra.

While a group of Japanese scientists who discovered an intact prehistoric egg on Adonoa Island were under attack by the mutant Pteranodon Rodan, Godzilla appeared and began fighting the pterosaur, buying time for the scientists to escape with the egg. Rodan's speed and aggression gave him the advantage at first, but Godzilla prevailed by choking him and blasting him with atomic breath, seemingly killing him. The egg later hatched into an infant Godzillasaurus, named BabyGodzilla by Azusa Gojo, at an institute in Kyoto. Godzilla, drawn by BabyGodzilla's psychic calls, came ashore on the coast of Japan and made a beeline for Kyoto, leading G-Force, a military task force formed by the United Nations, to deploy their newest weapon, Mechagodzilla, built from the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah. Mechagodzilla engaged Godzilla in the countryside, where it overwhelmed him with its arsenal of weapons and absorbed his atomic breath with its Diamond Coating. After its Plasma Grenade, powered by the energy it had absorbed, knocked him to the ground, it began electrocuting him using Shock Anchor cables. However, the monster managed to reverse the electrical current, short-circuiting and incapacitating Mechagodzilla. After Godzilla pushed the machine over, G-Force deployed conventional and Maser weaponry against him, which he obliterated with his atomic breath and trampled. He eventually reached the institute in Kyoto, where a group including Azusa hid BabyGodzilla in the building's basement until he left.

Afterwards, the juvenile was moved to G-Force's headquarters, where he was raised and studied. G-Force scientists discovered that BabyGodzilla possessed a secondary brain in his hip that controlled motor function in his lower body, a feature that G-Force concluded was shared with Godzilla as they were both of the same species. Following this discovery, a new plan of attack, codenamed "G-Crusher", was formed: G-Force would use BabyGodzilla to lure Godzilla to the Ogasawara Islands, where Mechagodzilla would use its Shock Anchors to destroy his secondary brain, crippling him and allowing the machine to kill him. Azusa protested the use of BabyGodzilla as bait, but as she had no say in the matter, she instead insisted to accompany him on the mission. Psychic Miki Saegusa reluctantly agreed to join Mechagodzilla's crew and use her abilities to target his second brain.

En route, the resurrected Rodan, now the more powerful Fire Rodan, intercepted the canister holding Azusa and Baby, and touched down. Mechagodzilla and the Garuda sortied to kill Rodan and save Baby and Azusa, with Mechagodzilla seemingly terminating the pterosaur with its Plasma Grenade. Godzilla came ashore and engaged his robotic double once more. Mechagodzilla overheaded following an explosion produced by its Mega Buster colliding with his atomic breath, allowing Godzilla to pummel it without resistance. The Garuda intervened to distract him until Mechagodzilla recovered; both machines then combined to form Super Mechagodzilla. Now swifted and boasted additional firepower, this new form overpowered Godzilla before firing its Shock Anchor cables and succesfully destroying his second brain, paralyzing him. As Super Mechagodzilla bombarded Godzilla with all of its weaponry, BabyGodzilla broke free of his canister and called out to the mortally-wounded Fire Rodan, who flew over to Godzilla before being shot down by Mechagodzilla's Mega Buster.

Having fallen onto the paralyzed Godzilla, Fire Rodan transferred his life force into him before vanishing, repairing Godzilla's second brain and allowed him to resume fighting. Godzilla rose back to his feet, now giving off a huge amount of heat that began melting Super Mechagodzilla's Diamond Armor, while Fire Rodan's ashes played havoc with its systems. Unleashing his newly-acquired red Spiral Heat Ray, he soon set the machine ablaze, though its crew escaped. Following the battle, Godzilla approached the terrified BabyGodzilla, with Saegusa eventually persuading the child to go with Godzilla using her telepathic powers. Both Godzilla and his newly adopted son then left together, returning to the ocean.

Despite the failure of Mechagodzilla to kill Godzilla, G-Force began work on two new anti-Godzilla projects: Project T, a plan to telepathically control Godzilla, and Project M, a plan to use their new mecha M.O.G.U.E.R.A. to do what Mechagodzilla had come so close to doing. Godzilla had taken up partial residence on the remote Baas Island, where his adoptive son, now grown to 30 meters in height and renamed LittleGodzilla, spent all of his time. Two G-Force agents, Koji Shinjo and Kiyoshi Sato, were sent to assist Miki Saegusa, Chinatsu Gondo and Susumu Okubo with Project T, while rogue G-Force major Akira Yuki plotted to kill Godzilla himself. When SpaceGodzilla, an alien creature spawned by some of Godzilla's G-cells that had gone into space, arrived on the island and attacked LittleGodzilla, Godzilla came ashore. Shinjo successfully implanted a telepathic transmitter onto Godzilla's neck, but his psychic energy was too much for Miki to be able to control him. Godzilla confronted SpaceGodzilla and tried to save his son, but SpaceGodzilla proved to be too powerful and knocked Godzilla down. SpaceGodzilla used his telekinesis to kidnap LittleGodzilla and trap him in a crystal prison. SpaceGodzilla then flew away, leaving Godzilla behind.

Enraged and determined to free his adopted son, Godzilla chased SpaceGodzilla back to Japan.

Godzilla came ashore at Kagoshima, and made his way through Kyushu, eventually reaching Kumamoto. M.O.G.U.E.R.A., now piloted by Yuki, diverted from its course and attacked Godzilla. Shinjo and Sato, who were co-piloting the mech, subdued Yuki and sent M.O.G.U.E.R.A. back after SpaceGodzilla. Eventually, Godzilla reached SpaceGodzilla's crystal fortress in Fukuoka, where M.O.G.U.E.R.A. and SpaceGodzilla were already fighting. Godzilla attacked SpaceGodzilla, but was again overpowered. Godzilla realized that SpaceGodzilla was drawing his power from the crystal spires that he had erected all over the city, as well as the Fukuoka Tower, which SpaceGodzilla had instilled with cosmic energy. Godzilla and M.O.G.U.E.R.A., now split apart into Land Moguera and Star Falcon, joined forces to destroy the crystals and bring down the tower. When the tower was destroyed, SpaceGodzilla's power was reduced and Godzilla was able to put up a better fight. M.O.G.U.E.R.A. recombined and used its Spiral Grenade Missiles to destroy the crystals on SpaceGodzilla's shoulders, the ensuing explosion blowing Godzilla into a building and knocking him unconscious. SpaceGodzilla felled M.O.G.U.E.R.A. with his tail, but Godzilla was revitalized by runaway cosmic energy from SpaceGodzilla and returned to the fray. Eventually, Godzilla drew upon the cosmic energy to produce a red Burn Spiral Heat Ray, which he fired repeatedly at SpaceGodzilla. Overloaded with energy, SpaceGodzilla combusted into a fiery explosion. With the space monster gone, the crystals on Baas Island disappeared and freed LittleGodzilla. Godzilla swam out to sea, intent on returning to his son.

In 1996, a nuclear reaction in Godzilla's heart ignited uranium deposits on Baas Island, causing the island, along with Godzilla and his adopted son, to vanish in a fiery explosion. Godzilla soon resurfaced in Hong Kong, now covered in glowing red rashes and called Burning Godzilla. Godzilla annihilated the city with his red atomic breath and eventually disappeared out to sea. During a meeting the next day, G-Force discussed Godzilla's appearance. Professor Marvin, an American scientist employed by the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center (U.N.G.C.C.), suggested that something had happened to Godzilla's heart, which was essentially a biological nuclear reactor. Marvin suggested that G-Force seek out college student Kenkichi Yamane, who had written a thesis paper about Godzilla's physiology. Kenichi, the grandson of Kyohei Yamane, revealed that his father Shinkichi had devoted his life to studying Godzilla, but he himself thought of Godzilla as a hobby and had no interest on studying him professionally. However, upon learning that he would be working with Miki Saegusa, Kenichi readily agreed to join G-Force. Kenichi concluded that the Baas Island explosion had caused Godzilla to absorb a substantial amount of radiation, causing the nuclear fission in his heart to go out of control. Kenichi said that if Godzilla continued to increase in power, he would explode, igniting the atmosphere and vaporizing the Earth. Kenichi stated that there was only one way to kill Godzilla before this happened, the same way the first Godzilla was killed in 1954: the Oxygen Destroyer. Kenichi and his sister Yukari sought out Kensaku Ijuin, a physicist who had developed an invention similar to the Oxygen Destroyer called Micro-Oxygen, and asked him to create a new Oxygen Destroyer.

Ijuin refused, warning that the Oxygen Destroyer's usage in 1954 had mutated a colony of crustaceans from the Precambrian Era, and that these crustaceans had now evolved and started to come ashore. Without the Oxygen Destroyer and knowing that a direct attack on Godzilla could cause him to explode, G-Force turned to the Super X3, the third aircraft in the Super X line, which was armed with cadmium shells and freezer weapons. The Super X3 engaged Godzilla in the Bungo Channel as he approached the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant. The Super X3's freezer weapons successfully lowered Godzilla's core temperature and encased him in ice. As Godzilla thawed, the fission in his heart appeared to be reducing, and humanity breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Godzilla's adopted son, who had been mutated into a sub-adult Godzilla by the Baas Island explosion, surfaced at Omae Cove. Godzilla Junior, as G-Force Commander Takaaki Aso now dubbed him, appeared to be heading back to his nest on Adonoa Island. G-Force soon learned troubling news: although Godzilla's fission had been brought under control, his reactor was now overheating. Now Godzilla would undergo a nuclear meltdown, which would cause him to burn into the Earth's core and destroy the planet. G-Force had no clue about how to prevent this worst-case scenario, while Godzilla would melt down in less than a week. After learning that Godzilla was following Junior, Kenkichi Yamane proposed a desperate plan: use Junior to lure Godzilla to Tokyo, where the crustaceans mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer had merged into a giant monster called Destoroyah. Kenichi believed that, since Destoroyah was a living Oxygen Destroyer, it was the only thing that could kill Godzilla. Miki Saegusa reluctantly used her telepathy to change Junior's course and bring him to Tokyo. Junior was attacked by Destoroyah, but managed to defeat him.

When Godzilla appeared in Tokyo Bay, Dr. Ijuin proposed a new plan: use G-Force's freezer weapons to freeze Godzilla as he melted down in order to minimize the damage. The Super X3 and G-Force's new CLT-95 ULT Maser Cannons, along with modified MBT-MB92s and MBAW-93s, were sent to Tokyo in anticipation of Godzilla's meltdown, which would occur once his core temperature reached 1,200°C.

As Godzilla and Godzilla Junior reunited near Haneda Airport, Destoroyah, now in his demonic final form, ambushed the two, eventually grabbing Junior and dropping him down onto the Ariake Coliseum before seemingly finishing him with his Micro-Oxygen beam. Destoroyah then attacked the grief-stricken Godzilla, with both monsters inflicting extensive injury to one another. After Godzilla fired into an opened wound he inflicted on Destoroyah, the latter broke down into smaller aggregate forms to swarm him, which were destroyed by a nuclear pulse. Following the battle, Godzilla attempted to revive Junior to no avail. As Godzilla grieved, Destoroyah returned and began fighting Godzilla once again. Godzilla, whose temperature was now reaching critical levels, fired his Hyper Spiral Ray at Destoroyah, blasting off part of his head and wounding his shoulder. The intense heat generated by Godzilla and the use of his atomic breath caused Destoroyah to attempt to flee, but G-Force would use their freezer weapons to freeze his wings, which sent him plummeting to the super-heated ground where he exploded into a white mist upon impact. Shortly after Destoroyah's death, Godzilla's core temperature reached the 1,200°C threshold and he began to melt down. G-Force opened fire on Godzilla with all their freezer weapons as he melted away to the bone, successfully preventing the destruction of the planet, but his meltdown had released catastrophic levels of radiation into the air.

However, the radiation was absorbed by Godzilla Junior, a process that resurrected and transformed him into a new, adult Godzilla, ready to take up his father's mantle as the new King of the Monsters.

(Using the MogeGoji from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla as the primary reference.)

The Heisei Godzilla has a stocky, triangular build, broad shoulders and heavy legs. Godzilla's neck is wide at the shoulders and features much less pronounced ribbing. The face of this suit is very feline in appearance. Godzilla possesses a double row of sharp teeth in both the upper and lower jaws. However, the eyes of the MogeGoji suit appeared bigger than those of the previous suits, while the white areas of the eyes become more pronounced, thus giving this suit a slightly less menacing expression than its predecessors.