Godzilla Junior (Heisei)

Godzilla Junior; Baby G, BabyGodzilla; Baby; LittleGodzilla, Little; Little One; Junior; Godzilla Jr.; New Godzilla; Rebirth Godzilla

1.64 feet (5.38 feet; BabyGodzilla); 30 meters (98 feet; LittleGodzilla); 40 meters (131 feet; Godzilla Junior); 100 meters (328 feet; Rebirth Godzilla)

3.53 meters (12 feet; BabyGodzilla); 15 meters (49 feet; LittleGodzilla); 60 meters (197 feet; Godzilla Junior); 140 meters (459 feet; tail; Rebirth Godzilla)

420 kilograms (0.42 metric tons; BabyGodzilla); 8,000 metric tons (8,818 short tons; LittleGodzilla); 15,000 metric tons (16,535 short tons; Godzilla Junior); 60,000 metric tons (66,000 short tons; Rebirth Godzilla)

• Atomic breath; LittleGodzilla fired atomic bubbles from his mouth, while Junior fired a proper atomic heat ray
• Extreme physical strength and durability; totally immune and impervious to damage from conventional weapons (Rebirth Godzilla only)
• 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
• Until his rebirth, Godzilla Junior could only endure a certain level of physical punishment, as shown by Destoroyah easily injuring him during their fight in Tokyo, as well as his death at Haneda Airport that same night

Unlike his adoptive father, this monster is very docile and kind towards humans such as his surrogate mother Azusa Gojo, G-Force major Akira Yuki, and Miki Saegusa. As LittleGodzilla, he is very playful and mischievous. As Godzilla Junior, he is still gentle towards human beings, and is shown to still recognize Miki Saegusa, attempting to defend her from Destoroyah. Whenever BabyGodzilla or LittleGodzilla is scared, his eyes glow red. As the adult Rebirth Godzilla, he maintains his benevolence towards humans and strives to protect all life on Earth from threats.

In 1994, while inspecting the heavily-irradiated Adonoa Island in the Bering Sea, a team of Japanese scientists led by Hiroshi Omae and Russian petroleum workers discovered a Pteranodon nest containing a hatched egg and a seemingly perfectly intact egg. The scientists loaded the egg onto a helicopter, intending to bring it back to an institute in Kyoto, but they were attacked by Rodan, a giant irradiated Pteranodon that Omae believed hatched from the other egg. Godzilla soon emerged from the sea and came ashore on the island, where he engaged Rodan in battle, buying time for the humans to escape in a helicopter. Godzilla seemingly killed Rodan, then followed the chopper back to Japan. The egg was kept in an institute in Kyoto and watched over by scientist Azusa Gojo. The creature inside of the egg, listening for its mother's voice, imprinted on Azusa as its mother, and exhibited a red glow, indicating fear, any time she left the laboratory. Miki Saegusa had a fern found attached to the egg brought to the E.S.P. institute so as to measure the psychic energy she felt it giving off. Strangely, the students in the institute retrieved music from the fern, and when this music was played it caused the egg to hatch in the laboratory. To everyone's shock, the egg hatched into an infant Godzillasaurus rather than an infant Pteranodon. The hatchling, named BabyGodzilla, proved to be docile, and believed Azusa to be its mother. Suddenly, Godzilla appeared in Japan, and began heading to Kyoto. After defeating Mechagodzilla, Godzilla reached the city, at which point Azusa, Omae, Miki and Kazuma Aoki hid Baby in the basement of the institute. When he could not find Baby, Godzilla eventually returned to the ocean.

Baby was then moved to a G-Force facility, where he was kept in a large enclosure and watched over by Azusa. Studies of BabyGodzilla's anatomy revealed something surprising: the creature possessed a secondary brain located in his hip region, which controlled motor function in his entire lower body. G-Force concluded that, as Baby was of the same species as Godzilla, that Godzilla must possess the same structure. G-Force formed a plan, codenamed G-Crusher, to use BabyGodzilla as bait to lure Godzilla to the Ogasawara Islands, where Mechagodzilla would use its weapons to destroy Godzilla's secondary brain and kill him. Azusa objected to the plan, but she was told that the plan was critical to finally defeating Godzilla. When Baby was being loaded into a canister to be carried to the Ogasawara Islands, his eyes began to glow red. Azusa insisted on accompanying Baby, and entered the canister as well, which was carried by a chopper. En route, the chopper was attacked by Rodan, who had been resurrected as Fire Rodan. Fire Rodan destroyed the chopper and grabbed the canister, attempting to break it open with his beak. Mechagodzilla was launched to stop Fire Rodan and recover the canister, and with the assistance of the Garuda seemingly killed him. Professor Omae and a team of soldiers reached the container and attempted to open it, while Godzilla arrived and began a second battle with Mechagodzilla. Mechagodzilla combined with the Garuda to form Super Mechagodzilla, and succeeded in destroying Godzilla's brain and crippling him. At this point, Baby broke free of the canister and cried out, getting the attention of the wounded Fire Rodan. Fire Rodan took flight, but was shot down by Super Mechagodzilla and fell onto Godzilla. Fire Rodan transferred his life force into Godzilla, restoring his second brain and imbuing him with a surge of power. Godzilla rose to his feet and destroyed Super Mechagodzilla with several blasts of his red spiral heat beam.

Knowing that Baby belonged with his own kind, Azusa bid goodbye to him, causing his eyes to glow red again. As Azusa tried to leave in a helicopter, Baby grabbed onto her shirt, tears welling in his eyes. Azusa apologized to Baby and left, leaving him alone with Godzilla. Godzilla approached Baby and roared to him, but Baby cowered in fear. Using her telepathy, Miki Saegusa convinced Baby to go with Godzilla. Godzilla and Baby then waded out to sea together, demonstrating that life would always triumph over artificial life.

A year later, in 1995, BabyGodzilla had taken up residence on Baas Island, where exposure to Godzilla's radiation had caused him to grow to 30 meters in height. Now known as LittleGodzilla, the young Godzillasaurus roamed the island freely, frequently following G-Force Major Akira Yuki, who was living on the island to observe Godzilla with the goal of killing him. Despite his hatred for Godzilla, Yuki had a soft spot for LittleGodzilla, who Yuki claimed was fond of him as well. When G-Force members Koji Shinjo and Kiyoshi Sato arrived on Baas Island along with Miki Saegusa, Susumu Okubo and Chinatsu Gondo to enact Project T, Yuki had tear gas mines planted along the shore. Unfortunately, LittleGodzilla set off the mines instead, and eventually ran off into the jungle. When the monster SpaceGodzilla landed on the island, LittleGodzilla approached him. SpaceGodzilla immediately attacked the young monster, causing his eyes to glow red in fear. As if sensing his adopted son was in danger, Godzilla came ashore and confronted SpaceGodzilla. LittleGodzilla cowered behind his father, who fired his atomic breath at SpaceGodzilla, who easily deflected it with a crystal shield. SpaceGodzilla knocked Godzilla down with his corona beam, then used his telekinesis to grab LittleGodzilla and trap him in a crystal prison. Godzilla got back to his feet and pursued SpaceGodzilla to Japan, intent on freeing LittleGodzilla.

After Godzilla defeated SpaceGodzilla with the assistance of M.O.G.U.E.R.A., LittleGodzilla's crystal prison was destroyed, and the young monster began roaming Baas Island again and firing atomic bubbles from his mouth.

In 1996, nuclear reactions in Godzilla's heart ignited uranium deposits under Baas Island, causing the island to completely vanish in a fiery explosion. Neither Godzilla nor his adoptive son could be found near the island's former location, and were both initially presumed dead. However, Godzilla, covered in glowing red rashes and dubbed Burning Godzilla, soon surfaced in Hong Kong. LittleGodzilla was still nowhere to be found, and Kenkichi Yamane determined that it was unlikely he survived the explosion. When whales began dying in large numbers in the waters around Japan, Kenichi and Miki Saegusa considered the possibility that the Little One was responsible, having been changed by the explosion. The Little One soon surfaced at Omaezaki in Shizuoka Prefecture, having now grown into a sub-adult dubbed Godzilla Junior by G-Force Commander Takaaki Aso. From Junior's course, it was apparent he was returning to his nest on Adonoa Island, and Godzilla was following him. With Godzilla about to undergo a catastrophic meltdown that would destroy the planet, G-Force formed a desperate plan to get him to fight Destoroyah, a monster spawned by the Oxygen Destroyer used to kill the first Godzilla in 1954, in the hopes he would be killed in the battle. Miki was forced to reluctantly use her telepathy to bring Junior to Tokyo, knowing Godzilla would follow. Destoroyah attacked the chopper carrying Miki and Meru Ozawa, but Junior defended them and battled Destoroyah. Destoroyah pinned Junior to the ground and began injecting Micro-Oxygen into his bloodstream, causing him to foam at the mouth. Junior used his atomic breath to blast Destoroyah off of him and into a refinery, which exploded.

Junior rose back to his feet and roared victoriously, and approached Haneda Airport.

closed his eyes and seemingly died. Both Miki and Godzilla were stricken by grief, while Destoroyah turned his attention to Godzilla. Godzilla battled the evil creature, and eventually defeated him and approached his fallen son. Godzilla tried to breathe energy back into Junior, who briefly opened his eyes before finally passing away. Godzilla roared out in grief, but was attacked by Destoroyah once again. As Godzilla began to melt down, Destoroyah tried to retreat, but was shot down by G-Force's freezer weapons and killed upon colliding with the super-heated ground. As G-Force conducted an operation to minimize the damage caused by Godzilla's impending meltdown by bombarding him with their arsenal of freezer weapons, Godzilla finally died amidst the wreckage of the battlefield. While a China syndrome scenario had been averted by G-Force's efforts, catastrophic amounts of radiation were released into the atmosphere as Godzilla's flesh melted off his skeleton. Though Tokyo seemed doomed to become an uninhabitable wasteland, suddenly, the radiation in the area decreased to normal background levels. Through the smoke, a newly-revived Godzilla Junior roared, having absorbed his father's dying radiation and matured into the new Godzilla.

BabyGodzilla stands about human height with a slightly hunched posture, and has bluish skin with a gray underbelly and small gray dorsal fins running down his back.

LittleGodzilla stands mostly upright, and has a large head and very large brown eyes and green skin with a yellow underbelly. He also has pudgy arms and stubby legs. This look gave him a very Minilla-like appearance.

As Godzilla Junior, he now resembles his adoptive father more closely, with similar body proportions and physical features. However, unlike Godzilla, Junior's skin is green, with a lighter green on his underbelly, his eyes are a light orange color, he has very small dorsal fins on his back, and he stands with a very hunched posture.

After absorbing Godzilla's dying radiation and growing into an adult Godzilla, Junior now looks mostly identical to his father, with 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.