Uh, kinda does mean a lot. Destoroyah's origin is a symbolic connection from the first film to (at the time) what would've been Godzilla's last. The ultimate representation of what Serizawa feared all those years ago come to life and the show of how desperate the situation has becomes when the JSDF are willing to resort to this to kill Godzilla when all other options had failed.JAGzilla wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:05 pm Destoroyah is held down by his connection to the Oxygen Destroyer.
In the movie, it doesn't ultimately mean much of anything. If he'd been an alien or a demon or anything else, what would have changed? He's just another big thing for Godzilla to fight, and he's a sideshow at that. Godzilla melting down is the real problem, Destoroyah is just a distraction that gets in the way of everything.
He's a cool distraction, though. He has a mostly good design, if maybe a bit overdone, and a good set of powers and abilities. You can call him a retread of Hedorah, but he feels and behaves so differently from Hedorah that it doesn't matter. He looks intimidating and vicious, has the power and attitude to back it up, and just all around makes for a solid generic enemy kaiju. He'd be a fun recurring Big Bad to give Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla the occasional break, if not for the fact that his origin carries so much weight. You can't just break out the Oxygen Destroyer casually, KoTM, so Destoroyah can't just show up any time like the other kaiju can. It's really unfortunate.
Destoroyah in my view has one of the best Kaiju origins. And part of the reason for why the beast proved as popular as it had.
