Destoroyah

Near Pure Evil
Full Name	Destoroyah
Alias	Destroyer Destroyah
Origin	Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Allies	None
Powers / Skills	Strength Durability Ability to split into lesser creatures and recombine Micro-Oxygen Ray Laser Horn Oxygen Destroyer ray weapon from its chest Electrical charges Evolution Forms Slash Arms (as 1)
Goals	Wipe out all life on Earth (failed). Evolve into more powerful forms (succeeded). Kill Godzilla Junior (temporarily succeeded).
Moral Event Horizon	Slaughtering Dozens of tanks with micro-oxygen. Torturing Godzilla Junior by injecting Micro-Oxygen, causing him to violently foam out the mouth. Murdering Junior in front of Godzilla and then torturing him while he is mourning his son's death.
Kill Count	Thousands Billions (attempted)
Crimes	Mass murder Mass poisoning Attempted genocide Torture Mutilation Mass destruction Attempted man-eating Cannibalism Abuse
Type of Villain	Cataclysmic Destroyer

“	An Oxygen Destroyer! It can destroy everything and everybody. It's power is that awesome. Destoroyah!	„
	~ Dr. Kensaku Ijuin on Destoroyah.

Destoroyah (also known as Destroyah or Destroyer in the English dub) is the titular main antagonist of the 1995 Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.

He was born from a colony of Precambrian crustaceans mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon used to kill the original Godzilla. As it assumes more powerful forms, Destoroyah seeks to destroy all life on Earth out of pure spite.

In his aggregated form, he is portrayed by Eiichi Yanagida, and in his final perfect form, he is portrayed by Ryo Hariya.

His Evil Ranking

What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?

• Disintegrated a group of fish.
• When he was a few creatures, he slaughtered a SWAT team with micro-oxygen, disintegrating their cells and painfully killing them.
• Its heavily implied (outright confirmed in Godzilla Unleashed, a tie in game to the franchise) that he wants to kill all life, even being described as something that destroys all in his path.
• Blasted multiple tanks with his micro-oxygen for getting in his way, only leaving a few left.
  • These tanks are seen to have people in them, meaning this doesn’t rely on fridge horror.
• Tried to kill Godzilla Junior unprovoked.
• Tortured Godzilla Junior by stabbing him and injecting his bloodstream with micro-oxygen to absorb his DNA, almost causing him to suffocate to death.
• Killed a lot of people with no remorse.
• Killed Godzilla Jr. right in front of Godzilla who was just about to reunite with his son (again with no remorse) out of pure spite, revenge, and sadism.
• Like SpaceGodzilla before him, Destoroyah was fully aware of the pain and suffering he caused, taking immense pride in causing it as he was shown deliberately destroying cities.
• Despite the high heinous standard, Destoroyah passes for having the most brutal kills in the Heisei films, the unique crime of torture, and personal villainy against Godzilla due to killing his son. He also cannot go to space, unlike SpaceGodzilla, meaning he has slightly fewer resources.

What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?

• While Destoroyah is aware of the pain and suffering he causes like SpaceGodzilla, Gigan and Showa King Ghidorah, and clearly enjoys inflicting both on others, his malicious personality was attributed to severe mutation from exposure to Oxygen Destroyer which drove him insane thus presenting moral agency issues, particularly in his earlier forms. Although, considering he shows the ability to use mental warfare by killing Godzilla’s son in front of him, how Godzilla and Rodan were mutated by nuclear energy and were capable of empathy and compassion and that SpaceGodzilla was mutated by a black hole and has agency, this is an extremely minor prevention and only counts because the film itself specifically attributes his evil to it.

Trivia

• He is one of two Heisei-era Godzilla villains to be Near Pure Evil, alongside Dr. Susumu Okubo.
• Ironically he is he opposite of his creator Daisuke Serizawa who is Near Pure Good.
• Destoroyah is, alongside Godzilla from Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monster All-Out Attack, and Megaguirus, one of the three kaiju/monsters from the Godzilla franchise to be Near Pure Evil.
  • He also technically the only GigaBash character to be Near Pure Evil due to appearing as a guest star in a DLC as the other villains are either Generic Doomsday Villains or fail the heinous standards due to suffering from massive fridge-horror.
• His comic and Godzilla Island counterparts cannot count for the following reasons:
  • His Rulers of Earth counterpart is a weapon with no personality and fails it's continuity's heinous standard.
  • His cataclysm counterpart doesn’t have any known origin, meaning he lacks moral agency issues.
  • His Godzilla Island counterpart is too much of an minion of Zagreth, Randeth, and Giant Dark Emperor where he fails the show's heinous standard to them who did much worse.

External Links

• Destoroyah on the Villains Wiki