Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

Released December 9, 1995 under Toho's headline campaign 'Godzilla Dies,' Takao Okawara's Heisei finale sees Godzilla's nuclear heart approach a 1,200-degree Celsius meltdown that threatens to destroy Earth. Simultaneously, Precambrian organisms mutated by the 1954 Oxygen Destroyer merge into Destoroyah, a towering adversary that fatally wounds Godzilla Junior. Backed by the JSDF's Super X III freezing lasers and Momoko Kochi reprising her 1954 role as Emiko Yamane, Godzilla's glowing demise passes the torch to a revived Junior.