deadly features, coupled with its personality and several stages, can easily be seen as a loose remake of Hedorah. Destoroyah's many forms are portrayed as vicious, but it is the final form that is shown to be truly cold. The portrayal of its ruthless murder of Junior is a form of cruelty truly unseen since the vicious tooth-and-claw battles of the latter Showa entries, and it is this one act that best sums up the character Destoroyah as a whole." Complex listed the character as No. 3 on its "The 15 Most Badass Kaiju Monsters of All Time" list. Godzilla historian Steve Ryfle called Destoroyah a "nearly immobile Predator-meets-SpaceGodzilla clone", stating the character is "more laughable than menacing, and should be placed alongside Megalon and Gigan in the back rooms of the Toho monster gallery." Destoroyah was one of the inspirations behind the name of Japanese heavy metal band Destroya. Appearances Films Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) Television Godzilla Island (1997) Video games Godzilla Trading Battle (PlayStation - 1998) Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (GameCube, Xbox - 2002/2003) Godzilla: Save the Earth (Xbox, PS2 - 2004) Godzilla: Unleashed (Wii, PS2 - 2007) Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash (NDS - 2007) as equal Playable/Boss Godzilla (PS3, PS4 - 2014/2015) Godzilla Defense Force (2019) Godzilla Battle Line (2022) GigaBash (PS4, PS5) Literature Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (manga - 1995) Godzilla: Legends (comic - 2011-2012) Godzilla: Rulers of Earth (comic - 2013-2015) Godzilla: Cataclysm (comic - 2014) Godzilla in Hell (comic - 2015) Godzilla: Oblivion (comic - 2016) References Sources Fictional crustaceans Godzilla characters Fictional characters with superhuman strength Fictional mass murderers Fictional monsters Fictional mutants Fictional parasites and parasitoids Fictional superorganisms Film characters introduced in 1995 Kaiju Science fiction film characters Toho monsters Horror film villains