Godzilla, now covered in lava-like rashes, subsequently appears in Hong Kong and destroys great swathes of the city with an empowered version of his atomic breath.

Yamane theorizes that when Godzilla's temperature reaches 1,200 °C (2,190 °F), he will lead to a thermonuclear explosion with enough energy to melt the Earth down to its core.

The JSDF deploys the Super X III, an aerial combat vehicle outfitted with ultra-low temperature lasers, in an attempt to reverse Godzilla's self-destruction.

Meanwhile, a colony of Precambrian organisms mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer used to defeat the original Godzilla are awoken during the construction of the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line.

The monsters, dubbed "Destoroyah," are revealed to be vulnerable to subzero temperatures and are temporarily held at bay with low-temperature lasers.

Godzilla awakens, his condition having worsened to the point that his meltdown could potentially destroy the Earth through a China syndrome-like incident.

Toho began promoting the movie via large placards featuring the kanji text ゴジラ死す ("Godzilla dies").

[7] The character was initially going to be named "Barubaroi", though this was rejected on account of it sounding too similar to Berber, and thus could have been considered offensive.

[10] Five days prior to the film's release, a large bronze sculpture of Godzilla was erected on the Hibiya cinema district.

After the film's release, Toho studios was bombarded by letters of protest demanding Godzilla's resurrection, and several mourners gathered at the bronze statue to leave ¥10-100 coins and tobacco.

The final product was the result of placing 200 small orange light bulbs on the suit previously used for Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and covering them with semitransparent vinyl plates.

Rettoushinkan was well known for being a first real-time tactics video game to be released on 32-Bit Consoles, by 11 month before the PlayStation port of Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat.

[21] It was the number one domestic film at the box office in Japan by distribution income for 1996 and Fourth Place overall behind Twister, SE7EN and Mission: Impossible.

[24] Toho Kingdom said, "With an elegant style, a powerful plot, brilliant effects, and believable acting, this entry is definitely a notch above favorites from all three timelines, and its impact on the series is challenged by only a handful of competitors.

"[28] Tim Brayton of Alternate Ending called it "A Godzilla movie of particular grandeur and seriousness", saying "it's the best Godzilla film of the VS era: visually robust, focused on great heaving gestures and emotions that work so much better in this franchise than the attempts at human-scaled storytelling that some of the more recent sequels gestured towards.

[30] A mixed review came from DVD Talk, saying that "Although it benefits from having an honest-to-goodness storyline with some continuity from the previous Godzillas (going back to the earliest films), Destoroyah's portentous pacing, cardboard-thin characters and cheeseball effects apparently served as a primer on what not to do when Hollywood picked up the franchise.

[32] Journalist and film 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.