Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995) Saturday Monster Movies

With the last of the Heisei Godzilla films (and the final of the Baby Godzilla trilogy) we get a good one. Or that is the considered opinion of the fandom. It certainly carries emotional weight, as Godzilla dies.

The enemy this time, is a more powerful and bigger monster, created by the very chemical that killed the first Godzilla back in 1954: the “oxygen destroyer.” Appropriately, this monster is called “Destroyah.”

This story is a great manifestation of the truth that mankind, in a effort to make things better, tends to screw things up even more. You don’t mess with nature and get away with it. Ever since the Fall, when humanity told God that we’d prefer our way to His, we have made a horrible mess of things. Here, we invent a substance to kill off a monster that our nuclear weapons created, and it creates an even more threatening monster. Other real-life examples abound.

-We introduced Cane Toads to Australia to control insect pests. They became even worse pests with no natural predators.

-China tried to eliminate sparrows because they ate grain, but ended up with plagues of locusts as there were too few sparrows to control their population.

-In 1998, animal activists freed thousands of farmed mink, and those mink devastated and nearly drove several other species to extinction.

-We suppressed and combated forest fires in the US to such an extent that those fires today rage out of control due to the sheer amount of fuel.

-CFCs were invented as a safer refrigerant, then they almost destroyed the ozone layer.

Maybe don’t try to solve all of nature’s problems. You are only going to make things worse.