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Destoroyah (デストロイア - Desutoroia), alternatively Destroyah or Destroyer, is a kaiju from the 1995 film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
. He originated as a colony of Precambrian crustaceans that had been awakened and mutated when the Oxygen Destroyer was detonated to kill Godzilla in 1954 (Godzilla
). He grows quickly and adopts several appearances throughout the film, including insect-sized, 2-meter, and 18-meter crablike forms, a larger aggregate crablike form, a batlike flying form, and a 120-meter bipedal, winged, demonlike final form. Destoroyah was one of several kaiju in the Heisei series to undergo such transformations.

Destoroyah fights Godzilla Junior in flying and aggregate forms which match Junior's size, but is driven back. In his larger final form, before attacking the adult Godzilla, Destoroyah kills Junior. Enraged, Godzilla fights Destoroyah nearly to the death; in the end Destoroyah retreats but is shot down by the Super-X III's freezer beam and destroyed.

Destoroyah has numerous powers including a micro-oxygen beam and a laser horn attack. His general design is reminiscent of the aliens in the Alien movies, complete with double jaws. Destoroyah later appeared in two of Atari's Godzilla videogames, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee and Godzilla: Save the Earth.

A possible reason that the name "Destroyer" isn't commonly used in various markets is because the word itself could not be copyrighted. So while he is referred to as "Destroyer" when spoken, it is always "Destoroyah" in printed form.

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