Awesome / Destroy All Monsters

• Seeing Toho pull off all the stops to make miniatures sets out of New York City, Moscow and Paris is truly impressive (putting it up there with their last attempt in The Last War). Moscow's Ivan the Great's Bell Tower, and the Kremlin, and Paris' Arc de Triomphe were definitely the highlights as Moscow's cityscape goes back to at least the 1500's, while the Arc de Triomphe looks exactly like the real deal. And this was done in The '60s.
• Usually it's just one or two kaiju attacking Tokyo, this time it is 4 of them at once as Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and Manda getting a spotlight during the epic rampage, and yet Tokyo is still standing despite this.
• The Final Battle itself. Godzilla, Rodan, Anguirus, Mothra, Kumonga, Gorosaurus, and even Minya on screen and battling it out with King Ghidorah, all at once! While Varan and Baragon don't do anything during the fight, ^note Justified for Baragon since his suit was in pretty terrible condition at the time, and Varan's was completely gone that doesn't make the fight any less better.
  • Everything Angurius does in the final battle. He's the first one to attack Ghidorah, latches his jaws on one of Ghidorah's necks and holds on even when Ghidorah tries to fly off! Finally dislodged, Anguirus falls about a thousand feet and gets immediately trampled by Ghidorah... and then gets right back up and attacks him again! Determinator indeed. Oh, and he's the first kaiju ever to make King Ghidorah bleed. And this is pre-Badass Decay Ghidorah, the one that takes every monster in the world to bring down!
  • Let's not forget Gorosaurus and his awesome performance during the battle. He was the only monster who managed to bring King Ghidorah onto his belly, and he did it twice with his signature Kangaroo Kick, the same move that gave King Kong trouble.
    • The first time, he and Godzilla charged Ghidorah and were blasted by a salvo of gravity beams. But whereas Godzilla went down, Gorosaurus got through and pulled on Ghidorah's left head, knocking him off of his feet and turning the tide of the battle.
    • The second time, Godzilla and Anguirus deal with Ghidorah's heads before Gorosaurus does his signature kangaroo kick to knock him to the ground again, allowing the three dinosaurs to finally defeat the space beast.
  • Even Minya gets his time to shine when he uses one of his smoke rings to strangle one of Ghidorah's necks. In fact, as his father had already stomped one to death and Anguirus mauled the other to death by this point, Minya was the one who actually dealt the killing blow.
  • Want even more awesomeness that we missed out on as seen under the What Could Have Been page: King Kong himself was in the early drafts to appear this film. Now imagine him involved the epic beatdown of King Ghidorah (in an epic battle between Kings that we tragically missed out on, which would have been a triumphant ending for King Kong's final Toho film), had the rights to King Kong not reverted back to Universal in the film's early development.
• A small one occurs after Ghidorah is defeated and the Kilaaks have unleashed the "Fire Dragon" in a final act of defiance, using it to destroy the humans' mind control devices on Monsterland. The Kilaak leader taunts the heroes in full Smug Snake mode, vowing to burn all of Tokyo to the ground using the Fire Dragon. Then she hears Godzilla's roar, and for the first time in the film, we see her rattled, if only for a moment. It's at this moment where the Kilaaks finally meet their end: Even without mind control, the kaiju can still recognize their enemies, and Godzilla personally destroys the Kilaak's base.

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