Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-26942270-20160219134015/@comment-5963861-20160220041917

The King of the Monsters wrote: Destoroyah was already aggressively attacking people before they attacked him. When the juvenile Destoroyahs showed up and started destroying buildings, a SWAT team was sent to investigate. The juvenile Destoroyahs took that opportunity to stalk and brutally kill them even though the soldiers had no way to harm them without flamethrowers or explosives. Then when the Destoroyahs finally merged into one, Destoroyah started destroying everything in his path. When Junior showed up, Destoroyah attacked him and tried to kill him, then tried to attack the chopper with Miki. When Destoroyah reached his final form, he could have just flown away. Instead, he found Godzilla and Junior and decided to knock Godzilla over while he was reuniting with his son, then killed the completely helpless Junior right in front of Godzilla. Then he attacked Godzilla on multiple occasions while Godzilla was grieving, and in the part where he drags Godzilla by the neck, Destoroyah very plainly appears to laugh.

Then if you go by non-film media, Destoroyah's even worse. The video games say he seeks the total annihilation of all life forms in existence, and in the comics he hunts down and brutally kills an entire group of humans. Toho clearly wanted Destoroyah to be a villainous and demonic creature, hence his design. If Destoroyah had no evil intentions, he could have simply avoided conflict and not attacked every single thing he saw. The Meganulon attacked people unprovoked would you say their evil ? Rodan did as well. Destroyah was feeding in the early parts of the film. She is a predator and like most predators is territorial. She is a creature from a lost time trying to survive in a period where it was never supposed to support her way of life. You can argue that in their first encounter she attacked Jr. first, but it can be also seen as a territorial attack. She sees another large creature in the same area she's in and instinct tells her that this is a rival. Then in her final form sees Godzilla and son which equals two rivals for territory. Like a predator she goes after the weakened juvenile and eliminates him then she can focus her attention solely on Godzilla.

On the subject of Godzilla mourning, why should she care ? Would a pack of wolves choose not to attack a lone female buffalo that is mourning her dead calf ? Godzilla certainly didn't seem to care when the female Muto was mourning for her dead offspring, all he saw was a threat for food/territory or prey. Destroyah simply followed up the attack on her rival.

I see Destroyah the same way I see other monsters like Megaguirus. A highly aggressive predator whose way of life  is an inconvenience to humans. Also I'm not seeing any signs of her laughing.