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* GiantEqualsInvincible: Most of the monsters completely NoSell UMA's weapons, and even shrug off some of Ultraman's regular punches and kicks.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Attempted, but ultimately defied. In the first episode, Jack gets his leg trapped under a rockslide on Mars when he and Stanley are trying to flee from Gudis. Jack tells Stanley to go on without him, but Stanley is ultimately killed when Gudis attacks their launcher.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince Jimmy to halt the Garukadon's rampage.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince Jimmy to halt the Garukadon's Gerukadon's rampage.
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* DinosaursAreDragons: The Garukadon could be seen as this. Its fossilised bones are even shown being dug up at the beginning of the episode.
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* DinosaursAreDragons: The Garukadon Gerukadon could be seen as this. Its fossilised bones are even shown being dug up at the beginning of the episode.
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* GiantFlyer: Several: the Garukadon, the Majaba, and finally, the Kilazee.
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* GiantFlyer: Several: the Garukadon, Gerukadon, the Majaba, and finally, the Kilazee.
** Also the Gudis crystal in episode three, which drives Jimmy to send the Gerukadon on a rampage through the city. Jimmy eventually regains enough control to shatter it, allowing Ultraman to get the upper hand.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Garukadon is brought to life by Gudis by using an infected pet lizard, a drawing of the prehistoric beast in Jimmy's bedroom, and ''Jimmy himself'' being cocooned by Gudis spores.
* PunnyName: Ike tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a, you, know, ''echo''). This earns him a solid punch to the face from Jean.
* PunnyName: Ike tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a, you, know, ''echo''). This earns him a solid punch to the face from Jean.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Garukadon Gerukadon is brought to life by Gudis by using an infected pet lizard, a drawing of the prehistoric beast in Jimmy's bedroom, and ''Jimmy himself'' being cocooned by Gudis spores.
* PunnyName: Ike tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a,you, you know, ''echo''). This earns him a solid punch to the face from Jean.
* PunnyName: Ike tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a,
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* ButtMonkey: Morgan is frequently teased by his comrades, or finds himself on the wrong end of Colonel Grant's snarking. Also Lloyd, General Brewer's bumbling agent.
* ChekhovsGunman: Lloyd, of all people, quits his job under the General and joins an apocalyptic cult in the penultimate episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodara and Kilazee, but eventually comes around and is the one who [[spoiler:returns the MacGuffin to the UMA team after it gets stolen by the cult leader.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Lloyd, of all people, quits his job under the General and joins an apocalyptic cult in the penultimate episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodara and Kilazee, but eventually comes around and is the one who [[spoiler:returns the MacGuffin to the UMA team after it gets stolen by the cult leader.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Morgan is frequently teased by his comrades, or finds himself on the wrong end of Colonel Grant's snarking. Also Lloyd, Ike, General Brewer's bumbling agent.
* ChekhovsGunman:Lloyd, Ike, of all people, quits his job under the General and joins an apocalyptic cult in the penultimate episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodara and Kilazee, but eventually comes around and is the one who [[spoiler:returns the MacGuffin to the UMA team after it gets stolen by the cult leader.]]
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* FiveManBand: The UMA team:
** TheLeader: Colonel Arthur Grant.
** TheLancer: Lloyd, the field commander. Also doubles as TheBigGuy.
** TheSmartGuy: Both Kim Shaomin and Charles Morgan qualify, being the most tech-savvy. Kim is much more at home in the field, however.
** TheChick: Jean Echo.
** SixthRanger: Oddly enough, Jack Shindo himself, as he joins the team only after returning from Mars, and doesn't really fit in because of his HiddenIdentity as Ultraman.
** TheLeader: Colonel Arthur Grant.
** TheLancer: Lloyd, the field commander. Also doubles as TheBigGuy.
** TheSmartGuy: Both Kim Shaomin and Charles Morgan qualify, being the most tech-savvy. Kim is much more at home in the field, however.
** TheChick: Jean Echo.
** SixthRanger: Oddly enough, Jack Shindo himself, as he joins the team only after returning from Mars, and doesn't really fit in because of his HiddenIdentity as Ultraman.
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* PunnyName: Lloyd tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a, you, know, ''echo''). This earns him a solid punch to the face from Jean.
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* PunnyName: Lloyd Ike tries to invoke this in episode two when he calls Jean "Ms. Echo", and then repeats her last name over and over again (as a, you, know, ''echo''). This earns him a solid punch to the face from Jean.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The leader of the apocalyptic cult is last seen declaring his submission to the Kodara (that has just make landfall), MacGuffin in hand. We don't see what becomes of him, but considering the MacGuffin is next seen in Lloyd's hands as he returns it to the UMA team, it can't have been good...
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The leader of the apocalyptic cult is last seen declaring his submission to the Kodara (that has just make landfall), MacGuffin in hand. We don't see what becomes of him, but considering the MacGuffin is next seen in Lloyd's Ike's hands as he returns it to the UMA team, it can't have been good...
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince the boy whose pet lizard has been turned into the Garukadon to stop its rampage.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince Jimmy to halt the boy whose pet lizard has been turned into the Garukadon to stop its Garukadon's rampage.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Garukadon is brought to life by Gudis by using an infected pet lizard, a drawing of the prehistoric beast in a child's bedroom, and said child being cocooned by Gudis spores.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Garukadon is brought to life by Gudis by using an infected pet lizard, a drawing of the prehistoric beast in a child's Jimmy's bedroom, and said child ''Jimmy himself'' being cocooned by Gudis spores.
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* AHeadAtEachEnd: Ultraman's first earthly opponent in the series -- Bogun has one head on the top of its body and the other on its bottom.
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* AHeadAtEachEnd: Ultraman's first earthly opponent in the series -- Bogun series, Bogun, has one head on the top of its body and the other on its bottom.
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* AIIsACrapshoot + PlantPerson: A genetically modified plant-infected AI is the source of a hybrid plant-machine monster in one episode, after it forcibly takes over the greenhouses that it was created to run.
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* AIIsACrapshoot + PlantPerson: A Bios, a genetically modified plant-infected AI AI, is the source of a hybrid plant-machine monster in one episode, after it forcibly takes over the greenhouses that it was created to run.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Once, by a [[spoiler:Gudis-controlled Stanley]], and again by the General's forces when he thinks he can do a better job with the MonsterOfTheWeek. Of course, he and his team fail.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Once, by a [[spoiler:Gudis-controlled Stanley]], and again by the General's General Brewer's forces when he thinks he can do a better job with the MonsterOfTheWeek. Of course, he and his team fail. Horribly.
* BadassBookworm: While both Kim and Morgan can qualify as this, Morgan takes the lead by being a HollywoodNerd who is pretty handy with the controls of UMA's Hummer jets, as evidenced in episode seven when he takes a particularly meddlesome inspector on a (deliberate) joyride in order to buy time for UMA (and Ultraman) to deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince the boy whose pet lizard has been turned into the Garukadon to stop its rampage.
** Jack's verbal battle with [[spoiler:Gudis' second form]] may also count.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jack does this in episode three, trying to convince the boy whose pet lizard has been turned into the Garukadon to stop its rampage.
** Jack's verbal battle with [[spoiler:Gudis' second form]] may also count.
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* BigEater: Morgan. Also Sandman, the simple-minded farmhand from the Majaba episode, who is shown helping himself to the rest of his birthday cake after ''one slice has been cut out''.
* BigGood: Ultraman, the "saviour from the stars", as Commander Grant would put it.
* BlowYouAway: Episode 4 featured a monster called Deganja, a Tasmanian Devil-like creature able to create dust devils.
* BigGood: Ultraman, the "saviour from the stars", as Commander Grant would put it.
* BlowYouAway: Episode 4 featured a monster called Deganja, a Tasmanian Devil-like creature able to create dust devils.
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* BigEater: Charles Morgan. Also Sandman, the simple-minded farmhand from the Majaba episode, who is shown helping himself to the rest of his birthday cake after ''one slice has been cut out''.
* BigGood: Ultraman, the "saviour from the stars", asCommander Colonel Arthur Grant would put it.
* BlowYouAway: Episode4 four featured a monster called Deganja, a Tasmanian Devil-like creature able to create dust devils.
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* ButtMonkey: Morgan is frequently teased by his comrades, or finds himself on the wrong end of commander Grant's snarking. Also Lloyd, the General's bumbling agent.
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* {{Determinator}}: No matter how badly Ultraman gets smacked around, he always gets up to either finish off his opponent, or at least subdue them. Lampshaded by Commander Grant when he chides a naysayer with "never underestimate Ultraman."
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* {{Determinator}}: No matter how badly Ultraman gets smacked around, he always gets up to either finish off his opponent, or at least subdue them. Lampshaded by Commander Colonel Grant when he chides a naysayer with "never underestimate Ultraman."
** Subverted by a farmer in one episode, who opens fire on the UMA team (who want to inspect his warehouse for dangerous pesticides) with a very real-looking rifle.
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* FiveTokenBand: The team of six consists of two Asians (a man and a woman), a black man, and three whites (with one of them being female).
* {{Foil}}: UMA commander Grant and the General. While the former is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in charge of a MildlyMilitary organisation, and trusts Ultraman to get the job done when conventional means have failed, the latter is a trigger-happy GeneralRipper whose first reaction to any MonsterOfTheWeek is to blast it with as much firepower as he can muster.
* {{Foil}}: UMA commander Grant and the General. While the former is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in charge of a MildlyMilitary organisation, and trusts Ultraman to get the job done when conventional means have failed, the latter is a trigger-happy GeneralRipper whose first reaction to any MonsterOfTheWeek is to blast it with as much firepower as he can muster.
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* {{Foil}}:UMA commander UMA's Colonel Grant and the General. General Brewer. While the former is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in charge of a MildlyMilitary organisation, and trusts Ultraman to get the job done when conventional means have failed, the latter is a trigger-happy GeneralRipper whose first reaction to any MonsterOfTheWeek is to blast it with as much firepower as he can muster.muster.
** Grant is also shown to be a FrontLineGeneral, with no qualms about joining his men in the field, whereas Brewer never puts himself in the line of fire.
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* GeneralRipper / GeneralFailure: The General who shows up during both climaxes seems to operate on the logic that "bigger problem = bigger bombs", but always seems to end up making things worse for our heroes.
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* GeneralRipper / GeneralFailure: The General Brewer, who shows up during both climaxes climaxes, seems to operate on the logic that "bigger problem = bigger bombs", but always seems to end up making things worse for our heroes.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Ultraman gets hit with this hard in his first fight against the Kodara, as it uses its AttackReflector to throw his own FinishingMove right back at him, leading to his first (and only) defeat.]]
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Downplayed, in spite of the genre. The monsters generally lumber around on the ground, barring a few stunts, and do seem to portray their massive weight rather convincingly. Even Ultraman himself, giant alien martial artist that he is, moves only fairly faster than his adversaries.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: The Guardian of the Forest is just reacting to human incursions onto its forest (notably, it's the first non-Gudis-driven monster encountered), and is not actually out to destroy humanity. Fittingly, Ultraman only buries it underground instead of outright killing it.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: The Guardian of the Forest is just reacting to human incursions onto its forest (notably, it's the first non-Gudis-driven monster encountered), and is not actually out to destroy humanity. Fittingly, Ultraman only buries it underground instead of outright killing it.it, and doesn't actually score any solid hits on it in their fight (preferring instead to dodge around it like a matador).
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: UMA Commander Grant may be gruff and stern when he needs to get the job done, but he's also shown to genuinely care for his men.
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* StockFootage: Ultraman being summoned, OnceAnEpisode, and the UMA team launching their futuristic fighter jets.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Not really a weakness per se, but the plant-computer hybrid monster is pacified by ''classical music''. Unfortunately, it likes classical music so much that it grabs the UMA jet that is playing it on its loudspeakers, forcing Ultraman to intervene to save the pilots.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Not really a weakness per se, but the plant-computer hybrid monster Bios is pacified by ''classical music''. Unfortunately, it likes classical music so much that it grabs the UMA Hummer jet that is playing it on its loudspeakers, forcing Ultraman to intervene to save the pilots.
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* {{Determinator}}: No matter how badly Ultraman gets smacked around, he always gets up to either finish off his opponent, or at least subdue them. Lampshaded by Commander Grant when he chides a naysayer with "never underestimate Ultraman."
** Unfortunately, this also leads to [[spoiler:Ultraman's defeat by the Kodara, as he sticks around a little too long, even after his Colour Timer has started wailing.]]
** Unfortunately, this also leads to [[spoiler:Ultraman's defeat by the Kodara, as he sticks around a little too long, even after his Colour Timer has started wailing.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: While running from the Guardian of the Forest in episode seven, the UMA team stumbles across a field of mushrooms that release highly-corrosive spores on contact. While their equipment gets wrecked, HollywoodAcid-style and all, the spores also seem to repel the giant beast. Kim Shaomin then gets the idea to collect some of the spores and encase them in clay to make "mushroom bombs". They serve as a pretty good deterrent to the beast, at least until the team runs out and Jack has to resort to summoning Ultraman.
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* DinosaursAreDragons: The Garukadon could be seen as this. Its fossilised bones are even shown being dug up at the beginning of the episode.
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* HitFlash: Sometimes, during Ultraman's fights.
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* VillainTeleportation: Barrangas seems to be able to use its red poison clouds to either do this, or to FlashStep around Ultraman.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Not really a weakness per se, but the plant-computer hybrid monster is pacified by ''classical music''. Unfortunately, it likes classical music so much that it grabs the UMA jet that is playing it on its loudspeakers, forcing Ultraman to intervene to save the pilots.
* WeatherManipulation: The Deganja can summon whirlwinds when it needs to go somewhere fast.
* WeatherManipulation: The Deganja can summon whirlwinds when it needs to go somewhere fast.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: A genetically modified plant-infected AI is the source of a hybrid plant-machine monster in one episode, after it forcibly takes over the greenhouses that it was created to run.
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* LaserBlade: Ultraman sometimes creates these from his fingertips. Especially notable in the final episode, where he nails the Kilazee ''through the neck'' with ''double laser blades''. While it does deal the finishing blow to the huge monster, its head is somehow still attached as it falls to the ground.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The show's theme song doubles as Ultraman's theme song, which plays nearly every time he is summoned.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The show's theme song doubles as Ultraman's theme song, which plays nearly every time he is summoned.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Gudis is behind all the trouble in the first six episodes.
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* OfficialCouple: Jack and Jean could be seen as one.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Gudis' second form, arguably.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Gudis' second form, arguably.]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: According to the mysterious prophecy on the metal disc in the last two episodes, the Kodara and Kilazee ''might'' be this, as it's implied that they've been active in the past (though the circumstances are not elaborated upon).
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Gudis certainly wants to.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Morgan gets one when he gets involved in a love triangle with two visiting aliens. Unfortunately, one of the aliens is Ryugalo, the MonsterOfTheWeek...
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* BigEater: Morgan.
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* CoveredInGunge: In the Majaba episode, the UMA team devises a compound to neutralise the mutated beast (based on the pesticides that caused its mutation in the first place). When the beast and its nest are both sprayed after a fight with Ultraman, Jack (who had just split from Ultraman) and Sandman (the simple-minded farmhand who tried to take an axe to the giant eggs) struggle free from the foamy gunk.
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* ChewingTheScenery: The leader of the apocalyptic cult in the last two episodes gets very hammy while preaching to his followers.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The leader of the apocalyptic cult is last seen declaring his submission to the Kodara (that has just make landfall), MacGuffin in hand. We don't see what becomes of him, but considering the MacGuffin is next seen in Lloyd's hands as he returns it to the UMA team, it can't have been good...
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* BigDamnHeroes: Ultraman, frequently.
* BigGood: Ultraman, the "saviour from the stars", as Commander Grant would put it.
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* ButtMonkey: Morgan is frequently teased by his comrades, or finds himself on the wrong end of commander Grant's snarking.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Lloyd, of all people, quits his job under the General and joins an apocalyptic cult in the penultimate episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodara and Kilazee, but eventually comes around and is the one who [[spoiler:returns the MacGuffin to the UMA team after it gets stolen by the cult leader.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Lloyd, of all people, quits his job under the General and joins an apocalyptic cult in the penultimate episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodara and Kilazee, but eventually comes around and is the one who [[spoiler:returns the MacGuffin to the UMA team after it gets stolen by the cult leader.]]
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack delivers a clever one to Gudis: if it's so hell-bent on consuming/assimilating everything, what will be left for it to do once it's done? Cue VillanousBreakdown.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack delivers a clever one to Gudis: if it's so hell-bent on consuming/assimilating everything, what will be left for it to do once it's done? Cue VillanousBreakdown.VillainousBreakdown.
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* VillanousBreakdown: VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Jack provokes Gudis into this while trapped in a pocket dimension inside its head. It distracts Gudis long enough for Ultraman to break out, finally destroying Gudis for real.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: Done rather dramatically at the end of episode six, wherein Ultraman [[spoiler:explodes out of Gudis' head ''at full size'' after talking the monster into a VillanousBreakdown while trapped in a pocket dimension ''inside its head''.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: Done rather dramatically at the end of episode six, wherein Ultraman [[spoiler:explodes out of Gudis' head ''at full size'' after talking the monster into a VillanousBreakdown VillainousBreakdown while trapped in a pocket dimension ''inside its head''.]]
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* AlienInvasion: By Gudis spores.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack delivers a clever one to Gudis: if it's so hell-bent on consuming/assimilating everything, what will be left for it to do once it's done? Cue VillanousBreakdown.
* VillanousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Jack provokes Gudis into this while trapped in a pocket dimension inside its head. It distracts Gudis long enough for Ultraman to break out, finally destroying Gudis for real.]]
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* WhipItGood: Bogun's head-tentacle in the first episode.
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* YourHeadAsplode: Done rather dramatically at the end of episode six, wherein Ultraman [[spoiler:explodes out of Gudis' head ''at full size'' after talking the monster into a VillanousBreakdown while trapped in a pocket dimension ''inside its head''.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: Done rather dramatically at the end of episode six, wherein Ultraman [[spoiler:explodes out of Gudis' head ''at full size'' after talking the monster into a VillanousBreakdown while trapped in a pocket dimension ''inside its head''.]]
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* EvilPlan: Gudis wants to TakeOverTheWorld with its spores, and is exploiting pollution to do it.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: An genetically modified plant-infected AI is the source of a hybrid plant-machine monster in one episode, after it forcibly takes over the greenhouses that it was created to run.
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* KillSat: The UMA team has a weather-monitoring satellite in orbit, which somehow comes equipped with a beam weapon. [[spoiler:It's used on the Kodara in the penultimate episode, but doesn't really faze the beast.]]
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* BigEater: Morgan.
* GreenEyedMonster: Ryugalo gets jealous of [[spoiler:the attention his girlfriend is showing Morgan, which, together with the MenInBlack nearly blowing his cover, culminates in him lashing out in his giant, alien form.]] It takes a heated argument (read: trashing the train depot they were in) with Ultraman to make him back down.
* LoveTriangle: One between Ryugalo, his girlfriend (both aliens), and the UMA team's Morgan. [[spoiler: Ryugalo reconciles with his girlfriend (after a heated argument with Ultraman) by the end of the episode, and they stay together.]]
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* ShoutOut: A subtle one: Grant points to a picture of the MacGuffin that the final two episodes are centred on and declares its prophecy to be "the apocalypse", to which one of his subordinates asks, "now?" in an almost petulant voice.
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* ShoutOut: A subtle one: Grant points to a picture of the MacGuffin that the final two episodes are centred on and declares its prophecy to be "the apocalypse", to which one of his subordinates Morgan asks, "now?" in an almost petulant voice.
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* AHeadAtEachEnd: Ultraman's first opponent in the series -- Bogun has one head on the top of its body and the other on its bottom.
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* BackFromTheDead: Everyone thinks this of Jack when he somehow makes it back to Earth in episode one, but of course, he had help from Ultraman. Played straight, however, by [[spoiler:Gudis, who has been incubating a second body in the desert over the course of the first six episodes. Stanley may or may not be this as well, see CameBackWrong below.]]
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* CombatTentacles: Gudis prefers these when engaged in direct combat. Also Bogun in episode one.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: The Guardian of the Forest is just reacting to human incursions onto its forest (notably, it's the first non-Gudis-driven monster encountered), and is not actually out to destroy humanity. Fittingly, Ultraman only buries it underground instead of outright killing it.
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* ThanatosGambit: Gudis' [[spoiler: first]] physical form is destroyed by Ultraman on Mars in the first episode, but its essence escapes to Earth in the form of cosmic microbes. Said microbes cause no small amount of trouble for the first six episodes.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, when Ultraman lays the smackdown on the Kodara in their second fight, the monster's spiky shell briefly comes detached from the rest of the costume.
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* ArtShift: The Kodara looks rather different in and out of water. Possibly justified, as it might be an underwater-adapted creature, and is more sluggish on land.
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* BreathWeapon: Many of the monsters qualify, including the Gigasaurus' icy breath and the Majaba's poison breath.
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* ManInARubberSuit: But of course.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, when Ultraman lays the smackdown on the Kodara in their second fight, the monster's spiky shell briefly comes detached from the rest of the costume.
* StuffBlowingUp: Whenever the monsters and/or Ultraman show up.
* StuffBlowingUp: Whenever the monsters and/or Ultraman show up.
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* GiantFlyer: Several: the Garukadon, the Majaba, and finally, the Kilazee.
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* {{Kevlard}}: The Kodara is the tubbiest of the monsters, and can also take the most punishment from Ultraman. It even shrugs off a beam from a KillSat, and survives to [[spoiler:hand Ultraman his first (and only) defeat.]]
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* ActionGirl: Jean Echo and Kim Shaomin.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the UMA team get their moments, but bonus points go to ''Ultraman'' himself, while psychically speaking to Jack. When Jack wonders what else they can throw at the Kodara [[spoiler:that has already defeated them once]], Ultraman snarks that he's "open to suggestions".
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* HarmlessFreezing: The Gigasaurus emerges from the ice (thanks to [[spoiler:a Gudis-controlled Stanley's meddling]]) seemingly none the worse for wear, but Gudis may have also played a part in restoring its functions.
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** And again, in the Guardian of the Forest episode, wherein said guardian is apparently attracted to anything metallic (i.e. man-made) in its domain, and is driven into a frenzy when a bulldozing team tries to deforest its forest.
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* MildlyMilitary: The UMA team has the aesthetic of a full military organisation, down to the equipment, but their interactions with one another are much less formal than a regular military.
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* PunyEarthlings: Ryugalo essentially describes humans as such to his girlfriend - both are aliens who have come to earth on her insistence ''for sightseeing.''
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* ShoutOut: A subtle one: Grant points to a picture of the MacGuffin that the final two episodes are centred on and declares its prophecy to be "the apocalypse", to which one of his subordinates asks, "now?" in an almost petulant voice.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Stanley suddenly joins the UMA team in the fifth episode (after skulking around in the background for the past few episodes), much to Jack's confusion. It's eventually revealed that he's being controlled by Gudis, but it's not made clear if his body was revived, or he's just a puppet made in Stanley's image. He ends up transforming into the MonsterOfTheWeek by the end of the episode.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Stanley suddenly joins the UMA team in the fifth episode (after skulking around in the background for the past few episodes), much to Jack's confusion. It's eventually revealed that he's being controlled by Gudis, but it's not made clear if his body was revived, or he's just a puppet made in Stanley's image. He ends up transforming into the MonsterOfTheWeek by the end of the episode.episode, and gets promptly disposed of by Ultraman.]]
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Jean Echo, Jack's love interest, gets taken hostage by a Gudis-resurrected Stanley in the fifth episode, and Stanley convinces Jack to give up his TransformationTrinket. Jean escapes his grasp and risks her life to retrieve it, falling into a pit of Gudis spores in the process. Jack manages to fish her out of it, but she spends the next episode under Gudis' DemonicPossession.]]
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Jean Echo, Jack's love interest, gets taken hostage by a Gudis-resurrected Stanley in the fifth episode, and Stanley convinces Jack to give up his TransformationTrinket. Jean escapes his grasp and risks her life to retrieve it, falling into a pit of Gudis spores in the process. Jack manages to fish her out of it, but she spends the next episode under Gudis' DemonicPossession. Thankfully, she gets better.]]
* {{Foil}}: UMA commander Grant and the General. While the former is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in charge of a MildlyMilitary organisation, and trusts Ultraman to get the job done when conventional means have failed, the latter is a trigger-happy GeneralRipper whose first reaction to any MonsterOfTheWeek is to blast it with as much firepower as he can muster.
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* WhipItGood: Bogun's head-tentacle in the first episode.
* WhipItGood: Bogun's head-tentacle in the first episode.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Some of the monsters' names aren't mentioned on-screen, and can only be found in supplementary material.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Stanley suddenly reappears in the fifth episode and joins the UMA team, much to Jack's confusion. It's eventually revealed that he's being controlled by Gudis, but it's not made clear if his body was revived, or he's just a puppet made in Stanley's image. He ends up transforming into the MonsterOfTheWeek by the end of the episode.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Stanley suddenly reappears joins the UMA team in the fifth episode and joins (after skulking around in the UMA team, background for the past few episodes), much to Jack's confusion. It's eventually revealed that he's being controlled by Gudis, but it's not made clear if his body was revived, or he's just a puppet made in Stanley's image. He ends up transforming into the MonsterOfTheWeek by the end of the episode.]]
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Jean Echo, Jack's love interest, gets taken hostage by a Gudis-resurrected Stanley in the fifth episode, and Stanley convinces Jack to give up his TransformationTrinket. Jean escapes his grasp and risks her life to retrieve it, falling into a pit of Gudis spores in the process. Jack manages to fish her out of it, but she spend the next episode under Gudis' DemonicPossession.]]
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Jean Echo, Jack's love interest, gets taken hostage by a Gudis-resurrected Stanley in the fifth episode, and Stanley convinces Jack to give up his TransformationTrinket. Jean escapes his grasp and risks her life to retrieve it, falling into a pit of Gudis spores in the process. Jack manages to fish her out of it, but she spend spends the next episode under Gudis' DemonicPossession.]]]]
* EvilCripple: The MadScientist of episode eleven is wheelchair-bound, and seems to be missing a couple of fingers...
* EvilCripple: The MadScientist of episode eleven is wheelchair-bound, and seems to be missing a couple of fingers...
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* FrickinLaserBeams: Many, many, many of the monsters' attacks are shown as this, and even Ultraman and the UMA team get their fair share.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The MadScientist in episode eleven [[spoiler:gets quite horrifically eaten/absorbed/''something'' by the UFO when it awakens after he's taken the pilot seat.]] We're only shown Grant's horrified reaction to the event.
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* MacGuffin: The strange metal disc with the prophecy in the last two episodes.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Stanley suddenly reappears in the fifth episode and joins the UMA team, much to Jack's confusion. It's eventually revealed that he's being controlled by Gudis, but it's not made clear if his body was revived, or he's just a puppet made in Stanley's image. He ends up transforming into the MonsterOfTheWeek by the end of the episode.]]
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Jean Echo, Jack's love interest, gets taken hostage by a Gudis-resurrected Stanley in the fifth episode, and Stanley convinces Jack to give up his TransformationTrinket. Jean escapes his grasp and risks her life to retrieve it, falling into a pit of Gudis spores in the process. Jack manages to fish her out of it, but she spend the next episode under Gudis' DemonicPossession.]]
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* BigBad: The Gudis play this role for the first six episodes of the show.
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** In the first episode, ''Ultraman'' himself gets mistaken as one, until the UMA team notices that he's pretty much the only thing that can go toe-to-toe with the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* BigBad:The Gudis play plays this role for the first six episodes of the show.
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* TheCorruption: The Gudis Virus does this, turning animals into monsters or making those already monsters go on berserk rampages.
* FinishingMove: Ultrama Great is the Burning Plasma, which rather than being cross-styled beam, is twin bolts of energy from his hands done as a KamehameHadoken.
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* TheCorruption: The Gudis Virus does this, turning animals into monsters or making those that are already monsters go on berserk rampages.
* CrazySurvivalist: The MadScientist in the UFO episode plans to escape humanity's impending self-inflicted apocalypse by hiding himself and his followers in a fleet of craft reverse-engineered from the UFO. Unfortunately for him, the original UFO itself just happens to be the MonsterOfTheWeek...
* FinishingMove:Ultrama Ultraman Great is uses the Burning Plasma, which rather than being cross-styled beam, is twin bolts of energy from his hands done as a KamehameHadoken.
* CrazySurvivalist: The MadScientist in the UFO episode plans to escape humanity's impending self-inflicted apocalypse by hiding himself and his followers in a fleet of craft reverse-engineered from the UFO. Unfortunately for him, the original UFO itself just happens to be the MonsterOfTheWeek...
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* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.]]
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** Practically spelt out in the Deganja episode, wherein the mystical aborigine explains that "when the earth feels that the land is being neglected, it sends down the Deganja."
* GeneralRipper / GeneralFailure: The General who shows up during both climaxes seems to operate on the logic that "bigger problem = bigger bombs", but always seems to end up making things worse for our heroes.
* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.]]]] Also alluded to in the mysterious prophecy in the final two episodes: "Three plagues the world shall know; the one banished; the one buried; the one who sleeps below."
* GeneralRipper / GeneralFailure: The General who shows up during both climaxes seems to operate on the logic that "bigger problem = bigger bombs", but always seems to end up making things worse for our heroes.
* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.
* HeroicSecondWind: Once Ultraman's Colour Timer starts running down, the titular hero usually shifts into high gear, in order to end his fights fast.
** Taken UpToEleven in the Deganja episode, wherein a couple of civilians first encounter the MonsterOfTheWeek while in the outback hunting kangaroos from a jeep ''with an assault rifle.''
* MonsterIsAMommy: The Majaba is introduced as a type of giant, pesticide-mutated grasshopper, that has not only mated (its mate gets rather-easily shot down midway through the episode), but is already ''incubating a nest''.
** MamaBear / PapaWolf: Both the Majaba parents make great efforts to defend their nest against the UMA team and Ultraman, for all the good it does them.
** MamaBear / PapaWolf: Both the Majaba parents make great efforts to defend their nest against the UMA team and Ultraman, for all the good it does them.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Garukadon is brought to life by Gudis by using an infected pet lizard, a drawing of the prehistoric beast in a child's bedroom, and said child being cocooned by Gudis spores.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: UMA Commander Grant may be gruff and stern when he needs to get the job done, but he's also shown to genuinely care for his men.
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* WhamEpisode: The penultimate episode, wherein [[spoiler:Ultraman gets defeated by the MonsterOfTheWeek in an alarmingly quick CurbStompBattle,]] leading to...
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Ultraman has been defeated. The Earth lies defenceless before its enemies...]]
* WhamEpisode: The penultimate episode, wherein [[spoiler:Ultraman gets defeated by the MonsterOfTheWeek in an alarmingly quick CurbStompBattle,]] leading to...
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Ultraman has been defeated. The Earth lies defenceless before its enemies...]]
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* AHeadAtEachEnd: Ultraman's first opponent in the series -- Bogun has one head on the top of its body and the other on its bottom.
* AnIcePerson: Gigasaurus, a brontosaurus-like monster from Antarctica that breathes freezing gas and causes surrounding temperatures to drop.
* AnIcePerson: Gigasaurus, a brontosaurus-like monster from Antarctica that breathes freezing gas and causes surrounding temperatures to drop.
* BlowYouAway: Episode 4 featured a monster called Deganja, a Tasmanian Devil-like creature able to create dust devils.
* FinishingMove: Ultrama Great is the Burning Plasma, which rather than being cross-styled beam, is twin bolts of energy from his hands done as a KamehameHadoken.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A recurring theme in the show due to the heavy emphasis on the fact that many of the monsters in the series are attacking to punish humans for pollution.
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* LivingShip: UF-0, the monster of Episode 11.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: With the exception of the two-partfinale.finale.
* PoisonousPerson: The final Gudis-made monster Barrangas constantly spews poison from its body.
* TransformationTrinket: Jack Shindo's Delta-Plasma Pendant.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: UMA has Jean Echo and Kim Shaomin.
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* PoisonousPerson: The final Gudis-made monster Barrangas constantly spews poison from its body.
* TransformationTrinket: Jack Shindo's Delta-Plasma Pendant.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: UMA has Jean Echo and Kim Shaomin.
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!!''Ultraman: Towards the Future'' provides the following tropes.
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!!''Ultraman: Towards the Future'' provides the following tropes.tropes.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: As per ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' norm, giant monsters and aliens form the regular villains.
* BigBad: The Gudis play this role for the first six episodes of the show.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Majaba, a giant locust mutated by pesticides.
* TheCorruption: The Gudis Virus does this, turning animals into monsters or making those already monsters go on berserk rampages.
* FiveTokenBand: The team of six consists of two Asians (a man and a woman), a black man, and three whites (with one of them being female).
* GaiasVengeance: The two-part finale sees the Earth itself spawns two monsters called Kilazee and Kodara to destroy the human race as punishment for their environmental destruction.
* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.]]
* GreenAesop: ''Every'' episode features this, as environmentalism was an especially serious issue in Australia in the 90s. Most blatantly shown by the narrator's emphasis on Ultramar's Colour Timer limit being a consequence of atmospheric pollution.
* {{Kaiju}}: Unlike [[Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero the other 13-episode international co-production]], all the kaiju in this series are completely new from the minds of the Australian writers.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: With the exception of the two-part finale.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: As per ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' norm, giant monsters and aliens form the regular villains.
* BigBad: The Gudis play this role for the first six episodes of the show.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Majaba, a giant locust mutated by pesticides.
* TheCorruption: The Gudis Virus does this, turning animals into monsters or making those already monsters go on berserk rampages.
* FiveTokenBand: The team of six consists of two Asians (a man and a woman), a black man, and three whites (with one of them being female).
* GaiasVengeance: The two-part finale sees the Earth itself spawns two monsters called Kilazee and Kodara to destroy the human race as punishment for their environmental destruction.
* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.]]
* GreenAesop: ''Every'' episode features this, as environmentalism was an especially serious issue in Australia in the 90s. Most blatantly shown by the narrator's emphasis on Ultramar's Colour Timer limit being a consequence of atmospheric pollution.
* {{Kaiju}}: Unlike [[Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero the other 13-episode international co-production]], all the kaiju in this series are completely new from the minds of the Australian writers.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: With the exception of the two-part finale.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/towards_the_future.png]]
''Ultraman: Towards the Future'' (known as ''Ultraman Great'' in Japan) is a 13-episode miniseries created as an InternationalCoproduction between Creator/TsuburayaProductions (creators of the Franchise/UltraSeries that is is a part of) and the South Australian Film Corporation.
Astronauts Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are the first men to land on Mars and encounter the giant monster Gudis battling the gigantic alien, Ultraman Great. Haggard is killed by Gudis while Jack is pinned underneath a rockslide, but before Ultraman can destroy the monster, it turns into a virus and heads for Earth. As Ultraman cannot last long in Earth's polluted atmosphere, he merges with Jack to battle the Gudis Virus, granting the human the ability to transform into Ultraman whenever all is lost. Jack then joins the anti-monster attack team UMA (Universal Multipurpose Agency) to help them fight the Gudis and many other monstrous threats.
The series was never aired in Australia, despite being produced and set there. However, it was released in Japan on Direct-To-Video in 1990, only finally airing on television in 1995. The series was also distributed in the United States by Sachs Family Entertainment and broadcasted in 1992. The series also generated a merchandise line including toys, comic books and a video game.
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''Ultraman: Towards the Future'' (known as ''Ultraman Great'' in Japan) is a 13-episode miniseries created as an InternationalCoproduction between Creator/TsuburayaProductions (creators of the Franchise/UltraSeries that is is a part of) and the South Australian Film Corporation.
Astronauts Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are the first men to land on Mars and encounter the giant monster Gudis battling the gigantic alien, Ultraman Great. Haggard is killed by Gudis while Jack is pinned underneath a rockslide, but before Ultraman can destroy the monster, it turns into a virus and heads for Earth. As Ultraman cannot last long in Earth's polluted atmosphere, he merges with Jack to battle the Gudis Virus, granting the human the ability to transform into Ultraman whenever all is lost. Jack then joins the anti-monster attack team UMA (Universal Multipurpose Agency) to help them fight the Gudis and many other monstrous threats.
The series was never aired in Australia, despite being produced and set there. However, it was released in Japan on Direct-To-Video in 1990, only finally airing on television in 1995. The series was also distributed in the United States by Sachs Family Entertainment and broadcasted in 1992. The series also generated a merchandise line including toys, comic books and a video game.
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