History Series / UltramanTowardsTheFuture

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.

[[caption-width-right:350:As if Australia didn't have enough deadly creatures already.]]

* DaylightHorror: Lots of fights take place in broad daylight, giving us a good view of Ultraman and his foes.

* WhipItGood: Bogun's head-tentacle in the first episode. Also, Gudis.

* FiveManBand: The UMA team:
** TheLeader: Colonel Arthur Grant.
** TheLancer: Lloyd Wilder, UMA's tough-as-nails field commander who is usually the first to have Grant's back. 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. Also TheHeart of the team.
** 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 SecretIdentity as Ultraman.
** [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor: Stanley, but things were already pretty obvious ''a few episodes prior.'']]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS / NoPronunciationGuide: Though supplementary material does spell out their names properly, the Kodalar and Kilazee are pronounced as "Kuh-da-rah" and "Shi-luh-ghee" in the show.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to most of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', this show has a surprisingly serious tone, with frequent conflicts between human characters, far more horrific monster designs and heavier themes, particularly its ever-present undercurrent of environmentalism. It's probably not a stretch to call it a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Series/{{UFO}}''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the UMA team get their moments, even Colonel Grant and Lloyd, but bonus points go to ''Ultraman'' himself, while psychically speaking to Jack. When Jack wonders what else they can throw at the Kodalar [[spoiler:that has already defeated them once]], Ultraman snarks that he's "open to suggestions".

* GeniusLoci [[spoiler:The Earth is revealed to be this, and it's ''angry''.]]

* 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.

* 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. As Colonel Grant tells Lloyd in episode one, "you're not in the army anymore".

* NonIndicativeName: The UMA primarily uses two types of vehicle: a futuristic red aircraft and an armored car similar to a military humvee. Guess which one is referred to as a Hummer? It's actually the plane, presumably because of the sound its VTOL engines make. The armored car is known as a "Saltop".

* GiantEqualsInvincible / NighInvulnerable: Most of the monsters completely NoSell UMA's weapons, and even shrug off some of Ultraman's regular punches and kicks. Taken UpToEleven with the Kilazee, which gets a ''freaking nuke to the face'' and doesn't even flinch.

** 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.''

* SinisterScythe: The Majaba's entire right hand is one. Taken UpToEleven with Ryugulo, who has both hands, a tail, and a ''head'' scythe.

* 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.

* AdultFear: Losing your child in the wilderness where a rampaging {{Kaiju}} has been sighted.

* SicklyGreenGlow: The main colour of the Gudis spores, as if to contrast with Ultraman's RedIsHeroic armour and BlueIsHeroic energy blasts.

* RealityEnsues: When Jack suddenly reveals himself to Jean in episode one, she spends some time wondering about how he returned, and is suspicious about how he knows so much about the MonsterOfTheWeek. The rest of UMA also takes some time to trust Jack after his unexpected return, especially when he appears to be a Gudis expert with no prior {{Foreshadowing}}.
** Later in the episode, Ultraman's first, sudden appearance before the UMA team causes them to initially mistake him as hostile - especially when he starts slugging it out with a {{Kaiju}} in the middle of the city.

* AssholeVictim: The citizen shooting kangaroos with an assault gun from Episode 4. He’s a trigger happy nut ball who is shooting at animals for no reason, not even for sport. He even leaves his friend behind when he see Deganja’s tornado. It’s safe to say, no tears are shed for his death.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Many, many, many of the monsters' attacks are shown as this, and even Ultraman and the UMA team get their fair share.
** EyeBeams: And palm beams. And finger beams...

* LetsGetDangerous: In the fight against Barrangas in episode five, Ultraman immediately breaks out the FrickinLaserBeams (as opposed to going GoodOldFisticuffs on the MonsterOfTheWeek first), as if to show how high the stakes are. Fitting, as [[spoiler:Gudis reveals its second form in the next episode.]] Could also be because [[spoiler:Stanley's involvement and Jean's DamselInDistress moment]] means that ItsPersonal for Jack.

* {{Irony}}: When Ryugulo finally [[spoiler:decides to take human form after a heated argument with Ultraman, his form resembles Charles Morgan (but with a moustache), the other corner of the love triangle in that episode.]]

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* 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: "One that was bound in the deep; one that was born to the sky; one shall be called from its sleep, and darkness shall follow the cry."
** Another one goes "The final plague the world shall know; the one banished; the one buried; the one who sleeps below."

** When Ultraman is facing-off with Bios in episode nine, the scene is filmed like a spaghetti western, complete with twitching fingers on both sides. In this case, Ultraman proves to be better at the quick draw.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Though supplementary material does spell out their names properly, the Kodalar and Kilazee are pronounced as "Kudara" and "Shilagee" in the show.

* ChekhovsGunman: Ike, of all people, gets fired by General Brewer and joins an apocalyptic cult in the final episode, when faced with certain annihilation from the Kodalar 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.]]

** TheChick: Jean Echo.