Line #2 Series/UltramanGeed


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7	-> ''"[[{{Tagline}} Fate – prepare to decide.]]"''
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9	''Ultraman Geed'' is an 2017 {{toku}}satsu series created by Creator/TsuburayaProductions, and the 29th entry in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' and a direct sequel to ''Series/UltraFightOrb'' showing us the adventures of the Ultra that debuted in TheStinger. It was simulcasted by Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.
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11	[[Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends Long ago]], a lone Ultraman succumbed to temptation and attempted to steal power from the sun-like Plasma Spark, putting the very existence of all Ultramen in peril. He was exiled from the Land of Light and [[TheCorruption corrupted by evil forces]], becoming the FallenHero Ultraman Belial. Throughout history, Belial has arisen time and time again to threaten the peace of the universe, most notably clashing with the heroic Franchise/UltramanZero.
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13	During his latest uprising against the Ultramen, Belial was able to occupy the Earth and detonate a [[FantasticNuke dimensional bomb]] that destroyed the universe itself. Yet the universe was revived by an unknown power, and life on Earth continued as before, with the Ultramen who opposed Belial fading into rumour and memory over the following years.
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15	Riku Asakura is [[AntiAntiChrist an innocent young man]] who believed himself to be an ordinary human. But when [[{{Kaiju}} a giant monster]] suddenly attacks his home city, he discovers that [[InTheBlood his blood contains the "B Factor"]] that marks him as a "son" of Ultraman Belial. Disregarding his bloodstained legacy, Riku learns to combine his own strength with the "Ultra Capsules" containing the powers of his Ultraman predecessors, [[FusionDance fusing them together]] and becoming the heroic giant known as Ultraman Geed.
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17	Riku soon finds out the monsters are targeting humans who carry "Little Stars" within their bodies, granting them supernatural powers. With the aid of [[{{Ronin}} mysterious swordswoman]] Raiha Toba; his best friend [[InnocentAliens Pega]]; [[TheMenInBlack Woman In Black]] (and childhood friend) Moa Aizaki; and Reito Igaguri, an [[{{Salaryman}} ordinary office worker]] who becomes the new host of Ultraman Zero, Riku fights to defend the peace of Earth while figuring out just what it means to be an Ultraman.
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20	!!''Ultraman Geed'' provides examples of the following tropes:
21	* AllYourPowersCombined: Much like [[Series/UltramanOrb Orb's Fusion Up]], Geed can combine the powers of two separate Ultramen for him to transform using the Ultra Capsules into forms called Fusion Rise. Said forms are:
22	** JackOfAllStats: Primitive, Geed's default form, fusing the powers of [[Series/{{Ultraman}} the original Ultraman]] and Geed's father, Ultraman Belial.
23	** MightyGlacier: Solid Burning, Geed's strength-based form, fusing the powers of [[Series/UltraSeven Ultraseven]] and [[Series/UltramanLeo Ultraman Leo]].
24	** FragileSpeedster: Acro Smasher, Geed's speed-based form, fusing the powers of Series/UltramanCosmos and [[Series/UltramanMebius Ultraman Hikari]].
25	** LightningBruiser: Magnificent, fusing the powers of [[Series/UltramanAce Father of Ultra]] and Franchise/UltramanZero.
26	** Ultraman Zero also gains this with Ultraman Zero Beyond, combining the powers of ''four'' Ultramen: [[Series/UltramanGinga Ultraman Ginga, Ultraman Victory]], Series/UltramanX, and Series/UltramanOrb.
27	** SuperMode: [[spoiler:Royal Mega Master, fusing with the powers of [[Franchise/UltramanZero Ultraman Belial]] and [[Series/UltramanLeo Ultraman King]]]].
28	* AntiAntiChrist: As mentioned above, Geed is the son of Belial, the BigBad of the first two ''Ultraman Zero'' movies and resident SatanicArchetype. Unlike Belial, however, Geed is TheHero of the series.
29	* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler: Riku was created to host the Ultra Capsules by Kei Fukuide 19 years before the main events of the story.]]
30	* ApocalypseHow: Belial initiates and successfully detonates a universe-killing bomb, with Earth at the epicenter, which also was rendered into a ball of flame.
31	* BaitAndSwitch: One that took about seven episodes: In episode 12, Sui mentioned that he knew what Riku hide under his bed thanks to the Little Star power. The audience's Wild Mass Guessing is PornStash at first, until episode 19 [[ResolvedNoodleIncident reveals]] that Riku was just keeping a Donshine magazine about a princess named REM, who is no less his AI's namesake.
32	* BigBad: Although Belial is involved with much of the backstory of the series, Kei Fukuide seems to be taking this role on for the time being, as he is the one in charge of summoning the {{Kaiju}}, similar to [[Series/UltramanOrb Juggler]].
33	* BookEnds:
34	** The series begins with [[Series/UltramanLeo Ultraman King]]'s [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice]] by reversing the damage caused by Belial in the Crisis Impact and ends with Belial's defeat led to Ultraman King being restored back to his physical form, along with the universes Belial destroyed.
35	** The series in general would be the last time Zero and Belial cross each others' paths, which goes back all the way from ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends''.
36	*** ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'' began with a fierce battle between Belial and Father of Ultra, whom he defeated as he steals the Plasma Spark. In the final episode, Father of Ultra arrives on Earth and takes on Belial Atrocious after the latter defeated his son, only to be defeated again moments before Riku/Geed makes a return.
37	*** Ultraman Belial's descent into madness begins with him accepting Alien Rayblood's power. His last moments with his son, Geed ends up with Rayblood being expelled from Belial's body moments before his demise.
38	* ChildhoodFriends: Riku and Moa, whose parents actually found him as a baby and raised him alongside her. Riku seems somewhat oblivious to the fact that Moa wants their relationship to evolve into a ChildhoodFriendRomance however, even when she gets ''painfully'' jealous of Raiha and Riku's seeming closeness.
39	* ContinuityNod: The opening credits show four Ultra Capsules featuring the four Ultramen preceding Geed, [[Series/UltramanGinga Ginga, Victory]], [[Series/UltramanX X]] and [[Series/UltramanOrb Orb Origin]]. [[spoiler:They are also the capsules that make up the New Generation Capsules Alpha and Beta, used by Ultraman Zero to transform into Ultraman Zero Beyond.]]
40	* DarkerAndEdgier: Aside from the beginning as listed below, the series seems to have darker elements in its story, close to the ending part of the last series. Then again, [[KnightOfCerebus Belial]] is heavily involved in the plot.
41	* DefectorFromDecadence: Tri-Tip is an Alien Pitt who betrayed her kind and fled to Earth with an infant Eleking to keep it from becoming a weapon. [[spoiler: After the grown Eleking is killed she joins AIB to help keep the knowledge of Alien presence on Earth a secret.]]
42	* DownerBeginning: Belial initiates a universe-killing bomb, with Earth in flames at the epicenter. [[TheBadGuysWin No Ultra could best him this time, not even Ultimate Zero, and wins]]. Sure, Ultraman King manages to undo it (as Zero lays it down for Reito), but the sheer impact of it all trumps ''Series/UltramanLeo'''s ending by a long shot.
43	* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Geed appears in TheStinger of the final episode of ''Series/UltramanOrb'''s miniseries spin-off ''Ultra Fight Orb'' by finishing off Reibatos with his [[FinishingMove Wrecking Burst.]] It's revealed in the Finale that he was actually killed by Belial himself with the Deathcium Ray]].
44	* EarthShatteringKaboom: The series ''opens'' with the Crisis Impact event where earth gets blown up by Ultraman Belial, only for Ultraman King to intervene and re-forge the universe.
45	* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Kei considers himself to be this. His home planet Sturm was once a beautiful planet until his people fought among themselves. Kei, who was once a weak existence grasping for power saw Belial and decided to become his loyal servant ever since then, seeing the dark Ultra giving the alien a purpose of his own when he's lost.]]
46	* EvilCounterpart: The Kaiju Capsules are this to Geed's Ultra Capsules, allowing Kei Fukuide to fuse various Kaiju into new monsters. By extension, this also makes Fukuide one to Riku Asakura/Ultraman Geed.
47	* ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: Ultraman Belial pulled this at the beginning of the series when he initiated the Crisis Impact, retreating into a separate dimension to hide from the Ultras so as to avoid their interference while waiting for the pieces of his plan to come into motion.
48	* {{Foil}}: The titular Ultraman is one to Ultraman Zero - both are the son of another Ultraman (Ultra Seven is Zero's father, and as previously mentioned, Belial is Geed's father), initially unaware of who their father is. However, whereas Zero is a rebellious teen who only wants strong power (like Belial no less) and redeems to become the hero he is, Geed is an aspiring hero who gains his wish, only to be a case of BlessedWithSuck when his face looks like Belial.
49	* FreezeFrameBonus: Whenever Riku transforms into Geed, for a brief time, Belial in his Early Style can be seen.
50	* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: Just like how Seven was weakened in a fight, forcing him to play the mentor role to Leo instead of fighting himself, Zero is also weakened due to a previous fight and is forced to become a mentor for Geed. Unlike the more patient and cautious Seven though, Zero's impatient and combative nature causes him and his host to be more involved in Geed's fight.]]
51	* GenkiGirl: Moa, with of hint of TheDitz. Given [[TheMenInBlack her job]], this causes her no end of problems, though she doesn't seem to mind too bad.
52	* GreaterScopeVillain: Belial serves this to Kei, having organized the events prior to the series.
53	* GreenEyedMonster: Moa gets this way when she hears that Raiha and Riku are living together, bringing up the fact that she and Riku used to bathe together when they were kids to try and get under Raiha's skin.
54	* GratuitousEnglish: Riku's henshin call to use the Ultra Capsules. "You go! I go! Here we go!"
55	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Humorously, Moa and Riku are locked out of ''each other's'' loops. Riku is seemingly unaware that Moa is a member of a group dedicated to maintaining TheMasquerade, and Moa is blissfully unaware of the fact that Riku is Ultraman Geed. [[spoiler: This ends abruptly when Riku transforms into Geed to save Moa and an Alien Zobetai named Nabia from falling to their deaths after aggravating a [[Series/UltramanEighty Zandrias]]. Riku himself had learned of Moa's connection to the AIB and it's purpose moments before thanks to RE.M.]]
56	* LukeIAmYourFather: Aside from the already given fact that Geed is Belial's son, [[spoiler: Kei Fukuide created Riku to house the Ultra Capsules for Belial.]]
57	* {{MacGuffin}}: The [[GratuitousEnglish Little Stars]], the power source of the Ultra Capsules and pieces of Ultraman King's power, initially only found in the bodies of children. As long as the Little Star is inside a host, it will give their host a power that their respective Ultra once used.
58	* OddballInTheSeries: The series breaks two unwritten rules of the franchise in the first '''four''' episodes alone. One of Riku's potential love interests learns his identity in the first few moments they meet, and multiple Ultras have familial ties.
59	* OnceMoreWithClarity: During the finale its revealed that [[spoiler: Geed's cameo in ''Ultra Fight Orb'', which made no sense chronologically, was actually Belial.]]
60	* PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements: The Risers and Capsules seem to require either being an Ultra or having the power of one to use [[spoiler:as Kei requires Belial to lend him some of his power to use them, and one clue Belial is still alive is that he can still transform into Fusion Beasts after Belial's apparent death.]]
61	* ProductPlacement: Aside from from Platform/PlayStation4 appears in episode 11, the next episode has Riku and Sui Asakura playing ''{{VideoGame/Tekken}} 7''.
62	* ShockandAwe: Kei's [[spoiler: Thunder Killer]] and [[spoiler: Pedanium Zetton]] Fusion Rises both manipulate electricity. Justified, since they both contain components from electric-wielding Kaiju.
63	* ShoutOut:
64	** Two variations: Riku fights with the power of SatanicArchetype is confirmed by WordOfGod to be based on ''{{Manga/Devilman}}''. Also coincidental in episode 12 when Riku plays Tekken 7 and chose Jin Kazama, the son of a villain who is otherwise a hero.
65	** In episode 11, when Belial is pissed of how Kei fails him, the former said that [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Kei deserves 10,000 deaths]].
66	** One of Ultraman Zero Beyond's [[AllThereInTheManual unrevealed]] attack is a rapid kick (Zero 100 Fierce Kick) is not unlike those of Tomoyo Sakagami from ''{{VisualNovel/Clannad}}''.
67	* SpiritualSuccessor:
68	** To ''Series/UltramanLeo'', due to a crippled Ultraseven-based Ultra being TheMentor to the titular hero, as well as a DownerBeginning (coincidentally, the crippled Ultra in ''Geed'' is the son of Ultraseven, who was Leo's mentor). Somewhat lampshaded in-series by Geed's Solid Burning form, which uses assets of both Leo and Seven.
69	** Also one to ''Series/UltramanDyna'', due to having a larger emphasis on outer space and AlienInvasion, as well as directly following the previous series (''Series/UltramanTiga'' for ''Dyna'', ''Series/UltramanOrb'' for ''Geed'') in some form (''Dyna'' being a direct sequel to ''Tiga'', ''Geed'' expanding upon the [[AllYourPowersCombined power fusing]] introduced in ''Orb''). Doesn't hurt that 1) Dyna as well follows up Tiga's Type Change gimmick, not unlike how Geed did so to Orb and 2) Geed's series debuted in the 20th MilestoneCelebration of Dyna's 20th anniversary.
70	* TransformationTrinket: The Geed Riser and the Ultra Capsules, as well as certain Monster Capsules used by Kei.
71	* WhamEpisode:
72	** Episode 7 has [[spoiler:Zero sacrifices himself to save audiences held by Kei, all while buying some time for Geed to retaliate]].
73	** Episode 11. [[spoiler:Kei reveals to Riku that the latter is not Belial's biological son but rather a ''synthetic'' son. Kei also tells Riku that his purpose is to collect the Ultra Capsules for his father]].
74	** Episode 16: [[spoiler:Belial arrives on Earth and starts wreaking havoc on Earth by killing an Alien Godola. After that, he unleashes a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown towards his own son. If it's not enough, he transforms into Chimeraberos and devours Geed whole]].
75	* WhamLine
76	** Episode 6: "All goes well, my lord... [[spoiler:Belial-sama. The power that you bless me with...will allow me to Fusion Rise once again." This was meant to debunk all theories that people believed that Kei and Belial are the same person.]]
77	** Episode 23 from Arie: [[spoiler:"Did you really think you can beat my son?" right during TheReveal that Belial had been possessing Arie all along]].

Context Series / UltramanGeed