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For a fairy tale take on Ultraman, this show can get very dark quickly...

  • Alien Mefilas II's wounded eye, before he uses the Mandarin Grass on it.
  • The death of Alien Valky. Doubles as a Moment of Awesome for Kotaro.
  • The entirety of the Birdon three-parter. The Volcanic Bird Monster makes it debut by devouring its prey, Kemujira, piece by piece. It then goes on to attack other sources of meat throughout Japan including a passenger plane unlucky enough to pass by and several people in the city after ZAT bans the production of meat and fish due to its attacks. Also this monster manages to kill not one, but two Ultras with both Taro and Zoffy falling victim to his violent peck attacks with the former even spewing blood throughout his wounds.
  • Depparas, the walrus kaiju's second form, Re-Depparas, created after he was blown to pieces by ZAT. Depparas has the remarkable ability to pull his body back into one piece should he be dismembered, but with one catch... the damage remains. As Depparas was blown to bits, after he reformed, he looked like little more than a gruesome mutilated corpse, shambling around like a zombie and lacking any of the personality he originally had, and when he enters battle against Taro, he's significantly more violent than he was before.
  • Enmargo decapitating Taro. Fortunately, it was just a hallucination.
  • Despite its silly appearance, Mururoa is a very potent threat, with the power to cover Earth in its Atomic Fog, shrouding the world in shadow and nearly wiping out all life.
    • Mururoa's origins deserves mention too; the monster was originally sealed in an asteroid, but an unknown country accidentally freed it while testing a space missile. Seems like humanity never learned after the Superweapon R1 incident...
  • Ultraman Jack deflating after giving up his Color Timer to Dorobon.
  • Close-ups of Bemstar, especially the teeth and his injured eye.
  • Cosmo Liquid's tongue.
  • Live King's laugh.
  • If you eat her eggs or capture her, Queen and King Tortoise are going to get you. Then, mommy will finish you off!
  • Kotaro inside Live King's belly. In the Episode 2 cliffhanger, he looks like he's gasping for air.
  • Speaking of the Episode 2 cliffhanger, the out-of-focus Freeze-Frame Ending of Mother of Ultra flying toward Earth is a little creepy, made worse by the preceding Background Music (a Wandaba tune that sounds like a Madness Mantra). Baraba, baraba, baraba, baraba...
    • One part of the Birdon saga ended with Birdon about to peck one of our heroes.
  • Tyrant brutally curbstomping the Ultra Brothers one after the other in episode 40.

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