Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers

"I will protect the world."

Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers was a Tokusatsu film, part of Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra Series, released in 2008.

As children, Daigo, Asuka and Gamu were inspired by the television series known as Ultraman to follow their dreams. Daigo aspired to become an astronaut, Asuka to become a baseball player, and Gamu to become a scientist, and design a spacecraft.

30 years later, the threee of them live out ordinary lives, their dreams all but abandoned. One day, after being late for work and passing by Hayata's bike shop, Moroboshi's restaurant, Goh's auto shop, and Hokuto's bakery, Daigo (and everyone at work) sees a mirage of a destroyed city in the sky.

Meanwhile, in another universe, a mysterious girl in red shoes, whom Daigo Asuka and Gamu had once met, tells Mirai Hibino that he is needed to awaken a group of heroes in a different universe.

This film provides examples of:

 * Alternate Universe: One much like the real world.
 * Ascended Fanboy: Meta-example with Daigo, Asuka and Gamu. Havng watched Ultraman as children and actually becoming Ultramen during the movie.
 * Henshin Hero
 * Kaiju
 * The Multiverse: Daigo theorizes that parallel worlds exist, in which Asuka and Gamu were Ultramen.
 * Mundanization: The Alternate Universe is like this, at first
 * Refugee From TV Land : The universe Mirai comes from is known to be that of a television franchise.
 * Transformation Trinket :