Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle

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Attack! Gomora/Litra/Eleking!
—Rei, going through the rounds.

Far in the future, when humans have paved their way into space, the crew members of a delivery company named ZAP Spacy land on a mysterious, monster-infested planet known as Bolis. There, they discover Rei, a half-human, half-Reiblood with the power to control monsters, who joins their crew in their effort to stop the rampaging monsters, as well as the dark entity known as Reiblood whose power Rei shares. The series is filled with a plethora of kaiju from Ultraman series old and new, but most of the suits and plotlines are recycled as well.

Tropes used in Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle include:
  • Action Girl: Haruna
  • Aloof Ally: Initially, the ZAP Spacy crew is mistrustful of Rei.
  • Attack Its Weak Point: Zetton's weak spot is the top of his shield, and Velokron's is his mouth. Both are exploited
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: You think?
  • Badass: Gomora becomes this in the following series, UGMB NEO, at this point Gomora is still fairly inexperienced. Nonetheless, being the key monster he does get the lion's share of awesomeness.
  • Beware the Cute Ones: Eleking is positively adorable, and can even transform into a tiny, chibi version of himself. He is also extremely powerful.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Both King Joe Black and Zetton barely make a sound, and are among the series' most powerful monsters.
  • BFG: The ZAP Spacy ship can unleash one of these.
    • King Joe Black also has a huge arm cannon.
  • Combat Tentacles: Juran, a giant flower uses vines in combat.
    • Gudon has whips for hands, and Nova can fire a rope with a scythe at the tip.
  • Combining Mecha: King Joe Black is actually the fusion of 4 ships.
  • Curb Stomp Battle: Gomora's early battles against Red King and Golza are this.
    • Initially, Fire Golza vs Gomora is this, as is Gan-Q vs Gomora.
    • Zetton and King Joe Black take this Beyond the Impossible, curbstomping all of Rei's monsters at once.
    • Gomora returns the favor once he enters EX form, thrashing both Setton and King Joe Black without any trouble.
  • Dark Action Girl: Kate is a far more powerful Reionyx han Rei for most of the series.
  • Death Ray: Most famous in Gomora's Super Oscillatory Ray.
    • Although the aforementioned attack is already very powerful, EX Gomora's Hyper Oscillatory Ray takes it to the impossible.
    • King Joe Black, Zetton, ZAP Spacy's ships and Eleking also evoke this trope.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Eleking invokes this trope after defeat by Rei's Gomora.
  • Deflector Shields: Zetton forms one which allows him to consume to enegy of the projectiles that strike it.
  • Disney Death: In essence, King Joe Black's.
  • The Dragon: Zetton to Kate, King Joe Black to the (yet unseen) Pedan Seijin.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Rei, who only realises his true Reionyx Form in the finale.
  • Dumb Muscle: Literally every evil kaiju is substantially less intelligent than the protagonists.
  • Enemy Civil War: King Joe Black, the Reionyx Slayer, eventually battles Kate, the antagonist Reionyx of the series.
  • Evil Only Has to Win Once: Seemingly evoked after Kate's first victory via Zetton, but Rei goes Reionyx (which was actually Kate's plan all along) and curbstomps King Joe Black AND Zetton.
  • Evil Eye: Gan-Q IS this trope.
  • Eye Beams:Gan-Q and Zetton.
  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: Gan-Q again, whose whole body is an eye (and his legs have eyes on them as well).
  • Eye Lights Out: The Sadoras after being killed by Fire Golza
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: Most of the kaiju are gored by Gomora, incinerated from the inside out before imploding into a ball of flame after a ruthless beatdown.
  • Finishing Move: Gomora's Super Oscillatory Ray, and later EX Gomora's Hyper Oscillatory Ray.
    • Eleking's electric beam also counts, as does his shock tail.
    • For the Bad Guys, there's Neronga's lightning bolt and Zetton's Rebound Ray. While its not really a finisher in spirit, King Joe Black's energy blasts nearly always finish his foes the moment he decides to use them.
  • Five-Man Band:
  • Giant Equals Invincible: Subverted as ZAP Spacy, an exploration crew, is able to hold its own well against kaiju.
  • Glass Cannon: Neronga is a very dangerous monster, with lethal firepower and invisibility which enable hm to outmatch Gomora, but can be killed by a single strike from Telesdon's (one of the show's weakest kaiju) flame breath.
  • Good All Along: To some extent, Kate, for as it turns out, she is only trying to unlock the Reionyx within Rei. The means which she will go to achieve her ends, however....
  • Gonna Need More Trope: ZAP Spacy upon meeting Red King.
  • Gotta Catch Them All: Averted as the Battlenizer only has three slots and Rei spends most of his time killing or fending off his foes, not catching them.
    • That said, Bandai does want you to catch all their toys.
  • Heel Face Turn: Eleking after capture by Rei.
  • High Altitude Battle: ZAP Spacy vs King Joe Black
  • Homage: This series is chockful of homages and references to previous Ultra series, just like its precedessor Ultraman Mebius
  • Implacable Man: Perhaps the poster boy for this trope in this series is King Joe Black, who basically takes everything Gomora, Eleking, Litra and later even Zetton throws at him without and strikes back with double the strength, and later even survives fricking EX Gomora, recovers, and attacks the ZAP ship, and is only stopped when Ultraman drags him down into the planet as it explodes.
    • However, the first Implacable Monster in the series is actually Fire Golza, the first of Kate's 3 incredibly powerful monsters, who basically lets Gomora spray his Super Oscillatory Ray at him for an extended period of time and takes it without any injury, stress or effort, and everything Gomora throws at him is useless. Even after a repeated assault by ZAP Spacy and Gomora tries to destroy him from the inside out by stabbing his chest with his horn and firing the SOR, but he YANKS it out. he still survives and is only killed when his own ally accidentally shoots him, finally giving him enough punishment for the brute to expire.
  • Invisible Monsters: Neronga, very much.
  • Kaiju: Duh.
  • Laughably Evil: Red King is mostly played for laughs after his first appearance.
  • Mons: Well, we heard about aliens catching Kaiju and use them against Ultra in previous Ultra Series. But this is the first time The Hero focuses on it.
  • Monster Hunter: King Joe Black. Rei as well, but in a different manner.
  • Monster of the Week: Like all Ultra series, it heavily invokes this trope, but unusually it has a far more focused and ongoing plot.
  • Never Trust a Trailer Never Trust An Opening: The Opening displays a montage of a colossal battle royale where Golza fights Velokron, Muruchi battles Doragoris, and so on so forth...95% of the battles shown don't happen.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Zetton is an Alien Dinosaur.
  • Not So Harmless: Lunatyx and Salamandora are actually fairly dangerous foes despite their demeanor.
  • The Phoenix: Litra can turn into this.
  • Plant Aliens: Juran
  • Plucky Comic Relief: Oki, the least experienced of the crew and a total monster fanatic/nerd.
  • Ray Gun: The ZAP Spacy crew members are each armed with one capable of harming kaiju, and their ships are armed with even stronger blastes. The villainous King Joe Black is also armed with one.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: Ultraman is sealed on a mountain face and the protagonists are in search of him.
  • Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Rei vs Kate.
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: Kate, very much.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Literally al the monsters, and even the humans!
  • The Brute: Fire Golza, and to a lesser extent, Red King
  • Time to Unlock More True Potential: The end of the series.
  • Took a Level in Badass: The ZAP Spacy Crew, being cargo transporters, are initially helpless against any kaiju, but by the series' end they can take on even powerful ones.
  • Training from Hell: Kate's exploits and atempts to destroy ZAP Spacy and Rei is in fact her trying to help Rei grow into a truly powerful Reionyx.
  • True Companions: ZAP Spacy+ Rei
  • Wham! Episode: Episode 8- King Joe Black arrives, and the following episode where he thrashes everyone. Also Episode 3 for having the first kaiju to give Gomora a run for his money. (Neronga)
  • The Worf Effect: Gomora spends most of the series getting his ass kicked, and requiring help to defeat normal monsters.
    • Subverted in how he still beats them in the end though, if with help from ZAP Spacy or Litra/Eleking.
  • You Fail Physics Forever: The mere existence of the kaiju. Worse still, many are aerodynamic.
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