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The series focuses on the life of Kazuki Komon, a [[New Meat|recent inductee]] into one of T.L.T.'s elite Night Raider combat squads and his struggle to cope with his new life. Faced with a world where nothing is truly what it seems, he becomes embroiled within a shadowy conspiracy involving a mysterious silver giant, giant monsters manipulated by an unknown hand, Dark Ultramen and the hidden agendas within T.L.T. itself. As the series focuses primarily on the lives of one of T.L.T.'s Night Raider combat teams, Ultraman Nexus abandons the [[Monster of the Week]] concept and focuses on longer character driven arcs. Relatively unique in it's concept of the passing of the ability to transform into Ultraman between Dunamists (Humans who can become Ultraman) as well as the use of a Meta Field to draw monsters into pocket dimenstions to prevent further destruction.

 

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* [[Arch Nemesis]]: The Dark Ultramen -{{spoiler|Faust, Mephisto, Zagi}}.

* [[Artificial Human]]: Yu Kirasawa, The Illustrator, {{spoiler|also Dunamist Ren Senjyu}}.

* [[Backstory]]: Ultraman: The Next

* [[Badass Crew]]: Night Raider is presented as a team of highly trained and very competent monster eliminators. As the show progresses however, they begin to [[The Worf Effect|lose some steam]] and their equipment begins to [[The Worf Barrage|appear ineffective]], increasingly having to be bailed out by Ultraman. {{spoiler|After T.L.T. abandons the [[Masquerade]], Night Raider is expanded to become a [[Badass Army]].}}

* [[Big Bad]]: The Unknown Hand, {{spoiler|AKA, Dark Zagi}}

* [[Being Good Sucks]]: You perpetually risk your life, get pounded by monsters, hunted as an experimental subject and are generally subject of apathy to most of the world. Yeah - Being Ultraman is [[Sarcasm Mode|AWESOME]].

* [[Blob Monster]]: Pedoleon

* [[Body Horror]]: Nosferu has a tendency to turn victims into rat-like spawn.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|The goal of series big bad Unknown Hand is to shatter the spirit of team-mate Nagi Saijyo so when she inherits Ultraman's Light, it will be tainted by her rage and hatred of him, allowing him to tap into her [[Heroic BSOD]] and abscond with the light.}}

* [[Combat Tentacles]]

* [[Cool Gun]]: The Divait Launcher, Night Raider standard heavy weapon and the Blast Shot, a gun possessed by Dunamists.

* [[Death Seeker]]: {{spoiler|Most of the Dunamists exhibit this behavior. Jun Himeya considers his ability a punishment for getting an orphan killed during an armed conflict. Ren Senjyu intentionally leaves himself open to attack when fighting because he wants to end his limited lifespan with a bang.}}

* [[Deconstruction]]: Of many Ultraman tropes. This series try to be realistic in it's portrayal of Ultraman and Space Beast appearing in the world. Such as:

** Unlike the previous series, the monsters are actually genuine threat not only because they cause destruction but also the psychological effect they cause to those who saw them. The destruction caused by the monster is treated as a real issue which is why Ultraman Nexus bring them to meta field to avoid destroying places and injuring citizens. Their existence are also kept secret as to not cause mass panic, which is why the Memory Police is created to erase the memory of ordinary citizen who saw the Space Beast, as it is shown that many citizen cannot handle seeing the monsters and cause psychological breakdown for them.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: With villain names like {{spoiler|Dark Faust and Dark Mephisto}}, fairly obvious.

* [[Deuteragonist]]: The Dunamists is the most important character after Komon.

* [[Devil in Disguise]]: Dark Zagi disguises himself as one of the human characters until his body is fully restored in the last episode.

* [[Energy Weapon]]: Most of the Night Raider aircraft use beam weapons extensively.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Dark Ultramen.

** {{spoiler|Dark Zagi's backstory actually makes him a litteral example. He's an attempt to replicate Nexus that went rogue.}}

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Nexus evolves with each new host, gaining a new form. Actually, he was originally Ultraman The Next from the movie of the same name before evolving into Nexus. {{spoiler|In the [[Final Battle]], his newest host causes him to evolve into Ultraman Noa.}}

** [[The Hero]] - Kazuki Komon

** [[The Lancer]] - Deputy Commander Nagi Saijyo

** [[Big Brother Mentor]] - Commander Eisuke Wakura

** [[Sixth Ranger]] - Dunamist Jun Himeya {{spoiler|and his replacement Ren Senjyu}}

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: As an organization, T.L.T. appears to have wheels within wheels within wheels.

* [[Henshin Hero]]: Partially subverted in that the Dunamists have no special powers in Human form but have access to a cool energy pistol.

* [[Hour of Power]]: A series hallmark. Subverted in that the Human body was never designed for the level of abuse dished out during fights and the animating Dunamist often collapses long before Ultraman's timer starts blinking.

* [[Kaiju Defense Force]]

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Despite cameoing in Komon's narration of the epilogue, according to [[Word of God]], Dunamist Jun Himeya and Night Raider Shiori Hiraki are dead.}}

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: If an [[Energy Weapon]] doesn't do the job, Night Raider will usually resort to this.

* [[Master of Delusion]]: Subverted. Before too long, most of the Night Raiders become aware of Ultraman's identity.

* [[Mole in Charge]]: {{spoiler|What better way for Unknown Hand to play his mind games than to serve as the Night Raider Analyzer Tactician.}}

* [[Monster of the Week]]: Subverted. Ultraman often is forced to deal with entire infestations of similar monsters over entire plot arcs.

* [[Muggles]]: Most of the world is this, with a tendency to become [[Victim of the Week]], thanks to the effort of the Memory Police.

* [[Nice Guy]]: Ren Senjyu appears to be a truly nice person.

* [[People Puppets]]: {{spoiler|Dark Mephisto uses Riko Saida as this. She eventually [[Heroic Willpower|breaks free]] of this [[Redemption Equals Death|defends Komon to the death]].}}

* [[Phantom Zone]]: Ultraman uses his Meta Field to contain monsters whenever possible, preventing them from endangering civilians.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Riko Saida as Dark Faust, Shinya Mizorogi as Dark Mephisto.}}

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: T.L.T.'s solution to media reports on strange sighting is to flood the channels with similar over the top reports.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: The series focuses on the life of Komon, despite the fact that he does not transform into the eponymous hero, making him this trope. {{spoiler|However, he ''does'' become Ultraman in the series' finale and thus, ditches this role.}}

* [[Tank Goodness]]: "Set Into Cannon Chester!"

* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Mitsuhiko Ishibori as the Unknown Hand}}

* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: Painfully subverted in that the dangerously [[Genre Savvy]] monsters will often take pot shots at the Chester combat vehicles as they adopt close formation during their merger sequence.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Dunamists' Evoltruster, and Dark Mephisto's Dark Evolver.

* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: [[Blood Knight|Nagi Saijyo]] resorts to this during her first encounter with Ultraman.

* [[War Is Hell]]: As a photographer, Jun Himeya goes to see the war zone for himself. He returns a self-loathing wreck.

* [[We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum]]: {{spoiler|Night Raider is prevented from using the Ultimate Vanisher, a beam cannon packing the same firepower as Ultraman's Over Ray Storm, due to a traitor purging the frequency modulation data from the T.L.T. data networks.}}

* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: {{spoiler|Unknown Hand has been playing things from behind the scenes with the possession of Mitsuhiko Ishibori, the murder of Nagi Saijyo's parents, turning Shinya Mizorogi into Dark Mephisto, animation of Riko Saida as Dark Faust and using Space Beasts to eliminate Dunamists Jun Himeya and Ren Senjyu all to gurantee that Nagi will inherit the Light and taint it with hatred. AND IT HAPPENS JUST AS PLANNED.}}

 

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