u/JP_Zilla

It was basically rock-paper-scissors, but each card represented a faction (Earth, Space, Mutants, Mechs). You drew a certain number of cards and would fight each other by choosing a card and responding with the appropriate element (if you had it). There was also a board game aspect to it where you could spend one turn either moving, destroying a building, or fighting a player, and whoever destroyed the most buildings by the end won.

All these cards are prints of my digital art.

Lore:

In the DC Comics Universe, Darkseid has been causing some trouble by effectively taking over one of the universes and molding it to his image, making life Hell for the heroes who have to live there and forcing them to evolve into, well, more badass superheroes.

Through my art, I’ve been taking a look at what it might look like if the Ultras existed in the lore of this universe. Keep in mind that this is my own story and is not canon to Ultraman or DC Comics.

Ultraman Leo was born to a noble family under the reign of Ultraman King. His father was a general who served under Ultraman Belial, the leader of the Ultra army at the time. In order to attain his families respect and live up to his father’s reputation, Leo strove to become the best fighter the Land of Light had ever seen. He wandered the galaxy, challenging and learning from the best warriors in the universe, even earning himself a rivalry with Zamsher. However, Leo was also ruthless and killed more of his opponents than not. One day, he challenged a mysterious warrior of legend: Nexus. After the battle, Leo found himself on the verge of death, but Nexus spared the young warrior. After that point, Leo decided to use his skill for good rather than for his own selfish gain, living in isolation and training those who sought his guidance.

One day, the legendary warrior was approached by an Ultraman named Zero, a former soldier of Belial’s regime who now wished to strike back at the tyrant ruler. Zero reminded Leo much of his younger self, and he hoped that he could mold this young Ultraman to be a force for good, so he agreed. However, years later when Leo heard about how Ultraman Zero had attempted to set a trap for Belial that involved blowing up the Earth to catch Belial in the explosion, Leo set out to confront his former pupil. However, when he arrived at Zero’s last-known location, he found a young Ultraman on the verge of death: The Ultraman.

Ultraman was the one who stopped Zero from blowing up the Earth. He had sought out Zero to try to stop him from blowing up Planet Kanon as well, but had lost the struggle. Leo, believing that it was fate that he was there in the right place at the right time to help this young Ultra, nurtured Ultraman back to health, agreeing to train him to stop Zero.

Lore:

In the DC Comics Universe, Darkseid has been causing some trouble by effectively taking over one of the universes and molding it to his image, making life Hell for the heroes who have to live there and forcing them to evolve into, well, more badass superheroes.

Through my art, I’ve been taking a look at what it might look like if the Ultras existed in the lore of this universe. Keep in mind that this is my own story and is not canon to Ultraman or DC Comics.

After Dark Zagi failed to locate the Aegis of Noa, and Nexus reassumed his true form, Dark Zagi realized that he needed to lie low. So, he approached the United Nations with an offer: In exchange for asylum, he would share with them the secrets of Spacium, the substance that transformed the people of Planet Hikari into Ultramen ages ago.

The United Nations feared the power of the Land of Light, understandably since, until recently, it had fallen into the hands of Belial, Tregear, and Dark Zagi successively, so the UN gladly accepted Dark Zagi’s offer, and started the Prometheus Project, with Dark Zagi as an advisor. Most of their efforts to create Ultramen of their own failed spectacularly, but one succeeded catastrophically: Evil Tiga.  

Although the meeting between Dark Zagi and the United Nations was meant to be kept secret, a mole belonging to a certain corporation managed to copy some of the data and deliver it to his masters. That corporation is Luthor Corps (because apparently Lazarus Corps has been dismantled or something, IDK I don’t read comics, I’m not a neerd).  Luthor Corps used this information to start their own Prometheus Project.

The chosen test subject was a man named Masaaki Keigo. Keigo was a former member of the Ultra Guard whose family had been killed during Ultraman Tiga’s battle with the Giants of Darkness. Swearing vengeance on the entire Ultra Clan, he leapt at the opportunity to gain power to punish the Ultramen.  

Keigo is ruthless, and will do anything to get vengeance on the Ultra who took his family’s life, even if that turns him into exactly the kind of monster he swore to destroy. Unlike the Evil Tiga of the universe we know, this one knows exactly what he’s doing, and embraces every act of atrocity he commits with lucidity. Eventually, he was killed when he forced Tiga’s hand.

I mean, unless there's proof that Ultras insert their genes into a capsule and the capsule grows the baby, it could just be a baby carrier, for all we know.

I ran this page through a machine translation, and also asked AI to translate it for me, and both told me that the page just said that the capsule was meant to protect the fragile baby, NOT to grow it. I know that both methods of translation can be finicky, but still!

Even the Ultra wiki treats it as a fact, but, conveniently, doesn't cite any source to back this up.

If there's a source I'm missing and I'm just being stupid, let me know. Also, if you can actually read the text and know what it actually means, let me know if I'm wrong.

In the DC Comics Universe, Darkseid has been causing some trouble by effectively taking over one of the universes and molding it to his image, making life Hell for the heroes who have to live there and forcing them to evolve into, well, more badass superheroes.

Through my art, I’ve been taking a look at what it might look like if the Ultras existed in the lore of this universe. Keep in mind that this is my own story and is not canon to Ultraman or DC Comics.

When Darkseid discovered the primordial, unformed universe known as Elseworld, he believed that he had discovered a universe in the making. But in reality, this was a world that had already been made, and unmade. If you’ve watched my Absolute videos before, you’ve probably heard me talk about the Father of Monsters, the virus-like being who infected the entire universe, turning everyone into an extension of him. But before the Father of Monsters was, there was nothing.

At the dawn of time, there was nothing but the Void. And the Void thought itself pure. And the Void thought itself beautiful. But then, a sudden spark. Life, and chaos, emerged. The Chaos wanted to fill everything with itself. But the Void thought Chaos loud and garish. He wanted to return everything to the darkness of his soul.

The Chaos is the Father of Monsters, the god who strove with the Ultras for total dominion over all life. The Void took on the form of the Emperor of Totality, the vessel of Annihilation: Empera.

In the midst of their struggle, Empera fractured the very spirit of the Father of Monsters. The scattered pieces of his soul, and the energy of Empera, produced sentience, knowledge, and wisdom. Life inherited chaos from the Father of Monsters, and order from Empera, and the two forces created a new thing:  Wisdom.

These two forces continued to strive until the end of time, when the Father of Monsters gained the mastery, and Noa destroyed the universe, eventually sending it back to the quiet for which Empera longed. But that quiet was not too last long, for Darkseid, thinking he had found a newly born universe, when in reality he had found one in the midst of a cycle of death and rebirth, took control of this universe and molded it to his image.

As Darkseid has arisen and once again seeks to gain total control of his universe through the Absolutians, and the Father of Monsters has risen up against the mad titan to strive for control over his universe, Empera awoke once again to take advantage of the conflict and bring all life back to the Void.

After Dark Zagi failed to locate the Aegis of Noa, and Nexus reassumed his true form, Dark Zagi realized that he needed to lie low. So, he approached the United Nations with an offer: In exchange for asylum, he would share with them the secrets of Spacium, the substance that transformed the people of Planet Hikari into Ultramen ages ago.

The United Nations feared the power of the Land of Light, understandably since, until recently, it had fallen into the hands of Belial, Tregear, and Dark Zagi successively, so the UN gladly accepted Dark Zagi’s offer, and started the Prometheus Project, with Dark Zagi as an advisor. Most of their efforts to create Ultramen of their own failed spectacularly, most notably with Evil Tiga.

But then, a group of young geniuses under the supervision of the United Nations, the Alchemy Stars, cracked the code, creating not one, but two mentally stable Ultramen: Gaia and Agul. What set Gaia and Agul apart is that they were created by a synthesis of spacium energy and plasma taken from the Earth’s core, creating the first Earth-born Ultramen.

At first, Gaia, otherwise known as Takayama Gamu, worked alongside XIG, but the bright young Alchemy Star soon began to suspect that there was something dark lurking beneath the surface of the organization. As Gaia proved his worth, the organization began to give him more mysterious orders, and more perplexing missions that did not seem to make sense. This growing doubt was exacerbated by  Agul, AKA Fujimiya, who had betrayed the organization and went on the run as a fugitive.

Gamu dug deeper into the organization, and found out that XIG had ties to a group called the Night Raiders, a mysterious shadow society outside of the UN’s jurisdiction headed by Dark Zagi. As he began to investigate Dark Zagi, he discovered an even darker secret.

The Alchemy Stars weren’t just a group of gifted young men, they were Zagi’s science experiment, humans mixed with Ultraman D.N.A; Specifically, Dark Zagi’s D.N.A. That was the true reason why the experiments on Gamu and Fujimiya had been successful, because they were already half-Ultramen, the sons of Dark Zagi.

Now, Gamu fights against the Night Raiders and Dark Zagi, working to expose the corruption and bring the Giant of Darkness to justice.

I invite you, all of you, to join me in forming a coalition of small Godzilla/Ultraman/Kaiju Content Creators, a coalition which can support each other, promote each other, and work together, collaborating to create even better content than you could alone. Everyone who is a kaiju content creator is welcome. The only rule is that no NSFW channels are allowed.

This is the link to the group discord.

https://discord.com/invite/xXWeVxVskd

In the DC Comics Universe, Darkseid has been causing some trouble by effectively taking over one of the universes and molding it to his image, making life Hell for the heroes who have to live there and forcing them to evolve into, well, more badass superheroes.

I’ve been taking a look at what it might look like if the Ultras existed in the lore of this universe. Keep in mind that this is my own story and is not canon to Ultraman or DC Comics.

When Darkseid discovered the primordial, unformed universe known as Elseworld, he believed that he had discovered a universe in the making. But in reality, this was a world that had already been made, and unmade. In this universe, the Ultras had waged a war against an entity known as the Father of Monsters, a virus-like being who could infect the innocent and turn them into monsters. Eventually, all life in this universe became infected and integrated into the mind and spirit of the Father of Monsters. All except Ultraman Noa, who chose to use the last of his energy to go supernova, destroying the universe, and allowing it to reset.

And this is where Darkseid comes in, taking advantage of this universe in the midst of a cycle of destruction and reincarnation to form a new universe in his image, hijacking the natural cycle of rebirth which Noa had set into place. He even created his own Absolute version of the Ultramen, called Absolutians. However, when the people of Planet Hikari created a device which harnessed the scattered power of Ultraman Noa, they transformed into true Ultramen, in spite of Darkseid’s vision. In the present day, he has sent his counterfeit clan of Ultramen, the Absolutians, into war with the Ultras.

But the Father of Monsters isn’t done with this universe yet. While his body was destroyed, his spirit lives on. As a spirit, the Father of Monsters gave Belial the power to overthrow King. At this point in the story, Belial had just been slain by Ultraman, Zero, and Geed, who had, at the last minute, betrayed his father. But the Father of Monsters isn’t done with him yet. Seeing that Darkseid is finally making his move and throwing his pieces into the Father of Monster’s intricate chess game, he finally saw fit to see to this matter personally. The Father of Monsters can no longer possess an unwilling victim as he used to in his old universe, but a willing pawn such as Belial is another matter. Using his corpse, the Father of Monsters goes to war against the Absolutians, and their lord: Darkseid, as Belial Atrocious.

The transformation device featured here is the DX Ultrariser Eye, which will allow Zero to both summon up to six Ultramen at once AND use their powers.

   The story, as I have written it so far, revolves around Noa destroying the old universe because all of its inhabitants became irrevocably absorbed into the Father of Monsters, including the Ultras of that universe. This allowed the universe to be recreated, but Darkseid took over this fledgling universe and made it his own, as I already discussed. However, when the scientists of Planet Hikari invented the Plasma Spark, it collected all of Noa’s energy, scattered across the universe from when he destroyed the previous one, and that energy turned them into the Absolute Universe’s “Ultramen.”

But what if I told you that, according to Darkseid’s design, these Ultras were never meant to exist? You see, when Darkseid recreated superheroes like Batman and Superman and molded them the way he wanted them to be, he also recreated the Ultras according to his own vision. But his vision of Ultras wasn’t as bastions of hope, but as enforcers of his will. If the Ultras of the mainline universe protect the laws of a universe that is inherently good, then Darkseid’s Ultras do the same for a world that is inherently evil.

These Ultras are called Absolutians. 

Absolute Tartarus is their commander in chief, and Darkseid is the quote-unquote “Absolute lord” who they venerate. Long ago, before the Earth was even formed, they fought a war against the Ultras, only being pushed back by the most powerful Ultra of all time, second only to Noa: Ultraman King. But now King is dead, and Belial, the only Ultra who was powerful enough to kill King and potentially stop the Absolutians, has also been slain. Seeing that the Land of Light is more vulnerable than it has ever been before, they strike. This time, led by Absolute Tartarus, the strongest warrior born among them.

Special thanks to u/Mexicanerd93 for his suggestions regarding Absolutian lore. They really inspired me when I wrote this, and while it’s not exactly what you suggested, I hope you enjoyed it all the same.

I missed the last week or two, and when I came back to catch up on the series, they're telling me it's not available in my country (USA)? Seriously, sometimes it feels like Tsuburaya doesn't want anyone to actually watch this show! This is stupid!

Just curious. I'm close to finishing all of them myself. I've seen all of the New Gen, and all of the Heisei (except Cosmos), and I've seen Ultra Q, Man, Seven, and 80 from the Showa Era. I'm kind of hoping to finish off the remaining six mainstream Ultraman shows by the end of the year to celebrate Ultraman's sixtieth anniversary (which would make six years of watching Ultraman, though finishing it this year is a long shot for me).