Alien Guts

Alien Guts (ガッツ星人, Gattsu Seijin) are an avian alien species from the planet Guts that debuted in the Ultraseven series. They are known for their intelligent and scheming nature, as well as defeating Ultraseven and for his crucifixion. They first appeared in the two-part story episodes 39 and 40. After first reappearing in the Heisei Ultraseven miniseries, the Guts have gone on to become one of the most enduring aliens in the Ultraman Series, appearing on numerous occasions throughout the franchise's more recent entries from Ultraman Mebius & the Ultra Brothers onwards.

Subtitle: Clone Alien (分身宇宙人, Bunshin Uchūjin)

History

Past

According to Gentosha's 21st Century Ultraman Declaration magazine, the progeny to Alien Guts' race were parrot-like primitive species who survived abnormal weathers such as volcanic activity resulted from the fluctuating ground of Planet Guts' axis. They evolved into their current humanoid forms by shedding their wings that were once weapons to repel enemies and keeping their bodies warm, growing limbs, the brain becomes larger and finally the ability to stand upright. The most noticeable change is their beak, which is meant to attract the opposite gender and their eggs have protective shells to prevent their infants from being harmed by the heat of the forest fire. Out of the infants, those who could hatch from their hard egg shells will grow into crude adult state. It is also stated that Alien Guts' natural strength comes from the fact that they adapted to live in harsh environments since birth.

Ultraseven

After the destruction of Aron, Alien Guts analyzed every aspect of Ultraseven including his human disguise of Dan Moroboshi. They were later planning on how to defeat Ultraseven, one of the Aliens suggested to kill Dan Moroboshi, but the other Guts said that is better to kill Ultraseven: They were going to fight him, defeat him, show to humanity that he was defeated and the humans would be left with no choice but to surrender to them.

At the UG, many false alarms were going off, the alarm sounded again, Dan Moroboshi and Anne were sent to patrol and see what was happening. That night as Dan and Anne went on patrol, several cars with no drivers cornered them. Dan quickly discovered that they were being driven by Alien Guts, who revealed himself and began to taunt him. After another Guts appeared, the first one shot Dan with a gun and forced him to flee while his adversary was chasing him. Suddenly two more Alien Guts appeared out of nowhere, making it extremely difficult for Dan to flee and forced him to summon Windom. However, before Windom could lay a hand on Alien Guts, a saucer appeared out of nowhere and killed him. After growing much larger, Alien Guts decided to leave to finish of Ultraseven later.

The next day, a bizarre glass casing made itself known, drawing out the Ultra Guard and attacking them. After the alien destroyed a bridge to prevent the escape of Dan, he turned into Ultraseven with Guts arriving to the scene immediately. However, Alien Guts was capable of standing up to any assault Ultraseven could execute and managed to tire him out.

After the alien used its paralysis ray, a crystal cross trapped Ultraseven within it. With Ultraseven out of the way, Alien Guts set his sights on the Self Defense Force and used his saucer to slaughter them. After the battle, Alien Guts showed the crucified Ultraseven and told the humans to hand Earth over to them or else more lives would be lost. ^{The Seven Assassination Plan Part 1} Not wanting to go down without a fight, the Ultra Guard started constructing a new weapon that could pierce the crystal cross imprisoning Ultraseven. The crystal cross retreated by teleportation before Ultra Guard could revive Ultraseven's power done by hitting the Beam Lamp on Ultraseven's forehead with their fighters' energy bolts. After Alien Guts's magnetic wheel failed to capture one of the local racers that was helping the Ultra Guard, Ultraseven's location was found on a hillside. Alien Guts summoned three saucers to try and kill Ultraseven, but the TDF MRI used its laser stream, equipped with a device called the Magnerium Medicalizer, on the hero's Beam Lamp and managed to revive him. Using the Break Ray to free himself, Ultraseven began to launch Handshake Rays to the three ships until they were destroyed. He then set out to target Alien Gut's main saucer. After a barrage of knife cutters, strengthened by the sun's energy tore into the saucer, the aliens inside began running around in a panic as the craft began to overheat. At last, the ship exploded, ending the Guts' reign of terror. ^{The Seven Assassination Plan Part 2}

Trivia

• When the Ultraseven series received an English dub courtesy of TNT, the Guts were renamed the Buffins of Abadon.
• Alien Guts was one of the monsters seen in footage of Seven's past battles in episode 48.
• Alien Guts was the first character to call out the name Beam Lamp and he was also the first to use the term Ultra Beam, referring to the Emerium Beam.
• The Guts roar-like groans were reused from the alien Dada that appeared in the original Ultraman series.
• Alien Guts's first appearance in episode 39 is very similar to the original Ultraman's episode 39, as Guts defeated Ultraseven and like Alien Zetton, Alien Guts sent a monster to Ultraseven, Aron only for testing Ultraseven's abilities instead letting Aron defeat him and Alien Guts, like Zetton stopped Ultraseven's Beam Lamp.
• Alien Guts's episodes were originally to be a standard standalone episode and were to be called the Alien Slugga (スラッガ星人, Suragga Seijin). They would be numbered S1 to S5 and the number S5 Slugga would serve as the equivalent to what became their servant Aron. Other documents claimed there were another group as well as the S group numbered G1 to G4.
• Alien Guts' suits mark the first time in the Ultraman Series that two of the same creature were created to be filmed with at the same time and not for use in attractions.
• The sculpting process of the Alien Guts' suits would be shot on an 8mm film titled A Small Chronicle.
• Alien Guts's voices were made by taking the voice recordings and slowing them down to the pitch of their roars.
• Alien Guts's design were originally going to have their brains exposed to show their brains developing. This idea was turned down by Eiji Tsuburaya as he deemed it too grotesque. They then had the idea of the heads being transparent hoods, yet this was changed to an issue with materials. As such, they were designed as they are shown. Remnants of the developing brains idea are retained in their head design.
• Alien Guts is featured as a sphinx-like creature in the cover art of the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's album Oddments.

Heisei Ultraseven

Another Alien Guts attempted to conquer the Earth. Their plan was to mutate mankind using the monster Sulfas. He gained willing volunteers by explaining that with the increase in pollution from mankind, the Earth would become uninhabitable for their species unless they evolved quickly. However the fully transformed humans were little more than animals allowing Alien Guts to use them as they willed. When Seven, in the form of Masaki Kazamori, investigated the compound, Guts was able to defeat the Ultra. However, the hero was allowed to leave, under the belief that the revealing of his plan would force the TDF and thus Earth to submit to him. However, the TDF refused and launched an attack on the compound, tranquilizing all inside. Alien Guts fled and called his monster to attack the humans. When Seven appeared to fight him, he assisted his monster via his spaceship. They were eventually destroyed when Seven shot their ship. ^{Eternal Earth}

Trivia

• Voice actor: Masaharu Sato
• Heisei Ultraseven marks the final appearance of the Showa era Alien Guts design, as this suit would later serve for attraction in most of stage show programs. Currently, Guts is now represented by a design made by Yasushi Torisawa, although game publications tend to portray Guts in its original Showa incarnation.
• Prior to its proper appearance, Alien Guts briefly appeared in the TDF monster data file in Operation: Solar Energy.

Ultraman Mebius & the Ultra Brothers

Arriving in the city of Kobe in their invisible spaceship, four aliens of the Alien Union - Alien Temperor, Alien Guts, Alien Nackle, and Alien Zarab - searched for the site where the mighty Terrible-Monster, U-Killersaurus, lay sealed. These four aliens formed an alliance in order to destroy the Ultra Brothers, once and for all. They planned to release U-Killersaurus and Yapool, causing a global panic, during which, they would invade the Earth. With the Ultra Bros. unable to transform due to using the Final Cross Shield to seal U-Killersaurus, they only obstacle was Ultraman Mebius.

Their plan was to first observe his powers, but Temperor was impatient, and proclaimed that it was unnecessary. He said he would destroy Mebius on his own, and then become the leader of the group. The other three let him go out on his own, secretly deciding to use him as a guinea pig to study Mebius' powers. In the end, Temperor was defeated by Mebius. However, thanks to him, the remaining aliens had all the information they needed on Mebius. Zarab went ahead for phase two of their plan; to capture Aya Jinguji, a friend of Mirai's, take her place, and then poison him with a phony drink. Mebius managed to stop his plans and destroy him, but with Mebius now weakened, Nackle and Guts moved on to phase three of their plan. Guts appeared before Mebius, and effortlessly managed to trap him into a crystal crucifix. Kobe was then surrounded by an isolation field from their spaceship, by which nothing could get in or out. The remaining Ultra Bros. decided to transform one more time in order to save Mebius and the Earth, and appeared before Guts. Nackle soon landed too, and the two aliens stood between the Ultra Bros. and Mebius. A difficult fight ensued, with the Ultra Bros. being overpowered 2 on 1. However, the Ultra Bros. would not give up, and they were soon able to stop Guts and Nackle, if only for a short time.

They then released Mebius from his prison, only to be trapped themselves when Guts and Nackle got back up. After trapping the brothers, they combined their powers to defeat Mebius with one blast of energy. They then called upon their spaceship, which used the light energy of the captured Ultra Brothers to slowly break the seal of U-Killersaurus. Shortly after, however, Mebius somehow regained his strength, and battled both aliens with little trouble. Later, Ultraman Mebius fired his Mebium Shoot into Guts, causing the seijin to tip over slightly and blow to pieces before he even hit the ground. Now only Alien Nackle remained. ^{Ultraman Mebius & the Ultra Brothers}

Trivia

• Voice actor: Piston Nishizawa
• Like all of the aliens to appear in this film, Alien Guts is given a redesign by Yasushi Torisawa. While it bears a close resemblance to the Showa era design, it is more muscular, with particular bulk placed around the joints. The blue sections of the design have been recoloured to a darker shade of blue, while the white zigzag patterns on the body have a ridged texture. His head sports linear-like designs that resemble circuit boards, and his feet were changed from a shoe-like shape to a version that resembled a bird's claw.
• A scene of this movie appears in Superior 8 Ultra Brothers, where Alien Guts is seen along Alien Nackle destroying the city of Kobe.

Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle: Never Ending Odyssey

As Rei looked for Alien Hook using Litra, Gomess (S) was summoned once again with his master, a Reionics Alien Guts, revealing himself to Rei. Guts began to taunt Rei as Gomess started to gain the upper hand in the fight, but after Litra launched a couple of fireballs, Gomora was able to win by destroying Gomess with the Ultra Oscillation Wave. Guts was afraid at this point, and teleported away. ^{Reionics Battle}

Guts eventually returned, wanting a rematch with Rei. His new monster, Kelbim, fought Rei's new monster, Miclas. At first, Kelbim was winning, but after Rei encouraged Miclas, Kelbim found himself wrapped up with his own tail, and quickly beaten. Kelbim lost his footing, accidentally falling on his Master, crushing him. ^{The New Horizon of War}

Trivia

• Voice actor: Naoki Tatsuta
• His suit from the Ultraman Mebius film was reused in this appearance.

Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS NEO (Galaxy Saga Mode)

The spirit of the deceased Alien Guts Reionics cooperated with Yapool to guard off the Ultra Zone in against the intruding ZAP SPACY officers and the Ultra Brothers as Yapool try to alter the past. Alien Guts' spirit possessed a Nurse in the Robot Monster Graveyard, aided by Dinosaur Tank and Mochiron but all three were defeated by the combined forces of Ultraman Taro and Rei's Battlenizer monster. ^{Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS NEO}

Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie

Alien Guts was among the 100 monsters revived by Ultraman Belial. He was leading the part of the army of monsters that attacked Ultraseven, including King Joe Black, Eleking, Banpira, Verokron, King Pandon, Nova, Gan-Q, Alien Metron, Doragory, and Fire Golza. Guts was called back by Belial to watch Reionic Burst Gomora fight the Ultras and was sent back out with the remaining monsters to fight Ultraman Zero. He was among the last monsters to survive, and survived many hits that can kill any other monster. He was third of the last six surviving monsters destroyed by Ultraman Zero's Zero Slugger Attack behind Alien Valky and Fire Golza followed by King Joe Black, Zetton, and Tyrant. He was revived back as a part of Belyudra, a monster made of a union with all the other monsters of Belial's Army, with Belial himself as the brain. Guts is present as part of Belyudra's neck, and when Astra tries to attack Belyudra's neck, Guts grabs Astra's foot to slow him down, allowing the other monsters of Belyudra's neck to blast Astra off. Ultraman Zero, Ultraman Mebius, Ultraman Leo, Astra, Ultraman Dyna, and Ultraman destroyed Belyudra, and all of its components returned to the Monster Graveyard, with Guts being among them. ^{Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie}

Trivia

• Alien Guts is one of the monsters that makes up Belyudra's neck (nape). However, in one scene where Astra tries to kick the colossal's arm, the alien is present on the left arm and grabs the Ultra's foot.

Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure NEO

A trio of Alien Guts kidnap Ai Asama and Kanegon from the Dive Hangar to their saucer in order to study the Battlenizer. Having rid Ultraman Tiga off of their tail, the Guts then rented Kanegon's Battlenizer for 10,000 yen (albeit reluctantly) and once arrived, forced Ai to summon Red King when they unleashed their Aron. However, the test site was interrupted from the arrival of Alien Wild's Nurse, destroying their saucer as well. Ai and Kanegon try to run in the midst of this mess, but a single Guts intercepted them. Finally with Kanegon at his side, Ai can summon Red King. At first the avian alien splits into two and shoot its Beam Bind towards Red King, but Ai gets the idea of the monster substitute itself with its own tail, then catch the alien surprise by slamming his clone back to him. Then picking a giant rock, Red King slams it to the alien, killing him for good.

Another Alien Guts was part of the Space Alliance Army that Yapool and Alien Hipporit assembled to fight Alien Reiblood and EX Zetton, only to be defeated. When Ai and Io Mikura confronted Reiblood/EX Zetton with Gomora and Red King, Reiblood responded by resurrecting the Space Alliance Army as his reinforcements. Ultraman and Ultraseven arrived just in time to even the odds, the former putting up a barrier to prevent the alliance army from advancing. With Reiblood/EX Zetton eliminated, the resurrected army had their spirits ascended to the Monster Graveyard.

In Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS NEO, the kidnapping of the protagonist and Kanegon happened right after the duel against Grozam and Inpelaizer. Instead of landing safely to the experimental site of a planet, their saucer crash landed when Nurse attacked them right from space. Then as Nurse destroyed, Guts were revealed to have studied the battle all along, but demanding more data for their research, they summoned Grand King and one of them grew large to confront the protagonist. While Grand King is destroyed, the giant Guts survived and went back to his comrades, satisfied that they had procure enough data. However it was then when Yapool appeared and killed the Guts.

Ultraman Ginga

Alien Guts appeared in Ultraman Ginga as a Spark Doll. In episode 7, he along with many other monsters cheered Ultraman Ginga on as he fights Dark Galberos. ^{The Closed World} It is likely that Guts returned to space in his original form after Ginga defeated Dark Lugiel.

Ultraman Ginga S

Main article: Vorst

An Alien Guts named Vorst appears in this series. Originally the supporting antagonist of the first half, he was promoted to the secondary antagonist in the second half after his own rival One Zero defected and changed her name to Mana. Having failed to serve Exceller by defeating the Ultra Warriors, he was brainwashed into a mindless giant before Ultraman Ginga Strium saved him, but he was killed by Exceller during the test of the Victorium Cannon.

Ultraman Orb The Movie: Let Me Borrow the Power of Bonds!

An Alien Guts by the name Doppel (ドッペル, Dopperu) was first summoned as a member of Dark Alien Army summoned by Murnau through her Dark Ring to finish off Ultraman Orb alongside Alien Hipporit and Alien Temperor while the former was about to be finished off by Alien Gapiya Sadis. The three of them unleashed their signature attacks on the Ultra, with Doppel's being his Bind Beam, knocking him down in the process and leaving him wide open for the three of them to capture Orb for Murnau and transported away, leaving Sadis frustrated.

Doppel later appeared to chase the SSP members around Murnau's castle with the help of Bullton's powers and yet, they found what they were looking for and managed to escape.

Doppel later appeared as he held the SSP members hostage with his Paralysis Ray while Ultraman Orb Trinity and Zeppandon were fighting Temperor, Hipporit, and Darebolic and then forced Orb to give up and kept them hostage until he was shot by Ittetsu Shibukawa, which lead to him chasing all four of them and then obtained the Dark Ring after all four of them were fighting over it and ended up losing it until Jugglus Juggler tackled Doppel, got the Dark Ring back and then used his powers to cast the powerful item away, reversing the effects of Murnau's jewelry attacks and greatly upsetting her.

He later grew to Kaiju size and fought against the Ultra Warriors, with Doppel fighting Ultraman X after the alien army launched their attacks on the Ultras, who deflected and dodged the attacks. Although Doppel cloned himself, X held the upper hand with his Gomora Armor, but as the day went by, X discarded the armor. When his old rival Ultraseven appeared, Doppel acted terrified of his appearance. The alien later resumed his battle with the Ultra with the two of them being evenly matched in combat until Doppel decided to outnumber the Ultra by cloning himself five times, and the six of them struck at X with their Paralysis Rays, only for the Ultra to fly away and destroy them all with his Attacker X, ending Doppel's service to Murnau. ^{Ultraman Orb The Movie: Let Me Borrow the Power of Bonds!}

Trivia

• Voice actor: Shinji Saito (Jungle Pocket)
  • Saito also joked that both him and the alien are much alike.
• His name is a pun of doppelgänger, which is what the Alien Guts races are known for.
• In the scene with Shibukawa and Doppel, the film does a parody of a scene in Star Wars Episode IV, where Han Solo after a chase scene by a small group Stormtroopers runs back into the corridor to surprise them gunsblazing only to see a gigantic wave of Stormtroopers, before running away as fast as fast as possible, with Shibukwawa being Han Solo and Doppel representing the Stormtroopers.

Data

Spark Doll

Alien Guts became a Spark Doll in the conclusion of the Dark Spark War. Both a regular Alien Guts and Guts Gunner Garm were transformed, although neither of them appeared in Ultraman Ginga.

After Dark Lugiel's defeat, Alien Gut's Spark Doll is likely to have been reverted back to its original form and departed Earth to return home.

Other Media

Ultra Fight

Alien Guts was a frequent nemesis in the low budget series Ultra Fight.

• Alien Guts reappeared in episode 77, where he fought his nemesis Ultraseven at the mountains. They started their fight by inadvertently crashing into each other when they charged into battle and then the fight became evenly matched each other with punches, chops, grapples, kicks, and throws. Soon afterwards, Guts threw rocks at the Ultra, but Seven dodged them all and stopped the alien by throwing a rock at his head, leaving him dazed. After enduring a brutal assault of chops and kicks, Guts was thrown to the ground by the Ultra and one more chop to the head was all it took to defeat him.
• In episode 83, Alien Guts took on Woo in a fierce fight in the rain. Both monsters fought evenly against each other with either side but eventually, Guts got tuckered out from the long fight and collapsed in a large puddle in exhaustion.
• Alien Guts reappeared in episode 90, where he went up against Alien Icarus, who was acting as the aggressor of the fight, while Guts was the pacifist of the fight, repeatedly getting Icarus off of him by pushing him away. It went on for a while even when Icarus threw a rock at Guts which hit his head. Just as he thought he was down, Guts tried to pin down his foe, but Icarus grabbed his leg with legs, throwing him down and kept it up for a while until Icarus threw Guts by his arm and threw him after grabbing him by his arm and throwing at the side of a rocky hill, Icarus threw a couple of rocks at him and roared in victory.
• In episode 94. Alien Guts was confronted by Woo as he was taking a stroll through a canyon and the two of them duked it out, whereas they were evenly matched with other in terms of wrestling and light attacks. Eventually, Guts grabbed onto the Kaiju while he was down and didn't let go until the latter collapsed from exhaustion, giving the alien the win and finally getting revenge for earlier.
• Alien Guts reappeared in episode 99, where he confronted Eleking and fought him in a valley. While Guts initially held up a good fight, Eleking stepped on the alien's foot, knocked him down and then picked him up threw him down again. When Ultraseven arrived, he gave Guts a helping hand up and then the latter acted cowardly and convinced him to fight Eleking for him which the Ultra did. While Seven was grappling with Eleking, Guts backstabbed him which lead the Ultra to fight him too. Guts ended up shortly getting knocked out with a hard karate chop to the neck with Eleking following suit.
• In episode 105, Alien Guts fought Alien Icarus in a canyon where they were evenly matched in combat with the usual grapples, throws, punches, and kicks. When Ultraseven showed up, he tried to convince the two aliens to stop fighting and make peace, only to end up joining the brawl when he was attacked. The episode ended when Seven watched as Guts claimed victory by pinning Icarus to the ground.
• Alien Guts reappeared in episode 115, where he waited in a canyon until Ultraseven showed up and accepted Guts' challenge. They spent the majority of the fight trying to pin each other down and beating them down, only for them to push each other off. In the end, Ultraseven beat up the alien and knocked him out cold with a double kick to the neck.

Ultraman Kids

Alien Guts appears in the Ultraman Kids anime as a student, and works as a henchman for an Alien Baltan, Bal. Unlike the evil Alien Guts, this Alien Guts in particular is colored green and his other colors different as well, and he wears a suit. Although he's mostly seen working with Bal on his plans, he occasionally shows that he is a friend to Ultraman.

Ultra Zone

Alien Guts reappeared in Ultra Zone.

Mega Monster Rush Ultra Frontier

Main article: Guts Gunner・Garm

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