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** [[IllGirl Isamu]] from "The Brave One"

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** [[IllGirl Isamu]] Isamu from "The Brave One"
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* UncannyValley: The [[TheFaceless featureless]] aliens in "Searching for Tomorrow" wear masks with blank eyes (think Batman in the comics) and unmovable mouths (like Michael Myers).
** Seven: A stylized alien design with no nose! Camera angles and Chiaroscuro lighting sometimes made Seven look strange...
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** How strong, exactly, is Pandon? While the monster was able to pummel Seven to the ground and Reconstructed Pandon can catch the Eye Slugger with its bare hands, Seven was in critical condition at the time and could barely stand up and fight. It's possible that, were the Ghos aliens to have invaded when Seven was still healthy enough to fight, Pandon would have been easily dispatched.


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** A verse in the opening theme lyrics encourages Seven to "defeat the fire-breathing giant monster". The only foe in the series that fits this description is Pandon, who battled Seven while the latter was dying; the lyrics thus become a plea for Seven to not die against the monster.
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Ensemble Darkhorse is for minor characters. Seven is the show's protagonist which doesn't fit the criteria.


** Seven himself in the franchise, to the point where he has countless tributes and even sequels and remakes dedicated only to him. He's practically the poster child of the franchise along with the original Series/{{Ultraman}}.
*** By extension, model-turned-actor Kohji Moritsugu. He and Susumu Kurobe are still associated with their respective characters and have appeared in various shows and movies, even reprising their roles. Moritsugu got to be captain of a kaiju-fighting team ''three times'' (in ''Series/UltramanLeo'', the movie ''Ultraman Zearth II'', and the spoof ''Uchimura Sebun'').

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** Alien Bado's design walks a fine line between ridiculous and creepy, fitting a SmallNameBigEgo alien conqueror like him. It's also very satisfying to see Seven pummel him to the ground with comical ease after his grand posturing.

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** Alien Bado's design walks a fine line between ridiculous and creepy, fitting a SmallNameBigEgo alien conqueror like him. It's also very satisfying to see Seven pummel him to the ground with comical ease after all his grand posturing.posturing as a self-proclaimed Space Emperor.


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** While Dan's transformation in the penultimate episode is odd-looking, what with him spreading his arms and face-planting onto the Ultra Eye, it fits the show's recurring motif of using a CrucifiedHeroShot to represent Dan as a MessianicArchetype and perfectly symbolises his determination to lay down his life to protect Earth.

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** Even though it has never returned in a live-action show, Dinosaur Tank is beloved by the fanbase for, well, being [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a dinosaur attached to a tank]].



* NarmCharm: Seven vs Windam. Also, Alien Bado.

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Seven vs Windam. Also, Windam is a really silly fight, but the idea of pitting Seven against his own capsule monsters is still a fun matchup, and provides much-needed MoodWhiplash whilst Furuhashi's on a collision course with a passenger jet.
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Alien Bado.Bado's design walks a fine line between ridiculous and creepy, fitting a SmallNameBigEgo alien conqueror like him. It's also very satisfying to see Seven pummel him to the ground with comical ease after his grand posturing.
** On one hand, Dinosaur Tank is a very silly monster concept and feels out of place in this series' more serious storytelling. On the other hand, the sheer awesomeness of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a dinosaur attached to a tank]] is undeniable.
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** "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvXlnx-GiIQ Fight! Ultra Seven]]", also known as "Ultraseven arrives" used as ThemeMusicPowerUp

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** "[[https://m."[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvXlnx-GiIQ com/watch?v=fLtzjT0VUk8 Fight! Ultra Seven]]", also known as "Ultraseven arrives" used as ThemeMusicPowerUp
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** "The Dead Invaders" were corpses revived by aliens, like zombies, months before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and years before the Invaders did the same with (sometimes) dead humans in ''{{Series/Mirrorman}}''.
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* TheWoobie:
** [[HotScientist Dorothy]] [[ClearMyName Anderson]]
** [[{{Gaslighting}} Mitsuko Ishiguro]] and [[TheCassandra her housekeeper]] from "The Green Terror"
** [[IllGirl Isamu]] from "The Brave One"
** Grace Miyabe from "Project Blue"
** Sanae (played by Hiroko Sakurai) from "From Another Planet with Love"
** Amagi has signs of this throughout, like in "The 700 Kilometer Run" and "The World's Greatest Invasion" Part II.
** Soga in "Fly to the Mountain of Evil"
** Dan is an IronWoobie here and in "Series/UltramanLeo" (in ''Leo'', he's also a JerkassWoobie)
** Alien Maya is a JerkassWoobie
** Little Hiroshi in "The Eye that Shines in the Darkness"
** Kaori from "The Devil that dwells in a Flower"
** Anne a few times, like in "Seven Assassination Plan" and "The World's Greatest Invasion" (her concern for Dan when everything else is going south, especially in the latter)
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** Alien Quraso burned to a crisp after setting one of the Ultra Hawk 1 vessels (Beta?) on fire causing it to crash. Dan barely got out before the crash. Their hand-to-hand fight itself barely lasted a couple of seconds.


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** "Hand of the Invading Demon" sets the proper mood to introduce the Ultra Garrison in the opening episode.
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** Android Zero-One was a villainous gynoid in this show; over 50 years later, ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' would also feature androids and gynoids in heroic and villainous roles.
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** Petero would be the same way, with its lumpy, blobby appearance suggesting elephant dung.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Seven vs. Alien Perolinga (who was actually designed to look like something out of an acid trip; hey, it was the 60s).

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Seven vs. Alien Perolinga (who was actually designed to look like something out of an acid trip; hey, it was the 60s).60s).
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* CompleteMonster: [[GloriousLeader Robot Chief]] ("Fourth Planet Android"), from "Nightmare on Planet 4", is the [[RoboticPsychopath sociopathic racist robotic leader]] of the fourth planet. Long ago he was once part of the robots who were made to do the work on the planet, but when they noticed the inhabitants became lazy, he and the other robots [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters took over the planet and enslaved them]], treating them like an object to be disposed of. This happened so much that they needed to get people from another planet as slaves. Choosing Earth, Robot Chief uses remote control to hijack the spacecraft of Dan and Soga and bring them to his world. As he talks to Dan and Soga, he [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats his human secretary for making his coffee wrong]]. As he gives a tour, he shows the filming of the gangster movie where they use real ammunition against the human crew, [[MadArtist killing them to make a scene in a movie]], and brutally executing those who oppose him. When Dan and Soga escape, Robot Chief takes the assistant and another man who helped them escape to prepare them to be executed and readies his invasion force to attack Earth to collect more slaves.

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* CompleteMonster: [[GloriousLeader [[RoboticPsychopath Robot Chief]] ("Fourth Planet Android"), from "Nightmare on Planet 4", is the [[RoboticPsychopath sociopathic racist sociopathic, racist, robotic leader]] [[PlanetBaron leader of the fourth planet.planet]]. Long ago he was once part of the robots who were made to do the work on the planet, but when they noticed the inhabitants became lazy, he and the other robots [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters took over the planet and enslaved them]], treating them like an object to be disposed of. This happened so much that they needed to get people from another planet as slaves. Choosing Earth, Robot Chief uses remote control to hijack the spacecraft of Dan and Soga and bring them to his world. As he talks to Dan and Soga, he [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats his human secretary for making his coffee wrong]]. As he gives a tour, he shows the filming of the gangster movie where they use real ammunition against the human crew, [[MadArtist killing them to make a scene in a movie]], and brutally executing those who oppose him. When Dan and Soga escape, Robot Chief takes the assistant and another man who helped them escape to prepare them to be executed and readies his invasion force to attack Earth to collect more slaves.

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** [[https://betacapsulereviews.wordpress.com/ultra-seven/ Beta capsule reviews]] puts forth the idea that the aliens Bados may be lying about some of their achievements and how mighty they are, especially since despite how powerful they claim they are they seem to have trouble getting through a human force field, get easily cleaned out by the Space Garrison and their leader's less than impressive fight with Ultraseven. It makes sense when you consider they're trying to scare the scientist into giving them the plans so it would make sense for them to overhyped themselves.

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** [[https://betacapsulereviews.wordpress.com/ultra-seven/ Beta capsule reviews]] puts forth the idea that the aliens Bados may be lying about some of their achievements and how mighty they are, especially since despite how powerful they claim they are they seem to have trouble getting through a human force field, get easily cleaned out by the Space Garrison and their leader's less than impressive fight with Ultraseven. It makes sense when you consider they're trying to scare the scientist into giving them the plans so it would make sense for them to overhyped themselves. Considering how decades later ever since ''Series/UltramanGeed'', subsequent appearances from Bado aliens are as small-time mooks and punks, that sounds logical.



* AntiClimaxBoss: Alien Cool, Android Zero

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Alien Cool, the StarterVillain, get his brains sliced off by Ultraseven without putting a fight.
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Android ZeroZero gets shot in the forehead by the Emerium Ray merely ''seconds'' after Dan transformed into Ultraseven. Her boss, Alien Chibull, barely fared any better, getting defeated with similar ease.
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Dying Moment Of Awesome is not YMMV. If a YMMV trope is applicable In Universe, then put it in the main page


* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Aoki from "For Whom is Glory For?" redeemed himself before dying and got a nice sendoff.



* TheScrappy: InUniverse example. Aoki from "For Whom is Glory For?" frustrated the rest of the team with his GlorySeeker personality and refusing to take his job seriously. The reality hits him hard when Alien Plachiku shows up.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Robot Commander's plan to repopulate the Fourth Planet with Earthlings to sustain the machines is similar to what the machines did to humans in ''Anime/TheAnimatrix''.


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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Robot Commander's plan to repopulate the Fourth Planet with Earthlings to sustain the machines is similar to what the machines did to humans in ''Anime/TheAnimatrix''.
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Seven isn't the first installment.


* FirstInstallmentWins: The original Ultraman may be superior as well as more popular. Also Compared to SequelSeries ''Series/UltramanLeo'', the video specials, or ''Series/UltrasevenX''.
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** In "Fly to the Mountain of Evil", Dan was [[PhantomZone temporarily trapped]] in Alien Wild's camera, after which the UG presumed him dead. HotBlooded Soga, who was Dan's closest ally other than Anne[[note]]Yuriko Hishimi missed this episode as well as "Android Zero One Directive"[[/note]], didn't take it well. His ScreamsLikeALittleGirl crying (complete with a mournful martial dirge playing) looks worse in retrospect after actor Shinsuke Achiha's suicide over his work prospects and health.

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** In "Fly to the Mountain of Evil", Dan was [[PhantomZone temporarily trapped]] in Alien Wild's camera, after which the UG presumed him dead. HotBlooded Soga, who was Dan's closest ally other than Anne[[note]]Yuriko Hishimi missed this episode as well as "Android Zero One Directive"[[/note]], "The Man from V3"[[/note]], didn't take it well. His ScreamsLikeALittleGirl crying (complete with a mournful martial dirge playing) looks worse in retrospect after actor Shinsuke Achiha's suicide over his work prospects and health.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZlhwfmeV_s Fight! Ultra Seven]]", also known as "Ultraseven arrives" used as ThemeMusicPowerUp

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** "[[https://www."[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZlhwfmeV_s com/watch?v=pvXlnx-GiIQ Fight! Ultra Seven]]", also known as "Ultraseven arrives" used as ThemeMusicPowerUp
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** An awkward moment from the first Seven vs. King Joe fight where for over 30 straight seconds King Joe is on Seven's chest and Seven keeps struggling to get the robot to stop grabbing his head. It goes on far too long with no cut-aways and was likely meant to be showing how unstoppable King Joe is. It's been getting a little more traction in recent years.
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* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Is '''nobody''' going to comment on how Alien Burako looks like a sentient lump of poop with arms and legs?

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* CompleteMonster: [[GloriousLeader Robot Chief]] ("Fourth Planet Android"), from "Nightmare on Planet 4", is the [[RoboticPsychopath sociopathic racist robotic leader]] of the fourth planet. Long ago he was once part of the robots who were made to do the work on the planet, but when they noticed the inhabitants became lazy, he and the other robots took over the planet and enslaved them, treating them like an object to be disposed of. This happened so much that they needed people from another planet to repopulate the slaves. Choosing Earth, Robot Chief uses remote control to hijack the spacecraft of Dan and Soga and bring them to his world. As he talks to Dan and Soga, he [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats his human secretary for making his coffee wrong]]. As he gives a tour, he shows the filming of the gangster movie where they use real ammunition against the human crew, killing them to make a scene in a movie, and brutally executing those who oppose him. When Dan and Soga escape, Robot Chief takes the assistant and another man who helped them escape to prepare them to be executed and readies his invasion force to attack Earth to collect more slaves.

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* CompleteMonster: [[GloriousLeader Robot Chief]] ("Fourth Planet Android"), from "Nightmare on Planet 4", is the [[RoboticPsychopath sociopathic racist robotic leader]] of the fourth planet. Long ago he was once part of the robots who were made to do the work on the planet, but when they noticed the inhabitants became lazy, he and the other robots [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters took over the planet and enslaved them, them]], treating them like an object to be disposed of. This happened so much that they needed to get people from another planet to repopulate the as slaves. Choosing Earth, Robot Chief uses remote control to hijack the spacecraft of Dan and Soga and bring them to his world. As he talks to Dan and Soga, he [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats his human secretary for making his coffee wrong]]. As he gives a tour, he shows the filming of the gangster movie where they use real ammunition against the human crew, [[MadArtist killing them to make a scene in a movie, movie]], and brutally executing those who oppose him. When Dan and Soga escape, Robot Chief takes the assistant and another man who helped them escape to prepare them to be executed and readies his invasion force to attack Earth to collect more slaves.

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* CompleteMonster: [[GloriousLeader Robot Chief]] ("Fourth Planet Android"), from "Nightmare on Planet 4", is the [[RoboticPsychopath sociopathic racist robotic leader]] of the fourth planet. Long ago he was once part of the robots who were made to do the work on the planet, but when they noticed the inhabitants became lazy, he and the other robots took over the planet and enslaved them, treating them like an object to be disposed of. This happened so much that they needed people from another planet to repopulate the slaves. Choosing Earth, Robot Chief uses remote control to hijack the spacecraft of Dan and Soga and bring them to his world. As he talks to Dan and Soga, he [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats his human secretary for making his coffee wrong]]. As he gives a tour, he shows the filming of the gangster movie where they use real ammunition against the human crew, killing them to make a scene in a movie, and brutally executing those who oppose him. When Dan and Soga escape, Robot Chief takes the assistant and another man who helped them escape to prepare them to be executed and readies his invasion force to attack Earth to collect more slaves.
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** Say, isn't the BadassInANiceSuit human form of Alien Icarus reminiscent of [[Series/UltramanOrb Juggus Juggler?]]

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** Say, isn't the BadassInANiceSuit human form of Alien Icarus reminiscent of [[Series/UltramanOrb Juggus Jugglus Juggler?]]
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** [[https://betacapsulereviews.wordpress.com/ultra-seven/ Beta capsule reviews]] puts forth the idea that the aliens Bados may be lying about some of their achievements and how mighty they are, especially since despite how powerful they claim they are they seem to have trouble getting through a human force field, get easily cleaned out by the Space Garrison and their leader's less than impressive fight with Ultraseven. It makes sense when you consider they're trying to scare the scientist into giving them the plans so it would make sense for them to overhyped themselves.
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.* {{Narm}}:

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** Near the end of the penultimate episode Dan angrily throws down the Ultra Eye when he is reminded that he might die if he transforms. Pandon has already surrounded several of his friends with fire but then decides to crush them with a boulder. Torn between his life or his friends Dan decides to risk the ultimate sacrifice. Except instead of stooping down and picking up the Ultra Eye he spreads his arms and face plants onto the eye. Standing up then transforms.
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* NarmCharm: Seven vs Windam. Also, Seven vs Alien Bado.

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* NarmCharm: Seven vs Windam. Also, Seven vs Alien Bado.
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** In "Fly to the Mountain of Evil", Dan was [[PhantomZone temporarily trapped]] in Alien Wild's camera, after which the UG presumed him dead. HotBlooded Soga, who was Dan's closest ally other than Anne[[note]]Yuriko Hishimi missed this episode as well as "Android Zero One Directive"[[/note]], didn't take it well. His ScreamsLikeALittleGirl crying (complete with a mournful martial dirge playing) looks worse in retrospect after actor Shinsuke Achiha's suicide over his work prospects and health.


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* NarmCharm: Seven vs Windam. Also, Seven vs Alien Bado.

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