History YMMV / UltramanTaro

* BadassDecay: Zoffy, by the time he fought Birdon. Jack in Episode 52. Though to be fair, taking Birdon in a head on fight ended just as bad for Tarou as it had Zoffy, and Zoffy actually managed to ''hurt'' Birdon, which Tarou hadn't been able to. Also, Zoffy made a trip back to M-78 to drop Tarou off, then came back to fight Birdon. Father of Ultra ran out of energy after he made the one-way trip and fought Alien Hipporito in ''Ace'', but Zoffy had his hands full and he made a round trip before he took on the bird.

** [[HarsherInHindsight: The finale is this in hindsight]]. Kotaro decides to separate himself from Taro to prove that humanity can defend themselves. The problem is the next series, Series/UltramanLeo, Starts with Alien Magma and his monsters killing thousands of people, which may have been prevented if he was Taro at the time.

* EsotericHappyEnding: In the episode "Heaven and Hell Island Has Moved" Taro manages to kill the monster Ganza but realizes that it was pregnant with hundreds of baby crabs. So Taro uses [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands his powers to make sure they can't grow bigger]] and lets them return to the sea. Then after that bit of mercy, it then cuts to everyone in Japan eating the baby crabs and all the characters talking about how good it is they have so many crabs to eat. Even though it was framed as a happy ending many fans found it quite disturbing, particularly with the MoodWhiplash with the previous scene.

* MemeticMutation: ''Fire Head Man'' [[note]] Zoffy getting his head set alight by Birdon is a rather common meme image on tokatsu message boards. The scene is iconic enough that when Zoffy gets depicted as an Ultra-Act action figure, said figure feels the need to [[http://kaijuplanet.blogspot.com/2013/07/figure-review-ultra-act-zoffy.html re-create the scene of Zoffy's head on fire]]![[/note]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Taro is notable by fans as being one of the goofiest entries in the series but despite that, it may surprise some people watching the series for the first time just how dark it can be. People dying from monsters is quite common, the violence while not as bad as Ace it's still extremely vicious at times, and while the theme of family may seem like a light-hearted CentralTheme, it goes into darker territories of family like abandonment and losing loved ones.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The whole show, especially the music...

* BadassDecay: Zoffy, by the time he fought Birdon. Jack in Episode 52. Though to be fair, taking Birdon in a head on fight ended just as bad for Taro as it had Zoffy, and Zoffy actually managed to ''hurt'' Birdon, which Taro hadn't been able to.

* ValuesDissonance:
** In the episode "Jewels are the Monster's Fodder" Kotaro slaps Saori, his girlfriend in a tense situation. Today you could never get away with the protagonist slapping his girlfriend in the TV show for kids. Also for some strange reason, the preview for said episode shows the slap three times, like it was played off a joke.
** In the episode "The Fang Cross is a Monster’s Grave!" There's a scene where Kotaro and the 11-year-old Kenichi are taking a shower together in a public bathroom. This practice of being naked with others in public showers is far more normal in Japan than it is in America.

* UncannyValley: Mother of Ultra’s first appearance is the Ultraman suit with large FakeBoobs attached, creating a rather grotesque looking creature.
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Birdon, to quote one editor, "I find it hilarious that one of the most deadly foes of the Ultras at the time was a turkey with balls stapled to his chin."
** Mukadender. Despite that he's labelled as a "Centipede Monster," he certainly doesn't look like one at first glance...

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Despite getting a big budget upgrade from the past series, this happened quite a fair bit (especially in the suits department) due to the Oil Crisis hurting Japan at the time.

** After the monster Rodera is destroyed it's remains fall down as toy cars. After that brief scene, it's never mentioned again.

* MemeticLoser: Zoffy gained this status for his embarrassing defeat at the hands of Birdon, even getting his head set on fire.

* NeverLiveItDown: This show gave Zoffy MemeticLoser status after his embarrassing defeat at Birdon's hands and ensured viewers would always remember him as ''Fire Head Man''.

* CrazyAwesome: ZAT, whenever their schemes work.

** The last time we ever see Peggy Hayama acting in the Ultra Series was as the Lady in Green, aka. Mother of Ultra's human form in the final episode bidding farewell to Kotaro after he decided to remain human. Her bidding farewell was later on made even more gut wrenching when Peggy Hayama passed away in 2017.

** In episode 3 as Taro destroys the monster Live King [[FromASingleCell (it gets better.)] It does it EvilLaugh as the footage of it exploding is played forward and backwards to the rhythm of the laugh. It doesn't even make sense how it could even laugh at the moment considering it's frozen.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It gets gruesome and violent sometimes...

* AccidentalInnuendo: Mukadender is infamous for this. With the placement of its head and neck making it look like a... sensitive area of the male human body. Doesn't help that it shoots white webbing from its mouth or the name of the episode he appears in being "I Can Beat A Monster Too."

** In the episode "Jewels are the Monster's Fodder" Kotaro slaps Saori, his girlfriend in a tense situation. Today you could never get away with the protagonist slapping his girlfriend in the TV show the kids. Also for some strange reason, the preview for said episode really shows the slap three times, like it was played off a comedy.

* HarsherInHindsight: Episodes 4 and 5 featured a King and Queen Tortoise protecting their young, with one of them perished to the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]] in the latter episode. 47 years later, a similar episode happened in ''Series/UltramanZ'' made it even more tragic, only this time the titular Ultra instead killed a Red King, only for his host to find out it was actually protecting its unhatched egg halfway. [[spoiler:Unlike Haruki who felt [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilty]] of the AccidentalMurder, the humans who killed the Queen Tortoise had no remorse for their actions whatsoever, going as far as to [[NeverMyFault blame]] it on the turtle monsters.]]

** The series is notorious for having some of the goofiest monsters in the franchise ever to be played seriously (see: Live King, Okariyan, Mushra, Depparas, and Piccolo). Mururoa especially stands out, for being an apocalyptic, light-destroying monster that took two episodes to defeat, yet looks like a ''Muppets'' reject.* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/UltramanTaro Now has its own page.]]

* MoodWhiplash: The series at times will go from being goofy and jovial one minute, then NightmareFuel the next, no doubt due to the rather gruesome fates suffered by kaiju and Ultra alike.

** The series is notorious for having some of the goofiest monsters in the franchise ever to be played seriously (see: Live King, Okariyan, Mushra, Depparas, and Piccolo). Mururoa especially stands out, for being an apocalyptic, light-destroying monster that took two episodes to defeat, yet looks like a ''Muppets'' reject.
* HilariousInHindsight: Tarou's incidental music sounds much like the little synthesizer music Cinar mixed in to their infamous ''Series/UltraSeven'' dub.
** Also, [[Series/KamenRiderDenO a series with fairy tale based monsters associated with "Taro"]]?
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/UltramanTaro Now has its own page.]]