Line #23 Series/ReturnOfUltraman


1	! Spoilers for the Land of Light continuity of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' preceding this one, including ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'', may be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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3	[[caption-width-right:350:[[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Jack is About to Spacium You]]. ]]
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5	->''He has returned...\
6	He has returned...\
7	ULTRAMAN!''
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9	''Return of Ultraman'' (1971) is the fourth (fifth, if you count ''Ultra Fight'') entry in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries''. Created by Tsuburaya Productions, this time the series was spearheaded by Creator/EijiTsuburaya's son Hajime Tsuburaya, and brought the series back to traditional monster-fighting after the more experimental ''Series/UltraSeven'' and into mainstream popularity once again. The show played a big part during {{Toku}}'s transition from movies to television, and a big player during the "Henshin Boom" era that it launched alongside Series/KamenRider.
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11	Plotwise it goes like this: After 3 years without an Ultra warrior to defend Earth, the Monster Attack Team is commissioned to battle various giant creatures, and has achieved limited success, but with an ever growing array of opponents, the human race is getting overwhelmed in a new "Second Age of Monsters".
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13	Suddenly, an Ultra warrior appears who looks similar to the original Ultraman, which leads people to believe that the original has returned to help Earth. In reality, this Ultra warrior has arrived on Earth for the first time. His name is Jack, which is unbeknownst to everyone. The Japanese public and M.A.T. simply call him "Ultraman" or "New Man".
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15	Jack battles one of the creatures rampaging and during his battle, race car driver Goh Hideki heroically rescues some innocents from the destruction, but is killed doing so. After Jack defeats the monster, Jack feels remorse about Goh's death and merges with him, leading to a recovery and a subconscious command to join M.A.T. in order to help out the brave humans who came to aid him during his first fight on Earth.
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17	With a new purpose in his life, Goh balances his life in three ways -- to be a heroic member of M.A.T., a race car driver who loves his girlfriend very much, and a human guide for Jack to ease his mission on Earth against the hordes of evil monsters and alien invaders.
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20	!!''Return of Ultraman'' provides examples of the following tropes
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22	* AlienAbduction: Alien Black's plan in Episode 40.
23	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Twice. In Episode 38, after Alien Knackle jams all communications to the MAT base, he uses the phrase just before blowing up the MAT Space Station. In the last episode, Alien Bat destroys the MAT base.
24	* AnAssKickingChristmas: Episodes 37 & 38.
25	* ArtifactTitle: This is a different Ultraman. The title alludes to the original show, whose main character was originally supposed to return to Earth. Though it can be considered similar to what happened when Miles Morales became the new Spider-Man; new character, same title.
26	* ArchNemesis: Zetton from the original series returns to fight Jack after being revived by Bat. However, [[spoiler: Jack manages to defeat Zetton and Bat in the end.]]
27	* BattleAgainstTheSunset: Several of these occur, such as Jack's fights against Twin Tail, Beacon and the first battle against Black King and Alien Nackle. In the case of the latter, as the fight turns into a CurbStompBattle, Jack futilely begs the setting sun to lend him its energy.
28	* BigBad: Many aliens throughout the series, although the ones that come to mind are Knuckle (episodes 37 and 38) and Bat (last episode)
29	* BigDamnHeroes: MAT pulled this almost every episode. Oka pulled one by herself on ''her teammates'' to save Goh in Episode 38. [[spoiler:Ultraseven pulls this off by saving Jack from certain death on two occasions, the second of which he did so alongside the original Ultraman.]]
30	* BlessedWithSuck: Hideki Goh's personal life is more affected by being an Ultra than most human hosts.
31	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: M.A.T. in episode 38. Oka and Goh set them straight.
32	* TheBoxingEpisode: Episode 27, '''Go to Hell with this One Blow!''' have Goh befriending a boxer and training with him for a championship match. In the end of the episode, Jack's fight against MonsterOfTheWeek Gronken is intercut with the boxer fighting on a ring.
33	* ButtMonkey: Poor Jack. Throughout the franchise he's been subject to several abuses...
34	** A second monster sneaking up on him during a fight (a few times)
35	** [[HeroicRROD Fighting to exhaustion]] (as in, color timer going out)
36	** Being gored (King Saurus III)
37	** Bitten (many kaiju)
38	** Magnetised and zapped by Magnedon
39	** Torn to shreds by Snowgon
40	** Crucifixion (the first time happened after transforming and [[MythologyGag using up his powers twice in twenty-four hours]], a big no-no for the original)
41	** Decapitation (in the latter part of the show)
42	** Freezing solid (led to decap and LiterallyShatteredLives at the hands of Snowgon)
43	** Having his Ultra Bracelet turn on him (Episode 31)
44	** Encapsulated and turned into a Jade statue by Alien Hipporito in Ace.
45	** Very nearly dying and having his body deflate after his Color Timer was torn out by Dorobon in Taro.
46	** Getting whooped and gagged in Leo.
47	** Lost two of his friends in a cruel attack meant to hurt his spirit.
48	* CallingYourAttacks: An early franchise example in Episode 51, the series finale, when Jack throws Zetton II into the air:
49	-->'''Jack''': '''"ULTRA HURRICANE!"'''
50	* ChekhovsGunman[=/=]{{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The doctor who declared Goh dead in the first episode is the same doctor who declared Aki and Ken Sakata dead in "Ultraman Dies at Twilight".]]
51	* ContinuityNod: Being the first show in the franchise to firmly establish ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' and ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'' as having occurred in the same universe, ''ReturnOfUltraman'' begins a franchise-long trend of referencing the events of its predecessors.
52	** Detton from episode 3 is also referred to as the brother of Telesdon from the original series considering the same suit is used with a different head.
53	** Kingsaurus III from episode 4 is referred to as "The Third" as he is the third "king" monster of the franchise (after Red King from the original series and Eleking from ''Seven'').
54	** One episode has MAT training their marksmanship on cardboard cutouts of kaiju from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''.
55	** The reappearances of Alien Baltan and Zetton build upon the events of ''Ultraman''. In the former case, the Baltan in question is the son of the original from episode 2 of the 1966 series.
56	** The plot of a certain two-part episode is similar to Episodes 37 and 38 of [[Series/UltraSeven the previous show]].
57	** [[Series/{{Ultraseven}} Seven]] once flew into the Sun to recharge, successfully. When Jack did it, [[GravitySucks it didn't work out]].
58	* ContinuityReboot: Sort of a complicated example of this. The original concept was for a SequelSeries, starring the original Ultraman returning to Earth. (An [[TheArtifact artifact]] of this being that Jack wouldn't actually get the name "Jack" for another decade.) However, during production they decided to bring back the previous Ultramen. ''Series/UltraSeven'' had been a ContinuityReboot with no plot connections to the original ''Ultraman'', but this series establishes a continuous timeline that also retcons ''Ultraman'' and ''Ultraseven'' to have taken place in the years they aired rather than [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the 1990s and 1980s respectively]], and established the "Ultraman Universe" for the first time. (Though because Ultraman and Ultraseven had originally been standalone series, many years later the ''Series/HeiseiUltraseven'' series would [[AlternateContinuity continue the Seven-only continuity]], and ''Manga/{{Ultraman}}'' would continue the Original Ultraman continuity.)
59	* CouchGag: Like ''Series/Ultraman'' before it, this show's opening sequence lists the name and description of the MonsterOfTheWeek/alien appearing in an episode, while "Monster Island SOS" has a clip of kaijuu Dangar with its name/description superimposed on the screen. The following episode goes back to the former style.
60	** "Ultraman Dies At Twilight" only credits Black King, while "When the Ultra Star Shines" only credits Alien Nackle.
61	* CueTheSun
62	** Goh's conversation with Ultraman Jack at the end of the first episode, set to a sunrise on a mountain top.
63	** Jack's defeat against Gudon and Twin Tail (beginning of episode 6).
64	** Alien Knackle and Black King's double-teaming Jack, ending at sunset with a couple of vessels taking a crucified Jack away (episode 37).
65	* CurbStompBattle: Jack vs. Alien Knackle + Black King (he turns this around on them later). Before that, Jack vs. Gudon and Twin Tail.
66	* CreepyChild: Teruo, the alien boy from episode 31, the same one who turns the Ultra Bracelet on Ultraman Jack. He was so devious, even Captain Hibiki wouldn't believe Goh when he first became suspicious of the kid. All the same, [[spoiler:Hibiki saved the day.]]
67	* DarkReprise: A couple of them in "Ultraman Dies at Twilight": one is a sad version of "The Ultraman who Rises at Twilight"; the other is "Pinch Fight" (begins when Alien Knackle appears during the fight at the end), whose bassline [[RewatchBonus features the same melody]] (about 40 seconds in).
68	* DarkerAndEdgier: Although not actually tonally darker than ''Series/UltraSeven'', the characters reacted to events around them far more realistically than previous Ultra series.
69	* ADayInTheLimeLight: Episode 11 gives focus to MAT member Kishida due to learning about his military father having a dark history with mustard gas. While Minami gets to shine in episode 25 when he reveals he was a quiet bullied child and bonds with a similar one. In Between a Devil and an Angel gives a strong focus on Ibuki. While Oka wasn't exactly the star and hero of The Targeted Woman she was given a little more focus than usual. In the pen-ultimate episode Ueno is given some limelight as he struggles to find out how and why his mentor died while protecting his friend.
70	* DeusExMachina: The Ultra Bracelet was this in episode 40, after Jack lost to Snowgon. Ultra Seven was this in Episode 18, when he delivered it.
71	* DiabolusExMachina: Aliens Knackle and Bat, as well as Bemstar.
72	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Jack in episode 23 as he destroys the planet eating cloud Vacuumon by going inside of him and using the Ultra Bracelet to chop him up (causing him to explode of course).
73	* DoNotAdjustYourSet:
74	** Alien Knackle jammed communications at the M.A.T. base and showed his true face to M.A.T. this way in episode 38.
75	** Beakon would broadcast plane crashes caused by its own EM interference.
76	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In episode 37, Goh jumped off the roof of a hospital, only to transform as he fell. Otherwise, it looked like he was trying to kill himself.
77	* DramaticTimpani: Examples are not limited to: the end of the opening theme song, at the moment Goh leaves the hospital to fight Black King in Episode 37, and when Jack fights Alien Knackle and Black King in the following episode.
78	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Despite being the FranchiseCodifier...
79	** The first few episodes are somewhat on the fence regarding whether Jack is the OG Ultraman, or a different character altogether, until episode 17 gives Jack his iconic Ultra Bracelet and start differentiating the characters apart.
80	** Jack's first onscreen decapitation (on Sadola) is done with the Ultra Slash, an attack associated with Ultraman OG, while in later episodes if Jack needs to dismember / decapitate a monster he'll use his trusty bracelet instead. Jack wouldn't use his Ultra Slash for the rest of his live-action appearances (barring video games featuring Jack) until ''Series/UltraGalaxyFightTheAbsoluteConspiracy''.
81	** The final episode has Ultraman Jack forbidding his host, Hideki Go, to transform out of concerns over fighting Zetton. No such instances would happen later in the entire franchise.
82	* EldritchAbomination: Vacuumon, a cosmic horror that seems more like a living mass of darkness than a monster. It [[PlanetEater roams the universe, devouring every planet in its path]]].
83	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode has one for Jiro Sakata. When he hears about Takkong and Zazahn, he run into his brother's shop, gets the largest wrench he can find, and runs toward the rampage.
84	** Hideki Goh gets one of his own when he goes after Jiro, then saves a boy and his dog in a collapsing building.
85	%%* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first episode, balancing drama, action, and comedy.
86	* EvilDoppelganger: Hideki Goh had one in Episode 10 of ''Series/UltramanAce''.
87	* EvilTwin: The plot of episode 49 with the Mystellar brothers.
88	* EyeLightsOut: The hero had this happen to him a few times.
89	* FantasticRacism: Said about Ultraman Jack in Ep. 37:
90	-->''"Not quite human, not quite alien... He's a freak!"''
91	* FirstEpisodeResurrection: [[Franchise/UltraSeries On par for the course...]]
92	* FlawExploitation: Alien Knackle [[spoiler:had Aki and Ken Sakata killed]] to push Ultraman over the edge and force him into a fight he couldn't win.
93	* GravitySucks: Ultraman Jack lost his initial fight with Bemstar. [[MythologyGag He flew into the Sun to recharge]], [[Series/UltraSeven just like his predecessor did one time]], but the Sun's gravity pulled him in. Fortunately, Seven saved him.
94	* HeroOfAnotherStory: Ultraman and Ultraseven, both Ultras in "When the Ultra Star Shines" and the latter in "Ultraseven arrives"
95	* HeroicBSOD: Goh had such a moment in Ep. 37 [[spoiler: after the deaths of Ken and Aki, which is ''precisely'' what Knackle intended]].
96	* HeroicSecondWind: Inspired by Seven and Ultraman's rescue, Jack stands up and delivers a CurbStompBattle to Black King and Alien Knackle.
97	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: In-universe and meta-example. [[WhamEpisode Episodes 37 & 38]] take place around Christmas (Jiro wishes "Merry Christmas" to Goh at one point), and aired Dec. 17 and 24 in 1971 (Christmas Eve in America) [[note]]Although Christmas is a big deal in Japan for shoppers, New Year's Day is the preferred holiday. [[/note]] Now it wouldn't be hard to picture just how miserable Goh and Jiro were...
98	** Turns out Christmas in Japan holds special meaning for ''couples'', especially ''sweethearts''. Poor Goh.
99	* HumansAreBastards: Episode 33 featuring benevolent alien call Meits, who came to Earth for observation. He took care of an orphan boy, who often got bullied by villagers. When the boy was accused of being an alien, he showed up to protect him and got beaten to death. You can't blame Goh for just standing there and watch as the alien Muruchi, previously trapped in a pocket dimension of Meits's psychic, caused havoc on the town.
100	* IceQueen: Snowgon
101	%%* IdiotHero: Goh was this in episode 2, acting like he was all that, long before he had control over his transformations. His pride got him fired.
102	* InjuredLimbEpisode: Jack defeats Robonez early in one episode, but gets his arm chewed by the kaiju in the process, leaving behind an injury on Goh which sticks around. In fact, Alien Messie, the master of Robonez, exploits this in the penultimate battle near the end by grabbing and squeezing at Jack's injured arm!
103	* KansasCityShuffle: The BigBad's plan in episode 37 from Goh's point of view, until his BSOD.
104	* MacGuffin:
105	** Satan-Z (Saturn-Z?) in episodes 37 and 38.
106	** The Monster Sonar in "Monster Island SOS"
107	* MeaningfulEcho: From Episode 37
108	-->'''[[spoiler:Aki:]]''' Don't worry. I'll get the best watchmaker on the case right away.
109	* MidSeasonUpgrade: The Ultra Bracelet, introduced in episode 18, greatly boosts Jack's combat options and allows him to swiftly defeat the nigh-unbeatable Bemstar. Given how early in the genre's history this occurred, it's a possible candidate for the TropeMaker for mid-season upgrades in Toku shows.
110	* MsFanservice: Aki Sakata. And briefly, Yuriko Oka.
111	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: An ''object'' for a change. Saturn-Z, or "Hell on Earth", an explosive compound 6000 times more powerful than nitroglycerin. Created by humans for peaceful purposes (like blowing up mountains along western Japan to produce a cooler climate across the archipelago), coveted by Knackle aliens for their planned invasion of Earth.
112	* {{Narrator}}: [[Series/UltramanTaro Akira Nagoya]]
113	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Japanese army in episode 13, where they attack Seamons against MAT warnings. This angers Seagorath, who almost immediately causes a tsunami and floods Tokyo. They do this again in the next episode, which ends up prompting the two to create a tornado.
114	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
115	** Goh saves Jiro, a second kid, and a dog from Zazahn and Takkong. For his trouble, he gets pinned down in a cave-in, dies (temporarily), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his favorite race car is burned down to honor him.]] On the other hand, [[SubvertedTrope Ultraman Jack revived him, and he joined MAT]].
116	** A very dark example is the death of [[spoiler:Aki Sakata, as she was on her way back from having Goh's watch fixed at the jeweler's when Alien Knackle and his mooks grabbed her, threw her in a car, terrorized her, and dragged her as she tried to jump off the moving vehicle. Not to mention, Ken was run over as he tried to stop them.]]
117	** In "Monster Island SOS", Minami flew to New York on a mission to deliver the [[MacGuffin Monster Sonar]] instead of Goh[[note]]Captain Katoh had originally ordered Goh on the mission[[/note]], who was going on a hiking trip with Jiro and Aki. Then, his plane crash landed on the titular island in the Pacific. When Goh flew in to rescue him, Goh himself crash landed as well.
118	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Knackle and Black King give Jack one, spending several minutes brutally beating him unconscious. Notably one of the few times an Ultra has lost by being beaten so badly they're physically incapable of fighting back, rather than running out of time and reverting to their host.
119	* NoSell: Against Bemstar (before he got the Ultra Bracelet) and Black King (''with'' the Ultra Bracelet!). Speaking of which, in Episode 31 the Ultra Bracelet acted up and attacked Ultraman Jack.
120	* NotHimself: In Episode 48, Yametaras spread some kind of spore that had all of MAT in a daze, not caring about anything or having the energy to do anything. [[PaintingTheMedium Even the MAT theme]] [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand was playing slower and slower]] and Jack was lethargic, too!
121	* OurHeroIsDead:
122	** Episodes 37 -- [[spoiler: Ultraman Jack has been defeated by Black King and Knackle, complete with EyeLightsOut as two of Knackle's spaceships have the hero's motionless body paraded throughout Tokyo, announcing to Earthlings his intent to have Jack executed the next day. But luckily Ultraman and Ultraseven comes to Jack's rescue on the next episode]]
123	** Episode 40 -- [[spoiler: Jack gets frozen alive by the monster Snowgon's Ice Breath, and the monster proceed to rip the hero limb-from-limb. Thankfully the Ultra Bracelet has a reserve energy charge, allowing Jack to pull himself together]].
124	** Episode 51 -- [[spoiler: In the final episode, Hideki volunteers to pilot a malfunctioning Arrow-1 against the last two monsters, Alien Bat and Zetton. The plane ends up being shot down and exploding with Hideki on board, as Hideki transforms into Ultraman Jack, but none of the MAT Team are aware of the fact and believes Hideki had indeed perished]].
125	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The alien monster Draculas in episode 36, it possesses the corpse of a woman (dubbed "Vampire Woman") and Jack even kills him by impaling him in the heart with a lance from the Ultra Bracelet.
126	* PutOnABus: AFatherToHisMen Captain Katou in Episode 22. Captain Hibiki, his replacement, was more strict and stern.
127	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ken Sakata gave a minor one to Goh in Episode 2 for being suspended after Takkong reappeared. Ueno gave one to Goh for quitting MAT in Episode 5.
128	* RecycledSoundtrack: There's a few themes from ''Series/UltraSeven'' used throughout.
129	* RedShirt
130	** [[spoiler:The crew of the M.A.T. Space station in episode 18.]]
131	** Goh was this to his teammates in the last episode, but Jiro and Rumiko got to say goodbye to him afterwards.
132	* ResignInProtest: Goh in Episode 5, after Staff Officer Kishida ordered MAT to drop a bomb on Gudon, with no regard to the five people trapped in a shopping center building collapse (Aki was one of them). Earlier in the episode, Goh had been suspended for three days due to disobeying an order.
133	* {{ReTool}}: The series took a turn toward sci-fi and alien threats beginning with "Ultra Seven arrives".
134	* {{Retronym}}: The protagonist was originally meant to be the original Ultraman. When it was retconned that he was a different Ultrabeing, he was referred by a series of nicknames such as the "New Ultraman" or "Ultraman II" before the name Ultraman Jack was officially decided years after the fact.
135	* RewatchBonus: "Pinch Fight" (featured in "Ultraman Dies at Twilight") uses [[DarkReprise the melody from "The Ultraman who Rises at Dawn" as the bassline]] (about 40 seconds in).
136	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Aki and Ken Sakata. Ken Sakata's actor, Shin Kishida later appeared in ''Faiyaman'' and narrated ''Series/UltramanAce'', both shows from Tsuburaya.]]
137	* ScareChord: Used every now and then, a classic example is [[spoiler:when Aki sees the face of one of her kidnappers]] in Episode 37.
138	* SinisterGeometry: Priz-Ma in episode 35 complete with drug inducing powers.
139	* TheSoCalledCoward: [[spoiler: In "When the Ultra Star Shines", Captain Hibiki, under alien MindControl, accuses Goh, who just returned from the crucifixion ordeal in space, of hiding when Black King attacked Ultraman. Goh is taken outside to stand before a firing squad, and would have been shot if Oka hadn't gotten suspicious of her teammates and pulled a BigDamnHeroes on them, knocking Hibiki unconscious.]]
140	* SpecialGuest: Real-life kickboxer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadashi_Sawamura Tadashi Sawamura]] makes a brief appearance as himself in episode 27, when Goh and a kickboxer he's coaching visit a gym where Sawamura also happens to be training.
141	* SpoilerTitle: [[spoiler:"Series/UltraSeven Arrives!" obviously gives away Ultraseven's BigDamnHeroes moment. Played with in "Ultraman Dies at Twilight", in that Jack technically doesn't die but is still left on the brink of death.]]
142	* {{Stellification}}: Magnedon and Stegon are turned into a series of constellations after their defeat. The former is done because it was a NonMaliciousMonster, while the latter is because several children pleaded for Jack to hold back from killing it.
143	%%* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rumiko to Aki.
144	* SwissArmyWeapon: The Ultra Bracelet, which can serve among other things: as a mirror (against Paragon); a spear (against Draculas and Bat); or a boomerang not unlike the Eye Slugger (against Bemstar). It could even [[spoiler:put Jack back together after Snowgon tore him to pieces]].
145	* SymbioticPossession: Started out just like in ''Ultraman'', but the longer Goh was a host, the more the two beings merged into one, so they became inseparable at the end of the show. Hayata's own situation was Retconned in one of the movies to be similar to Goh's.
146	* TakeAThirdOption: To paraphrase, "We'll drop the bomb on Gudon ''after'' we rescue the five victims at the shopping center." From Epiosde 5.
147	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Its name was "The Ultraman Who Rises at Twilight" and came in at least three versions: vocal (rare and unused in the show proper); an instrumental march; and the better-known, shorter instrumental version (played in a lower key; also used in episode previews). A fourth version (slow with a trumpet solo) was played occasionally at the aftermath of a fight.
148	* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: Alien Knackle studies, not just Ultraman or even Hideki Goh, but MAT as a whole, to further his alien invasion agenda.
149	* TragicKeepsake
150	** [[spoiler:Goh's watch, which Aki had taken to the watchmaker that day to get a new band for it; she is clutching it and gives it to Goh as she is dying after Alien Knackle's kidnapping and vicious attack. No word on how long Goh carries it after the episode in question.]]
151	** The shirt Aki bought for Goh in Episode 5 ''[[SubvertedTrope almost]]'' became this.
152	** Averted with Goh's car at the beginning of the show. The Sakatas burned his race car down as a DueToTheDead when they thought he'd been killed.
153	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The previews for "[[SpoilerTitle Ultraman Dies at Twilight]]" and "When the Ultra Star Shines" (especially the former) give away the plot and more than a few surprises.
154	* TransformationSequence: Somehow Ultraman Jack (aka "Shin Man" or new "Ultraman") started it from within, until Goh learned to do it spontaneously. Looked like Jack was always in control, to the point that Goh couldn't transform in front of Alien Bat as the "New Man" could sense the danger it entailed.
155	* TransformationTrinket: None, Jack is the only Ultra with a human host in the entire franchise that had no transformation item.
156	* WeddingSmashers: [[spoiler:Rumiko dreamed she was in the middle of her wedding to Goh, with MAT (in traditional garb) and Jiro as guests, when somebody whispered in Captain Hibiki's ear, and everybody but Jiro [[FlungClothing tore off their wedding garb to reveal their uniforms]] and marched off on the Captain's order. Rumiko runs after Goh. Alien Bat appears and she screams, [[CatapultNightmare only to wake up in a sports stadium, where Alien Bat had her and Jiro prisoner.]]]]
157	* WhamEpisode: 1 (Goh's life has a new meaning), 2 (Goh gets a swell head and gets fired from MAT), 18 (Ultraman Jack has a new weapon, and [[ReTool the show goes into a Sci-Fi direction]]), 37 ([[spoiler:Ken and Aki are killed]]).
158	* WhamShot:
159	** Jack merging with Goh
160	** [[spoiler:Aki's death]]
161	** Jack drifting into the sun, too weak to fly, when suddenly [[Series/{{Ultraseven}} a familiar figure]] (cued by a certain theme song) flies up and saves him.
162	* YouAreNumberSix: Hideki Goh is MAT member # 6 and a ''SixthRanger''.

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