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Heller Empire

The main antagonist in the final arc of The Ultraman, from episode 37 to episode 50. Lead by the namesake Heller, it was a group of 3,000 Ultra People of U40 who follow Heller's ideals of abandoning their Ultra forms over immortality. Due to the perverted nature of this, they were banished to the depths of the Dark Nebula for their actions. They returned 10,000 years later with an amassed army fleet, invading their original home planet as revenge for their initial banishment while seeking to expand their universal conquest to even the planet Earth due to Joneus' presence on it.

As a whole

• All There in the Manual: The U40 people with Ultra forms are called as Ultra Humanoid. Although not mentioned in the series, the 2013 Tsuburaya encyclopedia stated that Heller and the rest of his followers who abandon their Ultraman forms are called as Anti-Ultra Humanoid.
• Big Bad Ensemble: You would think that a total of 3,000+ banished people of U40 would form this kind of army, right? Apparently the Heller Army even conscripted a number of alien races into their ranks and tricked a few innocent aliens to fight for their cause.
• Cool Starship: Being former U40 citizens, the Heller Army moves about and commence their attacks by using combat warships.
• Evil Counterpart: A self-inflicted example, the Heller Army are originally U40 citizen themselves, thus making it a case of the U40 Ultras fighting their former comrades (and possibly their flesh and blood) to reclaim their planet and liberate the entire universe from Heller's grip.
• Fallen Hero: The members of Heller Empire were originally U40 citizens who share their believes with Heller regarding immortality. It only gets messier from that point that it eventually became a full-scale civil war 10,000 years later.
• Revenge: The army invaded Planet U40 as a retribution for being banished into the dark nebula in 10,000 years prior to the series.

Heller

Heller

Voiced by Tamio Oki

First appearance: Crisis of the Ultra Planet U40!!

The main antagonist of The Ultraman since episode 37 and the de facto leader of Heller Empire and its armies. After being banished into the dark nebula with his 3,000 supporters, Heller sworn to have his revenge by building his empire. After invading his former home planet, Heller decided to expand his conquest to the entire galaxy by invading countless planets, with Earth as his next target due to Joneus' presence over there.

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• Ambition Is Evil: His initial goal was to only invade Planet U40 as a revenge, but he expanded his conquest to conquer other innocent alien planets and forcefully conscript some of the alien forces under his leadership.
• Big Bad: He is the de facto ruler of Heller Empire and is effectively the major villain in the series.
• Dark Is Evil: His black uniform only serves to complement his presence as a tyrant ruler.
• Dirty Coward: Has the gall to ditch his army the instant Joneus has him cornered.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He was killed after being left out in his Heller City as it is falling and crashing to the ground.
• Evil Is Petty: Banishing him and his 3,000 followers would result in him conquering their former homeworld back after 10,000 years.
• Evil Old Folks: He is probably at least a few years older than Joneus with the added 10,000 years of his banishment, still energetic enough to become a galactic conqueror.
• Fallen Hero: Although having long discarded his Ultra Humanoid form, Heller is still considered an evil Ultra on his own right, making him a progrenitor to the real evil Ultras like Evil Tiga and so on.
• Fatal Flaw: Overconfidence. He trapped the Great Sage into a data disk and exploited the Ultra Mind as a power source to his turret while gloating that he has the advantage in the battle. What he fails to realize is that Joneus and the other great 7 Ultras were proven stronger beyond his defenses and his own forces many times. When Joneus managed to attack his entire Heller City, it signals Heller into making an exit, even if it means abandoning his own supporters.
• Faux Affably Evil: At first glance he looked like a normally composed dictator, but when things gone south, he was quick to drop this facade.
• Galactic Conqueror: His current position in the Heller Army, predating even the currently famous Ultraman Belial.
• Immortality Immorality: For someone who claims to shed his Ultraman form over immortality, Heller has degraded himself into a tyrannical ruler and conqueror.
• It's All About Me: The entire Heller Empire exist to only satisfy Heller alone. He even orders the attack on Earth and other planets despite their zero involvement in his banishment, all for the sake to throw his tantrum over being banished from his home world prior.
• Knight of Cerebus: The first half of the anime lacked a major antagonist, but by the second half and his army making their debut in episode 37 fits the mold as a more serious threat Hikari and Joneus face.
• Lack of Empathy: He unleashes a full scale attack on Earth after fearing that mankind would team up with the U40 Ultras to stop him, killing as many innocents along the way. He even extends this callousness to his own soldiers, treating them as cannon fodder just to satiate his ego.
• Names To Run Away From Very Fast: His name is Heller, as in he and his army bring a metaphorical "hell" in their conquests.
• Narcissist: His desire for immortality makes him a malignant example. On top of that, he has a clear Lack of Empathy and sees his own army as his expendable and will gladly abandon them when he's out of options.
• Never My Fault: Heller blames the entire U40 population for his exile. Not surprising, he invaded the planet in retribution and desire for power and conquest, and then takes his frustration further towards Earth.
• Orcus on His Throne: He simply commands his armies far away from U40 while Royger supervises the attack on Earth.
• The Sociopath: Heller is defined with the following traits of a classic sociopath: ambitious, power-hungry, lack of shame, uncaring for the suffering of others other than his own and won't stop at nothing until he got what he desired.
• The Unfought: In truth, Heller was never actually a competent fighter, only ordering the rest of his followers to do the deed and was killed when his ejected city crashed and burn on the ground.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He attempts to escape when his entire city is in shambles, but Joneus isn't so merciful in letting him out.

Royger

Royger

Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo

First appearance: Crisis of the Ultra Planet U40!!

Heller's right hand man. He is the de jure leader of the army and oversees the invasion on Earth by setting up base Titan in one of Saturn's moons.

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• Affably Evil: He retains all of his composures in all of his appearances and even shows no sign of fear when facing death.
• The Dragon: To Heller.
• Evil Old Folks: Looks the part of it, especially with his gray hair. Do note that at that time, his voice actor Ryuzaburo Otomo is still in his late 20's.
• Face Death with Dignity: He purposely stayed behind in the ruined Titan base while gloating to Joneus that Amia was kidnapped and transported to Heller. All while being aware that his death is ahead and he has none the worse for fear.
• Manipulative Bastard: He manipulates innocent aliens to do the Heller Army's deeds to, best shown tricking an alien boy and an alien hunter into fighting Joneus.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is also pronounced in Japanese in the same way as the Lloighor creature from the Cthulhu mythos.
• Not So Above It All: He would take the time to caress Monki instead of immediately killing it, only doing so when the little monkey try to escape.
• Would Hurt a Child: As if manipulating a young alien into having his monster attacking Joneus, Royger soon kidnapped the boy's monster into a brainwashed servant and had his servants attempted to shoot the boy defenseless.

Heller's Soldiers

Heller's Soldiers

Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba, Minoru Inaba, Ken Yamaguchi, Masashi Hirose, Yusaku Yara, Toru Shinagawa, Hajime Koseki, Satoshi Ogiya, Toshimasa Ueda

First appearance: Crisis of the Ultra Planet U40!!

Lower ranking soldiers of the Heller Army.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Most of them are only shown fitted with the armor, with their real faces obscured.
• Ace Custom: High ranking soldiers wear red colored armors to distinct themselves.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: As revealed in Ultraman Taiga voice drama, one of these soldiers were in fact Ultraman Titas' birth parents. They spirited their son to U40, wanting Titas to have a normal life unlike them.
• Faceless Goons: Most of them obscure their faces with horned helmets. Selected high ranking officers can choose to remove the helmet.
• Human Aliens: Being former U40 residents, they are naturally humans in their original looks.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Like most television mooks, they hardly ever hit their targets with their blasters.

Heller Army's combatants

Gumons

First appearance: Crisis of the Ultra Planet U40!!

The first monster to be deployed by the Heller Army, it was sent to intercept and prevent the Science Guard Party from ever recovering the battleship Ultria.

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• Breath Weapon: Exhales fire.
• The Juggernaut: The monster proves to be a challenge for even Joneus, requiring the firepower of Ultria to reduce it to pieces.
• Mighty Glacier: Despite being a for-legged monster, it has a greater brute strength compared to Joneus himself.

Hellcat

First appearance: The Targeted Giant Warship Ultria

After the Ultria was utilized as the Earth Self-Defense Army's forces, Royger decided to employ the help of their top assassin. At the same time, a space shuttle returned one year earlier from its intended schedule, where its crew members were discovered to have died, all except for a kitten. Unfortunately said kitten is appears to be more than what it initially seemed as.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Disguises itself as a feeble kitten to unsuspecting victims before it turned into a monster to feed on their life force.
• It Can Think: Be it as a kitten disguise or its true monster form, Hellcat is actually intelligent enough to prey on its targets.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Hellcat.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Hellcat has the ability to devour human life forces away from them.
• Professional Killer: Said to be the Heller Army's top assassin.
• Sizeshifter: Hellcat's true form is 88 meters, but it can still change its size to the height of an average bigger felines (lions, tigers, etc.) on Earth.

Orolaan/Re-Orolaan

Orolaan

Re-Orolaan

First appearance: The Boy who Brought Along a Monster

The Pet Monstrosity under the care of Alien Opernicus Fedelico. The two were tricked by Royger into attacking Earth under the assumption that his planet would by destroyed by Joneus. When Orolaan retreated from Joneus' fight, the monster was kidnapped by Royger's forces to be transformed into a more feral form against its will.

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• Achilles' Heel: Literally; Orolaan doesn't like the underside of its front right feet to be touched, deeming it sensitive. Fedelico relay it to Hikari in his final moments.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Royger had his men kidnapped Orolaan from Fedelico and convert it into a feral monster.
• Cyborg: It was originally an elastic monster that eventually implanted with a mechanical computer to its brain to ensure loyalty to Royger alone.
• An Ice Person: The original Orolaan is capable of exhaling freezing breath. Its power has been doubled after its brainwashing by the Heller Army.
• Mercy Kill: Since Orolaan is beyond saving and Fedelico being dead, Joneus decided that the only mercy left for the monster was to kill it.
• Reforged into a Minion: Through the computer lodged into its brain by the Heller Army. Even without misleading Fedelico and Orolaan, they were intentionally waiting to get their hands on the monster.
• Rubber Man: The original Orolaan has a flexible body texture, allowing it to elongate its neck and turn into a space saucer on its own. This ability was lost after being brainwashed by the Heller Army.
• Spikes of Villainy: Its brainwashed form sported one.

Alien Giro

Voiced by: Yasuo Tanaka, Shigeru Chiba

First appearance: Clash!! Ultraman vs. Ultraman

A group of aliens that formed an alliance with the Heller Army, demanding 1/3 of planet Earth if they succeeded. Their force consist of their own saucers, the monster Giros and finally the fake Joneus robot.

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• Batman Gambit: Their actual plan is to use the fight against the fake Joneus and Giros to lower the Ultria's guard. Once it seemed that the monster was defeated, they would command their fake Ultra to attack the ship itself.
• Engineered Heroics: Using Giros to make the fake Joneus convincingly appearing heroic.
• Hell on Earth: Not Earth actually, but their planet was an equivalent to a hell in outer space, thus seeking new worlds as replacements.

Imit-Ultraman Joneus

Voiced by: Masato Ibu (grunts)

First appearance: Clash!! Ultraman vs. Ultraman

One day on the countryside, the Science Guard Party discovered a monster but by that point, a mysterious Ultra had chase the monster away. After initially assuming that this Ultra may be Elek or Loto, Hikari was shocked to discover him being Joneus. Of course, Hikari correctly deduced that this giant is an impostor of yet another plans made by the Heller Army.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: In the English dub, the fake Joneus is Giros' disguise instead of being a Robot Me of Joneus.
• Beam-O-War: Both the real and fake Joneus settled their last fight by clashing their Planium Rays.
• Engineered Heroics: Plays the part of the hero to Giros' villain.
• Robot Me: A mechanical doppelganger that appears convincingly identical to Joneus on the outside.
• This Was His True Form: Prior to destruction, the fake Joneus turned blue. The English adaptation combined Giros and fake Joneus into the same person. Thus, Giros' defeat was meant to appear as if it was the fake Joneus' true form.

Giros

First appearance: Clash!! Ultraman vs. Ultraman

A monster from Planet Giro that constantly appears in Japan to wreck havoc, only to be stopped by Joneus multiple times. Little did anyone know, their fight was more than what it initially appears to be.

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• Bears Are Bad News: It appears as an Earth bear with "T"-shaped horn, a pair of pincers and bluish fur.
• Engineered Heroics: Plays the villain part for the fake Joneus.
• Playing with Fire: Spits a flame bullet from its mouth.
• Power Pincers: Gilos has huge pincers on his arms, which he uses against Joneus during their fight.
• Shock and Awe: Unleashes 50,000 volts of electricity.
• Spin Attack: Giros unleashed a set of blades on its torso to spin and form a deadly cyclone to attack its foes.

Dostony (Dostony 1, Dostony 2 and Neo Dostony)

In descending order; Dostony 1, Monki-Dostony, Dostony 2, Neo Dostony

First appearance: Monki Became a Monster!?

One day, a capsule was discovered on outer space as the Defense Army brought it to their base, unaware that it was another half of the teleportation device purposely sent by the Heller Army. Using it, the army try to send their Dostony monster to Earth, but the Science Guard Party Monki accidentally get into the device and forcefully combined into Monki-Dostony. To solve this problem, the Heller Army used the Dostony 2 to bring their fused unit 1 back to their base, forming Neo Dostony by separating Monki and replaced it with the aforementioned second unit. The fused monster was quickly sent to attack the Defense Army's base.

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• Blade Below the Shoulder: The Dostony 2 is armed with blade underneath its right arm. This weapon carried on to Neo Dostony.
• Breath Weapon: The Neo Dostony exhales fire.
• Cyborg: Both Dostony units and the Neo Dostony are partially organic and machine. This also apply to Monki-Dostony.
• Fusion Dance: The Dostony 1 and 2 fuse into Neo Dostony. Prior to that, Monki accidentally fused with unit 1 into Monki Dostony.
• Shout-Out: Using teleportation devices to fuse the Dostony units (including an accidental fusion with Monki) sounds like a similar situation for the 1958 version of The Fly.

Alien Sien

Voiced by: Yoshito Miyamura (commander), Minoru Inaba and Shigeru Chiba

First appearance: The Ultria Split in Half!?

A group of aliens collaborating with the Heller Army, they stationed themselves in the asteroid-turned battle station Sciender to send Capera Don monsters to Earth en masse. When the Science Guard Party decided to bring their battle to space, the Sien accepted their challenge.

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• Ambiguously Human: Or rather, Ambiguously Human Aliens, as the Alien Siens appear in a way dressed over their uniforms or that appearance itself being their true forms, due to their human face partially appearing.
• Dark Is Evil: Their appearance, or rather, uniform in that matter.
• Shout-Out: An asteroid turned battlestation isn't unheard of, as the A Baoa Qu in Mobile Suit Gundam would tell.
• Space Station: They used an asteroid-turned-battlestation Siender as their main base of operations.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Despite their best effort to escape after being outnumbered, the Science Guard Party and Joneus aren't that merciful in sparing them.

Capera Don

First appearance: The Ultria Split in Half!?

A horde of monsters deployed en masse to attack Earth, they were encased into a capsule to be launched to major cities around the world. A few of them wouldn't pose a problem for the Defense Army, but Joneus had to fight them for the Science Guard Party to leave Earth.

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• Hybrid Monster: Of two reasons below.
  • Our Centaurs Are Different: Has four legs in addition to a pair of arms and a humanlike torso.
  • Panthera Awesome: Also has a lion head and claws.
• Playing with Fire: Exhales one as a Breath Weapon and even from its tail.
• Zerg Rush: The reason why its a problem to the Science Guard Party is that Capera Dons were sent to attack Earth en masse, forcing them to bring the fight to these monster's source.

Spader

First appearance: The Ultria Split in Half!?

A monster stationed as the guardian of Alien Sien's Siender, facing against the Ultria upon the Science Guard Party's arrival.

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• Breath Weapon: It exhales a laser beam.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Like its master, Spader is also willing to exit the battlefield everything goes south. Not that it ever stopped Joneus from killing it.

Android Unit 201

Voiced by: Shojiro Kihara (Jinda), Minoru Inaba, Ken Yamaguchi and Shigeru Chiba

First appearance: The Bomb-Holding Pig

In order to combat Heller's forces, the Unit 201 from the Earth Self-Defense Army lead by Captain Jinda was sent to assist the Science Guard Party. Little did they knew was that the Unit 201 were actually replaced by android lookalikes sent to sabotage the Science Guard's base.

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• Batman Gambit: The Jinda impersonator set up a clever one by storing an active bomb into Pig's storage compartment (stomach), knowing full well that the robot would be inside Ultria with his teammates in against Golding and exploded, taking the entire team and the Ultria with it.
• Kill and Replace: The androids replace the actual Unit 201 to slip into the Science Guard Party's base undetected.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: "Jinda" revealing the information of his plan to Hikari before executing him would be a nice sendoff if Hikari isn't Joneus' host. When Joneus removed the bomb from Pig, he also used it to destroy Golding.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Their mouths moved when they talked, but after removing the human shell, its revealed that beneath that human masks lies a speaker.

Golding

First appearance: The Bomb-Holding Pig

A space monster deployed by Heller Army around the same time when the android impersonators of Unit 201 were sent to infiltrate the Defense Army base.

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• The Juggernaut: One that is impervious to beam attacks. Joneus had to used a bomb removed from Pig to destroy the monster.
• Multipurpose Tongue: Golding's main weapon is a tongue capable of being used as a whip.
• Rock Monster: His entire body is shaped and as hard as a rock.
• Stone Wall: Its a brutish space monster with rocks for its hide, and is further protected by a force field in against beam attacks.

Gedon

First appearance: Revive, Mutsumi

The Heller Army's final monster on Earth, a robot controlled through one of their space saucers.

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• Achilles' Heel: Attacking the space saucer that controlled Gedon would render the robot haywire.
• Arm Cannon: Like the Guntank its based on, Gedon's arms are a pair of vulcan cannons.
• Cyber Cyclops: Its main source of vision is the eye-like turret on its head, which also fires laser beams.
• Humongous Mecha: Its Boss Subtitles is even Mecha Monster Gedon.
• Shout-Out: Its color scheme and moving about on caterpillar thread is almost a carbon copy of the Guntank in Mobile Suit Gundam.

Hela Umaya

First appearance: To the Ultra Star!! (Part 2: Frontline Base Annihilated)

The Heller Army Titan Base's guardian, sent to intercept Hikari, Amia and Marume when the three invaded the base.

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• Breath Weapon: Exhales fire.
• The Juggernaut: Strong enough to even fight Joneus on equal terms and delay his rescuing of Amia. Elek and Loto had to carry the monster somewhere else.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Hela Umaya, the former sounding similar to hell.
• Uncertain Doom: Its fate remain unclear after Elek and Loto carry the monster somewhere else. Certain magazines assumed that it was Killed Offscreen.

Panther

First appearance: To the Ultra Star!! (Part 3: U Fleet Big Severe Battle)

Heller's pet, it assisted its master in preventing Amia from escaping.

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• Cats Are Mean: Assuming that panthers are extensions from the feline family, then this thing counts.
• Dark Is Evil: Like Heller, Panther is defined by its black colored fur.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A space panther named "Panther".
• Innate Night Vision: Has the ability to see clearly in the darkness and easily ambushed an escaping Amia.
• Panthera Awesome: Befitting it's motif as a space panther.
• Space "X": A space panther with a horn.

Mac Datar

Shown with Joneus, Elek and Loto for visual comparison

First appearance: To the Ultra Star!! (Conclusion: Victory Toward Peace)

The last monster of The Ultraman. Its the final monster to be deployed under Heller's orders to kill the captured Science Guard Party under his execution.

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• Dark Is Evil: Not entirely black, but its dark blue/green coloration is a close one under this tope.
• The Executioner: Being Heller's final pet, Mac Datar was assigned to execute the heroes. But Hikari escapes in time, and halts the monster's descending paws from crushing his allies.
• Final Boss: The last monster to show up in the Ultraman anime series, to be killed by Joneus and his allies.
• The Juggernaut: In addition to its size, Heller wasn't kidding when he declare this monster to be the most powerful in his possession. Even for Joneus, he would require Elek and Loto's help in defeating it.
• Pet Monstrosity: Of Heller, and his trump card against the Ultra heroes.

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