YMMV / Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial

• Awesome Music: Kenji Kawai comes back to the franchise after his latest participation in Ultraman Nexus to compose an equally amazing soundtrack for the film.
  • One of the most notable pieces is Ultraman Zero's theme (Electric Guitar version), an action packed yet noble and majestic piece that serves to tell you that amazing action is coming next, it was great enough to become Zero's definite theme.
  • Kaiser Ultraman Belial's theme is equally great, being an ominous choir-backed track that serves to establish just how evil and twisted our antagonist is, like Zero's theme it became Belial's definite theme.
  • GlenFire's, Jean-Bot's and Mirror Knight's (heard midway through the track) leitmotifs are all amazing remixes of Fireman, Mirrorman and Jumborg Ace's opening themes, cleverly inserted in the film as they have their moments of glory.
  • Ultimate Zero, the theme that plays for Zero's Super Mode, is perhaps the most epic track of the film, not only showcasing Zero's final triumph over Belial but also Ultraman Noa's grand return to help out the hero in defeating the evil emperor.
• Complete Monster: Belial comes back as Kaiser Belial ("Dark Great Emperor"), as bad as ever. After Zero beat Belial, Belial traveled to another dimension, creating Darklops robotic clones of his archenemy Zero and sending them out to cause havoc. One such clone, Darklops Zero, is the Big Bad of the tie-in movie Ultra Galaxy: Ultraman Zero vs Darklops Zero, making Belial responsible for everything that goes wrong there. Said clone was a sadistic killing machine, much like his creator. In the movie proper, we find out why Belial was making an army of robots—he’s been going from planet to planet in this new dimension, harvesting "emerald" power sources to power his army and himself. Renaming himself "Kaiser Belial" or simply "Emperor", Belial sends his forces to massacre all opposition. Zero tracks Belial to this dimension, even taking a human host to survive, but Belial captures him and gloats to Zero about his plans. Once finished in this alternate dimension, Belial was going to murder all Zero’s friends and then have his Empire destroy everyone in Nebula M78, Zero’s home world, while Zero is forced to watch. Zero escapes and the two have a rematch, with Belial eventually turning into a monster called Arch Belial. Now unstoppable, Belial takes great pleasure in torturing Zero, beating on him and sucking the life out of Zero’s body while gloating about his newfound power.
• Evil Is Cool: You gotta admit that Belial's army is very impressive as is Belial himself.
• Retroactive Recognition: Seven years later, Nao's actor Tatsuomi Hamada would portray Riku Asakura, the human form of the eponymous character of Ultraman Geed.
• Unexpected Character: Ultraman Noa of Ultraman Nexus shows up to revive Zero and give him his Shield of Baradhi as the latter's Super Mode in the form of the Ultimate Aegis. Given how prior to this movie the only relation Nexus/Noa had to the M78 Universe was detailed in a backstory magazine to Ultraman Nexus and the fact that Kenji Kawai, who composed the score of Nexus was the composer of the film.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The entire movie is gorgeous and visually amazing, probably one of the best in Tokusatsu history.

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