Characters / Neo Ultra Q

Humans

Jin Haibara

The main Protagonist, a counselor and investigator of the strange.

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• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: Unlike the protagonists of either of the previous Ultra Q series, Jin is a counselor instead of a reporter and actively seeks out oddities instead of encountering them as a consequence of his job.

Monsters, Aliens, and Weirdness

Niruwanie

First Appearance: Quo Vadis

A giant and peaceful tree Kaiju. Every thousand years one of them migrates to Ryuga Forest where it merges with the trees, becoming one with the forest.

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• Animal Motifs: While not overt, its pilgrimage to Ryuga Forest is similar to legends about old elephants traveling to an elephant graveyard.
• Elephant Graveyard: Ryuga Forest is essentially this for Niruwanie.
• Gentle Giant: Actively went out of its way to avoid harming humans.
• Treants: It's a Tree Kaiju.

Burezaren

First Appearance: Laundry Day

A friendly monster that was adopted by a family that runs a laundromat. He decided to help run the laundromat after revealing that he can vomit a miracle cleaning fluid. Eventually he became a local celebrity and was eventually approached by the Prime Minister to try and use his powers to clean all of the Earth's pollution. He definitely tried.

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• Expy: Of Pigmon, again.
• World-Healing Wave / World-Wrecking Wave: He attempts to clean the entire world by covering the planet in his cleaning fluid, he either succeeded or just created a big mess.

Alien Vulcanus Joji Haya

First Appearance: The Business Man Who Came From the Sky

An alien business man who came to Earth looking for something that gave off negative energy which his kind find beautiful.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He's looking for something beautiful that he can sell back on his home planet, when he finds that in a human woman he has no qualms about taking her.
• Shout-Out: Possibly to the Vulcans of Star Trek, owing to their species name, stoicism and pointy ears.

Mahler

First Appearance: Pandora's Cave

An evil spirit that was sealed inside a cave long ago. After his prison was found by an old friend of Haibara, he does everything he can to convince the researcher to set him free.

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• Bishōnen Line: When he first appears he's a weird, shapeless thing, with one human eye and a mouth that you can only really see in closeups or when he's talking. As the episode progresses, he becomes more humanoid until he looks like a naked man with oily black skin and hair.
• Humanoid Abomination:
• Sealed Evil in a Can: And boy, does he want out.

Android Epigonoido

First Appearance: The Town That Doesn't Speak

The inhabitants of a small town. No-one speaks but everyone has a strange kindness about them.

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• The Voiceless: They never vocalize, but seem to be able to communicate with each other silently.

Sedegan

First Appearance: The Extremely Smelly Island

A foul smelling but friendly troll like Kaiju who lived alone on an island. When a woman washed up on his island he tried to befriend her, but she was put off by his stench and took some of the sweet smelling plant back to Japan to make perfume. She came to regret this when she returned to the island to see Sedegan killed in a military raid.

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• Evil Smells Bad: Inverted, he smells terrible but is quite a friendly monster.
• Tragic Monster: He only ever wanted a friend.

Gastrobot

First Appearance: The Iron Shell

A large Conch-like species that feeds on geothermal energy. While relatively benign they were exterminated due to concerns that their continued feeding would trigger earthquakes.

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• Non-Malicious Monster: They are not dangerous to humanity but human paranoia that they are causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions leads to them being exterminated.
• The End... Or Is It?: After the last one dies it's shown to have laid some eggs.

Hatha Gi Nord

An alien from the planet Gi Nord who came to Earth to find the lost heir to the Emperor's Throne.

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• Fantastic Honorifics: He is the Emperor's Aide-de-camp.
• Human Alien: Even considering his odd appearance he just looks like a biker.
• Superpower Lottery: Super Strength, Invisibility, Super Senses.

Purana

First Appearance: The Tokyo Protocol

Balloon like creatures that eat greenhouse gases.

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• Bait-and-Switch: We're initially lead to believe that the Purana's feasting on the cities carbon emissions is too good to be true, but at the end of the episode the Purana age and explode leaving behind cleaner air and beautiful foliage.
• The Cameo: One shows up in Mabuze's lab in Ultraman Taiga.

Falmagan

First Appearance:Falmagan and Michiru

A vagrant monster who befriends and falls in love with a paraplegic woman named Michiru.

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• Beast and Beauty: With Michiru.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He decides to fix Michiru's legs even if it means his own life.
• Spell My Name With An S: Falmagan, Flamegon.
• Treants: Looks like a mix of this and a Hobo.

Argos

First Appearance: Argos' Democracy

A giant floating sphere that comes to Earth, interrupting a hostage situation and force the entire country to decide between with lives of all the hostages and terrorists or the life of the prime minister.

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• Democracy Is Flawed: Argos certainly believes this. It put the lives of a group of extremists, their hostages and the prime minister to a vote hoping that someone would come forth and admit the system's flaws.
• Spell My Name With An S: Argos, Algoth.

Soma

A species of prehistoric insect that were found perfectly preserved inside rocks. The Somas were used in an experiment on gifted children to increase their IQs, but two of the test subjects escaped.

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• Been There, Shaped History: Or rather, Will Go There Will Shape History, the end of the episode implies that the escaped children will eventually become instrumental in the development of interplanetary travel.