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The eye of the lion is shining... Ultraman Leo!

If the sun setting there is me, then the sun tomorrow will be you, Ultraman Leo.
Captain Dan Moroboshi to Gen Ootori, Episode 1

Ultraman Leo is a tokusatsu series that was part of the Ultra Series. It ran from 1974-1975.

The alien Magma, intergalactic slavers, come to Earth to attempt to find more slaves for their expanding evil empire. However, the Ultra Warriors have sent an Ultra to protect the Earth from the Magma — Ultra Seven.

The Magma, along with a slew of monsters, overwhelm Seven and injure his leg. Just as Seven is about to be killed, a red giant comes to save him. Driving off the Magma and defeating the monsters, the mysterious red giant reveals himself to be Leo from planet L77 of the Leo constellation, a neighboring galaxy near the Ultra Nebula M78. Experiencing the same situation as the Ultras, Leo's people (called the Galactic Lion people) also underwent a physical transformation into beings of light.

The Galactic Lion people were subjugated as slaves of the Magma, and being one of the people who has been on the run and fighting the Magma across the galaxy, Leo has tracked them down on Earth.

Ultra Seven, seriously wounded, requests that Leo take his place as the resident Ultra Warrior on Earth, and bestows upon Leo the title of "Ultraman Leo". Ultra Seven, as Dan Moroboshi, agrees to stay with Leo to train him as a mentor. Leo takes on the form of human "Gen Ootori" (a human guise rather than merging with an existing human), and with Dan, joins the M.A.C.—yet another monster-fighting science patrol crew.

Over the course of his assignment on Earth, Leo reunites with his twin brother Astra, who escaped the slave pits of the Magma, and joins with Leo to combat evil monsters. Leo also meets up with the legendary, all-powerful Ultraman King, who comes to save Leo and Astra on a particularly disastrous fight.

The other Ultra brothers also come to help Leo and Astra, and occasionally gets help from the recovering Ultra Seven, proving his worth as an Ultra Warrior.

Currenly streaming on Crunchyroll, along with Ultraman Max, Ultraman Mebius and Ultraman 80.


Ultraman Leo provides examples of the following tropes:

  • A Birthday, Not a Break: Matsuki Momoi's birthday celebration (and her life, as well as the rest of the MAC) was cut short when Silver Bloom arrived.
  • Adaptation Expansion: Ultra Seven became a master to a then-unknown hero.
  • Advertised Extra: Mr. Oomura, whose actor is billed second in the main credits, only appears sporadically. Justified, as he's comic relief.
  • Against the Setting Sun: When both alien heroes promise to help each other fight any and all alien threats against Earth. Dan even compares himself to the setting sun and Leo to the rising sun. A clip appears at the end of the opening credits.
  • Alien Among Us: Gen, whose homeworld is no more, had to adapt to Earth life while taking on a responsibility to protect it.
  • All-Loving Hero: Gen and Dan both love Earth and earthlings, swearing to fight for humans to the last.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: All of MAC seemed to either shun Gen or jump on him over any mistake. The only members of MAC who were friendly to him were Satou from Episode 12 and Suzuki from Episode 3. It's no wonder his friends are civilians.
  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us: A tragic example with the MAC satellite base.
  • Androcles' Lion: Rolan, who took compassion on a lonely bicycle mechanic who pulled a barbed arrow off her paw.
  • Anti-Hero: Gen, but only because his good intentions got the best of him. Dan/Seven also qualifies, due to the Training from Hell he puts Gen through.
  • Anyone Can Die: Except for Gen and Tohru, all other regular characters are gone by Episode 41.
  • Apocalypse How: L-77 gets hit with a Class X (in the opening sequence, no less), and the same fate would've befallen both Earth and M-78 had Alien Babalou's treachery not been exposed and the Ultra Key had not been returned to its rightful place.
  • Arc Number: Seven, as in Ultraseven, the seventh Ultra Show, the seventh Showa Ultra Brother, MAC Team Member # 7 (Gen), seventh (counting the Ultra Brothers) kaijuu-fighting team (MAC), and planet L-7-7.
  • The Artifact: The Ultra Eye, given that Dan didn't get to use it more than once during the series run. Doubles as Memento MacGuffin.
  • Artistic License – Space: Forget tsunamis and earthquakes. That moon where the Ultra Brothers were posted, and the Earth, would have been torn apart when the Land of Light went off orbit. Just coming that close to the Earth (aka reaching the Land of Light's Roche limit) would have been enough.
  • Ascended Fridge Horror
    • Previous shows depicted violence, mayhem, pathos, or even death. However, in just one episode: Leo's home world is destroyed; Ultra Seven is maimed and weakened; Leo is in mortal danger; and even a few civilians die. And that's just for starters...
    • This show took Collateral Damage to new levels. Episode 1 deals with the destruction of Tokyo by flood and kaiju.
  • Asshole Victim: Commander Black had it coming when a group of children come to beat the shit out of him when he holds Tohru hostage. Considering that he has killed a number of innocent people and tries to get on Leo's skin by trying to hurt the kids close to him, the beatdown is well-deserved.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis
    • In Episode 13, Gen was suspended pending an investigation on charges of fatally attacking several people during a foot chase of an alien. By accident, Dan figured the alien himself used his invisibility powers to sneak up on and stab or strike the victims in question (making a distinctive sound), then filmed him in the act, shot him, and had MAC analyze the footage and clear Gen.
    • In Episode 7, Dan threw boomerangs at Gen to prepare him for Leo's upcoming fight against a kaijuu who used a similar attack.
    • In another episode, Gen trained with an imposing machine that reproduced a kaijuu attack.
    • To sum up, Gen's Training from Hell was very well thought out.
  • Ax-Crazy: Commander Black and Bunyo
  • Back for the Finale: Ultra Seven
  • Badass Cape: Leo had the Leo Mantle, which worked like the Ultra Bracelet. Commander Black wore a flowing black cape.
  • Badass Bystander: Occasionally, civilains will do their best partaking in keeping the situation under control while Leo deals with the monster of the day. Special mention goes to the bystanders evacuating children out of a school as Leo fights Silver Bloome and the man who gave up his life saving a baby when Satan Mora collapses a building.
  • Badass in Distress: Gen in episode 50.
  • Badass Normal: At the conclusion of the series, Tohru and his friends, interestingly enough - While Leo contends with Commander Black's final monster, Black End, Tohru leads the charge against Commander Black, ultimately subduing the alien and giving Leo the chance to destroy Black End and Commander Black for good.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Every Ultra has their own fighting style... but Leo will kick everyone's ass at fisticuffs range. Somewhat amusingly, by the time he shows up in Mebius, he seems to have actually become a monk.
  • Batman Gambit: Dan pulled this on Sixth Ranger Traitor Uchida to draw him out.
  • Battle in the Rain:
    • Commander Black calls down a storm for the final fight with Silver Bloome, which makes it all the more atmospheric, sad, and downright terrifying.
    • Leo vs Nova
  • Because You Were Nice to Me:
    • Rolan had a splinter pulled out of her paw by a human, so she befriended him and his son when she turned into a human.
    • The fisherman in Episode 28 was treated to a feast and spared from King Paradai's rampage.
  • Beware the Nice Ones:
    • Tohru and his friends.
    • The Paradai aliens, normally peaceful, only attacked when one of their youngest was bullied and nearly killed.
  • Big Bad: Alien Magma, but he eventually gets killed off by Leo. He's replaced in the last 12 episodes by Commander Black, who is much worse.
  • Big Damn Heroes
    • Leo pulls this in the pilot by saving Ultra Seven. Both Astra and Ultraman King would do this several times in the series. The boys and girls Gen trained pull one in the final battle by beating and stomping the BigBad to death so Leo can kill off his final monster.
    • Leo saving Zero in the Ultra Galaxy Gaiden and it was AWESOME.
    • The Ultra Brothers in Episodes 38 & 39. They don't call that the Ultra Rumble for nothing!
  • Big Brother Instinct: Gen to Tohru and Kaoru.
  • Bilingual Bonus / Gratuitous German: Silver Bloom comes from Silber Blume = Silver Flower
  • Birth-Death Juxtaposition:
    • Dan's metaphor about the setting sun (Dan) and the morning sun (Gen).
    • The Gillas Brothers die, and Kuroshio Island resurfaces (Momoko recovers from her coma, too).
    • Gen's old friend died saving a baby boy, who was unharmed and reunited with his mother.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Alien Vermin in episode 31, MAC Officer Uchida in Episode 36, Alien Mazaras in Episode 37.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Commander Black and his Saucer Beasts are defeated, but that doesn't change the fact that all of MAC are gone and some of Gen's close friends are dead during Black's invasion, except for Tohru. Seven returns to the Land of Light after surviving Silver Bloome's attack, and Gen decides to wander the world as a human.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: Evident from episode 1 onwards. Ultra Seven's leg is literally bent out of shape with bones cracking and everything. The sound effect used was appropriate given the level of violence. Also, see Darker and Edgier below.
  • Book Ends: The series begins and ends with Dan's words of encouragement to Gen in their first meeting:
    • In the first episode: "If the sun setting there is me, then the sun tomorrow will be you, Ultraman Leo."
    • In the finale: "Behold! The sun setting there is me. The sun which will rise again tomorrow... is you!"
  • Boxing Lessons for Superman: Gen's Training from Hell
  • Brought Down to Badass: Seven, once he lost the ability to transform.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": Subversion: Leo and Astra wore what seemed to be their respective names in the L77 language (similar to M-78 script on the Ultra Signs)
  • The Bully: Dan. He pushes Gen too hard in his training and screams at him a lot.
  • But Now I Must Go: Dan in Episode 40, complete with a Dare to Be Badass speech.
  • By the Power of Grayskull!: He yells out, "Leo!"
  • Cane Fu: Dan kept human-sized aliens at bay, split a rock in half and even terrorized (um, trained) Gen a couple of times, with his crutch.
  • Cast from Lifespan: Dan's use (or abuse) of his Psychokinesis power would shorten his life and leave him pale and weakened.
  • Cat Folk: Alien Magma, more so than the Leo Brothers.
  • The Chains of Commanding: Dan's job is very tough. He needs to train a newbie Ultraman, have command authority over a constantly overwhelmed and crippled space military force, deal with the fallout of all his judgment calls, Leo's and his officers', plus he's got PTSD at a level humans can't even imagine. A couple of times he looked like he wished to be out there in giant form instead of Leo.
  • Changing of the Guard: From Seven to Leo.
  • Chekhov M.I.A.: Astra, whom Leo presumed dead after L77 was destroyed, showed up in Episode 22 to save his brother from two kaijus.
    • Seven vanished in episode 40, but appeared in a vision in the last episode.
    • Tohru's mom shows up in Episode 37, but it's actually an impostor. He wasn't taken in, but Kaoru was.
    • Subverted with Uri's mother. She's not Anne of the UG. Or so she claims.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Tohru and his friends are trained early on by Gen so they can eventually grow into Earth's defenders, in the finale they all team up to pummel Commander Black to death when he attempts to use a child as a hostage to get Leo to give up.
  • Cherry Blossoms: Episodes 4 and 51.
  • Clear My Name: Gen in Episode 13. Gen for Astra in Episodes 38 and 39. In Episode 3, Tohru initially thought that Leo killed his father.
  • Cold Snap: Episode 50 is the best known example. Also, Leo vs Blizzard.
  • Colony Drop
    • After Commander Black is killed, his planet falls to Earth in attempted Taking You with Me, but Leo just blows it up.
    • The Land of Light in Episodes 38 and 39.
  • Colourful Theme Naming: Members of MAC include Kuroda (black), Akaishi (red), Aoshima (blue), Shirakawa & Shiraido (white), and Momoi Haruko (pink). All died violently.
  • Commander Contrarian: Gen would oppose any and all plans Dan had in almost every episode. It may have been the main reason for the Training from Hell Dan put him through.
  • Continuity Nod: Music from Ultraseven (the Dark Reprise of "Fight! Ultra Seven" from that show's Ep.39 was Dan's Leit Motif, but then the instrumental march theme came up in Ep. 40 when Dan disappeared in thin air before the MAC station was destroyed and 4 (Dan attacks Alien Tsuruk alone). Also, the Ultra Eye, Seven's teammates, and even M-78 appear.
    • Tohru kept a picture of Kaoru and Momoko (long since dead) in his room. It shows up in the last two episodes.
  • Cool Helmet: MAC members had one with an upper silver/blue piece reminiscent of horns.
  • Cool Old Guy: Dan (older than Gen, though not that much older in human form), also Gen when he appeared on Ultraman Mebius many years later, and the new MAC member from Episode 12.
  • Creepy Child: Pint-Sized Powerhouse alien Uri aka Uringa
    • Mayoko from Episode 45.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle
    • Bunyo (in human form) against a defenseless Leo before freezing and killing him. Previously, Bunyo had picked a fight with Gen and lost.
    • Leo vs. Tsuruk (first fight); Tsuruk against his victims (except Dan, who fought him to a standstill).
    • Seven vs. the Gillas brothers, then Leo vs same opponents (episode 1).
    • Leo vs. Black End (in the beginning).
    • Silver Bloome vs. MAC; Silver Bloome vs. Leo.
    • Ultra Brothers vs. Ultraman Leo himself.
    • Gamelot vs Leo, until Carolyn intervened
    • Commander Black vs Tohru's friends
  • Crucified Hero Shot: Leo flew in a Y-pose, much like Seven. Also, early on Gen had a similar pose when transforming.
  • Crystal Ball: Commander Black's instrument for summoning kaijuu.
  • Da Chief: Dan
  • Dare to Be Badass:
    Dan: "You're Leo. The immortal Ultraman Leo. Don't forget that your life isn't yours to give! Now go!"
  • Darker and Edgier: From the very beginning you can tell this isn't gonna be any ordinary Ultra series. The series eventually ends up becoming a huge "Everybody Dies" Ending fest. You have, among other highlights, a crippled Ultra Seven stuck in human form, people crushed, stabbed, shot, sliced in half, team members dying in combat, the whole team is later killed except for the two main characters (Dan vanishes and gets better), graphic kaiju (alien monster) combat and even the graphic dismemberment of a key character.
  • Darkest Hour: The end of episode 3 and beginning of 4 (Alien Tsuruk), episode 22 before Astra arrived, part 1 of the Ultra Rumble, the first half of episode 40, episode 50 (Bunyo and Commander Black), and Leo's temporary defeat against Black End in episode 51.
  • Death by Genre Savviness: Commander Black. He should have seen a Curb-Stomp Battle and a failed Colony Drop coming on when he took Tohru hostage.
  • Death by Secret Identity: Bunyo, Commander Black, and Gen's old rival Hiroshi. In a subversion, Dan gets a Disney Death instead, only for him to turn up alive later.
  • Death Is Not Permanent: As long as you're not human...
  • Deconstruction: Not to the extent of Ultraman Nexus, but this show deconstructs the Invincible Hero trope, which Seven represented in his own show.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Played with in episode 1. Even though Gen appears first (the Narrator outright said, "He's the hero of this story"), Seven is shown fighting the Gillas Brothers, until he is outmatched and injured and Leo swoops in to save him.
  • Depending on the Writer: The nature of L77 has received several contradictory accounts in multiple medias. Some say everyone on it was an Ultra, others say only Leo and Astra are due to visiting the Land of Light and being mutated by the Plasma Spark, and others say their father and maybe a couple others were for the above reason. There are also contradictory accounts of whether just the Alien Magma and his Gillas that appear in series destroyed it or if it was an entire army of them.
  • Determinator: Both Dan and Gen. Dan never backs down from a fight.
  • Deus Angst Machina: Gen's misfortunes never stop, but he shakes himself up and keeps going.
  • Deus Exit Machina: Ultra Seven; subverted, given Dan's savvy and resourcefulness. Played straight in Episode 40.
  • Deus ex machina: Ultraman King fulfills this role in each of his appearances.
  • Deuteragonist: Captain Dan Moroboshi, with Tohru as the Tritagonist. In episode 40, Commander Black becomes the Deuteragonist.
  • Diabolus ex Machina: Commander Black, and to some extent, Bunyo.
  • Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In the first episode, Gen plays the guitar and sings the first notes of "Ballad for a Starry Sky", intercut with him and Kaoru playing outside while the same song (the soundtrack version) was heard in the background.
  • Did Not Get the Girl: Neither Ultra hero did. Gen lost his to a tragic event. In episode 29, Dan thought he had found Anne, but the woman, who was singlehandedly raising alien child Uri aka Uringa, denied it was her and disappeared at the end with the kid.
  • Digital Destruction: Audio example: Whoever remastered the show for Shout Factory and several streaming channelsnote  added echo and cut-and-pasted musical stingers all over the place, all in an effort to create a pseudo-stereo effect. The end of Episode 1 even overdubbed Ultraman's color timer sound over Leo's.
  • Dimension Lord: Alien Mazaras (a female)
  • Dirty Coward: In the first two episodes, Alien Magma appears and fights when his minions are winning, and disappears when things go bad for them.
  • Disney Death: Happens to a couple of characters...
  • Disappeared Dad: Leo and Astra lost their parents when planet L-77 was destroyed. Mr. Umeda (a single dad) was killed in front of Tohru and Kaoru just minutes into Episode 3. Dr. Miyama died before Gen and Tohru ever met Mrs. Miyama.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Dan refuses Gen's help in Episodes 2 and 4, even though he's in bad shape after using his Psychokinesis powers to the point of exhaustion. He'll even smack Gen around and yell at him.
  • Doppelgänger: Played with Uri's mom, who looked exactly like Anne.
  • Doppelgänger Spin: Alien Flip in Episode 15.
  • Downer Beginning: Planet L-77 blows up in the opening credits and Seven being brutally manhandled by Alien Magma and the Giras Brothers — you get one of, if not the, darkest and most brutal opening scenes in Ultraman history.
  • Dramatic Thunder:
    • Alien Magma in Episodes 1 and 2.
    • Gen had a Heroic BSoD moment in Episode 2, complete with drenching rain, when he realized Momoko was still in critical condition after getting injured during the kaijuu-created tsunami that swept Tokyo.
    • Leo's fight with Silver Bloom is set to this in a torrential downpour.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Many MAC members throughout, civilians in Episodes 1,3,6, and 40. Momoko had a car literally dropped on her in Episode 2, but she (and Kaoru, whom she tried to save) survived.
  • Dynamic Entry
    • Leo introduces himself to Magma-seijin foot-first, going between the twin monsters to do so.
    • Commander Black also pulls this off in a way that likely outdoes Leo's. He introduces himself by wiping out MAC, becoming the first, and to date only Ultra villain to successfully destroy the Ultra's support team, forcing Leo and the JSDF to fight him without any help.
    • Speaking of which, Silver Bloome didn't waste any time wiping out MAC and Gen's friends.
    • Gen is introduced during a gymnastics/martial arts demonstration at the Jounan Sports Center.
    • Seven is introduced during his fight against Red and Black Gillas, kicking one of the kaiju.
    • Alien Magma appeared out of thin air, surrounded by Dramatic Thunder. Too bad it became a Running Gag of sorts given how many times he did it in Episode 2.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Gen and Tohru. They suffer all manner of loss to make it to the end of the show.
  • Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Planet L77 in the Leo constellation.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Most of Commander Black's Saucer Monsters. Only two of them were even humanoid (and one of those was a mercenary).
  • Empathy Doll Shot: Episode 40, with a talking doll no less, after the shopping center was destroyed, killing Momoko, Takeshi and Kaoru.
  • Enfant Terrible: Uri, whose behavior got worse as giant Uringa.
  • Establishing Character Moment:
    • The Big Damn Heroes moment from Episode 1 is this for Leo. He may not have been the best warrior, but he didn't back down easily.
    • The initial meeting and vow to fight together is this for Gen. The moment also helps in establishing Dan's mood and frame of mind in contrast to Series/Ultraseven.
      • Gen's second fight with the Gillas Brothers (the cliffhanger for the first episode) and the arguments with Dan prior to and after show Gen's inexperience and impulsiveness.
    • Commander Black first shows up in Episode 40 walking nonchalantly in the midst of the destruction he caused on Earth. Then he screams, "Siver Bloom, enough!" and cackles.
    • Bunyo appears after Commander Black summoned what he thought was one of his living UFOs, making strange faces, cackling, and saying "I'm not strong, but I'm clever!" He produces a pair of antennae from his head, detecting Ultraman Leo's presence and correctly guesses Gen is Leo. Then when Gen jogs by, Bunyo pretends to be hurt and attacks Gen when he stops to help.
  • Establishing Series Moment:
    • Seven's broken leg by the Gillas Brothers followed by Leo's Big Damn Heroes moment.
    • Commander Black's attacks in Episode 40.
  • "Eureka!" Moment: Dan (and later Gen) in Episode 13 discover the key to predicting Alien Vibe's moves (sound) by accident.
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave: MAC (except Dan, who just vanished) and Gen's True Companions (only Tohru survived).
  • Evil Doppelgänger: Alien Babaloo impersonated Astra to steal the Ultra Key.
  • Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: "Battle! The Leo Brothers vs. The Ultra Brothers", "When Seven Dies! Tokyo Submerged", "The Big Sink! The Last Day of the Japanese Archipelago", "MAC Annihilated! The Flying Saucer Is a Living Organism"
  • Expy: There are so many similarities between Leo and Seven. Also, Leo and Bruce Lee, as well as Leo and Superman with a little Sonny Chiba thrown in.
    • Gen's actor's name is Ryuu (=dragon) Manatsu.
  • Eye Scream: Black Terrina's shells would stick to people's eyes. Even Gen wasn't spared, and Leo sported an injured eye.
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: Not just kaiju and aliens this time...
  • First-Episode Twist: By the first ten minutes we know Gen Otori is Ultraman Leo, the reason he's on Earth, Dan Moroboshi is the captain of his own team, and cannot transform into Seven anymore.
  • Flipping the Bird: Tohru makes the "eyelid" gesture at Gen at the end of Episode 5. Played for Laughs.
  • Friend to All Children: Gen, who found out just how much children loved him in return at the end.
  • From Hero to Mentor: For most of the first forty episodes, Dan Moroboshi/Ultraseven acts as the rigid mentor towards the titular Ultra, putting Gen into a marathon of Training from Hell to learn new techniques every time Leo gets beaten by the Monster of the Week. Leo himself would become Ultraman Zero's mentor during his exile from the Land of Light, and thus now part of the Master-Apprentice Chain that thoroughly developed Zero into one of the Land of Light's heroic Ultras.
  • Game-Breaking Injury / Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Seven's broken leg, leaving Dan stuck in human form once he transformed back, which did not preclude him becoming a Handicapped Badass.
  • Genius Loci: Captain Black's homeworld, Black Star, is sapient. It attempts to Colony Drop earth when Black is killed.
  • Generic Doomsday Villain: Many of the alien invaders from the first half, unlike past shows have no stated motive for attacking earth (like trying to take over or get something from the planet). It just seems like a bunch of serial killers decided to come to Earth to fuck with Leo. They get more stated motivations again in the second half especially with the introduction of Commander Black who has the classic Take Over the World alien motivation.
  • Get A Hold Of Yourself Man:
    • Gen slaps Tohru in Episode 5, since he was acting up due to missing his father.
    • Kaoru was very rude to a little girl in Episode 10 (she was the only girl she knew without a mother), so Momoko slapped her.
    • Dan slapped Gen around often, but when Gen tried to save him from Silver Blume's attack, Dan slapped him so hard he knocked him out. Then, he delivered a Dare to Be Badass speech and vanished.
  • Godzilla Threshold:
    • Dan resorted to his Psychokinesis power when Leo was overwhelmed to the point of defeat.
    • The use of a nuclear ICBM to destroy the Ultra planet in Episode 39.
  • Going Native: Dan thought of himself as an Earthling, and as such was his responsibility to protect Earthlings, as well as being bound by Earth rules. He instilled this on Gen. Gen in turn decided to travel the Earth after his mission is complete, becoming a monk.
  • Good-Times Montage: Gen, Kaoru and Momoko at the end of Episode 10, right after Kaoru got Ron the dog from Gen. The same scene re-appeared halfway into Episode 40 as a reminder of happier times after Silver Bloom killed his True Companions.
  • Good vs. Good:
    • Dan vs Gen are always butting heads.
    • Gen and the rest of MAC are always butting heads.
    • Gen vs a higher up over officer Uchida, or rather, Alien Atlanta.
    • Leo vs the Ultra Brothers, with Leo standing up for Astra, who unbeknownst to him is an impostor.
      • Dan and Gen came to blows over this, making their differences worse.
  • Gut Punch: Seven's leg, the annihilation of MAC, and Leo's death
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Kaiju Kanedoras in episode 5 (vertically), as well as Tohru's father and a MAC team member in episode 3 (horizontally).
  • Happy Fun Ball: Flowers that turn into boomerangs, kaijuus that become pocket-sized, shells that self-attach to their victims and hypnotize them, a china doll that shoot freezing gas, a Japanese rain doll that hypnotizes or kills people and turns giant, and so on.
  • Hate Plague: Thanks to Alien Nova and its poisonous gas
  • Heroic BSoD: Gen and Tohru right after the events in episode 40. Dan in episode 1 after his Shapeshifter Mode Lock. Tohru in Episode 5, due to the death of his father in a previous episode.
  • Heroic RRoD: Seven in episode 1, Leo many times, the best example being the end of episode 3.
  • Heroic Mime: Astra, more so than Leo or Seven. Averted in the Ultra Rumble.
  • Heroic Safe Mode: After a short Heroic BSoD in the opening, Dan prioritizes the safety of Earthlings over Gen's wishes, the lives of his subordinates and individual civilians like Momoko (in Episode 2), or even himself.
  • Heroic Second Wind: Against Black End in the last episode.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Gen's old rival Hiroshi saved a baby's life in episode 48. In an earlier episode, Alien Carolyn took down Gamelot.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Commander Black would have lived to fight another day had he not taken a hostage, especially not one who would fight back and the brother of one of his victims.
    • Antlar from Episode 14.
  • Honor Before Reason: Gen would rather fight a kaijuu or save an individual than finish his training or work as a team.
  • Hope Spot
    • Coming off the Ultra Rumble, Leo and Astra were officially inducted into the Ultra Brothers, MAC was celebrating a teammate's birthday, and everybody was happy, that is until Silver Bloom attacked...
      • As MAC base is being destroyed, Dan yells for everyone to escape in the MACCY planes. It seems like it might work for a few moments... until the monster eats them all whole.
    • Dan thought he had found Anne, though the woman denied it...
    • Gen had settled on Earth after planet L77 blew up, but Alien Magma had other plans...
    • Leo had the upper hand on Black End, until Commander Black took Tohru hostage...
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Dan's commanding officer was so taken by MAC member Uchida and so dismissive of Gen that he nearly died.
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday:
    • Silver Bloom attacks on a MAC member's birthday.
    • Planet M-78 was expected to collide with Earth on January 3rd, just after New Year's Day.
  • Hostage Situation
    • In episode 50, alien Bunyo pretends to be injured to capture Mrs. Miyama, luring Gen to take her place.
    • In the last episode, Commander Black takes Tohru hostage so that Leo won't fight Black End.
  • Hot-Blooded: Gen and a couple of his teammates, especially Aoshima (MAC # 5).
  • Hour of Power: Only 2 min. 40 sec. as opposed to 3 min.... Not that it matters much in practice.
  • Human Aliens/Humanoid Aliens: Dan, Gen, Commander Black, Bunyo, and others.
  • I Can Still Fight!: Gen pulls this stunt a few times (episodes 4 and 39 come to mind) and goes on to save the day. Dan tries this after meeting Gen, and didn't do very well.
  • Idiot Ball: Dan grabbed it with both hands in Episode 29, over a woman and her child! Imagine trying to handle a possible alien threat by himself, as if he was a civilian! He ended up being accidentally shot for his trouble. He was so out of character, he didn't abuse Gen one single time in the whole episode.
  • Idiot Hero: Impetuous and rough around the edges, Gen's actions get him and others hurt (or even killed) unless he listens to Dan and trains to the point of exhaustion.
  • Implacable Mecha: Gamelot and Sevengar.
  • I'm Melting!: Commander Black's death by Zerg Rush
  • Improbable Weapon User: Leo must fight a spear-armed Kettle-seijin at one point, way before he ever meets Ultraman King. He's unarmed and at a disadvantage, so what does he do? Rip some red-and-white smokestacks out of a building, bring them together, magically join them with a chain, and voila — NUNCHUCKS.
    • Dan and his cane.
    • Alien Carolyn rammed herself against Gamelot to destroy it.
    • Gen threw a piece of rebar to scare off Black Dome.
  • Informed Attractiveness: Rolan, "the most beautiful monster in the universe". Actually, she looked like Snowgon.
  • Injured Limb Episode: Ultraseven recevied this in the first episode after losing to the Gillas Monsters. '''SNAP'''
  • It's Personal: Leo wants to kill Alien Magma and the Gillas twins for destroying L-77, killing his family, and nearly killing Momoko. Tohru wants Alien Tsuruk dead for killing his father, after mistakenly blaming Leo. Tohru also has reason to hate Commander Black after Episode 40.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dan Moroboshi, contrasting with his previous Nice Guy stoic characterization.
  • Karmic Death: Black End, killed by the alien device that summoned him, namely Commander Black's crystal ball.
    • Maybe even Commander Black himself. Being separated from his little trinket may have sped up his (literal) meltdown into green goo.
    • The spinning Gillas Brothers, whom Leo defeated with a spinning kick.
  • Killer Doll: In Episode 45, Gen and Tohru fight a china doll that freezes its victims to death.
  • Knight of Cerebus: While the series was quite serious to begin with, Commander Black's arrival makes it even darker.
  • Large Ham: Gen and Dan (both engage in frequent Ham-to-Ham Combat), Bunyo, Alien Babalou, but especially Commander Black.
  • Looks Like Cesare: Commander Black (what is it with Ultramen and creepy humanoids, anyway?)
  • Lyrical Dissonance: The second theme song, much more upbeat sounding than the previous one, says Leo's destroying the forces of evil in anger with his bare hands.
  • Mauve Shirt: Some members of MAC, like Matsuki Momoi, the young lady who was celebrating a birthday when the Space Station was attacked; and Gen's True Companions. The rest of MAC were Red Shirts, (Matsuki's sister Haruko died unexpectedly in an earlier episode) including deaths throughout the show, except the two main characters.
  • MacGuffin: The Ultra Key and the Seven ball.
  • MacGuffin Delivery Service: Ultraman Jack delivered the Seven ball, Dan gave him the Ultra Eye to take back to M-78 for replacement.
  • Made of Iron: Gen suffers all kinds of injuries, yet gets back up to fight every time.
  • Make My Monster Grow: Until Episode 40, aliens did this often, even changing to another form; during the Living Flying Creatures arc, only one alien did this, another was giant-sized all along, with the other creatures hiding as everyday objects until summoned.
  • Manly Tears: Dan in Episode 1, after Leo saved him. Gen did this often.
  • Meaningful Echo: Dan's "rising sun and setting sun" speech from the first episode were words of encouragement in Gen's vision of Ultraseven at the end of the show.
  • Meaningful Name: Ootori = phoenix. Also see the trope example for Seven.
  • The Medic: Triage nurse Mrs. Miyama
  • Meadow Run: Gen's memories of Momoko in Episode 2. Also, the montages of him playing with his friends are shot in the same style. An episode ended with Gen running toward Dan this way!
  • Memento MacGuffin: The Ultra Eye, which burned and partially melted down in Episode 1, when Gen and Dan first met. Many times, Dan pulled it out of his pocket and stared at it whenever the situation became dire. Hideki Goh took it back to M-78 for replacement at the end of Episode 34.
  • Mirror Character: In Episode 8, both Gen and Aoshima disobeyed orders to do what's right. Both got chewed out by Dan.
  • Missing Mom: Toru and Kaoru's mother never appeared on the show. An alien tricked Kaoru one time, passing herself as her mother. And it is revealed that she was long dead.
    • Captain Moroboshi's commanding officer is a widower with a daughter.
    • Seven's mother had been long dead by the time he first arrived on Earth.
    • Gen and Astra are orphaned after planet L-77 was destroyed.
  • The Mole: In Episode 36, MAC member Uchida
  • Mood Whiplash: Compared to Taro. In-universe, episodes tend to start on a happy note, then verge into horror, then straight into tragedy, on to ass-kicking, then back to happy times and so on.
    • Episode 1, for example, jumps from the opening song (about Leo preventing The End of the World as We Know It) to Gen demonstrating his gymnastic and martial arts skills at the Sports Center (set to peaceful music), to Seven fighting the Gillas Brothers (set to foreboding music). By the time Leo arrives, the music is triumphant, but when Alien Magma leaves, the music turns somber...
    • Episode 40, a Tear Jerker, is not for the squeamish...
  • Mythology Gag
    • Hideki Goh wears the same costume when he delivered Sevengar to Dan as his visit to Kohtaro Higashi (along with the Ultra Brothers) in Ultraman Taro.
    • In Episode 9, Tohru and a human-sized kaijuu become friends. The boy is in an amusement park in some kind of trance, and at one point he's floating in mid-air. The pulsating background is the same as the opening credits of Ultraseven.
    • Speaking of Seven, Dan's pose as he lies unconscious after his defeat at the hands of the Gillas Brothers is the same as the pose he made (arms and legs spread out) after his RROD near-defeat against Pandon. In both scenes, the music is identical, the surface he was lying on was very similar, he's wearing a uniform and a helmet both times, and both times Seven shrinks back to human size on-screen (the shrinking effects are different, though).
    • Two heroes swearing to defend the Earth together, one of them the titular Ultraman, Against the Setting Sun? Jack and Hideki Goh did this first!
    • Leo (and later Astra) swooping down in a fiery red ball.
    • Training in human form to defeat a kaijuu after transforming? Jack did it, too!
    • Two Paradai aliens do a mid-air transformation into King Paradai.
    • Kanedoras shoots the horn on top of its head much like an Eye Slugger.
    • At the beginning of Episode 9, suit actors portray Zetton, Hertz and Veron as part of a kids' live show in an amusement park.
    • Sevengar from Episode 34 is a reference to Dan's Capsule Monsters.
    • At the beginning of Episode 3, Mr. Umeda and the kids sing "Koi no Dial 6700", first heard in Ultraman Taro Episode 48 "From a Japanese Nursery Song Monster Doll Festival".
      • Speaking of Taro, the same episode began with very deamlike music, which was recycled as Giro's music in Episode 9.
  • Near-Villain Victory: Many times, as early as the first ten minutes of the first episode!
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands
    • Leo got more energy beam powers after the first 13 episodes, especially after Astra's arrival. In the beginning, he used brute force, improvised weapons, and even a burning kick or two.
    • From Episode 2 onwards, Dan was able to concentrate and generate some kind of aura he used to weaken kaijus. This power (Urutora Nenriki = Ultra Will-Power, a form of psychokinesis) wore him down severely. There was no indication whatsoever in the previous shows that he could do this as Dan.
    • Sometimes, Gen could see aliens even in human form.
    • Ultraman King never uses the same power twice!
    • Leo could sometimes heal kaijuu, such as Giro.
  • Nice Guy: Gen, Takeshi, Mr. Ohmura, a few MAC members not named Aoshima or Shirato...
  • Noble Bird of Prey: Satan Goa, who pecks Leo as he's propping up a crumbling building and sends out smaller versions of itself to attack humans on the street.
  • No Endor Holocaust: Played straight and averted.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: Sevengar, a robot from M-78; Ron, Leo's old pet.
  • Non-Malicious Monster: Giro, Oni-on, Rolan, Remboler, Ron, and even Uri (he was just bored).
  • No-Sell: In Episode 38, Leo tried to kick Ultraman Ace, but couldn't.
  • Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Dan becomes Leo's mentor after Seven was maimed by the Gillas Brothers. Gen fled his dying planet only to have to face the one responsible once on Earth; then, he takes over Earth's large scale defense with MAC in a support role. Gen ends up fighting alone after Episode 39. Dan's role as a mentor is over at that time. Tohru's True Companions fill the role of parents after the loss of his father; later, Gen and the Miyamas fill that role.
  • Not of This Earth: That little souvenir Alien Tsuruk left behind in episode 3 was made of an alien metal.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain
    • In human form, Bunyo is bumbling, goofy and can't fight to save his life. Gen gave him a beating on their first encounter. Even Commander Black thought he was worthless. Now, once Bunyo figures who Gen is and he and Black set their plan to get Leo in motion, Mood Whiplash and tears are just around the corner.
    • Alien children invoke the trope.
    • So does the old man handing out flowers left and right in Episode 31. Children were savvy that time.
  • Obi-Wan Moment: Dan lectured Gen about his ongoing responsibilities as Leo before punching and pushing him aside, and had a brief quiet moment before vanishing. This is even more dramatic as the space station is falling apart in the middle of Silver Bloom's attack, which had already killed the rest of the crew. Gen is hysterically yelling "Taichou!" (Commander).
  • Oh, Crap!: A couple of minutes into Episode 40, Dan and Gen are taken by surprise when the alarm sounds and that big dot on the radar approaches the MAC space station at high speed...
  • Older and Wiser: Two guesses, one for this show and one (actually two) for Mebius and Zero.
  • Older Than They Look: A funny example was Alien Carly, who looked like a kid of Tohru's age and size, but had scores of grandchildren.
  • On The Next Episode Of Catchphrase: Return of Ultraman,Ultraman Taro, and this show (the last two of which share a narrator) end their next episode previews with "Saa! Minna de miyou!" (roughly translates as "All right! Let's watch it together.")
  • Our Hero Is Dead: Episode 40 for Dan, Episode 50 for Leo
  • Outside-Context Problem: Commander Black
  • Panthera Awesome: The lion motifs used throughout.
  • Parental Abandonment: Tohru and Kaoru’s mother died when they were younger, and their father was killed in front of them by Alien Tsuruk.
  • Phlebotinum Breakdown:
    • The Ultra Eye is useless for Dan to transform once he transformed back after Leo's first fight.
    • The Ultra Key is first stolen, so M-78 went out of orbit; then Ultraman King broke it, to get the Ultra Brothers' attention.
  • Power at a Price: Sevengar: powerful Kaiju who had the upper hand and nearly defeated Ashuran singlehandedly? He could only come out of his ball for one minute every 50 hours! If only he had another 10 seconds...
  • Power Glows: Dan tried to use the Ultra Eye after the fight with the Gillas Brothers. The first indication something was wrong was he couldn't draw it to his face. The second was the trinket began to sparkle on its own...
    • Gen's transformation begins with a brief sparkle of light. His transformation back to Gen (seen only in Episode 1) ends with another brief sparkle.
    • Leo's standard kick (and its more advanced Corkscrew Kick from Episode 2) featured a glowing foot.
  • Psycho for Hire: Bunyo Seijin, a mercenary Commander Black hires.
  • Rage Against the Mentor
    • Many times Gen refrained from actually hitting Dan, who could be pretty ruthless and strict. They actually got into a fistfight in Episode 38 when Dan used his Ultra Willpower during the Ultra Rumble to even the odds against fake Astra.
    • Around episode 13, Gen got suspended pending an investigation into the death of a cop. That didn't stop from intervening in a chase of the very same alien who then killed the cop, resulting in a MAC member being injured. He bitterly argued his innocence with Dan, but his impulsiveness got a teammate hurt. When he threatened to quit MAC, Dan upheld the suspension instead. Gen quit anyway...
  • Ramming Always Works: Dan tried to take down a giant Alien Vibe this way, but his plane got stuck in the kaijuu's mouth, so Leo had to get him out.
    • Alien Carolyn flew herself onto Gamelot's chest to give Leo a fighting chance against him.
  • Raygun Gothic: MAC and Captain Ultra (no relation to M-78 or Ultraman) would fit in very well together...
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Dan uses his Ultra Will-Power. Coincidentally, Dan is the Blue counterpart to Gen's Red in...
  • Red Herring: Saeko from Episode 17 subverts this and plays it straight.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Gen Ootori (red) to Dan Moroboshi (blue)
  • Red Shirt Army: MAC, which lost members frequently, and that was before Episode 40...
  • Remember the New Guy?: How Nurse Miyama is introduced in Episode 40.
  • Replaced the Theme Tune: Beginning in Episode 14.
  • Restraining Bolt: Alien Carly's tail kept Remboler from attacking Earth. Once Carly loses his tail due to a nosy kid, all bets are off until he grew it back.
    • The damaged Ultra Eye is this to Dan.
  • Retool
    • A minor one happened after episode 13, with a more upbeat theme song and Leo's frequent use of energy attacks.
    • On episode 40, the whole show premise changed with Commander Black's arrival and ensuing mayhem. Halfway through the episode, Gen and Tohru move to Mrs. Miyama's place. Gen is unemployed and needs to face emerging threats alone for the first time since he met Dan.
  • Ridiculously Human Robot: Alien Carolyn
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Leo's fights with Magma and later Commander Black's forces are this. Most notably, after Silver Bloom kills MAC and causes the deaths of a number of Leo's human friends, Leo guts the monster alive before finishing it off.
  • Rock Beats Laser: Commander Black -who was very athletic, had a sword for defense and a crystal ball to summon monsters- was taken down by kids with sticks.
    • Ultraseven was defeated by twin leg-twisting Kaijuu who had few energy attacks.
  • Same Character, But Different: Captain DanMoroboshi
  • Say My Name: "REO NIISAN!"
    • "REOOOOOO"
    • "TAICHO!!"
    • KAORU-SAN!
  • Secret-Keeper: Apart from the Ultras, Alien Bock, Alien Nike, Tohru, Gen's romantic rival Hiroshi (Episode 48), and possibly the Miyamas.
  • Scare Chord: Every episode begins with one and an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
  • Sequel Series
    • To Ultraseven and the other Showa era Ultra shows.
    • Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy Legends was a sequel to this and Ultraman Mebius, the latter being a sequel to Leo and other Ultra shows.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Possibly Dan. When he's not barking orders or yelling at Gen, he looked tired and depressed.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Mr. Ohmura is not seen or heard from again after the Ultra Rumble. Gen's True Companions? Gone, too, except for Tohru.
  • Shoutout:
    • Victims of Alien Atlar would end up covered in silver paint.
    • The name of the first episode alludes to Tokyo sinking, Dan even yelling "Nippon wa chinbotsu!" in despair.
    • Leo's red-hot foot kick is reminiscent of a similar attack by Mirror Man.
  • Sickening "Crunch!": Episode 1, during that infamous fight.
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: Captain Dan Moroboshi, who would punish Gen whenever he failed.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • Mr. Ohmura would stop in the middle of a kaijuu rampage to pick up fish or Pachinko winnings rather than run.
    • The Education Mama from Episode 26 would prefer her son study calligraphy than play with other children.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: That song Gen sings about yearning for his extinct home planet is set to rather cheerful music.
    • The disappearance of Dan as the MAC station is destroyed and Gen barely gets out alive is scored to "Fight! Ultra Seven" (an instrumental about Seven kicking ass).
    • Whenever that peaceful song with the trumpet solo plays at the beginning of an episode, beware!
  • Spoiler Opening: Episode 1 plays with this.
  • Spoiler Title: The title for Episode 40.
  • Stern Teacher/Drill Sergeant Nasty: Seven/Dan for Leo/Gen. Later, Leo himself becomes this for Mebius when he appear in Ultraman Mebius and in the new Ultra Galaxy movie, for Ultra Seven's son, Ultraman Zero.
  • Stock Footage
    • Footage from Return of Ultraman was used in episode 34 when Ultraman Jack guest-starred.
    • Disaster footage from episodes 1 & 2 was used in episodes 38 & 39 when Planet M-78 was on a collision course with Earth.
    • Episode 29 reused Dan's farewell to Anne when Dan encountered Uri's mother.
  • Strolling Through the Chaos: Commander Black in his very first scene was calmly strolling through Tokyo while Silver Bloom crushed a building at his behest.
    • Alien Babaloo was laughing maniacally while looking at the floods and fleeing crowds in Episode 39.
  • Student–Master Team: Zero and Leo in the Ultra Galaxy Gaiden, Dan and Gen (reluctantly) in this show.
  • Super Mode: Most aliens look a lot different in giant form, like for instance Tsuruk (more reptilian when he grew, more bird-like/humanoid in human size). Bunyo has three shapes, two human-sized, not counting his human form (all with antennas!).
  • Take Me Instead: How Gen rescues Mrs. Miyama from Alien Bunyo.
  • 10-Minute Retirement:
    • In Episode 8, Gen was suspended for a week after jumping off a plane to save Mr. Ohmura. Four days in, he had learned a new fight technique and saved the day.
    • In Episode 13, Gen quit the team in anger after Alien Vibe framed him for the death of a cop, an injured teammate, and an injured construction worker. After Dan cleared his name and Vibe was defeated, Dan reinstated Gen.
  • In Episode 36, Gen is pulled from a mission due to MAC member Uchida's sabotage. Dan uses this to lure Uchida and the Chief away from the test site and unmask him.
    • In Episode 43, a possessed man attacked Gen, claiming to know his secret identity. Afraid of endangering Tohru if he tried to stop Commander Black, he left the Miyama's place and wrote a farewell letter to Tohru. Fortunately, he realized there were more people in danger that just his loved ones and went on to save the day and reunite with Tohru.
  • Teru-Teru Bōzu: Flying saucer creature Nova whenever it shrank to hide in plain sight.
  • That Man Is Dead: "Sebun wa mou inai." meaning: "Seven is gone."
  • There Is Another: Actually, more than one...
  • Throwing Off the Disability: Gen in episode 39. Episode 4 is a subversion, as Dan ordered Gen to get back to work.
  • Title Scream: "Urutoraman Reo!"
  • To Know Him, I Must Become Him: Gen's Training from Hell was based on the methods of the Monster of the Week.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The Oba kid in Episode 41 tried to get Black Dome's attention with a mirror. Bad idea!
    • Nice going, Yoko, running straight into alien Karly's path! Officer Shirato will be so happy...
    • Mr. Ohmura disregarded an evacuation order while he was playing Pachinko, tried to protect himself by wearing a plastic trash can on his head, then tried to collect all the coins from a broken pay phone. Gen should have just stayed in the plane.
    • Ohmura tried to save the fish when the Gillas brothers reached Tokyo.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Gen, who was very Badass from the get-go. Tohru too.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Dan, but only because he had hot-headed Gen to train. He was more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Alien Carly's was doughnuts. Eating large quantities allowed him to grow back his lost tail.
  • Training from Hell
    • Gen is trained by Ultra Seven to be a martial artist and better Ultra very rigorously. Very, VERY rigorously. How did he train? With Dan using Cane Fu, boomerangs and even Car Fu, Gen spinning in mid-air like a corkscrew and coming down HARD to land on whatever object or kaiju he wanted to destroy, using strange machines at the Jounan Sports Center and even doing Le Parkour on a mountain ledge.
    • He can also be very hard on himself sometimes.... In episode 6, Gen's friends are visibly uncomfortable at the sight of Gen negotiating two heavy swinging logs, hoisted by ropes that could break off anytime. Dan arrives and it seems like he himself is going to get hit in the face with them a couple of times.
  • Transformation Is a Free Action: Episode 50 subverts this when Gen/Leo was unable to grow to giant size, as Bunyo tied him up while in human form and Commander Black had wounded him.
  • Transformation Trinket: The Leo Ring.
  • Trickster Mentor: The monk in Episode 8.
  • The Unfettered: Dan wants to protect Leo and humans at all costs. Leo wants to jump in the fray at all times.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Not exactly unskilled, but Leo depends mostly on brute force attacks early on. Through his Training from Hell, Gen applies the lessons he learned in human form as Leo in giant size. Later on, he uses energy attacks as well.
  • Villain: Exit, Stage Left:
    • Alien Magma disappeared as quickly as he could after the Gillas Brothers were defeated, that is, until Episode 30.
    • Commander Black would regroup at the end of his episodes until the last one.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Commander Black lost his cool at the end of every other episode he appeared in, but Episode 50 had him down to one Black Star creature and he saw his and Bunyo's plan fail.
  • Waistcoat of Style: MAC members could wear a shiny silver vest, open at the sides of the lower back. Gen and Dan sometimes wore them.
  • Walking the Earth / Save the Day, Turn Away: Gen, having killed off the Saucer Beasts for good and with Commander Black dead, throws away the Leo Ring and sails off. (By the time Mebius comes to Earth, he's tending the Twin Island originally submerged by the Gillas Bros. in the first episode.) At some point between then and Ultraman Mebius, he retrieves the ring and wears it again, allowing him to take the form of Gen once again.
  • Warrior Prince: Leo and Astra are the princes of the planet L77.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Both victims of Alien Tsuruk from Episode 3.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: The Japan Masterpiece Folklore Arc (Episodes 26-32), a storyline that references a particular tale in Japanese folklore.
    • Japan Masterpiece Folklore Series - Ultraman King vs the Magician references the Japanese folklore, Issun-bōshi, complete with a shrunken Leo rowing in a bowl before Ultraman King restores him to full size with an enchanted mallet.
    • Japan Masterpiece Folklore Series - Mighty! Momotaro! is loosely based off The Tale of Momotaro, complete with the child star of the day dressed as the legendary hero and having a dog, a chicken , and a monkey as his allies against Oni-on.
    • Japan Masterpiece Folklore Series - The Return of the Bearded Captain! is pretty much Urashima Tarou, but ending with a kaiju battle.
    • Japan Masterpiece Folklore Series - The Monster's Favor is Tsuru no Ongaeshi/The Crane and the Woodcutter, but with the crane as an alien woman and Alien Magma interfering in the sidelines.
    • Japan Masterpiece Folklore Series - Farewell, Princess Kaguya - Exactly What It Says on the Tin, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya with a kaiju thrown in it.
  • Wham Episode: Episode 1 (Seven's role in Earth's defense changes dramatically), 3 & 4 (Leo realizes just how tough his job is), 22 (Astra — Leo is not the only survivor of L77 after all), 26 (Ultraman King — the mythical hero appears), 38&39 (The Leo Brothers prove their worth to the Ultra Brothers after a rough start)..
    • Episode 40: The entire MAC team is wiped out by Silver Bloom. Also doubles as a major Tear Jerker.
  • Wham Line: "Seven no more..."
  • Wham Shot: Several, such as The destruction of the Ultra Eye; the annihilation of MAC culminating in Dan vanishing into thin air; first Tohru and then Gen finding the names of his True Companions on a list of confirmed deaths due to Silver Bloom's rampage on Earth; Tohru finding Leo's disembodied frozen remains in a dirt-field, and Commander Black melting into green goo.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Mr. Ohmura is never seen or mentioned again in the second half.
  • Wonder Twin Powers
    • Leo can only use his most powerful attack, the Ultra Double Flasher, when he's together with Astra.
    • They can also use the Ultra Double Spark, which can fix anything, when together.
    • The Gillas Brothers always attack together; in fact, that's how Seven was disabled. They even huddle and spin together.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Bunyo's first encounter with Gen was an excuse to confirm that Gen was Leo. Nurse Miyama was lured into a trap when Bunyo called her pretending to be injured.
  • Wronski Feint:
    • Dan vs Giant Tsuruk in Episode 4, using a plane and some power lines.
    • Leo vs Uringa, using a satellite dish.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: Momoko, not so much in the way she dresses, but her demeanor and values qualify.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain
    • Gen had his True Companions, his MAC teammates, his brother whom he thought dead, as well as the support of both his Captain and the legendary Ultraman King, and he was an honorary Ultra brother to boot. He'd even managed to take his revenge on Alien Magma by impaling him through the heart. Then Silver Bloom appeared...
    • Tohru, who was an orphan, had Gen, his little sister, and his True Companions. Enter Silver Bloom...
  • You Are Not Alone: Astra, whom Leo presumed dead after failing to rescue him back in L-77, turned up alive and well on Earth.
  • Taken for Granite: The alien in Episode 16 turns humans into wax. Its first victim is a teenage boy.
  • You Are Not Ready: "Don't transform until you learn this technique" or "Don't transform until I come up with a way for MAC to fight this kaijuu" was a standing order from Dan that Gen often disregarded.
  • Your Eyes Can Deceive You: Episode 15, as part of Gen's Training from Hell. The lesson was delivered by a one-shot character. Dan even blinds Leo using some foamy substance to defeat a giant Alien Flip.
  • Zeerust: MAC: the mecha, their Comm Links, their uniforms, all scream 1950s Sci-Fi
  • Zen Survivor: Dan in this show, Gen in Mebius.
  • Zerg Rush: Children pulled this on Commander Black in the last episode.


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