#Galactic Emperor Kaiser Belial

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Galactic Emperor Kaiser Belial!

The threezeroX Ultraman Belial figure, designed by Japanese artist Ryu Oyama.

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Evil Ultramen

One of my favorite fictional tropes is the evil duplicate.  You know, the dark reflection of a hero or group of heroes.  Like the Nejirangers from Denji Sentai Megaranger

Or the Shocker Riders from Kamen Rider

It should come as no surprise that there would also be evil Ultraman villains that resemble the heroes in some way.  Some might be fakes or robot copies but some are actual evil version of our heroes.  Here are a few in all those categories!

5. Fake Ultraman/Alien Zarab

The very first evil version of Ultraman is from the original 1966 series.  Episode 18 “The Brother From Another World” introduced us to the seemingly benign Alien Zarab. However, as with most aliens in the series, his intentions were secretly sinister and included discrediting Ultraman.  To this end, he transformed himself into a faux-Ultraman and attacked the city.  In his Ultra-Form his eyes were much more slanted, his features pinched and sharper and he has curled toes.  He was defeated when the actual Ultraman showed up to put an end to him.

4. Robot Ultraseven

The first robot duplicate on our list, this robotic version of the hero of 1967′s entry in the Ultra Hero franchise was created by the Salome Aliens.  They wanted to use the power of Ultraseven to attack the world and conquer it for themselves. To this end, they kidnapped Dan Moroboshi and forced him to reveal the secret of his beam attack so they could install it in their copy. The robot worked as planned but Dan escaped from their intended deathtrap, transformed into the real Ultraseven and made short work of his mechanical doppelganger. It was featured in episode 46 “The Duel: Dan vs. Seven”.

3. Ultraman Shadow

Ultraman Shadow was another evil Ultraman robot copy.  This time, it was created by the evil Alien Lady Benzene in the 1997 movie Ultraman Zearth 2 to defeat Ultraman Zearth who had thwarted the ambitions of her race previously. Though incredibly powerful, it was eventually destroyed in battle with the titular hero. It bears a slight resemblance in the face, eyes and ears to the Fake Ultraman/Alien Zarab but has a dark blue and yellow color scheme.

2. Evil Tiga

Evil Tiga appeared in episode 44 of Ultraman Tiga “The One Who Inherits the Shadows”.  He was a fusion of one of the ancient Ultra Warriors (much like Tiga himself) and a human being, Keigo Masaki. His intentions were not to protect humanity but to use the powers of the Ultra Warrior to guide humanity to a new, brighter future under his leadership.  However, he was not able to control the power once fused on went out of control, leading to a confrontation with Ultraman Tiga.

1. Ultraman Belial

Once, Belial was a young and powerful Ultraman but he tried to steal energy from the Ultra Spark that gives all Ultramen their powers and keeps the Land of Light alive. He was also infused with evil Reionyx energy, giving him the power to control monsters and twisting him entirely to evil. After a massive battle, he was imprisoned but released years later to carry out his revenge.  He was defeated by Ultraman Zero but escaped into another universe where he set himself up as a Galactic Emperor, Kaiser Belial and began conquering planet after planet until once more stopped by Ultraman Zero, this time backed by a group of allies he collected known as Ultimate Force Zero.