#Gorbagos

[thewapolls]

We really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Pretty soon there won't even be any shared models left, just a few straight lines of recurring enemies with their design being updated game to game.

GOLPA, the SEO on [ゴルパ] has been entirely overrun by a Japanese golf supply company called Golf Partner, but it might be referencing an Ultraman monster called GORBAGOS[ゴルバゴス] but which I've seen written as GORPAGOS[ゴルパゴス] and abbreviated to GOLPA[ゴルパ] before. But more to the point, it bears no resemblance to the monster in WA2, so I dunno....

BABALOU I don't know much about the source on BABALOU other than this one is definitely the name of an alien from Ultraman Leo. But again, I'm not sure why that name was applied to this character model...

GIRTABRYL was a mangling of GIRTABLULU, monstrous scorpion men from Mesopotamian mythos.

PABILSAG is likewise pulled from Mesopotamian mythos, a god whose larger role in the mythology has been mostly lost over time. He was associated with the sagittarius and depicted as a kind of centaur but with a scorpion tail, but at some point popculture just kinda rolled him into being more scorpion than anything. (sometimes people compromise and make him a dwayne the rock johnson in the scorpion king(2002) kind of scorpion-centaur while still ditching the horse bits.)

ITEM CARRIER on the one hand it's a super generic pair of words to slap together, but for that same reason I can't shake t he feeling it's a reference to something specific. but the only thing I could find using that specific term is Final Exerion?? But while that's a reboot of the classic 80s arcade game, that specific sequel just came out this year. Did they call the things you shoot to gain power up items ITEM CARRIERs in the original arcade game too? I doubt it had ingame text designating things, so what did it maybe appear in a manual of a home console port at some point later, or in some kind of design notes that could maybe have been released in a art book or something? I have no idea, and no means of verifying.

JUSTA is another one I can't seem to really pinpoint. The character model is so weirdly specific conceptually that I have to assume it's something, but I don't even know where to start with trying to make sense of it.

[citystompers1]

Monster illustrations from Ultraman sonosheet book

[doraemonmon]

Gorbagos ゴルバゴス

[fedhai]

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[funkofunpop]

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[chernobog13]

More kaiju design sketches from “The Return of Ultraman” aka “Ultraman Jack.”  On top we have Gorbagos from episode 7, and below him appears to be Dunger from episode 9.