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Greetings All,

OK so-- what in your opinion is the most greusome monster death in the Ultraman franchise. Aside from the basics (falling down, exploding etc..).

Ultraseven's Eye Slugger decapitated and amputated quite a few in his series, as did subsequent Ultra's. I'm thinking Ace & Taro probably have some of the most greusome, but I've only seen a handfull of episodes of taro, so i can't say for sure.

Probably the most greusome I've seen is episode 8 of Ultraman Ace. Kind of a cool last half of a 2-part episode with an Alien (Metron Jr) a Kaiju (Muruchi II) and the Yapool Superbeast (Doragoris). Ace tring to battle them all to prevent a disaster during a rocket launch.

At one point Muruchi II is (for lack of a better term) fillet by Doragoris. His front totally ripped of in bloody fashion. Maybe I was just tired when watching but I wasn't expecting it and it kind of freaked me out .

This is only the second most disturbing death from this episode.

Jirass. One of the few times in the original series, that a Kaiju shed blood.

I always thought Eiji Tsuburaya was hypocritical (I brought this up a few years ago and was met with a lot of criticism) in regards to the amount of violence and gore in the Ultra Series. He said that the reason he avoided bloodshed and graphic violence in the Toho kaiju films was because children were watching. Wanted to stay above it all. Gamera too violent maybe?

Then BOOM he goes and does Ultraman and Ultra Seven.

What the flying "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!"?

Was this intentional here or something? Anyone know anything about that?

Muruchi in Ultraman Ace gets my vote.

Dont think I need to explain that one.

Muruchi's brutal demise was censored (in hilarious fashion) on the Ultraman Ginga recap episode.

I remember someone posted a YouTube clip of it here years ago, but I don't really know what show it was from. Two monsters were fighting one of the early Ultramen (Ace, maybe?). At one point one, of them falls to the ground and gets his arm ripped off by the other, screaming in agony afterwards. I presume that this was fatal. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please fill me in on the details.

Ah, so that's the one. Outside of the original show, I know very few Ultra monster names, so it didn't occur to me that's what you were discussing. I just went and watched it on YT a moment ago - talk about gratuitous violence.

Do you guys pronounce the "s" in "Doragoris?" I really hate that romanization.

^

I don't, but that's because what the katakana says.

"Doragory" just seems a lot more accurate. Where did "Doragoris" even come from?

I think poor Pigmon suffers a pretty gruesome fate ... tries to help out the Science Patrol and gets crushed under rocks for his troubles. It's not graphic or gory per se but it is pretty disturbing in my opinion. And then doesn't he come back in a later episode only to die again?

^ Yes, and in a rather amusing manner too. He's hopping around & hooting like a monkey on a sugar rush, then BAM, Dorako 2 swats him like a bug.
It's supposed to be tragic, but it didn't play out that way for me.

There used to be some great compilation videos of the best/worst gratuitous and bloody Ultraman fatalities on YouTube... are there any still around? Never seem to be able to find anything other than the Doragoris/Muruchi II clip these days.