I grew up on all things Japanese science fiction. Ultraman is my favorite character. I found this very cool site featuring entries listing just about every Toho monster / character, including Ultraman and his family.
- Height: 40 m (130 ft)
- Weight: 35,000 tons
- Age: 20,000 Earth years old (Considered pretty young (around 20) by Ultra standards)
- Flight Speed: Mach 5
- Jump Ceiling: 800 m (2,600 ft)
- Running Speed: 450 km/h (280 mph)
- Swimming Speed: 200 knots (230 mph)
- Physical Strength: Ultraman possesses immense strength. He can lift a 100,000-ton tanker but no more than 200,000 tons, the weight of monster Skydon, in his original 1960s incarnation. Whether or not he has grown stronger remains unknown.
Ultraman's special powers
This list covers powers used in and outside the series.
- Specium Ray - Ultraman crouches slightly forward and crosses his wrists together, with his right forearm vertical and left forearm horizontal in front of it, and the thumb edge of his hands facing his body, to shoot from the outer edge of his right hand a particle/light-ray that kills most opponents. The effect is either an explosion or a fatal burn. The ray can be reflected (see Alien Baltan II) but loses intensity once reflected. The ray can also be negated by similar energy (see Alien Mephilas). Spacium is actually a substance found on Mars that itself is deadly to at least one monster species (the Baltans), as established in Episode 2 ("Shoot the Invader"). The Spacium Ray - indeed all of Ultraman's Spacium-type energy attacks - may be based on that substance, but this is never stated as the case in the series. Regardless, the Spacium Ray is perhaps Ultraman's most powerful single weapon, and very few creatures are immune to it, such as Keronia and Z-Ton. In Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider, Ultraman uses it in conjunction with a giant Kamen Rider 1's Rider Kick to destroy Sasori-Gadoras, who had managed to absorb the ray earlier. (This weapon was used on nearly all opponents.) In mebius,he used this to destroy Mephilas' blasts. In the movie, he used this on Ukillersaurus, and combined it with Ultra Seven's Wide Shot in an attempt to defeat alien Guts.
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