Monster of the Day #1282

Updated on February 2, 2016 By Ken Begg 20 Comments

This is one of Ultra Q’s comparatively rare non-giant monsters. I kind of like how they mixed it up, though. That jaw was used on several other suits. It’s a lady monster, although surely an American show surely would have picked a more overly womanly actress to, er, fill out the role.

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  • BobTanaka

    “Alleluia! Praise the Lord!”

  • Eric Hinkle

    “Lord Cthulhu, that is!”

  • Eric Hinkle

    So, what happened in the episode with Ms. Monster here?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “Leave my grandson alone, Richard Carlson! You too, John Agar! I see you hiding, Clint Eastwood!”

  • bgbear_rnh

    Class, I am Mrs. Gillman. I will be your substitute teacher for the rest of the week.

  • Gamera977

    I was thinking, ‘Alright, alright, I’m coming out! I surrender! Please don’t shoot me like the last monster!!!’

  • Gamera977

    So she doesn’t have the figure of the She-Monster but look at those sexy kissable lips! Maybe she needs a bucket of Methos for her fish breath but hey no ones perfect right???

  • Ericb

    This thing really need to be displayed at roadside car dealership

  • Flangepart

    Okay, who wants to go for the underarm deoderant joke?…anyone?…hellO?…Aw, crap…

  • Flangepart

    Aw, you took the sausages right out of my mouth…I mean her mouth.

  • The Rev.

    This is a female member of the Ragon, an sea-dwelling humanoid race. This is their first appearance, episode 20. As for the plot…well, think Gorgo or Gappa the Triphibian Monster, albeit with much less property damage (for obvious reasons).
    Ultraman fought a gigantic member of the race in the fourth episode of his series; it was rather tragic, as it had been mutated to its monstrous size by an atomic explosion, and during its understandable rampage it had gotten a second bomb stuck on its frills. Not that that stopped the galaxy’s mightest kaiju killer from blasting it to kingdom come, although he was thoughtful enough to fly the bomb he’d managed to unhook from it into space before it detonated.

  • Rock Baker

    The producer in me has wondered for a long time why this episode’s footage wasn’t farmed for a feature film by an American distributor. Of course, at the time, color films were being pushed, but black and whites hadn’t been completely phased out.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks! And that plot with Ultraman, well, he always was a class act. Quite polite of him not to blow the city up while fighting the monster.

  • The Rev.

    Class act? Eh, sometimes. He did turn Gavadon into a constellation at the begging of the children that had created the beastie.

    Then there was the time he ripped off Jirass’ frill and played “Toro!” with it until it died. (Well, I guess he at least put the frill back on its corpse.) And the time he bullied Seabozu mercilessly. And the time he ripped off Gesura’s fin, leaving it to die of suffocation. And the time he and the Science Patrol blew out Dodongo’s eyes, and Ultraman then mockingly rode the monster around like a horse until finally killing it.

    Seriously, he was Dexter before Dexter was a thing. He murdered other giant monsters with nary a trace of remorse or empathy. Hell, he was even on the (intergalactic) police force.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yes, but it was his job to kill giant monsters. I suppose he decided he might as well get some laughs out of it.

  • The Rev.

    If that’s the case, his sense of humor is warped as hell. Ultraseven was my first series, and he was no-nonsense and killed the crap out of everything, but at least he didn’t seem to take perversely psychotic joy in it. Don’t get me wrong, I like the original series just fine; I was just rather shocked by Ultraman’s behavior at times.

  • Marsden

    I think they reused the face for Pigmon.

  • The Rev.

    While there are similarities, they’re different enough that I don’t think they were (the big difference being how wide Ragon’s mouth can open). This would be borne out by both monsters also appearing in “Ultraman,” in episodes fairly close to each other. I know they reused costumes, but both Ragon and Garamon/Pigmon look the same in both series, and I find it hard to believe they’d have kept cutting those particular suits up, back and forth like that. Generally when that was done they didn’t go back to the previous monster (witness all the Baragon-based ones in “Ultraman”).

  • Marsden

    I no nothing about making the suits, but could they have used the same mold to make the faces? Rather than saying they are cutting and reattaching pieces. Either way, I love these things!

  • Ken_Begg

    Oh, yeah, that jaw was used on half a dozen monsters at least. It pops up pretty regularly.