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In the Trials of Ultraman, the new hero discovers the difference between Mech and Robot, forever changing the way he fights his enemies.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Trials of Ultraman #5, available now from Marvel.
The latest chapter in Marvel’s Ultraman saga just came to a close with a harrowing fight for the alien hero. While going up against one of the franchise’s classic monsters, Ultraman was also locked combat with another of the J.A.D.F.’s own mech. And in the heat of battle in The Trials of Ultraman #5, by Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom, Francesco Manna, Espen Grundetjern and Ariana Maher, Ultraman just learned what separates robots from mechs.
Shin Hayata and the rest of his team from the U.S.P. have recently made their way to Iceland to investigate the human threat that has been whipped into a frenzy by wild conspiracy theories, resulting in a series of mechanized kaiju being unleashed. The last of these didn’t get very far before Ultraman took it down, although that didn’t stop it from posing a serious threat for the short time the two fought. Now caught in the middle of a fight between the J.A.D.F.’s Jirahs and the flaming Kaiju known as Zumbolar, Ultraman has to be more vigilant than ever if he’s going to prevent any human casualties. As it turns out even that may not be enough, considering the fact that the robotic Kaiju he now faces is very different from the last one.
In the middle of the fray, Ultraman is contacted by his U.S.P. teammate Specialist Ide, who has some concerning news regarding his new opponent. While Jirahs is very much mechanical just like the previous J.A.D.F. Kaiju that he faced, this one is a mech with a human pilot. This places the heroic Ultraman in the position of having to ensure the safety of the human caught in between his fight with his monstrous opponent.
This severely complicates Shin’s concern about keeping collateral damage to a minimum. Even if Ultraman has had to rescue people who threw themselves selfishly into the danger zone, that’s nothing like being tasked with keeping alive someone who is actively in the process of trying to kill him. The fact that the man sitting in the cockpit of Jirahs doesn’t seem to understand that the other Kaiju is real only adds to the frustration of the entire situation, and it could be the beginning of a worrying trend for Ultraman and the U.S.P.
The J.A.D.F. and their supporters aren’t going to stop their futile campaign to discredit what’s clearly happening in front of them, considering the way that their supporters have become a literal army of zealots. There is only so much that can be done about these people’s closely held beliefs, no matter how misinformed or misplaced they may be.
The only thing that the U.S.P. and Ultraman can do at this point is hope that the majority of the world sees the truth as it is and not how the J.A.D.F. wants them to. This won’t be Ultraman’s last battle, but it could be one that has a lasting effect on the ways Ultraman operates going forward.
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