Nova

"Send a monster strong enough to shatter earth itself!"

- Black Directive, Ultraman Leo

Nova (ノーバ) is a ghost-like Saucer Kaiju from episode 49 of the TV series, Ultraman Leo.

Subtitle: Organic Saucer (円盤生物)

Ultraman Leo
Nova was one of the last few Flying Saucer Monsters left from Black Directive. He landed on Earth in a park, and quickly transformed into a small white Teru Teru Bozu. An angry Tooru Uemuda soon came across the small Nova, and told him that he wanted it to rain. Tooru hung Nova up on a tree, and left him there when Gen Ohtori found him. Later that night, a drunk man came by and began hitting Nova. Nova turned red, and sprayed the man with gas, making him go crazy.

The next day was sunny, so Tooru came back to the Teru Teru Bozu to cut off its head. He was surprised it turned red, but still tired to cut its head off. After Nova avoided the scissors, it suddenly grew a bit larger and wrapped itself around Tooru's neck. Nova told Tooru he would let him see his Mother, Father, and Sister again, and had him walk around town while spraying gas on people. Police soon cornered Tooru and were about to shoot him, but soon Gen and his caretaker arrived to stop them. Nova began to choke Tooru, but Gen knocked it off. Nova then grew giant and began attacking the city.

Nova destroyed many tanks and planes, and began spraying poison gas everywhere. Gen transformed into Ultraman Leo, and began fighting him. While a challenge at first, Leo caused the poison gas to disappear, allowing Leo to fight Nova unhindered. Leo fished Nova off with a Leo kick, and all the crazed towns people returned to normal.

Trivia

 * Nova's roar is a modified Alien Wolf roar.
 * Nova is the ninth saucer kaiju to appear in the series; incidentally, Nova's name sounds like "Novem" which is Latin for "nine".
 * Nova's design is based on the teru teru bozu, a type of handmade Japanese rain dolls.

Ultraman Mebius
Nova reappeared in episode 28 the series Ultraman Mebius.

Nova first appeared before the GUYS crew on a dark night in a parking lot scaring them by cackling evily, but it was small and very fazy, and then disappeared before them. Unknown to GUYS, Nova was manipulating the nanotechnology that is used to bring Rimu Eleking to life to make duplicates of himself to distract GUYS while the real copy is in pursuit of GUYS HQ.

The next day, the Maquette Nova appeared in an open construction field. GUYS attacked it, but it only spewed red smoke at them. Ultraman Mebius appeared and began to attack the monster, until it vanished like a Maquette Monster. Realizing about Nova's control over the nanotechnology and now how dangerously close the REAL Nova was to their HQ, Mebius teleported himself to Nova's location and the real battle began. At first, Nova was beating Mebius, but Miclas came to aid Mebius, and weaken Nova. Afterwards, Mebius recovered and used his Mebium Ray to destroy Nova once and for all.

Trivia

 * As revealed in episode 28, Nova was placed among the monsters in the "Out of Document" section due to his appearance was after MAC's demise.
 * In this series, Nova has the ability to spit red fireballs from his mouth.
 * Maquette Nova's smog is more of a smokescreen rather than causes people to go insane.

Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle
Nova reappeared in episode 10 of the series Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle. In this series, Nova is partnered with the monsters Saramandora and Lunaticks and all three monsters were guarding a military base that had supplies that the ZAP SPACY needed for their ship. Rei sent Gomora as the ZAP SPACY retrieved the parts they needed. At first Nova tried to ensnarl Gomora with his whips, but Gomora easily destroyed Nova, vaporizing him instantly with the Super Oscilatory Wave.

Trivia

 * Nova is one of the few kaiju in the series that does not appear in the opening credits, (along with Juran, Fire Golza, Bullton, Arigera, Zoa Muruchi, Lunaticks, King Joe Black, and Zetton.)

Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie
Nova reappeared in the movie Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie as one of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army. He was first seen rising out of the ground in a shot of the Monster Graveyard with King Joe Black, Verokron, Gomess, Alien Baltan, and Antlar. He then teamed up with Gan-Q, King Pandon, Verokron, Doragory, King Joe Black, Eleking, Banpira, Alien Guts, Alien Metron and Fire Golza to take on Ultraseven. He was betrayed and killed along with Doragory by Belial's Belial Geno Thunder during the final battle.

Trivia

 * Nova is one of the monsters that makes up Beryudora's right arm in Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie.

Ultraman Ginga
Nova participated in the Dark Spark War fighting alongside various monsters against Ultras until he was turned into a Spark Doll by Dark Lugiel.

It is likely that he returned to space in his original form after Ultraman Ginga defeated Dark Lugiel.

Ultraman Orb
Nova reappeared in episode six of the series Ultraman Orb as a Kaiju Card used by Alien Nackle Nagus in a card game between Jugglus Juggler and Alien Metron Tarude.

It later appeared in the 22nd episode where it was first seen for real in it's small size hanging out an underground café with it's owner and an Alien Pitt disguised as a woman. While the two were talking smack about a successful rival, Nova decided to take matters into his own hands and grew into it's giant monster form to take care of business. It was soon later revealed to the SSP that the café owner was really Black Directive who went inside Nova with his crystal orb and decided to attack the city with it's laser eyes.

Seeing the destruction take place, Gai Kurenai transformed into Ultraman Orb Burnmite form to confront and fight Nova. The fight started after Nova confused the Ultra with his funny noises and movements, leaving wide open for an attack from his whip. As he was taunted him, Orb finally had enough with the monster and hit him with consecutive Stobium Counters, but the Saucer Kaiju resisted them and fired his eye lasers at the Ultra, downing him for the moment.

When he got back up, the Ultra tried to finish off the monster with his Stobum Dynamite, but he disappeared at the last second and reappeared behind him, held him with his sickle arm and gassed him with his Red Crazy Gas, but Orb shrugged it off and fought back and squeezed him around the eyes, preventing him from seeing. However, Nova shrugged him off and held the upper hand again with his whips and gas. Deciding to get serious, Orb transformed into his Orb Origin form.

In his form, after blocking Nova's eye lasers with his sword, Orb fired his Orb Supreme Calibur at the monster, who then swallowed the attack, but was too much for the monster, and so, he flew up into the sky and exploded like a firework in the partly cloudy blue sky, however, Black Directive was still alive, but he left after he talked with Gai.

Data
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Stats

 * Height: 0.1 ~ 57 m
 * Weight: 20 g ~ 10,000 t
 * Length of the right hand: 60 m
 * Origin: Black Star (original), Planet Boris (Ultra Galaxy)
 * Attack: 1000
 * Defense: 800
 * Speed: 600

Powers and Weapons

 * Size Transform Change : Nova can and is capable of changing its size at will, turning a smaller or larger form if necessary.
 * Saucer Flight Form : In order to take flight, Nova is able to fly by spinning his body, turning its body into a flying saucer-like shape in order to levitate himself and fly through space.
 * Phantom Attack : In his saucer mode, Nova can use his body to ram against the opponent.
 * Red Crazy Gas : When needed, Nova can release a cloud of red gas smoke exhaled from his mouth. This can be used to conceal himself, as well as blind and drive foes insane. Any human that breaths the gas in will start to act extremely violent, attacking anyone at a moment’s notice. In addition, this gas can be used to conceal itself and also has an adverse effect on electronics. It also has a slight toxic effect, making humans cough and choke once breathed in.
 * Red Zone : By spinning his body around in a circle, Nova can turn the area around him into the color red and cause it to rain red as well, replacing all light, including the sun, with red, making it harder to see him. This red zone will be lifted upon his death.
 * Nova Laser : Nova can fire two white laser beams of energy from each of his eyes. Although averagely strength, separately these beams are as strong as a missile, but they can be combined into a single beam that can bring down some of the strongest opponents. The laser blast holds a temperature of 300,000 degree celcius.
 * Hell Ball : Nova can launch powerful, missile-strength ball blasts of fire energy from its mouth. Once striking a target, the blast won’t only explode, but send smaller explosive blasts through the area.
 * Right Arm Extending Whips : in place of a normal right hand, Nova’s right arm is armed with and can materialize three or multiple, long, tentacle-like whips on his right arm. The central whip is capable of elongating, adding to its already impressive reach and being able to then be used as a sort of tentacle that can stretch long distances and be used to whip his foes.
 * Left Arm Sickle Blade : Replacing his left hand, Nova’s left arm is armed with and can materialize a large, gigantic sickle-like blade object that is ideal for and can be used for slashing, bashing, or penetrating enemies.
 * Body Control : When needed, Nova can attach his body to that of a human’s, allowing him to control their actions.
 * Maquette Nova : By tapping into the particle accelerator beneath the GDF Headquarters, Nova can create numerous human-sized Maquette Novas and a single giant one.

Maquette= Maquette Nova

Maquette Nova (マケットノーバ) is a duplicate of the original Nova created by the same element that used to create Rimu Eleking, resulting on it's temporary disappearance due to stealing the said monster's energy. Due to Maquette Nova roaming in the GUYS Base, various workers including the GUYS officers called him the Red Ghost (赤い幽霊).

Stats

 * Height: Unknown ~ 57 m
 * Weight: Unknown ~ 10,000 t
 * Length of the right hand: 60 m
 * Origin: Phoenix Nest

Powers and Weapons

 * Teleport : Maquette Nova can teleport by reducing itself into dusts.
 * Red Crazy Gas : Maquette Nova can exhale weaker versions of the original's red crazy gas. His version was only a smokescreen rather than driving the victim insane.

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Ultraman Galaxy
Nova reappeared in the new puzzle role-playing game for mobile devices, Ultraman Galaxy as a UC (Uncommon) card that you can unlock him in one of the levels in the game with a high chance of getting Nova.