Gan Q

"The eye isn't emitting any physical energy... which means it's acting in defiance of the laws of physics... but that's impossible..."

- Gamu Takayama, Ultraman Gaia episode 6 "The Ridiculing Eye"

Gan Q (ガンQ) is a kaiju from another dimension. It appears as bipedal giant eye, with several smaller eyes all over its body. Being a creature from another dimension, Gan Q found everything in the human dimension to be funny. Never ending laughter can be heard from it, thus it can be considered as "insane" by human standards. It first appeared in Ultraman Gaia Episode 6.

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Code №00
While Team Lightning and Team Falcon were going through an aerial training exercise somewhere in the country they encountered Gan Q code №00 in the ground who suddenly started laughing at them. While analyzing it at X.I.G HQ, Gamu Takayama discovered that the Gan Q wasn't giving off any vital signs. While trying to understand what exactly Gan Q was he began to be  tormented by Gan Q's powers even though he was many miles away. Gamu choked and told Team Lightning and Team Falcon to fire upon the giant eye. But Gan Q simply absorbed the two missiles and then fired one  back at Tatsuhiko Yoneda, Team Falcon's leader. The mysterious eye then went underground and fled shortly after, but Gamu still had visions tormenting him.

Code №01
Gamu took a visit to Alchemy Stars member Makoto, to do more research on  all Gan Q's strange abilities. At the same time XIG track Gan Q down to an oil refinery, eighty kilometers away from his first location. Gan Q resurfaced and reviled his new body that he created from the magnetics from the one missile he kept. Gan Q began to wreck wanton havoc just as soon as he emerged. When XIG arrived and began their assault, Gan Q tried to absorb Peace Carry into his biggest eye. As the kaiju continued his insane laughter Gamu morphed into Ultraman Gaia, rammed Gan Q down, and prevented Peace Carry from becoming Gan Q's victim. Gaia started to have the upper hand with the insane laughing monster until Gan Q started using his energy attacks and knocked him down. Gan Q wasted no time in absorbing Gaia into his body. Inside Gan Q's strange body, Gaia was tortured by Gan Q's laughter until he flew out of his body, blowing the laughing monster to pieces.

Trivia

 * Gan Q's name is a pun on the Japanese word for eye (眼球, gankyū).
 * Gan Q got his name from a press article after his first attack on Team Falcon and Team Lighting.
 * On the outside of Gan Q's body there is only 17 eyes visible.
 * Gan Q is possibly based off of Argus Panoptes, the Greek mythological giant with a thousand eyes, as Gan Q has many eyes inside and out of it`s body.

Code №02
The same Gan Q reappeared in episode 31 "The Accursed Eye" as a battered up Code №01 and Code №02.

Gan Q reappeared in the middle of a city, back from the dead with a zombified look. When X.I.G. attacked, he disappeared. At the same time, a young boy by the name of Satoshi, who was born with psychic powers, was being harassed by the soul of an ancient sorcerer named Kijuro Mato, a prophesied spirit that that would use Gan Q to take control over all of Japan.

Gan Q returned the next night and he did some damage, only to disappear during the first XIG attack. Once XIG learned that Gan Q was part of a prophecy about Kijuro Mato; Gamu, was sent to protect Satoshi, to prevent the one-eyed monster's full return. That night Mato decided to take one of Satshi's friends hostage, and when Gamu and Satoshi arrived on the scene, Mato began to torture her to force Satoshi to cooperate. Satoshi fired his psychic energy only for Mato to return fire and use his power to restore Gan Q into Code №02.

Gamu turned into Ultraman Gaia and began to assault Gan Q with several hits and an Energy Surge punch. Satoshi's friend was released from Mato's power with telekinesis and left both her and Satoshi unconscious. Gan Q fired energy balls only for them to be avoided and blocked by the Energy Shield, as well as Gaia outsmarting him. When Gaia thought he was finally down, Gan Q came back up and started his assault anew on the hero. Upon using the eye holograms, Gan Q had the upper hand on Gaia. Satoshi woke up and used his powers to destroy the eye holograms and helped Gaia vanquish Mato and Gan Q. Satoshi then absorbed the power stolen from him and Gan Q reverted to his disfigured state. After Gaia turned into Supreme Version, Gan Q was destroyed by the Photon Stream.

Trivia

 * The Gan Q Code №02 costume was newly built.
 * Gan Q Code №2's red stripes are a recycled from Fire Golza's costume.
 * Gan Q Code №2's laughter were a mixture of his and Kijuro's laughter.

Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle
Gan Q appears in episodes 5 and 6 of Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle.

The 2nd monster controlled by Kate and unleashed upon Gomora when her Fire Golza fell, Gan Q opened up with a series of shots from his eye cannon. Gomora quickly dodged, leaping to the side. The blasts continued flying until smashing into the rising Fire Golza. His ally fell, his entire body being engulfed in an explosion. The loss of her monster didn't effect Kate who called her monster back just as the rest of ZAP SPACY arrived. While her fiery Golza was gone for good, her Gan Q would come in handy again.

After fooling ZAP SPACY into believing Rei had attacked and demolished much of the human population of Bolias, Kate attacked the team and left the Pendragon damaged. She then followed Rei, locating him after he defeated the monster Twin Tail. Gan Q attacked Litra and she demanded a battle between Gan Q and Gomora, but Rei declined.

She had another way of forcing him into battle: use a hostage! She made Oki appear before Gan Q, restrained by chains. When she demanded that Gan Q kill the human, Rei gave in and let loose Gomora! The two titans battled, but it took more than the combined might of Gomora and Litra to tackle such a juggernaut.

As the battle raged, the Pendragon flew in, newly repaired and armed. Flying by Litra’s side, the ship unleashed its most destructive weapon on Gan Q: the Hyper Omega Cannon! The beam exploded on the strange beast, sending it crashing to the ground in a fit before its entire body was destroyed in a titanic blast.

Trivia

 * Gan Q's suite in this series was newly built.
 * This can be seen as his body is appears more like bare human muscle, and not as many veins are visible in his main eye.

Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends
Gan Q returns in the film Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends as one of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army. He was killed by Ultraseven during the final battle. He is also one of the monsters that make up Beryudora's body.

Trivia

 * The Gan Q suit from Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle was re-used for his appearance in the film.

Ultra Zero Fight
Gan Q reappeared in episodes 1, 2, 5, and 6 of the mini-series, Ultra Zero Fight, as "The Gan Q", as a part of "The Four Beast Warriors of Hell".

In this short series, Gan Q was one of the many monsters revived by Alien Bat (along with Red King, Galberos, and Bemstar,) to battle against Ultraman Zero. Shortly after Ultraman Zero killed Galberos with his Zero Sluggers, Gan Q teamed up with Bemstar to battle and Ultra by using their absorption and redirection abilities to fend him off. While it was mildly successful at first, Ultraman Zero managed to transform into his Luna Miracle form and managed to destroy both Gan Q and Bemstar at the same time by destroying them from inside out their absorption regions.

Trivia

 * The Gan Q Suit from Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle was reused for Gan Q's appearance in the mini-series.

Ultraman Ginga S
Gan Q reappeared in this series, MonsLived by Alien Guts Bolst.

Near the final, Bolst was sent to MonsLived into Gan Q and split into two to stole Shepardon's energies. The UPG team witnessed this and began an operation to save the monster by using a magnetic wave. Shou arrived at the scene and fired one of the two Gan Q to save Shepardon. He fired a Gudon-charged bullet from his Victory Lancer but a Gan Q absorbed it (at the same time revealed that this Gan Q was controlled by Bolst) and return fire at Shou, knocking him. Shepardon regained his strength and pushed Gan Q, knocking him down and stomped the monster rapidly but Bolst quickly turn the tables by swapping Gan Q with Fire Golza and the Bolst clone/Gan Q clone continued to absorb Shepardon. The Live Base staffs completed their objective, managing the UPG Captain to fire a magnetic wave blast via the Base's parabolic antenna. Gan Q was knocked down from the blast but it took Fire Golza's attention as he began to attack the base. Shou quickly recover and transform into Ultraman Victory to save them and Hikaru into Ginga to save his leader. Victory and Ginga found themselves occupied while trying to save Shepardon until Victory used King Joe Custom's Pedanium Launcher and fired all of Gan Q's clones. The real Gan Q was destroyed by UPG Captain Yoshiaki Jinno whom used the Magnetic Wave laser that attached to the base's parabolic antenna and Victory's Victorium Shoot. Ginga morphed into Strium Mode and finished Fire Golza with Zoffy's M87 Ray. Despite all three monster and alien reverted to Spark Doll, but they were retrieved by Exceller via teleportation. Nonetheless, Bolst's deed was done and Gan Q's Spark Doll was used among of those needed for Exceller to become Five King.

Data
{{#tag:tabber| Code №00 = Gan Q Code №00

Stats

 * Height: Unknown
 * Weight: Unknown
 * Origin: M91 Stellar Systems

Powers & Weapons

 * Dimension Travel : Gan Q originally came from the M91 Stellar Systems and somehow teleported to the Mountains.
 * Missile absorb : Gan Q can absorb any missiles fired into him.

Code №01 = {{#tag:tabber| Normal = Gan Q Code №01

Stats

 * Height: 55 m
 * Weight: 55,000 t
 * Origin: Arrow-pass in the Mountains → Makuta City, Monster Graveyard (Ultra Zero Fight)

Powers & Weapons

 * Energy Eye Cannon Blasts : Gan Q can launch strong, powerful, explosive energy blasts replicas of his eye of energy from his eye. These replica blasts are extremely powerful, made entirely of energy and have a very destructive force, capable of sending opponents flying with a single hit while also creating large explosions that rival his own size.
 * Homing Eyes : From its smaller eyes, Gan Q can launch replicas of its eyes that will home in on a target. Instead of zooming in like a missile, these replicas will act much like secondary units, firing weak, missile-strength blasts at an opponent.
 * Teleportation : In order to confuse opponents, Gan Q can teleport short distances.
 * Absorption : Gan Q can absorb foreign objects with his eye, and in turn, fire them back out as a projectile attack if needed or even if it wishes. If it absorbs a living being, that being will be tortured with non-stop laughter and thousands of eyes surrounding it (used on Gaia).
 * Mini-Eye Cannon : Gan Q can launch smaller, missile-strength versions of its Eye Cannons from the smaller eyes on its arms and legs.
 * Eye Probes : In Ultraman Fighting Evolution 3, Gan Q can release probes of his eyes that can act as his familiars to attack the opponent with energy bolts.

Ultra Zero Fight

 * Flight : As revealed in Ultra Zero Fight, Gan Q can fly at moderate speed.
 * Bem Q Combi : Thanks to Gurashie's remodelling, this Gan Q had connections with Bemstar as seen if Bemstar absorbed Ultraman Zero's Wide Shot, Gan Q will fire it back to him. But this would participate in both monsters' defeat.

Ultraman Ginga S

 * Wormhole : Gan Q can create a wormhole as means of travel. When the wormhole appeared, his eye will emerge first before landing.
 * Illusion : Gan Q can create an illusion of himself. This was not his actual ability, since it was inherited from Alien Guts Bolst, whom had MonsLived into the latter.
 * Paralysis Ray : Gan Q can release a purple ray of energy from his large eye that can paralyze enemies in place. This was not his actual ability, since it was inherited from Alien Guts Bolst, whom had MonsLived into the latter.

Imperfect= Gan Q Code №01 (Imperfect)

Stats

 * Height: Unknown
 * Weight: Unknown
 * Origin: Unknown

Powers and Weapons

 * Intangibility : Gan Q can turn himself intangible to prevent attacks.
 * Teleportation : Gan Q can teleport as a quick way of escape.
 * Dream Invasion : Gan Q can enter inside his target's dream.

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Code №02= Gan Q Code №02

Stats

 * Height: 56 m
 * Weight: 56,000 t
 * Origin: Unknown

Powers & Weapons

 * Energy Ball Blasts : Gan Q can launch explosive, purple energy ball blasts of energy from his main eye that can destroy buildings in one hit. These blasts are extremely powerful, capable of creating explosions that rival its own size. When blocked by another type of energy, these blasts will separate into several, equally powerful blasts.
 * Eye Probes : Gan Q can release probes of his eyes from the eyes on his legs that can ram into enemies and fly around. These holograms can also release purple beams that cause great pain to enemies.
 * Quick Healing : Gan Q can quickly heals himself from injuries.

Weakness
If Shusasku, (Kijuro Mato's decendant) remove all of Gan Q's energies, the monster will be forced to resume back to his imperfect state.

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Monster Busters Powered
Gan Q appears in this video game as well as a subspecies called Gan Q Ice (ガンQ氷, Gan Q Kōri).