Plooma

 Plooma (プルーマ Purūma) also known as "Pluma" was a monster that appeared in episode 31 of The Return of Ultraman.

Subtitle: Decoy Monster (囮怪獣 Otori Kaijū)

Powers/Abilities:

 * Heat Ray : Plooma can fire a red beam of energy from his mouth. It can create medium-sized explosions.
 * Thick Hide : Plooma's hide is strong enough to withstand Ultraman Jack's Specium Ray.

History
Plooma was a monster used by Alien Zelan as a diversion in his plan to kill Ultraman Jack. After getting Goh to seperate from MAT, Zelan dispatched Plooma to attack the city in order to distract MAT.

MAT quickly arrived and fired at Plooma with their weapons, but thanks to the monster's thick armor, Plooma was able to shrug off MAT's assults and continued to rampage through the city. Finally after a scuffle with MAT over the truth of Zelan's plans, Goh transformed into Ultraman Jack to battle the monster himself. At first Jack found it difficult to harm the monster as his Specium Ray couldn't even pierce the monster's hide, but then the Ultra used his Ultra Bracelet to decapitate the monster, killing him. Although Plooma was killed, his distraction was a success as Zelan's prime weapon for killing Jack was with his very own Ultra Bracelet...

Trivia

 * Plooma has a reused Magular roar.
 * Plooma was created from a modifyed Dustpan suit from the series, Mirrorman.
 * Although not physically seen, Plooma is one of the monsters that makes up Beryudora's Body in Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie.

Redman
Plooma reappeared in several episodes of Redman in which he fought the titanular hero.

Trivia
The Plooma Suit from The Return of Ultraman was reused for Plooma's appearance in this series.