Grand King

Grand King (グランドキング) was a robot (technically cyborg) Kaiju that appeared in the 1984 film Ultraman Story.


 * Subtitle: Super Combined Monster (超合体怪獣)
 * Super Subtitle: Super Monster (超怪獣)
 * Maga Subtitle: King Demon Beast of Earth (土ノ魔王獣)

Ultraman Story
While Taro was fighting Enmargo on Earth, Juda combined the spirits of Alien Baltan, Red King, Gomora, Alien Mefilas, Eleking, and Alien Hipporito into a monsterous robot known as Grand King. The robot took repeated assaults from Ultraman, Seven, Jack, Ace, and Zoffy without even slowing down. Firing back, Grand King brought down each of the Ultra Brothers. Soon the fight was taken to the surface of an alien world where there is no life to minimise damage. The ultras tried their best, but Grand King was too powerful and continued to shrug off their strongest attacks as if they were nothing. Just as it all looked grim for the five Ultras, Taro returned from his battle on Earth to assist his comrades in stopping the machine.

However even after joining the fight, Taro and the brothers were still no match for Grand King's strength and armor. It was then that the revived Father of Ultra sent out an order so that the five brothers fuse together with Taro so that he would have enough power to bring down the juggernaut. Once they did this,Taro managed to topple the goliath. Grand King refused to go down without a fight, resulting in Taro using his new Cosmo Miracle Beam. An attack so powerful it was capable of blowing through Grand King's armor and destroying the mechanical monster for good. With Grand King destroyed, Juda was dragged back to where he came and was never seen again.

Trivia

 * Grand King was also supposed to be put together with the souls of Kingsaurus III, Astromons and Silver Bloome, but the monsters were dropped for unknown reasons.
 * Grand King's appearence and fight with the Ultra Brothers in Ultraman Story was referenced by Hikaru Raido in New Ultraman Retsuden Episode 26.

Ultraman Ginga
An updated Grand King, known as Super Grand King (スーパーグランドキング), appeared in episode 10. Here, he was Dark Lived by Alien Nackle Gray and a corrupted Misuzu. As Hikaru/Ultraman Ginga and Tomoya/Jean-nine realised this, Ginga advise Hikaru to enter Misuzu's mind to reason with her. At the same time,Hikaru's friends and Misuzu's father transformed themselves into Ultraman, Ultraseven and Ultraman Tiga. With Jean-nine, they tried their best to hold off Super Grand King but failed due to the Ultras' time limit and being overpowered at by the monster. When Hikaru finally convinced Misuzu to free herself, she exited Super Grand King, leaving Nackle Gray alone in charge of it while entering Ultraman Ginga and recharged the Ultra's energy. Together, they defeated the robot with Ginga Sunshine, gaining Alien Nackle's and Grand Kings Spark Dolls.

Trivia

 * Super Grand King is the fourth Ultraman Ginga kaiju to be original to the series.
 * Super Grand King roar is a mechanically altered Gabora roar.
 * Super Grand King and Tyrant are the only monsters in the series that were DarkLived by an alien instead of a human, although for a time Alien Nackle had an unwilling human partner.
 * It is possible that this Grand King's lack of the word "combination" in his subtitle was due to him not being a combination.
 * In stage shows, an inflatable prop is sometimes used instead of a suit, such as in Ultraman Festival 2016.

Ultra Fight Victory
Super Grand King reappeared in this special as Super Grand King Spectre (スーパーグランドキング・スペクター), where he receives a similar upgrade to his master, Juda Spectre, being gold and silver in color and wielding a giant sword. In this appearance, Super Grand King looks similar to his original form.

Super Grand King Spectre was created by Juda Spectre to defeat the Ultra Brothers and to destroy everything else after that. After firing his energy blasts at the ultras, Ace launched a Vertical Ultra Guillotine at Grand King but Grand King destroyed it by swinging his Bat Calibre. Then, Leo and Astra used the Leo Kick and Astra Kick respectfully at him, but the kicks weren't enough to counter the energy blasts. Ginga Victory then launched a Mebium Shoot at the robot but Grand King overpowered it with his Chest Laser and even separated the two Ultras. While Victory went up to the distortion to challenge Juda Spectre, Ginga, along with the other Ultras stayed behind to deal with Super Grand King Spectre.

After Super Grand King Spectre launched some more energy blasts, Ginga launched a Ginga Thunderbolt at him to weaken him a bit so that the other Ultras can deal some more damage to him in close combat.

When Victory used his powers in Knight Timbre mode to distort Juda's distortion to his own, the particles from that said dimension weakened Super Grand King Spectre enough to be left immobilized and was defeated by a combination of Ace's Metallium Ray, Leo and Astra's Ultra Double Flasher, and Ginga's Ginga Cross Shot while Victory defeats Juda once and for all with his Knight Victorium Break.

Trivia

 * The word Spectre was originally written as "Spector", as evidenced by its Spark Doll product . However, the release of its Cyber Card, Cyber Super Grand King Spectre eventually contradicted this name.

Ultraman Orb
"The red, horned giant sealed away the giant, malevolent beast that shakes the Earth, with the power of the dragon veins."

- Maga Grand King's description in the Pacific Records

A new Grand King appeared in this series known as Maga-Grand King (マガグランドキング).

On a day like any other day at around 3 PM, a large sinkhole emerged in the Minamigawa business district. Using his Ultra senses, Gai Kurenai immediately discovered that the monster Maga Grand King, "The King Demon Beast of Earth" was responsible for all of this, despite him being sealed in his sleep at the moment. Soon after that, another hole opened up, taking some more buildings with it, It was then revealed that his archnemesis, Jugglus Juggler, planned on neutralizing the Fusion Card that sealed up the monster's and awakening it by using the Kaiju Cards (shown: Telesdon, Antlar, Gomora, and Golza) to awaken the monster by which they simultaneously disrupted the qi of the feng shui seal and had it absorb their strength in hopes of using it's powers to swallow everything on the surface. This would allow the monster awaken despite its seal still remaining, put in place, by Ultraman Taro in the ancient past using the ancient feng shui system.

Despite some intervention from Gai, the vile fiend managed get rid of the last two dragon veins, and succeed in his mission. Maga Grand King rose again, and Gai transformed into Ultraman Orb to stop him. Although the Ultra managed to dodge his empowered drills with his accelerated speed, his physical attacks failed to daze the monster. Orb launched a Sparion Ray at the robot, which seemed to just stun the beast. Maga-Grand King retaliated by firing large lasers from his chest. After avoiding a few blasts, Orb began to run out of time. Avoiding another blast, he noticed that the beam was reflected off of the glass of the building behind him. Knowing this, Orb beckoned Maga-Grand King to fire yet another laser and, Orb used the Orb Mirror. After a small struggle, Orb managed to reflect the beam back at the Grand King creating a hole that exposed it's insides, Orb fired another Sparion Ray, this time into the hole, causing Maga-Grand King to explode. Jugglus Juggler obtained Maga-Grand King's Kaiju Card through the use of his Dark Ring while Gai obtained Ultraman Taro's Ultra Fusion Card from the monster's Maga Crystal.

Trivia

 * True to being the Maga variant of Grand King, this form sport multiple features that the original Grand King had, with the only resemblance to its Super variant is its weapons.

Data
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Stats

 * Height: 70 m (78 in some sources)
 * Weight: 215,000 t
 * Length of right arm: 46 m
 * Length of left arm: 32 m
 * Foot Size: 15 m

Powers and Weapons

 * Gran Laser (グランレーザー): Grand King can fire powerful energy beams from head, mouth, and tail. They are strong enough to knock down any of the Ultra Brothers and cause massive explosions
 * Strength : Grand King is strong enough to overpower several Ultras at once.
 * Armor : The armor on Grand King's body is extremely strong, it is capable of taking massive amounts of damage, shrugging of multiple Ultra Beams.
 * Gran Crash (グランクラッシュ): Grand King can fire explosive rounds from his left claw.
 * Energy Shield : Grand King can create a shield of energy to protect himself. Used to free itself when the five Ultra Brothers grabbed him.
 * Pellet : Grand King has a pellet on his arm that can catch Ultraseven's Eye Slugger.

Super= {{#tag:tabber| Original= Super Grand King

Stats

 * Height: 78 m
 * Weight: 215,000 t
 * Origin: Unknown

Powers and Weapons

 * Energy Beam : Super Grand King can fire a purple energy stream from it's mouth.
 * Chest Lasers : Super Grand King can absorb energies from its back and launch it on the chest.
 * Strength : Super Grand King is strong enough to overpower several Ultras at once and even Jean Nine.
 * Armor : The armor on Super Grand King's body is extremely strong, capable of taking massive amounts of damage before breaking.
 * Giant Left Claw : Super Grand King armed with an oversized claw on its left arm.
 * Right Hand Pincher : Super Grand King is armed with an oversized pincher on its right arm.
 * Tail Mace : At the end of the monster's tail has a spiked load which can be act as a mace for melee combat.

Spectre= {{#tag:tabber| Original= Super Grand King Spectre

Stats

 * Height: 78 m
 * Weight: 215,000 t
 * Origin: Juda Spectre

Powers and Abilities

 * Giant Left Claw : Super Grand King Spectre is armed with an oversized claw on its left arm.
 * Strength : Super Grand King Spectre is strong enough to overpower several Ultras at once.
 * Bat Calibre (バットキャリバー): Super Grand King Spectre is armed with an oversized blade on its right arm. This sword is the similar one used by Juda Spectre, despite different in their positions (Juda's Bat Calibre is a handheld sword while Grand King's is an arm blade). It can even glow even swung (first used to counter Ace's Ultra Guillotine).
 * Energy Blasts : Super Grand King Spectre can fire rapid energy blasts from his body.
 * Chest Laser : Super Grand King Spectre can fire a huge laser that can overpower Ultraman Ginga Victory's Mebium Shot and separate the two Ultras.

Cyber= Cyber Super Grand King Spectre Cyber Super Grand King Spectre (サイバースーパーグランドキング・スペクター)

Stats

 * Height: 78 m
 * Weight: 215,000 t
 * Origin: Xio headquarters
 * Cyber Power: 23/25

Powers and Weapons

 * Giant Left Claw : Super Grand King Spectre is armed with an oversized claw on its left arm.
 * Bat Calibre (バットキャリバー): Super Grand King Spectre is armed with an oversized blade on its right arm. This sword is the similar one used by Juda Spectre, despite different in their positions (Juda's Bat Calibre is a handheld sword while Grand King's is an arm blade). It can even glow even swung (first used to counter Ace's Ultra Guillotine).

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Maga= Maga-Grand King

Stats

 * Height: 70 m
 * Weight: 215,000 t
 * Origin: Jugglus Juggler

Powers and Weapons

 * Giant Left Claw : Maga-Grand King is armed with an oversized claw on its left arm.
 * Drill Empower : This hand can spin at a rapid speed to become an energy drill.
 * Right Hand Pincher : Maga-Grand King is armed with an oversized pincher on its right arm.
 * Drill Empower : This hand can also spin at a rapid speed to become an energy drill.
 * Maga-Flash (マガ一閃): Seemingly a variant of Grand King's standard Grand Laser, Maga-Grand King can fire a powerful red laser capable of cutting a circular hole through any non-reflective material, including its own armour. This laser appears to be unable to damage reflective objects or cut through an Ultra's armour, although it can still deal heavy damage to the latter.
 * Shockwave Emission : Maga-Grand King can unleash an energy burst which causes the ground shake.
 * Maga-Perforation (マガ穿孔): Maga-Grand King can create an enormous sinkhole, big enough to consume a small city. If a square of perforations are produced, he will appear on the surface in the center of the square.
 * Burrowing : Maga-Grand King can burrow underground at a moderate speed.
 * Armor : As its hide composed of a special unknown metal, Maga-Grand King is durable against most attacks, even Ultra Beam. However, his own beam can pierce his hide

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Toy Release Information
Bandai released Grand King twice, once as a normal 6 inch figure and again as a DX Spark Doll. The normal figures have 4 points of articulation, both arms and both legs. They are highly detailed, but one variation has yellow markings, something the original never had.

The Spark Doll version was a DX (deluxe) release of Super Grand King. It has a brown-rust colored scheme, and is highly detailed. It is compatible with either the DX Ginga Spark or the Dark Spark. It stands 6" tall, and features 4 points of articulation (right arm, left hand and legs).  A "Fire Red version," painted a metallic dark red, was released as a promo at the Ultraman Festival 2014.

A Banpresto plush Grand King was released in yellow-gold as well.

Spark Doll
"DarkLive, Super Grand King!"

- Super Grand King DarkLived via Dark Dummy Spark.

Super Grand King became a Spark Doll in the conclusion of the Dark Spark War due to the Dark Spark's powers. His Spark doll was kept in Dark Lugiel's collection, and given to Alien Nackle to give to evil-hearted humans to seed chaos.

Stats

 * Height: 14 cm
 * Weight: 150 g

Usage
This Spark Doll has been used on one occasion by one person and one alien: After Dark Lugiel's defeat, Super Grand King's Spark Doll is likely to have reverted back to its original form and depart Earth to return home.
 * In Episode 10, Misuzu Isurugi and Alien Nackle DarkLived into Super Grand King to destroy Furuboshi Middle School. Hikaru Raido and Tomoya Ichijouji used Ultraman Ginga and Jean-nine to combat Super Grand King, but after Ginga's plan to save Misuzu by transferring Hikaru's consciousness immobilized him, Kenta Watarai, Chigusa Kuno and Seiichiro Isurugi UltraLived into Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman and UltraSeven, Jean-nine got some backup, but Grand King soon defeated them.  However, when Hikaru and Misuzu reconciled, an empowered Ginga beat Grand King and Nackle using Ginga Sunshine.