Bezelb

Bezelb (ベゼルブ) are Kaiju that appear in Ultraman Orb THE ORIGIN SAGA. They served the Alien Wraith scientist Dr. Psychi, who in turn resonated with their ruler Queen Bezelb.

Subtitle: Space Demons (宇宙悪魔)

Ultraman Orb THE ORIGIN SAGA
The children to Queen Bezelb, they were represented as darkness to the War God's light and was meant to be defensive systems of the Tree of Life should intelligences becomes nuisance to the universe, until they defected and contemplate to destroy said tree. Now led by Psychi, their mission is to spread to the entire universe and infect any being in their sight, doing so to empower Queen Bezelb's Kugutsu.

One single Bezelb was on Planet Rurin, who infect a pair of Rurin natives into fighting each others before the intervention of Gai and Juggler. After said Bezelb killed its victims, Gai transformed into Ultraman Orb where he first had the difficulty of fighting said monster until he managed to defeat it in his second fight, marking it as his first kill.

On Zain, a swarm of Bezelbs participated in fighting against the intruders, as well as Ultraman Orb and Dyna before they left with Psychi's ship. As the ship arrived on Kanon, the Bezelbs infected Vakishim and Verokron as part of their ranks to join them in the raid, provoking Amate to transform into the War God. Smaller platoon of Bezelbs are shown fighting against Kanon's defense army, with one successfully killed Micott and provoked Juggler's first transformation into a Majin, leading to the destruction of the Tree of Life.

The troop retreated to Psychi's ship and arrived on Earth, where one of them kidnapped Shohei before Orb rescued him. Two other giant Bezelbs had also fought against the Earth Ultramen Gaia and Agul before an entire army gathered to protect the Tree of Life under Psychi's orders. After the Queen successfully infect and turned the War God into a Kugutsu bomb, the Bezelbs protected her by successfully incapacitating resistances of their campaign. They soon participated in the final battle, now lead by Psyqueen to fight the Ultra Warriors and destroy the Tree of Life. Following Queen Bezelb's death, the Bezelbs are nowhere to be seen afterwards, with the race presumed to be extinct.

Trivia

 * Bezelb was designed by Hiroshi Maruyama, who returned to work for Tsuburaya as a freelancer.
 * Their name, Bezelb is based on Beelzebub, one of the demons in the Old Testament, true to their subtitle as space demons. Their symbol is the Fly, which may tie in to their insect design.
 * In the Christian demonology, the Beelzebub were notorious for numerous demonic possession cases, which is based on the effect of Kugutsu on their victims.
 * Being a hive-like monsters, their characteristics are based on bees and other colonial insects.
 * Their poison's name, Kugutsu is a Japanese word for "Puppet" (傀儡).
 * The Bezelbs and their Queen are tributes to Chaos Header from Ultraman Cosmos, as shown:
 * They are the antagonists of their respective shows.
 * Both had the ability to enslave their targets. Infected targets sport minor alterations to their bodies.
 * The reason for their atrocious acts is to create a world of peace, which according to their believe is void of individual free will. This is however revealed to be a ruse when the Queen aimed to destroy all life forms by eliminating intelligences and free will.
 * When entities are being manipulated by Kugutsu, a sound effect of Hedorah from the Godzilla franchise can be heard.