Bemular (ULTRAMAN)

Bemular appears in the new Ultraman Manga, with a very different design from his original appearance, the now human size Bemular serves as Shinjiro's first opponent in the incident that revealed to him several secrets about himself and his father.

Powers/Weapons

 * Heat Ray : Like his original incarnation this Bemular can fire a powerful Heat ray from his mouth, it is clearly very powerful and relatively speaking may be more powerful than the original's
 * Strength :  Bemular possess the strength to battle both Shin Hayata and his son, overpowering the older of the Ultra hybrids due to his advance age and fighting with Shinjiro at an equal pace. He also picked up a portion of the stadium he was fighting in and threw it.
 * Extra Arms : On his chest next to the color timer like light, Bemular has an extra pair of small arms tucked away that can stab his oppenent, although their range is limited to point blank.
 * Durability/Endurance : Bemular possess incredible durability, taking blows from father and son Ultra hybrids at full strength and not only surviving but shaking it of. He also survived when most of his left side was blown of in a rather stoic fashion, leaving one to assume he will regenerate his missing limb.
 * Lasers : Thanks to his armor Bemular can fire red lasers from his hands, usually as energy blasts, he can fire them in continuous streams to cut things
 * Energy Sphere : Using his hand Bemular can form a massive sphere of energy to throw at his enemy, the ball is at least near his height in diameter
 * Flight : Bemular can fly under his own power.

History
Bemular was first seen on video when Shinjiro was a child, his father saw his Ultra like image on a video camera after he blew up a plane. Hayata fought him and most likely defeated, for the next ten years he was not seen again. Years later on a normal night he attacked Shinjiro chasing him across rooftops until they reached a baseball stadium, only the timely arrival of his father in his battle armor saved the boy. After Hayata threw his son to safety in an SSSP carrier plane, the two fought, their dialogue revealing that they were nemesis to each other having fought the other for years. Unfortunately, Shin was now at least sixty and his old age slowed him down and he was gravely wounded. While it seemed the old hero would die his son appeared wearing the new more Ultra like battle armor and took over in his father's place. Bemular no longer had the advantage, Shinjiro was young and rather angry over his father's injuries with the boy having the advantage, although Bemular nearly blew of his head with his heat ray. For whatever reason Bemular decided to finish the battle and formed a massive sphere over his head, while Shinjiro prepared the Specium Ray. Shinjiro won, with Bemular's left half being blown of, to the boy's shock the figure in the armor was clearly not human, instead a reptilian creature with a mouth full of fangs who declared his name and flew of.

Trivia

 * Besides the obvious changes, Bemular is now a sentient being capable of speech, commenting on numerous things that the father and son duo do, usually as mocking remark or a rude jest. He also constantly states that the power the Hayatas wield should not exist on Earth.
 * While sporting several new powers Bemular still keeps his Heat Ray, firing it from his mouth like the original
 * His extra arms are likely a reference to the original's small forearms.
 * Bemular is a fitting first enemy in a manga filled with nodds to the original series, not only was he the first enemy Ultraman faced on Earth but was Hayata's nemesis and then his son's.
 * Dialogue later in the manga, implies that this Bemular is either the resurrected original or resurrected in the sense that Hayata defeated him ten years ago
 * Before his name is revealed Shinjiro assumed he was some manner of Ultra and after his father explained he wasn't he called him a fake ultraman. This is understandable since this blurred image of Bemular was first mistaken for an Ultra by Shin Hayata when he first saw him.