Alien Gapiya

"Oh, Gai-kun! Your service of death has arrived!"

- Alien Gapiya Sadeath

Alien Gapiya (ガピヤ星人) is an alien race that makes an appearance in the 2017 movie, Ultraman Orb The Movie: Lend Me The Power of Bonds!.

Subtitles:
 * Sadeath: Amazing Mechanical Alien (奇機械宇宙人)
 * Abel: Space Hitman (宇宙ヒットマン)

Chapter 2: 'I am the Galaxy's Migrating Bird' Arc
Alien Gapiya Sadeath met Gai several thousands years ago, during one of Gai's journeys on his second mission to collect the four elements for the Orbcalibur. Serving as the bodyguard to Count Orlok on Planet Ganun Api, Sadeath faced Gai when he tried to foil Orlok's scheme until his employer accidentally awakened Gora after detonating his own mine. Gai defeated Sadeath and the latter seemingly died by falling into a volcano.

Chapter 7: 'Space Witch Mulnau's Counterattack, Sadeath's Return'
Sadeath (サデス) is one of the aliens that appeared in the movie.

Eager for a rematch, Sadeath worked as Mulnau's bodyguard, facing Gai with full enigmatism, he met with the wandering hero, stating he was glad to be back, and had no qualms with Gail but due to his role, they had to fight anyway, growing giant, Later on, he would become giant forcing Gai to transform into Orb and combat him in his Burnmite and Hurricane Slash forms. Sadeath complimented Orb on his skill and his new abilities, saying they put up a good fight, but soon Sadeath got the upper hand when he threw away Orb's Orb Slugger Lance.

However, Sadeath still saw him as a worthy opponent and when his Color Timer flashed, he slapped Jack and Zero back into Orb, ordered him to get a grip on himself (Eventually, Orb even nodded to him as if he was saying "Fine"), and if he was ok, so they could finish the fight fairly and honorably. Until then, Alien Guts, Alien Hipporito, and Alien Temperor showed up, interrupted their battle then attacked the Ultra with their signature attacks and took him hostage on Mulnau's orders, leaving Sadeath frustrated.

He then fired at Ultraman Orb and Ultraman X when they were about to finish off Deavorick and he soon went up against Ultraman Orb's Thunder Breastar, and defeats him after Deavorick turned X into jewelry. Orb later returns as Orb Trinity and quickly defeats him using the Trinitium Break. Later on, Sadeath restored himself and targeted Orb with Deavorick's built-in cannon, and managed to defeat him again until Ultraseven arrived. He fights Ultraseven and loses.

"Impossible! But that's awesome!!"

- Sadeath's last words

Eventually he switched his target back to Orb but is now not a match for him, and uses the Final Boost Charge on Deavorick's cannon, only for it to be overwhelmed by the Trinitium Light Ring and had himself sliced in half, putting an end to him for good.

Trivia

 * Voice actor: Koichi Yamadera
 * Alongside Shingo Yanagisawa who portrayed Ittetsu Shibukawa in Ultraman Orb, Koichi Yamadera was also among the Japanese dub actor of Ultraman: Towards the Future, voicing Lloyd Wilder. Yamadera was also excited to participate in the Ultra Series for the first time since Towards the Future. Although initially nervous with his character, Kiyotaka Taguchi encouraged him to put ad-libs into his line, which was also practiced by the other alien roles in said movie.
 * The original magazine scan spelt the alien race's name as Alien Gapia (ガピア星人), differentiated by its last katakana letter.
 * Sadeath, an by extension the whole Gapiya race marks the first alien race whose suit is newly-made in the Heisei Era, with the last one being Fanegon People.
 * Sadeath's suit is a modified Darkgone suit from Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Deciding Fight! The Belial Galactic Empire.
 * Sadeth's asymmetric design was said to be inspired by Alien Perolynga of Ultra Seven.
 * Sadeath's name is a combination of the English words "sadist" and "death", as well as the Japanese for "discrimination" (差別).
 * Sadeath has a somewhat eccentric personality, calling Gai "Gai-kun".
 * Sadeath is the first enemy which Orb faces in his Thunder Breastar form and eventually got defeated.

Ultraman Taiga
Another Alien Gapiya named Abel (アベル) is set to appear in this series. This individual of Gapiya, is known as an alien hitman and the younger brother of Sadeath.