Ultraman Geed (character)

"Please state your post-Fusion Rise designation. Uh... Geed! Ultraman Geed!"

- Riku Asakura and RE.M., Welcome to the Secret Base

Ultraman Geed (ウルトラマンジード) is the main hero of his series.

Etymology
Riku came up with the name himself, and is derived from his motto "Sitting around doing nothing will get us nowhere! (ジーッとしててもドーにもならねえ！)".

His name could also be derived from the words "Gene" (ジーン) and "Seed" (シード). The word "Gene" refers to the DNA of each Ultras respectively, contained within the Ultra Capsules. Alternatively, as the son of Belial, he inherited his father's genes. Also, for Riku to have been born, Belial had to have spread his "seed" one way or another.

Ultra Fight Orb
As a heavily wounded Reibatos, who just managed to survive his last battle with Ultraman Orb, tried to revive Ultraman Belial, (only to fail and realize Belial is still alive) Geed in his Primitive form arrived and finished off Reibatos with his Wrecking Burst.

Ultraman Geed
Geed is the son of Ultraman Belial. As a teenage boy named Riku Asakura, he lives on Earth without any awareness of his origins. Upon regaining the ability to transform into his Ultra form, Geed learns of his true origin.

Statistics

 * Height: 51 m
 * Weight:
 * Primitive: 41,000 t
 * Solid Burning: 45,000 t
 * Acro Smasher: 35,000 t
 * Shining Mystic: 38,000 t
 * Tri-Slugger: 52,000 t
 * Mugen Crosser: 43,000 t
 * Weakness: Geed's Color Timer is subjected to the three-minutes limit but to make things worse, he cannot transform for a period of 20 hours should the time limit expire.
 * Flight speed: Mach 5.5
 * Running speed: Mach 2

All Forms

 * Color Timer (カラータイマー): Geed has a capsule-shaped vertical Color Timer.
 * Protector (プロテクター): Geed has 2 metallic pieces of smaller protectors on his chest. They are more developed in Solid Burning form and seem to cover his entire body in armor, especially on the chest and shoulders

Fusion Rise

 * Ultra Horn (ウルトラホーン): In his Magnificent form, Geed sports large horns.
 * Armor: In his Solid Burning and Magnificent forms, Geed has additional armor on his chest, shoulders and hands.
 * Beam Lamp: In his Solid Burning form, Geed sports a green beam lamp like Seven's and Leo's.
 * Geed Slugger (ジードスラッガー): Geed has a crest weapon atop his head in Solid Burning form. It is based off and inherited from Ultraseven's Eye Slugger.

Transformation
Riku first activates a pair of Ultra Capsules, causing apparitions of the Ultras to appear as he inserts the Capsules into the Loading Knuckle. After scanning both capsules, Riku says his signature catchphrase depending on his Fusion Rise, while bringing his right arm out before swinging it counterclockwise until it points up. Then he raises the Riser before bringing it back down to his chest, and pressing the trigger of Riser, causing his body to transform into his Ultra form, soon being covered in light and the face of Early Style Belial forms.

Standard Abilities

 * Weapons


 * Geed Claw (ジードクロー): Geed's weapon that can be used for close range combat.
 * Claw Cutting (クローカッティング): Activated by pressing the trigger once, then pressing its Deciding Switch (決めスイッチ), Geed can fire a red projectile blade that drills into its target before exploding.
 * Corkscrew Jamming (コークスクリュージャミング): Activated by pressing the trigger twice, then pressing its Deciding Switch (決めスイッチ), Geed first leaps, then spins in a manner of a human bullet while holding the Geed Claw in front of him and strikes the enemy.
 * Diffusion Shower (ディフュージョンシャワー): Activated by scanning the yellow tab on the blade of the Geed Claw via the Riser, which causes the Riser to announce Shift into Maximum! (シフトイントゥマキシマム!), Riku then presses the Expansion Switch (展開スイッチ), causing the blades open up to the sides, then he presses the trigger thrice and finally, he presses the Deciding Switch (決めスイッチ) to initiate the attack. Geed fires a beam from the Geed Claw to the sky and it rains onto the target in a shower of light.

Ultra Hero Series
Standing in the same size as the Ultra Hero 500 figures, the soft vinyl figurine of Ultraman Geed is based on his default Primitive form. And like every soft vinyl Ultramen figurines, he sports limited articulation on the arms & waist and unfortunately, like most Ultra Hero 500 figures, a small number of paint details are omitted for cost reasons.
 * Ultraman Geed Primitive (2017)
 * Release Date: July 8, 2017
 * Price: 600 yen
 * JAN/ISBN: 4549660167242
 * Materials: PVC

This Ultraman Festival 2017 exclusive version of Geed Primitive is a transparent redeco of the figure above.
 * Ultraman Geed Primitive (Ultraman Festival 2017 exclusive, 2017)
 * Release Date: July 21, 2017 (1st cour), August 9, 2017 (2nd cour)
 * Price: 600 yen
 * Materials: PVC


 * Ultraman Geed Solid Burning (2017)
 * Release Date: July 22, 2017
 * Price: 600 yen
 * JAN/ISBN: 4549660167228
 * Materials: PVC

This new mold of the Ultraman Geed figure is based on his Solid Burning form.


 * Ultraman Geed Solid Burning (Ultraman Festival 2017 exclusive, 2017)
 * Release Date: July 21, 2017 (1st cour), August 9, 2017 (2nd cour)
 * Price: 600 yen
 * Materials: PVC

This Ultraman Festival 2017 exclusive version of Geed Solid Burning is a transparent redeco of the figure above.


 * Ultraman Geed Acro Smasher (2017)
 * Release Date: August 5, 2017
 * Price: 600 yen
 * JAN/ISBN: 4549660167266
 * Materials: PVC

This new mold of the Ultraman Geed figure is based on his Acro Smasher form.

Play Hero VS/Sofubi Hero

 * Ultraman Geed Primitive VS Gomora (2017)
 * Release Date: August 1, 2017
 * Price: 400 yen
 * JAN/ISBN: 4549660159353
 * Materials: PVC
 * Released as part of the "Ultraman Geed Appears" lineup, this smaller-sized Ultraman Geed figure is casted in transparent red, with limited paint applications. He was packed with a similarly semi-transparent Gomora. Package images with Geed Primitive & Gomora includes the said figures.

Combinations
Like Orb, the Ultras used in each of Geed's forms share something in common with each other.


 * Fusion Rise (In-Series)
 * Ultraman + Ultraman Belial = Primitive: Both Ultras are infamous for their hunching positions and were initially planned to have mouth-opening mechanisms before they were scrapped. Aside from that, Belial's AR counterpart is suspected by the readers to have possessed Ultraman's AR counterpart. As the term "Primitive" suggests, it also refers to how these Ultras are the first in the following aspects:
 * Ultraman is the first Ultra to arrive and fight monsters on Earth. He is also the first to be created, hence some of the later Ultras who end up borrowing his archetype.
 * Belial is the first Ultra from the Land of Light to defect to the side of evil. Unlike many evil Ultras, he is the first (and only) one to live on and continue to antagonize every heroic Ultra afterwards.
 * Ultraseven + Ultraman Leo = Solid Burning: Following his arrival on Earth, Leo was mentored by Seven during his missions. Both of their series also focused on a serious and horrifying genre where they each entered a state of dilemma.
 * Seven: He kept wondering if the human race was worth protecting due to witnessing their ugly sides (bombing of Pegassa City, Planet Gyeron, Nonmalt City, etc.).
 * Leo: He faced the tragedy of losing his family and friends, as his home world was destroyed by Alien Magma and later on lost his friends and MAC members to Silver Bloome's attack.
 * Ultraman Cosmos + Ultraman Hikari = Acro Smasher: Both are blue-colored Ultras who experienced remorse from a dead planet and spent their time chasing the masterminds of their respective series to Earth before they took on a human host. As part of the blue tribe, both Ultras are proficient in strategies and the use of speed in combat.
 * Father of Ultra + Ultraman Zero = Magnificent: Both Ultras are related as Belial's bitter enemies and are among the strongest warriors in existence. The actor for Zero's current human host nominated Father of Ultra as his favorite character from his childhood. They are also key members of a peacekeeping organization.
 * Father: Supreme Commander of the Space Garrison.
 * Zero: Founder of the Ultimate Force Zero.


 * Fusion Rise (Game-Exclusive)
 * Ultraman + Ultraman Zero = Shining Mystic: Both Ultras had to, at least once, depend on the power of Baraji to defeat an otherwise unbeatable opponent. Ultraman Zero himself likes comparing things to 20,000 years in his speech, which is the same age as the original Ultraman. Also worth noting is that the actor for Ultraman's human host mentioned that his favorite Ultraman is Zero.
 * Ultraman Belial + Ultraman Orb = Tri-Slugger: Both Ultras are estranged from their former partners and briefly lost their personal weapons for an unspecified period of time. In their first appearance, their color schemes are red and silver, and later an additional color in black as a result of their actions. They had also used the power of an opposing side for their own.
 * Belial: Possessed and exploited Zero's power to assassinate the latter's own team.
 * Orb: Possessed Belial's Ultra Fusion Card, allowing him to use his dark power for the side of good along with Zoffy's card to form Thunder Breastar.
 * Ultraman Tiga + Ultraman Zero = Mugen Crosser: Both Ultras redeemed themselves for a past atrocity (Tiga was once an evil Ultra as Tiga Dark, while Zero tried to harness the Plasma Spark) and once turned evil from their masterminds. They lack a fixed human host (meaning they merged with more than one human), and resurrected from being defeated by a Dai Kaiju (Gatanothor and Arch Belial) through human hopes, which they utilized in their strongest forms (Glitter Tiga and Ultimate Zero) to destroy said monsters. They are also Ultras that debuted in a revival hiatus for the Ultra Series and gained alternate forms.
 * Tiga: Acquired Type Change forms by absorbing Darramb and Hudra's powers.
 * Zero: Acquired Mode Change forms after his fusion with Dyna and Cosmos.

Trivia

 * Geed's name was written as "Xead" before the reveal.
 * His name is also mistakenly referred as "Zeed" by fans before the reveal, due to the fact the Kana and Hiragana word for "ジ/じ", has the same words as "Zi" and "Ji", if romanized.
 * Geed's Color Timer sound is a reused Belial Early Style Color Timer sound and with some Ultraman's Color Timer sound in it.
 * Geed's grunts sometimes emits Belial's grunt sound, in his Primitive form.
 * Geed is the third Ultra whose father's identity is confirmed, while the first one is Taro and the second one is Zero.
 * Geed is the second Ultra to combine the assets of two past Ultras' to create his own forms, the first being Orb.
 * Geed is the fifth Ultra to have blue eyes. The first was Powered, the second one was Evil Tiga, the third was Zero in his Shining Form, and the fourth was Orb.
 * Geed is the third Ultra whose eyes aren't round nor boxy like almost of Ultras. The first one was Belial and the second one was Orb in his Thunder Breaster form.
 * Geed is the fourth Ultra to feature blade-like organs on his arms. The first one was Powered, the second one was The Next and the third one was Nexus.
 * Geed in his Acro Smasher form is the third Ultra to fire his beam with his horizontal arm behind his vertical one, instead of in front. The first one was Gaia and the second one was Hikari.
 * Geed is the eighth good Ultra to feature black markings on his body. The first was Tiga in Tiga Dark, Tiga Tornado and Tiga Blast form, the second was Agul, the third was Gaia in both Version 2 and Supreme Version, the fourth was Justice, the fifth was Nexus in Junis Form, the sixth was Victory and the seventh was Orb.
 * Geed is the first Ultra since Ginga to not have a Color Timer themed after an English letter.
 * Geed has slight facial resemblances to Chaiyo Ultramen; Ultraman Elite and Ultraman Millenium. He also slightly resembles Ultraman Powered in some aspects.
 * One of Geed's Fusion Rise, Solid Burning, is rather interesting as his and Zero's roles in the series reflect those of Leo and Seven respectively from Ultraman Leo. The fact that he transforms into Royal Mega Master is an allusion of how Leo gains the Ultra Mantle from the same Ultra.
 * His design is also looks strikingly similar to Iron Man's armor from Marvel Entertainment, as both of them are able to shoot their beam from their chest (Iron Man's R.T Node and Geed's Solar Boost) and possess rocket boost-like attachments.
 * Riku's supporting A.I. named RE.M., can be compared to Tony Stark's supporting A.I. named J.A.R.V.I.S.
 * \Ironically, some of Solid Burning's sound effects are re-used from Alien Magma's when using his special ability (For example, when he was performing the Boost Punch for the first time, you can almost hear that it uses Magma's roar). What strange also, is that Alien Magma is both Leo's and Seven's enemy in Leo's series.
 * Similar to the recent tradition of Toei's Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series, Geed becomes the first Ultra to have a pre-series cameo debut.
 * Unlike Orb, Geed at this time retains the same eye design with every fusion he takes on. Orb has six forms that have changed eye designs (2 in series, 4 in game).
 * At the age nineteen, Geed is currently the youngest known Ultra in the history of the Ultra Series.
 * Acro Smasher is the first fusion that breaks the trend in which Orb had set up, with the older Ultra production wise being first to be scanned then the more recent Ultra. But in Acro Smasher's transformation, Riku scans Hikari first, then Cosmos. This can be contributed to Hikari having made the Ultra Capsules, and is thus getting a version of a creator-based cameo. Alternatively, it could also be that Cosmos is not from M78 (which is also referenced by him holding up his left hand instead of the right), and all "outsider" Ultras come later in the theoretical Capsule scanning heirarchy.
 * Interestingly, three of his in-series forms have similar aspects to a villain from a previous Ultra Series staring a component of his Fusion Rise forms, respectively;
 * Primitve: His body color is identical to Alien Zarab's disguise as Fake Ultraman, including his irregular eye shape and black lines on a red and silver body.
 * Solid Burning: Due to the fact that it shares robotic traits, it is a possible reference to Robot Ultraseven.
 * Acro Smasher: His body markings have a slightly resemblance to Chaos Ultraman's, most tellingly being the thigh area.