Alien Baltan

Alien Baltans (Baltan Seijin in Japenese) are antropods from space. They are one of Ultraman's most popular foes. Baltan's first appearence was in episode #2 of Ultraman in an episode called "Shoot the Invaders!". Their epithet is "Space Ninja Alien Baltan." There trademark is their sinister laugh

History
Around 60,600,000,000 microscopic Baltans came to earth originally because thye needed to repair their spaceship. They decided to claim earth as their own primarily because their home planet was destroyed by nuclear testing. They started to morph together and grow. When reports of mysterious killings were reported, the science patrol came to investigate. The Baltans possesed one of the crew members so they could communicate and they told Shin Hayata (a.k.a. Ultraman) and one of his associates about their plans to conquer the earth. Hayata suggested mars as an alternative, but they said that it was impossible to live there because of substance called specium that weakens them. Hayata then suggested that they might be able to stay if they abided by the laws of the humans. The Baltans quickly rejected this and stopped possesing Hayata's associate. A giant Baltan soon appeared and started recking havoc on the city. Hayata presses the button on the Beta Capsule and transforms into Ultraman. They engage in airial combat. Ultraman then destroys Baltan with his Specium Ray. Ultraman uses his Clairvoyance Beam to spot the invisible Baltan sapceship and destroys it. Baltans then appeared in many incarnations over the years including Baltan Seijin, Baltan Seijin 2, Baltan Seijin 3, Baltan Seijin 4, Baltan Seijin 5, Baltan Seijin 6, Mecha-Baltan, Psycho Baltan, Neo-Baltan, Dark Baltan, Little Baltans (child and tiny who are good and help Ultraman) and more.

Powers
Baltans have a variety of weapons. They can launch machine-gun like white beams, repelling red beams, freezing beams, red/white energy balls, or basic beams all from its two huge claws. If a Baltan suffers enough damage, it can shed its outer skin. They can also posess humans to comminicate as mentioned earlier and create illusions of themselves like ninjas. They can also fuse into one larger Alien Baltan.

Appearences
Blatan has appeared in Ultraman, Ultrafight, The Return of Ultraman, Redman, The Ultraman, Ultraman 80, Andro Melos, Ultraman Powered, Ultraman Cosmos, and Ultraman Max. He appeared in the movie Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie. This shows how popular he is.

Trivia

 * The Baltan's trademark laugh was actually taken from the movie Matango which was the sound effect for the mushroom people.
 * Baltan appeared in Ultrseven as atoy. It may be possible that he was going to be in an episode that got scrapped.