Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-116.65.70.72-20130325123118/@comment-5527544-20130703120946

Okay here I go again, since you people didn't understand.

Hayata and Ultraman were most likely merged again during the Mebius series, which also includes the movie.

It is stated on Japanese website for Zero movies that Ultraman was using the image of Hayata.

Given that Ultra Galaxy, the show between Mebius and the movies, took place obviously some decades after Mebius given how far mankind had gone in terms of technology (many of the construction projects seen such as an artificial sun and teraforming a planet would have taken years, maybe decades, given their size). Given the length of time and the fact that a pargon of behavior like Ultraman would not carelessly endanger Hayata like that. The most logical conclusion, the only one that makes sense is that Hayata is already dead.

Why didn't Ultraman re-merge with Hayata, maybe the guy didn't want it, by now he should've had a family or like Kotaro didn't want to give up what he saw as his humanity. That's not the point the point is, all evidence implies that Hayata is dead and Ultraman was simply honoring his memory, or, here's another theory, because of their merger Hayata's form became his default form when he could no longer maintain his Ultra form. Evidence for that theory? I don't have any but it makes more sense than saying Ultraman was just stealing Hayata's identity. I hope this is cleared.