"Earth is a beautiful planet, so we the people of Sran have decided to make it a second home for ourselves."
- ―The Alien Sran agent, Infinite Invaders
Alien Sran [1][2] are a race of aliens who debuted in episode 4 of Ultraman Max. They came from the planet Sran to make Earth as their second home and annihilate humans for having caused so much pollution on Earth.
Subtitle: High-Speed Alien [1]
History
Ultraman Max
One night, a power plant experienced an abrupt and mysterious shutdown. Shortly after the power was restored, tragedy struck when two workers were killed by a strange blue beam. Not long after, a security guard met a similar fate, but this time the cause was a lethal attack by an extraterrestrial being later identified as Alien Sran. Around the same time, the DASH detected unusual alien activity, which they traced to a nearby football stadium.
DASH members Mizuki Koishikawa and Kaito Touma were dispatched to investigate the stadium. As they were about to leave, Kaito noticed something darting past him at incredible speed. The two pursued the fast-moving figure, which eventually stopped, revealing itself to be a stadium guard who was, in reality, Alien Sran in disguise. In response to the pursuit, Sran fired at the DASH members, though they managed to avoid injury thanks to their defensive maneuvers. The alien then deployed an energy shield, rendering it impervious to the counterattack.
In an effort to escape, Mizuki and Kaito retreated in the DASH Alpha vehicle, but Alien Sran easily caught up to them. Using the EMP field emitted from his arm blades, Sran disabled the DASH Alpha, leaving them vulnerable. The alien then transported the vehicle aboard his spacecraft, which had been camouflaged as part of the stadium. As the disguise faded, the alien ship took off into the sky.
Realizing the threat, DASH quickly mobilized to intercept the ship before it could leave Earth's atmosphere. Inside the alien vessel, Alien Sran revealed his true intentions to Mizuki and Kaito, stating that Earth would soon become a new home for his species. He regarded humanity as the primary polluter of the planet, responsible for its environmental decline.
Meanwhile, DASH Mother, the squad's primary command ship, fired a powerful laser that severely damaged the alien ship’s energy cannon. With its primary weapon disabled, Sran's ship began to descend uncontrollably towards Earth. Mizuki and Kaito managed to escape the crashing vessel aboard the DASH Alpha just in time. However, once the ship crashed, Alien Sran emerged from the wreckage, having grown to colossal size.
Sran immediately resumed his rampage, targeting a nearby town and causing widespread destruction. In response, DASH deployed their twin attack aircraft, the Birds, in an attempt to contain the alien menace. Sran tried to confuse the DASH forces by creating multiple illusions of himself, but the team quickly calculated a way to counter the false images and neutralize the threat. Despite their efforts, one of the Birds was shot down.
At this critical moment, Kaito transformed into Ultraman Max, engaging Alien Sran in a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Initially, Ultraman Max had the upper hand, but Sran soon regained control by using illusions and launching a series of rapid, coordinated attacks. Even as his Color Timer began to signal critical energy depletion, Ultraman Max refused to back down. Summoning his strength, he unleashed the Maxium Sword, cutting through Sran’s illusions and catching the alien by surprise. With a final, decisive strike using the Maxium Cannon, Ultraman Max obliterated Alien Sran, bringing an end to the extraterrestrial threat.Infinite Invaders
Trivia
- Voice actor: Yasuhiko Kawazu
- By the fact that Sran was the first alien in Ultraman Max, his design and capabilities are an homage to Alien Baltan.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
Alien Sran in Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy, using a projection to gloat about Max's defeat
Alien Sran ambushed Ultraman Ribut and Ultraman Max while they were patrolling Planet Mikarito, infecting the latter with Gudis Cells, weakening Max. Sran intended for the virus to fully infect Max, turning him into a monster that would be fed to Maga-Orochi's egg to accelerate its evolution into Magatano-Orochi.
Three days later, when Ribut, Powered and Great arrived to rescue Max, Sran and Hellberus immediately reappeared and began tag-teaming the three Ultras, aided by Max, who had been brainwashed into a berserker-like state by the effects of his infection. While Ribut attempted to treat Max with the artificial antibodies developed by Ultraman Hikari and Sora, Great and Powered kept Sran and Hellberus busy. As Ribut successfully treated Max with the antibodies, Maga-Orochi finally emerged, but Sran and Hellberus were unable to join it, as Xenon suddenly arrived and joined Max and Ribut in fighting the Lord Monster after recharging Max's energy.
Sran failed to put much of a fight up against Great, who quickly defeated him with his Burning Plasma, with Sran falling to the ground and exploding. Sran somehow managed to survive his defeat, and was later met by his master, Absolute Tartarus, who reprimanded him for his failure in spite of being given everything he needed to carry out his plan. Though the alien begged for another chance, Tartarus refused to forgive Sran for his failures and killed him with Absolute Execution. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
Trivia
- Voice actor: You Murakami
- No explanation is given as to this Alien Sran's origin. Given the vague clue that Tartarus had saved him once, as well as his knowledge of Ultraman Max, it's implied that he was a Parallel Isotope of the first appearing alien whose death was avoided in the nick of time through the Absolutian's timely intervention.
Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!
Eteldummy copy of Alien Sran
An Eteldummy of Alien Sran was created by Etelgar along with the other opponents. He stationed himself on the second floor of Arena's castle, waiting for Ultraman Max to fight him. Sran used his duplication ability to evade Max, but Max used the Maxium Sword to knock him down. Max then defeated Sran with the Max Galaxy. Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!
Trivia
- Lagoras Evo was meant to appear in the movie to fight Max but this wasn't able to happen as Lagoras' suit was in a currently unusable condition. After this, Max's opponent was going to be Zetton, but this idea was too turned down as Zetton was not a "Max-exclusive" kaiju. Eventually, Sran was chosen as he was the only suit left from Max that was of suitable condition.
Ultraman X
"I haven't a speck of interest in conquering this world. My only target in all of this is Ultraman Max! I'm putting X to good use, so I might avenge my brethren. Ultraman X's power plus Zetton's power equals the birth of the ultimate warrior!"
- ―Quila revealing his plan.
Alien Sran Quila[3]
Many years after the events of Ultraman Max's time, an Alien Sran named Quila traveled to an alternate Earth, where his goal was to use Ultraman X to enact revenge on Max for killing the first Alien Sran. At some point after traveling to The World Where The Ultra Flare Occurred, Quila came into possession of a Zetton Spark Doll, and after studying Xio, and UNVER then learning of Daichi Oozora, he used the human form of a researcher, with his face based on the Max's former human host, Kaito Touma.
He unleashed his Zetton during the daylight and introduced his guise as Dr. Touma to Xio the next day, "assisting" them in creating Zetton Armor for Ultraman X to wear it when battling Zetton. Then when he re-released Zetton for X appear, he activated a program that rendered X immobile while Zetton rampaged. Ultraman Max in the disguise of his former host revealing the impostor but while he was quick to join X in his battle against Zetton, leaving Quila to Xio, but Quila's virus in Xio's Zetton Armor suddenly brainwashed X, who was forced to band with Zetton and overpower Max. It wasn't until Daichi used Cyber Eleking to destroy the virus and finally assist Max. Quila fought Max and was destroyed by the Max Galaxy's Galaxy Cannon. X in Peril
Trivia
- Actors:
- Sota Aoyama (Kaito Touma disguise)
- Kenta Matsumoto (voice in original form)
- Kenta voicing Alien Sran is ironic since he previously voiced Ultraman Max in the previous Ginga S movie, who at that time, did battle with an Alien Sran.
- This Alien Sran's name comes from Kuàisù , the Chinese word for 'Speed'.
Ultraman Taiga
Alien Zarab, Alien Godola and Alien Sran sought out Alien Chibull Mabuze's help in defeating the Tri-Squad and Ultraman Tregear so that they could stand unopposed. Mabuze decided to help them by using the Belial samples he acquired to create Imit-Ultraman Belial, who was able to overcome each of the Tri-Squad members, though they had to give it a power boost using additional Belial cells when Ultraman Tregear appeared. Ironically, this became their undoing as Tregear led the Belial clone to destroy the building that the aliens were in, crushing them under the rubble. Clash! Ultra Big Match!
Data
Alien Sran
- Stats
- Height: 2 ~ 51 m
- Weight: 69 kg ~ 28,000 t
- Origin: Planet Sran
- Powers and Weapons
- Arm Blades: On each of Sran's arms is a blade that can tear through nearly anything. These swords can energize each other to emit an EMP field, disrupting electronic devices like cars and phones.
- Claw Laser: Sran can emit powerful energy blasts from his claws that can disintegrate humans.
- Acceleration: Sran is able to maneuver acceleration at blinding speeds.
- Afterimages: Sran can create fake copies of itself via images when moving at high speed to trick the opponent.
- Human Disguise: Sran can disguise itself as an ordinary human.
- Size Change: Sran can change sizes at will. Growing from human size to 51 meters.
- Energy Shield: Sran can create a small shield in front of him to block energy fire.
- Spaceship: Sran has a space ship that can even disguise itself as a football stadium.
- Ultraman X
- Zetton Spark Doll: A Spark Doll he required sometime ago, used to summon Zetton and create the Zetton Armor. This armour also contains a Computer Virus which can brainwash Ultras.
- Spark Doll Reanimation: Through unknown means, Sran had materialized Zetton to life from its Spark Doll.
Merchandise
Photo courtesy of monsters-empire
- Alien Sran & IF "The Young Girl's Tears Version" Set (2006)
- Release Date: April 1, 2006
- Materials: PVC
- Released as a mail-away order for the May 2006 issue of the Hyper Hobby Magazine, this Ultra Monster Series Alien Sran is a magazine-exclusive figure. Molded in black soft vinyl plastic, Sran features metallic dark purple, silver, and some metallic orange-yellow paint operations.
- Alien Sran released along with a translucent yellow redeco of the IF figure.
- Alien Sran (Ultra Monster Series, 2012)
- Release Date: April 21, 2012
- ID Number: EX
- JAN/ISBN: 4543112741127
- Materials: PVC
- 6 years later, the Alien Sran figure is re-released under the Ultra Monster Series lineup, labelled as an EX. Changes include the purple paint being bluish, and several of the details are omitted.
Gallery
Ultraman Max
Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!
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Ultraman X
Ultraman Taiga
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
References
| Ultraman Max Kaiju | |
|---|---|
| Grangon | Lagoras | Eleking | Baby Eleking | Reguila | Alien Sran | Pigmon | Red King | Salamadon | Paragler | People of Nebula KJ-K5 (Kesam, Kerus, Kedam) | Bugdalas | Natsunomeryu | Metacisus | Antlar | Halen | Alien Zetton | Zetton | King Joe | IF | Mike, Kuro and Tama | Nina | Eraga | Alien Shamer | Alien Tarla | Gilfas | Cloudos | Gomora III | Madeus | Flygler | Alien Metron | Alien Neril | Alien Godley | Unizin | Alien Pitt | Luganoger | Lilika | Geronga | Lagoras Evo | Alien Moetaranga | Tiny Baltan | Dark Baltan | Hophop | Adam | Eve | Red King II | Alien Satun | Keplus | Delos People | Auto Maton | Scout Berserke | Satellite Berserke | Giga Berserke | |