Mini-Mutant is a villain who appeared in the Ultraman Taro manga. He mind-controlled children to use against Taro and takeover the world.
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History[]
Ultraman Taro (manga)[]
One day, two boys were fighting in Tokyo. While they engaged each other, a strange fetus-like humanoid attracted their attention. They were enthralled by the being bearing no name. The children soon told their friends about the being allowing the Mini-Mutant to also control them. This repeated several times until the being had most of Tokyo's children under his control. To test out his army, the Mini-Mutant sent them to attack the city, which they raided, beating various people to death and destroyed cars. Soon the army quickly took notice and attempted to stop the children only to fail as the soldiers refused to kill children. Even Ultraman Taro was unable to stop them, instead standing in their way as they continued to fire upon him with stolen weapons and tanks. However, eventually the attacks caused a crack in Taro's Ultra armor, allowing his inner light to shine through breaking the Mutant Baby's control over the children, but also driving the evil creature mad with its purity.
Enraged, the Mini-Mutant grew to a quarter of Taro's size and attacked him. Despite the latter being a bit faster and harder to hit compared to Taro's previous enemies, he was little more of an annoyance than anything. First, Taro fired an Arrow Ray through the villain, but the Mini-Mutant kept coming. The little creature hopped on the Ultra Warrior's back, preparing to cut his throat only to get nearly killed again by a beam from Taro's forehead. Seemingly out of options, The Mini-Mutant made one last desperate attempt by lunging at the hero. The hero reacted fast, firing an Ultra Beam, destroying him, and finally ending his reign of terror.
Trivia[]
- Mini-Mutant's plot of using children against the world is similar to Alien Chibull's from Ultraseven albeit with different goals. Mutant Baby had a seemingly unfounded hatred of adults while Chibull just wanted to take over the world.
- The Mini-Mutant's origins are somewhat ambiguous. While one may assume him to be an alien, the fact that he was first found in a sewer, his lack of clothing, humanlike body, commentary by others, his hatred towards adults, and especially name, implies he is in fact simply a mutant infant as opposed to an alien, abandoned by its parents for unknown reasons.
- While unnamed in the original Ultraman Taro manga (only ever being referred to as "Mutant Baby") he was finally given a name decades later and a toy with MEDICOM's Ultraman Taro (Manga Version) toy, where he came as an accessory along with Ultraman Taro. His official name being "Mini-Mutant".
- This makes him the only manga-exclusive kaiju from the Ultraman Taro to be given a toy.
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- Stats
- Height: 20 m (est.)
- Weight: Unknown
- Origin: Earth, the sewers
- Weakness: Mini-Mutant is weak to the light of an Ultra, that light that shines beneath their mask and Ultra Armor. Exposure to this light, even indirectly through his thralls, will cause him pain, while freeing his minions. Direct exposure will weaken him and cause him to tire faster, along with pain.
- Powers and Weapons
- Mind Control: Mini-Mutant can mind control other beings who approach him, manipulating every action they take. It clearly could not take control of Ultras or Ultra Hosts however.
- Disintegration: Mini-Mutant can disintegrate a child-sized human with his mind.
- Size Change: When enraged, Mini-Mutant transformed into a giant. Next to Taro, he was the relative size of a child but he was still bigger than a house. He later grew bigger to rival Taro in size. When he grew in size his countenance became more monstrous.
- Strength: Despite the differences in stature, Mini-Mutant was able to wrestle with Taro, and at one point attempted to rip off his horns.
- Extraordinary Jumper: For a being of his size, Mini-Mutant can jump to great heights and distances.
- Endurance: Mini-Mutant shows a great amount of endurance, not at all being discouraged and surviving three powerful attacks by Taro, the Arrow Ray, an Emerium Beam-like attack, and only being finished off by a conventional Ultra Beam.
- Regeneration: When stabbed by the arrow ray, Mini-Mutant's wound closed.
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