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"This is The End mark."
- ―Kei's catchphrase when transforming into Belial Fusion Monsters
"All goes well, my lord...master Belial. The power that you bless me with...will allow me to Fusion Rise once again. It's time to deal with the interloper."
- ―Kei as he met Belial.
Kei Fukuide is a villain and the main antagonist in Ultraman Geed. An Alien Sturm servant to Ultraman Belial, he posed as a famous sci-fi writer who masks his cruel and ruthless side under polite and gentle behavior.
History
Pre-Ultraman Geed
Kei Fukuide was previously an Alien Sturm who lacks a purpose (even referring himself as an empty shell) until his encounter with Belial changed his life. Since then he pledged his loyalty to the dark Ultra and helped him with his conquest over the universe.
In aftermath of the Crisis Impact, Kei would broke into the Land of Light and stole Hikari's Ultra Capsules. Aside from the creation of Riku Asakura (through Belial's DNA sample), Kei instigated the Childhood Radiation by spreading the Carellen element to circulate the cosmos, allowing the development of Little Stars to activate said capsules' powers.
Kei targeted the first Little Star in the form of Laiha Toba by attacking Mt. Mitsuse and killed her parents. Despite her strong fear managed to release it, the Little Star faded away.
Ultraman Geed
Six years later, he transformed into the same monster and attacked Hoshiyama thrice, targeting Eri Hara's Little Star before the Ultraman Geed appeared for the first time and defeated him. Seeing Geed's involvement, Kei decided to make the Ultra part of his own plans onward, orchestrating or observing monster attacks from behind the scene as Riku harvested the Little Stars. With Zero appearing to investigate the disappearance of Ultra Capsules, Kei staged an attack via Galactron, holding both his fans and Geed as hostages while forcing Zero to sacrifice his own life. Although Zero revived afterwards with a new form, Kei started to take interest in the turn of events.
After his presence caught the attention of AIB (who in turn discovered Belial's location), Kei hastily try to take Riku's Capsules by force, first using the hired assassin Alien Bado and later on transforming into Pedanium Zetton. Due to his failure in securing all collection (accidentally leaving behind a Capsule (Zero) to the boy) Kei plunged the remaining sets into his conversion organ and transform into Pedanium Zetton again as a comeuppance. Fighting against Geed Magnificent, the combination of the Capsules' powers and his jealousy for Riku turns him into a mindless maniac who repeatedly throws tantrum towards his own creation before being subjected to defeat. Although he loses the Capsules, Belial was more than satisfied with the result while allowing him to rest.
After being thrown away to Earth after Chimeraberos' defeat, A badly injured Kei suffered from amnesia. After being implicated in the murder of his editor, Riku, Moa Aizaki, Leito Igaguri and Zena went searching for him, finding the alien stumbling around. Noticing the heroes, Kei attempted to flee, his amnesia making him unable to recognise his enemies and leaving him terrified. The situation was made even worse when a Dada who had stolen a Legionoid from Belial's forces attacked, intent on killing Kei in revenge for killing his comrade at the start of the series. In the confusion that resulted, Kei escaped, being 'rescued' by a nonfiction writer by the name of Arie Ishikari.
Over time, Arie managed to assist Kei in recovering his memory, not knowing his true nature. Once his memories were fully restored by a second attack from the Dada, Kei decided that he'd continue Belial's legacy on Earth, and immediately summoned Zaigorg with his Riser to destroy the Legionoid, then used the device to Fusion Rise into Thunder Killer when Riku arrived. After Geed defeated both monsters with his Royal Mega Master form's new abilities, Kei was thrown clear and suffered several injuries. Fascinated by Kei's true nature, Arie decided to take Kei in despite his angry objections.
Powers and Weapons
- Riser : He has a Riser, same as Riku's. He obtained this by stealing it from the Land of Light.
- Kaiju Summon: Apart from allowing him to Fusion Rise, Kei can use the Riser to manifest a Kaiju by scanning it's respective Kaiju Capsules.
- Kaiju Capsules: Kei has the Kaiju Capsules, as a purpose to summon Kaiju or combine them into Belial Fusion Monsters through his Riser. He can also create them by drawing a blank Ultra Capsule to absorb a defeated Kaiju's remains.
- Cane: Not so much of a weapon, Kei's cane in his formal wear was shown capable of fending himself against Laiha's sword and knocking down an Alien Neril.
- Dark Energy: Bestowed from Ultraman Belial, Kei possesses dark energies which serves as the main key of Fusion Rise into Belial Fusion Monsters. It appears that he needs to replenish his dark energy periodically. Whenever he uses them, a gleeful laughter of Belial can be heard from the background. After shoving the Ultra Capsules to his inversion organ, Kei's body begins to house its own dark energy but at the same time placing a huge strain to his body.
- Energy Blast: Kei can fire a blast of purple energy strong enough to kill a Dada in one hit.
- Energy Punch: Kei charges his fist with dark energy and punches the opponent. He does this to Riku, although he appears unscratched, partially due to his inhuman traits.
- Little Star Detection: Through Kei's own eyes, he is capable of detecting Little Star energy auras even from a distance. He retains this power when transformed into any Belial Fusion Monsters.
- Natural Abilities: Abilities which are naturally his and not the result of the dark energy bestowed from Belial.
- Childhood Radiation : From his own chest, Kei releases Carellen Element that would circulate the universe and absorbed into living beings to mature as Little Stars.
- Intelligence: Kei was able to create Riku using a sample of Belial's genetic code, implying he has great scientific ability in the field of biology. He also seems to be an expert schemer hatching plans that only seem to fail due to unexpected variables.
- Force-field Generation: Kei can erect a force-field consisting of reddish pentagons. This trait allows Zero to identify Kei's true identity in general.
- Mental Abilities: Kei possess a variety of mind powers, including:
- Astral Projection: Kei is capable of communicating with beings from a distant galaxy, doing so to meet his master Belial. When doing so, his appearance is projected through Talpa Waves , linking to his original body from the Earth. His transmission signal is stated to be faster than lightspeed but is prone to being detected by certain forms of technology.
- Psychic Burst: Kei can focus his telepathic power into a medium like a video recorder and cause a burst of energy where the information feed is being received, resulting in machines malfunctioning and exploding.
- Energy Transmutation: The inversion organ of an Alien Sturm is stated by Belial as a perfect energy conversion apparatus. This was used by Kei to corrupt the power of six Ultra Capsules, which forcefully transforms him into Pedanium Zetton.
- Unconfirmed: Abilities that are not easily determined to be from Belial, or Kei's natural abilities
- Teleportation: Kei can teleport, seemingly by dissolving his body before reconstituting at a different location.
- Deflection: Kei can block attacks by simply raising his palm and generating an invisible field of energy to deflect/block projectiles.
Weaknesses
As a result of shoving the Ultra Capsules into his inversion organ, Kei suffers from a massive body strain which combines from the residual dark energy his body houses or compilations of his injuries from fighting as Pedanium Zetton.
Transformation
Like Riku, Kei is capable of performing Fusion Rise to transform into Belial Fusion Beasts by scanning two Kajiu Capsules with his Riser.
- Main article: Skull Gomora
"Gomora! Red King! This is the end mark."
- ―Kei's pre-transformation announcement
"Fusion Rise: Gomora! Red King!"
- ―Activation announcement
"Ultraman Belial: Skull Gomora!"
- ―Transformation announcement
After scanning both capsules, Kei presses the trigger of the Riser and transforms into "Ultraman Belial". As the background changes to an eclipse, Kaiju Capsules of Gomora and Red King appear briefly before "Belial" inhales them, morphing into and creating Skull Gomora.
- Main article: Thunder Killer
"Eleking! Ace Killer! This is the end mark."
- ―Kei's pre-transformation announcement
"Fusion Rise: Eleking! Ace Killer!"
- ―Activation announcement
"Ultraman Belial: Thunder Killer!"
- ―Transformation announcement
After scanning both capsules, Kei presses the trigger of the Riser and transforms into "Ultraman Belial". As the background changes to an eclipse, Kaiju Capsules of Eleking and Ace Killer appear briefly before "Belial" inhales them, morphing into and creating Thunder Killer.
"Eleking! Ace Killer! This is the end mark."
- ―Kei's pre-transformation announcement
"Fusion Rise: Thunder Killer!"
- ―Transformation announcement
Kei retrieves the Eleking and Ace Killer capsules, before loading them into the Riser as normal. Due to Belial's defeat, Belial no longer features in the transformation sequence. Instead, Kei transforms in a burst of bright light after activating the Riser.
- Main article: Pedanium Zetton
"King Joe! Zetton! This is the end mark."
- ―Kei's pre-transformation announcement
"Fusion Rise: King Joe! Zetton!"
- ―Activation announcement
"Ultraman Belial: Pedanium Zetton!"
- ―Transformation announcement
After scanning both capsules, Kei presses the trigger of the Riser and transforms into "Ultraman Belial". As the background changes to an eclipse, Kaiju Capsules of Zetton and King Joe appear briefly before "Belial" inhales them, morphing into and creating Pedanium Zetton.
Kei first injects the Ultra Capsules from Riku into his body, as they glow blue. Kei emit large amounts of dark energy as his eyes starts to glow red and red lightning emits around his body. His body transforms into a dark red energy sphere which swells up until Pedanium Zetton bursts from it.
Capsules in possession
Kaiju Capsules
- Gomora - Used in unison with Red King to form Skull Gomora.
- Red King - Used in unison with Gomora to form Skull Gomora.
- Darklops Zero (x3) - Summon a manifestation of the robot itself.
- Eleking - Obtained from the destruction of Alien Pitt Tri Tip's Eleking, used in unison with Ace Killer to form Thunder Killer.
- Ace Killer - Used in unison with Eleking to form Thunder Killer.
- Galactron (x2) - Summon a manifestation of the robot itself.
- King Joe - Used in unison with Zetton to form Pedanium Zetton.
- Zetton - Used in unison with King Joe to form Pedanium Zetton.
- Zaigorg - Summon a manifestation of the monster itself.
- Mecha Gomora - Summon a manifestation of the robot itself.
Ultra Capsules
As of episode 11, Kei stole all but one Ultra Capsule (Zero) from Riku Asakura after his defeat as Geed. By injecting them to his body, his conversion organ can corrupt its powers to transform him into Pedanium Zetton until its destruction cause them to scatter around the city before Riku and his friends recollect them.
Novels
As a famous sci-fi writer himself, Kei has multiple works in his novel. Among the identified titles are:
- Cosmo Chronicle - Debut work
- Chapter 1: Template:Nihongo4
- Chapter 2: Title unknown
- Chapter 3: Template:Nihongo4
- Galactic Battleship El-Shade
- The Ambient Starry Sky
- Spacetime Destruction
- Dark DNA
Trivia
- Aside from being a servant, it is unknown if he would turn out to be a host of Ultraman Belial. The silver ring he wears, his image of Belial during mid-transformation of Belial Fusion Monsters and his line in episode 3 (meeting someone he dislikes) becomes a major mislead to fans if the two are the same person or rather, unwilling possession:
- His red eyes (as a result of dark energies injected from Belial) are shared features from Darkness Five, a group that Belial had founded in Ultra Zero Fight.
- His transformation into Belial Fusion Monsters is based on Kaiser Belial's transformation into Arch Belial. As shown, both "inhale" the parts needed to form a monstrous appearance.
- His brief state of amnesia, along with how he regains his memories (remembering Belial's image) is based on Darklops Zero's reactivation after serving under the Alien Salome's faction on Planet Chain.
- Kei's actor (Kunito Watanabe) previously auditioned for the role of Jugglus Juggler of Ultraman Orb. Although Watanabe lost to Takaya Aoyagi, Kei instead performs a similar role to Juggler and is regarded by some fans as the second awakening of said character in terms of role and appearance.
- According to his actor Kunito Watanabe, Kei's Riser is a hint to his true nature. Despite the revelation of his race as Alien Sturm, this may be how he is not a human.
- As shown in episode 7, his fans declared themselves as Fukuidist , which was seen by Japanese viewers as a minor reference to the real life famous writer Haruki Murakami and fans of his work.
- Paralleling the elements of Ultraman Leo into Ultraman Geed, Kei's role is comparable to that of Black Directive, though instead of commanding an army of a monster class, Kei transforms into them.
- Several of the titles of his novels parallel to the events concerning himself and Belial:
- Space-Time Destruction: Refers to the Super-dimensional Eradication Bomb and the Crisis Impact. It also serves as a foreshadowing to Zegan's appearance.
- Dark DNA: Refers to Riku Asakura's inheritance of Belial's genes.