Nova

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"Send a monster strong enough to shatter earth itself!"

―Black Directive, Ultraman Leo

Nova
Data
Category	Saucer Beast
Height	0.1 ~ 57 m
Weight	20 g ~ 10,000 t
Home World	Black Star
Affiliation	Black Directive (Master) Saramandora Lunaticks Ultraman Belial (Master) Belyudra (Combination) Alien Babarue (RB) (Master)
First Appearance	Ultraman Leo episode 48 "Terror of the Saucer Race Series - The Giant Bird Saucer Attacks Japan's Archipelago" (brief) Ultraman Leo episode 49 "Terror of the Saucer Race Series - The Red Assassin Who Beckons Death!" (full appearance)
Latest Appearance	Ultraman Orb episode 22 "The Unmarked Cafe"
Roar(s)

Nova is a ghost-like Saucer Beast from episode 49 of the TV series, Ultraman Leo. By far the best known and most popular of the Saucer Beasts, numerous examples of Nova's species have appeared throughout the Ultraman Series in the years following the original's debut episode.

Subtitle: Saucer Organism

Conception

Design

Nova's design is based on the teru teru bozu, a type of handmade Japanese rain dolls.

History

Ultraman Leo

Following the destruction of Satan Mora, Black Directive sent Nova from Black Star as the penultimate member of his subordinates to attack the Earth. Nova landed in Japan and quickly transformed into a small white teru teru bozu. An angry Tooru Uemuda soon came across the small Nova, and told him that he wanted it to rain. Tooru hung Nova up on a tree, and left him there when Gen Otori found him. Later that night, a drunk man came by and began hitting Nova. Nova turned red, and sprayed the man with gas, making him go crazy.

The next day was sunny, so Tooru came back to the teru teru bozu to cut off its head. He was surprised that it had turned red, but still tried to cut its head off. After Nova avoided the scissors, it suddenly grew a bit larger and wrapped itself around Tooru's neck. Nova told Tooru he would let him see his mother, father, and sister again, and had him walk around town while spraying gas on people. Police soon cornered Tooru and were about to shoot him, but soon Gen and his caretaker arrived to stop them. Nova began to choke Tooru, but Gen knocked him off the boy's shoulder. Nova then grew giant and began attacking the city.

Nova destroyed many tanks and planes, and began spraying poison gas everywhere. Gen transformed into Ultraman Leo, and began fighting him. While a challenge at first, as Nova brought about his Red Zone technique, where even the rain turned blood red, while red clouds blotted out the Sun, casting the city in an eerie crimson light, Leo used his powers to make the poison gas disappear, allowing Leo to fight Nova unhindered. Leo fished Nova off with a hand beam, and all the crazed townspeople returned to normal. ^{Terror of the Saucer Race Series - The Red Assassin Who Beckons Death!}

Trivia

• Nova's roar is a reused Alien Wolf's roar.
• Nova has 20,000 red chains underneath its body.

Ultraman Mebius

The Maquette Nova

Nova reappeared in episode 28 the series Ultraman Mebius.

Nova first appeared before the GUYS crew on a dark night in a parking lot scaring them by cackling evily, but it was small and very fazy, and then disappeared before them. Unknown to GUYS, Nova was manipulating the nanotechnology that is used to bring Lim Eleking to life to make duplicates of himself to distract GUYS while the real copy is in pursuit of GUYS HQ.

The next day, the Maquette Nova appeared in an open construction field. GUYS attacked it, but it only spewed red smoke at them. Ultraman Mebius appeared and began to attack the monster, until it vanished like a Maquette Monster. Realizing about Nova's control over the nanotechnology and now how dangerously close the real Nova was to their HQ, Mebius teleported himself to Nova's location and the real battle began. At first, Nova was beating Mebius, but Miclas came to aid Mebius, and weaken Nova. Afterwards, Mebius recovered and used his Mebium Shoot to destroy Nova once and for all.

Trivia

• As revealed in episode 28, Nova was placed among the monsters in the "Out of Document" section as its appearance was after MAC's demise.

Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle

Nova reappeared in episode 10 of the series Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle.

In this series, Nova is partnered with the monsters Saramandora and Lunaticks and all three monsters were guarding a military base that had supplies that the ZAP SPACY needed for their ship. Rei sent Gomora as the ZAP SPACY retrieved the parts they needed. At first Nova tried to ensnarl Gomora with his whips, but Gomora easily destroyed Nova, vaporizing him instantly with the Ultra Oscillation Wave.

Trivia

• Nova is one of the few Kaiju in the series that does not appear in the opening credits (along with Juran, Fire Golza, Bullton, Arigera, Zoa Muruchi, Lunaticks, King Joe Black, and Zetton).
• In some scenes, Nova has the beginning of Rodan's roar mixed in, only heavily slowed down.

Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie

Nova in a group of Belial's monsters

Nova reappeared in the movie Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie as one of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army. He was first seen rising out of the ground in a shot of the Monster Graveyard with King Joe Black, Verokron, Gomess, Alien Baltan, and Antlar. He then teamed up with Gan-Q, King Pandon, Verokron, Doragory, King Joe Black, Eleking, Banpira, Alien Guts, Alien Metron and Fire Golza to take on Ultraseven . He was accidentally killed along with Doragory by Belial's Belial Genothunder during the final battle.

Trivia

• Nova is one of the monsters that makes up Belyudra's right arm in the movie.

Galaxy Rescue Force Voice Drama

Andro Melos and Ultraman Ribut was on a mission to sight an unknown rampaging monster without warning on a planet. Even with the help from Sora, they still couldn't find where the monster is, but suddenly, Nova appeared out of nowhere. It began to fight Melos and Ribut. After a short fight, Nova lost his will to fight them. Surprisingly, he was called to return by someone that is a Reionics Alien Babarue. It is revealed this Saucer Monster is a Reionics monster. Sometimes later, he was unleashed by his master to fight against Red King. Nova then was successfully making the Skull Monster retreat.

In the Galaxy Rescue Force base, RB summoned Nova due to Sora's curiosity about the saucer monster's biology. She took plenty of photos of Nova making RB felt irritated by that. Ribut came in and asked Sora about Nova's biology. Sora began to explain any descriptions about Nova. She asked RB if she could peek inside Nova's cape, RB prevented it but Nova, however, showed it to Sora instead. RB was jealous because he never get to see what's inside his Reionics monster, when he was about to see, Nova knocked his owner back far away.

Nova line up with other Galaxy Rescue Force members

As Daada and a mind-controlled Sora leave the battlefield, Ultraman Ribut attempt to chase them, but he, with Poccola and RB, has to deal with Daada's three kaiju. Poccola and RB convince Ribut to save Sora while they will take care of them. RB summoned Nova, and the 3 battled the kaiju. On the other place, Ribut managed to break the spell on Sora. Daada became desperate, bringing the kaiju that RB, Poccola, and Nova fought to assist him. Before they could do it, Ribut and Sora were all joined by the members of GRF, including Nova. Together they combined their beams and fired them at Daada and his kaiju, destroying them.

Trivia

• This marks the first time a saucer monster is on the good side.
• As stated by Sora, Nova has 20,000 "red feelers", feelers in real life being used by insects to gather sensory information such as touch and smell.

Ultraman Ginga

Nova participated in the Dark Spark War fighting alongside various monsters against Ultras until he was turned into a Spark Doll by Dark Lugiel.

It is likely that he returned to space in his original form after Ultraman Ginga defeated Dark Lugiel.

Ultraman Orb

Nova reappeared in episode six of the series Ultraman Orb as a Kaiju Card used by Alien Nackle Nagus in a card game between Jugglus Juggler and Alien Metron Tarude. ^{The Forbidden Forest}

"Sorry for the wait, Nova. Let us make our dream of invading the earth a reality!"

―Black Directive to Nova, Ultraman Orb

It later appeared in the 22nd episode where it was first seen for real in its small size, hanging out with Black Directive as his little good luck charm and with an Alien Pitt Myu. Black Directive planned on closing down his café and leaving to another planet with Nova to start over. However, Nova didn't give up on his dream of invading the Earth and grew into his giant form so he could rampage throughout the city. After being interrogated by the SSP, Black Directive decided to join Nova in his dream, using his crystal orb to transport himself into Nova's head. With the monster and his master now working together, Nova unleashed his eye beams on the surrounding area.

Seeing the destruction take place, Gai Kurenai transformed into Ultraman Orb Burnmite form to confront and fight Nova. Nova initially confused the Ultra with his funny noises and movements, leaving Orb wide open for an attack from his whip. This didn't keep Orb down for long, and he unleashed his fiery fury onto the Saucer Beast, to which Nova was unfazed and downed the hero with a blast of its eye beams.

Aiming to end the fight quickly, Orb tried to finish off the monster with his Stobium Dynamite, but Nova tricked him with its teleportation ability, then grabbed Orb and sprayed him with its Red Crazy Gas. Orb shrugged it off and fought back, squeezing Nova's eyes shut, preventing the doll-like Kaiju from seeing. However, Nova shrugged him off and held the upper hand again with its whips and gas. Deciding to get serious, Orb transformed into his Orb Origin form.

In his form, after blocking Nova's eye lasers with his sword, Orb fired his Orb Supreme Calibur at the monster, who attempted to absorb the attack. Nova succeeded, but Orb's power was too much to handle, and so, it flew up into the sky and exploded like a firework. ^{The Unmarked Cafe}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai
• The Nova suit from Ultraman Mebius was reused for Nova's appearance in the series.
  • His puppet disguise, however, was completely new.
• Nova's portrayal in this series features numerous comedic additions, in contrast to his more threatening portrayal previously:
  • He squeaked when Gai patted him on the head.
  • During the first part of the battle, Nova squealed and shook his head to scare Ultraman Orb.
  • When defeated, instead of disintegrating out of existence, he rocketed into the sky and exploded like fireworks.

Data

• Normal
• Maquette

Nova

Stats

• Height: 0.1 ~ 57 m
• Weight: 20 g ~ 10,000 t
• Length of the right hand: 60 m
• Origin: Black Star (original), Planet Boris (Ultra Galaxy)
• Attack: 1000
• Defense: 800
• Speed: 600

Powers and Weapons

• Size Change: Nova can and is capable of changing its size at will, turning a smaller or larger form if necessary.
• Doll Form: Nova's small form is in the shape of a teru-teru bozu.
  • Body Control: In his small form, Nova can attach himself to a human's shoulders using his ribbons, allowing him to control their movements.
• Saucer Flight Form: Like all Saucer Monsters, Nova can assume a saucer form to fly and levitate, doing this by spinning his body at great speed, causing his robes to flare outward into a disc.
  • Phantom Attack: In his saucer mode, Nova can use his body to ram against the opponent.
• Red Crazy Gas : Also known as Violent Gas . Nova can exhale a red cloud/smokescreen of blinding gas. Any human that breathes the gas in will start to act extremely violent, attacking anyone at a moment’s notice. In addition, this gas has an adverse effect on electronics. It also has a slight toxic effect, making humans cough and choke once breathed in. After Ultraman Leo the smoke is no longer used to drive people insane and instead acts as a smokescreen to repel foes.
• Red Zone: By spinning his body around in a circle, Nova can turn the area around him into the color red and cause it to rain red as well. Even the sun is covered with red, making it harder to see him. This red zone will be lifted upon his death.
• Nova Laser : Nova can fire blue beams of energy from each of his eyes. The laser blast holds a temperature of 300,000 degree Celsius.
• Hell Ball: Nova can launch powerful fireballs from its mouth, which explode into clusters of smaller explosive blasts upon impact.
• Right Arm Extending Whips: Nova's right arm is composed of three or more tentacle-like whips for lashing or entangling foes. The central whip can stretch long distances.
• Left Arm Sickle Blade: Nova's left hand is a large sickle-like blade that is ideal for slashing, bashing, or piercing enemies.

Ultraman Mebius

• Maquette Nova: By tapping into the particle accelerator beneath the GDF Headquarters, Nova can create numerous human-sized Maquette Novas. When enough particles are absorbed, Nova can create a single giant one.

Ultraman Orb

• Teleportation: In order to confuse opponents, Nova is capable of instantly teleporting himself short distances.

Doll Form

Body Control

Saucer Flight Form

Red Crazy Gas

Red Zone

Nova Laser

Hell Ball

Right Arm Extending Whips

Maquette Nova

Teleportation

Maquette Nova

• Small
• Large

Small Maquette Nova roaming at GUYS Base.

The giant Maquette Nova

Maquette Nova is a duplicate of the original Nova created by the same element that used to create Lim Eleking, resulting on its temporary disappearance due to stealing said monster's energy. Due to Maquette Nova roaming the GUYS Base, various workers, including the GUYS officers, called it the Red Ghost .

Stats

• Height: Unknown ~ 57 m
• Weight: Unknown ~ 10,000 t
• Length of the right hand: 60 m
• Origin: Phoenix Nest

Powers and Weapons

• Teleport: Maquette Nova can teleport by reducing itself into dust.
• Red Crazy Gas : Maquette Nova can exhale a weaker version of the original's red crazy gas. This version was only a smokescreen rather than driving the victim insane.

Red Crazy Gas

Other Media

Ultraman Galaxy

Nova reappeared in the puzzle role-playing game for mobile devices, Ultraman Galaxy as a UC (Uncommon) card that you can unlock him in one of the levels in the game with a high chance of getting Nova.

Merchandise

Figure of Nova, by Bear Model.

Miniature figure of Nova, by Bandai.

A Nova eraser