Pagos

Pagos
Data
Category	Kaiju
Height	30 m
Weight	18,000 t
Home World	Planet Earth
Affiliation	Belyudra (Combination) Gudon Telesdon Twin Tail
First Appearance	Ultra Q episode 18 "The Rainbow's Egg"
Latest Appearance	Ultraman Arc episode 9 "Goodbye, Rin"
Roar(s)

Pagos , shortened from its scientific name Pagotortoise , is a Kaiju that first appeared in episode 18 Ultra Q.

Subtitles:

• Normal: Subterranean Monster
• Shin: Hostile Giant Unknown Lifeform No.6 - Predatory Radioactive Material S-Class Species

History

Ultra Q

Pagos in Ultra Q

Pagos was an ancient monster who had ravaged Beijing in search of uranium to feed upon. After satisfying his hunger by eating all the uranium he could get his hands on, Pagos made his way to Japan, intent on consuming more uranium from a newly-opened nuclear power plant.

Pagos later surfaced in the middle of a field where he attacked a small girl and boy who had found a capsule full of uranium, disguised to look like an egg. After the capsule was lost in the scuffle between the monster and the children, Pagos resumed his trek to attack the industrial plant. After the monster destroyed the plant, a few missiles were launched that doused Pagos with chemicals that solidified the kaiju into stone. With his body petrified, Pagos died, then fell apart into stone fragments.^{The Rainbow's Egg}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Haruo Nakajima
• Pagos was the first of many monsters who originated from a modified Baragon suit, followed by Neronga, Magular, and Gabora.
• Pagos' roar is Varan's mixed with Rodan screeches at the beginning. Peguila also shares this distinction in his second appearance.
• Originally Gomess was planned to appear in the episode in the monster's place instead, however due to Tsuburaya Productions returning the Godzilla suit to Toho, Pagos was introduced instead, as Baragon's suit was still on loan.
• During Ultra Q's planning phase, an episode where a second Pagos would appear and battle against Peter was in the works, as well as one where he would fight Garamon and Kemur was also planned, but the episodes were never made.
• Originally Pagos was going to appear in episode 9 of Ultraman, but its head was heavily retooled into Dodongo, so Tsuburaya decided to create a different monster instead; Gabora.
• Pagos was meant to appear in episode 32 of Ultraseven as the controller of Rigger's planet, but was replaced by said monster.
• Episode 29 of the series Ultraman Max is supposedly a tribute to Ultra Q, with Pagos planning to return but due to the death of its corresponding writer from said monster's debut episode, Pagos was replaced with Geronga, a new monster that resembles the Baragon archetypes from Ultraman, particularly Neronga and Pagos.
• Pagos is one of the monsters that makes up Belyudra's body in Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie.
• Old promotional photos from Ultra Q showed Pagos fighting Peguila; as well as the two of them fighting Kanegon.
• Pagos has an eyelid mechanisim only used for one scene. He also has an inner light in his iris that glows when he detects uranium.
• Pagos was originally meant to return not once but three times in the Ultra Q series, returning in one bout where he fought a fish monster named Gyo (early concept art name for Sudar), and again in a bout titled the Tokyo Tsunami where he fights a Garamon and Kemur.
• Pagos' head was heavily modified for Dodongo, while his tusks were reused for Chandlar's head horns.

Ultraman Taiga

Noiseler as it appears in Ultraman Taiga.

Pagos was accidentally summoned by Alien Zelan Oshoro via an alien device, who wanted to summon Gymaira instead. The underground monster was frightened and pushed out of its natural habitat by Gymaira, who was draining the Earth's energy. Pagos emerged from the underground and started rampaging through the city, prompting Hiroyuki Kudo to act and transform into Ultraman Taiga.

Taiga's attacks, including the Hell Slash, were ineffective against Pagos' tough hide, so he switched to Ultraman Titas, who was briefly able to beat Pagos with sheer might. However, the tables turned when Pagos used his energy drill attack, forcing Titas into a corner. Titas then switched out with Ultraman Fuma, who ended Pagos by slicing his underbelly with an energy blade. As Pagos died, he shed a single tear and turned to stone. ^{One Afternoon When the Magic Was Lost From the Star}

EGIS and Maria inspected Pagos' corpse after Taiga was defeated by Gymaira, but when Gymaira returned, the tremors caused by him caused some pieces of Pagos to fall off. The rest of Pagos' body was slowly dismantled and taken away by dump trucks after Gymaira was defeated.^{Even Then the Universe Will Still Go on Dreaming}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai
• In similar fashion to Neronga's appearance in Ultraman R/B, Pagos' suit was freshly made for this appearance.
• Director Takanori Tsujimoto stated that Pagos' petrified body, which was seen throughout episode 12, was meant to show how people dealt with the bodies of monsters after they are defeated, since he rarely sees this kind of scene.
• Pagos' Drill Beam was speculated by director Tsujimoto as its method of burrowing underground.

Ultraman Z

Noiseler as it appears in Ultraman Z.

One day, Pagos awakened from his slumber and emerged from below ground. Wandering around, he was confronted by STORAGE's King Joe and Windom. After a single missile was shot at the underground monster, Pagos suddenly disappeared before the projectile could hit him.

An analysis conducted after the incident found that the energy signature and electromagnetic frequencies produced by Kemur's Erasing Energy Source had attracted Pagos, which led the creature to surface in search for the energy. As the monster was a hindrance to his plans to abduct humans, Kemur used his Erasing Energy Source to make Pagos vanish as well. When Kemur was defeated at the hands of Ultraman Z, Pagos was returned along with all the other people Kemur had abducted. Confused and scared, Pagos burrowed away into the ground and escaped.^{Rechallenge from the Year 2020}

Pagos, or another of his kind, emerged from below ground alongside Gomess and Demaaga in their attempts to eliminate Ultroid Zero out of fear of the D4 weapon it possessed. The three monsters fought with Ultroid Zero before they were joined by Takkong and Guesra. Ultraman Z also entered the battle but managed to drive off the latter two Kaiju back into the ocean. Under pressure from Director Kuriyama, who had been possessed by Celebro, Yoko Nakashima fired Ultroid Zero's D4 Ray at the three remaining Kaiju, obliterating them.^{Prelude to a Nightmare}

After analysing the events of the second fight, Yuka Ohta came to the conclusion that alongside the other monsters, Pagos had emerged to fight Ultroid Zero as a result of the desires of the Earth itself to rid the planet of the machine, which represented a dangerous form of over-technology.^{The Game to Extinction}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai

Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga

Pagos, along with Telesdon, Gomora, and Arstron, were awoken from their slumber when the Eternity Core became unstable after Carmeara used its power to transform into Megalothor.^{The Ruler of Shadows}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai

Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z

After the Eternity Core was stabilized by Kengo Manaka's sacrifice, the monsters who had awoken as a result of the Core's instability disappeared, having seemingly returned to their slumber. Some time later, Pagos suddenly appeared, but his arrival was met by GUTS-Select, which were able to keep him at bay under the command of their new captain, Ryuichi Tokioka.

The team managed to drive Pagos away after hitting it with the Nursedessei's Nurse Cannon. A TPU investigation found that the Leyrah cult, who worships Ultra-Ancient civilizations, was responsible for Pagos' appearance, having made a device that can control monsters through their study of Ultra-Ancient artifacts.

Pagos later reappeared again, summoned by Leyrah. GUTS-Select were sent to deal with it but they faced issues. Fortunately, Ultraman Z appeared. He changed into Alpha Edge and slashed it with his Sluggers, before destroying Pagos with his Zestium Beam.^{Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai

Shin Ultraman

Pagos as it appears in Shin Ultraman

Pagos was one of the many monsters to surface across Japan and wreck havoc, appearing from underground in the vicinity of Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Pagos began eating containers full of nuclear substances, before being killed by the Japanese military, causing its body to calcify and crumble away. However, the radiation left behind by its corpse had caused the cleanup to be extremely difficult.^{Shin Ultraman}

Trivia

• Pagos is this movie was made by combining the body of the Neronga model with the head of Gabora's as a tribute to how all three of these monsters were originally created by modifying Toho's Baragon suit.
• The way Pagos crumbles is almost exactly the way it does in its original appearance.

Ultraman Decker

Pagos as it appears in Ultraman Decker.

8 years after the last Pagos surfaced (Episode Z), another Pagos surfaces to feed on the mined Supercritical Metal , due to the factory in Sorafune City excavating it from its original habitat. Pagos' attacks is heralded by a golden rainbow and mysteriously seems to be able to burrow its way underground at a great speed.

When GUTS-Select found the center of the monster's nest (beneath a park in Sorafune City), Pagos surfaces and fight against Ultraman Decker, but then Gudon drags the Ultra to their underground habitat, revealing the latter to be a collaborator to Pagos' attack. Pagos teams up with Gudon and eventually Telesdon against the Ultra, but Decker even the odds by summoning Agira, followed by Soma Ryumon/GUTS Falcon firing a marker on Pagos' nape, allowing Nursedessei to pinpoint the monster's exact location and obliterates it and the entire Twin Tail colony with the Neo Maxima Nurse Cannon.^{Subterranean Monster Appears! And Appears!}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Shun Takahashi
• According to Sawa Kaizaki, the earliest recorded appearance of Pagos was at the outskirts of Beijing, predating even the one that was controlled by Leyrah in Episode Z. This statement is a reference to the original Pagos from Ultra Q.
• The appearance of the golden rainbow coinciding with the blooming of the sazame bamboo flower which only happens once in 120 years, which is thought to be the sign of an approaching disaster comparable to earthquake clouds, is a further tribute to Pagos' first appearance in Ultra Q. Furthermore, it is explained that the golden rainbow manifests due to geomagnetic fluctuations turning ions into plasma due to Pagos warping the ground. These normally appear as a male's show of presence.

Ultraman Arc

Pagos as it appears in Ultraman Arc.

After the operation against Neronga concluded and the Kaiju was presumed dead, it awoke, thinking that the danger had passed. However, a golden rainbow illuminates the skies, heralding the arrival of Pagos from the underground, who was said to have surfaced to hunt down its prey, Neronga.

The two Kaiju then confronted each other in battle, and in response, Yuma Hize transformed into Ultraman Arc to quell the two beasts. However, the Kaiju decided to work together to deal with this bigger threat, with Pagos using its familiarity with the underground terrain to catch the Ultra off guard. Overwhelmed by their team tactics, Arc donned the Solis Armor to give him a defensive edge, and had the Kaiju reveal themselves after redirecting their beams back to them. In a last ditch effort, the two Kaiju rushed towards Arc but only crashed into each other as the Ultra flew into the skies and used this opportunity to finish off the Kaiju with the Arc Eye Sword.^{Goodbye, Rin}

Trivia

• Suit actor: Shun Takahashi
• This episode hinted at Pagos, Magular, Gabora and Neronga all having a common ancestor, which is a reference to how all their suits were originally retooled from Baragon.

Data

• Normal
• Shin

Pagos

Stats

• Height: 30 m, 52 m (Z)
• Weight: 18,000 t (Showa), 20,000 t (Reiwa), 36,000 t (Z)
• Origin: Underground Ibaraki Prefecture (Ultra Q), underground Kirimoto City (Z), 3,200 m below Sorafune City's park (Decker)

Powers and Weapons

• Burrowing: Pagos can burrow at moderate speeds.
• Radioactive Feeding: Pagos' main trait is to feed on radioactive materials that would otherwise be harmful to humans and other creatures in close proximity.
• Molecular Structure Destructive Beam : Pagos can fire a yellow-colored energy beam from its mouth.

Ultraman Taiga

• Strength: Pagos has great natural strength and exceeds Ultraman Titas'.
• Tough Hide: Pagos' exterior is tough enough for it to withstand attacks such as Hell Slash without taking any substantial damage.
• Spiral Drill Beam : A drill made of energy fired from its horns, capable of going through buildings.
• Petrification: Pagos turns itself to stone upon death.

Ultraman Z

• Fireball: Pagos can shoot high-temperature fireballs from its mouth. This is a result of going rampant under Ultroid Zero's presence.

Burrowing

Molecular Structure Destructive Beam

Tough Hide

Spiral Drill Beam

Petrification

Fireballs

Pagos (Shin Ultraman)

Powers and Weapons

• Radioactive Feeding: Pagos' main trait is to feed on radioactive materials that would otherwise be harmful to humans and other creatures in close proximity.
• Energy Beam: While not shown on-screen, Akihisa Taki brings up that Pagos was also capable of shooting a "nasty beam" when accurately predicting that the biologically similar Gabora was capable of doing the same.

Merchandise

Bullmark Glow-in-the-Dark Pagos from Bullmark Japan

X-Plus Pagos

Pagos erasers from Popy

Ultra Monster Series figure

Bandai Movie Monster Series figure based on it's Shin Ultraman appearance.

Gallery

Ultra Q

Pagos Suit

Ultraman Taiga

Pagos VS Ultraman Taiga

Pagos VS Ultraman Titas

Pagos VS Ultraman Fuma

Disposing of Pagos's body.

Ultraman Z

Pagos disappearing after being exposed to Kemur's Erasing Energy Source

Pagos reappearing following Kemur's defeat

Pagos, Gomess and Demaaga VS Ultroid Zero

Pagos and Gomess VS Ultroid Zero

Takkong and King Guesra join Pagos, Demaaga and Gomess

Pagos VS Ultroid Zero

The deaths of Pagos, Gomess and Demaaga

Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga

Earth kaiju evacuating

Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z

Shin Ultraman

Ultraman Arc

Miscellaneous

Pagos concept art

Kaiju card with Pagos

Pagos vs. Peguila

Pagos battling Gorgos (left) in All Great Monster Decisive Battle