Neo Teppen Pet Peeves : Being mistaken for Sentai Jin Background . Astronaut is job most normal for Jim Summit and the normal man . In the planet to Mars , mysterious things make for change for new and powerful Hero type . Special power 27 not for the telling and polymorphic man pants make for Hero most good ! How is happen to the changing to Neo Teppen ? Only he is the knowing , or also neighbor Steve who brings newspaper and letter to shelter when Teppen is the fighting ! A Martian Mystery . Astronaut Jim Summit was once a normal man with a normal job . His calling in life was to seek out the mysteries of the universe as part of Science Team Discovery , the world ' s top non - governmental exploration team . Whatever STD team asked of him , Summit delivered . And so it was when Summit and 8 other seasoned astronauts were sent on the first - ever manned mission to Mars . The Truth About Mars . NASA had been aware of an ancient Martian civilization since the early 1960s . Powerful telescopes , or powerscopes , aimed at the red planet revealed glimpses of ancient Martian ruins in 1961 . However , NASA lacked the technology to reach Mars and chose to team up with Hollywood to cover up the evidence of life on Mars with a steady stream of disinformation , including red herrings ( My Favorite Martian ) , reverse red herrings ( Mars Attacks ) , and utterly impenetrable convoluted red herrings ( X - Files ) . For over 40 years NASA ' s campaign succeeded in keeping the people of the world out of the loop . The truth about Mars was revealed in the summer of 2003 , when an amateur astrophysicist , taking advantage of the planet ' s rare orbital proximity to Earth , spotted the ruins of what appeared to be an ancient Martian temple . Initially NASA dismissed the reports of Martian ruins as pure space bologna . But not everyone was ready to swallow NASA ' s heaping helping of processed meat . Enter the STD . Science Team Discovery ( STD ) was founded by an anonymous group of industrialists in the early 90 ' s for the express purpose of advancing scientific knowledge in areas where government agencies had left a void . Recruiting from among the Earth ' s top universities and institutions , STD put the world ' s top minds to work in fields as diverse as stem cell research and deep - sea oceanography . When STD became aware of the festering Martian question , they quickly formed an expedition . The STD team , including seasoned pilot Jim Summit , boarded 3 rockets in the dusty Australian Outback on August 28 , 2003 and set off on their historic journey to the red planet . Using advanced rocket technology of unknown origins , STD made the trip to Mars in under 10 days . All 3 rockets successfully landed on the planet ' s surface and the team set out to explore the Martian temple ruins . Initial reports from Mars described a massive network of chambers , antechambers , and anti - antechambers hewn out of solid rock . Methodically the explorers made their way through the complex , transmitting detailed reports to Earth with clockwork - like regularity . However , just after the Team penetrated the inner sanctum of the Martian temple , all contact was lost . Before the team went silent , Jim Summit was heard to describe a brilliant green gem as " beautiful , unlike anything on Earth . " For three days there was no sign of the team . Then suddenly STD mission control picked up the thermal signature of all three rockets warming up for launch . But just as the ships pierced the Martian atmosphere , two were destroyed by what appeared to be an explosive green light . The explosions damaged the communications array of the third rocket , but it managed to barely escape the carnage and launched into space , with a heading towards Earth . When the rocket finally returned to Earth , weeks later , the STD expected to find at least some of its team alive within . When they pried open the rocket ' s hatches however , all they found was an empty ship . Although no one was on board at landing , STD investigators did find space - lights left turned on , a space - door wide open , and space - water boiling on the space - stove , suggesting that someone had been in the rocket only hours if not minutes before it landed . Summit Returns . With all 9 team members missing and presumed dead , STD put a halt to all further Mars exploration and mothballed their space exploration program . All records of the 9 team members were expunged and their families were told that they were elaborate figments of their imaginations , who had never really existed . Unbeknownst to STD though , one of the team members had in fact survived . Just days after STD launched their cover - up , a man baring the name Jim Summit took up residence in Chicago , IL . An unassuming everyman , Summit raised nary an eyebrow as he moved into a Wickerpark apartment building . With all records of his existence destroyed , no one , not his nosey next - door neighbor , not the federal government , and not even the STD themselves had any idea that astronaut Jim Summit was alive and well and living in Chicago . Summit ' s return to Earth wasn ' t the only secret he was hiding . While the events that occurred on Mars remained a mystery to all but Summit himself , one thing was clear - he had become a super Hero with 27 secret powers and a polymorphic suit ! Under the guise of Kaiju Hero Neo Teppen , he began to fight the evil Kaiju menace worldwide , while still living in anonymity in Chicago . Will the people of the world ever learn what happened on Mars and how it transformed Jim Summit into a super powered - Hero ? That remains to be seen , but for now they can thank the stars that they have a new protector in Neo Teppen !