Alien Nackle

are an alien race that appear as recurring enemies in the franchise. They first appeared in Return of Ultraman, coming to Earth with the intentions of killing Ultraman Jack, disguised as a group of scientists who used their cover to study the Ultra Hero and discover his weakness. However their scheme was thwarted by Jack's counterattack. Other Alien Nackles would then reappear many more times throughout the years.
Subtitle: https://m-78.jp/taiga/kaiju/
==History==
===Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy===
At least one Alien Nackle took part in the Ultimate Wars as part of Alien Empera's army. He fought against Ultraman Ken along with an Alien Babarue on a small asteroid near the Land of Light. The alien pleaded for his life, saying that Empera had ordered them to be decoys. Not buying this, Ken's comrade Ultraman Belial ruthlessly killed the alien. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Tetsuo Kishi
===Return of Ultraman===
A group of Alien Nackles came to Earth to conquer it while disguised as an old man to hide from MAT's whereabouts. Determined to know every weakness about Ultraman Jack, Nackle studied the Ultra in battle to reveal what could be exploited as a weakness. This was done by reviving the monsters, Seagorath and Bemstar to do battle against the Ultra. 
Ultraman Jack was more than a match for the two monsters combined and eventually they were both destroyed, but Alien Nackle had all the info he needed on the Ultra. Unleashing his bodyguard monster Black King as a decoy to distract MAT, Alien Nackle stole one of MAT's vehicles to get important information about Ultraman Jack's human host, Hideki Go. Discovered that Go had a love for his girlfriend, Aki Sakata, Nackle kidnapped Aki inside the swiped car and the alien's henchmen held Aki out of the moving car, literally dragging her across the pavement, fatally wounding her. During the confrontation, one of Go's friends, Ken Sakata, was in the area and tried to stop the car, but was run over and killed. Once Go heard the news and arrived at the hospital, he only had enough time to see her die in front of his eyes.
With Jack now emotionally broken, Nackle unleashed Black King again in an all-out assult on Earth. Go transformed into Ultraman Jack to fight the monster, but Ultraman Jack's attacks proved useless against Black King as the info Nackle gathered on Jack's earlier battle enhanced Black King, making him able to overpower Jack entirely. Finally Alien Nackle appeared in his true form and joined Black King in mercilessly brutalizing Jack until the Ultra Warrior's strength was spent completely. Nackle called two spacecrafts to lift Jack using two chains attached to his arms and Jack was airlifted into space, prepared to be executed on Nackle's home planet.
Alien Nackle then appeared before MAT, revealing his true self, and his intentions, as well as revealing a new weapon, a mind-controlling Satellite Dish. With MAT now under Nackle's hypnotic control, Nackle's conquest for Earth seemed complete with Yuriko Oka hiding from her mind controlled team. 
Miraculously as Jack was preparing for his execution, Ultraman and Ultraseven appeared, destroying the spacecrafts that held him, and reviving Jack's power. Jack gave a salute to his comrades before taking off back to Earth. 
However, upon returning, Go was seized by MAT comrades, who'd all been placed under Nackle's Mind-Control, and was captured and blind folded. Yuriko arrived to save Go, and they beat them unconscious, seeing a needle in their ear which was linked to a satellite. Go quickly made his way to Black King and Alien Nackle for one final fight. 
Go became Ultraman Jack again, but Nackle and Black King were still be too strong for him to beat. During the fight, Jack managed to destroy the mind-control Dish, freeing MAT from Nackle's control. Receiving support from his fellow MAT members, Jack fought back with much strength. Jack managed to kill Black King by decapitating him, leaving Nackle all alone. 
Jack then grabbed Alien Nackle, tossed him up into the air, and slammed him down onto his head, severing the alien's spine. At death's door, Nackle then warned Jack that one of his weapons was still remaining and would destroy Japan and he laughed before dissolving away. 
====Trivia====
*Actor: Masahiko Naruse
*In the planning stages, Alien Nackle had many different names including and .
**In episode 40 of Ultraman Taro, he is mistakenly referred to as .
*Alien Nackle was originally going to revive Gudon to analyze Ultraman Jack's kick attack, but was removed for unknown reasons.
*The first Alien Nackle was one of the monsters and aliens who were part of the back of Belyudra's second support.
===Andro Melos===
 appeared as a cyborg modified to become part of the Gua Army. His only appearance was in the magazine Televi-kun and the manga adaptation written by Shinji Imura.
He first appeared alongside Remodeled Black King to fight against Andro Melos and Andro Wolf. When his Black King was defeated, Nackle retreated and return in the January 1982 issue, commanding the Remodeled King Joe to attack the radar station. As he was fighting Wolf, the Andro Warrior destroyed his controller for King Joe, and the two henchmen were killed.
He last appeared in February 1982 issue, where Nackle, Black King and King Joe were revived alongside other of Gua Army's remodeled monster battalion. The team circle around the two Andro Warriors to form a flaming whirpool, but the Andro Warriors escaped and killed them.
====Trivia====
*According to Shinichi Wakasa, the photograph where Nackle and King Joe were attacking the radar station was taken at the Arasaki Beach.https://twitter.com/shinichiwakasa/status/1313697715935559681
*Different from Shinji Imura's manga, this Nackle combines the roles of two different Re-Nackles: here, he is in command of Black King and managed to escape before he acquired the King Joe. The manga version separated to each Nackles getting hold of one monster at a time and defeated by different Ultra Warriors.
===Ultraman Mebius & the Ultra Brothers===
In this film, another Alien Nackle formed the Alien Union with fellow aliens: Alien Temperor, Alien Zarab, and Alien Guts in order to kill Ultraman Mebius and release U-Killersaurus and Yapool from the seaside of Kobe. Once the Ultra Brothers appeared to save Mebius from Guts's attack, Nackle appeared to assist the alien and the two aliens and the Ultra Brothers got into a long brawl. During the battle, the Ultra Brothers managed to released Mebius from his prison, but they were trapped themselves by an ambush from Guts and Nackle. With Mebius too weak to fight, Guts and Nackle used their ship to drain the Ultras of their energy and break the seal of U-Killersaurus. During the process, Mebius regained his strength and battled both aliens by himself with little trouble, destroying Guts and saving the other Ultra Brothers. However they were too late and U-Killersaurus and Yapool were released. Alien Nackle began to revel in his victory, but was coldly murdered by U-Killersaurus with a single blast. To Yapool, Nackle and the others were just pawns. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Ryusei Nakao
*In this film, Nackle is given a redesign that differs from his original appearance. His eyes are small and somewhat unimportant, in place/favor of one single "eye" in the middle of his face. His skin is more ridged and blue in texture. The red spots that cover his body are also not as protruded as they were in his original appearance.
===Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle: Never Ending Odyssey===
An Alien Nackle Reionics control Galberos and was first seen killing an Alien Zelan and his Arstron in battle. Alien Nackle then located Rei and used Galberos to create hypnotic illusions of Zetton to fight Rei and his Gomora. Whenever it seemed Zetton was destroyed by them, he kept "reviving," Alien Nackle used the illusions to slowly wear out Rei and Gomora. Once Reimon and Gomora were too worn to fight, Alien Nackle sent Galbaros himself to finish the battle. Suddenly, Reimon entered into Burst Mode for the first time, transforming Gomora into Reionic Burst Gomora. Galberos was no match for Gomora’s new power and was vaporized by Gomora. Reimon turned his attention to Alien Nackle, ordering Gomora to kill him with the Ultra Oscillation Wave, murdering the alien in a blind rage. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Michio Nakao
*The Alien Nackle suit from the Ultraman Mebius film was reused for Nackle's appearance.
===Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure===
50 years after the destruction of Planet Hammer, the Nackle race are at war with Alien Pedan, each sending out their respective fighting force against one another. A single Nackle was a prisoner in Dorothy's mothership and escaped when the ship was under attack by Yapool's Ace Killer. He then proceed to free his Black King and died just after being shot by an Alien Pedan trooper.
The Nackle race then collaborated with Yapool to help him in killing Io Mikura in exchange for his Terrible Monsters to join their fighting force. A group of Nackle arrived on Planet Pedan and launched their monster army. When the Pedan managed to fight back with Io and Vittorio's help, the Nackle are forced to send in EX Tyrant down. Dorothy used the artificial Battlenizer to briefly hijack control of the gestalt monster into wiping out most of Nackle's army. The Nackles on board of their ship were killed when Soundgillar gets tossed to their cockpit, but nevertheless both sides were at total loss when the aftermath of the battle resulted with Planet Pedan destroyed.
In Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS, a lone Nackle openly attacked a fleet of Alien Pedan saucers with his Black King companion. The protagonist and Pigmon used this commotion to escape, but Nackle spotted them, and intrigued by the Battlenizer, challenged them to a match. Both Nackle and his Black King are defeated. Additionally while Yapool did appear after that, Nackle never established an alliance with the Extradimensional Being at all.
===Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie===
As a member of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army, Alien Nackle was seen teaming up with Alien Babarue, Alien Magma, and Dada to kill Rei while the Ultras and Rei's monsters fought Ultraman Belial's other monsters, but Rei transformed into Reimon and killed his attackers in short order with Babarue first, followed by Magma, Nackle, with a kick to the neck and then landing with a boom. 
====Trivia====
*Although in the movie, Alien Nackle II was one of the monsters not part of Belyudra.
===Ultraman Ginga===
In episode 7, Nackle, along with many other Kaiju and seijin, were cheering on Ultraman Ginga as he fights Dark Galberos. 
Another Alien Nackle appears in this series as Gray, where he becomes one of the underlings of Dark Lugiel, granted the mission to spread chaos and feed evil hearts to his master by corrupting any individual with the Dark Dummy Spark. He was defeated by Ultraman Ginga while Darklived as Super Grand King.
===Ultraman Ginga S===
===Ultraman X===
Alien Nackle returns in Ultraman X where instead of one, there were two individuals, each appeared in different episodes. The first Alien Nackle was an arms dealer and the latter one is a peaceful immigrant living on Earth .
====Bandello====
Bandello is an arms dealer who claimed to be the strongest in the universe and was hunted by Ultraman Zero. He arrived on Earth and tried to steal the Spark Dolls from Xio by using Black King to delay them. Approaching Xio Aramis, he defeated Wataru Kazama but forced to abandon the Spark Dolls for a while when Black King is in a pinch, overpowering Ultraman X until Ultimate Zero arrived and turn the tides of the battle. He flees to Planet Guillermo with Black King while bringing Aramis.
At Guillermo, he armed Black King with a new horn drill and contacted his client but Rui Takada appeared and reclaim the Spark Dolls back. Interested in Rui for being an inventor, Bandello offered her a place under his wing in exchange for her weapons but she denied, prompting the enlarged Bandello to chase her until Zero arrived on that planet. Black King Drill Custom aided his master but X appeared as well and both Ultras overpowered the villainous duo. The Nackle was weakened by Zero's Strong-Corona Attack, Ultra Hurricane, Gulnate Buster, and Miracle Zero Slugger before being deliberated by the Zero Twin Shoot. 
=====Trivia=====
*Voice actor: Tetsuo Kishi
**Interestingly, Tetsuo previously voiced Black King in Ultraman Ginga, with said monster is Bandello's servant.
**Tetsuo Kishi is a fan of Return of Ultraman and because of this, most of Bandello's lines were ad-libbed.
*Suit actor: Keita Rikimaru
*A new suit was made for Bandello instead of reusing Gray's suit. As shown in comparison, Bandello's skin tone is brighter than Gray. This was purposely made to re-invoke the elements of the first generation of Alien Nackle from Return of Ultraman.
**Ultraman X's director Koichi Sakamoto said that Bandello's appearance and role was in fact a tribute to the first Alien Nackle and most of the situations reflect that of the episode 38 of Return of Ultraman, "Ultraman Dies at Sunset". Also, Koichi added that when Rui used Xio Aramis to run into the alien was meant as "revenge" for the first Nackle having killed Aki Sakata.
**After the airing of episode 14 of Ultraman X, "The Shining Sky, and the Land Beneath It", producer Sei Okazaki revealed on the official New Ultraman Retsuden blog that Bandello's customer, whom requested his stolen Spark Dolls was none other than Alien Markind.New Ultraman Retsuden episode 14 blog (web archive) Alien Markind also appeared in that same episode where he sold Mecha Gomora to Gina Spectre until he was shot down by Alien Shaplay in refusal to pay for his service.
*Whenever Bandello wanted to become a giant, he would remove his poncho first but his gun and the holster grew along with him. It is possible that his poncho is not capable of enlarging like his weapons or that he removes it for easy mobility.
*It is also revealed that the race's currency is also named after their planet, "Nackle".
*Bandello's name comes from the main character of the 1931 film "Little Caesar", Caesar Enrico Bandello.
*In the "Ultraman Orb Retrospective Special", Bandello's suit is used in a new scene where an unnamed Nackle fights Ultraman Jack.
**This is the only Ultra demonstration in the special that is not completely comprised of stock footage.
====Nackley====
The head of the residents, Nackley, Icary, and Halky disguised and worked in a human society, with Nackley's human form being , an office worker who earns 500 yen per each paper. Wanting a new housemate to ease their monthly rent of 15,000 yen, they find Isamu Kazama and accepted him.
Learning that Isamu was a former rugby player, they counsel his problems and one day, after the appearance of Halky's Samekujira accidentally attracted the Dark Star Cluster's attention, they challenge the thieves in a rugby match. After three days of training, the Nebula House residents manage to win the match. They thank Isamu for his help and allow him to rejoin his rugby team. 
=====Trivia=====
*Actor: Kunji Hirano
*Suit actor: Hiroyuki Arai
*His voice actor and mannerisms are the same as Alien Nackle Gray from Ultraman Ginga. What his exact relation to Gray might be is unknown.
*According to Ultraman X, the Nebula House residents are former invaders that given up their careers for a simple life on Earth.
===Ultraman Orb Chronicle Chapter 2===
A pair of Alien Nackle brothers appeared as in the Ultraman Orb Chronicle Chapter 2.
The Ramon Brothers were the bodyguards of Alien Zartana, who planned to construct a space highway on . The Ramon Brothers terrorized the inhabitants of the planet. Gai transformed into Ultraman Orb and defeated them both.
=====Trivia=====
*Their association in Planet Guillermo harkens back to Bandello hiding on the same planet in Ultraman X.
===Ultraman Orb===
===Ultraman Geed The Movie: Connect the Wishes!===
Alien Nackle was one of the aliens who attacked the gang when they arrived at the alien city, but he, like his comrades, was eventually defeated in a fistfight at a bar. 
===Ultraman R/B===
Alien Nackle was among the aliens interviewed by Alien Mefilas and Alien Zarab on Saki Mitsurugi's plan to turn Earth into a bomb.
====Trivia====
*Suit actor: Shun Takahashi
===Jugglus Juggler Chronicle: Ja no Michi wa Hebi===
An Alien Nackle was one of the many patrons in Alien Godola's tavern on Planet Baphomet, who loses to Jugglus Juggler in a gamble. Whether he was one of the many mercenaries to fight against Juggler or participating in Phalaris' tournament for the gene bomb is unknown. 
===Ultraman Taiga===
An Alien Nackle named appears in this series.https://m-78.jp/taiga/kaiju/ He was once a warrior of Planet Nackle, who was called the , and fought alongside his Black King. However, they lost to a giant of light, and Odyssa decided to quit being a warrior. He went to Earth to have a peaceful life as an artist named , and sealed Black King into its egg. He had been an artist for about half a century, and somehow got to know Hiroyuki Kudo.
After getting scolded by Kana Sasaki for his recklessness on the job, Hiroyuki goes to a park, where he meets Oda. However, Kirisaki takes an interest in Oda's past and Black King's egg, and would like to turn him back to his old ways. Ultraman Tregear appears, causing mayhem and destruction so that he could lure Ultraman Taiga out to battle. Reminded of his past battle and loss against Ultraman Jack, Oda's dormant fighter's spirit briefly resurfaced, allowing Black King to emerge from its egg. Under attack, Taiga had no choice but to finish off Black King, unaware who owned it. Seeing his partner destroyed left Oda greatly upset, and finds out that Hiroyuki transformed into Taiga after that. He refuses to talk to Hiroyuki and leaves, accidentally pushing him over using his alien powers. They later meet up and Oda reveals his origins to Hiroyuki, which shocks him.
Later on, Oda writes a letter that he wanted to give to Hiroyuki, through EGIS. In his letter, Oda wrote that he wanted to face an Ultraman and wanted to fight Hiroyuki. Unable to hide his true feelings anymore, Oda transformed into his true form, Odyssa, wanting to fight Taiga. Taiga appears and they do battle, and while doing so, Odyssa reminisces over the good times he had on Earth, and with Hiroyuki, but he admits to himself that him trying to live a peaceful life was just lying to himself. Taiga transforms into Photon Earth, reminding him one more time of his earlier battle against the giant of light who once defeated him. They enter a beam clash but ultimately, Odyssa is struck down by the Aurum Strium. Odyssa's last thoughts were of him admitting to himself that he was happy to have met Hiroyuki. 
====Trivia====
*Oda is portrayed by Tamotsu Ishibashi, who previously played Eisuke Wakura in Ultraman Nexus, whose 15th anniversary coincides with Taigas year of airing.
*Suit actor: Shinnosuke Ishikawa
*Odyssa's suit is made to strongly resemble the original as the episode he appeared in was also a tribute to Nackle's original appearance right down to the fact that Odyssa and his Black King fought against Ultraman Jack (and then Taiga) in the sunset.
**The suit would later be reused to portray another Nackle in Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy.
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==Other Media==
===Ultra Super Legend===
In the manga version illustrated by Shinji Imura, two Remodeled Alien Nackles were under services of the Gua Army, each labelled and No.1 and No.2 respectively. Unlike the magazine version, where a single Re-Nackle was in charge of both Black King and King Joe, the two controlled each monsters respectively, making it a case of adaptational liberties.
===Mega Monster Rush Ultra Frontier===
Two Alien Nackles appears in this video game as part of a monster hunter team.
An Alien Nackle by the name is a member of the Jailbreak Hunters, a group of illegitimate hunter team composed by escaped prisoners whom earned points by hacking into the game's system and remove it from the rival team. His nickname is .
====SUPER-EARTH GOMORA Hunting====
He and his comrades had stole the Rush Hunters' points while they were fighting Super Earth Gomora. As the Rush Hunters about to battle the thiefs, Alien Mefilas Sickle appeared and trapped the criminal in cards, while giving the Rush Hunters back their points.
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Yōhei Tadano
*Jara's name is a pun of the word jail.
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===New Ultraman Retsuden===
==Merchandise==
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