Alien Babarue

https://m-78.jp/taiga/kaiju/ is a race of aliens from Planet Babarue. They were originally featured in Ultraman Leo episodes 38 and 39. A race of aliens who are both extremely cunning and masters of disguise, the Babarue are capable of fooling even Ultras with their abilities to hide behind their imitations, allowing them to orchestrate high-profile plans from the shadows.
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==History==
===Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy===
At least one Alien Babarue took part in the Ultimate Wars as part of Alien Empera's army. He fought against Ultraman Ken on a small asteroid near the Land of Light, along with an Alien Godola and an Alien Nackle. After Godola was defeated by Ultraman Belial, Babarue and Nackle lost the will to fight. Nackle pleaded for their lives, saying that Empera forced them to stall the two Ultras. Though Ken was prepared to spare the duo, Belial refused to buy this, and ruthlessly killed the aliens with a shot of his Deathcium Beam, rationalising that the two were still Empera's soldiers and didn't deserve mercy. 
===Ultraman Leo===
Self proclaimed as the , Alien Babarue was a cunning, trickster alien with a personal vendetta against the Ultramen and came up with an evil plan to destroy them.
To get his revenge on the Ultra Brothers, Alien Babarue disguised himself as after capturing and hiding the real Astra, froze him in a block of ice, and abandoned him in the middle of space. Disguised as the Imit-Astra, Alien Babarue then stole the Ultra Key, a device that both maintained the Land of Light‘s orbit and was capable of destroying an entire planet in a single blast. Before he could escape, Imit-Astra was confronted by Ultraman over taking the key. Despite being overpowered by Ultraman, the Imit-Astra escaped the planet, leaving the Ultra Brothers to believe Astra had betrayed them and worse, without the Ultra Key to keep their planet in orbit, the Land of Light was sent into a collision course with Earth.
The Imit-Astra made his way towards Earth, where he planned to use Leo’s trust in his brother to trick Gen into protecting him from the Ultra Brothers until it was too late to avert the collision. Once Gen and Dan found the Imit-Astra, Dan used his Ultra Willpower on him so the Ultra Key could be recovered by his brother. Gen unwilling to see his "brother" in pain started fighting with the crippled Dan to protect him until Zoffy, Ultraman, Jack, and Ace arrived and overwhelmed the Imit-Astra.
After battling with Dan, Gen transformed to come to the aid of his "brother", fending off the Ultra Brothers. Leo tried to talk some sense into the Imit-Astra, but with Earth slowly falling apart and with the Land of Light's collision nigh, Ultra Brothers had no choice but to fight Leo and the Imit-Astra to try to get the Ultra Key back. During the battle, Ultraman, Jack, and Ace fired weakened versions of their signature rays to end the battle quickly, but the Imit-Astra cowardly used Leo as a shield to protect himself. Leo took the brunt of the attacks and was badly wounded. With Leo out of action, the Imit-Astra prepared to use the Ultra Key’s devastating power against the Ultra Brothers and destroy them. Before he uses the weapon, Ultraman King arrived to thwart the diabolical alien. He fired the Baptism Beam, shattering the disguise and revealing Alien Babarue’s true face.
Alien Babarue fled from the Ultra Brothers and managed to escape when King called them back forcing them to try and save as many lives as possible. With the Key broken, and the Land of Light's impact imminent, Babarue gloated pridefully, walking the streets of the seemingly doomed Earth. MAC was left with an impossible choice, either destroy the Ultra's home world, or let it collide and destroy both planets.
Eventually Gen was able to wake up from his injuries and was informed by Dan of the Dark Alien's deception and the distress signal Astra send. Transforming into Leo, he retrieved his brother from Alien Babarue’s prison. With the real Astra freed, the Leo Brothers returned to Earth and restored the Ultra Key, prompting the enraged Alien Babarue to try and stop the Brothers. Thanks to the assistance of MAC, Astra took off to return the key and Ultraman Leo was left to pummel Alien Babarue senseless with his superior martial arts skills until finally, Leo leapt into the air and struck Alien Babarue in the chest with his famous Leo Kick, sending a shower of sparks flying from his chest before Babarue fell to the ground, dying in a huge explosion. With Alien Babarue dead the Ultra Key was restored by the real Astra, the Land of Light returned to its rightful place in M78. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Motomu Kiyokawa
*Alien Babarue was created from a modified Alien Magma suit.
**Due to this and their similar designs, the two are constantly paired together in stage shows.
*Alien Babarue's chest emblem is the symbol for Mercury.
*The 2001 manga Within Ultraman Leo's Heart by Mamoru Uchiyama establishes that Babarue was in fact a mercenary hired by Black Directive, and served as the prelude to the attack of the Saucer Monsters from Black Star, who were sent by Black Directive to avenge his fallen ally.
===Ultraman Mebius Gaiden: Hikari Saga===
As Ultraman Hikari was planning on returning to Earth, he received a distress signal from Planet Arb. Arriving on the planet, he was confronted by a being that looking identical to that of Mebius. Noting that Mebius was still on Earth, Hikari and the impostor battled on Arb until the impostor transformed into Hikari's old form, Tsurugi, taunting Hikari by proclaiming that as Tsurugi he was once more powerful by thriving on his vengeance against Bogarl, but has since grown soft since being accustomed by humanity. The fake Tsurugi then transformed into Alien Babarue and both alien and Ultra battled.
In the middle of the battle, Babarue froze Hikari in a block of ice, intending on abandoning to him to die on Arb unless Hikari wished to serve him, which Hikari again denied. As Babarue left Hikari to freeze to death, Arb returned to the planet and re-presented the Armor of Tsurugi back to the Ultra, transforming him into a more pure version of his former self rather than vengeful. Fueled by the armor, Tsurugi easily beat down Babarue until the alien fled with his life, vowing to kill both Tsurugi and Ultraman Mebius before disappearing. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Motomu Kiyokawa
===Ultraman Mebius===
Continuing from the final chapter of Hikari Saga, Babarue, bitter and vengeful at being defeated by Hikari, took the form of Hunter Knight Tsurugi and attacked a city in Japan one night. Noticing that Alien Babarue's Tsurugi form possessed the Knight Brace on his arm, which Hikari had left to Mebius before leaving Earth, Mirai transformed into Ultraman Mebius to confront the impostor. Both Ultra and impostor battled until Imit-Tsurugi fled once GUYS appeared on the scene. Just as the real Ultraman Hikari had arrived, he discovered that his reputation was damaged by Alien Babarue, Hikari and Alien Babarue battled yet again until Alien Babarue fled, leaving Hikari to take the blame, and his host Capt. Serizawa locked up.
The next day, Alien Babarue returned as Imit-Tsurugi and continued his onslaught on Earth to further destroy Hikari's reputation. However, Serizawa was released from his imprisonment and was represented with his old Knight Brace by Mirai, Serizawa transformed back into Hikari and faced the impostor again. With the help of his blade, and Arb representing his armor and transforming him back into Tsurugi, the real Tsurugi exposed his impostor and after a long battle, destroyed him, finally ending the trouble Alien Babarue had caused. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Motomu Kiyokawa
*In this series (as well as his appearance in Hikari Saga), it's revealed that upon copying the form of an Ultra, Alien Babarue also possesses near identical superpowers of the Ultra.
**Father of Ultra draws comparison of this Babarue to the one that first appeared in Leo by proclaiming the two to be the same person. However in supplementary sources, both Babarue are simply known to be relatives.
*In this series, Alien Babarue wields a type of Ji in battle, it resembles a combination of a pitchfork and flail.
===Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle: Never Ending Odyssey===
===Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie===
Alien Babarue was one of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army. He was first seen as a spirit in a shot of the Monster Graveyard along with Telesdon, Doragory, King Joe Black, Red King, and Arigera. He was then seen teaming up with Alien Magma, Alien Nackle, 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 Alien Babarue first with a kick to the chest and landing very hard with a boom, leaving the remaining three aliens to face Reimon. 
====Trivia====
*The Alien Babarue suit from Ultraman Mebius was reused for Alien Babarue's appearance in this film.
*Alien Babarue is one of the monsters that makes up Belyudra's body.
===Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure===
Set 50 years after the incident on Planet Hammer, a regular Alien Babarue is not chosen as a Reionics, but wishes to participate in the Reionics Battle. On Planet Boris, Babarue captured a baby Arados and challenges Io Mikura to fight against his Basiliss. Io responded by summoning his Bemular, but Pigmon sensed something off and further provoked Babarue to send his strongest monster at his disposal. The alien instead grows himself to giant size and play dirty by supporting Basiliss, but Vittorio and his EX Gomora exposed his deception and killed Basiliss. Humiliated, Babarue used Arados to jump 50 years to the past to prevent Rei's awakening as a Reionics. Babarue arrived on the past Planet Boris, just in time to see Rei in the middle of his fight with Kate and her Zetton. Io confronted him again with the help of Vittorio's ship for time travel. When Babarue try to get away by holding Arados hostage, Io observed Rei's EX Gomora firing Ultra Oscillation Wave as a beam, then ordered his Gomora to do the same to kill Babarue. History is saved, and Arados is free from its restrain by Io, Pigmon and Ultraman before it returned them to their timeline.
The non-Reionics Babarue's section is adapted to Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS, but during his fight with the protagonist, he lost and it was Pigmon who exposed him as a fake Reionics. In addition, Babarue also employed the help of King of Mons when facing the protagonist during their time travel to the past.
Another Babarue is amongst a group of aliens alongside Alien Magma, Alien Temperor and Kyrieloid to pursue Kanegon for his Battlenizer.
===Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure NEO===
Babarue and his group of aliens then accidentally jumped into a portal in the midst of pursuing Kanegon, leading to the Earth where Ai Asama inhabited. When the four aliens arrived in giant forms, they fought against Ultraman Tiga and the recently summoned Red King under Ai's command. Despite the initial confusion, the two fought off the aliens, Red King tossed Babarue to Magma before Tiga finished them both with Zeperion Beam.
When the above story is adapted to Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS NEO, Alien Babarue and Magma confronted the protagonists' summoned monsters instead. Tiga didn't appear until much later during Grozam's emergence.
===Ultraman Zero and Ultra Zero Super Battle DVD===
Alien Babarue disguised himself as Ultraman Zero and talked to the real Zero, then transformed into his true form. However, he was killed by Darklops Zero.
====Trivia====
*The Alien Babarue suit from Ultraman Mebius was reused for Alien Babarue's appearance in this film.
*This is the first time that an Alien Babarue is not portrayed as an antagonist.
===Ultraman Ginga===
In episode 7, him along with many monsters are seen cheering on Ginga as he fights Dark Galberos. He was then seen in a couple of shots in later episodes in Dark Lugiel's collection along with Alien Hipporit, Mecha Baltan, Ghighi, Ace Killer, Mochiron, Dada, Deathfacer, Birdon, Gan-Q, Goldras, Twin Tail, Gatanothor, Mochiron, and a lot of other monsters and aliens. It is likely that Babarue returned to space in his original form after Ultraman Ginga defeated Dark Lugiel.
===Ultraman X===
Long ago, Babarue was a champion of the Space Rugby League as player number 8. However, he gave up his career as a rugby player and formed an intergalactic crime network with its members being Kemur, Alien Zetton, and Dada.
Alien Babarue was first seen with his comrades performing robbery in a warehouse at Earth. When Alien Valky Halky's Samekujira Jolly came to Earth for its master, the team approaches Xio and Jolly's owner, demanding it until Halky challenged them for a rugby match.
Three days later in the tournament, the Dark Star Cluster participated in the rugby and scores 51 points in the first half due to cheating with their powers until Isanu's fighting spirit turns the tables in the second round. Enraged when Isamu called them no side after the game ended, they enlarged and began on a rampaging spree before Ultraman X Gomora Armor sent them to the sky with Gomora Oscillation Wave. 
====Trivia====
*Voice actor: Kazunori Naotsuka
===Ultraman Orb===
Alien Babarue reappeared in this series as , codenamed . After running into Jetta Hayami, he created his human form .
Babaryu was sent to Earth to impersonate Ultraman Orb and break the trust between the giant of light and the people of Earth. During his first time impersonating Orb, a stray Telesdon attacked and he was outmatched, but was able to drive the beast away but people thought this Imit-Ultraman Orb was the real one who saved two children. Soon enough, Jetta went to him and showed him all of his fans, which slowly started to make him turn from evil to good. All the kids who believed he was Orb gave him presents and he couldn't help but start to love them, after hearing Jetta talk about how heroes always are in the right and his dream to become a hero. Soon enough, in his human form, he actually played with the children, until the Planet Invasion Union came down with Don Nostra inpatient with Babarue, so he ordered Juggler to execute him to which he summoned Kelbim. Babarue transformed into Imit-Ultraman Orb to stop the threat but Kelbim overwhelmed him, forcing him to turn back to Babarue and to reveal his alien identity to the humans but they didn't care that he was an imposter, they still loved him no matter what but either way, Kelbim was about to kill Babarue, until the arrival of the real Orb who quickly defeated the beast with his Hurricane Slash form. Afterwards he actually became a human permanently, helping children from then on. 
It was later revealed by Black Directive that Babaryu was an old friend of his and a regular customer at his coffee shop. He also used to be quite a troublemaker in the past, mostly due to his association with the Planet Invasion Union, but he was quite happy to see him turn over a new leaf. 
====Trivia====
*Actor: Ryusuke Nakamura
**Ryusuke previously portrayed Shura/Kamen Rider Black Baron in Kamen Rider Gaim Gaiden 2. The similarity of their characters is how they were portrayed as "knock-offs" to the real one, but whereas Shura tries to live up to Kaito (Baron)'s Darwinism theory, Babaryu started off as a surface-level impostor until this action slowly turned into a full redemption.
**Additionally, Ryusuke was one of the actors who auditioned for the role of Shin Matsudo.
*Suit actor: Daisuke Terai
*His codename, Space Directive M774, is a reference to an episode of Ultra Q of the same name.https://m-78.jp/orb/subtitle/9「ニセモノのブルース」に隠れたサブタイ/
*Coincidentally, he appeared in the same episode number of Ultraman X.
*His human name, Ryuji Baba, is a pun of his personal name (Baba Ryuji).
*This is the first heroic member of the Alien Babarue species. This is also the first time an imitator has become good.
===Ultraman Taiga===
An Alien Babarue and his accomplice Alien Hook somehow found out about Night Fang, who was sealed into a mountain in Kuzuryu village in ancient times, and wanted to unseal and obtain it. But to do that, he had to find the net idol Ai Tennoji, the reincarnation of the ancient shaman. Babarue disguised as her producer to bring her to EGIS and hire them as bodyguards to avoid being suspicious. Babarue then brought them to Kuzuryu village to prepare to summon Night Fang.
The real producer went to EGIS and explained the situation, confirming Pirika Asahikawa noticed two suspicious people in Ai's live stream footage. Upon enhancing the image, she found both the Babarue and hook undisguised, wearing only robes to conceal themselves. Ai, Hiroyuki Kudo and Homare Soya found both the Babarue and Hook undisguised in a hut, who gave chase to them. Babarue managed to force Ai to unseal Night Fang by making her touch the sealing stone, before he grew to giant size and prepared to greet it. Hiroyuki transformed into Ultraman Taiga to do battle, but he was overwhelmed by the alien. He then switched to Ultraman Fuma who was able to outspeed the Babarue, and sliced him in half using the Trenchant-Star Light Wave Shuriken. However, Night Fang was successfully unsealed and emerged from the mountain. Though Babarue didn't survive to see it, his plan had come to fruition, and Night Fang began its attack. 
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===Ultraman Story 0===
Alien Babarue appears as the main antagonist of the non-canon manga series, as the leader of the Interstellar Union, including Zarab, Hipporit, Metron, Guts, Nackle, and (for a brief while) Mefilas. He successfully captures Father of Ultra and holds him hostage in their base for a long period of time. His ultimate plan is the creation and accquring of the Ultra Key and conquer the universe.
As one by one the aliens of the union are destroyed by the Ultra Warriors, Alien Babarue contemplates further action before being ambushed by Drew, who had infiltrated Alien Babarue's group in disguise. Drew, who had lost a leg in a scuffle with Alien Hipporit earlier to save Zoffy from the former's petrification attack, fought Alien Babarue, but was outclassed.
The two clashed, with Alien Babarue bisecting Drew, but Drew reveals that he had taken Alien Babarue's energy core, to his shock, as his ship explodes. With his dying breaths, Drew gave Alien Babarue's core to Mefilas in the hopes that he can inform the Ultra Brothers of Alien Babarue's weaknesses, which the alien indeed does for some reason.
Back on M78, Ultraman, Zaji, and Colorless set out to figure the cause of the mysterious planet's orbit covering the sun. They are joined by Taro suddenly, who wants revenge for his parents. After arrival on the planet, the Ultras are attacked by monsters, when suddenly Taro slashes Colorless from his left shoulder down, revealing his disguise as Alien Babarue. Zaji fights him, but even his immense speed is no match for Alien Babarue and he is fatally stabbed in the heart.
Ultraman, now left alone, is forced to face Alien Babarue's hatred and wrath, with his evil aura alone forcing him backwards. Mustering the strength to fire a Spacium Beam, he could only watch as Alien Babarue absorbed the attack harmlessly and retaliated. Just when all seemed lost, Colorless and Zaji with their last breaths, combine their fire and ice element attacks to force a massive explosion in an attempt to take out Alien Babarue, but not before Zaji seals Ultraman in an ice casing to protect him.
The planet now free of Alien Babarue's control drifts away and the Ultras' power on M78 are restored. Zoffy flies up to search for the Ultra trio, but manages to locate only Ultraman before he is struck in the back by Alien Babarue, who had suffered burns to the right side of his body. Alien Babarue fires an energy beam at Zoffy who crashes back down to M78 with Ultraman, Gorian barely catching them.
The remaining Ultras gather for a last stand against Alien Babarue. Jack attempts his Meteor Kick but is easily knocked back. Alien Babarue then demonstrates his imitation powers by unleashing Drew's Storm Fire, Zaji's ice projectiles, and Colorless' Strium Beam, badly wounding the Ultras. He then reveals that the essence of the Ultra Key is within his own body, shocking the heroes.
Ace and Flare then attempt to seal Alien Babarue away in an alternate dimension, but he escapes it and grabs Seven into the dimension while the others' backs were turned. He then defeats Seven and crucifies him, and demands that the Ultra Brothers offer up a sacrifice if he is to be returned. Flare volunteers, then as Alien Babarue was about to strangle him, Flare uses Alpha Omega to immobolize him, but Alien Babarue breaks free of his restraints and punches a hole through Flare's chest, mortally wounding him, but not before Flare sends his arms into Alien Babarue's body and causes him severe pain by applying pressure on his heart, which also robs him of his dimensional travel ability. Alien Babarue calls Birdon and rides on top of the Kaiju in a temporary retreat.
===Ultra Zone===
Alien Babarue appears in Ultra Zone, along with Alien Magma.
===Mega Monster Rush Ultra Frontier===
====Dino-Tank Hunting====
Alien Babarue, along with an Alien Zarab and Alien Metron, was one of the first of the aliens to try to take down Dinosaur Tank. After the team fired their weapons, proving to be defective, Dinosaur Tank swatted them away by slamming his tail into them, therefore eliminating them from the competition.
==References==
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Category:Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
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Category:Planet Invasion Union