Ultraman Ginga (character)

is the titular Ultra Hero of Ultraman Ginga and Ultraman Ginga S. He is an Ultraman from an unknown future who fought Dark Lugiel in the Dark Spark War, before passing his power to Hikaru Raido.
After Dark Lugiel's defeat and the lifting of the Spark Doll curse, Ginga returned to Earth to fight against the threat of Alien Chibull Exceller, who plotted to use the stolen Victorium to revive his other half Lugiel and was joined by Ultraman Victory.
==Conception==
===Etymology===
The Japanese word means Galaxy in English.
==History==
===New Ultraman Retsuden===
Both Ultraman Ginga and Dark Lugiel originated from space which was set somewhere in the future. The two were originally one entity. However, both Ginga and Lugiel had different mindsets of peace. Lugiel stated that to create an "ultimate paradise", all lifeforms must be paused but Ginga objected, saying that all lifeforms bring prosperity. The two eventually split up with Ginga bearing the light and Lugiel bearing the darkness.
===Ultraman Ginga===
Dark Lugiel orchestrated the Dark Spark War which raged between the side of good and the side of evil, as represented by the participants, the Ultramen, monsters and evil aliens from across the universe. It is known that Ginga, with the Ginga Spark, previously fought the owner of the Dark Spark, but like possibly every Ultra and monster in the war had been sealed by the Dark Spark into the form of an action figure called a Spark Doll. It is now known that this was caused by the clash between the Ginga Spark and Dark Spark, which sealed both combatants. Afterwards the event that came to be known as the Dark Spark War, due to its ending, these dolls later fell to Earth in a meteorite shower with the Ginga Spark and the Ginga Doll hidden within it. The Ginga Spark was later kept inside the Ginga Shrine by Hotsuma Raido. 
Sometime later, a young man named Hikaru Raido discovered the Ginga Spark, which let him combine with the action figures and possess the abilities of the being in the action figure through a process called Ultlive. Unlike other Spark Dolls, Hikaru's Mark of Courage must shine in order for Ginga's Spark Doll to be called from within. Ginga was first summoned by Hikaru to fight Thunder Darambia, and finished the monster off by using the Ginga Thunderbolt before claiming its Spark Doll. This helped him in many later battles against humans and even some of his own friends that Darklived into Kaiju and Seijin (Thunder Darambia, Kemur, King Pandon, Ragon, etc) via Spark Dolls and Dark Dummy Sparks which were distributed by Lugiel's agents; Alien Valky, Alien Icarus, and Alien Nackle Gray. At the same time, this allowed Hikaru to receive the Spark Dolls of the monsters he defeated. While gaining a new ally in the form of Tomoya Ichijouji/Jean-Nine, Ginga remarked that every time a monster was brought back (Darklived) into the world, the forces of darkness were growing stronger and that 'his' return was nearing.
His words proven true when Dark Lugiel emerged from his host, Furuhoshi Elementary School principal Kyoko Shirai and siphon Minus Energies he collected prior before defeating Ginga in an instant. Although a revived Taro gained the upper hand, he relinquished his power to revive Ginga, who is the only one able to defeat Lugiel. Ginga and Lugiel fought with their weapons to a standstill until they reached the Moon and fired each others' energy beams at full power. Lugiel was defeated in the end as Ginga gave Hikaru a mission to travel around the world as he departed to space. 
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At some point of time, Ginga would return in a brief moment to save Ultraman (Chigusa) and Tiga (Kenta) from Alien Magma and his Darklived Zetton. He spirited the two to Earth while bringing along his former enemies, who sought apprenticeship under his wing. 
====Ultraman Ginga Theater Special====
Dark Zagi appeared after Hikaru and Tomoya defeated Tyrant as Ultraman Tiga and Jean-Nine respectively. Hikaru transformed into Ginga to fight Ultraman Noa's arch enemy, Dark Zagi. The two were evenly matched for the most part, until finally in a clash of beams, the Ginga Cross Shoot was able to destroy the dark Ultra. Zagi's Spark Doll was retrieved by Dark Lugiel after the battle as he did not want Hikaru to gain such power. 
====Ultraman Ginga Theater Special: Ultra Monster ☆ Hero Battle Royale!====
Sometime after Lugiel's defeat, Ultraman Ginga was one of the fake Spark Dolls of Tomoya which led into the creation of Livepad. Ginga was chosen by Hikaru and fought against a copy of Chaos Ultraman. With Hikaru and his team are on the losing side, the original Ginga communicated with Hikaru, reminding the boy of their promise and gave the entire team a moral support to finish the virus once and for all. 
===Ultraman Ginga S===
Two years after his battle with Dark Lugiel ended, Ginga returned and reunited with Hikaru on Earth to save him and UPG members from EX Red King. With Hikaru joining the ranks of UPG, Ginga finds himself in the middle of a conflict between the underworld civilization Victorian and Exceller's faction, who wanted to steal their supply of Victorium to revive Dark Lugiel. Ginga join forces with the Victorian protector Ultraman Victory, whose host Sho made an uneasy alliance with UPG because of his distaste for humans until he grew close with Hikaru while the return of Ultraman Taro allows Ginga to assume Ultraman Ginga Strium. 
In the middle of the series, Ginga and Victory ejected their hosts at the last minute before their deaths from Five King. Through UPG and Shepherdon's cooperation, the two giants were revived once more to fight the combined monster that ravaged in Shizukugaoka. It was at this moment that both Ultras show coordination in planning attacks, taking down parts of Five King one-by-one before defeating it for good. 
In the series finale, Exceller partially revived Dark Lugiel, combining it with the UPG Live Base (mainly for their Victorium Cannon) and turning him into Vict Lugiel. Ginga Strium and Victory used an attack plan of striking his Victorium Cannon and swapped each others per battle but failed. Through Mana's help (by faking her betrayal no less), she was able to extract and return the Shepherdon Spark Doll from Vict Lugiel to Ultraman Victory. As it seemed that everything goes south for Exceller, he was regressed into Spark Doll by Dark Lugiel's revived consciousness, who proceed to petrify the Ultras with relative ease. When the surviving humans regained their spirit and the Victorians gave Hikaru and Sho their necklace, they managed to revive the two Ultras and resume fighting Vict Lugiel. Through the combination of Mana's hacking and continuous attacks on the Victorium Cannon, a fully weakened Lugiel was destroyed with Cosmo Miracle Especially at the cost of the android's life. With Taro's job on Earth done, he returned to space as Ginga remained on Earth. 
===Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!===
Ultraman Ginga was framed by Etelgar, who used his image as the "destroyer" of Planet Zandt to Arena, making her resent the Heisei Ultras and the two went through various time and space to kidnap them. Arriving at their latest destination, Ginga was transformed by Hikaru and assisted by Victory, but their combining powers were no match for Etelgar. As the two Ultras were forced to withdraw, Ultraman Zero dashed in and defeated Etelgar, causing him to retreat.
Soon, with Hikaru and Sho finished their training and provided the Ultra Fusion Brace by Zero, the two human hosts combined their Ultras into Ultraman Gingavictory and lead the rest of the freed Ultra Warriors in against Etelgar. 
===Ultra Fight Victory===
Having defeated by Victory Killer, Ginga was crucified by Yapool on Satellite Golgotha of Planet Gua as Ultraman Ace failed to save him with his former adversary upgraded into his current form. Victory rescued both Ultras and had Shepherdon heal them to join the battle against Yapool and his Terrible-Monster army on Gua. The Gingavictory fusion managed to defeat Yapool but forcefully split through an attack by Super Grand King Spectre. As Victory Knight went to deal with Juda Spectre alone, Ginga stayed with the Space Garrison and finished Grand King. With Juda died, the stolen Victorium Core and Hikaru/Ginga and Sho/Victory returned to Earth, where Hikari congratulated them for their bravery before returning to space. 
===Ultraman X===
In order to trace Ultraman Victory and Arisa in another world, Ginga jumped into another wormhole and defeated the rest of the Gua Army before he joined his partner and the alternate world's Ultra Hero, X. 
The three Ultras fought against Mold Spectre before he and his Gua Army remnants retreated and the heroes seal his space distortion. Following a short scuffle with Gina Spectre and Alien Shaplay, the three Ultras transform to defend Xio's supply of Spark Dolls. Ginga and Victory used their merged form as Exceed X cleansed the Dark Thunder Energy from Gua Spectre for both of them to finish him.
After saying their farewells, Victory, along with Ginga and Arisa, went back to his own dimension thanks to Ultraman X's Ultraman Zero Armor. 
===Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman===
In this film, Ginga was summoned by his Cyber Card and battled a Tsurugi Demaaga in Chicago, USA, defeating it with his Ginga Cross Shoot after being empowered by Ultraman Exceed X Beta Spark Armor's Cyber Wings. After saying their thanks to Ultraman, Tiga, and X, Ginga left Earth with the other Cyber Card Ultramen. 
===Ultraman Orb The Movie: Let Me Borrow the Power of Bonds!===
After mysteriously disappearing from his world along with Ultraman Victory, Ultraman Zero headed to Hawaii where Gai Kurenai, Ultraman Orb, was at that time to inform him on the matter after defeating a newly rebuilt Galactron. It was later revealed that both Ginga and Victory had been converted into jewels for Murnau's collection.
After Darebolic was released, Ultraman Orb and Ultraman X arrived to combat the threat, only for X to also be turned into a jewel while Orb was defeated. However, hearing the resolve of the SSP to not give up allowed the three imprisoned Ultras to give their power to Gai. Later on, Ginga, Victory, and X were able to escape their imprisonment, thanks to Jugglus Juggler destroying the Dark Ring. The three Ultras joined Orb Trinity to fight against Darebolic and the newly released Seijin. After a full day of battle, Orb, Ginga, Victory, X, and a later arrived Ultraseven thanked the SSP and left Earth. 
===Ultraman R/B===
An apparition of Ginga appears alongside the other New Generation Heroes firing their signature beams when Ruebe is activating the New Generation Barrier to counter an enemy attack. 
===Ultra Galaxy Fight: New Generation Heroes===
On Planet Sundowin, X and Geed were targeted by Dark Lugiel, who showed up and wanted to finish them off, but he was interrupted by Ultraman Ginga. X and Geed fired their rays at Dark Lugiel, buying them time to regroup with the other New Generation Heroes at the Land of Light. When everyone was gathered, they had a group talk to discuss what had happened to them. Ultra Dark-Killer uses a projection to inform the New Generation Heroes that Ultraman Zero and Ultrawoman Grigio are being held in the Dark-Killer Zone on Planet Tenebris, and to come and face him if they want to rescue their comrades.
Upon arriving, Ginga and Victory face off against Dark Lugiel and Etelgar respectively, but are unable to defeat them. Remembering the training they received from Zero, they fused into Ultraman Gingavictory and used the Wide Zero Shot to defeat them both. 
However, Ultraman Tregear revives Ultra Dark-Killer and Ultraman Zero Darkness, the former growing to gigantic size due to his overflowing power. To help Zero defeat his Darkness copy, Geed uses the energy of Ginga, Victory, X and Orb to transform Zero into Zero Beyond. They then transform into their strongest forms to battle Ultra Dark-Killer. Taro lends Ginga his power once more, and he transforms into Ultraman Ginga Strium. After the New Generation Heroes assault Dark-Killer, Taro arrives and advises them to lend their power to the Strium Brace. Upon doing so, Ginga performs the New Generation Dynamite and destroys Dark-Killer and the Dark Palace. The New Generation Heroes and Zero regroup, but were confronted by Ultraman Tregear, who admits he was the mastermind behind these events. The New Generation Heroes decide to go after Tregear. 
===Ultraman Taiga===
The New Generation Heroes faced off against Tregear near the Land of Light, but were defeated easily. When the Tri-Squad arrived, Ginga and Victory gave Ultraman Fuma their lights as a gift, which manifested in the form of Bracelet-type Ultra Taiga Accessories. 
===Ultraman Taiga The Movie: New Generation Climax===
After Tregear was defeated by Ultraman Taiga, a part of Grimdo escaped from his body. The New Generation Heroes tracked down Grimdo in space and sealed it away in a crystal, at the cost of their Ultraman powers. In their human forms they descended to Earth to protect Hiroyuki Kudo from the approaching Grimdo. Once Hikaru regained his powers from the Ginga-let, the New Generation Heroes face off against Tregear, the Grimdo-possessed Taro and Tregear's monsters, with Ginga and Victory fighting against Hellberus. After their opponents receive power ups from Grimdo, Ginga and Victory fuse into Ultraman Gingavictory to finish off Hellberus. Initially being trounced by Grimdo after it had absorbed Tregear, the New Generation Heroes fused with Taiga into Ultraman Reiga and defeat Grimdo. The New Generation Heroes give their parting words to the Tri-Squad and Hiroyuki and return to their home worlds. 
===Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad===
Following Tregear's defeat, the New Generation Heroes were dispatched across the universe to track down the Devil Splinters, the fragmented remains of Ultraman Belial, which could be used for nefarious purposes in the wrong hands. In their hunt for them, Ginga and Victory found themselves on Planet Penol, where an infected Bemstar was. The berserk beast proved tough for the duo before Ultraman Taiga arrived to lend a hand. After battling further, Victory created an opening for the others, with Ginga transforming into Ginga Strium and firing the Strium Beam in conjunction with Taiga Photon-Earth's Aurum Strium to defeat their foe and collect the Devil Splinter it left behind.Taiga began to question whether or not the Ultras were a match for The Kingdom, before Ginga reassured him by repeating what Taiga's father Taro once told him - that a forward-looking attitude can become hope itself. 
The New Generation Heroes regroup in the Monster Graveyard, where Absolute Tartarus, Alien Bat, Reibatos, Ultrawoman Grigio Darkness and Gina Spectre were attacking Ultrawoman Grigio, Ultraman Zearth, Ultraman Nice and Ultraman Boy to take the Devil Splinter they found there. Ginga and Victory fuse into Gingavictory while Rosso and Blu fuse into Ruebe to fight Tartarus. However, Tartarus uses the gathered Devil Splinters to empower Reibatos, who recreates the Giga Battlenizer, and fuses Gina with the souls of her brothers to create Gua Spectre before he dies of an overdose. Gua Spectre's new perfect form proved to be too powerful, forcing the New Generation Heroes to fuse into Ultraman Reiga, who easily defeats Gua before defusing into his components. Just after the battle, Geed and Taiga are struck by Belial and Tregear who retreat shortly after, stealing the Beliarok from Z in the process. 
==Profile==
===Stats===
*Height: Micro ~ Infinity
*Weight: 0 ~ Infinity
*Age: Unknown
*Home World: Unknown
*Time Limit: 3 minutes
===Body Features===
*: Ginga's operates like any other Color Timer. Given his Spark Doll Nature, though, going over this limit won't directly affect Hikaru besides leaving him tired, upon going over the limit Ginga will forcibly disappear, leaving Hikaru wherever Ginga was before, potentially putting Hikaru in a dangerous situation.
*Ultra Armor: Ginga's operates like any other Ultra Armor. At one point it was seen glowing bright white. His armor is fire resistant to the point that he withstood King Pandon's flames.
*: The crystals on Ginga's forehead, shoulders, forearms, chest, and shins. They allow Ginga to manipulate and are the means by which several of his finishers are accessed. Though blue by default, these crystals change color when Ginga uses most of his finishers.
===Human Hosts===
*Hikaru Raido: Ultraman Ginga's main host, a 17 year old boy who returned to his hometown (Furuhoshi) from United Kingdom. He has the Mark of Courage, and hence is the only one able to summon Ginga from the Ginga Spark. However, Hotsuma Raido, Hikaru's grandfather, also has the same mark, hinting him as another potential user.
*Misuzu Isurugi: After Hikaru manages to get Misuzu back to his side when she was brainwashed by Alien Nackle Gray, she briefly joined along with Hikaru as Ginga's host and simultaneously replenish Ginga's Color Timer. Both only joined forces to help Ginga destroy Super Grand King.
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===Transformation===
===Forms===
==Other Media==
===Super Hero Generation===
Hikaru Raido appeared in the crossover game Super Hero Generation as Ultraman Ginga. In this universe, the Ultramen, Kaiju and aliens can assume the size of normal humans. This universe is a crossover including Mobile Suit Gundam and Kamen Rider characters.
===Ultraman Hit Song History: New Generation Chapter===
In this music album, Ginga alongside the other New Generation Heroes were sealed by Etelgar and held captive on the Moon. However, Ginga was freed from his captive after Ultraman Zero recruited Ultraman Rosso and Ultraman Blu to fight against Etelgar. He and three other Ultras before Geed forms with Zero to become Zero Beyond to strike the finishing blow. 
==Trivia==
*In a scrapped plan, Ultraman Ginga and his entire series were meant to be in the same universe as Ultraman Gaia, celebrating the series' 15 anniversary. His human host Hikaru Raido was meant to be a student of a college that Gamu Takayama/Ultraman Gaia went to, basing on the 2011-2012 Toei Tokusatsu series, Kamen Rider Fourze. This however fell through, although the Fourze element was incorporated instead, such as Hikaru's age being a high school student.
**In a minor joke, Ultraman Ginga (Hikaru) met their Kamen Rider counterpart Kamen Rider Fourze in the 2014 crossover game Lost Heroes 2 where both are capable of performing a combination attack. Their formation appears to be in a perfect synchronization due to their similar traits and personality.
***In this game as well, Ginga is the only Ultraman to ever perform a tag-team attack with a Kamen Rider as opposed to other Ultras who perform theirs with a Gundam Mobile Suit.
*Ginga's landing and the camera spinning around him is a reference to the spinning of a spiral galaxy.
*So far Ultraman Ginga is the Ultra with the third youngest host, a high school student. Ultraman Nexus also ties for third youngest human host with Ren Senjyu at age 17, as does Ultraman Tiga with Tsubasa Madoka. Ultraman Cosmos, however, met his host Musashi Haruno at the age of eleven, the same age as Amui, the ancient host of Tiga. Hiroyuki Kudo, the youngest known host, was unknowingly a host for Taiga since age ten.
*Ginga is:
**One of the few Ultras not to have hand movements for when he is about to fly, with the others being Nexus and later Victory.
**The second Ultra that does not require any maneuver to use acceleration. The first was Ultraman Max.
**The second Ultra to be associated with a symbol. The first was Ultraman Mebius with the Mobius Strip/Infinity Symbol, while Ginga is associated with the image of a spiral galaxy.
**The first instance of an Ultra transforming from something other than a human, being that his human host can transform into other Ultras, monsters and aliens.
**The third Ultra shown to not be in control when transformed, since he is a Spark Doll transformation. The first Ultras who were not in control were Ultramen Gaia and Agul.
**The first Ultra in history to have his rise interrupted by an enemy, in this case, Dark Lugiel.
*Ultraman Ginga so far appears to be the only Ultra to partially change his appearance depending on the technique he is using.
*Ultraman Ginga's Color Timer sound is a modified and high pitched version of Ultraman's.
**Though for some reason, it reuses Ultraman Tiga's Color Timer sound in episode 9 of Ultraman Ginga.
*Ultraman Ginga shares his voice actor with his human host, who voices his grunts and battle sounds. However his speaking voice is done by Tomokazu Sugita.
**Sugita also voices Dark Lugiel, the main antagonist of the series. This is likely because the two are revealed to have once been the same being.
**A Tomokazu Sugita version of Ginga's grunts can be heard in the final episode of New Ultraman Retsuden.
*Ginga does not destroy his enemies, he reverts them back into Spark Dolls. The only other Ultras to not destroy their opponents on a regular basis are Cosmos and X.
*Ginga and Dark Lugiel's origin resembles the Chinese philosophy Yin and Yang, which is used to describe how apparently opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. This reflected on how Ginga resembles yang (light) and Dark Lugiel resembles yin (dark).
*It is unknown if Ginga could use his Ginga Sunshine or his Ginga Especially on his own energy, since when he used his Ginga Sunshine, Misuzu was his temporary co-host when Hikaru, his host, released her from the darkness after Alien Nackle Gray pulled her in, presumably giving him more power, and when he used the Ginga Especially, Taro gave him his energy after Dark Lugiel drained his energy, so he may have gave him some extra energy.
**In Ultraman Ginga S, he used the Cosmo Miracle Especially, a combination move with Cosmo Miracle Ray and Ginga Especially, all by himself. However, this could be the power given to him by the Strium Brace.
**However, he did use a one-handed version of Ginga Sunshine with just his own power when fighting against Mold Spectre.
*Most of the monsters Ginga Strium destroys with his finishing moves are either the same enemy or an enemy of the same species that the six Ultra Brothers (sans Zoffy) have encountered.
**Ultraman's Spacium Beam: Bemular
**Ultraseven's Wide Shot: King Joe Custom
**Jack's Ultra Shot: Sadola and Zoa Muruchi.
**Ace's Metalium Beam: Yapool
**Taro's Strium Beam: An army of Inpelaizers.
*Ginga being an Ultraman despite being born from a wholly different source might probably be due to the result of him representing light, as with all Ultramen species being made of light.
*Ginga Strium was meant to have Ultra Horns, but they were scrapped.https://twitter.com/aws49T8EvYnPX7U/status/1232107569134440448
*Hikaru/Ultraman Ginga was chosen by Koichi Sakamoto to be the leader of the New Generation Heroes in Ultra Galaxy Fight: New Generation Heroes. Sakamoto initially considered Gai Kurenai/Ultraman Orb instead, but felt like it wouldn't match his character. Hikaru was then elected because of his similarities to protagonists of other shonen anime.https://tamashiiweb.com/special/backnumber/shf_ultra/galaxyfight/
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