Ultraman Dyna (character)

is the protagonist of the eponymous series Ultraman Dyna. His human host is Shin Asuka, a member of Super GUTS, whom he bonded with to fight against the Spheres and other threats to the Earth.
==Conception==
===Etymology===
Ultraman Dyna's name was suggested by Mai in episode 2 where the word Dyna came from the word "Dynamic" despite she said that it came from the Japanese word .
==History==
===Ultraman Dyna: Zero Drive Towards Tomorrow===
When Kazuma Asuka was taking part in the Zero Drive navigation test, he entered a tunnel of light. Through a strange reaction to his body in the "Light Dimension" and the technology of the Zero Drive, Asuka was transformed into a new giant of light. He then spent the years between the end of Tiga and the start of Dyna, fighting evil across space. However, upon sensing his son, Shin Asuka was about to die, he flew across space and merged with his son to save his life. 
===Ultraman Dyna===
====First Battle Against Sphere====
The Ultra merged with the Super GUTS rookie, Shin Asuka when the Mars Base of TPC was attacked by Spheres. The Ultra then introduced himself broadly to his later companions by destroying Darambia by just transforming. However, he would then show off his skills by defeating the newly created monster: Neo Darambia. Some of the older members of the TPC contingent in the colony believe it is Ultraman Tiga, returned and renewed. The elder officers, however, realize that it isn't Tiga, but may be another guardian like him. Asuka as the Ultraman faces Darambia and finally defeats him.
Soon, when Giralen, another monster created by the Spheres attacks the Super GUTS Base, Asuka transforms into the Ultra once again and finishes the monster with the Revolium Wave. After witnessing the whole battle, Mai, the team's operator decides to name the Ultraman as Ultraman Dyna. Later, after his fight as Dyna with Grossyna, Asuka becomes albeit mature, realizing fully his responsibilities as a Super GUTS member. Many of these monsters taught Asuka lessons and gave memories to the young-adult, who began his motto "Never give up!"
====Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light====
Taking place during the main series, Asuka as Dyna battles Geranda on the moon along with Super GUTS on their GUTS Eagle. Both monster and Ultra seemed evenly matched in strength and abilities, until Geranda was destroyed by a mysterious battleship.
Upon returning to Earth, the Super GUTS team were called to a secret island base stationed on Coreomoes Island (first debuted in Ultraman Tiga). Here they discover that TPC is also responsible for building the space-battleship. The ship known as Prometheus, and its devastating main weapon is the Neo-Maxima Cannon which was once used in the original GUTS' Artdessei. The project leader, Dr. Kisaragi, explains that Super GUTS has been summoned so that their brainwaves can be used to give real-battle experiences to the battle computer of Prometheus, making it an even more effective weapon. Asuka doubts that Prometheus can ever be as effective as Dyna at defending the Earth. He accepts the challenge, and enters the capsule. Before entering, Dr. Kisaragi also calls him "Dyna", provoking his awareness before his memories being uploaded into the battleship, despite Asuka's protests. There, Asuka has a vision of the ship's previous battle with Geranda and surprisingly, the ship also fires the Neo-Maxima Cannon at Dyna. Though the giant tries to repel it with his Solgent Beam, it failed thus reducing him into dust.
When Asuka regains consciousness, the base is attacked by an alien spaceship, with energy waves identical to that found from Geranda, and Asuka transforms into Ultraman Dyna to face the alien UFO. Prometheus is also launched, but to destroy Dyna, not assist him. Dr. Kisaragi announces that both she and Prometheus are under the control of the alien race known as the Monera. Prometheus, mollusionized into Deathfacer, is able to anticipate and counter all of Dyna's moves due its knowledge of the Ultra based on Asuka's brain scan result. The one-sided battle ends when the robot proceeds to fire his Neo-Maxima Cannon at Dyna, but the Ultra, having experienced the nightmare of him perishing by the giant laser managed to evade, leaving a large crater on the island. Dyna disappears and is presumed dead.
While Super GUTS regroups and finds out that they have all survived, including Asuka, however, Mai was wounded gravely for not being able to escape the base fast enough, and together with the battle caused Asuka to lose his confidence. After talking with the original GUTS leader, Captain Iruma, Asuka regains his confidence and transforms into Ultraman Dyna Strong Type. This time, Dyna is ready for Deathfacer and finally defeats Deathfacer by driving his fist through Neo-Maxima Cannon when it does 'pre-shoot charging sequence'. Dyna then throws the unstable Deathfacer into the air, before it explodes. However, the Monera fuses themselves with their spaceship to form the gigantic Queen Monera which captures Dyna and instantly devastates the city. Dyna tries to escape, and Super GUTS, as well as Captain Iruma, try to aid, but Dyna's energy is drained completely and his timer runs out, dying.
However, the brief return of Ultraman Tiga revived Dyna and both past and present heroes combined their efforts to defeat Monera. Afterwards, Tiga salutes Dyna before both of them disappear. The entire Super GUTS reunite to celebrate their victory against the monster. 
====Ultraman Dyna: The Return of Hanejiro====
Ultraman Dyna reappeared in this movie again as a main protagonist, and fights now the invading forces of the Alien Dehadoh, involving Arwon, One-Z, and others. 
====Final Battle Against Sphere====
On Sphere's last assault on the Mars Base, Dyna would be forced to fight the thing created from his power, Zeluganoid, created by the TPC. At the final battle, Dyna and Super GUTS would defeat Gran-Sphere, but the battle also came at a high price: Asuka (as Dyna) gets himself sucked into a gap between dimensions, where Asuka would meet his father one more time as they fly to an unknown destination. 
===Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, & Ultraman Gaia: The Decisive Battle in Hyperspace===
Due to Tsutomu's desire to save Gaia and to defeat King of Mons and his allies to save another universe's Earth, Tiga and Dyna appeared and teamed up with Gaia. All of this came about by a ball that granted wishes. Involved in the final battle against King of Mons. Dyna fought Bajiris and eventually destroyed it using the Empowered Solgent Beam. Along with Tiga and Gamu, they disappear out of Tsutomo's wish for the Red Sphere's non-existence. 
===Tiga, Dyna, and Ultraman Gaia Novel: The Adventure in Hyperspace===
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===Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie===
After some time in the dimensional portal Dyna reappeared aboard the ZAP Spacy ship, the Pendragon, as it was being attacked by Alien Zetton and Nurse. After defeating both of them with little effort, he took the crew to the Monster Graveyard near Nebula M78, home of the Ultras who were like the guardians of light except for their origins being the result of evolution from their artificial sun known as the Plasma Spark. Upon arriving at the Monster Graveyard, Dyna fought Ultraman Belial and managed to hold his own until Ultraman Zero showed up to beat him mercilessly. Shortly after, Belial created the monster Belyudra, a creature composed of monsters from his own universe and several others, to fight off the heroes. Belial was on the top of its head. However, the Ultras and ZAP Spacy still fought back and through their courage and sheer tenacity destroyed Belyudra. Once the Plasma Spark was restored to its temple, the people of Nebula M78 would continue on their mission to fight evil and defend the innocent throughout the universe with Shin Asuka and Dyna becoming allies of ZAP SPACY. 
===Ultraman Saga===
Dyna first appeared in the city after Arstron had caused massive havoc and defeated the Kaiju instantly with the Solgent Beam. Later, Dyna transformed back into Asuka and joined forces with E.D.F., Team U and spent some time with the kids in their care, until he had to face the Gigant Zetton alone and was unable to defeat it. Thus, he turned into stone but not before expelling the Lieflasher away. He was revived when a little boy found his Lieflasher and tossed it to his color timer, and joined forces with Cosmos and Zero to combat Gigant Zetton and managed to defeat it but, then it morphed into its true form, Hyper Zetton. The three Ultras battled the Titan but with their strength they were still unable to defeat the Kaiju and reverted back to their human forms. Refusing to give up, Asuka, Musashi and Taiga combined their power to become the new giant of light, Ultraman Saga. Later Hyper Zetton created multiple monsters with multiple Spheres. All seemed lost until Ultraman, Ultraseven, Jack, Ace and Leo appeared to fight the monsters while Saga fights Hyper Zetton. The hero continued his battle with Hyper Zetton but even with the fusion, Saga was only evenly matched with his foe. With the help of Team U, the mighty Ultra destroyed the Alien Bat and his creation with the Maximum Saga. After the battle Asuka goes back to his dimension for a brief moment to inform Super GUTS that Taiga is well. He gives them a thumbs up before resuming his journey. 
===Ultraman Ginga===
Prior to Ultraman Ginga, Ultraman Dyna participated in the Dark Spark War but this time he fought with the other Ultras that appeared in other series. In the midst of their battle, Dark Lugiel turned every Ultras alongside their allies, Kaiju and aliens into Spark Dolls. It was then an unknown warrior appeared and faced Dark Lugiel but like the others he also turned into a Spark Doll but he was kept within his Ginga Spark and fell alongside the other Spark Dolls to Earth. It is unknown whether Dyna was lost in the town or was kept by Dark Lugiel as part of his collection.
At the conclusion of the series, Dyna is presumed to have returned to his original form and left Earth with the other Spark Dolls for space.
===Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!===
During his travels, Dyna presumably encountered Etelgar and was imprisoned by him. After being freed, he would fight alongside the other Heisei Ultras, in particular Tiga and Gaia, where the three would team up against Five King, a monster formed by their memories of past enemies (in Dyna's case, Reicubas). While Dyna assumed Miracle Type, all three Ultras managed to defeat the colossal beast once and for all. 
===Ultraman Orb THE ORIGIN SAGA===
Asuka as Dyna came to Orb's aid when he sensed something was off in another universe, the one where Orb was in. He first arrives and helps Orb face off against several Bezelbs and a Kugutsu-infected Birdon, using his Strong Type on screen for the first time in a long while. 
Dyna later appears so that he, Orb, and Cosmos can fend off the Bezelbs' attack on Planet Kanon. He stays behind on Planet Kanon to help the people recuperate after Psychi's minions retreat, and leaves them to Orb. 
His last appearance in the series was in the final episode, where he and the other Ultras fought Psyqueen. 
===Ultraman Decker===
Ultraman Dyna appeared in a flashback when Decker Asumi informed Kanata Asumi about the future humans' war with the Spheres after their expansion into space. Dyna had traveled to the future of Trigger and Decker’s world to once again battle the Spheres, aiding said universe’s humans and aliens against the threat. 
During the fight against Sphere-Geomos, GUTS-Select's counterattack strategy managed to destroy the Spheresaurus it had summoned from the future timeline. As the Sphere Synthetic Monster summoned a second Spheresaurus, Dyna struck it down before it could cross over and hijacked the portal it was using. With Kanata Asumi unable to transform due to the conflict he felt over what Agams had told him, Dyna chose to fight in his counterpart's place.
The arrival of Terraphaser put Dyna on the back foot, but transforming into Strong Type allowed him to break free. As Ultraman Decker finally joined the battle, Dyna changed back to Flash Type and the two Ultras engaged the kaiju. When Terraphaser was about to fire the TD Mega Buster, Dyna formed an Ultra Fork and threw it down the barrel of the cannon, damaging the robot so heavily that Agams was forced to retreat. Dyna then created the Ultra Dimension Cards of himself and Ultraman Tiga in their Flash and Multi Types, respectively, before giving them to Decker so he could finish off Sphere-Geomos with a Legend Flash Multi Scram.
Telling Kanata that the future is unknown, Dyna gave a thumbs up as he returned to his own timeline. 
===Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond===
At some point during his travels, Dyna arrived on Planet Lavie as it was being ravaged by aliens sent by Gibellus. After dealing with the immediate threats, Dyna turned to the planet native, Dinas, to give her some of his light. This caused a reaction with her will that created Ultraman Dinas. The two liberated the planet from the rest of the invaders together before Dyna left to continue travelling and protect more civilizations. 
==Counterparts==
===Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers===
Ultraman Dyna appears as an alternate universe version of himself in this movie. 
==Profile==
===Stats===
*Height: 55 m
*Weight: 45,000 t
*Age: Unknown
*Home World: Unknown
*Time Limit: 3 minutes
===Body Features===
*: The crystal on Dyna's forehead, it is like the Tiga Crystal in that it is the major requirement for Dyna to Triple Change, which is based on Tiga's Type Change. Unlike Tiga, who freely transformed into three types, Dyna can only transform twice in battle, also to transform into any other form he must be in Flash Type, meaning it is impossible for him to use all three of his forms in battle. However, his advantages is that he is capable of accessing his alternate forms right during his transformation as when facing Deathfacer a second time, he transformed straight into Strong Type. The frame around the Dyna Crystal will change its color according to Dyna's forms.
*Eyes: Dyna can detect the presence of hidden enemies.
*: The yellow band around his chest and upper back, it is a protector like Tiga's bands, the sturdiest part of his body and almost indestructible. This part only exists in Flash Type.
*Ultra Armor: When he Triple Changes into other forms, Dyna trades his Dyna Tector for a normal Ultra Armor which can withstand high heat and low temperatures, his Ultra Armor is resistant to flame and laser beams.
*Arms: Dyna is an Ultra that specializes in beam attacks, for this his arms can channel several million horsepower of energy.
===Transformation===
Asuka thrusts the Lieflasher into the air, it then unfolds and then transforms him into Dyna. In later transformations outside of the Ultraman Dyna TV series, Asuka will shout "Dyna!" before the Lieflasher snaps open.
Ultrmn_Dn_Shn_Ask.jpg|Asuka using the Lieflasher
Asuka henshin and shouts DYNA.png|Asuka transforms and shouts "Dyna!"
DynaCGIRise.gif|Ultraman Dyna's first/CGI rise
DynaRise.gif|Dyna's rise
Dyna's_Rise.jpg|Dyna's original rise
Dn rise tt.png|Ultraman Dyna's rise in Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers and beyond
DeckerD21NewRise.gif|Dyna's rise in Ultraman Decker episode 21
===Forms===
===Standard Abilities===
*: Based on Tiga's Type Change, Dyna can either switch into his Miracle Type or Strong Type during his battles. However unlike Tiga, he can only switch into another Type and back to Flash once per transformation.Ultraman Encyclopedia, 2001 Dyna can also switch forms through other means as well, such as Miracle Type's Miracle Thunder Charge technique.
*: Dyna can fire energy bolts and bullets from his hands.
*: An energy barrier used to defend himself from enemy attacks. Dyna is able to throw the barrier back at an enemy to return their attack back at them.
==Trivia==
*Ultraman Dyna is considered a newer version of Ultraman Tiga, due to their similar appearance and abilities. In fact, when he first appeared he was mistaken for Tiga by most people, the previous team GUTS members immediately recognized him as a different Ultra, however, and a few like Mai.
*Like Tiga, Dyna also had suggested names that were considered terrible, such as by Nakajima and by Kariya.
*Dyna is the first canon Ultra to have a blue form.
*Ultraman Dyna is the second Ultra to share his voice actor with his human host's actor, Takeshi Tsuruno, who voices his grunts in battle. The first Ultra was Ultraman Taro.
*When Gondo Kihachi sacrificed himself and became energy transferred into Dyna's Color Timer in the battle with Zeluganoid, the sound of the energy transferred into Dyna was reused from the Sparklence's sound when it disintegrated into dust in the final episode of Ultraman Tiga.
*Dyna's Color Timer sound effect in Ultraman Saga was reused from Ultraman Tiga's.
*Dyna's suits (Flash, Miracle, and Strong Type) were reused for all the Ultra-Ancient Giants of Light in a flashback in Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey.
*Many fans believe that the grunt "Shuah" that Dyna made when he flies away after every battle is inspired by Ultraman 80's since Takeshi Tsuruno, Ultraman Dyna's voice actor and Shin Asuka's actor, said that Ultraman 80 is his favorite Ultra Warrior.
*As with other roles that Bradford Hill voiced in English Dubs (Astra and Hayato Kijima), Dyna is also featured in his Vimeo channel which featured the voiceover role of his characters.
==References==
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