Mecha and Monsters from Groizer X

The follow is a list of the many mecha and monsters that appeared in the 1976 anime series *Groizer X*, often translated as *Gloizer X*.

## Groizer X and Groizer Robo

Groizer X was an aircraft designed by Professor Yan under the order of Emperor Geldon as a means to conquer Earth. However, Professor Yan did not want to invade the planet and had his daughter, Rita, steal Groizer X and defect to humanity as a means to stop Geldon's invasion. Rita crashed Groizer X to the military air base on Akane Island where she would meet ace pilot Joe Kaisaka, both of whom became copilots for the robotic aircraft under the supervision of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

* **Length/Height**: 100 Meters
* **Weight**: 1,200 Tons
* **Power Source**: Tachyon Energy (incorrectly renamed Atomic in the Italian dub)
* **Composition**: Miracle Siliconium

### Powers and Abilities

* Super sonic flight of at least Mach 3
* Fly Up: Transforming between aircraft and Groizer Robo mode
* Tachyon Missiles: A 2-tube missile pod under each main wing
* Tachyon Sonic: A red sonic laser from the nose
* Tachyon Light Bullets: Red tachyon lasers fired from the antennae
* Flash Bomber: Launching the fists while they are charged up with heat
* Swimming
* Hammer Punch: Charging the fists with tachyons for stronger punches
* Flying Torpedo: A giant black torpedo in the abdomen used for finishing enemies
* Finger Missiles
* Magnetic deactivation from the armor
* Groizer Punch: Simply launching the fists from the arms
* Crown Winders: A pair of flying yellow blades stored on the scalp
* Xandron Missiles: A missile launcher on the end of each rear wing
* Groizer Machine Guns: A double barreled machine gun turret on each shoulder
* Pink energy rays from the base of each frontal wing
* Blue Arrows: An arrow fired from the base of each frontal wing that coil and explode
* Neck Missile: A giant two-piece mine from a launch bay in the neck
* Slicer Missiles: A bladed missile from each knees
* Hurricane: Gusts from the base of the frontal wings
* Adhesive Missiles: Launched from the back
* Twin hoses in the lower back to put out fires
* Regenerating rudders in seconds
* Groizer Rainbow: A rainbow energy beam from mouth slit that can be explosive and clears up clouds
* Big Cutter: A launchable circular saw in the hanger called Big Cutter
* Sonar for underwater detection
* Solar battery dish in the back ideal for thawing out being iced over

### Groizer Machines

* **Groizer Jet**: First appears in episode 2. It was a white and green jet with three turbines on the rear. It was armed with a red laser gun in the nose and a missile launcher in each side of the nose.
* **Groizer Shark**: First appears in episode 3. It was a yellow and red submarine. It was armed with twin Shark Torpedoes from both the nose and the stern, an Underwater Arrow from each side of the cockpit, and twin searchlights on the front.
* **Groizer Tank**: First appears in episode 6. It was a red and yellow drill tank. It was armed with a signal detector, razor treads on top and undersides, and a frontal corkscrew drill for burrowing and destroying monsters. An exact replica powered by Red Dragonfly's old engine was made by Ippei in episode 25 that could move up to 260 kilometers per hour until it was dismantled and reformed into a crane car used to repair Groizer X when not at Akane Island.
* **Red Dragonfly**: First appears in episode 1. Unlike the other Groizer Machines it was actually a red biplane used by Joe throughout the series being destroyed and repaired. It was referred to as Eva 141 in episode 6. In episode 10 it was given a laser machine gun on each side of the upper wing based on tachyon technology. It was permanently destroyed in episode 33 when Baku sacrificed his life to prevent a Gairan squad from stealing Groizer X.

## Gaira Empire

### Main Forces

* **Gelmos**: A gigantic space ship commanded by Emperor Geldon that served as the main carrier vessel of the Gaira Empire. Its instruments were destroyed during self repair by an atomic bomb after it had crash landed on Earth, thus forcing the denizens to conquer the planet in order to go back to their homeworld. Gelmos was eventually destroyed in episode 26 from an onslaught of Flying Torpedoes. It was capable of firing twin energy bolt guns on each shoulder that also launched torpedoes, eye yellow energy bolts, swimming, yellow tractor beam in the hanger, mines from the hanger, Gelmos Missiles from the mouth, and Gelmos Lasers from the eyes, and red energy rays from the yellow horns on the scalp.
* **Gaira Soldiers**: The infantry of the Gaira Empire, usually sporting leathery orange armor underneath a blue helmet and armor that covered the main body. They were armed with a laser rifle and could use a scuba respirator for diving.
* **Gaira Saucers**: Appear in episode 2. Powers include flight and wing missile launchers in the front.
* **Mini Airstrike Robos**: Powers include flight, twin drills on the front, twin lasers and missile launchers in the nose, and an underside capture tentacle.
* **Satan Meteorological Weapon**: Appears in episode 3. Powers include a meteor disguise and emitting hail.
* **General Dogos**: General Dagger's replacement that first appeared after his death in episode 13. Unlike other members of the Gaira Empire he possessed cybernetic enhancements to his body. Powers include a whip, a robotic left arm that emits destructive sonic waves from the eye on the palm, and a private escape rocket.
* **Gairan Island Base**: Appears in episode 21. It was armed with laser gun turrets around the plateau-like structure although it was under poor guard due to Captain Bacchus's alcoholic habits.
* **Machine WA Gun**: Appears in episodes 23 and 24. It was an exceptionally powerful machine gun used by Captain Gaston that could pierce any material short of reinforced Miracle Siliconium.
* **Secret Base Q**: Appears in episodes 32, 33, 34, and 35. It was a secret underwater base constructed by brainwashed sailors that Gujira abducted. It was armed with automated mines and a tunnel trap armed with spikes and flamethrowers. It was eventually destroyed after Groizer Robo threw Devilos into the main generator and set off a Flying Torpedo remotely.
* **Space Mothership**: Appears in episode 36. It was a large blue space ship sent from the Gaira homeworld to evacuate survivors of Emperor Geldon's tyrannical reign.

### Airstrike Robos

Airstrike Robos, renamed in the Italian dub as Space Robos, were various gigantic aircraft that acted as super weapons with the intention of destroying cities and bases for Gaira conquest and fighting Groizer X.

* **Daigan**: Appears in episode 1 and piloted by Captain Daigan. Powers include flight, a missile launcher in each shoulder, and a yellow antimatter ray from the nose.
* **Devil**: Appears in episode 2 and piloted by Captain Devil. Powers include flight, three missile launchers in the head fin, orange eye lasers, and pincer claw hands.
* **Demon**: Appears in episode 3 and piloted by Captain Demon. Powers include flight, a pair of missile launchers in each shoulder, and a pair of wheels for each foot.
* **Attacking**: Appears in episode 4 and piloted by Captain Attacking. Powers include swimming, flight, and red lasers from the head.
* **Spider**: Appears in episode 5 and piloted by Captain Spider. Powers include flight, a wired suction cup for a tongue, pink antimatter rays from the head antenna and each ear, launchable red circular saws from the wings, a retractable claw for each arm, and a rapid fire missile launcher in the base of each wing.
* **Gordon**: Appears in episode 6 and piloted by Captain Don. Powers include flight, a blade on the back and on each wing, an orange energy bolt gun and missile launcher in each wing, and a claw in the underside.
* **Hurricanto**: Appears in episode 7 and piloted by Captain Kent. Powers include flight, a pair of launchable blades on the scalp, a red heat laser from the eyes, and a drill missile launcher on each main wing.
* **Garongar**: Appears in episode 8 and piloted by Captain Garon. Powers include flight, a drill missile on the head that can retract when not in use, and a pink antimatter ray from the back.
* **Viking**: Appears in episode 9 and piloted by Captain Harlock. Powers include flight, swimming, a torpedo launch chamber on the top, an electromagnetic barrier from the front, an electric net from the left side of the hull, and twin Viking Missiles from the bow.
* **Daedalus**: Appears in episode 10 and piloted by Captain Dallas. Powers include flight, electric shocks from the body, five missiles on each wing, orange lasers from the antennae around the head, a rotating set of spikes that act as a circular saw on each shoulder, a retractable spear in the torso that can spin like a drill, three magnetic electrodes on each arm, and an orange ionizing ray from the mouth that coils around enemies.
* **Daissam**: Appears in episode 11 and piloted by Captain Daissam. Powers include flight, eight large missiles from around the body, emitting a yellow web around itself, and an energy beam from the antenna.
* **Venus**: Appears in episode 12 and piloted by Captain Hustler. Powers include flight, a purple tractor beam and pink heat laser from the underside, a statue form with a retractable grapple claw in the base, a red antimatter ray from the forehead jewel, and orange eye beams, three missile launchers on each wing, four machine gun turrets hidden in each shoulder, dual retractable blue crab claws for arms, a launchable crown with two rows of spikes, and abdomen drill bombs.
* **Deathdagger**: Appears in episode 13 and it was piloted by General Dagger. Powers include flight, a yellow laser from the underside, a 7-tube missile launcher in the front in blimp form, mouth and back missiles, a flamethrower and pink energy bolt gun in each eye, a magnetic beam from the forehead, underside carpet bombs, and a spinning spiked collar that acts as a circular saw.
* **Dracula**: Appears in episode 14 and piloted by Captain Dollar. Powers include a boat disguise, a pair of fangs, flight, a pair of white blades on the scalp, an extinguisher on the back of the lower jaw, electric blasts from the hull, homing needle missiles from the mouth, and a pair of Dragos Missiles from the rear.
	+ **Boat Form**: An alternate mode used to steal blue fin tuna from a fishing boat. Powers include a long vacuum tendril, a pair of Dragos Missiles on the stern, a dish that fires energy rays on the deck, and a cannon on the bridge.
* **Hyvicki**: Appears in episode 15 and piloted by Captain Vicky. Powers include flight, a drill on the front that fires yellow hyper lasers, and pink freezing bombs from the underside.
* **Kaiju**: Appears in episode 16 and piloted by Captain Dirty. Powers include wall crawling, homing red energy balls from the six holes on the back, a propeller on the neck ideal for burrowing, armor strong enough to collide with a subway train without any damage, a vacuum tendril in each side of the neck that increases in size while suck up objects, a mouth flamethrower, flight, and launchable red back spikes.
* **Beegoma**: Appears in episode 17 and piloted by Captain Zulkas. Powers include flight, toxic gas from the underside pylon, a magnetic whirlwind from the hull, launching remote flying tops, twin red lasers from the top pylon, and an extendable harpoon in the bottom pylon.
* **Girochin**: Appears in episode 18 and piloted by Captain Demons. Powers include flight, underside orb bombs, a launchable bladed boomerang on the top and the bottom that can also reflect tachyons, floating space mines from the underside, a homing missile launcher in the front, and giant teeth.
* **Vagiras**: Appears in episode 19 and piloted by Captain Lupine. Powers include invisibility, flight, a mine layer in the underside, launching explosive shurikens and darts from the mouth called Vagiras Missiles, swimming, a pair of sired suction cups and a wired vacuum in the underside, emitting a black smokescreen, and creating holograms of itself.
* **Black Panther**: Appears in episode 20 and piloted by Captain Panther. Its only known power is flight as it was more of a high performance plane than a war machine.
* **Daibacchus**: Appears in episode 21 and piloted by Captain Bacchus. Powers include flight, a wrecking ball in each shoulder, and a launchable circular saw from each shoulder.
* **Deathdargan**: Appears in episode 22 and piloted by Captain Dargan. Powers include flight, a spiked top on the back and for each wing, a 4-tube missile pod in the underside called Vampire Missiles, and three whip-like tails.
* **Colosseum**: Appears in episodes 23 and 24 and piloted by Captain Gaston. Powers include flight, underside carpet bombs, Atomic Shark Missiles from the mouth, and an electromagnetic beam gun in the nose. It was more of a mobile platform for him to use the WA Machine Gun than a proper Airstrike Robo.
* **Apollon**: Appears in episode 25 and piloted by Captain Apollo. Powers include eighteen red frontal missiles called Apollo Missiles, machine guns from each side, a cyclo-electromagnetic cannon that can redirect projectiles and nullify tachyons, an energy ray from the pink spike on the top, and a flight mode. It was more of a super tank than a proper Airstrike Robo.
* **Zanbalar**: Appears in episode 26 and piloted by Captains Dan, Jean, and Gil, all of whom were the sons of General Dagger. Powers include three black blades on each side of the neck, swimming, flight, white energy bolts from the forehead, an orange energy bolt from each shoulder, a pair of secondary assistant airstrike robots in the shoulders armed with a yellow heat laser from the head, and four orange energy guns in the torso.
* **Dokaiser**: Appears in episode 27 and piloted by Captain Dan. Powers include flight, a laser from the nose that erodes ozone called the Dogkai Ray, and a rapid fire missile launcher in each wing.
* **Gujira**: Appears in episode 28 and piloted by Captain Depurun. Powers include swimming, sharp teeth, flight, underside carpet bombs, nuclear heat rays from the eyes, a long vacuum tongue, spiked Whaler Missiles from the back, a brown disintegrating Whaler Ray from the blowhole, self repairing, a Space Hellfire flamethrower in the mouth strong enough to burn Miracle Siliconium, and depth charges.
* **False Groizer X**: Appears in episode 29 and piloted by Captain Wolf. Powers include flight, a pink mouth beam, a transparent energy barrier, an antimatter beam from the nose, a Groizer Machine Gun on each shoulder, a double barreled missile launcher on each frontal wing, a cluster missile on the back called the Wolf Missile, a yellow laser from each antenna, a magnetic missile called the Ultra Missile from the mouth, and a missile launcher launcher on each rear wing.
* **Daigar**: Appears in episode 30 and piloted by Captain Daima. Powers include flight, twin yellow horns on the forehead that fire electric bolts, mines from the underside that create electrical storms, and a cluster missile launcher in each shoulder
* **Azarandar**: Appears in episode 31 and piloted by Captain Hilda. Powers include swimming, cold resistance, manipulating weather to create giant blizzards via an iceberg on the back, flight, and a mouth heat ray and freezing ray.
* **Dokuro**: Appears in episodes 32 and 33 and piloted by Captain Golgo. Powers include flight, underside tentacles, eye fire balls called Skull Rays, launchable teeth from the five heads called Skull Missiles, separating into five smaller robots, swimming, mouth mines, yellow eye energy beams, and a large missile in each eye.
* **Tartorugar**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include swimming, launchable back blades called Space Missiles, six rapid fire missile launchers on the torso, flight, turning the Space Missiles into throwing stars, and a 3-tube rocket launcher for each hand.
* **Devilgoth**: Appears in episode 35. Powers include flight and a yellow energy ray from the nose. It was accidentally destroyed by Dermon during combat.
* **Dermon**: Appears in episode 35. Powers include flight and six Satan Missiles from the engine.
* **Devilos**: Appears in episode 35 and piloted by General Dogos. Powers include flight, a yellow energy beam called the Devilos Beam from the forehead horn on the middle head, swimming, limb retraction, dual whip tails, and a red flamethrower in each of the three mouths.
* **Red**: Appears in episode 36. Powers include flight and a red heat beam from the underside.
* **Black**: Appears in episode 36. Powers include flight and a pair of black laser guns on the underside.
* **Gaira V**: Appears in episode 36. Powers include flight, a yellow energy beam from the mouth, two large homing missiles on the back called Gaira Missiles laced with bombs, tachyon and blade resistant armor, a freezer beam from the mouth, a pair of launchable circular saws from the engine, an underside sonic beam, and a bladed boomerang on the torso. According to Ippei it was estimated to be five times Groizer's size, putting it around 600 meters in length. The Italian dub renamed it to **Gaira Five**.