Mecha and Monsters from Gold Lightan

The following is a list of the many mecha and monsters that appeared in the 1981 anime series *Golden Warrior Gold Lightan*.

## Central Mecha City

Central Mecha City was the capital of the Mecha Dimension, a realm in the fourth dimension inhabited entirely by machinery. In terms of governance it is maintained by a pair of hyper dimensional computers named Jupiter and Big Eye who are stationed in a tower that points toward the Moon and Sun, respectively. Shortly before the events of the series a dimensional earthquake spawned Ivalda The Great and allowed a demon from Hell to escape that took the guise of Mister Mecha X. Thanks to the Lightan Corps Ivalda was forced to flee to the third dimension on Earth. In terms of defense they are defended by flying orange drones with a single laser gun on their front and energy turret towers; Big Eye uses blue drones for intruders that get too close to him. In the final episode Big Eye reveals that Gold Lightan was a planned successor to rule over Central Mecha City.

### Lightan Corps

The Lightan Corps were a series of robots from Mecha Dimension that served as warriors under Big Eye. All members of the team were capable of flight, using the Rainbow Road to change in size, hear frequencies organisms could not, transforming into a specific item, and heal from basic wounds when not in combat. The main six could also use interdimensional teleportation in a technique called the Rainbow Teleportation, form a giant train for powerful ram attacks called the Gold Train Express, form a giant cross called the Cross Attack to defeat Draculan, and form a black and rainbow pillar for ramming called the Lightning Fire.

* **Gold Lightan** (ゴールドライタン Gorudo Raitan) **Height**: 30 meters. **Weight**: 200 tons. A gold lightan that served as the leader of the Lightan Corps and was its primary warrior. He could turn into a lighter although has never produced a flame from that form. His other powers include swimming, armor tick enough to survive extreme ocean pressure and dive into lava without damage, a chop attack called the Gold Crash that can move near the speed of light, increase his body temperature, and launch his hands in a technique called the Gold Finger Crash.
* **Scope Lightan** (スコープライタン Sukopu Raitan): A silver lightan capable of using a reflective scope and x-ray vision. He could turn into a scope.
* **Time Lightan** (タイムライタン Taimu Raitan): A silver lightan capable of blue eye beams that freeze time in a specific area for up to thirty seconds and time traveling. He could turn into a timer.
* **Denji Lightan** (デンジライタン Denji Raitan): A gold lightan capable of forming an internal map and sensing radio waves. He could turn into an electric map and compass. Unlike the other members of the corps he is never called into combat
* **Mechanic Lightan** (メカニックライタン Mekanikku Raitan): A gold lightan capable of a circular saw for each arm, a scissor pair in torso, a pair of laser torch arms, and drill for each arm. He could turn into a tool chest.
* **I.C. (Interpret Computer) Lightan** (アイシーライタン Aishi Raitan): A silver lightan that was capable of sensing radio waves, an antenna to detect enemies, and translate languages via dial. He could turn into a processing unit.
* **Compu Lightan** (コンピューライタン Konpyu Raitan): A red Lightan that turned into a lighter and only appeared in episode 49. According to Gold Lightan his lifespan is comparable to that of a newborn human compared to other Lightans and was overlooked by Big Eye.
* **Toy Only Lightans**: The following were members of the Lightan Corps that only appeared in toy merchandise in 1982 and not the anime.
	+ **Coin Lightan** (コインライタン Koin Raitan): A silver Lightan that turned into a coin case.
	+ **Print Lightan** (プリントライタン Purinto Raitan): A gold Lightan that turned into a print stamp.
	+ **Light Lightan** (ライトライタン Raito Raitan): A gold Lightan that turned into a light source.
	+ **Cutter Lightan** (カッターライタン Katta Raitan): A gold Lightan that turned into a pencil sharpener.
	+ **Meter Lightan** (メートルライタン Metoru Raitan): A gold Lightan that turned into a measurement device.

## Mecha Empire

### Main Forces

* **Ivalda The Great**: A mechanical entity spawned from a dimensional quake in the Mecha Dimension. After being defeated he came to Earth to conquer it and established the Mecha Empire. In episodes 41 and 49 he directly fought with Gold Lightan. Powers include black mouth flames, flight, red finger lasers, emitting electric surges from the hands, heat resistance strong enough to withstand lava, teleportation, telekinesis called Ivalda Mechapathy, burrowing, blue eye lasers, creating dimensional rifts, and hot fingers to melt through armor.
	+ **Mecha-Pet**: A pink robotic cat with a beak Ivalda uses as a pet. It was briefly destroyed in episode 31 by one of Nezumogura's Mecha-Rats before being repaired.
	+ **Great Daimajin**: A disguise Ivalda used that appears in episode 41. Powers include heat resistance that allows it to withstand lava, telekinesis, and six arms.
* **Uyokka**: One of Ivalda's three generals, this one favoring brute force in his mecha. He was only armed with a sword.
* **Sayokka**: One of Ivalda's three generals, this one favoring cunning in his mecha. He was only armed with a sword.
* **Mannaka**: One of Ivalda's three generals, this one favoring deception in her mecha. Powers include blue lasers from the fingers, high jumping, and human disguises.
* **Sentry Robots**: The main infantry of the Mecha Empire that first appeared in episode 6 and usually piloted Mecha Dimension Robos, sometimes alongside the three generals. Powers include a dual wrist laser guns, an eye in each pectoral for high accuracy, and red lasers from their main eyes.
	+ **Female Sentries**: Only appear in 30. They were led by Mannaka and a commander named Professor Queen. Their only known power was hand energy beams.
* **Mister Mecha X**: Appears in episodes 30, 49, 50, 51, and 52. He was a powerful demon from Hell that called himself Ivalda's shadow.
	+ **Form 1**: Powers include flight, possession, a sword, and disguising himself as mecha.
	+ **Form 2**: Powers include twin horns on the head and each knee, flight, summoning magic fire balls that form a magnetic pentagram, and a detachable spear on the tail.

### Mecha Dimension Robos

Also referred to as Ultra Mecha, Super Dimension Robots, and Mecha Robots throughout the series, these monstrosities appeared in a variety of shapes and sizes, usually to fight the Lightan Corps or conquer Earth via a specific method. They were usually created at the Mecha Palace on Lava Island in the Pacific Ocean.

* **One Beak**: Appears in episode 1. Powers include swimming, dog possession, flight, and twin laser cannons on the head.
* **Namazun**: Appears in episode 2. Powers include swimming, twin tentacle whiskers beneath the eyes, and launching its bladed body scales.
* **Snow Black**: Appears in episode 3. Powers include twin head drills, a drill on each shoulder, six drills on the torso, burrowing, a ski for each foot, summoning ice harpoons, teleportation, and high jumping.
* **Yoroida**: Appears in episode 4. Powers include a katana, a spiked wheel for each shoulder that can retract the rest of his body, flight, three spikes on each knee, and pink lasers from the single eye.
* **Merry-Go-Rounder**: Appears in episode 4. Powers include flight, dividing into amusement park rides, a pincer claw on the tail.
* **Crystal Man**: Appears in episode 5. Powers include high jumping, bright light from the body, a green laser pistol stored on the right hip, and size changing.
	+ **Giant Crystal Man**: Appears in episode 5. Powers include spiked feet, high jumping, and a laser from the torso called the Crystal Liner.
* **Computer Garo**: Appears in episode 6. Powers include pink electric bolts from the antennae, teleportation, and withdrawing its limbs into a flying mode.
* **Boson**: Appears in episode 7. Powers include a red motorcycle that can change size, hypnotic waves from the eyes, size changing, flight via motorcycle, three chained anchors from the motorcycle, and a chainsaw under the motorcycle.
* **Mukadera**: Appears in episode 8. Powers include four pink energy cannons on the head, pink mouth webs, and green mouth acid.
* **Hannamajun**: Appears in episode 9. Powers include compacting into a capsule seed, growing plants near it, pollen from the flower head that turns plants inorganic, four red tentacles for arms, a detachable flying head, and summoning plants near it to create hallucination pollen.
* **Ginban**: Appears in episode 10. Powers include a flying saucer-like decagon for a detachable head, forty extendable tentacles around the head designed to drain intelligence from animals into his brain, burrowing, a drill on each pectoral, and a rainbow heat ray from the single eye.
* **Swanida**: Appears in episode 11. Powers include flight and exploding. They were a series of mechanical swan nuclear bombs rather than a single giant monster.
* **Researchin**: Appears in episode 11. Powers include flight, a claw for each arm that can turn into a drill, swimming, and orange lasers from the eye in the torso. It was a robot probe according to Mannaka.
* **Noppera**: Appear in episode 12. Powers include a human disguise and an ax.
	+ **Majin Noppera**: Appears in episode 12. Powers include burrowing and summoning an ax that can emit an illusion wave.
* **Gold Thief Robot**: Appears in episode 13. Powers include burrowing, an entrapping yellow force field from the legs, eye lasers, and flight.
	+ **Super Gold Robot**: Appears in episode 13. Powers include five gold absorbing devices in the torso, flight, and blue mouth flames.
* **Crazy Oiler**: Appears in episode 14. Powers include hijacking machines, self replication, rapid growth, four electric tentacles, reformation, and mouth flames.
* **Dragonler**: Appears in episode 15. Powers include emitting a black cloud that emits ligthning, flight, a pink mouth laser gun, extendable claws that emit electric shocks, a pink laser net the each claw, a flamethrower on each side of the head, and a constricting tail.
* **Mini Robon**: Appears in episode 16. Powers include flight, a communicator screen in the torso, and a giant form that can levitate, emit hurricane winds, is armed with six tentacles, and can self destruct.
* **Gujira**: Appears in episode 17. Powers include swimming, pink hot energy balls from the forehead, an electric net in the mouth, turning dolphins into cyborg bombs, and pink eye lasers.
* **Garibender**: Appears in episode 18. Powers include scissors for the left arm, flight, disguising itself as a cram school, detaching its limbs and storing them in the torso, a spike under each foot, and a pink electric ray from the head lamp.
* **Mecha Zoo Animals**: Appear in episode 19. Powers include a disguise, flight, and strength.
	+ **Mecha Jaguar**
	+ **Mecha Kong**
	+ **Mecha Tiger**
* **Newtonder**: Appears in episode 20. Powers include flight, twin super anti-gravity light beam guns on the head, leg retraction, burrowing, and exploding.
* **Mechaso**: Appears in episode 23. Powers include levitation, intangibility, possessing paintings, telekinesis, size changing, a petrification beam from the mouth, sharp nails, a long whip-like tail, constricting hair that can fire like missiles, an electric tongue that fires lasers, and a sword-like missile hidden in the tail.
* **Fake Gold Lightan**: Appears in episode 24. It has no known powers.
* **Diamond Lights**: Appears in episode 24. Powers include a laser from the forehead diamond, a retractable diamond collecting claw in the torso, flight, and limb retraction for all six to combine into a giant red energy cannon that flies and emits twenty four tentacles. Six of these units were constructed.
* **Mecha Nessie**: Appears in episode 25. Powers include swimming, a whip tail, a dragon disguise, a heat ray gun in the back that can ricochet off the atmosphere, flight, a green laser beam from the mouth and tail, separating into two, spawning a pink net after separation, and a pair of retractable scythe arms for each separated half.
* **Daifujin**: Appears in episode 26. Powers include weather manipulation, flight, a sword that absorbs lightning which allows for electrical surges, and a shield.
* **Draculan**: Appears in episode 27. Powers include flight, energy draining fangs that turn humans into vampires, phasing through matter, a human disguise, regeneration, and turning his wings into swords.
* **Jungle Rider**: Appears in episode 28. Powers include reassembling itself into a jungle gym or spiked wheel, combining the arms into a shovel claw, extendable claw arms, and using his body parts as restraints.
* **Devil Shoes**: Appear in episode 29. Powers include possessing their wearer, levitation, size changing, forming a giant human with a constricting ribbon on the right wrist that can channel lightning.
* **Petagon**: Appears in episode 30. Powers include levitation, a body made of liquid metal, energy blasts from each side of the head, entrapping bodies in bubbles, burrowing, and swimming.
* **Nezumogura**: Appears in episode 31. Powers include summoning drones from the abdomen named Mecha-Rats, burrowing, green eye lasers, size changing, hot claws for each hand, and a drill hidden in each arm if its claw hands are destroyed.
	+ **Mecha-Rats**: Appear in episode 31. Powers include a saw in the beak and pink eye heat rays.
* **Koranka**: Appears in episode 32. Powers include flight, creating a blizzard from the body, an energy cannon in each palm, launching shurikens from the shoulders, and a combat form armed with a saber and shield that can teleport.
* **Troubler**: Appears in episode 33. Powers include swimming, emitting pink gas from its nine mouths that cause humans to hate each other, turning into pink fog, green energy bolts from the nine mouths, teleportation, and using its nine dragon-like heads for constriction.
* **Jun**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include swimming, retractable sharp nails, and high jumping.
* **Super Rayder**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include flight and an extendable constricting tail.
* **Crystal Puzzles**: Appear in episode 35. Their only known power is to explode upon being solved as they were mass produced bombs rather than full robotic monsters.
* **Killer Bird**: Appears in episode 36. Powers include a crow disguise with dozens of duplicates, flight, wired talons for each foot, white lasers from the single eye, and beak fog that causes illusions.
* **Amen To Three Kings**: Appears in episode 37. Powers include a Jesus statue disguise, levitation, green visor lasers, erecting a pink electric field, summoning pink hallows that possess machines, and summoning a dagger.
* **Dekazaru**: Appears in episode 38. Powers include hypnotizing animals using hypnotic green waves from the forehead, sharp claws, flying electrodes stored in the mouth, and summoning a portal to the Dark Dimension from the back pincer.
* **Hengera**: Appears in episode 39. Powers include a Gold Lightan disguise, size changing, summoning a pair of swords, flight, X-Ray immunity, and a dimensional mirror to spawn holograms of himself.
* **Chameleon**: Appears in episode 43. Powers include foot claws, a whip-like tongue and tail, invisibility, green body lasers, and pink eye lasers.
* **Atomical-Star**: Appears in episode 44. Powers include an atomic cannon in the forehead head and flight.
* **Haniwada**: Appears in episode 45. Powers include green psychic energy bolts from the hands, pink psychic rings from the hands that grant telekinesis over what they hit, summoning lightning, and an energy absorbing tongue.
* **Magda**: Appears in episode 46. Powers include swimming, a 4-tube torpedo launcher in each shoulder, heat resistance that allows it to survive in lava, spawning flying heads composed of magma, and levitation.
* **Bara**: Appears in episode 46. Powers include intangibility, a human disguise, retractable claws in the fingers and toes, and pink finger lasers.
* **General Bigs**: Appear in episode 47. They have no known powers and were essentially giant replicas of the three generals piloted by the generals themselves.
	+ **Big Uuyokka**
	+ **Big Sayokka**
	+ **Big Mannakka**
* **Gyrorocketer**: Appears in episode 48. Powers include x-ray vision, green eye lasers, and a whip-like tail with four spikes on the end.
* **Akudoss**: Appears in episode 49. Powers include flight, a black sword, and an energy based body beneath the armor.

### Mecha Dimension Vehicles

* **Mecha Empire Space Ship**: Appears in episode 21. Powers include flight, a sonic blaster on each main engine, each wing, on each end of the forked bow, and two on the bridge, and missiles.
	+ **Base Guards**: Appear in episode 21. Powers include a human disguise, spear fingers, and an electric pistol.
* **Attack Submarine**: Appears in episode 30. Powers include swimming, three laser guns in the top, twin torpedoes in the rear of the right side, and an escape sub on the top.
* **Underwater Spider Walker**: Appears in episode 40. Powers include swimming, eight spear legs tat emit electric surges, and levitation.
* **Underwater Palace**: Appears in episode 40. Powers include swimming, head spikes, nine large missiles, and an Ivaldic Missile that can destroy a planet on the underside.
* **Diamond Submarine**: Appears in episode 42. Powers include swimming and a purple laser from the top.
* **Gaddock**: Appears in episode 43. It was a hybrid of a Mecha Dimension Robo and a flying battleship.
	+ **Form 1**: Powers include flight and retractable body blades.
	+ **Form 2**: Powers include flight, three laser guns on each wing, three laser guns in each side of the hull, a laser gun on the bow, and using the ball-like bow as a detachable bludgeon.
	+ **Form 3**: Powers include flight, a sword for the left hand, and green lasers from the head antenna.
* **Mushroom Armor Corps**: Appear in episodes 50 and 51. They were double sided mushrooms capable of burrowing, firing a green laser from their center, erecting a blue electric barrier, and turning into flying balls that combine into a magnetic green energy string.
* **Dimensional Train 3X**: Appears in episodes 51 and 52. Powers include flight, dividing into three sections, and emitting green energy shockwaves.

## Earth Natives

* **Yukigon**: A white and brown abominable snowman that appeared in episode 3 and had no powers.
* **Mephisto Doll**: A marionette altered by the Mecha Empire that appears in episode 22. Powers include size changing that can be reversed upon touching water, telekinesis, head rotation, a sharp black cape that spawns illusions, and levitation.
* **Nessie**: A white plesiosaurus from Lock Ness that appeared in episode 25. Powers include a high resistance to energy beams and a whip tail.
* **Delta Beam Gun**: Appears in episode 39. It was a gun designed to close off the Rainbow Road from the Lightan Corps via delta beams.
* **Legendary Monsters**: Three monsters revived by the Mecha Empire using voodoo that appear in episode 42.
	+ **Werewolf**: Powers include sharp claws, high jumping, and retractable fangs.
	+ **Mummy**: Powers include pink mouth mist and high jumping.
	+ **Frankenstein**: Only known power is strength.
* **Voodoo Zombie**: Dead bodies brought to life by voodoo that appeared in episode 42 and their only power was strength.
* **Volcano Anaconda**: A baby green anaconda encountered in the volcanic portion of Lava Island under Mecha Palace in episode 44, seen briefly attacking Tetsu.
* **Yamaterasu Techtonium**: Ancient artificial energy with sentience that was buried beneath a totem pole in episode 45. Powers include levitation, energy balls, and teleportation.