Doubleman Zombie A

**Doubleman Zombie A**(ダブルマン・ゾンビA *Daburu man zonbi A*) is a series of Beast-alien Doublemen who appeared in Episodes 1-44 of Space Sheriff Gavan.

They are voiced by **Takeshi Watabe**(Ep. 1), **Satoshi Kurihara**(Ep.2), **Masashi Ishibashi**(Ep. 3), **Shun Ueda**(Ep.6) and **Toku Nishio**(Ep. 7).

In Episodes 2, 3, and 6, the Doubleman Zombie A human disguises were played by their respective voice actors while the one in Episode 7 was played by a separate actor, named **Susumu Kurobe**, instead.

## Appearance

A Doubleman Zombie A has a slender appearance while wearing gray armor on his upper body-half with broad shoulders pads and black pants on his lower-half. He has a large cranium with a slit-like mouth that holds fangs, a metallic snout, pointed ears, and blank yellow eyes.

## Biography

### The Strange Fortress Beneath Tokyo

When the Makuu start their plans of attacking earth, they first plan to target a space colony. A Doubleman, named Zombie A, summons the Shako Monster to help out and then leads an attack on the space colony with the Makuu combat ships. After the destruction of the space colony, the Makuu Empire start transporting their weapons and materials to a secret base on earth. Later, a group of kids were sneaking around the secret base of the Makuu Empire until they get discovered. The kids run out of the base but run into Zombie A, along with the Crushers. Zombie A prepares to have them killed for learning about their base but then Gavan arrives and rescues the kids with help from his assistant, Mimi. Gavan confronts Zombie A but is then ambushed by the Shako Monster, so he transforms into his combat suit to fight it off. As Gavan fights off the Crushers and the Shako Monster, Don Horror has switches activated to bring Gavan and the Shako Monster to the Makuu Region. Once in the strange dimension, Gavan fights the Shako Monster and destroys it with his Laser Z Beam. After the death of the BEM Monster, Zombie A appears with a sword and shield and with a helmet folded on top of his head. Gavan summons his Laser Blade and begins dueling against Zombie A. As the two duel, Gavan knocks Zombie A’s shield off and then charges his Laser Blade. Zombie A charges after him with his own sword, but Gavan dodges him and uses Gavan Dynamic to slice the Doubleman in half down the middle, blowing up each half.

### Japan is Robbed.

A crew was riding a tanker, called the Dai Nippon Maru, through the ocean until they’re suddenly lifted up in the sky by a tractor beam. The crew try to send out an SOS but they are stopped by another crew member, who reveals himself to be another Zombie A Doubleman. He and the Crushers prepare to kill the crew as the tanker vanished in the sky. Once the Dai Nippon Maru vanishes, it’s brought into another Makuu underground base where they equip it with bombs and threaten to blow it up over Tokyo unless the Japanese government gives in to their demand to launch out a rocket filled with diamonds, which they can use for their weapons and spaceships, into space. Once the Japanese government gives in to their demands and sends the rocket out, Zombie A retrieves it with the Makuu Combat Mothership. Zombie A presents the diamonds to Don Horror where they decide to test out how far they can get the Japanese government to give in to their demands. So they send another demand for the ownership of Mount Fuji. After Gavan finds out about the demand, he rides Dol to the Makuu Combat Mothership when Zombie A was waiting for the documents for the ownership of Mount Fuji. Zombie A sees Gavan and sends out the combat ships only for them to get destroyed by Dol. Once all the combat ships get destroyed, Zombie A decides to retreat away. Since Gavan has interfered, Don Horror orders the Dai Nippon Maru to be blown up over Tokyo. Later, Gavan infiltrates the underground base where he gets discovered by a BEM Monster, Gamara Monster, and is confronted by the Crushers led by Zombie A. Gavan fights off the Crushers and the Gamara Monster and manages to destroy the BEM Monster when Don Horror brings them to the Makuu Region. After the death of the Gamara Monster, Zombie A radio controls the Dai Nippon Maru to fly out of the base, now designed as an old pirate ship, from a speedboat in the ocean. Gavan locates the source of the radio control and rides to the speed boat on his Cyberion. Once on board, Zombie A attacks him with his sword until Gavan summons his Laser Blade and duels against him. After a while, Zombie A flies off the speedboat with Gavan in pursuit and they land at a boat port. Gavan charges up his Laser Blade as Zombie charges forward with his sword. Gavan dodges Zombie A and uses Gavan Dynamic to slice him in half, destroying him.

## Powers/Abilities

**Sword and Shield**: A Doubleman Zombie A’s main weapons in combat are a sword with a jagged tip and a shield with spikes up front.

**Human Disguise**: A Doubleman Zombie A can disguise himself any human being to blend in during his missions.

**Flight**: A Doubleman Zombie A is able to fly through the air, despite having no wings or jet engines.

## Trivia

* Takayuki Masuo made the designs for the Doubleman Zombie A.
	+ The instructions for the Doubleman Zombie A’s design was to expose the brains while the rest of the designs was thought up by Masuo.
* While it was specified that the Doubleman Zombie A will have a sword and other weapons, Masuo wanted to them to be more intelligent characters of science fiction rather than just a fighting force, but it did not happen easily.