Mecha and Monsters from Danguard Ace

The following is a list of the many mecha and monsters that appeared in the 1976 anime series *Planetary Robot Danguard Ace* and its two spinoff movies *Danguard Ace vs. The Insect Robot Army* and *Danguard Ace: The Great Space War*.

## Promete Project

### Satellizer and Danguard Ace

Danguard Ace was a giant robot that could transform into a combat shuttle called Satellizer for the purpose of defending the Jasdam under the Promete Project. In Satellizer form it first appeared in episode 5 but did not successfully transform into Danguard Ace until episode 11 and even then the robot was not in combat proper until episode 13.

* **Height**: 200 Meters
* **Weight**: 5,000 Tons
* **Flight Speed**: Mach 15
* **Weapons and Features as Satellizer**:
	+ Telepulsion Missile launcher under each wing
	+ A vulcan gun at the base of each wing
	+ An underside tractor beam
	+ Twin Narcotic Bombs from the underside that emit knockout gas
	+ A green magnetic beam from the underside to capture small vehicles
* **Weapons and Features as Danguard Ace**:
	+ Pulsar Cannon: Two cannons that fire pulsars hidden in the torso
	+ Cosmo Arrow: A launchable red arrow head on each leg
	+ Telepulsion Punch: A purple energy beam from the fists
	+ Eye Blaster Rifle: Yellow energy arrows from the eyes that can curve around
	+ Telepulsion Missiles: Launched from each shoulder
	+ Double Shaft: Combining the Cosmo Arrows into double sided lance)

### Jasdam

The Jasdam was a space base designed to transport a large group of scientists and pilots to a distant planet beyond the Kuiper Belt called Promete. For much of the series it was stationed on Tobishima Island until it took off for space in episode 35. Like Danguard Ace it was powered by pulsars from deep space. Most of the Jasdam's space operations are done by a giant super computer called Urania.

* **Height**: 1050 Meters
* **Weight**: 1,000,000 Tons
* **Weapons and Features**:
	+ An energy barrier
	+ A pair of cannons on the runway
	+ Four double barreled vulcan gun turrets
	+ Missile launcher jacks starting in episode 14
	+ A pulsar absorbing dish
	+ Four underside gun stations that launch energy beams and missiles
	+ An artificial sun bomb from the deck
	+ A pair of missile cannons in the bow called the Godbuster Cannons
	+ Three extinguishers in each side of the deck
	+ A space mine launcher from the stern
	+ A pair of antimagnetic beam guns at the base of the bridge
	+ Four missile launchers in the top of the bow

### Support Vehicles

* **Dan's Fighter**: A black and pink fighter used by Captain Dan that first appears in episode 3. Powers include flight and armed with dual underside missile launchers. It was destroyed in episode 11 by Death-Hydra.
* **Cadet Jet**: A pair of jets used by Danguard Ace's pilot candidates. Powers include flight, one missile on the underside, and machine gun in the base of each wing.
* **Sky Arrow**: A high performance fighter that first appeared in episode 17. Powers include a telepulsion missile from each wing, vulcan gun on each side of the nose, an underside ladder, and chain under each wing. It was used by Captain Dan and later by Kiriko.
* **Banta Crafter**: A flying vehicle that doubled as a construction vehicle created by Banta that appeared in episodes 23 and 29.
* **Special Hovercraft**: A box shaped hovercraft used by Dr. Oedo to visit Paisa Island in episode 24. It was used for subsonic flight and beach maneuvering before being destroyed in a landslide by Insectus.
* **Recon Helicopter**: A white and blue helicopter used to investigate Samejima in episode 34. It could detect Super Uranium and used by an unnamed pilot and Kiriko.
* **Space Lady**: A space recon vehicle that first appeared in ep36 and was used by Kiriko.
* **Jasdam Exploration Rover**: A land rover that appeared in episodes 36 and 42.
* **Space Arrow**: A space fighter that first appeared in episode 44 and was used by Kiriko. Powers include flight, a missile launcher on each side of the hull, an infrared scanner in the nose, and a pair of vulcan guns on the nose.

### Miscellaneous

* **Mock Satellizer**: An imitation Satellizer used by pilot candidates in episodes 6 and 7. Powers include mach 15 flight, a detachable nose, twin vulcan guns on the underside, and twin missiles in the underside.
* **RX-1**: A moon base destroyed by Gasgun in episode 13.
* **RX-2**: A moon ship that conducted tests for the Promete Project and Jasdam that appeared in episodes 13 and 32.
* **Hideto's Biplane**: A biplane that was white with red wings that appeared in episode 29. Powers include flight and a a laser machine gun on each side of the hull. originally used by Hideto's father, Ryutaro, and was destroyed by Deatcarder.
* **Broken Spacecraft**: A purple rocket from international space station that crashed on Mars in episode 36. It drifted off course after magnetic storm while searching for space life, after which it used by the Doppler Army to distract the Jasdam as they arrived on Mars.

## Doppler Army

### Main Forces

* **Mask Men**: Important individuals that were forced to wear mind control masks to rob them of free will and obey Fuhrer Doppler. They were usually armed with a laser rifle.
* **Doppler Fighter Rockets**: Yellow fighters that first appear in episode 5. Powers include flight, a telepathy beam from the nose, three missiles under each wing, and machine gun at the base of each wing.
* **Robot Soldiers**: Robotic infantry that first appear in episode 9. Powers include remotely disassemble and reassemble, four rotating cannons for each hand, a yellow laser rifle, and knockout gas grenades from the fingers.
* **Harken Fighter**: A series black jets used by the Harken Special Unit that first appear in episode 27. Powers include flight, a vulcan gun on each side of the cockpit, missile under each wing, and a capture cable in each side of the nose.
* **Doppler's Jet Shuttle**: A purple space shuttle used by Doppler in episode 56 used to escape the Planestar as it was being destroyed from a leak of Super Uranium.

### Battleships

* **Death Float**: A purple plane stolen by Dr. Oedo and John Gray that appeared in episode 24. Powers include flight and 7-tube missile launcher from each wing and under the cockpit, it was sacrificed to stop Insectus.
* **Planestar**: The Doppler Army's main space battleship that was constructed under the Harken Special Unit and first appeared in episode 27. Powers include flight, twin missile launchers under each side of the hull, frontal yellow energy bolts, an electric barrier, green energy bolts from each side of the hull and each side of the bow, four extendable drills for mining in the hull, a space torpedo launcher in each side of the base of the bow and each side of the stern, and green laser turrets around the hull.
* **Rugel's Ship**: An unnamed purple space battleship used by Rugel that first appeared in episode 35. Powers include flight, sending out mass produced mechasatans that fired lasers, and a missile launcher in each of the four wings.
* **Beater V**: Appears in episodes 55 and 56. Powers include flight, a super uranium bomb, a pulsar redirector in the rear, a 7-tube missile launcher on the underside, and a pair of space torpedo launchers in the bow.

### Mechasatans

* **Jetlar**: Appears in episode 1. Powers include flight, yellow electric bolts from the head horns and ankles, and ball bombs in the torso that can rival an atom bomb.
* **Robotras**: Appears in episode 2. Powers include flight, red lasers from the eyes, and a missile launcher for each arm.
* **Hellsparrow**: Appears in episode 3. Powers include flight, a 5-tube missile launcher on the neck, yellow eye lasers, and twin rocket launchers in the forehead.
* **Death Tanker**: Appears in episode 4. Powers include flight, a guided missile on each hip, treads for each foot, and a rocket launcher in each side of the torso.
* **Grenadier**: Appears in episode 5. Powers include swimming, flight, yellow body bombs, and exploding.
* **The Gil**: Appears in episode 6. Powers include a mouth flamethrower, a launchable pendulum for each hand and foot, a yellow bladed boomerang on the head, and yellow electric bolts from the scalp.
* **Planetar**: Appears in episode 7. Powers include flight, energy bolt around the body, and a flamethrower in the retractable head.
* **Galagus**: Appears in episode 8. Powers include flight, a pair of back cannons that solidify air into explosive black blocks of compressed atoms, and a mouth flamethrower.
* **Sounder**: Appears in episode 9: Powers include flight, emitting mach 15 sonic waves, three vacuums on each hand, and purple energy bolts from the rear.
* **Grandlar**: Appears in episode 10. Powers include a drill on each side of the hull, flight, swimming, and a pair of missile launchers.
* **Death-Hydra**: Appears in episode 11. powers include a drill on the scalp for burrowing, flight, a rocket launcher for each arm armed with four spikes along the barrel, a green tractor beam in the torso, and green energy bolts from the elephant trunk.
* **Skullbon**: Appears in episode 12. Powers include flight, twin head horns, and pink electric beams from the claw hands and single eye.
* **Gasgun**: Appears in episode 13. Powers include flight, four rapid fire rocket launchers on each pectoral, an orange energy beam from the mouth, and electric shocks.
* **Shinbalgar**: Appears in episode 14. Powers include firing sonic balls from the clamp-like head, flight, foot skis for floating on water, and three missile launchers on the head.
* **Bakyudar**: Appears in episode 15. Powers include flight, vacuums around the hull that can be used in space, and emitting space debris from the body vents.
* **Gilldozer**: Appears in episode 16. Powers include burrowing, a forked bulldozer blade, a missile launcher on each side of the head, and a pair of large spikes on the tank-like front.
* **Missilus**: Appears in episode 17. Powers include flight, a pair of 5-tube missile launchers on the lower half and one on each wing, a 4-tube missile launcher on the top, and emitting smoke that creates an artificial thunderstorm.
* **King Diver**: Appears in episode 17. Powers include swimming, storing a squad of frogmen in each knee each armed with a harpoon gun, eye lasers, and a flamethrower in each launchable hand.
* **Hell Navaron**: Appears in episode 18. Powers include a solar powered missile in the head, flight, a solar barrier around the body, three extendable blades for each hand that fire pink energy bolts, sixteen missile launchers in the torso, hand detachment to pin down enemies, and self destructing.
* **Mazon**: Appears in episode 19. Powers include a pink laser gun in each pectoral, a hologram missile launcher in the scalp, and flight.
* **Boomeras**: Appears in episode 20. Powers include flight, pink eye lasers, a boomerang for the wings, a torso shield, and a whirling turbine on the abdomen.
* **Hell Buster**: Appears in episode 21. Powers include swimming, burrowing, and an extendable bladed crab claw for each arm.
* **Shadow**:
	+ **Shadow 1**: Appears in episode 22. Powers include flight, swimming, a dimensional cannon in the torso that creates thunderstorms and meteorites via fourth dimensional vibrations, a pink energy cannon for the head, a 3-tube missile launcher in each leg, and a launchable claw for each arm that each has three searchlights and attached to a chain.
	+ **Shadow 2**: Appears in episode 40. Powers include flight, creating holograms, a pair of treads for the lower half, and bolts beams from the hands and abdomen.
* **Gunto**: Appears in episode 23. Powers include flight, a blue energy beam from the torso, pink energy bolts from the forehead ruby, thick armor made of the Wide mineral that strengthens from pulsar exposure, launchable blades from the abdomen, and finger missiles.
* **Insectus**: Appears in episode 24. Powers include a pink energy beam from the mandibles, burrowing, swimming, mouth webs, and pink sonic waves from the mandibles.
* **Gamegaran**: Appears in episode 25. Powers include swimming, flight, a pair of underside missiles, three orange electric laser guns in the front, a thick turtle shell, and a pair of bladed wings.
* **Yazillar**: Appears in episodes 26 and 27. Powers include flight, a detachable mace for the head and a chained mace for each hand, yellow energy bolts from the mace head, orange lasers from the four, and burrowing.
* **Bakroid**: Appears in episode 28. Powers include swimming, flight, twin yellow electric bolts from the nose, a missile launcher for each eye, wind gusts from the mouth, and shock absorbers on the back.
* **Deathcarder**: Appears in episode 29. Powers include burrowing, flight, a pincer claw for each hand, a pink forehead laser, a pair of launchable blades on the scalp, and pink lasers from the forehead lever.
* **Daitanger**: Appears in episode 30. Powers include a drill tank form to cause earthquakes and burrow, a drill missile on each side of the head called Drill Cutters that can penetrate most materials, twin cannons and an extra drill missile in drill tank mode, and a 5-tube drill launcher in the abdomen.
* **Dagger**: Appears in episode 31. Powers include flight, a drill for the head and in each end of the forked tail, swimming, and a rocket that fires lasers from the nose.
* **Dealos**: Appears in episode 32. Powers include flight, mouth missiles, and a face shield.
* **Palbot**: Appears in episode 33. Powers include flight, green mouth lasers, a red energy ray from each pectoral, dual knee missile launchers, separating body parts in order to swim, and green lasers from the joints when separated.
* **Hurrimogen**: Appears in episode 34. Powers include a launchable drill on each shoulder for burrowing, flight, a mirror beam from the single eye, three extendable claws for each hand, and five purple magnet beams from the torso.
* **Buran**: Appears in episode 35. Powers include flight via retractable wings, a boat form capable of swimming, and launching boomerang bladed missiles from the front.
* **Skytentacle**: Appears in episode 36. Powers include flight, a tentacle for each arm and a dozen tentacles for the lower half that can emit electrical shocks, pink lasers and green energy balls from the gun in the abdomen, purple smokescreen from the underside, and energy resistant armor.
* **Manbolt**: Appears in episode 37. Powers include pink electric beams from the hands, a missile launcher in each pectoral and shoulder, and flight.
* **Sodom**: Appears in episode 38. Powers include flight, a whip-like tail, and a missile launcher for each hand.
* **Beamer 1**: Appears in episode 39. Powers include flight, purple lasers from the forehead jewel, a spinning blade on each wrist, and summoning a four bladed shuriken.
* **Gejiram**: Appears in episode 41. Powers include flight, coiling into a giant wheel, green eye lasers, constricting while emitting pink electric surges, and segment separation.
* **Spiders**: Appears in episode 42. Powers include flight, mines, and green mouth webs.
* **Gidler**: Appears in episode 45. Powers include flight, green energy bolts from the forehead, a drill for the right hand, and a claw with a hidden manipulator hand for the left hand.

#### Pulsar Powered Mechasatans

* **Hellcrane**: Appears in episode 46. Powers include flight, a pair of treads on each foot, a chained crane called Chain Attack in the abdomen, electric bolts from the single eye, and a chain attached to the head
* **Gigantos**: Appears in episode 47. Powers include flight, a pair of missile launchers on the scalp, a searchlight in each eye, launchable arms called the Gigantos Crusher, and self destructing.
* **Panicker**: Appears in episode 48. Powers include a yellow asteroid disguise, flight, firing needles called the Panicker Needles from the body that mind control humans, eight extendable brown tentacles in the lower half, and three blades hidden in the upper half.
* **Gundog**: Appears in episode 49. Powers include a meteor disguise, flight, splitting into two halves, a pair of white laser guns on the head, and a proton bomb for self destruction.
* **Gashog**: Appears in episode 50. Powers include flight, a yellow energy ray from the torso turbine, and blue smokescreen from the claw hands.
* **Piragian**: Appears in episode 51. Powers include a nose drill, flight, twin space tordpedo launchers in the mouth, and a sunfish-like ship that can fire a white laser.
* **Deathcobra**: Appears in episode 53. Powers include flight, a white energy ray from the visor, splitting in half, a pair of yellow laser guns on the lower half, and self destructing.
* **Jeronga**: Appears in episode 54. Powers include a tomahawk with a spear on the butt, a shield, flight, nine white missiles on the scalp, a headdress with eleven white missiles on each side, and eye white electric bolts.

### Miscellaneous

* **Robot Owl**: Appears in episode 4. Powers include flight and emitting telepathy waves from the head antennae.
* **Black Car**: Appears in episode 18. Their only known power was a missile launcher in the rear.
* **Tan Helicopter**: Appears in episode 18. Powers include flight and a machine gun on each side of the nose.
* **Gudon's Carrier Saucer**: A yellow and orange saucer used by Gudon in episode 19 to kidnap scientists.
* **Harken Black Motorcycle**: Appear in episode 28. They were armed with electric bolts and rocket launchers in the front.
* **Spy Saucer**: A brown saucer used by Evans in episode 36. Powers include flight and machine gun in the front.
* **Yakofish**: Appears in episode 43. It was a ship used by the doppler army to harvest super uranium from an asteroid between the Kuiper Belt and Promete and was destroyed when it was attacked by super uranium mutants.

## Aliens

* **BEM**: Appears in episodes 36 and 37. It was gray octopus-like alien from planet Icarus in the Asteroid Belt that made its way to Mars. Powers include mouth ink, flight, emitting radiation, white energy beams from the eyes, and extendable tentacles.
* **Bomb Squirrels**: Appear in episode 40. They were brown squirrel-like aliens from an asteroid near Pluto that explode upon contact.
* **Noel**: A half breed from the Devil's Planet that appears in episode 42 on Planet X. Powers include wind manipulation, telepathy, a crystal ball for communicating with other members of her species and emit freezing ice, high jumping, tendril hair, and teleportation.
* **Super Uranium Mutants**: Blue sasquatch-like natives that lived on a super uranium asteroid that appears in episode 43. Their only known power is speed.
* **Mimetic Creature**: A giant purple alien that lived near Promete that appears in episode 47. Powers include flight, emitting radiation that cause hallucinations, energy absorption, and pink acid from the body like a starfish. Notably it tried to eat Gigantos and while it usually resembled an asteroid it could also shapeshift to resemble a coral reef.
* **Body X**: A gigantic space alien that appears in episode 50 that resembles a dead planet. Powers include flight, tentacles, and an extremely strong energy barrier. It as destroyed from the super uranium that powered Gashog.