Dorgo

**Dorgo** appeared in 2023 TV series called *Ultraman Blazer*. Dorgo (*Dorugo*) is an ancient Kaiju who first appeared in the fifth episode of *Ultraman Blazar*.

An ancient kaiju which slept in Mt. Kirino for over a thousand years, Dorgo was the local guardian deity of Ichinoji Village whose presence made the ground fertile and the water pure. The kaiju once rampaged but was stopped by a priest who used the statue of a deity in a ritual that put it to sleep. This statue became an object of worship, a *Shintai*, and a shrine was built around it as the villagers would come to offer their prayers to appease Dorgo. These events were recorded in a collection of *emakimono* scrolls named the *Illustrated Chronicles of the Great Disaster at Mt. Kirino* (霧野山大禍始末絵伝, *Kirinosan Daika Shimatsu Eden*), one of which was passed down through the local shrine family.

In the modern era, the GGF would employ the use of the new automated self-defense railgun system, the Mega Shot, in response to the rise in kaiju-related incidents, and they would select Mt. Kirino as the testing site for this new weapon. However, their oversight in not researching on the legend of Dorgo beforehand led to them mistakenly clearing out the shrine to set up the supply convoy and installing the Mega Shot on Dorgo's back. With the seal on Dorgo broken, violent tremors throughout the testing site heralded its awakening.

Mizuho, the granddaughter of the shrine family, tried to warn the SKaRD about Dorgo's awakening through her childhood friend Anri, but without sufficient evidence the Mega Shot performance evaluation tests continued, with Earth Garon deployed to gauge its effectiveness. Soon enough, the explosions from the test awakened the kaiju from its thousand-year slumber, who in its enraged state managed to immobilize Earth Garon with its lightning ray. However, it went back to sleep after hydrating itself, presumably to adjust to its abrupt awakening.

Under Mizuho's suggestion and with the information gathered from Emi's acquisition of the remainder of the *emakimono* scrolls from a science museum, the SKaRD devised a plan to put Dorgo back into hibernation by reenacting the ritual performed a millennium ago. To do that, Gento and Anri climbed the mountain kaiju to return the *Shintai* back to the shrine, but malfunctions in the backup generators of the Mega Shot caused Dorgo to awaken early. As Dorgo stirred, Gento was shaken off the kaiju, but the Blazar Brace appeared to him, and he transformed into Ultraman Blazar.

Blazar tried to stop Dorgo from moving so that Anri could complete her mission, but the Mega Shot's automated defense systems recognized him as a threat. The combined might of the Mega Shot and Dorgo gave Blazar a difficult time until the timely arrival of Earth Garon, and their teamwork managed to disable the Mega Shot and disarm the kaiju. As Blazar held Dorgo down, Anri plunged the statue back into its rightful spot, and this finally put the kaiju back to sleep, as it slumbered for another thousand years to come.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Environmental Purification**: Dorgo's presence is said to be able to make the ground fertile and the water pure.
* **Spiritual Telepathy**: Dorgo appears to be able to telepathically communicate with persons spiritually associated with it, such as in the case of Mizuho and Anri.
* **Hibernation**: With outside intervention, Dorgo can be returned to a state of hibernation.
* **Lightning Ray**: Dorgo discharges bolts of lightning from the tip of its pointed snout.
* **Arch Beam**: Dorgo can fire a powerful beam from the raised arch on its head.
* **Mega Shot** (メガショット, *Mega Shotto*): The automated self-defense railgun system with immense firepower. It was originally put together by the GGF as a kaiju deterrent but was mistakenly installed on Dorgo's back. It targets and attacks opponents who try to harm Dorgo.