Black King

Black King
Japanese	ブラックキング
Rōmaji	Burakku Kingu
Information
Type	Monster
Height	65 m
Weight	60,000 t
Homeworld	Planet Nackle
Affiliation	Alien Nackle (Reccuring Owner) Ultraman Belial (Reiblood Owner) Alien Bat Hikaru Raido (Spark Doll user) Bandello Planetary Invasion Syndicate Cereza/Makoto Aizen Odyssa Reibatos
Appearances
Series	Return of Ultraman Ultraman Zero series Ultraman Ginga Ultraman X Ultraman Orb Ultraman R/B Ultraman Taiga Ultraman Regulos Ultraman Arc
First Appearance	Ultraman dies at sunset
Latest Appearance	Ultraman Regulos: First Mission

Black King (ブラックキング, Burakku Kingu) is a monster that first appeared in Return of Ultraman.

• Subtitle: Bodyguard Monster (用心棒怪獣, Yojimbo Kaijū)

History

Return of Ultraman

Ultraman Dies at Sunset

Black King stood as Alien Nackle's greatest weapon in his attempt to defeat Ultraman Jack. Specifically trained and reinforced to withstand Jack's greatest abilities, such as the Spacium Beam and the Ultra Bracelet, Black King's victory against the current guardian of Earth appeared sealed. To reinforce his predictions, however, Alien Nackle resurrected Bemstar and Seagorath in order to verify his predictions, only to find that the Ultraman's performance against these old foes had already surpassed the initial preparations he had made for Black King, putting the monster bodyguard's chances of victory at risk. 

While Alien Nackle continued his search for Ultraman Jack's other weaknesses, Black King was deployed as a decoy in the alien's other goal of stealing the Satan Z, a new explosive chemical that MAT had developed and was in the process of transporting. Appearing from a mountainside, Black King awed the MAT officers and halted their convoy, releasing a blinding smokescreen that provided sufficient time for Alien Nackle to hijack the transport vehicle and escape with the dangerous compound. In the ensuing chaos, Black King disappeared without a trace. 

Following the raid, Alien Nackle pinpointed the weaknesses of Ultraman Jack, or rather, his human form of Hideki Go, as his familial ties to the Sakata family made the innocent humans prime targets, which the alien exterminated callously via a motor vehicle. The attack left Go shaken and unfocused, and as skies approached twilight, Black King appeared to challenge a distraught Hideki Go, who hurled himself from the roof of the hospital housing the corpses of the Sakata family and transformed into Ultraman Jack. 

Jack's suspicion that someone was testing his abilities was confirmed during the first few seconds of his encounter with Black King, as the monster shrugged off the artillery fire from MAT with ease. Despite obviously stepping into a trap, Jack continued his resistance against Black King, putting up a fair fight despite the monster being immune to all of his more powerful techniques. It was at this moment that Alien Nackle himself joined the fray.

Teleporting into the fight, Nackle joined in with his faithful bodyguard and began to double team the already outmatched Ultraman Jack, having Black King restrain the hero while he delivered crushing blows to his abdomen with punches and knee-strikes. As Jack began to run out of energy, he cried to the sun for more power, but he was too late, as the dying rays of the sun were too weak to fuel Ultraman. With a few more blows and an overhead throw, the hero was down for the count. Chained to two space ships, the limp body of Ultraman Jack was hauled off into outer space towards his execution as Alien Nackle announced his victory and Ultraman's death to a shocked world.^{[Ultraman dies at sunset]}

When the Ultra Star Shines

Following Ultraman Jack's rescue from certain death by Ultraman and Ultraseven, and Hideki Go's liberation of the MAT team (sans officer Yuriko Oka) from the control of Alien Nackle, Black King and Alien Nackle himself appeared to prevent Go from destroying the radar base that the alien had taken over as a base. Go, spurred on by Black King's reappearance, quickly transformed into Ultraman Jack to combat the beast, but took priority in destroying the radar base with his Spacium Beam. MAT, alerted to Ultraman's return, made a solemn vow amongst themselves to support Ultraman to the bitter end, and sped off towards the grounds of battle.

Exhausting every last vehicle, MAT made a desperate stand against the monster and alien while they pummeled Ultraman Jack in what at first appeared to be a retread of their first confrontation. As Jack was forced to his knees with his color timer blinking, he remembered the friendship that he shared with his two seniors, Ultraman and Ultraseven. His heart supported by this camaraderie, Jack gathered his last bits of strength and re-engaged Alien Nackle and Black King, sending the duo sprawling with this newfound strength. Following an intense beating, Ultraman picked up Black King's body and flung it into the air. Jumping up after the monster, Jack's hand sliced through Black King's neck, decapitating the monster using his new Slice Hand technique. Following Black King's demise, its master would also reach his end, as Jack picked up Nackle as well and tossed him behind his back using the new Ultra Throw technique, slamming the alien's head onto the ground from an immeasurable height, causing enough damage to kill the Alien after he made one final threat.^{[When the Ultra Star Shines]}

Ultraman Zero series

Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie

Black King appears as a revived monster from Ultraman Belial's faceless entourage. Sent to kill Rei, along with the surviving ultras, Mirai Hibino, Shin Hayata, and Dan Moroboshi under the command of an Alien Shaplay, Black King was the alien's last attempt to kill the weakened ultras. This time however, Black King was confronted by Rei's Gomora, who challenged the monster to a battle, allowing Hayata, Dan, and Mirai to escape and reunite with Ultraman Taro to regain their powers once more. Like Alien Shaplay's other monsters, Black King was no match for Gomora, and the monster was destroyed after Gomora stabbed him with his horn, and charged Black King's innards with its Super Oscillatory Wave from the inside.^{[Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie]}

Ultraman Saga/Retsuden

Black King was one of the few monsters revived by Hyper Zetton with the use of Spheres (along with Antlar, King Pandon, Verokron, and Tyrant) to assist it in battling against the newly-formed Ultraman Saga. Fortunately the fusion ultra received some backup in the form of the ultra brothers (whom were earlier notified of the disturbance in Dyna's universe,) and they battled against Hyper Zetton's monsters while Saga resumed his battle with Hyper Zetton. Ultraman Jack fought with Black King for a short period of time and eventually, the monster was killed after being impaled by Jack's Ultra Lance.

Ultraman Ginga

Black King was one of the many monsters (and ultras) who were transformed into spark dolls during the Dark Spark War. Its spark doll was first discovered by Hikaru and Misuzu, as they were exploring the Mt. Furuhoshiyama. Learning how to UltraLive from Ultraman Taro after a failed attempt to do so with the ultra, Hikaru instead tried with Black King's doll and was successful. Hikaru was greatly excited by this revelation, but his excitement was cut short by the appearance of Thunder Darambia, who attacked him after two illegal dumpers who assaulted Hikaru earlier were transformed into the monster by Alien Valky. Black King tried his best, but Hikaru's inexperience in his new transformed state allowed Thunder Darambia to beat down the monster with ease. Black King was soon paralyzed into submission by Thunder Darambia's electric attacks, but Hikaru refused to let Misuzu be harmed by the monster, nor to give up on his own dream, and after gaining access to his spark doll, Hikaru switched out Black King to transform into Ultraman Ginga for the first-time ever.^{[Town of Falling Stars]}

Hikaru would later transform into Black King again to face Go Osato, a washed-up boxing champion who had been transformed into Dark Galberos by Gray, the Alien Nackle. Facing each other in a boxing-themed match-up, Black King tried his best, but Hikaru's amateur skills were no match against a professional boxer, and Dark Galberos swiftly defeated Black King during round 1. Despite the loss, Hikaru switched out Black King for Ultraman Ginga for round 2 instead.^{[The Closed World]}

Ultraman X

Black King Drill Custom

Black King was accompanied by an Alien Nackle named "Bandello," who had come to Earth to steal any valuable weapons he could find. Black King first appeared out of a mountainside, where the monster ambushed Xio while they were transporting the Spark Dolls to their Particle Research Lab. Despite Xio's efforts, Black King proved to be a tough adversary as it fended off Xio with its Hell Magma, and even withstood a blast from Wataru's Ultlaser at point-blank with no visible damage. During the attack, Daichi fled the scene to transform into Ultraman X, and the ultra battled with Black King instead. During Black King and X's fight, Bandello made his appearance by growing into his giant form to assist his monster in double-teaming X. X was quickly overwhelmed by the combined efforts of Bandello and Black King and was left weakened and unable to fight back.

Suddenly, a portal opened up in the sky and out of it appeared Ultraman Zero. The arriving ultra proved to be much stronger than X and even managed to break off Black King's horn with his Ultra Zero Kick. As Zero was busy however, Bandello took advantage of the distraction to steal the spark dolls, and together both the alien and the injured monster retreated to Planet Guillermo, with Zero in hot pursuit. On Guillermo, Bandello upgraded Black King by replacing its broken horn with a drill feature, thus christening it as "Black King Drill Custom" (ブラックキングドリルカスタム, Burakku Kingu Doriru Kasutamu). Some time later, Zero arrived on Guillermo to re-confront the Alien Nackle. Bandello then unleashed Black King Drill Custom to assist him, and like X, Bandello and his monster double-teamed Zero in battle. During the fight however, Ultraman X arrived on Guillermo too, now wearing the same Aegis Armor as Zero's. Working together, Zero and X battle against Bandello and Black King Drill Custom. Ultimately, neither alien nor monster were a match for the ultras, and Black King Drill Custom was destroyed by Ultraman X's Xanadium Beam.^{[When the Aegis Shines]}

Ultraman Orb

Black King was the strongest monster card that was in the possession of the Planetary Invasion Syndicate run by Don Nostra. The Alien Mefilas lent the monster card to Jugglus Juggler for him to fight back against Gai Kurenai in the Syndicate's newest plan to kill Ultraman Orb. After Gai and Juggler fought to a standstill in a fierce battle, Juggler decided to get serious and he summoned Black King to kill Gai immediately. Gai however retaliated by transforming into Ultraman Orb Hurricane Slash to fight back against the monster. Hurricane Slash's speed was able to outmaneuver Black King with ease, but the monster's physical strength overpowered the ultra, and Black King's dense hide allowed it to shrug off his attacks with little effect. Even after switching to Burnmite form, Orb's enhanced strength was just barely enough to match Black King's own strength, and the fight began to get difficult once the monster start blasting him with its Hell Magma. Orb however would not give up, and after witnessing Juggler being double-crossed by Nagus of the Syndicate, disgusted by the alien's actions even against his enemy, Orb wasted no time in destroying Black King by obliterating the monster with his Stobium Dynamite attack.^{[Juggler Dies!]}

Ultraman R/B

Black King was one of the many Monster Crystals that was in the possession of Makoto Aizen. Summoning his monster in Ayaka City, Black King immediately went on a rampage, destroying everything in its path, while Katsumi and Isami were separated from one another after an argument the two had earlier. During Black King's rampage, Isami was buried by some debris, but thanks to his Gyro connecting with Katsumi's as he was trying to transform, he learned of his brother and sister's location, and he hurried off to save them before Black King could trample them both. Once Isami was saved and Asahi was taken care of, the brothers transformed into Ultraman Rosso and Ultraman Blu, and they fought Black King together. At first the brothers struggled against the monster due to them attacking one-at-a-time, and Black King's attacks countering their own, but after exchanging their flame and aqua forms, the brothers felt more comfortable in their default forms, and were able to break off Black King's horn in battle. Finally after Isami struck the monster with his Aqua Jet Blast and launched him into the air, the ultraman brothers destroyed Black King with a combination of Rosso's Flame Sphere Shoot, and Blu's Aqua Storium attack.^{[Bond of Brothers]}

Ultraman Taiga

To be added^{[Warriors in the evening glow]}

Ultraman Regulos: First Mission

Black King was one of the few monsters revived by the Alien Reiblood-empowered Reibatos (along with Gandar, Gyeron, and a monster-sized Dallie) to battle against Ultraman Regulos. Regulos fought valiantly, but the combined might of the four monsters quickly began to wear him down. Fortunately, the Space Garrison learned of the alien's return, and backup was sent in the form of Ultraman Great, Ultraman Powered, and the Ultra Force trio: Scott, Chuck, and Beth. Black King was left to battle against Great, who fought him to a standstill. When Ultraman Ribut arrived on the scene, Great gained a second wind, and Black King was eventually destroyed by his Great Slicer attack.

Ultraman Arc

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Other Media

Andro Melos

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Redman

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Ultraman Fighting Evolution 0

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Mega Monster Battle ULTRA MONSTERS

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Other Appearances

Stage Shows

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Manga

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Video Games

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Miscellaneous

• Black King was a participant in the Japanese Game Show, "Takeshi's Castle" in the special "Monster" themed episode.  participates in the segments: The Great Wall, Quake, Boulder Dash, and Showdown. In the U.S. variation of the show known as "MXC", it only appears in the Boulder Dash segment (and briefly in the Great Wall segment) and is called "Tupacashaft," and is the star of monsploitation films of the 1970s.

Abilities

• Black King
• Drill Custom

• Hell Magma (ヘルマグマ, Heru Maguma): Termed in the arcade game "Mega Monster Battle ULTRA MONSTERS", Black King can fire a red energy beam from its mouth. Later incarnations changed this attack as being either a Flamethrower or a Fireball.
• Smokescreen: Black King can fire a white gas from its mouth that acts as a Smokescreen. It can cover an entire area in seconds.
• Dense Skin: Due to Alien Nackle analyzing Ultraman Jack's Signature Abilities, Black King's Skin is modified to shrug off the Ultra's more powerful attacks such as the Specium Ray and the Ultra Bracelet.

Black King Drill Custom.

In addition to the powers it carries over from its original form, Black King Drill Custom also possesses:

• Drill Blaster (ドリルブラスター, Doriru Burasutā): Thanks to the modifications made by Bandello, Black King Drill Custom can fire a purple energy beam from the Drill attachment on its head.

Behind the Scenes

Portrayal

• Black King was portrayed by suit actor, Kazunori Yokoo in the series, Ultraman X.

Notes

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Gallery

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