Which Ultra gets mischaracterized the most?

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Which Ultra gets mischaracterized the most?

Almost every series imaginable has a character that gets heavily mischaracterized by the fandom, thus resulting in an essentially different being from the canon source material.

Aka "Fanon" version, if anyone here has been around the Undertale fanbase, you'd know what I'm getting at.

I don't mean to cause any offense, or to dismiss anyone's interpretation of the characters, but this is just something I've been curious about.

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Yeeterphin

As a Joke? Max. Serious answer? Honestly the Ultraman Fandom is probably the most comprehensive fandom when it comes to Fanons, and very rarely will you ever see someone misscharacterize someone if it’s not a joke. My answer is nexus

poompoomkuv

XIG Member

I think the shows are being very direct about the characters. Generally what you see from characters in the show are how they are.

KingKCoolKaiserSSB

we’re going to kill astra

UltradeptusTempestus

Yamero-

MrMoonBearZERO

Honestly I was having trouble answering that, but you put it pretty much into words.

botched1954

Does ultraman count? What with the baltan genocide memes and all that.

Achturn

You're right, Nii-san gets a lot of flak he doesnt deserve.

The Baltans deserved it

Tpl2cc

SSSP Member

Even if I meme it a lot, I have to agree. Dude is actually a pretty chill guy imo.

Intelligent_Oil4005

Most of the time I feel that's played for laughs, but it is fair to say The Baltans were a real piece of work and were kind of asking for it.

Rqdomguy24

Remember kids, colonialism is not cool. Even pacifist like Cosmos doesn't tolerate with colonialist

UltraMugen

XIO Member

I’ll fucking say it Zero.

People act as if he’s ONLY a cocky guy with daddy issues. Hes so much more than that yet people shrug it off and it irks me a little.

AlchemistL1nk

Indeed. People forgot he has one of the best straightforward Hero's Journey story. Him, Mebius, and Geed.

TCSceptree

ZAP SPACY Crew

I wouldn’t even say we mischaracterize anyone. It’s very easy to understand and not get stuff confused. I don’t really have an answer since none really are. We’re prolly the most comprehensive fandom. Anime fandoms for example usually 5 a lot. Same for a lot of other media. We usually aren’t like that and idk why. Ultra Comprehension ig

Flat_Holiday721

max?

zeroXgear

He is a meme material

PenguinSweetDreamer

Night Raider

Cosmos and Ultraman. People like to treat them like an opposite extreme of each other.

AlchemistL1nk

I can see why, especially with the title Ultraman has, "Kaiju Exterminator Master"

darthexpulse

Ace is way more sadistic lamao

TCSceptree

ZAP SPACY Crew

All the Showa ultras mentally deranged.

Terraphaser_123

Hyper Agent

He's technically justified in being so since the chojus can't feel pain

ultron924

EYES Member

probaly confused with musashi personality. We see that cosmos willing to kill baltan and chaos header

AppleCiderRenegade

But cosmos is usually pacifistic, but he's willing to kill IF he knows nothing can save that monster (pure evil)

Rqdomguy24

Both hate colonizers

NiNiNi-222

That Cosmos and Justice are halves of one being.
Cosmos and Justice were never one Ultraman that split into two. They simply became Legend in the past

sum_dum_ho

Wtf who got to that conclusion lol

Thejapanther

Earth is being targeted…

Because it was mentioned that Ultraman Legend is the god of the cosmos, so he had to exist befor they fused. It’s mentioned that he appears when 2 legendary powers meet.

sum_dum_ho

Oh I didn't know that is it mention in the movie or the forum? Because for me fusion form is always a mystery u fuse different Ultraman we get different form ( what I think when I first saw Ultraman fusion)

sum_dum_ho

I'm just confused why justice work with/for the alien race in the cosmos vs justice final battle

zeroXgear

Justice always worked with Delacion from the beginning since Delacion is their universe cosmic judge

Key-Wedding-3640

Yes Delacion job are pretty much to keep universe safe and in fact the main reason why Justice agree to destroy earth because of two reason first due to earth will be threat in future and can't be stop and second Justice and Delacion have similar situation with different planet before and give them a chance hoping the prediction are wrong about this different planet begin threat but unfortunately them wrong and take a lot of effort to do clean up the mess.

Head-Effort-5100

Definitely Man-Nisan. I mean,most of these mischaracterization are just for jokes from what I see anyway. It’s fine unless someone new doesn’t get it kekw.

NoseSitido

I know everyone loves to characterize the OG Showa Bros, especially Man and Seven, as war criminals but not helping their case is the two straight-up genocides under their belt.

Thejapanther

Earth is being targeted…

Ultraseven never did do such a thing. But Ultraman yeah, he did.

NoseSitido

But what about Pegassa Cit---

---This is an official announcement from the Land of Light. There was no genocide at Pegassa City.---

Thejapanther

Earth is being targeted…

They made contact with the city and begged them to evacuate but they refused to listen. And if they didn’t blew the city up (that was doomed anyway) Earth would’ve been destroyed too. That was imo the only thing they could’ve done.

And it’s not like Dan made the decision.

hijau90

Cosmos being Homelander before meeting Mushashi

RepresentativeJumpy8

Not sure how true this is but maybe Cosmos? Heard that his kindness came from his host (Musashi) and he was nothing like the gentle Ultra he’s known for before merging with him

Rqdomguy24

Musashi definitely influence Cosmos but Cosmos kindness and pacifism doesn't come from the emerging with Musashi

Many-Vermicelli6977

M78 Citizen

It may just be memes but Seven and Taro being bad dads - I can't tell how much are just fandom jokes and how much are people taking it seriously. I joke about it because it's pretty clear that Tsuburaya would not intentionally make their Ultras bad parents.

Ace being a bloodthirsty killer - his series is brutal but he fights for peace, just like the rest. 🥹 Again, it seems to be mainly jokes but sometimes it's hard to tell.

Actual mischaracrerisation, ironically by the writers, might be Yullian and Beth in UGF - I've not watched 80 and USA, but I understand from fans that they were turned somewhat into damsely/softer characters in UGF/ recent stuff compared to their original versions.

Elegant-RaveQueen

M78 Citizen

I feel like I've seen a few and previous comments had mentioned Ultraman and Max, but tbf a lot of the times it's either repetitive jokes or just people making headcanons from how they understand the character, then just straight up disrespecting the characters. Though I'd say the few female ultras that have made an appearance in UGF have been mischaracterized.

Playful-Researcher-2

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To be fair, Zearth and Nice were mischaracterized in the UGF too. Both of them are competent in battle. Zearth pretty much just scared of dirtiness and dealt with it better later on. Nice is a bit silly but never incompetent.

Elegant-RaveQueen

M78 Citizen

Oh yeah, even in Regulos has mischaracterized Beth and Chuck, though that's really a nitpick from the official stuff than fanon.

From the fanon perspective, I think it's determined from ultras that are being shipped together that changes the dynamic or personality, but most of the time they still have their original personality shine through in those silly interactions (mostly talking about Zero and Z or Ginga and Victory, etc)

Standard-Ad917

SSSP Member

Zoffy for a time because of Shin Ultraman from what I can remember.

NoirSon

SMILE SMILE

Zoffy has always had that, the Shin Ultraman memes are the first new ones in years that weren't about him being killed by a chicken or being supplanted as leader of the Ultra brothers

AlchemistL1nk

How about fire head man?

BlackMan9693

ULTRAMAN TIGA

Seriously speaking? None for the most part. There may be some people here and there going with pure headcanon but the fandom at large doesn't mischaracterise anyone.

Izucc-2021

Super GUTS Member

Cosmos corona mode is actually a good guy. Trust me. I am not secretly cosmos in disguise believe me.

Specialist_Gold5381

I think I'll say Zero, I understand that he's a cocky guy and I'm not surprised if the fandom questioning about what Noa saw in him because he's just that cocky and Tsuburaya didn't even bother to tone it down.

Miserable-Baker-5869

Honestly I love Zero if I had his powers and feats I’d be pretty cocky too

nero21san

I think almost every Ultras doesn't get much mischaracterized before.

The first thing that came to mind is Cosmos aka Musashi Haruno. Although he tries his best to be compassionate and save the Kaijus, some of the time, he becomes as aggressive or even more aggressive compared to other people and gets more reckless especially towards the last arc of the show.

Max is also the same......I mean come on, it's untrue that he is a normal Ultraman, he is in fact, a God of Planet of Ultra and the most definite son of Ultraman King.

But one other character I can choose from is Belial....kind of.

Miserable-Baker-5869

Dawg the Max thing is blatantly not true that one u made up urself

Wonderful-Formal9636

STORAGE

Does Redman count? He has shown empathy in the comics

zeroXgear

Most people don't read comics

Wonderful-Formal9636

STORAGE

Exactly, that's why most people see Redman as his "Fanon" version

Askjfkekfj

SSSP Member

Our fandom is pretty chill and there’s not much fanon-things going on, but imo probably nexus or Zero lol