MOTW- Gomora

 

This ancient monster should be Ultraman's premiere foe, rather than Red King.  Ihave talked about Gomora more than once, but not just as an individual beast.  It is the only monster to be in a two part story.  That is how tough the creature is.  Ultraman took Red King out pretty easily both times he fought that monster.  Not so with Gomora.  It is also supposed to be a dinosaur, and bones of the species had been discovered on Johnson Island.  For some reason, it is decided to bring Gomora (named Gohora in the US dub) to Japan.  We all know how that is going to end.  I can imagine the surprise viewers had when Ultraman was actually defeated in the first episode.  This had never been done before!  I feel bad on how much Gomora is tortured in this story, since it had to be crippled before it could be stopped.  Modern eyes, and all, as I am sure it was only seen as a rampaging beast at the time.Gomora looks great, and has made a lot of appearances over the course of many Ultra series.  Recently, it appeared as the hero monster in the Ultra Galaxy show, which I quite enjoyed.  Gomora got various ray and beam powers starting in the rather bad Six Ultra Brothers vs the Monster Army and has never looked back since then.  Red King only got to shoot rocks from it's dumb mouth.  Game set and match- Gomora!