Satan Beetle is the monster "pet"
of Alien Clean, who was sent to our planet seeking vengeance on Earth
for the missile testing that decimated her home world. Satan Beetle's
task was to wipe out humanity and all the pollution they had caused
to presumably allow Alien Clean to colonize Earth. Upon it's
arrival to Earth, Satan Beetle doesn't waste any time and proceeds to
destroy everything in it's path. Soon enough, Ultraman Leo decides to
battle the gigantic insectoid kaiju in order to save humanity once
again. To be honest, it's a fairly quick fight where Ultraman Leo
stomps the crap out of Satan Beetle and even tears one of it's wings
off with a lazer finger blast. The brutal fight ends with a mighty
Leo Kick and Satan Beetle sparks up like a firecracker and explodes
in true Japanese TV fashion.
(dig that crazy 70's synth beat)
The figure is fairly basic, it looks
like a friggin' bug covered in horns. The paint scheme is dull but so
was the character design in the show. Basic sofubi articulation at
the shoulders, neck and hips; really nothing exciting here. Overall,
Satan Beetle isn't one of my favorite characters from the Ultraman
Saga and I've yet to find any hardcore fans of him either. I think
it's just the overbearing tones of the character's model, a creation
sent to Earth to destroy us for being dirty and inadvertently
destroying a planet that 99.999% of us didn't know was even out
there. Even the episode, with the exception of Ultraman beating the
everloving shit out of the monster, feels like a 30 minute Greenpeace
commercial.
(toy porn, because you deserve it)
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