Alien Barbarue's History
Alien Babarue is a race of aliens from Planet Babarue. They were originally featured in Ultraman Leo. A race of aliens who are both extremely cunning and masters of disguise, the Babarue are capable of fooling even Ultras with their abilities to hide behind their imitations, allowing them to orchestrate high-profile plans from the shadows.
At least one Alien Babarue took part in the Ultimate Wars as part of Alien Empera's army. He fought against Ultraman Ken on a small asteroid near the Land of Light, along with an Alien Godola and an Alien Nackle. After Godola was defeated by Ultraman Belial, Babarue and Nackle lost the will to fight. Nackle pleaded for their lives, saying that Empera forced them to stall the two Ultras. Though Ken was prepared to spare the duo, Belial refused to buy this, and ruthlessly killed the aliens with a shot of his Deathcium Beam, rationalising that the two were still Empera's soldiers and didn't deserve mercy.
In Ultraman Leo, Self-proclaimed as the "ruler of the dark universe", Alien Babarue was a cunning, trickster alien with a personal vendetta against the Ultramen and came up with an evil plan to destroy them.
To get his revenge on the Ultra Brothers, Alien Babarue disguised himself as Imitation Astra after capturing and hiding the real Astra, froze him in a block of ice, and abandoned him in the middle of space. Disguised as the Imit Astra, Alien Babarue then stole the Ultra Key, a device that both maintained the Land of Light‘s orbit and was capable of destroying an entire planet in a single blast. Before he could escape, Imit Astra was confronted by Ultraman over taking the key. Despite being overpowered by Ultraman, the Imit Astra escaped the planet, leaving the Ultra Brothers to believe Astra had betrayed them and worse, without the Ultra Key to keep their planet in orbit, the Land of Light was sent into a collision course with Earth.
The Imit Astra made his way towards Earth, where he planned to use Leo’s trust in his brother to trick Gen into protecting him from the Ultra Brothers until it was too late to avert the collision. Once Gen and Dan found the Imit Astra, Dan used his Ultra Willpower on him so the Ultra Key could be recovered by his brother. Gen unwilling to see his "brother" in pain started fighting with the crippled Dan to protect him until Zoffy, Ultraman, Jack, and Ace arrived and overwhelmed the Imit Astra.
After battling with Dan, Gen transformed to come to the aid of his "brother", fending off the Ultra Brothers. Leo tried to talk some sense into the Imit Astra, but with Earth slowly falling apart and with the Land of Light's collision nigh, Ultra Brothers had no choice but to fight Leo and the Imit Astra to try to get the Ultra Key back. During the battle, Ultraman, Jack, and Ace fired weakened versions of their signature rays to end the battle quickly, but the Imit Astra cowardly used Leo as a shield to protect himself. Leo took the brunt of the attacks and was badly wounded. With Leo out of action, the Imit Astra prepared to use the Ultra Key’s devastating power against the Ultra Brothers and destroy them. Before he uses the weapon, Ultraman King arrived to thwart the diabolical alien. He fired the Baptism Beam, shattering the disguise and revealing Alien Babarue’s true face.
Alien Babarue fled from the Ultra Brothers and managed to escape when King called them back forcing them to try and save as many lives as possible. With the Key broken, and the Land of Light's impact imminent, Babarue gloated pridefully, walking the streets of the seemingly doomed Earth. MAC was left with an impossible choice, either destroy the Ultra's home world, or let it collide and destroy both planets.
Eventually Gen was able to wake up from his injuries and was informed by Dan of the Dark Alien's deception and the distress signal Astra send. Transforming into Leo, he retrieved his brother from Alien Babarue’s prison. With the real Astra freed, the Leo Brothers returned to Earth and restored the Ultra Key, prompting the enraged Alien Babarue to try and stop the Brothers. Thanks to the assistance of MAC, Astra took off to return the key and Ultraman Leo was left to pummel Alien Babarue senseless with his superior martial arts skills until finally, Leo leapt into the air and struck Alien Babarue in the chest with his famous Leo Kick, sending a shower of sparks flying from his chest before Babarue fell to the ground, dying in a huge explosion. With Alien Babarue dead the Ultra Key was restored by the real Astra, the Land of Light returned to its rightful place in M78.
Alien Babarue reappeared in the final episode of the Ultraman Mebius Gaiden: Hikari Saga.
As Ultraman Hikari was planning on returning to Earth, he received a distress signal from Planet Arb. Arriving on the planet, he was confronted by a being that looking identical to that of Mebius. Noting that Mebius was still on Earth, Hikari and the impostor battled on Arb until the impostor transformed into Hikari's old form, Tsurugi, taunting Hikari by proclaiming that as Tsurugi he was once more powerful by thriving on his vengeance against Bogarl, but has since grown soft since being accustomed by humanity. The fake Tsurugi then transformed into Alien Babarue and both alien and Ultra battled.
In the middle of the battle, Babarue froze Hikari in a block of ice, intending on abandoning to him to die on Arb unless Hikari wished to serve him, which Hikari again denied. As Babarue left Hikari to freeze to death, Arb returned to the planet and re-presented the Armor of Tsurugi back to the Ultra, transforming him into a more pure version of his former self rather than vengeful. Fueled by the armor, Tsurugi easily beat down Babarue until the alien fled with his life, vowing to kill both Tsurugi and Ultraman Mebius before disappearing.
Continuing from the final chapter of the Hikari Saga, Babarue, bitter and vengeful at being defeated by Hikari, took the form of Hunter Knight Tsurugi and attacked a city in Japan one night. Noticing that Alien Babarue's Tsurugi form possessed the Knight Brace on his arm, which Hikari had left to Mebius before leaving Earth, Mirai transformed into Ultraman Mebius to confront the impostor. Both Ultra and impostor battled until Imitation Tsurugi fled once GUYS appeared on the scene. Just as the real Ultraman Hikari had arrived, he discovered that his reputation was damaged by Alien Babarue, Hikari and Alien Babarue battled yet again until Alien Babarue fled, leaving Hikari to take the blame, and his host Capt. Serizawa locked up.
The next day, Alien Babarue returned as Imitation Tsurugi and continued his onslaught on Earth to further destroy Hikari's reputation. However, Serizawa was released from his imprisonment and was represented with his old Knight Brace by Mirai, Serizawa transformed back into Hikari and faced the impostor again. With the help of his blade, and Arb representing his armor and transforming him back into Tsurugi, the real Tsurugi exposed his impostor and after a long battle, destroyed him, finally ending the trouble Alien Babarue had caused.
Alien Babarue reappeared in the movie Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends The Movie as one of Ultraman Belial's 100 Monster Army. He was first seen as a spirit in a shot of the Monster Graveyard along with Telesdon, Doragory, King Joe Black, Red King, and Arigera. He was then seen teaming up with Alien Magma, Alien Nackle, and Dada to kill Rei while the Ultras and Rei's monsters fought Ultraman Belial's other monsters, but Rei transformed into Reimon and killed Alien Babarue first with a kick to the chest and landing very hard with a boom, leaving the remaining three aliens to face Reimon.
An Alien Babarue and his accomplice Alien Hook somehow found out about Night Fang, who was sealed into a mountain in Kuzuryu village in ancient times, and wanted to unseal and obtain it. But to do that, he had to find the net idol Ai Tennoji, the reincarnation of the ancient shaman. Babarue disguised as her producer to bring her to EGIS and hire them as bodyguards to avoid being suspicious. Babarue then brought them to Kuzuryu village to prepare to summon Night Fang.
The real producer went to EGIS and explained the situation, confirming Pirika Asahikawa noticed two suspicious people in Ai's live stream footage. Upon enhancing the image, she found both the Babarue and hook undisguised, wearing only robes to conceal themselves. Ai, Hiroyuki Kudo and Homare Soya found both the Babarue and Hook undisguised in a hut, who gave chase to them. Babarue managed to force Ai to unseal Night Fang by making her touch the sealing stone, before he grew to giant size and prepared to greet it. Hiroyuki transformed into Ultraman Taiga to do battle, but he was overwhelmed by the alien. He then switched to Ultraman Fuma who was able to outspeed the Babarue, and sliced him in half using the Trenchant-Star Light Wave Shuriken. However, Night Fang was successfully unsealed and emerged from the mountain. Though Babarue didn't survive to see it, his plan had come to fruition, and Night Fang began its attack.
