Ragon's History
Ragon are a race of aquatic humanoid monsters that were generally reclusive but easily provoked. A pair appeared on the island of Iwanejima and a mutated one appeared terrorizing the seaside some time later.
The Ragon species once ruled the Earth after evolving from reptiles 200 million years ago. They eventually settled their lives somewhere in the deep ocean of 20,000 meters below the sea level.
Jun and Yuriko travel to the island of Iwanejima to investigate undersea volcanic activity. A young marine geologist, Dr. Ishii, has theorized that the entire island may soon be in danger of submerging beneath the sea. Ishii's theories, however, are met with indifference by the island's population, which relies on the local fishing trade to exist. When a mysterious object is retrieved by one of the fishing boats, a strange humanoid sea creature comes ashore and terrorizes the village at night. Dr. Ishii wonders if the ancient superstitions regarding a primitive race of beings called Ragon, which are believed to live beneath the sea, could be true. The creature enters Ishii's house, frightening the doctor's younger sister, Fumiko, before leaving. Jun notes that Ragon was momentarily drawn to the music from a transistor radio, which appeared to calm its hostile nature. Jun uses the radio to lure the creature to the edge of a cliff, where a sudden tremor causes it to lose its footing and fall to the rocks below. The escalating tremors indicate that Ishii's theories are true; but when the villagers try to leave the island, their path is blocked by a second Ragon, which surfaces in the harbor. The strange object turns out to be an egg, which hatches a baby Ragon. Furniko delivers the infant creature to its parent, who gently takes the baby and returns peacefully to the sea. Arriving in a helicopter, Ippei rescues Jun and Yuriko and the villagers flee the island in their fishing boats. Iwanejima is torn apart by a massive quake and vanishes beneath the waves, a frightening omen of what may one day happen to Japan.
In Ultraman, a male Ragon was originally a human-sized beast until an atomic bomb accidentally went off in the ocean and caused it to grow huge. It then found another atomic bomb and destroyed a ship before it took it to shore where it attacked a seaside hotel. The monster then pursued Fuji, Hoshino and a young girl into the nearby forest, where the Science Special Search Party tried to stop it from a jet, but failed. Hayata turned into Ultraman and battled Ragon, which was hard because he had to keep the atomic bomb from going off. Eventually Ultraman killed the creature with his Spacium Beam and it fell off of a cliff. Ultraman then flew into space where the atomic bomb detonated.
Ragon was one of the monsters turned into a Spark Doll during the end of the Dark Spark War. He was brought to life by Alien Valky, who used the monster as a tool to disturb the friends of Chigusa. The poor girl whose dream to become an idol was shattered, became sucked into pure jealously because of the success of Hikaru's friend Misuzu, whom is an idol featured in a magazine. Valky, pleased by her suffering and emotional pain, sent Ragon to disturb the place, making one of the members of the photoshoot team run away in fear at night. Little he knew the monster was attracted to the pop-song on the radio. A day later, at morning, the Kaiju in human-size attacked a photoshoot of Hikaru, while the photographer screamed, Hikaru attacked the monster, letting Misuzu run away from the monster, who seemingly is attracted to her appearance. Hikaru fell, and just when Ragon was about to capture her, the pop song started to play, and the monster ignored her, searching for where the song came from. The monster fell to the ground, and turned into a giant.
Hikaru's instinct told her the Kaiju was actually result of the minus energy of Chigusa's jealousy, that turned her into the kaiju. She turned into a giant form, and Hikaru had no choice but to use Ultraman Ginga's power to use Ultlive on King Pandon to fight Ragon. Hikaru (as King Pandon) tried to calm down Chigusa's anger, to no effect. Misuzu turned on at full volume the popular pop-song Chigusa loves, and it called Ragon's attention, who stopped attacking Hikaru. Hikaru turned at the moment into Ultraman Ginga, and tried by force to stop Ragon. Ragon's physical strength was so weak it barely hurt Ginga, if at all. He tried to reason the angered kaiju-transformed girl, but she didn't listen. Misuzu, alongside Ginga, told Chigusa to remember her dream, but with that darkness in her heart she was unable to reach it. Chigusa agreed, and Ginga used his Ginga Comfort to calm down and clean Chigusa's of her jealousy and wrath. She turned to normal, and Ragon returned to his Spark Doll form.
Two Ragon People, a Ragon Parent and a Ragon Child, appear in Ultraman Orb. The Ultraman Orb Perfect Super Complete Works named the young Ragon as Ragon Jr.
Both Ragons lived in the ware house of the fishmonger Mr. Tomatsu, who provided the Ragons with food and even gave the Ragon child a toy boat as gift. As mysterious earthquakes arose in the city, the adult Ragon went out of the ware house in disguise to get to the fish market, however she was noticed by two women who contacted the VTL. However once at the market, the Ragon's cover was blown when it was face to face with a woman, who screamed at the sight of the monster. Tomatsu hurried the Ragon into the store as several more people came to investigate. Tomatsu scolded the Ragon for coming out of hiding however the Ragon was trying to tell him that her child was not feeling well and needed a fish. So Tomatsu lead her out of the store under the cover of her disguise and an umbrella all while Shibukawa, the SSP and the startled women. Shin and Jetta managed to capture some footage of the merman-like monster and decided to secretly go after them.
The SSP managed to follow the pair and sneak inside the warehouse in search of the monster using Shin's UMA detector. They eventually came up close and personal with one of the Ragons from behind them and all four of them freaked out and ran away. Shin came across the sick child Ragon and the fishmonger and offered to take a look at him, but the child started to cry until Naomi sang a lullaby to calm down the child. While the child was feeling better, another earthquake occurred and Gai rushed in to evacuate them. When they went outside they came outside the monster Gubila appeared in search of food. As everyone fled, the child Ragon then realized that he forgot his toy boat and went back inside the warehouse to retrieve it, only to find himself on Gubila's drill nose when the latter drilled his way in. He then proceeded to eat him, much to the horror of his parent and caretaker, but then Gai transformed into Ultraman Orb in his Hurricane Slash form and forced Gubila to spit him back out via water spout and was returned him in one piece.
Afterward, Tomatsu, Shibukawa, Gai, and the SSP escorted the two Ragons to the nearest body of water and when the first former wished them farewell, the child broke down and gave him a big hug. As Naomi sang one last lullaby for the child, both Ragons went into the water and then disappeared. The Ragons are later seen on the news where the two are fleeing from Japanese shores by riding on Gubila's back in light of Maga-Orochi's imminent return.
In Ultraman Decker, the Ragon species had appeared all over the world since ancient times, with their sighting being recorded as stories, myths and legends such as the mermaids of the South Pacific, the incident in the American town of Innsmouth, and even as Dagon in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is possible that they are the creatures known as the Deep Ones.
200 years prior to the series, a Ragon was revered as a deity who protected the Ragonites. Despite the blessing it gave to the population (fishermen in particular), it would also curse them in the event that the creature became forgotten. The land where Ragon appeared would become a village on its own after the land was drained of the ocean, but the Ragonites would continue to appease Ragon in the Ragon Dance at Ama's Arch on Mount Uzume. It is also said that Ragon would usually appear to pure-hearted young women.
70 years prior to the series, the smaller Ragon visited a young Ragonite named Nagi Urasawa and the two played along until it was time for the creature to return to Ama's Arch, to Nagi's dismay. In the present day, Ragon returns as a giant, angered at how its tradition was forgotten and begins to lay waste at the Wadatsumi City. After sinking Decker into the underground, the elderly Nagi managed to quell the monster's anger by performing the Ragon Dance ritual and showing it the seashell gift from her past. Ragon's anger is quelled and contents on returning to its original world, but as Nagi tries to follow the sea monster as well, Kirino and Decker spirited the elderly woman away from the Ama's Arch just before it toppled.
