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Originally Posted by Salaryman Zero

The problem is, after Juggler leaves the main group, the story immediately shifts gears to focus entirely on the main War God/Bezelb conflict, downgrading the Gai-Juggler relationship to the B-plot.

Fair enough. Again, it's been long enough I can't perfectly recall, but it's definitely true that Juggler becomes more of a background player as things go on. I guess it just didn't bother me for whatever reason.

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SO MANY QUESTIONS TSUPRO.

Okay, let's try and work this out. First of all, in the very first episode of Ultraman, Ultraman introduces himself to Hayata simply as "an alien from the M78 Nebula", and during that entire conversation never gives a name. It's also worth noting his slow, robotic diction, which implies he doesn't normally speak Japanese, and presumably human speech in general. At the end of the episode, when asked what this mysterious red and silver giant's name was, Hayata's immediate response is that he doesn't have one, before coming up with "Ultraman" after the issue is pressed further. The part where this gets tricky is that Hayata and the freshly-named Ultraman are now one in mind and body, so there's the question of who exactly is saying what here.

Now, I've never seen more than that first episode of the original show, so as someone who just watched the whole thing again, I'll leave it up to you to fill in the details on how playing host to an Ultraman worked in that show, because the impression I've gotten has always been that it's slightly unclear. Also, this entire preceding section may or may not be relevant at all depending on whether you want to put stock in the franchise's beginnings as the building blocks for what came after, or ignore it as being the weird, early oddity of a show that couldn't have known how long its legacy would last.

What's obvious in the now is that OG Man was the first guy to hang out on the planet and live among the species that everyone in the Land of Light has since become slightly obsessed with, so it makes sense they'd pay tribute to that. Perhaps "Ultraman" just replaced some existing title for guys in the Space Garrison who go around doing hero stuff. Perhaps it's the greatest coincidence in the history of the universe. Perhaps thinking too hard about the logic of a series about giant spacemen wrestling monsters is a good way to go insane. Who knows?