“ | Dr. Kemp transforms into the beauty beast, Dr. Mazenda modified her body, but you both still have your human form. Don't you still think it's ridiculous for people who object the existence of humanity to still have a human form!!! | „ |
~ Dr. Obular to Dr. Kemp and Mazeda on why they still fail to fully embrace their misanthropic nature as he has by turning himself into a monster. |
Doctor Obular is a member of Volt and a major antagonist of Chojuu Sentai Liveman.
He was originally Gou Omura, a top student of Academia Island and the roommate of Jou Ohara, before being allowed into Volt by Great Professor Bias. To demonstrate his resolve and fully cast away his humanity, Gou converted himself into the mutant Monster Obular.
He was portrayed by Toru Sakai. As Monster Obular he was voiced by Atsuo Mori, who also voiced Coolgin and Strowver in the Metal Heroes franchise.
Biography[]
Past[]
Believing he was a childhood prodigy, Gou's mother Masako made him spend most of his time studying and never let him play with other children. This left Gou with a desire to be better than anyone, while also struggling to meet everybody's expectations.
Defecting to Volt[]
Because of his high qualifications, he was accepted in the Academia, where he befriended Jou. At some point, he discovered his fellow students Rui Senda and Kenji Tsukigata had both received messages from the Great Professor Bias containing tests that would allow them admittance to Volt. The fact that Gou and not been sent a test left him feeling insecure and led to him pleading with Bias to be allowed to join Volt. Bias agreed to let Gou in, ostensibly out of pity, and thus he accompanied Kenji and Rui when they went to board a shuttle to leave Academia for the Brain Base in Earth's orbit. On the day they were supposed to leave to join Volt, the three of them were confronted by Takuji Yano, Mari Aikawa, Yusuke Amamiya, Megumi Misaki and Jou Ohara. After Kenji gunned Takuji and Mari down, Kenji, Rui and Gou departed in a shuttle and traveled to the Brain Base, where Bias accepted the three of them as his students. Under Bias, Gou became vastly more knowledgeable and took up the new identity of "Doctor Obular".
Two years after he and his colleagues had first departed from the island, Obular returned to Academia alongside Doctor Kemp and Doctor Mazenda on the day of their space shuttle launch, destroying the shuttle with Boffler Fighters before leading an attack on the island. Kemp, Mazenda and Obular mercilessly massacred many of their former Academia colleagues before being confronted by Yusuke, Megumi and Jou, who revealed that in the time since the three had left they had expected that they would return and became the Livemen in order to avenge their colleagues by stopping them.
Using Volt's research, Gou mutates himself into a monster form, fully giving up his humanity to prove his dedication to Volt. In this form Obular's strength was amplified and he wielded a battleaxe as his weapon.
After his failed plan with Study Brain however, Obular suddenly regresses to Gou; He is expelled from Volt for his weakness as he reverted again. He steals Guildos's cross-sword ane returns to Earth, taking refuge at his childhood home to perfect his Obular form, destroy the Livemen, and win Bias's praise and Volt membership. He is captured by the other Volt scientists and used in the creation of the Obular Brain. When the Brain Beast attempts to kill his mother, Obular confronts and fights it off before reverting to an exhausted, nearly comatose Gou.
Gou was then taken in by his mother and cared for by her until he recovered. He would later become targeted by Volt after regaining his memories, as Bias believed he knew too much since Gou had stumbled upon the Brain Room while in Volt. With the Liveman's help, Gou regains his memory and tells them what he knows.
Eventually regaining his memory, Gou turns to Christianity for comfort and for getting redemption for all that he had done under Bias. He attempted to prevent his former friend and ally Rui from giving Bias what he wanted in gaining the final genius brain for his plans. Although Mazenda does finally achieve the thousand-point brain, she decides to not give it to Bias by instead removing her brain and replacing it with a machine transforming her into a complete robot.
Goh is unable to save her as she, remorseful of never regain his human beauty and scent he regrets to Gou that he is the only one of the Academia traitors to remain human (With jealousy that he can still experience the wonders of life instead her) and commits suicide jumping of a cliff and exploding. He looks the sky and thinks that her soul is damned, throught the Liveman says at respect that she regrets her evil and ultimately recognized her mistake, that maybe can save her. He most likely returns to his normal life again, mostly in remorse and grief of having not been able to save his friend from the evil claws of Bias.
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Trivia[]
- Of the three Academia Island students who defected to Volt, he is the only to survive and get a second chance to live.
- Unlike, Mazenda (who was corrupted by vanity) or Kemp (corrupted by his ego), he was swayed to Volt mostly because of his insecurity.
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Armed Brain Army Volt |