Professor Monster is the leader of the Iron Cross Army, the one who destroyed Planet Spider, the archenemy of Takuya Yamashiro/Spider-Man and the main antagonist of Toei's 1978 Spider-Man tokusatsu series.
He is played by the late Mitsuo Ando who is more well known for playing Professor Gill in Android Kikaider and Kikaider 01, Führer Geisel in Inazuman Flash, the Black Cross Führer for the first 56 episodes of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
Biography[]
Past[]
Professor Monster's origins and real identity are unknown but he founded the Iron Cross Army to conquer the universe over 400 years ago. 400 years ago, Professor Monster led the Iron Cross Army in destroying Planet Spider.
Spider-Man[]
When Professor Monster comes to Earth hundreds of years later, he was followed by Garia, a man from Planet Spider, in his Marveller. After the Marveller crashes in Japan, Professor Monster worries that that whoever finds it will gain power that will threaten the Iron Cross Army. Thus, the Professor sends his general, Amazoness, to kill anyone who stumbles across it with one of their Machine BEM. When they succeed in killing Professor Yamashiro, his son Takuya finds a fatally wounded Garia, who gives Takuya his powers through Spider Exract and enables him to transform into Spider-Man to fight the Iron Cross Army.
Professor Monster and Amazoness then come up with different plans to kill Spider-Man and humanity, but Takuya thwarts each of the Iron Cross Army's schemes as Spider-Man, leading Professor Monster to become more concerned with destroying him. Professor Monster later sends Amazoness to steal two mummified corpses of amazons found in the Brazilian rainforest and perform an operation to revive them so they can serve in the Iron Cross Army, providing further muscle to their campaign. After performing the operation, Professor Monster has Amazoness take the amazons, Bella and Rita, to a secluded area for them to awaken and acclimate.
Eventually, Professor Monster devises a plan to fly into space on a giant rocket and bombard planet Earth, before returning to the planet's surface to rule over the ruins of what was left. Professor Monster deliberately builds the rocket to have only three seats for himself, Bella and Rita, having grown dissatisfied with Amazoness for her continued failures to defeat Spider-Man. Despite this, he gives Amazoness one more chance to defeat Spider-Man and offers her a spot on the rocket if she succeeds. Amazoness later returns and proudly announces to Professor Monster that she killed Spider-Man. Hearing this, Professor Monster informs her that she will be given a spot on the rocket when it takes off, much to Amazoness' pleasure. Unbeknownst to Amazoness however, Spider-Man had survived and, having pulled off one of her wrist gauntlets, is able to trace the signal emitted by it to the Iron Cross Army's secret headquarters underneath the Shingensan railroad.
Upon seeing that Spider-Man is alive as he fights off the Iron Cross Army's Ninders, Professor Monster believes that Amazoness is trying to deceive him and orders Bella and Rita to execute Amazoness for her failure. The two shoot at Amazoness with their bows and machine guns but Amazoness, fatally wounded, boards the rocket and causes it to take off without them on board out of spite. The three exit the base where they witness Spider-Man shoot down the rocket. Faced by Spider-Man, Professor Monster sends Bella, Rita and his army of Ninders to defeat him. After a long battle, Spider-Man confronts Professor Monster after having fought his way through all of his armies. Professor Monster then grows into a giant to battles against Spider-Man himself, leading Spider-Man to call upon Leopardon to pilot against him. Within Leopardon, Spider-Man uses the Sword Vigor to finally kill Professor Monster; avenging his father and Planet Spider.
Personality[]
Professor Monster was a violent and sadistic man whose only interest was conquest and he was willing to commit genocide to get his way. He also did not tolerate lying or failure as he had Amazoness killed for seemingly lying to him about Spiderman's death in the finale.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Strength: Professor Monster could knock Amazoness across a room with one hit from his staff.
- Durability: Professor Monster survived being repeatedly shot by Marveller's cannons.
- Longevity: Professor Monster lived for 400 years with no negative side effects from ageing.
- Genius Intelligence: Professor Monster was a genius inventor, being able to build Amazoness, the Ninders and ressurect Bella and Rita.
- Self Growth: Professor Monster could grow to giant size at will.
- Eye Lasers: Professor Monster could fire blue lasers from his cybernetic eye which caused explosions but failed to stop Marveller or Leopardon.
Arsenal[]
- Staff: Professor Monster was always seen wielding a large crimson staff that he could use to bludgeon his enemy.
Quotes[]
| “ | Marveller should have fled to space 400 years ago. However, it appears that Garia's telepathy has finally reached it and it has returned. | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster's first words when Amazoness confirmed Marveller's arrival on Earth. |
| “ | Curse you! Spider-Man! Leapardon! The greatest enemies of the Iron Cross Army have emerged! | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster when Spider-Man emerged to oppose him. |
| “ | You tricked me! He is still alive! Bella, Rita! Prepare for departure! Only three can ride the rocket! out of my way! Out of my way! You are in my way! Do it. | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster ordering Amazoness' execution. |
| “ | Thanks to you, I missed my flight. I will not forgive you. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! So, you are finally here Spiderman! | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster before the final battle. |
| “ | How dare you! Big Monster! The Iron Cross Army is indestructible! | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster upon growing giant. |
| “ | Curses. The Iron Cross Army is indestructible! | „ |
| ~ Professor Monster when confronted by Leopardon and his last words. |
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