Sphire

Evil-doer
Full Name	Sphire Gransphire
Alias	Sphia
Origin	Ultraman Dyna
Occupation	Dark planet
Powers / Skills	Morphing itself Self-duplication Separating/Combining itself
Hobby	Eating planets
Goals	Assimilate all life and matter in the universe into Gransphire to make the perfect universe.
Crimes	Attempted mass omnicide Attempted planetary destruction
Type of Villain	Extraterrestrial God Wannabe

The Sphires or Sphere (スフィア, Sufia), later known as the Gransphere when fused (グランスフィア, Guransufia), are major antagonists of the Ultra Series; they act as the main antagonist faction of Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Decker as well as the secondary antagonists of Ultraman Saga.

Biography

Ultraman Dyna

Sphire first appeared when the ZERO Training Squad were doing their first space training, where Asuka got the highest score and managed to mark Kariya and Ryo. The balls then proceed to attack the small automatic pilot station and then driven away. However, they shot down Asuka's GUTS Wing 1 and asked Asuka to meet a mysterious light while in space.

While the Spheres began attacking the Mars Base TPC, they merged with the Martian minerals that make up Darambia and made their way towards the base until a new Ultra later named Dyna appeared and fought Darambia. Then, the Ultra powers and the Super GUTS battled them until there was one left, merged with Giralen and headed for the Super GUTS base until the Ultra defeated him with his Revolium Wave.

The Spheres, however, were absent during a series break until they returned in episode 35 and near the end of the series where they would be in charge of the creation of synthetic beasts such as Gaigareid, Geomos, Graikis, and finally Zelganoid after joining the TPC-made Ultra, Terranoid.

After the Zelganoid was destroyed, the Spheres went to join their sister and the Gransphere was formed while eating Pluto. Meanwhile, Super GUTS develops the (Battle Against Spheres (BAS) Campaign) and Ryo flies Asuka home after finding her rescued by Daigo Madoka. During the battle on Saturn, the weapon: Neo-Maxima Cannon, was used to destroy the strongest monster of the Gransphere: Neo Gaigeried. However, that cannon wasn't strong enough to kill Gransphere and Saturn became extinct. The final attempt is made to kill the Gransphere on Mars. After the battle, the Gransphere is destroyed. However, Gransphire's death would bring a wormhole from the gap between dimensions into existence. After Dyna is sucked into it, the victim is released and another wormhole opens, leading to the Land of Light, the home of Ultras.

Ultraman Saga

In the sequence of events between Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Saga, the Gransphere was destroyed However, some of the Spheres that survived were there and attacked the Mars Base TPC again like they had done in Dyna's first episode, only to be driven out by Super GUTS. However, during the raid, some were captured by the Alien Bat and then fed to the growing Hyper Zetton, Hyper Zetton (Gigant), in somewhat gruesome form; got Gigant Zetton's spikes through the Spheres completely before pulling them out to feed.

In the final battle between Hyper Zetton and Ultraman Saga, the former summoned several Spheres from his body and used them to awaken the modified monster created by Alien Bat.

Ultraman Decker

Ten years after Ultraman Trigger defeated the Dark Giants, humanity on the World of Trigger thrived and began advancing to space in the "Neo Frontier Era". Unfortunately the Spheres returned and attacked their world, first conquering the Mars Colony and later attacking Earth to seal it inside a dome held up by their drones. When they attacked TPU to take out one of the many resistances against them they nearly killed rice cracker worker, Kanata Izumi, but the man was saved by the timely appearance of the new Ultraman, Decker, who fought against the Spheres; to better fight this new foe the Spheres create Spheresaurus, a quadrupedal kaiju made up of multiple Sphere drones fusing into one. Ultimately Spheresaurus was no match for Decker but when the Ultraman tried to stop the Sphere barrier he was beaten by the King Sphere and flung back to Earth while the Spheres successfully sealed off Earth, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the planet. Their presence would later start disturbing kaiju into rampages even as the Spheres went into inactivity for an entire year.

In the third episode, "Move Out GUTS Select!!!", the Spheres reappear for the first time since their barricading of Earth in order to assimilate the wounded Gomora that GUTS Select was fighting against and turn into a new form: Sphere Gomora. The beast was confronted by Decker but nearly defeated him until Decker unleashed his Strong Mode which he used to destroy the Synthetic Ancient Monster, thwarting the Spheres' plans.

In the fifth episode, "Glutton of the Lake", we find out that several aliens were trapped and stranded on Earth when the Spheres sealed off the planet among them a friendly Alien Pitt named Yuko and her pet Eleking, Elly.

In the ninth episode, "Standing Tall for Someone Special" we meet two other aliens affected by the Sphere invasion: The father and daughter Gregore-Man duo of Grace and Mika. After Grace succesfully fends off and injures a rampaging Red King, the alien requests a match against Decker and GUTS Select but once they start their bout they are interrupted by the arrival of an assimilated Red King, now bearing a bright Red shell and fiercer features. Grace, Decker, GUTS Select and the Capsule Monsters all help bring down the new Sphere Synthetic Beast, thwarting the Sphere's plans yet again.

In the twelfth episode "Neomegas Strikes Back" the Sphere return yet again to assimilate the leftovers of the titular Neomegas, resurrecting it as the much stronger Sphere-Neomegas who even Decker cannot defeat. Forced to bring their A-Game at last, GUTS Select fully deploys their latest weapon, Terraphaser, on the hopes that it is powerful enough to defeat the kaiju. The Sphere give all kinds of enhancements to Neomegas and even have it use Spheresaurus' frontal legs to inject Sphere energy into Earth. The kaiju is ultimately defeated by Terraphaser's TR Cannon.

In the fourteenth episode "Birth of a Dark God" the Sphere resurrect Spheresaurus now imbued with the power of previous Sphere Synthetic Beasts, mainly Neomegas, to make it even stronger than the monster preceding it. When Terraphaser is about to fight it, Professor Yuichiro Asakage reveals his true colors as the villainous Agams the Bazdor, an alien bent on helping the Sphere. The evil alien pilots Terraphaser to assist the Sphere but both evils are driven away by a new mysterious man that followed Agams and can transform into a more experienced Decker.

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