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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
Set five years after the Monster Zero incident of 2019, Monarch would create a special task force specializing in researching the Titans, extraterrestrial life, and other scientific mysteries. This organization is called the Science Special Search-Party (SSSP). Shin Hayata, a Japanese-American Air Force pilot would be testing a new prototype jet while two mysterious large capsules would chase each other through space. The blue capsule lands in the lake, while the red one collides with Hayata's jet, killing the pilot. It is revealed that the red capsule was actually a spacecraft piloted by an alien peacekeeper called Nii-San. Nii-San would feel immense guilt, blaming his recklessness on killing this man who had nothing to do with what he was after. He would merge his life with Shin's. While doing so, he explains he was chasing after a rogue monster called Bemular, and gifts Shin the Beta Capsule which he can use to transform into Nii-San. As Bemular terrorizes the people next to the lake, Shin transforms into the alien who saved him and fights the monster and kills it. The people would witness this, and worship him as a savior, calling him "The Ultraman". Meanwhile, Baltan, a fugitive who is currently running away from Ultraman lands on Earth. He devises a plot to take over the world using mind-control, as well as shape-shifting to become government officials to manipulate conflicting countries to kill each other with nuclear weapons.
