As we all know, Ultraman's activity time on Earth is only about three minutes. The reason for this is that Ultraman maintains a huge body, which requires a lot of energy, plus the energy during battle, and the time to fight with monsters is strongly shortened.
But when it comes to color timers, many people have noticed, some Ultraman on the forehead, and some Ultraman on the chest. Referring to the colored timer on the forehead, it is necessary to mention a more special Otter warrior, Severn.
If you have watched "Ottersewen", you will find that in the early stage of the battle, no matter how harsh the combat environment was encountered, no matter how destroyed by the monster, the beam light on his forehead would never flash. Later, this setting was quietly changed, and when the energy was insufficient, the beam light on Severn's head began to flicker, becoming the function of a color timer. Why?
After Round Valley finished filming "The First Ultraman", it was a success, and all kinds of praise followed. Therefore, there was a new project "Otseven" later. But at that time, there was no unified Ultraman universe, and there was no concept of the so-called Otter brothers, but simply thought that it was another close-up film of the same type.
Therefore, it was not called "Ultraman Severn" at that time, but "Ultra Severn", and the setting of the color timer was abolished. However, this setting was not accepted by the audience, so it was changed again. It is also because of this that Ultraman's color timer can also change the position of the forehead from the position of the chest.
In the Ultraman series, some Ultraman simply only has a color timer on the chest, some Ultraman simply has a beam light on the forehead, and some Ultraman has a forehead and chest; and even some Ultraman, originally did not, after fusing the new Ultra power, some forms have beam lights, such as Ged Ultraman.
Today, we are talking about the difference between a colored timer that simply has a chest and Ultraman who simply has a forehead beam lamp.
There are many colored timers that simply have a chest, such as the original Ultraman, Zoffy, Jack Ultraman, Gaia Ultraman, Aix Ultraman and so on.
And there are many Otter warriors who simply have forehead beam lights, mainly Severn families, such as Severn Ultraman, Severn 21, Severn X and so on. Why not Cyro? Because Cyro Ultraman not only has a forehead beam light, but also a colored timer on his chest.
Although they also have the role of storing energy, there is also a big difference between beam lamps and color timers:
The first is functional. Beam lamps can absorb energy in addition to storing energy. For example, Severn Ultraman, in addition to the energy armor plate that illuminates the chest through sunlight, Severn's main energy source , "Magnelium energy" is absorbed and stored through beam lights (see Episode 40 for details). The color timer on the chest is mainly based on the emission of light, and it can absorb external energy, almost none.
Then there is the destructive power. The killer techniques emitted through the beam lamp, such as Severn Ultraman's Aimelium ray, Amelim's restored ray, powerless ray, or Severn 21's Adlyum ray, etc., although they are also destructive, they cannot be killed with one hit, but mainly to restrain the opponent. But the color timer light is different, such as Diga Ultraman's special timer flash, in episode 17 to eliminate the light-afraid Abobas, in episode 40 to eliminate the dream of the materialized Bakgun, killed in one shot.