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Ultra-Processed People
Ultra-Processed People (2023) is Chris van Tulleken's nonfiction book arguing that ultra-processed food (UPF), defined by the NOVA system, drives overeating and chronic disease, supported by a month-long self-experiment.
Ultraism
Ultraism (Spanish: ultraísmo) was a Spanish vanguardist poetic movement of the late 1910s and early 1920s that reduced poetry to the pure image and autonomous metaphor.
Ultramagnetic MCs
Ultramagnetic MCs (Ultramagnetic MC's), Bronx hip-hop group formed 1984 with Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love, TR Love; debut Critical Beatdown (1988); credited as first rap group to use a sampler as an instrument.
Ultraman (ウルトラマン)
Ultraman (ウルトラマン) is a Japanese tokusatsu giant-hero franchise begun by Tsuburaya Productions in 1966 with Ultra Q and Ultraman; known for the 40-meter silver-and-red hero from Nebula M78, a Guinness-record series count, and its 60th anniversary in 2026.
Ultraman (ウルトラマン) (character)
Ultraman (ウルトラマン), the 1966 Tsuburaya Productions hero of light from Nebula M78, merged with SSSP member Hayata, stands 40 m, weighs 35,000 t, and fires the Spacium Beam, spawning a 60-year Ultra series franchise broadcast in over 100 countries.
Ultraman (ウルトラマン) (manga)
Ultraman (ウルトラマン) is a 2011 manga by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi, a human-sized power-suit sequel to the 1966 Ultraman series following Shinjiro Hayata; over 4 million copies, adapted into a Netflix 3DCG anime.
Ultraman Omega (ウルトラマンオメガ)
Ultraman Omega (ウルトラマンオメガ) is Tsuburaya's 2025 tokusatsu TV series: an amnesiac alien, Sorato, on a kaiju-free Earth transforms with the Omega Slugger; 25 episodes on TV Tokyo, July 2025 to January 2026, directed by Masayoshi Takesue.
Ultraman Orb (ウルトラマンオーブ)
Ultraman Orb (ウルトラマンオーブ) is Tsuburaya's 2016 tokusatsu series, the 42nd Ultraman, airing 25 episodes on TV Tokyo from July 9, 2016. Hero Gai Kurenai (Hideo Ishiguro) uses Fusion Up, combining two past Ultra warriors' powers via the Orb Ring, directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi for the franchise's 50th anniversary.
Ultraman Teo
Ultraman Teo (ウルトラマンテオ) is Tsuburaya Productions' 2026 tokusatsu TV series marking the Ultraman franchise's 60th anniversary. It follows alien refugee Ibuki Mitsuishi, a veterinary student from Planet H12 who reluctantly transforms into the blue giant Ultraman Teo via the Teo Crystar, airing Saturdays on TV Tokyo with worldwide streaming.
Ultraman: Rising (ウルトラマン：ライジング)
Ultraman: Rising (ウルトラマン：ライジング) is a 2024 Netflix CG animated film by Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima, made with ILM, in which baseball star Ken Sato raises a baby kaiju named Emi.
Ultramega OK
Ultramega OK is Soundgarden's 1988 debut full-length album, their only release on SST Records, nominated for a 1990 Grammy for Best Metal Performance and remixed by Jack Endino for a 2017 Sub Pop reissue.
Ultramen
Ultramen is a Brazilian rock band formed in 1991 in Porto Alegre, known for mixing rap with heavy guitars and later reggae, funk, and samba-rock.
Ultrasound (album)
Ultrasound (album): Palace's fourth studio album, released 5 April 2024; also The Neighbourhood's 2025 (((((ultraSOUND))))), Organ Donors' 2020 ULTRASOUND, and Splitsville's 1997 Ultrasound.
Ultrasound World Tour
Ultrasound World Tour is Lorde's fourth concert tour (2025-2026), supporting her album Virgin; 59 arena shows across North America, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas with a minimalist staging, L-ISA sound, and five-star reviews.
Ultratop
Ultratop: the non-profit organization producing Belgium's official record charts (Ultratop 50 singles, Ultratop albums), founded 1995 by the Belgian music industry (BRMA). Separate Flemish and Walloon charts combine sales, downloads (since 2006), streaming and airplay (since 2016/2017), compiled weekly via GfK and Radiomonitor.
Ultraviolence (album)
Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey's second studio album (2014, Polydor/Interscope), produced by Dan Auerbach in Nashville; slow-tempo rock and blues, debuted at No. 1 in 12 countries with 182,000 US first-week sales.
Ultraviolence (song)
Ultraviolence is the 2014 title track of Lana Del Rey's album Ultraviolence, produced by Dan Auerbach. It narrates an abusive relationship, quotes the Crystals' 'He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)' and became the album's most controversial song.
Ultraviolet (film)
Ultraviolet (film) is a 2006 science fiction action film directed by Kurt Wimmer. It stars Milla Jovovich as Violet, a hemophage protecting a boy from a government campaign.
Ultravox
Ultravox is a British synth-pop band formed in London in 1973, fronted in turn by John Foxx and Midge Ure and best known for the 1980 album Vienna.
Ultrawide formats
Ultrawide formats are cinema aspect ratios wider than the classic 1.37:1 Academy frame, spanning Cinerama, CinemaScope, VistaVision, Todd-AO, Ultra Panavision 70 (2.76:1), and modern 1.85:1, 2.39:1, and IMAX standards.
Ultron
Ultron is a Marvel Comics supervillain AI created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, first appearing in Avengers #54 (1968) as the Crimson Cowl. Built by Hank Pym, he seeks to destroy all organic life, wears adamantium, and created Vision and Jocasta; in the 2015 MCU film his creator is Tony Stark.
Ululation
Ululation is a high-pitched, tongue-trilled women's cry expressing joy or mourning across Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, and African cultures; names include Arabic zaghrada, Zulu ukukikiza, Tamil kulavai, Malayalam kurava.
Ulupi
Ulupi (Ulūpī, उलूपी) is a Naga princess, daughter of king Kauravya, in the Mahabharata; she marries Arjuna during his exile, bears Iravan, and revives Arjuna with a jewel after Babhruvahana strikes him down, freeing him from the Vasus' curse.
Ulver
Ulver (Norwegian for "wolves") is an Oslo experimental collective formed in 1993, led by Kristoffer Rygg, that moved from black metal (Bergtatt) through ambient, trip hop, and synthpop to the 2025 instrumental album Neverland.
Ulya (film)
Ulya (Uļa) is a 2026 Latvian biographical drama directed by Viesturs Kairišs about basketball player Uļjana Semjonova; Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere and Latvia's 99th Academy Awards submission.
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses, James Joyce's 1922 modernist novel published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, follows Leopold Bloom through Dublin on 16 June 1904 in 18 episodes paralleling Homer's Odyssey; serialized in The Little Review, censored, and celebrated on Bloomsday.
Ulysses (poem)
Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1833, published 1842), a blank-verse dramatic monologue of the aging Odysseus resolving on a final voyage, written after Arthur Hallam's death, based on Dante's Inferno Canto XXVI, closing "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31)
Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, Ulysse 31) is a 1981 Franco-Japanese animated space opera by DiC and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 26 episodes adapting Homer's Odyssey in the 31st century; a European hit but barely aired in Japan.
Ulysses' Gaze
Ulysses' Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odyssea) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1995 Greek-French drama starring Harvey Keitel as filmmaker A, who crosses the post-Cold War Balkans seeking three lost Manakis brothers reels; it won the 1995 Cannes Grand Prize.
Ulzana's Raid
Ulzana's Raid: 1972 Robert Aldrich Western (also La venganza de Ulzana) starring Burt Lancaster as scout McIntosh tracking Apache leader Ulzana in 1880s Arizona; Universal, 103 min, Vietnam-era allegory, AHA 'Unacceptable' rating.