History Characters / ChoujuuSentaiLiveman

* ChineseGirl: Her design aesthetic. She even has {{Odango}}-like parts[[note]]detachable and officially called "Colon's Bonbon(s)", which she can use to visualize data[[/note]] on her head and her body design has a UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}} thing going.

* [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids Super Powered Robot Maid]]: Is rather over-engineered for her intended purpose. You kinda have to wonder what intended purpose Dr. Hoshi had in mind for her.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Averted. She's a robot, but she's fully capable of processing love, as seen when she falls in love with a damaged Jimmer, then later Yuusuke.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Jou? Jo? Joh? Depends on the fansub.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The GUIS fansub calls him Gush, possibly since Gash is a crude slang term for a vagina.

* WomenAreWiser: [[spoiler: Compared to Kemp, who stayed blindly loyal to Bias until it was too late, Mazenda realized his true objective and tried to defy it. Unfortunately, this results in her demise not long after.]]

* TheChessmaster: Just about everyone dances to Bias's tune in the series. e used the Livemen to provide a goal for his students to compete for in the series, used Obular, Ashura, Guildos and Butchy to make his other students try harder, and used Kemp and Mazenda to complete the Giga Brain Wave.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Since Bias goes from being a child to a senile old man in the final episode, it's Gash and the Electron Zuno who effectively serve as the final opponents of our heroes.]]

!!Rui Senda/Dr. Mazenda | [-Actor: Akiko Kuruso-]

* WalkingSpoiler: He becomes much more interesting [[spoiler:and repulsive]] when we learn more about him.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Earth Emperor Zeba]] was a BadBoss who control and punishes his subordinates through fear, while Bias controls his subordinates through charisma and emotional validation. [[spoiler:Zeba was also an Earth Beast in disguise, while Bias is a human.]]

[[folder:Great Professor Bias]]

* TheAgeless: [[spoiler:Has been using the brains he already gathered to prevent aging. However, if he goes too long without renewing it, he will instantly age to his true form.]]
* AGodAmI: All but said in the show itself, but this adequately sums him up. He has a truly massive god complex [[spoiler:and his true goals seem to be dedicated to satisfy his complex with no care for anyone else. The show is just one long power play on his part. After he completes his Giga Brain Wave, he outright declares himself a god and makes the entire world worship him.]]
* AffablyEvil: He's rather polite for a BigBad, all things considered. He frequently gives his students compliments when they do well and when he scolds them it's to point out the mistakes they made so they can improve. [[spoiler:Subverted later on when we learn his [[FauxAffablyEvil true colors]].]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:For the evil mastermind he was he gets a rather pitiable end, dying as a feeble and delusional old man. After he dies, the Livemen and Colon can only lament that he dedicated himself to conquering the world instead of appreciating its beauty.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He actually completely succeeds mid-way through episode 48, mass-hypnotizing the entire world (including four of the Livemen) into bowing down and worshipping him. It's only because of Yusuke that Bias's victory doesn't stick.]]
* BenevolentBoss: He's probably the nicest of the Showa Big Bads, save for [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Queen Hedrian]]. He gives his students praise whenever they succeed and when he scolds them it's when they make a mistake and with the goal of getting them to improve. [[spoiler:Except it's all an act.]]

* TheChessmaster: Just about everyone dances to Bias's tune in the series. [[spoiler:He used the Livemen to provide a goal for his students to compete for in the series, used Obular, Ashura, Guildos and Butchy to make his other students try harder, and used Kemp and Mazenda to complete the Giga Brain Wave.]]

* TheCorrupter: Kenji and Gou were shown to be as kind as the future Livemen before Bias made them into Kemp and Obular, Rui was stuck up but not nearly as cruel as she would be as Mazenda, and Arashi was ultimately revealed to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in contrast to be cold Ashura. [[spoiler:And it's ultimately revealed he's done this many, many, many times before.]]
* DevourTheDragon: His end goal requires a form of this. [[spoiler:To complete the Giga Brain Wave, he needs to extract the brains of 12 of his followers who've reached a 1000 IQ and absorb energy from them to keep himself young. He already did so with 11 of them, and he later does this on Kemp to complete it.]]

* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Bias reverting to a child doesn't make him any less evil, if anything moreso, as it makes him more reckless and impulsive.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To all of the heroes. They are all geniuses who extremely value youth, but while the Livemen give it proper respect and accept that it doesn't last, Bias is out to retain his youth using whatever means necessary.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:It eventually becomes apparent that his positive encouragement of his students is really just another method of emotionally manipulating them, and that he's a megalomaniac who only cares for himself at the end of the day.]]
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:The Giga Brain Wave, which allows Bias to stay immortal through absorbing the mental energy of eleven of his students' brains.]]
* TheGhost: While we see him throughout the series, he's this from the Livemen's perspective. Notably, the protagonists are aware of him but don't know what he looks like until the penultimate episode, where Yuusuke bursts into Bias' Brain Room and demands to know if he's Bias. [[spoiler:He fires a beam at Yuusuke, who puts a sword into him in return.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:He subverts any genuine and altruistic qualities he seemingly had at first, where he appeared to be cruel yet still caring about his students. As it is shown when it gets revealed that all of his students are nothing but tools for his end goal of brainwashing humanity into obeying him and making himself immortal to forever rule Earth, and gleefully throws them under the bus if they fail to reach to his standards or if they try to back out from getting their brains extracted or his plans, as Mazenda found out. He even has the gall to reject [[RedemptionRejection an offer to turn a new leaf]] from Megumi and what makes his death [[KarmicDeath karmic]] is he ends up aging rapidly into an old man, and his last moments comes off as satisfying beyond expectations, which cements his status as one of the most repulsive villains in the franchise]].
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: It says something when [[spoiler:even his own Dragon, a soulless robot built to kill things, comes off as more human and empathetic than him at the end]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The man with one of the greatest god complexes in all of ''Sentai'' who wanted to maintain his youth ended up dying as an (still completely evil) old man.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Kills Butchy, just before he could accept Megumi's offer to leave Volt and turn over a new leaf.]]
* KneelBeforeZod: [[spoiler:Among those caught in his Giga Brain Wave are the Livemen (save Yusuke), who are made to kneel before him like everyone else.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:In the end its Kemp, Bias's most loyal student who he used as a pawn, who ultimately thwarts his plan.]]
* LastVillainStand: [[spoiler:After Yusuke stops his Giga Brain Wave and Bias becomes "Young King Bias", Bias opts to use the Electron Zuno to try to conquer Earth one last time and goes on a rampage before the Livemen crash the Zuno Base.]]
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Bazoo]], [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman Ra Deus and Lee Keflen]], and [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Zeba]], Bias is much kinder, actually showing mercy to his students. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted; those moments were not altruistic at all and were used to further his own goals. Underneath his cover, he's just as bad as those four villains.]]
* MassHypnosis: [[spoiler: Bias pulls this in the penultimate episode with the Giga Brain Wave, making everyone on Earth (including four of the five Livemen) [[KneelBeforeZod bow down]] and worship him. Only Yuusuke (who's actually inside the Brain Base by that point) and Colon (who's a robot) are unaffected.]]
* MasterActor: [[spoiler:He did a really good job at hiding his true, horribly selfish and deluded self for so long on multiple occasions.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:After Yuusuke stops his Giga Brain Wave and Bias reverts to being a child, he opts to go on a rampage with the Electron Brain.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Bias is extensively knowledgeable in just about very field of science, from biology to physics. [[spoiler:He's immortal, so he's had a lot of time to study.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified. Bias is the leader, but Volt's agenda involves his students having to develop and get smarter through their experiments, so Bias generally stands aside. [[spoiler:And his true plan also requires this, as he has to maintain a good amount of concentration in order to maintain the Mass Hypnosis.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:How old he is is never stated, but he's definitely much older than he appears, given how his true age is that of an extremely old man.]]

* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:When Megumi offers him a new chance at life after becoming a young boy, he vehemently refuses so he can grow up to become Great Professor Bias again.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:After reverting to his true age, the rapid aging into an old man causes him to go completely senile in his final moments, believing the rockets from Zuno Base are fireworks to celebrate his victory and hallucinating hearing the people of Earth chanting his name.]]
* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Bias's end comes when he, frail and losing his grip on reality, orders Gash to activate the rockets for the damaged and downed Brain Base. This leads to the Brain Base exploding and collapsing in on both of them.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He's a charismatic manipulator who lacks any care for others but feigns emotions to manipulate his followers, and a selfish narcissist willing to use and then dispose of people to further his own goals.]]

* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:He will do anything to make sure he gets the twelfth brain, no matter how horrible. And he will never give up.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:The Livemen never had a true fight with him, though he and Yusuke have a brief standoff in episode 48. Along with the true Big Bad of ''Timeranger'' and the FinalBoss of ''Flashman'', Bias is one of the few final Big Bads to not get an epic final battle.]]

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Interestingly, Kenji, Rui and Gou seemed to know who he was even before they joined Volt, which is why they took his test. It also revealed [[spoiler:he was one of these among the other villains. Once the villains realized what type of person Bias really was, all of them except for Gash, who knew already, and Kemp, who had went completely insane, turn on him one by one.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The moment Obular isn't able to keep up with Kemp and Mazenda any more, Bias has him expelled from the Volt. He eventually disposes of Butchy and Ashura when their usefulness at getting his other students to try harder comes to its end. This leaves Mazenda and Kemp, the former of whom Bias kills after she fully roboticizes herself and makes her brain unextractable, as it means she can't be used for the Giga Brain Wave.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's deathly afraid of [[ChinesVampire jiang-shi]], a fear which does get exploited in one episode.

* ScamReligion: [[spoiler:Volt is only pretending to be a genius supremacy group. At its core, it's just a cult that exists solely for Bias to enslave humanity.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:For the evil mastermind he was he gets a rather pitiable end, dying as a feeble and delusional old man. At the same time, he doesn't get any in-universe mourning and when he dies the Livemen and Colon can only lament that he dedicated himself to conquering the world instead of appreciating its beauty. Once you remember what he did in the final arc, even his robot bodyguard Gash seems more sympathetic than him.]]

* BenevolentBoss: He's probably the nicest of the Showa Big Bads, save for [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Queen Hedrian]]. He gives his students praise whenever they succeed and when he scolds them it's when they make a mistake and with the goal of getting them to improve.[[spoiler:Except it's all an act.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: While the other members of Volt are annoyed by Butchy singing and rollerskating around Zuno Base, Bias just finds it amusing.

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Any emotions he had shown are fake. He simply pretended to have them in order to manipulate his followers. In addition, he shows other sociopathic traits, such as caring only for himself and becoming more erratic and anxious as Kemp and Mazenda get smarter.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:After Bias's true nature is revealed, it becomes clear that Gash has been, is, and always will be Bias's one and only Dragon.]]

* TheHeavy: Not only are the majority of Brain Beasts the Livemen fight created by him, but he's the last student remaining in Volt and the one directly responsible for the Liveman's friends dying.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Not exactly, as an episode shows even as a young teen he was kind of a self centered jerk with an inflated ego but he DID have humanity at one point. He had dreams of helping humanity, geniunely appreciated Yuusuke's friendship and was a bit of a romantic towards a girl they both knew and went out of his way to engineer a flower for her. When he was hurt in a lab accident both the girl and Yuusuke went to save him and did all they could to help him. When he meets the girl in the present and she calls him out for the evil man he has become Kemp does indeed feel guilty and hesitates briefly although he mentally powers through by focusing on Bias and how great he's convinced he can become. Even when he's reverted to his 16 year old self who's still rather arrogant and rude Megumi calling him out completely shames him and he does apologize and prepare to make it up to her until his original personality is triggered again. Tragically, there was a good man in Kemp but Bias's manipulations and his own ego and obsession keep him from being able to access it.

* BadassNormal: Arashi is tough enough to fight Brain Beasts to a draw [[spoiler: and actually blows one up with a suicide attack]].
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: While Bias views all non-geniuses as inferior, even he found Arashi's strength as something not to be wasted.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She and [[TheCutie Colon]] for friends, but [[DarkChick Mazenda]] replaces Colon in enemies. Megumi is caring, but stern and not afraid to get dirty. Ironically, both girly girls are not really human.

* DarkChick: Of the Volt, being vain, domineering and seductive, as well as their token female member.

* WouldHurtAChild: Is not above using children for her experiments. In episode 24 she comes up with a plan to use Pig Zuno to turn children into pigs a la ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio'' and force them to work for Volt.

* TheChick: The most emotional and compassionate of the team.

* TheHeart: Generally more emotionally invested in plots than the others.

* WeaponOfChoice
** PowerFist: Lion Punch - stops using it when he gets the...
** HandCannon: Lion Bazooka, his MidSeasonUpgrade.

* WeaponOfChoice
** AnnoyingArrows: Is a skilled archer, but the Brain Beasts tend to have hides too thick to pierce. As such, she tends to shoot from such a close range that NoArcInArchery applies by default, and even then it's only effective about half the time.

* BattleBoomerang: Sai Cutters. You'd think he'd be a SaiGuy, but 'Sai' is actually the Japanese word for 'Rhino'.

* TheHeavy: Not only are the majority of Brain Beasts the Livemen fight created by him, but he's the last student remaining and the one directly responsible for the Liveman's friends dying.

** They're also quite the opposite of the [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Maskmen]] as well. The Maskmen used Chinese martial arts and their mysticial inner auras to transform and fight, while the Livemen used science and technology to create their suits. The Maskmen start the series off experienced and having prepared for the Tube invasion, while the Livemen are college students who are caught off guard by the Volt.

* TheBrute: Shared with Obular and Gash, and in a way that takes advantage of his ridiculous intelligence. Even before he joined Volt he was tough enough to take on Brain Beasts by himself, leading Bias to recruit him into Volt and give him modifications that amplified his strength while turning him into a GeniusGruiser.

* SimpleStaff: Bison Rod. Black Bison's main weapon which it can also shoots a laser attack at long range.

* KnifeNut: His main weapon is called the "Cross Sword", but is short enough that it's functionally a knife.