History Characters / ChoujuuSentaiLiveman

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same LandSeaSky motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Science Academia whereas the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen started with 3 members with one of them is female and they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series, while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader stepped down and is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* EvilWillFail: [[spoiler:In the end, the Volt aren't defeated by the Livemen so much as they are through their competitiveness and Bias's true plans, which cost all of his students their lives.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He typically gives one to one of his students whenever they screw 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 final Big Bad of ''Flashman'', Bias is the only final Big Bad to not get an epic final battle.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Ironically, he comes off as more human than Bias in their final moments.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To Bias, which makes sense since he's a robot built and programmed by him. He even stays with Bias and comforts him [[spoiler: as he dies on the exploding Brain Base, even though he could have easily just escaped.]] Of course, that might have just been his programming.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Spends his last few moments as a brain rallying the other students Bias sacrificed to rise up against him, leading Bias to lose his immortality and revert to an old man.]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of Volt. Although, [[spoiler:if one takes into account the brains of Bias's previous students, some of whom are shown to be women, then this trope is technically subverted.]]

* TheBrute: The main enforcer of Volt [[spoiler:during the first half of the season]]. He shares this role with Doctor Ashura and [[spoiler:(apparently)]] Gash.

* TheBrute: Shared with Obular and Gash, and in a way that takes advantage of his ridiculous intelligence.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's fully on the Volt-train, but isn't as bloodthirsty as Kemp and Mazenda.

* [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]]: He's not actually a born genius like Kemp and Mazenda, getting where he did through hard-ass studying (and got into Volt by applying, rather than being invited like they were).

* SoleSurvivor: He ends up being [[spoiler: the only surviving member of Volt, on account of getting out before things hit the fan.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:During the final arc, it's heavily implied that Bias didn't let him into Volt out of pity, but simply to make Kemp and Mazenda try harder.]]

* TheBrute: The main enforcer of Volt [[spoiler:during the first half of the season]]. He shares this role with Doctor Ashuraand [[spoiler:(apparently)]] Gash.
* [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]]: He's not actually a born genius like Kemp and Mazenda, getting where he did through hard-ass studying (and got into Volt by applying, rather than being invited like they were).

* TheBrute: Shared with Gash, and in a way that takes advantage of his ridiculous intelligence.

* 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 {{Qipao}} thing going.

* DarthVaderClone: Character-wise, he definitely has a few similarities to the old Sith lord. He's a formerly bright student who was tempted to become evil, discarding his own humanity in the process, killed several of his colleagues in the process and [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon has a personal rivalry]] with the heroes.

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[[folder: Dr. Kemp]]

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!! '''Yuusuke Amamiya/Red Falcon''' | [-Actor: Daisuke Shima-]

!! '''Jou Oohara/Yellow Lion''' | [-Actor: Kazuhiko Nishimura-]

!! '''Megumi Misaki/Blue Dolphin''' | [-Actress: Megumi Mori-]

!! '''Tetsuya Yano/Black Bison''' | [-Actor: Seiro Yamaguchi-]

!! '''Junichi Aikawa/Green Sai''' | [-Actor: Jin Kawamoto-]

* MsFanservice: Her short skirt, ZettaiRyouiki and frequent PantyShots certainly qualify her.

* PantyShot: They're even blue.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: A lot of their inventions could be used to benefit mankind, instead of causing terror. This actually something the Livemen point out to Kemp and Mazenda multiple times, but both of them would rather use science for their own selfish desires.

* ShutUpHannibal: When Kid!Bias taunts her that she can't shoot him because she can't shoot a kid, Megumi proceeds to verbally rip him apart by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling him that regardless of his age, his maturity is that of a kid wasting his youth]].

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!!Colon | Voice: Makoto Kousaka

* 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' [[{{Squick}} 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.]]

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!!Gou Omura/Dr. Obular | [-Actor: Tohru Sakai-]
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* [[spoiler:HateSink: He subverts any genuine and altruistic qualities to his underlings only seeing them as tools for his end goal, and gleefully throws them under the bus once he has no more use for them. 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]].
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: 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.]]

* [[spoiler: MasterActor: He did a really good job at hiding his true self for so long on multiple occasions.]]

* [[spoiler:OmnicidalManiac: 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.]]

* [[spoiler: TheSociopath: 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.]]

* [[spoiler: TheUnfettered: He will do anything to make sure he gets the twelfth brain, no matter how horrible. And he will never give up.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: But unlike the others, learning this doesn't cause him to hate Bias like the other villains. Instead, it drives him even crazier.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:She's the first of Bias's students to reach 1000 points, only to learn right after what [[BrainInAJar her]] [[AndIMustScream prize]] for reaching it is.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She dies not long after rejecting Bias and reconciling with the Livemen, but not before using her final moments to stymy Bias's plans.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Bias didn't care about her as much as he did about her brain. She seems to have had some inkling of this, and generally isn't as blindly loyal to him throughout the series like Kemp is.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Was created so Kemp and Mazenda would try harder.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Like Guildos, his only purpose was to make Kemp and Mazenda try harder. ''Unlike'' the others, he gets told this to his face.]]
* VerbalTic: obviously, dasu!

* TheHeavy: The majority of Brain Beasts the Livemen fight are created by him.

Formerly Rui Senda, Dr. Mazenda is a cold-hearted woman who converted herself into a cyborg to eliminate her human emotion and affection. Later upgrades herself to Machine Mazenda, wherein 90% of her body (everything below the head) is mechanical. Megumi's rival, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Yuusuke's former crush.]] Not quite as fanatically devoted to Bias as Kemp or is.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Bias. [[spoiler:Even after learning Bias's true plans and going completely insane, he still stays loyal to him.]]

* BelatedBackstory: In his debut in episode 19 he's effectively a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere who beats Ashura and restores Gou to his monster form before disappearing. It isn't until the next episode where we learn who he is.

* BelatedBackstory: Very little is revealed about Bias throughout the series. It isn't until the final arc that we learn anything about his past, or [[spoiler:what his true motives are]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: His name is pronounced in Japanese ''Biasu'' (rhymes with "Pierce", sorta), not ''Baiasu'' as the English word "bias" is pronounced in Japanese.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: Invoked by Bias after he succeeds in rejuvenating into a kid. Megumi refuses to shoot Bias down as he berates her for being "weak"; she tries to [[BreakThemByTalking talk him into giving up evil]], which [[IgnoredEpiphany has no effect on Bias]] but [[spoiler:leads to him losing his youth and dying anyway.]]

* TheSmartGuy: An entire {{Sentai}} team of them. They're all genius academia alumni who built their own mecha.

* EvilCounterpart: To Colon; being a robotic BattleButler utterly loyal to his master Bias, just as Colon is devoted to the Liveman team. Both Gash and Colon are pretty durable in battle and both are capable of emotions — Gash [[LetThemDieHappy lets his boss die thinking he succeeded in conquering Earth]] and is now hearing mankind's praises as the Zuno Base is exploding.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Science Academia whereas the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen started with 3 members with one of them is female and they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series, while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader stepped down and is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Earth Emperor Zeba]] was a BadBoss who used fear to control 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.]]

* UnfortunateNames: When you read her name, just... do your best to think of the punctuation mark and not the body part. (It's a homophone for 'Cologne' in Japanese, if that helps.)

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

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Earth Academia whereas the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen started with 3 members with one of them is female and they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series, while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader stepped down and is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Earth Academia while the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen starts with 3 memebers with one of them has at least 1 female member and they they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series, while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader stepped down and is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The Livemen are a clear inversion to the [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan]] team. While the intial trio has the same air/land/sea motifs, the Livemen are a group of aspiring scientists from Earth Academia while the Sun Vulcan are affiliated with the military. Moreover, the Livemen starts with 3 memebers with one of them has at least 1 female member and they they have additional 2 men joining the team midway in the series, while the Sun Vulcan are a trio of men from the beginning to the end, although their initial team leader is replaced with a new leader midway in their home series.