History Series / EngineSentaiGoOnger

''Engine Sentai Go-onger'' (roughly translated as "Blazing God[[note]]pronounced as ''[[PunnyName Enjin]]''[[/note]] Squadron Go-onger") is the 32nd program in the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series, which aired from 2008 to 2009.

* StrawVulcan

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: The Rangers[[note]]Separately for Go-Ongers and Go-On Wings.[[/note]], the Engines[[note]]Including the Prehistoric Engines ''who can't speak a word''; they get ''subtitles''.[[/note]], [[spoiler: the ''villains'']] and -- wait for it -- [[spoiler: ''all'' the HumongousMecha ''including'' Go-Roader GT]] ''all'' have their lines. Short version? '''''EVERYONE'''''.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Kitanedas and Kegalesia's death together after they betray Yogoshimacritein. And they don't care at all. Why? They just want to be with Yogostein again. They reach out to each other before finally shutting down.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: GP Final ends with Engine Speedor calling all seven Go-Ongers to battle Gaiark's missing President. The opening of ''Shinken Vs Go-On'' even implies that [[spoiler: they've been [[WalkingTheEarth Walking The Parallel Worlds]].]]

* [[FunWithAcronyms [=Backronym=]]] At first glance, Bomper's name sounds like a twist of "Bumper", especially because the vehicle theme. But then we find out that it actually stands for [[spoiler: "'''B'''orn-to '''O'''uterdimension and '''M'''echanic × '''P'''itcrew-type '''E'''NGINE-support '''R'''obot"]].
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Yogoshimacritein, who fires through two of his QuirkyMinibossSquad to hit the Go-ongers. He even denounced his (dead) son as a useless failure. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Kitaneidas and Kegalesia are far from pleased with this.]]]]

-->'''Kegalesia''': [[spoiler: Our goal is an ideal wasteland where all the Barbaric Machine Beasts can live comfortably. Since you stepped over your comrades, that world...]]

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: GP 22 is basically about Hiramechimedes and Hiroto trying to out-gambit each other. Pretending to be exiled by Yogostein, fatally injured and all, Hiramechimedes tells the Go-ongers that he wanted to race Hiroto to Hellgaille Palace as his last wish. Hiroto accepted, and knowing him awfully well, had everything prepared. Hiramechimedes finally outwitted them, but there's one thing he didn't calculate about: [[SpannerInTheWorks Go-ongers]][[note]]Well, they didn't follow him because they suspect him; on the contrary, they came to cheer for both of them.[[/note]].]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The giant gear in the Gaiark base with their symbol on it: Humorously named "[[DeusExMachina Deus Haguruma Gear]]"[[note]]"[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment God Gear Gear]]"[[/note]].]]

** GP 27 has Hant dressing in female clothes, for the sake of an old lady who misses her granddaughter. [[spoiler: ...Or so she claims...she was just trying to keep him distracted to help the Gaiark...and after betraying the Gaiark because Hant was so nice to her, revealed that her granddaughter never even existed.]] The episode's seminar section reveals that [[WholesomeCrossdresser dressing as a maid and working in a cafe is Hant's favourite of all the part time jobs he's had.]]
** GP 38: [[spoiler: Saki and Miu "hid" the guys paralyzed because of a Bankiju... by dressing them up as mannequins ''[[HiddenInPlainSight in the front showcase of a women's clothing store]]''. Perhaps [[BiggerOnTheInside the Ginjiro]] is [[FridgeLogic too small]]? Saki came up with this plan due to remembering how cute Hant was in GP 27.]]

* EcocidalAntagonist: The villains of the season are the Gaiark, a clan of machine-monsters that thrive on pollution and seek to pollute the Earth to make it habitable for their kind. It's also their thematic hat, the higher-ups of the organization literally being called "Pollution Ministers." Justified in the sense that they ''need pollution to survive''; meaning they have to oppose environmentalism by principle. Ironically, [[spoiler: the three Pollution Ministers all pull HeelFaceTurn[=s=] by the end of the season and later post-series content; having long-found their ideal "Junk World]]."

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* HeelFaceTurn: Actually, [[spoiler: all three Gaiark minsters]], though over the course of the finale and post-series appearances. Though [[spoiler: they betray Yogoshimacritein for betraying ''them'' in the finale and are mostly disinterested in villainy post-resurrection in the Shinkenger team-up, Gokaiger vs. Gavan finds them among the friendly monsters in a prison for villains who became good, and by the time of "Ten Years Grand Prix," they're solidly on the side of the Go-Ongers.]]

* MagicFromTechnology: A student in GP 42 modified his laptop to function as a spellbook. [[spoiler: It actually works.]]

* MeadowRun: Spoofed in GP 26 with Saki and Miu; they ''did'' run towards each other but [[spoiler: since they're actually meeting up for a plan to save Bearrv]], there was no hugging or kissing. [[HoYay Not that it stopped the shippers...]]

* OfficialCouple: ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' reveals that [[spoiler: Speedor and Bear RV got together and had a son, Engine 13 Machalcon]].

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Hiramechimedes in GP 23 and Yogostein in GP 35-36. Maki from TheMovie even says something about not having used this form for a while - except it's [[BishonenLine the more humanoid form]].]]
* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: Hiramechimedes' grudge on Go-ongers made him linger on as a "''Yurei''"[[note]]Vengeful spirit[[/note]].]]

* PlotDeviceAllAlong: [[spoiler: Notice how the Engines can only be in their true form for 10 minutes at a time in our world but the villains can be normal the full time? That's because the Villain Base has that spinning cog on the wall, it turns out that's providing the energy to keep the villains around. Sousuke breaks it in the last episode, which causes the entire Palace to crumble away.]]

* PowerSource: [[spoiler: The large spinning gear in the background of Gaiark base turned out to be an ''unlimited'' power source.]]

** When [[spoiler: Chirakasonne]] is attacking the city, he shouts that "The Gaiark are bringing [[GratuitousEnglish change]]!" A few moments later, [[spoiler: Yogoshimacretein]] responds with his own GratuitousEnglish: "[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Yes, we can!]]"

** Hiroto's strategy of reading his opponents stopped working when [[spoiler: Hiramechimedes becomes crazy, and thus unpredictable. Naturally, it took Sōsuke's equally unpredictable antics to match him]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler: In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, which reveals that Saki now works in a bakery, she encounters a customer who looks eerily like Kegalesia (and is also played by Nao Oikawa) ...]]

** One of the Character-of-the-Day in GP 13 is played straight as a yakuza boss. And his ferocity is just... [[ExaggeratedTrope out of this world]]; he can scare not only ''the Gaiark Ministers'', who are by and large main villains, off like little kids, but even ''objects''!. [[spoiler: Could be justified by him being an alien, though.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Kegalesia appears in different human clothings now and then... [[WidgetSeries for whatever reasons there currently is]]. But whatever she's dressed as, the tap on her head is a dead giveaway. [[SelectiveObliviousness Not that anyone]] [[DistractedByTheSexy ever noticed]]...

* MixAndMatch: ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' + ''Franchise/{{Cars}}''... [[WidgetSeries on crack]]?

** In TheMovie, Retsutaka, Shishi-no-shin and Tsuki-no-wa are played by ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'', [[Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive Goggle Black]]/[[Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman Dyna Black]] and [[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Deka Pink]] respectively. In the ending song, they all do their respective henshin poses with their Engine Casts.

'''Carrigator:''' The ''giant'' chieftain[[note]]More accurately, "star" or "leading figure".[[/note]]! Engine Carrigator-[[{{Keigo}} de gozaru]]!\\