History Series / TokumeiSentaiGobusters

* BlandNameProduct: Angie Sue's email to Yoko at the end of #12 has two: her email server is called "Gyahun" (which is basically Website/{{Yahoo}} with an Eastern twist), and there's a link to "[=NyuTube=]" on it.

* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: The team's {{Transformation Trinket}}s announce "It's Morphin' Time!" after being activated. Once it's formed the majority of their costume, they say "Let's Morphin'!" to form the visor to their helmet and finish the change.

''Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters'' (''Special Operations Squadron/Spec-Ops Cell Go-Busters'') is the 36th ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series, airing from 2012 to 2013.

* FiveManBand: The team solidifies with [[ThreePlusTwo the addition of Jin and J]].
** TheLeader: Hiromu
** TheLancer: J
** TheSmartGuy: Jin
** TheBigGuy: Ryuji
** TheHeart: Yoko

* BatmanGambit: The plan to rescue Usada in #9 was one massive gambit. [[spoiler: It even ticked off Enter]]!

** #28 can qualify since it's just plain silly (even by Sentai standards!) although it suffers MoodWhiplash at the very end when [[spoiler: Jin's enetron supply is stolen]]. Mission 34 could also count, but then again suffers MoodWhiplash when the final fight comes.

* {{Cyberpunk}} and PostCyberpunk: A case can be made for both, but it swings more towards PostCyberpunk. A GovernmentAgencyOfFiction using child soldiers is presented as mostly good, even if it is also responsible for the series' BigBad, while the child soldiers themselves apparently underwent some degree of UnwillingRoboticisation. Although to be fair, [[spoiler: the UnwillingRoboticisation (which was basically uploading an organic program into them that gave super powers, the ability to be telaported safely (which is what saved them in the first place) and a weakness. They're all still ''very'' much human) the kids were subjected to saved them from an even worse one.]]

** Episode to episode it's fairly standard, and even more comedic than most series (the Buddyroids will bring back pleasant memories of the Engines or other wacky RobotBuddy characters), but some of the darkest things in franchise history happen in this series. Wherever you'd say LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt, it turns out ''they would.'' It doesn't hit you 'til the end, because it's not until it's all over that it becomes final that yes, they ''did'' really [[spoiler: have the Rangers forced to sacrifice the lives of their parents and all the rest of those researchers in order to render Messiah OnlyMostlyDead, and one of their teammates also had to be sacrificed to finish the job.]] It's better than letting Messiah absorb the whole world, of course, but it really feels like they lost. Especially after all the {{Hope Spot}}s that make it seem like they're going to ScrewDestiny on points where other teams always have; usually "X can't be saved" where saving X is a SeriesGoal just means it'll happen ''awesomely'' in the last couple of episodes, and there's always a dangled thread of hope like [[spoiler: "there's still some of their data in those Messiah cards," or "there's still some of Jin's data in Enter."]] In the end, it ''always'' serves only to [[spoiler: make the fact that there's ''nothing'' they can do even more painful.]]

** In Ep 46 [[spoiler: this is a plot point, as Enter reveals that he has gained the ability to directly create Metaroids, with just his fingers, from plants and animals. [[OhCrap The Go-Busters express extreme horror at this revelation.]] ]]

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** #43 [[spoiler: Escape crushing Enter with Zeta Megazord resembles the same scene of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji crushing Kaworu with EVA-01]].]]

** NiceGuy: Hiromu; there's something to be said about his socially unintelligent bluntness though... Ryuji, on the other hand, fits the trope absolutely so far, [[spoiler: until he overheats, anyway]].

** Mission 30: Messiah and Enter are [[spoiler: ''gone! ''And with them, ''all'' the researchers, the Rangers' parents included, who'd been digitized.]] It's only episode 30, so clearly this can't stand, but we're given no kind of hint as to how it'll be reversed -- the preview for the next episode is all about a CrossOver with the new ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan'' and gives us nothing on where the Go-Busters' story goes from here.

** Mission 46 [[spoiler: has Enter return with Escape, revealing at the end of the episode that he can recreate her from a flower. He also turned J's pet stag beetle into a Metaroid. Yes. Enter can infect living beings, such as plants and animals, with Metaviruses!]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Enter''': Let's...morphin'.]]

** The Televi-Kun DVD starts with Beet J Stag singing a song InTheStyleOf Ichirou Mizuki, well before the man himself would appear on the show.

* RevisitingTheRoots : The series was considered as this when it tries to use the spy theme from the earlier sentai series like Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why Kazuya, Ryuji's high school friend, decided to cooperate with Enter [[spoiler:after the hard work he made to the Buster Machine was not done the way he did in his years as an Engineer. This was before he decided to forget it after seeing Ryuji fight off the Drillroid to prevent Vaglass from securing the blueprints of Buster Machine BC-04.]]

* ProductionForeshadowing:
** Remember in the little handover clip at the end of the last episode of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', with Marvelous about to punch Hiromu in the face, and Hiromu catching the punch? Now watch the end of ''Go-Busters'' #4.
** The Televi-Kun DVD starts with Beet J Stag singing a song InTheStyleOf Ichirou Mizuki, well before the man himself would appear on the show.

** Beet Buster and Stag Buster's {{Transformation Trinket}}s double as their {{Handgun}}s. Only a few other [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz toku superheroes]] [[Series/KamenRiderDecade comes to mind]].

** Cheeda Nick is a red mecha who can transform into a bike much like Series/DenjinZaboga, Autovajin from ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'', Rikushinki from ''Changerion'' or [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Kamen Rider Accel]]. His humanoid form is noticeably less cat-like and rather similar to [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto ZECT]] or [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Den-O]] Riders.

** There are a good many to ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'':