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7	->''Behold! Denshi Sentai! Denziman!''
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9	''Denshi Sentai Denziman'' (Electro-Squadron Denziman[[note]]"Denzi" is an alternate romanization for "Denji" which is a Japanese word for "electromagnetism", but it's mainly a reference to the planet where the team's technology comes from.[[/note]]) was the fourth ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series, lasting from 1980-1981. It was the first Sentai series where the rangers wore the trademark black visors. Ken Narita sang the TitleThemeTune.
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11	The evil Vader Clan, led by Queen Hedrian, decides to refit Earth to suit their twisted ideals of beauty. And for Vader, that involves sending their minions to pollute the world. They had previously [[IncrediblyLamePun laid waste]] to another planet, Denzi Star 3,000 years ago. Now, IC the Denzidog, a survivor of Denzi Star, awakens to recruit five young people from all walks of life to gain the powers of the only force that can fight Vader: the Denzimen!
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14	!!'''Recurring''' Super Sentai tropes:
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16	%%* TenMinuteRetirement: Akira in episode 2.
17	* AllYourPowersCombined: [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Denzi Boomerang]], the team's main finisher, which combines their DenziSticks into a five-pointed boomerang weapon that explodes on command.
18	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Denzi Spark!"
19	* CallingYourAttacks: All over the place. “Denzi Spark” is just the beginning.
20	* ColorCharacter: The first Sentai team to use the team's prefix as a head word for its codenames, followed by the English names of each member's corresponding color as the tail word.
21	%%* ColorCodedCharacters: The Denzimen of course.
22	* CoolAirship: The Denzi Tiger, where the Denzi Fighter is stored.
23	%%* CoolBike: Denzi Red's Denzi Machine
24	* CoolCar: The Denzi Buggy for the rest of the team.
25	* CoolHelmet: The Denziman helmets are distinguished by both the shape of their visors and their forehead Denzi Stones.
26	* EvilWillFail: Banriki would start a trend of the villains destroying themselves from within. Banriki destroyed the remaining Vader morale almost immediately after joining before [[spoiler:sabotaging Vader's ultimate attack in a failed coup, then activating a backup plan that ends up working. Unfortunately for him, everyone was still personally loyal to Hedrian, and the remaining infighting ultimately kills everyone in Vader except for Hedrian, and weakens Banriki enough for the heroes to kill.]]
27	* EyeCatch: Denziman's eye catch is similar to ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the eyecatch before the break features a still image of the Denziman team, while the eyecatch after the break features Daidenzin. The same sting as Battle Fever's eyecatch is used as well.
28	* FinishingMove: Electronic Lightning Fall, in which the Denzimen leap high in the air and drop down, then simultaneously strike the target with their Denzi Sticks.
29	%%* HomeBase: Denzi Land
30	* HumongousMecha: The Daidenzin, which was the first {{transforming mecha}} in Super Sentai, as it changes from a flying jet called the Denzi Fighter. It would be [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman five years]] before they thought of having another one.
31	%% * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
32	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Everyone says their names, then say “Behold! Denshi Sentai Denziman.”
33	* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Out of the five Denzi Stones embedded on each Denziman's helmet, Denzi Red's is said to be the most powerful. On a minor note, he is also the only one with yellow accents on his helmet.
34	%%* MechaMooks: Dustlers.
35	* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Introduced this trope to Super Sentai, although the monsters could alter their size at any time. In fact, the first one debuted giant size. (In ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', monsters called their "brothers", giant robot versions of themselves.)
36	* MiniDressOfPower: Part of Denzi Pink's costume.
37	%%* MookMobile: The Vader Fighter jets.
38	* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Vader Monsters, who are all numbered on their buckles. The first one is actually Monster No. 00 and all subsequent creatures are numbered in order of appearance, although some of them (particularly the ones in Episodes 18-20 and 24-26) show up in reverse order and Monster No. 37 does not exist at all (it skips from 36 to 38). The Vader Monster in the movie is the only one not numbered.
39	* TheMovie: Premiered on the same date as Episode 24. From this point on, almost all of the Super Sentai movies were all original works, with the exception of the second ''[[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman Flashman]]'' movie.
40	* RegularCaller: Tatsuya’s female colleagues from his days in the police.
41	* RobotBuddy: IC the Denzi Dog, a robot dog from planet Denzi sent to Earth to protect Denzi Land and the technology within. He was the one who called the five heroes to Denzi Land and gave them their transformation devices and other equipment.
42	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Denzi Pink, who did not even want to be part of the team at first.
43	* SupervillainLair: A flying castle
44	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Every other fight scene.
45	* TransformationTrinket: Introduced this trope to Super Sentai with the Denzi Rings. [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan The next one would introduce the wrist worn trinkets]].
46	* VillainsActHeroesReact: As is the norm for ''Super Sentai'', we generally have the Vader Clan sending out a MOTW with an EvilPlan OnceAnEpisode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them.
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48	%%** Simple Staff: The Denzi Sticks.[[note]]They actually resemble short swords.[[/note]]
49	%%** PowerFist: The Denzi Punches.
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52	!!Tropes specific to Denshi Sentai Denziman
53	* TenMinuteRetirement: Akira set the trend of some people refusing to fight evil due to other personal commitment despite already having ATasteOfPower in the first battle (followed later by [[Series/ChoudenshiBioman Mika Koizumi]] and [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Gai Yuki]]). In her case, she wanted to follow her coach's footsteps and last words in competing in the Olympics, since the last time she saw him, he was being burnt to death right in front of her due to Vader clan's arrival. One episode later, after the Vader clan still targetted her anyways, she relented and committed herself to fight evil for good.
54	* AirVentPassageway: Done by Ippei in episode 40 into Vader's latest hideout.
55	* BareHandedBladeBlock: Demon King Banriki does this, easily stopping the Daidenzin's sword finisher. Denzi Green also does this when fighting an enemy disguised as a samurai in episode 49
56	* BaseballEpisode: Episode 17.
57	* BewitchedAmphibians: A variation in episode 19. The Vader Clan sends a frog monster who disguises himself as a human looking prince to trick Narumi into giving access to her brother's work.
58	* BittersweetEnding: Yeah, we know Vader Clan falls, but [[spoiler:the TeamPet dies and Queen Hedrian is still out there]].
59	* TheBoxingEpisode: Episode 40.
60	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Happens to Paul in episode 29 after the Vader Clan gets him.
61	* CelebrityStar: Creator/RyuseiNakao guests as a singer who sings a song connected to the Denzi Star in episode 26.
62	* ColorfulThemeNaming: The heroes' last names include their colors; '''[[red:Aka]]'''ki, '''[[blue:[=O=]]]'''me[[note]]The Kanji is "''Ao''"/"Blue".[[/note]] , '''[[gold:Ki]]'''yama, '''[[green:Midori]]'''kawa and '''[[pink:Momo]]'''i.
63	* EnemyCivilWar: Happens in the last 4 episodes, when Banriki attempted to usurp command of the Vader Clan, only for Queen Hedrian and her loyal followers to fight back.
64	* EvilDoppelganger: The Monster Of The Week in episode 6 takes the form of a little girl and wrecking havoc while pretending to be her.
65	** Also done to several kids in episode 12.
66	* ExorcistHead: Karakurilar spins his head all the way round after revealing his true form to Denzi Pink in episode 49. He does it again after getting knocked over by General Hedrer and ends up with his head stuck on backwards.
67	* FairestOfThemAll: Queen Hedrian uses the Mirror servant lady turn into a magic mirror for this purpose a couple of times.
68	* GenieInABottle: One shows up in front of Daigorou in episode 44. Of course it's really a Vader Monster.
69	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the last episode, Daidenjin is broken and can't be repaired. IC then sacrifices himself and uses his robot parts to get Daidenjin moving again for the team.]]
70	* HollywoodVoodoo: In episode 4, the Monster Of The Week takes pictures of beautiful women, delivers them back to Queen Hedorian. Hedorian destroys the pictures causing the same type of damage to kill the real woman.
71	** Derringer does this against the Denzimen in episode 28.
72	** Queen Hedrian was doing this some more in episode 39.
73	* IdenticalStranger: In episode 45, the rangers find a woman named Yuko who is identical to Princess Denzi. [[spoiler: Despite the rangers thinking she is the Princess or a reincarnation of her, it turns out she's completely unrelated.]]
74	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Some Monsters Of The Week can become very tiny to escape the rangers. And a few times the giant robot fight ends up having the monster shrink back to human sized and the rangers kill it off at that height.
75	%% * LiterallyShatteredLives
76	* LostTechnology: The Daidenzin, created by the scientists of planet Denzi as their ultimate secret weapon against the attacking Vader Monster Umitsular. When they failed to complete it in time, the scientists sent it, along with the massive Denzi Land fortress, to Earth in order to protect that world when the Vader Clan inevitably went after it.
77	* MarilynManeuver: During the below mentioned disguise episode Akira, dressed in homage to Marilyn herself strategically uses this by letting the tail of her dress blow into the face of a mook trying to capture her blinding him and letting her get away.
78	* MasterOfDisguise: Akira wears a lot of disguises in episode 43.
79	** Mirror and Keller also do this a lot. It’s a wonder no-one recognises them after the first time.
80	* MeaningfulName: Hedorian is derived from Hedoro, meaning sludge.
81	* MindManipulation: Episode 42 has a monster sneaking into people's bodies and controlling them.
82	* MythologyGag: After ''[[Series/JAKQDengekitai JAKQ]]'' and ''[[Series/BattleFeverJ Battle Fever]]'' got experimental, this FiveManBand returns to the color scheme of ''[[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Goranger]]''.
83	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In episode 18, the Vader Clan turned 4 people into sea creatures they are descended from. They tell 3 of them to go destroy a power plant. Instead, the people instantly die in the water because the water is too polluted for them to survive in.
84	* OffWithHisHead: Musasabilar, the first Monster of the Week, is beheaded by the Denzi Sword's Electric Full-Moon Cut before falling to the ground dead and exploding.
85	* OpeningShoutOut: Episode 40 has Akagi boxing a black man and punching him out cold, like in his shot of the opening. Even better, it’s the same black guy.
86	* Police Are Useless: The police are doubtlessly a Red Shirt Army in the first episode when they faced a giant Vader Monster on their own.
87	* RapidAging: The Monster Of The Week in episode 8 does this to Daigorou and some kids.
88	* Really700YearsOld: In episode 40, General Hedrer says the boxing match will be seen by Queen Hedrian for her 7,600th birthday.
89	* RecapEpisode: Some of episode 29.
90	** Also some of The Movie, but only about 8 episodes had aired so far.
91	* RiddleMeThis: The Riddle based monster in episode 28.
92	* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Is asked in episode 28 by the Monster Of The Week, but he claims the answer of a human is wrong.
93	* RoadSignReversal: The Vader Mooks do this to hurt the rangers ability to find Daigoro and the kids in the mountains in episode 46.
94	* SawAWomanInHalf: In episode 31, Vader tries to blackmail the magician Mari into murdering Daigoro during a saw a person in half trick. Eventually it seems like she gives in but she and Daigoro instead use this as an opportunity to fake Daigoro's death to lure the Vader out. In episode 49, General Hedrer dresses as a magician and threatens to saw Denzi Green in half.
95	* ScarfOfAsskicking: Part of the ranger outfit.
96	* SecretKeeper: Officer Chieko becomes this to the Denziman in a way. She quickly figures Denzi Green out, and realizes the other 4 people he often hangs out with must be the other 4 and confronts him about it but he plays dumb yet knows full well he's not really fooling her. So there's sort of an unspoken understanding that she knows and they know she knows but never really openly state it to the point where Chieko often slips them intel and Akira doesn't even try to hide her identity from her when she rescues her in episode 43.
97	* SequelHook: Rather than being totally defeated, Hedrian is merely [[SealedEvilInACan frozen]], [[spoiler:which provides an opening for her return in ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'']].
98	* ShirtlessScene: When the group is on the beach in The Movie.
99	** Ippei in the boxing match in episode 40.
100	* ShoutOut: Hedrian resembles Hela from Marvel Comics.
101	** Likewise, Commander Hedder resembles Baron Zemo.
102	* SneezeCut: In episode 43, the Vader Clan are trying to kidnap beauty pageant winners. Eventually the villains say we might need to lower our standards. The scene cuts to Officer Chieko sneezing, and saying she thinks someone is talking about her. And she does end up kidnapped.
103	* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: In episode 27, the monster hides as a tree trunk. The two boys are searching for more beetles in it. When they can't find any one uses a magnifying glass to look closer. The Monster Of The Week drops it's camouflage because it's jumping around in agony over the heat the magnifying glass did on it.
104	%% * TakenForGranite
105	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Daigorou just has to get his anpan.
106	* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Queen Hedrian leaves and plots a comeback, and was never in a battle.]]
107	* VillainousCrush: Derringer could've defeated the rangers in episode 28 if he wasn't busy trying to get Akira's love.
108	* YouKilledMyFather: Tatsuya's father died at the hands of Vader minions in the first episode.

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