Line #66 Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger


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9	''Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger'' (High-Speed Squadron Turboranger) is the thirteenth entry of Franchise/SuperSentai series, airing from 1989 to 1990. At the time of airing, it was considered part of Super Sentai's tenth anniversary celebration.[[note]]Rights issues prevented ''Gorenger'' and ''JAKQ'' from being called "Super Sentai" from 1988 to 1994.[[/note]] Kenta Satou sang the TitleThemeTune.
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11	Because of nature being destroyed, the fairies can no longer maintain the seal on the Hundred Boma Tribes, who have now revived in an attempt to TakeOverTheWorld. The fairy, Seelon, under the command of Saint Beast Lakia, calls out to five warriors who can hear her voice, five high school students (who apparently stumbled upon the fairies lair and witnessed them). And they fight the Boma, using the combined power of mysticism from Seelon, and science (mainly cars) from their guiding professor as the Turborangers!
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14	!!'''Recurring''' Super Sentai tropes:
15	* AllYourPowersCombined: The Turbo Laser Plasma Shoot.
16	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Turboranger!" Or, once more, their individual names.
17	%%* CallingYourAttacks
18	* ColorCharacter: Another "[English color] [team prefix]" Sentai.
19	* CombinationAttack: One of their team attacks is called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Combination Attack!]]"
20	* CoolBike: The five Mach Turbo bikes, one for each member.
21	* CoolCar: The team's own vehicles served as components for their GiantRobot. Red Turbo also got his own stand-alone vehicle in the form of the Turbo Attacker.
22	** FlyingCar: Turbo GT can fly.
23	* {{Crossover}}: The first episode is a retrospective of all the previous Sentai shows since ''Series/BattleFeverJ''. However, it is not an actual crossover, as the previous rangers [[FakeShemp only appear in costume]] to [[SuperSentaiStance pose]] and wish them luck with the current team and they're not involved in any actual storyline. Still, the retrospective did have the largest on-screen gathering of Sentai teams with 53 rangers (ten teams of five, plus [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan a trio]]), a record later broken by ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' with exactly 146 additional heroes.
24	* EyeCatch: Turbo Robo is shown, which then becomes the Turborangers and a colorful explosion. Coming back from the commercial, we have Seelon showering fairy dust then showing Saint Beast Lakia.
25	** In the Super Sentai retrospective, the eyecatch before the break shows Red Turbo posing with the ten previous red rangers ([[Series/BattleFeverJ Battle Japan]], [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Denzi Red]], [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Vul Eagle]], [[Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive Goggle Red]], [[Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman Dyna Red]], [[Series/ChoudenshiBioman Red One]], [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Change Dragon]], [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman Red Flash]], [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Red Mask]] and [[Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman Red Falcon]]). After the break, the eyecatch features Pink Turbo posing with all the previous female rangers (Miss America, Denzi Pink, Goggle Pink, Dyna Pink, Yellow Four & Pink Five, Change Mermaid & Change Phoenix, Yellow Flash & Pink Flash, Yellow Mask & Pink Mask, and Blue Dolphin).
26	* FinishingMove: The Turbo Laser Plasma Shoot, succeeded by the V-Turbo Bazooka.
27	* FiveManBand:
28	** TheLeader: Riki, the hyperactive [[RedIsHeroic red ranger]] who takes charge in battle.
29	** TheSmartGuy: Daichi, the intelligent [[NumberTwo second-in-command]] black ranger.
30	** TheBigGuy: Youhei, the athletic [[BlueIsHeroic blue ranger]].
31	** TheLancer: Shunsuke, the carefree joker yellow ranger.
32	** TheHeart: Haruna, the [[PinkHeroine pink ranger]] and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple one girl]].
33	* HomeBase: The Turbo Builder, which could actually combine with the Super Turbo Robo.
34	* HumongousMecha: Featured both, the first six-piece combination in Sentai, as well as the first seven-piece combination. Since the team started with five members from the get go, their main robot was once again a five-piece combination and two upgrades were introduced mid-series that could combine with it.
35	** AMechByAnyOtherName: The Turbo Machines.
36	** CombiningMecha: Turbo GT (Red) + Truck (Black) + Jeep (Blue) + Buggy (Yellow) + Wagon (Pink) = Turbo Robo
37	** TransformingMecha: The Rugger Fighter, which transforms into the Turbo Rugger
38	** MechaExpansionPack: The Turbo Rugger and the Turbo Builder.
39	*** Turbo Robo + Turbo Rugger = Super Turbo Robo
40	*** Super Turbo Robo + Turbo Builder = Super Turbo Builder
41	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: In a rare aversion, there are no fancy poses or name announcements, to the point that Gaoranger vs Super Sentai had to film one especially.
42	* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: By around #38, guess who manages to trounce Redha and Zimba by himself? Riki! That's who! He also gets two vehicles, a Mach Turbo bike like everyone else, and the Turbo Attacker buggy.
43	* LighterAndSofter: Overall, this season is when Super Sentai got less serious. [[MoodWhiplash Especially jarring]] after the ''very'' dark turn the ending of the previous season, Liveman, had.
44	* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Unlike the past Super Sentai, where there was one monster whose job was only this, the task of enlarging the monsters fell to whomever supervised the evil scheme of the week. For whatever reason, all the methods had one thing in common: tornadoes.
45	** Redha would play [[LoudOfWar a tune on his staff that causes the Turborangers pain]], making an image of his face appear and shoot down a tornado that revived and enlarged the monster.
46	** Zimba would make hand gestures to summon a red tornado to revive and enlarge his monsters.
47	** Jarmin would open her mouth to release a fiery snake that would go into the sky to summon a tornado.
48	** Zulten would blow on his dried-out blowfish to summon a blue tornado (anyone sensing a pattern here?) that not only would revive and enlarge his monsters, but also drain the lifeforce of the Turborangers in the process.
49	** At least once, Yamimaru caused a monster to grow using a spider-like creature perched on his shoulder. Like all the others, it summoned an energy tornado to revive the monster. Another time, he fired a beam from his helmet.
50	** Even Kirika could grow the monsters, by spinning her ring knife thingy.
51	** On two occasions following Lagorn's initial defeat, his regenerating remains grew a monster.
52	* MiniDressOfPower: Part of Pink Turbo's costume.
53	* {{Mooks}}: The Wulars
54	** EliteMook: Wu and Lar, the twin captains of the Wulars.
55	* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boma Beasts
56	* TheMovie: A new MonsterOfTheWeek tried to revive his 'dad', who caused Seelon's sister to die sealing it. The Turborangers must stop the monster before Seelon tries to sacrifice her life sealing the monster like her sister.
57	* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase
58	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The second lone girl in a row and a return to pink. However, Seelon does serve the role of a second heroine to the team, much like Colon did to Liveman, despite not being in the core team and not even fighting occasionally like Colon (though she did operate the Turbobuilder's cannons on one occasion).
59	* SupervillainLair: The Bōma Castle, a giant flying gold statue-ship thing.
60	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Every StrictlyFormula episode
61	* TransformationTrinket: The Turbo Brace.
62	* VillainsActHeroesReact: As is the norm for ''Super Sentai'', we generally have the Boma sending out a MOTW with an EvilPlan OnceAnEpisode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them.
63	* WeaponBasedCharacterization:
64	** SwissArmyWeapon: The Turbolasers.[[note]]Gun and [[CoolSword Sword]] Modes[[/note]]
65	*** BifurcatedWeapon: Riki and Yōhei can combine their Turbolasers with their personal weapons to form stronger weapons.
66	** {{BFG}}: The V-Turbo Bazooka.
67	** Riki: [[CoolSword GT-Sword]]
68	** Daichi: T-Hammer
69	** Youhei: J-Gun[[note]]J-Gun + Turbolaser Gun Mode = [[MoreDakka J-Machine Gun]][[/note]]
70	** Shunsuke: [[AutomaticCrossbows B-Bowgun]]
71	** Haruna: [[CarryABigStick W-Stick]].
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73	!!Tropes Specific To Kousoku Sentai Turboranger
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75	* AnachronismStew: Evidently, they had Minokasas and picture books 20000 years ago.
76	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Lakia at the beginning. [[spoiler:Seelon followed suit at the end]].
77	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The letter on each Turboranger's belt buckle and the beginning letters of their weapons represents his or her designated Turbo Machine: GT (for Gran Tourer) , T(ruck) J(eep), B(uggy) and W(agon).
78	* TheChewToy: Yohei just can't seem to take a break. Aside of being the teacher's most prominent target of scolding (aside of Riki, that is), he gets poisoned and nearly dying in place of Haruna (and then she accidentally hit him on the head using volleyball); then a Boma swapped his face with a nerd who proceeds to show cowardice using his face; while Yohei had to do heroics with the Nerd's face, and when the face returns to default, the girls who used to swoon over him now abandon him for the Nerd thanks to the heroics Yohei did using the Nerd's face and the Nerd's cowardice using Yohei's face.
79	* ClipShow: The series actually starts with one. The first episode has the appearance of the past 10 Sentai, with most of it being an overview of each of them lasting a few minutes each and showing various clips.
80	* DealWithTheDevil: One MonsterOfTheWeek heals a girl's finger so she can play flute in a concert, but whenever she plays her flute in front of children, it steals their energy and makes them sick.
81	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Yamimaru and Kirika serve as this for the show's second half, with their story being just as important to the plot as the heroes'.
82	* DirtyCoward: Zulten works for whoever is in charge of Boma Castle at the time. He has no loyalty to anyone.
83	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The opening and endings are sung by Kenta Satou, who plays Red Turbo. He even puts on his old costume when he does them in concert.
84	* TheDulcineaEffect: One episode has Youhei meet a girl with the same name as a girl he was friends with as a kid who lives in the same house, which is said to be cursed, which caused his old friend to leave. Turns out the curse was because of a MonsterOfTheWeek sealed in the house's basement.
85	* DynamicEntry: The Turbo Robo always opens up the fight with this (using it's fists, though), since it basically roller-skates to the opponent upon formation.
86	* DramaticIrony: One episode focuses on Shunsuke’s happy memories of a girl he played with 10 years prior, and at the end, he hopes she grew up to be “a fine young woman”. Throughout the episode, the audience (but not he heroes) are shown that said girl was Kirika, who hates that experience, since it reminds her of [[ThatManIsDead her life as Sayo Tsukkikage]].
87	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Yamimaru and Kilika. To the surprise of a few viewers, the resident bitch Jarmin is actually showing some genuine feelings with the resident love-hater Zimba, and he reciprocates by taking her place first when Ragorn sentenced her to death, and when he died, she felt rather crushed.
88	* EnormousEngine: The power source of the V-Turbo Bazooka.
89	* FakeDefector: Haruna makes up a plan to [[FakingAmnesia fake amnesia]] to recover an antidote on the fly after taking a hit to the head during battle. Despite being unplanned, it works flawlessly.
90	* FlungClothing: During a BigDamnHeroes moment when the Turborangers dress up like samurai in order to save Daichi and a kid from a MonsterOfTheWeek that transforms people into samurai who think they're in ancient Japan, the disguised Turboranger do this after destroying the monster's hat that it uses for the transformation.
91	* FreezeFrameBonus: Comes into play as early as the first episode, where Jarmin's snake face flashes for a bit on the screen. Brrr.
92	* GracefulLoser: Sumo Boma's congratulates Turbo Robo for beating him in a giant-sized sumo match and, satisfied that he found a WorthyOpponent, falls over and explodes.
93	* GratuitousEnglish: Riki has "First in the hands of a champion" written on the back of his jacket.
94	* GreenAesop: See SpaceWhaleAesop below.
95	* HalfHumanHybrid: Yamimaru and Kilika
96	* [[spoiler:HappilyMarried]]: [[spoiler:Masked Devil Bouma (Kilika's father) and Kilika's mother (a human woman)]]
97	* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: A severely cruel one is pulled by Jarmin, holding the whole Bell Chime tribe as a hostage for Bell Chime Boma to fight the Turborangers, and when she eventually was thwarted, Jarmin personally destroyed the whole tribe in front of her. This is one move that cements her to be Turboranger's biggest bitch.
98	* LoveHurts: Zimba's origin. What makes him a TragicMonster was that his love WAS genuine, but the princess he was wooing rejected him in the time he needed mostly and stated how much she disliked him... like a ''bitch''. No wonder Zimba got pissed.
99	* {{Magitek}}: The heroes' powers are a result of fusing faerie magic and super science.
100	* MeaningfulName: The Turborangers are named after the elements and/or parts of the Earth.
101	** Riki Honoo (Red Turbo)
102	*** Riki = Power
103	*** Honoo = Flame
104	** Daichi Yamagata (Black Turbo)
105	*** Daichi = Earth
106	*** Yama = Mountain (also, Yamagata is a prefecture.)
107	** Youhei Hama (Blue Turbo)
108	*** Hei = Plains
109	*** Hama = Beach
110	** Shunsuke Hino (Yellow Turbo)
111	*** Hi = The sun
112	** Haruna Morikawa (Pink Turbo)
113	*** Haru = Spring (the season)
114	*** Mori = Forest
115	*** Kawa = River
116	** Hikaru Nagareboshi (villain)
117	*** Hikaru = Comes from light (hikari)
118	*** Nagareboshi = Shooting star
119	** Sayoko Tsukkikage (villain)
120	** Tsukkikage = moon shadow.
121	* MetaMecha: Super Turbo Builder, where Turbobuilder transforms into its' upright formation, then Super Turbo Robo enters within. This allows them to fire the [[{{BFG}} Super Turbo Builder Beam]], a massive wall of energy shaped like the team's "T" symbol, with the Super Turbo Robo's Super Mirage Beam contained within it.
122	* MidSeasonUpgrade: The V Turbo Bazooka (which may not count, since they had no cannon before it) for the weapons, and the Turbo Rugger for mecha. They also get a new base, the Turbobuilder, that can transform into a mecha as well. They get new weapons early on, but it's not close to midway then.
123	* MonsterClown: The Wular Soldiers (Mooks).
124	* MookDepletion: The Boma suffer this in the worst way, as after dealing with them failing too often, Lagorn forced Lehda, Zimba, and Jarmin into do-or-die tactics, resulting in all three of them being killed in battle with the Turboranger. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Because of this]], Lagorn was reluctantly forced to induct Yamimaru and Kilika into his ranks.
125	* MundaneMadeAwesome:
126	** Nagareboshi's piano playing, complete with behind the back and doing a handstand on the piano while playing.
127	** Also the episode with a HumongousMecha sumo wrestling the MonsterOfTheWeek after the villains [[MakeMyMonsterGrow make their monster grow]].
128	* Mystical108:[[spoiler: Neo-Ragorn's final plan is to break the Great Seal which will unleash 108 Bouma Beasts onto Earth.]]
129	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In episode 21, Daichi ends up wearing a sumo wrestler mawashi for a lot of the episode. At the very end of the show, it ends up unraveling, causing embarassment for everyone.
130	** In the episode 45, Tatsuo pantses his bullies and Youhei.
131	* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This is the first sentai to use the "-ranger" suffix since ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger''. At the time, "-man" was the dominant suffix, which had been used for the previous six sentai in a row (plus one additional time before that).
132	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Nagareboshi/Yamimaru goes so far as to tell Riki the weakness of one MonsterOfTheWeek so that he won't be killed by the Hundred Boma Tribes.
133	* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Preceded even the Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers in this situation. Granted, Seelon has the justifications that they saw her kin in the past, but there are other kids who saw her that way, but... maybe they lack attitude so they do not get chosen?
134	* RedOniBlueOni: The two henchmen of Oni Bōma in Episode 9 were literally a Red Oni and a Blue Oni. Episode 18 uses the more subtle one with the Makyoudai (Demon Brothers), Hyoma and Enma.
135	* RedStringOfFate: Yamimaru and Kilika, he even uses it literally to save her from falling to her death. [[spoiler: She repays the favour in the finale]].
136	* RugbyIsSlaughter: Slaughtering giant monsters, at any rate. Turborugger's called that for a reason; it even has a "Battle Ball" it can kick.
137	* SealedEvilInACan: The Hundred Boma Tribes. Unusually for Super Sentai, it's not just the villains, but every single MonsterOfTheWeek, one of whom is found and unsealed every episode. Making this series a rare justification for why only one monster attacks at a a time.
138	* ShoutOut:
139	** Hikaru Nagareboshi's human form with the cap, [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent swagger]], and heavy-coat uniform looks a lot like Jotaro Kujo from the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' arc of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Or Tsurugi Momotaro from ''Manga/SakigakeOtokojuku''.
140	** Yamimaru is also a CharClone of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' fame because he's a masked man with an agenda who has a fierce rivalry with Riki Honoo and can change into his human guise to better blend with society. His final form even has him wearing [[RedBaron all-red armor]] alongside fellow half-breed Kirika.
141	* SpaceWhaleAesop: Take care of nature, or else the fairies won't be able to protect Earth from the Hundred Bōma Tribes.
142	* VillainousPlanInertia: In the finale, despite defeating Neo-Lagorn, the Turborangers still had to keep the Boma Castle from crashing into the Turbo Builder and releasing the huge Boma army sealed beneath it.
143	* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Early on, the Turborangers (mainly Riki) are always getting yelled out by their teacher for shirking class. Lessened later on as the teacher becomes less cartoony and is shown to genuinely care about her students.
144	* WeaponSpecialization: Jarmin's weapon of choice is a whip.
145	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: In episode 43, a meek and nerdy fellow student, bullied by his peers, steals Blue Turbo's transformation brace, thinking that being a hero will earn him respect. However, his actions only end up putting not only himself but the Turborangers in jeopardy.

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