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The Jetmen
In General
- Animal Motif: Birds, naturally. Their costume designs and first two mechas are heavily inspired by them.
- Captain Ersatz: Due to their bird motifs, the group itself is the Super Sentai version of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Unlike the Fivemen who are siblings, the Jetmen are five unrelated people.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Jetman is the fifteenth Super Sentai but is considered as one of the most popular ones in the franchise.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A military officer who lost his girlfriend in an early Vyram attack; a rebellious, womanizing Ineffectual Loner; a rich, spoiled princess; a clumsy, Acrofatic Farm Boy and an immature Tomboy who initially is Only in It for the Money. It takes a lot of time for them to actually become a true team (specially Gai) but they do in the end.
Ryu Tendo/Red Hawk
Ryū Tendō/Red Hawk | Actors: Kotaro Tanaka (live), Kazuo Niibori (suit, main), Hiroshi Maeda (suit, secondary)
- Accent Slip-Up: In episode 7, he briefly slips into a country accent out of shock when his grandmother reveals she's planning an arranged marriage for him to the amazment and amusement of his teammates.
- Arranged Marriage: By his grandma, no less.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the toughest and most skilled of the Jetmen. Justified by him being a Skyforce officer, and thus the only one who had any actual training before becoming a Jetman.
- Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Gai's Veronica for Kaori's Archie. He wins.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Is one briefly after learning that Rie is Maria, where he loses his mind and starts believing that Rie is with him. He gets better.
- Combination Attack: Preforms one with guy in their mechs. Double Jet Beam.
- Cool Car: The Jet Striker which transfroms into the team's finisher weapon, the Fire Bazooka.
- Driven to Suicide: His efforts in avenging Rie's death leads to him committing a suicide attack, using the Jet Striker on him and Radiguet. He gets better.
- Experienced Protagonist: He is already a tenured military man compared to his teammates.
- Fatal Flaw: His hatred towards Radiguet for killing Rie would have doomed the Jetmen had they not rescued him in time.
- The First Cut Is the Deepest: He's pretty hung up about Rie's death. Later, he finds out that the villain Maria is his dead girlfriend.
- Heroic BSoD: He has a major one when he realizes that Maria is Rie all along to the point that he's nearly Driven to Suicide when he tries to avenge her death. He gets better.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He attempts to kill himself and Radiguet to avenge Rie. It doesn't work.
- Hidden Depths: The Vyram's scheme of the week in Episode 11 reveals a hidden part of each team members' personality, in Ryu's case he becomes a lazy oaf with no motivation for anything.
- Interrupted Suicide: His suicide attack to avenge Rie is rendered moot when Radiguet destroys the Jet Striker.
- It's Personal: Has this against Radiguet after he kills Rie, and tries to kill him in a suicide attack with the Fire Bazooka. Ironically survives because Radiguet destroys it and allows the other Jetmen to come to his rescue.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: He gets his own vehicle, the Jet Striker, which is the team's BFG, too. His Jet Hawk is also the biggest among the Jet Machines, and he's the only Jetman to have had formal training beforehand.
- The Leader: He serves as the team's leader.
- Military Superhero: He is a member of Skyforce prior to becoming Red Hawk. In fact, Jetman is supposed to be composed of Skyforce members but only Ryū received his powers when the Vyram attacks.
- Noble Male, Roguish Male: He's the straitlaced, traditionally heroic leader in contrast to the rakish, bad boy Gai.
- Official Couple: He initially gets engaged with Rie, until she was Killed Off for Real. He and Kaori get together in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
- Precious Photo: In Episode 22, he reveals he keeps a photo of Rie on him at all times secured under his wrist communicator.
- Red Is Heroic: Obvious as he is the red ranger of the team but also because he is the only experienced Sky Force operative in the group and emphasised protecting the world when trying to recruit the others.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The rational and professional blue to Gai's red.
- Revenge Before Reason: When Radiguet kills Rie, he decides to exact revenge on Radiguet to the point that he abandons the Jetman's mission to help others. It would have gotten himself killed had Radiguet not destroyed the Jet Striker and the remaining Jetman not rescue him.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He attempts to avenge Rie's death at the hands of Radiguet. Fortunately, he snaps out of it thanks to Kaori and the other Jetmen.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Subverted. In the penultimate episode, he attempts to leave his comrades behind to avenge Rie's death. However, it doesn't work and he rejoins the Jetmen for good.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Played For Drama. He is focused on Rie, while he believed she died, that he completely ignored Kaori's own attempts to win his heart. It got worst when he learns she survived and became Maria of the Vyram, her death resulting in a murder-suicidal Heroic BSoD.
- Standardized Leader: Besides his rivalry with Gai and his coping with Rie's death, he's the usual Red colored leader.
- Taking You with Me: Towards the end of the series, Ryū decides to use the Jet Striker to kill both himself and Radiguet in order for the former to avenge Rie's death. Unfortunately for him, it backfires because Radiguet ends up destroying the Jet Striker and the Jetmen pull a Big Damn Heroes moment.
- This Is Unforgivable!: He yells "You won't be forgiven!" to Radiguet before he transforms into Red Hawk to avenge Rie.
Gai Yuki/Black Condor
Gai Yūki/Black Condor | Actors: Toshihide Wakamatsu (live), Naoki Ōfuji (suit)
- Anti-Hero: He started off as a rebellious loner who had big issues with Ryu. He grows out of this after his Character Development as he sees his team as True Companions until the end.
- Badass Biker: Gai is already an avid biker before becoming Black Condor. His badassery is just heightened once he received his powers.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Ryū's Betty for Kaori's Archie. He ultimately loses, but on his terms.
- Breakout Character: Gai is one of the most loved Black Rangers amongst the fandom. So much that he's the guy to represent Jetman in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, temporarily coming Back from the Dead to give some life lessons to the next generation.
- The Casanova: Likes to flirt with every woman he sees, including his teammate Kaori, and he knows it.
- Combination Attack: Double Jet Beam with Ryu which they preform in their mechs.
- Cool Bike: He has two, a 1991 Suzuki TS 125 R that he rides as a civilian before and after he gains his powers and a Jet Speeder as Black Condor.
- Dead All Along: In Gokaiger the titular heroes cross paths with Gai, not realizing he's now a ghost until they stumble upon his grave.
- Dead Guy Junior: The "Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia" retrospective reveals that Ryu and Kaori named their child after him. The questionably-canonical sequel manga has Raita and Satsuki do the same.
- Determinator: When Gai sets his mind to something, he lets it slip from his mind until he does it.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: How did Gai return for "Gokaiger"? By using his usual charm, and card skills, to get a goddess, implied to be actual big "G" God, to briefly revive him and afterwards he plays his saxophone for her.
- Does Not Like Spam: He abhorrs Natto (fermented soybeans).
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets fatally stabbed almost out of nowhere in the final episode. Though it does take a while for him to bite the dust afterwards.
- Dying Alone: He dies on the bench after seeing Ryo and Kaori's wedding.
- Face Death with Dignity: Gai came close to death twice in the series (being crystallized and literally sent to Hell), and for those times, he was scared shitless. The third time he does that, he decided to not be scared against death anymore, attended Ryu and Kaori's wedding with his wounds and died smiling, satisfied with his life.
- Groin Attack: Mostly down against Mooks.
- Go Out with a Smile: By the end of the series, he dies on the bench while smiling.
- Heroic Willpower: In the Grand Finale, he got stabbed and yet forces himself to make it to Ryu and Kaori's wedding.
- Henpecked Husband: While dating Kaori, until he decides to end their relationship on good terms since he couldn't change his lifestyle for her.
- Hidden Depths: The Vyram's scheme of the week in Episode 11 reveals a hidden part of each team members' personality, in Gai's case, he becomes an extremely insecure goody two shoes who looks to Ryu for validation.
- Image Song: Honoo no Condor ("Condor's Flame"), by Gai's actor Toshihide Wakamatsu.
- Ineffectual Loner: He starts off wanting to be left alone, but given that he's one of the only people who can become Jetmen he ends up having to join the team. Eventually he drops this attitude and becomes a dependable teammate for his fellow Jetmen.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: While he truly loved Kaori, growing close to her and becoming best buds with his rival Ryu, he ends their relationship on a high note so she can be with Ryu when he needed her most.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be rude and insensitive, but he does care for his teammates, including Ryu.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: He scoffs at Ryu's heroism, but deep down, Gai is just as heroic and caring as his rival. Lampshaded, in episode 11, when this then hidden side of his personality gets pulled to the forefront by the villains' scheme of the week.
- The Lancer: He gets into fights with Ryū especially often early on, but the two eventually become friends and develop one of the most spectacular bromances in all of Sentai. He's also his Number Two and the one trusted to lead the team when he's not around.
- Mr. Fanservice: Gai is widely popular among the female demographic.
- Musical Assassin: He's a sax player and he kicks so much ass.
- Noble Male, Roguish Male: He's the rakish bad boy to Ryu's straitlaced traditional hero.
- Not So Invincible After All: Yeah, he survived a year of fighting against the Vyrams. Then a random mugger's stab killed him, though it's ultimately justified as the power of the birdonic waves had long faded from him and therefore he was back to being a normal human.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The rebellious and cocky red to Ryū's blue.
- Refusal of the Call: At first he wants nothing to do with the Jetman, but as he was one of the people struck with the birdonic rays he doesn't have much of a choice.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Raita's Sensitive Guy.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Tends to be dressed like this. He actually wears a full black tuxedo for his casino roulette game with Grey.
- Signature Move: Condor Finish
- Smoking Is Cool: Gai is frequently seen with his cigs. Even as he's dying, he has One Last Smoke.
- Smoking Is Edgy: His cigarette smoking is used to play up his bad boy credentials especially in contrast to Ryu and Raita, who do not smoke.
- Sour Supporter: Once Gai is finally convinced to join the Jetman, he makes it clear he's not doing it wholeheartedly.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Out of the five Jetmen, he's the one given the most focus and characterization, beating out even Ryu.
- Tempting Fate: After apprehending a purse thief on the way to Ryu and Kaori's wedding in the last episode, he slaps the thief with the purse he'd stolen while telling him to "not ruin the day for him" as he lets him off the hook. The thief whips out a knife in a fit of rage and stabs him shortly after.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After Gai learns of Ryu's love drama with Maria/Rie and he sees Ryu stuck in Heroic BSoD, he stops being antagonistic to Ryu and starts being like a brother to him.
- Undying Loyalty: In Gokaiger he (being a ghost at this point) crosses paths with the Gokaigers (who were seeking the Jetmen). Gai is the only one Jetman who deals with the pirates and their situation, since he does not want his former Jetman teammates to be taken out of their now peaceful lives, acting like a guardian spirit of sorts for them.
- Walking Spoiler: Most of the major spoilers he has here revolve around the series finale and his death.
- Worf Had the Flu: His death in the series finale was only possible due to his powers from the birdonic waves fading away after years of not being used, therefore leaving him entirely vulnerable to being stabbed.
- Worthy Opponent: He comes to genuinely respect Grey, and even admits prior to their final battle that he doesn't really want a fight to the death with him and only complies because Grey makes it clear he won't take "no" for an answer.
Raita Oishi/Yellow Owl
Raita Ōishi/Yellow Owl | Actors: Ikko Tadano note (live, also secondary suit role), Hirofumi Ishigaki (suit, main)
- Acrofatic: Even though he's overweight, Raita's still capable of going toe-to-toe with Radiguet's mooks.
- Big Eater: A old tradition for Yellow Rangers. In several episodes, Raita can be seen eating with piles of empty dishes or ramen cups nearby.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: With a girl named Satsuki. He does marry her in the end.
- In the sequel manga they're expecting a son.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Raita has the hots for Kaori, just like Gai, but he never even gets the privilege to go out on a date with her.
- Dork Knight: Raita's clumsiness is as big as his bravery and strength.
- Farm Boy: He's a vegetable farmer by trade and is working on his farm when the Birdonic Waves hit him and he would have happily remained so had Kaori not convinced him to join the team. He keeps tending to his crop whenever he's not preforming his duties as a Jetman.
- Hidden Depths: The Vyram's scheme of the week in Episode 11 reveals a hidden part of each team members' personality, in Raita's case, he begins to act almost exactly like Gai to his horror.
- The second to last scene of Episode 36, implies he's a big baseball fan having brought a full uniform on vacation.
- Hopeless Suitor: Unlike Gai never had an actual chance with Kaori, which he is aware of from the start.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Was like this at first, but it didn't take long for him to come around to idea.
- Improvised Weapon User: One of his signature moves is hurling rocks at monsters.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy to Ako's Masculine Girl.
- Meaningful Name: Ōishi means "big rock". Guess what one of his signature moves is. Oishii, a homophone, sounds like "delicious", referring to his love of food.
- Rock Beats Laser: Despite fighting alien invaders, throwing giant rocks at monsters is still an effective tactic for him.
- Self-Deprecation: He sometimes takes his natural humility and tendency to not think high of himself that far.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Gai's Manly Man.
- Signature Move: Rock Drop... which consists of hurling giant rocks at the enemy. He even drops rocks onto giant enemies with his Jet Machine's claw.
- Stout Strength: He is one of the more visibly fat Sentai heroes, and one of the strongest physically.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Thanks to his career as a farmer, Raita already has the physical strength needed for the job when he's recruited. It takes a while for him to develop formal combat skills to go with it.
Kaori Rokumeikan/White Swan
Kaori Rokumeikan/White Swan | Actors: Rika Kishida (live), Yuichi Hachisuka (suit, main), Masato Akada (suit, secondary)
- All Girls Want Bad Boys:
- Subverted. While she does give Gai a chance, it is Ryu to whom she is attracted.
- Also subverted when she finds a fiance in the form of an Upper-Class Twit, after putting up with his Jerkass behavior for most of the episode (even stopping Gai from hitting him), she has enough when he makes a comment about the non-rich people's lives not being important.
- Betty and Veronica: The Archie for Ryū's Betty and Gai's Veronica. She chooses Ryū.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The reason she joins the Jetmen is because she's bored of the life of a rich girl and is looking for something exciting.
- Dude Magnet: Sort of. Gai and Raita both want a piece of her, in their own way! (Though Ryū, who wasn't originally interested in her, is the one who ultimately gets her)
- Girly Bruiser: Feminine and womanly? Yes. Took a Level in Badass? Yes.
- The Heart: She's the ladylike member of the group as being in addition the middle one in a Love Triangle.
- Hidden Depths:
- In episode 8, when dealing with Ako's greed being pushed into overdrive by the Monster of the Week, Kaori switches from her usual polite and soft tone into a stricter blunt one. Ako is visibly afraid of her.
- The Vyram's scheme of the week in Episode 11 reveals a hidden part of each team members' personality, in Kaori's case, she becomes obsessed with her wealth and can't comprehend her lesser off teammates.
- Jumped at the Call: Out of the four civilian Jetmen, she was the one most enthusiastic about becoming a hero to escape her daily humdrum life. Although she had a relapse at being again a Spoiled Brat after deciding she's unfit to be a warrior a couple of episodes later, this doesn't last and she's back pretty soon afterwards.
- Last Girl Wins: She outlives Rie and wins Ryu's heart.
- Official Couple: With Ryū in the epilogue.
- The Ojou: She comes from a wealthy family.
- Silk Hiding Steel: As The Ojou, she's proper and sophisticated but as she's also a capable fighter as White Swan.
- Religious Bruiser: In episode 4, it's implied she's Catholic by her wedding taking place in a church and by her crossing herself before running off to join the others in batttle.
- Runaway Bride: From an Upper-Class Twit; this lead to her jumping the Monster of the Week on a motorbike. Wearing her Fairytale Wedding Dress.
- Second Love: Being the woman Ryu marries in the epilogue.
- Taking the Bullet: Towards the end of the series, she rescues Ryu shortly after Radiguet tries to kill him.
- Token Rich Student: Far and away the wealthiest of not only the Jetman recruits, but the entire team in general. Best exemplified when she buys a small fortune of expensive items including jewelry and clothes, to motivate Ako to fight while she's under the spell of a monster.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Ako's Tomboy. Changes over the course of the series, where she becomes less shallow and materialistic.
- Uptown Girl: She is rich while both Ryū and Gai belong to the middle-class. This is one of the reasons her relationship with Gai doesn't work out.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: She is a wife and a mother when she marries Ryu.
Ako Hayasaka/Blue Swallow
Ako Hayasaka/Blue Swallow | Actors: Sayuri Uchida (live), Shōji Hachisuka (suit)
- Cool Bike: She rides a Jet Speeder motorcycle when she's not manning the Jet Bouncer's gun
- Cute Bruiser: She's both strong and cute at the same time.
- Hidden Depths: The Vyram's scheme of the week in Episode 11 reveals a hidden part of each team members' personality, In Ako's case she becomes incredibly gloomy and cries at the sight of a flower because of its' short life.
- High-School Hustler: Prior to her Character Development, she was quite materialistic who wanted to marry a rich man once she graduates from high school.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: She's... not very good at singing.
- Idol Singer: At the end of the series, she becomes a well-known pop singer.
- Kid-Appeal Character: She's the youngest member of the team.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Masculine Girl to Raita's Feminine Boy.
- Ms. Fanservice: Is subjected to quite a few panty shots.
- Only in It for the Money: At first. Want to hire her for the athletic team? Give her a good salary first. Want her to join the Jetman? Pay her 1500 yen per hour! She eventually grows out of this once she realized how much a dangerous threat Vyram is.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Until she got hit by the Birdonic Waves...
- Out of Focus: Definitely gets the least amount of focus episodes of all the Jetmen.
- To give you an idea: She and Gai are the only Jetmen who are only shown from the back after being hit by the Birdonic Waves; unlike Gai, however, who appears prior to the waves striking him, we don't see Ako's face until episode 2.
- Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: She sports a bob in a sci-fi heavy Sentai series.
- Shipper on Deck: She apparently ships Ryū/Kaori
- Shorttank: Often wears a short blue tank top.
- Signature Move: "Swallow Dash", which consists on a series of flips that confuse her enemies in instant.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Kaori's Girly Girl, until she becomes an Idol Singer in the epilogue.
- You Go, Girl!: She's an athlete in school.
Jeff Kenzaki/Green Eagle (manga only)
Jeff Kenzaki/Jeffrey Francois Schneider/Green Eagle
MANGA ONLY CHARACTER. UNMARKED SPOILERS BELOW.
A guitar and vocalist for the up-and-coming band "Black Eagle", Jeff was a fairly regular guy until a meteroite happened to land right in front of him. Waking up in the Skyforce infirmary, he was informed that he'd been exposed to Birdonic energy and asked to join the team, which he eagerly agreed to do. By nature, he's a sensitive and emotional person with a big heart.
- But Not Too Foreign: He's English, French, German, and Japanese, a quarter per each nationality to be precise.
- Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: To the late Gai Yuki, who is also his Foil in many ways: Gai is a pure Japanese black Jetman themed after a condor, while Jeff is a Japanese-European green Jetman themed after an eagle. Gai is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and The Dandy, while Jeff is a well-mannered guitarist with the Face of a Thug. And lastly, Gai didn't asked to be a Jetman in the first place and had to be convinced multiple times, while Jeff becomes very gung-ho when the Jetmen invited him to join them.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When he was a small child, the hardships Jeff's mother suffered were such that she planned a Murder-Suicide and even began choking him, talking about how they could be happy in the afterlife. Fortunately, she snapped out of it and those days are long past. If you can't believe it, he says they even laugh about it. So when Ryu talks about how he and Kaori need to be the ones to kill Buma if she can't be saved, because she's their daughter, Jeff is brought to tears.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Ruma's last act before perishing is to fuse him with Vyram cells from Mina, the entity she was controlling. This gives him a temporary Healing Factor and later allows the team to restore life to Aya once again.
- Face of a Thug: Kind of. He's taller than most people in Japan, and when the encountered the meteor, he was decked out in rock and roll gear with pierced ears, etc, as well as having startling blue eyes and blonde hair. The team were a bit startled when he turned out to be a cheerful, ebullient person.
- Fainting: A meteorite landed practically at his feet so passing out from shock is only natural.
- Fanboy: For Jetman, and a massive follower of Ako's career.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In order to restore Aya, he consents to a risky operation in which the cells from Mina are transplanted into Aya's body and his energy transferred into her. They both survive thanks to an infusion of energy from the other Jetman and a bit of help from the other side.
- Jumped at the Call: He was a big fan of the Jetman (particularly Ako) and so when they told him he'd been exposed to Birdonic Waves and asked him to join the team it was a dream come true.
- Noble Bird of Prey: He has an eagle motiff.
- Official Couple: He had a crush on Ako, she started out thinking he was a "Heavy-Metal Idiot". But then she saw his tender, brave, self-sacrificing side and fell for him.
- Phenotype Stereotype: Being Half-European in a manga, naturally he has blue eyes and blonde hair. He's also extremely tall compared to his friends and teammates.
- Sixth Ranger: Zig-Zagged. While he is the sixth person to join the team, with a unique colour and Ranger name to boot, its to replace a previous member.
- Tender Tears: He's a very soft-hearted person.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: An interesting case. Radiguet strikes at the team by kidnapping Ryu and Kaori's baby daughter Aya and quick-raising her into the older villainess Buma. Since he's the only member of the team without a connection Aya, Jeff volunteers to take the burden off of the others' shoulders by fighting her alone. The team doesn't allow it, though.
Skyforce
Commander Aya Odagiri
Commander Aya Odagiri | Actor: Mikiko Miki
The team's superior officer and mentor. A fair but firm woman whose not afraid to join her team in the field when needed.- Badass Normal: She's not a Super-Soldier like the Jetman team, but she's still manages to be this trope.
- Big Good: She's the main benefactor of the Jetman and the one responsible for organizing them to fight the Vyram.
- The Captain: She has the distinction of being the first female commander in the Super Sentai series. Appropriately enough, everyone calls her "commander".
- Da Chief: She's the officer in Skyforce who oversees the Jetman.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: While she never becomes a Jetman herself, on several occasions towards the end, she goes to back up the Neo-Jetman solo against Meteor B.E.M and later she pilots Jet Garuda to join the Jetmen in battle.
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: In Episode 43 the Jetman (minus Kaori) shrink Jet Icarus to go inside her body to fight Bio Dimension Beast.
- The Mentor: To the Jetman. She's the one who preps them to do battle.
- Mission Control: Her usual role for the Jetman.
- Team Mom: There are a lot of episodes where she feels more like a mother to each of the team members rather than their commanding officer, particularly in episode 36 when she takes them all on vacation. In episode 27, an old friend of hers even tells her she's "raised nice kids" in reference to the Jetmen. This is one factor that indicates how she's a superior leader to her supposed superior Ichijou, given that she managed to slowly but surely mold a bunch of civilians and her sole surviving soldier into an experienced, seamless, and effective fighting team that have beaten the Vyram time and again and far better than a trained squad of supposedly superior replacements.
- Sexy Mentor: She's The Mentor, strikingly beautiful, and only a few years older than the Jetman team.
- The Smart Girl: The Jetmen don't really have a Smart Guy among them, so it's usually Aya who handles most of these aspects, acting as The Strategist and providing the team with technical support.
Supreme Commander Akira Ichijou
Supreme Commander Akira Ichijou | Actor: Hideaki Tezuka
- Arc Villain: Of episodes 40-41, and even though Meteor BEM was the Monster of the Week of those episodes, Ichijou was one who drove the conflict towards the Jetmen with his replacement team.
- Bad Boss: Treats his Neo-Jetmen as expendable, even hurting them when they retreated from battling Meteor BEM and leaving them to die when the monster attacked headquarters.
- Dirty Coward: When Meteor BEM barged in the main control room that he was in, Ichijou told the monster to stay back and threw objects before being injured.
- Evil Is Petty: When Aya told him to fire her, Ichijou declined, telling her that she would suffer like he did.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Feeling extremely envious of Odagiri, Ichijou felt that the commander's position was supposed to be his and established the Neo-Jetmen to take her position.
- Hate Sink: In a series where the villain faction is led by abusive and sadistic backstabbers towards even each other who do many horrible things, this guy stands out as truly detestable due to as an immoral sociopath even though he's supposed to be on the side of good.
- Humans Are Bastards: Aya told Ichijou of how much of a pathetic excuse of a human individual he was with how he treated her and everyone else.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Had his Neo-Jetmen boot out the Jetmen and caused an extreme amount of disgust from the team and Aya.
- Lack of Empathy: Only cared about his position and as stated by Aya, Ichijou doesn't have any human decency or remorse for his actions.
- The Neidermeyer: Acts extremely strict and abusive towards both the Jetmen and his Neo-Jetmen, even telling the latter team to protect the base at all costs.
- The Sociopath: Ichijou only cares about himself and his career, doesn't give a damn about the Neo-Jetmen he established, acts rather spiteful towards Aya, and when Meteor BEM entered headquarters, Ichijou locked his team and Aya towards the monster's location, aggressively commanding them to protect the base, not even caring that they might get killed by the monster in the process.
- Token Evil Teammate: Of Skyforce as a whole, given how much of a selfish, abusive commander he was, in contrast to the Jetmen, Aya, and the Neo-Jetmen.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Was the one responsible for the Neo-Jetmen and took Aya's commander position to boot out the Jetmen.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Upon being attacked by Meteor BEM, he was never seen again. J1 just mentioned that Ichijou was physically fine from the attack, but wouldn't end up commanding anytime soon.
Neo-Jetman
Neo-Jetman
A second team of Jetman created by Supreme Commander Ichijou intended to be superior to the main team and briefly replaced them when they lost their powers.
- Anti-Hero Substitute:
- The Leader: J1 is the field leader of the team.
- Smug Super: Arrogantly declare themselves superior to the recently depowered Jetman.
- Token Good Teammate: J1. While at first he was just as arrogant and rude to the main team as the rest of his squad but after they rescued them from their first disastrous mech battle he began treating them with far more respect, while the other Neo-Jetman kept acting like jerks. He is also clearly not on board with how his superior treats Odagiri or that he lies about the possibility of the team regaining their lost powers when he apologizes to them when his team forces them out of Sky Camp .
- Unskilled, but Strong: Because they have Birdonic reactors implanted in their chests they're actually stronger then the original team before they lost their powers, however they lack their experience which is part of the reason why they decide to drain their reactors so their predecessors could resume the fight.
Other Allies
Jiiya
Jiiya | Actor: Yuzo Hayakawa
The Rokumeikan family butler who occasionally aids Kaori against Vyram plots.- Battle Butler: He could give an untransformed Kaori a run for her money with his kendo skills.
- Cool Old Guy: A polite and pleasant fellow whose willing aid his lady in her super heroics when needed.
- Hidden Depths: A kendo practitioner and seems have taught his lady the art.
- Old Retainer: To the Rokumeikan family having been in their serve for years and helped raised Kaori into the lady she is now.
- So Proud of You: Towards Kaori after she shakes of the crippling fear the Vyram had instilled in her.
- Undying Loyalty: To the Rokumeikans, Kaori especially.
Back Dimension Dimensian Soldiers
Back Dimension Dimensian Soldiers
Three warriors who were the sole survivors of the Vyram's previous conquest and the original pilots of Bird Garuda. All three possess the ability to transform into a warrior called Birdman but only Dan does so on screen.
In General
- Blue Is Heroic: All three of them.
- Breath Weapon: Birdman can breath fire.
- Killed Off for Real: At the end of the their second episode.
- Sole Survivor: They're all that remains for the last dimension the Vyram invaded.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: They only last two episodes leaving their mecha to the Jetman.
Ray | Actor:Yasuhiro Ishiwata
The Leader.- The Leader:
- Battle Couple: With Kanna
- Together in Death: With Kanna
Kanna | Actor: Kanako Maeda
- Battle Couple: With Ray.
- Together in Death: With Kanna.
Dan | Actor:Hideki Fujiwara
The youngest and least mature of the trio who flirts with Ako.
- Blue Is Heroic: His uniform and Birdman form.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Averted. The first thing he does to show his interest in Ako is flip her skirt up.
- Love Interest: For Ako.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Goes on one against Radiguet after the Count kills his teammates. While he puts up a good fight this sadly results in his own demise.
Dimensional War Party Vyram
In General
A group of interdimensional nobles who conquered numerous worlds in the Back Dimension before setting their sights on ours next.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: They're evil, otherworldly nobles who invade worlds for fun.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: All of the leaders the Vyram went through (Juuza, Tranza and Radiguet) got there by being stronger than the other executives and claiming the throne by force.
- Big Bad Ensemble: At the beginning the Vyram lacked a leader among them, so the Big Bad role was more or less split between the four executives (Radiguet, Tran, Grey and Maria), though they're all competing to become leader by seeing who can kill the Jetmen.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Zone from Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman were a league of alien invaders all unified towards the same goal, while the Vyram are interdimensional invaders with no centralized leadership who feud with each other almost as much as they do the heroes they fight.
- Deadly Decadent Court: Evil nobles who plot against each other just as much as they do the heroes.
- Dimension Lord: They already took over their own home universe of the Back Dimension before coming to ours.
- Enemy Civil War: They're more-or-less engaged in a cold war for most of the series, as they're all competing to become leader by defeating the Jetmen. It later gets hot when Juuza arrives and the executives all rebel against her, and gets hot again when Tranza takes power and Radiguet and the others begin scheming against him.
- Evil Will Fail: There are numerous where one of the Vyram has the Jetmen on the cusp of the defeat, only for the other executives to sabotage them so they can be the one to defeat the Jetmen.
- The Starscream: Any time someone actually becomes leader of the Vyram, the other executives all become this in turn, as they want to be leader as well.
Radiguet
Count Radiguet | Actor: Daisuke Tachi
- Arch-Enemy: He's this to the Jetman in general, but Ryu and him share a special hatred of each other. Among the Super Sentai main villains, he stands as one of the most personal in the franchise.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: While all of the Vyram are elitist nobles, Radiguet stands out as a particularly cruel. He's also the only one to have an aristocratic title, as Count Radiguet.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Prior to his final battle with the Jetman team's Humongous Mecha, he gets a weak spot on his back, from the sword stab Maria/Rie gave him in her last act, which is amplified to a massive wound when he transforms into his Raguem form. The Jetman piloting Jet Icarus succeed in killing him by stabbing his back with the Birdonic Saber while Ryu holds him in place with Jet Garuda to ensure he won't escape.
- Big Bad: Ultimately, he becomes the show's undisputed main villain having usurped all the others. He also stands as the Jetman's most personal enemy during the series as well having put them though immense horrors even before he officially claimed the title.
- Blood from the Mouth: He coughs up blood after he is fatally stabbed in the back by Jet Icarus.
- Body Horror: As Raguem, his head located on his stomach with his face transitioning from its usual vistage to Radigan's.
- Chekhov's Gun: In episode 17, Empress Juuza punishes the traitorous Radiguet by erasing his memories and giving him a human form before banishing him to Earth, to have him live as a "human vermin". Radiguet not only recovers from this very soon, but ends up using his human form much later to trick Ryu into helping him defeat Tranza.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- To Captain Garoa, each being their leader's righthand and bear a grudge on a red ranger for an attack on the face. But Garoa has Undying Loyalty to Meadow with a red and black color scheme and suffers Villain Decay that ultimately turns him into a Butt-Monkey, Radiget is treacherous with blue and silver color scheme who manages to take over Vyram.
- To Vulgyre, each being a Final Boss who manipulated heroes and villains alike to suit his goals and fights the former in an Eldritch Abomination form with the villians' base intergrated in it. But Vulgyre is a Living Ship that intentionally evolved into his Super Galactic Beast form, while Radiget's Raguem form was an unexpected side-effect of asborbing Veronica's energies and converted the Vylock into protective armor.
- Dead Hat Shot: When he's finally destroyed, the only thing left is his helmet.
- Demoted to Dragon: He was the biggest contender for Big Bad early into the series, but after Juuza arrives he's forced to serve her again. Up until the Jetmen defeat her and he finishes her off an episode later, that is. Later, he gets demoted again under Tranza, though he ends up usurping Tranza too.
- The Dragon: He's Juuza's favored minion and is even referred by her as her "best servant". At least until he tries backstabbing her...
- Dragon Ascendant: He's the Vyram general who makes it to the Big Bad spot.
- Dying Curse: Just as he's dying, he vows that his soul will haunt the Jetmen forever, even after death.
- Embodiment of Vice: Arrogance and Pride. He considers himself superior to humans, and everyone else.
- Enemy Civil War: He and Tranza end up feuding for control of the Vyram once Tranza rapidly matures. Radiguet is the one who comes out on top.
- Enemy Mine: Teams up with the Jetmen at least twice to take down his rivals for the Big Bad spot.
- Eviler than Thou: Both Juuza and Tranza ultimately learned why underestimating him is a bad idea.
- Final Boss: He ends up becoming the very last threat the Jetmen has to fought... and how, it shows!
- A God Am I: He claimed himself as a god when issuing Vyram's invasion declaration to Earth and curses Ryu for making him spill his "sacred blood" when he scarred his face. He also claimed his "holy body was invincible" during the final battle, after his merger with the Vylock.
- The Heavy: He's the most proactive of the Vyram and tends to take into the field often to get involved directly in whatever plan he's concocting or whatever battles he has to attend.
- If I Can't Have You…: Inflicts this on Maria, with fatal results.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: His interactions with Maria border on this quite often, as he's almost always touching her face and reminding her she belongs to him.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
- At the conclusion of his battle with the Jetmen, Ryu distracts Radiguet long enough for the Jet Icarus to stab the Birdonic Saber in his stomach.
- And before that, he was already backstabbed with a sword by Maria/Rie, which doesn't immediately kill him but gives him the weak spot in his back that enables Ryu to kill him with the Jet Icarus' Birdonic Saber.
- It's All About Me: Screw the rest of the Vyram. Radiguet wants to take everything for himself, even from his fellow elites.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's a horrible monster, and will never accept that there could be a nice guy underneath that. It won't end well for the one who suggests it. There are moments where he'll show some sympathetic, noble, and humane qualities with Saki and Ryu but in the end, he'll always go back to being a ruthless bastard who takes the low road.
- Karmic Death: He figuratively backstabs a female Vyram (his former boss, Empress Juuza) and indirectly defeats her by telling the Jetmen to attack her weak point (the gem on her forehead). How does he die? After gaining a weak point on his back, by being literally backstabbed by a former female Vyram, the Jetmen attack him in that wound.
- Kick the Morality Pet: While rendered an amnesic human by Juuza, he was found by Saki and fell in love with her, curing her fatal illness. Then he got his memory back and helped the Jetman defeat Juuza, later killing her in her weakened state. When Saki pleas Radiguet to not forsake his gain humanity, he kills her. There's no regrets afterwards unlike the others in this trope, he treats it like just another Tuesday of his glorious, evil bastard life and continues with his Semimaru evil plan like nothing happened.
- Knight of Cerebus: In general, his plans tend to be much darker than his fellow Vyram officers.
- Manipulative Bastard: If he fell off the villain threat level (due to Juuza or Tranza), he usually resorts to this to get back to the top of the food chain, usually using the Jetmen as his pawns.
- Meaningful Name: "Radiguet" was also the last name of a French author who wrote a book called "Devil in the Flesh," which describes this Radiguet well.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: During their first fight, Ryu manages to leave a cut on his face, causing him to go berserk.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His cruel manipulation of Rie is what ultimately spelled his defeat; if she hadn't stabbed him, he wouldn't have had a weak point and the Jetmen wouldn't have been able to destroy him.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: His Raguem form is immune to Great Icarus' Bird Maser, but gains a weak point due to a stab wound Rie inflicts on him before dying. He attempts to cover it with the armor formed from the Vylock, but Jet Garuda punches it off him, and grapples him long enough for Jet Icarus to impale him in the wound with the Birdonic Saber.
- One-Winged Angel: He has a more powerful, yet uglier form named Radigan that he transforms into when he gets really pissed. He also gains a giant form later called Raguem from asborbing the Veronica's enegries, converting the Vylock base into armor in the finale.
- Pride: Defines him quite a lot. He takes his superiority against humans highly, and wants nothing than being on the top of the food chain and be the one to defeat Jetman, which led him to pull off several Enemy Mine with the Jetman when his allies (Juza or Tranza) actually had them on the ropes, and indirectly dooming Vyram because he's just too prideful and refuses to be someone else's subordinate or share his position with the others.
- Redemption Rejection: After he got his memory back and killed Juuza, he had the opportunity to live among humans when Saki pleaded with him to stay with her. To say that he refused extremely understates his reaction.
- Rousseau Was Right: While Radiguet himself is an irredeemable monster, when he has all his memories wiped and is sent down to Earth as a normal human, he actually becomes a really nice guy and even genuinely falls in love with someone. Once he regains his memories, however...
- Spikes of Villainy: In his regular blueskinned form he's the spikiest of the four Vyram and also the meanest bastard of them all.
- Technicolor Death: After being impaled from behind by Jet Icarus, he curses the Jetmen before falling backward with the Jet Garuda, glowing with orange, firey energy and shooting out lighning in the five Jetman colors before being completely blown apart in a brilliant explosion.
- The Starscream: He manages to usurp the leadership position from both Empress Juza and later Tranza.
- The Sociopath: Radiguet is a text-book example. He cares for no one but himself and intentionally sets out to hurt and cause misery to others. His ambitions, ego and total Lack of Empathy compel him to relentlessly use both his enemies AND his would-be allies as pawns to achieve his goal of staying on top of them all.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: While not exclusive to him, among the Vyram, he makes the biggest habit of saving the Jetmen so he can kill them himself.
- Took a Level in Badass: While he was never harmless, he still tended to fall victim to The Worf Effect to show off a new threat like Juuza or Tranza (though he will come back to one-up them), but after draining the power from Tranza's Veronica robot, aside from the One-Winged Angel above, he also manages to No-Sell the Fire Bazooka.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Does owe the Jetmen for not being stuck as somebody's minion, but never changes his opinion of them, and the feeling is mutual.
- Villain Has a Point: He's actually half right when he declares that Humans Are Bastards to justify his assault, seeing that there's someone as petty as Commander Ichijou.
- Villainous Crush: On Rie, hence turning her into Maria, and a truly sick one at that, as his actions are less about having any feelings for her (he only cares about himself) as much as desiring to possess and control her, even if it means reducing her to a mindless beast.
- Villainous Rescue: When the Jetman team are on the ropes due to Juuza and Tranza's schemes, Radiguet ends up saving the heroes twice, in order to dispose of his competitors for the position of Vyram leader, and also because he feels he's the only one entitled to defeat the Jetmen. He even goes so far as to verbally encourage Ryu when the latter's determination to defeat Tranza starts faltering.
Tran
Tran/Tranza | Actors: Miku Kuga (as Tran), Yutaka Hirose (as Tranza)
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- Asshole Victim: Getting unceremoniously tortured by Radiguet until he's reduced to an Empty Shell of his former self is already horrifying in its own right. But considering how much of a bully this guy is, to say Tranza got what he exactly deserved is a massive understatement.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: After becoming Tranza, the first thing he does is to prove that he's a better fighter than Ryu, cooler than Gai and a bigger eater than Raita.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Came VERY close to becoming the true Big Bad, but Radiguet managed to wrest the spot from him in the end.
- Black Cloak: He wears a black mantle that encompasses most of his body.
- Break the Haughty: Oh boy does he get very broken. Already badly roughed up and suffering from a This Cannot Be! moment, Radiguet takes the time to horrifically torture the would-be emperor, forcing latter to call the former as "Radiguet''-sama''", just like Tranza did to him before. When he finally agonizingly screams it, after being further physically tortured for resisting to say it, it's implied by his expression right after that it's what finally shatters his mind, rendering him a vegetable.
- Cool Shades: Wears a black visor in his kid form. He later loses it once he becomes an adult.
- Creepy Child: Despite being a child, he's definitely the most creepy member of the Vyram behind Radiguet and possibly Juuza. He mostly just wants to satisfy his desire for fun, even if it means tormenting others.
- Dark Is Evil: While his outfit does have some white in it, it's mostly black. He also has a black visor.
- The Emperor: As Emperor Tranza.
- Enemy Civil War: With Radiguet once he becomes Emperor Tranza and boots him out. Ultimately loses when Radiguet helps the Jetman defeat him.
- Evil Genius: Has impressive Psychic Powers and is a pretty competent schemer for a child.
- Fate Worse than Death: He ends up completely insane and locked up in a mental asylum after being humiliated by Radiguet.
- Human Aliens: He stands out among the four Vyram elite by looking like a human, while Radiguet has blue skin and thus clearly alien, Grey is a robot alien and Maria is actually fully human. His visor is not part of his head (he takes it out prior to growing up into Tranza). Although he does display special powers of his own, he lacks One-Winged Angel forms like Radiguet or Juuza. When he as Tranza winds up as a drooling and screaming vegetable following his brutal defeat by the Jetmen, and subsequent physical and mental torture by Radiguet, the doctors observing him don't mention anything weird about his physiology, other than brain damage.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Villainous version as Tran, being the only kid member of the Vyram.
- Kids Are Cruel: Tran — he's going to bully the entire mankind for his own amusement.
- Knight of Cerebus: Empress Juuza may have established the darker tone and Radiguet may have darker plans overall, but Tran's growth into Emperor Tranza marked the end to the series' overall comedic tone and set the stage for the rapidly darkening finale.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The taunts of the other Vyram eventually forces him to trigger his rapid maturity into Tranza through force of will.
- Psychopathic Manchild: His mentality after evolving into Tranza just got even worse as he enjoys making everyone's lives a living hell for his own sick pleasure.
- Royal Rapier: As Tranza, his personal weapon (called "Boltranza" in additional material) takes on this shape.
- Sole Survivor: Radiguet spares his life only to spend the rest of his days as a powerless human and in a vegative state. While a act of sadism, Radiguet unknowingly made him only surviving member of the Vyram high command.
- Tagalong Kid: For the Vyram, considering he's just a child while the other Vyram are adults, which naturally leads to them all looking down on him.
- Took a Level in Badass: Before while he was never harmless as Tran, he was never as much of a threat as the rest of the Vyram. As Tranza, the first things he does are solo the Jetmen and then the rest of the Vyram and establish himself at the Big Bad. He's only defeated in the end because Radiguet helped Ryū defeat him.
Grey
Grey | Actor: Hideaki Kusaka (suit and voice)
- Affably Evil: Grey is just as much of a ruthless conqueror as his fellow Vyram elites, but he has no intentions to mock any of his friends or enemies whatsoever (except Tran after he proved annoying enough). He is even on good terms with his rival Gai who finds him so likeable that in their last battle it takes Grey forcing his hand so they can turn their duel into one to the death as Gai stated outright he didn't want to end him.
- Alien Blood: Shows green blood (or oil) when Gai stabs him at the end of their Final Battle.
- Anti-Villain: Type I. A contrast from his rival Gai.
- Arm Cannon: Has machine gun blasters built into his forearms.
- Birds of a Feather: Him and Maria have a shared love of music, arts and combat, which is why they get along so well and implicitly fall in love.
- The Brute: A skilled warrior and the Vyram member who usually takes to the field when power is needed. Interestingly enough, his personality contrasts his strength as he is placid, thoughtful, affable and honorable; especially compared to the more petty and cruel fellow Vyram elites.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Is in love with Maria and unlike Radiguet, he actually cares about her beyond a lustful possessive attraction. Even when she is reverted back to her human form and turns good, he still loved her and stayed with her in her final moments after she begged Ryu to leave her to die and forget about her, allowing her to pass on peacefully.
- Finger-Snap Lighter: His lighter is literally built into his hand.
- Foil: To Gai. They're quite similar, in that they smoke, drink, gamble and love women who they didn't get in the end. And they also die similarly, fatally stabbed but happily, without regrets. However, Gai is undoubtedly a good guy, if an Anti-Hero, while Grey is a bad guy, although more of an Anti-Villain.
- Graceful Loser: When Gai finally defeats and kills him in episode 50, he condones his rival for his success and dies at peace after Gai helps him light up his last cigar.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: He dies peacefully on episode 50 after swearing off the Vyram cause, simply because without Maria/Rie around to serve as a reason to live, he feels no motivation to go on either as a good or bad guy.
- Irony: Despite being a robot among villains who look like humans beside their costumes (and skin color in Radiguet's case), he ends up being the most human out of all the Vyram.
- Lady and Knight: The Black Knight to Maria's Dark Lady. He develops feelings for her and comes to her defense when she's attacked by the Jetmen a few times.
- Last Villain Stand: He doesn't bothers supporting Radiguet as the leader once Maria/Rie dies and instead fights Gai one-on-one to settle the score in a duel to the death that he forces Gai to engage into, as he has nothing else left to live for.
- Lights Off Their Eyes: Unusually for a Toku villain (especially for a robotic one) Defeat Equals Explosion is not in effect, and he quietly powers down after Gai fatally stabs him and lights his last cigar.
- Meaningful Name: His color scheme also happens to be mostly grey. He's also rather gray in the moral scale as well, not being a blackhearted monster like Radiguet but also not a good guy either.
- Noble Demon: The only member of the Vyram who's not entirely malicious. Grey has a warrior's sense of honor, has a taste for things like fine wine and classical music, eventually develops feelings for his fellow Vyram elite Maria, and is a pretty friendly guy to be around otherwise.
- One Last Smoke: After Gai inflicts a fatal wound on him, he tries to light himself a cigar one last time but finds he can't raise his arm high enough. Gai then lights it for him.
- Pre-Final Boss: Granted it's only Gai who fights him, but his fight comes immediately before the Final Battle against Radiguet.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Grey considers himself first and foremost a warrior, and has the pride of such. He's not above using underhanded tactics or setting up things to his advantage in normal combat, but if he incurs in a duel or competition under a strict set of rules, or if he gives his word to abide some sort of deal with an enemy, he will honor it.
- The Quiet One: While he certainly can speak, he's not a guy of many words, prefering just being silent most of the time.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: He loves cigarettes, wine, music, and Maria!
- The Rival: To Gai. The two clash several times throughout the show and Grey's Final Battle is a one-on-one duel with Gai.
- Shoulder Cannon: His robotic body includes some kind of laser cannon that he normally carries on his back, but deploys it over his shoulder to actually fire it.
- Smoking Is Cool: So much that Grey smokes as he dies from fighting against Gai Yuuki/Black Condor.
- Tears from a Stone: Grey actually sheds tears when Maria/Rie dies. And his tears transform her corpse into little lights scattered by the winds.
- Tragic Robot: He's a robot, but he's arguably the most human of the Vyram. His final stand, unlike Radiguet and Tranza's respective ones, is played for tragedy as even Gai doesn't wants to kill him and Grey forces his hand as without Maria he has nothing left to live for.
- Wicked Cultured: Drinks red wine, smokes fancy cigarettes, listens to (and learns to play) classical music on a phonograph, always makes sure his equipment is polished, and plays roulette.
- Worthy Opponent: Sees Gai as this, to the point where he's content to die in a duel against him, genuinely commending Black Condor for defeating him.
Maria
Maria/Rie Aoi Actor: Maho Maruyama
- Alas, Poor Villain: She was the lover of The Hero who was captured and brainwashed at the start of the series while he believed her dead. Poor girl, she was manipulated (and even turned into a bloodthirsty vampire monster) for almost the entire series and only ever achieved some little redemption by dying as herself. And she didn't get the guy, or any guy, not even a chance of happiness with Grey.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if she actually died and was brought back by Radiguet as a villain, or if he just snatched her as she was sucked up by the vortex of space and brainwashed her afterwards.
- The Baroness: She's beautiful, cold to her allies (well, if we can call the Vyram that...), cruel to her enemies, fights often with a whip not unlike a Dominatrix, she is a legitimate threat to the Jetmen in combat, and has evil ambitions of conquest of her own. Oh, and she still has a few guys (from both sides of the conflict, no less) carrying torches for her. She more than qualifies...
- Beyond Redemption: What she sees herself as, when Ryu tries to help her after she recovers her memories as a human for the last time, she proclaims that she has done too much evil to join the good guys' side or be a human anymore and goes back to Radiguet's side... This turns out to be just a ruse to stab him in the back as payback for what he did to her, but when she is mortally wounded in turn, she rejects Ryu's help in trying to save her and basically begs him to forget about her and leave her to die, implicitly seeing her death as her punishment for the evil deeds she carried out as Maria, better reflected in her last moments where she laments being unable to reunite with Ryu as she dies in Grey's arms.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: She had her memories wiped by Radiguet to convert her into a member of the Vyram. Downplayed in that she has no loyalty whatsoever to Radiguet even after he brainwashes her (and twice at that). Instead, she believes to be yet another Vyram elite destined to conquer and rule Earth for herself.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She inflicted a mortal injury on Radiguet's body that allowed the Jetmen to finally kill him.
- Dark Action Girl: Maria is very powerful, to the point of being able to go toe-to-toe with the Jetmen.
- Dude Magnet: Grey is in love with Maria, and Radiguet desires her for himself, so much that he forcibly brainwashed her into evil. And then there's Ryu with who she was in a relationship with before her "death".
- Dying as Yourself: After she regains her memories of her old self, Radiguet kills her when she stabs him in the back. She spends her last moments reluctantly rejecting Ryu so he won't bother to save her, as she feels so much remorse over her evil deeds that she feels she doesn't deserves any redemption.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her cold demeanor, she did seem to genuinely care for Grey and it was implied she might have returned his feelings. So much that as Rie, despite her painful final moments, she finds a semblance of peace dying in Grey's arms.
- Evil Genius: Downplayed most of the time, but she's the one who created the Bio Dimensional Bugs the Vyram use to upgrade their Monster of the Week later on.
- Fallen Hero: She was one of the original members of Skyforce and was set to become White Swan, at least until she was lost in the Vyram's first attack and was later found and Brainwashed by Radiguet.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: While Ryu manages to help her regain her memories, he ultimately fails to save her and the guilt of it greatly affects him until Kaori helps him heal.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Mortally wounded, she pleas Ryu to forget about her, move on, and be happy.
- Lady and Knight: The Dark Lady to Grey's Black Knight.
- The Lost Lenore: She's Rie Aoi, Ryu's love interest in the first episode who was seemingly killed in the first Vyram attack on the Skyforce station. Ryu believes her dead but still doesn't get over her demise, until he watches Maria reverting to her human form much later. Only for her to actually perish for real some episodes later and becomes this to Grey in the process, leading to the latter's last stand against Gai as he has nothing else left to live for.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Gets turned into a vampiress by Radiguet's blood parasite in the last arc of the series, with the intent to make her more powerful and simultaneously slowly brainwash her into Radiguet's slave.
- Redemption Equals Death: She dies in her efforts to kill Radiguet, though she considers herself irredeemable regardless of her atonement.
- These Hands Have Killed: Even if not on the verge of death, Rie tells Ryu that she killed too many people as Maria to return to a normal life.
- Unknown Rival: It’s clear none of the others take her seriously in the competition for leadership and it’s implied even if she were to win they wouldn’t follow her anyway. Likely because unlike them she’s a full human.
- Walking Spoiler: Considering she's Rie Aoi, Ryu's original lover.
- Whip of Dominance: She's a cold, sadistic Dark Action Girl who wields a whip called "Necrod" in combat. It can actually adopt gun, sword and whip forms, but the whip seems to be her main weapon.
- Wicked Cultured: She likes to play the piano, which is a memento of her past life as Rie.
Empress Juuza
Empress Juuza | Actor: Sachiko Takato
- 0% Approval Rating: Her subordinates detest serving her after her return, and only do so out of fear for just how powerful she is.
- A God Am I: A God complex with a side of Evil Matriarch, as she fancies herself the "Mother of all Creation".
- And I Must Scream: Looks to inflict this on mankind. Her Evil Plan involved trapping dozens of people in crystal pillars so she could extract their pain to feed to Semimaru.
- Ax-Crazy: She's completely off her rocker, letting out a psychotic Evil Laugh at the site of dozens of people suffering.
- Bad Boss: All the other Vyram commanders dislike her and her tyranny, eventually leading to Radiguet rebelling and helping the Jetman to defeat her, while the others don't even bother interfering with him.
- Big Bad: Is the empress of the Vyram and the driving force behind their conquest. One she comes back it's immediately clear who's in charge. Of course, she only holds the spot for two episodes, after which it goes back to the Vyram not having a straight leader.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicts this en masse by forcibly growing crystals out from underneath the skin of dozens of civilians, so she can collect their pain and suffering to feed to Semimaru to make it hatch.
- Dimension Lord: She's the original ruler of the Back Dimension the Vyram originate from, having become its despot through conquest.
- The Dreaded: The other Vyram clearly fear her presence and even though they'd all like to be Evil Overlord, they bow before her out of fear for what she could do to them. Only Radiguet is willing to even go against her, which proves to be foolish when she immediately and easily overpowers (and depowers) him.
- The Emperor: Or rather, the Empress.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Juuza was the original ruler of the Vyram, but for the most of the series she's absent (she claims she was regenerating and recharging her powers, after presumably millenia of waging wars and conquering worlds in her home dimension) and only actually appears for two episodes before finally being killed.
- Knight of Cerebus: For the short time she was here, she showed how dark this show can really be.
- Light Is Not Good: Has a bright white color scheme and is also a vile and ruthless tyrant.
- One-Winged Angel: Like Radiguet, it's revealed she has a monstruous, more powerful form, "Demon Empress Juuza". She lacks a gigantic final form however.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Having gone missing during the invasion of the Back Dimsension, Radiguet and the others assumed she died. But in actuality, she focused her attention on Semimaru's development and only returned once he is about to hatch.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She lasts for all of two episodes before getting defeated.
Grinam Soldiers
The grunts of Vyram.
- Dark Is Evil: Mostly black, and an evil grunt force.
- Mooks: Vyram's expendable, mass-produced footsoldiers.
Dimensional Beasts
Monsters used by Vyram to carry out their invasion, created from a parasite called a Dimension Bug possessing an inanimate object.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A good number of them are objects brought to life by a Dimension Bug possessing them.
- Make My Monster Grow: If a Dimension Bug is still intact with a Dimensional Beast is destroyed, it will revive them into a giant.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Into the Bio Dimensional Beasts halfway through.
- Monster of the Week: Most episodes see the Jetmen going up against one.
- The Voiceless: A few of them talk, but most of them are just snarling beasts.
Dimensional Bug Mother
A monster who served as the mother to the Dimension Bugs. Radiguet sent her to Earth to drain the energy from humans for her babies.- Human Resources: The main reason she attacked Earth was to gather energy for her Dimension Bugs, turning any unlucky human into nourishing energy for her children.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A regular monster that appeared in the first two episodes, but her children are the reason why the Jetman had to contend with multiple Dimensional Beasts after her death.
- Starter Villain: The first Dimensional Beast the Jetman fought.
- Would Harm a Child: Two young boys were among its victims.
Fighter Dimension
A jet fighter themed Dimensional Beast created from Commander Aya Odagiri's fighter jet.- Attack Its Weak Point: Ryu permanently took it down by shooting at an exposed gas pipe on its right wing.
- Shapeshifter: It could change into a fighter jet and into a monster.
Faucet Dimension
Voiced by: Shunsaku Kudou
A faucet themed Dimensional Beast.- Combat Tentacles: Uses pipes to constrict his opponents.
- Near-Villain Victory: He would have killed the Jetman had Gai not have a change of heart and save them.
Road Dimension
A traffic light themed Dimensional Beast.- Technopath: Capable of manipulating traffic signals.
House Dimension
A apartment building themed Dimensional Beast.- Combat Tentacles: Used theses against the apartment tenants and Jetmen trapped inside it.
- Epic Flail: Wields a spiked mace as its main weapon.
- Genius Loci: Started off retaining the form of the building it was created for just with organic tendrils inside until taking on a humanoid form.
- I'm a Humanitarian: It eats people for breakfast.
- Kaiju: Unusual for a Sentai monster of the week as it started off as one.
- Shapeshifter: Between the innocent looking apartment building it was created from and a giant monster.
- Starter Villain: For the main mecha of the series, Jet Icarus.
Others
Majin Mu
A servant of Ramon and Gorg who was sealed with his two masters long ago before being accidently freed, he seeks out an ideal warrior to use in a blood sacrifice to free his masters.
- Blood Magic: Attempts to sacrifice Kaori as a warrior's blood is needed to revive his masters.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Killed by his masters after they are freed.
Majin Ramon and Gorg
A pair of demons sealed away in ancient times, before they are released by Radiguet.
- The Assimilator: The Majin possess this ability, Ramon using it on Gorg after he is mortally wounded.
- Assimilation Backfire: When Ramon absorbs Gorg, he also absorbed the Bio-Jien Bugs laced on his comrade's body and becomes a slave to Vyram.
- Bad Boss: They kill off their servant Mu, who failed to revive them, after he lost to the Jetman and pleaded them to give him the power to exact revenge.
- The Dreaded: There's a reason they're called Humanity's Natural Enemies.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While they feed on humans, they have no interest in Vyram's agenda if it effects their food supply.
- Expy: To the Pillar Men, being stone-encased Sealed Evil in a Can villians that feed on humans and are revived in the present.
- Food-Based Superpowers: The Maijin have the ability to turn humans into pineapples to feed on.
- Fusion Dance: Ramon asborbs the dying Gorg, only to learn the latter's body is seeded with Bio-Jigen Bugs that infect him as well.
