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The Dairangers

    In General 
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  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Both the Dairangers and the Maskmen are a Sentai team of martial artists and users of aura-based powers. However, the Maskmen formed in modern times who uses various types of martial arts and a hybrid between mystic & technology in their arsenals, whereas the Dairangers are a Legacy Character who took the mantle from their predecessors from ancient times who uses Chinese martial arts and has pure mystical powers in their arsenals. Moreover, unlike the Maskmen who were only five members for most of the time, with the their team's sixth warrior only appeared in one episode, the Dairangers had a recurring Sixth Ranger to their team.

    Ryō/Ryu Ranger 

Ryō/Ryu Ranger | Actor: Keiichi Wada

    Daigo/Shishi Ranger 

Daigo/Shishi Ranger | Actor: Tatsuya Nōmi

    Shouji/Tenma Ranger 

Shōji/Tenma Ranger | Actor: Ei Hamura

  • Badass Longcoat: Wears one for his final battle with the Three Stooges.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Is fun-loving and rather loud and Hot-Blooded to go with.
  • The Big Guy: He can use his gravity abilities to increase his strength or speed, greatly increasing his fighting prowess.
  • Catchphrase: Shouji has a knack of saying "This ain't funny!" when things didn't go as he expected.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character
  • Delinquent: Formerly. (This characterization was helped by the actor also being one in his youth.)
  • Friendly Enemy: He and the Three Stooges are downright chummy, and never seem to be fighting to kill during their competitions.
  • Gravity Master: Through the use of Pegasus-Fist, he can maneuver objects and opponents in a manner similar to telekinesis. He can also utilize his techniques to increase his own speed and agility.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Shouji is the most likely to fly off the handle with rage.
  • Large Ham: Old!Shōji is losing his hearing and a bad hip, but mostly suffers from this.
    Kazu/Kirin Ranger 

Kazu/Kirin Ranger | Actor: Keisuke Tsuchiya

  • Camp Straight: A beautician who works in salon, but goes on to marry and have children by the Distant Finale. Metrosexuality didn't yet exist as a concept in the early nineties.
  • The Dandy: He's always sharp dressed and well-groomed.
  • Drunken Boxing: And has the most difficult pose as a result.note 
  • Epic Flail: Kirin Ku-setsu Bennote 
  • Nice Guy: He's always polite and friendly.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: Uncommonly for a Sentai hero, Kazu usually wears a natty suit.
  • Signature Move: Jikan Gaeshinote 
  • Time Master: He can rewind time as he sees fit, although he doesn't use it much.
    Rin/Hōō Ranger 

Rin/Hōō Ranger | Actress: Natsuki Takahashi

    Kou/Kiba Ranger 

Kō/Kiba Ranger | Actor: Hisashi Sakai

  • Dirty Kid: One of his favorite hobbies: grope Rin's breasts. Alternatively, flip her skirt.
  • Dual Age Modes: He transforms into an adult body when morphed.
  • Great White Feline: Kou's suit and mecha are based on a white tiger.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a little creep and a shameless pervert, but proves himself more and more as a hero as the series goes on.
  • Kid Hero: A first for Super Sentai; Ko is elementary school age, but already a Dairanger. He does however gain an adult-sized body when morphed.
  • Kid-Appeal Character: Figuratively and granted.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: He's the son of Shadam.
  • Make Some Noise: His Supernatural Martial Arts powers are sound based. This mostly manifests in him summoning an illusion of something particularly loud, such as a musician using cymbals.
  • Named Weapons: Kō calls the Byakkoshinken "Byakko-chan" (referencing Himitsu no Akko-chan).
  • Odd Name Out: Unlike the other Dairangers, Kou's Ranger name doesn't refer to the animal he is based off of (the White Tiger, or Byakko).
  • Older Alter Ego: Gains the physique of an adult when he transforms, but his voice remains unchanged.
  • Secret Identity: The other Dairangers don't know Kiba Ranger's identity for some time, with some help from Byakko-chan.
  • Ship Tease: See Lin's entry.
  • Signature Move: Koshinsei Midare Yamabikonote 
  • Sixth Ranger: He joins much later than the others, and has his own mecha.
  • Talking Sword: Byakkoshinkennote 
    • Because of Kou's age, he spoke for him as Kiba Ranger early on, until his cover gets blown.
  • Tagalong Kid: Ironically for being the Sixth Ranger, he's also the weakest of the team.
  • Transforming Mecha: The Wong Tiger.

Their Allies

    Master Kaku 

Master Kaku | Actor: Koji Naka

The wise but stern mentor and founder of the Dairanger team. He is secretly a high ranked member of the Gorma tribe, Chief Officer Jiaxu, but defected millenia before the series began.
  • All for Nothing: As revealed with Shadam, Kaku might have lost his mind if he became emperor.
  • Broken Pedestal: Subverted. While the Dairangers were disillusioned to learn Kaku was a Gorma member as he returned to their enemy's ranks, their faith in him is restored upon learning his reasons for rejoining the Gorma.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character
    • To Commander Yui Ibuki as both are mentors who trained their teams and have a past with the antagonist group. While Ibuki was a victim of Gozma's destruction of his home planet, Kaku is a Gorma deserter.
    • To Barza as both are the mentors with a history with the antagonist group, Barza being a wizard that faced Bandora in the past, while Kaku defected from Gorma.
  • Defector from Decadence: He was a member of the Gorma Tribe before deserting them as he could not accept their way of life.
  • Fake Defector: Shadam pretends to return to the Gorma as one of the terms of a ceasefire to prevent Daijinryuu from blowing up the planet, plotting to become the 16th Gorma Emperor and end the conflict.
  • Foreshadowing: Besides the attempts on his life by the Gorma, Kaku also can tap into Youryoku energies like them. As the series progresses, Kaku easily enters the Gorma palace to have an audience with the Gorma Emperor, which is normally reserved for the highest ranked Gorma members. And then the reveal: Kaku was a high ranked Gorma all along, but defected before the series start.
  • The Mentor: to the Dairangers.
  • Idiot Ball: If Kaku had simply explained his plan to the Dairangers after The Reveal instead of just telling them to follow his orders without question, not only could he have prevented the fight between them and his ally Zilong along with the latter's death, but his overall plan might have even worked.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: Downplayed. As he dies near the series finale, his death is not the Dairangers' motivation to fight the bad guys.
  • Mr. Exposition: He almost always tells the Dairangers about what kind of Gorma Monster of the Week they are fighting now, explaining what their strengths and weaknesses are. It is very logical he knows these things, as he was part of Gorma a while ago.
  • Save the Villain: He saves the Gorma XV during Daijinryu's rampage, convincing the emperor to a accept his offer for a ceasefire.
  • Stern Teacher: When one of the Dairangers messes something up, Kaku either reprimands them heavily or coldly commands them to stay behind when the rest of the team goes to battle.
  • The Stoic: Always appears to be emotionally distant, even when facing great danger.
  • Walking Spoiler: The secret this guy carries with him causes almost all of his tropes to be spoiler-tagged.

    Kujaku 

Kujaku

An incarnation of Mahamayuri the Peacock Buddha, who desires to kill Gara.

  • Animal Stereotypes: Peacocks are typically associated with power and elegance, fitting not only how Kujaku typically carries herself. They also tend to symbolize pride and arrogance, fitting how Kujaku's vanity got her trapped and the wound to her pride let to her current mindset. Finally, the Peacock symbolizes metamorphosis and new beginnings, fitting how Kujaku transitioned from an All-Loving Heroine to an Anti-Hero and back.
  • Anti-Hero: Primarily a type four with some elements of a type five.
  • Expy: A Distaff Counterpart of Burai, both ancient warriors brought to the present. Initially motivated by revenge, they mellow out through the Power of Love and turn out to be dying.
  • Face Death with Dignity: All attempts to save Kujaku prove to be for nothing, and she accepts the end with grace.
  • Took a Level in Cynic: being trapped inside Mirror Make-Up Artist has made her lost all compassion and sympathy she held to. Part of her Character Development is shedding this mindset.
  • Peacock Girl: Since she is a reincarnation of the Peacock Buddha.
  • Poor Communication Kills: She trained herself into becoming a Bodhisattva to find a means to heal Gara's scar, but the fact she left her friend without a word is the cause of the friendship dissolving.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Kujaku made it her goal to use the Holy Peacock Teardrop to heal Gara's scar and suceeds prior to her death, only for "Gara" to be a relica of the real one who died ages ago. Subverted in Kujaku reuniting with the real Gara in paradise where they rekindle their friendship and briefly return to Earth to dispatch the fake Gara.
  • We Used to Be Friends: She and Gara use to be this 6,000 years ago.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: In Gokaiger, the threat posed by the Zangyack invasion was so great that even fallen Sentai Heroes and allies were temporarily revived to help fight them off. But Kujaku was totally absent, as was her respective Ranger Key.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: She is slowing dying due to being connected to nature and Earth being heavily polluted.

    Kameo 

Kameo/Super Kiden Beast Daimugen

  • Badass Pacifist: He prefers fighting as a last resort.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Appears to be an overweight socially awkward man with an obsession for turtles, but he's actually the guise for Daimugen.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: First appeared when Won Tiger was born, then as an umpire for a baseball match between the Dairangers and Gorma Three Stooges.
  • The Fog of Ages: The result of living among humans for six millennia with occasional hibernations.
  • Forced Transformation: Gets randomly turned into a turtle after touching his Treasure Lai Lai Jewel.
  • Human Disguise: The Human form of Daimugen.
  • Humongous Mecha / Transforming Mecha: He is actually a Qi Beast, capable of transforming from a mechanical turtle to an enormous bulky robot.
  • Odd Friendship: Forms one with Kazu. Kazu is a popular beautician and ladies man, while Kameo is an overweight loner with a strange obsession for turtles.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • 'Kame' is Japanese for turtle; his favorite animal. And also a hint to his true nature.
    • 'Daimugen' means 'Great Infinity', tying to turtles being a symbol of infinity.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: Short of getting stomped on by Daijinryu, nothing hurts him.
  • Refusal of the Call Kameo initially refused to take part in the battles until he learned Kazu was in trouble, accepting his Tresure Lai Lai Pearl to help the Dairangers.
  • Reluctant Warrior: Turned himself into a human and erased his memory as a Qi Beast because he has a severe dislike of fighting. But once his best friend Kazu ended in severe danger of dying, he accepted his identity as Daimugen once more.
  • Walking Spoiler: Not as bad as Master Kaku, but the whole point of his character is based around the secret he carries, meaning much of his tropes are spoiler tagged.
    Kou's mother 

Kou's mother

Kou's missing mother, who is revealed to be also the mother of her captor Akomaru.


  • Damsel in Distress: She has to be rescued by the Dairangers to prevent Kou from turning into a Gorma.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Her former lover was Shadam, nuff said.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: She used a hot iron brand on Kou as a toddler to establish a seal on his Gorma powers.
  • Large Ham: Almost all of her appearances results in her dramatically shouting her son's name.
  • Living MacGuffin: Her primary role is to save Kou from turning into a Gorma by performing a ceremony before his tenth birthday.
  • No Name Given: Despite making a number of appearances, we never learn her name.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Leaving Akomaru in the care of the Gorma led to him resenting her before they are formally introduced.
  • Sadistic Choice: Gorma tradition dictates that if twins were born, the younger child must be sacrificed, forcing her to flee with the newborn Kou than allow them to kill one of her sons.

Gorma Tribe

    Gorma XV 

Emperor Gorma XV

The childish and mentally unstable leader of the Gorma Tribe. He generally keeps to the background, as he rather plays games with his court than actively command the fight against the Dairangers.


  • Actually a Doombot: The real Gorma XV died 6 millenia ago, the one seen in the present revealed to be a mud doll construct Shadam secretly created in a complicated scheme to become emperor himself.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: He's the supreme leader of the Gorma and possesses immense power due to the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel, but his childish and mentally unstable mindset means he'd rather toy around with his subordinates than be an imposing threat to the Dairangers. And he's not even the real emperor, but a clay doll created by Shadam.
  • The Caligula: He spends more time playing games and messing around with his court than actually participating in the battle against the Dairangers, or acting as a leader in any real capacity.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Obviously has no realistic vision of the world and treats everything like a childish game. Even when Daijinrui threatens to blow up earth if the Gorma and Dairanger keep fighting, the Emperor doesn't take the much needed ceasefire seriously, and continues his attack, thinking the Dragon won't notice it. Much like a child thinks he can do naughty stuff if his parents look the other way.
  • Orcus on His Throne: He doesn't really do much of anything aside from playing games (although he did bring Akomaru back from Hell). The Dairangers never even meet him until the finale because he can't be bothered to face them himself.
  • Psychopathic Man Child: He generally acts like a child in an adult body during all of his appearances, but his subordinates take him really seriously when addressing him, as he tends to be able to really hurt you when disappointing him.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: He brings Akomaru back from the dead.
  • Third Eye: Removable and allows him to observe things.
  • Too Dumb to Live:
    • Gorma XV assumes to continue his plot for world domination is a good idea when Daijinryu appears and threatens to kill both sides if they don't cease fighting. Though he wises up eventually and reluctantly agrees to temporarily stand down.
    • Then Gorma XV demands Shadam to stand down when he demands the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel from him, forcing Shadam to cancel the spell that brought the replica to life.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Claiming the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel and becoming Emperor seems to induce this. As demonstrated by Shadam.

    Lieutenant Colonel Shadam 

Colonel Shadam

  • Actually a Doombot: Didn't take it well when he discover that he himself is a mud doll.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being exposed as yet another clay doll, he pleads desperately for Ryo to help him as he crumbles away.
  • Abusive Parents: To his son Akomaru, whom he frequently mistreats and abandoned to be raised by General Tenpou. At one point, he made pinched Akomaru into a chair and later made him bleed by knocking him to the floor. Akomaru bleeds.
  • All for Nothing: Plots the entire series to become the Gorma Emperor and gain the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel. Shortly after he achieves this, his battle with the Dairangers attracts Daijinryu, and Jewel itself flees to appease him. To top it all off, when attempting to escape the destruction of the Gorma palace, Shadam is mortally wounded with a knife by Ryo and revealed to be another clay doll like his minions.
  • The Dragon: He's the top military officer and enforcer for the Gorma Senate.
    • Dragon-in-Chief: Because Gorma Emperor XV is an insane Manchild who rather spends his time playing games, Shadam is the one leading the actual fight against the Dairangers. He becomes the Big Bad when he kills Emperor Gorma XV.
    • Dragon Ascendant: It's eventually revealed that the events of the show were really one long gambit by Shadam to arrange his succession to the Gorma Emperor. After killing off Gorma XV, Shadam becomes Gorma Emperor XVI and the de facto Big Bad of the show.
  • Eviler than Thou: To Akomaru. His son technically outranked him, but Shadam decided to simply ignore his authority and Akomaru's age meant there was nothing he could do about it. Later pulls this on the Gorma Emperor, revealing he was just a clay copy that Shadam created so he could attain the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel from him.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: The original Shadam, who created the clay copies of all the Gorma high ups following their deaths in the war against the Dai, but is long dead too by the time the series starts.
  • Hate Sink: Is the most despicable character in the series. He is horribly cruel towards is own son and sees his own subordinates as nothing more than tools for his ambitions.
  • The Heavy: Shadam appears as the main threat in almost every episode, while Emperor Gorma XV only makes a few appearances and isn't even a direct threat.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is mortally wounded from Ryo stabbing him with a knife, after which he breaks down like the rest of the clay dolls.
  • It's Personal with the Dragon: As he's the most active villain, the Dairangers jave a far more personal feud with him than with Emperor Gorma, especially after Kaku's death. Even when Daijinryu arrives to destroy the Gorma's palace and they are rendered due the Lai-Lai Jewels scattering, Ryo still chases after Shadam to ensure he doesn't get away and kills him with a knife.
  • The Man in Front of the Man: Gara, Zydos, and even the Gorma emperor, are all clay copies created by him, as part of a lengthy scheme for him to succeed Gorma XV to become the next emperor and claim the Earth Shaking Jewel for himself.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: He is revealed to be Kou's father, though Kou never learned it himself.
  • One-Winged Angel: He initially assumes a metal-skinned form and then a red-armored form while facing Kaku in a duel. Then, Shadam becomes the 16th Gorma Emperor after murdering Gorma XV and taking his power.
  • The Starscream: Kills the Emperor to become the Big Bad himself.
  • This Cannot Be!: Yes, Shadam, you're also a clay doll.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: Proclaims that the Dairangers have been fighting clay dolls (Zydos and Gara) all along, without realizing that he's one, too.
  • Too Many Belts: His design could make Tetsuya Nomura proud.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: After taking the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel for himself and becoming Emperor, he becomes a great deal more unstable.

    Lieutenant Colonel Gara 

Lieutenant Colonel Gara

Once Kujaku's childhood friend that got a scar in exchange for saving her life from many years ago. Thinking that Kujaku had betrayed her, she joined Gorma and trapped Kujaku in a Mirror Make-up Artist. But the Gara that the Dairangers faced is a relica of the original, who died long ago and resided in heaven.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The real Gara resides in Heaven.
  • Bait-and-Switch: At first it appeared Gara resented Kujaku for the scar she got from protecting the latter, but Gara admits the real reason that she hates Kujaku is because she assumed she abandoned her.
  • Dead All Along: The real Gara actually died before the start of the series, the one seen during the majority of the show is an animated clay construct.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Gara is horrified when Zydos dies, especially since Shadam isn't phased.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Unlike the other main villains, as the woman she was modeled after destroyed her, Gara died staying as upright as she could while proclaiming her eternal hatred for Kujaku and allegiance to the Gorma.
  • Forgiveness: While it's true that the real Gara died many years ago and the current one is a copy, the fact that she didn't try to communicate with Kujaku still makes this trope play out.
  • The Smurfette Principle: The lone female member of the Gorma Triumvirate.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Kujaku and the real Gara have no qualms about the latter wiping her out. Daigo and Rin, on the other hand, seem sympathetic toward her in the end.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Attempts to kill her own Gorma minion Heat Haze Hood while he trapped Kujaku and Daigo in his stomach to prevent them from escaping.

    Major Zydos 

Major Zydos

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Asks for someone to help him as he's dying.
  • Book Dumb: Gorma Emperor XV asks why it's taking so long for them to conquer one tiny island. Zydos has no idea that he was talking about Japan.
  • The Brute: While he does fit the personality and rank of this trope to a T, he also subverts it, by coming up with several clever plans on his own. Said plans often involve manipulating people's emotions. The only problem is that he always seems to underestimate people he is trying to manipulate.
  • The Corrupter: Gave Jin the means to become a Demon Fist Master
  • Dumb Muscle: He gets confused when Gorma XV refers to Japan as an island, thinking it is some other place the Gorma are having trouble at conquering.
  • Large Ham: Whenever Zydos opens his mouth, you can almost certainly expect him to ham it up.
  • Please Keep Your Hat On: He's got little volcanoes on his head!
    General Tenpou 

General Tenpou

  • Asshole Victim: Sure, he didn't completely deserved his fate, but getting killed by Shadam is actually satisfying since he spent most of his screentime being a Bad Boss towards Shadam.
  • Bad Boss: A good chunk of his screen time is him being a Jerkass to Shadam.
  • The Dragon: Officially, he's Number Two to the Gorma Emperor in the Gorma hierarchy.
  • He Knows Too Much: He gets killed off by Shadam after he discovers Shadam is the manipulating Gorma XV.
  • Karmic Death: Is a Bad Boss towards Shadam. Is killed by Shadam. He had it coming regardless of Shadam's own greater evil.

    Akomaru 

Akomaru

General Shadam's estranged son and rival for Gorma XV's favor, send to find Kiba Ranger and convert him to a Gorma. He was killed by a falling rock, only to be fished out from the underworld by Gorma XV. He's later revealed to be Kō's older twin brother.
  • Brother Brother Incest: Not that serious, but Akomaru says to Kou "did you like holding my hand back then Kibaranger?" after pretending to be a girl that Kou fell in love with. To be fair, He wasn't aware that Kou was his brother at the time and only did it to make him embrace hatred.
  • Catfishing: Akomaru posed a transfer student named Kasumi Hiiragi to get close to Kou and make him embrace his Gorma heritage.
  • Enemy Civil War: Seems to have this with his father Shadam.
  • Enfante Terrible: And how. Most of this is likely attributed to his father Shadam's mistreatment of him.
  • Evil Twin: Kou's
  • The Favorite: Earned Gorma XV's respect enough that the emperor fished him out from the underworld.
  • Jerkass: His final plan was to blackmail Ko to join the Gorma with his mother's life. When he did not comply, he blew her away so Ko could never find her again and slightly rubs it in his face before he dies the first time.
  • Knight of Cerebus: His plans are much more ruthless than any of the earlier Gorma with his focus on causing Kou pain. Shadam also starts to show just how depraved he is whenever Akomaru appears.
  • Laughing Mad: After Shadam strikes him while telling his son he never loved him.
  • Missing Mom: Subverted. He actually held her captive for six years and used her as hostage.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Akomaru fabricated the identity of Kasumi Hiiragi, with Necklace Lady posing as Kasumi's abusive mother in a plot to get Kou to despise his mother and become a Gorma from his hatred.
  • Mirror Character: He is what Kou could have become if he joined the Gorma and embraced hatred.
  • Royal Brat: Got to have a high position in Gorma due to General Tenpou raising him after Shadam abandoned him. While Shadam's abusive treatment justifies Akomaru's resentment, he constantly eggs his father into hitting him. Also he cuts Shadam's face with a feather while he was having a victory toast.
    Iron-Face Chouryo 
A powerful warrior of the Gorma clad in black armor. Is actually the first RyuuRanger and father of Ryo, who turned against the other Dairangers in the past after he was tempted to join the Gorma by Archbishop Saw with the promise of power.
    Archbishop Riji 
A senate-level Gorma who is the master of Iron Face Chouryo and the Arc Villain of episodes 7-8.
  • Bad Boss: Beats Choryo after he is unable to bring himself to kill his son.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: While he overpowered the Dairangers, he ends up on the recieving end from Dairenoh.
  • Dual Wielding: Wields two giant saw blades.
  • Expy: Riji appears to have been derived from Emperor Palpatine, down to shooting lightning from his hands.
  • Extra Eyes: Has three eyes.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He acts jovial, but drops all context when he loses his temper.
  • Interim Villain: He replaces the Gorma Triumvirate as the main threat for all of two episodes.
  • One-Winged Angel: Archbishop Saw.
  • Sinister Minister: Has the title of Archbishop/High Priest within the Gorma and is quite a cruel figure.
  • Shock and Awe: Fires lightning from his hands.
  • Villain Ball: His torture of the Dairangers is what ultimately gets Choryo to turn against him.

    Gorma Three Stooges 
A trio of idiots that challenge the Dairangers in life or death sporting events.

    Three Ladies 
A trio of Gorma sisters that serve under Akomaru.

    Jin Matoba 

Jin Matoba/Demon-Fist Master Jin | Actor: Yutaka Hirose

A martial arts master who likes to prove his strength by challenging and killing other martial arts masters. Jin later receives dark powers from Zydos, who wants to use him as a lackey, but makes it clear he listens to no one.
  • Badass Normal: Has no special powers in his first few appearances, but manages to easily defeat Ryou, who is empowered by Kiryoku.
  • Blood Knight: He wanders the Earth challenging other strong martial artists and killing them in duels, until he crosses paths with Ryou.
  • Bolivian Army Ending: At the end of episode 39 a heavily wounded Jin walks into Zydos and a large squad of Mooks. He is seen beating the shit out of a lot of them, but the final shot of the episode consists of Jin being shot at.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: After being defeated by Ryou, he receives a power boost from Zydos, giving him the ability to use Youryuku.
  • Freudian Excuse: His own master treated him poorly, cutting off his original left arm.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting: Zydos manages to turn him into a skeletal werewolfish creature named Garouki.
  • Literal Split Personality: The rangers are able to split both his Garouki form and his original human form apart from each other, able to take out Garouki without killing Jin and freeing Jin from Zydos' curse.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Zydos looks forward to use Jin as a powerful subordinate to defeat the Dairangers with, and offers to empower him in hopes to sway Jin to his side. Jin takes the power boost from Zydos, but then kicks him off, making it clear that he won't serve him, claiming he obeys no one, and leaves. Though this doesn't prevent Zydos from using him anyway.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Pulls this in episode 35, when he jumps in front of an attack meant for Ryo.
  • Our Werewolves Are Different: Zydos has him cursed to become Garouki, a skeletal werewolf monster that attacks anyone it sees.
  • Red Right Hand: After being empowered by Zydos, his prosthetic left arm becomes grotesquely deformed, looking demonic.
  • The Rival: To Ryō.
  • That Man Is Dead: He says this to his former girlfriend Aki, when she tries to reason with him and stop him from his dark and violent path. He claims he died ever since his master cut his left arm off, and warns her not to come close to him or he'll kill her. She insists. Guess how that goes for her.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: From beyond the grave Jin delivers one to Ryou when the latter is about to give up after Kaku has disbanded the Dairangers to prevent Daijinryuu from coming back to Earth and destroying the world. Jin points out to Ryou that Kaku's existence is not tied to the Dairangers and that he, Ryou, must remain calm and not let his emotions get in his way.
  • Worthy Opponent: Gradually forms this bond with Ryō. At first, they couldn't stand each others guts. Ryō because Jin casually kills martial artists and Jin because Ryō defeated him once. During Jins final appearance, Ryō shows genuine concern for him, while Jin grudgingly shows gratefulness for this.

    Gorma Deva Kings 
The Gorma's Elite Four, masters of space.
  • Attack Reflector: They could reflect any attack, as shown by deflecting Kiba Daioh's finishing move.
  • The Dividual: They are always seen together.
  • Elite Four: They are among Gorma XV's favored subordinates.
  • Fusion Dance: Able to merge into a four-headed monster.

Others

    Daijinryu 

Daijinryu (Great God Dragon)

A dragon god who's tasked to keep the peace across the universe, intervening in the battle between the Gorma and the Dairangers as their conflict threatens to disrupt that peace. However, Daijinryu has no concept of neither good nor evil and is even willing to wipe out humanity to stop the conflict between the two factions.


  • Above Good and Evil: Literally. Its task is to preserve peace. Concepts like good and evil are alien to it.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: More like Attack Of The 1500 Foot Whatever, as he makes the typical grown Super Sentai monster and mecha look tiny in comparison.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: As mentioned before, Daijinryu has diffrent ideas of good and evil then humans do. To this massive dragon, order is good and chaos is evil, and order is so precious to Daijinryuu that it casually kills thousands of people to send out a simple warning.
  • Conflict Killer: His initial appearance briefly halts the conflict between the Dairangers and the Gorma since neither of them have any chance of stopping him, and the Emperor Gorma XV agrees to a ceasfire when he realizes that Daijinryu will kill him if the fighting doesn't end. This doesn't last thanks to Shadam's ambitions.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Daijinryu's first rampage on Earth ends with him interrupting a fight between Dairen'oh and Great Famous Pachinko Player, Giant Foot of Stomping the former back into its components a single attack and nearly crushes Daimugen when he attempts to save the Dairangers. Daijinryu only ceases his attack and leaves because Kaku cut a deal with a Gorma for a ceasefire.
  • Draconic Abomination: A giant dragon from space who is far more powerful than either side in the series, and has threatened to destroy the Earth if the conflict doesn't cease.
  • The Dreaded: Daimugen, one of the most powerful allies of the Dairangers, is terrified of this creature when it appears in one of his visions. The Dairangers don't even bother trying to fight him, and when they see Great Famous Panchinko Player wrecking havoc they are desprate to kill him before their fight catches Daijinryu's attention. Kaku accepting that Daijinryu is invinsible causes him to cut a deal with the Gorma, with even the childish Gorma Emperor accepting a truce because he realized Daijinryu would destroy the Gorma if they kept fighting.
  • Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Is very clearly intending to do this if it feels it has to to make the battle between the Dairangers and Gorma tribe stop.
  • Eldritch Abomination: A rather mild example in terms of looks, as it clearly resembles a very, very large Asian Dragon. But it's way of thinking and power is incomprehensible to both sides of the conflict.
  • Evil Counterpart: Downplayed. To the Kiden Beasts, all of them being created by the forces of nature as a means of universal balance. But while the Kiden Beasts are created to aid the Dai Tribe, Daijinryu's purpose is to make sure the conflict between the Dai and Gorma tribes does not threaten the cosmos.
  • Eviler than Thou: To the Gorma. Gorma XV expected to be able to just wait out the destruction and rule what was left of the Earth, but realizes Daijinryu intends to destory everything. Daijinryu later returns to Earth upon sensing Ikazuchi and later Shadam using the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel, prompting the being to destory Gorma Palace.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Is easily the biggest threat the Dairangers face, both in power and in actual size, and one they cannot overcome. The the danger he will return is one that looms over them for the rest of the series after he first appears since their actions could bring about his return any given moment.
  • Hero Killer: Neither side can do anything to stop him as he's presented more akin to a force of nature than a character. The Dairangers spend the rest of the series living in fear of his inevitable return while the Gorma keep fighting.
  • Invincible Villain: Daijinryu is for all practical purposes unbeatable, even his sheer size means attacking him is futitle.
  • Jerkass Gods: Destroys a large chunk of Tokyo just to prove it is serious in carrying out its task.
  • The Juggernaut: Daijinryu is completely invincible. Neither the Gorma or the Dairangers even bother to come up with a way to defeat him.
  • Knight of Cerebus: He's a threat that cannot be overcome by either side, forcing Kaku to become a Fake Defector as part of a ceasefire. The series even gradually starts fading out any comic relief after he appears.
  • Mass Hypnosis: Daijinryu used this power to easily hypnotized Tokyo's population into jumping off from high, as his way of warning Dairangers and the Gorma to stop fighting.
  • The Omnipotent: Nothing in the Dairangers’ and Gorma Tribe’s arsenal has any hope of even scratching this creature. In fact, he almost crushed the Dairangers' mecha when they tried to fight them. The only reason why this didn't happen, was because Daijinryuu stopped on its own volition. In the finale, we see he's so powerful that the Earth Ground Shaking Jewel and the Dairangers' Lai-Lai Jewels scatter to appease his wrath, showing that even their power is insignificant next to him.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: In this case, a dragon is 500 meters long, being easily able to stomp on the mecha of the Dairangers, has godly powers, and is tasked with preserving peace.
  • Outside-Context Problem: What he to both the Dairangers and the Gorma Tribe. Both sides are merely humans employing Supernatural Martial Arts, so neither of them could ever expect a God to visit their planet. Daijinryuu's appearance really breaks the status quo of the conflict.
  • Pet the Dog: He came to Earth to halt the battle between the Dairangers and the Gorma. When Kaku forms a truce with Emperor Gorma, Daijinryu spares the Dairangers and mostly focused on attacking the Gorma whenever their actions justify his return.
  • Physical God: His name is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as he is a gigantic godly dragon whose power puts him into a tier of his own. He demonstrates this by casually destroying a large chunk of Tokyo and later by using Mass Hypnosis to threaten to make people jump from high buildings.
  • The Voiceless: Never speaks and has other characters explain what he wants. This makes it seem much more above both factions.
  • Wild Card: He will attack either side at any given moment.

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