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The Interdimensional Crime Syndicate, known as the Gangler, who exist in their own dimension, invading Earth to cause crime and trouble using the Lupin Collection Pieces that they stole from Arsène Lupin.
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In General
- Aliens Are Bastards: The Ganglers are a gang of extra-dimensional criminals who've set their sights on the Earth and the Lupin Collection.
- Aliens Among Us: Members of the Gangler can disguise themselves as humans, even the foot soldiers.
- Animal Motifs: The Gangler are the first Sentai villains who are outright themed after prehistoric animals.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: All of the Ganglers have safes built into their bodies that can harness the power of any Lupin Collection item kept inside, though it's not clear if they're a biological growth or Cybernetic in nature. Some (like Zaldan or Zamigo) have two, allowing the use of two pieces simultaneously, X refers to this as "Status Double" while Zamigo, Dongranio and Gauche all have gold safes, referred to as "Status Gold". Status Gold is especially dangerous as the Dial Fighters have trouble opening them. It turns out that Status Gold safes are six digits long and the Dial Fighters only read three digits at a time requiring two Dial Fighters to open it. Attempting to do it with one will cause the safe to discharge whatever it is that tried to hack it.
- Bullying a Dragon: Dogranio and his various cohorts had very lucrative and comfortable criminal careers as multidimensional outlaws, but after breaking into the Lupin family vault and stealing many of its artifacts, their numbers have dwindled one-by-one as the theft has made them assassination targets for Kogure's rangers who have been commissioned to retrieve the Lupin Collection no matter the cost.
- Combo Platter Powers: As a rule, a Gangler has two superpowers; one from their treasure and one innate.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: While quite a few of them quality, Envy Childer from #33 takes the cake; his innate power is the ability to make people younger. He uses this power to go on crime sprees when he could become obscenely rich by selling the service to aging billionaires.
- Giant Mooks: Golams, this season's obligatory "the monster got away but we still need a robot fight" enemies.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Normal Ganglers have steel colored safes on their bodies, while the leaders have gold safes, hence they're called "Status Gold" by X.
- Mooks: Pordermen, which unlike some other Sentai footsoldiers, are actually sentient members of the Ganglers and are capable of speech.
- Mundane Utility: Possibly out of ignorance as to the Lupin Collection's true nature, the Ganglers use the items individually to commit lesser crimes such as racketeering or simple theft rather than combine their powers together to harness their apocalyptic potential. The items were also created on the Gangler homeworld, so it's possible these are the intended uses anyways
- The Syndicate: The Gangler have their members committing all sorts of crime from illegal casinos to jewelry heists. They also have elements of The Mafia and Yakuza.
- Technicolor Death: Their human-sized forms die with much flashier, more stylized explosions than most Super Sentai monsters. Their giant forms just die with the standard pyrotechnics, however.
Dogranio Yabun
Portrayed by: Naoko Kamio (suit)
Voiced by: Mitsuru Miyamoto
The Tyrannosaurus-themed crime boss of the Ganglers. His plan is to conquer Earth to commemorate his 999th birthday by using the power that is held within the Lupin Collection and in doing so find his Successor.- Animal Motifs: Dogranio's motif is the one of a Tyrannosaurus.
- Affably Evil: Speaks in a formal, almost grandfatherly tone and is pretty laid back despite being the Big Bad. That said, he will not hesitate to attack any Gangler who wastes his time, as shown in episode 14.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Dogranio wanted to retire. After trying to use the Lupinrangers as hostages and failing, Keiichiro gave him his wish - retirement in maximum security prison.
- Berserk Button: He is not as young or patient as he used to be, so wasting him time is a very bad idea.
- Big Bad: He is the main antagonist and the leader of the Ganglers.
- Bigger on the Inside: His safe is unique in which it is infinitely larger inside and can house any number of collection pieces he chooses to put inside. He can even put living beings inside.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with in regards to Arsène. He obviously remembers killing him and taking his collection as nobody could forget if they killed the most famous thief in history and he's been using the Lupin Collection to buff his criminal empire for years. However to Noel's rage it was not part of some large and complicated plan Dogranio had, nor did he covet the Collection and set up a grand assassination to take Lupin out. Dogranio just happened to stumble upon Lupin's hideout completely by chance one night and decided on a whim to kill him and take the Collection because it looked like something valuable, and he only found out about the Collection's great power after the fact. Meaning the death of the World's Greatest Thief was essentially just a spur of the moment mugging by a guy who ran into him by dumb luck.
- Chained by Fashion: He is covered with them, which only add more security to his safe.
- Chain Pain: Can use his chains as weapons, and by his account, they're unbreakable even to him. Which becomes a problem when he is shackled by them.
- Combo Platter Powers: Despite only possessing one safe, Dogranio can store multiple collection pieces inside of it. This allows him to access all of their powers at once.
- Deadly Disc: He has a number of buzzsaws on his shoulders which can be fired so quickly that they're invisible to the naked eye.
- Evil Old Folks: He is 999 years old. It is also the reason he is offering up the role of "successor" to whoever can take over Earth. He's getting too old for this shit.
- Fate Worse than Death: Instead of being killed off, Dogranio ends up being arrested by the Patrangers, who would later put him in a maximum security confinement."Let me out! Or just kill me! If I have to live powerless in this decrepit body... I'd rather die!"
- Final Boss: He is the final major opponent of the Patrangers and X.
- He's Back!: A villainous example. After spending most of the series being Orcus on His Throne and only showing mild interest in the activities of his subordinates, Destra’s death causes him to start taking a more personal role, with Zamigo noted that he’s going back to the way he used to be.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He boasts having indestructable chains on himself and his safe that even he can't break. Said chains are used to lock him down in the maximum security prison he gets imprisoned in for life after his defeat.
- It Amused Me: His reason for stealing the gathered Lupin Collection and killing Arsène Lupin while doing so.
- It's Personal: Takes both teams more seriously after they killed Destra.
- Meaningful Name: His name evokes the terms "Don" and "Oyabun". Fitting for the leader of a crime syndicate of monsters.
- Honor Among Thieves: For all the love and respect he gets, Dogranio is still a mobster. Once he goes down, the surviving Ganglers abandon him to his fate and continue business as usual presumably because they know that Dograino can't be trapped forever.
- No-Sell: His safe is identified as a Status Gold: Physical Protection, which include his iconic chains that surround his safe which are so strong, even Dogranio himself cannot break them. That last detail comes back to bite him.
- Orcus on His Throne: The escalation of Gangler attacks on Earth is a result of him holding a contest to see who will be the next boss of his organisation. His underling who manages to conquer the planet will get his spot so Dogranio himself cannot intervene nor can his bodyguard, Destra. When one of his underlings asks him to come in person and then fails, he shows why it is a VERY good thing this trope is in play for him. It takes Destra's death to get him off the throne. Then this trope becomes deconstructed. Turns out all those years of sitting on his throne and letting his Collection powers do all the work has left him aged and out of practice. Once all his Collection pieces are removed, his remaining might, while still nothing to sneeze at, is not enough to stave off defeat from the Patrangers.
- Pet the Dog: He does care for his fellow henchmen including Destra, who he mourns after his death while praising him for being "one hell of a right hand man". The same cannot be said for Gauche however.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: The leader of the Gangler and a very powerful being.
- Retired Monster: Dogranio is planning to retire after he succeeds in finding his replacement. Not that he has any intention of changing his ways of course. In an ironic twist, he winds up being given this retirement by way of being imprisoned in a Tailor-Made Prison underground bound in his own chains for the rest of his, presumably very long, lifespan.
- Slouch of Villainy: He is often seen doing this in his chair, watching his Ganglers raise havoc with a glass of wine.
- Sword Cane: His waking stick is just a sheath for his sword, as revealed in the finale. He doesn't really need the sword part by default, however.
Destra Majjo
Portrayed by: Youhei Fujita (suit)
Voiced by: Yuji Ueda
Dogranio Yabun's right hand man. A Dilophosaurus-themed warrior who has a grenade like armor and his body is said to hold several weapons. He has the distinction of being one of the only two shown Ganglers so far to be both "Status Double" and "Status Gold", the other being Zamigo. This enables him to wield multiple pieces of the Lupin Collection, some of which he's given away to other Ganglers.- Animal Motifs: His motif is the one of a Dilophosaurus.
- Badass Normal: As much as one can be when an alien monster, Destra manages to take on both teams and not only survive but almost win, without any pieces of the Lupin Collection.
- The Brute: While also acting as The Dragon, Destra is the muscle and the powerhouse of Gangler.
- Cyclops: Has a single big red eye on his face, which is located inside the mouth of his dinosaur head.
- Enemy Summoner: Carries special grenades that grow into giant monsters called "Goram" after being thrown.
- Killed Off for Real: Destra is finally killed in Episode 42, causing Dograino to swear vengeance.
- Meaningful Name: His name is one letter away from mano destra, Italian for "right hand". Three guesses to what is his role among Ganglers.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He is the first Gangler to point out that the Lupin Collection items the Ganglers own and the ones the rangers use seem strangely different despite coming from the same source and spends two episodes trying to obtain the latter sort to try and get to the bottom of what ought to be a pressing mystery for his cohorts. It is because the ones used by the rangers were modified and/or created by humans as to be usable from their original forms, which were made on the Gangler Homeworld. He also gives up one of his collection pieces, with the power to redirect projectiles in flight, to an underling as part of an experiment considering it an acceptable loss when the Lupin take it, to the confusion of Mad Scientist Gauche. This theory was slightly jossed by #44 and #48 through Noel's expertise in the matter to Destra's claim, supposedly implied that only the Ganglers can used the Lupin Collections since none of the Ganglers including Destra himself had been physically shown to use the power of those Collections without putting those things in their safes.
Gauche Le Mede
Portrayed by: Yuichi Hachisuka (suit)
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu
An Oviraptor-themed Gangler scientist and Dogranio's "secretary". She uses the power of the Lupin Collection to amplify the abilities and enlarge their warriors.- Awesome by Analysis: One of her two Collection Pieces, the binoculars specifically, gives her the ability to study her opponent's movements in fine detail.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: She seems to have biological ammo drums growing out of her shoulders. This extends to the belts growing out of them and all around Gauche's body, which when combined with the Gros Caliber allow her to revive and enlarge defeated Ganglers. Her fight with Lupin Red during Episode 8 shows that they can function as regular guns too. And of course, like other Ganagler she has a safe sticking out of her body but her safe is golden rather then sliver, or "The Rare Status Gold" as X puts it. As revealed by #23, this means that her safe can't be hacked by a single Dial Fighter.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: With the Coupe de Gâteau Lupin piece, she can turn her hand into a blade.
- Break the Haughty: Gauche does not take it well when Dogranio finally gets tired of her crap and abandons her to die to put it lightly.
- Catchphrase: "Now my darling little treasure, make [X] feel better."
- Cthulhumanoid: Despite being based on Oviraptor, her head gives off this vibe.
- The Dreaded: Gauche herself doesn't have anything too threatening other than her Status Gold safe and ability to grow fallen Ganglers, but Noel and especially Kogure are deathly afraid of her Gueris le Monde collection piece.
- Eyeless Face: Doesn't have any visible eyes. Ironically, the other Lupin Collection piece in her possession, the Guéris le monde, gives her enhanced vision.
- Giggling Villain: The first time we actually see her fight, she's got a sinister sounding giggle the whole time.
- Hidden Badass: Despite her seemingly support role in the syndicate, she is also an excellent fighter on her own. She always gets to stay next to Dogranio, a thing that other monsters tends to dislike her for, but so far, no one is able to actually usurp her from her position, meanwhile, she has put Lupin Red through quite a pinch, a testament of her fighting skills.
- This is especially true when she pulls out her third collection piece Coupe le Gateau. With which she proceeds to surgically dissect all seven rangers with mocking ease.
- Horrifying the Horror: Her experiments are apparently so brutal that she caused at least one Gangler to try to defect.
- Human Resources: She harvests the safes for her experiments from still-living Ganglers. Their survival is optional.
- Killed Off for Real: She is finally killed by the Lupinrangers in Episode 48.
- Leitmotif: Has one that pops up any time she shows up to revive of monster, consisting of a "Sexy" sounding woman chanting to the music.
- Mad Scientist: She experiments on human victims for no reason other than "fun", and then later even on her fellow Ganglers. The first few attempts are goofy-looking Pordermen with an enlarged hand and safes for heads, but the eventual product of her research is a monstrous chimera with five safes on its body.
- Make My Monster Grow: When the Gros calibernote is in her safe, Gauche can enlarge a defeated Gangler by releasing an energy orb into the remains of the defeated Gangler's safe. In a pinch, she can spam it to mass grow Pordermen, who don't have safes, or use it on a still living Gangler.
- Meaningful Name: In contrast to Destra, her name comes from gauche, French for "left". It can also mean "tactless", which, given her personality towards anybody who isn't Dogranio, certainly also applies.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Has two bone covered bulges on her chest that resemble breasts.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: It is up in the air if one would consider Gauche "sexy", but she is wearing one. It'd be Stripperific if the hole in the stomach of it was exposing actual skin and not Gauche's organic ammo belts.
- Villainous Breakdown: Has one during Episode 48 after Dogranio stole her Lupin Collection pieces along with her Experimental Body.
Zamigo Delma
Voiced by: Jingi Irie
The sea angel-themed Gangler that committed the freezing serial murders, whose victims include the loved ones of the Lupinrangers. A powerful being with ice-based abilities, he freely goes between the back dimension and the human world and does as he please. Like Destra, Zamigo is a "Status Double" Gangler with two safes classified as "Status Gold".- Achilles' Heel: Zamigo's guns are some of the most dangerous weapons in all of Sentai as all he needs is one clean hit to trap his victim in ice. Not only that, despite his guns being single-shot only, he can infinitely respawn them via his Gold Safes. That ends up being the key to defeating him as the Trigger Machines can reset his safes' combinations and lock them shut, preventing him from reloading.
- Badass Normal: Relatively speaking. Unlike the other Ganglers, he doesn't rely on the power of a Collection piece, largely because he doesn't have to.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Ticked off that his fight with the Lupinrangers are interrupted by Dogranio and the Patrangers, he requests Dogranio to let him continue the fight in his infinite safe, locked and free from further interruptions. This backfires horribly for him as [[spoiler: not only are his gun-generating safes locked out of his control by the Lupinrangers in the ensuing fight, he is unable to escape to recover himself for another rematch. Not that he minds.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Upon being confronted by Kairi for the first time, the Lupinranger fiercely asked him what he did a year ago.note . Zamigo joked back that "he was breathing". Though the way he retorted was more in that he wanted Kairi to specify which person he was angry about.
- Character Tics: Usually seen chewing on ice cubes and/or whistling whenever he appears.
- Cowboy: His human disguise is a flashy Gunslinger, while his real form is basically an ice-powered tentacle monster cowboy.
- Enigmatic Minion: Despite being a Gangler higher-up, he doesn't take orders from Dogranio or anyone else and does as he pleases. Also, despite being very powerful, he never competes in Dogranio's successor contest. Dogranio himself admit how interesting it would be if Zamigo does so, showing the old man has high regards for him. The only person in the Gangler world he keeps regular contact with is Destra, who Zamigo often gives information regarding the goings-on in the human world. He only returns to the Gangler world during the final arc of the series, and even then, it's for his own benefit and couldn't care less about his cohorts machinations.
- Evil Laugh: Befitting his rather cheerful personality, he often does this. Most notable when fighting Kairi for the first time.
- Face Death with Dignity: When finally killed, he merely says to Lupin Red "It's been fun... Adios.", suggesting that he is glad to go down in a blaze of glory.
- Final Boss: He's the last opponent the Lupinrangers fought.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is calm, cheerful, and has a sick sense of humor all of the time. To say it mitigates his criminal for fun style and sociopathic personality would be just as false as calling either Basco or Enter nice guys.
- For the Evulz: His crimes are committed for no rhyme or reason. He's not even interested in becoming Dogranio's successor. He does what he does for the fun of it.
- Guns Akimbo: Much like an Old West cowboy, he wields his ice guns in both hands.
- Gratuitous English: Lapses into this on occasion, like when he remarks Nice joke, when Kairi proclaims he'll defeat him.
- Gratuitous Spanish: In contrast to the Lupinrangers' French 'Adieu', he says "Adios" before landing a final shot.
- Genuine Human Hide: The true purpose of freezing his victims in ice: To hold them in his hideout until it's time for him to skin them to give to any monster who wants to pass themselves off as humans.
- Harmless Freezing: His freezing ability doesn't actually kill his victims but merely sends them to an unknown location. This doesn't mean they're safe, as it's harmless for completely different reasons..
- An Ice Person: His element of choice which he
uses to frightening effect. - It's Personal with the Dragon: He is the arch enemy of the Lupinrangers having frozen their loved ones and is the main reason they became thieves in the first place. The Lupinrangers seemingly sacrifice themselves to destroy him in episode 50, accomplishing their goal and freeing their loved ones and entrusting taking down the actual Big Bad Dogranio to the Patrangers as they were the ones who's goal was actively saving the world by ending the Gangler threat for good.
- Killed Off for Real: Is finally put down by the Lupinragers in Ep 50.
- Literally Shattered Lives: His victims are frozen so solidly that any external stimuli leads to this. When Lupin Red kills him, he shatters himself, before exploding.
- Master of Disguise: He provides the Human Disguises the Gangler all use. And the implications are just as horrifying as can be imagined. The disguises are made from the victims of his rampage.
- Meaningful Name: His name is just a few letters away from saying Amigo Del Mal (Friend of the evil).
- More Despicable Minion: His boss Dogranio Yaboon was at least an Affably Evil mob boss who is willing to retire as long as he gets a successor first and shows some care for others like Destra. Zamigo on the other hand, has never genuinely cared about anyone except as toys he can play with and has no motive for his actions other than because he likes it.
- No Ontological Inertia: Kairi believes that defeating him will restore all of his victims. Come episode 50, his faith is rewarded, at least the ones who weren't made into human disguises for the monsters.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- He doesn't actually care about his enemies, but he does let the Patrangers escape the Gangler's homeworld since he still wants to toy with them as much as he does the Lupinrangers.
- He doesn't dispose of any allies that have some use to him, hence why he didn't like when the Patrangers kill Narizma one. He quickly gets over it.
- Serial Killer: Freezes his victims to the point that the simplest touch causes them to shatter to pieces, something he's done to many victims including the Lupinrangers' loved ones and Patren 2's predecessor. Even though he actually just teleported them somewhere only he knows about, he's still considered this because all of the Ganglers with human forms got theirs from his after he's skinned some of them and would've done so to the rest (the Lupinrangers' loved ones included) if he wasn't stopped.
- Spanner in the Works: He thwarts Destra's plan to bring the Patarangers and Lupinrangers to the Gangler world by opening a portal for them back to the human world. His reasoning? He doesn't like anyone else playing with his "toys".
- The Sociopath: He has committed crimes for his own gain and fun, even without permission of the higher up Ganglers, remorselessly claims getting rid of people is easy, is shamelessly responsible for killing many humans just to create the Gangler Monsters human disguises, even if his mass abduction didn't actually kill them as once thought, and his sadism surpasses even others of his group. The only time he was down about another monster's death, Narizuma, was because he was, in his own words, "a handy tipster".
- Throw-Away Guns: Justified. His guns are single shot only and he can generate an infinite number of them almost instantly with his powers and he fires off a lot of shots.
- Worthy Opponent: Seems to find LupinRed an intriguing adversary.
- You Are Already Dead: If his ice blast touches any part of your body or clothing, it will spread to cover and consume you. Kairi saves himself by shooting off the freezing portion of his cape after Zamigo grazes it.
Raimon Gang
A small faction within the Ganglers, lead by Raimon Gaorufang, with its members being Giwi Newzie and Ushibaroque the Brawl.
- Arc Villain: Serves as this for episodes 23-25.
- Dwindling Party: A villainous example; every episode has one member bite it, with the leader Raimon being last.
- King of Beasts: Raimon Gaorufang is based on a lion. Fittingly, he is the leader of the gang.
Other Ganglers
