Characters / Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters

Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters character sheet.

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The Go-Busters

Hiromu Sakurada/Red Buster

Hiromu Sakurada/Red Buster | Live Actor: Katsuhiro Suzuki

• Badass Biker: Rides Nick as a motorcycle and has the fighting skills to most certainly back up his motorcycle skills.
• Beneath the Mask: While he may look stoic and rational, Mission 20 reveals that he's deeply burdened by his parents' disappearance and often hides this fact to keep his mind on the mission at hand. It takes Yoko getting through to him for him to start letting his guilt go.
• Brutal Honesty: He doesn't exactly pull punches when he tells the truth, and it's stated frequently that he can be blunt.
• Character Development: Hiromu starts out as a stoic, blunt officer who's extremely professional and not exactly the nicest person around. While he's still dead serious when it counts, he starts becoming more emotive and more sociable as the series goes on, letting go of his extreme guilt and becoming a far more happier person by series' end.
• Character Exaggeration: In the Kamen Rider X Super Sentai Superhero Taisen net movies, his weakness is changed from "chicken" to just plain "bird", because it's a lot easier to work "tori" into puns.^note For example, in episode 3, hearing Kamen Rider Double's Trigger Memory (TORIGAA!!) causes him to freeze up He also freezes up when he hears Torin's name in Zyūden Sentai Kyōryūger vs Go-Busters. It's a bit more justified since Torin actually looks like a chicken.
• The Comically Serious: He's one of the most serious rangers, but his stoicism is just as much Played for Laughs as it is Played for Drama, especially when chickens are involved.
• Consummate Professional: He's utterly dedicated to the mission at hand and won't exactly tolerate small-talk outside of the mission if it distracts them. He starts to grow out of it as the series goes on.
• Dynamic Entry: Makes his entry into combat in #1 by launching his motorcycle into the air and blowing out the monster's eyes.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: From #47 onwards, whenever Hiromu runs into anything chicken-related, he is on the receiving end of this so he can be snapped out of his frozen state.
• Grand Theft Me: During the show's last act, Enter uses his Soul Jar relationship with Hiromu to become him bit by bit.
• Heroic Vow: Made thirteen years ago to Yoko.
• Hidden Depths: Mission 24 revealed that he's a street performer and knows how to juggle.
• Humans Are Flawed: This is the basis of his final Patrick Stewart Speech to Enter, telling him that humans are superior because they are flawed and being perfect just makes you empty.
• Image Song: "One Wish, One Day", sung with Nick. It was the ending theme for #9 and #10.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His bluntness more often than not results in this.
• The Leader: He's the one that actively calls the shots on the field, although it's Kuroki who's the real leader of the bunch.
• Murder-Suicide: Tries to pull this on Enter when he finds out he's his Soul Jar. Enter, being Enter, doesn't allow this.
• No Social Skills: Downplayed. He has a tendency to be far too blunt for his own good, but he can still handle his own in social situation if need be.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: #48 has Yoko trying to talk to Hiromu when he starts training to get his mind off of being Enter's Soul Jar. He suddenly starts laughing and smiling out of nowhere to distract Yoko, which obviously does not work.
• Red Ones Go Faster: He's the red ranger and has super speed to go along with that.
• Soul Jar: To Enter, thanks to having the missing Messiah Card #13 implanted in his body.
• The Spock: He's the logical, stoic Spock to Yoko's emotional McCoy and Ryuji's balanced Kirk.
• The Stoic: Nick mentions in #2 that Hiromu doesn't smile a lot. He's gotten better at this as the show goes on, becoming far more emotive and open with his feelings.
• Super-Speed: Due to his tech being based off a cheetah, he's capable of running faster than usual.
  • Flash Step: The Powered Custom upgrade turns his Super-Speed into this.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: It's not super apparent, but by series' end; he's much happier and far more open than he was at the beginning of the series.
• Triangle Shades: His ranger helmet has noticeably more triangular lenses compared to the others.
• Villainous Crush: At the end of #41, Pink Buster reveals that she's got her eyes on Hiromu and will not stop until she steals his heart away.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The guy's scared of chickens after one attacked him while he was stuck in a coop as a child. Just seeing a picture of one can make him freeze up. By the end of the series, he's gotten far better at it, thanks to his teammates hitting him every time he freezes up.
  • In #2, it's implied that this happens whenever he panics at all; it just so happens that chickens freak him out.
  • And in #3, just the word is enough to cause some difficulty. While not freezing him up completely, it does slow him down, resulting in more effort being required in order to move.

Ryuji Iwasaki/Blue Buster

Ryuji Iwasaki/Blue Buster | Live Actor: Ryouma Baba

• Berserk Button: Does not like to be reminded that he's older than his teammates. And then there's what happens should he overexert himself…
• Beware the Nice Ones: Almost punches Kuroki in #4, also shown to be this way when overheated in #5.
• The Big Guy: Often he's the one to put out the most punches in a fight because of his Super-Strength.
• Combat Pragmatist: To fight against Escape's dirty tactics, he's more than willing to overheat himself on purpose to gain ground. Unfortunately, Escape fights dirtier.
• Cunning Linguist: He is apparently fluent in French (as he can understand Enter perfectly) and English (he can effortlessly read an e-mail written in English). Frequently translates for Enter to the rest of the team.
• Genius Bruiser: #12 shows how skilled he is at coming up with strategies.
• Godzilla Threshold: If there's no other way, he's willing to resort to overheating himself on purpose, assuming it's just him and the Vaglass.
• Image Song: "Blue Banana Moon", sung with Gorisaki.
• Imagine Spotting: When Hiromu and Yoko try making up an excuse in order for Ryuji to get replaced as a Buster, leading to two hilarious Imagine Spots...
  "I'm not that old!"
• The Kirk: He has the logical reasoning to come up with strategies and the emotional intelligence to handle Yoko's emotional outbursts and Hiromu's stoicism.
• Mistaken for Dying: In #21 due to a careless joking comment Jin says to Gorisaki.
• Overheating: What happens if he uses his Super Power too much. Which then causes him to go into his...
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Overheated!Ryuji can curb stomp a Metaroid single handedly. He also has a noticeable sadistic streak and no qualms about attacking his teammates.
  • Also doubles as a Heroic RRoD because of the strain on his own body.
  • It's reflected in his fighting style. Normal!Ryuji has a very elegant and technical fighting style. Overheated!Ryuji goes more into strength-based attacks that take advantage of his super power.
• Robotic Psychopath: Overheated!Ryuji could count, especially since his voice sounded a good bit more robotic than Ryuji's.
• The Social Expert: Capable of keeping peace between his teammates.
• Super-Strength: His main superpower.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: The Powered Custom upgrade gives him the ability to create objects out of data by making contact with a surface, such as producing a large boulder by putting his hand to the ground. So the first thing he does is put his hand to a building and make a girder.
• Team Dad: He says that it's his duty because he's older than his teammates.
• Teen Superspy: Averted. He is 28 years old, noticeably older than most recent Rangers who have been in their teens or early 20s.
• The Unchosen One: Unlike Hiromu and Yoko, who had parents that worked at the EMC as scientists, Ryuji was just an ordinary teenager who happened to be there for a visit during the Messiah incident 13 years ago. This led him to be roped in for the Go-Busters program at a significantly older age than his partners.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • #25. He's ready to fight dirty against Escape, and not when berserk. Unfortunately, she fights dirtier.
  • #37. He hits Tiararoid square in the chest with his Gorillarge Punch. She goes boom before she can reprimand him.
  • #46. He beats up poor Yoko to the point she gets knocked out of her transformation THEN continues to fire at her as she tries to transform again.
    • The first two were just an Avatar and a Metaroid, then the last one was because of his Superpowered Evil Side.
• Wrestler in All of Us: When fighting the Copyroid, Ryuji applies a cross armbreaker to disable the Metaroid's camera arm (and thus, its copying abilities).

Yoko Usami/Yellow Buster

Yoko Usami/Yellow Buster | Live Actress: Arisa Komiya

• Aborted Arc: Early episodes gave her an Irrational Hatred of Hiromu, that vanished after 3 episodes.
• Action Girl: She may have a weakness that slows her down, but that definitely doesn't mean that she can't kick ass for days.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest of the team at 16 (later 17) and is often treated as such due to her naivete and childish mannerisms at times.
• Break the Cutie AND Heroic BSoD: Yoko, despite growing up together with Ryuji for over a decade, didn't see him overheat until #5, and when it does happen, she actually cries. She gets better afterwards.
• Identical Stranger: Has one in the form of a Chinese actress named Angie Sue.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Initially she doesn't like Hiromu at all and interprets everything he says as an insult or arrogance.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: When paired up with J.
• Girlish Pigtails: Tends to wear her hair like this when in civilian clothes.
• Image Song: "Shinpai! Honey ♥ Bunny!", sung with Usada.
• In a Single Bound: Her super power allows her to jump extremely high in one step.
  • Double Jump: The Powered Custom upgrade gives her the ability to jump on air. Even sideways.
• Just a Kid: Initially defied when Miho expresses this reaction only to have it made very plain to her that Yoko is in fact a crack agent. However, later episodes do portray her age and naivete as a weakness.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Jin comments that Yoko takes after her mother, including her dislike of being patronized.
• Malaproper: She would often get French terminology wrong in the beginning of the series.
• The McCoy: The most emotional of the bunch, often getting annoyed at nearly everything.
• Meaningful Name: Her family name is a reference to "usagi" (Japanese for bunny) and her robot Buddyroid, Usada Lettuce.
• Missing Mom: Her character arc is based around her mother disappearing into the subspace thirteen years ago. Although sadly, it might stay like that seeing as how Yoko's mother and many others that were in the incident 13 years have become part of Messiah's data. With Messiah & the hyperspace destroyed, it looks as though Yoko might not ever see her mom ever again.
• Not Quite Flight: The Double Jump ability of her Powered Custom form allows her to stay in the air indefinitely, essentially being this trope.
• One of the Boys: When you're the only girl on the team, you're bound to be surrounded by boys and end up hanging out with them.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Wears one with Nakamura and Rika at the party at the end of #44. Hers is reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood with leather boots.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only girl on the team of three then later five Rangers.
• Sweet Tooth/Hyperactive Metabolism: Needs to eat sweets to maintain her energy levels.
  • It's implied that she merely burns through calories much faster than the others, so has to take in some more on a regular basis. The reason she uses sweets is because they are high in calories, and can be compact.
• Teen Superspy: Is the youngest human member of the team at 16. (17 as of #22 and 18 as of Kyoryuger vs Go-Busters)
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She may be a fearsome Action Girl on the field, but she also loves sweets and cute things.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Often wears her hair like this in her mission uniform.
• Tsundere: To Hiromu.
• Your Makeup Is Running: In #5, following her emotional breakdown over Ryuji's overheating and going berserk.

Masato Jin/Beet Buster

Masato Jin/Beet Buster | Live Actor: Hiroya Matsumoto

• Accidental Misnaming: Used to have this problem with Saburo Hazuki, big time.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: He's a narcissistic, eccentric engineering genius who hides his pain with jokes and sarcasm. The man is basically Tony Stark as a Sentai Ranger.
• Attention Whore: Shows minor signs of this as early as his debut in #14 when his Buddyroid, Beet J. Stag tries to stand in front of him.
• Beneath the Mask: He's a jokester on the outside, but as J reveals in #34, this is often a mask to hide his repressed guilt and depression over the incident 13 years ago.
• Broken Pedestal: For Ryuji, after seemingly stealing a cargo of Enetron from under the Busters' noses.
  • Rebuilt Pedestal: When they discovered why he did it.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Hiromu thinks that the "jokester" the Busters recently encountered isn't the same person as the genius engineer Ryuji was acquainted with. Ryuji corrects him, saying that Jin has always been like that. Though in #34, J revealed that he's like that sometimes when Jin gets depressed.
• Catchphrase: "Stop covering me", to J.
• Character Tic: Hitting Buglers (and occasionally J) on the head. Complete with 'DING' sound effect.
• Expy: His relationship with J, somewhat reminds fans of Yuto Sakurai and Deneb.
• Fighting a Shadow: Because his self on earth is an Avatar, whenever it's destroyed he simply needs to send another one using J as a signal marker.
• Foreign Cuss Word: He uttered "Oh, shit" in Mission 17 and 22.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Uses himself to block a missile meant for Red Buster, then just sends a new Avatar to take its place.
• Hard Light/Hologram: What he really is. He can create a projection of himself on Earth, but his body remains in hyperspace, meaning that the Go-Busters are no closer to recovering him or their parents.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Removes the Messiah Card from Hiromu's body in the finale at the cost of his life and body.
• Hypocritical Humor: He thinks that Professor Hazuki as an eccentric scientist although they aren't that different.
• Image Song: "Perfection", sung with J.
• Japanese Beetle Brothers: The Kabutomushi to J's Kuwagatamushi.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In his first two episodes he spends most of his time taunting and abusing the Go-Busters both physically and verbally, but it's all so they'll get strong enough to take on Messiah. Well, mostly all.
• The Lancer: He's the fourth member of the team, but he's the one that directly contrasts Hiromu with his jokester (well, mostly) attitude and brash fighting style.
• The Last Dance: After destroying his body to remove the Messiah Card from Hiromu in the finale, he uses the time his avatar has left to help the others take down Enter once and for all.
• Last-Name Basis: The others refer to him as simply "Jin" or "Jin-san",
• Large Ham: If it ain't the Buddyroids, you can almost guarantee that Jin's hamming it up somewhere.
• Older Than They Look: Remains the same age as he was 13 years ago due to being in hyperspace, where he did not age. While his body on Earth is only an avatar, Mission 30's tail end shows that his real body has been in stasis this whole time and thus looks the same as his avatar.
• The Perfectionist: Jin is an inversion. He doesn't think that perfection is wrong but he also thinks that flaws make things more interesting.
• Sad Clown: Revealed to be one by J in #34.
• Sixth Ranger: The fourth member to join the core three Go-Busters.
• The Smart Guy: He may not look like it, but he is a genius engineer for a damn good reason.
• Two First Names: Both his given and family name are considered first names in Japan.
• Would Hit a Girl: Against Escape usually, but goes up to eleven when he and J grab the Tiararoid as Ryuji finishes her off.

Buddyroids

Cheeda Nick

Cheeda Nick | Voice Actor: Keiji Fujiwara

• Cool Big Bro: Acts as a big brother figure to Hiromu.
• Cool Bike: Transforms into one for Red Buster.
• Meaningful Name: Cheeda = "cheetah" + "Sakurada", while "Nick" comes from niku (meat)
• No Sense of Direction: Despite being fitted with the latest in navigational technology he gets lost easily, to the point that whenever he gives out directions Hiromu will do the opposite of what Nick says.
• Only Sane Man: Usually among the Buddyroids, and sometimes the Busters too.
• Panthera Awesome: He has a cheetah motif.

Gorisaki Banana

Gorisaki Banana | Voice Actor: Tesshō Genda

• Cowardly Sidekick: He is this to Ryuji. Comes into play when Ryuji is close to overheating, worries about everything, even to the point where he worried that Ryuji was going to die after one last overheat, even though Jin was just messing with Gorisaki.
• Gentle Giant: He may look big, but he's a nice person above all else.
• Lovable Coward: Despite his constant state of worrying on just about everything, he is also a skilled mechanic, as J put it in his own words.
• Meaningful Name: Gorisaki = "gorilla" + "Iwasaki"

Usada Lettuce

Usada Lettuce | Voice Actor: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

• Accidental Misnaming: Does not take kindly to Nick calling him "Carrot".
• Catchphrase: "Roger, Rabbit."
• Deadpan Snarker: He loves snarking at the others' expense, no matter how pissed off they get.
• Meaningful Name: Usada = a reference to "usagi" (Japanese for bunny) and his human partner, Yoko Usami.
• Token Mini-Moe: In comparison to the rest of the cast.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Yoko may argue like their lives depend on it, but when push comes to shove, they will always care for each other no matter what.

Beet J. Stag/Stag Buster

Beet J. Stag/Stag Buster/Silver Stag | Voice Actor: Yūichi Nakamura

• The Alcoholic: J likes his Enertron a lot, and he prefers it canned. You will most likely find him with said drink in hand in any appearance. Though this has caused trouble in the DVD special where they spiked his drink with Metavirus and caused him to act not on his own volition. This is also justified by the fact that if he does not have any Enetron, he is damn near useless and will be found stumbling around or falling over.
• Badass Boast/Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Before his fight against Soujikiroid in his debut.
  J: I will delete you by my own hand.
• Baritone of Strength: He's a skilled fighter and has the deep voice to match thanks to Yūichi Nakamura.
• The Comically Serious: The Buster who delivers the most comic relief, yet we never see him change his tone of voice no matter what he's doing.
• Cloudcuckoolander: His thought process is...odd to say the least.
• The Ditz: Especially in Mission 28 when Sprayroid turns the Buglers into the three core Go-busters. As J grabs two of them the other Busters figure out that water washes away the changes so they kick water at the Buglers which includes J. J responds "Why am I getting wet?" see also The Comically Serious above.
• Face–Heel Turn: Goes through one in episode 40 when he begins to protect the Metaroid. Subverted, however, when it's revealed later that the card that infected the Metaroid contains parts of Jin that were absorbed into Messiah and he was trying to get the card to retrieve that information.
• Expy: A non-human extra warrior, much like Gosei Knight and others before him.
• Funny Background Event: In certain episodes, you will find him goofing off on the playground, talking to plants and suddenly running off, or running around with his butterfly net. Either way, you're gonna get a kick out of whatever he's doing.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his egotism and his lack of intelligence, he really does care for Jin. As revealed in episode 40, J has experienced so much of the real world and has grown to love it and he wants Jin to experience it too, not as an avatar, but as a human.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: When paired up with Yoko.
• It's All About Me: Has no shame in declaring himself an egotist.
• Idiot Hero: Let's face it, J's an idiot who can barely accomplish anything without Jin holding his hand.
• Japanese Beetle Brothers: When in ranger-form, he is the Kuwagatamushi to Jin's Kabutomushi. Oddly enough, when in buddyroid-form, he represents both beetles at once.
• The Lancer: As Silver Stag of the Doubutsu Sentai.
• Large Ham: Like his human partner. The two are in constant competition for the spotlight as a result.
• Literal-Minded: He has a tendency to follow Jin's orders word for word. For example, in Mission 21, he tells J to deliver a message to Gorisaki, who he calls "Banana-chan." J happens to be holding a bunch of bananas. So he says that he's with him right at that moment and relays Jin's message to the bunch of bananas.
• One-Letter Name: Is almost always called his middle initial "J" instead of his full name.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: the second he stops talking about how great he and emphasizing his personal pronouns is the moment you know things are bad.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He may be a stoic, but his odd mannerisms and thought process often relieve much dramatic tension that the team is facing... most of the time.
• Sixth Ranger: Along with his human partner, Jin, J is the fifth member to join the core three Go-Busters.

Ene-tan

Ene-tan | Voice Actress: Nozomi Tsuji

• Adaptedout: Ene-tan's not seen in Beast Morphers. She's only seen there stored in the vault of Grid Battleforce HQ in Coral Harbor.
• Hates Being Touched: As soon as Hiromu grabs her controls, she immediately flips out and starts taking the reins at the team's expense.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only official female Buddyroid.

Allies

Commander Takeshi Kuroki

Commander Takeshi Kuroki | Live Actor: Hideo Sakaki

• The Comically Serious: Moreso when Jin reappears and he has to deal with the scientist's antics.
• Da Chief: Hiromu may be the leader, but he's the one calling the shots and making the plans behind the scenes.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Beet J. Stag reveals that Takeshi's was ''Kurorin'', courtesy of Masato.
• Good Is Not Nice: #4 has him make it very clear that he has no belief that the people trapped in hyperspace are still alive, and further is entirely willing to risk the lives of or outright sacrifice the Go-Busters if it would give him an advantage against the Vaglass to do so.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be abrasive and serious, but deep-down, he deeply cares about his subordinates' lives and will do anything in his power to keep the world safe.
• Last-Name Basis: The others refer to him as "Chief Kuroki" as a sign of respect.

Operator Miho Nakamura

Operator Miho Nakamura | Live Actress: Fūka Nishihira

• Audience Surrogate: Is a recent hire for the organization so occasionally has things explained to her.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Towards an impatient Hiromu in #26. By episode's end, in fact, Hiromu is the one scared of Nakamura when it was the other way around earlier.
• Last-Name Basis: Gets referred as "Nakamura" more often than not.
• Naïve Newcomer: Due to being brought on to the organization recently.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Wears one along with Yoko and Rika at the party at the end of #44. Hers is a more traditional one compared to Yoko's Little Red Riding Hood dress and Rika's slightly naughtier sleeveless dress.
• The Watson: She often had to get things explained to her in the beginning to get up to speed on the recent battle.
• Took a Level in Badass: She not only gets to write out the Go-Buster Oh combination sequence by hand with Morishita's help; she also gets Hiromu to actually shut the hell up when she gets annoyed by his impatience in #26. What a level up.

Operator Tōru Morishita

Operator Tōru Morishita | Live Actor: Naoto Takahashi

• A Day in the Limelight: #32 has him as the central character of the whole episode.
• Double Take: When Hiromu suggests that Tōru be Ryuji's replacement.
• Living Prop: In early episodes but he's gotten some focus in some of the later ones, with mission 26 letting the Busters support staff, including Tōru, have a little taste of the action.
• Last-Name Basis: Referred to as "Morishita".
• Super-Speed: #26 shows that he has some type of variant on this when he writes out the Go-Buster Oh sequence by hand at a far faster pace that what Nakamura can handle.

Rika Sakurada

Rika Sakurada | Live Actress: Risa Yoshiki

• Image Song: "Let's Morphin' ☆ Drawin'"
• Promotion to Parent: Has been Hiromu's main parental figure since their parents were killed 13 years ago, explaining her over-protectiveness of him in not wanting him to join the other Busters.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Wears one along with Yoko and Nakamura at the party at the end of #44. Hers is a slightly naughtier sleeveless dress.

Geki Jumonji

Geki Jumonji/Space Sheriff Gavan Type-G | Live Actor: Yuma Ishigaki

• Cool Bike: His Cyberian is a sidecar bike loaded with weapons.
• Cool Sword: Possesses a cool metal sword which can become a Laser Blade when it glows a light blue.
• Hot-Blooded: Very bold and even more emotional in battle.

Shelly

Shelly | Live Actress: Suzuka Morita

• Animorphism: She can change between human and bird forms.
• Aerith and Bob: Her name "Shelly" stands out amongst the Japanese names.
• Human Aliens: She looks human, but she's from Planet Bird.

The Vaglass

Messiah

Messiah | Voice Actor: Seiji Sasaki

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Messiah is ostensibly a Computer Virus that gained self-awareness.
• Assimilation Plot: If he ever got out of Hyper Space, his goal would be to become the planet by absorbing the entirety of it and everything in it into himself.
• Big Bad: The creator of the Vaglass, Messiah is the one who kicks off the plot though he leaves most of the formulating of schemes to Enter. And then he dies two thirds of the way through, leaving Enter to become the new Big Bad and Final Boss.
• Dark Messiah: If the name "Messiah" didn't tip you off.
• Devour the Dragon: He absorbs Escape for more power after his revival. What an Ungrateful Bastard.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Gets killed off about two thirds of the way through in a climactic battle. He comes back briefly as Messiah Reboot some episodes later, but gets killed again, making him something of a "Disc Two Final Boss" as well.
• Dumbass No More: The Messiah Metaroids are all far more intelligent than the original Messiah, and if nothing else, Messiah Reboot is more patient than his previous self, being willing to actually listen when Escapes asks him to wait while she sets things up and being more focused on his actual goals than random acts of destruction to please his sadism.
• Contagious A.I.: Is a sentient Computer Virus with this as his ultimate goal.
• Evil Is Bigger: Messiah Reboot is gigantic to the point even Gobuster King only comes up to his shins and he can hold their individual mech in his hands like toys.
• Genre Blind: Easily Messiah's greatest flaw, and a nice contrast to the Genre Savvy Enter. While The Dragon is telling Messiah of his plans, Messiah just bitches and moans, never thinking ahead, even shooting down some of Enter's smarter schemes due to his own impatience! If nothing else, he evolves past the impatience part when resurrected as Messiah Reboot.
• Huge Holographic Head: His default form is a giant red holographic skull.
• Millennium Bug: It's not mentioned, but if you do the math, he was born towards the tail end of 1999 in December, and it's mentioned that the facility was transported during a Christmas party.
• One-Winged Angel: Evolves into Messiah Cell, a powerful monster form that lets him fight the heroes himself. However, his core is still needed and destroying it ultimately weakens his physical form enough to destroy him. He later upgrades again into Messiah Reboot, after Escape revives him.
• Person of Mass Destruction: As childish and unintelligent as he is, Messiah is capable of destroying the world by absorbing the entire thing. His Messiah Reboot form is so powerful it spends most of the fight throwing around all of the Gobuster's robots around like rag dolls.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Is an extremely dangerous computer virus who, if released, could threaten the entire world, but he's also quite childish and tends to throw temper tantrums if he doesn't get his way.
• Rule of Symbolism: His name is "Messiah" and his "birth" appears to have happened on Christmas Day.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Is imprisoned in subspace. His goal is to steal enough energy to finally be free. Gains a new can as of Mission 33 in the form of thirteen cards, each of which has the potential to grow into a new Messiah.
• Soul Jar: His core once he evolves into Messiah Cell. Hiromu destroys it, weakening his physical body and allowing the Go-Busters to destroy him for good...at least until Enter reveals he backed him up.
• 13 Is Unlucky: Messiah's data is split into thirteen cards.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Escape worked her ass off to revive him, even betraying Enter and gaining human emotions - a big no-no as far as the Vaglass are concerened, and Messiah thanks her by pulling a Devour the Dragon.
• Villainous Legacy: While Messiah is killed before the finale, he created Enter, who goes on to become the next Messiah and Final Boss. Effectively, the final villain is Messiah, but a "new" Messiah as opposed to the original.

Enter

Enter | Live Actor: Syo Jinnai

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Pulls this on another AI. Towards the end of the series Enter decides that he would be a better Messiah than his boss and abandons the plan to resurrect him, opting to become the "new Messiah" instead.
• A God Am I: Basically becomes his mentality in episode 49.
• Ax-Crazy: As the series goes on, it becomes more and more clear that he's really losing his mind, killing Escape multiple times as a result of his sanity degrading. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
• Badass Cape: Dons one in his One-Winged Angel form.
• Badass Longcoat: His default outfit is a black and white longcoat.
• Bad Boss: Develops some of these qualities towards the end of the show’s run, mostly towards his Escape clones, considering them to be imperfect copies of the original. Most of the time, this is averted; while he never reaches Benevolent Boss status, he is almost never abusive towards the Monster of the Week.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Enter is quite competent in his job, but he has to constantly put up with his master's temper tantrums and some of his genuinely good plans tend to go ignored by Messiah. While loyal to Messiah, Enter has shown annoyance at having to essentially babysit him.
• Berserk Button:
  • As shown in #9 and later #50, the man DOES NOT like being trolled.
  • After becoming the leader of the Vaglass, he DOES NOT take kindly to Hiromu calling him "just data".
• Big Bad: Becomes this following Messiah's defeat. With Messiah gone, Enter takes charge of Vaglass and becomes the main threat to the Go-Busters, eventually becoming an even greater threat than Messiah ever was.
• Bishōnen Line: Most Super Sentai Big Bads become giant Eldritch Abominations for their final form. Enter? Enter becomes a Go-Buster.
• Came Back Strong: Over and over, to the point that when five Busters, three of them in Powered Custom form, hit him with their respective Finishing Move in rapid succession, it doesn't even successfully delete him.
• Came Back Wrong: He deliberately invokes this to steal more and more of what makes Hiromu able to beat him, but grows more and more insane every time.
• Catchphrase: "*Insert Gratuitous French Word here*, Go-Busters?" or "Metavirus... {Insert Metavirus name}. Install."
  • Foreign Cuss Word: Zut !^note (Usually translated as "Damn")
• The Chess Master: Best shown when he gains the Messianic Metaroids. Every defeat he suffers still brings him closer to his ultimate goal. Becoming the new Messiah and eventually, the perfect human.
• Combat Tentacles: His are more like Combat Cables, given his computer theme.
• Cool Shades: Constantly wears a pair of goggles which give him the ability to track things. They even carry over to his first upgraded form.
• The Cracker: Being made of data himself, it's rather easy for Enter to acquire data from other systems.
• Crazy-Prepared: Takes card No. 7, which had Jin's data on it, into himself, as a trump card should his Soul Jar be destroyed and he needs a bargaining chip. In a subversion, this ends up backfiring, since this very data is what allows Jin to extract Card no. 13 from Hiromu.
• Creepy Circus Music: His Image Song "Je m'appelle Enter" is set to circus style music.
• Creepy Monotone: For a human looking fellow, he basically speaks like a robot. Especially after his revival.
• Deader than Dead: See Soul Jar.
• Devour the Dragon: Slowly and carefully inverting this across the course of virtually the entire show allows Enter to become the new Big Bad.
• Disney Death: Was seemingly killed in #30, but somehow survived both the destruction of his Type Epsilon Megazord and Messiah. Happens again when Escape seemingly crushes him to death in #43, only for him to return in #44 with another Card absorbed into himself.
• The Dragon: Enter is Messiah's top henchmen, though he winds up sharing the position with Escape for a time.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Following Messiah's first demise, Enter becomes in charge of the Vaglass.
  • Demoted to Dragon: In Kyōryūger vs. Go-Busters, the Vaglass is revived under the control of the Great Cosmic War Dinosaur Voldos and Enter becomes one of his minions.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Invoked through a Messiah Card. Thanks to Tiararoid Enter can feel love and came to have brotherly feelings for Escape so he hates her copies because they aren't the same as the original. It's complicated.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Is unable to understand how Hiromu defeated him or where the scientists trapped inside Messiah managed to find the resolve to sacrifice their lives to defeat Messiah. Unlike most villains, he REALIZES this flaw and seeks to collect 'data' on humans until he can evolve past it. Even in the end, this is his downfall. His understanding of human nature was shallow and corrupt, thinking that human emotions were merely data, simply tools for him to conquer the world with. He is called out on this by the Busters claiming he can never be human due to treating his allies like crap. He didn't comprehend that the Go-Buster's imperfections help them be a better team by helping one another overcome their flaws, believing such connections only serve as a weakness. While they stand together, he stands alone and its because of that fact he's defeated.
  • Also, he never grows past his inability to truly comprehend self sacrifice. The idea Jin might sacrifice himself to destroy both of his trump cards never occurs to him, and as a result he falls.
• Evil Counterpart: Becomes one to Hiromu by the end of the series after copying his data.
• Evil Laugh: As the series enters its end he gains a very creepy baritone laugh to go with his Sanity Slippage.
• Expy: Serves as one to Basco, in a way. Both are trolly human-looking villains that really enjoy what they do. Both are also often considered the larger threat than their respective series' Big Bad.
  • He can also be seen as one to Smith from The Matrix trilogy. Both were A.I.s created by another AI, both were destroyed by The Hero but managed to return and upon their return they sought to overthrow their creators and conquer the world and humanity.
• Faux Affably Evil: Seems genteel and cultured, but when something's in his way, the gloves come off.
  • Shown in episode #4 when he is just sitting around, eating pizza when they show up. He proceeds to politely offer them some before creating a Metaroid to try and kill them.
• Fighting a Shadow: Being an Avatar on earth, being destroyed is no problem for him, as he can simply send a new one to replace it, as the real Enter is safe in Hyperspace.
• Four Is Death: After Messiah's first defeat, he took Messiah Card No. 4 into himself. This is what enables him to become the new Big Bad.
• French Jerk: He is not French since he is just made up of data. However, one of the sources of his data come from a French scientist.
• For the Evulz: Outright admits that while stealing enough Enetron for Messiah to escape subspace is the primary goal, some attacks are simply to amuse Messiah by causing human suffering. Enter himself seems to really enjoy what he's doing.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Enter's One-Winged Angel form resembles a prince, and he wants to become the new Messiah instead of reviving the old one who he calls "His Majesty".
  • In the Televi-Kun Special DVD, Enter steals Jin's Transformation Trinket and morphs into Beet Buster. In Mission 49, thanks to the data he stole from Hiromu, Enter can now morph into his own version of Red Buster, which seems to have been his intention ever since he put Card No. 13 in Hiromu. It seems he really wants to be a Ranger.
• Graceful Loser:
  • When Hiromu manages to defeat him in Mission 30, Enter actually congratulates him before his Megazord blows up.
  • And again in Mission 50. As he begins to fade and die, he seems strangely serene, especially considering his Villainous Breakdown beforehand with his last words before being Killed Off for Real being "C'est la vie" that means: "such is life" "it is the life" "that's life" or "oh well, shit happens" and him wishing the Go-Busters goodbye as he dies with dignity.
• Hard Light/Hologram: What he really is, same as Jin.
• The Heavy: Enter is not only the physical threat the Vaglass present, he's also the one that seems to make up all the plans for them, as Messiah normally just throws temper tantrums. This takes its natural progression when he becomes the Big Bad after Messiah's defeat.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: And gloriously so! Seeking another trump card, just in case Card no. 13 fails, he takes Card no. 7, which held Jin's data, within himself, in the hopes of using it to bargain with the Busters, if it came to that. This backfires when Jin uses that very data, which was also backed up on Card no. 13, to extract it from Hiromu and destroy it, thus ruining Enter's whole Soul Jar scheme.
• Humans Are Special: After losing to Hiromu he's come to believe this and seeks to understand humanity's power.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: While Messiah escaping subspace would very likely cause The End of the World as We Know It, Enter is overall more intelligent and mature than his boss, in addition to being a direct threat to the Busters while Messiah is Sealed Evil in a Can.
• Image Song: "Je m'appelle Enter" on his own, and "Ma Puce Requiem" sung with Escape.
• I Want Them Alive!: Enter deliberately held back in some engagements with Hiromu. This turns out to be because Hiromu is his Soul Jar. Of course, just because he needs Hiromu alive doesn't mean that he needs him unharmed—or even conscious.
• Irony: Before being crushed by Escape at the hands of the Megazord Zeta, he notes her feelings towards Messiah are what makes her a perfect human and imperfect. Yet his endgame is becoming the perfect human and he dislikes the Escape copies he creates due to them not being like the original Escape even though they are completely loyal to him.
• Knight of Cerebus: After Messiah's destruction, he returns, not only in charge of the Vaglass, but now with a much more disturbing personality, being able to frighten Escape into submission easily. On top of that, he also has the 13 Messianic Metaroids, far more powerful Metaroids made from Messiah's data, whose goal is to record enough human data for one of them to evolve into a new Messiah. Or rather gather enough information for him to turn himself into the perfect human.
• Mask of Sanity: He may look composed, but deep-down; he hides a deep sadistic streak a mile wide and is more than willing to destroy and pillage literal cities if it means he gets to his goals far sooner.
• One-Winged Angel: Enter uses the power of the Messiah Card within him to give himself a full armored monster form, known as "Enter Unite", in Mission 40. But his real One-Winged Angel form doesn't appear until Mission 49... Dark Buster.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Enter is made of data and can easily change clothes to disguise himself, but maintains his goggles each time.
• The Perfectionist: Intends to use the data he gets from the Messiah Cards to become the "perfect human". This obsession may be his Fatal Flaw, since while the "imperfect" Go-Busters work together to overcome their weaknesses, Enter only has himself, so when things go wrong for Enter, he has no one to fall back or rely on.
• Power Copying: He uses the Messiah card he put in Hiromu to copy not only Red Buster's powers, but also the abilities of Yoko and Ryuji as well. This is thanks to Hiromu's experiences of watching his friends fight while Card no. 13 was in him.
• The Power of Hate: Enter seizes upon this as the reason for human strength.
• Psycho for Hire: It's quite clear that Enter is having a blast doing the things he does, even if Messiah is the one in ordering him to do them.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Enter's right eye glows red and gains circuitry as of Mission 33. In 40 it's revealed that this happened because Enter himself holds one of the Messiah cards, #04. When he takes the #07 Card at the end of Mission 44, his left eye turns red as well.
• Royal Rapier: Uses one as Enter Unite. Dropped for his old sword in his real One-Winged Angel form.
• Sadist: He absolutely enjoyed destroying and befitting innocents if it means that his goals are getting accomplished.
• Single-Stroke Battle: How Hiromu finishes him during their duel in Mission 30, the blast destroying Messiah's core as well. Though Enter managed to survive somehow.
  • Happens again in episode 50 with him and Hiromu using Hiromu's Finishing Move. However, the rest of the Go-Busters joined up with Hiromu for the attack and allow them to overcome Enter. Without his Soul Jar, Enter dies his final death.
• The Sociopath: Made much more apparent after Messiah's first defeat, but nevertheless, Enter often takes demented amusement on wreaking havoc on innocents, treats the Messiah Cards and their data collecting as a game, desires perfection for his world domination, and has no real empathy for anyone but himself, whether it be perceiving human "flaws" as data or even sacrificing any ally of his. No matter how suave and mostly collected he is when interacting with the Go-Busters, none of it is altruistic and if anything becomes a thorough hinder for his overall schemes or his foes troll/outsmart him, Enter would quickly lash out in anger against the heroes.
• Soul Jar: He made Hiromu into one in an earlier battle by implanting Messiah Card #13 into his body, causing him to serve as a source for Enter to restore himself from no matter how many times he might perish as long as Hiromu still lives. This also gives him complete knowledge of everything about Hiromu, including his weakpoint and powers. It was finally destroyed thanks to Jin's Heroic Sacrifice, allowing him to be destroyed.
• The Stoic: After Messiah's destruction, he became eerily stoic and less of a troll, focusing more on gathering data on humans and evolving the Messiah Cards.
• Super Prototype: Enter was the first Avatar Messiah created, and he pretty much does all of the work and every major victory that the Vaglass gain is because of him. No wonder why he thinks that he'll be a better Messiah than the old one.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He is pretty much the only Vaglass member who ever gets anything done. Messiah just throws temper tantrums, and Escape ignores important mission objectives in exchange for a good fight. He pretty much ran the entire organization even before he became a Dragon Ascendant and took over.
• This Cannot Be!: His reaction to Go-Buster-Beet overpowering his new model Megazord.
• Took a Level in Badass: Unlike most Super Sentai villains he doesn't start out as an all powerful force but instead level grinds his way into being the Big Bad.
• Troll: Like Basco before him, Enter has a habit of being a very trolly villain.
• Verbal Tic: As well as speaking French, he also tends to repeat words three times.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: In EVERY single episode. The Go-Busters never stood a chance fighting him directly. In Mission 27 Ryuji has a short battle with him, but he escapes swiftly after Messiah's evolution was interrupted.
• Villainous Breakdown: In Mission 9, he loses his cool for the first time so far when the Go-Busters outsmart him.
  • Is rendered near speechless with anger in Mission 17 when Go-Buster Beet destroys his new Megazord, beginning when the ForkZord is destroyed by GT-02.
  • After his defeat at Hiromu's hands in Mission 30, he's become far more unstable mentally, his previously cheery persona replaced with a more stoic, creepier one with the occasional appearances of his old persona making him even creepier.
  • Even as he nears his ultimate triumph, Mission 47 shows signs of Sanity Slippage as he lashes out in anger against one of his clones of Escape before promptly recreating her. Mission 48 takes it even further, showing both steadily more erratic displays of emotion and his increasing obsession with becoming Hiromu.
  • After realizing his Soul Jar is gone, then finding out Card no. 7 was not only useless, but the reason he is now mortal, he suffers his greatest breakdown of them all in Mission 50, speaking erratically, his voice quivering with fury.
  • Ironically he averts this trope as he dies regaining his sanity, composure and faces his death with dignity.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: The reason why he made the Escape copies, trying to recover the original out of feelings obtained from Tiaraloid's data analyzing love. It's left ambigous what kind of love it is, however.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Maybe he should cut back on those Messiah Cards, he's starting to lose it.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Messianic Metaroid game has been revealed to have been a magnificent one. Long story short. Enter put Messiah Card 13 inside of Hiromu turning him into Enter's Soul Jar and making him unkillable while Hiromu lives and the card inside of him gathers data to make Enter evolve. Meanwhile the other Messianic Metaroids would gather data to turn into a new Messiah. In the end, either a Messianic Metaroid would kill the Go-Busters and gain enough data to make Enter become the new Messiah or the Go-Busters would win and gather enough data for him to become the new Messiah.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Escape crushes him with the Megazord Zeta after gaining enough data to revive Messiah, but unlike other examples he survives through using Hiromu as his Soul Jar and continue his plans.

Escape

Escape | Live Actress: Ayame Misaki

• Alas, Poor Villain: Ryuuji couldn't help but feel sorry for the last Escape copy's tragic existence and let her die happy by telling her she did a good job.
• Blood Knight: Compared to the more cautious Enter, Escape fights the Go-Busters for enjoyment rather than out of necessity.
• Catchphrase: She has a particular habit of describing things she likes, such as strong people, as "pretty good".
• Came Back Wrong: All the copies, but the last one so much more than the others.
• Cool Shades: Sports a pair with circut-like lines on the lenses, which transfer to her upgraded form.
• Daddy's Girl: Addresses Messiah as "Papa". Her copies do the same for Enter.
• Dark Action Girl: She can most definitely kick ass and is on the side of evil.
• Disney Death: Was seemingly killed off when Messiah re-absorbed her in Mission 44. She returns in a new form in Mission 46.
  • It turns out that this Escape is a copy of the original, as demonstrated at the end of Mission 46 when Enter creates a new Escape after the Go-Busters delete her previous incarnation.
• Distaff Counterpart: She and Enter have similar facial features and the same shade of hair. As they are both avatars of Messiah, it's possible they were created to look alike.
• Dragon with an Agenda/The Starscream: Escape zigzags between being the two of these to Enter after Messiah's death depending on how much she believes Enter's screwing around. Enter allows this because he believes her rogue actions will get him new data and make his "game" more interesting. She lives up to the Starscream part in ep. 43 when she turns on Enter and "kills" him, simultaneously subverting it by doing so out of her absolute loyalty to Messiah.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: What she looked like with her Fairytale Wedding Dress in Mission 37.
• Even Bad Avatars Love Their "Papas"
• Expy: Possibly a combination of Shelinda and Lila, particularly the former's loyalty, desire to free a powerful villain, and rivalry with a male ranger while the latter's gun skills, disguise talent and referring the main villain as a father.
• Giggling Villain: She loses a lot of this after Mission 33 and Messiah's death. Making it all the more unnerving when her copies completely revert to her original bubbly characterization.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dies after Ryuuji tells her that she did a good job, mistaking him for her "Papa".
• Guns Akimbo: Uses two guns, one black and one white, called Gog and Magog.
• Hard Light/Hologram: What she really is, same as Enter and Jin.
• I Call Her "Vera": Magog and Gog.
  • Shout-Out: A religious one. Gog and Magog are the names of two barbarians associated with prophetic descriptions of the apocalypse.
  • Becomes a plot point when Hiromu and Nick see Rika's drawing of two dog statues, one white and one black. They were named Gog and Magog, and were their family's keepsake. It is revealed that Escape (and Enter) are avatars born from data of the absorbed scientists in the Hyperspace.
  • Turns confusing when her first copy reintroduces them the same way the original did on her first appearance, then outright disturbing when the copy created seconds after that one's killed does it again. The corrupted copy makes it an outright Madness Mantra: she says it when she's not holding anything!
• Irony:
  • Enter used to complain about her not doing her job and indulging in her Blood Knight hobbies instead of focusing on her mission.After Messiah's death Escape has become a No-Nonsense Nemesis and is angry at Enter's for focusing on his "game" instead of trying to serve Messiah'swill.
  • In another twist of irony, Escape worked to steal Messiah Cards from Enter the restore Messiah to his former glory and Messiah returns the favor by re-absorbing her in his evolution as the Zeta Megazord.
  • And in yet ANOTHER twist Enter recreates Escape to be completely loyal to him, even having her refer to him as "Papa Enter". Girl can't catch a break.
• Let Them Die Happy: See Alas, Poor Villain.
• Ms. Fanservice: Some of her actions ranging from kissing her guns to her bridal dress in episode 37 has to be fetish fuel for someone, right?
  • When becoming Escape Evolve for the first time, one of the up-close shots was her breasts.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Becomes one after Messiah's death she stops screwing around and begins to single-mindedly focus on the mission.
• One-Winged Angel: Upgrades herself to gain a full armored monster mode, known as "Escape Evolve", in episode 37
  • Gains an upgrade to her Evolve form in Mission 46, consisting of flower parts grafted onto her body, including a large one that doubles as a flamethrower.
  • Again in Mission 48 when she absorbs random animals to become a grotesque chimera version of Evolve, and then again after absorbing buildings to become a hybrid between that and Megazord Zeta.
• Product Placement: Uses an Apple iPad to create Metaroids.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Enter's blue. Enter is much more calm, cool and remembers what the mission is, Escape is a wild card who wants to have what she could call fun and could care less about the mission if it means getting a good fight.
• Replacement Goldfish: Defied. Enter hates the Escape copies because they can never be the original Escape.
• Sanity Slippage: The last copy is made in an attempt to restore her to her original personality, the result starting out unhinged and becoming more so as it runs around absorbing various random animals until it becomes a stumbling mishmash of various parts.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Escape wears one when she and Enter confront the Busters in Mission 43. She even fights Beet and Stag Buster in it!
• Third Ranger: To the Vaglass side.
• Worthy Opponent: She's been on the lookout for one. As of Mission 25, Ryuji steps up to the plate and kicks it out of the park.
• Would Hurt a Child: In her debut episode, she has no problem shooting a kid just to draw out the Go-Busters for a fight. In a less violent example, in the following episode she takes a schoolboy's bag by force to get a magnet.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Is absorbed into Messiah after being told this in Mission 44.

Vaglass Mecha

Averting the best known of Super Sentai tropes, Vaglass always deploys a man-high Metaroid, used to summon the massive Megazords from hyperspace while feeding them with vital data from the field.

• Appropriated Appellation: The Energy Research group assigned their own classifications to the Megazord types, as seen below.
• Cyber Cyclops: Most of them, including the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Megazord.
• Gratuitous Greek: The basic Megazord types are named for the Greek letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Though Greek letters (especially Alpha and Beta) are often used in real life to describe prototype versions of a software.
• Mooks: Bugglars, your run-of-the-mill robot army.
  • Giant Mook: Buggzords, which are often repurposed for whichever Megazord they're deployed with. Fortunately they're not as common as say, the Oonanashi.
• Powers as Programs: What the Metaviruses basically function as.

Metaroids

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Some turn out to be more effective for the Vaglass cause than others. This is referenced by Enter in episode 6.
• Affably Evil: Both Danganroid from ep. 10 and MegaZordroid from ep. 42 are probably the most polite villains you will ever meet.
• Animate Inanimate Object: They are created from ordinary objects.
• Anime Hair: Jishakuroid from #23.
• Barrier Warrior: Bulldozerroid from ep. 36.
• Blow You Away: Fanloid from ep. 11.
• The Brute: Dumbellloid from ep. 21.
• Deadly Doctor: #3 Needleroid, complete with labcoat and syringe.
• Dreadlock Warrior: Danganroid and Danganroid 2.
• Emotion Control: Kentateroid from ep. 43.
• Extra Eyes: Metaroids have four eyes.
• Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Karateroid from #39.
• Gentleman Thief: Louperoid from episode #41.
• Girly Bruiser: Tiaraloid from ep. 37.
• Graceful Loser: Danganloid, Dumbellloid, Domeloid, and Loupeloid.
• The Jailer: Mushigakoroid.
• I Know Karate: Karateroid.
• Literal Big Bad: Domeroid from ep 38 and MegaZordroid from ep 42
• Lockdown: Keyroid from ep. 22.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: The Flimroid from #20.
• Musical Assassin: Tubaroid and Tubaroid 2 from #13/14
• Nervous Wreck: Parabolaroid 2 from #40.
• Ninja: Jishakuroid from #23.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Keshigomuroid from #26 and Omochiroid from #45.
• Playing with Fire: Burneroid from #2, and Rousokuroid from #25.
• Pokémon Speak: Averted. That's just what the summoning process sounds like.
• Psychological Torment Zone: Rousokuroid in #25 does this to anyone within view.
• Shapeshifter Baggage: The resulting Metaroid will always be about the size of an average adult human being regardless of the size of the object it was transformed from. Averted with Keshigomuroid who remains the size of the eraser he was created from. Averted again with Domeroid who's the size of a building!
• The Smurfette Principle: Tiararoid, after over 30 eps and Tateroid before being fused into Kentateroid in ep 43
• Street Punk: Sprayroid 2 from #28.
• Taking You with Me: The Sprayroid in episode 6 has no qualms about the fact the hangar he and the Busters are in exploding would kill him along with them, in fact he seems almost excited about it!
• This Is a Drill: Drilloid and later Drilloid 2.
• Two Beings, One Body: Kentateroid which Enter fuses from the growing Kenroid^note (Swordroid) and Tateroid^note (Shieldroid) in ep 43.
• Verbal Tic: There are some Metaroids that imitate the sound of the objects that they are made from, like the Densharoid's clacking and Drillroid's whirring. Amusingly, the ninja-based Jishakuroid's Verbal Tic is the archaic 'de gozaru', the Tiararoid sings to herself, Domeroid talks like a wrestling commentator and the Megazordroid talks like a train conductor.
• Walking Armory: Danganroid and later and Danganroid 2.
• Weapons That Suck: Soujikiroid from #25.
• Weaksauce Weakness: The Rousokuroid in #25. Just blow out the flame on his head and he's done.
  • Sprayroid 2 from #28 isn't any harder to take down than most, but his paints are apparently water-soluble.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: For some reason, they possess a higher level of sentience than Megazords.

Megazords

Mega Zord Alpha

The fastest of the three initial Mega Zord types. Although it has the lowest strength and defence, it can deploy BugZords as backup.

• Fragile Speedster: Has a very fast an thin build compared to the other Megazords.
• Mook Maker: Can deploy BugZords from cocoons on its back.

Megazord Beta

Beta types tend towards strong firepower and brutish attacks, making them the most "balanced" of the three initial Megazord types.

• Lethal Joke Character: The tiara-wearing Tiarazord turns out to be a Mook Maker.

Megazord Gamma

Gamma types lack the raw offensive ability of the Beta Types, but make up for it in their sheer defensive power and overall versatility in combat. They are so tough that only an attack from Go-Buster-Oh can destroy them.

• Bishōnen Line: Has the most humanoid proportions of the three base bodies.
• Deflector Shields: Only the CutterZord, though
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Has the most red in its base design, and is far stronger than the other two types.
• Lightning Bruiser
• Made of Explodium: Averted with CutterZord as a way to indicate just how narrow the victory actually was. Played Straight when it's defeated by Go-Buster-Oh later on.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The first Gamma to appear severely damaged Go-Buster Ace, successfully stole quite a bit of Enetron, and required Hiromu to take several potentially fatal risks in order to just barely defeat it. And even then it survives, allowing Enter to reactivate it, requiring the first formation of Go-Buster-Oh to finish off for good.

Megazord Delta

A new Megazord type developed during the events of the series. Delta Types act as parasites, being transported within a host Megazord and then "shedding" it like an insect's skin. Their combat statistics far exceed any of the other three Megazord types.

• Department of Redundancy Department: Episode 42 gives us a Delta named the MegazordZord Before it becomes the Zeta Megazord.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The way a Delta arrives is by "shedding" the Megazord it transported in on off like some insects will do.
  • Subverted in ep. 36 when a Delta just transports in.
• Evil Knockoff: Of Go-Buster Beet. Though given the blueprints it was based off of...
• Eye Beams
• Power Up Letdown: While Delta's were originally supposed to be powerful enough to overwhelm Ace or Go-Buster Oh, a later episode show Go-Buster Oh destroying 2 Deltas with the Explosion Kick and it hits rock bottom when a Delta is destroyed by Ace Stag-Custom!
• The Symbiote: Of the Mutualism variety. Deltas are transported in through one Megazord and comes out of said Megazord's back once transported.
  • Subverted in ep. 36.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The first Megazord type to give Go-Buster Oh difficulty. Deltas are easily capable of breaking out of Dimension Crash, and its attack strength alone is higher than a Gamma's.

Megazord Epsilon

A special Megazord type made exclusively for Enter's use.

• Ace Custom: As mentioned in the description, Epsilon is catered to Enter.
• Evil Counterpart: To Hiromu and Ace
• Flight: The only Mega Zord type to consistently display this ability.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: You know they're the baddest ones 'cos they're all red.
• Slasher Smile: What it always has.

Megazord Zeta

A special Megazord type made exclusively for Escape's use..

• Evolving Weapon: The Megazord grows stronger over time, first changing into its original form from a Delta, then gaining red arms when it takes two more Cards, then an entirely new clawed left arm capable of firing lightning bolts when it absorbs several buildings around it. After absorbing several other Megazords, it becomes a titanic red monstrosity. Even this isn't its final form, as its head changes shape partway through the battle, and given sufficient time it would have absorbed the entire universe.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: In its final form, the Zeta turns primarily red.
• The Smurfette Principle: At last, the first ever obviously female Megazord on either side of a war! Not that this lasts long.

Megazord Omega

A Special Megazord type made exclusively for Enter's Use. First debuted in Go-Busters vs. Gokaiger and then in ep. 49.

• Chest Blaster
• Eye Beam: The right eye of the Omega is a minigun.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In Mission 50, Go-Buster Ace manages to stab Omega with its sword, leaving it open to two further Finishers, destroying it.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Has 4 missile pods located on his torso.
• Meaningful Name: Omega, the final letter of the 24-letter Greek alphabet, is synonymous with the end, and this is Enter's final Megazord.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Omegas stand about a head or two shorter than Go-Buster Oh but are still quite deadly and powerful.
• Walking Armory

Characters from Go-Busters Returns vs. Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters

Azazel

Azazel | Voice Actor: Takuya Kirimoto

• The Bad Guy Wins: In the original timeline as well as the Doubutsu Sentai timeline, averted when the two teams are united.
• Big Bad: Of the Go-Busters Returns special
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: Absolutely does not fit into the Go-Busters universe. The enemies of the original series are all made from data and therefore fit a robotic/technological theme, while Azazel is a supernatural demon, despite demons not being an established part of the Go-Busters universe. He also literally comes from nowhere.
• Hero Killer: Azazel has the distinction of being the first (and so far only) villain in the Super Sentai franchise to succeed in killing an entire team.^note Even Ura from Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger only wiped out 2/3s. He even managed to do it twice.
• Mayan Doomsday: Is implied to be the entity that's supposed to cause it.
• Our Demons Are Different: His title is 'Great Demon Lord' and its implied he's a supernatural entity.
• Religious Shout Out: Azazel is the Islamic Prince of Demons.
• Sinister Scythe: His main weapon and also his weakness.

God

God | Live Actor: Syo Jinnai

• God: As stated in his name, he can miraculously cause things to happen because he's God.
• King of All Cosmos: He's an all-powerful Reality Warper who... tends to be a little eccentric at times.
• Reality Warper: He is God after all.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Nick's first attempt at a wish is to have God kill Azazel for them, but he replies he doesn't kill people.

Hiromu Sakurada/Red Cheetah

Hiromu Sakurada/Red Cheetah | Live Actor: Katsuhiro Suzuki

• Badass Teacher: He's a student teacher, who saves the day as a Go-Buster.
• Crash-Into Hello: While riding to school on Cheeda Nick in his motorcycle form, he crosses paths with Alternate!Yoko on her bicycle, but manages to swerve to the left to avoid crashing into her, though it doesn't stop them from falling to the ground.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Averted due to the lack of the Messiah incident; chickens don't affect him at all.

Ryuji Iwasaki/Blue Gorilla

Ryuji Iwasaki/Blue Gorilla | Live Actor: Ryouma Baba

• Badass Teacher: Introduced as the P.E. teacher of the EMC's Agriculture High School and works with the Dobutsu Go-Busters defeat the Machine Empire.
• The Big Guy: One of his strengths is having great physical prowess, if being a P.E. teacher is any indication. Also, his hot-blooded nature lets him take on monsters as long as he likes.
• Hot-Blooded: Without his overheating to worry about, Ryuji was free to become as hot-blooded as he wanted.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Averted. He never overheats like his prime counterpart.

Yoko Usami/Yellow Rabbit

Yoko Usami/Yellow Rabbit | Live Actress: Arisa Komiya

• Love Triangle: With Hiromu and Atsushi.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Before her life as a Dobustu Go-Buster, she was a regular student.
• Tsundere: Towards Hiromu, still.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: While being the only girl on the Dobutsu Go-Busters, she's rather girly in comparison to the Tokumei Yoko.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Averted- in fact, she is actually on a diet.

Masato Jin/Gold Beetle

Masato Jin/Gold Beetle | Live Actor: Hiroya Matsumoto

• Genius Slob: Smart enough to prepare for the villains' attack, but he doesn't clean himself up such that his body odor will often fill the whole room.
• The Leader: His title is "Arboreal Leader", and he organized the team along with Kuroki, making him its first member.

Takeshi Kuroki/Black Puma

Takeshi Kuroki/Black Puma | Live Actor: Hideo Sakaki

• Da Chief: He seems to play a similar role on the team to DekaMaster, as he doesn't take part in the final battle against Tranji Star.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins the team as their latest Buster to help them man the Go-Buster Perfect Animal and defeat their current foe.
• Fruit of the Loon: He has a bowl of fruit on his desk and will often gesture dramatically with said fruit. He even carries fruit into battle with him, having it hanging off his belt.
• Large Ham: Upon joining the team as their new Buster, he goes wild in his speech.
• Palette Swap: His suit is Red Cheetah's, but in all black.
• Panthera Awesome: His motif is a black puma.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Unique among the Go-Busters of both timelines, his Buster form has a scarf and he's the newest Buster to combat the evil Machine Empire.
• Written Sound Effect: His roll call is backed by a comic-book-style page with a bunch of these.

Atsushi Doumyouji

Atsushi Doumyouji/Green Hippopotamus | Live Actor: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

• Killed Off for Real: The end of "episode 37" has the Dobutsu Go-Busters achieving victory, but at the cost of him dying from a fatal wound he got from an unseen event or battle.
• Palette Swap: His suit is basically Blue Gorilla's, but with green instead of blue and with a pair of ears added on to the helmet.
• Sixth Ranger: Since Gold and Silver joined from the beginning in this universe, he takes on this role.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: From our "perspective", he appears for a minute or two and dies soon after, though in-universe, the characters presumably knew him quite well, as he lasted 22 "episodes".

Riku Sakurada/Pink Cat

Rika Sakurada/Pink Cat | Live Actress: Risa Yoshiki

• Shipper on Deck: For Hiromu and Yoko.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: The first (and only) time she's shown actually fighting is during the last battle against Tranji Star. (In-universe, she may have begun fighting alongside the team earlier than that, but we don't see it happen if it did.)

Machine Empress Tranj Star

Machine Empress Tranji Star | Live Actress: Ayame Misaki

• Big Bad: Leader of the Machine Empire Mechalius, and main enemy of the Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters, at least until Azazel appears in that world just as he did in the original.
• Punny Name: The "Tranj Star" in her name sounds pretty similar to "transistor", fitting for the villains' theme of machines.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: Her goal is to change all the living things on Earth into machines.