History Series / Spectreman

* HeroStoleMyBike: Sort of. In the first episode, Jōji declares himself one of the Pluution G-Men, before sitting on a desk and claiming it's his own. Director Kurata is very displeased to tell them that it's ''his'' desk.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sure, Earth is saved and Dr. Gori is dead...but now Spectreman is recalled to the cosmos, and he is never to interact with the Earthlings ever again, even though he's made a lot of new friends. He bitterly reminisce that he will miss every human he's ever met. It can be assumed that he'll stay there until the next existenial threat occurs, to which he'll be deployed to fight against]].

* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Dr. Gori doesn't get very far in colonizing the Earth.

* GreenAesop: Very much so in the first half.

* TheAce: Jōji Gamō, and it pisses everyone off on the team.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Rie Endo vanished after episode 10 for reasons that are hard to tell.
* DaChief: Played by Creator/ToruOhira in a live-action role.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Dr. Gori, in the final episode.]]
* {{Expy}}: Gori and Karras are evil exceptions from an all-pacifist intelligent simian race, just like Creator/DCComics' villain Gorilla Grodd. Karras shares appearance and strength with Grodd, while Gori is similar to Grodd in intelligence. Planet E, homeland of highly evolved, pacifist apes, shares similarities with Gorilla City.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Perhaps the first toku hero who is like this...
* ManiacMonkeys: Gori and Karras.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Spectreman would sometimes get in trouble with his boss over his position to save everyone he possibly could, while Nebula is willing to sacrifice a few people here and there to avert bigger tragedies.

* TheAce: Jōji Gamō, and it pisses everyone off on the team.

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Jōji Gamō essentially hired himself to be on the G-Men team. He is fired and re-hired almost every episode.

* PowerLimiter: Unlike a lot of tokusatsu, Spectreman actually has no ability to control his own transformations. Nebula decides when he is and isn't to change to his giant super-powered self. Refusals are rare, but possible if Nebula deems Spectreman's intervention is unnecessary (for example, if Earth's military seems able to handle the MonsterOfTheWeek).

As he guides his planet's course\\

* AntagonistTitle: The serie is originally named "Uchuu Enjin Gori (Space Ape Gori)".

'''''Spectreman''''' is a 1971-1972 {{Toku}} show from P Productions.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The monster Satan King from the Satan system is still Satan King from the Satan star system in the English dub (well, King Satan). When Dr. Gori gives it its order he says the word "Satan" so many times in short order it's like the dubbers were daring censors to notice.

'''''Spectreman''''' is a 1971-1972 toku show from P Productions.

* PowerLimiter: Unlike a lot of tokusatsu, Spectreman actually has no ability to control his own transformations. Nebula decides when he is and isn't to change to his giant super-powered self. Refusals are rare, but possible if Nebula deems Spectreman's intervention is unnecessary (for example, if Earth's military seems able to handle the Monster of the Week).

* {{Expy}}: Gori and Karras are evil exceptions from an all-pacifistic intelligent simian race, just like Creator/DCComics' villain Gorilla Grodd. Karras shares appearance and strength with Grodd, while Gori is similar to Grodd in intelligence. Planet E, homeland of highly evolved, pacific apes, shares similarities with Gorilla City.

* {{Expy}}: Gori and Karras are evil exceptions from an all-pacific intelligent simian race, just like Creator/DCComics' villain Gorilla Grodd. Karras shares appearance and strength with Grodd, while Gori is similar to Grodd in intelligence. Planet E, homeland of highly evolved, pacific apes, shares similarities with Gorilla City.

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: The monster Satan King from the Satan system is still Satan King from the Satan star system in the English dub. When Dr. Gori gives it its order he says the word "Satan" so many times in short order it's like the dubbers were daring censors to notice.

* HamAndCheese: At first the English dubbers seemed to be trying to do a fairly serious job, but in later episodes they seem to have just given up and run with the campiness of the rubber suit combat. Some prominent examples include:
** One episode where Spectreman's human alter ego is distracting a giant lobster monster by tossing its egg around, and doing football play-by-play calls as he does. Eventually Nebula tells him "you've indulged yourself in your childish game long enough" and to stop messing around and transform already.
** In the Comet Mask serial they dubbed him as an intergalactic gunslinger with a Texan accent and changed his name to "Lone Comet" because he wears a cowboy hat. The [[MonsteroftheWeek Monsters of the Week]] were dubbed as a group of space outlaws who wanted to get back at Spectreman for killing their pa.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In one serial Gori abducts an Earth gorilla and evolves it into a specimen like himself and Lla in order to have a second henchman. This other ape's never seen again at the end of that arc.

Fortunately, hope comes in the form of the Nebula 71 Star, a Saturn-like artificial satellite that observes the Earth incognito. Fearing that Gori may eventually make the Earth uninhabitable, they dispatch Spectreman, their super-cyborg agent, to battle the menace of the mad apeman. Spectreman disguises himself as a Japanese man named Jōji Gamō to walk among the humans and scout out Gori's weekly menace for the Nebula 71 Star. He works with a government-run group called the Pollution G-Men, run by Chief Kurata. This group investigates phenomena involving pollution, but they don't (until late in the show's run) have the facilities to handle giant monsters, so unbeknownst to them, their comical-yet-mysterious teammate Jòji disappears on them, only to help them as Spectreman!

* DaChief: Played by ToruOhira in a live-action role.

->''We will never know the source\\

Spectreman!''