Series / Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger

Brave In!

"Dinosaurs, plus humans! Crossing over millions of years to protect the world, history's strongest brave team has now arrived! LISTEN AND BE AMAZED!!!!"

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (roughly Beast Power Squadron Kyoryuger) is the 37th program in the Super Sentai franchise, airing from 2013 to 2014. It is the third dinosaur-themed installment in the franchise, following Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (1992) and Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger (2003). Shogo Kamata performed the Title Theme Tune.

A long time ago, in the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth came under attack by an alien force known as the Deboss Army. However, they were defeated by a team of dinosaurs given supernatural powers, and sealed within the polar ice caps. Torin, the divine mentor of the heroes, stored the souls of these brave dinosaur warriors in capsules so that their power could be called upon if the threat of the Deboss ever returned.

Now in the modern age, a new team of humans are scouted by Torin to fight against the revived Deboss Army. Defeating their partner dinosaurs in single combat to earn their trust and respect, these chosen are granted their awesome prehistoric power and the ability to become the new generation of heroes, the Kyoryuger!

Aired alongside the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Wizard, with the casts meeting each other in Super Hero Taisen Z, and then Kamen Rider Gaim in the Super Hero Time block.

It was adapted for American audiences as Power Rangers Dino Charge, the 2015-16 entry in the Power Rangers franchise. Its Korean dub, Power Rangers Dino Force, also did well enough to receive a 12-episode Sequel Series in 2017 called Power Rangers Dino Force Brave which would be dubbed in Japan as Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave. In 2023 it would also get a two episode crossover with Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger for it's 10th anniversary which wound up making King-Ohger a Stealth Sequel to this show.

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Recurring Super Sentai tropes:

• Action Girl:
  • Among the core five, Amy is the only ranger who is a girl, but she manages kicks through her trials without help.
  • Despite being introduced as a secretary who helps her grandfather in his work, Yayoi is surprisingly competent in battle after taking over his role as Kyoryu Violet.
• Actor Allusion: Tessai's gray suit looks more like a darker silver. Also, the clear domed portion on his head reflects light the same way Masayuki Deai's old Bouken Silver suit did.
  • Oddly enough, this isn't the first time Shigeru Chiba portrayed a mad scientist with a high respect towards his female assistant in a Toei-produced show.
  • A purple, dinosaur-themed character is nothing new to Chiba either.
  • Additionally, in episode 21, after Daigo tells him to run, Ulshade bravely responds by saying “Run?” In a similar fashion to another one of Chiba’s characters.
  • In #40, when Yuko fends off some Zorima, she ends up performing the Dekaranger henshin pose (complete with the familiar sirens in the background).
  Yuko: What an emergency!
  • While Souji's father is played by Dyna Black, Souji's mother in Brave 43 is played by Dyna Pink.
  • Deathryuger introduces himself by saying "I am Deathryuger". Mamoru Miyano is also a Gundam and Kira.
• All Your Powers Combined: The Kentrospiker. This is the first time since Goseiger to have a weapon formed from the team's individual weapons](which is expected since this is also the return of the aforementioned weapons), and the first since Gaoranger to be a melee weapon, although the Finishing Move involves Red throwing it after the whole team catapult him to the air, similar to the Goggle Golden Spear. After he joins, Kyoryu Gold participates by riding the Kentrospiker like a surfboard and then slashing the target while they're getting skewered by the 'spiker. There are also two lesser combinations that don't require the Kentrospiker Zyudenchi:
  • Fang Shot: Combination of Kyoryu Red and Black's weapons.
  • Shield LanSlasher: Combination of Kyoryu Blue, Green, and Pink's weapons.
  • Later on, there's the Victory battery, which combines the powers of the core five Kyoryugers for a finishing blast, and the Maximum battery, which adds in Kyoryu Gold and whichever auxiliary team members happen to be around at the time.
• Boss Subtitles: Characters getting names on the bottom of the screen when they first appear returns to the franchise after being absent from Boukenger onward. The Monster of the Week doesn't get introduced thusly, though.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: "Kyoryu Change! Fire!" Also, when activating any Zyudenchi, "Brave In!"
  • And when Ramirez and Tessai transform, "Spirit Ranger, Fire!"
• Calling Your Attacks: As per Super Sentai tradition, of course. Nobuharu, however, gets special mention. "Nobuharu [insert wrestling move here]!!!"
• Chest Insignia: The suit's sash and shoulder pad make up the team's dino-head logo (the shoulder pad as an eye and the sash as teeth). Compare with the belt buckle, which also sports said logo.◊
• Color Character: Another "[team prefix] [English color]" Sentai.
• Color-Coded Characters: Kyoryuger is the first-ever Sentai to feature a gray ranger, as well as a cyan ranger that's specifically called that (There are other light blue rangers, but they're simply called blue. Also, some silver rangers look gray (and there's a Silver here too), but Kyoryu Gray makes a point of his color: combining black and white as he's fully in balance, he's gray. A yin-yang symbol spins faster until its black and white blur together as gray as he says it. And we're getting an actual Kyoryu Silver down the line.). It's also the second Sentai to feature a violet ranger (as well as the first female violet ranger), and is the first Sentai since Changeman to not have a yellow ranger.
  • On top of that, the Spirit Rangers have gold "sashes" across their suits' chests; the living Kyoryugers have yellow sashes.
• Cool Bike: The team's bikes, the Deinochasers, are each actually combined from two Zyudenryu mechs called "Deinos" and "Chase." Deathryuger has his own motorcycle called D-Racer.
• Cyborg: Technically speaking, the Zyudenryu are this: they're not robots modeled after dinosaurs, but dinosaurs converted into Humongous Mecha.
• Dancing Theme: The ending sequence, all variations. Even the dinosaurs dance.
  • The Deboss join in too, with some Mooks as backup dancers for our heroes, and the generals getting a few seconds of dancing in themselves.
  • Starting with Brave 12 all the way to the second-to-last (#47), the ending also featured, in a split screen with the original ending, viewer-submitted video footage of Japanese children of all ages and even organized dance troupes doing the dance.
    • Among the groups that are shown doing the dance are Shun Shioya, Nao Nagasawa, and Kohei Yamamoto, the three main leads in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger; they are credited as "A Bunch Of Blustery Ninja" (episode 24, if you're curious). They even do the Ninpuu Shinobi Change pose when they finish. Another episode had Team Gaim showing up a week before their own show premiered.
    • And, in the last pop-up of the last ending sequence (Brave 47), we have the "Tachikawa Red Stars", consisting of past Sentai Reds, to wit: Keiichi Wada, Teruaki Ogawa, Masaru Shishido, and Touta Tarumi, as well as Kazuo Niibori, stuntman famous for making plenty of Red Ranger action scenes in the past.
• Debut Queue: All five Kyoryugers meet in the first episode, but it takes a few more episodes before they start being open to each other.
• Eyecatch: After being absent for the last two years.
  • The pre-break eyecatch has all 5 main Zyudenchi in a circle before being thrown screenward by the team. The post-break eyecatch has the team posing for a jump-shot in front of Kyoryuzin's smiling face!
  • During the promotion for The Movie (Braves 17 to 26), it has changed to the six Kyoryugers morphing in the pre-break, and their morphed poses in the post-break.
  • Afterwards, starting with Brave 27, the pre-break (with Ucchi added) is the six main Zyudenchi returning to the Kyoryugers' hands (in their civil forms) as they pose together. And in the post-break, the Kyoryugers appear dancing before Kyoryuzin - who then breaks out into a big toothy smile - as spotlights and flickering light dots appear on the screen.
  • And the finale does not have any eyecatches. Maybe they wanted to enforce Rule of Drama?
• Fleeting Demographic Rule: It's been 10 years since the last dino Sentai (Abaranger), and 21 since the one before that (Zyuranger). Additionally, the title is basically a reversal of Zyuranger's: Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (Dinosaur Squadron Beastranger) => Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger ((Electro)Beast Squadron Dinosauranger).
  • Toei is acknowledging this in an awesome way by having the Zyurangers and Abarangers show up in Kyoryuger vs Go-Busters.
  • It's also been a whopping 34 years since the last music Sentai.
• Genre Throwback: To the older Sentai Series in many ways. There's the Battle Fever J references, but also the blockier design of the mecha and crazier and weirder designs for the monsters.
• Humongous Mecha: The Zyudenryu (Electrodinosaurs)
  • Animal Mecha: Take a guess.
  • Combining Mecha: Gabutyra + two other arm-sized mecha (usually Stegotchi and Dricera) = Kyoryuzin (Dinosaur God)
    • Kyoryuzin + Pteragordon = Raiden Kyoryuzin
    • Plezu-Oh + Gabutyra + Bunpachy = Bakuretsu Kyoryuzin
    • Tobaspino + Ankydon + Bunpachy = SpinoDaiOh
    • Kyoryuzin + Parasagun + Zakutor + Bragigas = Gigant Kyoryuzin
  • Leader Forms the Head: One of the exaggerated examples, as Gabutyra makes up all of Kyoryuzin but the arms.
  • Mecha Expansion Pack: Most mecha can combine with Gabutyra to become the arms of the combined robot; each one granting unique weaponry - and in a twist, Kyoryu Red's Super Mode essentially lets them combine with him the same way. Other mecha can also use these weapon arms in place of their own:
    • Stegotchi + Dricera = an unnamed default mode for Kyoryuzin; called the "Samba" combo with Kyoryu Red Carnival.
    • Parasagun + Zakutor = Kyoryuzin Western. Pteraiden-Oh can also use a "Western" combo.
    • Ankydon + Dricera = Kyoryuzin Macho
    • Ankydon + Bunpachy = Kyoryuzin Kung-Fu
    • Plezuon + Ankydon = Exclusive to Kyoryu Red Carnival in a DVD; called "TV-Maga" combo.
    • Other combinations are possible but don't get special names, being known as [Base mecha] [Expansion X] [Expansion Y]; for instance Kyoryuzin Stegotchi Zakutor.
    • Super Hero Taisen Z, like last year, provides the Sentai mecha with a Kamen Rider powerup: in this case Kyoryuzin gets the WizarDragon in its Giant Foot of Stomping mode.
  • Transforming Mecha: Pteragordon/Pteraiden-Oh, Plezuon/Plezu-Oh, and Bragigas/Gigant Bragi-Oh.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is referred to as "Brave", while the titles are written in only hiragana and katakana. Also, the first word in the title is an exclamation, something that Goranger, J.A.K.Q, and Megaranger had previously done (partially in the case of the latter).
• Idiot Ball: In Debo Tanabanta's desperation to survive, he has a hand in his first death: he wrote on his own cursed Tanabata slips. After using two, he pretty much weakened himself.
• In the Name of the Moon: After the previous two seasons took a break from it, Kyoryuger heralds a return to the more elaborate role call sequences. Note that the members are usually willing to roll call at any time, no matter which members of the team are present or absent; missing members just get skipped.
  Daigo: Listen and be amazed!^note Kiite odoroke!
  Daigo: The Fanged Hero!^note Kiba no Yuusha! Kyoryu Red!
  Ian: The Bullet Hero!^note Dangan no Yuusha! Kyoryu Black!
  Nobuharu: The Armored Hero!^note Yoroi no Yuusha! Kyoryu Blue!
  Souji: The Slashing Hero!^note Zangeki no Yuusha! Kyoryu Green!
  Amy: The Horned Heroine!^note Tsuno no Yuusha! Kyoryu Pink!
  Utsusemimaru: The Thunderous Hero!^note Raimei no Yuusha! Kyoryu Gold is here!
  Ramirez/Yuko: The Steel Hero(ine)!^note Hagane no Yuusha! Kyoryu Cyan!
  Tessai/Shinya: The Clashing Hero!^note Gekitotsu no Yuusha! Kyoryu Gray!
  Dr. Ulshade/Yayoi: The Oceanic Hero(ine)!^note Umi no Yuusha! Kyoryu Violet!
  Torin/Dantetsu: The Radiant Hero!^note Senkou no Yuusha! Kyoryu Silver!
  All: The strongest braves in history!^note Shijou saikyou no Brave!
  Daigo: Zyuden Sentai!
  All: Kyoryuger!
  Utsusemimaru: Vanquishing evil in Heaven's name!^note Ten ikarite aku wo kiru!
  Daigo: It's about to get wild! Try and stop us!^note Areru ze! Tometemina!
  • When all 10 are assembled, the role call ending changes:
  All: The strongest braves in history!
  Daigo: The ten of us together are:
  All: Zyuden Sentai! Kyoryuger!
  Daigo: It's about to get wild!
  All: Try and stop us!
• Kid-Appeal Character: Daigo. The fact that he was often surrounded by kids in the first few episodes is a good indicator.
• Large Ham: The narrator, who practically strains his voice from all the constant screaming.
• Make My Monster Grow: Luckiero pours "water" (a liquid form of Master Deboss's own cells) from a cute little can he keeps in his pouch on the monster to make it grow. The soundtrack has a little ta-daaa! fanfare when he pulls it out.
  • They can also make their Monsters small again with a ball that sucks the embiggening juice out. Hitting the monster with it again puts the water back in.
• Mini Dress Of Power: Part of the Kyoryuger girls' suits.
• Monster of the Week: The Debo Monsters, each one corresponding to the emotional power of one of Deboss' knights.
• Mooks: Zorima, Protozoa-themed foot soldiers of the Deboss Army, created from the body of Deboss himself.
  • Giant Mook: Groups of Zorima can clump themselves together to merge into dinosaur-like monsters called Giant Zorima.
• The Musical: The movie "Gaburincho of Music" has the Kyoryugers rescue an idol from the movie's villain Deathryuger. It's also where the characters breakout and sing throughout the movie.
• Plucky Comic Relief: There's two on the team. Ian is occasionally a joker and tends to be "pluckier" than Nobuharu. On the other hand, Nobuharu tends to be on the receiving end of "comic relief".
• Precursor Heroes: An unusual example, the mecha this season are actually the Kyoryuger's predecessor team.
  • There have also been a few Kyoryugers in the past, such as Ramirez, Utsusemimaru, Tessai, and Doctor Ulshade.
• Protagonist Power-Up Privileges: Daigo is the only one to receive the Carnival power-up, which allows him to utilize the powers of the Humongous Mecha in human size. He is also the primary controller of Plezuon, despite it being associated with another Kyoryuger.
• The Psycho Rangers: A Monster of the Week turned some Mooks into a set of evil counterparts not to fight the Rangers, but to impersonate them and get everyone pissed at each other.
• The Smurfette Principle: Played With among both sides.
  • Pink is the only girl beginning in the team Enforced by Word of God...then Yayoi replaces her grandfather as Kyoryu Violet, although this also applies to her as well concerning the second Squad of Rangers. And then Ramirez passes his powers onto Nobuharu's sister, Yuko, making three girls on the team.
  • Likewise, Candelilla seems to be the only female antagonist, though no one's sure whether or not Luckyuro's a boy or girl.
• Super Mode: Daigo gets his very own power-up called Kyoryu Red Carnival, which allows him to use the Zyudenryu armaments similar to Kyoryuzin.
• Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: When Deboss first start their invasion, they and the Kyoryugers fight battles worldwide. After a one-month timeskip, however, everyone's gathered in Japan with no reason given.
  • Justified in episode 14. Japan is the "Golden Land," the place the Zyudenryu were created by Torin (back when the world was still just Pangea) and the only place they would gather naturally.
• Transformation Trinket: The team's sidearm, the Gaburevolver, pulls double duty as this.
  • Utsusemimaru's Gaburichanger pulls triple duty, as it is also his sidearm and a mini blade.
  • Torin and Dantetsu use an upgraded version of the Gaburevolver called the Giga Gaburevolver.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: As is the norm for Super Sentai, we generally get a MOTW appearing with an Evil Plan Once an Episode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them.
• Weapon-Based Characterization:
  • Sword and Gun: The Gaburicaliburs and Gaburevolvers for the core team, as well as both Kyoryu Violets.
    • Bifurcated Weapon: Gaburevolver + Gaburicalibur = Gaburicannon.
    • Bayonet Ya: Yayoi seems to favor using her Gaburicannon with the Gaburicalibur blade extended.
    • When Torin becomes Kyoryu Silver, he pairs his GigaGaburevolver with his personal non-Ranger weapon, the Feather Edge.
  • Wolverine Claws: Deinosgrander
  • Daigo: Gabutyra Fang. As Kyoryu Red Carnival, he uses the Gabutyra De Carnival, which can combine with his Gaburevolver to become the GabreCarnival.
  • Ian: Parasa Shot
  • Nobuharu: Stego Shield
  • Souji: Zakutor Slasher
  • Amy: DriceLance
  • Utsusemimaru: Zandar Thunder
  • Ramirez: Spirit Hammer
  • Tessai: Tessai-ken^note Iron-Shattering Fist
  • [[spoiler:Torin and Dantetsu: GigaGaburevolver
  • Torin also joins in battles with his Feather Edge. And continues to use it as Kyoryu Silver.
  • D: Flute Buster
  • The Summer DVD has Red and Gold using one-time only weapons:
    • Daigo: Plezuon Rocket
    • Utsusemimaru: Golder Zandar Thunder

Tropes present in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger:

• All Myths Are True: The Bad Santa Monster of the Week of #41 was able to pull off its big plan by intercepting the mail meant for the real Santa. Let that sink in for a minute.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: In this case, they're all based on dinosaurs (and for Sentai, the third time after Zyuranger and Abaranger).
• Awful Truth: In #28, Chaos reveals to the Kyoryugers that Torin was once a member of the Deboss Legion and is Chaos's younger brother.
• Aside Comment: At the end of episode 39, Yayoi tells the camera she's out with Mikoto to assess her as a rival for Daigo's love.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In #46, after Aigaron's death, the first person to comfort a grieving Candelira? Nobuharu.
• Ass Shove: In Brave #12, Utsusemimaru gives Daigo sleeping herbs to keep him out of fight to protect him; only for him to arrive right as rain to help Maru a few scenes later. How'd he stay awake? The pain from sticking his own Gaburivolver right up his bum, of course! This comes right before we get Ucchi's Darkand Troubled Past story, mind.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Ian and Souji in #47.
• Badass Boast: Daigo delivers one in episode 9. When Souji and Amy have been captured, he, Nobuharo, and Ian are faced with a Hostage Situation. But instead of dropping his gun like he's told to, Daigo shoots the crystal ball that's being used to show them their captured teammates. When the Monster of the Week called him an idiot and asked how he could still shoot, he responded with this line.
  Who's the idiot? If the guys you'd captured were weaklings, even I would throw away my gun. Why'd you capture such strong guys? We're a team! The five of us together are invincible, but we're still really strong by ourselves! I believe in their strength!
• The Bad Guy Wins: To a certain degree the Deboss Army sort of wins every episode with them getting at least some energy to revive Deboss each episode and then this trope is played completely straight in Episode 7 with Chaos successfully stealing Pteragordon.
• Bad Santa: The Monster of the Week for #41.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Daigo performs this in Brave 12. While he catches the katana, his opponent (the kid he was cheering for in a sumo match earlier, who was being manipulated into giving in to his anger) merely draws the blade back, slicing his palm open.
  • In #45, Deboss does this to the Bragio Zakutor Ax (Bragi-Oh's weapon). While still human-sized, and without even flinching.
• Batman Gambit: In #45, Dantetsu reveals his Deal with the Devil and joined the Deboss Army in order to stop the Earth's countdown to destruction. To solidify his spot, he kills Torin and sends him to Hell as a Debo monster right in front of the Kyoryugers. However, in #46, it is revealed that Dantetsu did it while Torin kept his heart of justice intact, all so when Deboss goes back on his word like Dantetsu expected, the Deboss Army would have a lot less soldiers pop up. The reason why? Torin would be busy taking them out while in Hell!
• Battle Strip: Daigo pulls off a spectacular one in Brave 27, complete with lots of focus on his bare chest.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: The tails of a Zyudenryu that form a Zyuden Giant's arm, except Stegotchi, turn into weapons when their Zyudenchi is installed. Bragigas, whom can form his own Zyuden Giant, has one as well.
  • Parasagun: Arm Cannon
  • Zakutor: Blade Below the Shoulder
  • Dricera: This Is a Drill
  • Ankydon: Hammer
  • Bunpachy: Epic Flail (with a wrecking ball tip)
  • Bragigas: Axe
• Bittersweet Ending: Yes, the Deboss has been defeated once again, but now Torin, Ramirez, and Tessai are dead/gone for good, with Candelia and Luckyuro taking Torin's place as the new mentors of the future Kyoryuger team that shows up 100 years later.
  • Bittersweet if only because of the departure of Torin and the Spirit Rangers, not to mention the setup before Daigo was revealed to have survived the destruction of the Frozen Castle. In the end, all things considered, they had a Happy Ending, even considering that Torin - who, unlike Ramirez and Tessai, hadn't been dead beforehand - was ready to accept his fate all along.
• Boogie Knights: Kyoryuzin performs a little dance after the combination sequence.
  • Daigo himself qualfies when in his Carnival form.
• Book Ends: #19 begins and ends with Utchi practicing his sword skills and seeing the same boy trip and fall in front of him. In the beginning, the boy is a spoiled brat and cries when Utchi doesn't help him up; in the ending, the boy falls, but he gets up all by himself, proud that he has learned from Utchi to be more self-sufficient.
  • The opening has the Kyoryugers running to the Zyudenryu to greet them. The final scene in the finale is the Kyoryugers running towards the returning Zyudenryu on the beach as they protected a battle-weary Daigo.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Geki and Ryoga in the crossover. And later, the Kyoryugers themselves.
• Breaking Old Trends: This series marks the first time in twenty-eight years that the team line up consists of no Yellow Ranger.
• Broken Faceplate: This is how we find out Ucchi had been trapped inside Dogold for about 400 years.
• But Not Too Foreign:
  • Amy is a Japanese-American studying abroad in Japan.
  • Similarly, "Ian Yorkland" is a very Anglo name and the character is known to have found his partner Zyudenryu in Europe, though it's not clear if he was born or raised there. Both he and Amy are played by Japanese actors (Ayuri Konno and Shusuke Saito, respectively).
  • Averted with Ramirez, who is the first male hero in franchise history to be played by a non-Japanese actor; namely Robert Baldwin, who was actually born, raised, and lives in Japan (and actually speaks the language much better than Ramirez does).
  • #33 introduces Erika Stonesfield, an old girlfriend of Ian's from Europe. Naturally, she's portrayed by the very lovely, and very Japanese, Nami Iwasaki. Most glaringly of all, she texts him in Japanese before she's even introduced in person.
• The Cameo:
  • The cast of Kamen Rider Wizard performs the Dancing Theme alongside the Kyoryugers in the opening credits of #25. And in ''Gaburincho of Music''!
  • The viewer-submitted videos with end title dance sometimes have special guests, like Team Gaim and "a bunch of blustery ninja".
  • Additionally, the voice actors for various non-human characters get to put in physical appearances. Haruka Tomatsu has a semi-recurring role as Candelira's human form (and it's explained in-story by saying she copied the real Tomatsu's appearance!), but we also get Yuu Mizushima (Aigalon) in #28 as the music producer who rejects Candelira, Ai Orikasa as Luckyuro's human form in #40, and Toshiyuki Morikawa as "Torii", Torin's human disguise in #43.
  • All the suit actors and voice actors get their time in the sun as citizens celebrating the Kyoryugers' impending victory. They even all join in during the Ending dance!
  • Series writer Riku Sanjo can be seen in the Epilogue in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment as one of the citizens in the food line during the reconstruction.
• Caped Mecha: Pteraiden-Oh before he gets turned good.
• Catchphrase Interruptus: In episode 21:
  Daigo: Listen and be amazed!
  Debo Nagareboshi: No, because I don't want to! (Launches attack)
  Daigo: The fanged- (Attack hits)
• Chekhov's Gunman: Souji's father is a master swordsman who can mimic Utsusemimaru's Finishing Move, to train Daigo to face Dogold.
• Christmas Episode: Episodes 41 and 42.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Out of the people who come help the Kyoryugers in #35, two of them are children from #19 and #12 respectively.
  • The story of Gaburincho of Music receives a direct continuation in #39.
  • The crossover with Go-Busters makes a direct reference to the Early-Bird Cameo in Go-Busters vs Gokaiger and an indirect reference to J's cameo in Super Hero Taisen Z.
• Convection, Schmonvection: Allomerus' flame burns at 6300 degrees CENTIGRADE. That's 11372 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 6-7 times hotter than MAGMA. Nobuharu uses it to melt a frozen Utsusemimaru's changer... while it's ATTACHED TO HIS ARM.
• Costume Porn: The Kyoryugers go through this twice in Episode #40 as part of a movie theme, first as detectives, then as delinquents (with the exception of Souji for the latter). They even manage to stay in character after transformation, as evidenced by their Delinquent version of their Roll Call.
• Coup de Grâce: Kyoryu Blue performs one a Mook he just knocked to the ground in the opening.
• Dancing Mook Credits: The Zorima join the rangers in the end credits dance. And even the main villains get a couple seconds of being seen dancing, too.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The Kyoryuger cell phones have a ring tone that sounds a lot like part of the opening theme. Also, see Theme Song Power Up.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • In the Gaburincho of Music movie, as the present Zyudenryuu at the time fight Tobaspino, Tobaspino bites onto Gabutyra's neck. So yes, once again, a Spinosaur and a Tyrannosaurus Rex fight, only for the T-Rex to end up losing.
  • In the same movie, D uses his weapon/flute to command his personal zord to do a forced snap-together combination. Say, doesn't the song sound almost like the call to summon Dragon Caesar?
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The Earth's True Melody turns out to be their own theme song.
• Doomsday Clock: Summoned by Deboss once he evolves and resumes control of his army, towards the end of the series. It starts by giving humanity a 50-hour limit before the end.
• Dub Name Change: In South Korea, the show is called Power Rangers Dino Force and Kyoryuzin is called Tyranno King.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • A tradition started by the Goseigers, the five Kyoryugers make their debut in Go-Busters vs. Gokaiger, resulting in an awkward moment when Kyoryu Red finds he is alone when he comes to assist Red Buster and Gokai Red, the rest of his team ran late and only arrived after the two Reds took their leave.
  • Gigant BragiOh appears in the Kyoryuger/Gaim Super Hero Time bumper which was first shown two weeks before its debut in #34.
• Fashionable Asymmetry
• Fast-Forward Gag: #25 has Utchy declare that they need to kill Debo Akkumoon quickly before they fall asleep, leading to the ensuing transformation dance, rollcall, and finisher being done in fast forward, complete with sped-up music. Though they were also hyped-up on an energy drink at the time.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Averted. Utchy doesn't seem to have much trouble with the modern world.
• Foregone Conclusion: A meta one. The finale makes it appear that King and Utchy will die... That would be shocking... if it wasn't for the fact that the V-Cinema's plot is that the offspring of the Kyoryugers, King and Utchy included, become Kyoryugers themselves, ensuring their survival. Nobuharu, Ian and Souji take Ucchi to the Spirit Base where, upon hearing Earth's True Melody, he comes back to life. As for Daigo, the Zyudenryu save him from the explosion in space in the nick of time (though it takes a while for them to come back).
• Foreshadowing:
  • #28 had lots of references to Torin being a member of Deboss that you have to watch again. First off, the lyrics in Candelira's songs are all about letting loose the darkness in one's heart. The other hint was Daigo's father asking whether or not Daigo will stand by Torin's side.
  • #11 noted Candelira (in disguise) liking Nossan's jokes and she might fall in love with him. Flash forward to #40 where this was the plot of the episode.
  • #13 had Luckyuro explaining the relationship ties that the Monster of the Week can cut, using a page from Love Touch manga. And sure enough, #14 is the first episode dedicated to how Amy and Luckyuro are not so different.
  • In #39, Yayoi, distressed that Mikoto was returning to Japan to see Daigo, referred to her as "the enemy" to Amy. When Daigo meets up with Mikoto, Yayoi reveals that Mikoto is under D's control and is trying to help him defeat the Kyoryugers.
  • #42 has a more subtle one; when Candelira stops Endolf from killing Dogold, he tells the others that she may be the strongest one out of all the generals. He was right, if her defection from the Deboss Army in the finale is an indication.
  • In episode 45, Deboss wants Candeliera killed in case she turns traitor. In the last episode, Chaos curses Candeliera for being part of the force killing him off.
  • Lampshaded by Souji in #45 when Torin entrusts him with the Feather Edge; he saw it as an ill omen.
  • There's also subtle hints that Daigo has feelings for Amy. In episode 1, he figures out that she is far stronger than she looks. In episode 25, when everyone is having nightmares, everyone speaks about their dreams in detail, but what is glossed over is that Daigo was dreaming about Amy. And in episode 27, when Daigo goes Feral, everyone tries to figure out a way to trap him but they only use items they are interested in. However, Ian has Amy pretend to be a damsel in distress figuring it would draw him out. Amazingly, that tactic works.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: #37 is an entire episode devoted to this.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • The Cold Open of #28 has Cendelira in her human form auditioning to be an idol, whereupon she is thrown out as the agent compares her to past idols' posters. Two of them are clearly Nanami Nono and Angie Sue!
  • #34 has a flashback of the Guardian Zyudenryu in their final moments, and you can briefly see what looks like Tobaspino's head recolored as Allomerus, Zaktor recolored into Deinochaser, and the ultimate Mythology Gag, the head of Bakuryu Styracosaurus standing in for Stymero.
  • #48 has various shots with voice-actors from the monsters include suit-actors in the episode and final dance.
• Funny Background Event: In #41, the big Deboss plan involves harvesting anger by sending the children of the world messed-up presents - which somehow spreads to Luckyuro as well, as he gets an outdated volume of Love Touch, and throws it down in anger. Then the action shifts to Daigo and the Monster of the Week, as Luckyuro in the back picks up the volume apologetically and dusts it off.
• Fun with Acronyms: Among the core five Kyoryugers, the first syllable of their given names can be combined to form the Japanese pronunciation of "Dinosaur"^note Daigo, Ian, Nobuharu, Souji, Amy while the first syllable of their surnames combine to form "Kyoryu", the Japanese word for dinosaur^note Kiryu, Yorkland, Udo, Rippukan, Yuzuki.
• Fusion Dance: In #30, Luckyuro accidentally^note He was thinking of one monster to bring back and Aigaron suggested another, causing them to get mixed up in Luckyuro's thoughts combines two past Debo Monsters into a new hybrid form. It's so confused about its state, it only discovers how to fight by accident and goes down to the Bakuretsu Kyoryuzin without even knowing why he was enlarged in the first place.
• Generation Xerox: The "100 Years Later" special is about the great-grandchildren of the rangers having to save Earth from the Deboss army again, using the same colors their ancestors had. They even look pretty similar - because it's the same actors as the 2013 group playing the great-grandchildren.
• Gone Horribly Right: In episode 39, Yayoi wants to sabotage Mikoto. Mikoto came back to Japan and Yayoi considers her a competitor for King's affection. Yayoi decides to destroy the roses Mikoto brought out of jealousy, but it turns out Mikoto really is out to kill King because she was brainwashed by Ferocious Knight D, to the shock of everyone.
• Gratuitous English: "Gratuitous" is an understatement here. Both Ian and Amy use English copiously, since they're depicted as being from Europe and North America, respectively. Ramirez is obviously Caucasian and uses plenty of English himself. Also, the command for inserting a Zyudenchi is "Brave In!" Not to mention how liberally the word "Brave" is used in lieu of synonyms (e.g. "courageous") and derivatives (e.g. "bravery"). It's kind of like the word "pride" being part of the Japanese vocabulary, except "Brave" does have readily available substitutes.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: In addition to English, Kyoryuger uses a lot of Brazilian Portuguese. Samba dancing and whistles are even incorporated into the theme music and the transformation sequences. Kyoryuzin's transformation announcement even includes "Sim" (Portuguese for "yes") and the theme songs have "Vamola" (Brazilian Portuguese slang for "let's go").
• Gratuitous Spanish: Also gets thrown in with the use of "Mucho" in various parts of the show.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The crossover with Go-Busters has Dai Satan and Dezumozorlya's malice forming to make Boldos.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In episode 40, Yuko uses Ramirez against attacking Paramonsters.
• Gretzky Has the Ball: A Show Within a Show example; Amy's favorite manga, Love be Ball Touchdown, is about rugby. When Tessai hears this, he grumbles that rugby doesn't have touchdowns, it has tries, and Torin explains that the title comes from the manga's heroine making such a mistake.
• Groin Attack: The Monster of the Week in Episode 2 receives one from KyoryuBlue.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Most of the Zyudenchi powers aren't exactly good for combat, but the Kyoryugers still use them effectively anyway. These powers include a Love Potion (Stymero), flattening (Tuperanda), Fartillery (Ovirappoo) and even Tickle Torture (Igeranodon).
• Hey, That's My Line!: In episode 20, the rangers learn people who made wishes on the paper of Debo Tanabanta will get their wishes granted... but then the person will die the next morning. The rangers say "Lucky" followed by "Unlucky" in response to this, causing Luckyro to complain twice the rangers are copying his cathphrases.
• Hot-Blooded: That's Shigeru Chiba narrating, what else were you expecting?
• Hour of Power: Part of the "battery" concept; the Kyoryugers carry three or four batteries each, and they lose their charge when they're used for special attacks, summoning gear, and the like. They can be recharged afterward, but some care does have to be taken so they're not all used up in a single battle. #4 shows the first time this drawback comes into play, where the Kyoryugers have to go to battle while their Zyudenchi are still charging.
• Identical Grandson: The main teams' descendants in the V-Cinema 100 Years After are all played by the same actors as their ancestors.
• I Know Kung Fu: Surprisingly, Gentle in #47. He was able to fend off an entire company of mooks, albeit clumsily, all on his own.
• I Know Madden Kombat: The premise of #32.
• In the End, You Are on Your Own: In the last episode, Uchy is dead, the auxiliary rangers are fighting Zorima, and the rest of the team gets separated fighting off Zorimas. The only two left to get into outer space and the Deboss spaceship are Amy and Daigo, but he forces her back to Earth, feeling that there's a strong chance of death with this mission, so only he should die. Most of the Rangers are singing the Song of the Earth to increase the power, while Daigo fights Lord Deboss one-on-one.
• Jerkass: Amy's acquaintance Mitsuhiko, a spoiled man-child with an extremely over-inflated sense of worth and entitlement. He calls those he believes to be below him "insects," then rigs the laser tag contest he is holding so that he not only gets to keep the amber stone that the Kyoryugers confirm holds Stymero's remains (the stone was offered as a prize in the game), but also forces Amy to marry him. Mitsuhiko is especially nasty towards and jealous of Souji, because of the latter's protectiveness towards Amy, which the former interprets as romantic interest in her. Mostly subverted when Souji rescues Mitsuhiko from being killed by the MotW. After Souji says that protecting people, regardless of whether or not he likes them, is what he does, and after Mitsuhiko witnesses Amy and Souji transforming in front of him, he freely gives Amy the amber stone that the Kyoryugers were seeking. After the contest is over, Mitsuhiko still has an over-inflated sense of worth, but he resolves to work hard to truly be a respectable and honorable person.
• Larynx Dissonance: The "Freaky Friday" Flip the Kyoryugers suffer in #37 doesn't just make them exchange their bodies, but their voices, too. So we have Daigo still speaking in his own voice while in Amy's body, and vice-versa.
• Lethal Joke Item: Several Zyudenchi have downright ridiculous effects that are nonetheless extremely effective weapons. A standout example is Stymero, which causes its victim to fall in love with the next person it sees. Such applications include luring a dangerous enemy out of a sensitive area while simultaneously rendering them harmless, pacifying a group of mooks, or even hitting a group of mooks while they're looking at their Monster of the Week boss, causing them to mob and immobilize said MotW. Its influence is also extremely potent, able to completely dominate the minds of even the most ancient and powerful Debo monsters.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When the Kyoryugers meet Dr. Ulshade in Brave 21, they immediately recognize his voice (after he lets out a "GABURINCHO!!!") as "the voice of the Zyudenchi spirits", which is not technically wrong since he's played by Shigeru Chiba (and the good doctor even says he recorded his own voice for the Kyoryuger's equipment).
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: Happens by necessity in Brave 41: The Monster of the Week creates Deboss clones around the world, so the team calls forth the five Zyuden Giants and each takes on a clone: Daigo and Spinodaioh go to Tokyo, Nossan and Amy use Kyoryujin to protect New York, Utchy, Ian and Souji use Pteraidenoh Western in London, Yayoi, Ramirez, and Tessai protect Hawaii with Plezuoh, and Torin fights in China with Gigant Bragi-oh.
• Lighter and Softer: After the more serious Go-Busters underperformed, Kyoryuger was designed to be bright and upbeat.
• List Song: The ending lists all the batteries' names and effects in numerical order.
• Love Triangle:
  • A bizarre one: Aigaron is in love with Candelila. However, she later fell in love with Nobuharu, who reciprocated.
  • Yayoi seems to believe that she is in a love triangle with Amy and Daigo (and later with Meeko as well); but the other involved parties remain oblivious to this. But Daigo ends up marrying Amy, as we learn in the "100 Years Later" special
• Magic Music: Candelira's songs can give other Deboss a power boost. It's later explained that the Kyoryuger powers are also based in music, hence all the dancing.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: This is Remorseful Knight Arslevan's goal in the 100 Years After special: to gather enough negative emotions to make a time jump back to 2014 and help Deboss win. Thankfully, Dai is able to interfere in his time travel and alert the past Kyoryugers to what's coming, resulting in him being ambushed the moment he arrives and blasted back to his home time period.
• Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty: Word of God pretty much stated that this was the reason for using The Smurfette Principle; becoming a Kyoryuger requires a test of strength, so it made sense to them that only one woman makes the team. On top of that, part of Amy's character is that she has pressure on her to be ladylike in spite of her natural Action Girl tendencies.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • #25 has the Kyoryugers going through some hilarious time in their nightmares—mostly through Luckyuro. Then we get Utsusemimaru's nightmare of him unable to save his lord and Luckyuro dressed up as said lord. That's when the laughing stops. Of course, we never actually see his nightmare, but still...
  • The cheerful ending sequence accompanied with the line of "Sing and dance with us after the commercials!", can cause whiplash in some episodes but none more than episode 28...Torin just committed seppuku. And now, happy dancing children!
  • The opening can be this, too, since it starts abruptly with a loud GABURINCHO! Case in point: Episode 29. Everyone is mourning Torin. The Spirits and Daigo are looking at him depressed, the other men are collapsing over it, Amy and Yayoi are on the verge of tears, sad music is playing... GABURINCHO!
• Motion-Capture Mecha: The Kyoryugers control Kyoryuzin through their own movements.
• Mundane Utility: Gabutyra, the core mecha this year, standing in for a dinosaur exhibit in #2.
• Myth Arc: The series itself spans a total of nine Story Arcs and three Fillers, all of which is connected with the plot.
• Mythology Gag: Has its own page.
• Necessary Evil: Dantetsu's motivations for killing Torin in #45. In order to stop the Earth's countdown to destruction, he made a Deal with the Devil to kill Torin permanently.
  • Ends up revealing itself as a Batman Gambit in #46, as Dantetsu reveals that Torin, although indeed dead, kept his heart of justice intact and is busy permanently killing off every Debo Monster residing in Hell!
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Good job awakening Bragigas at long last, Rangers! Except... Bragigas in his fossilised form had been acting as a cork in the bottleneck that is the opening to Deboss Hades. Might wanna settle that first...
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Although Chaos's 400 year old plan to both capture Pteragordon and seal away Utsusemimaru was beautifully executed, the fact remains that had he simply destroyed both, they wouldn't have been able to return to fight against the Deboss Legion in the modern day. This is justified, though, as the Deboss are all about using their enemies' emotions against them, and the plan they did enact would have a larger net gain.
  • Happens again in #37 when Debo Akumoon does his "Freaky Friday" Flip on Souji and Utsusemimaru to try and throw them off their game. However, since both of them are swordsmen who have trained together (and as a result know each others' techniques), it comes back to bite him in the ass.
• Ocular Gushers: Aigaron has this a couple times in early episodes.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In #39, D claims to have defeated Torin, Ramirez, and Tessai by sending an army of one thousand Zorima after them. Just then he's interrupted by the trio arriving, alive and well, as Torin says "You should have sent more."
• Off-the-Shelf FX: They're not even bothering to hide how the Kyoryuzin Transformation Sequence uses actual toys. Part of the "back to oldschool" theme, instead of the CGI of recent years.
• Out of Continues: The Deboss Legion's members keep reviving due to the Darkness of the Land (AKA Deboss Hell). Torin's solution? Kick Hell's tail and blow it up. It works, leaving the remaining members with no way to revive.
• Out of Focus: Every Kyoryuger who's not named Daigo Kiryu.
• Palette Swap: When they appear as full-sized zyudenryu in a flashback in #34, Stymero, Allomerus, and Deinochaser are this. Allomerus is a reddish Tobaspino, and Deinochaser is a yellow Zakutor. Amusingly enough, rather than being a recolor of Dricera, Stymero is instead a recolor of Bakuryu Styracosaurus.
• The Power of Friendship: Sentai always celebrates teamwork, but more emphasis is placed on the Kyoryugers being a team than usual.
• The Power of Rock: It's explained in Brave 29 that music is where the Kyoryugers' power come from, since its power serves as a guide for the Zyudenryu, and humans can harness this power through their innate rhythm, thanks to evolution imprinting in their minds traces of prehistoric music. It ends up being useful to bring Torin Back from the Dead.
• Production Foreshadowing: The summer movie features SpinoDai-Oh, a deep blue mecha with a Samurai theme. Take a wild guess what the base suit color and theme of the titular rider for the series after Wizard is.
• Punny Name:
  • "Zyuden/Beast Electric" is a pun on the Japanese phrase "juuden/充電/to electrically charge (a battery)", which ties in to how the team uses rechargeable batteries as their trinkets.
  • The Zyudenryu and Zyudenchi love this. Every single one of their names is some sort of pun that combines the name of the dinosaur (or other ancient creature) that they're based on with a word that relates to their powers.
    • Gabutyra: Gabu (an onomatopoeia for "bite") and Tyrannosaurus.
    • Parasagun: Parasaurolophus and Gun. Additionally, gun is a homophone of "gan", which is an onomotopoeia for gunshots.
    • Stegotchi: Stegosaurus and Gocchin (an onomatopoeia for slashing). You might think it strange that the zyudenryu belonging to "the armored hero" has a name related to slashing attacks, but then you remember that Stegotchi is the one that forms Kyoryuzin's sword.
    • Zakutor: Zaku (meaning "to cut") and Raptor.
    • Dricera: Drill and Triceratops. By playing with the pronunciation a little, it can also become a reference to a type of battery called a dry cell.
    • Pteragordon: Pteranodon and Gorogoro (an onomatopoeia for rumbling, usually thunder).
    • Ankydon: Ankylosaurus and Don (an onomatopoeia for a heavy thud).
    • Bunpachy: Buun (an onomatopoeia for swishing) and Pachycephalosaurus.
    • Plezuon: Plesiosaurus and Zuoon (an onomatopoeia for "zoom")
    • Bragigas: Brachiosaurus and Gigas (latin for "giant")
    • Deinochaser: Deinonychus and Chase.
    • Deinosgrander: Deinosuchus and both Grand and Ground (they're homophones in Japanese and use the same kana).
    • Kentrospiker: Kentrosaurus and both Spike and Supasupa (an onomatopoeia for slicing). If you're not sure how you can get "supasupa" from "spiker", just remember that from a Japanese perspective, "spiker" would be pronounced somewhere along the lines of "supaika".
    • Stymero: Styracosaurus and Meromero (an onomatopoeia for "falling down drunk", which can be used to describe blind lust).
    • Allomerus: Allosaurus and Meramera (an onomatopoeia for burning flames).
    • Beyonsmo: Biyooon (onomatopoeia for stretching) and Seismosaurus.
    • Ovirappoo: Oviraptor and Poo (not what we English-speakers also know as poop/feces/crap, but an onomatopoeia for farting, which is rendered puu in Japanese).
    • Igeranodon: Iguanodon and Geragera (an onomatopoeia for guffawing).
    • Tuperanda: Tupandactylus and Perapera (an onomatopoeia for "flop").
    • Gurumonite: Guruguru (an onomatopoeia for spinning) and Ammonite.
    • Archenolon: Archelon and Noronoro (an onomatopoeia for moving slowly).
    • Pukuptor: Pukupuku (an onomatopoeia for swelling) and Fukuiraptor.
    • Futabain: Futabasaurus and Bai (Japanese for "double").
    • Tobaspino: Butobasse (a slang word that refers to "kicking butt") and Spinosaurus.
  • Daigo Kiryu's preferred nickname, King, is a Stealth Pun on the dinosaur he commands, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Rex being Latin for King. His given name also sounds an awful lot like "Dino Kyoryu".
  • D's Lovely Angels pair, Ashi (the Kick Chick in black) and Lamunea (the big-chested woman in white) are named after which body part of their actress was emphasized in costume!
• Reconstruction: Arguably to Go-Busters. Spandex, Hot-Blooded action, brightly colored cartoony villains, and some hilarious moments replace the Darker and Edgier predecessor.
• Rearrange the Song: KyoryuRed Carnival's theme, "Chou Shinka! Kyoryu Beat" has five different mixes- one for standard Carnival and one for each of his primary Kamitsuki Change forms. In the episode that introduced Kamitsuki Change, they were all used.
• The Rest Shall Pass: This is how the second half of #47 plays out. First Yayoi, Dantetsu, Yuko and Shinya (the latter two having inherited Ramirez and Tessai's powers) stay to fend off Chaos and the first wave of Zorimas to give the main team a chance to head to the Frozen Palace. Then Ucchi stays behind to fight Endolf and Dogold. Then Nobuharu stays at a bridge to hold off another wave of Zorimas. And then Ian and Souji stay at the quarry nearest to the palace, fighting a massive number of Zorimas and Cambrimas, leaving Daigo and Amy to invade the Palace by themselves.
• Running Gag:
  • Nobuharu having the Pukuptor Battery used on him. Lampshaded by the man himself in episode 21.
  • #40: Debo Director's power is forcefully putting humans into a movie and having them in the starring roles. He uses said power on the Kyoryugers three times. When Daigo asked whose bright idea it was to put them in a cop drama, it turns out that it was Amy, since she admitted to watching various DVD's the previous night at the Spirit Base. Further lampshaded when the monster turns big and the theme is a giant monster movie; it wasn't Amy this time, but rather Torin, who admitted he watched a monster movie last night...from Amy's DVD collection. Cue Utsusemimaru scolding Amy each time it happens.
• Sequel Hook: Deboss, during his final fight with Kyoryu Red Carnival, says there's an evil worse than him. This revelation was very likely done to have something ready for the 100 Years After special or the team-up with Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger. This would be a first for Sentai, despite after series specials being around for (as of 2014) 4 years and team-ups being around 18 years.
• Shirtless Scene: Daigo in episode 9, when his wounds are being treated.
  • Daigo in episode 27 has a long time showing his chest.
• Shout-Out:
  • KyoryuBlack is named Ian Yorkland. Gee, a dinosaur-based story with a character named Ian who wears black. Sound familiar to anyone?
  • The Monster of the Week for #3 uses chained devices that grab martial arts artists by their heads.
  • #12:
    • Souji as Green performs a sideways sliding dash straight out of the Rurouni Kenshin movie.
    • The Zourima in the hidden village wear the armor and wield the weapons of the Nanashi.
  • The G-Bo in #15 homages several well-known concept robots like the Asimo (the name in particular brings to mind the Aibo, a robo-puppy).
  • The Deboss Knights are based off a lion, a metal man, a cheerful girl, and a scarecrow. Where have we seen this assortment of characters before?
  • Chaos, the leader of the Deboss Knights, is intent on liberating his evil master. He also ends up with said evil master hitching a ride on the back of his hand. Neon Genesis Evangelion, anyone?
  • #16 has one from Aigallon. His weapon is an Ax. One of his attacks with that weapon is Tomahawk Boo-hoo-merang. On top of that, Aigallon bears an incredible resemblance to the YMS-15 Gyan from Mobile Suit Gundam.
  • #19 has one to Enter when Ian replies with "Non, non" to a question from Utsusemimaru. He even sounds exactly like Enter himself.
  • #21 Plezu-Oh have the same pallet colors from RX-78.
  • Ian's catch phrase is "Oh my!" much like another well known Japanese man
  • In the special DVD, Nobuharu gets possessed by two Debo Monsters at once. Even the more genteel monster takes the right side like Phillip did! Meanwhile, Daigo makes use of a Plezuon-inspired rocket fist that seems to take a cue from a certain other Riku Sanjo work.
  • Speaking of Riku Sanjo, the composition of Raiden Kyoryuzin emulates Shoutmon X5 down to a golden-colored Sixth Ranger of sorts providing wings for the combination along with a new helmet.
  • Along with being a Mythology Gag to Dairanger, the revelation in 28 makes Torin seem rather similar to Paarthurnax from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
  • #30 is mainly a Kyoryuger take on the trend of reality running game shows with celebrity contestants, such as Running Man from South Korea and Japan's own Run for Money in particular, which employs The Men in Black much like this ep did.
  • #40 shows Daigo wearing a delinquent costume - which makes him look like Gentaro from Kamen Rider Fourze.
  • In the same episode, during the Kyoryugers-in-a-cop-film segment, Amy (wearing a police uniform over her Kyoryu Pink suit) beats down and handcuffs a yakuza Zorima, saying "You're Under Arrest!" (in Japanese; she uses the exact same phrasing as the manga's original title, taihou shichau zo!)
  • Nobuharu's sister, Yuko, has her own moments when she uses an unknown form of super strength, similar to Hina Izumi.
  Ramirez: Wow. Strong lady.
  • Not to mention when she does it, she says it's an "Emergency" and we hear a familiar siren. This doubles as an Actor Allusion, as Yuko's actress Ayumi Kinoshita is also known as Jasmine, aka Dekayellow.
  • In #41, Daigo twirls his Gaburivolver with both hands, in a manner you may not be familiar with - if you didn't follow Power Rangers Samurai.
  • Dantetsu and Torin's Batman Gambit in #45 and #46 is similar to a plan that Dumbledore and Snape pulled off in order to trick the bad guys.
  • Nobuharu utilizes an attack in the Gaburincho of Music movie called the "Nobuharu Super DOKOISHO", which is nothing more than a powered-up yell in the same vein as Kanji Tatsumi.
  • In the 100 Years After special, the monsters make the heroes sit down before complaining to them about their choice of color scheme, just like in the "Gorenjai" sketches from Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende.
• Show Within a Show: That Shoujo manga Amy and Luckyuro have been following is fast becoming one, with Torin himself explaining the backstory in #38.
• So What Do We Do Now?: Candelira and Luckyuro in the Epilogue. Both were stuck wondering how to live on with their lives now that the battle was over. The two soon find their answer in the form of a crying child looking for her parents. Candelira ultimately decided to take Nobuharu's advice and be a help to humans going forward.
• Something Only They Would Say:
  • #8 has a variation, where Nobuharu's sister Yuko is caught in a Debo Monster illusion in which she sees her dead husband, Kenichi, alive again. Nobuharu starts cracking some of his trademark bad puns, which pisses off the illusory Kenichi. This makes Yuko realize that the "Kenichi" in front of her is a fake, since the real Kenichi actually loved Nobuharu's bad puns.
  • This happens again in #32, when Kyoryu Blue repeats his determinator speech from an earlier moment as Nobuharu, leading to Yuko to link two and two together. Regardless, she decides not to say anything to him about it for now. When she's revealed to the others as Ramirez's successor in #47, Nobuharu is shocked. Not only is he shocked that she decided to fight, he's also shocked that she knew all along that he was Kyoryu Blue, and everyone else also knew that she did.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Justified in #17, which explains that the monsters get stronger the more Deboss awakens.
• Space Is an Ocean: Played with; Dr. Ulshade refers to space as a "cosmic sea" in his roll call, and his mecha Plezuon is a spaceship-Plesiosaur, but other than the beginning of his premier episode, they don't seem to be going out any farther than Earth's upper-atmosphere.
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • Not counting the various ways Dinoranger has been romanized using long vowels, (Kyoryuger, Kyouryuuger, and every combination between) electrobeast has been romanized as Zyuden and also Jyuden by some, with the former of each set being used in Bandai and Toei's merchandise range.
  • Before the official romanization of Kyoryu Gold's mecha was revealed, fansubs used either "Pteragodon" or "Pteragoldon" depending on preference. It was eventually revealed to be "Pteragordon", which is a pun on gorogoro, a japanese onomatopoeia for rumbling thunder.
  • Then there's "Devoss" or "Deboss" and the show adds to the confusion with "Deboth."
  • When we get a glimpse at the surfboards on Debo Vacance's back in Brave 32, we can see it's written "Deboth Gun^note This one is from the Japanese gun, "Army", not the English "gun" Team Canderrilla", thus also giving Candelilla's name another spelling.
• Spoiler Opening: Wow, the opening finally gets a well-deserved update- wait, Daigo gets a Super Mode? And Endolf isn't with the villains?
  • The ending has several:
    • It did not keep the name of ZyuDenRyu #6 (Pteragordon) a mystery,it's already there at the end of the first episode. It even described it as having Shock and Awe powers!
    • #6's ending also reveals all the next six Zyudenchi this way when by then, only #7 (Ankydon) and #11 (Deinochaser) were already shown.
    • The ending seems to be Pokerapping all the dinos, to the point that the early endings have more that you haven't seen in action than you have.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Daigo. The majority of episodes are ultimately focused on him, leaving the other Kyoryugers, especially Souji, Out of Focus. The finale sums it up best; Daigo fights Deboss by himself while the others sing the theme song! Many fans are starting to compare him with a cetrain Magical Girl Warrior from Toei. Best examples: Starting with Go-Busters vs. Gokaiger, Daigo appeared first before his teammates and the only one who interacted with Captain Marvelous and Hiromu Sakurada. In Kamen Rider Taisen, Daigo appeared alone. In ToQger vs. Kyoryuger, Daigo had the most screentime (alongside Ucchi).
• Stalker Shrine: Yayoi has many pictures collected of Daigo, as we see in episode 22.
• Stealth Pun:
  • When Daigo assigns the team their various basketball positions in #32, it is worth noting that Ian is the shooting guard and Souji is the small forward, a position usually known for slashing.
  • Later on, in order to make sure Souji doesn't cripple himself trying to imitate his style of swordsmanship, Torin started to directly teach him. In other words, he took Souji under his wing.
  • And now we have seen The Reveal that if the host has a strong enough will, Dogold starts to act like them, as best demonstrated in episode 41, where he used not one, but two Catch Phrases that Endolf was known to use: "My head hurts" and "Sorry, sorry. It just kind of slipped out." Sounds like he's having a pretty severe case of you are what you eat.
• Story Arc: Despite being as lighthearted as Carranger and Go-onger, Kyoryuger explores the lores of the titular team, the Zyudenryu, and the Deboss Army.
  • Braves 1-4: Introduction arc
  • Braves 5-6: Ankydon arc
  • Braves 7-10: Pteragordon arc
  • Braves 11-16: Filler arc #1
  • Braves 17-18: Bunpachy arc
  • Braves 19-20: Filler arc #2
  • Braves 21-24: Plezuon arc
  • Braves 25-29: Endolf arc
  • Braves 30-36: Bragigas arc
  • Braves 37-40: Filler arc #3
  • Braves 41-42: Christmas arc
  • Braves 43-48: Deboss arc
• Take Up My Sword:
  • In #45, Torin entrusts the Feather Edge to Souji just before they face off against the remainder of the Deboss Army. Souji saw this as an ill omen. He was right. Torin would later die at the hands of Dantetsu, although it was revealed in #47 that it was planned beforehand.
  • #47 reveals that Yuko (Nobuharu's sister) and Shinya (Tessai's mangaka descendant) are the chosen successors for Ramirez and Tessai respectively as the latter two will aid Torin in destroying the Debo Monsters in Hell.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In #20, the Kyoryugers figure out that Deboth Tanabanta granted their wishes and will cause them to die by sunrise. So far it had already taken Ian, Amy, and Souji, with only Utchi and Nobuharu left. They believe that it's impossible for Utchi's wish (to eat a mountain of ice cream) to come true, meaning they were safe. Cue Kyoryu Cyan coming to the base with a large cooler full of Belgian ice cream for everybody.
  • There's another from the same ep. Nobuharu's wish was to hold the hands of several beautiful women, and thinks his wish is equally unlikely. As he's walking home, Rika's teacher and several women he's done jobs for come upon him and all thank him for all his hard work, each holding his hands as they arrive. He's enjoying the attention...until he realizes the implications of the situation. He even says "Oh Crap!" out loud, complete with a beautiful closeup of his face as it hits him.
• Theme Song Power Up: It's Super Sentai, so of course this happens. Actually happens In-Universe in the final episode, where it turns out that the Earth's True Melody is "Vamola! Kyoryuger", and the main team (plus Yayoi) sing it in order to give King a power boost during his final showdown with Deboss.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Denied by Icerondo in #46 for Ian. With Aigaron taking a mortal blow meant for Candelira, Ian, conflicted with emotions over completely finishing the job and getting vengeance for his fallen friend Shiro, instead stops after just breaking his armor and letting his soul free, opting to euthanize him. Ian would later take out Icerondo himself using Aigaron's axe, avenging both Shiro and Aigaron.
• Token Romance: Daigo and Amy, of all people. Though the pairing was hardly foreshadowed, it was suddenly thrust upon the viewers during the last three episodes of the series. Many fans, shipper and non-shipper alike, were quite upset with this development. This is a possible case of Real Life Writes the Plot, since, after the end of the series, Ryo Ryusei and Ayuri Konno were seen in public together and were confirmed to be dating. One has to wonder if they started dating during the filming of the series, and, if so, whether or not this caused the romance between Daigo and Amy to be written into the series.
• Torin Calls For Aid: And the Spirit Rangers arrive in Hell to back him up in #47.
• Trailers Always Spoil:
  • Twofold in the preview for 29. First the trailer starts out with the announcer screaming "TORIN'S DEAD!!!" and showing his petrified corpse... but then at the end there's a shot of him posing victoriously with the Kyoryugers.
  • The preview for episode 46 pretty much spells it out for you that Aigaron has a Redemption Equals Death moment.
  • The preview for the final episode reveals Utsusemimaru to be alive, even though his death was shown in #47.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: This trope is actually subverted many times, possibly the most in all of Sentai.
  • As most of the Transformation Sequence is an elaborate dance, the Legion often take this time to actually attack them. Thus we either have the team having to fight and dance, dodge attacks and dance, or dance while explosions happen all around them.
  • Utterly skewered in a different way in #25, where Souji's Love Interest gives him a Gargle Blaster she calls "Wake-Up Drink" after seeing him trying to stay awake (thanks to a nightmare-causing Debo Monster). He shares the drink with the team, and they get so pepped up that they actually do the full transformation sequence (from dance to "Try and stop us!") in under ten seconds^note including their shouting their respective In the Name of the Moon speeches in unison. Luckyuro, who was hunkering down for the whole thing, is competely floored by how fast they get it done.
• Trapped in TV Land: The Monster Of The Week in episode 40 causes people to be put into styles of movies.
• Trash the Set: Killbolero destroys the Spirit Base in the finale. But it's soon restored with Earth's True Melody (with the bonus of reviving Ucchi).
• True Companions: Both the team itself as well as their Zyudenryu partners. It's clear to see that they really do care for one another.
• Unsound Effect: When the Zandar Thunder is used with full charge (i.e. three Zyudenchi), it shoots out an electrical wave that actually reads ZANDAR THUNDER (or at least it looks like that).
• Vertigo Effect: Used in #44 when KyoryuRed is harmed by Deboss' song.
• Villain Song: Candelilla sings one in #6. With the help of Debo Virsun, it becomes a Brown Note capable of putting people to sleep and causing them to have pleasant dreams, enabling the Deboss to harvest their happiness.
• Wham Episode:
  • And in #7 Chaos sends out a monster to keep the Kyoryugers occupied while he went to free Pteragordon and put it under his control!
  • #9 qualifies, too. Dogold is revealed to be a Animated Armor containing the former KyoryuGold, Souji and Amy have been captured by a Monster of the Week, and Torin is slowly turning to stone thanks to an old injury. Not to mention the Deboss are still in control of Pteragordon.
  • #17 has Tessai calling for Daigo to be kicked from the Kyoryugers because he has no weakness and have Ucchi be made the leader.
  • #20 has a Wham Scene involving Daigo's father. This, along with the introduction of the Ulshades and the revival of the Extinctioners, kicks off two Wham Arcs with a connecting Wham Episode. In the first arc, Kyoryu Violet is introduced and Deboss is awoken and implanted into Chaos, and every villain save for Candelila and Luckyuro are presumed dead, with Candelila fainting. The connecting episode features a plot by Luckyuro which results in the return of the other villains and the creation of a new villain, Endolf, who gets is own arc resulting in...
  • #28, Oh boy... Endolf hatches a successful plan so that the Deboss army can control Torin, and then he and Kyoryuzjin have to duke it out. Did we mention that Torin is Chaos's brother?! And that Torin essentially COMMITS SEPPUKU on Kyoryuzin's sword in order to break free of Deboss' control?
  • And, capping it all off, #29. Daigo masers his new Super Mode and utterly destroys Endolf with it after the team revives Torin... except Endolf survived. However, the entire episode was Dogold's plan to weaken Endolf to the point where he can make Endolf his new host. That's right; ten Wham Episodes in a row.
  • #41: Chaos casually mentioning to Dogold that he knows about him body-jacking Endolf and ordering him to find a new body, Endolf trolling Dogold from inside by telling him that he's overwriting Dogold's mind from within and Dogold declaring his next body-jacking target - Dantetsu.
  • #45...hoo boy. Chaos evolves into his final form and handily stomps the Kyoryuger. When Dantetsu shows up, he sides with Deboss and stabs Torin in the back, apparently killing him for good (he turns to stone, then dissolves into dust). The Kyoryugers barely escape with their lives. And finally, Deboss has ordered that Luckyuro, Candellira and Aigalon will be destroyed for their repeated failures.
• Wham Line:
  • #28: Chaos: "Torin is my younger brother."
  • #45: Dantetsu: (holding onto Torin's Giga Gaburevolver) "Brave in."
• Wham Shot:
  • At #6's end we see the Zyudenchi for Kyoryu Gold. But it's in High Priest Chaos's hands!
  • #9: When Dogold's armor cracks, it reveals a human eye underneath it.
  • #20: Deboth Tanabanta confronts Daigo's father.
  • #40 also crosses with Wham Line: Chaos ambling back to the Frozen Castle, with a black aura around him and pleading for "his body" back.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never really explained what happened to Shinya after the final battle was over. He's nowhere to be seen during the epilogue. He's alive and still able to transform if the To Qger crossover is canon
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The 100 Years After special touches on this, by not only showing what the great grandchildren of the original team are up to, but also showing who several of the original cast ended up marrying and having children with. Daigo and Amy got together, as the main series finale already set up, but their great grandchildren, brother Dai and sister Ami, appear in the special. Souji is still alive and appears as an old man, and has a wedding hologram of himself and his two-episode love interest Rin. Nobuta is actually the great grandchild of Rika, the niece of Nobuharu, with reading between the lines implying that he eventually got together with Candelilla for real.
• World of Badass: When you have fathers who can fight off monsters by punching the air or using a wooden sword, a little six-year-old girl badass enough to stand in front of a rampaging monster (who can subsequently squish you like a bug), a woman who can smack Kyoryu Red by hurling a barrel in his face, a mangaka that tackles a Zorima to save a girl in distress or a bumbling butler capable of doing a Hurricane Kick on Zorima, what do you expect? More specifically, every single Kyoryuger is a badass from the bumbling repairman who uses bad puns, the hotblooded scientist and his cute granddaughter, to the Chick Magnet capable with handguns and the woman smaking Kyoryu Red and the mangaka!
• Wrestler in All of Us: Seems to be Nobuharu's fighting style; We've already seen him throw a lariat, a cross-body, and a gut-wrench suplex.
• Writing Around Trademarks: #32. One of the Jyudenryu fossils is inside an ancient trophy that's been handed down ever since an ancient sporting competition started in ancient Greece. And it's not the Olympics.
• X-Ray Sparks:
  • #33. Good thing the Zandar Thunder wasn't loaded.
  • Earlier than that, in Kyoryu Gold's first battle (from the viewer's perspective) in #10. Candelila and Luckyuro get a taste of this with the Zandar Thunder's first Zyudenchi, and then Aigaron gets on the receiving end with the second Zyudenchi.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In #45. With Deboss fully revived and evolved, and two new Soldiers for Joy and Sadness, Chaos has decided that Candelira is expendable and should be killed to prevent her potentially following in Torin's footsteps. Aigaron himself falls under this trope, though it's more because He Knows Too Much.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Nobuharu's niece, Rika, does this to the Monster of the Week in Ep 2. when he was about to destroy the T-Rex statue she and the other kids made. In perspective, the monster can flatten skyscrapers with a wave of his hand, and the niece is at most six.
• Your Size May Vary: Depending on the scene, Gabutyra can be as small as a normal T. rex, or as tall as a skyscraper. Though he also canonically shrinks when he enters his "minityra" form.

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