History YMMV / KaizokuSentaiGokaiger

** "[[Recap/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerE30AtLeastMyFriendsSoul At Least My Friend's Soul]]": [[MadScientist Great Scientist Zaien]] is a scientist who specializes in experimenting on living beings in service to the Zangyack. A [[EvilGenius mad genius]], Zaien loves to [[UnwillingRoboticisation convert people into cyborgs]], leaving them as slaves with no memories of their past and [[FateWorseThanDeath no way to return to their original forms]]. When Sid Bamick betrays the Zanyack, Zaien [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] him through torture into Barizorg, with Joe Gibken horrified and heartbroken at what his former friend has become. Arriving to assist Warz Gill's invasion of Earth, Zaien kidnaps human athletes to put his Barizorg project into mass production, before vowing to do this to the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerGokaigers Gokaigers]] for freeing them.

* CompleteMonster: [[RuthlessModernPirates Basco ta Jolokia]] stands out as viler than the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerZangyack Zangyack Empire]] he serves, despite having fewer resources. Once a member of the Red Pirates, Basco [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed them to the Zangyack]] upon learning of Aka Red's intent to give the Ranger Keys back to the Super Sentai, desiring the Greatest Treasure in the Universe for himself. Believing "you have to sacrifice something to get something else", Basco holds an ill child hostage for the [=GoGoV=]'s Greater Power, breaks Gai's arm on a whim, and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild bomb a school]] in order to obtain the Megaranger's Greater Power. Basco's cruelest act comes when he abuses his pet monkey Sally, and [[KickTheMoralityPet blows her up]] when she defects.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a ''Space Pirate" due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai)
[[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder kind]] [[TheSociopath of character]] Basco was, you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[CompleteMonster the kind of character]] Basco was, you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

* HilariousInHindsight: In #28, MonsterOfTheWeek Kiaido suggests that he may pick a fight with Damaras. [[spoiler:Kiaido ends up slain by the five Gokaigers in the same episode, while Damaras later overpowers all six Gokaigers as well as Basco, who himself proved a match for them, with it taking the whole team at 100% to defeat Damaras after he is literally stabbed in the back by Basco and humiliated at being outwitted by Don. With all the evidence available, the odds are that Kiaido, as imposing as he was, would have had his ass handed to him by Damaras.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:

* CompleteMonster: [[ItsAllAboutMe Basco ta Jolokia]] stands out as viler than the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerZangyack Zangyack Empire]] he serves, despite having fewer resources. Once a member of the Red Pirates, Basco [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed them to the Zangyack]] upon learning of Aka Red's intent to give the Ranger Keys back to the Super Sentai, desiring the Greatest Treasure in the Universe for himself. Believing "you have to sacrifice something to get something else", Basco holds an ill child hostage for the [=GoGoV=]'s Greater Power, breaks Gai's arm on a whim, and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild bomb a school]] in order to obtain the Megaranger's Greater Power. Basco's cruelest act comes when he abuses his pet monkey Sally, and [[KickTheMoralityPet blows her up]] when she defects.

*** He crossed it via his conversion of Sid into Barizorg. While Warz was also involved, he at least cared about Barizorg, while there is no indication Zaien actually cared.

** Episode 34, a Luka episode, would have been the perfect time to have a Yellow Charge for the Gokai Galleon Buster. Ultimately, Luka remains the Gokaiger not to have taken the lead with the Team Cannon.

* LoveToHate: Yes, Basco is a scumbag of the highest order who is motivated by his own greed and his willingness to hurt people in order to get his way including children and his own pet and partner won't get him any likeable points. However, he is considered the greatest villain of the season not only because of how personal of a threat he is tho the Gokaigers compared to the Zangyack, but being a great foil to Captain Marvelous and being super cunning, which allows him to be one step ahead of his enemies. Kei Hosogai's performance also makes him fun to watch.