History Headscratchers / SuperSentai

* I wonder why in current Sentai, there seems to be less to none main Villains who are human looking. all we see now are just... Kaijin-esque main villains like Burajira, Oiles Gil, Doukoku, etc. The last one we had was Long (human form, not dragon form) from Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger.

* How come two of the SuperSentai series that greatly emphasize the GreenAesop, ''KousokuSentaiTurboranger'' and ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'', are both ''car-themed'' series? Isn't that kind of counterproductive? (Go-onger less so, since they're half-vehicle half-animal...)

* What is wrong with the world in ''[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]''? The Rangers saved COUNTLESS LIVES from the wrath of Bandora and the freaking Devil! But when they return to Heaven the only ones who care to thank them for all they did were the kids?

* How come SamuraiSentaiShinkenger and TensouSentaiGoseiger don't have omake segments at the end of their episodes? Did they decide to stop doing them after EngineSentaiGoOnger?

* Why is it that the page name for Go Go Five titled RescueSentaiGoGoFive instead of Kyuukyuu Sentai Go Go Five, with the japanese word at the begining instead of an english translation? Y'know, like every other Super Sentai page?
** That's because that's the name used on the merchandise. See the archived discussion of RescueSentaiGoGoFive for more details.

* I wonder why in current Sentai, there seems to be less to none main Villains who are human looking. all we see now are just... Kaijin-esque main villains like Burajira, Oiles Gil, Doukoku, etc. The last one we had was Long (human form, not dragon form) from JukenSentaiGekiranger.

* If the rangers in ''Boukenger'' are supposed to be adventurers, how come they have headlights on their helmets and their mouthpieces resemble an engine? It's not supposed to be car themed, is it?

* What's up with Big One's four-colored helmet - evidently a nod to his AllYourPowersCombined nature - not matching the colors of the rest of the team? He's got a yellow stripe and no pink stripe.

** Sometime before the final -- one of Dora monsters and few Golems fake the ZyuRangers. This '''MIGHT''' be the reason.

*** To elaborate: this is the story of a Dekaranger named Marie Gold. She was some kind of special officer with a badass suit that seemed to be equal to Deka Red. She transformed to stop the villains in the movie but her henshin was stopped before we ever got a decent look at her.

***** Referencing Power Rangers in villain design doesn't mean that they have to reference it in the encyclopedia. And I'd say that your suggestion that the executive producer was a fan of them is much more likely than three completely random consecutive seasons being used for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

**** Or maybe the head writer or director or executive producer of Boukenger happened to be a big fan of Zyu, Dai, and Kakuranger, so he decided to have the main villains be an homage to those seasons. There are any number of possible reasons why those seasons were picked, with the most likely one being that it's one big coincidence of no significance or meaning whatsoever. Besides, if this was supposed to be a reference to MightyMorphinPowerRangers, why didn't the Boukenger encyclopedia segments at the end of the show ever mention Power Rangers when they got to Zyuranger?

*** But Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Kakuranger as a set don't hold much significance in Sentai. They weren't some of the first sentai seasons, they weren't the halfway mark (that would be Jetman), they weren't the first of the Hesei period, and the only real milestone found within them is the first sixth ranger in Zyuranger. Why would they use those three seasons as main villains instead of, say, JAKQ's, Battle Fever J's, and Denjiman's mechs? However, they do hold significance in Power Rangers, as they were the three seasons adapted for the very first rangers.

** While it would be nice, I doubt that the Boukenger staff ever thought about making nods like that; Power Rangers just isn't that big a deal in Japan. Episode 5 of Gokaiger had blink-and-miss nods to RPM because the guy who directed that episode worked on Power Rangers, but otherwise Gokaiger has been focused entirely on the Sentai side of things. Similarly, unless someone on Boukenger had done work in Power Rangers, I don't see any significance to the main villains being patterned after mechs that were from sentais adapted into MightyMorphinPowerRangers.

*** To elaborate: this is the story of the death of a Dekaranger named Marie Gold. She was some kind of special officer with a badass suit that seemed to be equal to Deka Red. She transformed to stop the villains in the movie but was killed before we ever got a decent look at her.

* Were the villain groups in Boukenger meant to be an intentional shout out to PowerRangers? The designs of the major members of three of the four groups were based on mecha of the three Sentai seasons that were used to make MightyMorphinPowerRangers. Also, since the only major villain who wasn't designed as such was Gajya/Gajah/Gaja, who wouldn't be used in the corresponding Power Rangers season anyway because you could see his face, is it possible they did this so that the designs of the villains would hold significance to Power Rangers fans as well as Sentai fans?

** One factor would be budget; it's cheaper to have a guy in a suit and a voice actor as opposed to a full fledged actor.

* I wonder why in current Sentai, there seems to be less to none main Villains who are human looking. all we see now are just... Kaijin-esque main villains like Burajira, Oiles Gil, Doukoku, etc. The last one we had was Long (human form, not dragon form) from JukenSentaiGekiranger.

*** So we're just going with the merchandise instead of, you know, the actual show?

For ''Dai Sentai Goggle Five'', see [[JustBugsMe/DaiSentaiGoggleFive here]]

For ''Choujuu Sentai Liveman'', see [[JustBugsMe/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman here]]

For ''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'', see [[JustBugsMe/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger here]]

For ''Ninja Sentai Kakuranger'', see [[JustBugsMe/NinjaSentaiKakuranger here]]

For ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger'' see [[JustBugsMe/TokusouSentaiDekaranger here]]

For ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'', see [[JustBugsMe/JukenSentaiGekiranger here]]

For ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'', see [[JustBugsMe/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger here]]

For ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', see [[JustBugsMe/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger here]]

*** To elaborate: this is the story of the death of the Dekaranger Deka Gold. She was some kind of special officer with a badass suit that seemed to be equal to Deka Red. She transformed to stop the villains in the movie but was killed before we ever got a decent look at her.

*** So we're just going with the merchandise instead of, you know, [[WallBanger the actual show?]]

** That's because that's the name used on the merchandise. See the archived discussion of RescueSentaiGoGoFive for more details.

For ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'', see [[JustBugsMe/JukenSentaiGekiranger here]]

For ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'', see [[JustBugsMe/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger here]]

* Why is it that the page name for Go Go Five titled RescueSentaiGoGoFive instead of Kyuukyuu Sentai Go Go Five, with the japanese word at the begining instead of an english translation? Y'know, like every other Super Sentai page?

*** Except with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlkeYGLJtiM#t=0m20s DekaGold]].

For ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'', see [[JustBugsMe/JukenSentaiGekiranger here]]

For ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'', see [[JustBugsMe/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger here]]