History Series / SpaceSheriffGavan

!!''Space Sheriff Gavan'' provides examples of the following tropes:

** Gavan's name is a ShoutOut to French actor Creator/JeanGabin, famous for playing numerous police officers, among many other roles.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The series is known in France as ''X-Or''.

%% * CoolShip: Girandol

* MilestoneCelebration: Returns for the ''Metal Heroes''' 30th anniversary in one of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger's'' movies, ''Film/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerVsSpaceSheriffGavanTheMovie'', with the success of that movie resulting in the start of a new generation in ''Film/SpaceSheriffGavanTheMovie''. Geki/Gavan Type-G and Sherry appeared in a two-episode arc of ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters''.

** The video game ''VideoGame/SpaceSheriffSpirits'' and the ''Gokaiger'' crossover movie take it to another extreme where it implies that Makuu Space has breathable oxygen with the latter establishing that the dimension had its own prison tower (which never appeared or even mentioned in the series).

** Gavan's name is a ShoutOut to French actor Jean Gabin, famous for playing numerous police officers, among many other roles.

* GuestFighter: Served as one for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterOnlineMouseGeneration'' in a probably [[VideoGame/Capcom Capcom's]] weirdest VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever [[CrossOver crossovers]] ever.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "JOUCHAKU!", which is the Japanese word for "deposition".

* InstantArmor: Gavan can materialize his combat armor in .05 seconds. [[OncePerEpisode Every time this happens]], the narrator informs the audience of this fact, then shows a slowed-down version of the Jouchaku/deposition process where we can actually see the Gavan suit being beamed down from Gavan's ship.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: BEM Monsters and Double Monsters. With a rare few exceptions, Gavan kills the monster at the end of every episode, and faces off a new one the following week.

** Dol, the bottom half of the Girandol in attack mode, qualifies as one with a whooping 300 meter length and 2000 ton weight.

->''"[[ByThePowerOfGrayskull DEPOSITION!!]]"''

Sometime in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture not so distant future]], Earth is invaded by the evil Don Horror and his Makuu Mafia.[[note]]A portmanteau of the words for "archdevil/BlackMagic" and "evil".[[/note]] Rather than cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Don Horror plans to cause fear and panic amongst the populace and steal every valuable his minions can get their hands on. To help him achieve his ends, the monsters of the Makuu Mafia can use an "Axial Divertor" to suck victims into a [[AnotherDimension frightening otherworld]] called "Makuu Space", where the Mafia gain 3x their ordinary power.

* CoolShip: Girandol
* {{Crossover}} / MilestoneCelebration: Returns for the ''Metal Heroes''' 30th anniversary in one of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger's'' movies, ''Film/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerVsSpaceSheriffGavanTheMovie'', with the success of that movie resulting in the start of a new generation in ''Film/SpaceSheriffGavanTheMovie''. Geki/Gavan Type-G and Sherry appeared in a two-episode arc of ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters''.

* OriginalGeneration

* RentAZilla

* ShoutOut

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute

* UnrealisticBlackHole

Sometime in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture not so distant future]], Earth is invaded by the evil Don Horror and his Makuu Mafia[[note]]A portmanteau of the words for "archdevil/BlackMagic" and "evil".[[/note]]. Rather than cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Don Horror plans to cause fear and panic amongst the populace and steal every valuable his minions can get their hands on. To help him achieve his ends, the monsters of the Makuu Mafia can use an "Axial Divertor" to suck victims into a [[AnotherDimension frightening otherworld]] called "Makuu Space", where the Mafia gain 3x their ordinary power.

''Space Sheriff Gavan'' (''Uchū Keiji Gavan''''') is the first installment of the ''Franchise/MetalHeroes'' franchise, as well as the first part of the ''Space Sheriff trilogy''. It aired from 1982-1983.

'''''Space Sheriff Gavan''''' ('''''Uchuu Keiji Gavan''''') is the first installment of the ''Franchise/MetalHeroes'' franchise, as well as the first part of the ''Space Sheriff trilogy''. It aired from 1982-1983.

* FridgeHorror: Unlike other tokusatsu monsters of the week created by Toei, the Space Sheriff trilogy's monsters of the week are outlandishly powerful in context with a rather horrific tone. Most of them never talk or emote, but still have human level intellect, much like a serial killer, and in addition to at least one melee weapon their standard powers include size changing, teleportation, invisibility, some bodily weapon, and shape shifting. Add ReligiousHorror for more atmospheric effect.

* HandBlast: "LASER Z(ETTO)-BEAM!" Arrow-shaped bolts of energy that fire forth from Gavan's index and ring fingers.

Sometime in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture not so distant future]], Earth is invaded by the evil Don Horror and his Makuu Mafia[[labelnote:*]]A portmanteau of the words for "archdevil/BlackMagic" and "evil".[[/labelnote]]. Rather than cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Don Horror plans to cause fear and panic amongst the populace and steal every valuable his minions can get their hands on. To help him achieve his ends, the monsters of the Makuu Mafia can use an "Axial Divertor" to suck victims into a [[AnotherDimension frightening otherworld]] called "Makuu Space", where the Mafia gain three times their ordinary power.

'''''Space Sheriff Gavan''''' is the first installment of the ''Franchise/MetalHeroes'' franchise, as well as the first part of the ''Space Sheriff'' trilogy''. It aired from 1982-1983.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: Makuu Space is entered via a black hole that causes Earth to change its axis instead and enter the space of sucking up the entire solar system. To make it crazier, Gavan's Cyberian somehow minimizes harmful effects on the planet once entered.
** The video game SpaceSheriffSpirits and the Gokaiger crossover movie take it to another extreme where it implies that Makuu Space has breathable oxygen with the latter establishing that the dimension had its own prison tower (which never appeared or even mentioned in the series).

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* UnrealisticBlackHole: Makuu Space is entered via a black hole that causes Earth to change its axis instead and enter the space of sucking up the entire solar system. To make it crazier, Gavan's Cyberian somehow minimizes harmful effects on the planet once entered
** The video game SpaceSheriffSpirits and the Gokaiger crossover movie take it to another extreme where it implies that Makuu Space has breathable oxygen with the later establishing that the dimension had its own prison tower (which never appeared or even mentioned in the series).

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Justified, due to the whole transformation sequence taking 0.5 seconds.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The series is known in France as ''X-Or''.

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