History Series / SpaceSheriffGavan

* HostageSituation: In episode 39, a family is held hostage while the Makuu use their home as a base of operations so they can snipe Retsu while he's helping a girl with her rehabilitation exercises. The plan [[NearVillainVictory only fails by sheer coincidence]] when a truck gets in the way of the shot.

*** HostageSituation: In episode 39, a family is held hostage while the Makuu use their home as a base of operations so they can snipe Retsu while he's helping a girl with her rehabilitation exercises. The plan [[NearVillainVictory only fails by sheer coincidence]] when a truck gets in the way of the shot.

* InvisibleMan: In the first handful of episodes, BEM monster battles in the Makuu Space end the same way -- the bad guy turns invisible but Gavan easily detects him and blasts him dead with a laser beam.

** Received one from ''Franchise/RoboCop'', whose suit was inspired by Gavan's.

** The Brazilian dub for Episode 15 is missing the dialogue for the ''entire opening scene''. And in latter episodes there are instances of dialogue left untranslated for several seconds!

** In the Brazilian dub Don Horror became "Don Holler". Terms like "Makuu" and "BEM" are left alone, despite their issues with the sylabe "cu" being slang for "ass" and "BEM" literally meaning [[IronicName "good"]].

* CutAndPasteTranslation:
** The Brazilian dub is missing dialogue in several scenes. In episode 3, for example, there's a scene where children discuss the disappearance of their pets. The Brazilian dub just has them randomly going "oh my" "oh wow" and then saying "must have been an E.T. thing". In other scenes, they change as much of the dialogue as possible as long as it fits the context and lip sync ([[HongKongDub and sometimes it doesn't]]). It gets to the point characters often state the ''opposite'' of what was in the original script, but they usually manage to avoid outright [[DubInducedPlotHole introducing plot holes]] into the episodes.
** The Brazilian dub for Episode 15 is missing the dialogue for the ''entire opening scene''. And in latter episodes there are instances of dialogue left untranslated for several seconds!

On July 31,2022 ''Creator/DiscotekMedia'' announced that they are releasing the series as part of their new label "Toku Time". The series will be remastered in HD on Blu-ray.

On July 31,2022 ''Creator/DiscotekMedia'' announced that they are releasing the series, as part of their new label "Toku Time", remastered in HD on Blu-ray.

On July 31,2022 ''Creator/DiscotekMedia'' reviled that they are releasing the series, as part of their new label "Toku Time", remastered in HD on Blu-ray.

On July 31,2022 ''Creator/DiscotekMedia'' reviled that they are releasing the series remastered in HD on Blu-ray.

* AdultFear:
** The Makuu organization frequently kidnaps children and subjects them to brainwashing and harsh training to transform them into monstruous terrorists.
** In episode 39, a family is held hostage while the Makuu use their home as a base of operations so they can snipe Retsu while he's helping a girl with her rehabilitation exercises. The plan [[NearVillainVictory only fails by sheer coincidence]] when a truck gets in the way of the shot.

[[caption-width-right:350: Say good bye to tears! Say hello to courage! The first Metal Hero, Gavan!.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The first Metal Hero.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The one that started it all.]]

* CoolBike: The Cyberian, a cherry-red four-wheeled superbike that can fly. Gavan uses it to chase the MonsterOfTheWeek into Makuu Space in order to finish it off at the end of each episode. Gavan Type-G has his own, but it's blue instead of red.

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

* {{Mooks}}: Don Horror systematically sends a bunch of disposable foot soldiers called Crushers to try and soften up Gavan before deploying the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Justified, due to the whole transformation sequence taking 0.05 seconds. And yet, because it is so quick the narrator feels the need to always repeat it in slow motion to show how it works. With gusto, and no irony whatsoever. Also, there is a single time where a mook does try to interrupt Retsu from transforming, but gets whacked aside as he does so.
* TransformationSequence: Naturally! Retsu shouts "Electroplate!", strikes several cool poses and summons his battle suit. As Gavan suddenly appears [[OffscreenTeleportation in a different spot than before]] and strikes more poses, the narrator chimes in to inform the viewers that the transformation is nearly instantaneous, and replays it so they can see the suit being transferred from Dolgiran. The poses are quite well known as well -- see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDofpxNH1Bc Ohba Kenji doing it in 2009 or so.]]
* TransformingMecha: The bottom part of Gavan's spaceship, Dolgiran, can separate and transform into the Chinese dragon-styled Denshi Seijuu (Electronic Starbeast) Dol, which is armed with eye lasers, fire breath, and a nasty tail whip attack.

->''"[[ByThePowerOfGrayskull JOUCHAKU!!]][[note]]Electroplate![[/note]]"''

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[[caption-width-right:300:The one that started it all.]]

* GratuitousEnglish: Whenever Juspion pilots his flight jet, there are english signs behind him. One reads "Missio(n) Timer" and another reads "Radiofre''g''uency".

* MediumBlending: In episode 1, when Juspion eacapes from a cave where monster eggs were hatching, a colony of cartoon bats fly out of the live-action background.

* ArtShift: In episode 1, when Juspion eacapes from a cave where monster eggs were hatching, a colony of cartoon bats fly out of the live-action background.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Justified, due to the whole transformation sequence taking 0.05 seconds. And yet, because it is so quick the narrator feels the need to always repeat it in slow motion to show how it works. With gusto, and no irony whatsoever.

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

* {{Bookends}}: In the finale, Sharivan is introduced the same way Gavan was in the beginning, with a villain asking "Who are you?!"

* SaveThePrincess: Alan comes from Planet Bee to Earth to save Princess Rin and prevent their homeland from becoming a Makuu colony.

** Don Horror is a living statue that just sits in place sending minions after Gavan. Ironically, the main reason he loses is because he deliberately exposes his mothership to Gavan. There's no indication the hero was ever #$%@$%#$ looking for Makuu Castle at all throughout the series!

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Mimi, with her "Laser Vision" pendant.

** Don Horror is a living statue that just sits in place sending minions after Gavan.