History YMMV / GoseiSentaiDairanger

* Iron Face Choryu, a DarthVaderClone who is Ryo's father and TheRival to Master Kaku, could have been an interesting recurring character alongside his master Archbishop Saw. They're both killed off at the end of a two-parter early in the show.

** Master Kaku. He's the group's mentor who's badass enough to fight Iron Face Choryu, a Gorma who wrecked the Dairangers in their first encounter. In spite of this, he spends most of the series as MrExposition with no really meaningful interactions with the Dairangers (which is especially odd as Ryo comes to regard hi as a surrogate father), and doesn't get any more fight scenes or spotlight episodes until the finale.

* AssPull: [[spoiler: Colonel Shadam being revealed to be a clay doll replica upon his death, despite being responsible for all the Gorma clay dolls (which also qualifies as an AssPull on its own, and to a lesser extent, a ShockingSwerve).]]

* RomanticPlotTumor: Daigo's romantic interest in Kujaku ended up taking up the bulk of his focus episodes, with them going back and forth on whether they [[WillTheyOrWontThey could be with each other or not]] to the point of melodrama. The fact that Daigo [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl in the end also makes all the episodes between him and Kujaku feel kind of pointless]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Iron Face Choryu's]] death, set to a heartbreaking rendition of the show's ending theme. That is all.

* VindicatedByHistory: It was, due to a ToughActToFollow by ''Jetman'' (in spite of ''Zyuranger'' being chronologically sandwiched between them). This generation seems to be more forgiving, since Kung Fu and Martial Arts are awesome, mix that with ''Sentai'' and whoooah.

* EarWorm: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVWIX9AWdQ "Tenshin daaa-! Woah woah woahwoah~ Kiryoku daaa-! Woah woah woahwoah~"]]''

** Meta-wise, at May 18th 2017, Daigo/Shishiranger's actor Tatsuya Nomi [[AuthorExistenceFailure was found dead]] and the reason was [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], much like [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger the original Kiranger (Baku Hatakeyama).]]

* ChaoticNeutral[=/=]LawfulNeutral: Daijinryu

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Daigo. In the sense that despite being in every episode and having plenty of focus episodes, he remains woefully underdeveloped in the character growth section outside of a romantic subplot. Despite being second-in-command and arguably the best fighter on the team after Ryou, Daigo pretty much wound up as a SatelliteCharacter to Kujaku for all intents and purposes and got little development or characterization beyond being the ranger who loved Kujaku but couldn't be with her.

* RuleOfCool: At one point, Ryūseioh rides Won Tiger towards a Gorma in an utter subversion of TigerVersusDragon.

* CompleteMonster: [[DragonInChief Lieutenant Colonel]] [[DragonAscendant Shadam]] cares nothing for his [[spoiler:two sons and wife]], as shown by his [[AbusiveParents amazingly abusive treatment]] to Akomaru. He also shows zero honor: [[spoiler:When Doushi Kaku showed mercy for him and the tables were turned for his side, Shadam instead uses the chance to [[UngratefulBastard mercilessly and brutally murder Kaku]] through an utter CurbStompBattle.]] And to top it off, he doesn't even care about any of his subordinates; [[spoiler:they are clay dolls created by him and he plans to discard them once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are useless to him]].]] This goes double for his master. [[ItsAllAboutme It's all about him in his head]].

* CompleteMonster: [[DragonInChief Colonel]] [[DragonAscendant Shadam]] cares nothing for his [[spoiler:two sons and wife]], as shown by his [[AbusiveParents amazingly abusive treatment]] to Akomaru. He also shows zero honor: [[spoiler:When Doushi Kaku showed mercy for him and the tables were turned for his side, Shadam instead uses the chance to [[UngratefulBastard mercilessly and brutally murder Kaku]] through an utter CurbStompBattle.]] And to top it off, he doesn't even care about any of his subordinates; [[spoiler:they are clay dolls created by him and he plans to discard them once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are useless to him]].]] This goes double for his master. [[ItsAllAboutme It's all about him in his head]].

** Turns out Iron Face Chouryou was in a past team of Dairanger with four other warriors -- were they named [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Ukin, Gakushin]], [[Anime/SDGundamSangokudenBraveBattleWarriors Choukou and Jyokou?]]

* AssPull: [[spoiler: Colonel Shadam being revealed to be a clay doll replica upon his death, despite being responsible for all the Gohma clay dolls (which also qualifies as an AssPull on its own, and to a lesser extent, a ShockingSwerve).]]

* RuleOfCool: At one point, Ryūseioh rides Won Tiger towards a Gohma in an utter subversion of TigerVersusDragon.

* CompleteMonster: [[DragonInChief Colonel]] [[DragonAscendant Shadam]] cares nothing for his [[spoiler:two sons and wife]], as shown by his [[AbusiveParents amazingly abusive treatment]] to Akomaru. He also shows zero honor: [[spoiler:Whe Doushi Kaku showed mercy for him and the tables were turned for his side, Shadam instead uses the chance to [[UngratefulBastard mercilessly and brutally murder Kaku]] through an utter CurbStompBattle.]] And to top it off, he doesn't even care about any of his subordinates; [[spoiler:they are clay dolls created by him and he plans to discard them once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are useless to him]].]] This goes double for his master. [[ItsAllAboutme It's all about him in his head]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Daigo. In the sense that despite being in every episode and having plenty of focus episodes, he remains woefully underdeveloped in character growth section outside of a romantic subplot. Despite being second-in-command and arguably the best fighter on the team after Ryou, Daigo pretty much wound up as a SatelliteCharacter to Kujaku for all intents and purposes and got little development or characterization beyond being the ranger who loved Kujaku but couldn't be with her.

* HarsherInHindsight: After the suicide of his actor Tatsuya Nomi in May 18 2017, Daigo's status as an IronWoobie character and [[spoiler:being an old man 50 years later]] has become much sadder in retrospect.

** Meta-wise, at May 18th 2017, Daigo/Shishiranger's actor Tatsuya Nomi [[AuthorExistenceFailure was found dead]] and it could have been [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], much like [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger the original Kiranger (Baku Hatakeyama).]]

** The Gorma Emperor mostly appeared to be a fairly harmless CloudCuckoolander, until he sees Daijinryu's rampage and makes it clear he doesn't care if the dragon kills all humans on Earth as long as he can rule afterwords.

* HarsherInHindsight: After the suicide of his actor Tatsuya Nomi in May 18 2017, Daigo's status as an IronWoobie character and [spoiler]being an old man 50 years later[/spoiler] has become much sadder in retrospect.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Gorma Emperor mostly appeared to be a fairly harmless CloudCuckoolander, until he sees Daijinryu's rampage and makes it clear he doesn't care if the dragon kills all humans on Earth as long as he can rule afterwords.

* NightmareFuel: Surprisingly NOT the monsters, but Ryou's TrainingFromHell. Imagine you are attached with A LOT of steels that makes your whole body bleed, and you're supposed to go through an extensive training while doing that, and all the while, your body just go through pains and through. Ryou's screams of pain just sounded off... ''creepy''...

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Ryuseioh puppet remains one of the most impressive mecha models in ''Sentai'' history. There's a reason why it gets shown off so much in the opening credits.

* HilariousInHindsight: In episode 2, Shōji crosses a bridge leading to a ship full of Gohma by gripping along its lower rails a la [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]].

* {{Irony}}: Despite the core 5 suits never appearing in any of the Zordon Era shows[[note]]Saban chose not to switch over to the ''Dairanger'' suits for season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'' to keep brand consistency. There were plans to use them as a team of "Ancient Rangers" in ''Lost Galaxy'', but production troubles caused those plans to be scrapped, and after that, Saban gave up on attempting to use them[[/note]], ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' would have the team use the suits more times than the suits from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', or ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive''[[note]]''Super Megaforce'' adapted footage from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''; despite the fact that footage of the Gokaigers using the Sentai counterparts of the aforementioned shows exist, for some odd reason, more of a focus was given to the Sentai-only teams[[/note]].

** If Shadam's treatment of Akomaru wasn't even for this, [[spoiler: he definitely crosses with his EvilPlan to become the Gorma Emperor as he doesn't care if his actions bring about Daijinryu's return.]]

* NeverLiveItDown: Kou stopped doing fondling Rin's breaths and flipping up her skirt within five episodes of his introduction. But because those five episodes were chock full of instances of him doing it, and because what he did was completely inexcusable, he's become mostly known for this in retrospect.