Series / Mahou Sentai Magiranger

Turning overflowing courage into magic!

Magic. It is a sacred power.
Magic. It is an adventure into the unknown.
Magic. It is the proof of courage!

Mahou Sentai Magiranger (Magical Squadron Magiranger) is the twenty-ninth program in the Super Sentai franchise, airing for 2005 to 2006. The Title Theme Tune was performed by Takafumi Iwasaki.

Years ago, a war broke out between the heavenly plane of Magitopia and the hellish underworld of Infershia. The divine warriors of Magitopia were victorious, and placed a great seal on the gate to Infershia. Now in the modern day, that seal has begun to weaken and the demonic hordes within have put into motion a plan to revive their god, N Ma.

Fortunately, a human woman named Miyuki Ozu has been preparing for this for the last fifteen years and teaches her five children to become magicians... only for her to be killed right in front of their eyes. Armed with their newfound magic fueled by "courage", the five siblings transform into the Magirangers to protect their home from the Infershian threat while also helping each other cope with their mother's death. What's more, their Disappeared Dad turns out to have been a famed Heavenly Saint warrior from Magitopia, and soon more and more figures from Magitopia and Infershia start getting involved with their lives, revealing the truth behind their Secret Legacy.

The motif this time around is "Magic", and the themes of "Courage" and "Family" are also strong all over. While it's the third Sentai series to feature a Sibling Team (following Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman and Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV), it's notable for having a much stronger focus on The Power of Family as its core theme, as well as having its Red be The Baby of the Bunch (the youngest Red in the franchise at the time of its airing) going through a Coming of Age Story. Also the first Sentai team to don capes since... around the first time.

The series was adapted in the Western Power Rangers franchise as Power Rangers Mystic Force.

Partnered with the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Hibiki before concluding its airing alongside the first episodes of Kamen Rider Kabuto in the Super Hero Time block.

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Recurring Super Sentai tropes:

• Abandoned Warehouse: The Magirangers take refuge in one during Stage 37, when they are being hunted down by the Hades God Cyclops.
• Action Girl: Urara, Houka, and Lunagel.
• All Your Colors Combined: Jinga Majuna, the Magical Curtain spell which all five Magirangers use together to create a multicolored barrier.
• All Your Powers Combined: The Legend Finish and the Five Fantastic Super Attack.
• All Up to You: Just about every episode.
• An Ass-Kicking Christmas: A two-parter pitted against the two Ultimate Gods.
• Ass Kicking Pose: "MagiMajin, on stage!"
• BFS: MagiKing's King Calibur, with a touch of Reverse Shrapnel for the final strike.
• Boss Subtitles: The last Super Sentai to make use of this trope, until eight years later.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": "M" is for Magiranger.
  • "W" is for Wolzard.
  • And "S" is for Shine, as in MagiShine.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: "Mahou Henshin! Ma-gi Magi Magiro!" The full version adds "Heavenly Saints, grant us the power of magic!" when inputting the code for transformation spell.
  • "Tenku Henshin! Golu Golu Goldiro!"
  • And then the Majin spells...
• Calling Your Attacks: Always with the finishers.
• Catchphrase: "Checkmate!" First used by Miyuki, then taken over by her kids. It doubles as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
  • Nai and Mea have their own: "Shall we?" (yacchou ka?; always said before they fuse back into Vancuria)
• Clip Show: One that not only introduces the Infershia Pantheon, but also confirms that Miyuki is alive but being held prisoner by them.
• Color Character: Another "[team prefix] [English color]" Sentai. Though the Five-Man Band play this trope straight, it is subverted in the case of the extras, from the golden MagiShine to the the white MagiMother to Wolzard Fire, the second Red hero.
• Combination Attack: Several examples throughout the series, but most frequently the Five Fantastic Kick.
• Crossover: Magiranger vs. Dekaranger. Also, like the Dekarangers, Honoka and Nagisa drop in for a visit in an Audio Drama. Later, the series has the honor of being the first to get a dedicated episode tribute in Gokaiger, with Kai showing up with Flagel to represent his family.
• Custom Uniform: The siblings have matching outfits in their respective colors with black plaid patterns, implied to be standard wear for magicians (which is supported when Hikaru shows up wearing a similar outfit in navy and gold). They also have pendants that symbolize their status and color alignment as magicians, as well as black robes to wear on top of them when doing more dedicated work in the magic room. The events of Stage 24 have Hikaru gift the siblings with rings that were heirlooms from his own family, which end up being used to help prove their worthiness of their Legend powers to Snowgel (and later serve as Urara and Hikaru's engagement rings upon their marriage). Even when they do sometimes change clothes to go out, they continue to wear the pendants and rings; Kai is seen still sporting the robe, pendant, and ring in his Gokaiger appearance.
• Darkest Hour: By the time of the finale, N Ma has seemingly killed Magiel, has definitely killed Sungel and Blagel, and has eaten all of time itself, punting the siblings into a Bad Future where the entire world is ground down to nothingness. This ends up sending Kai of all people into a Heroic BSoD that his siblings have to pull him out of.
• Evolving Credits: Hikaru enters the opening credits starting in Stage 21. Unusually, the footage for the other five members is redone from scratch as well, possibly because the first version had the actors smiling very awkwardly and stiffly, while the new footage has them acting more naturally after having settled into their roles more.
• Eyecatch: Showing whichever Magiranger is the primary focus of that episode.
• Fantastic Firearms: MagiShine's weapon is a magic lamp-shaped firearm that can shoot bolts of golden energy after he rubs it first. It comes complete with a genie who is shot out of the lamp as the finishing move.
• Henshin Hero: Beyond the general application of this trope, both Blagel and Sungel refer to themselves as "Heavenly Heroes".
  • It's also notable for being a rare Sentai series that actually uses the word "henshin", since Sentai's preferred word is usually the Gratuitous English "change", or if it's Japanese "henge".
• Home Base: The Ozu family's home, more specifically the Secret Room in the back, although Makito and Urara sometimes go out to use the kitchen.
• Humongous Mecha: The Ozu siblings actually turn into mecha through magic. When they combine, they share a single mindspace. Hikaru plays it straight however with Travelion.
  • A Mech by Any Other Name: The MagiMajins.
  • Animal Mecha: MagiDragon, Barikion, Unigolon, MagiFirebird, and MagiLion
  • Transforming Mecha: Travelion can switch from train mode to giant robot mode.
  • Combining Mecha:
    • MagiGaruda (Yellow) + MagiMermaid (Blue) + MagiFairy (Pink) + MagiTaurus (Green) = MagiDragon
    • MagiPhoenix (Red) + MagiGaruda + MagiMermaid + MagiFairy + MagiTaurus = MagiKing
    • MagiPhoenix + Barikion = FireKaiser
    • Saint MagiPhoenix + Unigolon = SaintKaiser
    • MagiFirebird + MagiLion = MagiLegend
    • Wolzard + Varikion = Wolcentaurus or Wolkaiser
  • Mecha Expansion Pack: Varikion and Unigoruon can be considered upgrades to Magi Phoenix.
• Interdimensional Travel Device: Aside from turning into MagiShine's mecha, Travelion can take its passengers freely between different worlds.
• Intangible Theft: Gaston the Thief is capable of stealing intangible things, like Kai's courage.
• In the Name of the Moon: Although the record has been long broken since, Magiranger had one of the longest sequences at its time, roughly on par with Dekaranger. But length-wise, it still outdraws the others due to ending with what was the largest roster in Super Sentai history at the time^note The record would be broken eight years later with Kyoryuger.
  Isamu: "The raging fire element! Heavenly Hero, Wolzard Fire!"
  Miyuki: "The sparkling ice element! The White Magician, MagiMother!"
  Hikaru: "The shining solar element! Heavenly Hero, MagiShine!"
  Makito: "The howling earth element! The Green Magician, MagiGreen!"
  Houka: "The blowing wind element! The Pink Magician, MagiPink!"
  Urara: "The swaying water element! The Blue Magician, MagiBlue!"
  Tsubasa: "The galloping thunder element! The Yellow Magician, MagiYellow!"
  Kai: "The burning flame element! The Red Magician, MagiRed!"

  All: "Our overflowing courage changes into magic! Mahou Sentai Magiranger!"
  • In addition, two of the Heavenly Saints also perform one of these speeches when they get to fight.
  Rin: "The serene moon element! Heavenly Saint, Lunagel!"
  Snowgel: "The sparkling ice element! Heavenly Saint, Snowgel!"
  • According to GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai, the Ozu family residence is located in "Tokyo-to Kanza-su Doro-shi 5-2-13". Kanza-su and Doro-shi, or, that is to say, Kansas and Dorothy.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Pretty much everything since the series finished has been very open about the fact the series ends with Isamu and Miyuki alive and Hikaru marrying into the family, resulting in a complete eight-person Ozu family. One of the more prominent series photos◊ is of the entire family together in the rubble of the final battle.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: The series has a rather unusual approach to this trope; instead of being The Leader (that's Makito) or the most powerful (he does have the occasional burst of power and two unique mechs, but his access to these is quite unreliable), Kai is actually The Baby of the Bunch, and the series functions as his Coming of Age Story. This is reflected in him being last in the roll call, an unusual position for Sentai Reds. Since the series is about The Power of Family, most of its episodes focus on the relationship between two characters instead of just one, so episodes that focus on Kai's Character Development also contribute to characterizing one of his siblings or Hikaru since they each have their own way of interacting with him and giving him support (or even getting advice from him in turn). This allows Kai to be at the center of the narrative without overshadowing the others, since his successes and growth reflect back on his family helping him bring out his potential.
• Make My Monster Grow: When they need to up the ante, Wolzard (Vancuria temporarily assumes the duty about halfway through the second arc) or Meemy chant the Black Magic spell "Douza Uru Ugaro" (or, in Meemy's case, "Douza Meru Megaro") to enlarge the beasties. The members of the Pantheon, on the other hand, invert the trope, as they're naturally giant... though they can grow and shrink at will without the use of magic.
  • Oddly enough though, there are a few early monsters who spontaneously become giant sized without the use of magic. These monsters are noted by Nai and Mare as having "special bodies" like them.
• Market-Based Title: The Korean dub refers to the show as Power Ranger Magic Force.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: The Legend Mode and MagiLegend.
• Mini Dress Of Power: Part of the Magiranger girls' suits.
• Monster of the Week: The Hades Beasts, and later on the Hades Beastmen, who have to be sent to the surface one at a time due to the seal placed on Infershia before the start of the series.
• The Movie: Magiranger the Movie: Bride of Infershia
• The Narrator: Tesshō Genda narrates the series. He mostly narrates two-parters.
• Power Limiter: It was supposed to be a spell to stop the siblings from turning to Heavenly Saints and lose all their memories, but had a certain side effect of weakening the Legendary Power Mode. Stage 47 implies that the limiter can still fail if they're emotionally compromised past a certain point, but this never happens within the series.
• Power Up Letdown: MagiLegend has the bad luck to have been introduced right when the Sorting Algorithm of Evil starts drastically escalating, meaning it ends up so subject to The Worf Effect that it only wins a measly five out of thirteen battles it's involved with. Combined with some overcomplicated gimmicks required to put together the toy and a high price that discouraged parents from getting it for their kids, it's no wonder it ended up completely passed over in favor of the more iconic MagiKing in terms of public memory and future crossovers.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Both Magiel and N Ma are the most powerful beings of their respective domains.
• Right Makes Might: Infershia operates like this. Sphinx takes over at the end of the series in the hopes of making it a better place.
• Rule of Cool: While they ostensibly increase their magic power, the real purpose of the cloaks is to be dramatically unfurled just before transforming.
• Secret Legacy: Pretty much what the siblings are thrown into in the beginning.
• Strictly Formula
  • Unbeatable monster of the week that requires a new Humongous Mecha configuration, Stage 9
  • Sixth Ranger appears, Stage 20
  • Extra strong monster necessitates new mecha, Stage 31
  • Hero who falls in tragic love, Stage 28
  • Monster of the week who doesn’t want to hurt anyone, Stages 45 and 46
  • Heroes fight while dressed as Samurai and Ninja, Stage 22
  • The "Freaky Friday" Flip, Stages 39 and 40
• Super Mode: The Legend Forms.
• Supervillain Lair: The court of Infershia.
• Theme Music Power-Up: Common throughout the series, with notable examples in Stages 7, 38, 42, 46, 48, and 49.
• Transformation Name Announcement: MagiKing, Number One!
• Transformation Trinket: The Magi Phones, Hikaru's GripPhone, and Isamu's Fire WolzaPhone.
• Two Girls to a Team: Following up from its predecessor, the main team consists of two girls as usual, Pink and Blue, making Magiranger the fourth Sentai team to have a female Blue, as well as the second team where she was not the lone girl. MagiMother joins her children towards the end of the series as well, serving as the team's third female member. Half of the Heavenly Saints were also women and all of them were in high positions of authority.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: As is the norm for Super Sentai, we generally have Infershia sending out a MOTW with an Evil Plan Once an Episode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them. In fact, the early episodes had the siblings worrying less about the ongoing Infershian war than they were trying to figure out this whole magic thing and survive any attacks near them.
• Villain Teleportation: Provided by Wolzard and Meemy's magic, and in fact the only way for the vast majority of the Infershian forces to even reach the surface.

Tropes specific to Magiranger:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Shichijuurou of the four Hell Kings can set his sword to slice through intangible concepts like the bonds between family.
• Accidental Kidnapping: Hades God Toad had no idea that the "special soul" he'd stolen from the Flower Garden of Souls was Miyuki.
• Accidental Pervert: In one episode where Houka is attempting to help Kai on a date with his love interest, Yuka Yamazaki, ends up knocking him over, and causes him to see up his crush's skirt.
  • Smoky becomes one at the end of Stage 26 when he accidentally gropes Urara. Cue Urara's Megaton Punch.
• Achilles in His Tent: Following the apparent death of their mother in Stage 2, Tsubasa and Houka abandon the fight against Infershia, pissing off Kai. They get their spirit back after hearing the message their mother left for the siblings in the Magic Room.
• Action Mom: Miyuki.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Heavenly Saints' human forms seem to be this; Blagel, Sungel, and Lunagel's human forms are mainly used for human interaction, most of the others aren't seen with them at all, and MagiShine's transformation sequence has him briefly turn back into his Heavenly Saint form before putting on the armor (with very rare exceptions done obviously for production convenience). Strangely, Magiel is only shown with a humanoid form, but she also happens to be far more giantic than any ordinary human.
• Against the Setting Sun: Inverted in Stage 6, played straight in Stage 36.
• Agony Beam: N Ma pulls this on Kai in Stage 33.
• A Lady on Each Arm: Belbireji pulls this with Nai and Mare. They're not amused.
• Alien Blood: Valkyon bleeds green, as does the Hades God Wyvern.
• All There in the Manual: Victory General Branken was once a mere High Zobil, while the Hades Beastmen were humans who'd sold their souls to N Ma.
• All Trolls Are Different: The Hades Beast Troll is of the big, rocky variety.
• Amplifier Artifact: The sword Hell Fang and the Jagun Shield, crafted from N Ma's fang and eye, respectively.
• Amusing Injuries: Nai and Mea suffer from this during the last arc of the series, as they are either stepped on by their new bosses, or swatted like flies when said bosses get angry. Since they can't die, they get better.
• And I Must Scream: Depending on how you interpret what Urara says, the people who got turned into stone by the MOTW in Stage 4 were still fully aware of everything happening around them.
  • Also Raigel, during the time he was turned into a mummy and sealed in a cave by Sungel for fifteen years. Hikaru presumably didn't have it much better as a frog, but he never particularly complains about it.
• Angelic Beauty: Both Hikaru and Rin are regarded as especially attractive in their human forms.
• Angst Coma: Kai falls into one after getting his ass thoroughly kicked by Wolzard and having the MagiKing magic stolen from his family.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: The mythological variation.
• An Aesop: The "courage equals magic" rule is typically expressed with one of these.
• Apocalypse How: Each member of the Infershia Pantheon is capable of performing their own variation of a Class 4 or 5 apocalypse. N Ma himself was on the verge of achieving a Class X-4 in the final episode, before Kai's timely intervention.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In Stage 6, the siblings don't believe Kai when he tells him that Wolzard contacted him in his dreams, despite the fact they should be well aware Wolzard can do things like that and more (although it may not be about whether it's theoretically possible as much as there not being any real known reason for Wolzard to single out Kai specifically). Meta-wise, the main reason for this is to facilitate him going against Wolzard alone.
• Arc Words: "You may also create a new legend". Hikaru says this with regard to each sibling from Stages 25 through 29, foreshadowing their obtainment of the Legend Mode.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Other than "Primordial" Heavenly Saints like Snowgel, the first generation of Heavenly Saints was made up of human magicians who attained so much magical power that they ascended, at the price of losing all memories of their earthly lives. The rings Hikaru gives the Ozu siblings were originally owned by five such magicians. The siblings end up almost reaching this point themselves, but Hikaru puts a Power Limiter on them so they can remain human and keep their memories of their family, although it's implied there's still a small risk of their powers going out of control.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The key to defeating Hades God Drake.
• Attack Reflector: Kai uses this tactic against the Monster of the Week in Stage 4, although Urara is the one who comes up with the idea.
• Automatic Crossbow: Vancuria uses a magic one twice, in Stage 9 and Stage 15.
• Avenging the Villain: While Hades God Drake was already raring to go to the surface and rampage, the death of Hades God Gorgon makes him even more so. Ironically, it is Hades God Sphinx who callously dismisses his anger on Gorgon's behalf.
• The Baby of the Bunch: At the time Magiranger aired, the idea of having a Red being a Kid Hero and the youngest of the group was completely unheard of for a Sentai series; while Sentai had been no stranger to teenage members, they would usually be treated as a Tagalong Kid, not the Red. Even previous Sibling Team series Fiveman and GoGoV had their Reds be the oldest and therefore The Leader. At 17 years old, Kai was the youngest Red in the entire franchise when Magiranger aired, a distinction he kept even years after the series ended; barring a technicality or two, it would take fifteen years for someone to truly contest Kai's title as youngest Red (Juru from Kiramager, a series that shared a producer with Magiranger and deliberately took cues from it). Even then, Kai still continues to stand out among Reds by symbolically being last in the roll call instead of first.
  • Kai's association with being a Kid Hero going through a Coming of Age Story is so strong that his Gokaiger guest appearance has him come off as one of the most drastically changed in personality among all of the returning characters, simply because it wouldn't make sense for him to still be acting like a teenager after all those years. In fact, the reason he was made The Baby of the Bunch in the first place was that a younger and more immature character was easier to get extensive Character Development out of.
• Back from the Dead: Hikaru, Isamu, Miyuki, and Sphinx. Vancuria is basically immortal and comes back every time she dies.
• Badass Boast: Miyuki delivers one in a flashback in The Movie, in order to convince Magiel to let her become a magician.
  Miyuki: I am the wife of Heavenly Saint Blagel! If it's courage you want, I have more than anyone!
• Badass Cape:
  • For the third time in Super Sentai history. When the core team uses Legend mode, however, they lose the capes. Also, MagiMother and Wolzard Fire don't wear them.
  • And on the villainous side, the Hades God Ifrit wears one.
• Badass Family: Five siblings, their teacher (and eventually in-law after marrying Urara), and retroactively their parents, all of whom get to fight together as a complete family in the finale.
• Badass Fingersnap: Typically accompanies the declaration checkmate.
• Badass Long Robe: Blagel wears a fur lined one in his human form. This gets passed down to Kai in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
• Barehanded Blade Block: Kai pulls one against Wolzard in the first episode.
• Barrier Maiden: Lunagel
• Bad Boss: The Ten Hades Gods. Mostly to Vancuria, who gets stepped on even by the nicer ones. The exception is Sphinx, which is probably a big part of the reason Vancuria revives her after she's killed by Dagon.
• Bash Brothers: Not surprising considering the heroes are siblings, but there's a villainous example in Hades Gods Drake and Slepnir, who are collectively known as The Two UltimateGods.
• Batman Gambit: Meemy pulls one off in Stage 33, provoking MagiShine to use Travelion's Destruction Fire Reverse Spray against him so he can drain that power to create the Gestalt Hades Beast Chimera.
• Battle Amongst the Flames: Kai creates this effect during the Final Battle against N Ma.
• Beam-O-War: Snowgel vs. Hades God Drake.
• Beam Spam: Hikaru tends to pull these, especially when in his Heavenly Saint form.
• Big Damn Heroes: MagiMother, MagiShine, and WolzardFire, at various points throughout the series.
• Big Fancy House: The Ozu residence, complete with hidden magic room. That said, the house isn't big because the family is particularly rich, but because it has to sustain a whole five children.
• Big "NO!": Urara lets one out when in Stage 26 when it appears that Smoky's fallen victim to his curse and died (fortunately, he turns out to be fine), and later in Stage 47 when N Ma shows her Hikaru's corpse.
• Black Spot: Well, a red skull mark on your arm, but it has the same fatal consequences.
• Blade Run: Hades God Wyvern pulls this against Hades God Drake.
• Blessed with Suck: Invoked by Nai and Mare, who turned a group of people into vampires so that they could be killed by sunlight.
• Blood from the Mouth: Hades God Wyvern following his fight against Wolzard.
• Blood Knight: Hades God Drake. Guy was itching for a fight, he even went off before it was his turn to take on MagiShine.
• Book Ends: The first scene of the family is everyone eating together, minus Kai who was late getting back. The same goes for the final scene, with the addition of Hikaru as Urara's husband and Isamu restored to the family.
• Body Horror: N Ma emergence from Titan's body begins with his tentacles bursting out of his body.
• Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Houka creates this sort of music to set the atmosphere for Kai and Yamazaki in Stage 5. Kai was not amused.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Tsubasa teaches Kai how to box in order to fight the Monster of the Week in Stage 14.
• Brainwashed Bride: In The Movie, Groom Do Bridon kidnaps Yuka Yamazaki with the intention of making her his bride, but she rejects him due to his ugly appearance. So, he decides to place a ring on Yuka that has the power to manipulate people's hearts and proceeds with a wedding ceremony. However, just as they are about to exchange vows with a kiss, MagiRed intervenes and destroys the ring.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Magiel addresses the audience directly near the end of The Movie, and near the end of the series itself.
  • In Stage 19, after Smoky first comes out of his genie lamp, he sniffs Kai. Smoky turns to the camera and says, "Not the master."
• Break His Heart to Save Him: Deconstructed and eventually averted. Stage 47 has Hikaru attempt to abruptly cut the Ozu family off because he's aware he's probably going to die the next day, with his reasoning being that they should just forget about him and move on — failing to take into account the fact that he's already bonded with the family so deeply that there's no way this would make it any better. Urara, who's particularly distressed because she's fallen in love with him, tries to point this out during her Anguished Declaration of Love, but he continues pushing her away despite the fact he's obviously fallen in love with her in turn. Miyuki ends up having to intervene and inform a guilt-ridden and miserable Hikaru that Urara probably considers "losing his love" to be much more painful of an outcome than anything else that could happen to him. Ultimately, he acknowledges that attempting to pull this is basically the same as demeaning her by assuming she can't handle it.
  Hikaru: I was afraid that I might hurt you. I thought it would be better if I wasn't attached. But I was wrong. I let my imagination run wild and frighten me. I never fully realized how strong you really are.
• Breather Episode: After the very intense psychological battle against the Hades God Cyclops, the focus of the fight against the Hades God Gorgon is on a "Freaky Friday" Flip between Kai and Houka which is mostly played for laughs.
• Brick Joke: During one Omake segment, Mandra Boy swears revenge upon Smoky. In a later Omake segment, he succeeds.
  • In Stage 5, Houka attempts to disguise herself as a post box, and when Kai sees through her, she responds "I am just an ordinary post box. She does the same thing in Stage 39, Kai sees through her disguise again, and she responds "As before, I am just an ordinary post box."
• Broke Episode: Stage 13, after Makito loses the earnings he'd gotten for the month, causing Urara to have a mental breakdown from the stress of trying to keep the family afloat.
• Broken Faceplate: A variation on this in the last episode, where Kai manifests his helmet with the faceplate empty.
• Camp Straight: Houka's love interest and Spear Counterpart Tetsuya.
• Cape Swish: The MagiRangers do this during their role call.
• Cast from Hit Points: Using magic beyond your abilities quickly drains your stamina, as seen with Kai in Stages 6 and 7, and Miyuki in Stage 46.
• Catch and Return: Tsubasa thoroughly stomped Wolzard in Kai's dream in Stage 7, starting with a Hadouken-style return.
• Cell Phones Are Useless: On two separate occasions the Magirangers find themselves in a Pocket Dimension where their MagiPhones will not work.
• Central Theme: Courage and family can overcome anything.
• Character Development: EVERY episode.
• Chekhov's Armoury: Most everything in the show gets introduced before their full importance is apparent.
• Chekhov's Boomerang: Urara's phobia of frogs is introduced in Stage 19, plays a significant part in Stage 20, and returns in Stage 43.
• Chekhov's Gun: Many examples throughout the series, with the ice-bolt in Wolzard's armor after he defeats Magi Mother being among the most important.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Rin/Lunagel is introduced at the end of Stage 15, with the full scope of her true identity and role not revealed until the next episode.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: Raigel and Sungel.
• Chekhov's Skill: In Stage 9, Kai's ability to teleport objects proves key to befriending Varikion. Later on, the Fatal Blade stance shown to him by Blagel in Stage 48 shows its worth in Stage 49.
• Chess Motif: The Magirangers turn into chess pieces while controlling MagiKing, and later MagiLegend. Notably, not even the Magirangers know why this happens, it's just magic.
• Chest Blaster: Travelion has one that can either absorb the enemy, or spew fire at them.
• Climactic Battle Resurrection: Vancuria extends her immortality to Sphinx, Sungel, and Blagel to revive them for the final battle as part of her Heel–Face Turn.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Groom Do Bridon after fusing with the Ultra Hades Beast Living Sword.
• Cold Sniper: Cyclops, one of the Hades Gods.
• Combat Tentacles: Several monsters exhibit these, most notably N Ma.
• Combat Pragmatist: On two occasions, the Monster of the Week will attempt to step on the heroes upon turning giant. Subverted when the heroes turn into their Majin forms and flip the poor monster over.
• Comically Missing the Point: In Stage 9, Kai uses his magic to finish Tsubasa's 'ship in a bottle' and then remove it from the bottle. He has no idea why Makito smacked him on Tsubasa's behalf.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Downplayed; while the term "Magirangers" shows up here and there, the word is used less often than an equivalent would be used in some other series, with the siblings mostly being referred to as "magicians" or, well, siblings. It makes sense that the family would refer to each other in terms of their familial relationships before identifying as Rangers, so the term "Magirangers" mainly comes up when the siblings are specifically bringing up their role in the war against Infershia, but even the Infershian side prefers to refer to them as "the five-colored magicians".
• Constantly Curious: Snowgel acts like one when the Magirangers first meet her, before Smoky reveals her true identity.
• Cool Horse: Wolzard has one and combines with it to form a centaur-like mecha. Kai later gets temporary access to it and can also combine with it. The movie also reveals that Blagel had a different one in Magitopia, which Kai also gets to use for a bit.
• Cool Train: Hikaru's mecha, Travelion.
• Cool Versus Awesome: Beyond the general premise of heavenly magicians vs. Infershia's legions, Stage 42 features a giant mecha centaur vs. a giant mecha chariot.
• Corner of Woe: Kai ends up in one for Stage 14's Omake.
• Crashing Dreams: Tsubasa invokes this after entering Kai's mind during his Angst Coma to get him to realize he's trapped in a dream.
• Creepy Twins: Nai and Mea; they're not technically twins as much as they are Self-Duplication, but they hit every other criteria on spot. Vancuria has no reason to use that Goth getup besides doing it for the hell of it.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Lunagel is caught in this position in Stage 18.
• Crutch Character: Miyuki is very much this. She manages to easily defeat a Monster of the Week on her own, can grow to giant size at will, is the one who gave the Five-Man Band their powers and has knowledge that would probably solve all of the series' problems in no time. Because the series is probably aware of her status of Crutch Character, she is removed from the plot by the Dark Magician Wolzard in the second episode. She does return near the end, and while she does manage to make significant contributions the Sorting Algorithm of Evil has now escalated so much that she can't automatically win everything for them.
• Cue the Sun: Inverted in Stage 11, as the rising sun proves very bad for Houka, who had been turned into a vampire without realizing it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • The Mecha fight between MagiKing and Belbireji in Stage 24 is one of the more notable examples of a heroic beatdown.
  • A more traditional villainous one takes place in Stage 6, with the MagiKing magic stolen and Kai stuck in an Angst Coma afterwards.
  • Wolzard Fire introduces himself by single-handedly destroying Wyvern in less than a minute. This was after Wyvern declared he was going to pay Wolzard back for humiliating him earlier.

• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The punishment of using Chronogel's forbidden time spell is death. Tsubasa uses it and would have almost died if it wasn't for Hikaru who also would have almost died if not for Wolzard. Hikaru also implies that using dark or forbidden magic has a risk of making you Drunk with Power, which seems to have happened with Raigel/Meemy.
• Dark Is Not Evil: In the end, Infershia isn't inherently an evil place, just one ruled by leadership that was willing to sacrifice everything to an Eldritch Abomination. After all is said and done, Sphinx takes over to be its Big Good, and Kai becomes an ambassador hoping to have Magitopia and the Surface World establish a good relationship with them.
• Dead Man Writing: When the siblings enter the Magic Room for the first time, they find that Miyuki left a message behind for her children, anticipating that she would likely be killed once Infershia began its invasion.
• Dead Person Conversation: There are certain instances when the siblings are in a fix, their mom comes to help them out. It's actually a clue that she wasn't exactly dead to begin with.
• Death by Irony: Bullrates exploited the deaths of his fellow Hell Kings to increase Zee's power, and suffers the same fate at Meemy's hands.
• Death Faked for You: In a short moment of Fighting from the Inside, Wolzard faked Miyuki's death and teleported her away to safety. Interestingnly enough, the "death" convinced his own brainwashed self too, so nobody in the plot was aware Miyuki was actually alive until Isamu is brought back to normal in Stage 34.
• Deceptive Disciple: Raigel/Meemy betrayed Blagel, Sungel, and Lunagel in a past battle. Lunagel later admits that he'd probably been intending to backstab them from the start.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Lunagel, Eriko and Snowgel.
• Depraved Bisexual: Belbireji the Incubus.
• Deus Exit Machina: Inverted in Stage 21 and The Movie, where Hikaru sends the Magirangers off on sidequests while he deals with the main threat.
• Diagonal Cut: Shichijuurou of the four Hell Kings pulls these off on skycrapers.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Seven times total. Out of N Ma and the ten Hades Gods, three are killed by their own members while one undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Branken. Meemy later shows up as a Disc Two Final Boss.
• Disguised in Drag: Hikaru and Tetsu get in on it during Magiranger vs. Dekaranger to rescue Urara and Jasmine from Babon, who apparently likes girls around their height. Hikaru's not enthusiastic about it at first, but after some encouragement from Tetsu (who is, shall we say, "experienced" in this area) he ends up getting into the role.
• Disney Death: Sets some kind of record. Hikaru, Sphinx, Magiel, Miyuki twice, Isamu three times, and the entire earth in the finale.
• Distant Finale: The final scene of Stage 49 takes place one year after the final battle.
• Divine Parentage: The Magiranger's father is a high ranking Heavenly Saint, the setting equivalent to an Arch Angel or Demigod.
• Dope Slap: Tsubasa delivers these to Kai.
• Dragon Rider: MagiPhoenix, when mounting the MagiDragon.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: In Stage 43, both Urara and Tsubasa have the same dream of when their mother rescued them when they were young, which they take as a sign that they will soon rescue her from the Hades Gods. It also turns out that Miyuki also had the same dream.
• Dual Boss: In Stage 42, Hades God Sleipnir is sent to the surface to join Drake's side in battle. This forces Blagel to reveal himself, all according to Dagon's plans.
• Dual Wielding: The Fatal Blade stance.
• Dub Name Change: All but Kai get one in the Korean dub: Jonah (Tsubasa), Miho (Urara), Lucy (Houka), Eugene (Makito), Shine (Hikaru), Marie (Miyuki) and Roscoe (Wolzard Fire/Isamu.)
• Duel to the Death: The Bond Duel between Sungel and Meemy.
• The Dutiful Son: The series plays with this concept; the siblings' devotion to their family is treated as nothing short of admirable, but sacrificing their own personal aspirations and shouldering huge burdens for the sake of the family is also treated as unhealthy. The ideal is for the family members to be able to follow their own dreams while still staying connected.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: BIG TIME. By the time of the finale, the family has had to cope with both Miyuki and Isamu being nearly killed twice each, Isamu being Reforged into a Minion and made to fight his wife and children, plus Isamu and Hikaru actually being killed at one point, along with all the grief and loneliness that came with it — but once all is said and done they're finally able to be together as an eight-person family.
• Eldritch Abomination: N Ma, whose true form is reminiscent of Cthulhu.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Nai and Mea. Even in ninja outfits.
• Elemental Armor: Makito gains a spell that lets him create a suit of rock armor.
• Elemental Barrier: Hades God Ifrit can burn and evaporate any attack directed at him. But only if he can see it coming.
• Elemental Powers
  • Playing with Fire: Kai and his father Blagel/Isamu. The former took the trope literally when he got his Legend powers by pressing his hot fired hands on Tsubasa.
  • Shock and Awe: Tsubasa. Raigel is also aligned with this element, but there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two (probably for the better, since Raigel's a Dirty Coward and a traitor).
  • Making a Splash: Urara.
  • Blow You Away: Houka, usually in the form of a pink electric fan.
  • Green Thumb/Dishing Out Dirt: Makito, which also helps with his garden.
  • The Power of the Sun: Hikaru.
  • Lunacy: Rin/Lunagel, though only thematic and not personality-wise.
  • An Ice Person: Snowgel and Miyuki (though not personality-wise in the latter's case).
• Elite Mooks: High Zobils to the Zobils, the Solitary Confinement beasts to the regular Hades Beasts, the Hades Beastmen Hellish Kings to the regular Hades Beastmen.
• Establishing Character Moment: Kai's first scene establishes both his good-hearted nature, and his reckless impulsiveness.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Both Rin and Hikaru's transformation sequences make extensive use of sparkles, and the Magi Shine suit is covered in glitter to make it, well, sparkle.
• Everyone Join the Party: In the second half of the final battle, every significant supporting character, including the recently heel face turned Sphinx and Vancuria, shows up to help out.
• Evil Can Not Comprehend Good: The Hades Gods simply do not understand the concept of bonds and courage against impossible odds. Titan and Sphinx, along with Vancuria, try to figure it out, resulting in their Heel–Face Turn.
• Evil Counterpart: Groom Do Bridon acts and fights like an evil version of Kai; the clincher is their mutual desire for Yuka Yamazaki.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Hikaru explains this to Tsubasa that no matter how well intentioned, using forbidden magic invariably leads to becoming a dark magic user. He uses Wolzard as an example, which is ironic because Wolzard turns out to not actually be an example of this trope, but he's likely thinking of what happened with Raigel.
• Evil Laugh: Nai and Mea.
• Evil Weapon: Shichijuurou's true form.
• Face–Heel Turn: Raigel during the Great Offscreen War.
• Failed a Spot Check: Stage 20 has the Ozu siblings find a frog, who saves them from an accident with a flash of light. The siblings find nothing strange about the fact that a frog is capable of emitting light, despite Houka even calling attention to it by naming it Hikaru and bringing it home (a strange choice of action on her part, since she should be well aware her sister has a phobia of frogs). Then Urara hears the frog telepathically trying to communicate with her, asking her to kiss it, but instead of wondering if something is strange about this frog even being able to do that, she leaves it behind. Then the frog follows her all the way over to the battle scene and saves her life, but despite the fact Urara had enough consideration to take pity on the frog and grant its request for a kiss, nobody seems to have considered the possibility that something was strange about the frog itself until the curse is broken and the frog reveals himself as Heavenly Saint Sungel. To the siblings' credit, Urara herself completely admits that she has no idea why she's talking to a frog and even acts as if she can sense how it's feeling ("don't look at me like that!" when the audience only sees a completely expressionless frog face), and on Hikaru's end he's clearly able to ask for the curse-breaking kiss but seems to be unable to provide details that would explain his situation better, so there may be some Perception Filter-esque shenanigans going on, possibly due to the nature of Hikaru's curse or his limited ability to communicate.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Titan suffers as graphic a one as you'll get on a children's show.
• Fantasy Pantheon: The Infershia Pantheon and the Heavenly Saints of Magitopia.
• Fighting from the Inside: Houka when she's briefly turned into a vampire, and Isamu/Blagel as Wolzard for a little over half the series.
• Figure It Out Yourself: In stage 41, Snowgel tells Hikaru/Sungel that he must learn an important lesson from Kai, and refuses to tell either of them what that lesson is on the grounds that Hikaru has to, well...
• Final Speech: Meemy delivers an ominous one regarding the imminent awakening of the Infershia Pantheon.
• Finishing Move: The Magirangers do not gain a set finishing move until they gain their Legend Modes.
• Fish out of Water: As a Heavenly Saint, Hikaru is a downplayed case of this; he's not completely incapable of getting around in human society, but he doesn't tend to hang around with humans besides the Ozu family, so he's still not entirely used to how the human world works and tends to be more curious than usual about what he sees there. Stage 26 has him staring at conveyor belt sushi like a kid in a candy shop, and then when the food turns to dust, he briefly asks if that's supposed to happen. He also shows shades of a particularly curious attitude when Houka takes him to a train museum in Kyoto and Urara takes him on an outing to the zoo.
• Fleeting Demographic Rule: The last Super Sentai to to have a Badass Family team was Rescue Sentai GoGoFive in 1999, six years earlier.
• Flaming Sword: While both Kai and Blagel make use of this, the most notable example is with FireKaiser, who's weapon is actually set on fire.
• Flashback: Mostly used to showcase Miyuki or Blagel before the start of the show.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Magitopia, seen directly in The Movie.
• Flung Clothing: On occasion the Magirangers will put on their cloaks, simply to toss them away dramatically before transforming.
• Flying Broomstick: Each sibling has their own dedicated one; they can transform into cool hoverbikes called Sky Hokies.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The two oldest siblings, Houka and Makito. Younger siblings Kai and Tsubasa seem like this at first, but later episodes imply that Tsubasa isn't as mature as he would like to be seen.
• Food Porn: The sushi served in Stage 26 looks absolutely delicious.
• Forced Transformation: After battling the traitorous Raigel, Hikaru is turned into a frog, only to turn back into a human after Urara kisses him 15 years later.
  • In addition, Meemy, upon revival, turns Nai and Mea into centipedes to show them who's boss.
• Foreshadowing:
  • You can figure out Wolzard is actually the siblings' father early if you pay attention:
    • Pay close attention to MagiMother's fight with Wolzard in Stage 2; she suddenly gets very emotionally shaken and asks why he'd use dark magic for Infershia. Wolzard then defeats her, sending her off in PG Explosives, and he momentarily glances at a magical arrow she'd managed to hit him with. Miyuki had recognized him as her husband, and her arrow had managed to break his brainwashing for a moment, which he'd used to quickly teleport her away at the last minute before anyone (including his own brainwashed self!) could notice. If you look closely, you can actually see the moment Miyuki Disappears into Light before it's directly pointed out later in Stage 35. Without knowledge of future events or the lore behind magic, a first-time viewer is likely to mistake Miyuki's statement as Incorruptible Pure Pureness trying to reach out to a fallen magician with potential, or the Disappears into Light as simply stylistic tokusatsu effects.
    • Kai is the one with the most personal vendetta against Wolzard and seems to have some kind of connection to him, to the point of Wolzard's own horse Barikion temporarily allowing him to ride him. Wolzard, for his part, seems to be most particularly interested in Kai's growth out of all the siblings. But that's just Law of Chromatic Superiority at play, right? Remember how everyone keeps pointing out that Kai is the one most like his father? Notice how members of Kai's family tend to be the most concerned about him out of his other siblings due to him being The Baby of the Bunch? Funny how Kai also bonds with his father's horse in the movie, a horse that suspiciously resembles a Palette Swap of Barikion down to mechanics...
    • If you're perceptive enough, you might be able to catch that Blagel/Isamu is played by Wolzard's voice actor Tsutomu Isobe in all of his flashbacks (Blagel/Isamu is uncredited until Stage 34, presumably to prevent people from catching onto the Significant Double Casting too easily).
    • Most glaringly, Wolzard keeps displaying incomprehensible behavior of helping the Magirangers, which characters from both the Magiranger and Infershian side catch onto and are perplexed by; he'll suddenly let them off the hook instead of killing them by using some narrowly specific justification of Honor Before Reason, and he seems to have an obsession with making them into Worthy Opponents to the point his "taunts" sound like actual advice at times. It's because he's Fighting from the Inside and wants to help his children, so he was unconsciously trying to come up with excuses to not hurt them and give them advice as a Stealth Mentor.
  • A blink-and-you'll-miss-it Freeze-Frame Bonus in Stage 15: Urara is the one to catch the bouquet at Houka's wedding. Guess who's the one who gets married next?
  • There are smaller examples in individual episodes, especially when it comes to Urara's Fortune Teller abilities; for instance, Stage 14 has Urara see the shadow of a woman while trying to find the Key to the Gate of Infershia, two episodes before they meet "Rin". Stage 19 has Urara find an ill omen of disaster ahead that has a shining presence "like the sun" to offset it, and sure enough, while the siblings are tricked into unsealing Meemy, they also get Smoky and Hikaru after it (the latter of whom had been briefly seen as MagiShine at the beginning of Stage 19, but is properly revealed to be the true identity of the "frog" in the cave one episode later).
• Four Is Death: The Four Hell Kings, most powerful of the Hades Beastmen.
• Fourth-Date Marriage: Urara and Hikaru had been building up quite a bunch of Ship Tease since Stage 19, and they'd apparently gotten close enough to each other both on and offscreen to the point the entire family was shipping them, but they still hadn't openly acknowledged their feelings for each other until Urara breaks out a Love Confession in Stage 47 and (after some consideration) Hikaru responds with his own that also doubles as a marriage proposal. The family is so excited that Isamu conjures up a marriage ceremony on the very spot. It's implied part of the reason for the rush is that everyone knows Hikaru is likely to die very soon, and given that the very next day has Hikaru be killed as predicted and N Ma causing The End of the World as We Know It, they weren't exactly wrong — but thanks to Nai and Mea resurrecting him and the Magirangers defeating N Ma, Urara and Hikaru move to Magitopia together and remain Happily Married by the time of the epilogue a year later. Or even around sixteen years later, if crossover material is to be believed.
• Fragile Speedster: Hades God Wyvern. Said to be the fastest by their leader, Dagon, but proves to be really bad at taking hits. Wolzard demonstrates this twice, the second time leading to Wyvern's death.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Kai and Houka. Hilarity Ensues when Kai finds out that Houka had 15 dates that day. His solution? Breaking up with them all at once!
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: A mild example in Stage 14; Kai has to choose between going on his date with Yamazaki, or finishing his Training from Hell under Tsubasa to face the Monster of the Week.
• From My Own Personal Garden: A heroic example played for mild laughs, Makito's "big brother salad" is made with vegetables he grows himself. On a somewhat less comedic note, Stage 13 implies that this is the only real source of income for the five-sibling Ozu family, and Makito losing the month's earnings sends them into a Broke Episode.
• Functional Magic: A combination of inherent gift (only Heavenly Saints, those descended from Heavenly Saints, or those chosen by Heavenly Saints can wield magic), rule magic (good magicians must have courage, evil magicians must swear themselves to N Ma), and device magic (most magicians use phones or other tools to assist in their spell casting).
• Funny Background Event: During Stage 13, as Makito and Urara argue about money woes in the foreground, Tsubasa chases Kai with a broom in the background while Kai uses Mandra Boy as a shield.
• Gag Sub: The Movie, re-imagined as Steedergon Fury IGNITES!!
• Gatling Good: The Exploding Turret Gun of Destruction, featured in Stage 16.
• Generation Xerox: All of the siblings are noted to take traits from their parents and often accidentally do things very similar to what they would do, but particular attention is paid to Kai and Urara, who resemble their father and mother respectively to extreme degrees and actively use them as role models to imitate:
  • Kai shares a flame element with Blagel and is most proud of his father's legacy; certain key points in the story even have him accidentally unleashing some of Blagel's famous techniques. It's also implied some of his more impulsive tendencies are undeveloped or immature versions of his father's more noble philosophies.
  • Urara is the Team Mom who willingly takes on a mother figure role to the other siblings after the loss of their mother, and she exhibits the same Silk Hiding Steel behavior her mother was known for. She also deliberately applies some of her mother's parenting techniques, such as using an apple pie to get people to stop fighting. The later episodes of the series have her romancing her father's disciple Hikaru for what's implied to be the same reasons as her own parents; Miyuki notices the similarity and uses her perspective to convince Hikaru to not give up on his love for Urara.
• Genie in a Bottle: Smoky, a cat-djinn in a lamp.
• Genius Loci: The Heavenly Saint Chronogel transfered his being into a mountain.
• Giant Mook: The Hades Beast Troll, which is larger than the average monster of the week, but smaller than a giant monster.
• Girl's Night Out Episode: Stage 8, complete with the girls having to rescue the boys.
• Golem: The Hades Machine Beast Golem, which required a soul over 300 years old to fuel, much to Bururatesu's horror.
  • MagiShine's Travelion can also be considered one.
• Gossipy Hens: Early episodes feature them discussing rumors concerning the latest monster attacks.
• Gratuitous English: Hikaru's MagiTickets have English text on them.
  • In Stage 28, when Nai and Mea start singing, Meemy lets out a very shrill "Shut up!"
• Great Offscreen War: The much spoken of war between Magitopia and Infershia in the past; we the viewers only get to see bits and pieces of the last battle.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In stage 25, Kai throws the Monster of the Week at Meemy, while unmorphed and with his courage stolen from him.
• Griping About Gremlins: The first Hades Beastman to be pitted against the Magirangers is Garim the Gremlin.
• Handsome Lech: Hikaru is initially introduced in a way that suggests this in his first two episodes, but this never shows up again afterwards as his Hidden Depths become more apparent. It's also later revealed by the time of Stage 47 that he'd been in love with Urara for a long time, implying that his initial teasing of her may have been a little more than just a joke.
  • On the Infershian side, Belbireji loves to flirt with girls; it's implied Vancuria had something going on with him in the past (which she doesn't want to talk about).
• Harping on About Harpies: Peewee Harpy.
• Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Titan.
• Healing Potion: Tsubasa brews these on occasion.
• Heartbroken Badass:
  • Tsubasa, when Rei was turned into voice medicine.
  • Snowgel also counts, less in a romantic sense and more from having lost her True Companions. Fortunately, she at least gets Miyuki and Blagel back by the end.
  • Hikaru and Urara get dangerously close to this by the end, with Hikaru trying to deny his own feelings for Urara for fear of getting her attached to someone about to die soon, while Urara is fully aware of what might happen but considers it preferable to never getting to be with him at all. Both of them spend a good portion of Stage 47 completely miserable about it until Miyuki intervenes and reveals that this exact situation almost happened with her and Blagel in the past, convincing Hikaru to act on his feelings and accept Urara's love. Hikaru does end up dying in battle shortly after, and Urara is as upset as you might expect at the sight of his corpse, but she manages to keep it together until Nai and Mea unexpectedly revive him anyway.
• Heaven Versus Hell: Magitopia is portrayed with "heaven" imagery, with the Heavenly Saints being angelic beings, while Infershia is treated like "hell" with it being treated as a dog-eat-dog underworld trying to invade the human world. It's not technically this as far as the siblings themselves are concerned, since Infershia is invading the Surface World and not Magitopia, but the human members of the main cast have Heavenly Saints as their patrons to use magic while the prominent Heavenly Saints are breaking policy to be Neutral No Longer and help them. Eventually, N Ma ends up becoming a threat to all three worlds, forcing all of them to band together to defeat him, and in the end Sphinx and Vancuria start reforming Infershia to be a better place while Kai serves as an ambassador to assist in the process.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sphinx, Titan and Vancuria.
• Hell Gate: The Hades Gate.
• Heroic BSoD: Tsubasa, of all people, has one in Stage 38, after Cyclops pops caps on three of his siblings, leaving only him and Kai left to try to escape him. At one point, he gives up on running away because he couldn't uphold the promise he had made to Makito to stand in for them when he was out. He only gets back on his feet and devises a plan to beat Cyclops when Kai pulls a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man on him.
  • However, this pales in comparison to the Mass BSOD that all five siblings have when Hades God Toad seemingly murders their comatose Mother in front of them because he doesn't want them to have her It's enough to completely break their MagiLegend fusion.
  • Kai also gets very close to it during their Darkest Hour when N Ma has eaten time itself and flung them into a Bad Future, but he's pulled out of it by his siblings reminding him about all the support he has and everything he'd learned over the course of the series.
• Heroic Resolve: The source of power that drives the magic used by the Magirangers.
• Hidden Depths: A recurring theme with each individual character is that the first impressions they give off don't reflect how they are when it comes to other people; even at their worst, all of the main characters do everything for the sake of their loved ones.
• Hidden Elf Village: Humans are not allowed to set foot in Magitopia, and Heavenly Saints are not allowed to interfere in Surface World matters beyond being patrons for human magicians (the idea being that human magicians can use magic to protect their own world themselves). Or at least, those were supposed to be the rules, but then Blagel decided to be Neutral No Longer for the sake of protecting his wife and children, Miyuki went up to Magitopia to support his decision, and Blagel's disciples followed him into the war. Then, later, the Ozu siblings go up to Magitopia to request that Kai be able to use Unigolon to rescue Yamazaki, while Sungel (Hikaru) definitely continues breaking neutrality to fight directly alongside the siblings and teach them magic via instruction. Magiel is not particularly happy about all of this rule-breaking going on, but she's at least enough of a Reasonable Authority Figure to be sympathetic to their cases.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: Vancuria and Sphinx.
• Honest Axe: In the MagiRed vs. MagiShine Special. Kai, of course, completely fails.
• Hope Spot: At the end of Stage 46, it appears that everyone's efforts to get Titan to the Lake of Slumber so that N Ma can't be reborn will succeed. Then Dagon shows up and stabs Titan through the gut, bringing about N Ma's rebirth.
  • And then in Stage 48, Kai leads his siblings to defeat Hades God Sleipnir by following his father's example. Cue N Ma arriving and casually tossing down Blagel's and Hikaru's corpses.
• Hope Sprouts Eternal: During the final episode, a single flower is all that remains in N Ma's desolate Bad Future, which is one of the factors that convinces Kai to snap out of a Heroic BSoD.
• Hostage for MacGuffin: Urara is taken hostage in Stage 22, with Hikaru's Travelion MagiTicket as the MacGuffin.
• Hot-Blooded: Kai, probably owing to his element.
  • And Makito, especially when his siblings are concerned. Hikaru's evaluation of him in Stage 22 is "surprisingly spirited".
• Housewife: This is Miyuki's main specialty; in her mind, being a magician is mainly a rather helpful skill to protect her family.
• Human Shield: Vancuria uses Houka as one after turning her into a vampire. Fortunately, Houka manages to signal to Tsubasa that she's Fighting from the Inside, allowing Tsubasa to confidently shoot at Vancuria while Houka successfully ducks out of the way.
• Humiliation Conga: Kai suffers from this during Stage 25 after his courage is stolen.
• Hybrid Monster: The Gestalt Hades Beastman Chimera, created from the souls of all 1000 Hades Beastmen than Blagel had sealed away.
• Hypno Trinket: The Puppet Ring which facilitated the above trope, fueled by countless human souls.
• Identity Amnesia: "Rin", who's actually Lunagel, having lost her memory after sealing the Gate. She recovers her memory with help from one of Tsubasa's potions.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is called "Stage", with a magic spell following the title.
• Idol Singer: Rei, Before she was killed by Neries.
• If It Swims, It Flies: Averted by MagiMermaid; it doesn't fly, and it can freely switch between legs and a tail.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Groom Do Bridon to Yamazaki
• I Know Madden Kombat: The Majin Shoot is pulled off that effectively mainly due to Kai being a soccer player.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: It's a series about magic powered by courage and The Power of Family, so this trope naturally happens a few times:
  • In Stage 12, Houka's vampire condition progresses far enough to make her effectively a complete slave to Vancuria, but Tsubasa keeps trying to reach out to Houka even when she's beating him up. This initially doesn't seem to work, and when Vancuria uses Houka as a Human Shield, Tsubasa is given a Sadistic Choice between being killed by a brainwashed Houka or killing Vancuria and taking Houka down with her... until Houka quietly flashes her trademark V-Sign, something Tsubasa knows Houka wouldn't do if Vancuria were still controlling her. Tsubasa shoots, and as he'd expected, Houka jumps aside at the last second; Tsubasa's appeal to her had worked, and Houka was pretending to still be under Vancuria's mind control to give Tsubasa an opening.
  • Stage 27 has all of the siblings besides Makito lose interest in each other due to Shichijuurou cutting through their familial bonds. Makito tries to appeal to them all by bringing them on an outing and showing them all of their old family photos as proof of what they used to have. While it initially seems to bring results, it doesn't work completely until Shichijuurou hijacks Makito's body and starts destroying everything he'd brought, including said photos; the sight of this is so painful that the siblings run over to the Shichijuurou-possessed Makito and start demanding their brother back.
  • A particularly heartbreaking one occurs in Stage 34, when Isamu/Blagel is brainwashed into being Wolzard again. Makito, Houka, Urara, and Tsubasa can't bring themselves to fight their father, but Kai, who hates Wolzard so much he refuses to acknowledge him as his father, starts off trying to engage him in one-one-combat. As the evidence of Blagel having been Fighting from the Inside becomes too strong to deny, Kai's "fight" with Wolzard slowly turns into Kai grabbing him and crawling on the floor over to him, reduced to a sobbing wreck and begging his father to come back because unlike his siblings, he was too young to remember anything about his father and is now stuck with only the memories of fighting him as Wolzard. The sight of it is so miserable that it's hard for his siblings to even watch, but it gets through to Blagel enough for him to break the Reincarnation Curse once and for all.
• Impossible Thief: Gaston the Thief.
• Improbable Weapon User: Hikaru with his MagiLamp Buster.
• Indy Ploy: Hikaru learns an aesop about using these in Stages 40-41, on the grounds that sometimes it's better to just go for it and watch for opportunities to come out of it instead of being too overly cautious.
• Ineffectual Loner: Lunagel; it didn't help that Wolzard had spent the past four episodes powering up before the fight.
  • Also, Shichijuurou of the four Hell Kings turns Kai, Tsubasa, Houka, and Urara into this by severing their familial bonds. They have enough sense of duty to do the bare minimum to fight together in combat, but they lose any interest in each other as people and attempt to move out of the house (Kai ends up unable to do so, since he's still in high school). Makito convinces them to snap out of it by sheer force of will.
• In Medias Res: The start of The Movie.
• Inspiration Nod: To serve as a contrast to the previous series being heavy on sci-fi, Magiranger was made with Western fantasy in mind, with works such as Harry Potter (which was reaching its first major boom at the time), The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, and various classic fairy tales (especially ones popularized by The Brothers Grimm) directly cited as inspirations for the series. Naturally, the series likes to drop references to its influences from time to time:
  • In Stage 2, when Houka and Tsubasa enter the secret room in their house, they exit from a fireplace. The reference is topped off with a blinking portrait in the room, and the siblings later learn how to summon their broomsticks telepathically.
  • Stage 12 has a mind-controlled Houka try to give her siblings poisoned apples.
  • In Stage 19, Smoky, upon being released by the Magirangers, introduces himself with a big, bombastic song and dance number.
  • Stage 20 is a Whole-Plot Reference to The Frog Prince.
  • The end of Stage 33 is a giant reference to Star Wars, mixing pivotal scenes from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, particularly The Hero finding out the hard way that the father he'd always respected but never gotten to meet is actually the villain he'd been up against this whole time.
  • The Ozu family's names and residence address are a play on The Wizard of Oz.
  • N Ma being a giant red eye recalls the Eye of Sauron. The rings Hikaru gives the siblings also evoke the Rings of Power (although they thankfully have a more benevolent purpose here).
• Instant Expert: Upon first receiving their powers from their mother, the Magirangers figure out how to operate them fairly quickly. That said, this only applies as far as basic things go, because Miyuki's death leaves them stuck with self-study and a minimal amount of guidance from Mandra Boy for a while; by the time Hikaru shows up in Stage 20, one of the first things he does is call out how obviously their lack of training shows. (In fact, some of the earlier Monster of the Week problems in the early episodes, most particularly Houka's vampirism, could have potentially been solved more quickly if an experienced magician like Miyuki, Lunagel, or Hikaru had been present at that point in the series.)
• Instant Runes: Averted in Stage 20, when the Monster of the Week has to draw key runes at several key points in the city, otherwise played straight.
• Insubstantial Ingredients: One of Tsubasa's potion ingredients requires, among other things, the honey of a queen bee that gathers no honey.
• Interspecies Romance: The siblings' father, Isamu, is a Heavenly Saint, and their mother is just a human magician.
  • Same deal with Hikaru and Urara, who get married towards the series' end.
• Invisibility: It requires the MagiHat, and you can still be seen in mirrors.
• Ironic Echo: Wolzard repeating Blagel's words after Makito invokes them in an Rousing Speech.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Garim the Hades Beastman Gremlin pulls this to sneak in an attack on the MagiRangers
  • Meemy later tries this against Sungel and Lunagel, but they were much too Genre Savvy for it to work.
• It Only Works Once: Many spells are dropped after their debut, but notably, Makito's Rock Armor is defeated the very first time it's used, and is never spoken of again.
  • Averted just as often, both with staple spells and the more specialized ones.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: In backstory, Blagel/Isamu initially was hesitant to acknowledge Miyuki's feelings for him because he was afraid of how his life as a Heavenly Saint Warrior would impact her. Miyuki assured him that the only thing that scared her was the idea of losing his love. She uses this story to convince Hikaru to change his mind when he tries to push Urara away for similar reasons.
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: When Sungel confronts Raigel after his betrayal.
• I Will Only Slow Youdown: Kai says this to his siblings in Stage 38 after he has been shot in the leg by Hades God Cyclops.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tsubasa, whose cold exterior is really just a front for him being intensely compassionate.
• Journey to the Center of the Mind: Tsubasa performs one to save Kai from his Angst Coma in Stage 7.
• Kawaiiko: Houka, as well as Nai and Mea.
• Kick the Dog: Hades God Wyvern normally dotes on Nai and Mea like treasured pets, but when he gets mad, they are the first to suffer his wrath.
• King Mook: Hades Beast Stone Troll, which is a regular troll infused with Magi King magic.
• Large and in Charge: Heavenly Saint Magiel, who puts the Big in Big Good... but is herself dwarfed by the Infershia Gods.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: A one-time case: Houka, when she stumbled upon the MacGuffin and the bad guys found this to be the best way to prevent her from telling. She keeps all her memories up until the part where she learned about the existence of magic and became a Magiranger, and on top of that, she even re-loses any new memories at the end of each hour.
• Leitmotif: Peace in Heaven, Miyuki's theme and "The Prologue of Magitopia", according to Mandra Boy
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Tsubasa decides the only way to counter a boxing monster is with boxing. Everyone agrees.
  • Tsubasa also pulls this against the Hades God Cyclops, with epic results.
• Line-of-Sight Name: Kai dubs the amnesiac Lunagel Rin, after the bell she wore on her bracelet.
• Locked Out of the Fight: Lunagel traps the Magirangers in a Pocket Dimension so that she can fight Wolzard on her own. It works about as well as you'd expect.
• Lovable Coward: Kai becomes one when Gaston the Thief steals his courage.
• Love Confession: Kai confesses his love to Yuka in a surprisingly straightforward manner in Stage 5, only to be turned down in favor of MagiRed. Urara and Hikaru confess their feelings to each other in Stage 47 and marry shortly thereafter.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Hilariously done with Kai and Yamazaki. Subverted starting with the movie halfway through the series, in which she figures it all out, but never outright tells him that she knows.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Wolzard.
• Magic A Is Magic A: This show does a fantastic job of making sure each and every magic spell is consistent in design, intent, and casting, even near the end of the series when the heroes are getting so powerful that they start crossing spell tiers. The show doesn't tend to go over this in detail though; if you want to see how coherent the spell system is, you're going to have to do some research.
  • To give a quick summary, the ten buttons on the Magiphone each have a specific function, and spells are made by combining them, and the series sticks with this. For example, with the transformation call Maaji Maji Majiro, the words mean (in order) "self", "magic boost", "change".
• Magic and Powers: Each of the Ozu siblings have their own unique magic abilities that they can use even in their civilian forms:
  • Alchemy Is Magic: Kai
  • Magic Potion: Tsubasa
  • Fortune Teller: Urara
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Houka
  • Green Thumb: Makito
• Magical Incantation: Each spell in the series is constructed from these. The Magirangers have one set of words, the Heavenly Saints another, and Meemy and Wolzard each have their own with some crossover.
• Magic Knight: Basically what all the Rangers here are.
• Magic Mirror: Two examples, one being a device to alert the Magirangers to Infershia's attacks, and the other created by Kai on the spot to reflect a MOTW's attack back at it.
• Magic Music: The Hades Beast Manticore creates music with its body to compel its victims to dance until they are exhausted, and then into its mouth.
  • Nai and Mare also do this to lull their victims into a daze, allowing them to convert them into vampires.
• Magic Wand: In the shape of cellphones.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: At the low end of this trope, there are five Ozu siblings.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Blagel was Hikaru's mentor, and he in turn becomes the mentor for the Magirangers. Part of Hikaru's character arc involves his insecurity about whether he's as good of a teacher as Blagel was.
• Master of Illusion: Belbireji the Incubus specializes in this, while Hades God Gorgon dabbles in it.
• Mayfly–December Romance: A romance between a Heavenly Saint and a human, such as that between Blagel and Miyuki, is inherently this due to Heavenly Saints living for hundreds of years (if not being outright immortal). However, the usual lifespan disparity angst associated with the trope is inverted, since Blagel's dangerous life as a Heavenly Saint warrior meant he was just as likely to die before Miyuki; this, plus the fact Miyuki was likely to get pulled into the danger, led Blagel to initially try to push Miyuki away. Indeed, even after they do get married, Blagel pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to protect his human family. He turns out to be alive later, but it rears its ugly head again when Hikaru has to contend with the idea of accepting Urara's feelings when he's destined to die the very next day. The ultimate conclusion Miyuki (and by proxy Urara) makes is that it's more worth it to accept each other's feelings and have the strength to overcome things than it is to have never loved at all.
• Meaningful Name: Quite a lot, in fact. They can also double as Theme Naming.
  • The whole Ozu family, for one thing.
    • "Kai" means "taking the charge", and it's written with the Japanese character for "fire".
    • Tsubasa means "wings"; his Majin form is the Garuda, a mythological bird.
    • Urara's name means "bright" and also a pun on "uranai"; "fortune-telling," which happens to be her talent.
    • Houka, The Heart of the group, means "fragrance.".
    • Makito, an earth magic user as well as a farmer, means "sower." "Maki" refers to "firewood," linking him to his element.
    • Finally, take the first syllable of each sibling's name in order of birth^note Makito, Houka, Urara, Tsubasa, Kai and you get "Mahoutsukai"^note Magician.
    • And their mother? Miyuki^note Snow.
    • They are all technically "Ozu no Mahotsukai"; "Wizard(s) of Oz."
    • Even Kai's love interest Yuka Yamazaki gets in on it; her name roughly means "gentle flower on the mountain top", which is how Kai describes her when she first appears.
  • And of course, the Heavenly Saints.
    • Magiel, the arch-saint of all magic
    • Sungel and Hikaru both have something to do with light.
    • Lunagel is obviously the Heavenly Saint of the Moon.
    • Raigel, the Heavenly Saint of Lightning^note rai is an alternate reading of the kanji ikazuchi, which means "thunder".
    • Snowgel, the Heavenly Saint of Ice.
    • Chronogel, the Heavenly Saint of Time.
    • Isamu's Saint name is Blagel, the Blazing Fire Heavenly Saint. Furthermore, Isamu means "Bravery", and he's universally acknowledged as the bravest of the Heavenly Saints.
  • Hell, even the villain of The Movie gets in on this. His desire is to marry Yamazaki, and his name is Groom Do Bridon.
• Meaningful Rename: The Heavenly Saint Raigel renames himself as the Dark Priest Memmy upon being revived by N Ma.
• Metaphorical Marriage: Putting any potential logistics questions of marrying a Heavenly Saint aside, Hikaru and Urara's "marriage" is just a small at-home ceremony officiated by Smoky done the day before Hikaru potentially goes off to die. Of course, the family considers them to be married for all intents and purposes, and by the time of the epilogue a year later they're Happily Married enough for Urara to even move out to go live with Hikaru in Magitopia.
• Merlin and Nimue: Hikaru and the Ozu siblings, with Urara fitting the most as she starts developing an outright romance with him.
• Meteor Move: Hikaru's Prominence Drop.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Those under Vancuria's control gain vertical slits in their eyes.
• Mind Rape: The Hades God Cyclops pulls the mundane version on Tsubasa, N Ma the supernatural variety on MagiShine.
• Moment Killer: Hikaru and Urara get possibly one of the most drastic ones ever when their marriage kiss is interrupted by a severely injured Lunagel coming in to tell them that N Ma has destroyed Magitopia.
• Monster Mash: The leaders of Infershia follow this general motif.
• Mood Whiplash: The whiplash isn't always to the same degree as its predecessor, but the shift between tones as things go From Bad to Worse can get drastic (with one of the biggest ones being the aforementioned infamous Moment Killer).
• Mook Carryover: Vancuria/Nai and Mea last through all three arcs, although the fact they're immortal and literally can't die is probably goes a long way in explaining why they're kept around in Infershia. In fact, if they didn't, they likely would have never had their Heel–Face Turn.
• Motif: Magic, as well as circus acts, legends, prophecies, and heaven vs. hell. Parallels between family issues and the war with Infershia are also frequent.
• Mundane Utility: There's no particular rule against this as long as they don't break The Masquerade. Even in the first episode, Miyuki uses magic to kill a troll, then uses it to pour tea and make a cake.
  • The MagiPhones also function as completely normal phones, and at one point Houka uses her MagiPhone to schedule dates for herself.
• Musical Assassin: The Monster Siren Neries uses her voice to kill, though she has to use the spirit of a deceased pop singer for whom Tsubasa falls in love with to do the job for her.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Makito does not approve of Houka rushing into marriage, and doesn't care what her excuses may be; that said, it's done mostly out of reasonable concerns about her going into a Fourth-Date Marriage with a near complete stranger without thinking it through. After she convinces him she'll be happy, he's willing to support her, but it ends up moot as it doesn't pan out anyway.
  • In Stage 22, Urara sees what looks like Hikaru kissing Houka in Kyoto (in actuality, he was just reading her memories), and while her brothers point out that Houka's track record as The Charmer means it's possible she's the one trying to seduce Hikaru, Urara is insistent that Hikaru is the perpetrator and drags her brothers with her to Kyoto to do something about this. Later events retroactively imply that this incident was probably Urara exhibiting early Clingy Jealous Girl tendencies over Hikaru, and once the relationship between both of them starts escalating, the entire family, including Makito and Houka, is full-on Everyone Can See It.
• Mythology Gag
  • Sungel/Hikaru is a special Ranger who wears dark blue (mainly as accents on gold, but nevertheless) and happens to form a romantic relationship with Urara, the female Blue Ranger. In Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, Isshuu was a special ranger who wore dark blue and happened to love Nanami, who was the female Blue Ranger.
  • Also, the ninja Monster of the Week is described in a flashback as "Unknown to the people, unknown to the world..."
  • And then there's the way MagiKing gets assembled, with MagiTaurus serving as the core that gets armored up by the other mechs, not unlike DaiRenOh. Plus, the four non-red mechs combine into MagiDragon which can be used as a mount by MagiPhoenix, similar to how Ryou's RyuSeiOh rides the Heavenly Chi Palace.
  • In the movie, the siblings perform the Five Fantastic Fire technique, in which they leap into the air and transform into a giant fire bird. The Jetman team uses a very similar attack in the penultimate episode of their series.
  • The SaintKaiser resembles a non-evil version of the first form of Dora Talos. Highly appropriate, considering that Big Good Magiel is played by the same actress as Zyuranger's primary Big Bad. This particular nod even carries over to the Power Rangers adaptation.
  • Hikaru and Memmy engaging in a Chained Heat duel to the death is similar to the duel between Gaku and Chevalier in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Beast Emperor/Absolute God N Ma.
  • Also, the Infershia Pantheon, which serves N Ma directly.
• Narm: In-universe example; in flashback it is revealed that Kai was mauled by a bear that had escaped from the zoo while Tsubasa was out hanging with his friends, and when he finds out, his first response is to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Makito did not think this was funny. At all.
• Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: In one episode the Monster of the Week is a ninja and the Zobiru working under him are ninja-themed as well.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Justified, as the Magirangers earn their spells through their courage from the Heavenly Saints who watch over them.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Kai performs one while in Houka's body. Note that Houka herself never does this.
• Non-Action Guy: Mandra Boy.
• Nonstandard Character Design: A couple of the monsters differ from the usual Super Sentai mold:
  • Worm Hell Beast, an elaborate puppet instead of a person in a suit.
  • Troll Hell Beast, who is a person in a suit, but is about 30-40 feet tall, instead of either human-sized or 30 stories tall.
• No Body Left Behind: Miyuki, though that's because she didn't actually die, the victims of the Red Skull Curse in stage 15.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Groom Do Bridon does this against MagiShine, twice.
  • MagiShine later pulls this off against the Hades God Ifrit, with help from Urara.
  • And in the finale, the Hades God Sphinx does this against Hades God Dagon.
• No Ontological Inertia: Averted in Stages 25 and 27, where a separate spell is needed to undo the damage wrought by the Monster of the Week.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Nai and Mare attempt to use their Zettai Ryouiki against Kai and Makito. They respond by invoking their love interests.
• Not Quite Dead: Mostly applies to Miyuki and later Raigel, but Blagel/Isamu ends up in this position when he ends up having N Ma extracted from him and is near the brink of death.
  • Also, Vancuria at the end of Stage 12 (refer to Back from the Dead earlier).
• Not What It Looks Like: While trying to find the temple in Houka's memory, Urara mistakes Hikaru for kissing Houka, practically zooming to Kyoto and almost drop kicking Hikaru for it. Thankfully, she calms down the moment she realizes what Houka was actually there for.
• Obviously Evil: Subverted, as Blagel's Heavenly Saint form is reminiscent of most popular depictions of Satan, while Raigel looks very similar to the obviously holy Sungel.
• Ocular Gushers: Urara has these shortly after obtaining her Legend Mode powers.
• Official Couple: Isamu and Miyuki, naturally. Hikaru and Urara get married at the near finale.
• Oh, Crap!: Right from the first episode, when Wolzard transforms into WolKentauros while our heroes have yet to gain their giant forms.
• Omake: During which Mandra Boy (usually) talks about whatever new spell was introduced in the episode, and frequently suffers some manner of comic hijinks.
  • Same goes for Nai and Mare, if the spell is used by the enemies.
• Ominous Opera Cape: Both Meemy and Groom Do Bridon wear this variety of cape.
• Once More, with Clarity: Stage 35, which partially functions as a Clip Show, goes back through all of the earlier scenes relevant to Miyuki's appearances in the series to directly point out all of the Foreshadowing that she's actually alive.
• One-Hit Kill: Hades God Sphinx likes to pull these off with her BFG.
• One-Winged Angel: A rare heroic example, with the core Magirangers ability to transform into the Majins, while Sungel and Blagel have their Heavenly Saint forms.
• Orcus on His Throne: N Ma spends most of the series sealed away. Once the seal is finally broken, he wastes no time in laying waste to the heavens and earth.
• Orphan's Ordeal: The siblings' mother dies in the first episode, while their father was considered dead fifteen years prior. This causes Makito and Urara to experience dual Promotion to Parent. Their father turned out to be the Brainwashed and Crazy Dragon, while their mother is actually Not Quite Dead.
• Our Angels Are Different: They're not called angels, and they don't have wings, but otherwise, the Heavenly Saints have some imagery related to classic Biblical angels (with some Elemental Powers and Classical Mythology thrown in).
• Our Gargoyles Rock: The Demon Gate Guard Gargoyle.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: One of the featured guest characters, Rei, is trapped in the world of the living by a powerful monster. Miyuki also appears a few times to help the children in need, but in this case, it's because she's not actually dead and is astral projecting herself from the Garden of Souls.
• Our Ghouls Are Creepier: The Solitary Confinement Beast Ghoul, who can stretch his arms great distances and turn his fists giant.
• Our Gods Are Different: The Infershia Pantheon is extremely powerful, but is bound by the Dark Precepts, preventing its members from attacking the surface all at once.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: The Hades Beast Worm is a mass of giant worms shaped like a hydra...which fires laser beams.
• Our Zombies Are Different: The Zobils.
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: On multiple occasions, the Magirangers will hit the enemy with a powerful attack that sends them flying off camera, and then they act as though the battle was already won. The most notable example of this is the final battle against N Ma.
• Out of the Inferno: Well, more like through the inferno; Groom Do Bridon leaps through an explosion to get an attack off against MagiShine
• Painfully Slow Projectile: Hades God Cyclops' bullets are generally slow enough for the MagiRangers to block and deflect.
• Paper Fan of Doom: Houka turns into one in Stage 45 to knock some sense into Makito.
• Palette Swap: Varikion and Unigolon, with the latter also having a form. By extension, FireKaiser and SaintKaiser.
• Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame: Pulled off spectacularly with each hit in "Majin Shoot".
• Pensieve Flashback: Hikaru does a series of these in Stage 35 to help determine whether or not Miyuki really is alive.
• Pepper Sneeze: Houka turns into a giant salt and pepper shaker in Stage 2 to force a monster to sneeze out Kai, Makito, and Urara.
• Personality Powers: There's even a song in Stage 3 sung by Mandra Boy about how the Magirangers' elemental powers and personalities match, as well as their roles in the Five-Man Band.
• Pet the Dog: Hades God Wyvern generally dotes on Nai and Mea like beloved pets. This makes his Kick the Dog moments all the harsher.
• Phlebotinum Overload: How N Ma is defeated.
• Physical Hell: Infershia. Becomes closer to Dark Is Not Evil once Sphinx takes over in the finale.
• Playing Possum: Groom Do Bridon uses this to get in an attack against MagiShine.
• Pocket Dimension: The Marudeyona worlds.
• Pokémon Speak: Solitary Confinement Hades Beast Ogre engages in this.
• Power at a Price: The Ozu siblings could become Heavenly Saints themselves, but would lose all memory of their human existences in the process.
• Power Incontinence: In Stage 31, the Ozu siblings experience an overflow of power in their civilian forms as a side effect of their unrestrained Legend Modes.
• Power of Love: Invoked by Makito in front of Eriko. She is not impressed.
  • Played straight in Stage 28, where Tsubasa's love for Rei allows him to free her soul from the Hell King Neries and let her move on to the afterlife.
• Precursor Heroes: Blagel, Sungel, and Lunagel. Also Raigel, before he betrayed the first three. Snowgel is an even bigger precursor to them, as she's said to be the eldest Heavenly Saint.
• Present Absence: The repercussions of Miyuki's defeat in Stage 2 are keenly felt throughout the series.
• Pure Magic Being: The Heavenly Saints; humans have to contract with a patron in order to use magic.
• Quirky Household: The siblings belong to one.
• Race Against the Clock: Tsubasa has very little time to rescue Kai from his Angst Coma before becoming trapped in it himself. They end up running out of time, but are rescued by their mother's spirit.
  • Later, Hikaru has to undergo a dangerous ordeal to save Tsubasa from a curse.
• Really Gets Around: Houka. In case you wonder, she's gone as far as to juggle with at least 15 boyfriends at a time.
  Houka: I really like her [wedding] dress!
  Tsubasa: You already wore one.
  Kai: It's Houka. She'll probably wear a bunch.
• Really 700 Years Old: Hikaru is at least 500 years old, and the other Heavenly Saints are likely to be in the same vein.
• Recap Episode: Most of Episode 35 is this.
• Red Baron: The four Hell Kings are introduced with these by Wolzard.
  • Later on, the book of prophecy applies this sort of appellation to every Hades Beast and Hades Beastman.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Inverted and subverted with Bullrates the Kobold; a side-effect of a spell that Meemy casts on him to restore his youthful strength was to turn his red eyes white, and while he does become much more powerful, he is still effortlessly defeated by the Magirangers Legend Mode. This was exactly what Meemy wanted all along, as this let him use Bullrates's soul to fuel the Hades Beast Machine Golem.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kai and Tsubasa. The latter's personal color does not match this trope, but his personality does, to the point that in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger, Tsubasa is paired off with Hoji, a textbook Blue.
• Red Sky, Take Warning: A variation; if the sky suddenly turns dark and an aurora appears, that means a Hades God is about to administer a Divine Punishment.
• Redemption Demotion: Hades God Titan seems to lose much of his power following his Heel–Face Turn. Justified, as he is having to restrain N Ma's soul within himself, which was specifically noted to weaken Blagel when he did the same thing.
• Redemption Equals Death: Titan.
• Redemption Equals Life: Blagel, Sphinx.
• Redemption Promotion: Isamu gains considerable power after changing from Wolzard to Wolzard Fire, most significantly because he doesn't have to spend power on being N Ma's Soul Jar.
• Replacement Mooks: The Hades Beast Men to the Hades Beasts.
• Rescue Arc: The bulk of the Pantheon of Infershia arc is comprised of the Magirangers trying to rescue their mother.
• Rewatch Bonus: Rewatching the series with the knowledge Wolzard is actually a brainwashed Blagel adds a whole new layer to basically all of his dialogue prior to Stage 34, with how much of it is actually coming from a father Fighting from the Inside to help his children. This also adds a layer to Irony to scenes where people trash-talk Wolzard or up-play Blagel in front of him, not realizing whom they're talking about — for instance, Hikaru in Stage 24 telling Tsubasa "your mother didn't raise you to become someone like him!", referring to Wolzard, completely unaware that he's actually talking about his own respected mentor and Tsubasa's father, whom Miyuki definitely did want her children to have as a role model...
• Revealing Skill: Inverted; Houka is too considerate (she doesn't normally make a habit of bringing food home for everyone) and skilled (she's too much of The Klutz to cut apples neatly) while under Vancuria's control, so Urara catches onto her quickly.
• Riddling Sphinx: In Stage 46, the Hades God Sphinx questions the Magirangers on how they've been able to keep defeating the Hades Gods despite the power gap between them.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Wolzard could have killed the Magirangers in Stage 9 if Branken hadn't chosen then to have Vancuria make an assassination attempt against him right then.
• Ring of Power: The Oath Rings, passed down from the Legendary Magicians to the Magirangers through Sungel. They allow the Magirangers to prove to Snowgel that they are worthy of the Legend Mode.
• Rings of Activation: The combination sequence of the MagiFirebird and MagiLion involves the lion jumping through three rings of fire, the third of which is generated by the firebird's wings, triggering the combination.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: The black robes they're given are meant to invoke this; it's mostly used just so they can dramatically throw it off just before entering battle, but they're sometimes seen wearing them when doing trickier magic in the Magic Room.
• Roboteching: Hikaru can control the path of his shots through will alone.
• Romance-Inducing Smudge: Stage 36 has one between Urara and Hikaru. Urara doesn't actually wipe it off herself, but Hikaru's momentarily flustered reaction and the atmosphere of the resulting conversation make up one of the more prominent Ship Tease moments between them.
• Rule of Symbolism: Meemy/Raigel is basically Lucifer, while Hikaru/MagiShine/Sungel is basically the Arch Angel Michael.
• Sadistic Choice: To escape Lunagel's pocket dimension, one of the Magirangers has to willingly enter a column of fire and stay there. Subverted; she is in truth too kind, for a real Sadistic Choice, so just diving in is enough to save everyone.
• Say My Name: YAMAZAKI-SAN!
• Screw Destiny: The Magirangers are told in Stage 36 that if they try to fight back against the Infershia Pantheon, it will result in the destruction of the surface world and Magitopia. It does, but they fix it in short order.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Neries from Act 28, who is a Siren (which is pronounced seiren in Japanese).
• Sealed Army in a Can: The whole of Infershia, Groom Do Bridon's soul berseker army.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: After the second time Blagel seals N Ma, he takes his soul within his body to make sure he can't revive again.
• Secret Identity: Humans aren't allowed to know about magic, so the Magirangers have to keep their civilian identities secret (although other Ranger teams seem to be fair game). Within the story, this mostly serves to create a Loves My Alter Ego scenario between Kai, MagiRed, and Yuka Yamazaki, but it also means that the Magirangers' identities are fairly hidden compared to that of most other Sentai teams and have to keep most of what they do within the family.
• Secret Room: The siblings study magic in a secret hidden room of their house. After Hikaru moves in, he spends most of his time there when not in Magitopia or going out with the siblings. Miyuki later reveals there's another hidden room behind even that, which she uses to perform her own magic.
• Secret War: The great battle between Magitopia and Infershia 15 years ago happened without any humans being aware of it, with the exceptions of any human magicians like Miyuki. This does not happen in the finale, with civilians in the town (including Yamazaki) witnessing the final battle against N Ma.
• See the Invisible: Hikaru was able to spot an invisible monster through ordinary concentration and focus.
• Ship Tease: Kai/Lunagel, which receives Lampshade Hanging by Houka, but it ultimately is a result of The Not-Love Interest due to Kai only being interested in Yamazaki and thus treating "Rin" like a Cool Big Sis after all is said and done. They still manage to get a last one in there in Stage 47, when Kai runs over to pick up an injured Lunagel in his arms.
  • Urara and Hikaru's first encounter in Stage 20 is loaded with this, with an episode plotline that invokes The Frog Prince complete with Magic Kiss and ends with Hikaru teasing Urara about whether she likes him. It only keeps escalating from there, ranging from subtle (Hikaru giving Urara an Affectionate Gesture to the Head with rather high frequency) to not subtle at all (Hikaru and Urara having an extremely loaded moment bonding over her apple pie) for the next half a series. Stage 47 finally drops the "tease" and conclusively reveals that, yes, they were so much in Love at First Sight with each other that the entire family has been waiting for the shoe to drop; the threat of N Ma causing The End of the World as We Know It at any moment and Hikaru having a vision of his impending death pushes them both over the edge to go right into a Last Wish Wedding in the span of one episode.
  • Kai and Yamazaki don't initially start off this way, since Kai is immediately clear about his Love Confession to her while Yamazaki likewise makes it clear she's more interested in MagiRed. The part where it does go into Ship Tease is after Yamazaki figures out his identity in the movie but chooses not to tell him, resulting in nothing getting off the ground... but she refers to Kai as "my beloved magician" in Stage 40, and she's spotted by some pirates six years later, still carrying around her MagiRed plush...
• Shirtless Scene: The start of Stage 10.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Stage 6, Nai and Mare provide Branken and Wolzard's power levels.
  • Stage 10 has Makito raising a cactus trying to win the heart of a girl and even naming it "Petit Eriko" after her, unaware that the plant is secretly turning monstrous and carnivorous, bringing to mind Audrey II.
  • And then there's the movie, where the Heavenly Temple should seem familiar.
  • Stage 14, the episode featuring the MagiPunch gloves, has Kai lament losing Yamazaki to MagiRed with the familiar pose from Tomorrow's Joe.
  • Stage 15 features the Solitary Confinement Hades Beast Skeleton, which has a red skull and can reassemble itself after being destroyed indefinitely. Sound familiar?
  • Stage 19, where Smokey, the genie introduces himself, and his powers, through a big, flashy musical number. Where have we seen that before?
• Shy Finger-Twiddling: Kai does this on occasion when the subject of Yuka Yamazaki comes up.
• Sibling Team: As they are all siblings (except for Hikaru). This is the third Sentai in this respect too, predated by Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman and Rescue Sentai GoGoFive, although it features the theme of The Power of Family more prominently than either.
• Single-Minded Twins: Nai and Mea; they're actually a form of Self-Duplication via Vancuria splitting herself into two halves, but the majority of Mea's dialogue is repeating what Nai says or finishing her sentences, making them come off as this.
• Scenery Porn: Stage 22 features many lingering shots of temples in Kyoto.
• Sleep Cute: A familial version between Makito and Houka during a flashback to when they were children.
• Sleep-Mode Size: Snowgel, when not in her battle form.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Very idealistic, as it ends with Infershia being redeemed.
• Smart People Play Chess: Tsubasa vs. Kai, with the expected results.
• Solar and Lunar: Sungel and Lunagel, who were both fellow disciples of Blagel; perhaps it's no surprise that Odd Name Out Raigel was the one to betray them.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Hoo boy.
  • First, you have the Basic Hades Beasts lead by Branken, Wolzard and Vancuria.
  • And then they summon the Solitary Confinement Hades Beasts and the Guardian Beast of Infershia.
  • And then Branken dies and Meemy, a Physical God Turned Evil takes over, and summons the Hades Beastmen, humans who sold their soul for power. The team needs the Sixth Ranger, another Physical God, to defeat them.
  • And then Meemy summons the Four Hellish Kings, who beat the rangers so bad they need to develop a Super Mode.
  • And then Meemy starts using forbidden magic - that's magic so bad that even the legions of Hell won't go near it - to create his monsters, to the point where the rangers need another Humongous Mecha.
  • And then, once Meemy is defeated, the true bad guys are revealed as the Pantheon of Hell, a team of ten giant monsters - meaning they start big and shrink to human size, not the other way around - who play a few games with the mortals.
  • And then at the end, all of the above leads to releasing Great Beast Emperor N. Ma from the Hades Gate to destroy all the magic in the world. He pretty much crushes the rangers, and they have to call in every ally they made across the entire series. Including their mother and father.
• Spear Counterpart: Tetsuya, Houka's love interest in stage 15, is basically the male version of her.
• The Speechless: The Hades Beasts are pretty much animals, and only grunt and growl.
• Speed Blitz: Hades God Wyvern uses this.
• Spell Blade: In stage 29, Houka casts a spell to make MagiKing's sword King Caliber hundreds of times sharper.
• Spikes of Villainy: Groom Do Bridon, the villain from The Movie, sports these, and when he gets really mad, more sprout up all over his body.
• Spinning Piledriver: Tsubasa's Meteorite Magi Punch.
• Spirit Advisor: In Stage 7, Miyuki's spirit appears to Kai and Tsubasa to give them important advice. Her spirit returns in Stage 18, this time to provide the magic necessary to defeat Branken. It's actually her ability to make an Astral Projection of herself from where she is in the Garden of Souls.
• Squee: Mandra Boy tends to react this way whenever the Heavenly Saints show up.
• Squishy Wizard: Inverted. Magic makes characters, good and bad, physically powerful.
• Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy: Before the arrival of the Infershia Pantheon, the Hades Beast Empire has this structure.
  • The Emperor: N Ma.
  • The Right Hand: Wolzard.
  • The General: Branken, replaced by Meemy following his death.
  • The Oddball: Vancuria.
• Status Buff: Wolzard gives Vancuria one when she goes after Rin, while in the middle of applying a four-episode long buff to himself.
• Stealth Mentor: Wolzard. He was so damn good at it, even he didn't know he was doing it.
• Storm of Blades: MagiKing's Phantom Illusion attack.
• Super-Senses: One spell enhances the Rangers' sense of smell, to the point that they could actually see the trail.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In Stage 27, Kai finds out the hard way that, contrary to what many anime series might lead you to believe, no, high school students can't rent their own apartments (and even if he had tried, he probably wouldn't have had the money to pay for it anyway).
• Swiss-Army Tears: Kai's tears during his "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight are what ultimately return Wolzard back to Blagel, although it's implied to be less because of anything magical about the tears itself and more the last straw in Blagel seeing his son so miserable that he succeeds in Fighting from the Inside.
• Take a Third Option: Instead of leaving Hikaru or Tsubasa to die from using Chronogel's forbidden spell, Wolzard blasts Chronogel and completely cancels the dangerous side effect.
• Taken for Granite: Urara in Stage 4. Lots of people, in fact.
  • Also, the Hades Goddess Gorgon's Divine Punishment is to inflict this on all living things on Earth at the same time.
• Take That!: In the opening fight of Magiranger vs. Dekaranger, Ban shows up in a Battlizer...and proceeds to horribly screw up, healing the enemy and let it escape with Urara. Whoops.
• Taking the Bullet: Urara does this to save Kai in Stage 4, resulting in her being turned to stone.
  • Hikaru does this for an anmesiac Houka in Stage 29, getting himself dumped in the water and spending the whole next episode in recovery afterwards.
  • She repeats this in Stage 38, only with an actual bullet. In Stage 48, the favor is returned by Smoky, followed almost immediately after by Miyuki.
• Taking You with Me: N Ma and Blagel do this to each other, once before the series begins, and again in Stage 34.
• Team Handstack: The whole Ozu family does one just before the final battle in Stage 48.
• Tell Me About My Father: Spoken word-by-word by Kai to Lunagel and Hikaru in Stage 33. Kai is the sibling most interested in and admiring of his father's legacy, partially due to him being told they're so similar and partially due to Kai being so young when his father disappeared that he never really got to know him for any period of time. This leads to him getting hit the worst by the revelation his father is actually Wolzard.
• Tempting Fate: In Stage 37, Kai openly proclaims to Cyclops that it'll be easy to find him from where he's shooting at them from. Then he shoots Kai in the back of the leg from the opposite direction from which he'd been firing up to that point.
  • Stage 20 is a double-whammy Tempting Fate for Urara. Urara initially refuses to kiss the frog with the statement that she can't kiss anyone unless she likes them. Not long after, she caves out of pity and does, indeed, kiss the frog after it saves her life. The frog turns out to be Hikaru, who teases Urara that this must mean she came to like him at some point; an embarrassed Urara attempts to slap him in response. 27 episodes later, Hikaru finds himself on the receiving end of a Love Confession from Urara at a time he has to worry about potentially dying on her if he accepts her feelings. Oh, and she does end up trying to kiss him again... at their wedding.
• Thanks for the Mammary: Smoky does this to Urara by accident and... is sent flying to the window.
• The Promise: Before the final battle, the Ozu family promises to return home together. They get very dangerously close to not pulling it off, but they do.
• The Psycho Rangers: Hades God Toad creates a set of fake Magirangers to pit against the genuine articles.
• The Reveal: Rin is the Heavenly Saint Lunagel, Wolzard is Blagel, and Miyuki is alive.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Houka and Urara use the closing theme of this season to defeat the Monster Of The Week in Stage 8.
• Third-Person Person: Houka does this sometimes as part of her cutesy act.
• This Is a Drill: Both MagiLegend's Screw Caliber, and one of Urara's attack spells.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Kai takes this stance after Wolzard killed his mother, making it all the more tragic when it is revealed that Wolzard is his Brainwashed and Crazy father.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: Powerful and skilled magicians like Miyuki, Rin, Hikaru, and Wolzard are able to innately detect powerful beings and magicians.
• The Trickster: Smoky, in spades.
• Through His Stomach: One of Urara and Hikaru's more prominent Ship Tease moments has them bond over Urara's homemade apple pie; the recipe is originally Miyuki's, but it's described as being so light and delicious that it gets people to stop fighting. In Hikaru's case, it's enough to make him back down from his Anger Born of Worry (one that had been bad enough to probably be his worst outburst in the series) and apologize to the family. Urara later brings up the pie after their wedding when Hikaru goes off to fight N Ma, telling him to come back alive so he can eat it.
• Time to Unlock More True Potential: Stage 30 has the Magirangers go on a quest to find the Heavenly Saint Snowgel and convince her to unlock their inner power, which they succeed at thanks to their oath rings, which shine with the Courage they'd demonstrated over the preceding five episodes.
• Time Travel: Possible, but only through a forbidden spell.
• Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: The Book of Prophecy that Nai and Mare discover after N Ma is sealed once again.
• Took a Level in Badass: Invoked by Houka with "Version Up." Played straight with Magi Legend powers.
• Training from Hell: What do you call having soccer balls shot at you at around 200 kilometers per hour so that you can learn how to dodge a monster's punches? Something that should've killed him or at least given him massive internal bleeding. Hope he was wearing a cup.
• Tragic Keepsake: Miyuki's MagiStick and her compact. Subverted when the siblings find out she was alive all along, after which she takes them right back.
  • The Flower of Heaven in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger also counts; part of the reason the siblings are so unwilling to part with it (well, besides its world-destroying capabilities) is its importance to their mother.
• Trash of the Titans: Houka's room.
• Two Scenes, One Dialogue: In Stage 46, with Titan to Houka and Makito, Dagon and Wyvern, and Sphinx and the rest of the Magirangers.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The first two times Houka tries to help Kai woo Yuka Yamazaki, she outlines exactly how her plan should go. The third time, she just skips straight to the action, and still fails.
• Unusual Euphemism: Makito declaring that he won't be distracted by Nai and Mare's "Venus Flytrap".
• Urban Fantasy: The premise of the setting. It's a series about magical worlds, but most of the action takes place in the Magirangers' home town.
• Vampires Own Nightclubs: Vancuria does, and she uses it to convert large numbers of people, including Houka.
• Verbal Tic: Mandra Boy's "de gozarimasu desu" which, considering its length^note It's a combination of "de gozaru", "-(i)masu" and "-desu", which, in their own ways, are applicable Verbal Tics, borders on parody.
  • Smoky has this by way of being a Cat Person.
  "Nyaamen."
• Villain Song: Nai and Mea have "Bloody Friday Nightmare" in Stage 11, which they use to hypnotize people so their Monster of the Week can turn them into vampires (though it's them, rather than the monster, who do it to Houka, which extends the episode's plot into the next one). Listen to it here.
  • Later at a certain point, they even consider making another gig (after Meemy's defeat and Infershia's apparent destruction, before they meet the Pantheon).
  • Wolzard also gets a rather impressive one, which never gets played during the actual series.
• Villainous Breakdown: Hades God Sphinx suffers a nasty one when ordered to attack the surface while in the middle of her Heel–Face Turn.
• Wartime Wedding: While it's not a full-on Breather Episode, Urara and Hikaru marry between N Ma's resurrection and his siege on Magitopia (to the point they only barely manage to get the minimum done before Lunagel bursts in). As the usual associations with the tropes go, they do it particularly because they know Hikaru may die the next day (and if things go really wrong, so will everyone else).
• Wedding Smashers: Lunagel interrupts Hikaru and Urara's wedding right in the middle of their altar kiss, but "coming to warn them about Magitopia being destroyed" was a pretty good reason to warrant that, so nobody holds a grudge. Hikaru and Urara still consider themselves married by the next morning.
  • Kai also performs one in The Movie to prevent a hypnotized Yamazaki from being married to Glum do Bridon, literally smashing through the altar with a magical soccer ball-shaped kick.
• Wham Episode: Stages 33, 34, and 35.
  • Stage 33: Wolzard is in fact Isamu/Blagel, the Magirangers long presumed dead father.
  • Stage 34: Miyuki is alive, and the Gods of Infershia will soon rise.
  • Stage 35: Miyuki is being held prisoner by the Infershia Pantheon, which has now risen to subject the surface to their "divine punishment".
• Wham Line: Keeping in line with them being part of a series of Wham Episodes in a row, Stages 32-34 give us one each:
  • Stage 32: "Be strong." They're the words Makito remembered his father saying to encourage him as a kid, so what are they doing coming out of Wolzard's mouth?
  • Stage 33: "Kai!" Which normally wouldn't be much of a Wham Line by itself if it weren't for the fact it's coming from Wolzard, the Magirangers' Arch-Enemy who had never bothered to call him anything but "the red magician" up until now, and moreover why is there so much panic in that voice...
  • Stage 34: "Children, can you hear me? Your mother is alive."
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The Book of Prophecy, an ancient tome that perfectly and accurately describes everything that happens throughout the course of the series. It flies away after the second time Nai and Mea try to read it, and is never mentioned again.
  • Also, in the first episode, we can see flying minions in Infershia. They are never used or seen again.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Stage 45 introduces the idea that not everyone in Infershia is Always Chaotic Evil, which Makito stubbornly resists well into Stage 46.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Kai is an envoy to Infershia, Urara lives in Magitopia with Hikaru, Makito studies overseas, Tsubasa is a boxer, and Houka lives with Isamu and Miyuki.
  • The Final Live Tour, which takes place between the final episode and the epilogue, expands on this a little more: Makito started studying Spanish and Portuguese for his dream of expanding his farm work in Brazil, Houka seems to be dating someone (one person) and is working on improving her cooking skills in Urara's absence, Tsubasa is aiming for the championship, and Hikaru and Urara are working to rebuild Magitopia. Kai came up with the idea of being an Infershian envoy around the time of his high school graduation, reasoning that he wanted Infershia to form a good relationship with the other two worlds and that he wanted to pass on the courage he was given by his family.
• White Void Room: All interior architecture in Magitopia is like this. Also, the Pocket Dimension that Lunagel seals the Magirangers into in Stage 17.
• Whole-Plot Reference: Stage 28 (see Heartbroken Badass entry above) to the '80s Hong Kong period/horror/romance A Chinese Ghost Story.
  • Stage 20 is, naturally, one to The Frog Prince. Poor Urara seems to not be aware of its storyline in advance.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Houka turns herself into Frederic Chopin (basically Houka in a silly wig, moustache and pink tuxedo) to improve her piano playing. It doesn't work.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Urara and frogs, which causes her trouble when Hikaru's curse requires her to kiss him in frog form (Stage 20), and when she offends Toad with her disgust for frogs, angering him enough to completely barrage her with them in revenge (Stage 43).
• Winged Humanoid: MagiKing and MagiLegend
• Wing Shield: MagiKing can use the Gardua's wings as a shield.
• Wizard Duel: The MagiRangers engage in one against Meemy when he first shows up. It does not go well.
• The Worf Barrage: Prominence Flare, Hikaru's most powerful Heavenly Saint attack, never works.
• Worf Had the Flu: Inverted; Lunagel loses against Wolzard after the latter spent four straight episodes increasing his power exponentially.
• The Worf Effect: Deconstructed with regards to MagiShine; when first introduced he is the great heavenly hero who nigh effortlessly defeats all those who oppose him. However, as the forces of Infershia wise up and and send out enemies not even he can handle, he begins to suffer considerable doubts in his own abilities, especially in the face of his pupil's ever increasing power. Ultimately, he comes to terms with his doubts, realizes how to overcome them, and defeats the Hades God Drake who'd previously defeated him in a devastating Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Raigel pulls a variation on this to lure Blagel into a trap during the final battle of the great war.
• Wreathed in Flames: Most of Kai's attacks involve this.
• Wrecked Weapon: Inverted, Kai destroys Wolzard's sword in Stage 18 with Magi Magi Magi Magika. A few episodes later he makes a new, even stronger one from Branken's sword.
• You Are Not Alone: Urara receives one to show her that she doesn't need to take on all the responsibility of taking care of the family herself.
• You Are Not Ready: Miyuki refused to give Kai magic at first on the grounds that he was too reckless and did not understand what true courage was. He becomes ready when he performs a Bare-Handed Blade Block against Wolzard to defend his siblings.
• You See, I'm Dying: This is why Houka agrees to a Last Wish Marriage with a fling named Tetsuya. Once the Monster of the Week is defeated and Tetsuya's survival is ensured, they both call off the wedding as quickly as they declared it because normal commitment sounds boring to them.
• You Can't Fight Fate: This gets played with, as while all the prophecies mentioned on the show, including the one about how if the surface world fights against the Hades Gods both Magitopia and the surface world will be destroyed do come to pass, their consequences can still be undone.
• You Have Failed Me: In Stage 3, a High Zobil flees battle and returns to Infershia, only to be skewered by Branken for his troubles.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Victims of the Red Skull curse have only a week to live before vanishing, never to be seen again.
  • L When N Ma is reborn, Snowgel declares that the whole world has only three days left before he destroys everything.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: You didn't really think that they were going to permanently prevent N Ma's rebirth in Stage 46, with three more episodes to go, did you?
• Xanatos Gambit: In Stage 42, Dagon sends Sleipnir to the surface to join Drake's battle against the Magirangers, either killing them all or flushing out Wolzard, who is currently holding N Ma's soul captive within himself.
• X-Ray of Pain: When Tsubasa gets into a Punch Parry with Monster of the Week Ghoul, we're treated to an x-ray close-up of the bones in his hand shattering.

Finishing the trope page with seriousness, Magiranger!

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