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An international army, Skyforce, is working on a project to create superhumans by infusing them with [[Applied Phlebotinum|"Birdonic Waves"]]. Five of the best Skyforce officers are chosen to receive the treatment. Unfortunately, right after the first officer, Ryū Tendō, receives the treatment, [[Alien Invasion|extradimensional invaders]] known as the Vyram attack Skyforce's orbital base. The remaining four Birdonic Waves are scattered around <s>the globe</s> Japan, where they strike four random civilians. Even worse, one of the candidates, Ryū's lover Rie Aoi, is sucked out into space. Ryū and the project's leader, Chief Aya Odagiri, must now find the four civilians struck by the Birdonic Waves and recruit them to fight the Vyram.

 

 

== The Jetmen ==

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== Recurring [[Super Sentai]] tropes ==

* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: "Cross Changer!"

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Expected, since the Jetmen have individual attacks, not individual weapons.

* [[Cool Car]]: ...while Red Hawk gets the Jet Striker race car. Yellow Owl drives the Jet Bouncer jeep with White Swan.

* [[Eyecatch]]: The eyecatch before the break features the Jetman team (in their suits) posing somewhere in a side of a mountain. Their positions from left to right (from the viewer's view) featured Black Condor seating with his right leg over his left leg, White Swan stands behind him, Red Hawk is at the center, Yellow Owl is in a side view, and sitting beside him is Blue Swallow. The end of the commercial break features the Jetman team in their Human forms in the same positions.

* [[Five-Man Band]]

** [[The Hero]]: Ryū

*** Jet Icarus + Jet Garuda = Great Icarus

*** Icarus Haken + Bird Garuda = Hyper Haken

* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: Red Hawk's vehicle, the Jet Striker, transforms into the [[BFG]].

* [[Make My Monster Grow]]: The Jigenmushi fulfills this role; if it can latch off the monster as it's destroyed, it can bring it back giant size. It can be destroyed, thus keeping the monster from coming back.

* [[Monster of the Week|Monsters Of The Week]]: The Jigenjū (Dimensional Beasts), which were created from material objects that were implanted with a breed of parasites known as "Jigenmushi" (Dimensional Bug). Notable in that it had three sympathetic Monsters of the Week.

* [[Mook]]s: The Grinam Soldiers

* [[Psycho Rangers]]: The Shadow Jetman team in Episode 25. The only one who didn't get his own [[Evil Counterpart]] was Black Condor, who was absent during the time the clones were made.

* [[Supervillain Lair]]: Check out the Vylock!

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: See [[By the Power of Greyskull]].

* [[Two Girls to a Team]]: White and Blue instead of the traditional Pink and Yellow (although White Swan does have pink spandex on her suit). Notable that it's the second time both of these colors were used for female rangers (following [[Dengeki Sentai Changeman|Change Mermaid]] and [[Choujuu Sentai Liveman|Blue Dolphin]]) and the only time they were ever used together (not counting ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', which had the white-clad Magi Mother joining her daughters Pink and Blue during the final story arc). This would also be the last Sentai team with two female rangers for the next three years.

== Tropes significant to Choujin Sentai Jetman ==

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: The final episode features cameos by Kazuo Niibori and Naoki Ofuji, the suit actors for Red Hawk and Black Condor, as {{spoiler|the priest who conducts Ryu's wedding with Kaori and the mugger who stabs Gai respectively.}}

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Subverted. While Kaori does end up dating Gai for a while, it is boy scout Ryu whom she is more attracted to {{spoiler|and ends up marrying}}.

** Not to mention {{spoiler|Rie/Maria, who sacrifices herself after finally remembering who she was.}}

* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The inside of Vyram's base.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|How Radiguet dies.}}

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Jeff, in the manga epilogue.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Gai is very fond of the word "Ii ka..." ("Listen up..." or "Now, look here...")

* [[Casanova]]: Gai.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: The crucifixion of the Jetmen in #43.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Acknowledged by most fans as one of the darker installments of the Sentai franchise.

* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: Darn it, Dryer Jigen ''tries'' to be a terrifying menace, but can't resist helping people in need. {{spoiler|By the end of the episode he gives up evil and becomes a hairdresser.}} Really.

** Gomi Jigen was pretty much the same. He never wanted to do no harm to anyone in the first place, pretty much because the main part of his mind comes from a teddy bear which Ako used to care a lot for when she was a child. To see what else happened, refer to [[Nightmare Fuel]] ahead. Anyway, {{spoiler|he came back to his senses thanks to Ako, only to have a disgusted Maria kill him, inadvertently hitting a [[Berserk Button]] in Blue Swallow in the process.}}

** Yūta Mochizuki [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|shows up a couple of months early]] leading the Neo-Jetman in episodes 40-41.

** The Dimensia team that delivers Jet Garuda is made up of [[Choushinsei Flashman|Blue Flash]], [[Hikari Sentai Maskman|Yellow Mask]]...and Tricera Ranger [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|who also showed up early]].

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Played around in the 11th episode. A drink from the Vending Machine Jigen makes a hidden aspect of the the Jetmen's personalities become their dominant one: Ryū becomes a [[Lazy Bum]], Gai becomes [[The Messiah]] (counts as a hidden depth for his [[Heroic Sociopath]] tendencies, he's actually a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]), Raita becomes a jerk, Kaori turns into a rich snob worse than her pre-development phase, Ako turns into [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Girly Girl]]. They get better in the end...

* [[Hope Spot]]: Brutally in Episode 24 - After getting curbstomped by {{spoiler|Queen Juuza's fully-grown monster child}}, the team is rescued by Jet Garuda, piloted by three warriors from another dimension. After a whole episode of making it compatible, the warriors set off with Jet Garuda to save the day and combine into Great Icarus! Then Radiguet murders them and [[Gundamjack]]s it.

'''Ryū''': ''Well, humans are not ugly. You '''ARE!''''' }}

* [[Image Song]]: ''Honoo no Condor'', for Black Condor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDxgHgjoN8c Listen, while he kicks some Vyram butt]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: As the series progresses, Gai shows himself to be one.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Tran, before his growth.

* [[To Hell and Back]]: Ako, Gai and Raita in episode 27. The "back" part is thanks to Ryu.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Ako and Kaori. Though, by the end of the series, it became a subversion. Kaori becomes less shallow and materialistic over the course of the series, while initially tomboyish Ako becomes more looks-conscious, grows out her hair and eventually becomes a {{spoiler|heavily made up idol singer}} after the events of the show.

** Arguably, most of the team qualifies, as they started out as civilians with no combat experience whatsoever - by the finale, they're pretty much taking names.

* [[Transformation Name Announcement]]

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