Choujuu Sentai Liveman: Difference between revisions

 

=== '''The heroes:''' ===

* Jō Ōhara - [[The Lancer]]. A fun-loving, confident sportsman who fights as '''{{color|gold|Yellow Lion}}'''.

* Megumi Misaki - [[The Smart Guy|The Smart]] [[The Chick|Chick]] and [[Team Mom]]. As '''{{color|blue|Blue Dolphin}}''', she uses a [[The Archer|bow and arrow]].

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The codenames for the Livemen consists of having their respective colors as the head word and their animals as the tail, a pattern later used by ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]''. ''Liveman'' is also notable for being the first Sentai series to feature:

** A female blue ranger (all the previous teams with female members had at least one pink, with the occasional female yellow and only one white)

* [[Combination Attack]]: The Spark Attack

* [[Cool Airship]]: The Machine Buffallo, which was the last time that there was a single-purpose carrier for individual mecha. After this, they could combine or had alternative purposes, like the [[Gekisou Sentai Carranger|Vic-Trailer]] and [[Seijuu Sentai Gingaman|Giga Bitus]].

** Megumi: [[The Archer|Dolphin Arrow]]

** Tetsuya: [[Simple Staff|Bison Rod]]

** Colon: Whatever's left over, [[More Dakka|up to and including the Live Robo.]]

 

* [[Absentee Actor]]: Tooru Sakai (the human form of Gō Omura) only appears in nine episodes, despite being shown prominently in the opening intro during the first few seconds. From the third episode and onward, Omura assumes a monster form called "Beastman Obuler" (a costumed character voiced by another actor) and remains that way during the remainder of his tenure in Volt. When Omura reverts back to his human form, he leaves Volt and only shows up for a few guest appearances afterward.

* [[Action Girl]]: Colon. Actually, until Tetsuya and Junichi join, she's basically all the backup Liveman has.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Great Professor Bias {{spoiler|until about 3/4 of the way through. Then the "affable" goes right out the airlock.}}

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Butchy... does not take {{spoiler|finding out he's a robot, and that all of his (apparently happy) memories of being a Chibuchi resident were fake}}, very well. He is destroyed just after (arguably) completing a [[Heel Face Turn]].

** The other side of the coin is that perhaps [[Unfortunate Implications|this sort of blatant superiority wasn't uncommon in Academia...]]

* {{spoiler|[[Dragon Their Feet]]: Professor Bias is rendered senile in the finale, so Gash has to fight the Livemen by himself.}}

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Busujima Arashi was this prior to his education at the hands of Bias, to the point of not being able to do math that went higher than he had fingers - 8+4 in particular stumps him. (The actor pulls this off so well that Arashi and Ashura are [[Acting for Two|completely different characters]].)

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: several times during the show - especially the mecha - but also something Colon has to do by default owing to her lack of firepower.

* [[Hammerspace]]: It's possible to summon up just a Liblaster from a Twin Brace, but this is only done once when Yuusuke needs to point a gun at a possible intruder.

* [[Hand Cannon]]: While Mazenda literally has cannons in her hand(s), Gash has his Gashgun. The handle and barrel are practically in a straight line, and whatever ammo it uses is enough to knock a Liveman onto their back. {{spoiler|And is apparently too powerful to use on someone he plans on taking a brain from...}}

** {{spoiler|Actually, all the Volt commanders make some form of this, with the exception of Guildos - Omura is just the only one who ''lives''. Butchy gains some form of friendship with Megumi and tells her goodbye before dying, Arashi actively fights against Volt and does a suicide run on a Brain Beast, Mazenda changes herself into a robot and drops herself off of a cliff as a final middle finger to Bias, and in his last moments Kemp (reduced to a brain in a jar) rebels.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The only character who actually dies this way is Busujima Arashi, formerly Dr. Ashura. Colon is aware of her status as a robot, and pulls something close to this about [[Death Seeker|once every 10 episodes or so]], but she survives until the end.

** Vul Panther and Yellow Lion are both based on big cats.

* [[Hope Spot]]: For a second, it looks like Colon might actually beat Kemp-zuno and save the day in the Live Robo. Then she discovers that she can't operate it effectively by herself...

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Mazenda (part of her motivation for turning herself into a cyborg was so that she would remain beautiful forever) and, to a greater extent, {{spoiler|Bias, who manipulated everything so that he could extend his immortality}}.

* [[Improbably High IQ]]: All the members of Volt have ridiculously high IQs. In fact, Bias' goal is {{spoiler|1=to raise their IQs to 1000}}.

** Colon, on the other hand, gets ready to mix it up in the Live Robo.

* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: After Yuusuke succeeds in stopping Bias, {{spoiler|then in the midst of planet-wide mind control}}, with a Falcon Blade to the gut and several Liblaster shots to his Brain Room, Bias {{spoiler|grows really, really old, having artificially prolonged his life with the brains there. Somehow.}}

* [[Product Placement]]: Jou's apparently a ''Seicross'' fan, and has a [[My Pet Monster]] doll on the rearview mirror of his car.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Great Professor Bias}}.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Mazenda}} and {{spoiler|Arashi}}. {{spoiler|Kemp, in his last few seconds of life, comes round as well. Butchy doesn't get as far as Redemption, but his last moments makes it clear that he would have, if not for Bias blowing him up.}}

* [[Redemption Equals Life]]: {{spoiler|Gou}}

** {{spoiler|"Human" might not be the right word here, but Guildos and Butchy were}} sufficiently lifelike enough to fool the three super-geniuses in Volt ''and'' Liveman.

* [[Robot Girl]]: Colon. Not Mazenda, {{spoiler|until she turns herself into Robo Mazenda, specifically to keep Bias from taking her brain}}.

** No, not [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|that]] Ikari.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|ALL of the Volt members get this one way or another, for certain definitions of 'breakdown'.}}

** Wherein we learn that Guildos and Butchy are {{spoiler|''robots''.}} This is where the show changes course and starts getting ''dark''.

*** This is in-universe as well. Liveman notwithstanding, even the Volt commanders look uncomfortable at this revelation (Mazenda particularly) and Butchy is sobbing after learning that they were robots.