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[[File:Chojusentai_Liveman_3618.jpg|frame|The full team, and yes, the blue one is a girl for the first time.]]

 

 

''Chōjū Sentai Liveman'' (Super Beast Squadron Liveman) is the twelfth [[Super Sentai]] show, airing from 1988 to 1989.

*** Bison Liner + Sai Fire = Live Boxer

** [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]: Live Robo + Live Boxer = Super Live Robo

{{quote| '''Yūsuke''': Choujuu Sentai...<br />

'''All''': Liveman! }}

* [[Mook|Mooks]]: The Jimmers <ref> Jin = Person, Ma = Machine</ref>

* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: As with [[Choudenshi Bioman|Bioman]], Volt consists of Bias, his students, and a crapton of robots.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Colon, though she subverts it by having few built-in functions and relying heavily on external devices.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Unlike the last four teams, ''Liveman'' only had one girl (Blue Dolphin), partly because the original roster consisted of three members and the two later members were not part of the initial plan. However, ''Liveman'' did provide the franchise its first female blue ranger (and the only one who wears a normal shade of blue as well, since subsequent female blues like Blue Swallow and Hurricane Blue wore lighter shades of blue). Arguably, Colon could count as the show's second heroine, as she occasionally assists the team in combat.

* [[Stone Wall]]: Colon has no offensive weaponry, but once took a hit to save Yusuke and give him the morale kick he needed.

* [[Stunt Double]]: A notable exception in Yutaka Hirose, who played Dr. Kemp. Hirose is a trained stunt actor and did all of his own stunts, including those as Beauty Beast Kemp and Fear Beast Kemp.

* [[Techno Babble]]: The explanation given for [[Applied Phlebotinum|Chaos Phantom Energy]], which apparently powers Volt's stuff. (The way it's shot - the camera closes in on Kemp's lips and twitches as he gives a manic description of it - is the "Babble" part of it.)

** Basically, Chaos Phantom Energy is given off when... stuff blows up. Really.

* [[The Cameo]]: Dorothée, not that you'll care if you're not French.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Given that he's the youngest of the five and that there wasn't much to show that he could do this, it's very surprising to see Jun'ichi/Green Sai continuously destroy Guildos' personal Guild-zuno until Guildos ''himself'' basically self-destructs from the strain of reviving him<ref>Specifically, of the 9 times Guildos does his [[Cast From HP]] thing, Jun'ichi forced 6 of them ''on his own''. Of the other 3, Colon got in one kill, the other four did a combination attack, and there was the obligatory Bimotion Buster kill.</ref>.

* [[Turtle Power]]: The Gran Tortoise, of course.