Dengeki Sentai Changeman/YMMV

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Booba's death is pretty sad, even though he was quite the bastard beforehand.
• Complete Monster: Star King Bazoo is the leader of Great Star League Gozma and a ruthless sociopath obsessed with gaining power. Years prior he began a campaign of interstellar conquest and subjugation by destroying a planet of winged people so peaceful and kind that merely looking upon their smiling faces and hearing their voices will make you lose all violent impulses. All his forces are comprised of the champions of those worlds he'd already conquered, forcing them to fight for him lest he finish the absolute destruction of their homes. Not that he intends to ever let them go back, of course. This is because his true form is the size of a planet, and he eats the planets he conquers. He also uses innocent beings from the worlds that he’s conquered and forces them to fight for him by forcefully mutating them into his soldiers against there will. A wicked abuser of his forces, those who fail him are punished by a beam fired from his head that causes them immense pain. Years after his debut, Bazoo stands out as one of the absolute worst villains in the franchise.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Holy cow that theme song is a total Ear Worm.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It was a massive hit in late 80s/early 90s Brazil, paving the way for other Super Sentai series and, eventually, anime.
• Growing the Beard: Changeman represents a dramatic shift in Super Sentai towards complex plotting, fleshed-out villains, and a Darker And Edgier tone. Changeman's head writer Hirohisa Soda (who'd been head writer for the past three years before Changeman) has stated that he considers Changeman to be a Growing The Beard moment (though not in those exact words) both for the Super Sentai franchise and for his skill as a writer.
• Special Effects Failure: The mooks in the final battle are depicted by downright horrendous chroma keying, even for the era. Not to mention the part where the Change Robo is making its way into the core of Bazoo, represented by superimposing mech footage over stock footage of cells dividing.
• Tear Jerker: Booba's death in Episode 52, just moments after he restored Shiima to her former self.