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A thousand years ago the evil Org spirits were fought by warriors backed by the Power Animals, but in the modern day Orgs begin to show up again. From the Animarium in the sky, the Power Animals choose five new warriors to fight them, and they're mentored by Animarium caretaker Tetomu and joined by one of the original warriors who was frozen in time.

 

Refer to ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'' for the Westernized version.

* Sōtarō Ushigome / '''Gao Black''': [[The Big Guy]]. A retired Sumo wrestler, he is a [[Gentle Giant]] by nature... [[Beware the Nice Ones|just don't get on his nerves and hurt his friends or innocent people]]. Also, just like Red, he's a [[Friend to All Living Things]].

 

* Org Master, a stone idol worshipped by the lesser Orgs. {{spoiler|Revealed later on to be just that.}}

* Duke Org Yabaiba. [[Knife Nut]]. One of two surviving Orgs from the last conflict, lying in wait for the Orgs' return.

* High Duke Org Rasetsu. [[Extreme Omnivore]], [[Bad Boss]]. Introduced in the story arc where Gao God rejoins the heroes.

* Duke Org Loki: The [[Sixth Ranger]] {{spoiler|in the literal sense, until he is separated bodily from Tsukimaro.}}

 

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: The [[BFS|HajaHyakujuuken]] <ref> ''Evil Crushing Hundred Beast Sword''</ref>. Notably the first melee weapon for a Team Finisher.

** Near the end of the show all the Org leaders are merged into one super Org. There's also a [[Monster of the Week]] formed from a bunch of stolen Power Animals.

* [[Custom Uniform]]: The first full-blown example

* [[Finishing Move]]

** [[The Hero]]: Kakeru

** [[The Lancer]]: Gaku

* [[Home Base]]: Gao's Rock, a flying [[Turtle Power|turtle-like]] edifice that transports the Gaorangers. Also has a conduit to Sky Island as well as a sacred spring that, among other functions, [[Regular Caller|detects the presence of an Org]] by bubbling.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The first [[Super Sentai]] to feature extensive use of upgrades. In fact, it was the first to introduce multiple peripheral mecha, imply their compatibility out of the default formations and put the potential to good use. [[Super Sentai]] used this concept on and off for several years, before adopting it consistently with ''[[Go Go Sentai Boukenger]]''.

** [[Combining Mecha]]

*** Gao Lion + Gao Eagle + Gao Bison + Gao Shark + Gao Tiger = Gao King

*** Other Power Animals includes the Soul Bird (which serves as a power-up to any of the robots) and the rare Gao Panda (which never appeared on the show and was only available as a giveaway along with a bonus CD offered by ''Terebi-kun'' magazine in Japan). There was also a blue version of the Gao Ligator and a black version of the Gao Elephant, as well as several Power Animals that were never made into toys.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Episodes are called "Quests".

'''All:''' Gaoranger! }}

* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: Red's weapon is able to transform into a different one.

* [[Mook|Mooks]] : The Orgettes.

* [[The Movie]]: ''Gaoranger: Hi no Yama, Hoeru'' ("The Volcano Howls"), the first Super Sentai theatrical featurette since the ''Ohranger'' movie (the ''Gogo-V'' movie with Zeek was a straight-to-video release).

* [[Strictly Formula]]: To wit:

** The first [[Mecha Expansion Pack]] appears in Episode 5.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: After three straight pinks, the lone girl gets to wear another color this time, making her the fourth female white ranger.

* [[Supervillain Lair]]: The Matrix.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The G-Phone and Shirogane's G-Brace Phone. <ref> Notable for being the first series to have cell phone [[Transformation Trinket|Transformation Trinkets]] for the main team.</ref>

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** Silver: [[Swiss Army Weapon|Gao Hustler Rod]] <ref>[[Royal Rapier|Sabre]], [[Ray Gun|Sniper]], and [[Improbable Weapon User|Break]] modes.</ref>

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Hidekatsu Shibata]] once more voices the male half of a villain with male and female nature.

* [[Airplane Arms]]

* [[Body Horror]]: the three High Dukes are [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|especially]] guilty of this.

* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: In the finale, after the Gaorangers are [[Brought Down to Normal]], they bring out their last weapon against {{spoiler|Senki}}: an old sword dating to the Heian era. Needless to say, it doesn't work.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "''[[Gratuitous English|Nebaa]] [[Heroic Spirit|Gibaapu!]]''"<ref> "Never give up!"</ref>

** Yabaiba has... "''Yabaiba!''", meaning "[[Oh Crap|This is bad!]]" while also a direct pun on his name.

** TsueTsue's "[[Make My Monster Grow|Oni in, luck out!]]".<ref> "Oni wa uchi, fuku wa soto!" This one is a pun on a traditional Japanese saying which is recited during New Year's time to attract good fortune, which is the exact reverse of Tsutsue's quote: "Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi!" (Oni out, luck in!)</ref>

* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: The three High Dukes have colors corresponding to the RGB scheme: Shuten is red, Ura is green, and Rasetsu is blue.

* [[Clip Show]]/[[Breather Episode]]: Episode 45. Features, apart from the Gaorangers (and Yabaiba) reminiscing about the series so far, GaoKing ''dancing'' and the episode ending with everyone in a hot spring.

** ''Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai'', while including plenty of new action scenes, doubles as a clip show for the entire franchise, as the veteran rangers tell the Gaorangers about Super Sentai history.

* [[Golem]]: The Power Animals are more like this than actual mecha. They're spirit animals who inhabit material aspects created from the Earth itself. Their robot-like appearance is due to using metal ore deposits to make their skins.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Q-BfxLtVU As seen here.]

** Blue and Black have their own [[Gratuitous English]]: "Never give up!"

** Even Red gets in on it. "Open the vulcan!"

** The entire team's henshin call: "''Samon! Supiritsu obu ji aasu!''"

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|When Silver first showed up, he was possessed by the demon Loki and became a good guy after the other Gaorangers beat him. His mecha, the Gao Hunter, also does a literal heel face turn, as his face changed from an "Evil Mode" to a "Justice Mode".}}

** Similarly, Shuten is [[Tetsu Inada]], in his first major role in a [[Super Sentai]] series.

** Rasetsu's lower mouth is voiced by [[Kamen Rider Stronger|General Shadow]] and [[Mazinger Z|Baron Ashura's]] [[Hidekatsu Shibata|male voice.]]

* [[I Let You Win]]: Ura pulls one in the Rangers by {{spoiler|letting them win against Orgs powered by the thousand-year evil spirit, then using its matured power to power himself up.}}

** Forget the mecha, GAOBLUE can fly on occasion.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Almost all the Orgs. Rasetsu has [[Extreme Omnivore|a giant fork and spoon]] for chrissakes.

* [[King of Beasts]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Gaorangers' civilian names all contain the names of their animal.

* [[Mega Neko]]: While all the feline Power Animals count, this trope goes solely to the Super GaoLion, bigger than most of the combined mecha.

* [[Miko]]: Tetomu.

* [[Milestone Celebration]]: To mark the series' 25th anniversary the Gaorangers join forces with a bunch of veteran Sentai members.

** GaoKing is a nod to [[Ohranger]] Robo. Avian forming back and head, leonine torso, bovine pelvis and legs, with blue and white mecha forming limbs. The main design difference is that GaoKing has the last two mecha as arms and the bovine mecha forms complete legs, whereas Ohranger Robo's leonine mecha is torso and arms, and the last two mecha are lower legs.

** Gao Red is a lion-themed hero who uses a [[Power Fist]] and a BFG, just as [[Choujuu Sentai Liveman|Yellow Lion]] was.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: White chances upon Red's wallet in episode 8 and assume the girl in the picture is his girlfriend. {{spoiler|Turns out she's the ''wife'' of Red's boss when he was a veterinarian.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Played for laughs between Yabaiba and Yellow.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Many Power Animals are slightly modified recolors of others, most notably Gao God's components being retools of Gao King's components. Thanks to the stacked retools, Gao God avoids being a blatant example.

* [[Panthera Awesome]]: Usually, animal-themed Sentai have at least one large cat ranger in the mix. Here, we have two, Gao Red for a lion, Gao White for a tiger. Additionally, we have the Leon and Jaguar mecha for Gao God.

* [[Psycho Rangers]]: Done in Quest 12 by an Org based on a photocopy machine. And later, a specialty of Duke Org Dorodoro - he made the Gaorangers fight their shadows, which they could not defeat without hurting themselves.

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: See link to [[Gratuitous English]] above.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: [[Lampshaded]] when White points out that Tsuetsue is the [[Oba-san|oldest woman in the show.]]

* [[Recursive Import]]: Korea had already dubbed [[Power Rangers Wild Force]], the American adaptation, and is now dubbing Gaoranger itself as well.

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: In the second [[Eyecatch]], GaoRed fires the Gao Mane Buster.

'''Yabaiba:''' I did it! Yes! }}

** Why else would a pool-cue weapon be named the Gao ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/ Hustler]'' Rod?

** The list of all 100 Power Animals contains two very familiar groupings: [[Choujin Sentai Jetman|Hawk, Condor, Owl, Swan, and Swallow]], and [[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger|Ape, Bear, Toad, Japanese Wolf and Crane]].

* [[Team Pet]]: Soul Bird fills this role before growing into a [[BFG]].

* [[Turtle Power]]: Both the [[Floating Continent]] and the Gao's Rock (a rare heroic version of the [[Ominous Floating Castle]]) are shaped like giant turtles.

** Episode 30. {{spoiler|Ura reveals his master plan and absorbs the thousand-year old evil spirit, killing all but two of the Rangers.}}

* [[Written Sound Effect]]: The ''[[Written Roar|GAO!]]'' kanji pops up on screen numerous times. Other instances include the kanji for ''Slash!'' when the Haja Hyakujuuken is used.

 

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