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* The ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' manga is somewhere between a [[Deconstruction]] and [[The Parody|Parody]] of this genre. The Municipal Team Daitenzin is [[Sentai]] group made up by the local government to fight the evil organization ACROSS, but it's staffed by a collection of disinterested or stupid employess who do more damage than they fix.

** The anime, meanwhile, throws out the serious elements and goes into full-blown parody with Municipal Team Daitenzin.

* The episode "Super Sooga Squad" of the ''[[Pucca]]'' TV series is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of Sentai series.

* Parodied in ''[[Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman]].'' Their suit colors are the intentionally awful Red, Moss Green, Gray, Sepia, and Salmon Pink.

* ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'' had a group of Autobots who pretty much acted as a sentai team.

* An audio drama of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' of all things, set post-series and [[Animated Actors|thoroughly destroying the fourth wall]] has the cast having to re-tool the show for new episodes; Asuka has the pilots (Rei, herself, Shinji, Toji, and Kaworu) try being super sentai. [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|It's]]...[[Stylistic Suck|special]].

* ''[[Tentai Senshi Sunred]]'', a parody of these types of shows.

* Parodied and deconstructed in ''[[Franken Fran]]'': Takeshi, a sprinter with a bone disorder, goes to Fran and receives surgery to rebuild his body. Unfortunately, several other sprinters received the same surgery -- when they ''all'' break the world record, he's discredited and disgraced. The others beat the crap out of him, so he gets more surgery and becomes a sentai hero named Sentinel. Then he becomes a [[Knight Templar]], beating people up for littering, until finally {{spoiler|his victim's family members gun him down. He receives one more surgery, leaving him monstrous... and in his new form he is attacked and killed by ''more'' sentai. The end of the chapter shows the city in a riot of [[Let's You and Him Fight]] battles, while Fran is complaining that everyone wants superpowers but nobody wants to ''pay'' for them.}}

* Most shows about [[Combining Mecha]] use the sentai style to some extent -- in fact there's even a [[Combining Mecha]] anime called ''[[Chojin Sentai Balatack]]'', which includes the [[Five-Man Band]] with color-coded outfits. About the only thing these sorts of shows don't use is the [[Super Sentai Stance]], since typically the heroes rarely fight outside their vehicles or robots, but even so, the combined robot will usually do plenty of posing upon combining.

* One of the earliest strips in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' has the five lead girls becoming the "Color Rangers". Keeping with the art theme, they're yellow, magenta, cyan and monochrome. Except for Tomokane, who's red, because every good Sentai team needs a red leader.

* Another [[Show Within a Show]] example is the Star Rangers in ''[[Muteki Kanban Musume]]''. Akihiko is a huge fan of them, to the point that when anyone so much as mentions the show, he starts to think he ''is'' Red Star. He seems equally convinced that the rest of the main cast are the other Star Rangers.

* [[Disgaea|"Together...we are...the PRISM RANGERS!!]]"

** [[Lampshade Hanging|"But there are only three of you. That's not even enough for a rainbow."]]

* The Dragoons of ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'', complete with elemental alliances and color coding.

* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'': In a Private Action with Leon in Fun City, the "Scummy Rangers" show up in a deliberately over-the-top show where they dispatch evil monsters with the help of the kiddy audience.