Choujuu Sentai Liveman: Difference between revisions

 

=== '''The villains:''' ===

* Guardnoid Gash: Bias' [[Battle Butler|right-hand robot]]. In charge of making defeated Brain Beasts grow to incredible sizes.

* Dr. Obular: Formerly Gō Omura, he considers the human form to be inferior and mutates himself into the monstrous "perfect lifeform" Obular. He has a major inferiority complex, which motivated his transformation. Jō's rival.

* Dr. Ashura: [[The Brute]]. Formerly Arashi Busujima, an underworld crime boss. Bias artificially increases his intelligence to transform him into the genius Dr. Ashura, making his brainpower as formidable as his fighting abilities.

* [[Eyecatch]]: A 360-degree shot of the Live Robo (looking ready to kick some giant ass) going out; the Liveman logo superimposed over a shot of Earth before the team appears below coming in. Both with their own little jingle.

* [[Finishing Move]]: The Bimotion Buster, even after the Triple Bazooka was introduced.

** [[The Hero]]: Yūsuke

** [[The Lancer]]: Jō

* [[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.

* [[Supervillain Lair]]: The Zuno Base

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Introduced the twin-bracelet style trinkets with the aptly-named "Twin Brace."

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[BFG]]: The Bimotion Buster.

** Yūsuke: [[Cool Sword|Falcon Sword]]. He later gets the [[Cool Sword|Falcon Saber]].

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

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

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

 

* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: {{spoiler|As the crashed Brain Base explodes around them, Gush tells the now senile Bias that the explosions are fireworks celebrating his conquest of the Earth.}}

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Their [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|casual clothes]]. Averted in the middle of the series, when they were given different clothing, but later returned to their original clothes in the final episodes.

** Also new weapons for Red and Yellow that can combine with Blue's weapon to form another BFG. Possibly subverted since the BFG is smaller and weaker than their first one, and Red's new weapon is basically his old one with a longer, flashier looking handle (allowing him to do a two-hand grip and the "Falcon Break" attack).

* [[Mirrored Confrontation Shot]]

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Junichi due to a [[Monster of the Week]].

* [[Only Sane Man]]: When Bias {{spoiler|temporarily mind-controls everyone on Earth}} towards the end, only Yuusuke, untransformed and aboard the Brain Base, can stop him.

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

** {{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}}.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Initially averted - the protagonists and antagonists ''all'' qualify for the trope - and then deconstructed, more or less starting with Obular's breakdown.

** Volt as a whole kinda shows what happens when you let this trope be the thing by which everything is measured.

** 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.

** With the exception of Dr. Oblar, all the (formerly) human Volt doctors stay on as face characters and are all humanized in one way or other when they "leave" Volt.

** Even Butchy gets an episode to prove this, and he's non-human by every definition of the phrase.