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''Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters'' (''Special Mission Squadron Go-Busters'') is the 36th and current ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series, airing from 2012 to 2013.

[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|In the year 2012]] of [[Alternate Reality|the Anno Novi calendar]], urban life is supported by a [[Green Aesop|new, clean energy source]] known as "Enetron". However, a hostile force codenamed "Vaglass" is attempting to steal that energy for their own dark purposes.

 

 

Now in the present, the agents of Vaglass are aiming to siphon enough Enetron to teleport the consciousness known as "Messiah" back into the real world. Opposing their evil plans is the secret special-ops division of the Energy Management Centre, codenamed "Go-Busters".

=== The Go-Busters: ===

 

 

=== The Vaglass ===

 

* Enter: A human-looking rival spy working as Messiah's agent in the real world. It's him who actually creates the Metaroids by infecting machines with Metaviruses. [[Gratuitous French|Likes to show off that he speaks French.]]

 

 

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=== Recurring ''[[Super Sentai]]'' tropes: ===

* [[By the Power of Grayskull]]: The team's [[Transformation Trinket|Transformation Trinkets]] announce "It's Morphin' Time!" after being activated. Once it's formed the majority of their costume, they say "Let's Morphin'!" to form the visor to their helmet and finish the change.

* [[Eyecatch]]: Averted, much like in ''Gokaiger'', the Go-Busters' logo appears in the corner of the screen prior to commercial breaks.

** [[The Hero]]: Hiromu

** [[The Big Guy|The Big]] [[The Heart|Heart]]: Ryūji

** On the other hand, the entire concept of subspace as used by the villains is this trope taken to its creepy conclusion.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]:

** [[Transforming Mecha]]: Each Buster Machine can transform from a vehicle mode (Buster Vehicle) to an animal mode of some sort ([[Animal Mecha|Buster Animal]]). Buster Machines CB-01 Cheetah and BC-04 Beetle each also have an additional robot mode (Go-Buster Ace and Go-Buster Beet).

** [[Combining Mecha]]: For starters, the Buddyroids combine with the Buster Machines to get them to do anything more complicated than their vehicle mode.

*** The Go-Buster Ace can combine with the Stag Beetle to form the Go-Buster Ace Stag Custom.

*** {{spoiler|Buster Machine FS-0O Frog can replace the RH-03 Rabbit to form Go-Buster-Gero-Oh.}}

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

'''All''': [[Let's Get Dangerous|Go!]] }}

* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: The red and gold Buddyroids and Buster Machines have more features than the others. CB-01 Cheetah and BC-04 Beetle have humanoid modes in addition to their vehicle and animal modes, and can wear other Buster Machines as armor. Cheeda Nick can also turn into a motorcycle, and Beet J. Stag becomes the fifth team member, Stag Buster.

* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]: ...sort of. While Hiromu is a fully-trained member of the team, he was on furlough for a while because his sister didn't approve of it, so Yōko resents him as a "newcomer".

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Yōko

* [[Theme Naming]]: The first names of each of the Buddyroids are a combination of the animals they're modeled after and their respective partners, while their last names is a reference to their favorite foods.

** Cheeda (Cheetah + Sakurada) Nick (a play on ''niku'', which means meat)

 

* [[Acting for Two]]: In Episode 12, Yoko discovers she has a [[Doppelganger]], a Chinese actress named Angie Sue. They look exactly alike except for their hairstyles. Naturally, they're played by the same actress.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Enter actually launches an infiltration of the EMC's base as early as #6, though he started it off in #4.

* [[Alternate Timeline]]: The first Sentai to follow the trope, seeing that Enetron is already present at 2012 and before, but nowhere in sight during ''Gokaiger'' and any ''Sentai'' titles previously. And during the teamup movie, it seems that this timeline lacks any [[Sixth Ranger]] of the previous Sentai.

* [[Animal Motifs]]:

** [[Panthera Awesome]]: Red Buster and Cheeda Nick

** [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: Yellow Buster and Usada Lettuce

** [[Japanese Beetle Brothers]]: Beet Buster and Beet J. Stag/Stag Buster

* [[Big Badass Rig]]: GT-02.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Hiromu in #1, arriving on Cheeda Nick's bike mode and [[Eye Scream|shooting out the monster's eye]] when it has his team mates on the ropes, weakening it enough for them to finish it off while he takes on the Megazord in Go-Buster Ace.

* [[Boogie Knights]]: [http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/Testaros25/GIFs/idKXmrrVbfk2l.gif Go-Buster Ace can dance.] Your argument is invalid.

* [[A Boy and His X]]: Red Buster plays it the straightest as his buddyroid, Cheeda, stands by him the most compared to other buddyroids who stay in the headquaters.

* [[Cavalier Consumption]]: #10. Yōko eating her candies while staring down the enemy actually looks badass.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: At the start of #4, [[Mission Control]] tells the Go-Busters that transporting through Cyberspace is unreliable, and even using Metaroids as a beacon, enemy Megazords can be as far off the mark as three kilometers. When Enter shows up right outside one Enetron tank and is blatantly obvious about it, Hiromu realizes that he's just a diversion and their real goal is another district's tank, three kilometers away behind a nearby mountain range.

** The GoBuster Ace holding up against RH-03 gunfire in #2 actually justifies Yoko [[Spot the Impostor|picking out the CopyRoid impersonator]] [[Cutting the Knot|by shooting them both]] in #12.

** Also, while definitely not the first Sentai series to have a [[Mission Control]] and support crew, it is likely the first to realistically depict the amount of logistics that these crews have to do to give assistance to the team (instead of simply showing them typing on computers). For instance, the first episode shows that a large number of technicians are needed to coordinate the launch of Go-Buster Ace. Hiromu also needs to inform the base minutes before that he will be using the mech to give them some prep time, instead of simply 'summoning' it instantly.

** It's worth noting, however, that it's not the first or the most "logical/realistic" by far; ''[[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]]'' was pretty much an entire series of a serious take on that.

** Also, the command to form the [[Combining Mecha]] is "[[Gratuitous English|Combine Operation]], Tokumei Gattai", which one fansub group translated as "Combine Operation, Operative Combination".

* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: A low-tech but effective example in #5, where the image is simply ''rotated'' at the same speed as Blue and Yellow's particularly difficult 360-flipping moves.

* [[Freudian Trio]]

** Superego: Hiromu

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The code for the Buster Machines indicate the animals and vehicles they can transform into. Buster Machine GT-02 for example, is a '''G'''orilla that can transform into a '''T'''ruck. Subverted by the CB-01, which is a '''C'''heetah that transforms into a sports car, which combines with Cheeda Nick (who transforms into a '''B'''ike).

** {{spoiler|The number at the end (0X) also indicates their owner. When X is a number, it indicates that the owner is a Buster, whereas letters indicates that it's an auxiliary mecha not owned by anyone in particular.}}

*** The use of "It's morphin time!" and "Megazord".

*** The team takes their helmets off somewhat regularly, which does happen in ''[[Super Sentai]]'' (in ''Go-Onger'' for example), but is ''much'' more common in ''Power Rangers''.

*** That the gold member of the team is an eccentric genius scientist believed lost when the [[Big Bad]] was unleashed, but turns out not only to still be alive, but in possession of powers brings to mind [[Power Rangers RPM|Gem]], only (hopefully) less insane.

** The Buster Machines seem to be a mash-up of the [[Engine Sentai Go-onger|Engines]] (animal/vehicle gimmick) and the [[Tensou Sentai Goseiger|Gosei Machines]] (removable head gimmick).

** The end of the [[Dancing Theme]] shows everyone in a very [[Gekisou Sentai Carranger|familiar pose]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Messiah" is the trying-way-too-hard-to-be-good type.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: #5. Not just Ryūji - Seriously, how often does the [[Monster of the Week]] ''plead for mercy?''

* [[Overt Operative]]: It's ''Super Sentai''. "Secret" agents or no, they still have colorful suits and giant robots.

* [[Painting the Medium]]: The audio noticeably becomes glitchy when Ryūji overheats and goes berserk.

* [[Race Against the Clock]]: Zigzagged. The timer that shows how long before an enemy Megazord materializes ticks with [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot|varying paces]], but there's nothing that states that the Go-Busters absolutely must defeat the Monster of the Week before the countdown finishes; in fact, more often they simply split up and bring in their Humongous Mecha while simultaneously fighting the monster if there isn't enough time, or they defeat the monster well before the countdown finishes and have plenty of time to get into their Buster Vehicles.

* [[Right Behind Me]]: The plot of #9 is kicked off by a feud between Yōko and Usada after she walks in on him ranting about her poor test scores and how "she doesn't need to be getting any dumber!", all while Hiromu and Ryūji look on and wince.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Each Go-Buster has a "Buddyroid", a human sized robot companion that is capable of transforming into the control panel of their individual mecha.

** Cheeda Nick is a red mecha who can transform into a bike much like [[Denjin Zaboga]], Autovajin from ''[[Kamen Rider 555]]'', Rikushinki from ''Changerion'' or [[Kamen Rider Double|Kamen Rider Accel]]. His humanoid form is noticeably less cat-like and rather similar to [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|ZECT]] or [[Kamen Rider Den-O|Den-O]] Riders.

** Go-Buster-Beet even mimics GaoGaiGar's arms - both arms are a single piece that passes through a hollow torso until it's midway through.

** Beet Buster and Stag Buster's [[Transformation Trinket|Transformation Trinkets]] double as their [[Handgun|Handguns]]. Only a few other [[Kamen Rider Faiz|toku superheroes]] [[Kamen Rider Decade|comes to mind]].

* [[Signature Style]]: It's written by [[Yasuko Kobayashi|Kobayashi]]; her trope repertoire is bound to show up sooner or later.

** The series itself in general seems to be breaking a number of trends already from the start - see [[Something Completely Different]] below - although it's hard to tell which ones are her handiworks.

** [[In a Single Bound]]: Yōko

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Yōko eats sweets to keep her energy up.

* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]: Hyperspace transfer times for Vaglass Megazords seem to depend on how soon the writers need it to appear. For example, the ShovelZord in Mission 1 took 3 minutes and 30 seconds to transfer. In Mission 3, the NeedleZord took 42 minutes to completely transfer.

** It should be noted however, that the slower transfer time was acknowledged in series. Also note that it was implied to be that the slower the transfer time, the less Enetron used in the process.

* [[Twisted Christmas]]: Messiah's first incursion into the human world 13 years ago happened on Christmas Day.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: #10. Nick can't find his way to Rika's exhibition, and tries hitchhiking... but gets ignored.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Hiromu and Yōko.

* [[The Watson]]: The newest support personnel Miho Nakamura, has little to no knowledge of what the Vaglass are or even how the Go-Busters got their powers and is in frequent need of explanation, good thing too since if she didn't the viewers would have a hard time keeping up.

** Ryūji: If he uses his [[Super Strength]] too much, he will [[Overheating|overheat]]. And when he overheats, he goes [[Ax Crazy]] and starts lashing out at anyone nearby, friend or foe, until he either cools down or collapses.

** Yōko: If she runs out of energy, she will stop moving. As a result, she has to [[Sweet Tooth|eat sweets]].

* [[X Meets Y]]: While it's too early to see just ''how many'' cues its taken, some are already calling it ''[[Super Sentai]]'' meets ''[[Power Rangers]]''.

** Alternatively, ''[[K-tai Investigator 7]]'' meets ''[[Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad]]''. Possibly meeting ''[[Chouriki Sentai Ohranger]]'' too.

 

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