History Recap / KikaiSentaiZenkaigerEp07TheDemonPrinceHasAShortFuseKai

->'''Secchan''': PreviouslyOn ''Zenkaiger!''\\

* WhatTheHellHero: Juran spares no words with Gaon after the fight with Stacy, calling him out for not sticking to his duty as a Zenkaiger despite them fighting against their fellow Sentai and a human-looking enemy.

Things seem to be going well... until a young man named Stacey appears. Quickly revealing himself to be aligned with the Tozitend, the team finds themselves fighting past Sentai teams. Put through a crisis of faith, Gaon is torn between his devotion to protecting humans and his duty as a Zenkaiger. Things only seem to get stranger and stranger as Stacey enacts his plans...

* CerebusRetcon: Gaon's BoomerangBigot tendencies during the past couple of episodes gets PlayedForDrama here, as his devotion to protecting humans makes him protect the human-looking Stacey and the Sentai he summoned, putting him at odds with his duty as a Zenkaiger.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Things seem to end well for the Zenkaigers when they destroy the fake Daizyujin, [=GaoKing=], [=MagiKing=] and [=DaiBouken=]... until Stacey summons even more ''Sentai'' mecha to fight.

** The Zenkaigers are on the end of a brutal one when they're up against Stacey's fake Sentai.

** Stacey summons fake versions of the ''Sentai'' mechs Daizyujin, [=GaoKing=], [=MagiKing=] and [=DaiBouken=], forcing the Kikainoid Zenkaigers to fight against [[{{Homage}} their design inspirations]]. The last time these four mechs were seen together was when the Gokaigers and Go-Busters Gokai Changed their mechs back in ''Film/TokumeiSentaiGobustersVsKaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovie''.

* NothingPersonal: Stacey says this word-for-word to the Zenkaigers, stating that he works for Ijirude because there is someone he aims to surpass, and that he bears no ill will towards them.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Gaon's status as a BoomerangBigot comes up again as he protects the human-looking Stacey from Zenkai Juran's attack out of prejudice, injuring him, Magine and Vroon in the process. Kaito later on gives him a pep talk, calming his concerns over whether Stacey and his summoned Sentai were potentially innocent humans. He regains his resolve to fight the summoned Sentai after learning they're fakes, while trusting Kaito to handle Stacey by himself.
* WhamEpisode: Stacey makes his first proper appearance in this episode, and the results aren't pretty. He not only nearly beats the Zenkaigers at their own game; he also reveals his own ranger form: Stacaesar.
* WhamLine: When Kaito questions Stacey about his origins, the latter only has this to say:
--> '''Stacey''': I might be human. ''[[HalfHumanHybrid Partially]]'', at least.
* WhatTheHellHero: Juran spares no words with Gaon after the fight with Stacey, calling him out for not sticking to his duty as a Zenkaiger despite them fighting against their fellow Sentai and a human-looking enemy.

Things seem to be going well... until a young man named Stacey appears. Quickly revealing himself to be aligned with the Tojitendo, the team finds themselves fighting past Sentai teams. Put through a crisis of faith, Gaon is torn between his devotion to protecting humans and his duty as a Zenkaiger. Things only seem to get stranger and stranger as Stacey enacts his plans...

* MoralDilemma: Gaon's status as a BoomerangBigot comes up again as he protects the human-looking Stacey from Zenkai Juran's attack out of prejudice, injuring him, Magine and Vroon in the process. Kaito later on gives him a pep talk, calming his concerns over whether Stacey and his summoned Sentai were potentially innocent humans. He regains his resolve to fight the summoned Sentai after learning they're fakes, while trusting Kaito to handle Stacey by himself.

[[caption-width-right:350:Enter the Dark power.]]

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* MythologyGag: Stacey summons fake versions of the ''Sentai'' mechs Daizyujin, [=GaoKing=], [=MagiKing=] and [=DaiBouken=], forcing the Kikainoid Zenkaigers to fight against [[{{Homage}} their design inspirations]]. The last time these four mechs were seen together was when the Gokaigers and Go-Busters Gokai Changed their mechs back in ''Film/TokumeiSentaiGobustersVsKaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovie''.

Things seem to be going well...until a young man named Stacey appears. Quickly revealing himself to be aligned with the Tojitendo, the team finds themselves fighting past Sentai teams. Put through a crisis of faith, Gaon is torn between his devotion to protecting humans and his duty as a Zenkaiger. Things only seem to get stranger and stranger as Stacey enacts his plans...

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Things seem to end well for the Zenkaigers when they destroy the fake Daizyujin, [=GaoKing=], [=MagiKing=] and [=DaiBouken=]...until Stacey summons even more ''Sentai'' mecha to fight.

* NothingPersonal: Stacey says this word-for-word to the Zenkaigers, stating that there is someone he aims to surpass and that he bears no ill will towards them.

Huh? Kaito, who's that guy?

Huh...? Kaito, who's that guy?