Awesome / Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger

• GaoBlue vs Bus Org.
• The season finale, where the "Hundred Animals" part of the show title proves to be more than just marketing. All ONE HUNDRED Power Animals show up to aid our heroes, with the help of Plex's Concept Art for unused Power Animals like the Mouse, Horse and Peacock etc.
• In Vs. Super Sentai, the scene where Lost Highness Duke Rakushaasa is pummeled by 25 years worth of Humongous Mecha. Okay, so the attacks were mostly Stock Footage, but the brief scene showing GaoLion summoning them...not so much. Special mention goes to Q-Rex for delivering a surprisingly powerful strike to the seemingly unstoppable Highness that forces him to go all out and still living through that attack to deliver a second more powerful one alongside its fellow mechas. Others from that movie include Yuusuke giving a super-powered Yabaiba a Curb-Stomp Battle, his later swordfight with Gaku, and Soukichi Banba revealing himself. And, of course, all ten heroes transfoming and the Dream Sentai pummeling the revived Orgs with Liveman's opening playing in the background.
• Episode 30. Even if it's undone via Deus ex Machina, the main team is killed off. Points for Highness Duke Org Ura for pulling it off, throughout his arc he manipulated every development possible to reach that outcome and it's telling that GaoGod's interference was the sole reason he did not flat-out win there and then. Not even his successor and many other Sentai villains, Rasetsu who does depower them in his climax plan, can claim that fame of almost completely ending all their enemies in minutes.
• Episode 31 :
  • Even though GaoGod bailed them out, something truly has to be said for GaoRed and GaoSilver being total Determinators. Even though it's their Darkest Hour, and GaoRed is close to the Despair Event Horizon, the cries of children assaulted by Ura gives GaoRed and GaoSilver their Heroic Second Wind. And even though they are as thoroughly outmatched as before, they still fight to stall Ura and to protect the innocent children he was targetting.
  • Meanwhile, in the afterlife, the dead Gaorangers don't let their own deaths stop themselves from trying to help their teammates, even when faced a trial coming with the very real risk of ending up Deader than Dead in a lava pit. But if it will help the two remaining GaoRangers? They don't hesitate to take the jump and assemble the floating stone pieces into the Falcon Summoner relief.
  • GaoRed getting the Falcon Summoner from his teammates in the afterlife, and first utterly owning Ura, before summoning GaoFalcon.
    • The resulting imagery is deliberately made to evoke a Phoenix, and the narration stops short, just calling it a "fire bird".
    • Their power animals and the GaoRangers making it back from the afterlife may be a Deus ex Machina, but it doesn't make it any less awesome.
    • Then, the insert song Eyes of Justice goes and outright compares GaoFalcon to a Phoenix.
  • Heavenly Spirit King GaoIcarus being formed for the first time and utterly owning Ura even in his ultimate form. It's truly cathartic to see Icarus Bind hold him in place as a setup for the finisher Ultimate Heavenly Technique: Icarus Dynamite.
• GaoHunter Blue Moon, the already ludicrously powerful Power Animal mecha manages to kick even more ass.
• GaoSilver's first appearance. He easily pummels Chimera Org in both small and giant form, then utterly anihilates Highness Duke Org Ura personally with a few strikes as payback for all he did to him.
• Gaoranger announcing a surprise screening of their movie at the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival, over 18 years since the series ended.

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