Character Sheet for Choushinsei Flashman.
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Choushinsei Flashman
In General
- Create Your Own Hero: The Mess originally intended to use them as test subjects, but they were rescued by the Flash race and trained to fight against them.
- Leotard of Power: The ranger suits for Sara and Lou have color pattern which resembles leotard/one-piece swimsuit, with the difference with the female rangers from previous two series is the "sleeveless" shape.
- Only One Name: None of the Flashmen have surnames due to not knowing them since they were abducted. We do eventually learn the surname of Sara - "Tokimura".
- Two Girls to a Team: The third Sentai team with two girls and the second with a Yellow and Pink duo, Sara and Lou.
Jin / Red Flash
Jin / Red Flash | Actor: Touta Tarumi
- Big Brother Instinct: Being the oldest among the Flashmen, Jin is in-charge of taking care of his teammates.
- Cool Sword Prism Seikennote
- Decoy Protagonist: Usually it's the Red Sentai that is the protagonist despite the usual focus on the overall team, however while Jin has decent enough focus most of the actual development and protagonism in the last episodes overall goes to Sara, as she both is the only Flashman to discover her real family and is the one to ultimately defeat Mess once and for all.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Like many red rangers after him, his signature weapon is one.
- Jack of All Stats: He's strong but not the strongest and smart but not the smartest. The combination of those skills, along with his leadership abilities, make him the best choice for leader of the team.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: He gets control of the largest of the Flash Mecha, the Tank Command and mans the team Finishers, as well as being the big bro of the team.
- The Leader: Of the Flashman.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Dai's red.
- The Smart Guy: He's an expert at science and machines.
- Standardized Leader: He's your standard Jack of All Stats Sentai leader.
- Team Dad: As the oldest he looks after the rest.
Dai / Green Flash
Dai / Green Flash | Actor: Kihachiro Uemura
The second-in-command. Trained in strength in the rocky Green Star.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Fits with his fists and little else.
- The Big Guy: The strongman of the team. While he also shares this position with Lou, he primarily uses punch-based attacks.
- Number Two: Second-in-command to Jin.
- Power Fist: Prism Kaiser
- Megaton Punch: ... Goes without question.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Jin's blue.
- Signature Move: Super Piston
- Super-Strength: Had his strength enhanced through special training and by spending time in the Flash system.
Bun / Blue Flash
Bun / Blue Flash | Actor: Yasuhiro Ishiwata
- The Lancer: Not the second-in-command, but as the most childish member of the group he contrasts the more serious Jin.
- Super-Speed: Has super agility due to training in speed.
- Wall Crawling: Part of his ability is being able to climb on walls.
Sara / Yellow Flash
Sara Tokimura / Yellow Flash | (Actress: Yoko Nakamura)
- An Ice Person: "Snow Freeze!"
- Lightning Bruiser
- Hero Protagonist: While Jin is technically this by virtue of being the Red Sentai ranger, Sara ultimately comes out as the actual protagonist due to the focus on her quest to find her family and ultimately managing to find who they are and being the first one to start destroying the Gene Synthetizer and cause the downfall of Mess once and for all.
- The Smart Girl: She has excellent analyzing skills.
- Super-Senses: Possesses enhanced sensory powers along with her analytical mind.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Lou's Tomboy.
Lou / Pink Flash
Lou / Pink Flash | (Actress: Mayumi Yoshida)
- Big Eater: Eats a lot, especially for a Pink.
- Glass Cannon: She is strong, but her massive strength leaves her exhausted.
- The Heart: She is quite caring, as seen in the episode where she mothered a new Beast Warrior.
- In a Single Bound: She is able to defy gravity with her abilities.
- Flight: Apparently this comes in packet with the above, thus by defying gravity, she can float in the air and fly.
- Kick Chick: Mainly fights by kicking.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Sara's Girly Girl.
Mag
Mag
Voiced by: Hiroko Maruyama
- Robot Buddy: He starts off trying to attack the team due to malfunctioning, but becomes the Flashman's buddy after being reprogrammed.
- The Mentor: To the Flashman, aiding them with his programmed knowledge.
- Team Pet: Starts off the pet Killer Robot before evolving into the Mentor.
Reconstructive Empire Mess
In General
- Alien Invaders: They hail from space and are looking to invade Earth.
- Evil Will Fail: Thanks to Ra Deus, Lee Keflen and the Alien Hunters all screwing each other over in various ways Mess ends up collapsing within itself, so much that by the time of the finale the recently ascendant Keflen can only create one last beast against the Flashman, the Demoss which proves to be far less of a problem than Ra Deus was. In the end Keflen goes down quickly and the biggest threat to the Flashman ends up being their deteriorating conditions rather than the remains of Mess.
- Flying Saucer: The Laboh, Mess' colossal disc-shaped mothership.
- LEGO Genetics: The Mess' modus operandi is splicing and manipulating the genes of various creatures to create monsters.
- Shout-Out: The Mess' motif calls back to a lot of B-movie tropes about aliens, what with their Flying Saucer-like base, insectoid Mooks, tripod fighters and goal of abducting people to perform experiments on them.
- Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy
- The Emperor: Ra Deus
- The Right Hand: Lee Keflen
- The General: Leh Wanda, Leh Nefel and Leh Galus
- The Oddball: Wolk and Kilt
- Evil Counterpart: Sir Cowler and the Alien Hunters
- Tripod Terror: The Mess Fighters are capable of shifting into tripod-like walkers for ground combat.
Great Emperor Ra Deus
Great Emperor Ra Deus | Actors: Unshō Ishizuka (voice), Hideaki Kusaka (live)
- A God Am I: Has a messiah complex and seeks to effectively become a god through genetic engineering.
- Bad Boss: Starts off not too bad but as his minions continue to fail him Lah Deus begins zapping and torturing them as punishment.
- Big Bad: As the ruler of Mess, master of Keflen and the one who had the Flashmen abducted while they were children, he's the one responsible for the plot and the woes of the Flashmen, even if he doesn't last to the final episode.
- Cool Mask: Wears a very spooky white featureless mask.
- Climax Boss: While he perishes just short of the finale, Ra Deus is the toughest opponent the Flashmen face in the series and his battle against them tests their strength and bonds with one another. Though Keflen is the final foe, the confrontation with him is a psychological one rather than a physical one.
- Creepy Long Fingers: Lah Deus' finger tips are very lanky and long.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Has a deep, booming voice courtesy of Unshō Ishizuka.
- Humanoid Abomination: He's eventually revealed to be a mass of genetic fluid that somehow came to life and gained sentience, taking a humanoid shape in the process.
- Large and in Charge: Towers over his minions with his tall and lanky body.
- Meaningful Name: Is called Ra Deus and has a massive god complex.
- Not Quite Dead: Twice over. First he regenerates after seemingly being killed by Cowler and then he reemerges from the Beast Warrior Keflen created from his genetics.
- Orcus on His Throne: While by far the strongest of the Mess, Lah Deus spends most of his time barking orders at Keflen and doesn't take to the field until late into the series.
- Rasputinian Death: Good lord, Lah Deus might have one of the most drawn out defeats of any Sentai Big Bad. First his genetics are pulled apart by Cowler only he comes back from that. Then he gets put through the Gene Synthesizer to make a new Beast Warrior, only to reemerge from it no worse for the wear. Then he tanks a shot from the Flashmen's Rolling Vulcan. In the end it takes two consecutive Finishing Moves from the Flashmen to destroy him, and even then the end of the final episode implies he may not be gone for good...
- Shout-Out: One of his attacks is firing lightning from his fingertips.
- The Sociopath: Cares about little else other than the furtherance of his own power and attaining godhood.
- Ultimate Lifeform: Becoming this is his ultimate goal.
- Villainous Legacy: After his death Keflen gets one last Beast Warrior from him, The Demoss. And the final scene implies his genetics may still be around.
Great Doctor Lie Keflen
Great Doctor Lie Keflen | Actor: Koji Shimizu
- Bastard Understudy: After discovering Ra Deus has been keeping information from him, Keflen begins to develop his own ambitions. When Cowler goes to kill Ra Deus, Keflen does nothing to stop Cowler from striking him down and seizes on the opportunity to become the new ruler of Mess.
- Deal with the Devil: Offers one to the Flashmen in the final episode, saying he can cure their Anti-Flash Phenomenon. They refuse.
- Die Laughing: Dies while laughing and playing the damaged gene synthesizer in the final episode.
- Dragon Ascendant: After Ra Deus dies for good, Keflen usurps his position and becomes the last foe of the Flashmen in the final episode.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While a heartless man otherwise, Keflen does care for his "daughter" Leh Nefel and respects the loyalty of his other creations.
- Evil Counterpart: To the Flashmen as a whole, having no memory of Earth while taken from his home world by Ra Deus to serve his needs. Unlike the Flashmen, who were raised by the Flash System's people and were informed of Earth at a young age, Keflen only learned his origins late in the series.
- Evil Genius: The chief scientist of Mess and the one responsible for creating the Beast Warriors for Mess.
- Forced into Evil: Keflen wouldn't have become the mad scientist he had become if Ra Deus didn't kidnap him when he was an infant and raised him as his subordinate.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: While Lah Deus is a powerful being, Keflen is also a key member of Mess given his vast knowledge in the field of genetic engineering.
- Mad Scientist: The lead scientist of Mess, who would do almost anything for an experiment.
- Maker of Monsters: Uses his genetic synthesizer to create the Beast Warriors, using the genes of animals from earth.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: He's the creator of most of Mess' monsters and the most human-looking of their members. And in fact, he is actually a human.
- Non-Action Guy: Keflen is the Evil Genius, but he's not a fighter. When the Flashman confront him in the final episode he goes down quick.
- Number Two: While not The Dragon, as Great Doctor of the Mess and the one who created the other generals, he is second to Ra Deus.
Leh Wanda
Leh Wanda | Actor: Yutaka Hirose
- The Dragon: While Keflen is the Number Two, Wanda is the lead enforcer and field commander of Mess.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He believes himself to be a superior being and took delight in an awakened power that allowed him overpower the Flashmen, but is disgusted to learn that power only last a day and that he only gained the one time ability from the five hideous animals he was spliced from.
- Master Swordsman: Skilled with the blade.
- One-Winged Angel: Gains an upgraded form in Wandahra halfway through the series.
- Time Stop: After becoming Wandahra, he can freeze time for three seconds.
Leh Nefel
Leh Nefel | Actor: Sayoko Hagiwara
- Dark Action Girl: She's a very skilled combatant, able to match both the Flashmen and Bo Gardan.
- One-Winged Angel: Gains the ability to assume her upgraded form Nefelura halfway through.
- Master of Illusion: So powerful that they harm real objects.
- Panthera Awesome: She's jaguar/cheetah-themed.
- Taking the Bullet: Dies taking a fatal hit from Jin's Prism Holy Sword that was meant for Keflen
Leh Galus
Leh Galus | Actor: Hiroyuki Uchida
- Breath Weapon: Gains the ability to spit fire thanks to Keflen feeding him a special flower.
- The Brute: The silent strongman of Mess.
- Killed Off for Real: Dies mid-series when Keflen starts experimenting with making the officers stronger. He does make Flashman work for it, though.
- Playing with Fire: A power Lie Keflen gave him in his final episode, letting him engulf himself in flame and spit devastating fireballs.
- The Voiceless: Never speaks and stays silent through the entire series, which might be why he was Killed Off for Real so early.
Wolk and Kilt
Wolk and Kilt Actors: Miyuki Nagato and Hiroko Kojima
- Ambiguously Gay: Very close, to the point that the wiki theorises they could be a case of Hide Your Lesbians
- One-Winged Angel: Kilt gets mutated into The Kiltos in their final episode.
Kuragen
- Evil Laugh: Kuragen sometimes lets a high-pitched chuckle.
- Make My Monster Grow: Kuragen's purpose in the series.
- Once per Episode: Kuragen can only enlarge one monster at a time, because the energy it takes for it to grow it will exhaust it and cause it to shrink.
- One-Winged Angel: Kuragen is fused with the remains of Ra Deus' DNA to become the final monster of the series, the Demoss.
- Team Pet: Kuragen is the least humanoid member of Mess, even less than Leh Galus and most of the Alien Hunters.
Zolors
- Insectoid Aliens: The resemble large humanoid insects.
- Mooks: Mess' main grunt force.
- Zerg Rush: They tend to attack in large hordes.
Beast Warriors
The monsters used by Mess.
- LEGO Genetics: They're created by using the Gene Synthesizer to combine various genetic samples to create a new lifeform.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Ra Deus eventually begins supplying his own "Deus Genetics" to create even stronger "Deus Beast Warriors".
- Monster of the Week: The Flashmen have to contend with one each week.
Alien Hunters
In General
- Eaten Alive: Kerao ends up getting devoured by a Beast Warrior for the purpose of powering it up.
- Fusion Dance: Following Kerao's death, the remaining three are kidnapped and fused into a Deus Beast Warrior by Mess.
- Hired Guns: Mercenaries employed by Mess to collect genetic samples for them.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: They're Cowler's squad of bizarre aliens.
- Sinister Scythe: Baura's weapon of choice is a large scythe.
- The Smurfette Principle: They have one female among their ranks - Hag.
Sir Cowler
Sir Cowler | Actor: Joji Nakata
- A Father to His Men: Cares for the Alien Hunters under him.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: Can take all five Flashmen on by himself, yet in the end he's defeated in a one-on-one duel with Red Flash.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Cowler doesn't appreciate having his Alien Hunters sacrificed for Lee Keflen's experiments.
- Knight of Cerebus: His debut episode has him completely kicking Flashman's asses, and his Beast Warrior destroying Flash King.
- Noble Demon: He's a remorseless bastard, for sure, but he's also A Father to His Men and always keeps his promises.
- Pet the Dog: Uses his last breaths to inform Sara of her parent’s identity.
- Sixth Ranger: Shows up a quarter of the way in to join up with Mess against the Flashmen.
- Wild Card: Defects from the Mess after they sacrifice his Alien Hunters, leading to a Mêlée à Trois between the Flashmen, Mess and him.
- Villain's Dying Grace: After being critically injured by Red Flash, his final action before performing a Suicide Attack on Laboh is to get Sara to discover her parents' true identities.
Bo Gardan
Bo Gardan | Actor: Yoshinori Okamoto
- The Dragon: Known as "Cowler's Right Hand", though he doesn't show up until late in the series.
- Reforged into a Minion: His fate is being mutated into a Deus Beast Warrior by Keflen.
- Sixth Ranger: Arrives in the final arc to reinforce Cowler.
Others
Leh Baraki
Leh Baraki | Portrayed by Haruki Jou (suit) and Banjo Ginga (voice)
The first creation of Keflen. He brings the Flash Titan to Earth.- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Wields a battle ax, and looks like a Viking
- His Name Is...: Tells the Flashmen that they have a secret weakness, but dies before he can explain it.
- Worthy Opponent: He saw Titan the Hero this way.
Titan the Hero
Titan | Portrayed by Yoshinori Okamoto (suit) and Toshiya Ueda (voice)
A Flashian hero who fought Baraki 100 years ago.- Posthumous Character: We only learn of him through Baraki, long after he's been slain.
