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Kogure
Portrayed by: Yoichi Nukumizu
- Big Good: Played with, his loyalties and mission are all for the sake of the Lupin Family and he is willing to assist the Lupinrangers in small capacities like offering VS Changer enhancements. However, he's not the one on the suicide mission and he's not willing to get his hands too dirty. All that matters in the retrieval of the Lupin Collection and nothing else.
- By Episode 35, it's clear that he's playing this much straighter than he wants to. For the most part, he does care about the fact that he is sending three youths through life threatening situations, and actually witnessing them fight proves this to be the case. He wants to stay as detached as possible to maintain a sense of authority to make sure they accomplish the mission since they can easily lose their life and he doesn't want to stay emotionally attached in case it happens.
- The Chooser of the One: Kogure scouted Yano, Yoimachi, and Hayami to become the Lupinrangers for a currently unknown reason while promising the three a reward in return.
- The Dreaded: Downplayed. Goodie is afraid of him, but only because of his fear of being locked up with the rest of the Lupin Collection for his mischievousness and minor misdeeds. He soon gets over it after Kogure relents and grants him freedom for his usefulness towards the Lupinrangers.
- Hidden Depths: When he was split into "Good", "Bad" and "Normal" versions of himself, the "Bad" split looked and acted like an old man in stereotypical Bōsōzoku gear, which leads Kairi to assume he's a Former Teen Rebel. The truth is that he's always been a gentleman, he just has an admiration for Roughnecks.
- Human Aliens: He and Noël were both decendants of a race of humans that came from the Ganglers' home world.
- The Jeeves: Is a butler.
- Master of Disguise: Is quite good at this, to the point that he was able to make himself look exactly like Kairi to fool the Global Police. However, it's been a while since he's done it so he's a bit rusty.
- Mysterious Benefactor: He operates on a highly secretive need-to-know basis regrading the information he gives out regarding his goals, his employer, and the Lupin Collection itself, to the point that Kairi doesn't even know the number of pieces they have to recover. He also likes to show up out of nowhere and leave the same way.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Any time he has to appear outside of that limo of his. It's not till episode 7 that we learn that he actually can use doors.
Commander Samuel Hilltop
Portrayed by: Ike Nwala
- Benevolent Boss:
- After Sakuya messes up badly to the point his VS Changer almost got stolen by LupinBlue, Hilltop doesn't chew him out. Instead he encourages Sakuya to make up for his mistakes by continuing to work.
- When the Patrangers are hospitalized, he went down to Bistro himself to buy snacks for the Patrangers.
- When Sakuya is suspended for attacking the other Patrangers, Hilltop and Hilltop's boss, Hilltop goes against orders to let Sakuya go against orders and join the other Patrangers, risking not only Sakuya getting fired, but himself as well. Unlike his boss, Hilltop believed him that it was (rightfully) the work of a Gangler.
- Celebrity Resemblance: The show has made a couple of jokes about him resembling Eddie Murphy.
- Da Chief: Commander of the Patranger.
- Token Minority: The only black character in a cast full of Japanese characters (and not just in this season; Super Sentai can go more than a decade without showing anyone non-Japanese humans, outside the occasional traveller.)
Jim Carter
Portrayed by: Mizuho Nogawa (suit)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
- Armless Biped: Though he can grow them when needed.
- The Dog Bites Back: When he's forced to impersonate a Gangler to lure the Lupinrangers into a trap, he decides to make the most out of the situation and beat several of the disguised Global Police agents up with wrestling moves for making him work so hard back at the office.
- Expy He looks like what would happen if Mint and Colon had a baby.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after the British actor who plays the butler from Downton Abbey. With the police motif, it could also be Chris Tucker's character from Rush Hour.
- Robot Buddy: For the Patrangers.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Literally, with data cables and everything.
Good Striker/"Goodie"
Voiced by: Yūji Mitsuya
The sentient being that inhabits the machine, nicknamed Goodie by Lupin Yellow. A piece of the Lupin Collection, he gives his help to whichever team impresses him more at a moment. As there is only one of him, only one Kaiser can be active at a time. Goodie states to the Lupin that his specific ability is to boost the power of other Collection items. It is later revealed that Arsène Lupin had modified him from his original form so that he could easily be used by humans and, as the Good Striker, he was tasked with the duty of protecting the rest of the Collection.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: While teamed with the Lupin, and while combined into LupinKaiser, Goodie takes the form of a tiny imp that looks like a carrot with a top hat while in the cockpit with the team. When formed into PatKaiser, he wears a police hat. When going for Good Cool Kaiser VSX, he will have a king's crown on as a hat.
- Ax-Crazy: He's constantly twitching with excitement during his first fight as Lupin Kaiser, even chanting enthusiastically about Rapid-Fire as the Lupinrangers are gunning a Gangler down with a finisher and declaring that he feels fantastic afterwards.
- The Big Guy: Once enlarged and combined into PatKaiser, Goodie has greater striking force.
- Catchphrase:
- When he shows up to help the heroes:
"Good Striker! Appearing out of nowhere!"- He has a pair for combining into the Kaisers.
LupinKaiser: Let's steal victory!PatKaiser: Let's reach out for justice! - The Confidant: While he does ally with the Patrangers at times, he does not go out of his way to reveal the identities of the Lupinrangers to them. And because the Lupinrangers are the ones holding onto the Lupin Collection, he will prioritize them if they are in trouble of being compromised.
- Fragile Speedster: LupinKaiser lacks power, but makes up for it by being much faster.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: His propensity for changing sides (sometimes mid-combat) and ditching his allies once the fight is over has failed to endear him to either team. They grow to regard him as a necessary annoyance to call forth either Kaiser.
- That said between the two, he grows closer to the Lupinrangers, willing to spend time with them outside of when they need his help and being a Secret-Keeper. Likewise while both teams are guilty of ignoring his feelings and using him against his will, more often then not it's Patrangers who does so, with Lupinrangers usually being respectful enough to ask. (Not that it stops him from ignoring them). It helps that the Lupinrangers treat him as a person, even if one they don't always like, compared to the Patrangers who treat him as a mere object.
- Inverted with Noël, he absolutely adores Noel (who himself falls into this trope with the other teams) and vice versa. It also helps that Noël does not need Goodie to form the X Emperor.
- Kryptonite Factor: The Bad Boys collection piece, which cancels out the powers of the other collection pieces, can easily negate his powers as he's also a part of that collection.
- Oh, Crap!: Has a big one upon hearing Kogure's name.
- Has another in #31 upon realizing Gauche's Chimera Gangler has the Bad Boys collection piece equipped in one of its safes. note
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Since he is both sentient and makes up the main body of LupinKaiser and PatKaiser, neither team has control of when the Mecha will disengage. As such if he's in a losing battle or the team of his choice does something that kills his motivation, or both, he will eject and run off to save himself.
- Finally, if the Patrangers ever put him in a situation where he is forced to attack a collection piece or a Gangler with one, he will forcefully eject them out as soon as he gains control.
- Super Mode: Can combine with each team's VS Changers to either fuse the Patrangers into Patren Ugou or triplicate one of the Lupinrangers.
- Goodie himself has one in the form of Good Cool Kaiser VSX combining the primary VS Vehicles on both sides as well as all of the X Trains. A total of 11 pieces counting the Good Striker.
- Wild Card: He has no loyalty to either Sentai Team and goes back and forth between them depending on which one he's more impressed with at the moment. This can even change mid-fight ejecting the current combination and forming the other. Kogure states that he is a collection piece who can be a bit difficult to deal with.
- It's gotten to the point where most of the time, they don't even consider his choice and the team closest to him when he shows up will simply snatch him to form their respective Kaiser.
- How much of a Wild Card he is depends on which team he's dealing with. Despite being generally unreliable he is a confident and Secret Keeper to the Lupinrangers, who in return treat him like a person they can't always depend on but trust. The Patrangers in comparison, treat him like an object and ignore his objections to being used against his will, which once leads to him abandoning them in a critical moment because it would endanger a piece of the collection.
- Once Noel shows up, Goodie just sticks with him and lets Noel hand him over the the team that needs him at the time. Though Noel falls into this trope as well so nothing much has changed.
- Eventually, when both teams were fighting over who gets to use him, Goodie calls an audible and has both teams with Noel combine for a much stronger formation.
Arsène Lupin
Portrayed by: Ikuya Sawaki
The legendary thief and the Lupinrangers' namesake. A hundred years ago, he discovered the existence of the Ganglers' home world as well as its race of Human Aliens who fled to Earth a thousand years prior, bringing with them mysterious artifacts they invented that were spread and scattered across the globe through the centuries. Acting on this, he became a Phantom Thief to gather these artifacts, which eventually came to be known as the Lupin Collection, in order to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands and to grant his wish. He died in an attempt to stop the Ganglers when they raided his hideout to steal the completed Lupin Collection.- The Ageless: He began acting as a Phantom Thief in the 1900s, yet he's shown to look the same from when he adopted Noël, till his death after the latter grew up, and as he did over a hundred years ago. Kogure points out that his constant travels between the worlds may have affected his physiology to allow him to live this long, and even he has no idea how old Arsène actually is.
- Posthumous Character: He's deceased long before the events of the show ever began, having been killed by the Ganglers while trying to stop them from stealing his collection. However, the collection he left behind plays a vital role in the story, and Nöel intends to revive him using the collection.
Jackpot Striker/"Jack"
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
Another sentient Lupin Collection piece with the power to control the Gangler members by entering their safe. He was stuck in Back World after an unsuccessful escape from the Gangler, but eventually made it to Earth after meeting Kairi and Keichiro. He's also fond of praise, as seen as agreeing with the Lupinrangers deeming him better than Goodie.- Back for the Finale: After his debut film, he doesn't show up again until the final episode, where he enters Dogranio's safe through Kogure's book and forces Dogranio to free the Lupinrangers, having been caught by the Lupinrangers' loved ones.
- Fusion Dance: When used as a Kaitou Boost by Kairi, he causes him and his fellow Lupinrangers to merge into Lupin Tricolor.
