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Special Police Dekaranger
The team as a whole
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sen is probably the most obvious example, but pretty much all of them can be said to be this trope to some extent: Ban is a reckless Cowboy Cop, Hoji is a Large Ham who uses tons of dramatic Gratuitous English for no good reason, Sen and Jasmine have apparent Cloudcuckoolander tendencies, Umeko is an airheaded ditz, and Tetsu is a socially awkward Fish out of Water. Despite that, they're still incredibly competent detectives, and when organized under Boss's direction, a terrifyingly effective team.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The Abarangers consisted of four people of different professions and a man from another dimsion. The Dekarangers are young police officers and their older alien commander.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Each of them is known by a "nickname" that functions as a code name of sorts (even Hoji, whose "nickname" is just his normal given name, still writes it in katakana instead of the usual kanji). Despite being a Consummate Professional in his first appearance, Tetsu still prefers to be called "Tetsu" due to disliking formalities. As such, their real names only come up when professionally dealing with people outside the group, or with close personal friends or family members. As proof of his attachment to his old team, Ban is dismayed to be called "Banban" again once he transfers to the Fire Squad.
- Kruger is also pretty much exclusively called "Boss" by the Dekaranger team; only Swan gets to call him "Doggie", and "Kruger" only comes up from others.
- Punny Name: Each of their surnames is a pun on a famous author's name, while their nicknames or given names are taken from a kind of tea (see each individual section for specifics).
- Undying Loyalty: All of them would immediately drop everything on the spot to do anything for Boss. He's such an important presence to the team that in 10 Years After, him being caught in a Frame-Up and rendered comatose completely destroys them, with former Consummate Professional Hoji falling into depression to the point he starts shirking his duties and playing games in the computer lab all day, and Swan leaving the Earth branch to do independent forensic research, despite the fact she'd constantly been Declining Promotion for the purpose of staying there. Or not; Hoji had been secretly doing research into the case in the hopes of getting more evidence, and Swan had been developing technology that would expose the evidence that had gotten Boss framed, but it still goes to show you how much they were willing to do to clear his name; Tetsu had called Ban all the way down from the Fire Squad, Ban had coordinated and pulled off a convoluted Decoy Getaway plan, while Jasmine had broken her maternity leave to help pull it off. Absolutely nobody on the team had doubted his innocence for a second.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The most prominent example is Ban and Hoji, whose contrasting personalities lead to them constantly bickering, but pretty much all of the members can't resist teasing each other or arguing about the best way to solve a case. Yet when things really come down to it, the group's trust in each other is rock solid, and they'll gladly even resort to Heroic Sacrifice for each other if need be.
Ban/DekaRed
Banban "Ban" Akaza/DekaRed
Portrayed by: Ryuji Sainei (live), Hirofumi Fukuzawa (suit)
An SPD newcomer who finds himself assigned to the Earth branch as its Rookie Red Ranger. Due to his hyperactive, Hot-Blooded nature as a self-proclaimed "fireball", he starts off as a loudmouthed Cowboy Cop, but he's a good guy at heart, and he learns to work more cooperatively with the team as he spends more time with them. His reckless nature initially puts him at odds with Hoji, whom Ban labels his "partner", but the two eventually come to form a deep respect for each other. His fighting style mostly centers around dual guns.
- Abhorrent Admirer: He gets one in the form of Faraway, a Gyaru Girl alien who causes a boatload of trouble for the Dekarangers in Episode 30. Episode 38 also has Yahko, who's implied to have developed a crush on him via the events of the episode; in this case, it's not that Ban particularly dislikes her, but he still sees her as a child (or "piglet").
- Affectionate Nickname: His "partner" nickname for Hoji. He calls Hoji that in their first meeting because he wanted Hoji to lighten up and be friendlier with him, and continues to do it whether Hoji likes it or not. Hoji dislikes it at first, but as he comes around his response of "I'm not your partner!" becomes a sign of trust in its own way as they become more of Vitriolic Best Buds. By the end of the series Hoji outright declares Ban to be his only partner in the world.
- Anime Hair: It's as spiky as a Stock Shōnen Hero's hair would be if you pulled one into real life (in fact, it was the hairstyle his actor Ryuji Sainei showed up to the audition with). This doesn't appear in his post-series appearances, mostly due to limitations with what they could ask of his actor, although Space Squad brings a little of it back.
- Audience Surrogate: When the series starts, everyone besides Ban has already been working together for a while, so Ban being a newcomer means that he's privy to all the introductions to the cast and explanations of SPD's workings that the audience needs.
- But Now I Must Go: The end of the series has Ban promoted to the elite SPD Fire Squad, meaning he won't be able to work with the Dekarangers at the Earth base anymore. After having a last show in taking down Agent Abrella with them, he leaves the team in Tetsu's hands and continues to pursue his dream to become "the best in the universe" in the Fire Squad, occasionally dropping back in to help his old team once or twice or every so often.
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "There's clear skies over the city!"
- Character Development: He slowly grows into less of a reckless Idiot Hero with No Indoor Voice and more of a proper detective as the series goes on. His most notable epiphany is in Episode 33, where he acknowledges that he's been too single-minded about pursuing his goals for his own sake and needs to take his team more into consideration.
- Post-series, if he is to make appearances (such as in Magiranger vs Dekaranger and Gokaiger), Ban is usually less loud and hyperactive, acting more mature in general, though his impulsiveness sometimes still shows. Being a member of the SPD Fire Squad will do that. Even moreso, this follows further in 10 Years After where he's capable of being The Strategist!
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: In Episode 20, after having been sent on a wild goose chase by an Alienizer, Ban ultimately deduces that the Alienizer is inside the communicator he's holding. The others are certain he must have lost his ability to use proper logic from being so tired from running, only for Ban to be completely right: the alien is tiny enough to fit inside the communicator, and Ban had figured it out when he'd gotten suspiciously antsy at the idea of Ban destroying it.
- Cowboy Cop: If you're looking for a guy to stick to the rules, Ban is certainly not the guy you want to be talking to. This tones down as the series goes on and he learns to follow the rules more closely while still having room for improvisation and leeway.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Ban's specialty is in making high-risk plans that no one else would dare come up with. For instance, Episode 43 has him Take a Third Option in dealing with a potential meteor crash by blowing up its core directly with his D-Revolver, something Hoji completely admits he would have never even thought of. It's this exact skill that makes Ban worry about whether the team will be okay without him in Episode 48, and Tetsu pulling a gambit to nearly kill him and bring him back with a Magic Defibrillator is what convinces Ban that Tetsu's worthy of succeeding his role in the team.
- Determinator: He's stubborn ot a fault, and if there's something he wants to get done, he'll get it done.
- Gun Kata: Ban's "Jeet Gun Do" involves plenty of Unnecessary Combat Roll and Leap and Fire action, along with Bottomless Magazines to supplement his Trigger-Happy nature.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- In Episode 43, when he and Hoji encounter a huge meteor that can fall into Earth at any time, Ban willingly decides to be the one to ram the ship into the meteor so that Hoji can live to see his sister's wedding... or at least it seems, but it turns out that he'd figured out how to Take a Third Option (albeit a very risky one).
- Episode 48 has his body hijacked by an Alienizer that can only be separated from him if his heart stops, so he yells at the rest of the team to kill him on the spot to prevent the Alienizer from destroying the planet. Tetsu figures out a way to Take a Third Option by stopping his heart and using a Magical Defibrillator to bring him back; in this case, even Ban hadn't realized this was an option, and he considers Tetsu "an even crazier fireball than I am" for coming up with it.
- Hidden Depths: Idiot Hero as he may be, he is still a detective, and he's capable of making insightful deductions when need be (for instance, figuring out the location of the culprit in Episode 20 by picking up on clues). 10 Years After takes this up a notch and makes him into The Strategist for a complicated Decoy Getaway gambit to uncover the real culprit who framed Boss.
- Hot-Blooded: Unbelievably so. He's practically a fireball of energy from start to finish and barely stops yelling at the top of his lungs when he gets fired up. This starts getting toned down as the series goes on, especially in his later post-series appearances.
- Identical Grandson: He has an ancestor named Bannoshin who was part of the Shinsengumi. Bannoshin looks so much like him that an alien who'd known him mistakes Ban for him.
- Idiot Hero: Known as the Red who pioneered this trope for Super Sentai as a whole; while there had been previous Hot-Blooded or reckless Reds, they'd usually had some kind of leadership skills, but Ban comes into the series ill-suited for any kind of leadership role whatsoever and only starts gaining those traits via Character Development.
- Image Song: Bang Bang
- Inadequate Inheritor: It's implied part of the reason Hoji intiially didn't warm up to Ban was that he was upset that he'd replaced Gyoku Rou, whom he'd respected.
- Justice Will Prevail: It's his motto and Catchphrase, and he uses it to inspire others (most notably Jasmine and Tetsu).
- Keet: He's aggressive and rash, but he's also a genuinely cheerful guy who likes to be friendly with others and always wants to help.
- The Leader: In a first for Sentai, despite being the Red, not only is he not the formal leader of the group, he starts off the series without any real leadership skills at all, instead getting by mainly through his bright and proactive personality. Over the course of the series, as Character Development sets in, he starts gaining traits that help him pull the group forward, culminating in him being promoted to the Tokkyou-equivalent Fire Squad at the end of the series.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: He's immediately promoted to the Red position despite being a Rookie Red Ranger. It's downplayed in that Hoji is often the leader in practice, and the members of the team are mostly headed by Boss than Ban really leads the charge, but that "1" is on his suit for a reason.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Due to his reckless nature, he has a tendency to charge into battle and go with his gut, sometimes even disregarding orders to do so. As the series goes on, he starts to lessen up on this, and Episode 33 has him acknowledge that he needs to be more considerate of his team and work together with them.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is Banban, but it's shortened into just "Ban" and everyone calls him so, except for Hoji's little sister who calls him "Banban-san".
- No Indoor Voice: His entry into the series involves him constantly yelling in people's faces and screaming loudly at them. This aspect of him gets toned down as Character Development sets in and the audience gets to see his more thoughtful side come out from time to time.
- Punny Name: His surname "Akaza" is a reference to Agatha Christie, and his nickname "Ban" refers to bancha
(second flush green tea). - Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Hoji's blue.
- Rookie Red Ranger: Invoked in his very first appearance; the first episode is titled "Fireball Newcomer", after all. This is one of the reasons Hoji isn't very enthusiastic about acknowledging him at first.
- Secret Test of Character: When the team enters their final Training from Hell trial to earn their SWAT Mode gear, they're given the task to retrieve a coin from a cave within a time limit. The road is so treacherous that it becomes clear it'll be impossible for all of them to make it together, so the rest of the team urges Ban to go on without them and get the coin even if it means he'll be the only one who passes. While he initially takes them up on their offer, he eventually turns back and goes to help them, resulting in them all making it back together but far too late; however, Ban prioritizing his team over himself is exactly what allows them to all pass, because SWAT Mode requires coordination and teamwork to be used properly.
- Stock Shōnen Hero: Down to a tee: spiky hair, Hot-Blooded attitude, dumb as bricks, and a knack for gunfights. Ironically, this was actually a novelty for Sentai at the time, since before then it was taken as a given that a Sentai Red would be a more tactical leader.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: 10 Years After has him absolutely convinced that Boss is guilty of murder and refusing to hear any of Umeko's protests on the matter, declaring that he'll be found guilty. However, there are hints that he has a different secret plan going on... He does; it's all part of a Decoy Getaway plan to figure out the real culprit under The Mole's nose.
- Tragic Keepsake: He keeps a pendant originally owned by a young child who was the victim of an Alienizer, and his dream to become "the best in the universe" is on behalf of the kid, who'd dreamed of joining SPD before his untimely death. Magiranger vs. Dekaranger adds a locket containing a photo of an alien family killed by Agent X.
Hoji/DekaBlue
Houji "Hoji" Tomasu/DekaBlue
Portrayed by: Tsuyoshi Hayashi (live), Yasuhiko Imai (suit)
A Consummate Professional who strives for perfection in most things and expects professionalism from others. As a result, he ends up initially disliking Ban due to his reckless nature, but he comes to warm up to him in due time. He serves as the de facto leader of the Dekarangers prior to Ban's arrival, and he continues to hold the role in light of Ban being too reckless for it. Despite his upright nature, he's a textbook case of Not So Above It All; he's actually capable of getting quite passionate and emotional when pushed, and he loves his Gratuitous English.
- Aloof Big Brother: He generally keeps himself at a distance from his sister, Miwa, due to the nature of his job, but he does actually care for her. Episodes 42 and 43 have Ban trying to keep him from overworking so much that he neglects her wedding.
- Badass Biker: He's the main motorcycle rider of the group until Tetsu joins to share the position.
- By-the-Book Cop: Compared to Ban's Cowboy Cop, he's more a stickler for the rules, preferring policy to get the results. He and Ban learn to come a little closer to the middle over the course of the series.
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "Super cool. Perfect!"
- Whenever Ban tries to call him "partner", he usually retorts with an immediate "I'm not your partner!" At first it's a genuine protest, but as time comes on it turns out to be more of a Catchphrase as it's obvious he's just saying it because he's a Tsundere. By the time of 10 Years After, it's enough of a Catchphrase that Umeko and Sen are even going "here it comes!" at the idea of Hoji saying it... but unfortunately, Hoji is too depressed to bite. Until the end of the movie, when Ban finally gets him to do it for old time's sake while everyone else rejoices.
- Cold Sniper: He's the team's resident sharpshooter (getting perfect scores on the range nearly every time) and is generally a levelheaded, aloof person.
- Consummate Professional: He holds everyone to high professional standards, but he holds himself to them just as much. Ban's arrival gets him to loosen up a little, but he still continues to be the most rule-bound on the team.
- Deadpan Snarker: Undeniably the snarkiest team member, even after Taking a Level In Kindness.
- Defrosting Ice King: He starts off as this, especially in regards to Ban, but gets considerably warmer over time.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Ban immediately labels him his "partner" at the beginning of the series, which Hoji initially rejects with an "I'm not your partner!" Hoji continues to use the retort for most of the series, even though it eventually becomes more of a Catchphrase as part of their Vitriolic Best Buds relationship than it is Hoji actually denying Ban as his partner. By the end of the series, Hoji starts openly acknowledging Ban as his "partner", and even gets jealous when Ban shifts the nickname to Kai Ozu in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger.
- Evil Former Friend: Episode 11 has him reunite with Vino, an old friend with whom he'd trained back at the academy and had shared friendship bracelets with. Unfortunately, said friend had sold his services and even body to become an Alienizer mercenary, reasoning that being a cop doesn't come with enough glory or money. A heartbroken Hoji is forced to delete his old friend, and the most he can do is keep holding onto the friendship bracelet as a reminder of their better days.
- Foil: He is basically everything Ban isn't in terms of how he approaches work, but as the series goes on it turns out that sometimes they're more alike than one would think...
- Friendly Address Privileges: Technically speaking, his "nickname" is actually the same as his given name (just written in katakana instead of kanji), but it also counts as this since, in the absence of codenames/nicknames, one would usually expect him to be referred to by his surname in a professional setting.
- Gangsta Style: As seen in the ending song and some episodes, he holds his gun this way, showing off his "cool blue" attitude.
- Grand Theft Me: Episode 19 has an Alienizer force a body swap with him and remove the device that lets him communicate, allowing the Alienizer to escape as "Hoji". Even worse, since the Alienizer is pre-approved for deletion, Hoji's own teammates could kill him on the spot with no questions asked. Thankfully, he's saved when it turns out the others know him well enough to figure out something's wrong.
- Gratuitous English: Loves to use random English words interspersed in his sentences, or occasionally even complete English sentences. His sister Miwa does it as well, so it seems to be a family habit.
- Heartbroken Badass: Episode 37 has him dating an Ill Girl named Telesa, and it's implied that he's hoping to pop the question to her. Unfortunately, her brother Crohd ends up being an Alienizer Serial Killer who's killing young women to extract nutrients to make medicine that'll save Telesa, and even worse, Hoji's final Tokkyou exam case requires him to arrest and delete Crohd. In the end, Hoji pulls through with his duty, permanently ruining his relationship with Telesa, and Hoji is so tormented by the result that he declines his Tokkyou promotion.
- Image Song: Blue is the Sky
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be quite cold to others as part of being a Consummate Professional, but he openly shows his respect for others whenever they've earned it (at least for everyone except Ban, whom he's a Tsundere towards, but even then he's openly conciliatory towards him whenever push comes to shove). He also owns up to his mistakes easily and is perfectly friendly when off duty.
- The Lancer: His levelheaded, professional personality contrasts Ban's hotheaded, passionate methods.
- Large Ham: Despite him being upright and rational, he loves to be dramatic when it comes to his way of speaking, down to his use of Gratuitous English for no reason except this. His penchant for drama can even rival Ban's when sufficiently upset.
- My Greatest Failure: Episode 47 reveals that he and Jasmine are still hung up over an incident fresh out of their rookie days when their inexperience landed them in an enemy trap, resulting in their respective senior Gyoku Rou pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to save them and seemingly getting a Career-Ending Injury. Both of them end up so caught up in revenge that they lose their sense of reason until Ban personally tracks down Gyoku Rou to chew them out.
- Not So Above It All / Not So Stoic: Hoji tries his best to be The Stoic, but he doesn't do a very good job of it; push his emotional buttons even a little and he can be Hot-Blooded in a very different way from Ban.
- Number Two: It's even on his suit. It's played with in that he's sometimes the Dekarangers' leader in practice due to Ban's recklessness not being very practically efficient at times.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: 10 Years After has him pretending to fall into depression deeply enough that he starts shirking his duties and wastes all of his hours playing games in the computer room. Of course, it's a ruse; he's actually spending time doing research in the hopes of clearing Boss's name, and he's putting up the act because he knows there's a high likelihood The Mole is within SPD.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Hoji's a Consummate Professional who puts work above his feelings, to the point of deleting an old friend and his girlfriend's brother when they turn out to be Alienizers, and even nearly shirking on his own sister's wedding in order to do work. But in Episode 48, when Ban's body is hijacked by an Alienizer and Ban begs him to shoot him dead to stop him, Hoji can't do it and breaks down crying, because Ban has become that important to him.
- 10 Years After sees Hoji become a shadow of his former self: disheveled, informal, disregarding his job, and only caring about playing video games, because Boss being accused of colluding with the mafia and falling into a coma has destroyed him that much. Or not; it's actually Obfuscating Stupidity so he can investigate the case without The Mole observing him. It still probably says a lot about how important Boss is to him that he was willing to put on the facade at all, given how much pride he usually has about his professionalism.
- Out-of-Character Alert: This is how the others manage to get him out of the aforementioned Grand Theft Me incident. Not only had "Hoji" responded too positively to Ban calling him "partner" (something the real Hoji would never willingly do), the "Alienizer" had also been behaving in a suspiciously Hoji-like manner by attempting to get Jasmine to read his mind and heading straight to the DekaBase without minding being shot at. The others admit it wasn't actually conclusive evidence by itself, but they'd decided to put their faith in Hoji and take the gamble. Another "I'm not your partner!" from a restored Hoji is enough to confirm their suspicions.
- The Perfectionist: Making a single mistake and disrupting his previously perfect record is enough to send him into a full Heroic BSoD in Episode 4. According to Swan, he's so used to having done everything in his life perfectly that even a small mistake is unknown territory for him.
- Punny Name: His surname "Tomasu" is a reference to Hannibal Lecter author Thomas Harris, and his nickname "Hoji" refers to hojicha (roasted green tea).
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ban's red, down to the literal colors.
- Signature Move: Blue Finish
- Southpaw Advantage: He's visibly left-handed yet maintains his perfect shooting record, and it's not shown to be an issue at all (in actuality, the left-handedness comes from his actor).
- Took a Level in Kindness: It's a gradual one, but he's much friendlier and forthcoming than he was in the beginning of the series.
- Training Montage: Episode 26 has him train himself in boxing in order to infiltrate an underground boxing ring, since the denizens of the ring aren't aware of Hoji's position as a cop. Tetsu is initially worried because Hoji's first attempt had gotten him flattened in a Curb-Stomp Battle, but Ban explains to him that Hoji's specialty isn't in his natural skills, but because he's so good at Level Grinding that he can polish any skill to perfection as long as he works hard at it.
- Tsundere: While he starts off hostile towards Ban and rejects his attempts to call him "partner", as the series goes on it becomes obvious he's accepted and respects Ban, and his retort of "I'm not your partner!" becomes more of something he says to maintain their relationship as Vitriolic Best Buds than he really means it. Despite that, he continues to outwardly deny it and claims to still be annoyed by Ban's recklessness. When it looks like Ban's performed a Heroic Sacrifice in Episode 43 and Hoji is left alone to mourn his apparent death, Hoji finally admits in clear words that all of that had been a big fat lie and has an emotional breakdown over Ban being his irreplaceable partner — only to go right back to denying "I'm not your partner!" as soon as Ban turns out to be alive. Hoji only comes around to directly referring to Ban as his partner to his face in the finale.Hoji: Anyone could replace me... Work hard enough, and anyone can get on my level... But Ban... Replacing you isn't so easy! The whole reason I took the Tokkyou exam early was because I was afraid that I couldn't keep up with you... I wanted to go our separate ways and then come back, better than before, and see you again. You're... For me, you're the best... The best partner I could have asked for!
- What You Are in the Dark: After getting forcibly body-swapped with an Alienizer on death row, Hoji's biggest concern is the fact the Alienizer is using his body to hijack the DekaBase, and he's determined to stop him even if it means running the risk of getting shot down by his own teammates or being stuck in the Alienizer's body forever (since defeating the Alienizer would mean destroying his own original body). Fortunately, this rewards him in the end when his teammates eventually figure out his identity, because one of the things that had tipped them off was that it didn't make sense for an Alienizer to fearlessly run for the DekaBase without worrying about being shot at.
Sen/DekaGreen
Senichi "Sen-chan" Enari/DekaGreen
Portrayed by: Yousuke Ito (live), Kouji Miura (suit)
A Bunny-Ears Lawyer who initialy seems like a Cloudcuckoolander at first glance but actually has the strongest deductive reasoning skills of the team. He has a strange habit of doing a handstand "thinking pose" that helps him think better and work out the key behind a case. He's usually calm, polite and overall a Nice Guy, but don't let his soft-spoken nature fool you; hurt people in front of him, especially people he cares about, and you'll feel his wrath.
- Abhorrent Admirer: The elderly Haktak falls in love with him in Episode 25 and even attempts to forcibly age him up in an attempt to avert a May–December Romance. Sen naturally isn't interested at all, but during her reappearance in Episode 34, she mentions that she's still trying to prepare for their wedding.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: This is his main skill. A particularly standout example in Episode 41 has him figure out the Monster of the Week's ability purely with information on the phone from Ban, represented by him mentally reconstructing a recreation of the room Ban is in and picking out clues based on the objects' location.
- Berserk Button: Hurting anyone in front of him, being willing to cause others harm, and especially hurting people he personally cares about is enough to get him trying to punch your lights out.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's easily the most conciliatory and mild-mannered of the team, never stepping on anyone's toes and otherwise being a perfect gentleman... but once he's mad, he gets mad and becomes a terrifying berserker who'll stop at nothing to make sure you feel pain. The other team members openly consider him to be the most terrifying when angry.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He has a bunch of strange habits like leaving towels on his head, faking being awake by sticking eye-shaped papers on his eyelids, and standing upside down to think, but he's the smartest on the team and the best at logical deduction by a long shot. Episode 6 revolves entirely around Ban initially wondering why the team keeps him around when he's an apparent Cloudcuckoolander only to see exactly how intelligent and potentially terrifying he can be in action.
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "There are no mysteries that can't be solved!"
- He also has a habit of saying "whoopsie daisy" ("yokkorase!") whenever he goes into his trademark Thinking Pose handstand.
- Characterization Marches On: Early episodes portray him as being just as interested in picking up girls as Ban and Hoji, just in a more gentlemanly and passive manner. Afterwards, as the skirt-chasing is phased out of the series, this trait basically completely disappears from his character. After what's subtly implied to be a Green-Eyed Epiphany over Umeko, the two start dating for at least ten years before finally getting married.
- Chick Magnet: Episode 2 has him actually succeed in picking up the girl Ban and Hoji had tried to hit on, and Episode 25 has Haktak fall in love with him to the point of trying to age him up and avert May–December Romance. Eventually, Umeko falls in love with him after he saves her from a marriage scam, which he ends up reciprocating.
- Claustrophobia: He had the traumatic experience of falling into a well as a kid, so being in tight spaces can trigger a severe panic attack. This poses a problem in Episode 41 when he's trapped in a room made to kill him via the walls slowly closing on him, and Ban is only able to snap him out of it by (inadvertently) invoking the policeman who saved him from the well.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He comes off this way due to having occasional odd behavior and seeming to space out, but he's actually extremely logical and thoughtful; he simply doesn't always make what he's thinking very clear.
- Expy: Rather than fitting a certain cop archetype like his teammate, Sen homages one cop in particular: Lieutenant Columbo. Both are kind, funny, seemingly simple-minded detectives who prove far more intelligent than they let on and have a penchant for solving Reverse Whodunnits by engaging in casual interactions with suspects rather than formal interrogations.
- Fair-Play Whodunnit: His Awesomeness by Analysis and his reasoning skills make his focus episodes often employ this kind of setup.
- Genius Bruiser: Besides the whole "handstands to think" thing, DekaGreen is strong enough to lift up and toss entire cars.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Subtly implied. At the beginning of the series, he's as open to dating other women as Ban and Hoji are, but when Umeko reveals that she's dating another man named "Hironobu" and might leave SPD to marry him in Episode 46, Sen suddenly starts acting awkwardly in a way that suggests he's trying to pretend he's uninterested. Afterwards, when he finds out Hironobu has been manipulating her feelings, he noticeably takes the time to pick up and cradle Umeko's handmade doll Hironobu had trampled on before exploding at him with quite an unusual amount of absolute fury.Umeko: Whenever I think about something I want him to do, he always does it! He's like a wizard!Sen: (pushing Umeko's phone away) Well, even I can kind of predict your patterns, Umeko...Umeko: He's not a boring weirdo, like you!Sen: Right, right...
- Hyper-Awareness: He's capable of picking out details or spotting minor inconsistencies nobody else would notice and using them to form conclusions via Awesomeness by Analysis. A number of these details allow him to put together the real culprit during Episode 6, but because they're seemingly irrelevant details like "thawing frozen pilaf", the others are initially completely unable to follow his train of thought.
- Image Song: Railway to Happiness
- Locked Out of the Loop: In 10 Years After, he and Umeko are initially meant to be the ones deliberately not let in on the Decoy Getaway plan in order to make their reactions more convincing to The Mole. Halfway into the caper, Sen figures it out via sheer logical inference, leaving Umeko as the only one completely unaware.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Magiranger vs. Dekaranger reveals that he's the oldest of seven siblings. According to him in Episode 20, they were a very poor family and were making do with what little food they had.
- Nice Guy: Beware the Nice Ones aside, he's a very mild-mannered and pleasant guy, to the point he's the only one successful in getting a date from a witness in Episode 2.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's usually very calm and collected, and even when he does snap it's usually in focused, collected rage, so when the trick room in Episode 41 causes him to start panicking, begging to be let out like a terrified child, you know something is very, very wrong.
- Punny Name: His surname "Enari" is a reference to Ellery Queen, and his nickname "Sen(-chan)" refers to sencha (infused green tea).
- Putting On My Thinking Cap: He has a signature "Thinking Pose" in which he does a handstand, helping him both literally and figuratively see things from a different angle and allowing him to come up with unexpected solutions.
- Reverse Psychology: Episode 25, which involves an Alienizer that can possess people, has Sen set up a trap to Spot the Impostor by having everyone take an herbal supplement that he claims will cause them to start sneezing violently if they're not possessed. In fact, it's a lie; it's just a vitamin, and what Sen was actually doing was getting the culprit to pretend to start sneezing in order to make it look like they were "affected" by it.
- Reverse Whodunnit: A common type of mystery that pops up in his focus episodes. He'll meet the Alienizer with at most just his suspicions and interact with them for a bit before finding evidence to prove them guilty.
- Signature Move: Green Cut
- The Smart Guy: When not involved in combat, he's the team's resident analytical theorist and deductive reasoning expert.
- Super-Strength: He has an absurd amount of strength that comes out of nowhere when he gets fired up.
- Thinking Tic: When Sen needs to think, he'll do a full handstand, which the narration dubs his "thinking pose".
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: When he notices that the Ridiculously Human Robot SPD has captured shows signs of having emotions like fear, he's the one who advocates for treating her like an actual person instead of having her be dismantled for inspection, against Hoji's initial protests. After some twists and turns, his attempts at getting her to understand emotions pay off, and she's able to join SPD as if she were another human rather than follow her original purpose as the brain of a robotic monster.
- What You Are in the Dark: While it's subtly implied he was acting out of jealousy towards the marriage scammer Alienizer manipulating Umeko in Episode 46, he's even more offended about her feelings being trampled on and tries to get rid of him before Umeko finds out, knowing that the full details behind how much the Alienizer secretly despised her would completely break her heart. Unfortunately, Umeko happens to be overhearing at that moment and steps in to dispatch him herself, and while she's as devastated as Sen had feared, the sight of him standing up for her is implied to be part of why she starts seeing him in a more attractive light shortly after.
Jasmine/DekaYellow
Marika "Jasmine" Reimon/DekaYellow
Portrayed by: Ayumi Kinoshita (live), Keiko Hashimoto (suit)
An ESPer with the ability to read minds or see the memories of objects by touch. Playful and mischievous, she loves making puns and nicknaming things, but in fact she has a Dark and Troubled Past of having been ostracized for her abilities and was taken in by Kruger. Because of that, she has deep empathy for others and can start pushing herself too much when emotionally compromised.
- Action Girl: Has top-notch fighting skills in and out of the suit, often taking down Alienizers down with ease with little-to-no help.
- Action Mom: 10 Years After has her on maternity leave after giving birth to a child, but she wastes no time in returning to SPD to help out with her new teleportation powers in order to execute Ban and Tetsu's strategy to weed out The Mole and clear Boss's name. Hero Mama League has her meeting up with fellow mothers Nanami Nono and Houka Ozu and discussing the tough life of juggling hero work and motherhood.
- Affectionate Nickname: While "Jasmine" itself technically is one, few people call her by her actual name of "Marika", so it sticks out when Niwande (who's putting on an act of being an Abhorrent Admirer trying to flirt with her) calls her "Marika-chan". In 10 Years After, her husband Hikaru calls her "Maririn".
- All of the Other Reindeer: In her backstory, her Psychic Powers caused others to scorn her, making her into an outcast. She's not dealing with this anymore when it comes to the other Dekarangers; they like her for who she is, powers or no powers, and in fact consider her psychometry to be a valuable asset for their work.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She can come across at this at first glance due to her mysterious and occasionally tacit nature, but in practice she's mischievous and playful whenever she likes to be.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: When she was young, her psychic abilities were constantly on and subjected her to all of the negative gossip around her, sending her deeply into depression until Boss found her.
- Even now, she can still be overwhelmed if she reads thoughts or emotions that are particularly malicious. Succubus attempts to weaponize this against her by subjecting her to memories of all the planets the Hells Siblings pillaged and destroyed in an attempt to make Jasmine Go Mad from the Revelation.
- Babies Ever After: 10 Years After reveals that the ESPer boy she'd rescued in Episodes 7 and 8, Hikaru Hiwatari, returned to Earth many years later and started a relationship with her. By the time of the movie, they're married with a child, and thanks to their child having inherited Hikaru's ESPer teleportation powers, Jasmine's acquired them herself via breastfeeding.
- Badass in Distress: Jasmine is by far the Dekaranger who has the highest count of getting tied up. First during a confrontation against the Alienizer who sucked Umeko's soul (though subverted that she uses her illusion to make that up), then in a flashback along with Hoji (their greatest failure moment), and lastly in Magiranger vs Dekaranger. Of course, if she ever breaks free, she can (and will) kick ass.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While not to the same degree as Sen, when sufficiently angered or emotionally compromised, she can get mad. Episode 35 has her upset to the point of almost hitting The Berserker levels, and she even admits that it felt a little too good.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: She does this twice in Magiranger vs Dekaranger when in shock at Tetsu and Hikaru being Disguised in Drag, directly addressing the camera.
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "There's no such thing as a storm that doesn't end" (in line with her usual love of puns, it's a rhyme phrase "kono yo ni wa yamanai ame wa nai").
- Occasionally, she has the knack to say "Bye-nara!" (a portmanteau of the English and Japanese words for "goodbye").
- Cloudcuckoolander: She has a very strange line of thinking, loving to give things random nicknames or coming up with strange, irrelevant observations that nobody else would come up with. Unlike with Sen, most of this strange behavior doesn't seem to mean anything in particular other than it simply being her hobby.
- Conspicuous Gloves: She wears them as a Power Limiter so she doesn't accidentally read people's minds, and she takes them off whenever she needs to read someone's mind or the memories of an object.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her ESPer powers made her into an outcast as a child, her family abandoned her, and she was forced to hear everyone's scorn for her through her powers. She was bordering on Driven to Suicide when Boss found and rescued her, after which she was recruited into SPD. Since then, she's had a much happier life, but she's able to empathize with people who are lonely or in pain thanks to her experiences, and she's especially able to connect with a young ESPer boy in Episodes 7 and 8 because she knows exactly what he's been through.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's always there to provide another playful remark snarking at the others' antics, especially when it comes to the boys.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: She and Umeko sang the second ending theme "Girls in Trouble", which plays during any episode that features one of them (starting in Episode 17).
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Succubus gets very close to making Jasmine cross the Despair Event Horizon in Episode 21 by showing her all of her memories of brutally destroying other planets. Directly witnessing the potential outcome terrifies Jasmine so much that she almost offers herself up as Succubus's "pet" in order to strike a deal and get them to spare Earth. Ban manages to snap her out of it by giving her the confidence to believe that Justice Will Prevail.
- I Owe You My Life: Boss saved her from the depths of despair and gave her a new life in SPD, so she owes her current happiness to him.
- Image Song: Hard Rain
- Let Off by the Detective: Does a downplayed version of this with Niwande in Episode 27. Knowing that Niwande is ultimately kind at heart and wants to turn over a new leaf, Jasmine claims that the arm injury she'd sustained was her own mistake from fumbling with her gun; in actuality, it was from Taking the Bullet when he'd shot at Millibal, but she's well aware that his punishment would be significantly harsher if it were on the record that he'd shot and injured an officer. Boss is able to tell she's lying, but trusts her enough to let the issue slide, allowing Niwande's sentence to be short as long as he stays on good behavior.
- Living Lie Detector: Her mind-reading abilities come in very useful when interrogating witnesses or suspects. She only does this with uncooperative ones in custody or ones she gets permission from, since she has to take off her Power Limiter gloves (which she wears to not invade others' privacy) and touch them directly to do so, preventing it from being a Story-Breaker Power. It's also possible for aliens like Niwande to put up mental barriers that prevent her from reading their minds.
- Lovely Angels: She and Umeko are a duo referred to as the "Twin Cam Angels". The duo is established in Episode 17, with Jasmine being the calm and rational side.
- My Greatest Failure: Like Hoji, she still blames herself for Gyoku Rou's apparent Career-Ending Injury and loses her head trying to take revenge for him.
- The Nicknamer: She likes to give Alienizers and any unusual thing she encounters strange nicknames, for no reason other than the fact she finds it fun.
- Not So Above It All: Episode 45 has her getting just as petty as Umeko when it comes to wanting the episode's Secret Admirer to be into her.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents abandoned her as a child due to her ESPer powers. After hearing about her accomplishments, they attempt to contact her again in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger; Jasmine is initially scornful, resenting that they abandoned her and suddenly want to see her again, but Urara convinces her to at least give it a try.
- Power Limiter: Her gloves prevent from her getting overloaded with people's thoughts, as seen in her backstory. She does seem to have them off in the house in 10 Years After, which allows Ban to communicate with her by touching her son while she's holding him.
- Pungeon Master: She just loves peppering this in sentences she says.
- Punny Name: Her surname "Reimon" is a reference to Raymond Chandler, and her nickname "Jasmine" refers to jasmine tea, as well as playing on her real name "Marika" (the Japanese word for the Arabian jasmine flower).
- Psychic Powers: She can read minds by touching people, and she can read objects to find key information from them just by touching them. Overusing her powers can drain her stamina to the point of fainting, and she can also be overwhelmed when the thoughts she reads are too malicious.
- The Redeemer: This is the main theme of her focus episodes. Due to her Dark and Troubled Past and her ability to empathize with others' pain, she's good at appealing to people who have already committed or are about to commit crimes, preventing them from bringing even more sins on themselves, and convincing them to turn over a new leaf.
- Speaking Like Totally Teen: A lot of her favorite phrases are outdated and cheesy seventies-era catchphrases and pop culture references (to an extent that kids are unlikely to recognize them). All There in the Manual clarifies that it comes from an interest in older culture and Showa-era rakugo.
- Teleportation: In 10 Years After, it's revealed that marrying Hikaru and having a child with him resulted in the child inheriting his teleportation abilities, which Jasmine acquired herself via breastfeeding. She makes extensive use of this over the course of the movie, transporting herself and others back and forth in order to execute Ban's plan.
Umeko/DekaPink
Koume "Umeko" Koudou/DekaPink
Portrayed by: Mika Kikuchi (live), Miho Kojima (suit, main) and Motokuni Nakagawa (suit, secondary)
The newest member of the SPD Earth branch before Ban. Umeko is a cheerful, airheaded girl who's good at being very stubborn when she needs to be. For better or for worse, she has a straightforward personality and says exactly what she thinks. She also loves taking baths, especially with her toy ducks.
- Action Girl: Don't let her short stature and ego fool you; she's a trained detective and has the fighting skills to prove it, even if she's a bit clumsy.
- Alliterative Name: Her real name: Koume Koudou.
- Be Yourself: Umeko has a bit of an identity crisis in Episode 17 after observing Jasmine and admiring her cool-headed decision-making abilities, so she tries to imitate Jasmine for the day (to the point of even trying to wear gloves despite not being an ESPer, something even the narrator calls her out on). Eventually, Jasmine and the others convince her that she and Jasmine have their own traits, and they form the Twin Cam Angels duo specifically because of their opposite specialties.
- Butt-Monkey: Due to her natural klutziness, she tends to be the butt of much of the series' slapstick humor. On top of that, as much as she loves claiming to be the Dekarangers' leader, absolutely nobody takes it seriously.
- Catchphrase: Her individual "case closed" phrase: "Now to unwind with a nice long bath!"
- Chewing the Scenery: Hamming it up to the extreme is a skill that she throughly owns. Post-series appearances have toned this down by a bit, but she's still quite the Large Ham.
- Companion Cube: Her rubber duckling triplets, Umeyo, Umenosuke and Umegoro, sometimes fulfill this function for her. She even carries them in the dashboard of her car in the 199 Heroes movie.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Yeah, she's bit clumsy and pretty ditzy, but do not ever mess with her or anything she cares about if you so dare.
- Determinator: Nothing will stop her from achieving her goals.
- The Ditz: Downplayed. She's not really the smartest around, often missing details and not quite getting things until after the fact. However, she's still a detective and can come up with insightful reasoning when necessary (see Hidden Depths below).
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: She sings "Girls in Trouble" with Jasmine, which is used in any episode that features either of them starting in Episode 17.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first case the Dekaranger team is seen working on in-series has Hoji, Sen, and Jasmine show up, wondering where Umeko is. Turns out, she happens to be on the very same bus that was taken hostage... and she attempts to help the victims by singing them a song.
- Foot Focus: Her bath scenes tend to include at least one closeup of her feet.
- Furo Scene: She loves bubble baths and is often seen relaxing in the bathtub between cases, playing with her three rubber ducks and singing. Amusingly, the bathtub in question is in the SPD base, resulting in "Houji" (actually an Alienizer) accidentally walking in on her at one point, or Tetsu stealing her bath time in Episode 24.
- Genki Girl: Naturally very energetic and bubbly.
- The Heart: When all else fails, she can at least succeed at keeping everyone's emotional spirits up. Her Establishing Character Moment has her comfort kidnapping victims, especially the children, by getting them all to sing along with her.
- Hidden Depths: She's The Pollyanna and The Ditz, but she's not completely immune to emotional pain, and she can be seen getting close to crossing the Despair Event Horizon when seeing her team be killed within an Alienizer-induced dream. Episode 46 reveals that a lot of her cheerful and optimistic nature comes from her forcing herself to be that way and trying to ignore the pain.Sen: Umeko's always full of energy, and cheerful, but that doesn't mean she can't be hurt. She's sensitive... and gets hurt easily, in some ways...
- Her kindness and empathy also sometimes give her insight that others wouldn't normally get; for instance, it allows her to figure out Alpachi's way of speaking in opposites in Episode 24.
- Identical Stranger: Episode 31 features an alien princess who looks exactly like her save a purple dot on her forehead, allowing them to pull a switch and prevent an assassination plot. Said princess also happens to be shy and timid, the exact opposite of Umeko, so the princess's retainers comment on how unusually spunky the "princess" is acting.
- Image Song: "I Believe Right Here Right Now".
- Kawaiiko: She's much more openly cutesy than Jasmine, and she loves to flaunt it.
- The Klutz: Episode 5, her introductory episode, has her misplace her SP License on her day off and promptly get chewed out by Boss (to put things in perspective, this would be the equivalent of a real police officer leaving a gun or sensitive documents hanging around somewhere).
- Leader Wannabe: Often declares herself the team's leader, but no one takes her seriously on that. Case in point, at the start of Episode 17 she tries to give orders to the team, only to be shot down every time because it would ruin the operation.
- Locked Out of the Loop: In 10 Years After, Ban's plan involves leaving her and Sen unaware of the details so that The Mole won't catch onto everything going on behind the scenes. Unlike Sen, Umeko doesn't manage to figure it out on her own and is fully convinced that Ban Took a Level in Jerkass until the team finally reveals all of the details to her. Rather than being angry about it, Umeko's just happy that Ban was on their side after all.
- Lovely Angels: She's a member of the "Twin Cam Angels" duo with Jasmine, established in Episode 17. In contrast to Jasmine's calm tactical skills, Umeko provides the brightness and initiative.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Played tragically in Episode 46, when she becomes the latest victim of a marriage swindler and serial killer Alienizer who drains his targets of their "pure hearts" that appear when he proposes to them. Sen quickly figures out Umeko's "ideal man" is too good to be true, especially when the circumstances line up suspiciously well with an illegal mushroom that can turn its user into someone's ideal partner for an hour. Despite the evidence solidly staring Umeko in the face, Umeko is so much in love that she goes into deep denial and lashes out at Sen, forcing Sen to take things into his own hands and stage an intervention. As you might expect, once everything is revealed, she's completely heartbroken and breaks down crying. The experience seems to have taught her well enough that once she starts dating Sen afterwards, her comments about marriage in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger imply that she's treating it as a serious matter that needs commitment, and it takes more than ten years of dating before they finally get married.
- Master of Disguise: "Do you know that the specialty of SPD's Koume Kodou is changing clothes quickly?"
- Ms. Fanservice: Her penchant for being in the bath certainly toes about as close as it can to staying within children's show restrictions.
- The Napoleon: She's played by the 4'11'' Mika Kikuchi. The ending corner in Episode 19 has her attempt to tower over the others by standing behind them.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Jasmine's blue.
- The Pollyanna: This is her greatest strength: she's relentlessly cheerful and optimistic, and she never gives up. Boss assigns her to working with Murphy in Episode 5 specifically because of this. That said, she's not without her limits, and she's capable of being emotionally devestated when things push her really over the edge, most notably in Episodes 39 and 46.
- Punny Name: Her surname "Kodou" is a reference to Japanese mystery novelist Kodou Nomura, and her nickname "Umeko" refers to ume-konbucha (plum kelp tea).
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls in love with a man named Hironobu because he's a kind man who treats her well (at least until it turns out he's actually an Alienizer trying to Life Drain her). The same episode has her describe her ideal type as a Nice Guy who makes her happy, has warm hands when she holds them, occasionally does clumsy things to make her laugh, and is good at understanding her feelings. She initially considers Sen — who just so happens to be rather close to this description — to be a "boring weirdo", but she starts falling for him after witnessing him standing up for her and trying to take out the Alienizer emotionally manipulating her on her behalf.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She continually likes to declare herself to be the Dekarangers' "leader", an idea absolutely nobody cares to entertain. She continues claiming to be the team leader even ten years later!
- The Social Expert: Her natural empathy and bubbly personality gets people to open up to her, even if they don't want to at first.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Jasmine's Tomboy.
Tetsu/DekaBreak
Tekkan "Tetsu" Aira/DekaBreak
Portrayed by: Tomokazu Yoshida (live), Eitoku (suit)
A member of the special forces "Tokkyou"note branch of SPD who was originally sent to Earth to deal with the Hells Siblings. Initially, he looks down on the Dekarangers under the belief that emotions only compromise efficiency, but after Ban proves to him that cold rationality isn't everything, he decides he has more he needs to learn and stays behind at the Earth branch as Ban's junior. As it turns out, he's actually a Fish out of Water who was taught to be the way he was by a Stern Teacher; in fact, he's an expressive and deeply emotional person who just might have the potential to be even more Hot-Blooded than Ban...
- Big Damn Heroes: In Full Blast Action, he comes racing through on the Blast Buggy to help out out the Dekarangers.
- The Big Guy: He has access to equipment on par with the Dekarangers' SWAT Mode from his very first appearance, so he often ends up being the team's resident muscle. Even after the others obtain SWAT Mode, his ability to directly use electric shocks and fire on his opponent results in him still often doing the heavy lifting.
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "The dawn will always come."
- And, of course, there's his favorite "Nonsense!"
- He also has a tendency to sometimes say "I kind of like it" ("nanka ii"), which also shows up in his roll call phrase ("I like the sound of 'invincible!'", "muteki ga nanka ii"). This one is later revealed to be something he picked up from Lisa, his mentor.
- Character Development: Tetsu starts off as an detached and arrogant "Tokkyou" agent who only viewed the Dekarangers as liabilities but after seeing them in action decides to station himself on Earth to learn more about them. Over the course of the series he starts dropping the haughty attitude and his cold personality vanishes when he begins to care for the Dekarangers and starts admiring their teamwork. By the end of the series he has fully stations himself on Earth as Ban's replacement and is viewed as an equal to the rest of the Dekarangers.
- Crazy Enough to Work: This is what convinces Ban that the Dekarangers will be fine in Tetsu's hands, since Ban had been concerned that leaving for the Fire Squad would leave the team without a "fireball" like him. After Tetsu saves Ban from an Alienizer manipulating his body by electrocuting Ban and stopping his heart (therefore freeing him from the Alienizer's control) and defibrillating him back, Ban concludes that Tetsu's "an even crazier fireball than I am!"
- Dark and Troubled Past: His parents died to an Alienizer, leading to him being picked up by SPD to become a Tokkyou cadet. He was young enough that he barely remembers it, but the memory of his mother's death is enough for the Alienizer to emotionally manipulate him into crying.
- Disguised in Drag: He has no shame in volunteering himself up for this if need be, famously volunteering himself for it in Episodes 26 and 45 as well as getting in on it with Hikaru in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger. Not only does he put on the outfit, he even gets really into the act while he's at it.
- Elemental Punch: Some of his fist attacks are one.
- Blow You Away: Tornado Fist
- Playing with Fire: Fire Fist
- Shock and Awe: (Hyper) Electric Fist
- Making a Splash: Impulse Fist
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: His mentor, Lisa Teagle, was an Ice Queen who taught him to be completely dispassionate as a Tokkyou agent and to never let his emotions cloud his judgment of anything, but meeting Ban gets him to consider that "fighting with your feelings" can be just as effective, and he deliberately requests to stay with the Dekarangers at the Earth branch so he can learn more from them. When Lisa shows up and threatens to haul him back, Tetsu has a brief crisis about which method is better, but Ban's advice is that the right answer is neither: instead, he should fight on the side of "justice". Ultimately, Tetsu concludes that he became a detective because he wanted to help people, so regardless of feelings or rationality, he'll do whatever it takes to prioritize that goal.
- Family of Choice: While bonding with Hikaru in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger, he comments that the other members of the Earth station have become like family to him. While this is partially a statement meant to tie into Magiranger's prominent theme of The Power of Family, it coming from Tetsu is significant because he was orphaned as a child, making SPD the closest thing he has to a proper family.
- Faster-Than-Light Travel: His response to countering an Alienizer who can hop between reflective surfaces at the speed of light is to simply punch him at a speed faster than light.
- Finishing Move
- Sonic Hammer
- Lightning Upper
- Plasma Fist
- Shining Fist (a tag-team attack with MagiShine)
- Fish out of Water: He was born on Earth, but the death of his parents led to him being raised off the planet as a Tokkyou agent. He initially comes off as a conceited jerk, but it soon turns out that he's just lacking in social grace due to not having much experience with Earth culture and socialization.
- Gratuitous English: Almost as much as Hoji, with his catchphrase "Nonsense!" It's implied to be a byproduct of him being a Fish out of Water who was raised at Tokkyou and therefore not having much experience speaking Japanese.
- Image Song: With the Intention of Tetsu
- Innocently Insensitive: His introductory episodes have him acting condescending towards everyone, especially Ban, for "getting in the way" of his work as a Tokkyou agent, but he quickly apologizes for his behavior and spends the rest of his time as a genuinely respectful and curious junior to the others. Later episodes reveal that he's actually a Fish out of Water who's not used to Earth society and was raised by an Ice Queen on the hard "stoic" side of Emotions vs. Stoicism, and he'd simply been following everything he'd taught her. At his core, he's actually a very passionate and straightforward person who's only a little cheeky at worst.
- It's Personal: He has obvious mixed feelings about the idea of questioning Genio, his parents' killer, for information in Episode 28, which is only exacerbated when Genio uses the opportunity to emotionally manipulate him into letting him escape. Genio, for his part, considers Tetsu to be his Arch-Enemy for being the one to arrest him.
- Improbable Weapon User: BraceThrottle, a bike throttle bracelet, which also doubles as his Transformation Trinket.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Impertinent as he is, he gives credit where it's due when it comes to his "seniors", and he's actually very honest and friendly when it comes down to it.
- Lightning Bruiser: Hits hard and fast with ease, as expected from a Tokkyou.
- Magical Defibrillator: Faced with a situation in which Ban's body has been hijacked by an Alienizer that'll only let go when Ban's heart is stopped, Tetsu responds by electrocuting Ban's heart and stopping it, then resuscitating him by using his electric gloves to jolt him back awake. This is on such a level of Crazy Enough to Work that it gives Ban confidence that he can leave the Dekarangers in his hands.
- Parental Abandonment: His parents were killed by an Alienizer when he was a child, so he was picked up by the Tokkyou division and has lived his entire life training as an elite officer.
- Punny Name: His surname "Aira" is a reference to Ira Levin, and his given name "Tekkan" refers to tieguanyin oolong tea, referred to as "tekkannon" in Japanese.
- Precocious Crush: He's implied to have one on Swan (or, alternatively, is projecting on her as a mother figure due to her position as the Team Mom).
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: (Super) Lightning Fist
- Secret Admirer: Turns out, the Secret Admirer stalker in Episode 45 was in love with Tetsu, specifically having fallen in love with him during the events of Episode 26. That Tetsu happened to be Disguised in Drag at the time isn't an issue, because the alien is from a hermaphroditic race that easily falls in love with anyone. Tetsu is absolutely not pleased by this development.
- Sixth Ranger: While DekaMaster technically appears before him, Tetsu joins the Dekarangers as a regular member and is thus counted as the official series Sixth Ranger.
- Super-Strength: Super Power Fist
- The Stoic: He initially appears as a no-nonsense, aloof officer in his early appearances, but after Ban shows him what the team can accomplish, he grows out of this and becomes more of a dorky, personable character. By the end of the series, he's arguably as openly passionate as Ban is.
- Tyke Bomb: He was trained by SPD as a child to become an elite officer as part of their Tokkyou division, and he's thus been in service for a whole fifteen years, but the other Dekarangers are surprised to learn that he's younger than them when it comes to actual age.
- The Worf Effect: As usual for a Sentai Sixth Ranger, once the series is done with introducing his advanced equipment and specialized training, he often gets his rear kicked by later Alienizers and needs to get backup from the other Dekarangers or DekaMaster. The in-universe implied justification is that he mainly came down to the Earth branch because he was specially trained in countering the Hells Siblings, but isn't necessarily prepared for the other kinds of cases he encounters on Earth.
- You Killed My Father: Or "You Killed Both of My Parents" in this case. He has a vendetta against Genio, the Alienizer who murdered his parents. Prior to the events of Episode 28, he was the one to personally corner and arrest said murderer, and the events of Episodes 28 and 29 end in him finally completing his revenge by defeating and deleting him.
Allies
Doggie Kruger/DekaMaster
Doggie Kruger of Anubis/DekaMaster
Portrayed by: Tetsu Inada (voice), Hideaki Kusaka (suit)
The commander of the SPD branch on Earth, nicknamed "Boss" by the team. An alien from the planet Anubis who was absolutely feared as "Hell's Watchdog" due to his swordplay style being the strongest in the universe; even now, he could easily hand many of the Dekarangers' opponents a Curb-Stomp Battle if he wanted, but being The Mentor means requiring the team to solve things without his help lest they end up relying too much on him. He was the one who saw Ban's potential and appointed him to the Dekaranger team, and he serves as a reliable figure for advice and even Team Dad.
- The Ace: In a subversion of the trend of Sentai series, where powerful extra heroes are depowered after a few episodes or outclassed by later characters/power ups, DekaMaster is consistently portrayed as the most powerful of all the Dekarangers throughout the series. None of the other Rangers can match him in skill or strength even with their power up forms. His losses are rare and situational, with only one uncontested loss in a later movie, and even then he more than held his own. However, it's because of this that he ends up being less active than the other Rangers, because part of his job involves training them up, and they won't be getting any training if he does all the work for them.
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: The commander of the Earth branch, a trained officer, and a total badass through and through with his swordplay.
- Badass in Distress: 10 Years After has him rendered comatose for two years thanks to the culprit poisoning his IV to make sure he never wakes up; fortunately, Swan and Jasmine manage to intervene before he's silenced for good.
- Big Good: While he's not the highest authority in all of SPD, as far as the Earth branch goes, he's the chief who's respected at every level, and his decisions go uncontested.
- Blow You Away: Vega Tornado Slash
- Carpet of Virility: He has white chest fur, which we see a lot of over the series...
- Catchphrase: His individual "case closed" phrase: "As long as there's evil... I'll cut it down!"
- The Coats Are Off: His transformation sequence involves this.
- Cool Shades: He likes to sport a pair of these on occasion.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: The revelation that Swan may have a Secret Admirer in Episode 45 gets him really on edge (although in his defense, said "secret admirer" was showing signs of being an outright stalker).
- Da Chief: He's head of SPD, and is simply referred to as "Boss" by the Dekarangers.
- Disney Death: In the finale, he's caught in a three-on-one fight with a group of powerful Alienizers. He shows himself to be more than a match for them, but when he turns his back to save Swan, he's hit in the back with several cheap shots. He's still standing but is rendered unable to fight back, seemingly killed after being slammed through multiple walls. He survives but is a bit worse for wear.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few episodes of the series feature his mouth either permanently opened, or has it move but barely, causing some form of mismatch with the voice. Midway in the series, his mouth movement becomes more consistent.
- A Father to His Men: He's very much the authority figure in SPD, but he treats the Rangers as more of an extended family at times than his subordinates, and he's just as interested in seeing his team grow and improve as he is in seeing the cases solved. He's also perfectly willing to get sly digs in when he's got the opportunity.
- The Fettered: While he's nearly undefeated in battle and can easily hand a Curb-Stomp Battle to most of his enemies, one way to easily take advantage of him is to attack him emotionally by appealing to his sense of compassion for others. In Episode 19, he's overwhelmed when an Alienizer pulling a Grand Theft Me on Hoji reminds him that deleting him will mean Hoji will never have a body to return to, and in Episode 44, Bisces takes advantage of his kindness by reminding him that his late father (and Kruger's mentor) would disapprove. In both cases, Kruger would have easily won had he not hesitated before striking the final blow. In the finale, he runs into a Disney Death because Abrella's lackeys had taken Swan as a captive, and in 10 Years After, the reason Reidlich is able to overwhelm and frame him is that he'd caught him off guard with a Human Shield.
- Finishing Move
- Vega Slash
- Vega Impulse
- Frame-Up: 10 Years After has him be accused of colluding with the mafia and rendered comatose. Naturally, the Dekarangers are absolutely positive that he can't be guilty, but the impact leaves the team in shambles for the next two years. Eventually, Ban arrives to pull off a Decoy Getaway plan that exposes The Mole, allowing Boss's name to be cleared.
- Hammerspace: He has a dog head that somehow gets flattened whenever he transforms into DekaMaster. The team directly questions where his nose goes during the ending bonus corner in Episode 14, but the only response they get is an awkward "don't ask."
- Heir to the Dojo: Bisces's father was Kruger's mentor, and since Bisces was judged to be too morally corrupt to inherit his father's dojo, Kruger was chosen to inherit it instead despite not being a blood relative. Bisces holds a grudge over it and comes for revenge in Episode 44.
- Helping Would Be Killstealing: This is the main reason he doesn't fight alongside the Dekarangers unless it's actually necessary. As their boss, he has a responsibility to foster their growth and help them improve, and that's not going to happen if he does all of the work for them. As such, while he does help out when things get particularly desperate, he stays out of any cases that the Dekarangers can handle by themselves.
- Heroic Dog: In an unusual example, he's a dog-like alien who also happens to be the Big Good.
- Katanas Are Just Better: D-Sword Vega
- Master Swordsman: He describes his swordsmanship as the best in the universe before his first fight scene - which involves massacring 100 grunts without breaking a sweat.
- Mr. Fanservice: He goes shirtless during his Transformation Sequence, and a few other times.
- The Mentor: Beyond simply giving them instructions, Boss has a job to help the Dekarangers grow and become stronger, so he often gives them combat or even life advice.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Hell's Watchdog" is certainly not a name one should be taking lightly.
- Punny Name: Keeping in line with the Dekarangers having tea-themed names, his nickname "Boss" may refer to Boss Coffee.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Considering how much of a Cowboy Cop Ban is and how much the Dekarangers get away with, you'd think they'd be getting in a lot more trouble than they are, but Boss is understanding when it comes to his subordinates and is willing to make unconventional decisions or allowances as long as it gets the job done.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: He gets suspiciously emotionally invested whenever Swan gets involved in a case and even shows signs of being a Crazy Jealous Guy at one point, but when Miyuki mistakes them for being a couple in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger, he and Swan quickly deny that this is the case. The events of 10 Years After have him finally give in and give her a proper Love Confession, which she reciprocates.
- Sixth Ranger: He technically appears in his Ranger form before DekaBreak, but since he tries to stay out of fighting unless his presence is necessary, he's classified as an "extra" Ranger instead of as an official Sixth Ranger.
- Team Dad: Given his personality as A Father to His Men, his team adores him and would move planets for him. Episode 14 revolves around the team trying to convince him to join them in the fight, not because they want to pawn the work off on him, but because they think he's just that cool.
- The Strategist: While the individual members still have to make on-the-fly decisions while on the field, he's the one who calls all the shots and overall battle strategy for the team, and he's also the one who assigns which team member will be on which mission. Even when his decisions don't initially seem intuitive, there's usually a good reason behind them.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's the only ranger since Hikari Sentai Maskman who needs to take off their clothes before transforming (in Doggie's case, his coat). But unlike Maskman, the "coat off" scene is part of the stock footage as opposed to Maskman's bare skin transformation appearing only in early episodes.
- World's Strongest Man: The most powerful and skilled of the Dekarangers with exactly one out and out loss on his 10 year career.
Swan Shiratori/DekaSwan
Swan Shiratori of Cygno/DekaSwan
Portrayed by: Mako Ishino (live), Yuuki Ono (suit)
- Always Someone Better: Her being this to Heimar is why he ends up resigning from SPD and joining Abrella's side in the hopes of having his work be more appreciated.
- Badass in Distress: Episode 36 reveals that she'd normally be perfectly capable in combat as DekaSwan if need be, but she's taken hostage in Episode 13 to lure Boss out and strapped to a bomb.
- Declining Promotion: She's brilliant enough that she's been offered to be promoted to a directorial position in forensics, and Tetsu also offers to have her recommended to the higher-ups, but she declines and stays where she is at the Earth branch because she prefers the atmosphere. By the time of 10 Years After, she does actually leave the Earth branch to pursue independent research in forensics, but it's specifically for the purpose of developing technology advanced enough to spot evidence forgery and get Boss out of a Frame-Up.
- She also is perfectly capable of transforming into DekaSwan and fighting in combat, but she prefers not to unless it's absolutely necessary, presumably because it'd take her away from her position as Mission Control. Although she (possibly jokingly) claims to only do it "once every four years", she does attempt to do it another time in the finale when things have passed the Godzilla Threshold.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She makes and maintains all of the Dekarangers' robots and gadgets. In Episode 36, her being out for only a single day causes all of the robots to start falling apart without their daily maintenance.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: She affectionately dotes on Boss and calls him "Doggie", but she's just as vehement as him that they're not in that kind of relationship when Miyuki mistakes them for being a couple in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger. But when he finally drops a Love Confession on her in 10 Years After, she's initially flustered, but she responds with her own in turn.
- Humble Hero: She's a legend among SPD technicians to the point of repeatedly being offered promotions and even getting awarded a special medal for her accomplishments, but she has no interest in status or honor whatsoever. It's to such an extreme level that she doesn't really understand the weight of the esteem she gets, failing to understand why her colleague would feel upset at her constantly getting awards over him yet not appreciating any of it. Even after understanding Heimar's feelings better, she still hands off her newly received medal to Boss because she feels he's the one who's made her work possible in the first place.
- Finishing Move: Swan Rainbow
- Friendly Address Privileges: While the other Dekarangers call him "Boss", and others call him "Kruger", Swan is the only one who gets to affectionally call him "Doggie" as a sign of how close they are.
- Mission Control: While Boss calls the shots when it comes to overall planning as The Strategist, Swan is the one who runs all of the technical analysis and sends out machinery on call, so she's the main one the team reports back to and makes requests to over the course of a given mission.
- Punny Name: Since shiratori is written with the same kanji as the Japanese word for "swan" (usually read "hakucho"), her name is essentially "Swan Swan". To further hammer the point home, her home planet is Cygnus, which is the Latin word for a swan. So she's Swan Swan from the planet Swan.
- In line with the Dekarangers' tea-themed names, her name may also be a reference to "swan tea", a type of slimming tea used in traditional Chinese medicine.
- Princess Carry: Doggie carries her out with one of these in Episode 13 as part of their ongoing Ship Tease.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: She looks mostly human, except she has a pair of wings coming out the sides of her head.
- Signature Move: Swan Illusion
- Stealth Pun: Aside from being one away from Boss's "100", DekaSwan's "99" is a pun on the kanji for "100" (百) becoming "white" (白) when "1" (一) is taken away.
- Super-Intelligence: She's such a high level of genius that she can quickly do calculations to save the world in a matter of minutes on an abacus.
- Tea Is Classy: She's often seen drinking it or offering it to others between cases.
- Team Mom: Besides her intelligence and technical skills, she's important emotional support for the team, often giving them advice or acting as a go-between to explain the team members' positions and feelings to each other.
Lisa Teagle/DekaBright
Lisa Teagle/DekaBright
Portrayed by: Mie Nanamori (live), Yuichi Hachisuka (suit)
- The Ace: A skilled detective and fighter, along with being the chief of the Tokkyou division.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's a dark haired, beautiful woman who's extremely stoic and prefers to keep her distance.
- Barrier Warrior: Barrier Fist
- Consummate Professional: A highly efficient officer who puts work above all else, to the point of being an extreme Ice Queen with a constantly blank face. She does show traces of emotional reactions, she just suppresses them for the sake of her job.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Her intention of raising Tetsu as The Stoic is out of genuine concern for him, because she'd seen many a Leeroy Jenkins Tokkyou agent run into their deaths and wants to spare Tetsu the same fate. It's just that she goes about it in a cold-hearted, Jerkass manner to the point of it being counterintuitive to her job as a detective.
- Da Chief: Of the Tokkyou Division.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She has a Consummate Professional attitude and believes in having a cold, rational attitude towards fighting as a Tokkyou agent, but her insistence on it is so extreme that she has a condescending attitude towards "normal badges" and scorns Tetsu for getting caught up in useless sentiment. However, after Tetsu saves her, she starts expressing herself a little, and she shows some barely visible traces of emotion when giving Tetsu her consent to stay at the Earth branch.
- Finishing Move: Highest Hammer
- Improbable Weapon User: Like Tetsu, Lisa has her own BraceThrottle, which also doubles as her Transformation Trinket.
- Jerkass: Her belief that Tokkyou agents should focus on defeating their enemies and not bother themselves with anything else comes out of a very extreme tunnel-vision view of a Tokkyou agent's job, but the fact she shows obvious scorn and condescension towards "normal badges" and treats them like they're unskilled, second-rate officers really doesn't help.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She's not entirely wrong about the fact that the vagueness of "doing your best" and recklessly believing in justice without further qualification can easily lead to a Leeroy Jenkins rushing into battle and losing sight of themselves; it's just that her attitude about how to approach it goes so far into the other extreme that it becomes its own kind of inefficient.
- Lady of War: A graceful fighter that finishes off opponents with ease.
- The Mentor: Since Tetsu was orphaned as a child, she practically raised him as she was training him. It's because of this that Tetsu feels hesitation about defying her even despite her cold treatment, and on the flip side, said cold treatment is partially out of genuine concern for him (see Cruel to Be Kind below).
- Not So Above It All: You know Tetsu's Catchphrase of "I kind of like it"? That comes from her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She shows up in only one episode (Episode 40), but she has her own Ranger form, and her presence is a huge contributing factor to developing Tetsu's character and showing insight into how Tokkyou works.
- Shock and Awe: Thunder Fist
- Stern Teacher: She taught Tetsu to be as efficient and dispassionate as possible to increase efficiency, expecting him to stay that way throughout his adulthood. She luckily grows out of that mindset at the end of the episode.
- The Stoic: She often keeps her distance and stays as dispassionate as humanly possible, expecting her students to do the same.
Mary Gold/DekaGold
Mary Gold/DekaGold
Potrayed by: Chiharu Niiyama (live), Sae (singing voice)
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: Well...she is the gold ranger after all...
- Easily Forgiven: Despite betraying SPD to perform an undercover deal and handing The Virus over to the Gas Drinkers, she's not given any disciplinary action from SPD and is allowed to go back to her planet without any issue.
- Faux Action Girl: The one time in the whole movie she transforms, she gets beaten out of it right after the Face On. It's possibly one of the shortest transformation times in the entire franchise.
- Guns Akimbo: Like Ban, Marie has her own set of dual guns called the D-Smasher.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Her first appearance in the movie has Ban literally downing a glass of juice when he first sees her due to how beautiful she is.
- Punny Name: Named after a flower, one of which she puts in the pocket of Ban's shirt at the beginning and end of the movie.
- Ship Tease: With Ban. It's implied in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger that they got together after the end of the series.
- Time Stands Still: She has the power to briefly stop time for a moment.
Other SPD personnel
Kight Reidlich (Unmarked Spoilers)
Galaxy Bureau Chief of Police Kight Reidlich
Portrayed by: Rikiya Koyama (voice), unknown (suit)
The Chief Police Commissioner of the Earth Branch, having risen to that position after Doggie was accused of multiple murders.- Big Bad: He turns out to be the one who committed the murders Doggie was accused of as well as the guy who colluded with the space mafia and arranged for the deaths of any witness who saw him, Carrie included, kicking off the story of 10 Years After.
- Devour the Dragon: He absorbs Assam and Mugi to power himself up when his Muscle Gear armor alone proves ineffective against the Dekarangers.
- Dying Curse: Curses out the Dekarangers after everyone finishes him off as per his approved deletion.Kight: Damn you... DEEKAARRAANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Evil All Along: He turns out to be The Mole selling out the SPD's information to the space mafia and the one responsible for the killings, including the murder of Carrie's dad, while posing as the Galaxy Bureau Chief of Police.
- Frame-Up: He turns out to be the murderer of Carrie's father (and a handful of others), but he used an advanced form of Mirage Dimension to cover it up and pin it on Boss.
- Horns of Villainy: He can retract or grow back his horns and he's the Big Bad of 10 Years After.
- Ironic Name: His name is taken from "Redlichkeit" which means "integrity" in German with the "keit" put in front of "redlich". However, owing to his status as The Mole, he doesn't have any integrity or honesty at all, let alone a sense of justice.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Tried to kill Doggie Kruger, only for his would-be victim to stop him from finishing his recruits off. As if that weren't enough, Doggie's recruits, who'd worked around the clock to expose him, delete him for his criminal charges as per his guilty verdict.
- Leave No Witnesses: The whole plot of 10 Years After began due to his habit of killing anyone who witnesses his crimes, and twice at that:
- He arranged for Carrie to be murdered by a couple of Anaroids, Batsuroids and Igaroids for witnessing his most recent murder of his subordinates (as well as her father).
- Since Boss had been on his tail and was about to expose him, he disguised himself as him to commit more murders and later sabotaged his medical drip to keep him asleep. One Igaroid even later enters his medical ward to finish him off when Carrie actually shows up to SPD as a witness.
- The Mole: As the Dekarangers find out, he's colluding with the Space Mafia, selling them information on SPD for a handsome profit.
- Powered Armor: His Neo Hyper Muscle Gear grants him enhanced durability and sheer firepower. Once he absorbs Mugi and Assam into it, his firepower and durability skyrocket.
- Why Won't You Die?: Upon seeing Doggie Kruger interrupt his attempt to finish off the Dekarangers, he gets furious over seeing Doggie greatly worn out, but still alive, demanding why he's still up and running.
The Neo Dekarangers (Unmarked Spoilers)
Assam Asimov and Mugi Grafton
Portrayed by: Rakuto Tochihara (Assam, live) and Mizuho Hata (Mugi, live), Jun Watanabe (Assam, suit) and Jiro Uchikawa (Mugi, suit)
Two new recruits who take on the mantle of DekaRed and DekaYellow respectively after Ban moves on to the Fire Squad and Jasmine goes on maternity leave.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Assam is ostensibly courteous to his seniors when on the job, but it turns out he's actually sadistic and cruel when his true colors are exposed. Mugi is already irritable and rude even in professional settings, but it turns out she's actually even worse.
- Co-Dragons: They're Reidlich's minions and in fact aren't even police officers (presumably having infiltrated via Reidlich pulling strings).
- Legacy Character: They're the newest recruits who take up the mantle of DekaRed and DekaYellow respectively.
- Powered Armor: Look carefully and you'll see they're definitely not using SWAT Mode the way its required training would normally mandate; it's possible that Reidlich cut corners to give it to them without training.
The Alienizers
In general
Space aliens who commit various dangerous and violent crimes. It is the duty of the Special Police Dekarangers to hunt them.
- Aliens Are Bastards: Although it's generally averted, with "Alienizers" only referring to intergalactic criminals while most civilians are peaceful Innocent Aliens, the vast majority of criminals encountered throughout the series are from other planets.
- Breaking Old Trends: Unlike past Super Sentai enemies, they're not a unified faction but rather mostly unrelated thugs and criminals. Their only connection is through all of them having bought equipment and resources from Abrella, who himself is not the boss of any Alienizer.
- Make My Monster Grow: Some Alienizers have special powers that enable them to grow giant upon defeat. Most just pilot a Heavy Industrial Machines instead.
- Monster of the Week: Each episode sees one of them committing some sort of crime, and the Dekarangers going on the pursuit.
- Mook Carryover: All Alienizers use Anaroids as their henchmen.
- One-Man Army: Some of them are extremely deadly and capable of destroying entire planets.
Anaroids
Anaroids, Batsuroids and Igaroids
Mechahuman soldiers sold to the Alienizers by Abrella to use in their crimes. There are also stronger blue variants called Batsuroids, who summon and lead squads of Anaroids, and even stronger orange variants called Igaroids.- Arm Cannon: Some variants have a gun mounted on one of their arms.
- The Brute: Igaroids are extremely tough. The first one takes nothing less than a blast from D-Bazooka to go down.
- Cannon Fodder: They're not particularly strong, but as they often attack in large swarms, they can be quite a nuisance in a group.
- Elite Mooks: Batsuroids are both stronger and more intelligent than Anaroids. Igaroids are even stronger and even more intelligent, to the point where a single one was enough to overwhelm the Dekarangers at first.
- Mecha-Mooks: They're fully robotic soldiers, making them easy to produce and sell.
- Mook Lieutenant: Batsuroids, which lead the Anaroids in battle.
- Mook Maker: The Anaroids usually start off in capsules that are often carried by Batsuroids and used to summon them.
- Mooks: They serve as grunts of the series, being used by each of the Alienizers as disposable force in their schemes.
Agent Abrella and Associates
Agent Abrella
Agent Abrella
Portrayed by: Ryūsei Nakao (voice), Yoshinori Okamoto (suit)
A bat-like arms dealer from the planet Rain and the main antagonist of the series. Abrella simply wants to do business, and unfortunately for him, SPD is a thorn in his side due to the fact they keep dispatching his clients and getting in the way of his business transactions.
- Affably Evil: He'll do fair business without shortchanging his clients (in fact, he even offers extra services like insurance). He runs his business in an entirely legitimate manner; the problem is just that said business happens to be in criminal weaponry and machinery. He even speaks in a very gentlemanly manner to the Dekarangers while he threatens them.
- Arch-Enemy: The Dekarangers view him as their enemy for his unapologetic promotion of crime, while Abrella likewise views them as his main foes for stymying many of his businesses.
- Arms Dealer: His occupation. He sells the Alienizers their Mooks, Humongous Mecha, and starting from Episode 32, Powered Armor.
- Artifact Title: The "Agent" in his name (as well as his more comical portrayal in early episodes) is a remnant from when he was originally planned to be part of a larger organization before it was eventually decided that he'd be the Big Bad himself.
- As Long as There Is Evil: His last speech to the Dekarangers before they blast him to death in accordance to an approved deletion? Crime won't disappear as long as society exists since people with ambitions like his will arise. Ban acknowledges that fact, but also states that there will always be folks who enforce the law and fight for justice to counter the threat.
- Batman Gambit: His All Your Base Are Belong to Us plan is part of a big one, knowing the Space Police would respond and dispatch the main fleet against him, where they would walk into a forcefield trap he had set up for them.
- Bat Out of Hell: A given, since he is a bat alien.
- Big Bad: He's the closest the series has to a main antagonist. In individual episodes he acts more as a Greater-Scope Villain to the Alienizer of the Week, enabling their crimes but not directly partaking in them and not giving any orders to his clients who commit the crimes for themselves. He comes into the role later on when he performs an all-out attack on the DekaBase, forgoing his previous attitude of staying in the sidelines.
- Evil Genius: Inhabitants of the planet Rain are known for their high intellect, and Abrella is particularly known for being one of the smartest people in the galaxy.
- Even Evil Has Standards: A mild example since he does still work with them, but even he is disgusted by the Alienizers in Episode 34, who are already extremely rich and just commit crimes for fun.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He enabled most of the Alienizer crimes, at least in regards to the scope of their reach, since he sells the weaponry and artifacts to the many Alienizers that appear throughout the series. This includes the villains of The Movie and Dekaranger vs. Abaranger.
- Greed: The driving motive behind everything Abrella does is to maximize his profit through crime.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: He's this to the Space Police, who have little-to-no information on him and aren't even aware he exists until he introduces himself.
- Humans Are Bastards: In the finale, he tries to demoralize Boss by claiming there are more people in the world who would do crime for personal gain than there are righteous hearts. Boss isn't even remotely interested in entertaining him.
- The Man Behind the Man: Several Alienizers that appear independent to the Dekarangers are in fact being used by Abrella. This includes Jellyfis in episode 48, who Abrella used to distract their Dekarangers prior to his assault on the DekaBase. More indirectly, he is behind most of the Alienizers being as big of threats as they are with the weaponry he supplies them.
- Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: Abrella has his tentacles in a number of criminal operations, doing business with any and all who will buy from him.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- He doesn't partake in open crimes like his clients, instead preferring to make money suppling criminals from the shadows, which also keeps him below the Dekarangers' radar. After the Dekarangers meddle in his business and ruin his transactions for far too long, Abrella steps out of the shadows and openly attacks Dekarangers' base in the finale.
- He also doesn't like the idea of Earth getting destroyed, since it'll deprive him of a massive market, and is only amenable to the idea in Episodes 42 and 43 when it seems it can be converted into a biological weapon factory.
- The Sociopath: Is only concerned with himself and his profit, so it doesn't matter the severity of the crimes he deals with. Then he decides to outright destroy the Dekarangers when his own business is threatened far too much by their meddling and deletion of his clients.
- Villainous Legacy: The villain of Magiranger vs. Dekaranger is a Hades Beastman inspired by Abrella's legacy, and looking to succeed him as the underworld's biggest black marketeer. In 10 Years After, a giant clone of him is created by Kight Reidlich serving as a minor antagonist to keep the heroes busy.
- Visionary Villain: His ultimate ambition is to destroy the Space Police to create a universe that is only run by money and crime.
- War for Fun and Profit: He instigates interplanetary wars for the sake of money, resulting in untold destruction. His ultimate goal is to create an ungoverned world where crime runs rampant, allowing power to be held solely through money.
DekaBase Capture Crew (Unmarked spoilers)
DekaBase Capture Crew
Portrayed by (voice): Kazuya Nakai (Uniga), Yuji Kishi (Ganymede), Keiichi Sonobe (Angorl), and Emi Shinohara (Sukeela)
Portrayed by (suit): Jiro Okamoto (Uniga), unknown suit actors (Ganymede, Angorl), Masaru Obayashi (Sukeela)
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Put together by Abrella to storm the Dekarangers' base.
- The Brute: Angorl and Ganymede are both hulking warriors who were brought in for their muscle.
- Dark Action Girl: Sukeela, who's just as dangerous a warrior as the male members of the crew.
- Designated Girl Fight: As the only female, Sukeela naturally ends up fighting Jasmine and Umeko, though she does face the other Dekarangers as well at several points.
- The Dragon: Uniga appears to be Abrella's right-hand. He has a closer association with him than the other Alienizers, being the alien he used as a template for the Igaroids, and leading the other crew members when he isn't around.
- Elite Four: They're four of the toughest Alienizers in existence.
- Powered Armor: All of them have Hyper Muscle Gears equipped to amplify their powers.
- Spikes of Villainy: Uniga, an urchin-like alien with spikes all over.
- Standard Evil Organization Squad: A team of distinct and powerful aliens led by Abrella.
Other notable Alienizers
The Three Hells Siblings
Succubus Hells, Bon-Goblin Hells and Blitz Hells
Portrayed by: Mayu Gamou (Succubus), Toshiharu Sakurai (Bon-Goblin, voice), unknown suit actor (Bon-Goblin, suit), Hiroshi Tsuchida (Blitz, voice), Naoki Ofuji (Blitz, suit)
- Arc Villain: They serve as the main antagonists of Episodes 21-23, a three-part arc which serves to introduce DekaBreak.
- Ascended Extra: Succubus was adapted into Morgana in Power Rangers S.P.D. and made a major villain as opposed to a three-episode Monster of the Week.
- The Brute: Bon-Goblin, a hulking bruiser who mostly attacks by punching things really hard.
- Climax Boss: They're tough enough that the Sixth Ranger needs to be called in to help stop them.
- Cool Helmet: Succubus dons a sleek black helmet when she goes into battle.
- Disc-One Final Boss: They're by far the toughest enemies the Dekarangers have to face at the point in the series when they appear, with what had been an unbroken record of destroying every planet they'd invaded before then, and serve as a major difficulty spike for the team compared to all of the one-off cases they'd had to deal with before. It takes the arrival of Tetsu, a detective specifically trained to counter their threat, to prevent them from blowing up the entire Earth. The pace settles back down to the usual Monster of the Week fare afterwards until the finale when planetary threats start surfacing again.
- The Dreaded: The Space Police are very wary of them because of all the planets they ravaged.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They're vicious killers, but they all seem to care for each other. Subverted by Blitz when he throws Succubus under the bus in an attempt to defeat Deka Break.
- Hero Killer: They apparently caused the deaths of 100 Space Police officers before coming to Earth.
- The Juggernaut: Blitz, to the point where he's able to tank a Finishing Move from the Dekarangers in his debut.
- Knight of Cerebus: When they first appeared they were much more sadistic and dangerous than the previous Alienizers the Dekarangers had fought.
- Sibling Team: A trio of siblings who maraud and murder together.
- Undying Loyalty: Succubus, to the point where even after Blitz sacrifices her, she still uses the last of energy to revive him.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Succubus takes an interest in Jasmine and tries to get her to join them as her "pet". Jasmine is initially about to cave out of crossing the Despair Event Horizon until Ban snaps her out of it.
Genio
Speckionian Genio
Portrayed by: Keiichi Noda (voice), unknown (suit)
An Alienizer based on a mirror and possessing a twisted sense of satisfaction in his crimes. He primarily targets his victims by trapping them in his own realm, something that concerns the SPD who is trying to find a way to free them all. Also, Tetsu seems to have something against him...- Defiant to the End: He doesn't flinch when he's found guilty and tries to escape into Tetsu's visor at the speed of light to avoid his sentence.
- Karmic Death: Killed Tetsu's parents and eventually gets deleted at the hands of their son.
- Manipulative Bastard: Tricks Tetsu into crying by bringing up his mother so he could escape his confinement.
- Meaningful Name:
- Genio is Italian for "genius", fitting his smarts in tricking Tetsu into freeing him.
- His native name is derived from Speckio, which is "light" in Italian, reflecting his powers being based on the mirrors and the reflection of light.
- Super-Speed: He claims that he's as fast as light and backs it up by going at the speed of light towards Tetsu's visor. Tetsu, however, proves his finisher is much faster than him.
- Villain Teleportation: He can teleport anywhere he likes through any object that's reflective regardless of size, such as a human's tear.
- You Killed My Father: He turns out to be the guy who killed Tetsu's parents. Bonus points for Tetsu's mother thinking he was a rescuer and leaving her son to watch them both die. Tetsu ends up developing a vendetta against him for that crime.
Gas Drinkers
Algol Aliens Volka, Whinsky, Algol Giin and Brandyl
Portrayed by: Kenichi Endō (Volka, voice), Maroshi Tamura (Brandyl, voice), Akiko Amamatsuri (Giin, voice), Yoshinori Okamoto (Whinsky, voice), suit actors unknown
A group of robotic aliens from the planet Algol who serve as the antagonists of The Movie.- Big Bad: Volka is their leader and the main antagonist of the film.
- Elite Four: There's four of them and they're all powerful Alienizers.
- Killer Robot: Evil robotic aliens who are dangerous criminals.
- Poison and Cure Gambit: Their master plan is to spread the "Golden Snow" virus across Earth and then hold its cure for ransom.
- The Remnant: Baurbon, a surviving Gas Drinker who missed out on the events of the movie, shows up in Magiranger vs. Dekaranger.
- Theme Naming: Their names are all derived from alcoholic drinks, while "Algol" is a pun on alcohol.
Ginjifuan Kazakh
Ginjifuan Kazakh
Portrayed by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (voice), suit actor unknown
- Ax-Crazy: He mentions that being near cops sends him into a rage that won't cease until he's made sure they're dead.
- Big Bad: Of Dekaranger vs. Abaranger.
- Villainous Breakdown: After accidentally reviving AbareKiller instead of Dezumozorya and having the revived Alienizers and Sauneel Gingko destroyed, he loses it and attempts to kill the Abarangers and Dekarangers.
Others
Baachiyo
Amoreian Baachiyo
Portrayed by: Taiki Matsuno (voice), suit actor unknown
A mysterious alien who falls in love with anything it sees. He seems to have some things for SPD's Earth Branch team...- Animal Motifs: He's based on a spider.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Looks pretty creepy in appearance and a little obsessive in pursuing his love, but he doesn't mean any harm to anyone; he just wants to find Tetsu.
- All Webbed Up: Capable of firing webs in his pupa form to ensnare his victims.
- Meaningful Name: His name and homeplanet are derived from the Italian words for "kiss" and "love", that being "bacio" and "amore", respectively.
- Secret Admirer: He turns out to have fallen head over heels for Tetsu, having witnessed him in action in Episode 26 while the object of his love was dressed like a lady.
- Spiders Are Scary: He's based on a spider and he's targeting the Dekarangers. However, it's because they're in his way of his love, Tetsu.
Carrie
Clementian Carrie
Portrayed by: Rino Kobayashi
A witness to the crimes supposedly committed by Doggie with the power to jump into others' bodies to hide herself. She went on the run for a long time to find Ban's team, but trying to safeguard her may prove more than a challenge for the Dekarangers. Only appears in 10 Years After.- Dark Is Not Evil: Black is among the colors she wears, but she's one of the protagonists and the one getting chased by the Big Bad's forces.
- Human Aliens: Carrie look exactly like a regular human girl, despite being a Clementian.
- Punny Name: "Carrie" sounds similar to "carry", which is a reference to her powers letting her hide in others' bodies while they carry her.
- She Knows Too Much: The Mole marked her for death and sent a horde of Anaroids, Batsuroids and Igaroids after her to prevent her from revealing everything she saw, because she knows who actually did the crimes, having witnessed it firsthand and used her powers to hide inside her father as the culprit killed him.
