Bandora sends Dora Sphinx to trap children into trees set to be chopped down, getting four of the Zyurangers in the process.
Tropes
- Blow You Away: He uses his wings to blow his victims into the air, teleporting them into trees.
- It's All My Fault: Dan blames himself for Boy being targeted by Dora Sphinx, pulling off a Xanatos Gambit so the others can find where Dora Sphinx's victims end up.
- Monster of the Week: Dora Sphinx.
- Noodle Incident: How Dan found Dora Sphinx and what riddles he was told were never revealed.
- Our Sphinxes Are Different: Whereas mythical sphinxes usually have the head of a human and the body of a lion, Dora Sphinx is the exact opposite with blue skin. Barza lampshades that Dora Sphinx was based off the sphinx of mythology.
- Rage Breaking Point: A minor example: When Dora Sphinx teleports Mei into a tree, Goushi attacks him when it is his turn to answer his riddles. But Dora Sphinx, in front of Totpat and Bookback, teleports away with Gouchi punching Bookback instead.
- Riddle Me This: Dora Sphinx's method of hunting children, inviting them to riddle contests and sealing them in trees when they fail to answer correctly or in time.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!!: Geki's responds to answering "What's the most constant thing in this world?" with 'Justice' and being told the real answer is 'Evil', forcing the two to duke it out to prove which answer is correct.
- Teleportation: One of Dora Sphinx's abilities. He teleports Geki, Goshi, and Mei to a theater stage for his riddle contest, then teleports himself and Geki to a quarry to do some "real fighting to settle a dispute over a answer to one of his riddles.
- Villain Has a Point: Dora Sphinx arranged his victims to be sealed in trees set to be chopped down to make way for a golf course, counting on hedonistic adults to unknowingly murder children as explains they are too self-centered to care if a few trees are chopped down.
