What An Idiot / Super Sentai

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• Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: In episode 84, the Grand Finale, the Black Cross Fuhrer is told by his trusted second-in-command and spiritual advisor, Golden Mask, that the way the stars are presently aligned is unfavorable to him, and spells doom for him if he goes out into battle.
  You'd Expect: The Fuhrer to heed the advice of Golden Mask and stay within the Black Cross Castle until the alignment changes.
  Instead: The Fuhrer disregards Golden Mask's advice despite his experience in astrology, arrogantly proclaiming himself the master of fate, and goes out to battle the Gorengers anyway, leading to your standard Sentai Final Battle where the Big Bad gets defeated.
• J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai:
  • In episode 10, the episode's Crime Boss and his "assistant" (whom he forced into working for him) try to escape but are surrounded by Dia Jack and Heart Queen.
    You'd Expect: That the Crime Boss would order the Crimers to physically pull the heroes off of him.
    Instead: He orders the Crimers to shoot the heroes even though he and his assistant are practically in their line of fire. Once the Crimers start shooting, Dia Jack and Heart Queen get out of the way, while said Crime Boss and his assistant get shot instead. The Crime Boss then fires the Crimers as he dies despite the fact that those were his failed orders.
  • In episode 13, a Crime Boss has just pulled off a Locked Room Mystery that even has JAKQ stumped at first and makes it look like the victim committed suicide. Only the victim's girlfriend suspects foul play, but she has no proof other than her impression of him the night before.
    You'd Expect: Again, she has no proof! All the Crime Boss has to do is sit back and continue his scheme with JAKQ none the wiser.
    Instead: He tries to have the woman killed for suggesting to the police that it wasn't a suicide. Again, without proof. Even if JAKQ hadn't prevented the assassination, they would have recognized the woman and questioned why she was killed. Either way, they start to look very carefully at the Crime Boss' actions, which soon gets his entire scheme and the secret behind the locked-room exposed.
• Battle Fever J:
  • In Episode 20, the Battle Fever team is sent to investigate a "ghost" at an all-girl's school.
    You'd Expect: This looks like a job for Diane Martin/Miss America.
    Instead: The episode has the guys - including Shiro and Kensaku Disguised in Drag - investigate the matter. Hilarity Ensues, but it doesn't give them much results. They could've gotten the job done quicker and easier had they sent Diane, who doesn't really do anything until it's time to fight the Monster of the Week.
  • In Episode 45, Egos abducts a notable heart surgeon to have him transplant an enhanced heart (100 times stronger than even an athlete's heart) into their latest Monster of the Week, but in a secret location so that he can't be easily damaged (most of his body is armored). They threaten to kill the doctor's family if he speaks of this weakness. He complies if they promise to let him go afterward.
    You'd Expect: That this would be the ONE TIME Egos fulfills their end of the deal. Heart Monster quickly proves his power going up against Battle Fever in their first encounter, so it's clear that without knowing his weakness they're not likely to win, meaning Egos could conquer the world with him alone.
    Instead: They go back on their word and keep the doctor captive, claiming he's too important to let go and works for Egos now.
    As a Result: When Shiro and Makoto arrive his at house (needing him to operate on a young boy with a weak heart) they learn of his situation and rescue him, making him very motivated to mention that Egos is holding his family hostage. After Battle Fever gets said family to safety, the doctor blabs everything about Heart Monster's weakness. Cue Penta Force to the back of his head.
• Denshi Sentai Denziman:
  • 3000 years prior to the start of the series, the Vader Clan destroys Planet Denzi with a powerful Vader Monster called Umitsular, though some remnants manage to send technology to Earth to strike against Vader, knowing they'd eventually come for Earth. Sure enough, Vader arrives on Earth 3000 years later.
    You'd Expect: That they'd pull a repeat performance with Umitsular immediately, since they know that Denzi Land is somewhere on Earth (Umitsular having infested it before it could leave Planet Denzi), and they don't want to leave open the possibility that the technology has fallen into competent human hands.
    Instead: They start their invasion with the vastly inferior Musasabilar, who despite some early success quickly gets manhandled by the newly formed Denziman.
    Even Worse: By the time Queen Hedrian thinks to unleash Umitsular on Earth seven episodes later, the Denziman have gotten used to their powers enough to utterly destroy him, leaving Vader scrambling to come up with smaller schemes in an effort to maintain their invasion plans.
  • In Episode 22, Vader Monster Taimular catches Tatsuya when he tries to infiltrate the Vader's base and sends him back four years in time, when he was still a police detective and not a Denziman.
    You'd Expect: That the Vader Clan would leave him there. Granted he'd take The Slow Path back to the present and become DenziGreen all over again, helping stop 21 of their schemes, but then he'd fall victim to Taimular's time tricks all over again, creating a Stable Time Loop and leaving the Denziman one member short with Vader able to achieve victory.
    Instead: Queen Hedrian, wanting to see the Denziman suffer, has Tatsuya brought back to the present without his memories, thinking it will mess up the team dynamic. All it does is bring Tatsuya in contact with Denzi Dog IC, who is able to restore Tatsuya's memories and allow him to mess up Taimular's scheme.
  • In Episode 31, Hedrian learns about a famous magician and his daughter and how they're connected to Daigoro Oume, to the point where he willingly took part in a Saw a Woman in Half routine. Hedrian decides to use that make Daigoro Half the Man He Used to Be and sends Mimilar, who can do real magic, to convince the magician to do the deed. The man refuses and is killed, but luckily the man's daughter takes up his profession to fulfill his Last Request, so Mimilar decides to convince her instead.
    You'd Expect: That Mimilar would try to convince the girl that Daigoro was somehow responsible for her father's death, or perhaps brainwash her into doing the deed (hell, he could have done that with her father). If she refuses outright, he can either kill her too and be done with it (Hedrian wanted her dead anyway for "daring" to want to bring joyful magic to village kids across Japan), or continue tormenting her in private.
    Instead: Mimilar not only outright admits he killed the girl's father and warns her of his real power, he only ever barks out orders to kill Daigoro and never tries to manipulate the girl's mind, leaving her very convinced that this monster is pure evil (which he is, but he could have been more subtle about it). Then Mimilar takes the time to turn the girl's first magic show into a disaster by causing one trick to hurt the audience, prompting the girl to warn the Denziman about Mimilar's plans and letting them devise a strategy to keep Daigoro in one piece and destroy Mimilar.
  • In Episode 43, Desumasukular is trying to take ten beauty pageant winners to present to Hedrian as a gift, but Akira Momoi keeps disrupting her plans to the point that all other beauty queens save for one are under watch. So the Vader Monster decides to use Akira instead and makes a plan to separate Akira from the other Denziman.
    You'd Expect: That she'd do so in a way that doesn't make the team suspicious. After all, with nine beauties captured using strange powers the Denziman are aware that Vader is involved.
    Instead: She sets up a fake ransom exchange using the father of one of the beauty queens, expecting Akira to go and defend the one queen who has so far refused protection. While the plan does work, the team already suspected a trap and set up the means to disarm it. They may not have realized Desumasukular was actually after Akira, but it didn't matter. Their plan was generic enough that they would have saved the victim regardless.
  • Episode 44 sees Daigoro nearly used by Arazinlar to infiltrate Denzi Land. The team figures out her scheme and has Daigoro kept under surveillance inside the base, but he starts to get hungry for anpan, so Akira goes to get some.
    You'd Expect: That Akira would play it safe and get some fresh anpan from a random store.
    Instead: She goes to retrieve Daigoro's stash at the athletic club the Denziman work at, which General Hedrer anticipated and had Arazinlar hide inside the bag.
    Fortunately: Arazinlar's scheme this time around was to take control of DaiDenzin for Vader, rather than destroy Denzi Land, a plan that proves useless since DaiDenzin has a failsafe that makes it so that only the Denziman can operate it.
  • In Episode 46, Vader Monster Torikagolar is disguised as a survival expert and uses a TV program to spread fearmongering among the children regarding the dangers of the 21st Century. Some of the kids, who happen to be regulars at the athletic club, decide to go on survival training to prove they can handle whatever the 21st Century throws at them.
    You'd Expect: That they'd let their parents or Denziman know, the latter especially because they work at the athletic club and the kids actually respect them as teachers. This way they can get some kind of chaperone who can help them better understand and succeed at the survival training.
    Instead: They decide to run away from home. Granted they sure make to keep well-prepared, but it turns out Vader found out about their idea and decided to punish them for their "defiance" by putting them through a harsher survival test, stealing their gear in the process.
  • In the penultimate episode, General Hedrer, now giant, interrupts a fight between the Denzimen and Banriki Monster.
    You'd Expect: That General Herder will use this chance to get rid of Demon King Banriki and Banriki Monster, the Vader Clan's worst enemies.
    Instead: He tells them to back away, so he can fight the Denziman.
    As a Result: General Herder is destroyed by DaiDenzin and Demon King Banriki continues to rule the Vader Clan.
  • In the Final episode, Queen Hedrian prepares to attack Demon King Banriki from behind, so she can retake the throne from him.
    You'd Expect: That she stays silent when she does that
    Instead: She yells during the sneak attack.
    As a Result: Banriki is alerted from the attack, dodges it and starts attacking Hedrian, Keller and Mirror.
• Choudenshi Bioman:
  • Episode 12 has Mason abduct townsfolk and replace them with Mecha Clone duplicates. In particular, he decides to use these duplicates to play with one of the heroes' emotions by making him think he committed murder.
    You'd Expect: Mason to dispose of the citizens once he's copied them. With no real people, it'd be harder to prove that the "victim" was fake.
    Instead: He puts them in a holding cell. They're very much alive by the time Shingo finds them.
  • In the same episode, Shingo gets into a fight with a group of Mecha Clones and destroys them all. The kid of the week, whose father's mechaclone duplicate was part of that group, mistakes it for his real father and accuses Shingo of being a murderer.
    You'd Expect: Shingo to trust his eyes (which saw the Mecha Clones explode) or his Super Electron Scope (which saw through their disguises, and a skill he used before and after this episode to expose more Mecha Clones) and tell the kid it was a robot and assure him he'll get his father back.
    Instead: Shingo actually believes he killed a human being and gets a Heroic BSoD until Shirou gives him a pep talk.
• Hikari Sentai Maskman:
  • Episode 8's Monster of the Week deep freezes Takeru, Kenta and Haruka. The only cure is a magic flower, the Maria Rose. Igam uses the flower to set up an ambush for Akira and Momoko. Ungler Soldiers overwhelm the heroes, while the "flower" left out in the open is a fake.
    You'd Expect: Igam to have the monster deep freeze the heroes. For added points, Igam could "admit" the flower was a lie.
    Instead: Igam taunts them by holding the real flower out in front of them. Momoko snatches it away with her Masky Ribbon, while Akira runs back to base and uses it on the others.
  • Episode 32 sees Oyobu and Baraba test out their latest Monster of the Week's forehead Power Crystal, which produces a destructive laser when used in tandem with Baraba's new sword, out in a field. Suddenly, along comes Kenta driving a beaten-down old car (Long story). The villains don't want to be seen, so...
    You'd Expect: The villains hide under a rock or teleport out of there.
    Instead: Baraba and Oyobu actually hide under a rock, but the monster just plops down where it is. ^note Why Oyobu and Baraba don't drag it with them is a mystery. Kenta accidentally drives over the monster, which causes the jewel to pop out and land in Kenta's backseat. Thus, beginning an episode-long chase as Oyobu runs after Kenta to get it back.
• Choujuu Sentai Liveman: In episode 8, Kemp creates Anger Brain to use other peoples' anger against them. While the Livemen themselves become victim to this, they eventually learn to fight without anger, surprising Kemp once they tell him.
  You'd Expect: That Kemp would learn from his last mishap and just merely tell Anger Brain to get the Livemen in a calm, collected demeanor.
  Instead: Kemp becomes enraged again and his energy gets sucked up by Anger Brain much more. Bias then criticized him to learn from that scenario towards the end of episode.
• Choujin Sentai Jetman: Tranza's new Super Robot Veronica has the heroes on the ropes. Count Radiguet can only watch as Tranza is seconds from dealing the Finishing Blow.
  You'd Expect: Radiguet to let Tranza kill the heroes. Then, at an opportune time, he'd kill Tranza, take Veronica for his own and use it to subjugate Earth.
  Instead: He tries, right there and then, to wrest controls from Tranza so he can deal the finishing blow himself. Tranza fights back and hooks him up to the robot's power source. The heroes survive and eventually figure out how to destroy Veronica.
• Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger:
  • The Zyurangers are reawakened after 175 million years when Witch Bandora is let out of her can and attacks Earth. At least, all but Geki are due to his cryochamber getting stuck.
    You'd Expect: Their mentor, Barza, would give the other four Zyurangers the Dino Medals needed to power their Dino Bucklers to let them become full powered Zyurangers.
    Instead: He doesn't, and the Zyurangers fall into a trap pretty quickly. They're only saved when Geki finally reawakens and it is after that when Barza gives them their Medals.
  • Dora Sphinx's MO is to challenge a victim to a series of riddles, then blow them away if they answer incorrectly. He challenges the Zyurangers to one such contest during his fight with Daizyuzin. Geki goads him into asking the Rangers what his weakpoint is.
    You'd Expect: Dora Sphinx to give them a fake answer. Or, if he can't do that, blow them away after they answer wrong, and then only give the right answer after they're powerless to do anything about it.
    Instead: He freely admits said weakpoint is the snake on his crown. The Zyurangers use that free tip to defeat him.
  • In Episode 17, the Zyurangers meet Ryota, a young fairy who seeks to unlock the sixth Zyuranger, Burai, from stasis. Burai is Geki's older brother and wants to try to kill him (and by extension, the other Zyurangers) the moment he gets up. Ryota doesn't know this, but his grandfather, Gnome, and Barza do.
    You'd Expect: The elderly gents, surely aware of the Zyurangers' affinity for children, would at least give them a bare-bones explanation as to why waking up Burai is a bad thing. They'd at least count on the Zyurangers to try to persuade Ryota not to wake him up.
    Instead: Barza and Gnome flat out try to kill Ryota and leave the Zyurangers in the dark as to why. Naturally, the Zyurangers come to Ryota's defense, and he eventually releases Burai, who promptly beats up the Zyurangers once he gets up.
  • From a Certain Point of View, the Zyurangers aren't smart either in that instance. At one point, Bandora calls them to gloat about Burai's pending reawakening.
    You'd Expect: The Zyurangers would realize something is wrong when Bandora, someone who ought to be dreading a new addition to her enemies, is instead ecstatic. Maybe then they'd have a chat with Ryota...
    Instead: The Zyurangers don't question it, leading to them getting trounced by Burai once he reawakens.
  • While Mei is awesome, the battle against Dora Boogaranan kinda makes one scratch their head when you take time to think about it. Okay, so, the toad monster spent the episode mopping the floor with the Rangers and eating them one after another, first with its energy tongue and then with its normal tongue. After it eats Dan, Mei gets ready to shoot her arrow at its throat and take it out, only for Totpat to come out of nowhere and tackle her, making Mei drop her bow. Boogaranan finishes swallowing Dan, pats its belly and turns to face Mei. For a split second, she freezes up. The toad shoots out its tongue to attack her.
    You'd Expect: That the monster would wrap its tongue around her, reel her in and eat her. It's already proven to be way stronger; she's dropped her weapon and the Rangers have no way of escaping once they are wrapped up. It wouldn't even have ended the series really, since by this time Burai was on the team and was always willing to come help when he was needed.
    Instead: It whips her with the tongue twice, demorphing Mei, taunts her, and then lets Mei get up and run away into the woods where she gets the chance to set up a trap. As a result, Mei's trap works, arrows shoot into the monster's throat, and it spits the Rangers out. They smack it around and then Mei kills it.
• Chouriki Sentai Ohranger:
  • Juri Nijou presents herself as a tough Action Girl, but she still likes cute stuff too. Sometimes it's used against her. Case in point: Episode 14, when the Ohrangers are called to investigate a robot factory they suspect is a Baranoia front (it is). The foreman (unaware of its true nature) throws them out, but not before Juri procures herself a little robot for her very own.
    You'd Expect: Good, now analyze it to see if it is a Baranoia bot and determine their plan!
    Instead: Juri does nothing but fawn over it, and she takes it back to base with her. Unfortunately, at this point, Acha and Kocha outfitted the bot with a ticking time bomb. Goro throws the bot bomb off a bridge just as it explodes.
  • The Ohrangers have proven themselves the only ones capable of thwarting Baranoia's invasion of Earth with their Chouriki-powered weapons. It's quite convenient when, in Episode 25, they find the Monster of the Week, Bara Hungry, passed out drunk in the home of a civilian family. They decide to dispose of it in a secure location.
    You'd Expect: The Ohrangers to use one of their special weapons, like the Ole Bazooka (which, incidentally, debuts this episode) to do the job.
    Instead: The Ohrangers decide to set the monster up with gunpowder, even though Baranoia was no-selling armies with more advanced conventional weaponry than that by the first episode. The time they waste setting up the explosives gives Acha and Kocha the opportunity to wake up Bara Hungry, who runs off to resume its activities.
• Gekisou Sentai Carranger: Episode 25's Gorotsuki is SS Paaman, who calls himself "Bowzock's Best Hero Researcher." After he and his Zokurangers get beaten by the Carrangers, Paaman upsizes and faces the RV Robo. Paaman has an ultimate attack which is at least 15 words long, so...
  You'd Expect: Paaman to fight the RV Robo, then try to pull off the attack when it can do little to stop him. As a "hero researcher," he ought to be aware why heroes don't open battles with their finishers, right?
  Instead: Paaman opens the fight with his ultimate move. He wastes so much time pronouncing the attack that the Carrangers use RV Robo's far-quicker finisher to cut him down.
• GoGo Sentai Boukenger: High Priest Gajah brings the demonic Ashu, Gai and Rei, Back from the Dead as the Questers.
  You'd Expect: Gajah to have a safety measure to bring the two, the most powerful villain faction, under his control.
  Instead: He doesn't. The Questers subsequently turn on him, leaving him with more competition for the Precious.
• Tensou Sentai Goseiger: Robogog of the 10sai had revived Buredoran and converted him into a cyborg renamed Buredo-RUN with all of his memories taken away from him.
  You'd Expect: Robogog to have either deleted/destroyed the memory drive containing Buredoran's memories or kept it with him wherever he goes. That way, even with a dangerous threat under his division, there's no way Buredo-RUN would be able to fully betray him.
  Instead: He doesn't. Not helped by the fact that he also abused Metal Alice right in front of Buredo-RUN, the latter used his primal instinct to tell Metal Alice if there was a way to get his memories back and reinstalled them back to him without Robogog knowing before the final battle against Matrintis begun. By the time Robogog gets told of all this by Buredo-RUN, it's far too late as the leader was now just a talking head that gets decimated by the backstabber minutes after.
• Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Debo Tanabanta is a Jackass Genie who grants wishes to those who write on his cursed Tanabata slips. Those that use his slips will die by sunrise, which includes all the Kyoryugers but Daigo. Daigo and his father stop the curse on time, and soon, the six Kyoryugers face Tanabanta.
  You'd Expect: Teleport out of there, call some Zorima, anything but what he actually does.
  Instead: He uses two of his own slips to mess with the Kyoryugers. His own curse weakens him, which hastens his defeat.
• Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z: The evil Space Shocker organization threatens the Earth. Gavan Type-G and Sharivan head out to stop them. They know that their new enemies use magic.
  You'd Expect: The two to realize that, with the organization named Space Shocker, the villains are space-faring villains.
  Instead: They decide that Kamen Rider Wizard and Kamen Rider Beast, who were born on Earth and never once left the planet, are the enemies and go after them.
• Shuriken Sentai Ninninger:
  • In Shinobi 29, Suguroku Ninja Ikkakusai grows giant and fights the Ninningers in Ha-Oh Shurikenjin and starts thrashing them.
    You'd Expect: That he just merely finishes them off with his dice abilities.
    Instead: For no apparent reason, Ikkakusai explains how board games came to be; Yakumo gets irritated and tells Takaharu to finish him off, decimating Ikkakusai with the Ha-Oh Appare Buster.
  • In Shinobi 44, Masakage Tsugomori has succesfully brainwashed Nagi, Kasumi, and Kinji by rewriting their memories to replace Takaharu with himself as their inspiration. He later gets Yakumo and Fuuka on the ropes with his scheme.
    You'd Expect: That Masakage wastes no time in either rewriting Yakumo and Fuuka's memories or have the mooks kill them.
    Instead: He explains his evil scheme to them. Neither Yakumo nor Fuuka consider Takaharu to be their inspiration, and they place Masakage into some of their more negative memories of him. Masakage tells them to stop, which they do, thus freeing the others from his brainwashing.
• Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Yamato and the others find out Ginis is a composition of Moebas, causing the villain to go on a berserker frenzy on them. Then Naria shows up to defend Ginis, telling him that she'd always remain loyal and devoted to him regardless of what he is.
  You'd Expect: Ginis to be grateful that his one secretary would have this much care about him and just direct his anger merely at the Zyuohgers.
  Instead: Finding her compassion insulting, Ginis slays Naria while decimating the Zyuoh Changers. The Zyuohgers get extremely vexed at Ginis for this, and as the villain tried to vaporize the Zyuohgers once more, eventually the heroes manage to get the Earth's Power to transform back with said planet rejecting Ginis.
• Uchu Sentai Kyuranger: Don Armage gets placed back to normal after the Kyurangers defeat him giant sized and released all the individuals of the entire galaxy he assimilated.
  You'd Expect: Don Armage would just retreat and wait to bide his time to try his tyranny again. After all, this is actually him and not one of his copies.
  Instead: Wanting to get back at the Kyurangers for crushing his dream, Don Armage spitefully hurled Lucky into space in hopes of corrupting him into his host. Too bad for him that Lucky was able to have this amount of luck, resulting in riding on top of the meteors again and thus he and the other Kyurangers finally finish off Don Armage.
• Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger: The main point of contention the Patrangers have against the Lupinrangers is that they're thieves acting outside the law (in general they don't condone other Sentai acting since that should fall under vigilantism, never mind that previous Super Sentai have worked with government organizations and even police).
  You'd Think: There's really no excuse for this because the Patrangers are legitimately skilled investigators, so they should be aware rather quickly that the Lupinrangers are only really targeting the Ganglars, dimensional gangsters who commit far worse crimes than the Lupinrangers, up to and including first-degree murder.
  Additionally: They know about the Lupin Collection, but only that it's supposed to be dangerous if fully gathered. Problem is, they're using pieces of said collection themselves, as are the Lupinrangers. They really should be looking more into how the Lupin Collection works. What it all boils down to is that at worst they should be turning a brief blind eye to the Lupinrangers until they get the collection back from the Ganglers, and at best helping them take down such dangerous villains.
  Instead: They actively oppose the Lupinrangers for being thieves, often getting in their way and making things far harder than they have to be. It takes more than half the series for the Patrangers to even consider a brief teamup with the Lupinrangers, and that's only because the threat they're facing is so dire.
• Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger: In episode 45, Pricious was still shown to have the heart card of Master Black when he noticed and started chatting with what he believed was "Saden".
  You'd Expect: That Pricious, being the cunning chessmaster he is, would recognize the suspicion of "Saden" and just actually try to mince him.
  Instead: He doesn't; he just tries to use the card to crush for defying him. "Saden" then sliced his arm off to obtain the card back, revealing himself to be Koh who then used the HayaSoul to dash on out of the cave while taunting Bye-Bye to an extremely enraged and outsmarted Pricious.
• Mashin Sentai Kiramager:
  • In episode 3, Shiguru, being dubbed as his team's ace, easily maneuvers against Vise Jamen, when the latter suddenly shouts "Look, over there!" to dispatch him.
    You'd Expect: That Shiguru to ignore his words and just continue to attack him. Given how skilled he is, Shiguru could've even finished the Jamenshi off and all he and his team would have left to deal with is the Vise Shellga.
    Instead: He doesn't; Vise Jamen then easily shoots a vise on him, thus leaving Shiguru with this debacle for the most of the episode.
    Later in the episode, Shiguru, still with the vise on his head, gets a break from filiming in his acting room.
    You'd Expect: That if he wanted to express how much pain he is in without anyone knowing the better, he'd at least open the curtains before he did.
    Instead: He doesn't; As Shiguru started wincing in pain, three of his teammates open said curtains, with Sena replaying to him that it really does hurt. Even when Shiguru tries to act cool while denying any pain, the others don't buy it for one second.
  • In episode 14, just as Steam Locomotive Jamen was at the grasp of defeat at the hands of the Kiramagers, Carantula had enough dark energy by this point to summon Diesel Basra to take down the heroes and help the Jamenshi. Afterwards, Galza appears at the scene upon being impressed with Steam Locomotive Jamen's efforts as well as to taunt Takamichi when the latter found out how he was deceived by his advice.
    You'd Expect: That Galza fights his foster nephew while the others are preoccupied with the Jamen Beast and Steam Locomotive Jamen to continue with his circle and/or not also summon Smog Jouki at all.
    Instead: Galza does summon his dinosaur train Mashin and lends it to Steam Locomotive Jamen to help out against the Kiramagers. A now-cooperative Takamichi then used Mashin Express to kick the Jamenshi out of Smog Jouki where not only did the monster get crushed to death by Diesel Basra, but the heroes manage to defeat the Jamen Beast with that additional help contributed. For bonus points, Galza's response was that he was never lending Smog Jouki to a Jamenshi ever again.
  • At the end of episode 38, Juru congratulates Takamichi for finally defeating Galza in their Graduel while he still had the last Kanaema Stone, Illusia.
    You'd Expect: That Juru either hid Illusia for safekeeping or had just gave the stone to Shiguru before the latter left with the Shiny Breaker to defeat Tooth Decay Jamen so the others could be free from the cavities.
    Instead: He just congratulates Takamichi while holding out Illusia and stating that they had all four stones. He then immediately gets interrupted by Yodonna, who then liberates Illusia from him. As Juru and Takamichi fail to get Illusia back, Yodon orders Yodnna and Galza to return to base via Jouki.
• Avataro Sentai Donbrothers:
  • Jin Momoi tasks Haruka to find Taro Momoi.
    You'd Expect: He gives Haruka either a physical description or even a photo of what he looks like. Or even say that he's a hero called Don Momotaro.
    Instead: He just tells her "Find Taro, swear fealty to him, and that's it" or "He's gonna come at this location" but again no photo.
    As a Result: In the span of the first two episodes alone, Haruka misses very obvious signs on who Taro is, can't connect the dots that Taro = Don Momotaro and mistakes two of the Noto for Taro. And in the third episode, when she finally meets Taro, she doesn't even let him introduce himself! This is pretty much Inoue being Inoue again!
  • Episode #30 sees the Anoni attempting to unite the Noto and the Donbrothers against the bigger threat of the Juto.
    You'd Expect: The Anoni to simply come to the Cafe and state their case, doing everything they can to make sure they secure enough good will to get the humans on their side - especially with Taro's Villain Respect of the late Noto General Sonoi as an easy selling point. Or, barring this, asking the Generals to talk to the team themselves.
    Instead: The Anoni kidnap Haruka's aunt and have their representative reveal himself to the Cafe after listening in on them, revealing that they know full well who the Donbrothers are while dumping the major bombshell of suspected Juto identities (namely, Tsuyoshi's wife Miho) onto the team blunt-force; turning what should've been a call to action into blackmail.
    As A Result: The names on the Juto suspect list put Haruka and Tsuyoshi into a state of disarray while leaving everyone else too suspicious to take immediate action. The lull in action gives the Juto enough time to invade the Anoni's crash-pad and consume them all; hijacking the ransom for themselves to demand Don Murasame. With his friends distracted by the panic of the situation, Taro is discreetly approached by the Crane Juto and given an entirely separate appeal to leave the Juto to her. This causes Sononi's earlier plea to Inu Brother to fall on deaf ears as Taro ultimately decides to turn the truce down - dooming any chance of the two groups coming together.
  • Episode #38 has Tsubasa discover Tsuyoshi's Sanity Slippage due to the Crane Juto's meddling in their lives. Mid-way into the episode, Taro approaches him and directly states that he encountered the ex-felon's Juto copy, asking about the circumstances.
    You'd Expect: Tsubasa to realize that Taro's knowledge of the Juto means a chance to alert the team to the Crane Juto's meddling in his and Kijino's lives.
    Instead: He decides It's a Long Story and doesn't elaborate, rebuffing Taro's inquiry.
    As A Result: Taro does the same when asked how he knows what a Juto is, needlessly leaving everyone in the dark; robbing the mind-addled Tsuyoshi of potential help and padding both mens' Love Triangle plight out for even longer.
  • After the whole Juto situation is resolved, Natsumi finds Tsubasa on the run from the authorities again. This time, she demands an explanation for what is happening.
    You'd Expect: For Tsubasa to explain everything what happened, given that she also retained Miho's memories and knew about the whole thing as well.
    Instead: Tsubasa refuses to explain to Natsumi the situation.
    As A Result: Understandably, this results in her ultimately breaking up with Tsubasa for good, and the finale has her approach Tsuyoshi to continue the dream they had together, ending the Love Triangle in favor of Tsuyoshi.

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