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  • Anvilicious: The start of a Season 1 episode has a discussion of the sexism between the Damsel in Distress and Distressed Dude tropes, succinctly summarizing why intentions and motives are much less important than just being mindful of what ends up on the screen.
  • Awesome Music: While Lord Gaga's third fight can be giant a That One Boss moment to some, the music that plays during the fight, Dancing to the Beating is both a fitting song for the boss and a fun beat to listen to on its own, easily being the most memorable song outside of the Anime Theme Song.
  • Complete Monster: Lord Gaga is an evil alien invader. At some point in the past, he attempted a takeover and permanently crippled Tammy's sister. Despite being defeated, he destroyed the benevolent alien Brain's body, reducing him to the Brain in a Jar that you know as Cerebro. Returning in modern day, he tricks the crew into using their show to start his very real invasion, then tries to murder the lot of them when they are no longer useful. Among other crimes, he has a monster kidnap and attempt to murder civilians, commits mass brainwashing, and experiments on innocent people to turn them into monsters, one of which the crew are forced to kill. He targets Tammy in particular purely out of spite, turning her into a monster and trying to force the crew to kill her. In the Sixth Ranger route, he attempts to sacrifice her to his master, Villain X, in a cowardly attempt to save himself, while in the Driver Route, he murders her father in cold blood. In the latter route, he also holds all members of the squad but the Assault hostage, trying to force them to fight each other to the death for their freedom. Despite being a minion of Villain X, Lord Gaga enjoys every moment of the horrible things he does.
  • Difficulty Spike: Season 4 is harder than previous seasons. Every mission contains a boss, and each mission generally forces you to juggle the boss while completing side objectives and killing enough minions to get your viewer count up. It isn't exactly brutal, but players who had been able to generally max their viewer count in all missions previously may find that to be harder to achieve.
  • Game-Breaker: The Scout skill Biinon's Invisibility is both this and Good Bad Bugs; it puts the Scout in stealth, heals 30% of their Health, and gives them +100% damage to their next attack... but with how it's worded, the stealth bonus and attack bonus only break when the Scout does a weaponless PHYSICAL attack. With enough Skill Regen to get Biinon's cooldown to 1 turn, you can stack up to -three- instances of +100% Damage at a time, which also calculates incorrectly with the Season 5 Scout skill that has 200% scaling, Shockwave... two stacks of Biinon's can result in a Scout with a 5x3 attack skill that does 3000+ damage to all enemies it hits. Even Lightning Attack (a Free Action attack) benefits from the Biinon's damage miscalculation, meaning Scout becomes the de facto best damage dealer on the team. Add in Lead's Shout of Courage for another +30% Attack Bonus...
  • Mis-blamed: Many blame Saban for the change in the cover art from more Super Sentai-oriented gear to cheap Bucket Helmets. Behold Studios has stated this was due to the story being about a fledgling sentai studio with very little money — a lot of the early costumes are made out of cheap material, an early Monster of the Week is a cardboard box monster made out of a cardboard box, etc. Behold thought this was what the core of the game was about and changed the cover art, even though better costumes can be unlocked later. The misunderstanding comes from the change coinciding with Behold adding "inspired by Saban's Power Rangers" to the game's logo.
  • Ho Yay: Gaga is...pretty friendly towards Lead, even if Lead is a guy. When he reveals his true colors, he seems all too happy Lead's under his control. Lead themself calls him "master".
  • Moral Event Horizon: Lord Gaga kidnapping, experimenting on, and brainwashing Tammy into fighting the heroes.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy: The game got more attention for having copyright issues than for its own merits.
  • Spiritual Successor: Intentionally so, to Power Rangers. Later plot revelations bring a certain unofficial Sentai to mind...
  • Woolseyism: The English and Portuguese versions of the game have very different texts; the English version has much more puns and memes while the Portuguese version uses more slang.
  • That One Boss: Gaga's third fight involves chasing him around the room as he teleports, dealing with bosses summoned from previous levels, and dodging all their attacks with minimal healing or revival skills. Oh, and some of the bosses summon mooks, too.

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