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* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness]]'': Hexagon Brothers, sound-off! 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! "...Wait who's missing? Whatever. We'll wait till he shows up."

* ''{{Lime-iro Senkitan}}'', with its five girl Lime unit, in five colours.

* [[{{Disgaea}} "Together...we are...the PRISM RANGERS!!]]"

* ''DigimonFrontier'' is basically this genre adapted to the ''Digimon'' franchise, right down to the team size; they even have a FiveBadBand of PsychoRangers.

* ''Anime/AngelBlade'', once the series added enough girls, ended up becoming...[[IncrediblyLamePun a Sentai Hentai]].

* ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (known in America as ''Battle of the Planets'' or ''G-Force'') is a classic Sentai anime -- if not the TropeNamer, it's certainly the TropeCodifier.

* ComicBook/{{Cazador}} parodies this with the Powerful Galactic Defenders: [=CosmoPatagonian Hare, CosmoArmadillo, CosmoCavy, and CosmoTatou=]. They had a fifth member, [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi CosmoPlatypus]], but he died in battle; the [[DumbMuscle title character]] was invited to replace him, but gave up because he couldn't [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull pronounce the animal's name to power up]] (that, and he didn't really want to join them to begin with). Their HumongousMecha looks like a humanoid rabbit.

* Parodied in ''LeagueOfSuperEvil'' with the Force Fighters V. [[labelnote:*]]The V is not Roman Numberal 5, [[ShapedLikeItself it's the letter V]][[/labelnote]]

* ''MahouSenseiNegima:'' In an obvious parody of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers'', the five girls from Negi's class with the lowest grades dub themselves the "Baka Rangers," complete with appropriate "hero names," like "Baka Pink" and "Baka Red."

* The {{Wonderful101}} takes this trope to the extreme.

* The Wonderful101 takes this trope to the extreme. The major characters still follow the convention though.

* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has the Shuffle Alliance, which is inspired by the second and third Sentai teams, ''JAKQDengekitai'' (playing card theme) and ''Series/BattleFeverJ'' (MultinationalTeam, though ''G'' has China in place of Kenya). The Alliance even has a Sentai backstory, stating that they've existed from ancient times to keep humanity from destroying itself with war.

Although popular in {{anime}}, there have also been innumerable live action {{Sentai}} series in Japan, most notably ''SuperSentai'', the series which was re-edited into ''PowerRangers'' in the United States, and 2003's ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon''.

* ''SailorMoon'' is a hybrid {{Sentai}}[=/=]MagicalGirl show that started the MagicalGirlWarrior trope, which is basically a hybrid of these tropes.

* ''BubblegumCrisis'' has {{Sentai}} elements as well -- note the individually colored hardsuits and the almost stereotyped set of personalities found among the Knight Sabers.
* ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (known in America as ''Battle of the Planets'' or ''G-Force'') is a classic {{Sentai}} anime -- if not the TropeNamer, it's certainly the TropeCodifier.
* ''{{Moldiver}}'' both parodies and pays tribute to classic {{Sentai}} (and {{Magical Girl}}) elements .
* ''SaintSeiya'' is a classic anime mixing {{Sentai}} with mythological fantasy.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima:'' In an obvious parody of ''SuperSentai''/''PowerRangers'', the five girls from Negi's class with the lowest grades dub themselves the "Baka Rangers," complete with appropriate "hero names," like "Baka Pink" and "Baka Red."

* ''KeroroGunsou'' does a few parodies of the {{Sentai}} genre. Episode 24 introduces Space Detective Kogoro, an explicit parody of Kenji Ooba in his role as the title character of the {{Toku}} series ''Space Sheriff Gavan''.

* ''RoninWarriors'' had {{Sentai}} on the sides of both the good guys and the bad guys.

* ''[[ShowWithinAShow Chouken Sentai Blade Braver]]'' in ''BambooBlade''. Tama, the main girl in the show, considers herself an "ally of justice" like the Blade Bravers themselves, and in fact uses the motivation of fighting for right to join the kendo club. Later on, the show reveals that ''Braver'' is just one of many in the 31-year long "''Battle Hero''" series, making it an obvious LawyerFriendlyCameo of ''SuperSentai''.

* The ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' manga is somewhere between a {{Deconstruction}} and [[TheParody Parody]] of this genre. The Municipal Team Daitenzin is {{Sentai}} group made up by the local government to fight the evil organization ACROSS, but it's staffed by a collection of disinterested or stupid employees who do more damage than they fix.

* LevelE has a whole story arc of the anime version devoted to several kids who were pranked into becoming a {{Sentai}} team because... well, The Prince felt like it!

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* American animators have made their own version with a twist: ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' features a {{Sentai}}-ish team of, well, robot monkeys, complete with different colors and personalities.

* Parodied in ''MegasXLR'' with the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo S]][[ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman -For]][[{{Voltron}} ce]], then again with the "Ultra Chicks", who blend SuperSentai with SailorMoon.

** After the events of The Answer in ''Persona 3'', Yukari decided to become an actor in Phoenix Ranger Featherman R. The result is the outfit and bow that she uses when she becomes playable in ''Persona4Arena''.

* The Dragoons of ''LegendOfDragoon'', complete with elemental alliances and color coding.

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* As the introduction says, both the ''SuperSentai'' and ''PowerRangers'' series are the UrExample of this style.
* Saban, the company that translated ''SuperSentai'' to ''PowerRangers'', also tried its hand at translating another series, coming up with ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', and created an original series, ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog''.
** ''Beetleborgs'' was adapted from ''{{Juukou B-Fighter}}''. They also made ''Series/VRTroopers'', although their source footage was three earlier ''MetalHeroes'' shows, and those shows don't qualify for this trope as they only had one or two heroes.
* ''{{Voicelugger}}'', which was the last production by Shotaro Ishinomori, the godfather of ''SuperSentai'', released posthumously.

* ''GGundam'' has the Shuffle Alliance, which is inspired by the second and third Sentai teams, ''JAKQDengekitai'' (playing card theme) and ''BattleFeverJ'' (MultinationalTeam, though ''G'' has China in place of Kenya). The Alliance even has a Sentai backstory, stating that they've existed from ancient times to keep humanity from destroying itself with war.

* American animators have made their own version with a twist: ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo!'' features a {{Sentai}}-ish team of, well, robot monkeys, complete with different colors and personalities.

* Most shows about CombiningMecha use the sentai style to some extent -- in fact there's even a CombiningMecha anime called ''ChojinSentaiBalatack'', which includes the FiveManBand with color-coded outfits. About the only thing these sorts of shows don't use is the SuperSentaiStance, since typically the heroes rarely fight outside their vehicles or robots, but even so, the combined robot will usually do plenty of posing upon combining.

* For bosses with no lines or personalities. {{Mother 3}}'s Barrier Trio invokes a few Sentai tropes, most notably SuperSentaiStance.

* Saban, the company that translated ''SuperSentai'' to ''PowerRangers'', also tried its hand at translating another series, coming up with ''BeetleBorgs'', and created an original series, ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog''.
** ''Beetleborgs'' was adapted from ''{{Juukou B-Fighter}}''. They also made ''VRTroopers'', although their source footage was three earlier ''MetalHeroes'' shows, and those shows don't qualify for this trope as they only had one or two heroes.

* An audio drama of ''{{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}'' of all things, set post-series and [[AnimatedActors thoroughly destroying the fourth wall]] has the cast having to re-tool the show for new episodes; Asuka has the pilots (Rei, herself, Shinji, Toji, and Kaworu) try being super sentai. [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible It's]]...[[StylisticSuck special]].

* ''{{Moldiver}}'' both parodies and pays tribute to classic {{Sentai}} elements (not to mention {{Magical Girl}}s, too).