Career of Evil - 10/7/16 (Jashinka) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/7/16 (Jashinka)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/7/16: Tailed-People Clan Jashinka Empire (Kagaku Sentai Dynaman)
The Jashinka are a unique villain group in multiple manners, the first of which is that they are the first villains who feel more like an actual civilization who comes in conflict with humanity instead of just a bunch of random people who work together for the sake of evil. Having evolved on Earth alongside humanity in secret, they exist as beings who are smaller in number but who have much greater power despite their limited population. The power is all dependent on how many tales they are born with: the more tails
Career of Evil - 10/6/16 (Deathdark) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/6/16 (Deathdark)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/6/16: Dark Science Empire Deathdark (Dai Sentai Goggle-V)
When Hirohisa Soda became Sentai’s main writer, one of the first things he did from his initial season is give the villain group a meaning and a purpose, just as he did with the hero squadron. While Deathdark is notable for its terroristic intent like the Black Cross or Black Magma, what makes it different is its modus operandi: the desire to control all scientific progress and use any and all developments in the sciences to continue its own relevance as a power that wishes to crush humanity. It’s attacks aren&
Career of Evil - 10/5/16 (Black Magma) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/5/16 (Black Magma)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/5/16: Machine Empire Black Magma (Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan)
Black Magma is probably the first villain groups where nothing is as it seems, which is probably its strength and weakness. Their entire purpose of existence is based on the illusion we see at the start, as an army of sentient “Bio-Machines”, ruled by Furher Hell Saturn under the great guidance of their great deity, the Black Sun God; when in reality everything is all a creation of the Omnipotent God, a brain in a jar hidden away from everyone. While obviously the first “machine army” villain group
Career of Evil - 10/4/16 (Bader) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/4/16 (Bader)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/4/16: Bader Clan (Denshi Sentai Denziman)
There’s always something special about a villain that comes not merely from somewhere else but from another dimension, adding to their mystique that merely another Earth threat or alien invader wouldn’t have. As one of the first extra dimensional threats, the Bader Clan (yes, I go with “Bader” due to the giant “B” in their logo…that and the letters “B” and “V” are written the same way in Japanese) used their position as extra-dimensional threats to raise the bar of what coul
Career of Evil - 10/3/16 (Egos) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/3/16 (Egos)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/3/16: Secret Society Egos (Battle Fever J)
When Super Sentai returned after the "year off" due to the whole situation (J.A.K.Q.'s cancellation, the success of the Spider-Man toku that lead to BFJ), you would have expected the villains to just be another Black Cross Army or CRIME. However, Egos had it's own quirks, namely in that it was depicted not as an evil terrorist group, but more or less as a cult organization. Satan Egos was the robed like leader, with the Egos Monsters as his children, the "Little Brother Robots" as his force, and generals such as Hedder and Salome as his
Career of Evil - 10/2/16 (CRIME) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/2/16 (CRIME)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/2/16: Criminal Organization CRIME (J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai)
After the original villain squad, going from a group that wants to be a constant threat to the world to a group that just wants to steal and make as much money as possible is probably just a complete 180. CRIME's original intent, though, does work with the darker elements that J.A.K.Q. tried to get across...well at first. The set-up of the organization, with Boss Iron Claw at the top, then with the human Crime Bosses (initially through different segments of Japan but dropped after the first couple episodes) controlling the C
Career of Evil - 10/1/16 (Black Cross) by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - 10/1/16 (Black Cross)
Career of Evil: 31 Looks at Super Sentai Villain Groups!
10/1/16: Black Cross Army (Himitsu Sentai Gorenger)
The very first villain group in Super Sentai reflected the era upon which it was created as well as could have been an effective villain organization even today. The Black Cross Army is a villain straight out of the Cold War, developing multiple strategies and abilities through science, technology and occasionally magic in order to devise ways to crush it's eternal rival: the noble heroic organization EAGLE and their Gorenger. Their main villain, the Black Cross Furher, is an authoritative villain who, like the Great Leader of the K
Career of Evil - An Introduction by Strangerataru, literature
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Career of Evil - An Introduction
Super Sentai: a franchise notable for it's depiction of the never-ending battle of good vs. evil. However while the heroes tend to get all the focus and return engagements due to being the ones rooted for by their fans (let alone the focus, as minimal as it is due to pop cultural concerns) in the public, in many cases it is the villains who end up as the most interesting element of every season. Their actions end up driving the season, and they end up leading to the story and evolutions that happen from start to finish. Villains in this franchise in particular are in many ways more key than the heroes: it was a villain, not a hero, who beca