Underappreciated Masterpiece.
Themes
Super Sentai usually have themes like Dinosaurs, Ninja, Samurai, Magic, Space, or Time. These are a little weirder but you could throw in conventional stuff.
- Eldritch Horrors
- Steampunk
- Regional Japanese Cuisine
- Biblically-Accurate Angels
- Jazz
- Drag, Vogue, and/or Haute Couture
- Golden Horde, Vikings, etc.
- Non-human Hominids and Australopithecines
- Americana across the decades
- Psychedelia
- Punk
- Molecular Gastronomy
- Pop Idols
- Exotic Fruits
- Ghosts
- Dreaming
- Nudibranchs
- Dog Breeds and other Canines
- Speculative Evolutionary Animals and Post-Humans
- Fungi
Colors
Red is usually leader, other common colors are blue, yellow, pink, black, green. But why not throw in Weird Colors (here, here, or here)?
Weapons
In some cases it would be better to make the weapons correspond to the themes, like Jazz would be Jazz Instruments, some of the food ones might be cooking utensils, but otherwise here are some fun but genericized weapons.
- Flying Guillotine
- Gyrojet
- Urumi / Whip Sword
- Chu Ko Nu / Repeating Crossbow
- Atlatl / Spear Thrower
- Knifeblade Shoes
- Twin Chainblades (i.e. Kratos God of War)
- Vibroblade
- Bow with Trick Arrows (i.e. Green Arrow)
- Boomerang
Also a Masterpiece in a very different way. Also blogger is not letting me adjust image sizes for this image for some reason so here we are.
Personalities
The characters usually have strong and distinct personalities, like "the boy scout", "the genius", "the goofball", "the rebel". These are still archetypal, but I wanted to throw in some twists.
- Introverted or on the Autism Spectrum but very good at masking.
- Hopeless Romantic with Avoidant Attachment tendencies.
- Overcompensates for their angry nature with aggressive kindness.
- Popular and successful B/Himbo prone to depressive episodes.
- Fascinating lived experience but presents as boring and ordinary.
- Rationalist prone to spiritual experiences.
- Endearing despite an outgroup worldview.
- Tries to be Zen/Stoic/Pious/etc. but easily goaded out of it.
- Anti-social or narcissistic nature but trying to be better.
- Observant, witty, and sharp like a standup comedian.
Just delightful, would recommend.
Not sure when I first drafted this, but no later than July 2025. I wanted to add more tables like for super robots, monsters, etc. but it never quite came together, so this is just a starting point.
