Rambles: Toku movie tie-in episodes
Recently remembered a few Tokusatsu movies that would have tie-in crossover episodes that are usually used to promote their movies, like Gaim and Kikaider or Go-Busters and Gavan to name a few examples.
probably the most unorthodox one as Hakaider is more violent in tone than Ohranger, as there is NO WAY this would actually have happened, since the Hakaider movie was aimed for a slightly older audience than Sentai is normally geared towards, but this is an intriguing what if crossover as Inoue has had a hand in writing a few episodes of Ohranger, plus we have a team battling an armada of machines and crossing over with a movie that has Androids just makes sense thematically. For this premise, the Ohrangers face off a new enemy called Bara Dragon (a homage to Black Dragon from Kikaider 01 as that is what Gills Hakaider turns into) and during their fight, a clash creates a portal that has Hakaider appearing out of the portal to help the Ohrangers, who go to thank him but he wonders where he is as he changes to his human form, observing the current world, they ask about him and he mentions he doesn't have a human name, so they decide to call him Ryo, which he accepts. Later the rift enters the Baranoia base, where Michael and his soldiers arrive persuade them to help capture Hakaider, lending his soldiers and a Knight to achieve their goal, leading to a big attack at the city, which alerts both the Ohrangers and Hakaider to fight against the enemies, defeating the Knight, Soldiers and Bara Dragon, the portal returns once they're beaten so Hakaider returns to his universe as he has to figure out his own purpose in his own world.
This one was a bit tricky as the two are vastly different, especially coming up with a monsters for them to fight against. after looking up various lore and mythologies to work with both show themes, I went with a giant Tsuchinoko Makamou that is Rattlesnake but with a color scheme similar to Garagaranda as it would encounter a device that it consumes that allows it to create portals, Hibiki and Asumu encounter this Makamou as it creates a portal to try teleporting away, but it isn't a normal portal as they follow it, it sends them to another world. where Hibiki and Asumu would encounter that universe's Shocker with Scorpion in charge of investigating, revealing a small faction was testing out portals when it vanished, seeing it returned to their world.
They try to kidnap the two as they are anomalies in this world, until Takeshi arrives to help them as this universes Ichigo, he talks with them about their worlds and we would make a meta joke how Hibiki's world has an organization named Takeshi, then realizing they should stop Shocker from getting the Makamou to control, eventually they return to Hibiki's world and Ibuki and Todoroki assist in helping fight Scorpion and Tsuchinoko, beating them as well as having Ichigo return to his world, with Nigou seeing him return back along with Bat.
For this one, the Denliner finds itself in an alternate 2007, seeing Ichigo and Nigo battle Launcher Turtle, Den-O joins the fight and later discover that an Imagin found itself in this timeline, that being the Monkey Imagin (referencing Journey to the West), later encountering Kotomi to make her wish come true, leading to it entering her memory of meeting Chiharu, Shocker tries to prevent the Riders from escaping as they see interest in their gadgets and time travel, but Zeronos arrives to take them on while Den-O, 1 and 2 go to the past to defeat the Monkey Imagin, Zeronos would later deal with V3 and the Shocker Riders, nearly losing to them as the Launcher Turtle decides to leave the fight, only to hear Platinum Smile and Chiharu kills him. The crew return and bid farewell to the Riders of this timeline as Owner makes sure no one else remembers what occurred, but wonders how this Imagin entered this timeline, then we cut to a mysterious stranger walking through, seeing the Denliner return.
Ace wakes up to see things look normal but senses something is off and returns to the DGP but sees they got new contenders and a new Game Master as an Extra round has commenced as Shocker Gran Prix, with Ace, Keiwa, Neon and Michinaga along with sudden new characters in the mix, Takeshi, Hayato, Ruriko and a few Shocker Low Class members that got Desire Drivers to play a new game off digging around, with the secret being that’s the location where Shocker’s founder hid his wealth and plans when he died, even told to avoid fighting the Sarracenia Jyamato, who was a Shocker Augment who died from his own modifications but learning of how the Jyamato can work decide to incorporate it, creating this hybrid to intervene in the game, the Riders would assist each other as they find Rider Gear to help them out in fighting the competition. Eventually a Shocker member would find the wealth they were looking for, but once they open it, they find Ace inside as he reveals he found it but saw it was not gonna do anyone any good, so he destroyed it, which earned him more points, then the Shocker members try to fight him, only for the others to help fight them, the Jyamato Augment and the Game Master, as someone else would take back control, the Riders bid farewell as the world is reset back to normal, back in the Shin KR timeline, the masked man reveals he has Hayato and the other Augments with him to see him upgrade himself with a new belt and mask.
with that, I think that’s the best I can come up With so will leave it there, have ideas for if Rider teamed up with their other works like Amazons or Black Sun but that’s a different story.
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