Bangray is a Megabeast Hunter who hunts Giant Animals across the galaxy and a major antagonist in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger. He travels to Earth for his 100th hunt, Cube Whale.
He is voiced by Nobutoshi Canna.
Biography[]
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger[]
Having previously hunted 99 Giant Animals across the galaxy, Bangray travels to Earth for his 100th hunt, seeking to hunt down Cube Whale.
He attempted to throw Yamato Kazakiri into despair by creating a memory of her after scanning Yamato's mind before killing the memory. Realizing that the memory of his mother is something he will never forget, Yamato becomes Zyuoh Eagle and charges at Bangray in anger for messing with his memory. Bangray then scan Zyuoh Shark's memory to summon Amigard and Trumpus to cover him as he takes his leave.
Impressed with his abilities, Ginis invited Bangray to join Deathgalien and participate in their Blood Game but the Megabeast Hunter refused.
Bangray soon begins searching for the Link Cube, an artifact that links Zyuland and the human world, as it has the power to release Cube Whale. In addition to facing opposition from the Zyuohgers, he soon encountered another competitor for possession of the cube when the space pirate Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red comes to Earth seeking to claim it as well.
To provide assistance for himself in claiming the cube, Bangray summoned an army of revived past foes of the Super Sentai comprised of Doukoku Chimatsuri, Brajira of the Messiah, Enter, Escape, Deboth and Zet Shin, as well as Gokdos Gill. However, they were defeated by the combined powers of the Zyuohgers and Gokaigers.
Bangray was later defeated by the Zyuohgers using Zyuoh Final. Asking Quval to give him a hand, the Deathgalien instead stole his hand to gain his memory scan powers. Eating a Continue Medal to grow giant, Bangray faced off against the Zyuohgers in their mecha, but was destroyed by Doubutsu Dai Gattai Wild Tousai Dodeka King.
Quval would later use his hand as part of his bid to get revenge against Ginis by summoning memory constructs of the Zyuohgers and their past foes. However, Ginis caught on to Quval's plan and revealed his true power to his former subordinate, prompting Quval to attempt to destroy the planet to appease Ginis and prevent the Deathgalien leader from killing him. Bangray's hand was later destroyed along with Quval at the hands of the Zyuohgers.
Zyuohger vs. Ninninger[]
Bangray was later revived by Gillmarda alongside four other villains to fight the Zyuohgers and Ninningers. He was destroyed by the combined powers of Zyuoh Shark, Zyuoh Tiger, ShiroNinger and MomoNinger.
Personality[]
Bangray is characterized as a vile, sadistic, cruel, unforgiving, and destructive hunter who will sink to as many lows as possible in his hunts for the Megabeasts. While he only briefly joins the Deathgaliens before rejecting them, he isn't much different from them, including Ginis, save for his goals and his lack of ability to destroy planets, though the Deathgaliens own atrocities don't mean anything to him.
Like Ginis, Bangray's actions are motivated by fun and refuses to sees humans as anything other than inferior beings to himself, but unlike Ginis, who has a calm, composed, and superficially polite demeanor (as long as his secret is kept) even if he's blowing up worlds for fun, Bangray is hardly if ever concerned with acting polite, going out of his way to insult and abuse people whenever he feels like it while acting temperamental and wrathful at things he hates. He is also a ridiculously petty individual, as his reaction to a Player's Blood Game inconveniencing his lunch is to murder him and responds to him and the Zyuohgers blaming each other by just killing both parties. He also hunts with no regard for his prey's sapience and alliances, as seen with Cube Whale and straight admits he doesn't care about poisoning innocents, both human and sealife, in his attempt to lure Cube Whale out of the ocean.
In addition to his enjoyment of hunting giant prey and remorselessly getting others hurt in the process, Bangray views things like compassion, friendships and connections to other life with utter disdain. Because Yamato believes in those things, he is all too happy to attack and kill his loved ones in brutal ways just to see him break down in despair, even those whose memories he just recreated. He isn't above breaking the other members of the Zyuohger team too as shown with his game to get two of them or their fake counterparts to kill each other.
Despite his utter cruelty and sadism, he isn't unintelligent, as he has come up with brilliant plans to achieve something he wants. Few examples include his attempts to break Yamato with tricks, when he used an orderant on a memory copy of one of the Players that keeps him from being tracked until he can sneak into the Zyuohgers territory and when he convinced Quval to join forces with him by preying on his intention to avenge his homeworld. Regardless, not only is his cruelty more prominent, but it leads to him underestimating others and eventually leads to his undoing, as he is caught off guard by the Zyuohgers' pre-planned thinking and Quval's betrayal.
Trivia[]
- His appearance bears a resemblance to Cthulhu from the works of HP Lovecraft.
- He is the only major villain in Zyuohger main series that has no direct affiliations to Deathgalien, mainly because he refused to join them. Even so, he could be still considered as an associate since he worked with Quval in spite of not participating the Blood Game anymore.
- His design bear a strong resemblance with Bacchus Gill and Deratsueigar from Gokaiger.
- His role in the series is similar to Bio Hunter Silva from Bioman and Sir Cowler from Flashman.
- His ability to make copies of past Sentai characters, rivalry with the red sentai of the group, and independence of the main villain group is reminiscent of Basco ta Jolokia from Gokaiger.
- His title, Megabeast Hunter is a homage to the titular hero from Megabeast Inspector Juspion. The Super Sentai and Metal Heroes series has crossed over multiple times back in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.
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