| “ | I failed... | „ |
| ~ Cowshoe Mask's last words. |
The Cowshoe Mask (牛靴仮面 Ushikutsu Kamen, 61) is a member of the Black Cross Army. He is the seventh of Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask's Masked Monsters.
He was voiced by Eisuke Yoda.
Biography[]
Cowshoe Mask pursued the Gorengers in order to demonstrate the power of his "Black Cross Hurricane", developed based on the technology of the Gorenger Hurricane. During its first test, he has it become an actual black cross, and while it works, the explosion goes off behind the Gorengers, thus making it a slight failure. However, when Peggy and Kenji realize that the Black Cross can potentially use a Gorenger Hurricane ball, they left in the waters of Matsuyama in Shikoku, and during a mistake made in finishing Shellfish Mask, they immediately head back and switch the ball with a fake so that Cowshoe Mask can get nowhere in his research. During a second attempt to test the ball in front of the Black Cross Führer and Golden Mask, Cowshoe Mask fails completely and the ball transformed into a crow as it starts to spin around and then goes off in an explosion, not killing him but hurting him rather badly.
Using further research, Cowshoe Mask further adjusts the ball to allow for it to finally work, and when he tests it on the Gorengers for his third try, the Masked Monster successfully creates pineapple bombs that fly towards the heroes and explode, hurting them. Realizing that the potential of the Black Cross Hurricane was finally for real, the Gorenger make an adjustment to Varitank that, when attacked by it again, sucked up all the bombs and released a huge metal ball that crushed several Zolders before exploding. During a final showdown of Gorenger Hurricane and Black Cross Hurricane, the Gorenger make their ball become a stag beetle and Cowshoe Mask makes his become a rhinoceros beetle, and the two beetles briefly fight, with the Gorenger's beetle winning and flying right into the Masked Monster's mouth, exploding and taking him out.
Trivia[]
- Cowshoe Mask inspired other shoe-themed monsters in Sentai history:
- Yokai Yamawarawa in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger in 2015. (episodes 13, 36, 46-47; twenty-seventh series of the Heisei era)
- Geta Grumer in Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger in 2024. (epiosde 12; fifth series of the Reiwa era)
