Emperor Gaohm is the mysterious leader of the Jamahl and the primary antagonist of Juukou B-Fighter.
Gaohm is an interdimensional being who has killed and enslaved people from many different worlds. He has control over a strange dimension called the Gaohm Zone and has the power to teleport people into it, amplifying the strength of any Jamahl warriors that are transported there. Each Zone was a blank place with a few ornaments in the ceiling or walls that reflected the warrior there. Each zone would disappear once the monster was defeated.
His initial appearance is that of a tall figure with a white and purple robe and face that seemed to be full of fibrous. He was seemingly destroyed by the B-Fighters halfway through, only to reappear as a giant floating torso in space called Final Gaohm.
His true goals were not known for the longest time, but it is eventually revealed the purpose of Gaohm's attack was to complete the Jamahl Hole and use it to raze the Earth. This would in turn cause the Earth's legendary "butterfly of life" Saint Papilia to appear to restore life to the planet, enabling Gaohm to capture her and harness her power to make himself immortal.
He was voiced by Takeshi Watabe, who previously voiced Don Horror and God Neros, as well as Emperor Aton and Lagorn in the Super Sentai franchise.
Biography[]
Gaohm was originally a being created within a spatial warp by the Will of Darkness. He at some point formed the Jamahl in the distant past to achieve his dream of becoming immortal and ruling over multiple dimensions. During his conquest, Gaohm went through several commanders of his armies before recruiting his three current ones, Jera, Gigaro and Schwartz.
Eventually, the Jamahl came to Earth after Gaohm took an interest in the planet's guardian, Saint Papilia. For the first part of his invasion, Gaohm sent out waves of Jamahl Fighters to attack the cities of humankind. He soon eyed a particular building that he believed would make an ideal Earth headquarters for them and sent his three generals to lead an army of Jamars to take it. In the process, the Jamahl captured numerous humans to be used as slaves. However, in response to the Jamahl's invasion, three researchers each in a different field of nature were grant the powers of insects to enable them to transform into the B-Fighters and defend the Earth.
As the B-Fighters continued to repel Jamahl's kaijin, Gaohm became increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of his commanders. After the Fusion Monster his army commanders all worked together to create was destroyed, Gaohm gave the three a final chance to prove themselves and sent them all down to Earth to each fight one of the B-Fighters. The B-Fighters fought each of them off, but Gaohm became curious about their power and descended to Earth to fight them personally. Gaohm proved himself to be much stronger than each of the B-Fighters, but allowed them to stab him in order to fully get a taste of what the source of their power was, seemingly killing him.

Final Gaohm floating next to the Jamahl Fortress.
Immediately after his supposed death however, Gaohm resurfaced as a giant torso floating in space. Having discovered that the source of the B-Fighters' power was none other than the insects he had earlier dismissed, Gaohm sought to create a living weapon to counter them. Gaohm summoned Sorceress Jagul, a legendary Jamahl priestess who had entered slumber 300 years ago, and instructed her to create an evil B-Fighter. After gathering swarms of insects, and using a DNA sample from Takuya, Jagul was able to create an evil clone of the B-Fighters called "Black Beet". Black Beet quickly became Gaohm's favored minion, leading his commanders to become envious of it and further determined to prove themselves.
Eventually, Gaohm commenced the final stage of his plan, to harness the power of the Earth's Saint Papilia, a guardian spirit which appeared every time the Earth was destroyed to restore life to the planet. For the first stage of the plan, Gaohm sent his subordinates to gather energy to use to create an artificial black hole called the Jamahl Hole to destroy the planet with, thus spurring Saint Papilia to restore it. However, Black Beet caught wind of the plan and, as a clone with a short and limited lifespan, sought to become immortal himself using Saint Papilia.
Gaohm tasked Gigaro and Schwartz with gathering energy for the Jamahl Hole. However, the B-Fighters discovered the pair gathering energy and transformed to fight them. Gigaro was defeated by a finisher fired by Super Blue Beet but managed to survive, only for Gaohm to finish him off so he could claim his energy for the Jamahl Hole. This act however led to Jera, in grief over Gigaro's death, defecting from the Jamahl. Gaohm attempted to have Schwartz Tank to finish her off but she was saved by Black Beet.
Though Schwartz Tank was destroyed later, Gaohm's plans proceeded swimmingly and his Jamahl Hole gathered enough energy to the point where it was near completion. To gather more energy, Gaohm summoned Hidra, an old colleague of Jera's, to the Jamahl Fortress and sent her to gather more energy, promising to make her the new Army Commander if she succeeded. Much to Gaohm's pleasure, Hidra managed to capture Sage Guru, the mentor of the B-Fighters, leading Gaohm to reward her by promoting her to Mercenary Army Commander and giving her an armband as proof of her status. Unbeknownst to Hidra however, the armband was really a bomb, as Gaohm intended to use her as a suicide bomber against the B-Fighters. Gaohm then sent Hidra to deal with the B-Fighters, but Jera intervened and tried to warn Hidra about Gaohm. Hidra refused to listen, and Gaohm soon detonated the bomb but the B-Fighters managed to avoid its blast. Hidra however, was not so lucky, and passed on after asking the B-Fighters to kill Gaohm for her.
When Black Beet began to collapse as his lifespan reached its end, Jera attempted to sneak aboard the Jamahl Fortress to find more energy for him. There, she came across a secret chamber which housed Gaohm's true form, but was shocked by him with lightning for seeing his true nature. After being fatally wounded by Gaohm and cast from the Jamahl Fortress, Jera was found by the B-Fighters and with her final breaths told them how to infiltrate the Jamahl Fortress before dying. The B-Fighters then stormed the Jamahl Fortress and, after fighting through Gaohm's elite red Jamars, made it to the secret chamber where Gaohm's true form resided. Gaohm then revealed his true form to the B-Fighters as a fetal-like entity who was born from a spatial warp. He used his telepathic powers to gain the upper hand against the B-Fighters, but after Blue Beet became Super Blue Beet, the B-Fighters were able to execute a combined finisher against Gaohm that caused the Jamahl Fortress to plummet to Earth. As soon as the Jamahl Fortress hit the ground Gaohm died in the crash, going up in flames upon impact, but despite his death the Jamahl Hole he created did not disappear. However, G-Stag and Reddle were able to fly into space in their Beet Machines and fire a beam that destroyed the Jamahl Hole before it could consume the Earth, averting Gaohm's destructive plans.
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See also[]
- Vexor, his counterpart in Big Bad Beetleborgs
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