| “ | I am the one who turned Signalman evil and sent him to Earsh! I am the puppet master of evil, bending the universe to my whim! I am the puppet master of all evil, bending the universe to my whim! Biker Lord Exhaus! Hear me, Space Reckless Driving Tribe Bowzock... You must regain your evil confidence. | „ |
| ~ Exhaus revealing himself to the Bowzock. |
Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus is a manipulative architect, the one responsible for the founding of the Space Bosozoku Bowzock, the tyrant responsible for the Beagers' near extinction, and the overarching antagonist of Gekisou Sentai Carranger.
He is voiced by the late Osamu Kobayashi who also voiced Bara Guard in Chouriki Sentai Ohranger a year earlier but is better known as Dwodel in Space Battleship Yamato, Emperor Zwordar in Space Battleship Yamato II, Shaddam IV in the Japanese dub of Dune and Thunderbolt Ross in the Japanese dub of Hulk.
Biography[]
Past[]
Exhaus’ origins are unknown but, at some point, he obtained the power of all evil constellations in the universe, allowing him to wield pure evil energy. He decided that he wanted to create a universe-spanning highway but lacked the power to do so himself. As such, he posed as a fortune teller named Suzogue and manipulated President Gynamo into forming the Bowzock to do the destruction for him. In the meantime, he enslaved the Beager race; overworking most of them and killing attempted defectors, eventually reducing them to just one survivor.
Carranger[]
When the Bowzock attack Earth in 1996 and are opposed by the Carrangers, Exhaus watches from a distance but does not make his presence known.
After the death of Instructor Ritchihiker and the Carrangers’ reclamation of RV Robo, Exhaus decides to take more drastic measures. He pollutes the atmosphere of Planet Police, turning all of its natives (including Signalman) evil and watches in evil glee as the Bowzock and Signalman team-up to kill the Carrangers.
Eventually, after the Bowzock continually prove to be utterly incompetent, Exhaus opts to get rid of the Bowzock once the day where he can seal the Carmagic off arrives. Deciding to play both sides against the middle, je manipulates the Bowzock into fighting the Carrangers with Norishiron Final when Gynamo ends up depressed over Zonnette's departure then having them destroy the Pegasus Car Garage after consuming all of the constellations that give the Carrangers their power; stripping them of their abilities. With no one left to oppose him, Exhaus reveals his true nature to the Bowzock by covering the Baribarian in trash once they return, calling them useless trash, setting the base on fire with all the remaining Bowzock inside and sending it hurtling to Earth in order to destroy both his former allies and the planet so he can create his highway. However, Signalman sacrifices Sirender to stop the Baribarian which allows the Bowzock to survive. With nothing else to do, they initially fight the Carrangers until Zonnette (in her true identity of Vanity Mirror) reminds them of Exhaus' betrayal and convinces them to join forces with the Carrangers against their mutual enemy. Gynamo and Kyousuke then get the idea to send the battered Baribarian flying back into Exhaus though the de-powered Carrangers take it themselves to recover their power. As Exhaus approaches the Earth, they ram it into him and seemingly kill Exhaus; releasing the captured constellations which allows the Carrangers to once again morph.
However, Exhaus manages to survive by absorbing the evil energies from across the universe and goes to Earth where he becomes Exhaus Super Strong to destroy the planet himself. He blasts the Carrangers and Bowzock but all recover, Gynamo attempting to grow giant to fight him with imo-youkan but the candy is expired so it just shrinks him back. Once the shock passes, the Carrangers summon VRV Robo which is able to dodge most of his attacks and strike back. However, Exhaus takes every attack without injury and is able to destroy the V-Guns, redirect the Victory Twister back at VRV Robo, and cripple the mecha with lightning. With VRV Robo completely unusable, the Carrangers sacrifice it; withstanding his lightning until they get in close and having it grab Exhaus before self-destructing at point-blank range whilst they escape to the Ranger Vehicles.
Despite this, Exhaus survives without a scratch so they form RV Robo and dodge his lightning to perform a varient of the Racing Slash (dubbed the Hyper Crusher) to drill straight through his gut. However, Exhaus is unfazed and heals the wound before destroying RV Robo by concentrating evil energy into devastating energy blasts. Before he can claim victory and kill the Carrangers though, Gynamo throws expired imo-youkan into his mouth which both regresses Exhaus into his default form and shrinks him down to human size. Confronted by the Carrangers one last time, he refuses to die until his highway is completed and tries to kill them but is shot by the Auto Blasters and finally killed by thier combined Carmic Attack. The attack destroys his body whilst his soul flies up into vast outer space where he turns into dust alongside his highway; finally putting an end to the tyrant and his dream once and for all.
Timeranger[]
| “ | Next, we have Gekisou Sentai Caaaaaaaranger. I cannot help it. That is how they say it. They fought Space Bosozoku Bowzock and defeated the Reckless Emperor Exhaus. They are the 20th Sentai. | „ |
| ~ Tock regarding the Carrangers' battles. |
Four years later, the Timerangers embark on a journey to understand the previous Sentai teams by using the TimeJets to revisit thier battles. They arrive in the time of Carranger and, although Exhaus is not shown, he is mentioned by Tock as having been defeated by the Sentai.
Personality[]
On the surface, Exhaus seemed to be a generous if evil and extremely intolerant of failure benefactor who was kind to the Bowzock. However, this is merely an act as he is a megalomaniacal sadist who is only interested in fulfilling his own goals and is willing to kill even his only allies to advance his plans. Even before his betrayal, he showed a heavily sadistic and unforgiving side; enslaving the Beager race to eat roads and getting all but one of them killed through overworking, overfeeding and execution of defectors or escapees. Similarly, OO Batton's possible redemption is cut short by Zelmoda indicating that Exhaus will kill the Gorotsuki if he dares to relent; showing that, even before his true nature sliped fully, he saw the Bowzock as disposable pawns at best. Ultimately however, this is his undoing since his betrayal leads the Bowzock and Carrangers to join forces against him and led to his death.
Forms[]
- Teleportation: Exhaus can teleport to any location at will by fading in and out of existence.
- Planetary Pollution: Exhaus was able to pollute the atmosphere of Police to corrupt its inhabitants and by extension Signalman.
- Object Generation: Exhaus can fire purple energy spirals from his right hand to generate objects as seen in the Carranger/Ohranger team-up when he summoned petrol barrels.
- Lightning Blasts: Exhaus can fire purple lightning from his right hand capable of taking down SS Statanzo with one hit and later setting fire to the Baribarian.
- Garbage Summoning: Exhaus was able to summon garbage into the Baribarian whilst the Pegasus Garrage was being destroyed.
- Highway Creation: Using the power of the evil constellations, Exhaus was able to create the highway of his dreams.
- Energy Absorption: Exhaus was able to absorb all of the evil energy in the universe to resurrect himself.
- Enhancement: Exhaus was able to use the evil energy to transform into the more powerful Exhaus Super Strong form.
- Fire Blasts: Even after being shrunk down and reverted by Gynamo, Exhaus was still able to summon evil energy to throw large orange fireballs. These caused massive explosions and sent all five Carrangers flying with one hit.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Strength: True to his nature, Exhaus Super Strong was one of the strongest villains in Super Sentai history as he was powerful enough to beat both RV Robo and VRV Robo with extreme ease and even lifted VRV Robo with one hand and tossed it like a rag-doll.
- Durability: Exhaus Super Strong is able to take powerful shots from VRV Robo's blasters without even flinching, was self-destructed at point-blank range by VRV Robo and gets drilled through in the midsection by RV Robo's Hyper Crusher finisher, and still does not get a scratch on him despite the repeated assault.
- Reformation: Exhaus Super Strong was able to reform his stomach after the Hyper Crusher ripped a hole through it.
- Lighting Breath: Exhaus Super Strong can fire powerful red lighting beams from his mouth. When used on the Carrangers and Bowzock, a single blast took all five of them down. When used on VRV Robo, it was able to damage it to the point that the Carrangers were forced to attempt a suicide attack.
- Energy Absorption: Exhaus can absorb his enemy's attacks with his hands which he used to redirect VRV Robo's Victory Twister.
- Energy Reflect: Exhaus can then fire a large orange energy beam back at the enemy.
- Evil Energy Blast: Exhaus' strongest attack where he summons evil orange energy from the cosmos and fires it as three orange energy balls. These are devastating, being powerful to instantly destroy RV Robo with three hits.
Arsenal[]
- Fists: Exhaus Super Strong was able to fight the mecha with his bare hands.
Quotes[]
| “ | All according to plan. Bowzock and Signalman have agreed to work together. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! | „ |
| ~ Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus' first words after the Space Bosozoku Bowzock and Signalman agreed to team-up against the Carrangers. |
| “ | Good work, Bowzock. Beginning today, the Baribarian will be an intergalactic space dump. With the Carranger gone, Bowzock no longer serves any purpose for me! Indeed. And things which lack purpose should be tossed out. You are garbage. I will use this garbage for another purpose, you are to be blasted at Earsh, where the burning energy of the flames will cause it to burst like a rocket. | „ |
| ~ Exhaus betraying the Bowzock. |
| “ | The Baribarian! | „ |
| ~ Exhaus reacting to the Baribarian coming right at him and his last words before his supposed death. |
| “ | Did you really think Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus would fall so easily? Fools! I have gathered the evil power sown throughput the cosmos to revive as Exhaus Super Strong! | „ |
| ~ Exhaus after turning into Exhaus Super Strong. |
| “ | Uwaaaaaaaah! Urg! Uraaaagh! Curse you! Until I complete my evil Space Highway Plan, I will not die no matter what! Die! | „ |
| ~ Exhaus after President Gynamo forcibly shrunk him. |
| “ | Whoa-oh-oh! Oh-waaaaaaaaaaah! My evil intergalactic highway plan! | „ |
| ~ Exhaus' last words. |
See Also[]
- Divatox (role)
- Goldgoyle (derived from Exhaus' Super Strong Form)
- Piranhatrons (as the final antagonists)
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