Furious Demon God Gai is the king of the eastern branch of the Ashu Tribe and one of the four main antagonists of GoGo Sentai Boukenger, alongside Arch Priest Gajah, Ryuuwon and Gekkou of Illusions.
He and his cohort Grand Beast Rei were later remodeled into the Questers by Arch Priest Gajah, with Gai becoming Quester Gai, only for the two of them to betray Gajah and go rogue as their own Negative Syndicate.
Gai is the snow leopard-like leader and the evilest of the eastern Ashu Tribe,. H is a purple and green demon who can conjure forth a bazooka-like weapon. Gai is a brash and savage demon who loves to destroy, laughing at the sight of others suffering.
He and Rei are the powerful mechanical supervillains and are archenemies of Eiji Takaoka/Bouken Silver.
He was voiced by Kenta Miyake, who also voiced Scar in Fullmetal Alchemist.
Biography[]
Boukenger[]
Gai was one of the few Ashu left over after the majority of his killed were sealed within the 100 Demons Mirror by the Takaoka Clan in the distant past.
While Eiji was a child, Gai provoked his Ashu side into awakening, giving him an opportunity to kill his father Karato when he tried to calm Eiji down. Because Gai had only been able to kill Karato while he was distracted by Eiji, Eiji blamed himself for his father's death and sought to keep his Ashu side suppressed at all costs.
Alongside his fellow surviving Ashu Hyouga, Gai sought to obtain the 100 Demons Mirror to use it to release the rest of their kind and usher in a new age of the Ashu. Gai and Hyouga intervened in a fight between the Boukengers and Dark Shadow to steal the mirror, but Eiji Takaoka snatched it first. Eiji attempted to use the mirror to lure Gai and Hyouga into a trap but the two were able to snatch it from him anyway, kidnapping Natsuki in order to use her blood to release the seal on the mirror. After Gai sprinkled Natsuki's blood on the mirror, the Ashu in it began to escape, with the strongest of their kind, Grand Beast Rei, being the first to emerge. Before any more Ashu could come out however the mirror was shattered by Eiji. Hyouga was then defeated by the Boukengers, but Gai and Rei managed to escape.
Gai and Rei then began targeting the Boukengers in revenge for the destruction of the mirror. Gai had Rei disguise him as Satoru's late friend Masaki in order to use Satoru's guilt over his previous adventure team's deaths against him. However, Gai's plan was foiled when Satoru overcame his guilt and Eiji exposed the Ashu's tricks. He and Rei were then defeated by the Boukengers and Eiji, but tore off their skins to become huge. In response, the Boukengers summoned Ultimate DaiBouken and used it to smite and destroy the two Ashu.
Despite this, Arch Priest Gajah was able to recover Gai and Rei's bodies and placed Gordom Engines inside of them to revive them as the Questers, giving them both full body suits of black armor in the process. In these new forms, the Questers were able to mop the floor with the Boukengers, as their Gordom Engines jammed the power of the Boukengers' Parallel Engines, at least until they were upgraded into the Neo Parallel Engines. Although Gajah was the one responsible for their return, Gai and Rei very quickly betrayed Gajah and began operating independently, stealing Giant God Gagadom from him to use it to defeat the Boukengers on their own. The Questers were then classified as their own "Negative Syndicate" by the SGS, joining the ranks of the other evil organizations which sought out the Precious for malicious purposes.
Gai and Rei would later form an "Another Species" alliance with the Jaryuu Clan to obtain the Sun of Lemuria and use its destructive power to wipe out humankind. Along the way, Ryuuwon and the Questers discovered that Natsuki Mamiya/BoukenYellow of the Boukengers was actually a lost princess of Lemuria. Using Rei's hypnosis, the Questers and Ryuuwon were able to convince Natsuki that her parents wanted her to exterminate humanity and used her to activate the Egg of Lemuria in order to do so. At the same time, Ryuuwon used the Quester technologies to complete his newest mecha, Evil Mechanic Dragon Grand. When the Boukengers arrived to rescue Natsuki, Gai went to hold them all off, but Masumi was able to get through and reach Natsuki. After Masumi snapped Natsuki out of Rei's brainwashing, she joined her teammates in piloting DaiVoyager to battle Ryuuwon in Grand, destroying the Evil Mechanic Dragon with an "Adventure Double Screw".
Gai and Rei would eventually formulate a plan to defeat the Boukengers and usher in the age of the Ashu they desired. They first unsealed the western Ashu king Ouga so he could deal with Eiji for them and distract the other Boukengers. They then enlisted the three other Negative Syndicates to each steal a different Precious artifact for them. Once their fellow Negatives had brought them all of the artifacts they asked for, the Questers combined them in the Mercurious Vessel Precious they had previously obtained to create the Ultimate Artificial Lifeform Homunculus, which they then piloted Jet Over to combine with in order to transform it into the strongest Quester Robo. In their new Quester Robo, the Questers decimated the Boukengers in all of their mecha, injuring most of them in the process. Gai and Rei's fellow Negative Syndicates were all impressed by the new Quester Robo's power, but as soon as the Boukengers were defeated Gai and Rei declared their alliance with the other Negative Syndicates to now be over and went off to terrorize the city in order to usher in their new age.
Satoru would make another attempt to battle the Questers in SirenBuilder, the only GoGo Vehicle which had not been damaged yet. Satoru attempted to activate SirenBuilder's self destruct to blow up the Homunculus Quester Robo, and himself along with it, but was talked out of sacrificing himself after hearing his team's cries. After Eiji escaped Ouga's dream world, Satoru relinquished SirenBuilder to him and joined his team in piloting their now-repaired GoGo Vehicles against the Questers' Homunculus. With the combined power of all their GoGo Vehicles, the six Boukengers were able to destroy Homunculus Quester Robo, but both Gai and Rei survived its destruction and went on to fight the Boukengers on foot. Gai was slain by Eiji while Rei was killed a few seconds later by the other Boukengers, bringing an end to the Ashu Tribe. Although they had been enemies, after their deaths Eiji made graves for both Gai and Rei, remarking that they had known each other for a long time.
Super Hero Taisen[]
Quester Gai and Quester Rei are revived as commanders of Dai-Zangyack. They united with Dai-Shocker and fought against the army of Super Sentai and Kamen Riders. Gai was seen in the backgrounds of the aerial shots fighting HououRanger and Spade Ace, but his fate later is unknown.
Super Hero Taisen Z[]
Quester Gai was part of an army of resurrected (mostly Super Sentai) monsters led by Space RaiderIcon-crosswiki.png after the revival of MadouIcon-crosswiki.png Demon King PsychoIcon-crosswiki.png. They proceeded to attack the gathering of Kamen RidersIcon-crosswiki.png and Super Sentai, giving them a hard time, with the Questers fighting Kamen Rider WizardIcon-crosswiki.png before he joined the Kyoryugers in Kyoryuzin. The heroes of recent years were in a pinch until the arrival of a force of Sentai and Rider reinforcements, which included the Boukenger five-man team, led by Akarenger and Kamen Rider IchigoIcon-crosswiki.png. The combined forces of superheroes were able to turn the tide against the Madou army. They lined up and used their various finisher attacks to destroy the revived monsters.
Personality[]
Gai is the ruthless, sadistic, depraved and villainous leader of Questers and Eastern Ashu Tribe, who loved and enjoyed to cause chaos, mayhem and anarchy wherever he walked and is a highly intelligent and calculating strategist able to create a cunning plans and tactics of outsmarting his enemies. Just like many other Boukenger villains were the archenemies of different Boukengers, Gai and Rei had personal rivalry with Eiji, because they were the ones who killed his father and taunted the BoukenSilver that his mother was also Ashu just like them. He also enjoyed taunting Eiji and hurting the Bouken Silver physically and mentally.
Also, Gai is highly calculating and intelligent to extreme and possesses the undying attitude of pride, arrogance and xenophobia. True to his nature, Gai is ruthless and believes himself to be stronger than anyone. Untrustworthy to anyone not a Ashu or his own allies (The Questers), he will betray anyone once his objectives are met. Gai is an extremely narcissistic and prideful of his species, he considers Ashu Tribe to be superior than humanity and considers his own race to be the superior species. Gai is also an extremely traitorous and cannot be trusted by anyone. This was shown when he worked with many other villain factions and eventually betrayed them when he and Rei created their homunculus monster and decided to wipe out the entire humanity and have the Earth for himself.
However, despite his evil, ruthless and treacherous nature, Gai isn't completely evil. He geniunely cares about his Ashu species and will not hurt his own men, such as he was good friends to Rei and cared about his own comrades. Also, Gai geniunely wanted to free his kimd from the mirror and he was geniunely shocked and distressed when his comrade Hyouga honorably decided to sacrifice himself. Overall, Gai is still ruthless, cunning and devious, yet protective individual, who still cared about his own race. While overall this factor doesn't excuse his atrocious actions and crimes, but he still has some humanity inside.
Powers and Abilities[]
Original Ashu Form[]
- Power: Gai is the most powerful of the Eastern Ashu Tribe and the Questers, of course for being their leader and he possessed multiple superhuman powers and abilities. He surpasses in strength Rei and Hyouga and also arguably surpasses in power his fellow comrade Ouga from his neighbor Western Ashu Tribe. Gai, even when compared to previous villains, was extremely powerful and able to defeat five Boukengers with ease. All of this makes Gai one of the most powerful villains in Boukenger and one of the most powerful villains in Sentai series overall. He is arguably the second most powerful villain in Boukenger, surpassed only by Gajah and Ryuuwon.
- Summoning Weapons: Gai can conjure up weapons into his hands, such as his bazooka or staff.
- Self Growth: Like all other Ashu, Gai can make himself grow by ripping open his body and unleashing his giant form which is apparently his true form.
- Eye Blast: Gai can fire green colored energy blasts from his eyes. This caused a massive explosion on a search during the archeological battle.
- Shockwave: Together with Rei, Gai can release a massive lime green shockwave from his body.
- Lightning Effect: Gai's and Rei's shockwave was able to damage the *Rangers with blue lightning.
- Transformation: After being revived and powered by Gajah's engine, Gai could transform into his cyborg form at will by spinning the gyro in his chest to make his body harden into his cyborg form.
- Strength: Out of all the Ashu, Gai was the strongest, being able to outmatch Kamdor with ease. When fighting Yaiba, he was able to shove the villain into a tree with incredible ease by combining his strength with Hyouga and a single kick made the villain stumble away and cringe. A kick from both Hyouga and Gai simultaneously sent Yaiba flying into the ground.
- Durability: Although not as durable as his cyborg form, Gai was able to take a purple energy slash from his own staff and withstand it.
- Super Speed: Gai can run at high speed.
- Extraordinary Leaper and Jumper: Gai can leap and jump at an incredible distance and heights.
Arsenal[]
- Claws: Gai possessed clawed hands for combat
- Flame Empowerment: Gai could charge up his claws with green fire to slash at full force.
- Bazooka: When Gai first appeared, he used a bazooka that could launch green colored energy lasers. A single blast was powerful enough to knock down both Kamdor and Miratrix and hurt them enough to retreat.
- Energy Blast: Gai can also fire an energy blast from his bazooka.
- Bladed Staff: After fighting the Rangers for the first time, Gai used a bladed staff which he said was more powerful.
- Eagle Energy Wave: Gai could fire a light green eagle-shaped energy wave from his staff which was strong enough to take out Eiji in just one hit.
- Bouken Tracker: Gai briefly stole Ronny's Morpher to use as a power source that can free the other Fearcats from the Prison Mirror.
Quester Form[]
- Power: After being upgraded, Gai was powerful enough to best nearly everyone he battled against and could easily overpower all five Rangers at once, making him the second strongest and most powerful villain in Boukenger only being surpassed by a tie between Gajah and Ryuuwon.
- Ground Slam: Gai could channel green energy into his fist and slam it on the ground to create a massive implosion.
- Intangibility: Gai was able to slip through the ground alongside Rei while fighting Eiji.
- Gordom Infusion: By combining his power with Rei, Gai was able to infuse Gajah's Robot with energy from the engine in his body.
- Strength: Mig possessed far greater strength than he has before in his cyborg form.
- Durability: Mig was now more durable than he was before in his cyborg form.
- Extraordinary Leaper and Jumper: Mig could leap incredible distances and reach very significant heights like before in his original form.
- Super Speed: Mig retained his ability to run at high speed.
Arsenal[]
- Twin Laser Guns: After becoming a cyborg, Gai fought using two guns that could fire yellow, orange, or lime green colored energy lasers.
- Dagger Transformation: Gai could turn his guns into daggers for combat.
- Energy Empowerment: Gai could charge up his daggers with yellow energy to strike down a Ranger with each hit.
- Earth Implosion: By combining his laser guns' power with Chronos and all the other antagonists, Gai could create an implosion in the Earth. This was strong enough to damage the Morphin Grid to such an extent that it obliterated the Rangers' powers.
- Dagger Transformation: Gai could turn his guns into daggers for combat.
- Claws: Gai retained his clawed hands for combat.
Trivia[]
- His suit actor is Riichi Seike.
- Gai's Ashu form is based on Gosei Sentai Dairanger's Mythical Qi Warrior RyuseiOh while his Quester form is modeled after Dairen'Oh.
- Gai's bazooka is modeled after Super Qi-Power Bazooka while his Quester Guns are modeled after Dai Busters.
- His name is derived from "Gai" (垓), which means "1020" in Japanese.
- Gai's Quester gun would be reused as the firearm wielded by Echidna in episode 31 of Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.
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