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| “ | Love? How foolish. You believe that I, Radiguet, possess such filthy emotion? | „ |
| ~ Radiguet as he murdered Saki and his most infamous quote. |
Back Dimensional Count Radiguet was one of the commanders of the Dimensional War Party Vyram and the main antagonist of Choujin Sentai Jetman.
He was played by the late Masaki Tachi.
Biography[]
Past[]
Radiguet hailed from an alternate universe known as the Back Dimension seeking to conquer our world known as the "Front Dimension." Originally, Radiguet was a servant of Vyram's leader Empress Juuza until her disappearance during their conquest of the Back Dimension left a power vacuum.
Jetman[]
After conquering many worlds in the Back Dimension, the Vyram use their Dimensional Traveler Machine to invade the Front Dimension and attempt to conquer Earth. Radiguet is the first of the Vyram to declare the group's intention for the invasion of Earth, Radiguet demands subjugation and decimates the Skyforce base in space. Ryuu Tengo and Rie Aoi are chosen by Commander Aya Odagiri to be exposed to the Birdonic Waves to turn them into the Jetmen. However, when the Vyram destroy the Sky Force's Earth Ship, Rie falls out of the ship and is kidnapped by Radiguet. Radiguet brainwashes Rie and removed her memories, making her an official of the Vyram named Maria.
However, thier attack indirectly spreads the Birdonic Aura to Earth where four unassuming civilians are empowered. As a result, the Vyram receive resistance in form of the Choujin Sentai Jetman to the extent that Radiguet is forced to save the Dimensional Bug Mother in order to preserve her off-spring that the Vyram want to use in thier plans. Recognizing the significant resistance, Radiguet makes a bet with his fellow elites Tran, Grey, and Maria that whoever defeats the Jetmen first will become the new leader of Vyram.
When Juzza returns to power, motivated by his pride, Radiguet attempts to kill her and ends being punished for his treachery by living as a human with no memory of his life in Vyram. Radiguet is saved by Saki, an ill girl on the verge of death, Radiguet unconsciously cures and saves her life with his powers. Though he wants nothing to do with his past, Radiguet eventually regains his memories and helps the Jetmen in fighting Juuza. After killing Juuza, Radiguet is confronted by Saki who begs him to return a normal life with her, pointing out that his time with her showed he is capable of kindness and love. However, Radiguet kills her without a second thought to snuff out any potential humanity within himself before taking the Semimaru egg on Juza's person and nurtures it to fight the Jetman.
However, when a fed-up Tran matures into Tranza, Radiguet is forced to acknowledge him as their leader for the moment whilst sabotaging his Veronica robot. Later, after using the Jetmen to do his dirty work, Radiquet tortures Tranza before breaking his mind and leaving him powerless and in the process becoming Vyram's leader. Ultimately, the side effects of his power boost manifest in his newly gained giant form; the armored Raguem.
Raguem after merging with Vylock.
After Maria fully regains her memories as Rie, Radiguet kills her so Ryuu cannot have her back. Soon after, Radiguet challenges Red Hawk to a final battle but his friends snap him out of it and Ryuu leads the Jetmen to defeat Radiguet as he reveals his Raguem form to overpower Great Icarus. When Tetra Boy exposes the weak point Rie made on Radiguet, he attempts to assimilate the Vylock into armor before Jet Garuda rips the armor off and sacrifices itself so Great Icarus can destroy Raguem by impaling him through the wound. Mortally wounded, Radiguet tells the Jetmen that he will have revenge on them even beyond death even as he falls over and explodes which finally marks his end.
Manga[]
Part I[]
Radiguet's spirit returns from the Back Dimension as he once told it would and enters the hospital the deranged Tranza lies in and possesses the former rival in an attempt to aquire a host body. Harboring resentment against the Jetman he plans to attack and torment them relentlessely. The Neo- Jetman who under unknown circumstances became active as protectors of peace (working for the same organization) likely suceeding the Jetman try to stop the remerged Radiguet. Although he easily beats them and captures them in order to make his foes gather.
Three of the heroes (Ryu, Akiko, and Raita) pilot Jet Icarus to beat Radiguet but even as Jetman with a mecha they are no match for the Tranza- Radiguet. After beating them he targets his archnemesis Ryu (Red Hawk) and takes him to a dimension with a different set of scientific properties and begins to put him through gruesome torture by killing him over and over again. All out of spite for what happened years ago. With a display of ego Radiguet then claims he could stop the fate worse than death if Ryu admits and bows to him as emperor. Being reminscient to what he did once to Tranza. Except Ryu refuses and before Radiguet could inflict more agony on Ryu Tranza starts to fight back.
Following this, the count is stabbed by his own saber and Ryu is quite shaken by this as he returns to his teammates. After being defeated Radiguet has no choice but to flee.
Part II[]
It is revealed in the second part that Radiguet in actuallity wants only revenge against Ryu and his family. At a mall Radiguet seizes the opporunity to take Ryu and Kaori's most loved thing in life, Aya their child. Even taunting Kaori that he shall raise her as his own child, to the former's horror. Radiguet proceeds to manipulate the age of Aya and transform her into Ruma his "daughter" who makes it her mission to slay the Jetman. Radiguet gives Ruma a gift but the latter gets a headache which is truly her memories trying to resurface.
The present Radiguet made was actually Mina who is used by Ruma to combat the Jetman. In fact they can't reach her and Jeff their newest Jetman member tries his hardest but loses faith. Radiguet observing this battle lets them know that Mina and Ruma are connected and share any damage when they are using Jet Icarus and Garuda against Mina. Mina actually is possessed by Radiguet and the latter stabs Jeff and Ruma through the chest when Jeff tries to save Ruma. Ryu strikes with rage and Jeff's helmet is cracked by the fierce count.
With both heroes on the brink of destruction Jeff tells Ryu to shoot both him and Radiguet ending it once and for all. Wanting to fulfil Aya's wish along with Jeff's one, Ryu shoots apparentely ending the two of them. Thanks to Mina though, Jeff is revived hereby escaping death and Radiguet desires him as a new suitable body. Although to his fury Tranza arrives and is prepared to take him to hell. Therefore with the destruction of Mina, Radiguet is killed with his spirit being destroyed forever this time.
Personality[]
Radiguet was defined by his grandiose sense of self-worth, fantasies of godhood, and treacherous nature who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal to rule all of existence. He considered both Juuza and his rival Tranza beneath him, and going as far as to form an alliance with the Jetmen to remove the two villains out of the equation merely for his own benefit as he played both sides of the conflict against the middle in order to further his ambitions. Radiguet also intentionally hated everything that resembled love and compassion with one disturbing aspect of his heartlessness is by responding to murderous intent at the slightest act of kindness. This was best shown when after an amnesiac Radiguet recovered his memories and he murdered the girl who nursed him back to health while he lost his memories out of disgust that she felt he could live a peaceful life. All these traits made Radiguet as one of the vilest villains of the entire Super Sentai franchise.
After returning from the dead, Radiguet found intense pleasure in torturing Ryu in a cycle of death and later kidnapping Aya from Kaori. Unlike before, he was ready to manipulate this child and put her in harms way to take Aya and make her forcibly into his daughter. This being an ego fuelled spite of which he didn't show any compassion for. Later turning on Ruma and stabbing her (for a time killing Aya) and later just wanting Jeff as a vessel.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Durability: Radiget survived the Jetmen's ultimate flaming phoenix attack without a scratch.
- Image Projection: Radiguet could generate a massive image of his upper torso on any surface he chose.
- Object Projection: Radiguet could also blow objects using his projection as seen when he created Fighter Dimension.
- Dimensional Gap Transportation: Radiguet could move between the Vylock and Earth in blue energy slices in the air.
- Radigem Transformation: Radiguet could assume his ultimate form at will by turning into blue energy and reforming into the giant Radigem.
- Raguem Transformation: When angered, Radiguet could assume his true and more powerful form named Raguem.
- Spiral Blasts: Radiguet could unleash a massive blue energy spiral from his right hand. This caused a large explosion but the Jetmen flew away from the blast.
Arsenal[]
- Demon Sword Bloody Gate: Radiguet wielded a large silver-blue sword in combat.
- Dimensional Gap Opening: Radiguet could open gaps in space using his sword to allow his allies to escape as seen when he did this to save the Dimensional Bug Mother.
Quotes[]
| “ | Kneel! We are the controllers of every living being's beginning and end. In other words, we are gods... Kneel. We are the invaders of the Vyram dimension. In other words, we are the gods called Vyram. You useless things are just a waste. Now... From this moment on... You shall be controlled by us, Vyram. To prove Vyram's strength, in just one minute, we shall destroy the Earth ship! We Vyram... We have conquered the Back dimensions and we have reached the third dimension. We will destroy your foolish culture. We Vyram will make the right utopia. | „ |
| ~ Black Dimensional Count Radiquet's first words via hologram to the people of Earth during the first invasion. |
| “ | No... I will not kill you. You are to live life as a human, forever cowering in fear of my name! | „ |
| ~ Radiguet as he destroyed Emperor Tranza's psyche. |
| “ | I surely saw the power of Jetman. Now, it's time to show you my true power! Haaaaaaaaaagh! Now you know! This is my true self. No matter what you do, you won't be able to defeat me! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! | „ |
| ~ Radiguet before the final battle. |
| “ | Bowack! Cuwaaagh! You think you defeated me, Radiguet... but my soul will keep haunting you from the Reverse Dimension! | „ |
| ~ Radiguet's last words. |
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Trivia[]
- Masaki Tachi felt great discomfort when he had to act as Radiguet, particularly when he murdered Saki, and nearly quit the show because of it. After the scene where Radiguet tortures Tranza into insanity, he reportedly had stones throne at him by children when he went outside.
External Links[]
- Radiguet on the RangerWiki
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