Ranger Key Clones are copies of Super Sentai Rangers created from Ranger Keys as a form of summon. These were used by the Zangyack-allied privateer, Basco ta Jolokia, as well the Black Cross King after his resurrection and the Bakut Pirates.
Biography[]
Origin[]
The Space Empire Zangyack's invasion of Earth resulted in all 34 Sentai teams uniting and fighting the invaders in the Great Legend War. At the climax of the battle, all the Sentai teams were forced to sacrifice their powers to destroy the invasion armada and save the world. Their powers resurfaced as Ranger Keys which were spread across the universe. These Ranger Keys were collected by the Red Pirate Trio, AkaRed, Captain Marvelous and Basco ta Jolokia, as they knew that with them they would gain the Greatest Treasure in the Universe. They had succeeded in collecting all the keys of the core teams, this was when AkaRed decided they were ready to find the treasure. But Basco, wanting the treasure to himself, betrayed his comrades and conspired with Zangyack to attack their ship. AkaRed managed to save Marvelous, giving him the chest containing the keys, before charging off into an army of Gormin. The attack was stopped and Marvelous became the captain of the Gokai Galleon, he later made friends with four people and formed the 35th Sentai team, the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Meanwhile, Basco became an ally of Zangyack, travelling in a modified Zangyack battleship, the Free Joker. He acquired a companion, Sally the space monkey, and found that there were more Ranger Keys. He found 25 new Ranger Keys, 15 keys for Sixth Rangers and 10 for Extra Heroes. Basco found that he was able to summon copies of past Rangers with them.
Basco's Sixth Ranger Keys[]
Basco decided to arrive on Earth to see Marvelous when the Gokaigers' total bounty exceeded that of the Red Pirates. After his inital encounter with the Gokaigers, Marvelous confronted Basco alone. Basco revealed to him that he has obtained Ranger Keys of Sentai heroes that AkaRed failed to mention to either of them. Using his trumpet, Basco summoned DragonRanger, KingRanger, TimeFire, Shurikenger, and DekaBreak to have them gang up on Captain Marvelous. However, though Captain Marvelous insisted that they not interfere, his crew arrived to even the odds. Basco's copies gave them a rough time at first, but the Gokaigers managed to gain the advantage. Though the Gokaigers managed to defeat the sixth hero Sentai warriors in one-on-one duels and return them to their original Ranger Key forms, the tables were turned in Basco's favor when he overpowered the pirates with KibaRanger, MegaSilver, GaoSilver, AbareKiller, MagiShine, Bouken Silver, Go-On Gold and Go-On Silver, Shinken Gold and Gosei Knight. With his crew brutally beaten without mercy, Captain Marvelous realized they were Basco's actual targets and he was powerless to save them. He was left with the Ranger Keys of the five warriors that were defeated as Basco took his shipmates captive.
Basco later contacted Marvelous, offering to trade the Ranger Key chest, the Gokai Galleon and Navi for his crew, or he'll hand them over to the Zangyack for the bounty. After remembering the events that led to him joining the Red Pirates, Captain Marvelous regained his confidence and called Basco to arrange an exchange meeting with his crew present. Though he brought the Ranger Key chest, Captain Marvelous had no intention of doing the trade as he suddenly threw the treasure chest in the air while he fought Basco, spilling all of the keys and his own Mobilate in time for Doc (Gokai Green) to catch it with his mouth and using the Shinken Green Key to free himself and his shipmates before getting their Mobilates back from Sari. Basco then unleashed his 10 Super Sentai warriors and the Gokai Galleon crew assumed their Gokaiger forms to battle them while Navi gathered the Ranger Keys back into the chest and took them back to the ship. Defeating MegaSilver, GaoSilver, AbareKiller, Bouken Silver, and Shinken Gold, the Gokaigers used the Final Wave to take out KibaRanger, MagiShine, the Go-On Wings, and Gosei Knight. Deciding to take his leave, Basco sent a Giant Battle Pseudo-Lifeform which the Gokaigers swiftly destroyed. Back aboard the Gokai Galleon, the Gokaigers were pleased with their 15 newly-acquired Ranger Keys.
Black Cross King's 33 Super Sentai with 14 Sixth Ranger Keys[]
When the Black Cross King was resurrected, he used Basco's tactic and turned the Ranger Keys in the chest into copies to fight against the Gokaigers when they teamed up with the Goseigers. With the Goseigers and Gosei Knight uniting with the Gokaigers, the Ranger Key chest contained the keys of the first 33 Super Sentai teams along with the 14 Sixth Rangers before Gosei Knight, the Gokaigers having taken these keys from Basco shortly before.
The Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, Liveman, and Turborangers used the Power Bazooka, Rolling Vulcan, Jet Cannon, Bi-Motion Buster, and V Turbo Bazooka respectively on the Goseigers and Gokaigers. The two teams blasted back with their final wave attacks, while the Goseigers changed into Super Goseiger. They discover that by defeating the Rangers, they will turn back into keys. So they split up: Marvelous vs. Dynaman, Eri vs. Carranger, Luka vs. Abaranger, Hyde vs. Denziman, Doc vs. Kakuranger, Moune vs. Fiveman, Ahim vs. Battle Fever J, Agri vs. Goggle V, Joe vs. Gingaman, Alata vs. JAKQ, and Gosei Knight vs. DragonRanger, KibaRanger, KingRanger, MegaSilver, TimeFire, GaoSilver, Shurikenger, DekaBreak, MagiShine and Bouken Silver.
Then each Goseiger and Gokaiger teamed up to fight their same color counterparts. Eri and Ahim fought the Pink Rangers along with White Swan and GaoWhite. Moune and Luka fought the Yellow Rangers. Agri and Doc fought the Black and Green Rangers along with KuwagaRaiger. Hyde and Joe, fought the Blue Rangers and Alata and Marvelous fought the Red Rangers inculding KabutoRaiger. After they won their seperate battles, they were attacked by the Gorengers, Gekirangers, Go-ongers and Shinkengers. They combined their final waves to defeat them, with Gosei Red and Gokai Red taking the Gorengers down.
Basco's Extra Ranger/Extra Hero Keys[]
The Gokaigers, now joined by Gai Ikari (Gokai Silver), arrived to claim their next greater power in the Ginga Forest. They discovered Basco, who intended to take the Gingaman's power for himself, attacking Hyuuga. To the Gokaigers' shock, Basco revealed he had more Ranger Keys than the ones they acquired before when he unleashed DekaMaster, Wolzard Fire and MagiMother to battle the Gokaigers, who told Gai to take Hyuuga to a safer place. Gokai Red attempts to advance toward Basco, but Sally blocks his attacks, while the clone extra warriors easily defeated the other four Gokaigers - sending them crashing into a river. When Gai was with Hyuuga, the former Black Knight requested that Gai give him the Gokai Cellular so he could become Gokai Silver. Despite a long hesitation, Gai offered to lend Hyuuga his Gokai Cellular, but they were ambushed by Basco, who used his trumpet to drain the Gingamen's greater power from Hyuuga. Gokai Red intervened to stop Basco, who then unleashed a copy of Black Knight, Hyuuga's former Ranger Form, to battle him. During the fight, Gokai Red was attacked by the other three extra warriors. Hyuuga attempted to grab the Gokai Cellular lying on the ground, but Gai stopped him and recovers it before all of the Gokaigers regrouped. The main five Gokaigers changed into the Gingamen while Gokai Silver entered Gold Mode and defeated Black Knight with the Gokai Legendream. DekaMaster, Wolzard Fire and MagiMother were then eliminated by the Final Wave Gokai Blast. Luka (Gokai Yellow) eagerly went to claim the three keys, but they were snatched by Sally who gave them back to Basco. Later, Hyuuga handed Gai his Black Knight Ranger Key, having infused it with the Gingamen's power, telling him he had earned it.
Basco later unleashes Great Sword Man Zubaan, and the RinJyuKen Warriors: Black Lion Rio, and Confrontation Beast Chameleon-Fist Mele against the Gokaigers. While Gai used Gold Mode to finish off Zubaan, the Gokaigers changed into the GoGoFive and fought against the other two. With Gokai Yellow, as GoYellow, and Gokai Pink, as GoPink, going up against Confrontation Beast Chameleon-Fist, and Gokai Red (GoRed), Gokai Blue (GoBlue) and Gokai Green (GoGreen) fighting Black Lion Rio. After all three were defeated and turned into keys again, Sally once again snatched them much to Gai's annoyance.
Basco united his 9 remaining keys against the Gokaigers when they searched for the Ohrangers' ultimate power. Gokai Silver took on Wolzard Fire and Great Sword Man Zubaan, first turning into the Go-On Wings hybrid, and defeating the duo with Gold Mode. Wolzard Fire and Zubaan were enlarged and then finished off by Gai. The Gokaigers, turned into the Ohrangers, used the Olé Bazooka to take the 7 other copies down. Finally, the Gokaigers had taken all of Basco's keys, thanks to Gai shooting Sally before she had a chance to return to Basco's side with Keys in hand.
Basco's Gokaiger Keys[]
When Basco defeated the Gokaigers, taking their Ranger Keys and the Gokai Galleon, Navi escaped him. Basco had all windows and exits locked before summoning manifestations of the Gokaigers with his Rapparatta to retrieve the parrot. Shortly after, Joe, Luka, Doc, Ahim and Gai broke into the Gokai Galleon's engineering room and split up into two groups, only for them to encounter their respective manifestations. The Gokai Red manifestation captured Navi and returned him to Basco while the other Gokaiger manifestations returned to the living quarters. The manifestations revealed to Basco that they were the real Gokaigers, having defeated the manifestations and reverting them into Ranger Keys. Basco, however, used his powers to throw them out of the Gokai Galleon. He caught up with them and sent the Gokai Red manifestation to take them down, the Gokaigers countered by changing into Red Rangers. Don and Gai as Gosei Red and DekaRed fired at it with the Gosei Blaster and D-Magnum, then Luka and Ahim as GingaRed and MagiRed used the Blazing Mane and Ji Magika attacks on it, and Joe as DenziRed finished the manifestation off with Denzi Punch.
Kaizoku Sentai: Ten Gokaiger[]
During the intervening 10 years after the Gokaigers had left Earth in search of new adventures, Basco ta Jolokia's trumpet was somehow recovered and was placed in the Japanese government's custody. Then, some time later, with the help of Gai Ikari who had returned to Earth one year after the Gokaigers' encounter with the Zyuohgers, they had created the Super Sentai Substantination System. The system is comprised of Basco's trumpet which had been modified by a young scientist along with the musical instrument itself acting as the source of the system's ability to generate Ranger Key Clones as well as a collection of Ranger Keys which had been gathered by Gai himself from the Legends themselves beforehand with said keys being subsequently kept in federal custody. By typing in a few commands on a tablet, the system would activate its' powers which would subsequently turn several Ranger Keys that had been selected by the summoner into Ranger Key Clones.
The system itself would be seen by the public as the core component of the Super Sentai Derby Coliseum, a legal and popular state-run competition where spectactors of all ages are welcome to bet on which Ranger Key Clone/s wins in a battle against each other. A majority of the competition's received earnings are being utilized to maintain the suits and the arsenals which are used by said Ranger Key Clones with the promise of the Ranger Keys themselves being returned back to their rightful owners if the world ever faces an emergency situation. Due to said promise, it is implied that all of the Legends themselves had willingly handed their respective powers over to the Japanese government in the form of their respective Ranger Keys.
However, unbeknownst to the public, the Super Sentai Derby Coliseum was nothing more than a front for the Super Sentai Substantination System's true purpose. Japan's Minister of Defense plans to use the powers of the entire Super Sentai pantheon as an invincible army in order to conquer the entire galaxy under the poorly justified rationale that since the Earth had been on the receiving end of so many invasions throughout all these years, it is the Earth's turn to invade any and all worlds in existence with the planet itself as the reigning power in the entire galaxy. In fact, by 2021, the Minister of Defense and his aides who had been acting as his accomplices are just a few steps away from enacting their long awaited plan due to themselves needing the Gokaigers' Ranger Keys in order to complete their collection.
The Gokaigers themselves had interfered with the Minister of Defense's plans due to themselves hunting down a group of space pirates who had fought against them at some point during the 4 years after Gai Ikari had left them and returned to Earth as well as Captain Marvelous' personal displeasure of seeing the Ranger Keys' powers being used to entertain crowds and earn some profit. In the end, they had managed to successfully reveal the Minister of Defense's nefarious scheme of using the Ranger Keys as tools for his goal of universal conquest to the public as well as successfully exposing the true identities of the minister's aides who happen to be the space pirates that the Gokaigers had been looking for.
With all of the Bakut Pirates finally being killed in the ensuing fight as well as the Minister of Defense himself being most likely removed from office and arrested for conspiracy due to his plan being exposed, the Super Sentai Derby Coliseum had ended up closing itself down and the Super Sentai Substantination System was permanently shut down as a result. Not only that, with Basco's trumpet being most likely locked away by the Japanese government so that it could never be used by anyone else ever again as well as all of the Ranger Keys themselves being in the Gokaigers' custody with the Gokaigers themselves planning to go on a new journey where they will return all of the Ranger Keys in question to each and every one of their rightful owners, it would seem that the start of the Gokaigers' new journey had marked a permanent end to the Ranger Key Clones.