| “ | What do you want to watch? | „ |
| ~ The Television Mask's last words. |
Television Mask (テレビ仮面 Terebi Kamen, 63) is a member of the Black Cross Army and the ninth of Black Cross Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask's Masked Monsters.
He was voiced by Eisuke Yoda.
Biography[]
Television Mask was set up in an EAGLE base that held the secret information of a nuclear power plant that they were associated with. After the EAGLE forces realize he was there, he attacks them and uses the information in the base transmitted to the receiving transmission base to find the location of a secret nuclear power plant that EAGLE was assisting in the research, with the intention being to invade it and blow it up causing a massive nuclear meltdown to affect a wide area. After the initial invasion, it nearly becomes destroyed in its TV disguise within a scrapping plant before a Zolder replaces it with another television.
The Gorengers head to protect the base, and Kenji ends up encountering it first and nearly becomes trapped within its illusion attack. Tsuyoshi responds with an attack that smashes its screen, forcing it to briefly retreat to Black Cross HQ, where the Black Cross Führer gives his permission to continue the plot even against the will of Golden Mask. During a second invasion, he continues to proceed with tactics and a Zolder army easily holds off the Gorengers with his unknown amount of weapons emerging on his screen.
Television Mask's downfall came about from Akira and Yoko discovering the signal relay between the transmission station and the Masked Monster's antenna. Invading the station, Aorenger defeats the Zolders there and even broadcasts himself onto Television Mask to show that he no longer has a connection with the outside. The Gorenger face him down and use Gorenger Hurricane that becomes a giant hand that switches his channel to one where a show was ending, with "Owari" (the end) the final words on his screen as he explodes.
Trivia[]
- Television Mask inspired other television-themed monsters in Sentai history:
- Retro World in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger in 2021. (episode 15; second series of the Reiwa era)
