The Thorn Banbara is a Mutant Robot of the Neo-Human Empire Phantom Army and an antagonist in episode 16 of the 1973 Tokusatsu series Inazuman.
He is voiced by Takashi Satomi.
Biography[]
As Goro was investigating an explosion at a Neo-Human factory, Thorn Banbara appeared to confront him. While Gosaku brought an injured factory worker to a hospital, Goro stayed to face Thorn Banbara only to be poisoned by one of the Mutant Robot's poisonous thorns before he could transform. He attempted to flee the scene, but was caught by two Phantom Soldiers on motorcycles and dragged via rope to an isolated location, where Emperor Banba intended to watch him die from the poison. Despite this, Goro mustered up the willpower to get up and go find the factory worker's wife and daughter to tell them where he was.
Goro was eventually found by the wife and daughter, who brought him in to their hideout to care for his poison. The two were later caught by Thorn Banbara while outside but Goro managed to treat his poison with some of the herbs they had left behind, enabling him to go out and become Inazuman to fight Thorn Banbara. Inazuman summoned Raijingo, leading Thorn Banbara to fire his thorn missiles at it, but Inazuman managed to evade and destroy them. With the wife and daughter freed, Inazuman defeated Thorn Banbara, causing his dead body to slowly dissolve into the ground.