Space Bosozoku Bowzock

The Space Bosozoku Bowzock (宇宙暴走族ボーゾック Uchū Bōsōzoku Bōzokku) are the fictional antagonists of the Super Sentai series, Gekisou Sentai Carranger, that battle the Carrangers in order to destroy the Earth.

Fictional history

Based in the BB Saloon bar in the Baribarian spacecraft, the Bowzock are a gang of alien hooligans who have no regard for the laws of traffic and normally posed as trouble makers for the intergalactic police. The Bowzock also hold a yearly festival, the Bowzock Matsuri, where they abduct a person to serve as a sacrificial receptacle for a bolt of lightning made of amassed cosmic evil and suck both it and the life out of the host to recuperate from a year's worth of exhaustion. But a chance encounter with the disguised Exhaus leads to the Gynamo having the Bowzock blow up every planet before reaching Earth where the Bowzock are forced to deal with the Carrangers. In time, Exhaus reveals himself and that he used the Bowzock to pave the way for his master plan to create an intergalactic highway in place of the destroyed worlds. Once obtaining the Carrangers' Carmagic Power, with no more threat to his plans, Exhaus turns on the Bowzock and sets the Baribarian on a crash course for Earth. Luckily, the Bowzock put aside their differences with the Carrangers and help save the Earth and become decent members of society soon after.

Gynamo

President Gynamo (総長ガイナモ Sōchō Gainamo) is the leader of the Bowzock who is madly in love with Zonnette, targeting Earth on her whim. Though he makes an idiot of himself in front of his posse during his attempts to woo Zonnette, Gynamo maintained his intimidation of the other Bowzock to maintain his power. Arriving to Earth, Gynamo uses his power to have Earth's vehicles go on a riot until the Carrangers arrive. The next time Gynamo arrived on Earth was when RitchRitchiker used his secret savings for marrying Zonnette to buy off Zelmonda and Grotch, getting work at an arcade's Yakiniku stand. But upon learning of RitchRitchiker's death, Gynamo resumes his position as Bowzock leader. At the end of the series, he re-opened the yakiniku restaurant that he set up while Ritchiker took over the Bowzock.

Gynamo is voiced by Hiroshi Ōtake.

Zelmoda

Deputy Leader Zelmoda (副長ゼルモダ Fukuchō Zerumoda) is Second-in-command of the Bowzock, and Gynamo's friend. Unlike comical other members, he is kind of cold-blooded as he only betrayed Gynamo after being offered a large sum of money by RitchRitchiker. His main weapon is a sword made up of playing cards and he carries an octopus jar, that usually holds Wumpers or cash. Zelmonda suffered astraphobia when he was screwing around during a thunderstorm as a kid, and was hit by lightning. However, he mustered up enough will to overcome his fear so he can move out of Gynamo's shadow. Zelmoda summons Elekinta, who temporarily powered-up his ride. At the end of the series, he and Grotch help work at Gynamo's restaurant while going to elementary school for education.

Zelmoda is voiced by Kyōsei Tsukui.

Grotch

Inventor Grotch (発明家グラッチ Hatsumeika Guratchi) is Bowzock's genius inventor, responsible for many of the weapons used by the Bowzock such as the Fattening Spray and Forgetfulness Water-Gun. Forced to flee to Earth for laughing at Guynamo's expense, a starved Grotch holds Ichirou hostage to force Yoshie to buy him lots of food. Among them was Imocho-brand Imoyoukan, causing him to enlarge as he unintentional causes city wide damage. He attempted to take advantage of his new size to kill the Carrangers, as their current arsenal has no effect. Fortunately, the imo-youkan he ate had expired and wore off before either could do harm to the other. He is also saved by Zelmoda before the Carrangers could do him harm. After the incident with MM Mogu, Grotch would usually accompany a Gorotsuki to Earth and purchase Imocho-brand imo-youkan. At the end of the series, he and Zelmoda helped work at Gynamo's restaurant while going to elementary school for education.

Grotch is voiced by Takashi Nagasako.

Zonnette

Beauty Zonnette (美女ゾンネット Bijo Zonnetto, 1–45) is an obedient member of Bowzock who uses her feminine wiles, and Gynamo's crush on her, for her own selfish pleasures. Zonnette drives a pink convertible called the Zonnecar. Arriving with a bandaged up Wurin in the guise of "Zonko" (in episode 13), she tricks Signalman into thinking the Carrangers are lawbreakers. However, as her plan failed, Zonnette fell madly in love with Red Racer after seeing him in action. However, she loved only Red Racer and not Kyosuke, who unitentionally broke her heart during the GG Goki-chan incident. As time passed she also fell for the man behind the mask. She is Radietta's big sister and the princess of planet Fanbelt.

At the end of the series, she becomes "purified" and resumed her true form, Vanity Mirror Fanbelt (バニティーミラー・ファンベルト Banitī Mirā Fanberuto, 45, 47–48) by saying "Ravioli, Kishimen, Linguini!", returning to her home planet for an arranged marriage, though she turns them all down since Red Racer is still in her heart. She returned during the finale and talked Gynamo into teaming up with the Carrangers, which they did.

Zonnette is portrayed by Rika Nanase.

Goki-Chan

Goki-Chan (ゴキちゃん Goki-chan) was originally an ordinary cockroach that is made large during Grotch's experiments with Imo-youkan, becoming large enough to threaten Zonnette before she could subdue the insect and turned it into her servant and a general background member of the Bowzock. After another experiment where it was enhanced by another of Grotch's machines, Goki-Chan became Bowzock's most powerful dancer GG Goki-Chan (ゴーゴーゴキちゃん GōGō Goki-chan, 15), able to create earthquakes with his dancing as long as its tape deck continued to play. Zonnette brings Goki-Chan with to Earth in hoping to use it to cause enough chaos to bring Red Racer to her to confess her feelings. In the midst of a battle with both RV Robo and Sirender, its tape ended up getting tangled and warped, making Goki-Chan finally shrink back down into its normal size before being spirited off by Zonnette. Goki-chan is later outfitted with special Carmagic-draining lips to go after the Carrangers as II Goki-Chan (イケイケゴキちゃん IkeIke Goki-chan, 41, 43). It was successful at disabling the entire team until Dapp's wish for victory gave a fresh supply of Carmagic to the Carranger, allowing them to drive Goki-Chan back.

Zokurangers

A short-lived parody of the Carrangers, the Boso Sentai Zokuranger (暴走戦隊ゾクレンジャー Bōsō Sentai Zokurenjā, 25) was founded by SS Pamaan employing four Gorotsuki. While they originally used the Zokuranger Ball, the Zokurangers obtain the Zokuren Bazooka and Zonnette's Fanbelt Crystal necklace to power it. After SS Pamaan is killed, the others continued helping the Bowzock out the best they could. At the finale, they are shown to be part of their own studio.

Wumpers

Combatant Wumpers (戦闘員ワンパー Sentōin Wanpā, 1–47) are the Bowzock's multi-colored henchmen, able to shoot ink from their octopus-like mouths. They are contained in Zelmoda's giant octopus jar, similar to that of aquatic pets. They come in many colors; green, blue, white and pink. White tended to be rarer than others and were often the butt of a quick gag.

Gorotsuki

The Gorotsuki (ゴロツキ Gorotsuki, Rogue/Thug) are citizens of the Baribarian, the planet-like satellite where the Bowzock reside, they are chosen to find and fight the Carrangers, as the "monster of the week." for the series. When defeated, most of them eat imo-youkan, a yellow cube-shaped food made from jellied sweet potatoes to grow. It has to be from one store, Imocho, for this to happen, otherwise they shrink. As Grotch found out, out-of-date Imo-youkan from Imocho only enlarges the consumer for a short while until he reverts to original size. Gorotsuki had a habit of saying their names a lot, usually having them at the end of sentences.

Allies

Ritchhicker

Instructor Ritchhiker (リッチハイカー教授 Ritchihaikā Kyōju, 16–28) is an alien who Gynamo hired to help the Bowzock as their "Evil Director of Human Resources", devising the plans to deal with the Carrangers and Signalman, whom he had a grudge on from putting him in jail. However, during the Bowzock Matsuri festival, Ritchhicker is struck by a lightning bolt made of pure evil cosmic energy that turns him into RitchRitchhiker (リッチリッチハイカー RitchiRitchihaikā, 28–31). With his increased intellect, RitchRitchiker kicked out Gynamo and Zonette and takes over as leader of the Bowzock with the promises of riches to the space bikers. From there, RitchRitchiker uses Braking to steal RV Robo from the Carrangers before using his robot to take a building holding the Study Book Fair to educate his forces. But it leads to his robot's defeat by the VRV Machines with RitchRitchhiker upgrading Braking as he proceeds to capture VRV Master. However, it results in RitchRitchiker's death when is consumed in the blaze caused by Braking being finally destroyed by VRV Robo.

Ritchhicker is voiced by Nobuo Tanaka.

Exhaus

Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus (暴走皇帝エグゾス Bōsōgōtei Eguzosu, 35–48) is the main antagonist of the series who hired the Bowzock to do his dirty work. His ultimate plan was to build a giant road for aliens across the Milky Way, and to destroy Earth because it was in the way of the road. Exhaus kidnapped Dappu and tried to drain his Kurumagic Power to use for his own robots, turning it into Akumagic Power, but his plan backfired when Dappu overloaded the robots with power. He betrayed the Bowzock and took over the operation personally, only to fight the Carrangers personally when he absorbed the evil energies of the entire universe into his body to assume a fighting form, Exhaus Super-Strong (エグゾス・スーパーストロング Eguzosu Sūpā Sutorongu, 48). In this form he seemed unbeatable, damaging both VRV Robo and RV Robo, but was fed stale imo-youkan by Gynamo, causing him to weaken, revert to his original form and shrink to human size so he could be finished off by the Carrangers.

Emperor Exhaus is voiced by Osamu Kobayashi.

Others

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