Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop

Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop (lit. Electro-Brain Police Cybercop) is a Toku series produced by Toho in 1988, which chronicles the missions of the Zero-Section Armed Constable (ZAC), a special police unit assigned to assist the standard police force in a crime-infested Tokyo in 1999. Battling the criminal organization DeathTrap, a group of elite ZAC officers wears high-tech armors called Bit Suits, which confer them superhuman capabilities. They are soon joined by Shin'ya Takeda, a stranger from the future who, strangely enough, has his own Bit Suit, and learn that their actions in the present can help reshape for better the apocalyptic future from which Takeda came.

The Cybercops:

• Shin'ya Takeda (Jupiter Unit): The Time-Travelling Hero
• Akira Houjou (Mars Unit): The Lancer and The Big Guy. Was The Hero before Takeda's arrival
• Ryoichi Mouri (Saturn Unit): The Smart Guy. Fun Personified and Martial Pacifist. His armor has built-in radar scanners
• Osamu Saionji (Mercury Unit): The Big Guy and a Lightning Bruiser
• Lucifer: Sixth Ranger after his Heel Face Turn. Comes from the same timeline as Takeda.

The rest of the ZAC crew:

• Captain Hisagi Oda: The Mentor
• Lieutenant Shimazu Mizue: Mission Control
• Officer Tomoko Uesugi: The Chick of the Five-Man Band. Was supposed to have her own Bit Suit, the Venus Unit, but due to lack of financial resources, it was never built.

The DeathTrap organization

• Baron Kageyama: The real Big Bad and Man Behind the Man to his subordinates, each of which leads an organization which is a branch of DeathTrap. Note, all of them are Mad Scientists.
• Professor Einstein: The Dragon to Kageyama. Leads the Ominous Gang, is an expert in Physics and, later, Cybernetics.
• Madam Darwin: The Dark Chick. A literal Catgirl who leads the Harkoss Gang, made up of humanoid beasts of her creation.
• Dr. Arthur Ploid: Physically, he's The Brute. Makes machanical monsters, and specializes in Mind Screw.
• Führer: The supercomputer who leads DeathTrap. It, too, was brought from the future so it could rule the world in the past. Built by Kageyama, who fuses with him at the end.

Tropes used in Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop include:

• The Ace: Takeda, until Lucifer comes around.
• Applied Phlebotinum: If Jupiter's rage grows to a boiling point, he can power up his suit and summon his most powerful weapon, the Cyber Thunder Arm, from a portal that appears from nowhere (possibly from his original timeline).
• Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune: Mika Chiba (Tomoko) sings the ending theme.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Takeda: Sanguine
  • Houjou: Choleric
  • Mouri: Swings between phlegmatic and supine
  • Saionji: Melancholic
• Heel Face Turn: Lucifer started out as an enemy of the Cybercops, especially Takeda, as they belong to the same timeline and he believed him to be the traitor to the forces resisting the Führer. Turns out Kageyama was The Mole in the resistance, who killed his and Jupiter's partners and threw them all into the past.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Lt. Mizue is played by Mikiko Miki, who would later go on to play Chief Aya Odagiri in Choujin Sentai Jetman.
  • Jun'ichi Haruta a.k.a. Goggle Black and Dyna Black appears in episode 23 as a martial arts master who helps Takeda improve his fighting ability, which ultimately allows his to access his final technique.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: C'mon. DeathTrap. Led by a certain Führer. How can you not run away from these?
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Lucifer felt this way towards Jupiter before he learned the truth.
• The Psycho Rangers: The False Cybercops created by Einstein in Episode 22. They are capable of reading and countering the real ones' every move, sending the team straight into a collective Heroic BSOD. However, they have two factors which allow them to defeat their copies: teamwork and Tomoko.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Houjou towards Takeda at the beginning. Let's just say that he didn't really buy Takeda's Kid From the Future story.
• X Meets Y: Metal Heroes meet Super Sentai.