Space Pirate Captain Marvelous

Captain Marvelous is GAR

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

A group of young pirates come from space to Earth to obtain the “Greatest Treasure in the Universe”. However, they end up facing the Space Empire Zangyack, whose eariler invasion forces were wiped out by the 34 Sentai groups long ago before a new invasion force is established under Commandant Oiles Gil, the emperor’s son. As a result, due to their history with the empire, the space pirates use the powers of the older teams to fight the Zangyack forces as the Gokaigers.
(wiki)

Five Pirates Against the Evil Space Empire Zangyack

A second important point is that with one exception, Sanbarukan (1981), each unit has five members. Why five ? Five is a number that signifies hierarchy. it is an odd number, which suggests a man in the middle, or in front, in short a leader. It is also the smallest number that allows for a plural middle class and a plural lower class as well as a singular leader. The gang of five is a miniature class system : each member has reasons to be content with his or her situation, for each has a special set of skills; at the same time, it is always made perfectly clear who leads and who is led.

Dolores P. Martinez, The worlds of Japanese popular culture: gender, shifting boundaries and global cultures, 1998, p40

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