Mushroom World

**Mushroom World**(キノコワルド *Kinokowarudo*) is a mushroom-based World from Episode 2 of Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger.

## Personality

Mushroom World is a confident World who is committed to his new form, even to the point of saying, ”Kinoko”, in each of his sentences to remind himself of who he is now. However, he too confident in himself that he underestimates his enemies and would even mock them.

## Appearance

Mushroom World has a dark grey mechanical body covered with grey armor that includes copper-colored gears over the shoulders, around the waist, on the thighs, and indented in the shoulder pads and by the knees and has two golden gears around the ankles. He has a large, purple-colored, mushroom head with a dark purple stem/face with yellow eyes, a large purple mushroom in place for the right arm, and a gold gauntlet with purple spikes over the left arm.

## Biography

An evil empire, called Tojitendo, has been capturing different worlds and placing them in small devices called Tojiru Gears. When they set their sights on one last world, which got combined with a parallel world filled with Kikainoids, called Kikaitopia, a human, named Kaito, and a Kikainoid, named Juran, joined forces to fight back and became the Zenkaigers by using the Geartlingers and the Sentai Gears created by Kaito’s parents. In order to fight back, one of the members of Tojitendo, Ijirude, comes up with an idea to use one of the Tojiru Gears. Picking out the Mushroom Tojiru Gear, which contains Kinkotopia, Ijirude arrives in the city with a Kudakk and places the Mushroom Tojiru Gear in the Kudakk’s chest. Once given the Mushroom Tojiru Gear, the Kudakk upgrades into a Kudaiter and then suddenly gains a mushroom head and a pair of different arms, becoming a World Kaijin who Ijirude calls Mushroom World.
With his new form, Mushroom World unleashes the Tojiru Gear’s power onto the city, spreading out mushrooms that start growing everywhere, especially on the citizens’ heads. As Ijirude and Mushroom World look upon the Tojiru Gear’s effect on the city, Kaito and Juran spot the two on a building. Ijirude orders Mushroom World to attack, so Kaito and Juran change into Zenkaiser and Zenkai Juran to fight back. After both sides find out they both use a type of gear, Kaito uses the Goggle V Gear which equips him and Juran with ribbons. They twirl the ribbons around Mushroom World until they get tangled up and start using them as a jump rope while encouraging the World to jump in. Eventually, Mushroom World attempts to jump in but trips on the ribbons, allowing Kaito and Juran to send a charge of electricity through them to shock Mushroom World. After quickly getting beaten, Mushroom World escapes in a Spore Smokescreen.
Later, as Kaito and Juran are gathering mushrooms to eat, after looking for a third member to join them, Mushroom World spies on the city with Ijirude and sees that everyone is getting use to the mushrooms. Ijirude then commences the next part of their plan where all the mushrooms start spreading poisonous spores all over the city, affecting the human civilians. Once Kaito gets affected by the mushrooms’ poisonous spores as well, he and Juran find Ijirude and Mushroom World, who mock them for letting their guard down around the mushrooms. Kaito is prepared to fight but is still affected by the mushrooms’ poisonous spores. Fortunately, he and Juran are joined by another Kikainoid, named Gaon, whom they met earlier and Kaito befriended, who decides to become a Zenkaiger to fight the Tojitendo for harming the animals in the city. Just as the Kudakks arrive, Kaito hands Gaon his own Geartlinger and the Gaoranger Gear and the three change into Zenkaiser, Zenkai Juran, and Zenkai Gaon. The three Zenkaiger then fight off the Kudakks and finish them off with the Hurricanger Gear. Mushroom World sneaks up on them and uses Smash Punch to send Kaito flying in the sky. Gaon manages to catch Kaito when he falls back down while Mushroom World uses Galactica Mushroom to send Juran flying back. Gaon then fights Mushroom World himself. After a small fight, Kaito joins in and the two perform Great Zenkai to fire two powerful blasts of energy at Mushroom World, resulting in him blowing up and leaving behind the Mushroom Tojiru Gear. As a result of Mushroom World’s destruction, all the mushrooms in the city disappear along with the poisonous spores.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Kinokotopia**: With the Mushroom Tojiru Gear, Mushroom World can create a world of mushrooms. He can spread wild mushrooms from Kinokotopia all over that can grow everywhere indefinitely, as well as on the heads of living creatures and inorganic lifeforms such as a Kikainoids.
	+ **Instant Mushrooms**: If the mushrooms get pulled off of their area of growth, another mushroom will immediately grow in place.
	+ **Poisonous Mushroom Spores**: The mushrooms can also emit spores that are poisonous to living creatures.

* **Extraordinary Leaping**: Mushroom World is able to jump down from a great height with ease.

* **Mushroom Arm Club**: In place for his right arm, Mushroom World is equipped with a mushroom-shaped club that he can use to clobber his enemies.
	+ **Galactica Mushroom**: Mushroom World can deliver a powerful, charged-up, punch with his Mushroom Arm Club that can send his enemies flying back.

* **Spore Smokescreen**: Mushroom World is able to emit a yellow/purple smoke from his mushroom head, underneath the mushroom hat, in order to make a quick getaway.

* **Spiked Gauntlet**: Mushroom World is equipped with a golden gauntlet on his left arm that’s covered mushroom-shaped spikes which he can use for combat.
	+ **Smash Punch**: Mushroom World can deliver a powerful upper-cut with his Spiked Gauntlet that can send his enemies flying high upward.

* **Super Strength**: Mushroom World has enough strength to push an entire car with just one hand and can send it driving off with just one punch.

## Trivia

* For the background motif of Mushroon World, K-SuKe used the costume of Kousaku Nangou(DynaYellow) from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman where Mushroom World’s mushroom umbrella on his head is used as a reference to Kousaku’s ten-gallon hat.