Bowguns

**Bowguns** appeared in 2016 TV series called *Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger*. Bowguns (ボウガンス *Bogansu*) is a shooting game/tiki/crossbow-themed player from Team Azald.

Serving as a member of Team Azald, Bowguns is sent to Earth to destroy the cars and vehicles across the planet. As is mentioned later, despite it being Quval's turn to send a Player, his strategy of careful planning and mapping things out requires much less time than Azald's brute force tactics and thus he sent a Player first. Bowguns is first seen looking over a highway bypass training his Gunsbow on the passing cars before obliterating three semis. When cars try to flee, he jumps onto the highway himself and starts obliterating cars that are too slow to avoid him and jumps back to the overlooking cliff to celebrate. However, Leo, Tusk and Sela (sans Yamato and Amu who are investigating a strange vision of his) arrive though he is confused who they are so they henshin and do battle with Bowguns. However, the Player calmly comments on his orders from Azald as he beats them senseless before jumping clear and blowing them all away since the arrows travel too fast for even their animal instincts to detect. With nothing left to destroy for now, Bowguns escapes by jumping off the cliff as Leo tries to follow only to fall short and plunge to the bottom of the hill.

Later, as Yamato and Amu get on a bus to continue their search for the Champions symbol, Bowguns returns to Tokyo to use a square parking lot as his new hunting grounds. He immediately starts obliterating vehicles before jumping down and going after the bus with Yamato and Amu in it, using a car as a jumping off point before obliterating it. Fortunately, the remaining three Zyuohgers confront Bowguns when he jumps onto a balcony and try shooting him with their Zyuoh Busters Blaster Mode but he dodges and deflects the blasts before jumping onto the bus. The three Zyuohgers try to pursue but he blasts them down enough for the bus to outrace them as he mocks them. Fortunately, Yamato henshins and takes on Bowguns with his EagRiser which culminates with a rock knocking Yamato off of the bus but him then unleashing his Instinct Awakened form. When he tries to shoot down Yamato, Amu knocks him down with blasts from below and Yamato tackles Bowguns straight off of the roof as he and his team regroup. Bowguns quickly recovers and confronts them, enraged by the attack and plans to kill everybody on Earth as revenge as they henshin and do their roll call only for Bowguns to summon Moebas. Once they are all easily wiped out, Bowguns dives in from the side and blasts down Yamato before quickly using his jump ability to completely decimate the others. He prepares to kill Yamato first but he is able to harmlessly deflect the shots due to his Zyuman connection giving him incredible sight. Enraged, Bowguns tries again but the EagRiser deflects the blasts and the other Zyuohgers initiate their Instincts Unleashed forms and combine their special attacks to blow away Bowguns. The Zyuohgers then change their Zyuph Busters to Sword Mode and leap into the air to obliterate him with the Zyuoh Slash. Bowguns tries to reach out in panic but falls flat on his back and explodes.

However, Azald demands that Naria enlarge Bowguns and Ginis gives her a Continue Medal to do so. She teleports down and enlarges Bowguns by placing the Continue Medal on his left side of his chest, enlarging the Player who thanks her. In response, the Zyuohgers summon thier Zyuoh Cubes and call upon Cube Eagle, Cube Lion, Cube Shark, Cube Elephant and Cube Tiger. However, Bowguns uses his energy blasts to collapse a mountain down on top of them and bury Amu and Leo so the remaining three Zyuohgers form Zyuoh King. Even though they put up a good fight with the Zyuoh Saber, Bowguns is able to blast them back into the mountain before he unloads on them and buries them in boulders. Bowguns lines up a headshot but Cube Tiger and Cube Elephant are able to smash thier way out of the boulder pile and slam him down. Taking the opportunity, Zyuoh King separates to get free of the boulder before they combine Cubes Eagle, Elephant and Tiger to form ZyuohKing 1\*5\*4. Bowguns is confident that he can bury them again but some impressive footwork allows Zyuoh King to dodge all of the blasts though they realize that these blasts are also causing forest fires. Fortunately, using a Cube he found earlier during his search, Yamato activates it and reveals it to be the new Cube Kirin (a giraffe themed Cube). It rams Bowguns back who is unimpressed and tries to blast it but it rolls around and blasts him instead. They then form ZyuohKing Kirin Bazooka and finish off Bowguns with the Cube Kirin Rapid Fire despite him firing his own laser barrage. All he can do is bemoan that he wasn't the real issue before face-planting and exploding.

Through scanning Amu's memory of him, Bowguns is "revived" as a giant by Bangray, serving as a decoy while he left to pursue the Whale Change Gun which was taken by Captain Marvelous who is also pursued by Yamato. Realizing Bowguns' purpose, the Zyuman Zyuohgers entrust Zyuoh TheWorld with him as they deal with Dorobozu. Forming Tousai Zyuoh to engage Bowguns, Zyuoh The World quickly destroys the revived Player with the Komori Boomerang Zyuoh Cutter.

Bowguns was quite smug and often enjoyed tormenting his targets before he shot them. He did, however, enjoy the challenges presented by Amu. He was also very bubbly in personality, enjoying destruction as much as a child would playing with their toys and demonstrated intense loyalty to Azald. After being taken down by Yamato's Instinct Awakened form however, he became far angrier and vicious and wanted to kill everybody on Earth.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Resilience:** Bowguns was thrown out of a speeding bus onto concrete but almost immediately recovered.
* **Marksmanship:** Bowguns could utilize his shooting skills with extreme precision.
	+ **Sniping:** An extension of Bowguns' marksmanship skills was that he was an exceptionally good sniper capable of hitting cars from hundreds of feet away.
	+ **Shooting Sideways:** An extension of Bowguns' marksmanship skills was that he could fire accurately whilst diving sideways as seen after the defeat of his Moebas.
* **Super Jumps:** Bowguns was able to jump about twenty feet in the air with a single bound when attacking cars on that overpass.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Bowguns was able to overwhelm Leo, Tusk and Sela with just his bare hands and the edges of his crossbow.
* **Reflexes:** Bowguns could dodge multiple blasts from the Zyuoh Busters Gun Mode by dancing around them.
* **Sight Eye** (サイト眼 *Saito Gan*): Bowguns's eyes which can lock on targets allowing him to shoot his beam arrows at the enemy more accurately.
* **Eye Lasers**: Bowguns could shoot light purple laser beams from his eyes. These were strong enough to push Zyuoh King back into a mountain.
* **Combo: Take this!** (食らうでがんす！ *Kurau de gansu*): A combo move which Bowguns jumps and using Gunsbow to fire a barrage of beam arrows at his target.

### Arsenals

* **Gunsbow** (ガンスボウ *Gansubou*): Bowguns' crossbow which could shoot a green arrow-like laser beams. These caused large explosions and could obliterate entire eighteen wheelers with one hit.
	+ **Very Rapid Fire:** Bowguns'Gunsbow could fire its lasers at such a high rate of fire that even the Zyuohger's inherent Zyuman instincts are unable to react quick enough to avoid them.
	+ **Deflection:** Bowguns' Gunsbow was able to deflect multiple blasts from the Zyuoh Busters Gun Mode when he swung it.
* **Moeba Coin:** Bowguns carried a pile of coins capable of summoning a swarm of Moebas to help him in battle.