Ruletta Gerou

**Ruletta Gerou**(ルレッタ・ゲロウ *Ruretta gerou*) is a frog-based Gangler Kaijin from Episode 1 of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger vs Keisatsu Sentai Patranger.

He is voiced by **Hiroyuki Muraoka**, who also plays as his human disguise.

## Personality

Ruletta is a greedy and sadistic Gangler Kaijin who enjoys causing misfortune to humans with his Lupin Collection. He can get mad when provoked and won’t hesitate to attack, but is shown to be cowardly during actual combat.

## Appearance

Ruletta Gerou has a yellow, pudgy, body with wrinkles around his stomach and throat, a white ribcage on his chest, a tongue-like decoration with purple frog eggs inside wrapped around his upper body, a dark purple-colored back, dark purple shoulder pads, dark purple fingers, and a pair of black legs with dark purple thighs. He has a large amphibious head with two horns sticking out on top, a puckered mouth with a long frog tongue hanging out, and white eyes with yellow irises and red pupils on each side of the mouth. He also has purple/pink tadpole-like decorations hanging around his stomach, on his frog-like feet, and on his arms. His Gangler Safe is placed right on his gut.

## Biography

During night time at a casino, the owner is watching a man playing roulette where his stomach suddenly glows green and redirects the outcome of the marble on the spinner, making the man lose all of his money. With the man unable to the pay the casino bill, the owner has his men take him away. Just then, three people crash through the upper windows on the casino and kick the owner’s men down. Revealing themselves as the Phantom Thieves and wanting the owner’s treasure, one of them, Kairi, throws their calling card at the owner which scratches his cheek, bloating him up and revealing himself as a Gangler Kaijin named Ruletta Gerou. The second Phantom Thief, Umika, finds Ruletta’s Gangler Safe on his gut, which contains their targeted treasure, a Lupin Collection, which Ruletta remarks that only he is able to open it. Ruletta has his men, who are really Porderman in disguise, attack them. The three thieves fight off the Porderman with their VS Changer while the patrons of the casino run away. Kairi comes up to Ruletta and places his Dial Fighter on his Gangler Safe, automatically decoding the safe and unlocking, much to Ruletta’s surprise as Kairi takes his Lupin Collection. The three thieves gather together where the third Phantom Thief, Touma, realizes that Ruletta was using it to manipulate the outcome of the game. Enraged that they took his Lupin Collection, Ruletta throws his Spawn Eggs at the trio to blow them up. The resulting explosion gets the attention of three cops of the Global Police named Keiichiro, Sakuya, and Tsukasa, who recognize it as a Gangler attack. Back at the casino, Ruletta believes he killed the Phantom Thieves until the explosion clears away and reveals the trio have now changed into the Lupinrangers after placing their Dial Fighters in their VS Changers. Ruletta has the Porderman fight them of again while he tries to find a place to hide, only to get hit by a dart by Umika. After the Lupinranger destroy all the Porderman, the three Global Police arrive where they witness Ruletta getting thrown across the room. The Lupinranger then aim their VS Changers at Ruletta and simultaneously fire at him. With three single shots, Ruletta blows up.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Comme un cube qui roule**: Ruletta’s Collection Piece is a big dice.
	+ **Game Manipulation**: With his Collection Piece, Ruletta is able to manipulate the outcome of a game.

* **Human Disguise**: Ruletta can disguise himself as a chubby man with groomed hair, a small mustache, and goatee while wearing a tuxedo, a small tie, and a long scarf with tassels on each end hanging around his neck.

* **Spawn Bomb**: Ruletta can pull out purple, frog egg-like bombs from the tongue-like decoration on his chest and throw them at his enemies to blow them up.

* **Stretchable Tongue**: According to the Tv-Asahi website, Ruletta can fight by manipulating a long stretchable tongue. However, this ability has not been shown throughout his appearance.

## Trivia

* Since the Gangler Kaijin were originally planned to be based off of extinct animals, Ruletta Gerou might’ve been planned to be based off the Beelzebufo, also known as the Devil Frog, but was changed to a regular frog.
	+ This is shown due to the horns on top of Ruletta’s head.
* Ruletta getting destroyed by three single shots of the Lupinrangers’ VS Changers without them performing their finisher shows that he is one of the weakest Gangler Kaijin.
	+ This is evident by how he never truly fought but instead tried to hide.
* Being a Kaijin with money, Masato Hisa decided to make him into a frog due to the wallets with frog-like mouths
* Masato Hisa compares Ruletta Gerou to Gamettsui from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, saying that he drew a fat first Kaijin for the second year in a row.