Super Sentai Grunts: Were they ever useful?

I love the grunts. many of them look awesome and I agree they are essentially cannon fodder, but they are cool looking cannon fodder.

I think it was only in Megaranger and Gekiranger that the grunt soldier featured were ever shown to be a more major threat aside from being cannon fodder. for Gekiranger, some grunts actually managed to surpass others to become major league monsters to give the Rangers a hard time. that's what I loved about Gekiranger.
 
BTW...how many times can one mod a ZECTrooper?

Liotroopers and Kamen Soldiers:laugh:

...and more to come in the future.

PS: I had so much fun creating my own.:sweat:
 
zect trooper were usually also paired with grunts in the being of unmolted worms... and those riotrooper IN THE SERIES did actually a good beating on the good guys...

i think those grunts are just part of the tradition... i guess something to look forward to in the next series
 
Grunts are usually just a diversion in my opinion, but in Gokaiger, with the grunts growing to kaijuu size with the monster of the week, they're posing a bigger threat.
 
The grunt armies in the older shows seemed to have a little more to do to occupy themselves than much of the newer ones. When they're not kneeling in submission to the generals, we would see them operate machinery in the evil lair, drive motor vehicles, even get in an occasional line of dialogue... right before they were mustered out to get their asses kicked for the umpteenth time...

One thing I'll say for super sentai grunts: when they get firearms they tend to shoot much better than either Stormtroopers or Red-Shirted Ensigns!
 
Their only purpose is to sell merchandise.
 
the topic gives me a reason to point out the difference in terms of epicness between the all-ranger scene at the early part of gokaiger vs the all-rider scene in decade's 1st episode...

we all know grunts will not win that war but fighting someone with almost the same powers as you is very interesting...
 
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