The Rangers have designations named for countries around the world: Battle Japan , Battle France , Battle Cossack ( Soviet Union ), Battle Kenya and Miss America ( United States ). It was also the first show to introduce the ''Super Sentai'' format, where the heroes must control giant robots to defeat a monster who itself has grown to a gigantic size (or anything similar).
Battle Fever J was the first series to use the term Super Sentai (unlike the previous two who were just called Sentai, without the “Super”). For a long time Battle Fever J was considered the first entry in de Sentai series until Toei announced in 1994 that Goranger and JAKQ where also part of the Sentai series.
General Kurama assembles four young agents who had been dispatched around the world for training. They are joined by FBI investigator Diane Martin, whose father was murdered by Egos. The five don powered suits to become the Battle Fever team. (The word 'fever' was trendy at the time.) The Battle Fever team's trump card is the Battle Fever Robo. Egos tries to stop the construction of the Robo, but the monsters they send to perform this task are defeated one by one by the Fever team. Egos then unleashes the 'younger brother' of the Buffalo Monster, a giant robot replica of its 'older brother'. The Robo, fortunately, is finished in time. Aboard it, the Fever team defeats the Buffalo Monster and its successors. The Fever team never stops, even when it lost two of its membes (the original Miss America and Battle Cossack). With new members, the team defeats Hedder, now the Hedder Monster, and breaks into Egos' headquarters, where they are fed into the Egos Monster Making Machine so that they may be used as material for a Battle Fever Monster. The team destroys the machine and with the Lightning Light Sword Rocketter sword-throwing move, slays the mysterious deity Satan Egos himself.
- (伝 正夫 ''Den Masao'') / '''Battle Japan''' (バトルジャパン) - Former National Defense Ministry officer. Good at Judo and karate. Armed with a spear. Does a Kung Fu dance.
- (白石 謙作 ''Shiraishi Kensaku'') /'''Battle Cossack''' (バトルコサック, 1-33) - Good at science as well as war. Wielded twin sais. Did a Cossack dance. Left Big Baser without the Battle Cossack uniform and was killed attempting to save a child from Egos. Died in battle with the Eagle Monster.
- (神 誠 ''Jin Makoto'') / '''Battle Cossack''' (バトルコサック, 33-52) - Silent Cowboy . A man of action, not words. A scientist who trained in the Defense Ministry along with Kensaku. Joined Battle Fever to avenge the death of his friend. Makoto is an experet marksman. He's a loner, preferring to go off by himself. Makoto plays a trumpet to distract Egos.
- (志田 京介 ''Shida Kyōsuke'') / '''Battle France''' (バトルフランス) - Trained in France . Normally a beautician. A dandy and playboy. Armed with a Fencing sword. Does a Spanish dance.
- (曙 四郎 ''Akebono Shirō'') / '''Battle Kenya''' (バトルケニア) - Trained in Kenya. Wild child who can talk to animals. Armed with a whip. Does a tropical dance. Eats just about anything. The smell of his cooking is not appreaciated by the other team members.
- (ダイアン・マーチン ''Daian Maachin'') / '''Miss America''' (ミスアメリカ, 1-24) - FBI agent who joined the Fever team to avenge her father Bosner, who was slain by Egos. Wielded throwing knives. Did a disco dance. After she was wounded by the Dracula Monster, she returned to the United States . Diane has a sister named Catherine.
- (汀 マリア ''Nagisa Maria'') / '''Miss America''' (ミスアメリカ, 24-52) - FBI agent trained by Diane Martin's father. When Diane is WIA Maria takes her place as Miss America and then stays on permenantly when Diane decides to return the the United States.
- : Chief of the special science office of the National Defense Ministry who established the Fever team. Master of traditional Japanese swordsmanship.
A religion of mad egocentrists who intend to plunge the world into chaos.
- : The mysterious head, entirely draped in black.
- (1 – 51): High priest of Egos. Later becomes the Hedda Monster.
- (19 – 52): Egos American branch officer who came to Japan to aid Hedda with her super strength.
- : Divine children of Egos created by the heart-like Egos Monster Making Machine. Many from episode 5 onward have 'little brother' giant robot doubles.
- : Grunts in grey and black armed with MP40 machineguns.
- Daisuke Ban , who played the role of the second Battle Cossack, is more famously known for his role of Jiro in Kikaider .
- Due to Marvel Comics co-funding the show with Toei, a long standing rumor has stated that the original name the show was to have been "Captain Japan", making each of the heroes influenced in a way by the famous Marvel superhero Captain America . This rumor, however, has been denied by both Marvel and Toei.
- This was the first of the Sentai series to be called "Super Sentai."
- The character Miss America was based on a
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