B-Fighter / Big Bad Beetleborgs - Character Conversion - Heroes and Villains

I wrote these at the suggestion. This post was written for Henshin Grid -- The Blog.

Drew McCormick (Blue Stinger Borg) / Takuya Kai (Blue Beet)
Drew had telekinesis thanks to the genie Flabber, while Takuya was a insect researcher who stumbled upon Guru and became a B-Fighter. A blood sample from Kai was used by the evil sorcerer Jagui in the creation of his evil clone Shadow and the clone was played by the twin brother of the actor who played Takuya, who happened to play Kirinranger. Shadowborg was taken from him but he didn't not have a human form. Drew was initially intimidated by Josh.

Roland Williams (Green Hunter Borg) / Daisaku Katagiri (G-Stag)
Roland was Drew's best friend and had super speed, while Daisaku was a tree doctor. He was aquaphobic until he overcame his fear to save his father Daitesu Katagiri. The other biggest difference was that the Beetleborgs were kids who were granted their wish to become their comic book superheroes by a genie in a haunted house, while the B-Fighters were young adults given their powers by an ancient bug to fight beings from another dimension.

Jo McCormick (Shannon Chandler) (Red Striker Borg) / Rei Hayama (Reddle)
Rei was animal instructor at an Aquarium and eventually left the team for the South American branch of Earth Academia to do research and help with protecting the living organisms there. Jo was Drew's little sister who was a tomboy. Wolfgang accidentally changed her appearance by messing around with Flabber's spell book.

Jo McCormick (Brittany Konarzewski) (Red Striker Borg) / Mai Takatori (Reddle)
The Pulsabers chose Mai to be the next Reddle, she tried to see the good in everything and loved animals. Jo's appearance had changed by Wolfgang, accidentally, but her personality did not change. It was a coincidence that the Red warrior was played by two different actresses in both shows. Flabber did a counter spell for everyone else to see her as the original Jo, except for a few.

Josh Baldwin (White Blaster Borg) / Kabuto
While Josh was a human who became a Beetleborg, Kabuto was not even a B-Fighter, he was the son of their mentor Guru. He returned to Earth to visit his mother's grave, bringing the Beet Ingram with him. He was very childish and naive and often tried to be a hero, only to put himself in danger. As for Josh, the Beetleborg comic creator Art Fortunes drew a new borg when the trio lost their powers and Josh had the powers temporarily. Josh was a bad boy/cool guy and it was slightly hinted that Jo had a crush on him. The White Beetleborg was like the 'sixth' ranger, when technically he was the fourth. Kabuto returned at the end of the series to assist the other fighters in defeating Jaguhl. He returned in B-Fighter Kabuto to visit his father's grave.

Shadow Borg / Black Beet
Shadowborg was Vexor's evil Beetleborg created from ionic DNA and insectite material stolen from the Blue Stinger. Shadowborg mimicked the powers of the other Beetleborgs. In B-Fighter, Jagul drew a blood cell sample from Takuya to create Shadow. Because he was a clone, Shadow could not survive on his own and sought Saint Papilia's gift of eternal life as Emperor Gaohm did. He was killed in a duel with Blue Beet and disintegrated into a pile of black ash. Black Beet was later revived and absorbed by Jagul in the series finale. The actor played Kirinranger (yellow) in Dairanger. The White Beetleborg was called to stop the Shadow Borg and Blue destroyed him.

Vexor / Emperor Gaohm
Gaohm was the leader of the Jamahl, he was supposedly killed by the B-Fighters, only to reappear as Final Gaohm, a gigantic torso floating in space. Vexor was the leader of the Magnavores. Vexor took this form as well, but in his following appearance, he somehow switched back to his old appearance. He was sent back to the comic book world by the Crustaceans. Gaohm's both forms were decoys used by the real Gaohm, a small embryonic enity in a tank full of liquid. He needed the Saint Papilia, Gaohm was later revived and absorbed by the sorceress Jagul in the series finale.

Typhus / General Gigaro
Gigaro was originally a skeletal creature on a desert planet in the Garo dimension, Gaohm gave him a new powerful body and recruited him into the Jamahl. Gigaro imbued himself with life energy meant for the Jamahl to power-up into Final Gigaro. Gigaro was originally supposed to be revived and absorbed by Jagul, but Mai and Kabuto's interference it didn't come to be and left Jagul with a weakpoint on her new body. Typhus perfered brawn over brains.

Noxic / Schwartz
Schwartz was a mechanical body encasing a computer virus. After Gigaro died and Jera left the Jamahl, Schwartz fought the B-Fighters. His body was destroyed in the process, though his head survived. However, the damage left Schwartz critically insane as he took control of various objects on Earth. Schwartz even tried to kill Jera, but she was saved by Black Beet. His immortal head was blasted into outer space. Noxic was a android who prefers eating donuts, he took control of a bulldozer with his head and tried to destroy the Beetleborgs. He later used this same technique to take control of Ghoulum, when he went bad from the comic book's formula. He has an older brother named Super Noxic, though technically Noxic was created first.

Jara / Jera
Even though similar names, Jara spoke with a Russian accent and was once bitten by Wolfgang and became a werewolf and enamored with Wolfgang, but was returned to her normal form and didn't feel for him anymore. Jera turned against Gaohm when she learned of Gigaro's death, allying herself only with Shadow, who had also saved her from Schwartz. When she saw Gaohm in his true form, Jera was mortally wounded and cast back down to Earth. After being found by the B-Fighters, her mask disappeared, revealing her to be a blond Caucasian woman! Before dying, she revealed how the B-Fighters could infiltrate Gaohm's ship.

Insect Sorceress Jagul / Hypnomaniac and Borgslayer
Jagul was mysterious woman Gaohm commissioned to create an evil B-Fighter. She resurfaced long after Jahaml was destroyed and started kidnapping young women and resurrecting several defeated monsters. Jagul soon underwent a transformation into a composite-entity after reviving/absorbing them. She was soon mortally wounded by the Metal Heroes. Jagul's first form became Hypnomaniac, who was to hypnotize the Hillhurst monsters into becoming Vexor's new servants. Borgslayer was far too powerful. The only way to defeat Borgslayer was for the Beetleborgs to triangulate their fire power. The residual energy sucked all the Magnavores, and Vexor, back into the comic book world.

UPDATED MAY 5, 2009 4:40PM EST