Big Drawer (Super Giant Heavy Industrial Machine) - Dekaranger, EP 18 "Samurai Go West" Japan 6/13/2004
Marato (The Robot God) - Power Rangers SPD, EP 18 "Samurai" US 6/11/2005
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The kaiju gimmick for 2004's Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger were the Heavy Industrial Machines: giant battle robots piloted by the show's various alien criminals in place of the usual method of growing Godzilla-size themselves, minus a handful of exceptions. The Heavy Industrial Machines were often distributed by Agent Abrella, a bat-like Rainian arms merchant and the closest thing to a main overarching villain within Dekaranger.
One of the more unique and clunkier robots was Big Drawer, a bigger-than-average Heavy Industrial Machine that could teleport away structures and people with a blue-green light ray, housing the captured inside energy spheres and further placed within its many drawers for safe imprisonment. Big Drawer was also armed with multiple flare-like missiles from the center drawer located in its center.
The pilot of Big Drawer was a blue-colored Batsuroid, one of the many middle-grade robot foot soldiers also sold by Agent Abrella throughout the series' run.
There was a white and gold Big Drawer II who showed up in episode 44 but I couldn't find any good screen-captures of that model so we'll save him for a later date (maybe) though you can see it in the concept art alongside its predecessor.
Big Drawer was later adapted into Power Rangers SPD with an admittedly cooler sounding name of Marato, The Robot God though this title ended up being just salesman ballyhoo from Broodwing, the equally greedy American adaptation of Agent Abrella.
Baron String (Young Boy, Gorma, and giant form) - Gosei Sentai Dairanger EP 1 "Let's Tenshin!" Japan 2/19/1993
Baron String (紐男爵) is a golden string-themed Gorma Minion and the first of his villainous kind to be seen in the series with his human form looking like a young boy wearing comically thick (and equally questionable by today's sensibilities) glasses.
An ancient Chinese sorcerer recently awakened after six thousand years of sleep, Baron String, went around Tokyo and captured various children with his rather nasty snake-like tentacles, temporarily devouring his prisoners, while also attempting to assassinate Ryo, the soon-to-be red leader of the mystical Dairangers.
Despite his efforts, the newly revealed Dairangers get the upper hand over Baron String, forcing him to regurgitate his hostages, all of whom run to safety as their gold captor then uses an Growth Bomb (a common device of The Gorma Tribe) to grow gigantic. Soon afterwards, Baron String was defeated by the dragon-based robotic warrior RyuseiOh.
If you're all wondering what's up with this article's bizarre title, that's because Baron String has a gimmick where he sings a lullaby, something to the effect that he earnestly loves his soon-to-be-slain victims.
While I'm not aware of any cultural significance behind Baron String's song, it gives him an interesting character quirk similar to ones given to colorful assassins seen in certain anime shows.
Baron String was among a team of returning Gorma Minions in the theatrically released Gosei Sentai Dairanger: The Movie (4/17/1993), resurrected from the dead by a deck of card-themed villain named The Duke of Trump (トランプ公爵).
Baron String was later adapted into the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as Pipebrain, a monster created from The Golden Pipe Trophy thru Lord Zedd's evil magic. Pipebrain's single appearance was in episode 74, "Missing Green" (10/3/1994).
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Lastly, here's some concept art and magazine scans I found throughout Twitter: apologizes to those who originally uploaded these for I failed to save the source links.
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