I love the relationship between these threeāŗ
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Subaru's bisexual awakening...
He asks Kotetsu for help and doesn't go as planned
Subaru having Too Many Feelings is so delightful, I love theses horrible teens (and Ruby, sorry I only drew the back of your head girl)
Subaru: Have you noticed how hot your sister's gotten?
Thomas:
Subaru: Because I have not.
Iāve seen some discussion on the fact that Subaruās character calls back to Super Sentai, and itās well-known that the character designer of Tiger & Bunny, Masakazu Katsura, is a big fan of Super Sentai.
Amongst the new designs, however, Thomasā inspiration has been brought up less, and maybe this is entirely a coincidence, but it doesn't feel totally impossible to me that his design would be inspired by Super Sentai as well.
The multiple constellation references of Tiger&Bunny aside (all of them are for an another post), notably Kotetsu and Barnaby represent the constellation Orion. In the start slide of s2, you can see Orion with one green and one pink star. Orion is often depicted in combat with the constellation of Taurus, the very same Thomas has gotten his surname from Subaruās first name, on the other hand, is the Japanese name for Pleiades, a star cluster within Taurus.
With that in mind, I looked at Uchu Sentai Kyuranger which features the Kyurangers, a team themed after constellations, originally aired from 2017 to 2018. Their Red Ranger named Lucky is the first ranger to have an enhanced form with a different colour from their default, because it turns out that heās descended from the legendary warrior Orion, which gives him an alternative White Ranger form. Itās not the constellation he primarily references, however, because his own constellation is Leo.
It seems significant considering that Subaru and Thomas reference Kotetsu and Barnaby respectively, whereas the callback to Ryan seems more of a funny coincidence, even if Ryanās character traits thematically exists between Kotetsu and Barnaby in many ways (also visually, but something for an another post).
It all could be a funny coincidence, but I digress: the T&B wiki references a Power Ranger for the colour change Subaru goes through, but I think itās interesting for Lucky to be the first Super Sentai on record to have two different colour forms.
Either way, to find any possible inspiration for Thomas, I was looking for a ranger that fits the colour scheme of his hero suit, silver/white.
The Silver Ranger of Kyurangers is called Naga Ray, and he references the constellation Ophiuchus (the reason for the name Naga).
Visually, I think he has much in common with Thomas, not only having very similar hair and the same colour scheme in his civilian wear, you could argue that the snake on his helmet looks somewhat similar to the āTā on Thomasā hero suit. (Or maybe Iāve just been looking at this for too long.)
Naga is an extra-terrestrial human from a planet from where they have all given up their emotions to become stoics (Thomas is rather stoic as well), and he left his home planet to learn about emotions. Interestingly, he has a partner called Balance, a techno-organic mechanical organism who references the constellation Libra, and the eventual Gold Ranger.
He felt Balance is the key for him to learn emotions, which is why they travel (and steal things from the evil organization of the show as thieves) together.
His special ability is that he can paralyze others while holding eye contact with them, during which his eyes are a vivid green (with slit pupils), much like Thomasā eye colour.
In the picture above, Naga Ray is depicted alongside his Silver Ranger form Hebitsukai Silver, the third form being Hebitsukai Metal: itās what he changes into after being brainwashed by a villain. In this form, heās not only able to paralyze people, but he can control them bodies, which reminds me of the way Thomas was shown to control other peopleās bodies in the finale.
I also think itās interesting that once Nagaās emotions awaken, his home system sends a woman named Echidna to kill him. Sheās portrayed by the same actor (all the people from the system have the same face due to not having emotions). Sheās named after Echidna, a half-woman half-snake from Greek mythology.
Thomas, of course, has his little sister Ruby, who I think will come up in cour 2...
Initially Echidna helps the Kyurangers escape from the brainwashed Naga and a bigger villain, but then renounces them as awful for leading Naga to develop emotions, while Nagaās partner Balance vows to protect him.
Brainwashed Naga almost causes Echidna to shoot herself with her own gun by using his abilities, but the Kyurangers save her. It seems that Balance and Lucky die in the battle, and Echidna points that the Kyurangers hesitating to take action is what caused this. However, Balance and Lucky are actually only unconscious and fighting the corruption in Nagaās mind and eventually free him.
Echidna decides to not to go through with eliminating Naga and even if she considers emotions useless, she agrees that the Kyurangers are strong due to their emotions. This sort of reminds me of the whole ābuddy heroes are stronger for their bonds, not weakerā as Yuri already learned (and yes, itās nothing significant because itās a very common trope). She then urges Naga to save the universe and leaves.
Of course, all of that could be a coincidence, even some visual similarities Naga and Thomas have, but I think itās somewhat likely to have Ruby return as a villain of some sort, especially given the fact that Ouroboros consciously recruits orphans like Nikolai Brahe and the unsolved plot thread of the Nemo Children.
Itās also entirely possible that Ruby couldāve developed a NEXT power like Thomas, even if she didnāt have any at the time. Of course, like Balance (and Lucky and the rest of the Kyurangers), it would make sense for Subaru and the heroes to have Thomasā back if anything similar happened.
They already supported Thomas when he lost control of himself and started beating the shit out of that criminal with a gun after he shot the civilian. Reading about Echidna made me visualize a scene in which Thomas interferes in some villain activity and a helmet is knocked off, revealing it to be Ruby. I think he would be too shocked to be able to catch her- Would he try to skip sides and seemingly ābetrayā the heroes to try save his sister?
This would also require Subaru to fully trust him, which would again prove the magic of friendship power of the bonds they make while having a buddy hero partner. Thomas is also a fan of L.L. Audun, whoāll definitely come up, so this could be maybe used to tie him into vigilantism things even further beyond the way he beat up that criminal?..
It would also make sense that since heās similar to Barnaby, they may have to try to win people back over by divulging his sad backstory to the media (which would put him a similar position as Barnaby, whose sad backstory is also public). Iām not sure what Jungle is planning, since theyāre definitely trying to make Thomas into something...
After all, they seemingly sabotage Subaru (his wrist band didnāt go off and alert him heroes are needed) and have very much relegated him into a support role, but if anything happened I think by now Subaru would know better than to act rashly and be frustrated with Thomas. Maybe something similar as to when Kotetsu found Barnabyās pin in Maverickās office?..
I imagine thereāll also be a timeskip of some sort (at least enough so that everyone will heal from their injuries), so Ruby too would be older by cour 2 as well, I think an Ouroboros-raised Ruby with NEXT powers would definitely be interesting!
Itās fun to speculate about all of it anyhow. Itās not too long till weāll see whatāll happen in cour 2 and if Ruby will come up! I definitely think sheāll be important in some way, but I wonder if they'll make her an adversarial force or more of a maiden in distress.
Also, just a disclaimer, I know absolutely nothing about Super Sentai, I just ended up looking at Nagaās wiki page and finding it funny to think about in relation to Thomas.

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I am really looking forward to/hoping to see a LOT of things in the second half of T&B2 and in later seasons but one of the things I am most interested in that I haven't really seen people talk about much is the character of Thomas' sister, Ruby. The fact that she even exists as a character and they not only bring her up but also mention that they don't know where she currently is definitely makes me think that she'll be more relevant later on and possibly have an important role to play in the story. I'm also curious to see if she ever developed NEXT abilities, seeing as her brother is a NEXT and the last time we saw her she was only 7 years old. If she is then that probably had an impact on where she ended up. Maybe she's in danger? Maybe she'll be a villain? Maybe she's with Ouroboros??? Depending on her situation it's also entirely plausible that she knows where her brother is because there is a hero on TV with the same name and power. What do you think is up with her? Personally I am hoping that she is a NEXT and I honestly think it would be really cool if she ended up with Ouroboros or something (kind of like how Mugan and Fugan were adopted in) and is an antagonist and will have to fight Thomas but it will turn out alright and they'll be reunited or something. Idk I'm unnecessarily fascinated with her character regardless of the direction the show takes her in.
After ep 16 was the moment Subaru realized he was in love
(Tried some coloring, I'm satisfied with the result)
Bonus:
Ruby, looking at Subaru:Ā Why donāt you go talk to him?
Thomas, sarcastically:Ā Oh. Yeah, sure.
Ruby:Ā What? So you go tell him he's cute, whatās the worst that could happen?
Thomas:Ā He could hear me.