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Originally Posted by Kickback

I never understood the homages before in Gokaiger.

Time Fire - A space ship drill
Dragon Ranger - a T-Rex mode
Abarekiller - a Megazord

Now, I get the Abarekiller homage more, simply because the robot design is very similar to what you saw in Abaranger. However, Dragon Ranger had a Dragon, not a T-Rex (I get the whole "dinosaur" homage, I do, but still). So it doesn't surprise me that Saban decided to nix the other two homages in this Megazord and stick straight with the Q-Rex (who had a T-Rex mode AND a Megazord mode) and just add a "drill mode" to it.

Gojyudrill
Timerangers built Gojyujin and it's literally housed at Providas Base in the future when not being used. The Drill modes' homage to Timeranger is more in spirit than anything as a time travelling mecha built by them. However this mode also references minor design cues of the V-Rex. The ranger key used to activate this mode was given to Gokai Silver by Time Fire.

Gojyurex
An homage to Zyuranger it's clear this mode is meant to evoke feelings of Dragon Caesar. It definitely captures the feel and menacing look of Caesar in show. It's obvious that's where the design cues for this come from. Maybe hints of V-Rex but it's explicitly stated to be a Zyuranger Grand Power. The ranger key used to activate this mode was given to Gokai Silver by Dragon Ranger.

Gojyujin
An homage to Abaranger this mode definitely comes off looking like a brother to Abarenoh. It's meant to evoke AbarenOh not necessarily Abare Killer himself, he's just the representative of that sentai. The ranger key used to activate this mode and infact the Gokai Silver powers & Cellular were given to Silver by Abare Killer.