History Fanfic / EigaSentaiScanranger

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* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: At the end of the fifth episode, spilling into the sixth Vin and Kunio are arrested for Alex’s murder. The story doesn’t even get into how their guilt is established, the officer on duty just gets a phone call and locks them up. The rangers escape by teleporting when no one’s looking but at the end of the episode Alex says she’s planning to lie low for a while so Vin and Kunio should still be wanted for her murder in addition to escaping from police custody. None of these concerns are ever mentioned again, even with a cop noticing they'd disappeared from their cell.
** Ironically two episodes later one of B.C.’s friends, also wrongly accused, escapes after being arrested and B.C. tells him he’s only making the trouble he’s already in worse.

The story is archived [[http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5514/scanranger.html here]], with the writer also posting it on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/681863/redscanner FF.net]] after his original page went down. Also, there's[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6484342/1/Power_Rangers_Film_Force this thing]].

** Why does B.C., who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, have a Western first name (Benjamin)?

* MarySue: Our [=RedScanner=] could sure pass for one. Vince Jones is the author, Vin Harlock is the team leader, so the character’s name sounds [[AwesomeMcCoolname similar but cooler]] to that of the creator of this obviously WriterOnBoard piece. What’s more, Vin knows it’s okay to be comfortable with who you are as he endured the mockery of changing his name in homage to a cartoon character. He grew up in the ghetto but emerged as a fun-loving and idealistic young man, not to mention inherited a love of Asian culture from his dad who served in the military in Okinawa (if not Asian heritage from his other parent) while not actually demonstrating knowledge of Asian culture. He’s “almost close to a third degree black belt” in aikido as well as an expert in fencing which makes him just as deadly with a [[KatanasAreBetter katana]] or cutlass as with a foil, and he gets to deliver unto the leader of Jetman a lecture on the ups and downs of being a hero. Whenever the villains try to mind-control him, all times but the first he not only resists with ease but is strengthened by his rage at someone violating his mind. To top it off he’s supposed to be a great leader [[InformedAbility despite no significant evidence existing of strategic skills or charisma on his part]]. Oh, and he’s “raking in the dough" despite no mention being made of [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob where his money comes from]]. About the only thing keeping him from being an out-and-out Sue is the fact that he's actually only about as badass as your average red ranger.

* RockBeatsLaser: Inverted. In one episode Silver mocks ''StarshipTroopers'' for using those prehistoric weapons that shoot little metal projectiles instead of lasers.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Vin, one of the heroes of our family-friendly story: “Yeah, What's wrong wid rapin'?” He also has an issue with remembering "tentacles" has a second "t".
** Words are often misspelled or used in the wrong context. Ascend to move down, sheathe to draw a sword, divulge instead of deduce, enable to mean cause, was instead of were...

The story is archived [[http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5514/scanranger.html here]], with the writer also posting it on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/681863/redscanner FF.net]] after his original page went down.

The story is archived [[http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5514/scanranger.html here]], with the writer almost making scattered attempts to post it on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/681863/redscanner FF.net]]

In this stunning homage to SuperSentai (and fully-exteded middle finger to PowerRangers), Professor Daphne Alexandria is more than just a mild-mannered film professor, she’s the head of a secret organization that protects Earth from hostile aliens, and her prize students are being drafted. Why? Because the power she has to bestow can only be used by those with a passionate love of movies. No, really. And why does Alex feel the need to trust the fate of the world to five crazy kids? Because of the imminent invasion of the not terribly effective MAYHEM Corps, hell-bent on conquering New Jersey, naturally! If the rangers can stop harping on their hatred of Haim Saban and all things Power Rangers long enough, they might just pull this off. And despite how everything sounds, [[SeriousBusiness it takes itself too seriously too often to be a parody.]]

In this stunning homage to SuperSentai (and fully-exteded middle finger to PowerRangers), Professor Daphne Alexandria is more than just a mild-mannered film professor, she’s the head of a secret organization that protects Earth from hostile aliens, and her prize students are being drafted. Why? Because the power she has to bestow can only be used by those with a passionate love of movies. No, really. And why does Alex feel the need to trust the fate of the world to five crazy kids? Because of the imminent invasion of the not terribly effective MAYHEM Corps, hell-bent on conquering New Jersey, naturally! If the rangers can stop harping on their hatred of Haim Saban and all things Power Rangers long enough, they might just pull this off. And despite how everything sounds, it takes itself too seriously too often to be a parody.

* TerribleTrio: Although they usually operate singly, Vixen, Ug and Key fit the dynamic well enough, not to mention become laughable enough that they seem like one (during the team-ups with Jetman, the Scanrangers even admit their villains are "a walk in the park" compared to Jetman's). Certainly their superiors think of them like that.

* DownerEnding: Work stopped just a little before they were due to hit the home stretch.

* NamesTheSame: A few internal cases. B.C. and scientist helper Dr. Markby have the same first name (Ben), a RedShirt astronaut '''in the first episode''' is named Nick, and Vin’s martial arts teacher from back in the 'hood is named Tony (in all fairness the story almost exclusively uses his full first name). It might even count that a throwaway character in "The Good, The Bad and General Ug" is named Mike.

*** Another nice example is in "From Here To Fraternity" where Vin thinks he sees something weird about a procession of Greek pledges going by. He doesn't mention this to anyone, ''not even Toni and Carmen who he was talking to when he noticed it.''** The second act of ''There's Something About Toni'' has a few choice moments: 1) Vixen attacks the Valentine's Day dance with a monster whose powers the rangers already know how to counteract. This is okay because forget they know this. 2) Vixen planned to attack the dance but was unprepared for the ''guest superhero'' who would be performing. Despite it being [[DidNotDoTheResearch advertised on the dance's posters]]. 3) When the monster tries to shoot said guest heroine with a bow and arrow Toni jumps in the way to take the arrow for her. Even though her WeaponOfChoice is a ''shield''. One moreover that she's supposed to be able to throw with CaptainAmerica-like skill.

* WhatAnIdiot: In "What a Tangled World Wide Web We Weave" four of the rangers’ powers mysteriously fizzle out in the middle of a fight, turning them back to normal (because they tried to use special attacks the villains had stolen). They don’t tell their superiors because "it's nothing," even though they have no idea why it happened or if it could happen again. I am not kidding.
** Just about any time a character gains a bit of important information (Kunio learns the identity of the mysterious SixthRanger, Alex knows the identity of the mysterious BadassPreacher, [[spoiler: Alex is having the HumongousMecha destroyed two episodes ago rebuilt]]) and revealing it to anyone would ruin a dramatic moment, the information is kept to the only character in the know. The example from "What a Tangled World Wide Web" is just the worst of the heroes' policy of non-communication (Alex apparently knew the rangers couldn't use their old attacks but didn't tell them), because it doesn't go anywhere and is forgotten in the next episode when Vince seems to realize the Scanrangers are faced with a task the five of them can't possibly accomplish without Nick's ability to clone himself.
*** Another nice example is in "From Here To Fraternity" where Vin thinks he sees something weird about a procession of Greek pledges going by. He doesn't mention this to anyone, ''not even Toni and Carmen who he was talking to when he noticed it.''
** In Scanranger vs. Jetman where it suddenly seemed to dawn on Vin that people in Tokyo would probably speak Japanese. Well after they’d established that’s where they were.
** The second act of ''There's Something About Toni'' has a few: 1) Vixen attacks the Valentine's Day dance with a monster whose powers the rangers already know how to counteract. This is okay because forget they know this. 2) Vixen planned to attack the dance but was unprepared for the ''guest superhero'' who would be performing. Despite it being [[DidNotDoTheResearch advertised on the dance's posters]]. 3) When the monster tries to shoot said guest heroine with a bow and arrow Toni jumps in the way to take the arrow for her. Even though her WeaponOfChoice is a ''shield''. One moreover that she's supposed to be able to throw with CaptainAmerica-like skill.

** In "Carmen's Baptism of Fire" MAYHEM somehow fails to notice a hundreds-foot-tall robot approaching the place where they're fighting. That is, where they're fighting at human size.

The story is archived [[http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5514/scanranger.html here]].

** Although part of the MidSeasonUpgrade involves enabling their HumongousMecha to transport itself and its opponent to another dimension to avoid property damage in the first place.

* CosmicDeadline: Something of a literal and backwards example in ''Scanranger vs Jetman''. They have a matter of hours to find the pieces of a magic amulet to save the universe, but manage to do so and beat the bad guys with a couple hours to spare, leading to a moronic ending where the rangers spend those last couple hours hanging out with the other team. Some more, that is.

* TeamMom: The rangers seem to regard Alex as both a mentor and as something of a mother figure. She even tries to set Toni up with one of the guys on the team for a school dance and nobody calls her out on harassment. Seriously, what the hell?

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Inverted. In one episode Silver mocks ''StarshipTroopers'' for using those prehistoric weapons that shoot little metal projectiles instead of lasers.

** Words are often misspelled or used in the wrong context. Ascend instead of descend, sheathe instead of unsheathe, divulge instead of deduce, enable instead of cause, was instead of were...

* SkewedPriorities: ''From Here To Fraternity'' has one of the guest heroes chewing out the monster for bending innocent students to his will, which is bad enough, but his real crime is interrupting the guest hero's girlfriend's [[InTheNameOfTheMoon over-the-top introduction]]. They pile onto this with a "That'll teach you to interrupt my intro line!" after they destroy the monster.

** Hell, their ''school'' is practically one. Every students' individual needs are met, it's known as a places where a lot of cultures are blended, and the academic program is awesome. Unlike the awful school the author attended.

** The episode "Gangsta's Paradise Lost" is supposed to have themes relating to racism and how dark the entertainment industry has gotten. It's undermined some by the monster Vince came up with to exemplify these evils: a "gangsta" cyborg who raps, defeats the blue ranger by cussing at him, and has backup dancer {{Mooks}} who are, for extra menace-destroying points, dressed as women.

* {{OOC}}: The characters of ChoujinSentaiJetman are all but unrecognizable when they guest star. The most atrocious example is Gai becoming a spineless wimp who caves in when casino personnel gets in his face (watch the second episode to see how wrong this is), compares himself to Kenny G when picking up chicks, worries about getting in trouble with Chokan for skipping training, and freely admits to being a “selfish idiot."

** Hell, their ''school'' is treated as this awesome place where every students' individual needs are met, it's known as a places where a lot of cultures are blended, and the academic program is awesome. Unlike the awful school the author attended.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In one episode a VictimOfTheWeek seems more put off by the fact that his girlfriend's house was broken into by two-bit criminals than the space monsters running amok. Mind that this was only a little bit after [[MakeMyMonsterGrow the monsters gained the power to grow into giants]], at which point it probably should've seemed especially threatening.

* TheWorfEffect: When the Scanrangers get their new robot, Blockbuster, it fights the villains' HumongousMecha which up until that point had been invincible, and completely owns the fight. In the next episode it's getting thrown around by a MonsterOfTheWeek so Silverscanner can show off ''his'' awesome new robot powerup.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In one episode Silver mocks ''StarshipTroopers'' for using those prehistoric weapons that shoot little metal projectiles instead of lasers.

* ViewersAreMorons: Probably the most grating example is how whenever Jetman guest stars the narration '''constantly''' reminds us that the Japanese characters...'''speak Japanese'''.

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In one episode Silver mocks ''StarshipTroopers'' for using those prehistoric weapons that shoot little metal projectiles instead of lasers. This is at least consistent with the rest of the episode and some instances thereafter which show the rangers as being completely helpless if they find themselves without their powers and weapons, instead of a RockBeatsLaser scenario.

*** The thing about that example is the writer went the whole nine yards to make sure we didn't think [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Nick was sinking to their level]], because the Scanrangers kill the cyborg monsters, but the actual person who leads them is whacked by the regular villains for betraying them.

** The last survivor of a destroyed planet visits Nick and explains how the first [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Ranger]] group wiped out his people. Nick, a member of the only group in the universe (and apparently a couple others) that's had any success standing up to them, asks what it has to do with him.

* GenreBlindness: The Scanrangers show very little awareness of the conventions of Sentai. Surprising, what with the AscendedFanboy thing. This line from Scanranger vs Jetman says it all: "In super sentai shows, it's customary for the minions to attack the team first, and then the monster appears! How the heck could I forget that?!"

* GenreBlindness: The Scanrangers show very little awareness of the conventions of Sentai. Surprising, what with the AscendedFanboy thing.
* GodzillaThreshold: Interestingly, a remark by Arno Benedict (“Even your so-called nuclear arsenal cannot faze our lumbering robot!") implies when a giant monster’s on the loose, dropping the hammer is on the response list '''before''' calling in the task force equipped with giant combat robots or even the military. Thankfully even the world the Scanrangers live in isn’t that insane.