History Film / MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie

See also: ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie'', an in-continuity movie released two years later that sets up the premise of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', and see ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' for the ContinuityReboot.

** Higher Ground, the song that plays during the opening scene near the beginning of the movie, is the same song heard playing in the bowling alley at the start of the original Day of the Dumpster pilot.

* AdaptationNameChange: Tommy's [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull morpher call]] is changed from "Tigerzord" to "White Liger", as the Tigerzord does not appear in the movie.

* WhipItGood: Kimberly wields a "Pterodactyl Thunderwhip" during her battle against the Ooze Men. Devo provides the soundtrack to this scene.

* AdaptationNameChange: Tommy's [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull morpher call]] is changed from "Tigerzord" to "White Tiger".

* FanBoy: Lord Zedd of all people turns out to be a villainous example. He’s familiar with Ivan’s place in galactic history. So Zedd openly, even reverently, acknowledges it’s a supreme honor to finally meet the living (evil) legend.

* BareYourMidriff: Kimberly is stuck wearing a midriff baring skater's outfit when Zordon calls for them and she doesn't get a chance to change out of it. [[{{Fanservice}} Makes you wonder why...]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Ivan loses it when Scorpitron is destroyed and decides to battle the Rangers personally.

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Ivan Ooze takes control of the minds of Angel Grove's adults, who are then commanded to "leap to their doom" into a massive pit at the construction site. Fred rallies the kids to save the adults as the Rangers battle the Ecto-Morphicons. Fred later uses a high pressure water cannon to force the parents back, but it's not until Ooze's demise that his spell is broken and the adults are returned to normal.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: While destroying the Command Center, Ivan Ooze mentions several horrific things he missed out on while he was imprisoned: "The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition! ''Series/TheBradyBunch Reunion!''" That last one was a ThrowItIn by Paul Freeman, who was loved by everyone working on the project.

* MythologyGag: Rocky's street clothes in this movie are a modern version of his Red Ranger Sentai counterpart [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Geki]]'s outfit.

** Higher Ground, the song that plays during the rollerblading scene near the beginning of the movie, is the same song heard playing in the bowling alley at the start of the original Day of the Dumpster pilot.

** While fighting against the Ecto-Morphicons, Tommy says "All right, big guy! Lights out for you!" before he kills [[spoiler:Scorpitron]].

* PreMortemOneLiner: Ivan says "How about taking another quack at it?" before he disintegrates the Tengu Warriors for failing to kill the Rangers.

* FanBoy: Lord Zedd weirdly enough turns out to be a villanious example. He’s familiar with Ivan’s place in galactic history. So Zedd openly, even reverently, acknowledges it’s a supreme honor to finally meet the living (evil) legend.

* HiddenInPlainSight: Possibly. It’s not explicitly stated, but given Zedd’s been searching for Ivan’s prison for 2,000 years, a possible interpretation is this Zordon buried the Hyperlock Chamber on Earth as deliberate misdirection.

** The Rangers' more familiar weapons (Power Axe, Power Bow, Power Daggers, Power Lance, and Power Sword, as well as the Power Blaster) are all replaced by new ones such as the Pterodactyl Thunderwhip and the Stega Stinger. Subverted with Tommy though, who still has Saba.

* BythePowerofGrayskull: Like the original show, each Ranger calls out their respective Zord name to morph. A notable change is Tommy's morpher call being "White Tiger" in this movie instead of "Tigerzord" like in the show.

** Also Fred, who was plainly added for {{Kid Appeal|Character}}. Ivan Ooze and Dulcea weren't in the show either, but at least had explanations for why they were making their first (and only) appearances here. Fred was treated as someone who had always been part of the cast. He's really no different than any other Kid of the Week from the TV show, who the Rangers always treated like their best friend ever.
** Billy's [[GrapplingHookPistol Stega Stinger]] and Kimberly's [[WhipItGood Pteradactyl Thunder Whip]] were weapons created entirely for this movie.

* DamselInDistress: Kimberly gets into more trouble than usual.

* EliteMook: Ivan Ooze's Ooze Men are powerful and difficult enough to really hurt that the Power Rangers have to morph to beat them, while in the shows most mooks can be defeated without morphing.
** The Tengu Warriors are even tougher, and completely overpower the powerless Rangers. If Dulcea hadn't intervened, they would've killed the Rangers then and there.

* TriumphantReprise: At the end of the film, an orchestral reprise of Graeme Revell's "Great Power" motif plays twice [[spoiler:first when Ivan Ooze is destroyed by Orion's Comet and later when the Rangers use the Great Power to revive Zordon and rebuild the Command Center]].

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Compared to bears and falcons, a frog is lame indeed. Dulcea convinces Adam that HeartIsAnAwesomePower because frogs turn into handsome princes when kissed[[note]]Of course, when it came to being ninja accuracy, of the six, the frog is actually THE most accurate to ninja symbolism, thanks to Japanese classic literature forever linking ninjas and frogs and toads. It helps that in real life, frogs are the stealthiest of the six animals, thus Adam's motif has a case of HeartIsAnAwesomePower.[[/note]].

** More than one reviewer pointed out that Paul Freeman took some of his mannerisms from Creator/WCFields. This is especially noticeable in the Command Center scene.

* CallBack: When Kimberly finally boards her new Zord.

* AdaptedOut: Finster, Squatt, Baboo, and the Putties are neither seen nor mentioned in this film.

* FlatCharacter: The movie assumes you're already familiar with these characters and their roles from the TV show and so goes straight into the plot without character development. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Why are you watching this otherwise?]]