History Fridge / MightyMorphinPowerRangers

* In "Island of Illusion" all the rangers face their biggest fears. When it's Tommy's turn, he sees the other rangers as putties and attacks them. The first time you see this, you might think that this means he's afraid of putties, but what he's actually afraid of is hurting his friends, the thing the vision is making him do.

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* In Season 1's "Different Drum," the monster's plan is to lure the Rangers in by kidnapping children and then using his music to brainwash the Rangers. So why does he spend time attacking them as opposed to playing his accordion for them the minute they arrive?
* In Season 1’s "A Bad Reflection on You," when news gets out that the Rangers have turned bad, Bulk and Skull cheer them on, which gets them a DeathGlare from the real Rangers. Looking at it from an In-Universe civilian’s point of view, you realize they not only deliver it because they ARE the real Rangers, but because of how disgusted they are that these two buffoons would cheer their city’s beloved protectors turning bad.
* In Season 2's "Wild West Rangers", Goldar, Needlenose, a set of Putties, and Kimberly all go back in time to Angel Grove in the 1800s, and yet it has not only no apparent consequence to history, but Zordon displays knowledge of the trip once Kimberly returns to the present. Setting up a StableTimeLoop, anyone?
* Kind of borderline FridgeHorror, in Season 1's "The Crystal Of Nightmares", dreams of reliving monster battles and weird dreams of Zordon being disappointed in them are treated as exceptionally rare and uncommon dreams. Wouldn't the Rangers constantly have nightmares of monster battles, and wouldn't those eventually take their toll? I know Trini has a dream of her doll becoming a monster, Kimberly dreamt Rita was her stepmother and later on dreamt that her mom's fiance turned into a monster (Kimberly even reassured Zordon she's not afraid of the monster despite its origin), and later in Zeo, Tommy and Adam both had dreams involving King Mondo's monsters. So why were the Rangers so freaked out over something they should have by then been dreaming about so much? Could the crystal have powers beyond just causing bad dreams? Possibly it affected them psychologically with the dreams just planting something in their heads to have something for their fearful minds to play back on loop to really make it stick.

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* The Rangers from Aquitar received their powers from Ninjor and used the footage from Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger. That means they were [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Alien Ninjas!]]. No. [[UpToEleven Alien Ninja Power Rangers!!!!]]

* One of the rules of being a Ranger is that you can't reveal your identity to anyone, not even loved ones. So everytime the Rangers are battling monsters, especially big monsters, [[AdultFear their families have no idea where they are amid the chaos]].

* Kind of borderline FridgeHorror, in Season 1's "The Crystal Of Nightmares", dreams of reliving monster battles and weird dreams of Zordon being disappointed in them are treated as exceptionally rare and uncommon dreams. Wouldn't the Rangers constantly have nightmares of monster battles, and wouldn't those eventually take their toll? I know Trini has a dream of her doll becoming a monster, Kimberly dreamt Rita was her stepmother and later on dreamt that her mom's fiance turned into a monster (Kimberly even reassured Zordon she's not afraid of the monster despite its origin), and later in Zeo, Tommy and Adam both had dreams involving King Mondo's monsters. So why were the Rangers so freaked out over something they should have by then been dreaming about so much? Could the crystal have powers beyond just causing bad dreams? Possibly it affected them psychologically with the dreams just planting something in their heads to have something for their fearful minds to play back on loop to really make it stick.

* People have pointed out two supposed plotholes in "Missing Green." 1. Zedd's candles don't make sense because the Rangers would need to have touched the magic wax the candles were made from. 2. If Zedd could do this, why didn't he create a candle for Jason? What they overlooked was that Zedd captured the other four, meaning he could have forced them to touch the wax. He didn't make a candle for Jason because he didn't have Jason prisoner and thus couldn't force him to touch the wax.
** Also, he wanted to make Jason [[KickTheDog feel even worse by having the Rangers lose their powers]] like Tommy.

* It just hit me exactly WHY Tommy made such a good "White" Ranger for most American audiences. White stands for "purity" and "goodness", which would make it far too easy for someone to go the fanatic route and take on a "kill them all" persona in regards to the people of Angel Grove for not being perfect, but in a sense, Tommy's already been down that route with Rita and the "Green with Evil" arc when he was her fanatical Ranger. So he KNOWS the danger, and knows to stay away from it.

** This is only an issue if you ignore the later seasons since it's eventually established that dragons actually existed in ancient times so the dragonzord fit in just fine right from the beginning.

** This makes a surprising amount of sense, considering that the ninja powers came from space (in both the movie and MMPR S3), and ninja were rumoured to have superhuman power in their hey-day. Conclusion? The ninja came from outer space!
** Also, ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' involves a team of Ninja Rangers fighting aliens.

** Speaking of, the issue of Serpentera needing a massive amount of energy to function seems like an oversight on Zedd's part. But, when you think about it, it's brilliance on Zordon's part. It's implied that Zedd obtained Serpentera as a "trophy" of sorts for defeating Zordon in a battle. Zordon, of course, knew of Serpentera's destructive capabilities and conveniently neglected to tell Zedd to equip it with a long-lasting power source. Because of this, Zedd ends up with something that could wipe out his adversaries with ease but doesn't due to it wearing out so quickly.
*** Likewise, why doesn't Serpentera just have a long-lasting power source in the first place? Well, remember how it was mentioned above that it's a war Zord? It makes sense that Serpentera simply wasn't used that often to begin with and nobody ever bothered to upgrade it with better batteries.
** Also, Serpentera is a stolen zord, meaning it was likely originally connected to the Morphing Grid until Zedd got it, and thus it's possible a power supply sufficient to power it without that connection isn't easy to come by.

** Likewise, the very thought that Serpentera once belonged to Zordon. Exactly why would he need something of that much destructive power? What evil could've been so dangerous that it required the creation of a robot capable of destroying entire planets?
*** Probably [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Dark Specter]], since it took ''two'' planet busting weapons to finally kill him.

* Zedd destroys the Dinozords by plunging them into molten lava... why did this work when two of the Zords ''rise out of lava when summoned?''
** Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they were actually destroyed (otherwise they'd've had nothing to make the Thunderzords from later). I thought the point was to encase them in the Earth, like Rita did with Titanus before that.
** Zedd actually states what he did differently than Rita: he stripped the Zords of their power before dropping them in. Presumably the Zords can normally survive molten lava, but Zedd stripped them of any protection they had. As for why he doesn't do this again: the Thunderzords are explicitly more powerful than the old ones, so it's likely Zedd simply isn't powerful enough to do the same to them. Another factor is thanks to Pirantishead, the Zords were active for ''far'' longer than they ever had been previously, so it's likely they were in a much more weakened state than ever.
* Here's another one regarding the Dinozords: if Zordon and Alpha upgraded Titanus with Ninjazord tech, why couldn't they salvage the Thunder Megazord, restore it to it's original form, and upgrade it and the Dragonzord as well? Then they'd have ''two'' enhanced Megazords, or an Ultrazord and an enhanced Megazord, to throw at their enemies.
** The Thunderzords were ''destroyed''. There's no way of knowing if Zordon (at that point) knew how to repair zords that had been that thoroughly trashed. Titanus on the other hand, had been in perfect working order, just sitting around doing nothing. Besides, with the original Dino Coins broken, the Thunderzords had no power source. Titanus appeared to have its own power source.
*** That seems like a stretch considering that the Thunderzords were formed by reshaping the Dinozords on a molecular level. And since ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' is the follow up to ''MMPR'', that means Zordon had that holding bay for the Zeo Zords, including the repair equipment, this whole time. Not to mention that whenever the Dinozords got damaged, they just needed to recharge and they were fine. Also, the rangers got the Shogunzords switched to the new coins pretty easily, so the older zords could've been switched over as well.
** Fridge brilliance solving two problems: Ninja and Shogun Ultrazord sported Dragonzord's shield on Titanus with no explanation. When Alpha upgraded Titanus, he salvaged Dragonzord for it!

* One of Zordon's rules for being a Ranger is not to escalate a fight (i.e., summon a Zord) unless Rita forces them to (i.e., making a monster gigantic). An early episode, "Big Sisters,' has the Rangers form the Megazord in order to save a little girl from Rita before she even considers making her monster grow. [[FriendToAllChildren So, don't kidnap kids in Angel Grove.]]
** This also happened in the ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' movie when the Mythical Chi Beast RyuseiOh showed up to prevent the Duke of Trumps from burning the cards he turned kids into and he didn't even turn giant yet.

* In "Always a Chance," it seemed as though Adam was seriously considering using his broken Power Morpher even before Carlos was in trouble, and his reassuring Alpha that it was "just a thought" sounded very much like a lie. On top of this, his apparent desire to be a Ranger again doesn't make a lot of sense if he and the other original Turbo Rangers really gave up their powers in order to "move on with their lives." However, it does makes a lot of sense if the Millennium Message was the real reason they gave their powers to T.J. and company. Adam was a shy kid who suddenly became a superhero; this must have been like a dream come true for him. Then, a few years later, he had to give up his powers BecauseDestinySaysSo. Thus, he risks serious injury in order to become a hero again.