History Main / ThePsychoRangers

* The "Boso Sentai Zokuranger" from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', who went so far as to have their own version of the opening theme. Granted, they only resemble the Carrangers in color, as they consist of five Gorotsuki, led by the Bowzock's hero researcher, SS Pamaan. All of them except for the leader originally were background characters seen hanging out at the BadBuyBar. After SS Pamaan is killed the other four return to being minor characters and end up surviving to the end of the series. They became "Crash and the Creeps" in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''.

* The "Boso Sentai Zokuranger" from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', who went so far as to have their own version of the opening theme. Granted, they only resemble the Carrangers in color, as they consist of five Gorotsuki, led by the Bowzock's hero researcher, SS Pamaan. All of them except for the leader originally were background characters seen hanging out at the BadBuyBar. After SS Pamaan is killed they never fight the Carrangers again end up surviving to the end of the series. They became "Crash and the Creeps" in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''.

* The "Boso Sentai Zokuranger" from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', who went so far as to have their own version of the opening theme. Granted, they only resemble the Carrangers in color, as they consist of five Gorotsuki, led by the Bowzock's hero researcher, SS Pamaan. They became "Crash and the Creeps" in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1699387 The Coven of Reformed Supernaturals]]'' series opens by featuring the titular team coming together; [[Series/{{Angel}} Angel, Spike, Illyria]], [[Series/Charmed1998 Leo Wyatt, Cole Turner]], [[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]], [[Film/Hellboy2004 Hellboy]], [[Film/Constantine2005 John Constantine]] and [[ComicBook/BatmanVampire the vampire Batman]]. The second fic in the series sees [[Film/Spawn1997 Spawn]] replace Batman as the team face the Gathering of Supernatural Psychopaths, who were explicitly created to be a gathering of supernatural killers for no greater purpose than to kill a lot of people (really [[spoiler:to keep the Coven occupied while the Devil prepares the Apocalypse]]). The Gathering was led by Spawn's foe the Clown and included [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Drusilla]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/Hellraiser Pinhead]], the [[Film/SleepyHollow1999 Headless Horseman]], the [[Film/JeepersCreepers Creeper]], and [[Literature/It It]].

* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' features a group of ranger-like villains whose designs are inspired by heroes from older toku shows. They also fight the MonsterOfTheWeek but with the intent to kill them, unlike the rangers who want to save the monsters by returning them to human form in this season. Episode 18 introduced a new purple evil ranger called Don Murasame. It is not yet known if he will have the ability to turn into evil rangers from previous seasons.

* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' features the Mantrons, which are not Psycho Rangers to the Beetleborgs but rather to the Beetleborgs' allies, the Astralborgs.

* The "Ginga Sentai Gingaman" (not to be confused with the later heroic ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'') from ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' were the first truly recurring Evil Sentai within the franchise. They were evil space aliens who, at first, attempted to gain the trust of Earthlings by pretending to be heroes, but eventually they turned out to be villains. Unfortunately, they didn't fight the heroic Gingaman in ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''.
* ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has the Shadow Jetmen, who get stronger as the real Rangers get weaker. They disappear in the shadows. Fortunately, Gai (Black) is not present and remains fully powered.
* The first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' featured two evil counterparts to the original Rangers. The first time in "A Bad Reflection on You" (which was an adaptation of a ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' episode) featured putties which [[CostumeCopycat took on the Rangers' appearances in order to tarnish their reputation]]. The second time, in "Mighty Morphin Mutants" (which used so-called "Zyu2" footage and didn't happen in sentai), were straightforward evil counterparts to each of the Rangers (including the Green Ranger) and a MonsterOfTheWeek named Commander Crayfish, who served as a stand-in to the Red Ranger. Thanks to a certain GagDub by WebVideo/MyWayEntertainment, this second episode is well known for naming this group "Gangsta Crizzab and the Grayside Gang".
* The Dark Rangers from the second season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' only appeared in the two-part episode "Green No More" and were exclusive to ''Power Rangers''. They were classmates of the Power Rangers who were brainwashed to serve Lord Zedd, but they never actually fought their heroic counterparts since the costumes worn by the stuntmen, which were recolored Putty suits, were too delicate to withstand battle.
** In the comic adaptation, we got a proper battle, with the real Rangers in the Ninja Ranger suits from season three and the bad guys in the old MMPR suits.

* ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' had a monster suck the Rangers into a pocket dimension with bad Time Force Rangers. For the first time since the originals (which ''had'' to be identical to smear the real Rangers) we don't have any tells that let you know which is which.[[note]]The Mutant Rangers still had Putty hands and feet and their weapons looked like non-Rangerized versions of the Rangers' weapons, the Shadow Rangers had de-colorized helmets, the Psycho Rangers were all-new designs, and the Cyborg Rangers had visible remote control receivers.[[/note]] They also lived up to being every bit as strong as the originals for once. They had to break the MonsterOfTheWeek's pocket dimension to get away from them. For all we know, evil Time Force Rangers still wander some forgotten zone of reality.

* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' had another pocket-dimension-with-bad-Rangers thing. They could be told from the real deal by the neck of the suits being black instead of white.

** The original ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' had Deathryuger, a sadistic Deboss Knight who long ago had corrupted a Zyudenchi to become an evil Kyoryuger and is the main antagonist the ''[[Film/ZyudenSentaiKyoryugerGaburinchoOfMusic Gaburincho of Music]]'' film [[spoiler:and the epilogue movie]].

** The villains later create a second EvilKnockoff of Zenkaizer called Hakaizer whose design is an homage to ''Series/NinjaCaptor'' (a series related to but not quite part of the Sentai franchise) and who wields a gun that also allows him to summon copies of past rangers, although instead of summoning teams of rangers it summons groups of rangers with a similar theme.

* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' features a group of ranger-like villains whose designs are inspired by heroes from older toku shows. They also fight the MonsterOfTheWeek but with the intent to kill them, unlike the rangers who want to save the monsters by returning them to human form in this season. Episode 18 will also introduce a new purple evil ranger called Don Murasame. It is not yet known if he will have the ability to turn into evil rangers from previous seasons.

* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' features a group of ranger-like villains whose designs are inspired by heroes from older toku shows. They also fight the MonsterOfTheWeek but with the intent to kill them, unlike the rangers who want to save the monsters by returning them to human form in this season.

** Speaking of Abaranger, the trope was {{invoked|Trope}} and {{parodied|Trope}} with the Renaissance Trinoid Jamei Sentai Evoranger, three [[MonsterOfTheWeek Trinoids]] given red, blue, and yellow scarves. As soon as they started singing their own theme song, Abarekiller showed up and quickly defeated them before they could possibly challenge the Abarangers.

* In ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'', the five Beastnoids (a recurring group of human-sized monsters that fought the Bioman team in lieu of a traditional MonsterOfTheWeek) acted as an evil counterpart to the team, as they were the recurring antagonists of the series in lieu of the traditional {{monster of the week}} format. Bioman also had a brainwashed evil sixth ranger called Magne Senshi for only one episode who didn't keep his powers after being freed from the villain's control.

* The first straight example would be the Deathdark-V from episode 45 of ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'', who were a group of {{Mooks}} turned into copies of the heroic Goggle V by an appearance mimicking MonsterOfTheWeek. To denote their status as an evil team, they each wield black versions of their respective Goggle V member's WeaponOfChoice and their SuperSentaiStance is then pointing their arms downward, in an inverse of the Goggle V's upward "V" pose.

* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' features a group of ranger-like villains whose designs are inspired by heroes from some of Toei's older toku shows. They also fight the MonsterOfTheWeek but with the intent to kill them, unlike the rangers who want to save the monsters by returning them to human form in this season.

* ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'' has Stacey, the series' answer to Basco. He wields the Geartozinger, a purple copy of the Geartlinger the heroes use to morph, which can summon past Sentai teams as well as their mechs, and allows himself to morph into Stacaesar, a purple EvilCounterpart to TheLeader Zenkaiser.

* The first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' featured two evil counterparts to the original Rangers. The first time in "A Bad Reflection on You" (which was an adaptation of a ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' episode) featured putties which [[CostumeCopycat took on the Rangers' appearances in order to tarnish their reputation]]. The second time, in "Mighty Morphin Mutants" (which used so-called "[[FanNickname Zyu2]]" footage and didn't happen in sentai), were straightforward evil counterparts to each of the Rangers (including the Green Ranger) and a MonsterOfTheWeek named Commander Crayfish, who served as a stand-in to the Red Ranger. Thanks to a certain GagDub by WebVideo/MyWayEntertainment, this second episode is well known for naming this group "Gangsta Crizzab and the Grayside Gang".

* The Hana Kunoichi Gumi (the "Flower Kunoichi Gang", aka the [[FanNickname Hanarangers]]) from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' were an all-female gang of ninjas who were actually stray cats that were transformed into women by Gasha Skull (Rito Revolto's Japanese counterpart). Unlike other evil ''Sentai'' teams, their colors were different from the good team (except for blue) and they were all female. You also almost never got a five-on-five battle.

* In the LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya novels, the whole SOS Brigade is diametrically opposed by [[FanNickname the Anti-SOS brigade]], a team consisting of a time traveler, an alien humanoid-interface, an esper, and a depowered version [[WildMassGuessing of whatever Haruhi is]]. Ironically, Mikuru's opposite more closely resembles an EvilCounterpart to Itsuki (something Kyon even comments on), while Itsuki's opposite would be more suited as an EvilCounterpart to Mikuru. Pointedly, the only thing missing is a Kyon-counterpart. The Anti-SOS make several attempts to recruit Kyon, instead, believing him critical to their plans and fueling a great deal of WildMassGuessing. However, this trope is ultimately subverted, in that the Anti-SOS Brigade are not in any sense a coherent group, and its members do not actually care about each other at all, as shown by the fact that there are four of them but are split into at least three factions. In fact, [[spoiler:Sasaki disagrees completely with what the other three want, so much so that she tries to help Kyon oppose the others.]]

* In ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'', the five Beastnoids (a recurring group of human-sized monsters that fought the Bioman team in lieu of a traditional MonsterOfTheWeek) acted as an evil counterpart in TheMovie. Bioman also had a brainwashed evil sixth ranger called Magne Senshi for only one episode who didn't keep his powers after being freed from the villain's control.

* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/89379/vengeance-of-dawn Vengeance of Dawn]] has Breaking Dawn (a disgruntled, jealous former student of Celestia who isn't so different from Twilight) and her friends. They are Laurel, (generous like Rarity, but unlike her is homely and poor) Razor Wind, (fast and loyal like Rainbow Dash) Cherry Blossom, (kind and shy like Fluttershy) Hard Candy, (zany and silly like Pinkie Pie, also a Minty {{Expy}}) and Hardy Bloom. (honest and straightforward like Applejack)

* The Knights of the Round become this when given Galra enhanced Knightmare Frames to better combat the Lions in ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron''. Due to Nonette’s defection, [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Shin Hyūga Shaing]], is brought in to replace her as the Knights’ seventh member.

* [[spoiler:The Axem Rangers X]] in Part 2 of ''Fanfic/ClashOfTheElements''.

* In ''Fanfic/MyLittleAvengers'', [[BigBad Loki]] eventually assembles a team of Dark Avengers to combat Thor's Avenger team, selecting ponies whose powers make them {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the heroes, with Loki himself serving as Thor's counterpart. The only standout is Loki's [[TheDragon apprentice]] Trixie, who has no counterpart among the main characters -- though this admittedly becomes a moot point by the FinalBattle, as [[spoiler:by then, Trixie's failed an attempt to double-cross Loki and has fled for her life]], and in any case, all the Avengers (except for Thor, who still takes on Loki) [[OpponentSwitch swap opponents]] in order to get an advantage.
%% * A rather interesting case in ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy''. The Akutare brothers, managers of the Sunday Scent Shop, oppose the girls in episodes 16 and 17... But the girls are five, so neither Ayameko nor Hanae have counterparts.
* ''Fanfic/ShiningPrettyCure'' and ''Fanfic/PrettyCureFullColor'' play this more straightly, with the main villains being an equally element-oriented team of [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]].

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has this pop up near the end of [[BadFuture Dark World]]: [[spoiler:Nightmare Paradox has fused with five other Nightmares from [[GroundhogDayLoop previous cycles]], the six of them forming one of these to the heroes. However, only two of them are the actual SuperpoweredEvilSide of their counterpart, due to the Elements having changed hooves: (Nightmare Mirror to [[WarriorTherapist Rarity]], [[MonsterClown Nightmare Granfalloon]] to [[CheerfulChild Apple Pie]], [[LotusEaterMachine Nightmare Whisper]] to [[MasterOfIllusion Applejack]], [[KnightTemplar Nightmare Banneret]] to [[UndyingLoyalty Spike]], [[ControlFreak Nightmare Manacle]] to [[MamaBear Derpy]], and of course, [[BigBad Nightmare Paradox]] herself to [[TheHero Twilight]])]].

* ''Series/UchuuSentaiKyuranger'' had Jark Sentai Goindaver - unlike other examples, however, they are {{joke character}}s, who the heroes almost were able to beat without transforming[[note]]it's not because the Goindavers ended up getting a second wind, but rather, the fact that they can't perform finishing moves untransformed[[/note]] - and mind you, they aren't taken down by all 12 Kyurangers working together; only 5 (kind of 6[[note]]Shou was disabled due to back injuries[[/note]]) fought them. They were so weak because they were just four different colored common {{Mooks}} and one uniquely colored Mook, none of whom where stronger than normal. In a later episode, the MonsterOfTheWeek captures four of the rangers and transforms four indavers into duplicates of them who pretend they are the real rangers being controlled, but Shou sees through the deception and sets the real rangers free by pretending to surrender.

** Gunn gets Lacey Shepherd, a mysterious afroamerican woman who just-as-mysteriously vanishes.
** Fred's tourguide is Knox, a morally ambiguous geeky scientist and the only one to become a recurring character in Season 5. [[spoiler:He worships an EldritchAbomination and will eventually cause her death]].

** TheBigBad: [[spoiler:Or rather the BigBadWannabe for]] John Kreese, being the original sensei of the dojo by the start of Season 4, and puts himself into the position as Silver's captain.