History NightmareFuel / PowerRangers

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[[caption-width-right:223:Mesogog. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome]] to some, [[NightmareFuel scary]] to others.]]

** So picture this. The Rangers have lost the Power Chamber. Divatox has her troops scouring the wreckage looking for them. Eltar, the source of their powers, has fallen. And, in the midst of this, a messenger arrives, calling Divatox away. And when Divatox - who is mid-victory celebration and savoring every second of it and plans on paradig the Rangers’ heads on pikes by the time she’s done - hears the name “Dark Specter,” she is freaked out and drops everything to obey. Sure, in the final analysis, Dark Specter was a lot of hype for little payoff, but the way that he is established in this universe has a level of terror all its own.

* Trakeena's evolution from whiny daughter of the main villain, to competent warrior, and eventually BigBad, to utterly deranged madwoman over the course of ''Lost Galaxy'' was impressive character development, but by the end, she was known to do things like turn her {{Mooks}} - and not [[MechaMooks robotic ones]] - into suicide bombers. [[AdultFear This is perhaps scarier to parents, more familiar with the newspapers, than kids.]]

*** Mack's breakdown in following episodes, too. The way he kept putting himself in harm's way and declaring himself expendable, deliberately pushing the Megazord (piloting it solo this time) toward overload so it would explode in a TakingYouWithMe moment, and again in the final battle deliberately overclocking his armor (the Sentinel Knight, Zordon-like ancient warrior/sage, shouting for him to stop - it means a lot coming from ''him,'' since it had appeared much earlier in the series that to him the Rangers were just a means to an end) it was clear [[DeathSeeker what he was trying to do]]. Apparently even if you can NeverSayDie, you can have the main hero become outright, explicitly suicidal. (Like the Stingwingers basically being made into suicide bombing terrorists, this is another from the AdultFear column - a teenager being DrivenToSuicide by an identity crisis his father can do little to help him with.)

* Kamdor is a pretty creepy to the point that even Flurious (read: the BigBad and FinalBoss) is scared of him . Hos final plan involves making an asteroid crash on earth, tricking TheDragon in a barely sentient demonic bird and trapping inside the she freed him for after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she outlived her usefulness]].

* ''Ninja Storm'' has Motodrone suffer melting at the hands of Vexacus. Forget a SwordSparks-inducing strike followed by DefeatEqualsExplosion or DisappearsIntoLights - we watch him incinerated by a stream of flame. His half-slagged body is seen in a rare exception to PR's EverythingFades tendency. Vexacus quips that he was "[[BondOneLiner having a little meltdown]]".

*** Trakeena feels confident seeing the destruction her suicide bombers have caused and orders Villamax to them into the heart of Terra Venture, Villamax responds that she doesn't '''have''' an army left. Using the Stingwingers as suicide bombers has completely depleted their ranks. In response, Trakeena says she doesn't need an army and will shoot down the shuttles herself, just like she destroyed her own Stingwingers.

* The time Tommy mysteriously disappeared in ''Power Rangers Zeo''. He was taken by prince Gaskett and basically mind-raped and brainwashed to once again become an enemy of the Power Rangers, this time by making him think the Power Rangers were evil, making him the Machine Empire was good, essentially making Tommy become their king. While Tommy had been brainwashed before, this time it was much more graphic and drawn-out, complete with a machine over his (still helmeted) head, a dark chamber with a single light over the chair he was restrained on, while he was making sounds which clearly indicate pain. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMq9_RhPS4 here]].

* The time Tommy mysteriously disappeared in ''Power Rangers Zeo''. He was taken by prince Gaskett and basically mind-raped and brainwashed to once again become an enemy of the Power Rangers, this time by making him think the Power Rangers were evil, the Machine Empire was good, essentially becoming their king. While Tommy had been brainwashed before, this time it was much more graphic and drawn-out, complete with a machine over his (still helmeted) head, a dark chamber with a single light over the chair he was restrained on, while he was making sounds which clearly indicate pain. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMq9_RhPS4 here]].

* The time Tommy was kidnapped from the Power Chamber in ''Power Rangers Zeo''. He was taken by prince Gaskett and basically mind-raped and brainwashed to think the Power Rangers were evil. While Tommy had been brainwashed before, this time it was much more graphic and drawn-out, complete with a machine over his (still helmeted) head, a dark chamber with a single light over the chair he was restrained on, while he was making sounds which clearly indicate pain. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMq9_RhPS4 here]].

* Prince Vekar's [[spoiler: FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce.'' Unlike most villains, [[spoiler: he left a corpse, and a burnt one at that]].
* Vrak's MoralEventHorizon in the ''Vrak is Back'' two-parter. He [[spoiler: brainwashes Robo Knight and turns him against the Rangers]], he kidnaps Orion and painfully drains him of his life-force to aid him in his goal, and used his monsters as pawns to enable to activate three Earth-destroying drills. Robo Knight has to die to reverse it.

[[folder:Power Rangers Mystic Force]]
* In the final arc of ''Mystic Force'', the Master has been incubating in the body of one of his followers, who has had a change of heart and intends to spend eternity in the "sleeping lake" to prevent his return. (That's worrying enough - sleeping forever, neither alive nor dead, to keep the EldritchAbomination inside of you dormant.) Just when it looks like he's about to succeed, he's prevented from reaching the lake by another villain. The Rangers, and the audience, are treated to the sight of the Master's hatching from him: parts of his body swell before tentacles burst out of him from within, causing bluish ichor to fly. Finally, his body bursts apart and falls about the Master's heretofore-unseen true form like an empty sack. Then, the Master promptly subjects one of the heroes to MindRape, making him experience his own death at the Master's hands/tentacles. That scene was in [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger its source series]] as well.
** The Master's overall appearance when he is revealed. Put simply, he looks like a combination of [[ComicBook Carnage]] and Cthulhu. And that hideous skull-face. It's a wonder how the producers decide to put him in a kid's show, no less.
* The time the Rangers lost their magic and the forces of darkness have taken over everything. The place is a dark, monochrome hellscape where fear and despair run rampant, the people live on in fear and hatred of magic, and the Rangers are aware of what has happened. Note that this is an alternate reality created by Imperious when he made a wish that the Rangers never existed. Worse yet, they don't have their powers, which means they cannot stop the forces of darkness from growing.
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[[folder:Power Rangers Wild Force]]
* Wild Force gives us one of the nastiest pieces of work in the franchise in the form of Dr. Viktor Adler/ Master Org. To elaborate: Dr. Viktor Adler was once a respected scientist who worked with Cole's parents Richard and Elizabeth Evans and secretly had a crush on Elizabeth, but after Cole's father proposed to her and took the spotlight during the press conference on their research, Adler became driven by jealousy and sought revenge against them. So what did he do? He took seed of the original Master Org, become an Org himself and proceeded to kill Cole's parents and would have killed Cole(who was just an infant, by the way) if he had found him. What makes him even worse is that he is the first ''human'' villain who actually ''chose'' to become evil, all other human villains before were either brainwashed and didn't have control over their actions or had sympathethic qualities(like Ransik). He willingly became the second Master Org so that he could murder two innocent people who saw him as a friend and meant him no harm in the first place(They didn't knew that Adler had a crush on Elizabeth and Richard even encouraged him to speak during the press conference), out of a petty grudge, while claiming that it was his rightful revenge. All these things make him one of the most vile, malevolent villains in Power Rangers universe, with only a handful of villains matching him in terms of evil.
* Cole's parents' FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, as shown in flashbacks in ''Wild Force'' was something that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar shouldn't have gotten past the censors]]. Saying "kill" just won't fly, but having vines assault and grow through the bodies of two terrified humans is hunky-dory so long as no actual blood is shown. Allegedly, writers told Fox standards and practices the parents were going to come back just fine - rumor has it that had it not gotten past the radar, Toxica and Jindrax would have turned out to be the parents (though that doesn't jibe with them having known the original Master Org from 3,000 years ago and ''immediately'' suspected something wasn't right about the current one, so don't quote us on this one.) The show was in the middle of transferring to Disney's control, and standards and practices folks there did not see earlier episodes and merely assumed they were dead the whole time.
* In ''Wild Force'', Toxica was tricked into cutting off her horn, which weakened her to the point of being unable to stand up. Soon after, Mandilok avoided a shot from the Jungle Blaster by using her as a human shield. She disappeared in a cloud of gold glitter and died, despite being the only human-looking org in the season. Mandilok carelessly taunted Toxica as she died screaming in agony.
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** The Master's overall appearance when he is revealed. Put simply, he looks like a combination of [[ComicBook Carnage]] and Cthulhu. And that hideous skull-face. It's a wonder how the producers decide to put him in a kid's show, no less.

* In the final arc of ''Mystic Force'', the Master has been incubating in the body of one of his followers, who has had a change of heart and intends to spend eternity in the "sleeping lake" to prevent his return. (That's worrying enough - sleeping forever, neither alive nor dead, to keep the EldritchAbomination inside of you dormant.) Just when it looks like he's about to succeed, he's prevented from reaching the lake by another villain. The Rangers, and the audience, are treated to the sight of the Master's hatching from him: parts of his body swell before tentacles burst out of him from within, causing bluish ichor to fly. Finally, his body bursts apart and falls about the Master's heretofore-unseen true form like an empty sack. Then, the Master promptly subjects one of the heroes to MindRape, making him experience his own death at the Master's hands/tentacles. That scene was in [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger its source series]] as well.

* In the finale of '' lightspeed rescue'' queen bansheera attempts to unleash literal hell on earth by creating a portal that will let a horde of demons through, carter however kicks her into the portal, but she manages to pull him in, despite realizing he will suffer a fate worse than death if he gets trapped there, he still tells his friends to close the portal with him inside.

* ''NightmareFuel/PowerRangersWildForce''

[[caption-width-right:223:Mesogog. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]] to some, [[NightmareFuel scary]] to others.]]

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* Trakeena's mutated form, with the sludge she leaves behind and those eyes. The first scene of this form is terrifying, with the [[BodyHorror initial transformation]] and the fact that the form is barely seen in the first few minutes.

*** Mack's breakdown in following episodes, too. The way he kept putting himself in harm's way and declaring himself expendable, deliberately pushing the Megazord (piloting it solo this time) toward overload so it would explode in a TakingYouWithMe moment, and again in the final battle deliberately overclocking his armor (the Sentinel Knight, Zordon-like ancient warrior/sage, shouting for him to stop, even after it had appeared much earlier in the series that to him the Rangers were just a means to an end) it was clear [[DeathSeeker what he was trying to do]]. Apparently even if you can NeverSayDie, you can have the main hero become outright, explicitly suicidal. (Like the Stingwingers basically being made into suicide bombing terrorists, this is another from the AdultFear column - a teenager being DrivenToSuicide by an identity crisis his father can do little to help him with.)

* ''Samurai'' has some of the MonsterOfTheWeek powers. Because the villains need to increase the sorrow in the world to weaken their seal, some of the things they will do to you can become ''outright torturous.'' How about, you're body-switched with inanimate objects so you can suffer AndIMustScream followed by terror when those objects are destroyed? Or, you're made to feel like you're starving to death but the more you eat it only gets ''worse?'' Bug-things that force their way into your body through your mouth and cause you unbearable agony while they're in?

* ''Lost Galaxy'' had one episode featuring an Elvis-like lobster thing that after drinking a potion became a much more dangerous, and more monstrous, creature. He was called Radster, from the first episode. He proceeded to smack-talk with the Red Lion zord, then got blown up.
* Trakeena's evolution from whiny daughter of the main villain, to competent warrior, and eventually BigBad, to utterly deranged madwoman over the course of ''Lost Galaxy'' was impressive character development, but by the end, she was known to do things like turn her {{Mooks}} - and not [[MechaMooks robotic ones]] - into suicide bombers. [[AdultFear This is perhaps scarier to parents, more familiar with the newspapers, than kids.]] Her armor in her final form was surprisingly creepy too, thanks to the eyes.

** Vrak's MoralEventHorizon in the ''Vrak is Back'' two-parter. He [[spoiler: brainwashes Robo Knight and turns him against the Rangers]], he kidnaps Orion and painfully drains him of his life-force to aid him in his goal, and used his monsters as pawns to enable to activate three Earth-destroying drills. Robo Knight has to die to reverse it.

* The episode of ''Power Rangers Turbo'' where the rangers got shrunk, although large amount of it was played for comedy (the rangers got trapped in Divatox's closet at one point).

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCuJNVBecU&feature=related This ad]] for Power Rangers toys appeared in the beginning of some MMPR tapes. Aside from the prospect of Megazord crashing through the wall, viewers saw it coming at them from head-on.
* ''Lost Galaxy'' had one episode featuring an Elvis-like lobster thing that after drinking a potion became a much more dangerous, and more monstrous, creature. He was called Radster, from the first episode. He proceeded to smack-talk with the Red Lion zord, then got blown up.
* Trakeena's evolution from whiny daughter of the main villain, to competent warrior, and eventually BigBad, to utterly deranged madwoman over the course of ''Lost Galaxy'' was impressive character development, but by the end, she was known to do things like turn her {{Mooks}} - and not [[MechaMooks robotic ones]] - into suicide bombers. [[AdultFear This is perhaps scarier to parents, more familiar with the newspapers, than kids.]] Her armor in her final form was surprisingly creepy too, thanks to the eyes.
* The arc of ''Lightspeed Rescue'' in which Ryan gets a cursed "tattoo" burned into his back by the BigBad, and whenever he morphs the tattoo moves up his body even more, until it reaches his neck, at which point it will kill him. The tattoo moved during a NightmareSequence, too.
* Possibly even worse than that is Queen Bansheera absorbing Vypra to regain her full power.
* Frax's death in ''Time Force'' was a DiesWideOpen involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the Big Bad.
** Wild Force gives us one of the nastiest pieces of work in the franchise in the form of Dr. Viktor Adler/ Master Org. To elaborate: Dr. Viktor Adler was once a respected scientist who worked with Cole's parents Richard and Elizabeth Evans and secretly had a crush on Elizabeth, but after Cole's father proposed to her and took the spotlight during the press conference on their research, Adler became driven by jealousy and sought revenge against them. So what did he do? He took seed of the original Master Org, become an Org himself and proceeded to kill Cole's parents and would have killed Cole(who was just an infant, by the way) if he had found him. What makes him even worse is that he is the first ''human'' villain who actually ''chose'' to become evil, all other human villains before were either brainwashed and didn't have control over their actions or had sympathethic qualities(like Ransik). He willingly became the second Master Org so that he could murder two innocent people who saw him as a friend and meant him no harm in the first place(They didn't knew that Adler had a crush on Elizabeth and Richard even encouraged him to speak during the press conference), out of a petty grudge, while claiming that it was his rightful revenge. All these things make him one of the most vile, malevolent villains in Power Rangers universe, with only few villains matching him in terms of evil.
* The time Tommy was kidnapped from the Power Chamber in ''Power Rangers Zeo''. He was taken by prince Gaskett and basically mind-raped and brainwashed to think the Power Rangers were evil. While Tommy had been brainwashed before, this time it was much more graphic and drawn-out, complete with a machine over his (still helmeted) head, a dark chamber with a single light over the chair he was restrained on, while he was making sounds which clearly indicate pain. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMq9_RhPS4 here]].

* Ransik, the BigBad of ''Time Force'', has what looks like the ability to pull bones from his body and turn them into swords. In the ''Wild Force''/''Time Force'' team-up "Reinforcements From The Future" we see exactly how he got the ability to do that: he frees the life essences of three fossilized Orgs, who literally jump down his throat and copy his DNA to create their new bodies. There's also the horrific disfigurement of his face and the liquid-mercury boils that erupt from his body when his disease flares up. During the SeasonFinale for Time Force, he takes out all the Rangers by simply punching them [[spoiler: before pulling a HeelFaceTurn, which is the only thing that spared the rangers]].
* ''Ninja Storm'' has Motodrone suffer melting at the hands of Vexacus. Forget a SwordSparks-inducing strike followed by DefeatEqualsExplosion or DisappearsIntoLights - we watch him incinerated by a stream of flame. His half-slagged body is seen in a rare exception to PR's EverythingFades tendency. Vexacus quips that he was "[[BondOneLiner having a little meltdown]]".
* In the final arc of ''Mystic Force'', the Master has been incubating in the body of one of his followers, who has had a change of heart and intends to spend eternity in the "sleeping lake" to prevent his return. (That's worrying enough - sleeping forever, neither alive nor dead, to keep the EldritchAbomination inside of you dormant.) Just when it looks like he's about to succeed, he's prevented from reaching the lake by another villain. The Rangers, and the audience, are treated to the sight of the Master's hatching from him: parts of his body swell before tentacles burst out of him from within, causing bluish ichor to fly. Finally, his body bursts apart and falls about the Master's heretofore-unseen true form like an empty sack. Then, the Master promptly subjects one of the heroes to MindRape, making him experience his own death at the Master's hands/tentacles. That scene was in [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger its source series]] as well.
* One of ''Overdrive''[='s=] main villains enhances some monsters by reaching into their chests and leaving devices inside that revive them as cyborgs; those monsters were typically defeated and unconscious at the time. Even though beaten ''Rangers'' monsters usually don't leave behind a body, it's still not too much of a jump to think that the villain is reviving a monster corpse, although the [[{{Mooks}} Chillers]] he tried it on were still standing; on the other hand, foot soldiers can't take the upgrade as they start twitching, then their customary babbling noises get louder and faster... and then they burst apart, becoming an indoor mini-snowstorm.

* ''Samurai'' has some of the MonsterOfTheWeek powers. Because the villains need to increase the sorrow in the world to weaken their seal, some of the things they will do to you can become ''outright torturous.'' How about, you're body-switched with inanimate objects so you can suffer AndIMustScream followed by terror when those objects are destroyed? Or, you're made to feel like you're starving to death but the more you eat it only gets ''worse?'' Bug-things that force their way into your body through your mouth and cause you unbearable agony while they're in?
* Prince Vekar's [[spoiler: FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce.'' Unlike most villains, [[spoiler: he left a corpse, and a burnt one at that]].
** Vrak's MoralEventHorizon in the ''Vrak is Back'' two-parter. He [[spoiler: brainwashes Robo Knight and turns him against the Rangers]], he kidnaps Orion and painfully drains him of his life-force to aid him in his goal, and used his monsters as pawns to enable to activate three Earth-destroying drills. Robo Knight has to die to reverse it.