History Series / PowerRangersDinoCharge

* {{Motifs}}: EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
** ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
*** The show is inconsistent on whether the T. rex has feathers or not; material recycled from ''Kyoryuger'' has them, while original footage does not. The Velociraptor also lacks feathers in both recycled and original footage.

*** The show has Jurassic dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Brachiosaurus [[AnachronismStew living in late Cretaceous period]]. Though they did call Brachiosaurus Titanosaurus, which ''did'' in fact live in the late Cretaceous.
** Everything's very literally better with dinosaurs as of the finale, now that [[spoiler:the timeline's been altered so that they never went extinct. Which subsequently means that humans never should have evolved]].
** TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: Of course, Sledge and the Keeper reach Earth the day the asteroids hit. Though there's a very good reason for that: they're ''responsible'' for the asteroids. Ultimately {{Subverted}} in the finale.
** DomesticatedDinosaurs: The dinosaurs in the prologue, especially the T. rex, seem to be this way; acknowledging and following the Keeper's requests. Though their may actually be some [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for this. For example, when the Keeper speaks to the Rex the first time, he appears to form some kind of psychic connection with the animal.
** MechanicalLifeforms: The Zords are this. They possess some degree of sapience, and if they aren't regularly exposed to their Energem they can get sick and die. However, it's established in "Deep Down Under" that, as zords, they're entirely different from real dinosaurs. It's implied that they were the original beasts that bonded to the Energems, and were transformed.
** PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: Nobody involved particularly ''wanted'' to kill the dinosaurs, but Sledge was hauling a load of asteroids when the Keeper bombed his ship...
** StockDinosaurs: Zigzagged; while the Rangers draw power from stock dinosaurs there are also a series of Dino Chargers based on non-stock dinos.
*** KingOfTheDinosaurs: Tyler
*** RaptorAttack: Riley
*** PteroSoarer: Ivan

* WordPower

** StockDinosaurs: Zigzagged; while the Rangers draw power from stock dinosaurs there are also a series of Dino Chargers based on [[SeldomSeenSpecies non-stock dinos]].

** Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as ''Alamosaurus'', ''Thescelosaurus'', ''Edmontosaurus'', ''Champsosaurus'' (a choristoderan reptile), and ''Didelphodon'' (a marten-like marsupial mammal), instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'' respectively.

** As a result of the models being carbon copies of Jurassic Park's many dinosaurs lack lips, dinosaurs lack feathers, pterosaurs have no pycnofibers, are shrink-wrapped, possess feet that are too elephantine, have broken pronated arms, monitor lizard like scaly lizard skin, capable of roaring, to name a few inaccuracies.

*** ''Stegosaurus'' has the wrong proportions and a droopy-tail, while ''Velociraptor'' and ''Pteranodon'' and a few others have the wrong anatomy altogether.
** Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as ''Dakotaraptor'', ''Alamosaurus'', ''Thescelosaurus'', ''Edmontosaurus'', ''Avisaurus'' and ''Champsosaurus'', instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'' respectively.

The 22nd and 23rd seasons of the long-running ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, adapting footage from ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''. This is the third season with a dinosaur motif, following ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''.

* HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler: How three of the core villains are ultimately beaten - after the team goes back in time sixty-five million years, to the day Sledge first came to Earth, the auxiliary Rangers and Heckyll infiltrated Sledge's ship, locked Wrench and Poisandra in cells, then used an electro-net to capture a giant Sledge himself and set the ship on an autopilot course right into the sun, taking the trio and all their captive monsters with it. Of the monsters who'd accompanied Sledge, only Fury is spared this fate, having been destroyed by Keeper's crystal bomb while on Earth.]]

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*** ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier in the Jurassic. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic. ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic.

** Everything's very literally better with dinosaurs as of the finale, now that [[spoiler:the timeline's been altered so that they never went extinct]].

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Besides the general naming issues and lack of feathers on dinos that should have them (Or DoubleSubversion in the T-Rex case), the first episode has multiple flubs:

** Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus''
*** ''Edmontosaurus'' (a flat-headed hadrosaur, or "duck-billed" dinosaur {Sledge's spaceship somewhat resembles its head}; ''Parasaurolophus'' was a crested hadrosaur)
*** ''Thescelosaurus'' (a hypsilophodont dinosaur)
*** ''Ornithomimus'' (an "ostrich mimic" theropod dinosaur)
*** ''Avisaurus'' (an enantiornithine bird)
*** ''Didelphodon'' (a marten-like marsupial mammal)
*** ''Champsosaurus'' (a crocodile-like choristoderan reptile)

*** ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier in the Jurassic. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic.
*** ''Velociraptor'', is from central Asia [[note]]and the dinosaur shown to receive the Green Energem is more the size of ''Velociraptor'''s much larger relative ''Utahraptor'', which lived in western North America, but about 60 million years before the end of the Mesozoic[[/note]]. ''Jainosaurus'' (formerly known as ''Titanosaurus'') lived in India [[note]]and by the late Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms[[/note]].
*** ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic. Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus''

** ''Edmontosaurus'' (a flat-headed hadrosaur, or "duck-billed" dinosaur {Sledge's spaceship somewhat resembles its head}; ''Parasaurolophus'' was a crested hadrosaur)
** ''Thescelosaurus'' (a hypsilophodont dinosaur)
** ''Ornithomimus'' (an "ostrich mimic" theropod dinosaur)
** ''Avisaurus'' (an enantiornithine bird)
** ''Didelphodon'' (a marten-like marsupial mammal)
** ''Champsosaurus'' (a crocodile-like choristoderan reptile)

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'' did all coexist at 65 million B. C. E. in western North America, but ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic, as did ''Velociraptor'', of central Asia (and the dinosaur shown to receive the Green Energem is more the size of ''Velociraptor'''s much larger relative ''Utahraptor'', which lived in western North America, but about 60 million years before the end of the Mesozoic). ''Jainosaurus'' (formerly known as ''Titanosaurus'') lived in India (and by the late Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms). ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic. Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'':

* CommLinks: For the first time since [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Turbo]], the Rangers' morphers do not have communication devices built into them, with Dino Coms being separate pieces of equipment entirely.[[note]] while the [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Space Rangers]] continued to use the old wrist communicators from the MMPR days, the Astro Morphers were also capable of communication[[/note]]

** TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: Of course, Sledge and the Keeper reach Earth the day the asteroids hit. Though there's a very good reason for that: they're ''responsible'' for the asteroids.

This is the second subseries, after ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', to be established by later crossovers as having taken place in a parallel dimension to the main ''Power Rangers'' universe (not the same dimension as ''RPM''). The main difference is that [[spoiler:after the timeline is changed in the finale, dinosaurs are not extinct in this dimension]].

This is the second subseries, after ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', to be established by later crossovers as having taken place in a parallel dimension to the main ''Power Rangers'' universe (not the same dimension as ''RPM'').

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'' did all coexist at 65 million B. C. E. in western North America, but ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic, as did ''Velociraptor'', of central Asia (and the dinosaur shown to receive the Green Energem is more the size of ''Velociraptor's'' much larger relative ''Utahraptor'', which lived in western North America, but about 60 million years before the end of the Mesozoic). ''Jainosaurus'' (formerly known as ''Titanosaurus'') lived in India (and by the late Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms). ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic. Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'':

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'' did all coexist at 65 million B. C. E. in western North America, but ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic, as did ''Velociraptor'', of central Asia (and the dinosaur shown to receive the Green Energem is more the size of ''Utahraptor'', which lived in western North America, but about 60 million years before the end of the Mesozoic). ''Jainosaurus'' (formerly known as ''Titanosaurus'') lived in India (and by the late Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms). ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic. Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'':

** ''Edmontosaurus'' (a flat-headed hadrosaur, or "duck-billed" dinosaur; ''Parasaurolophus'' was a crested hadrosaur)

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'' did all coexist at 65 million B. C. E. in western North America, but ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier. ''Pteranodon'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived just before the end of the Mesozoic, as did ''Velociraptor'', of central Asia. ''Jainosaurus'' (formerly known as ''Titanosaurus'') lived in India (and by the late Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms). ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years before the end of the Mesozoic. Assuming that at the time, Keeper was in what is currently Hell Creek, Montana, the Green, Silver, Blue, Black, Gold, and Purple Energems should have been received by creatures such as these, instead of by ''Velociraptor'', ''Jainosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Plesiosaurus'':

•''Edmontosaurus'' (a flat-headed hadrosaur, or "duck-billed" dinosaur; ''Parasaurolophus'' was a crested hadrosaur)

•''Thescelosaurus'' (a hypsilophodont dinosaur)

•''Ornithomimus'' (an "ostrich mimic" theropod dinosaur)

•''Avisaurus'' (an enantiornithine bird)

•''Didelphodon'' (a marten-like marsupial mammal)

•''Champsosaurus'' (a crocodile-like choristoderan reptile)

•''Edmontosaurus'' (a flat-headed hadrosaur, or "duck-billed" dinosaur; Parasaurolophus was a crested hadrosaur)