History Series / PowerRangersDinoCharge

In ''Dino Charge'', the Energems were given to a dozen dinosaurs for safe keeping by an alien, but they were lost when asteroids hit the Earth and wiped out the dinos. Now in the present day, an intergalactic bounty hunter starts sniffing around Earth looking for the Energems in order to harness their power and annihilate the world, so a team of Power Rangers forms to find the Prisms first and fight the bounty hunter and other threats with dino-powered swords, blasters, Zords (in Power Rangers lingo, large fighting machines) and Megazords.

* FleetingDemographicRule: It's been 11 years since the last dinosaur series; we're due.
* FollowTheLeader: Some fans have called the season a "Dino Thunder rip-off" just for having gems and dinosaurs. Unaware of how Power Rangers works or what Super Sentai is.

* HotScientist: Clare Blackwelder's character, from the teasers, seems to be the one that engineered the Rangers' weaponry.

* OneSteveLimit: Enforced. The Red Ranger was originally going to be "Lucas", and some early merchandise even uses that name; but there are reports that it's been changed to "Tyler" because the franchise already had a Lucas back in ''Time Force''. Similarly, the casting sheet listed the Green Ranger as "Ryan" when there was one in ''Lightspeed Rescue''; while early merchandising says "Quinn" and the pre-show reports say his final name is "Riley".

** ThisIsADrill: Pink Ranger's weapon.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Power Rangers'' meets ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', again, and we also have a bit of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' in the mix, seeing as how the core five have gems around their neck that is also the source of their greatest power.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The core team only has one female in the group - the first time that this has happened in a major five-man team (the Alien Rangers were temporary stand-ins, and other one-girl teams from the Disney era were {{Power Trio}}s). The [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger source material]] did have another female member but the power was also used by a male, so who knows.
** Notable because while Disney never cared to avert this trope this is the first Saban hasn't bothered to gender bend one of the Rangers on the core five to create TwoGirlsToATeam.
** A casting call has revealed that the show will have a counterpart for Yayoi, the Violet Ranger from ''Kyoryuger'', but chances are she won't be with the team right away since Yayoi didn't show up until Episode 21.

** Notable because while Disney never cared to avert this trope this is the first Saban hasn't bothered to gender bend one of the Rangers on the core five to create TwoGirlsToATeam

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The core team only has one female in the group - a first since ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''. The [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger source material]] did have another female member but the power was also used by a male, so who knows.

*** BayonetYa: Possible with the Dino Cannon by extending the Saber blade. In ''Kyoryuger'', the Violet Ranger often did this and it'll probably carry over.

* SmurfettePrinciple: The core team only has one female in the group - a first since ''Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. The [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger source material]] did have another female member but the power was also used by a male, so who knows.

* XMeetsY: Power Rangers meets JurassicPark, again, we also have a bit of Digimon in the mix. Seeing as how the core five have gems around their neck that is also the source of their greatest power.

* HotScientist: Clare Blackwelder's character, from the teasers, seems to be the one that engineered the ranger's weaponry.

* SmurfettePrinciple: The core team only has one female in the group - a first since ''Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers''. The [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger source material]] did have another female member but the power was also used by a male, so who knows.

* SmurfettePrinciple: The core team only has one female in the group. The [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger source material]] did have another female member but the power was also used by a male, so who knows.

** ThisIsADrill: Pink Ranger's weapon.

** StockDinosaurs: Zigzagged; while the Rangers draw power from stock dinosaurs there are also a series of Dino Chargers based on non-stock dinos, but unlike ''Kyoryuger'' they're named by power and the dinosaur remains unidentified.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: The Pink Ranger's Triceratops zord was initially indigo in the toyline, despite being pink in the show. But due to fan outrage [[https://twitter.com/Odot92/status/502590059221364737 it was changed back to Pink]].

** Ironically, the opposite happened in ''Mighty Morphin''' season 3, when the White Shogunzord's toy was pink.

** To be fair, most of those references were in the dialogue, which gets replaced even before the editing scissors get to the untransfromed scenes.
* LimitedWardrobe: Reverted back to earlier limits of Ranger color scheme instead of the exact same outfit like [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce previously]].

** StockDinosaurs: Averted if it includes ''Kyoryuger'''s "Guardian" Beast Batteries, which include non-stock dinos among their ranks. Though you've still got a handful that are technically not dinosaurs.

** SwordAndGun: The standard sidearms.
*** BifurcatedWeapon: ...Which can be combined into a bigger gun and as one Ranger shows, [[BayonetYa a bayonet]].

** Especially ironic when you consider that ''Go-Buster'' was allegedly designed with American audiences in mind, hence the use of [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack black leather costumes]] instead of the traditional spandex garb found in most Sentai shows.

In Dino Charge, the Energems were given to a dozen dinosaurs for safe keeping by an alien, but they were lost when asteroids hit the Earth and wiped out the dinos. Now in the present day, an intergalactic bounty hunter starts sniffing around Earth looking for the Energems in order to harness their power and annihilate the world, so a team of Power Rangers forms to find the Prisms first and fight the bounty hunter and other threats with dino-powered swords, blasters, Zords (in Power Rangers lingo, large fighting machines) and Megazords.

The 2015 season of the long-running ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, adapting footage from ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''. This will be the third season with a dinosaur motif, following ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The pink ranger's Triceratops zord was in initially indigo in the toyline, despite being pink in the show. But due to fan outrage [[https://twitter.com/Odot92/status/502590059221364737 it was changed back to Pink]].
** Ironically, the opposite happened in Mighty Morphin season 3, when the White Shogunzord's toy was pink.
* BountyHunter: "Sledge" the BigBad of the season.

** AnimalMecha: Of the prehistoric variety

** LeaderFormsTheHead: [[spoiler:Exaggerated; the Tyrannosaurus zord makes up all of the main megazord but the arms.]]
** MechaExpansionPack: [[spoiler:Six available, of which the main megazord ''must'' use two: Stegosaur, Triceratops, Parasaur, Velociraptor, Ankylosaur, and Pachycephalosaur.]]
** TransformingMecha: [[spoiler:the Pteranodon, Plesiosaur, and Brachiosaur zords.]]

*** BifurcatedWeapon: ...Which can be combined into a bigger gun [[spoiler:and as one ranger shows, [[BayonetYa a bayonet]]]].

Ironically, the opposite happened in Mighty Morphin season 3, when the White Shogunzord's toy was pink.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The pink ranger's Triceratops zord is indigo in the toyline, despite being pink in the show. Ironically, the opposite happened in Mighty Morphin season 3, when the White Shogunzord's toy was pink.