History Series / PowerRangersDinoCharge

* TransformationTrinket: Surprisingly, ''Dino Charge'' kept the team gun as the morpher; despite speculation that they'd make a new morpher and leave the gun as only a weapon due to violence concerns.

65 million years ago, the alien Keeper arrived on Earth while being pursued by ruthless bounty hunter Sledge and his evil forces, who hoped to steal the powerful Energems from him. Keeper was able to give the gems to ten dinosaurs for safe keeping, but they were soon lost when asteroids hit the Earth and wiped out the dinos. Now in the present day, FiveTeenagersWithAttitude are discovering the lost Energems - and at the same time, Sledge and his forces have returned to continue their hunt. Fortunately, local museum curator Dr. Kendall Morgan has partnered with Keeper in order to harness the Energems power for the earth protection, turning those chosen by the Energems into the Power Rangers Dino Charge.

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The 2015 season of the long-running ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, adapting footage from ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' (and reportedly also including elements from ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters,'' making this the second mash-up series in a row.) This will be the third season with a dinosaur motif, following ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''.

From the official press release:

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 Megazord.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: The first episode introduced most of the characters but not much else; Riley didn't even appear at all. There was one fight involving Tyler, Shelby, and Iceage with an assist from the Tyrannozord; but it was just a small skirmish and felt like just a taste for the ''real'' debut battle coming up.

*** Still in episode 1. Shelly tries to impress Kendall with her in-depth knowledge of dinosaurs by explaining that only two of Triceratops' horns were bone with the other being made of keratin. In reality, all ceratopsian horns consist of a large bone core covered in a keratin sheet with there being no evidence of any dinosaur possessing purely soft tissue horns.

*** There is no scientific reason for the various species of dinosaur in the prologue to exist in the same scene together, much less get along peacefully. The show also fails to give the T rex and Velociraptor feathers, which is something ''Kyoryuger'' originally got ''right'' on the rex's part.There was a commercial showing what looks liked they used Kyoryuger footage featuring a feathered t-rex, so possibly a case of played with.

*** There is no scientific reason for the various species of dinosaur in the prologue to exist in the same scene together, much less get along peacefully. The show also fails to give the T rex and Velociraptor feathers, which is something ''Kyoryuger'' originally got ''right'' on the rex's part.
**** There was a commercial showing what looks liked they used the Kyoryuger footage featuring a feathered t-rex, so may be a case of played with.

** PowerFist: Tyler's weapon.
** AutomaticCrossbows: Chase's weapon.
** LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Koda's weapon.
** WolverineClaws: Riley's weapon.
** ThisIsADrill: Shelby's weapon.

*** The first episode also features a dinosaur skeleton in the museum that Chase states was uncovered nearby. That dinosaur is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryolophosaurus Cryolophosaurus]], which was native to ''Antarctica''.

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 Megazord .

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** ArtisticLicensePaleontology: There is no scientific reason for the various species of dinosaur in the prologue to exist in the same scene together, much less get along peacefully. The show also fails to give the T rex and Velociraptor feathers, which is something ''Kyoryuger'' originally got ''right'' on the rex's part.

* MythologyGag: Doesn't Wrench sound a lot like [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Baboo?]]

** The very first scene is [[StarWars a small spacecraft being chased and shot by a space battlecruiser.]]

** Tyler's GoofyPrintUnderwear may bring to mind [[KamenRiderOOO another world-wanderer-turned-hero.]]
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Apparently not much, since Sledge nonchalantly ''kills'' one just so it's out of Poisandra's way.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Apparently not much, since Sledge nonchalantly ''kills'' one just so it's out of Poisandra's way.

* BountyHunter: "Sledge", the BigBad of the season.

*** The first episode also features a dinosaur skeleton in the museum that Chase states was uncovered nearby. That dinosaur is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryolophosaurus Cryolophosaurus]], which was native to 'Antarctica'.

** The first episode also features a dinosaur skeleton in the museum that Chase states was uncovered nearby. That dinosaur is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryolophosaurus Cryolophosaurus]], which was native to 'Antarctica'.

!! This show provides examples of:
* {{Badass}}: Keeper. If it weren't for the fact Sledge's ship was hauling asteroids, he'd have taken out the entire enemy faction in a few ''minutes'' and is able to get ''dinosaurs'' to listen to him!
* BountyHunter: "Sledge", the BigBad of the season.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Sledge's cell blocks. If you're familiar with Kyoryuger's monsters, chances are you might recognize some of them, [[spoiler:including D]].
** One bounty poster in the first episode has the picture of a monster from ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Tyler and Shelby are cornered by Iceage in the premiere, Tyler pulls out first a [[PhallicWeapon banana]], then [[SensualSpandex a pair of underwear]] before finding [[ShovelStrike the weapon he wants]].
* HotScientist: Kendall, who works at the museum and is involved with engineering the Rangers' tech.

* {{Irony}}: The one ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series that [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters actually uses the phrase "It's Morphin' Time!"]] (And in general a ''lot'' of references to ''Power Rangers'') is being minimally used to skip from ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce]]'' to this series.
** Especially ironic when you consider that ''Go-Busters'' 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.
** To be fair, most of those references were in the dialogue, which gets replaced even before the editing scissors get to the untransformed scenes.

*** TyrannosaurusRex: Red Ranger
*** RaptorAttack: Green Ranger
*** [[spoiler:PteroSoarer: Gold Ranger]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Keeper tricked Fury into bringing a bomb onto Sledge's ship instead of the Energems; not a bad plan. But then that caused the ship to [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs drop the asteroids Sledge was collecting...]]
* OneSteveLimit: Enforced. The Red Ranger was originally going to be "Lucas", and some early merchandise even uses that name; but it was later 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 his final name is "Riley".
* PragmaticAdaptation: From the information available so far, it sounds like it's going to have a completely different story than ''Kyoryuger'', much like [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder the last dinosaur themed show.]]
* RearrangeTheSong: "Go Go Power Rangers" returns yet again, though the ''Dino Charge'' version inserts more lines into the chorus and has entirely new verses.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: The first episode introduced most of the characters but not much else; Riley didn't even appear at all. There was one fight involving Tyler, Shelby, and Iceage with an assist from the Tyrannozord; but it was just a small skirmish and felt like just a taste for the ''real'' debut battle coming up.
* 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). Previously when ''Sentai'' had only one girl in five, Saban would use ShesAManInJapan to gender-flip a male Yellow Ranger. A casting call has indicated that it will follow ''[[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Kyoryuger]]'' in adding a second female as a GuestStarPartyMember later, though.

** PowerFist: Red Ranger's weapon.
** AutomaticCrossbows: Black Ranger's weapon.
** LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Blue Ranger's weapon.
** WolverineClaws: Green Ranger's weapon.
** ThisIsADrill: Pink Ranger's weapon.

** ThisIsADrill: Pink Ranger's weapon.

** It could also be seen as NiceJobFixingItVillain for Dino Thunder as the Dino Gems were inside one of those asteroids that Sledge collected. So in a sense he accidentally created the Dino Thunder due to him collecting those asteroids.