History Series / PowerRangersSamurai

** During the training sequence in "The Team Unites", a rougher stunt causes Kevin's pants to go down, revealing his [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience blue briefs.]]

* LullDestruction: During segments utilizing sentai footage (including Megazord fights), everyone is ridiculously chatty, including the MonsterOfTheWeek. [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]], though - the main fight scene in "A Sticky Situation" involved the Green and Blue Rangers having to coordinate attacks, so the addition of them giving each other instructions on what to do next helped.

* RoleReprisal: After nine years since his last appearance on ''Wild Force'''s "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]", Paul Schrier would reprise his role of Bulk for the entire series. [[spoiler: On the last episode, Jason Narvy made a guest appearance as Skull]].

** Emily's sister in "Sticks and Stones."
** TheKidsAreAmerican: Basically the majority of the kids so far, whether they're portraying younger versions of the Rangers or regular kids, have been unable to hide their New Zealand accents. Especially noticable when compared to the American accents used by adults in the same scene (Ryan and his dad in "Deal with a Nighlok" and Young!- and current-Jayden and Antonio in "Unexpected Arrival").

* ShipTease: Mike with Emily, Jayden with Mia and Kevin with Mia.

* StockFootage: While the use of ''Sentai'' footage is a given, the two ''Super Samurai'' specials, "Trickster Treat" and "Stuck on Christmas" use footage from previous episodes of ''Samurai'', the former almost entirely made up of StockFootage from both ''[[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkenger]]'' and ''Samurai''. The latter actually does use quite a bit of original footage. See BottleEpisode above.

** By virtue of being almost a note for note translation of ''Shinkenger'', elements that were present in the source material but not here become glaringly obvious when one knows about both. There are several, but probably the biggest, as noted down in ArtisticLicenseHistory, is that [[spoiler: Jayden and Lauren being siblings messes up the twist at the end quite a bit. In Shinkenger, Takeru is a BodyDouble for Kaoru and wasn't a real Shiba, thus his reasons for not wanting the other Shinkengers to fight with him is based on his feelings that they shouldn't risk their lives over a lie. The omission of a direct counterpart to [[JerkAss Tanba]] also cuts out much of the tension between Kaoru/Lauren and the other Shinkengers/Samurai Rangers, while Lauren is also much friendlier than Kaoru was (at first, anyway), so their rejection of her is very forced by comparison.]]
** A smaller one is the much maligned decision by Mentor Ji to take Antonio's morpher away. While it does happen in Shinkenger, Jii does have much stronger reasons for doing it. Namely that Genta is an even bigger doofus[[note]]Genta showed up at the Shiba household looking like a ridiculous Samurai caricature and generally wasn't taking things seriously despite insistence's to the contrary.[[/note]] than Antonio is, and the Sushi Changer was at least partially created using the power of both the Octopus Origami and a Hidden Disk that Takeru had given him, so Jii at least is taking back something that rightfully belongs to the Shiba household because of its origin. The omission of the tinier details causes the scene to take on a very different tone than the original, making Mentor Ji out to be an Elitist JerkAss rather than well intentioned but harsh.
* AesopAmnesia: Due to the CompressedAdaptation involved in translating Shinken Red's characterization to Samurai Red, Jayden is forced to essentially learn to accept [[TeamSpirit being part of a team]] twice in a row. [[note]] ''Shinkenger'' involved Takeru having to accept applying teamwork to his future battles alongside the others, with the entire point of his characterization from then on involving him having to balance sidling up to the idea with some subtle BloodKnight tendencies; leaving him flawed enough to have to re-learn it. In ''Samurai'', Jayden acknowledges this moral and accepts it the first time it's a major issue. Minus a Handwave, ''Samurai'' all but ignores the BloodKnight angle completely from then on....giving no reason for Jayden to re-learn it a second time.[[/note]]

The 18th and 19th season of the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, using Ranger, Monster, and Zord footage from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''. It was the first season since ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' to entirely directed and produced by Jonathon Tzachor.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Mentor Ji does this a lot, though it might be just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.

* ShipTease: So far they've teased Mike with Emily, Jayden with Mia and Kevin with Mia

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Weird example. The automorph toys had masks covering their "civilian" faces because they were being made while casting was still going on, so the toy makers couldn't know what the unmorphed Rangers looked like. As a result, the masks were added to the show's TransformationSequence to justify their presence.
* RearrangeTheSong: The theme tune is a remix of MMPR's with the lyrics altered to replace any mention of Mighty Morphin with "Rangers Together, Samurai Forever". Bulk and Spike's theme also reuses some lines from Bulk and Skull's original theme.

* RoleReprisal: After 9 years since his last appearance on Wild Force's "Forever Red," Paul Schrier would reprise his role of Bulk for the entire series. [[spoiler: On the last episode, Jason Narvy made a guest appearance as Skull]].

The 18th and 19th season of the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, using Ranger, Monster, and Zord footage from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''. It was the first season since Series/PowerRangersWildForce to entirely directed and produced by Jonathon Tzachor.

* FiveTokenBand: The Red and Yellow Rangers are Caucasian, the Blue Ranger is African-American, the Green Ranger is Latino, the Pink Ranger is Asian, and the Gold Ranger is European Spanish (blatantly and stereotypically so, especially in the interview).

* NeverSayDie: Sure, pretty standard fare for ''Power Rangers'', but it's especially noticable with the kids in "Deal with a Nighlok" and "Jayden's Challenge"; their problems were switched to fathers far away for their jobs from a dead grandfather in the former, and in the latter a father who'd actually died in a recent monster attack. It's especially baffling given that other series haven't shied away from people having someone die in the backstory, and NeverSayDie has usually presented as simply finding alternatives to the ''word.'' Pretending nothing really bad ever has or can happen to anyone is definitely new.
** It's also more notable because of a plot point: Jayden doesn't want his friends to die for him, and as such tried to abandon the team. Since we can't say "die", we get a lot of "Don't want to put them in harm's way"s, or "We know the risks". Sometimes it can get even confusing.
** That said, the origin makes references to Jayden's dad's "last words" and his "final battle". They don't use the word dead (as usual), but there's really no other way to take it.
** The second half goes DarkerAndEdgier and bad things definitely ''do'' happen to good people.

* AdaptationInducedPlothole: By virtue of being almost a note for note translation of Shinkenger, elements that were present in the source material but not here become glaringly obvious when one knows about both. There are several, but probably the biggest, as noted down in ArtisticLicenseHistory, is that [[spoiler: Jayden and Lauren being siblings messes up the twist at the end quite a bit. In Shinkenger, Takeru is a BodyDouble for Kaoru and wasn't a real Shiba, thus his reasons for not wanting the other Shinkengers to fight with him is based on his feelings that they shouldn't risk their lives over a lie. The omission of a direct counterpart to [[JerkAss Tanba]] also cuts out much of the tension between Kaoru/Lauren and the other Shinkengers/Samurai Rangers, while Lauren is also much friendlier than Kaoru was (at first, anyway), so their rejection of her is very forced by comparision.]] A smaller one is the much maligned decision by Mentor Ji to take Antonio's morpher away. While it does happen in Shinkenger, Jii does have much stronger reasons for doing it. Namely that Genta is an even bigger doofus[[note]]Genta showed up at the Shiba household looking like a ridiculous Samurai caricature and generally wasn't taking things seriously despite insistence's to the contrary.[[/note]] than Antonio is, and the Sushi Changer was at least partially created using the power of both the Octopus Origami and a Hidden Disk that Takeru had given him, so Jii at least is taking back something that rightfully belongs to the Shiba household because of its origin. The omission of the tinier details causes the scene to take on a very different tone than the original, making Mentor Ji out to be an Elitist JerkAss rather than well intentioned but harsh.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[spoiler:In the case of traditional Japanese clans, such as those who can trace their lineage to Samurai, the title of clan leadership passes down first to the first son of the family. Even if the son has a older sister, the son will still be the leader of that clan/family. Girls can only become the leaders if there is no male heir (by birth or adoption). In other words when one actually follows Samurai lore there shouldn't have even been a debate about Jayden's position as leader, since his older sibling is a female. The only way this would be a problem would be if Jayden wasn't really a Shiba at all (again by birth or adoption).]]

* AvengersAssemble

* BatmanGambit: Following the one made in ''Shinkenger'' to a T in "There Go the Brides" (except they didn't have Kevin playing the other bride): they set up two fake brides - Mia as the obvious decoy and Emily as the "real" bride.

* BottleEpisode: Done with "Trickster Treat", which may have been a contractual obligation; shot well after production had wrapped and not long before ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' started shooting. The episode uses no original footage recyling stuff from other episodes of ''Samurai'', even recycling stuff from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' that normally would've been edited out, such as the Kuroko. It even features Mako standing in for Mia at one point, with only clever editing attempting to hide it. Only the main 6 Rangers were in this with no supporting characters.
** Stuck on Christmas did it as well, though it actually used original footage, mainly the Megazord cockpit and the Shiba house intertwined into a ClipShow. Also of note this episode used very little Shinkenger footage and the main unmorphed fight scene was recycled from an earlier episode. Plus none of the actors minus those for Ji, Bulk and Spike appeared in this with the ranger actors once again confined to the audio booth with Antonio mysteriously missing most likely due to the Shinkenger footage not featuring Shinken Gold.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In "The Blue and the Gold," Antberry has to chop up thirty toys to create a portal to the Sanzu River from a well. In ''Shinkenger'', however, this plan involved ''[[HumanSacrifice chopping up a group of young girls]]'', something that probably would have been considered too sinister for a children's show on American TV.

* BrokenAesop: The Red Ranger stays behind to train on his day off while all the other Rangers go to an amusement park. His master says that in order to master his weapon, he needs balance in his life and should have more fun. The Ranger shrugs him off and eventually masters the weapon with more training, even after all these hints that in order to master his weapon, he needed to have more fun.

** Most of this was simply carry over from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

The 18th and 19th season of the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, using Ranger, Monster, and Zord footage from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''. It was the first season since Series/PowerRangersWildForce to [[OhCrap entirely directed and produced by]] [[PrimaDonnaDirector Jonathon]] [[SmallNameBigEgo Tzachor]].

The 18th and 19th season of the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise, using Ranger, Monster, and Zord footage from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

* AdaptationInducedPlothole: By virtue of being almost a note for note translation of Shinkenger, elements that were present in the source material but not here become glaringly obvious when one knows about both. There are several, but probably the biggest, as noted down in ArtisticLicenseHistory, is that [[spoiler: Jayden and Lauren being siblings messes up the twist at the end quite a bit. In Shinkenger, Takeru is a BodyDouble for Kaoru and wasn't a real Shiba, thus his reasons for not wanting the other Shinkengers to fight with him is based on his feelings that they shouldn't risk their lives over a lie. The omission of a direct counterpart to [[JerkAss Tanba]] also cuts out much of the tension between Kaoru/Laruen and the other Shinkengers/Samurai Rangers, while Lauren is also much friendlier than Kaoru was (at first, anyway), so their rejection of her is very forced by comparision.]] A smaller one is the much maligned decision by Mentor Ji to take Antonio's morpher away. While it does happen in Shinkenger, Jii does have much stronger reasons for doing it. Namely that Genta is an even bigger doofus[[note]]Genta showed up at the Shiba household looking like a ridiculous Samurai caricature and generally wasn't taking things seriously despite insistence's to the contrary.[[/note]] than Antonio is, and the Sushi Changer was at least partially created using the power of both the Octopus Origami and a Hidden Disk that Takeru had given him, so Jii at least is taking back something that rightfully belongs to the Shiba household because of its origin. The omission of the tinier details causes the scene to take on a very different tone than the original, making Mentor Ji out to be an Elitist JerkAss rather than well intentioned but harsh.

* ShoutOut: The Beetle Zord's combination with the Samurai Megazord is called the [[{{Beetleborgs}} Beetle Blast]]er Megazord.

** Antonio uses a quick-draw style with a ReverseGrip, much like a certain [[{{Zatoichi}} blind swordsman]].

* HomeBase: the Shiba House

** This is also attempted by the Nighlok Eyescar in "The Rescue" as he sets up a trap where the only apparent way to save the captured Antonio and Ji is to follow the trail that leads into an army of Mooks. It fails because Jayden [[GenreSavvy sees right through it]] and [[spoiler: destroys them all with an aerial strike from the Samurai Battlewing.]]

* NoSwastikas: The background of the morphing sequence is based on that used in ''Shinkenger'', but edited to remove the manji-like patterns (The NintendoDS game, however, still has them).

** One of Spike's Pink Ranger dreams has a tied up Mia proclaiming [[ANewHope "Help me, Samurai Warrior, you're my only hope!"]]

** "Kevin's Choice" is about Kevin having to accept that his being a Ranger meant putting certain life things on hold for the greater good, (in this case, a potential swimming tournament) as [[SecretIdentity his presence in such a public situation]] could [[UnfortunateImplications put the citizenry in danger]]. The ending of the Episode however involves Kevin accepting this necessity.... and then competing in the tournament anyway after the MOTW is defeated, doing the exact thing the Episode had been warning him against the entire time without any justification, [[note]]Aside from the current threat being removed, but the fact that [[FridgeHorror the show has used multiple MOTWs in one Episode before....]][[/note]] rendering the whole Episode's conflict '''completely pointless'''.[[note]] This doesn't help that Kevin's Choice" is a point-for-point rehash of the first season's third Episode "The Team Unites," which starred Mike facing the exact same "duty before life" dilemma, with a monster aware of his identity [[AesopCollateralDamage attacking those close to him]], [[RealityEnsues forcing him to keep out of the public eye to protect them]], [[ScareEmStraight thus playing the moral straight]]. Kevin essentially gets off scot-free for making the same mistakes.[[/note]]