History WhatAnIdiot / PowerRangers

** Also in the first few seasons, the enemies being able to make the monsters grow.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Tommy, Rocky, and Kat, being even more out-numbered trying to prevent Rito from planting the Orb, to call for the metallic armor themselves to even the odds and gain ahold of the Orb.\\
'''Instead:''' They unsuccessfully attempt to fend off the forces, allowing Rito to correctly guess where the Orb is supposed to be planted, set it there, and cause the Rangers to all revert to being children who can't use their powers, thus setting up a 10-episode arc where they have to call Rangers from another planet and retrieve the Zeo Crystal to reverse the Orb's effects.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': Especially in its first few seasons, the Rangers themselves were goody goods. Little to no negative behavior and all. But on occasion, [[WickedWitch Rita]], [[EvilOverlord Lord Zedd]] or [[TheEmpire the Machine Empire]] would place a spell on the team or some members to cause problems (such as [[SixthRanger Tommy]] debuting as an evil Power Ranger). This happened a good number of times.\\

* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': In the episode "Day Off", the villain Dreadhead gets giant-sized after [[TheHero Jayden's]] use of his new Beetle disc finally allows the Rangers to land a hit with their sword, and the [[FiveManBand Rangers]] activate their [[HumongousMecha Samurai Megazord]] az a result. Jayden uses the orange disc to produce a [[MechaExpansionPack Beetle Zord]], which gets through Dreadhead's attacks and starts literally pulling his leg. Dreadhead summons some {{Mooks}} to take care of the buggy nuisance.\\

'''Furthermore''': After the Rangers get their asses kicked, again and again and again, Rita ''never'' bothers to order her minions to finish the job, not even after [[spoiler:their Zords are destroyed and they are rendered powerless]]. She goes ''further'' than that and specifically orders Goldar, Scorpina and Tommy to retreat every time she wins, just so she can go into the next episode declaring she'll destroy the Rangers once and for all instead of, you know, doing it when she had a chance. Let's face it, Rita is a whole new bucket of WhatAnIdiot.

* Series/PowerRangersInSpace: In one episode, Astronema has Ashley captured by Ecliptor while she impersonates her thanks to the titular Body Switcher.
'''You’d Expect''': Ecliptor to teleport out immediately.
'''Instead''': He stops long enough to gloat, giving her a chance to call out, almost disrupting the plan.

'''But to be fair''': At this point, the Rangers were under a tremendous amount of stress, especially with Zordon and Eltar under attack and feeling a lot of anxiety and helplessness about it (Dimitria, on Zordon's orders, tells them that they can't leave Earth to help, in spite of the news) which really didn't help boost their morale. And probably because of the amount of pressure, they were not thinking straight and didn't take the time to assess the situation more carefully, which they normally would have done considering how they had TJ as their leader who is usually level-headed and cautious.

'''Instead''': They respond by self-destructing the Rescue Megazord, using a special superpowered version of the Turbo Megazord spinout (which does not finish off the monster), then suffer damage to where the Turbo Megazord is inoperable, losing both Megazords while giving Divatox time to attack. The events that were leading to the best season of all time, ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', but still.... But to be fair: at this point, the Rangers were under a tremendous amount of stress, especially with Zordon and Eltar under attack and feeling a lot of anxiety and helplessness about it (Dimitria, on Zordon's orders, tells them that they can't leave Earth to help, in spite of the news) which really didn't help boost their morale. And probably because of the amount of pressure, they were not thinking straight and didn't take the time to asses the situation more carefully, which they normally would have done considering how they had TJ as their leader who is usually level-headed and cautious.

'''Instead:''' Kimberly tells Tommy that her coach will show up and he drives up. When Ernie tells her that her coach isn't going to make it, Kimberly does her routine on the balance beam anyway after everyone is gone, falling off, hitting her head, and winding up being hospitalized.\\

'''Instead''' Dimitria and the Blue Centurion just leave without them and the Rangers are left to fight a seemingly never-ending onslaught of Piranhatrons. They are also told to, once again, stay and defend the Earth. And the Power Chamber gets destroyed in an onslaught that they just didn't have the energy for...

'''Instead''': The Blue Ranger does it alone and falls victim to the alien's body swapping, and when the alien destroys the translator, he is left in no position to stop him. The alien, in the Blue Ranger's body, takes control of the Delta Base and even authorizes the Ranger's execution.\\

'''You'd expect''': He tells them to attack immediately so that maybe their laser arrows could have a chance of doing damage to the Beetle Zord. \\

** From "The Ninja Encounter", there's this: Zedd has kidnapped Rocky, Aisha, Adam, and their instructor, and put them in a cave with a magic snake which if it bites them will turn them completely evil. The Rangers go to rescue them, but Zedd's sent down a monster to fight them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Rangers to just go in and save their friends from the snake, given they're right at the mouth of the cave, and they're not guarded, so saving the four shouldn't be difficult at all.\\
'''Instead:''' They say there's "no time", and rush off to fight the monster, leaving their friends at the snake's mercy for the next two episodes.\\
'''Making this worse:''' Once they beat the monster, they go back to rescue their friends, and it takes less than a minute to destroy the snake and free them. Yeah, real time crunch you got there, heroes.

'''Making this worse:''' Kat is right outside the Juice Bar while Kim is practicing. It would be such an easy rewrite to have Kat be Kim's spotter, pushing her to not give up and overexert herself, then when Kat realizes what she's doing, it's too late and Kim falls and hurts herself.

** From the season 2 premier, there's the rangers versus Pirantishead. The rangers meet the newly arrived Zedd's newest monster, and immediately summon their zords. Pirantishead freezes the triceratops, mastodon, sabertooth-tiger and pterodactyl zords on the spot. However, the T-rex is still unfrozen.\\
'''You'd expect:''' The rangers would perhaps try and attack Pirantishead while he's doing this so they don't loose all their zords.\\
'''Instead:''' They just stand there and watch as it takes control of the T-rex and sets it on them. And then it goes and does the exact same thing with the Dragonzord.\\
'''Making this worse:''' for the next two episodes, at no point do the rangers seem to think shooting Pirantishead with their guns and disrupting his magic is an option, meaning he always manages to remain ahead of them.

** Another from ''Mighty Morphin'', "Mighty Morphin Mutants": The monster, Commander Crayfish, and evil clones of the Green, Blue, and Black Rangers have undergone MakeMyMonsterGrow and are fighting the Megazords. The Evil Rangers form a human chair and elevate Crayfish onto their shoulders, leading Billy to announce he's above their Blasters' range, leaving them sitting ducks.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Someone in this collective braintrust would think to disassemble the Megazord and let Kimberly take the Pterodactyl (which can '''fly''') and use her individual blasters to knock Crayfish back down to the ground. And then finish him off with the Dragonzord Battle Mode.\\
'''Instead''': They keep barreling straight ahead, taking a few intense hits, then summon Titanus to simply overpower him (which ''worked,'' but still.)