History YMMV / POWERRANGERS

* LGBTFanbase: An argument can be made for the WHOLE franchise, starting with the dozens of attractive young men running around in rainbow spandex. One could also cite the NoHuggingNoKissing rule as playing into it; many of the friendships which are meant to be platonic are so emotionally charged that they come off as HoYay. Many teams have had characters that that fandom at large views as coded gay or bi ([[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Kelsey]], [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Vida]], [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Jayden and Antonio]], or [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Riley]] for example). It also helps that many of the ranger alumni are LGBT+ allies, and have participated in [[http://www.morphinlegacy.com/legacy-database/noh8-rangers NoH8 photoshoots]]. With ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' we can also point specifically to Doggie Cruger, who became an instant BaraGenre icon. His counterpart from ''SPD'''s source material, ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', is submissive (and VERY muscular) in almost every erotic pic of him (even if it's straight!)

** Sam from ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', specifically ''Future''-Sam a.k.a The Omega Ranger, mainly because we don't know a damn thing about him. That he ''does'' appear in the finale, for all of three seconds, without his costume, was seen as an insult by the fanbase, and he rivals [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Cole]] and [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Justin]] for Most Hated Ranger Ever -- those two win because they have personality quirks and flaws that make them unlikeable -- Sam is hated because he ''lacks'' any of this, due to the writers bypassing him as often as possible. Bruce Kalish has acknowledged that Sam could have been handled better.
** Mentor Ji from ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' is considered for being a crappy teacher, his blatant favoritism towards Jayden, his self-righteous attitude, his [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant name]], and his tendency to put down Antonio for not being born into a Samurai lineage. His actor turning out to be a sexual predator didn't help matters.

** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'':
*** Dax. The show tried to give him quirks like [[EnsembleDarkHorse Bridge]] from ''[[Series/PowerRangersSPD SPD]]'', but he came across as more annoying than funny. He's also supposed to seem like he's underappreciated due to being just the stuntman, but he doesn't give any reasons to make himself endearing or anything to appreciate. While episodes that highlight him as TheEveryman rather than a PluckyComicRelief make him more sympathetic and likeable, they are few and in between compared to his more annoying behavior.
---->'''[[WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers Linkara]]''': Shut up, Dax!

** Mentor Ji from ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' is considered the worst mentor (second only to [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Gosei]]) for being a crappy teacher, his blatant favoritism towards Jayden, his self-righteous attitude, his [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant name]], and his tendency to put down Antonio for not being born into a Samurai lineage. His actor turning out to be a sexual predator didn't help matters.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce:''

** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': Too many, which is why this series is disliked.

*** Divatox is this due to the fact she replaced The Machine Empire and whining all the time when she loses. She also likes to set explosions all over the place and ALWAYS setting them for an hour, enough time for the Rangers to get rid of them! She is also seen as Rita-lite most of the time.
*** There are many fans who dislike Ashley simply because of her actress, Tracy Lynn Cruz. She had dated Creator/JohnnyYongBosch and in an interview years later he said once she got on ''Turbo'' she dumped him, stole his money and his car. Johnny (and Adam) was already TheWoobie to fans and some people paint Tracy as evil, saying that she "eats the skulls of babies to survive". To be fair to Tracy ''some fans even asked her if she did eat them during a Power Morphicon''. Johnny appears to regret letting out that information, due to how bad the backlash got.
*** [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom The Blue Senturion]] isn't very popular either. The [[EpilepticTrees fan theory]] that he was, in fact, responsible for the events of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' didn't help; though that was eventually {{Jossed}} by [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai "Clash of the Red Rangers"]]. At the same time, there are people who would call him an EnsembleDarkHorse because he has a cool design and some pretty funny lines.
** Vypra from ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', due to her portrayer's [[{{Narm}} notoriously bad acting]], even ''worse'' than the typical ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' fare.
** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'':
*** Princess Shayla, who is basically a really useless Princess who sings. She also tends to be kidnapped a lot. Despite the ''one'' time she did something awesome, kicking Toxica away when she had grabbed her by the StandardFemaleGrabArea and claiming that she wasn't "just" a princess, she is still hated simply because this occurred only once and was never mentioned again, reverting Shayla to the silly Disney Princess role of stand-around-look-pretty-say-"deep"-stuff-and-get-kidnapped. Her making the rangers hand in their jackets at the end of the series is also seen as a rather dickish moves by the fans.
*** Kite. A whiny little brat who completely disparages the Rangers' efforts and sacrifices, rants on and on about how HumansAreBastards, is perfectly willing to abandon them and Shayla to die, hammers in the GreenAesop in the most annoying, tedious and {{Anvilicious}} way possible, is of little help when actually needed, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and has an annoying, whiny voice]]. He was Animus (which makes him a scrappy by proxy), who because of his hatred for humanity who even after revealing that him taking the Zords and the rangers' powers away, and him putting Shayla in a coma was a SecretTestOfCharacter, still didn't take back any of the things he said about humanity.

*** Will is a strange example. During the initial run of the series, he was fairly liked, but after his actor, Samuell Benta, was purported to have stolen a signed banner meant to be auctioned off for charity at the first Power Rangers Morphicon and refused to return it, the hatred for Benta was unjustly transferred onto Will.

* EvilIsSexy: Played with in the earlier seasons, but it wasn't until ''In Space''[='=]s Astronema that it took complete hold. Now every season there is at least one attractive humanoid evil female who most of the time fights the good guys.

** Of course, that's only considering when the damn thing finally got on the air. Saban had been attempting to adapt Sentai all the way back to ''Bioman'', seven years prior. And it was by sheer chance that it even did get picked up. After being impressed by Toei's take on ''Spider-Man'', Stan Lee wanted to bring Super Sentai to America. Lee had a dubbed pilot of ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'' made and tasked executive Margaret Loesch with pitching the show to networks (Creator/{{HBO}}, then young and desperate for programming, was a potential home). Despite having a previous reputation for such programs as ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'', she was laughed out of buildings. Eventually, she gave up and Marvel gave back the ''Super Sentai'' adaptation rights back to Toei. Seven years later and now an executive at the fledgling Fox Kids Network (where she and Lee had teamed up again to give another rejected idea of theirs, [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries an animated series based on the Marvel comic]] ''ComicBook/XMen'', a shot), Loesch meets a children's producer named Haim Saban. He demoed a few shows to Loesch from his European studio that failed to impress. She asks if he has something that's "new". Saban leaves and a few minutes comes back with a demo tape; he asks her not to laugh at it. Loesch jumps on it and gives the green light to produce the show. Even then the plug was almost pulled on ''Power Rangers'' before it even aired, but Loesch told her doubters at Fox that she had a back up if the show failed (and to convince the Fox affiliates to air the show, she cut a deal where they'd get a share of the profits from the toy sales; one can imagine they were happy to air the show once toys started flying off the shelves). WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic admits that he thought this about ''Power Rangers''... then goes on to add "And that's why I'm not in the stock market."

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: This American-made recreation of a Japanese series has a fanbase in Japan, since, all things considered, it's as much a Sentai as it's Japanese counterpart.

** Tommy Oliver of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was insanely popular with kids back when the show was first airing, and his increased role and eventual leading of the team was because of this popularity. However, he has become a BaseBreakingCharacter as the years have gone by; many fans lamenting his [[SpotlightStealingSquad frequent dominating of airtime]], being ridiculously [[InvincibleHero overpowered]], how Kimberly and Kat often underwent {{Chickification}} just so he could look cool by saving them, how often the franchise brings him back in favor of other past rangers, and constantly being shilled in-universe as being ''the'' best ranger of all time. There are also those who resent his actor for allegedly only becoming TheLeader due to strike breaking when the original cast were trying to negotiate for better pay and working conditions (which is what led to Austin St John, Thuy Trang and Walter Jones walking off the set); suggesting that to also be a reason for Tommy's increased role.

** Going from plastic tray packaging to plastic-free packaging is seen is a major downgrade. Many of the figures end up coming in broken or with bent weapons, and the lack of a window means one cannot check the figure themselves if it's missing accessories or paint beforehand.

** The "Neo-Saban" era is generally treated as a Dork Age. Consisting of ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' (and ''Super Samurai''), ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' (and ''Super Megaforce'') ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' (and ''Dino Supercharge'') and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'', these seasons were loaded with non-existent characters, direct copying of the Sentai without any context or sense, dialogue that was childish even by Power Rangers standards, and a slew of other problems that all came to a head in a massively disappointing Anniversary Season. The season ''Dino Charge'', headed by former PR writer Judd Lynn, attempted to fix many of the issues fans had with the previous four seasons, but it backfired when the writing quality dropped during ''Dino Supercharge'', which was followed by the even more derided ''Power Rangers Ninja Steel''.
** The specific period during season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'' after Jason, Zack and Trini's actors left the show, before their characters leave ("Power Transfer II"), because their characters were in the show but only using stock footage and while morphed using bad dubbers for their dialogue.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Hasbro has made such instances.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Zord Builder toys often got this, as the forced integration of the joints sometimes resulted in the Megazords combining in different ways than the show.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: It took Creator/HaimSaban years to convince a network to give it a chance. It wasn't much of one, the show (which used footage and costumes from the recently-ended SoOkayItsAverage ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'') was only set to run for one short season of forty episodes. But ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' proved to be a colossal hit, and Creator/FoxKids extended and renewed the show at the last minute (literally — they had to hurriedly alter the intended finale and it shows). Additional action footage was commissioned from Toei, with the handful of leftover monster fights being used to fill the gap until the first reels of this arrived. ''Power Rangers'' endures to this day, and has been {{Uncanceled}} ''[[SerialEscalation multiple times]]''. As the original "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Go Go Power Rangers]]" theme song says:

* DorkAge: The series has had a few dork ages, although some of them are seen a bit kinder with time passing.
** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' tried to shoehorn [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger extremely goofy source material]] into a not-so-silly story (and to add insult to injury, ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' later showed how to do such a thing right, by running with the ridiculous aspects and mocking them in the process). ''Turbo'' also had some horrible [[TheScrappy Scrappies]] in the form of [[CousinOliver Justin]], [[ReplacementScrappy Dimitria]], and [[TotallyRadical Alpha 6]].
** The "Kallish Era" at Disney is considered a dorky time for the franchise, with an overuse of oversized explosions, over reliance on non ranger powers, problematic characterization of rangers in certain seasons, and issues in writing quality compared with what came before. ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' was already divisive enough, but it was the next two (''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' and ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'') that really exasperated the problems in this era. So much so that the followup ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was largely forgotten, though that series now gets a consistent stamp of "Underrrated" these days. It took the franchise nearly being cancelled to jolt them out of it with the very different ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', but unfortunately, this was not the end of the bad times for Power Rangers.
** The "Neo-Saban" era is generally treated as a Dork Age. Consisting of ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' (and ''Super Samurai''), ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' (and ''Super Megaforce'') ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' (and ''Dino Supercharge'') and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'', these seasons were loaded with non-existent characters, direct copying of the Sentai without any context or sense, dialogue that was childish even by Power Rangers standards, and a slew of other problems that all came to a head in a massively disappointing Anniversary Season. The season ''Dino Charge'', headed by former PR writer Judd Lynn, attempted to fix many of the issues fans had with the previous four seasons, but it backfired when the writing quality dropped during ''Dino Supercharge'', which was followed by the even more derided ''Power Rangers Ninja Steel''.
** The specific period during season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'' after Jason, Zack and Trini's actors left the show, before their characters leave ("Power Transfer II"), because their characters were in the show but only using stock footage and while morphed using bad dubbers for their dialogue.

*** [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom The Blue Senturion]] isn't very popular either. The [[EpilepticTrees fan theory]] that he was, in fact, responsible for the events of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' didn't help; though that was eventually {{Jossed}} by [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai "Clash of the Red Rangers"]].

* UnfortunateImplications:
** The original [[http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/power-rangers/180679/themes-of-power-rangers-diversity-and-tolerance Black Ranger was black and the original Yellow Ranger was Asian]] (the producers did not realize what they had accidentally done until several episodes in, when it was too late to change anything). This is furthered evidenced by The ''Galaxy Ranger'' Promo that Saban made for Bandai in 1992 (likely made of original footage made for a ''Bioman'' pilot) in that Zach was Biorhythm Green and Trini is Biorhythm White. Then there was the writers' later decision to Tommy's Native American heritage considering he was the Red Ranger in ''Zeo'' and ''Turbo''.
** As of ''Megaforce'', the "only one black person per team, but no limits on white or white-passing people" dynamic is starting to come under serious scrutiny after an incident where [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161120032759/https://risingsuntokusatsu.com/2012/07/18/saban-gets-racial-during-the-casting-of-power-rangers-megaforce/ actress Sundai Love was apparently told this was the reason they wouldn't cast her]].

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: Just about any season is bound to get this to some degree, often coupled with accusations of the ''Sentai'' source material being "dumbed down" to make it more kid-friendly due to the differences in broadcast standards between Japan and the west.