History YMMV / PowerRangersInSpace

** Dark Spector threatens to wipe out all life on Earth with a giant asteroid if the rangers don't turn Karone back over, and even after she's brainwashed, he lets the asteroid continue on its course anyways.

** Ecliptor being killed by the Z Wave could count as this. Despite being created solely to be evil, he had shown a loyalty to Astromena, and was only evil in the finale due to being brainwashed by Dark Specter. Meanwhile, Zedd, Rita, and Divatox were purified by the Wave, [[spoiler: with Rita going on to become, of all things, the [[PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Mother]]]], despite them all having been shown as unrepentant in their villainy in previous seasons.

*** Especially considering that this caused a whole lot of [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce]] episodes to be re-edited and/or completely unaired when that series aired at about this time.

** It's debatable, but there are elements of this in the Psycho Ranger arc - the season had to that point been focused on the Rangers searching for Zordon and the massing armies of Dark Specter that consisted of all the [BigBad Big Bads]] of the previous seasons, and then that all takes a backseat for eight episodes of a nearly beat-for-beat translation of the equivalent arc from Megaranger, keeping the Rangers mostly confined to Earth. While the Psycho Rangers delivered a storyline that fans had been waiting for since Rita unleashed the evil Green Ranger on the original Power Rangers, it did take away time from the ongoing storyline that this season had been building up to that point.

** It's debatable, but there are elements of this in the Psycho Ranger arc - the season had to that point been focused on the Rangers searching for Zordon and the massing armies of Dark Specter that consisted of all the BigBads of the previous seasons, and then that all takes a backseat for eight episodes of a nearly beat-for-beat translation of the equivalent arc from Megaranger, keeping the Rangers mostly confined to Earth. While the Psycho Rangers delivered a storyline that fans had been waiting for since Rita unleashed the evil Green Ranger on the original Power Rangers, it did take away time from the ongoing storyline that this season had been building up to that point.

** Astronema and Ecliptor are probably two of the more well-respected villains in the franchise. It likely helps that they are very effective villains with a [[EvilVirtues notable sense sense of respect and dedication to one another]] and that [[TheWoobie they undergo arcs that make them extremely sympathetic to viewers]].

* {{CreepyAwesome}}: Astronema.

** Astronema and Ecliptor are probably two of the more well-respected villains in the franchise. It likely helps that they have an actual sense of dedication to one another and that [[TheWoobie they undergo arcs that make them extremely sympathetic to viewers]].

* GrowingTheBeard: Considered this for the franchise as a whole as this was when the series truly started telling serialized storytelling instead of just episodic plots with some mini-story arcs

** Ecliptor being killed by the Z Wave could count as this. Despite being created solely to be evil, he had shown a loyalty to Astromena, and was only evil in the finale due to being brainwashed by Dark Specter. Meanwhile, Zedd, Rita, and Divatox were purified by the Wave, [[spoiler: with Rita going on to become the [[PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Mother]] of all things]], despite them all having been shown as unrepentant in their villainy in previous seasons.

** Ecliptor being killed by the Z Wave could count as this. Despite being created solely to be evil, he had shown a loyalty to Astromena, and was only evil in the finale due to being brainwashed by Dark Specter. Meanwhile, Zedd, Rita, and Divatox were purified by the Wave, (with Rita going on to become the [[PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Mother]] of all things) despite them all having been shown as unrepentant in their villainy in previous seasons.

** Ecliptor being killed by the Z Wave could count as this. Despite being created solely to be evil, he had shown a loyalty to Astromena, and was only evil in the finale due to being brainwashed by Dark Specter. Meanwhile, Zedd, Rita, and Divatox were purified by the Wave, despite them all having been shown as unrepentant in their villainy in previous seasons.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Being kidnapped at around age 5 or so by a CompleteMonster, taken away from everything you have known or loved and, forced/groomed/brainwashed into committing unspeakable acts of violence and atrocity for most all of your childhood and most, if not all, of your young adult life. [[SarcamsMode Thank the Heavens that kind of stuff doesn't happen for real]] ... oh wait a minute.

* ChildFear: You're enjoying a simple day of playing ball with your little sister when she accidentally throws the ball too far. You run off to get it and when you get back, your sister is nowhere to be found. It's only later that you learn she was kidnapped...and you spend years thinking God knows what has happened to her and that it's all your fault.

* ToughActToFollow: '''Every''' season after ''in Space'' has essentially been trying to copy the magic that made this season work. Some have managed better than others, but one major advantage this season has had over the others is the returning characters and strong [[MythologyGag mythology]] and [[ContinuityNod continuity]] nods. The standalone team, standalone season format makes it more difficult to escalate the action and develop the characters. This is possibly why, when Saban regained the franchise starting with ''Samurai'', they started following a two season format.

* HarsherInHindsight: There is an entire episode that focus on Astronema using a monster to attack a building with people inside and cause it fall over. Of course this is Power Rangers so everyone survives, but imagine the writers trying to get this episode off the ground post 9/11

* ToughActToFollow: '''Every''' season after ''in Space'' has essentially been trying to copy the magic that made this season work. Some have managed better than others, but one major advantage this season has had over the others is the returning characters and strong [[MythologyGag mythology]] and [[ContinuityNod continuity]] nods. The standalone team, standalone season format makes it more difficult to escalate the action and develop the characters.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheStarscream Darkonda]] kidnapped a little girl in the past to have her brainwashed and raised to become the evil Astronema. A vile, ruthless soldier of darkness, Darkonda displays no care for innocent lives and revels in causing pain to his foes. In a series with honorable antagonists, Darkonda is set apart by making [[ItsAllAboutMe loyalty solely to himself]] and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing everyone]] into a borderline religion. He tries to murder his [[NobleDemon noble ally]] Ecliptor, and occasionally forces Ecliptor to merge with him against his will before overwriting his mind to serve the forces of darkness as a brainwashed soldier. Darkonda attempts to outright murder the overlord of the forces of darkness, Dark Specter at points when it might even screw over his own side.

* MoralEventHorizon: Dark Spector threatens to wipe out all life on Earth with a giant asteroid if the rangers don't turn Karone back over, and even after she's brainwashed, he lets the asteroid continue on its course anyways.

** Her reveal in particular. We're used to seeing Astronema with a fairly rosy complexion and roughly a half-pound of shiny makeup, and she's very emotional, whether she's being sincere or hamming it up as a villain. When the chair spins around to reveal brainwashed Astronema, her face is ash-white, her voice entirely in monotone.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acV0UwxXOEA The main theme.]]

** ThePsychoRangers, for giving {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Power Rangers that were finally characters with individual personalities and villains in their own right rather than just a cheap EvilKnockOff. They're sheer [[{{Badass}} badassery]] also helped. They were popular enough to have a trope named after them. Even 15 years later, the fact that they were never made into action figures is still a sore subject in some parts of the Ranger fandom.

* CelebrityResemblance: In retrospect, and as [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] pointed out (as a running gag) in his ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' segments, Andros looks kinda like Orlando Bloom as [[Film/LordOfTheRings Legolas]].
** Coincidentally, he starred in a relatively unknown, made-for-TV, independent 2003 Christmas film called [[https://youtu.be/esQ3kETPjeE ''A Light in the Forest: The Legend of Holly Boy'']], based on the children's book by Frank Latino called ''The Legend of Holly Boy''. It mixed in some medieval fantasy elements, and in that film he played Holly Boy, a [[PlayingAgainstType happy-go-lucky]] [[HilariousInHindsight elf]] who was a [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Boy]]. This was made during the time when the fantasy genre in film saw a resurgence in popularity thanks to film adaptations of LOTR and Harry Potter. Needless to say, this spawned some more Legolas-jokes among some fans.
** When the show originally aired, it was widely assumed that Andros was supposed to look like an angsty Taylor Hanson with MulticoloredHair.

** When the PsychoRangers were introduced, Psycho Blue boasts, "We're smarter than you." Psycho Blue was voiced by Creator/WallyWingert, who would voice SelfDemonstrating/TheRiddler in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', who's also known to makes similar boasts.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Alpha 6. He started out in ''Turbo'' as a TotallyRadical ReplacementScrappy for Alpha 5, and the show surprisingly redeemed him by making him even ''more'' of a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, to the point where he's a straight {{Expy}} of 5. VocalEvolution played a big role, [[TheNthDoctor trading in]] the annoying [[BigApplesauce Noo]] [[AmericanAccents Yawk]] accent of Creator/CatherineBattistone to cute little brother[[CrossDressingVoices -ish]] vocals of Creator/WendeeLee.