History YMMV / PowerRangersLightspeedRescue

* EvilIsSexy: The one thing people like about Vypra is that she's pretty attractive.

* BadassDecay: Triskull, in the span of just one episode no less. In his first fight against the rangers, he curbstomps all five Lightspeed Rangers + 3 Lost Galaxy Rangers. In his second fight, when fighting only Carter and Leo, Carter takes him out ''with a single punch from his battle booster''.

** The situation that lead to Diabolico taking Ryan and forging him into a minion of evil is one of the most potent cases of fears in the entire series. Captain Mitchell is dangling from a cliff with his Dana in his free arm and Ryan holding on to his leg for dear life. Diabolico's spirt projects itself to him and tells him that he'd save Ryan in exchange for the boy's life becoming his. It becomes a truly SadisticChoice when at this point, Ryan's fingers slip and he begins ''plummeting to his death'' forcing Mitchell to take Diabolico's deal at the cost of never seeing his son again until Ryan turned 20. It should be kept in mind that Dana was ''very'' young during this incident and Ryan couldn't have been older than around six years old. Captain Mitchell had to spend over a decade agonizing over the fact that he couldn't save his son.

** The end of the episode where Diabolico dies. From Impus turning into a cocoon onward, to Queen Bansheera announcing herself to the Rangers... not helping is the legitimately good score the series has makes the cocoon descending from the sky ''actually'' unnerving. (Not helping is that on the VHS release, the cliffhanger of Impus' cocoon hovering over the city was a cliffhanger).
** Queen Banshera's deformed form is not a pretty sight.
** Banshera nearly returning before the ritual to bring her back is interrupted. The first thing she does is summon a giant tidal wave to destroy the city. If the ritual weren't stopped, she would have succeeded.

* MagnificentBastard: [[NoNonsenseNemesis Diabolico]] serves as TheHeavy until his first death and was the Lightspeed Rangers' smartest and most [[NobleDemon noble enemy]]. Prior to the season's start, Diabolico saved Captain Mitchell's son, Ryan, [[DealWithTheDevil at the cost of Ryan's life belonging to him]]. Raising Ryan with the belief that his father doesn't care about him, Diabolico has Ryan infiltrate the Aquabase steal the Titanium Morpher to sidestep the Demon's inability to enter water. When Ryan turns good, he sears a cursed tattoo into his back that will kill him when he morphs too much. When revived by Vypra and Loki, Diabolico works to undermine his rival Olympius, trapping him in the Shadow World and when Ryan manages to find the Sorcerer of the Sands to reseal the demons Diabolico counters the spell, reducing the Sorcerer to sand. When forced by Bansheera to kill Loki, Diabolico [[HeelFaceTurn swears off fealty]] and even after his final death manages to end the season taking revenge on her and saving Carter Grayson and the whole world.

* MemeticLoser: The old lady in the ''Lost Galaxy'' crossover who [[FlatEarthAtheist doesn't believe in monsters]] has been near-unanimously declared the single stupidest person in the history of the franchise.

** Speaking of Ryan, his time with the demons is rarely used for anything, aside from him informing the Rangers who Queen Bansheera and her son Impus (about to be Olympius) are. Diabolico practically raised him, but after the cobra arc they have no interaction with each other, even though it would have made sense for lingering affection for Ryan to be a factor in Diabolico's AdaptationalHeroism. Nor do we get any insight from Ryan on Loki or Vypra, who also would've had a hand in his upbringing, or what it was like to grow up in a demon pocket dimension instead of on Earth.

* VindicatedByHistory: To a degree. Keep in mind when ''Lightspeed'' came out it followed fan favorite seasons ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' and ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' and was succeeded by another fan favorite season, ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', so it was generally regarded as one of the worst with the possible exception of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''. But after that would come come much more panned seasons such as ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', and ''Lightspeed'' has fared a lot better in comparison.
** Not to mention, thanks to [[WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers Linkara]]'s review both Carter and the series' image overall is improved (though it was already improving beforehand, Linkara's review certainly sped it along). He points out how Carter Grayson may be dull but was a badass firefighter ''before'' being a ranger. While many fans disliked that Carter went for his guns first, Linkara ''loved'' that aspect because it made him one of the more [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic red rangers]].

* WTHCastingAgency: Koko Kashmere from the filler episode towards the end? She was played by Ruta Lee, famous as the model and dice roller from the original NBC run of ''Series/HighRollers''.

*** Speaking of Ryan, his time with the demons is rarely used for anything, aside from him informing the Rangers who Queen Bansheera and her son Impus (about to be Olympius) are. Diabolico practically raised him, but after the cobra arc they have no interaction with each other, even though it would have made sense for lingering affection for Ryan to be a factor in Diabolico's AdaptationalHeroism. Nor do we get any insight from Ryan on Loki or Vypra, who also would've had a hand in his upbringing, or what it was like to grow up in a demon pocket dimension instead of on Earth.

** Vypra, despite her actress's performance, could have easily been the most interesting villain of the season. The past two seasons had the human looking female villain either reformed (Astronema) or just a more complex character (Trakeena). Vypra... is neither. Her most notable aspect was acting as surrogate mother/big sister to Impus, but that goes away when he becomes Olympius. They could easily made her something else, a seductress, having a thing for one of the rangers or TheStarscream, instead she's just a henchwoman.

*** Speaking of Ryan, his time with the demons is rarely used for anything, aside from him informing the rangers who Queen Bansheera and her son Impus (about to be Olympius) are. Diabolico practically raised him, but after the cobra arc they have no interaction with each other, nor do we get any insight from him on Lokai or Vypra, who also would've had a hand in his upbringing.

* AlasPoorScrappy: Despite her actress' bad acting, it's hard not to feel sorry for Vypra when Queen Bansheera destroys her.

* HilariousInHindsight: Could the Lightspeed Rangers be secretly funded and operated by the [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corporation]]? Considering their ultimate Zord literally functions by [[CastFromHitPoints sucking away their life force]], it's more possible than you might think...
** A major villain from a previous series is revived for a crossover and teams up with a villain exclusively created for that crossover, and when they come back, they are wearing a mask. Am I talking about [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Trakeena]] in ''Trakeena's Revenge'' teaming up with Triskull, or [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Ryoma Sengoku]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderDrive Movie War Full Throttle]]'' teaming up with Megahex?
** If you've watched the source material, any episode that suggests Carter and Dana are interested in one another, since their sentai counterparts are '''siblings'''[[note]]unlike ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', where something similar happened, this would have happened regardless of which rangers Carter and Dana were, since in ''[=GoGoV=]'', the entire team was a family[[/note]].
** Creator/NeilKaplan voiced Diabolico here, and frequently had to deal with giant robots. The next year, he [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise became one]], and in 2015 [[WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender went right back to being a villain who hates giant robots]] (although Zarkon is more like Bansheera compared to Diabolico).
** Chad had a mermaid for a love interest. ''Power Rangers'' was later owned by a [[Creator/{{Disney}} company]] well known for making a [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid movie about a mermaid falling in love with a human]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Nearly every human-sized monster gets blown up, and Carter says "Mission Accomplished", except that Jinxer always brings them back to life and megazord-sized. Saying "Mission Accomplished" except the threat is far from over, and has actually gotten worse? Seems like President Bush's infamous 2003 moment, but ''Lightspeed Rescue'' aired in 2000.

* TheScrappy: The large reason why Vypra was so hated was due to Jennifer Yen's [[{{Narm}} notoriously bad acting]], even ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' than the typical ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' fare.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Carter Grayson. As explained in NeverLiveItDown, his preference for using blasters ([[MisBlamed even though he was just following his Sentai counterpart with the footage provided among other reasons]]) and [[DullSurprise having the personality of a wooden board]] were the major reasons why he was originally hated, but over the years he became known as a MemeticBadass thanks to his strong attitude, tough demeanor and all-around Awesomeness, sometimes ''because'' of his use of blasters. He was VindicatedByHistory largely thanks to Creator/{{Linkara}}, watching the series with fresh eyes, singling out his best moments in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers''.