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| 19 | [[caption-width-right:350:''Go, go, Power Rangers!'']] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | ->''"They've got\ |
| 22 | A power and force that you've never seen before!\ |
| 23 | They've got\ |
| 24 | The ability to morph and to even up the score!\ |
| 25 | No one\ |
| 26 | Can ever take them down!\ |
| 27 | The power lies on their si-yi-yi-yi-yi-yide!"'' |
| 28 | -->-- '''Go Go Power Rangers''' by Ron Wasserman |
| 29 | |
| 30 | In the mid 1980's, [[Creator/SabanEntertainment Haim Saban]], producer of imported children's programming and game shows such as ''Series/ImTelling'' and ''Series/CouchPotatoes'', came across a Japanese television anthology series called ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', about a group of people given extraordinary powers to combat forces attempting to conquer the universe. Intrigued, Saban planned to bring the concept to the US. However, knowing the cost to film original fight scenes, he instead used [[{{Frankenslation}} a style not dissimilar to Carl Macek's treatment]] of ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'', taking the action sequences as a template and intercutting them with American actors and original story. After years of unsuccessful attempts to adapt previous ''Sentai'' programs such as ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'' and ''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman''[[note]]Which technically ''did'' make it to the US as a GagDub on the Creator/USANetwork & Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in 1987.[[/note]], in 1993, Haim took the concept to Margaret Loesch, then-president of Creator/{{Fox}}'s children's division, Creator/FoxKids. Loesch bought the show (primarily because, well before Saban was involved, she had tried a similar approach with an attempted adaptation of ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'' at Marvel Productions) and, using footage from the previous year's Sentai, ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', Haim and his partner Shuki Levy launched ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the first entry in what would become one of the most iconic and beloved franchises in American television. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | The original story followed the adventures of five "[[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude teenagers with attitude]]", selected by an alien being called Zordon to fight his eternal enemy Rita Repulsa who was recently [[SealedEvilInACan released from containment.]] Naturally, she came with her own army of [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]]. Zordon gave each teenager a TransformationTrinket to "morph" into costume as well as powerful HumongousMecha shaped like dinosaurs, called "Zords", named after Zordon. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Originally intended for a single forty-episode season, its surprising success in America led the production team to seek ways to extend its lifespan. The first was commissioning new original footage from the Sentai production staff and [[PostScriptSeason extending the show's first season]]. When the time came for a second season they decided to incorporate the mecha from Zyuranger's successor ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]'' via a MidSeasonUpgrade justification, while continuing to use the Zyuranger costumes via ''American''-filmed footage, cutting the show from multiple sources. The same was done in the third season, with the next sentai ''[[Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger Kakuranger]]'', and by the fourth season made the leap to the Sentai tradition of introducing both new costumes and mechas every year using ''[[Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger Ohranger]]'' footage, effectively creating the SequelSeries ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' and ending the "Mighty Morphin'" era. This was widely acknowledged to be a major cost saving move for the show, whose ratings had slipped considerably during the third season, making it no longer cost-effective to shoot all-new footage just to keep the ''Zyuranger'' costumes. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | After that each year they would do the same, give the show a new name based on the appropriate Sentai and feature a change to new costumes, weapons and Zords. It was not until the seventh season (''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'') that they took the final step in replacing the entire cast of heroes and villains every year. From now on, each season would end with the retirement of the entire team and the next season would begin with a new cast of characters in a different city with a different set of powers facing new villains and a storyline establishing their origin. In addition to keeping the show fresh, this excused the writers' [[RecycledScript recycling]] plots such as "[[RookieRedRanger Red Ranger learns how to be a good leader]]" or "[[DefeatMeansFriendship Evil Ranger becomes ally]]." |
| 37 | |
| 38 | The extent to which each ''Power Rangers'' incarnation resembles its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart varies from season to season. In most cases, the general premise is preserved, but its interpretation is greatly changed. ''Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue'' added the US-exclusive "Titanium Ranger" to the team, while its counterpart ''Kyuukyuu Sentai [=GoGoV=]'' did not include a traditional SixthRanger. However, some series have closely followed the plots of their counterparts, and even borrowed whole episodes (''Time Force'', ''Wild Force'', ''SPD'', ''Samurai''). In other cases, the original premise is all but discarded (''Lost Galaxy'''s setting was changed from a LostWorld-style forest to a space station, and ''RPM'' took a goofy parody series with the mecha as [[RobotBuddy Robot Buddies]] and turned it into a story set AfterTheEnd). A major difference between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'' is that ''Power Rangers'' has a single continuity with all series set roughly in the same year they aired (the exceptions being ''SPD'', which was set TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, and ''RPM'' and ''Dino Charge'', which were placed in {{Alternate Universe}}s). Each ''Super Sentai'' season is typically treated as its own ContinuityReboot (barring ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', which uses nearly all prior Sentai series [[BroadStrokes as backstory in some form]][[note]]Which is not to say Toei did not flirt with the idea, if the crossover movies and the Gokaigers' appearance in ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' are any indication[[/note]]). |
| 39 | |
| 40 | During production of its ninth season (''Time Force''), the show was acquired by Creator/{{Disney}} as part of a Creator/SabanEntertainment package deal for the purchase of what is now known as {{Creator/Freeform}}. The tenth anniversary season, ''Wild Force'' was the first season produced under Disney and the last to be produced by MMPR Productions in California. It was originally set to be the final season; however instead, Disney was convinced to move production to Auckland, New Zealand as a cost cutting measure. Village Roadshow Productions took over production starting with the eleventh season (''Ninja Storm''), |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Disney, having grown increasingly ashamed of having Power Rangers in its portfolio, officially cancelled it before the start of the seventeenth season (''RPM'') and the following year aired a heavily edited version of MMPR Season 1. However, in May 2010 Haim Saban, under a new umbrella venture called Creator/SabanBrands, reacquired the rights to Power Rangers, uncancelling it. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | In early 2018, coinciding with its silver anniversary, Power Rangers ended a 25-year partnership with Bandai America as their toy manufacturer to team up with Creator/{{Hasbro}}, who several months later bought the franchise outright (excluding elements from the original Japanese source material, which are still owned by Toei and require Hasbro to license their use) and assumed production of the series beginning with its 26th season (''Beast Morphers''). The only PR properties Hasbro doesn't own outright are the three feature films; the first two are owned by Creator/{{Disney}} while the third is owned by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Also has [[Timeline/PowerRangers a (mostly) complete timeline]]. |
| 47 | ---- |
| 48 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:The (First) Saban Era (1993-2002)]] |
| 51 | [[index]] |
| 52 | * 1993-96: ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' |
| 53 | ** Season 1: Based on ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', with newly recorded action sequences by the end of the season. |
| 54 | ** Season 2: Based on ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'', though retaining the Rangers' ''Zyuranger'' suits. |
| 55 | ** Season 3: Based on ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'', while retaining the Ranger costumes from previous seasons. |
| 56 | *** ''Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers'': A miniseries based fully on ''Kakuranger''. |
| 57 | * 1996: ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' (''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'') |
| 58 | * 1997: ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' (''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'') |
| 59 | * 1998: ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' (''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'') |
| 60 | * 1999: ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' (''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'') |
| 61 | * 2000: ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' (''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'') |
| 62 | * 2001: ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' (''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'') |
| 63 | * 2002: ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' (''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'')[[note]]While Disney took control of the franchise in the middle of the season, ''Wild Force'' retained the Saban production team for the full run.[[/note]] |
| 64 | ---- |
| 65 | [[index]] |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:The Disney Era (2003-2010)]] |
| 69 | [[index]] |
| 70 | * 2003: ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' (''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'') |
| 71 | * 2004: ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' (''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'') |
| 72 | * 2005: ''Series/PowerRangersSPD [-Space Patrol Delta-]'' (''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'') |
| 73 | * 2006: ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' (''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'') |
| 74 | * 2007: ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' (''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'') |
| 75 | * 2008: ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' (''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'') |
| 76 | * 2009: ''Series/PowerRangersRPM [-Racing Performance Machines-]'' (''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'')[[/index]] |
| 77 | * 2010: A {{recut}} of the first half of ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'' Season 1. |
| 78 | ---- |
| 79 | [[index]] |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:The Neo-Saban Era (2011-2018)]] |
| 83 | [[index]] |
| 84 | [-Note: As Nickelodeon adapted a policy of two twenty episode seasons, these are divided into a standard and "Super" season.-] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | * 2011-12: ''[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Power Rangers (Super) Samurai]]'' (''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'') |
| 87 | * 2013-14: ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers (Super) Megaforce]]'' (both ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' and ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''; with ''Megaforce'' based primarily on ''Goseiger'' and ''Super Megaforce'' using more ''Gokaiger'' material) |
| 88 | * 2015-16: ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Power Rangers Dino (Super)Charge]]'' (''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'', skipping over ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' for the time being) |
| 89 | * 2017-18: ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Power Rangers (Super) Ninja Steel]]'' (''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', skipping over ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'') |
| 90 | ---- |
| 91 | [[index]] |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:The Hasbro Era (2019-2023)]] |
| 95 | [[index]] |
| 96 | [-Note: Nickelodeon's policy of two twenty-episode seasons is still in effect through ''Dino Fury'', but series are now going without the "Super" to differentiate the two seasons.-] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | * 2019-20: ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' (''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'', the first Sentai to be adapted "out of order") |
| 99 | * 2021-22: ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'' (''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'', skipping over multiple ''Sentai'' seasons since ''Ninninger''[[note]]''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'', ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'', and ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger''[[/note]]) |
| 100 | * 2023: ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'' (''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'', using zord footage only with the Rangers in redesigned ''Ryusoulger'' suits.)[[note]]The first season since ''In Space'' to keep the cast of the previous season[[/note]] |
| 101 | ---- |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | ---- |
| 104 | [[folder:ComicBooks]] |
| 105 | [[/index]] |
| 106 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (Hamilton Comics, 1994-1995) |
| 107 | ** ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (1995) |
| 108 | ** ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Saga'' (1995) |
| 109 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (Creator/{{Marvel}}, 1995) |
| 110 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (Creator/{{Marvel}}, 1995-1996) |
| 111 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ninja Rangers/VR Troopers'' (Creator/{{Marvel}}, 1995-1996) |
| 112 | * ''Masked Rider'' (Creator/{{Marvel}}, 1996) |
| 113 | * ''Power Rangers Zeo'' (Creator/ImageComics, 1996) |
| 114 | * ''Power Rangers Turbo'' (Acclaim, 1997)[[index]] |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/PowerRangersTurboVsBeetleborgsMetallix'' (Acclaim, 1997) |
| 116 | * [[/index]]''Power Rangers Ninja Storm Vol. 1: Dark Sky Overhead'' (Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, 2003 |
| 117 | ** ''Power Rangers Ninja Storm Vol. 2: Lightning Strike'' (2003) |
| 118 | ** ''Power Rangers Ninja Storm Vol. 3: Thunder Strangers'' (2004) |
| 119 | * ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder Vol. 1: Day of the Dino'' (Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, 2004) |
| 120 | * ''Power Rangers'' (Creator/{{Papercutz}}, 2012-2013) - Includes stories from ''Super Samurai'' and ''Megaforce''. |
| 121 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: By Bug... Betrayed'' (Creator/{{Papercutz}}, 2014) |
| 122 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1: Rita Repulsa's Attitude Adjustment'' (Creator/{{Papercutz}}, 2014) |
| 123 | ** ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2: Going Green'' (2014)[[index]] |
| 124 | * ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios'' (2016-present) is a comic series baseed on ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'', updating the setting to the present day and featuring a more mature tone. The first series began shortly after the "Green With Evil" saga before diverging, with ''Go Go Power Rangers'' later detailing the early days of the original five members, which diverge from the show's continuity after "Day of the Dumpster". The series has a number of spinoffs, which are listed on that page. |
| 125 | * ''Power Rangers: Aftershock'' [[/index]](Creator/BoomStudios, 2017) - Follow up to the 2017 movie. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 129 | [[index]] |
| 130 | * ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' (1995) was a big-budget affair with entirely US-produced footage and extensive CGI, set as a NonSerialMovie in an AlternateContinuity to the late Season Two status quo. The quest to acquire new powers after the old ones were destroyed was reused for MMPR season 3 episodes 4-7. |
| 131 | * ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'' (1997) is set within the regular continuity, beginning some time after the last episode of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' and setting up the premise of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''; essentially a feature-length pilot episode but also functions as a SoftReboot as previous powers and villains are either absent or downplayed. |
| 132 | * ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' is a ContinuityReboot film produced by Saban Brands and Lionsgate, going back to the original ''MMPR'' characters and premise.[[/index]] |
| 133 | * ''Untitled young adult-oriented film, TV and animated shared universe'' (TBA), set to be spearheaded by [[Series/TheEndOfTheFuckingWorld Jonathan]] [[Series/IAmNotOkayWithThis Entwistle]] and was [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/power-rangers-getting-film-and-tv-treatment-from-im-not-okay-with-this-co-creator-exclusive confirmed]] on October 20, 2020.[[index]] |
| 134 | * ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways'' (2023) an in-continuity MilestoneCelebration special reuniting numerous past cast members from ''Mighty Morphin''[[note]]Creator/DavidYost, Creator/WalterEmanuelJones, Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, Karan Ashley, Steve Cardenas, Catherine Sutherland, Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/BarbaraGoodson[[/note]] and tell a brand new story starring the Mighty Morphin' team training the daughter of original Yellow Ranger Trini Kwan. |
| 135 | [[/index]] |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:TabletopGames]] |
| 139 | * ''Thunder Megazord's Card Game'' (1994) |
| 140 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Revenge of Lord Zedd Game'' (1994) |
| 141 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Gigantik Game'' (1994) |
| 142 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Battling Dice Game'' (1994) |
| 143 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers War of the Zords'' (1994) |
| 144 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Good Against Evil Game'' (1994) |
| 145 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Game'' (1994) |
| 146 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Dart Target Game'' (1994) |
| 147 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Audio Game'' (1994) |
| 148 | * ''Power Rangers in Space: Space Pursuit Pop Action Dice Game'' (1998) |
| 149 | * ''Power Rangers Time Force Circle of Power Game'' (2002) |
| 150 | * ''Power Rangers Wild Force Circle of Power Game'' (2003) |
| 151 | * ''Power Rangers Collectible Card Game'' (2008) |
| 152 | * ''Power Rangers Super Samurai Samuraizer Switch Game'' (2012) |
| 153 | * ''Power Rangers Super Samurai vs. Nighlok'' (2012) |
| 154 | * ''Power Rangers Super Samurai Make A Match Memory Game'' (2012) |
| 155 | * ''Power Rangers Samurai Pop 'N' Race'' (2012) |
| 156 | * ''Power Rangers Action Card Game'' (2013) |
| 157 | * ''Monopoly: Power Rangers 20th Anniversary Edition Game'' (2013) |
| 158 | * ''TabletopGame/PowerRangersHeroesOfTheGrid'' (2019) - A co-operative {{Board Game|s}} for 2-5 players taking the role of Rangers saving Angel Grove from Rita Repulsa and her evil army of monsters. This game also has a large amount of expansions featuring rangers and villains from other seasons. |
| 159 | * ''Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game'' (2021) |
| 160 | * ''Power Rangers: The Roleplaying Game'' (2022) |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:VideoGames]] |
| 164 | [[index]] |
| 165 | * Console/PC/Handheld Games: |
| 166 | ** ''VideoGame/MightyMorphinPowerRangersSega'' (1994) - FightingGame developed by Creator/{{Banpresto}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}} for the Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/MegaDrive, and Platform/GameGear, as well as a full motion video-based QuickTimeEvent game for the Platform/SegaCD. |
| 167 | ** ''VideoGame/MightyMorphinPowerRangersNintendo'' (1994) - A [=2D=] side-scrolling brawler developed by Creator/{{Natsume}} and published by Creator/{{Bandai}} for the Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem and Platform/GameBoy. |
| 168 | ** ''VideoGame/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' (1995) - Four different games based on the movie by different developers for the Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/GameBoy, and Platform/GameGear. |
| 169 | ** ''VideoGame/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheFightingEdition'' (1995) - Another Power Rangers FightingGame, this time developed for the Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem; features [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie Ivan Ooze]] as the Final Boss. |
| 170 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersZeoVsTheMachineEmpire'' (1996) - PC BeatEmUp where the Zeo Rangers must collect their stolen Zeo Crystals before defeating King Mondo. |
| 171 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersZeoFullTiltBattlePinball'' (1996) - A {{Pinball}} game for the Platform/PlayStation where you must stop King Mondo from attacking areas around the world via your mad pinball skills. |
| 172 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersZeoBattleRacers'' (1996) - RacingGame that shamelessly copies ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'', right down to the track layouts. |
| 173 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' (2000) - For the Platform/PlayStation, Platform/Nintendo64, and Platform/GameBoyColor. The start of Creator/{{THQ}}'s era of making games for the franchise. |
| 174 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersTimeForce'' (2001) - For the Platform/PlayStation, Platform/GameBoyColor, and Platform/GameBoyAdvance. Based more on what the show team ''wanted'' to do with the series rather than what actually happened. |
| 175 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersWildForce'' (2002) - For the Platform/GameBoyAdvance. Isometric BeatEmUp with a TagTeam mechanic. |
| 176 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' (2003) - For the Platform/GameBoyAdvance. Features three different campaigns, depending on if you choose the Wind Rangers, Thunder Rangers, or the Green Samurai Ranger. |
| 177 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' (2004) - For the Platform/NintendoGameCube, Platform/PlayStation2, and Platform/GameBoyAdvance. The console versions have you playing exclusively as the Zords, with the ability to unlock Zords from ''Wild Force'' and ''Ninja Storm''. The GBA version includes puzzles and a customizable Megazord. |
| 178 | ** ''2 Games in 1 Double Pack: Power Rangers Ninja Storm + Power Rangers Time Force'' (2005) - A re-release of the GBA games in one cart. |
| 179 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersSPD'' (2005) - Natsume & THQ's final game. More closely based on the season it's named after than previous efforts. |
| 180 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersSuperLegends'' (2007) - A game published by Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios back when Disney owned the rights to the franchise and was released on PC, [=PlayStation=] 2, and Nintendo DS, featuring playable Rangers from multiple teams, up to the then-current season ''Operation Overdrive''. |
| 181 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersSamurai'' (2011) - [[/index]]BeatEmUp for the Platform/{{Wii}} and Platform/NintendoDS, with the former being in 3D. |
| 182 | *** ''Power Rangers Super Samurai'' (2012) - BeatEmUp for the Platform/{{Kinect}} sensor for the Platform/XBox360. Tropes for this game are on the same page as ''Samurai'''s.[[index]] |
| 183 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersMegaforce'' (2013) - [[/index]]BeatEmUp for the Platform/Nintendo3DS. Can unlock the ability to play as the ''Mighty Morphin'' Rangers. |
| 184 | *** ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce'' (2014) - BeatEmUp also for the Platform/Nintendo3DS. Tropes go on the same page as its predecessor. [[index]] |
| 185 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersBeatsOfPower'' (2014) - A {{Retraux}} game with graphics from the SNES and Genesis games, mostly based on Season 2. |
| 186 | ** ''VideoGame/MightyMorphinPowerRangersMegaBattle'' (2017) - A BeatEmUp developed by Bamtang, a re-imagining of the story combining elements of the first three seasons into a new plot. |
| 187 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersBattleForTheGrid'' (2019) - A FightingGame for consoles and PC, developed by the same people behind ''Legacy Wars'' but featuring much different gameplay. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | * Browser/Mobile Games: |
| 190 | ** ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder: Dino Gem'' (2004) - [[/index]]PuzzleGame[[index]] where you match colored Dino Gems to rack up a high score. |
| 191 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersRocketStorm'' (2005) - Flash game that came with the ''Generations'' DVD in the UK. |
| 192 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai SMASH!'' (2011) - [=iOS=] [[/index]]BeatEmUp with SuperDeformed graphics. |
| 193 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai Steel'' (2011) - [=iOS=] 3D BeatEmUp made specifically for [=iPads=]. |
| 194 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai: Dojo Defender'' (2011) - ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders''-esque shooter where the Samurai Rangers must defend the Shiba House from Moogers. |
| 195 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai: Flip Out'' (2011) - EndlessRunningGame where you play as Jayden having to defeat Moogers. |
| 196 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai: Portal Power'' (2011) - Arena brawler where you play as the Folding Zords. |
| 197 | ** ''Power Rangers Samurai: Rangers Together, Samurai Forever'' (2011) - Online sidescrolling brawler featuring both Rangers and Megazord battles, heavily based on the GBA ''Dino Thunder'' game. |
| 198 | ** ''Power Rangers Legends'' (2012) - [=iOS=] 3D brawler where you start out as ''Mighty Morphin'' Green Ranger.[[index]] |
| 199 | ** ''VideoGame/NickelodeonSuperBrawl'' series (2012-2018) - Characters from ''Samurai'', ''Dino Charge'', and ''Ninja Steel'' made appearances in the series due to the shows airing on Nick.[[/index]] |
| 200 | ** ''Power Rangers Card Scanner'' (2012) - Mobile app for curating your Action Battle Game cards from the ''Megaforce'' toyline. |
| 201 | ** ''Power Rangers Key Scanner'' (2013) - Mobile app for curating your Ranger Key collection from the toyline. |
| 202 | ** ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Legacy'' (2014) - Sidescrolling brawler where you can play as the ''Samurai'' or ''Super Megaforce'' Rangers, while also summoning ''Mighty Morphin'', ''In Space'', or ''Time Force'' Rangers for finishing moves. |
| 203 | ** ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Super Strike!'' (2014) - Sidescrolling ShootEmUp focusing on the Zords. |
| 204 | ** ''Power Rangers Dino Charge Scanner'' (2014) - Mobile app for curating your Dino Charger collection from the toyline. |
| 205 | ** ''Power Rangers Dash'' (2015) - EndlessRunningGame featuring Rangers up to ''Dino Charge''. |
| 206 | ** ''Power Rangers Unite'' (2015) - CardBattleGame featuring Rangers from across the franchise. |
| 207 | ** ''Power Rangers Dino Charge Rumble'' (2015) - 3D turn-based RPG for Android/[=iOS=]. |
| 208 | ** ''Power Rangers Dino Charge: Keeper's Escape'' (2015) - Flash game where you play as Keeper trying to escape Sledge and get to Earth. |
| 209 | ** ''Ultimate Hero Clash'' (2016) - A {{Crossover}} FightingGame where the Rangers face off against the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012]] incarnation of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. |
| 210 | ** ''Ultimate Hero Clash 2'' (2017) - Sequel to the previous game. Still including the 2012 Turtles, but this time the Rangers roster is limited to the ''Ninja Steel'' team.[[index]] |
| 211 | ** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLegacyWars'' (2018) - [[/index]]Initially made to celebrate the reboot movie and is now a celebration of all things ''Power Rangers''... by fighting everyone in the franchise. |
| 212 | ** ''Power Rangers: All Stars'' (2018) - Similar to VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight, was only released in the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. Shuttered in 2021. |
| 213 | ** ''Power Rangers: Morphin Legends'' (2022) - Announced as a turn-based RPG featuring Rangers from across the franchise, but was cancelled after a closed beta period.[[index]] |
| 214 | [[/index]] |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Soundtracks]] |
| 218 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A Rock Adventure'' (1994) - Features most of the vocal songs and select background tracks from the first two seasons. |
| 219 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie: Original Soundtrack Album'' (1995) - Includes all the vocal songs from the first movie, with several other songs relating to the Rangers or the themes of the movie. |
| 220 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie: Original Motion Picture Score'' (1995) - Includes all the non-vocal background music from the movie. |
| 221 | * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ultimate Rock Adventure'' (1996) - A 2-CD set featuring every vocal song from the show along with several background music tracks. |
| 222 | * ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Soundtrack Album'' (1998) - Soundtrack to the movie, but also includes several songs from ''Zeo'' as album filler. |
| 223 | * ''Best of the Power Rangers: Songs from the TV series'' (2006) - A collection of theme and insert songs from all seasons up until ''Wild Force''. |
| 224 | * ''Power Rangers: Songs from the TV Series'' (2007) - Updated collection to add themes up to ''Mystic Force''. |
| 225 | * ''Power Rangers: Songs from the TV series'' (2008) - Updated collection with more opening themes up until ''Operation Overdrive''. |
| 226 | * ''Power Rangers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (2017) - Official soundtrack of the 2017 movie. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Other Power Rangers media]] |
| 230 | [[index]] |
| 231 | * The various Toys/PowerRangers toylines. |
| 232 | * ''World Live Tour: On Stage'' (1995) - Has the Season 2 ''Mighty Morphin'' team face off against Zedd's latest monster, Lumitor the Fire Lion, in a live stage show. |
| 233 | * The WebVideo/PowerRangersMarathonStream (2017), a two-week online marathon hosted by Platform/{{Twitch}} TV that showed all 23 seasons to date to promote the upcoming movie. |
| 234 | * ''WebVideo/PowerRangersHyperforce'' (2017-2018) is a tabletop game ActualPlay produced by Creator/HyperRPG that features former cast members and fans. |
| 235 | * ''WebVideo/PowerRangersDayOfDestiny'' (2021), a second ActualPlay series produced by Renegade Game Studios. |
| 236 | ---- |
| 237 | [[/index]] |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | |
| 241 | All completed seasons (and the 2010 recut of ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'') are available on DVD, with select seasons available for streaming on {{Creator/Netflix}}. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | The official website can be found [[http://powerrangers.com/ here]], along with the official Creator/{{Bandai}} [[https://www.youtube.com/sabanspowerrangers YouTube page]], the Creator/{{Hasbro}} [[https://www.youtube.com/user/prsamuraicast/videos YouTube page]], [[http://twitter.com/PowerRangerNews Twitter]], [[https://www.facebook.com/powerrangers Facebook page]], and [[http://instagram.com/powerrangerspics Instagram]]. The latter's [=YouTube=] channel also serving as a [[RereleasedForFree new home for full episodes of the series.]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | And JustForFun, we direct you to [[SoYouWantTo/WriteTheNextSuperSentai So You Want To Write The Next Super Sentai]]; most of which applies to ''Power Rangers'' as well. |
| 246 | ---- |
| 247 | !!The franchise is the {{Trope Namer|s}} for: |
| 248 | |
| 249 | * "Abandoned Warehouse District" (now known as ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding) came from a line in ''Mighty Morphin'''. The franchise as a whole regularly has its giant battles cause massive property damage without people ''actually'' getting hurt. |
| 250 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: The specific {{Trope Namer|s}} is Rita Repulsa in ''Mighty Morphin''', though every season has constant examples except ''SPD'' (where it was only done occasionally, as most criminals had HumongousMecha instead), and ''Beast Morphers'' (where the giant robots were separate from the smaller monsters). |
| 251 | * PsychoPink: Shares its name with the Pink Ranger's EvilCounterpart in ''In Space'' (though perhaps by coincidence). While Psycho Pink wasn't any more or less "psycho" than her teammates of other colors, she did make a name for herself by [[spoiler:actually succeeding in killing a Pink Ranger]] when ''In Space'' crossed over with ''Lost Galaxy''. |
| 252 | * ThePsychoRangers: A term made popular thanks to ''In Space''; although other seasons had {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Rangers, they weren't part of an extended multi-episode story arc like the Psycho Rangers of ''In Space''. |
| 253 | * RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Actually a BeamMeUpScotty[[invoked]] situation, as the line in the opening is "Recruit ''a team'' of Teenagers with Attitude. In the show proper, Zordon tells Alpha to find "5 overbearing and overemotional humans," which Alpha translates to mean teenagers. |
| 254 | * RookieRedRanger: While not taking place in every season, several have the Red Ranger be an inexperienced newcomer compared to their teammates. |
| 255 | * SixthRanger: OnceASeason, and the Disney years wound up adapting ''Sentai'' that had multiple extra Rangers. It went to the point where ''Lightspeed Rescue'' made its own CanonForeigner Sixth Ranger: the Titanium Ranger. Coincidentally enough, ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' was the first to have a recurring sixth member and where it became a series staple for ''Super Sentai'', thus they can be considered co-Trope Namers. Subverted by the occasional MysteriousProtector and/or AloofAlly who doesn't join the team, and {{Double Subver|sion}}ted if they pass on the powers to someone who does. |
| 256 | ** By extension, SixthRangerTraitor and EleventhHourRanger were also named by ''Power Rangers'' despite the show not having very many examples. |
| 257 | ---- |
| 258 | !!The ''Power Rangers'' franchise provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Examples A - F]] |
| 261 | * TheAce: Phantom Ranger, Shadow Ranger, most {{Sixth Ranger}}s before the footage runs out. Virtually every Red Ranger qualifies. |
| 262 | * ActionGirl: All of the female Rangers fall under this, as they're all talented martial artists, either by training, AppliedPhlebotinum or magic. |
| 263 | * AdaptationAmalgamation: In multiple seasons. |
| 264 | ** Season 2 of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' combined footage from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', specially filmed footage and ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger''. Season 3 added ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' into this mix. |
| 265 | ** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' retains elements from the previous season ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' (namely, the ranger suits and morphers) and uses footage from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''. |
| 266 | ** There are numerous episodes of ''Power Rangers'' that will take footage from multiple episodes of the counterpart ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series (or even from other series) and use them in one episode. |
| 267 | ** Also partially counts: there are episodes of ''Power Rangers'' where they compress a plot spread over two ''Super Sentai'' episodes into one. An example of this occurred in ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' where the Rangers defeated Freezer Org in one episode, whereas their counterparts in ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' took two. |
| 268 | * AdaptationDistillation: It really depends on the season, with some being near-identical to their Sentais and some as different as can be while still sharing fight footage. |
| 269 | * AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: |
| 270 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Zack's [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]] counterpart, Goushi, lost a younger sister to [[BigBad Witch Bandora]]. Zack has no siblings to lose. |
| 271 | ** In ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'', [=TimeBlue=] was suffering from a terminal illness. The [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force Blue Ranger]], Lucas, is perfectly healthy. |
| 272 | ** In ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'', Ryoga lost his brother and sister-in-law in an accident, and struggled with raising his young niece throughout the series. His ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' counterpart, Connor, has no such backstory (due to being a teenager and all the other family members getting AdaptedOut). |
| 273 | ** Prior to the beginning of ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', [=DekaBlue=] and [=DekaYellow=] were captured by a criminal and held hostage. The original [=DekaRed=] suffered a CareerEndingInjury saving them, which both harbored guilt over. Their ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterparts were spared this backstory. |
| 274 | ** In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', the Magirangers struggled with the seeming death of their mother for most of the series. Their ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' counterparts did not as Udonna is not their mother ([[spoiler:at least for the rangers not named Nick]]) and rather than thinking she's dead, they know their mentor is alive but captured and she returns to the team much earlier. |
| 275 | ** [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger GekiRed]] lost both his parents to [[spoiler:Long, the actual BigBad of the series]]. [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Casey]] didn't lose anyone in his backstory. |
| 276 | ** [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger GoseiBlue]] lost his brother-in-arms [=GoseiGreen=] to a MonsterOfTheWeek before the Goseigers were fully assembled. Gosei Green was not adapted into ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Megaforce]]''. |
| 277 | ** In ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' Gokai Red's mentor [=AkaRed=] was missing and presumed dead [[spoiler:only to resurface later]]. Gokai Blue's [[spoiler: mentor Sid Bamick was forcibly and irreversibly converted into the cybernetic warrior [[TheDragon Barizorg]], who Gokai Blue was forced to slay in battle]]. Gokai Yellow lost her kid sister to a terminal illness as they had lived in poverty. Gokai Pink's homeworld of Famille was destroyed by a MonsterOfTheWeek who incinerated her mother and father in front of her. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Gokai Green's]] planet was destroyed by TheEmpire as well. The five Mega Rangers did not endure such losses [[spoiler: to the point that Barizorg becomes Argus, a robot warrior with no personal connection to the Blue Ranger]], with the closest they get being [[spoiler: the temporary disappearance of Robo Knight (Gosei Knight)]]. This is inverted in the case of the SixthRanger; [[TokenHuman Token Earthling]] Gokai Silver did not lose anyone in his backstory, whilst [[TokenNonHuman Token Extra-terrestrial]] Orion lived through the conquest of his homeworld of Andresia by the Armada. |
| 278 | * AdaptationalBadass: This trope applied to most teams during the Zordon era. Because the rangers constantly grow in power and experience, each generation of rangers is more powerful than the last. In the original sentai, there is nothing to indicate that one generation is more powerful or weaker than another. |
| 279 | * AdaptationalCurves: For both genders in the comics (except the Boom! Comics series). The live-action shows have relatively thin stunt actors; the comics give each male Ranger a HeroicBuild and each female Ranger lots of curves. Likewise in the toyline, although the extent varies. |
| 280 | * AdaptationalDiversity: While every ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series has a mostly-Japanese cast with the occasional TokenMinority characters, ''Power Rangers'' has main characters from pretty much every racial demographic in North America. |
| 281 | * AdaptationalModesty: A lot of female characters are more covered compared to their sentai counterparts, who tend to show a lot of skin either through leg-baring outfits (the heroines are more guilty of this) or {{Stripperiffic}} ones (the villains are more guilty on this one). There are male characters who show skin in Sentai but they're quite rare. |
| 282 | * AdaptationalSkimpiness: While the franchise loves [[AdaptationalModesty the inverse]], there are those who have defied it. The original [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers MMPR]] team[[note]]they tend to wear athletic gear that highlights their physiques compared to their counterparts who wear ancient tribal gear[[/note]], [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Leo Corbett, Maya]][[note]]The former is prone to {{Shirtless Scene}}s while his counterpart is dressed in a rural outfit, while the latter wears a NubileSavage attire while her ([[ShesAManInJapan male]]) counterpart is wearing shorts but nonetheless has the same modest rural attire[[/note]], [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Cole Evans]][[note]]Much more prone to {{Shirtless Scene}}s than the aforementioned Leo whereas his counterpart is always modestly dressed[[/note]], and [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Emma Goodall]][[note]]who ironically wears clothing not unlike a sentai heroine usually wears, even showing more skin than her own [[CompositeCharacter counterparts]] (her [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger first counterpart]] more or less has the same outfit but occasionally wears {{stocking|Filler}}s or ZettaiRyouiki to cover herself up)[[/note]] are prominent examples. |
| 283 | * AdaptedOut: If a ''Sentai'' season features mechs with explicit sapience and/or the ability to talk, expect those aspects to be removed if the season is adapted into ''Power Rangers''. Examples include ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', and ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury''. One of the few exceptions to this is [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Minizord]]. |
| 284 | * AnAesop: Most episodes are designed to deliver a message to the audience. Common ones include BeYourself, EvilWillFail, TheGoldenRule, {{Forgiveness}}, JusticeWillPrevail, and ThePowerOfFriendship. |
| 285 | * AliensAreBastards: Downplayed in comparison to ''Super Sentai''. Good aliens are more common here. |
| 286 | * AlienInvasion: Most seasons deal with some variant of this. |
| 287 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: It doesn't matter whether you're American, from a galaxy far away or from another culture 65 million years ago, you ''will'' be speaking English. Fanon likes the idea that the Power has as a part of it a universal translator, like TranslatorMicrobes. |
| 288 | ** AliensOfLondon: And a lot of these people have deliberate accents. Just go with it. |
| 289 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Nearly every GrandFinale before the Neo-Saban era, with only ''Zeo'' and ''Jungle Fury'' being spared some form of it - both because they went for epic {{Storming The Castle}}s instead; and ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Dino Thunder'' had ''both'' (simultaneously, even!). ''In Space'' did an All Your Base in the '''fourth episode''', with help from the [[Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]; and ''RPM'' had it practically as a RunningGag for a little while. Neo-Saban's first 2 series avoided this with both of theirs being either a FinalBattle outside the base or like those other seasons, StormingTheCastle. [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Dino Charge]] however brought it back. |
| 290 | ** TrashTheSet |
| 291 | * AllGravityIsTheSame: Most planets have more-or-less the same gravity as Earth. Only one exception has ever been shown, and that was in an episode of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', where a planet had such high gravity, the Rangers needed to use their [[HoverBoard Galaxy Gliders]] to move about safely. |
| 292 | * AllYourColorsCombined: Various attacks that use all five Rangers firing at once. |
| 293 | * AllYourPowersCombined: A MonsterOfTheWeek will show up every once in a while with this ability, usually with the sapped Power Ranger abilities. |
| 294 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Many]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy teams]] [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce are]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder animal]] [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury themed]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge in]] [[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers one way]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoFury or another]]. |
| 295 | * TheArtifact: |
| 296 | ** After the end of the Zordon Era (Season 6, ''Power Rangers in Space'') the HumongousMecha are still called Zords. |
| 297 | ** Also related to Zordon, way back in the very first episode he laid down ground rules for the Rangers: keep a SecretIdentity, never escalate a battle unless forced, and never use powers for personal gain. While Zordon is no longer around to enforce such things and most Rangers haven't even heard these rules, the principles are still followed most of the time (while the secret identity rule often goes out the window depending on the season, "no personal gain" is only occasionally violated and the escalation rule almost ''never'' is). |
| 298 | ** Applied in real life too; for the first year Hasbro had control of the franchise it was still officially referred to as "Saban's Power Rangers" despite Saban no longer having any control. |
| 299 | * ArtShift: The most concise way to describe the shift from live-action to PeopleInRubberSuits that occurs OncePerEpisode. |
| 300 | ** The material used for the Ranger suits differs slightly from the sentai versions (the sentai ones tend to be more shiny) so it's pretty clear what's ''Sentai'' footage and what's new. That, and the switches have the same visual effect as VideoInsideFilmOutside, so it very definitely looks like an art shift.[[note]]This is at least partly because of the Japanese footage is a year or two older than the American, meaning slight degradation and a minor change in the available video technology (at least until the mid 2000's).[[/note]] |
| 301 | ** Starting with ''Wild Force'', scenes with the Megazords started using CGI for things that the normal models and miniature sets were incapable of portraying, but is very noticeable because of the excessive shininess and [[NoFlowInCGI lack of flow]]. ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce]]'' was particularly bad, since its Megazord could flip and jump like a Ranger, and its chest cannon and combinations with other Zords were done almost entirely in CGI. |
| 302 | * ArtifactName: The [[HumongousMecha Zords]] were named after [[MentorArchetype The Mentor]] of the original team, Zordon. Despite his HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', they still call their machines and robots "Zords" for no real reason. |
| 303 | ** Notable exceptions include ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]''; in the former, Tommy serves as the mentor, so there's no reason he'd call the Zords anything else, while in the latter, it's revealed late in the game that the Ranger abilities of the season came from [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Rita turned good]]]], who probably brought the terminology over. |
| 304 | * ArtisticLicense: Applied to history, geography, physics, computer science, paleontology, and biology, among others. |
| 305 | * AscendedFanboy: Crops up from time to time since ''Ninja Storm'', though Justin of ''Turbo'' was the first. |
| 306 | * AtrociousArthropods: Many villains and monsters are based on arthropods. |
| 307 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': [[DarkActionGirl Scorpina]] is a minion of [[BigBad Rita's]] who can transform into a giant scorpion-like creature. Other examples of arthropod monsters are Stag Beetle, Commander Crayfish, Spidertron and Grumble Bee. |
| 308 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': |
| 309 | *** "Wasp With A Heart" has two insect-themed monsters, Waspicable and Sting King. The former is a subversion of this trope, being a kind-hearted creature that is being forced into evil and pulls a HeelFaceTurn after being befriended by Cassie. The latter plays this trope straight and tries to kill the Rangers. |
| 310 | *** "The Barillian Sting" has the Barillian Bugs, a race of scorpion-like aliens whose sting can transform the victim into one of them, as Carlos learned the hard way. |
| 311 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': Scorpius is an alien warlord who is basically a cross between a spider and an octopus. His daughter Trakeena is a humanoid in insectoid armor and takes over as the main villain after Scorpius dies. For extra points, there ship also resembles a cross between a dragonfly and a scorpion. There was also a monster of the week who was based on a lobster. |
| 312 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': Arachnor is the MonsterOfTheWeek in "Web War". She is a spider-like demon with the ability to scan the Rangers' weapons and find their weaknesses. She was defeated using Carter's [[PoweredArmor Battilizer]] |
| 313 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'': [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers The Thunder Rangers]] are a subversion. They start out as [[PsychoRangers evil Rangers]] but are revealed to have sympathetic motives, namely avenging their dead parents which they were tricked by [[BigBad Lothor ]]into believing the Wind Rangers' mentor was responsible for. They ultimately pull a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 314 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': |
| 315 | *** Demagnetron is a the monster of the week in "Game On". He is part diving beetle, part rhododendron and part magnet. |
| 316 | *** Insectolite is the monster of the week in "Burning at Both Ends". He is a cross between a centipede, a pansy and a satellite. |
| 317 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': There's a MonsterOfTheWeek named Spydex who is a spider-like creature with a big bulging egg sac on his back. There is also a straight-up [=CGI=] GiantSpider serving as an obstacle in one episode that takes place in a [[DontGoIntoTheWoods dangerous forest]]. |
| 318 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': The Warstar are a race of insectoid beings who are out to conquer Earth. Their leader, Admiral Malkor, is a moth-like being and one hell of a BadBoss. |
| 319 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: OncePerEpisode |
| 320 | * AutobotsRockOut |
| 321 | * {{Badbutt}}: The Rangers in general and most {{Sixth Ranger}}s especially. Whether or not some elevate to full badass - and just which ones - is an exercise best left to the viewer. |
| 322 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Or rather anyone really. We see training grounds ON THE MOON in ''Lost Galaxy'' with no sort of space suit. The ''Turbo'' season ends with the Rangers going up in space with no concerns for oxygen. |
| 323 | ** Before that, Rita, Zedd, and the henchmen had a base on the moon, with a big, open balcony. When Tommy was taken there during his Evil Phase, he didn't seem affected. This could be explained as magic (Rita's a witch), though whether this is the case in other seasons is a point of contention. Relevant is the fact that the series opens with a moon landing, which lets Rita out of her prison dumpster, and the astronauts are in full space suits. |
| 324 | ** Little girls can breathe in space: Carlos takes a little girl named Silvy for a ride on his Galaxy Glider. She makes it all the way to Saturn and back with no ill effect. |
| 325 | ** Cole uses the Falcon Rider and morph ''only'' (no spacesuit or anything) to duel Serpentera in ''Wild Force''. |
| 326 | * BeastMan: Accounts for a great many villains and a few heroes as well. |
| 327 | * BefriendingTheEnemy: Due to a growing friendship Bulk and Skull become subtly less antagonistic toward the Rangers while they're in civilian mode over time. This becomes more blatant in an episode of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' where T.J., not believing Bulk and Skull would steal, helps them find the thief who framed them. Afterwards Bulk says "T.J. is pretty cool", and Cassie replies that T.J. thinks the same of them. Arguably, it is T.J., out of the other Rangers, who was probably the kindest to those two, which definitely helped to make the relationship between them and the Rangers better (of course, that is not to say that there weren't any occasions where the previous Rangers, before T.J. et al, [[ThrowTheDogABone threw them the bone]] -- there were subtle moments). |
| 328 | * BigBad: [[BigBad/PowerRangers A series staple.]] |
| 329 | * BigDamnHeroes: {{Sixth Ranger}}s (and any Ranger guest stars) love this trope, due to StockFootage constraints. |
| 330 | * BigGood: Almost every series has one. |
| 331 | ** Zordon from the first series up to ''Power Rangers in Space''. |
| 332 | *** After [[spoiler:Zordon's death]], Jason and Tommy serve as this as the number of Ranger teams continue to grow: Tommy and Jason take the lead together in the MilestoneCelebration episode ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Forever Red]]'', Tommy leads a new team in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', where he is revealed to be keeping an archive of Ranger history, is said to be a "legend" at the academy [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo exactly exty years from now]] in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', leads the Legendary Battle in ''Series/PowerRangersSuperMegaforce'' and leads a team again in ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Dimensions in Danger]]'' and is suggested to be the ancestor of future Rangers in ''Zeo''. Then Jason comes back for ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers''.[[invoked]] |
| 333 | ** Captain William Mitchell from ''Lightspeed Rescue''. |
| 334 | ** Captain Logan [[spoiler:and Alex Drake]] from ''Time Force''. |
| 335 | ** Animus from ''Wild Force''. |
| 336 | ** Sensei Kanoi Watanabe from ''Ninja Storm''. |
| 337 | ** Supreme Commander Fowler/Doggie Cruger from ''Space Patrol Delta''. |
| 338 | ** The Mystic Mother from ''Mystic Force''. [[spoiler: Actually a famous villain and former BigBad after a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 339 | ** Andrew Hartford from ''Operation Overdrive''. |
| 340 | ** Gosei from ''Megaforce''. |
| 341 | ** Keeper from ''Dino Charge''. |
| 342 | ** The Morphin' Masters from ''Dino Fury'', who are also stated to have been big goods for ''Dino Thunder'', ''Dino Charge'', ''Ninja Steel'', ''Beast Morphers'', and possibly all other ranger teams. |
| 343 | * BirthdayEpisode: Mess with a Power Ranger on their birthday, and [[ItsPersonal they're going to be pissed off]]. [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Zack]], [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Justin]], [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Ashley]], and [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Riley]] all get a kill credit for a birthday present. Justin also gets a surprise visit from his father. |
| 344 | --> '''Justin''': Aw, Dad! This is the best birthday ever! |
| 345 | ** [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Emily]] also has one of these, but hers turns out to be a DangerousSixteenthBirthday where her teammates must save her by defeating a SoulEating MonsterOfTheWeek. |
| 346 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: Rangers and their friends are good; even the shady ones have an excuse: [[Series/PowerRangersSPD street-level hoods]]? Stealing to survive and help other homeless! [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Guy working with the mob]]? Screwed them all over to help an orphanage of {{Littlest Cancer Patient}}s! [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Professional thief]]? ...Okay, that one was just glossed over, but he's probably one of those guys who's legitimately hired by companies to test security. |
| 347 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder's'' Mesogog, while still black, was a ''particularly grey shade'' of black, as he is the sole villain of the series to not [[CardCarryingVillain carry an evil business card]]. He was a dinosaur hybrid who wanted to wipe out us filthy mammals and restore dinosaurs to their rightful place as the dominant creatures, and so [[KnightTemplar thought what he was doing to be right]], although his methods and manner make it dark enough to still be evil. It's grey, but only in comparison to the villains whose goals are ''stated'' to be "to be as evil as possible, nyahaha". |
| 348 | ** The grayest ''Power Rangers'' villain is Ransik of ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce''. He wanted to take over the world in the present, because in the future, the mutations that result on rare occasion from the genetic engineering process that normally allows for perfect DesignerBabies for all are shunned to a degree that would make the mutants of X-Men count their blessings. Ransik's entire gang is gathered from the homeless mutants. He cackles as much as any past villain whose title is "Your Evilness" when causing mayhem, but he's got a reason for his hate and his motivation isn't simply greed or [[ForTheEvulz the evulz]] like many of the others. |
| 349 | ** While MMPR through Turbo was extremely black and white, ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' was the first season to introduce some gray. Previously all villains were either ObviouslyEvil or normally good but BrainwashedAndCrazy like Tommy and have no issues with a HeelFaceTurn once it is broken. The Rangers themselves were ultra-pure, always working together as a team, always had good intentions, doing charity work and minor problems were a CompressedVice resolved by the end of the episode, which generally resulted in noble but {{Flat Character}}s. ''In Space'' introduced some legitimate character flaws in the Rangers that stuck through multiple episodes while the villains (mainly Ecliptor) showed some NobleDemon qualities, in fact several attempted a HeelFaceTurn of their own accord only to be brainwashed to prevent that. Ever since then the franchise leaned a little more mature. |
| 350 | * BookEnds: When Rocky is first introduced, he, Adam, and Aisha compete in a martial arts tournament and win; Rocky decides to retire from being a Power Ranger after being injured in another tournament. |
| 351 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: Of the original sentai counterpart. Any violence, dark or sexual is completely rewritten, removed or replaced. Notable is the "skimpy" villainess. Then again, here they got [[MsFanservice Astronema, Tenaya]] etc. Megazord finishers that include the monster being impaled or cut in half are usually edited as well. |
| 352 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Nearly every season, a MonsterOfTheWeek will have this as its gimmick and make the Rangers fight one of their own. It's usually over and done with as soon as the monster blows up. Other times, a Ranger or ally will remain under mind control and there will be a story arc revolving around their friends trying the set them free and/or the mind control victim trying to redeem themselves. In order, this applies to [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Tommy, Kat]], [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Karone]], [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Ryan]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Hunter, Blake]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Trent]], [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Leanbow a.k.a. Koragg]], [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Dai Shi a.k.a. Jarrod]], [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Tenaya]], [[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers Blaze, Roxy]], and [[Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury Ollie]]. More rarely, the villain's endgame evil plan is to put everyone in the city under their thrall, as in ''RPM'' and ''Ninja Steel''. |
| 353 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Most post-Zordon-era seasons end with the Rangers being depowered; either by having the power source run dry, willingly giving them up, or losing them. (Similar things happened ''during'' the Zordon era, but since the casts carried over and soon got new powers they qualify as DiscardAndDraw.) |
| 354 | ** BroughtDownToBadass: Most ex-Rangers can still kick ass, though they rarely get a chance to show it. |
| 355 | * ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Each team has their own phrase they say before transforming. Whether or not this phrase is required varies. For instance, "It's morphing time!" was not required but saying the name of their dinosaur was explicitly required. |
| 356 | * CallingYourAttacks: It's most common for the name of the weapon to be called, rather than the effect. "Delta Max Striker!" "Power Sword!" However, there were a few situations where they'd name the attack too -- which made the use of more tricked-out weapons painful to watch. "Lunar Cue!" [Takes out weapon] "Break mode!" [Re-forms it] "Laser Pool!" [Creates phantom pool table, puts {{Power Crystal}}s on it] "Lunar Break!" [Launches them] Can we say overkill? It's part of the show's MerchandiseDriven nature: gotta make sure everything gets its name announced so the kids know what to beg the 'rents to go buy. |
| 357 | ** Has been taken to the extreme in the seasons under Bruce Kalish where even the ''guns'' are voice activated. That's right. Whether you call them guns or blasters or anything else, these weapons with quite noticeable triggers (y'know, devices which are operated via the finger) require the user to shout: '''"LASERS!"''' in order to make them fire. |
| 358 | * CameraAbuse: Starting to see use as of the 2000s, enemy explosions generally cause the battlefield "camera" to shake violently, in an attempt to hide the twitches and slight movements by Rangers and Zords during finisher poses. |
| 359 | * {{Camp}}: The entire franchise qualifies to varying degrees. |
| 360 | * TheCape: Zordon pre-screens all his Rangers and holds them to cardinal rules to make sure they don't become corrupt. Anyway, they're good people who are quick to help out wherever they can. Some Rangers who come around after Zordon's time [[AntiHero aren't so moral at first]], but [[ThePowerOfFriendship they become friends with their colleagues]] and [[GoodFeelsGood decide to commit to the side of good]]. |
| 361 | * CardCarryingVillain: The franchise is one of the most noticeable examples of this, particularly in its earlier years, where each season's villains would refer to themselves as "[insert title here] of Evil". This culminated in season 6, where all the preceding villains were revealed to be members of a "United Alliance of Evil.", led by Dark Specter, the Monarch of '''all''' Evil. Most seasons after ''In Space'' dropped the blatant mentioning of the word Evil by introducing villains with clear goals and motivations. |
| 362 | ** The only thing the UAE was ever seen doing was throwing celebration parties for themselves, complete with streamers and conga lines. That's one awesome organization. |
| 363 | *** ''And'' launching a massive, coordinated attack on the entire universe in the ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'' finale. So... throwing parties for themselves and nearly conquering the entire universe. Still pretty cool. |
| 364 | ** Speaking of ''In Space'', when ThePsychoRangers introduce themselves, Psycho Pink finishes off their onslaught of [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Pre-Asskicking One Liners]] by simply announcing the fact that the Psychos are evil. Adding more to this scene is the fact that, unlike the previous villains announcing themselves as evil, it's actually truly menacing here. |
| 365 | ** In the tongue-in-cheek ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' series, we go back to this after the last several series had given its villains real goals and motivations. The villains were known as "evil space ninjas" and used the term ''themselves''. Marah and Kapri once said they were studying for their MBE: Masters in the Business of Evil. |
| 366 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'', Jellica states that with training, the Dai Shi possessed Jarrod could "achieve the highest levels of EVIIL" |
| 367 | * CerebusRollercoaster: A cycle drifting between serious and silly; undoubtedly helped by the fact that things start from scratch each season: |
| 368 | ** CerebusSyndrome: The series gradually lost more of its lightheartedness during the Zordon era, with heroes' personal struggles being given a greater spotlight and villians becoming more ruthless. However,''In Space'' skewed the franchise as a whole more seriously, and ever since it's never been quite as goofy as the earliest seasons. ''RPM'' can be considered a half-Cerebus; its AfterTheEnd setting is darker than any before, but plays franchise tropes with a wink and a nudge that keep you from taking it ''too'' seriously. |
| 369 | ** ReverseCerebusSyndrome: ''Ninja Storm'' brought a level of silliness and self-awareness back to the series (though not quite to the level of ''Mighty Morphin''). ''Samurai'' does this in contrast to ''RPM'''s darker elements. |
| 370 | * CharacterMagneticTeam: There's always at least one SixthRanger, but the Disney seasons tended to pile them on - ''Operation Overdrive'' is the only one of those that got away with a single SixthRanger (not Disney's fault, blame ''Super Sentai''). This is partly because a lot of those seasons started with reduced {{Power Trio}}s and had more room to expand. ''Dino Charge'' is another season that faithfully adapted a larger-than-normal amount of extra Rangers. |
| 371 | * ChestInsignia: Almost every Ranger sports a team logo and maybe a personal symbol ''somewhere'' on their suits; if not on the chest then on the belt buckle or helmet, usually. A number of these are BroughtToYouByTheLetterS. |
| 372 | ** Strangely, the ''toy'' versions of the original ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'' had chest logos that showed their chosen animals... when the TV versions did not. |
| 373 | * ChildrenAsPawns: There are a few times when Rita or one of the other villains uses a child as a pawn. |
| 374 | ** In ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Rita uses a child to open a chest because the child is innocent enough to open it while Rita, an evil sorceress, cannot. |
| 375 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' would repeat this and almost caused one of the main cast to quit over the storyline of that particular episode. |
| 376 | * TheChosenMany: The franchise developed this as new teams were added every year, to the point that there's a bit of FridgeLogic that if things got bad enough the current Rangers could always call for support. However, it gets subverted when previous Rangers are brought up in ''Dino Thunder''; as it's noted that most former Rangers can't help them because they're retired, depowered, and/or out of contact. Ultimately, each Ranger team is largely on their own. (Then again, the ''Megaforce'' team was backed up by ''everyone'' in its finale...) |
| 377 | * ChristmasEpisode: Three during ''MMPR''’s run, then one every year from ''Samurai'' to season one of ''Dino Fury''. All of the latter Christmas episodes were also {{Clip Show}}s. For example, in the ''Samurai'' episode "Christmas Together, Friends Forever", Emily writes a letter to her family, reflecting on everything she and her team have done together. |
| 378 | * ChromeChampion: Many {{Sixth Ranger}}s invoke this and the main ''Mighty Morphin'' Rangers got Metallic Armor in season 3. |
| 379 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Runs rampant among the villains, especially during the Zordon era. In [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace one]] SeasonFinale, TheStarscream and the GreaterScopeVillain actually [[MutualKill take each other out]], saving the Rangers the trouble of even having to fight them. |
| 380 | * CityOfAdventure: Angel Grove for the first 6 seasons; after that each season has its own city. Specifically: |
| 381 | ** The space colony Terra Venture in ''Lost Galaxy''. |
| 382 | ** Mariner Bay, California in ''Lightspeed Rescue''. |
| 383 | ** Silver Hills, Washington in ''Time Force''. |
| 384 | ** Turtle Cove, Colorado in ''Wild Force''. |
| 385 | ** Blue Bay Harbor, California in ''Ninja Storm''. |
| 386 | ** Reefside, California in ''Dino Thunder''. |
| 387 | ** Newtech City in ''SPD''. |
| 388 | ** Briarwood, California in ''Mystic Force''. |
| 389 | ** San Angeles, California in ''Operation Overdrive'', although the Rangers did quite some globe-trotting that season. |
| 390 | ** Ocean Bluff, California in ''Jungle Fury''. |
| 391 | ** Corinth in ''RPM''. |
| 392 | ** Panorama City in ''Samurai''. |
| 393 | ** Harwood County, California in ''Megaforce''. |
| 394 | ** Amber Beach in ''Dino Charge''. |
| 395 | ** Summer Cove in ''Ninja Steel''. |
| 396 | ** Coral Harbor in ''Beast Morphers''. |
| 397 | ** Pine Ridge in ''Dino Fury'' and ''Cosmic Fury'' (though the latter was also a SpaceOpera that spent considerable time on other planets). |
| 398 | * ClarkesThirdLaw: Invoked and subverted across various seasons. In the first few series, the Power Rangers received their powers, weapons and vehicles from Zordon, explicitly identified as [[WizardsFromOuterSpace an alien wizard]], even if their first new Zords were created by genius teammate Billy Cranston, and the Space Rangers relied on weapons provided by Zordon even if it simply appeared to be advanced technology. Magic continued to be the source of the Rangers' power immediately after Zordon's death in ''Lost Galaxy'', but from this point, series such as ''Lightspeed Rescue'', ''Time Force'', ''SPD'', ''Operation Overdrive'' and ''RPM'' were explicitly identified as using advanced technology as the source of their weapons and vehicles, even if it is generally implied that their powers all come from the same core source of the Morphing Grid. |
| 399 | * ClipShow[=/=]RecapEpisode: One in every season starting with ''Lost Galaxy'', though earlier seasons occasionally had them too, especially shortly before or after a power switch in the ''Mighty Morphin'' to ''Zeo'' days. The Neo-Saban and Hasbro seasons (up until the first half of ''Dino Fury'') used Halloween and Christmas specials for this purpose, weaving a plot into them starting with ''Dino Charge''. |
| 400 | * CollectibleCardGame: Two of them: the ''Power Rangers Collectible Card Game'' which was released before ''RPM'', and the ''Power Rangers Action Card Game'' released alongside ''Megaforce''. Neither lasted long. |
| 401 | * ColorblindCasting: There's a mandate to make the team a FiveTokenBand, but generally nobody cares which token wears which Ranger color. (Though it did take them until ''Dino Charge'' to put a dark-skinned actress in a Pink Ranger suit, but part of that has to do with the general lack of black actresses cast in the Disney seasons.) |
| 402 | ** As mentioned in the YMMV section, the franchise has not seen a black actress being cast as a Ranger for fourteen years -- specifically, in the years between ''Time Force'' and ''Dino Charge''. Before Camille Hyde got the part of Shelby in ''Dino Charge'', there have only been three black actresses who got to play Rangers: [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Karan Ashley]] (Aisha), [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Nakia]] [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Burrise]] (Tanya), and [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Deborah Estelle Phillips]] (Katie); all three were cast as Yellow Rangers. On the other hand, since ''Operation Overdrive'', every Yellow Ranger has been Caucasian and blonde. |
| 403 | ** So far, ''Mystic Force'' and ''Jungle Fury'' are the only series not to have had a black Ranger (counting Shane in ''Ninja Storm'', who was Polynesian black). |
| 404 | * ColorCharacter: Oh so many. A common way for {{Sixth Ranger}}s to set themselves apart is to ''not'' have this kind of name. |
| 405 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Every Power Ranger will dress exclusively in their Ranger color. Former Rangers will usually dress in neutral colors like black, gray or brown. Family members or love interests of specific Rangers will also often dress in their relevant Ranger's color. Every now and then, you'll get a side character, like Emily in ''Zeo'', who dresses exclusively in orange. |
| 406 | ** ColorCodedSecretIdentity |
| 407 | * ComingOfAgeStory: Some seasons tell variants of this revolving around the teens with attitude. This is especially prominent in the [[ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios comic book adaptation of MMPR]], which is essentially a TeenDrama. |
| 408 | * CommLinks: The ''Mighty Morphin''' Rangers had communicators that also happened to tap into their mentor's teleportation system. Later teams had communications built into their morphers (and many of those are cell phones anyway). ''Dino Charge'' is the first season in years to have the communicators separate from the morphers, instead having them double as the holders for the Dino Chargers. ''Ninja Steel'' similarly has a separate and ''PR'' exclusive Ninjacom. |
| 409 | * CompositeCharacter: [[CompositeCharacter/PowerRangers So many that it warrants its own page]]. |
| 410 | * ConservationOfNinjitsu: There are many instances of a MonsterOfTheWeek beating up an entire team of Rangers, but when there are dozens of monsters, these are degraded to EliteMooks. |
| 411 | * ContinuityCreep: Seasons are still mostly self-contained, but compare the interchangeable [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] from ''MMPR'' to, say, ''Operation Overdrive'''s ongoing treasure hunt. |
| 412 | * ContinuityNod: A {{Long Runner|s}} like ''Power Rangers'' is obligated to have them. For instance the Red Ranger towards the end of ''Turbo'' says "[[CatchPhrase May The Power Protect You]]", referencing Zordon's line from the earlier seasons. |
| 413 | * ContrastingSequelSetting: |
| 414 | ** For the first six seasons, the main setting of the show was the Californian city of Angel Grove. The seventh season, ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', marked the first departure from Earth, being set in the travelling space colony Terra Venture. |
| 415 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' is the season immediately following ''Lost Galaxy'' and returns to Earth by setting the story in Mariner Bay, a city which was once ruled by demons. |
| 416 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' takes place in a city where [[TheUnmasquedWorld aliens live alongside humans]] TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, while ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' takes place in ThePresentDay and revolves around a forest where magical beings live under a {{Masquerade}}. |
| 417 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was set in the normal city of Ocean Bluff. ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the majority of the planet has been conquered by the villain Venjix and the only safe haven for humanity is the domed city of Corinth. |
| 418 | * CreatorProvincialism: Most of the [[CityOfAdventure Cities of Adventure]] are based in California, and the rest also appear to be in the western US. ''RPM'' has a couple hidden references to Boston (the hometown of its first executive producer Eddie Guzelian). |
| 419 | * CrossOver: From ''Lost Galaxy'' to ''SPD'' (with the exception of ''Ninja Storm''), there was a recurring tradition of the seasonal team-up, a two-parter where the previous season's cast meets up with the current Rangers to deal with a threat that requires their combined powers. ''Samurai'' briefly revived the tradition, but only one RPM Ranger showed up. Then for {{Milestone Celebration}}s like ''Megaforce'', ''Ninja Steel'', and ''Cosmic Fury'', a few Rangers from across the franchise's history will show up. |
| 420 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Bulk and Skull are the most notable examples; not only are they the longest-serving characters in the entire franchise, but they also have the most (non-Ranger) character development. They definitely TookALevelInBadass, in spite of having their roles gradually reduced. |
| 421 | * DarkActionGirl: Most female villains. A few others are {{Dark Magical Girl}}s. |
| 422 | * DeckOfWildCards: |
| 423 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': Among Dark Spectre's main subordinates, Astronema and Ecliptor were unshakably loyal to him while Darkonda had his own agendas. When Astronema pulled a HeelFaceTurn upon discovering her true origins, Ecliptor's parental love for Astronema proved greater than his loyalty to Dark Spectre and he turned on his master to protect. Sadly, this was for nothing as both he and Astronema were brainwashed and programmed to be truly evil. Unfortunately for Dark Spectre, this also caused Astronema to develop her own ambitions for intergalactic dominance while Darkonda began making his own moves to kill Dark Spectre and become ruler of the universe. [[spoiler:He succeeded in the first but died in the process, while Astronema would be purified by Zordon's sacrifice.]] |
| 424 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'': Zurgane and Motodrone were the two among Lothor's generals who were both consistently competent and loyal to him to the end was Zurgane[[note]]Choobo once tried to get revenge on Lothor for banishing him but was ultimately welcomed back into his ranks[[/note]]. While Choobo did go rogue once he was ultimatelyVexacus and Shimazu initially worked together to take over Lothor's army but turned on each other. The latter then teamed up with Marah and Kapri who turned out to be [[NotSoHarmlessVillain a lot more dangerous than appeared to be]] and killed him as part of Lothor's plan. Lothor then imprisons Marah and Kapri having grown paranoid about their potential lack of loyalty after seeing their true colors. This plays a part in their HighHeelFaceTurn. |
| 425 | * DecompositeCharacter: The Power Rangers provide many examples: |
| 426 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': The normal version of ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'''s [[MonsterOfTheWeek Dora Franke]] became the Frankenstein monster, while his second and third forms Zombie Franke and Satan Franke became two different forms of the same character, Mutitus. |
| 427 | ** ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'': Prince Buldont of ''[[Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger Ohranger]]'', who [[PlotRelevantAgeUp later grew into an older form]], Kaiser Buldont, became the characters Prince Sprocket (younger) and Prince Gasket (older). |
| 428 | ** The conversion of ''[[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Gingaman]]'' to ''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]''. The BigBad Captain Zahab was split off into Scorpius and his more direct counterpart, Captain Mutiny. |
| 429 | *** And then there's Furio: He has the costume of Dr. Hinelar's final form, but Sanbash's role in the story. Sanbash's costume, not available at the time, was later used for a new character named Villamax. |
| 430 | ** Twice when converting ''[[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' to ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]''. The costume of BigBad Don Dolnero was used for comic relief character Gluto, and the BigBad with some of Dolnero's role was original-design Ransik. Meanwhile, the Rangers' commanding officer Captain Ryuya was split into Captain Logan and, more directly, Alex. |
| 431 | ** ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]]''[='=]s Motodrone: he's based off the adult form of ''[[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Hurricaneger]]'''s Manmaruba, while Eyezak, a MonsterOfTheWeek he used, is actually Manmaruba's OneWingedAngel form. |
| 432 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': In ''[[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'', Phantom Spy Vancuria can split into two ElegantGothicLolita girls named [[TheDividual Nai & Mea]]. Their equivalents in ''Mystic Force'', Necrolai and Leelee, are mother and daughter, rather than Leelee being Necrolai's civilian form, so they count as this. |
| 433 | ** ''[[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Fury]]'': Long, the ultimate BigBad of [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger Gekiranger]], was split into Dai Shi (inheriting his BigBad status and OneWingedAngel form) and General Scorch (inheriting his Phantom Beast form and TreacherousAdvisor status). Dai Shi possesses Jarod so in a way Long's Power Ranger counterpart is also Jarod who is also Rio's counterpart. |
| 434 | * DefeatEqualsExplosion: Happens to the MonsterOfTheWeek every single episode. |
| 435 | * DifferentStatesOfAmerica: The city of Los Angeles was first settled by the British instead of the Spanish and is called Angel Grove, and a number of other cities have alternate names, indicating similar alternate histories; most prominently, Boston was named Corinth in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. |
| 436 | * DiscardAndDraw: For the first few seasons, the heroes would lose their Zords or powers and get new ones at the beginning of each series. |
| 437 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: Every Big Bad before Dark Specter could be considered one, and there are one or more in several seasons afterward, with the straightest example probably being Scorpius from ''Lost Galaxy''. |
| 438 | ** Subverted in some seasons where the first BigBad's replacement turns out to be an InterimVillain, and the original comes back by the finale even though they were defeated earlier in the story. |
| 439 | * TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight: |
| 440 | ** While ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' usually played TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong completely straight, the very first episode flips it around. When Zordon offers the original five "teens with attitude" the chance to become power rangers, Jason is the only one who seriously considers it, while the rest of the team walks away in disbelief. Of course, by the end of the episode, all five of them are in, or there wouldn't be very much of a series. |
| 441 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM:'' The way things usually work is for the Rangers to defend Corinth from one monster attack at a time, but newcomers Gem and Gemma are unimpressed, saying that they'd rather take the fight to the bad guys. They strike out on their own, and Scott, who couldn't get Colonel Truman to listen to his theory about the villains' real plan, goes with them. Naturally, the reckless rebels learn their lesson about going off on their own, right? Wrong. The villains had found a way to suck the air out of the city through its force field, and with the shields powered as high as they were, they couldn't be powered down in time to save everyone. The outpost Gem and Gemma wanted to attack? Guess what it was being used for? Yeah. If not for the trio doing everything you're not supposed to do on Saturday morning TV, everyone in Corinth, the last human settlement on Earth, would have been very dead. |
| 442 | * TheDragon: Every BigBad has a top enforcer that serves as a major physical threat. Multiple seasons have [[CoDragons several]], but Goldar and Scorpina were the first. |
| 443 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For younger fans who only got into the franchise thanks to the 2017 film, watching the show from the beginning would be very intriguing; they would have to skim through not just three 30+ episode-seasons of ''Mighty Morphin'', but ''also'' three more seasons, with two movies somewhere in the middle, just to get through the complete six-year Zordon-era story arc (a total of 293 episodes (averaging ''49'' episodes a season) plus the movies). Contrast ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'', the Neo-Saban series that was airing at the same time as the movie, which only has two seasons with 20 episodes each. |
| 444 | * EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Earth is ground zero for most alien invasions, has dozens of secret legacies and buried magic artefacts, and around twenty different Ranger teams where most planets are apparently lucky to have one. |
| 445 | * EverythingFades: "Destroyed" villains explode, dissolve, etc. and on the very rare occasions that someone we're supposed to like is KilledOffForReal, it looks rather sparkly. |
| 446 | * EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy: Rangers and villains travel to other galaxies like it's a hop, skip, and a jump away. The United Alliance of Evil is in control of multiple galaxies, and in "Countdown to Destruction", launches an attack on the whole universe. |
| 447 | * EvilIsHammy: Oh, hell yes. The best measure of a good ''Power Rangers'' villain is how much [[ChewingTheScenery scenery they can chew.]] |
| 448 | * EvilLaugh: While not every laugh is memorable, most villains have at least one of these. |
| 449 | * EvilPlan: All the villains have some goal they want to accomplish. Most of the time it's TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 450 | * EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: If any team of Rangers are defeated it will be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 451 | ** Sort of. The villians have distinctly won a number of times in the series, (namely the final episodes of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers ''Mighty Morphin'']] and [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo ''Turbo'']]), but the Rangers have found a way to bounce back and continue fighting. |
| 452 | * EvilVirtues: There are a surprising number of villains with at least one redeeming trait. |
| 453 | ** Ecliptor from ''In Space'' cared for Astronema like a daughter, but also raised her to rule the universe. |
| 454 | ** Villamax went out of his way to teach Trakeena how to be an honorable villain, but a villain nonetheless, and was horrified when [[spoiler: she fused with Deviot and began cruelly tormenting the humans and sacrificing her own troops]]. |
| 455 | ** Diabolico cared about his comrades and had doubts about Queen Bansheera from the beginning, [[spoiler: culminating in a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal after she killed him and Loki, dragging her to Hell with him]]. |
| 456 | ** In ''Time Force'', Ransik loves his daughter Nadira. [[spoiler: Their relationship sets up his HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 457 | ** Toxica and Jindrax from ''Wild Force'' are best friends. [[spoiler: After Mandilok tricks Toxica into being killed by the rangers, Jindrax goes on a quest to save her and the two tip off the rangers on how to defeat Master Org before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving them to have their own adventure]].]] |
| 458 | ** Koragg from ''Mystic Force'' is obsessed with honour, despite serving the evil Master. [[spoiler: It's a hint at his true identity, the noble knight Leanbow.]] |
| 459 | ** Over the course of ''Jungle Fury'', Dai Shi and Camille are shown to slowly grow closer to each other, compared to other villains and generals who backstab each other at every turn. [[spoiler: Partially subverted by the end of the series--while Camille's feelings were true, it was his human host ''Jarrod'' who had fallen in love with her, not Dai Shi.]] |
| 460 | ** Though they're villains through and through, Sledge and Poisandra from ''Dino Charge'' are in a happy relationship during all of their appearances. |
| 461 | ** Void Knight from ''Dino Fury'' is just trying to generate enough energy to break his wife out of her coma. Once she's awake, he has every intention of leaving Earth peacefully. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, his wife is blinded by revenge and wants to destroy humankind, though she snaps out of it when she reunites with her long-lost child, the Pink Ranger.]] |
| 462 | * ExiledFromContinuity: Due to ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and its characters currently stuck in a legal nightmare (Does Fox/Disney own it? Does Saban? Does Hasbro? Past answers have been conflicting), Ivan Ooze and Dulcea are unlikely to make any appearances in other parts of the franchise--that means no cameos in ''Hyperforce'', no arcs in the comics, and no characters in ''Legacy Wars''. |
| 463 | * ExpositoryThemeTune: The ''Operation Overdrive'' theme, with a bit of embellishment. |
| 464 | -->''Watch five fingers reaching for the sky in five ways,''\ |
| 465 | ''Five heroes walking through the sun for five days,''\ |
| 466 | ''Dark forces lurking, leaving evil where they roam''\ |
| 467 | ''Five Rangers looking for the same five stones!'' |
| 468 | ** ''Jungle Fury'' would also qualify. |
| 469 | -->''Training hard to be the best that we can!''\ |
| 470 | ''Power Rangers!''\ |
| 471 | ''Protecting people from the evil Dai Shi Clan!''\ |
| 472 | ''Stand up for what we know is right!''\ |
| 473 | ''We will never lose the fight!''\ |
| 474 | ''Dai Shi''\ |
| 475 | ''Go Away!''\ |
| 476 | ''We're Here to Save The Day!'' |
| 477 | * FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Generally justified. Justifications for family friendly energy weapons include aliens, time travel, [[GovernmentConspiracy secret government programs]], [[AWizardDidIt magic]], and in at least one case, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney funding]]. |
| 478 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The franchise has had its share of gruesome deaths, even if [[NeverSayDie it's not fond of the word "death]]." |
| 479 | * FanConvention: Power Morphicon, which started in 2007 and has been biannual since 2010. |
| 480 | * FanFilm: A Hollywood-quality fan film simply entitled ''Power/Rangers'' was released in early 2015 with swearing, graphic violence and sexual content. With its high production values and known actors, Creator/KateeSackhoff and Creator/JamesVanDerBeek, it actually skirted close to copyright infringement (all fan-created content offered to the public is ''technically'' illegal regardless of earning money from it, except in cases of obvious parody and/or review). Most works like this would be ignored because of the quality of the product and futility of chasing down every piece of fan fiction or fan art, but this was good enough that it could be mistaken for an official production and ''especially'' because of the graphic content, it could have hurt the brand's image. [[FanworkBan Saban had the movie taken down in short order, but it was brought back up for a time]]. |
| 481 | * {{Fanservice}}: Of the non-sexual kind; it's the only reason for the anniversary episodes [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce "Forever Red"]] and [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive "Once a Ranger"]]. |
| 482 | ** Meanwhile, the exceptional number of {{Beach Episode}}s in both ''Mighty Morphin'' and ''Ninja Storm'' count in the normal way (at least ''Ninja Storm'' had an excuse, as Tori was a surfer). ''Lost Galaxy'''s Yellow Ranger, Maya, also had a rather fanservicey outfit. |
| 483 | *** And Karone, the reformed Astronema, who had suddenly turned all [[{{Moe}} simple and demure]] after missing out on her own childhood, is always wrapped up in a tight black leather outfit for no apparent reason. |
| 484 | *** Speaking of tight black leather, Jen in [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce "Reinforcements From the Future"]]. |
| 485 | *** For the ladies or some guys, a ShirtlessScene with Jason or Tommy (or both) was a common occurrence. |
| 486 | ** Dulcea also delivers this in '''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie''. |
| 487 | * FantasyHelmetEnforcement: While the helmets on their suits don't count, safety helmets are used a lot to the point of FridgeLogic. ''Dino Thunder'' is a major offender. |
| 488 | * FantasyKitchenSink: Due to its many seasons, the show has had many different types of characters, including wizards, witches, space police, animal spirits, aliens, gods, demons, robots, cyborgs, and computer viruses... and they're ALL in the same universe (well, for the most part), and that's when you exclude [[Series/PowerRangersTimeforce Ghosts]], [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Mermaids]], [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Unicorns, Dragons]], [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Werewolves]] and [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive the Norse Gods Thor and Loki]]. |
| 489 | * FightingInThePlayground: This trope appeared often throughout the seasons, mostly when the Rangers were ambushed in a public place and had to fight some mooks in the nearest place possible (or just where they meet up). |
| 490 | * FillingTheSilence: The dubbed-over dialogue in most of the fight scenes. If you compare the footage, the Sentai Rangers seldom talk during fighting (except for kiais and CallingYourAttacks), while the Power Rangers make liberal use of BadassBoast interspersed with YouFightLikeACow. |
| 491 | * FinishingMove: Every season had one or more for the normal size, one for the giant size (of each Megazord combination). Plus the Battilizer when available. |
| 492 | * FiveTokenBand: Every season, although there are often two Caucasians but one of them is always a girl. |
| 493 | ** ''Samurai'' comes closest - two Caucasians, male (Jayden) and female (Emily), one African American (Kevin), one Asian (Mia), one Latin American (Mike), and one Mexican American (Antonio). |
| 494 | ** Some of it matters in the details, but ''Samurai'' might take a second place to ''Zeo.'' Tommy was Native American (it was around the time of ''Zeo'' that they started playing up his Native American Heritage), Adam was Asian, Rocky was Hispanic, Tanya was African, and Kat was Caucasian (and even then she was an Australian living in America). |
| 495 | ** Some seasons have also averted tokenism by having multiple actors from the same ethnic background, such as by having two people of Latin American descent on one team (''Turbo'' through ''In Space'', ''Mystic Force'') and two people of Asian descent on the same team (''Ninja Storm'', ''Operation Overdrive'' and ''RPM''). ''Jungle Fury'' averts it in an entirely different way by simply not having enough tokens - one Asian (Theo) and four white guys. |
| 496 | * FleetingDemographicRule: The seasonal themes; recycled ones include dinosaurs (eleven years between the first season of ''Mighty Morphin'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ten between ''Dino Thunder'' and ''Dino Charge'', six between ''Dino Charge'' and ''Dino Fury'' in 2021), ninjas (eight years between the third season of ''Mighty Morphin'' and ''Ninja Storm'', 14 between ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Ninja Steel''), animals (six years between ''Wild Force'' and ''Jungle Fury'') and {{Cool Car}}s (twelve years between ''Turbo'' and ''RPM''). Also, we had Rangers-as-public/civil servants in ''Lightspeed Rescue'' (2000) and themes around time and space in ''Time Force'' (2001) -- ''SPD'' would be aired in 2005 and its seasonal theme is arguably a combination of those two (and although the events are ''In Space'' is alluded to here for normalizing relations between Earthlngs and non-Earthlings, it is relatively minor theme-wise). |
| 497 | * FutureSpandex: The rangers always wear skintight spandex suits. [[BerserkButton Just... don't call them that in front of]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Dr. K]]. |
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| 499 | [[folder:Examples G - R]] |
| 500 | * GenderedOutfit: Female Rangers tend to wear skirts along with their uniforms (but not always, thanks to...) |
| 501 | * GenderFlip: The Yellow Rangers up to ''Wild Force'' were [[ShesAManInJapan males in Japan]] but switched to females here; occurrences of Yellow Ranger gender synchronicity prior to ''Wild Force'' (in ''Zeo'', ''Turbo'', and ''in Space'') were because it was a rare case of the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' show having two girls as well. The practice would revive with ''Dino Fury's'' Green Ranger being made female (as [[Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger the corresponding Sentai]] did not have a Yellow Ranger). |
| 502 | ** An exception was made with Ninja Yellow from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'', whose American counterpart (the Yellow Alien Ranger) was also male, although the Alien Rangers were not used that much. |
| 503 | ** ''In Space'' had Ashley Hammond, the Yellow Ranger, wearing a skirt. Her ''Sentai'' counterpart was actually female; not only that, but the team also had Cassie as the Pink Ranger (and yes, with the skirt) who is considered the tomboy to Ashley's girly-girl (see more further down in this page). Kira Ford from ''Dino Thunder'' also averts the ShesAManInJapan trope since her Yellow Sentai counterpart also wore a skirt and was female. |
| 504 | ** ''Ninja Storm'', ''Dino Thunder'', and ''Jungle Fury'' were also exceptions, being able to have only one female team member through the whole show (unless you count Camille in ''Jungle Fury'' who pulled a HeelFaceTurn near the end[[note]]and whose ''Gekiranger'' counterpart is counted as an Extra Hero as of ''Gokaiger''[[/note]]). This is probably because those shows started with a PowerTrio which included the female Ranger, making her a more consistent presence on the team than the males who came later. |
| 505 | ** In ''Cosmic Fury'', the suits used are modified versions of the ''Dino Fury'' suits original to the American show. Still, if one compares to the suits in ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'', the Red and [[spoiler:Orange]] Rangers are gender-flipped, both being male in Sentai but female in ''Power Rangers'' (''Cosmic Fury's'' Red Ranger is ''Dino Fury's'' Pink). Interestingly, Izzy (the previously-gender-flipped Green Ranger, who keeps her color) is actually ''not'' gender-flipped this time around, as ''Kyuranger'' had a female Green. |
| 506 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: Villains turn into this when not much attempt is given to their characterization. |
| 507 | * GenreMashup: All seasons are {{Superhero}} and {{Toku}}satsu shows, but a few borrow elements from other genres. KidCom variants are the most common, but other, more outré genres have also been covered: |
| 508 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', and ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'' are [[SpaceOpera Space Operas]]. |
| 509 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' is an KidCom that trades in the usual high school setting for a secret Ninja Academy, as well as an AffectionateParody of other ''Power Rangers'' seasons. |
| 510 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', like many others, is a KidCom set in HighSchool, but it leans more heavily into the conventions of a ComingOfAgeStory. Four of the five Rangers are [[Bittersweet17 in their senior year of high school]] and their mentor figures are a CoolTeacher at their high school and the owner of the LocalHangout. Their character arcs revolve around the process of forming their identities. |
| 511 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, and uses elements from sci-fi and [[CopShow cop shows]], with traces of social {{Subtext}}. |
| 512 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' is a ComingOfAgeStory and UrbanFantasy. |
| 513 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' is DarkerAndEdgier than many others, taking several cues from SciFiHorror and AfterTheEnd stories. |
| 514 | * GoldColoredSuperiority: Gold Rangers serve as a SixthRanger in various seasons, and the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' Red Ranger Jason returns as the Gold Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. Red Rangers often get gold armor in their battlizers, as well. |
| 515 | * GondorCallsForAid: "Forever Red", "Once a Ranger", and the finales to ''Megaforce'' and ''Cosmic Fury''. The ''in Space'' GrandFinale actually subverted it as various Rangers across various worlds was still not enough. |
| 516 | * TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: There may be some downs at times in each series, but the Rangers do always finally defeat the villains in the end. |
| 517 | * GottaCatchThemAll: |
| 518 | ** These shows have created a meta-example of this. To further make use of the Merchandise Driven nature of the show, the number of HumongousMecha have expanded in recent years. ''Wild Force'' is seen by many as the start of it, with 22 Wild Zords, all of which were released in toy form. |
| 519 | ** However, there are times when the plot really is 'collect the six whatevers.' ''Operation Overdrive'' revolved around the five jewels to a magical crown (other artifacts empowered by them were clues, but also powerful themselves.) The ''Mighty Morphin''' Rangers also once had to go collect the pieces of the DismantledMacGuffin (which ''they'' broke and scattered. Didn't want the bad guys to get the Zeo Crystal; didn't realize they'd actually be needing the thing). |
| 520 | ** ''Megaforce'' did this with its Zords as well. Oddly, this series only referred to the head of the machine as a Zord, except in the case of the Gosei Ultimate Megazord. In total, there were 24 to collect. This is actually a couple fewer than Japanese series. |
| 521 | ** In ''Dino Fury'', the monsters, Sporix Beasts, cannot be completely destroyed, just contained in their mushroom-like dormant forms. And for whatever reason, Void Knight is intent on collecting them all after their defeats by the Rangers. [[spoiler:He's using them to power his wife's life-support machine.]] |
| 522 | * GotTheCallOnSpeedDial: Tommy Oliver is the Most Triumphant Example of this trope as all the incarnations of his powers could form a full five-man team (with TWO Red Rangers no less!), although Adam and Kat give a run with both having three different Ranger identities. Though Adam only has two different colors (black and green) and Kat is Pink for all three. |
| 523 | * GrandFinale: Despite not being ''the actual finale'' for the show, "Countdown to Destruction" did manage to finish the storyline for the first six seasons. |
| 524 | * GreatOffscreenWar: ''Several''. Throughout the various series extremely numerous references are made by various unrelated characters in unrelated seasons to significant battles 65 million years ago, 10,000 years ago, and 3,000 years ago. Other than that, we got nothin' on 'em. |
| 525 | * HalloweenEpisode: A few. Often overlaps as a DressUpEpisode. |
| 526 | ** From ''Samurai'' to ''Beast Morphers'', the Halloween specials were also {{Clip Show}}s: for instance, the ''Samurai'' episode ''Party Monsters'' was set in the MonsterOfTheWeek afterlife, as the ghost monsters told scary stories of how the Rangers destroyed them. |
| 527 | * HamToHamCombat: Most every Rangers vs. Monster of the Week battles easily fall under this. |
| 528 | * HeadBob |
| 529 | * HeelFaceTurn: Most {{Sixth Ranger}}s are not aligned with the good guys at first, if not outright evil. The occasional major villain redeems themselves as well. |
| 530 | * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Completely averted: the rangers' helmets are a distinctive, iconic part of their costumes every season. |
| 531 | * HenshinHero |
| 532 | * HeroicBuild: Usually averted on the show, barring the occasional powerup, but often played straight in merchandising and official artwork (which, in all honesty, clashes with what we see on TV). |
| 533 | * HeroicSacrifice: Normally once or twice a season at least. |
| 534 | ** SenselessSacrifice: Tommy losing the Zords and their powers in early ''Mighty Morphin'' Season 3. TJ sacrificing the Rescue Zords (''Turbo''). Karone trying to stop the asteroid (''In Space''). |
| 535 | ** StupidSacrifice: Karone trying to stop the asteroid (again ''In Space''). Tommy sacrificing the Zords (''Dino Thunder''). |
| 536 | * HighlyConspicuousUniform: Dillon from ''RPM'' said it best. |
| 537 | -->'''Dillon:''' Right, because nothing says "covert" like bright red, yellow, and blue spandex. |
| 538 | ** The ''Time Force'' crew stuck out pretty badly in their uniforms before Wes hooked them up with 21st century civilian clothes. Later team civilian uniforms would subvert this, and ''RPM'' itself would avert it with their "uniforms" being leather jackets and jeans. |
| 539 | * HomeBase and SupervillainLair: All seasons have both, but the type and importance varies. |
| 540 | ** ElaborateUndergroundBase: ''Zeo'', ''Turbo'', ''Ninja Storm'', ''Dino Thunder'', ''Operation Overdrive'', and ''Dino Fury''. |
| 541 | ** UnderwaterBase: ''Lightspeed Rescue'' |
| 542 | ** SpaceBase: Rita's and later Zedd's base was on the moon, as well as the Machine Empire's during their attack on Earth. Astronema's Dark Fortress was also a space base, and Divatox got one too. |
| 543 | *** The Rangers had the Astro Megaship, Terra Venture, and much later, the Cosmic Cruiser. |
| 544 | * HumanAliens: All over the universe. Some of whom even ''call'' themselves humans, with no real explanation outside of "Earth isn't the only place where humans live". |
| 545 | * HumongousMecha |
| 546 | ** AnimalMecha: Not in every season, but a sizable number of them. |
| 547 | ** CombiningMecha: Every team gets one or two Megazords where each member provides a component, and many seasons have the SixthRanger get a multi-piece combiner of his own. And that's before getting to the part where Megazords combine with one another to form even bigger formations. |
| 548 | ** ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Moreso in later series, when they can use CGI in addition to PeopleInRubberSuits. |
| 549 | ** LeaderFormsTheHead: In general the Red Ranger's Zord takes a position of prominence in any Megazord combination. However, there are so many different Megazords over the course of the franchise that the trope has been played with in every way imaginable. |
| 550 | ** AMechByAnyOtherName: "Zords"/"Megazords". |
| 551 | ** MechaExpansionPack: The extra weapon Zords in several seasons starting with ''Wild Force'', as well as the Zeo Megazord's alternate helmets before then. |
| 552 | ** TransformingMecha: At least one Zord every season will transform into a "Megazord" mode on its own instead of combining with other parts. |
| 553 | * IdenticalGrandson: Very nearly every TimeTravel story ever, becoming a plot point in ''Time Force''. |
| 554 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: During Bruce Kalish's run between ''SPD'' and ''Jungle Fury''; every title had a specific number of words depending on the season. |
| 555 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy |
| 556 | * ImprobableAge: |
| 557 | ** Tommy Oliver is implied to have gotten an 8-year [=PhD=] then done a bunch of top secret projects all within 6 years. There are ways to speed up the completion of a [=PhD=], but they are very difficult on that time scale. Throught Dino Thunder he's also regularly talked about as if he's middle aged, despite only being 25 at the time. |
| 558 | ** Dana is a paramedic at age 18, and a full-fledged doctor less than a year later. |
| 559 | ** Rose is a college professor at a similar age, but at least she's a [[TeenGenius genius]]! |
| 560 | ** Dr. K created the RPM Ranger powers and is no older than 19... But then we find out about her past, and suddenly her immense technological skills make more sense as she is revealed to be a clear-cut example of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome savant]]. |
| 561 | ** Then there's "Spike" Skullovich, who had to have been born during ''Zeo'' to be 15 during ''Samurai''. |
| 562 | * ImprovFu: The use of the playgrounds and improvised weapons like trash cans and brooms is insanely common in almost all of the shows, most blatantly with Ziggy in ''RPM''. |
| 563 | * InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Both Saban eras tended to stick "Saban's" near the beginning of the title card. Disney, on the other hand, never bothered to sign their work. Oddly, ''Beast Morphers'' is ''also'' labeled "Saban's" despite Saban being defunct at that point. |
| 564 | * InstantEmergencyResponse: It's their job, so they always get to the monster of the week quickly, usually by teleportation or some type of ranger power to let them run fast to the scene. |
| 565 | * InstantExpert: Nearly every Ranger knows how to fight and pilot HumongousMecha once they use a morpher; though the fighting ability is often justified by training for some time before. Some Rangers are even shown knowing the required call to activate their morphers without being told. Subverted by Billy, who initially could only fight ''while'' morphed, and Ziggy, where not even morphing helps. |
| 566 | * IntraFranchiseCrossover: Following the example of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', the series has various episodes when Rangers from previous seasons (usually called "Retro Rangers" and "Legendary Rangers"), made mostly for [[MilestoneCelebration Anniversary Specials]] of the series. The most known are the [[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed 10th Anniversary Special]] (''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''), the [[Recap/PowerRangersOperationOverdriveS1E20OnceARangerPart1 15th Anniver]][[Recap/PowerRangersOperationOverdriveS1E21OnceARangerPart2 sary Special]] (''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'') the [[Recap/PowerRangersSuperMegaforceS2EP20LegendaryBattle 20th Anniversary Special]] (''Series/PowerRangersSuperMegaforce'', DirectToVideo UpdatedRerelease included), [[Recap/PowerRangersNinjaSteelS02E10DimensionsInDanger 25th anniversary special]], and several cameos and guest spots, including a featured role for original Blue Ranger Billy, in the [[Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury 30th anniversary mini-season]].[[invoked]] |
| 567 | * {{Irony}}: The one ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series that [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters actually uses the phrase "It's Morphin' Time!"]] (and in general a ''lot'' of references to ''Power Rangers'') had to wait ''years'' to be adapted. Especially ironic when you consider that ''Go-Busters'' was allegedly designed with American audiences in mind, hence the use of [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack black leather costumes]] instead of the traditional spandex garb found in most Sentai shows. Though that being said, most of those references were in the dialogue, which would get replaced even before the editing scissors got to the untransformed scenes. |
| 568 | * ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: A time-honored tradition across several seasons. Usually, a high-ranking henchman is a loved one of the heroes who has been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] or otherwise made evil. The motivating question becomes, "How do we both defeat them and save them?" In order: |
| 569 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': The first and arguably the most iconic. Astronema, chief henchwoman to Dark Specter, is [[spoiler:the Red Ranger's long-lost sister, Karone. She tries to defect once she learns the truth, but is recaptured and [[UnwillingRoboticisation made into a pure-evil cyborg.]] She's eventually saved in the finale.]] |
| 570 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Zeltrax is [[spoiler:Terrence "Smitty" Smith, [[TheMentor Dr. Oliver]]'s old college buddy who's been nursing a grudge for years. Unlike most examples, Smitty/Zeltrax was NotBrainwashed, and there is no saving him in the end.]] |
| 571 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Koragg the Knight Wolf is [[spoiler:Leanbow, Red Ranger Nick's long-lost father. The power of fatherly love breaks the brainwashing on him and he joins the Rangers in the final arc of the season -- just in time for [[GreaterScopeVillain the Master]] to try to turn Nick into the new Koragg.]] |
| 572 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Tenaya-7, the TokenHuman in Venjix's robotic army, is [[spoiler:Black Ranger Dillon's long-lost sister. What follows is [[RecycledScript lifted beat for beat]] from Astronema's story in ''in Space'': she tries to defect when she learns the truth, but is recaptured and made into a pure evil cyborg. She's eventually saved in the finale.]] |
| 573 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', the [[CoDragons Avatars]] are digital duplicates of Blaze (Red Ranger Devon's martial arts rival) and Roxy (Blue Ranger Ravi's romantic interest), carrying out Evox's evil plans while their physical bodies are comatose. Roxy in particular loves to mess with Ravi's head by pretending that her true personality is trying to reassert itself. |
| 574 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'': [[spoiler:Ollie the Blue Ranger is brainwashed by Lord Zedd [[FirstEpisodeTwist in the premiere episode]] and spends the rest of the season either attempting to kill his friends or building a machine that turns villains into {{Physical God}}s. They finally break Zedd's hold on him in the penultimate episode, and he becomes the EleventhHourRanger.]] |
| 575 | * {{Jerkass}}: Multiple, most famously Bulk and Skull in ''Mighty Morphin''' Season 1. |
| 576 | ** At his worst, Eric in ''Time Force'' was this, even after he ''became a Ranger.'' |
| 577 | ** A Jerkass-Of-The-Week doing something jerky, usually to one of the Rangers in civilian form, and learning a moral lesson that coincides with a monster attack is a standard filler episode plot. |
| 578 | * KeepItForeign: Played straight in the Mexican dubs with the names of the Rangers and Zords until ''Dino Thunder'', since Disney bought the franchise and the Spanish dubbing was switched from Mexico to Argentina due to cost reasons. Due to [[ValuesDissonance complicated cultural reasons unrelated to the trope]], Argentinian translators translated them back to Spanish. When Saban bought back the series from Disney, the dubbing work returns again to Mexican hands. |
| 579 | * KickChick: Strongly averted. Both the male and female rangers tend to be quite adept at throwing kicks ''and'' punches, and the character who's the most notable for kicks is Tommy Oliver, whose signature move was chained roundhouse kicks. |
| 580 | * KidAppealCharacter: Fred in ''Mighty Morphin': The Movie'' and Justin in ''Turbo'' are definite ones; but other than that, generally averted. The Rangers appeal to their young audience well enough most of the time without resorting to a childlike AudienceSurrogate. |
| 581 | * KidCom: [[CerebusRollercoaster Mostly.]] |
| 582 | * KungFoley: Whenever the Rangers are morphed, it doesn't matter whether they're throwing a punch in battle or just sticking their fist in the air in a dramatic pose, the rotation of their arm will inevitably produce a loud WHOOSH. |
| 583 | * LawOfChromaticSuperiority: RedIsHeroic, and the Red Ranger is always TheHero. |
| 584 | * LighterAndSofter AND DarkerAndEdgier: Yes, the sword cuts both ways. There's a lot of blood and death that gets cut out of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''... But a lot of silly humor gets the axe as well. |
| 585 | * LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Aside from explicitly science-fiction or fantasy settings, the world the Rangers inhabit generally seems to match that of the year the series was produced. |
| 586 | * LimitedWardrobe: Most seasons have this, though they're often justified by being some sort of uniform related to Ranger duties. Some seasons do avert it by letting the Rangers have multiple outfits, though they're still in [[ColorCodedCharacters signature colors]]. |
| 587 | * LocalHangout: Several. |
| 588 | ** The Juice Bar in ''Mighty Morphin''', all the way through ''Turbo''. Replaced by the Surf Spot in ''in Space''. |
| 589 | ** ''Ninja Storm'' had Storm Chargers, the sporting goods store where Dustin (and later Hunter and Blake) works. |
| 590 | ** ''Dino Thunder'' had Hayley's Cyberspace Cafe (where we first meet Trent). |
| 591 | ** ''Mystic Force'' had Rockporium, Toby's music store, where Xander works and Vida sometimes spins. |
| 592 | ** The HomeBase of ''Jungle Fury'', Jungle Karma Pizza, could double as this. |
| 593 | ** ''Megaforce'' has Ernie's Brain Freeze. |
| 594 | ** The cafeteria of the Amber Beach Museum in ''Dino Charge'', where the main Rangers work, could be a similar example to Jungle Karma Pizza. |
| 595 | ** ''Dino Fury'' has Buzz Blast, a Website/BuzzFeed-esque social media news site where Javi and Amelia work. |
| 596 | * LongBusTrip: Characters rarely if ever show up again once their season's over (or the equivalent in the Zordon era). Some really blatant examples are Jason, Zack, and Trini, shipped off to Switzerland for a Teen PeaceConference; Jason took two years to [[TheBusCameBack return]] (and he has to leave once again, after 17 episodes in ''Zeo'') and Zack and Trini finally came back in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways'', as does Billy, though, due to Creator/ThuyTrang's death, they reused audio from her appearances in the show; and Rocky didn't even ''go'' anywhere but still disappeared for 21 years (his last appearance in the Zordon era was the first episode of Turbo, with his unmorphed return coming in the 25th anniversary episode ''Dimensions in Danger''). Similar to Jason, Adam after about a year and a half of being put on a bus, comes back for one episode in ''In Space''; 9 years after that, he would make an appearance for a special 2-parter 15th anniversary team-up episode in ''Operation Overdrive''. |
| 597 | * LongRunners: Celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. |
| 598 | * LongRunnerCastTurnover: Only Bulk and Skull lasted the entirety of the six-season Zordon Era, and after that the casts started being replaced wholesale every year (and Bulk still stayed on for ''Lost Galaxy''). |
| 599 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Often the [[LongLostRelative Long-Lost Sibling]] version: Andros and [[spoiler: Astronema/Karone (siblings)]], Leo and [[spoiler:Magna Defender - sort of (siblings)]], Dana and [[spoiler: Ryan (siblings)]], Cam and [[spoiler:Lothor (nephew-uncle), Marah, and Kapri (cousins)]], Trent and [[spoiler: Mesogog (son-father, although Mesogog is basically using Anton's body as a vessel)]], Nick and [[spoiler:both Koragg ''and'' Udonna (son-parents)]], Dillon and [[spoiler:Tenaya (siblings)]], and Amelia and [[spoiler:Tarrick/Void Knight and Santaurra/Void Queen (daughter-parents)]]. Incidentally, the Dillon and [[spoiler:Tenaya]] dynamic is ''very'' similar to that of Andros and [[spoiler:Astronema/Karone]]. Dana and [[spoiler:Ryan]]'s storyline during the Titanium Ranger arc in ''Lightspeed Rescue'' did have some similarities to the latter as well, but also shared a lot of characteristics with Tommy's Evil-Green-Ranger-arc. Either way, like many of tropes that apply to the overall franchise, this trope tends to get a RecycledInSpace treatment. |
| 600 | * MadeOfExplodium: Almost every monster ever. |
| 601 | * MagicAIsMagicA: BatmanCanBreatheInSpace and the moon has a temperate environment. Factually dead wrong, but at least they are consistent. |
| 602 | ** ''Mystic Force'' averts it due to lazy editing: the ''Magiranger'' button-pushing footage is seldom altered, so the proper spell is never entered, and you'll even have three magic words said as four buttons are pushed. (Necrolai even once said "hold!" while freezing a crowd of people with a mystic phone made from Koragg's magic; ''the phone doesn't have a hold button!'' However, RuleOfCool is the main defense for things like that.) A lot of fans wished ''Magiranger's'' spell system had been kept. |
| 603 | ** It seems they learned their lesson in ''Samurai''. Even though many of the Symbol Power-drawn kanji are different from those used in ''Shinkenger'', their function is [[ShownTheirWork consistent with their meaning]]. |
| 604 | * MagicKnight: Many characters who are primarily magic users are also capable of throwing down in a physical fight, notably all the Mystic Force rangers, Sentinal Knight from ''Operation Overdrive'', and on occasion Rita herself. |
| 605 | * {{Magitek}}: Plenty of teams that have technological emphasis still use magical sources, especially the Zordon-era teams. |
| 606 | * MentorArchetype: A regular stock character is someone older and wiser who helps guide the Rangers in their battles. Some even get to take the field and fight alongside the Rangers themselves, be they Rangers (like Tommy in ''Dino Thunder'') or not (like the Keeper in ''Dino Charge''). |
| 607 | * MerchandiseDriven: In addition to the action figures and mecha, each season now adds motorcycles, a "battlizer" armor, and, in a couple seasons, a semi truck "mobile command center" not present in the Japanese version to justify additional toys. ''Jungle Fury'' took it to extremes, creating new Rangers based on extra Zords and giving them as many variations as the original Rangers. (''RPM'' has CanonForeigner Rangers too, but only one basic figure apiece compared to ''Jungle Fury'''s deluge.) Tropes specific to the toyline go [[Toys/PowerRangers here]]. |
| 608 | ** EnvironmentSpecificActionFigure: Makes up the majority of the toyline; only a small sample makes it to the show. But only for the male Rangers; the girls get shafted in this department. ''Samurai'' is notable in that an armor variant has displaced the normal suits in the merchandising. |
| 609 | ** OfficialCosplayGear: The toyline always includes prop morphers and weapons, and occasionally helmet masks. |
| 610 | * MetaCasting: It can be argued this is where the popularity of the franchise comes from. The vast majority of actors involved across the years are skilled martial artists in their own right, some even owning their own dojo (Steve Cardenas, a.k.a. Rocky, the second Red Ranger and Blue Zeo Ranger, being one example). Aside from the Sentai costume footage, they apparently perform many of their own stunts (even in costume) and choreograph many of their own fights. This adds a level of authenticity that even more serious action dramas lack. |
| 611 | ** In particular Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy, the first Green Ranger) was undefeated in his MMA career, and Blake Foster (Justin, the Blue Turbo Ranger) has beaten opponents in tournaments who want to fight "the blue Power Ranger." |
| 612 | * MetaOrigin: The Morphin' Grid: hinted at in ''Mighty Morphin'', ''Dino Thunder'' and ''SPD'', confirmed in ''Operation Overdrive''. They finally explain the Grid in ''RPM'', though they don't call it by name and that's an AlternateUniverse. We get more details in ''Dino Fury'', which explains that the Grid is something like the Force in ''Franchise/StarWars'': an energy field beyond the limits of normal human perception that connects all living things. A group of abstract entities called the Morphin' Masters live in the Grid and serve as [[AllPowerfulBystander omnipotent but mostly passive observers]] of the battles between good and evil. Once in a while, the Masters will intervene and introduce a {{McGuffin}} or give the heroes a badly needed DeusExMachina when things get really dire. |
| 613 | * MiniDressOfPower: Female Rangers usually have skirts added to the basic Ranger suit, with a number of Yellows being exceptions because ShesAManInJapan. Subverted with Izzy in ''Dino Fury'', who tears off the skirt in her uniform after morphing for the first time due to her extreme tomboyishness (and also to accomodate the footage since She, too, Is a Man in Japan). |
| 614 | * MisplacedWildlife: From the Mastodon, Pterodactyl, Saber-Toothed Tiger and Dragonzord to sharks, penguins, and rhinos in the jungle. |
| 615 | * MonsterOfTheAesop: Some monsters had a tendency to be directly linked with whatever [[AnAesop Aesop]] the Rangers were learning. The trope is played with in "A Monster of Global Proportions", where the monster was a statue representing the Aesop but didn't have anything to do with it. |
| 616 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: Except for the {{Big Bad}}s, the generals, {{Arc Villain}}s, {{Interim Villain}}s and Quirky Mini-Bosses, most of the villains only appear in one only episode. Justified in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', where Lothor was too cheap to buy a machine powerful enough to send multiple giant monsters at once, and in ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' and ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', where their respective villains Ransik and Sledge cull their minions from their own personal prisons; one at a time is safe enough, but unleash too many and they could have a mutiny on their hands. |
| 617 | * {{Mooks}} and MechaMooks |
| 618 | ** EliteMooks: Some series' {{Mooks}} have had 'captain' versions that are stronger and a bit brighter. |
| 619 | ** GiantMook |
| 620 | ** MookChivalry: Some {{Mooks}} refuse to fight with multiple allies, but it's just a ploy. |
| 621 | * MoreDakka |
| 622 | * {{Motifs}}: |
| 623 | ** AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Many Rangers have some sort of design element to this effect, even if their powers aren't actually animal-based. The presence of [[KingOfBeasts a lion]] or at least some kind of PantheraAwesome is almost a certainty; and you can also expect some combination of NobleWolf, NobleBirdOfPrey (Hawk, Falcon, or Eagle), ThreateningShark, and/or a powerful mammal like a {{bear|sAreBadNews}} or a gorilla. There's usually some oddball animal that you wouldn't expect in an action series, too. |
| 624 | ** ElementalPowers are also a popular motif that makes its way into several seasons. |
| 625 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Just look at ''any'' BigBad or [[TheDragon Dragon]]. |
| 626 | * NetworkRedheadedStepchild: Disney never really liked the series, and considered it an embarrassment while they owned it. |
| 627 | * NeverSayDie: The show tends to shy away from discussing uncomfortable concepts and prefers euphemisms. The 30th anniversary special, ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways'', is a major exception to this because it's technically aimed at a nostalgic adult fan base instead of innocent young'uns. |
| 628 | * NextTierPowerUp: Lord Zedd's introduction resulted in the Zords being upgraded. Later seasons have Super modes. |
| 629 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Many, but Lord Zedd's utter [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] of Tommy in the original series' third season is widely considered the most famous, particularly because it happened ''after'' Zedd was "toned down" by the executives. |
| 630 | * NoHuggingNoKissing: Special emphasis on the no kissing. Since the show is aimed at young boys right around the time they are most likely to believe in [[GirlsHaveCooties cooties]], no OfficialCouple on the show has locked lips since 1994. |
| 631 | * NoIndoorVoice: In most of the later series, every single line uttered by a Ranger in-costume was shouted, even outside of combat or noisy environments. |
| 632 | * NominalCompatibility: In the [=ZordBuilder=] toyline, the main meta-series gimmick was supposed to be the ability to swap individual Zords between Megazord sets. However, one Megazord to another had different length arms and legs, meaning both of either would have to come from the same set. And in some cases, they used different sized pegs and peg holes so those specific Zords or Zord parts could be used in that one configuration. In the case of the ''Samurai'' Zords, the Claw Zord also couldn't hold the Light or Shark Zords either due to being give very slightly different shaped holes in its hands. It also had [=ZordBuilder=] ports inside its hands for some reason, despite no practical use for them. This actually worked out in a good way, though, since it gave somewhere to connect Light Zord's arms should you want to use it with the Gigazord. |
| 633 | * NominalVillain: |
| 634 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': |
| 635 | *** Ecliptor is the second-in-command and parental figure to Astronema, and the only one among the villains who actually cares for her. When Astronema regains her memories and turns on Dark Spectre, Ecliptor shows his love for his surrogate daughter to be greater than his loyalty to his evil master and fights to protect her. [[spoiler:This results in him being brainwashed and turned into a cyborg to prevent further disobedience.]] |
| 636 | *** This applies to Karone later down the line. Initially, she served Dark Spectre as the villain Astronema, but she turns on him after discovering she was kidnapped as a child. Dark Spectre captures and brainwashes her to be evil again, which also results in her becoming TheStarscream. [[spoiler:After Zordon sacrifices himself in the season finale, the evil in Astronema is purged and she becomes Karone again.]] |
| 637 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': After Scorpius's death, Trakeena takes over as the main villain of the series and appoints Villamax, who served as her mentor on Onyx, as her general. Villamax doesn't seem to have any true malice in him and borders on being a TokenGoodTeammate for Trakeena's forces, only serving Trakeena out of loyalty to her. On one occasion he allows the Rangers to leave peacefully after Leo surrenders [[spoiler:and turns on Trakeena when she starts using her own soldiers as suicide bombers]]. |
| 638 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'': Hunter and Blake Bradley (respectively Crimson and Navy Ranger) are loyal to Lothor and enemies to the Wind Rangers because they are convinced Sensei Watanabe, the Wind Rangers' mentor, murdered their parents. They manage to kidnap Sensei and almost to kill him [[spoiler:when their parents' spirit manifest and stop them, revealing that it was Lothor instead to be responsible for their deaths. Eventually, the Wind and Thunder Rangers join forces and remain a team to the end of the series.]] |
| 639 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Trent Mercer is a good person who spends a significant amount of time [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupted by the white Dino Gem]]. After his father destroys the evil encoding on the gem, Trent joins the Rangers. |
| 640 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Koragg is unique among the villains in that he prefers to beat his opponents [[HonorBeforeReason honorably]] and will sacrifice a victory if it doesn't meet this standard. It is revealed that Koragg is actually Udonna's husband Leanbow and his obsession with honor is his true personality shining through the Master's corruption of him. |
| 641 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': Tenaya-7 is Dillon's younger sister who was {{Brainwashed}} by Venjix into being his enforcer. Like Astronema, Trent and Koragg, she is eventually freed from the villain's control. |
| 642 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'': Void Knight is the main villain of season 1, but his true goal is [[spoiler:awakening his comatose wife Santaura. Once he accomplishes this goal, Void Knight plans to leave Earth in peace, but Santaura decides to continue the conflict and brainwashes Void Knight into becoming Void King.]] |
| 643 | * NonSerialMovie: ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', completely overridden by ''Mighty Morphin''' season 3 episodes 4-7. The [[Film/PowerRangers2017 2017 film]] is outside the TV series canon entirely, being a film-geared reboot instead. |
| 644 | * NonUniformUniform: Each Ranger has their own unique version of their team's suit. |
| 645 | * NotAsYouKnowThem[=/=]SameCharacterButDifferent: More often than not, despite adapting elements from its source material, ''Super Sentai'', each ranger will be dramatically different from their Japanese counterparts, in nearly every possible way. ''In Space'' provides good examples with its Red and Black Rangers, the hardened Andros and the easygoing Carlos, in contrast with their ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' counterparts, slacker Kenta and the straight-laced Koichiro respectively. |
| 646 | * NotQuiteDead: A few major villains have had several "final" encounters. Bonus points if the villain is someone who resurfaced after having been thought dead before the season began. |
| 647 | * ObviousStuntDouble: This is why female Rangers have skirts on their outfits, to hide the fact that most of the in-costume work is done by stunt''men''. |
| 648 | * OfficialCouple: There's one about every other season: [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Kimberly and Tommy]], [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Tommy and Kat]], [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Andros and Ashley]], [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Joel and Ms. Fairweather]], [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Jen and Wes]], [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Merrick and Princess Shayla]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Tori and Blake]], [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Nick and Madison]], [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Lily and Theo]], [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Summer and Dillon]], [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Mike and Emily]], [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Gia and Jake]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Tyler and Shelby]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Hayley and Calvin]], [[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers Ravi and Roxy, Zoey and Nate]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoFury Ollie and Amelia]], and [[Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury Izzy and Fern]] (who also have the distinction of being the show's first gay couple). |
| 649 | * OnceASeason: The arrival of the SixthRanger, the MidSeasonUpgrade and the ReunionShow. |
| 650 | * OneSteveLimit: Mostly played straight, but it makes the occasional repeat name stand out all the more. "Venjix" in particular caused a bunch of EpilepticTrees when it was reused. |
| 651 | ** Other violations of the limit include two Kats and a Katie (''MMPR''-''Turbo'', ''SPD'', and ''Time Force'' respectively), two Mikes (''Lost Galaxy'' and ''Samurai''), and two Hayleys (''Dino Thunder'' and ''Ninja Steel''). Incidentally, both "Kat"s are {{Meaningful Name}}s for the [[CuteKitten same]] [[CatGirl reason]]. |
| 652 | ** With regard to Ranger titles, the show did a fine job of never repeating a Ranger name for different powers when considering the full, team-specific names. Come 2011 and ''Samurai''[='s=] Green Samurai Ranger, echoing the exact name of ''Ninja Storm''[='s=] SixthRanger. Come 2012 and he can access a [[SuperMode Super Samurai Mode]], just like his namesake previously did. Incidentally, he's one of the Mikes noted above, sharing his name with yet another SixthRanger. |
| 653 | ** Zords in particular have been saddled with repeat names; we have two sets each of Dinozords (''Mighty Morphin'' Season 1 and ''Dino Thunder''), Thunderzords (''Mighty Morphin'' Season 2 and ''Ninja Storm''), Ninjazords (''Mighty Morphin'' Season 3 and ''Ninja Storm''), Rescuezords (''Turbo'' and ''Lightspeed Rescue''), and Omegazords (''Lightspeed Rescue'' and ''SPD''; though the latter is properly the Omega''max'' Megazord), plus two different Dragonzords (''Mighty Morphin'' and ''Ninja Steel''). |
| 654 | ** Mondo the Magician, a villain from Season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'', is unrelated to King Mondo, the ruler of the Machine Empire from ''Zeo''. |
| 655 | ** ''Lost Galaxy'' has an OmnidisciplinaryScientist named ''Kendrix'' Morgan, and ''Dino Charge'' has an OmnidisciplinaryScientist named ''Kendall'' Morgan. That said, they are unlikely to cross paths because ''Dino Charge'' is set in another dimension. |
| 656 | * OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The franchise has various examples of this with the Rangers themselves. In most cases other parties choose the Rangers, most commonly when dealing with the Rangers who more explicitly get their powers from technology (''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', etc.). However, when dealing with those Rangers who are at least potentially powered by {{Magitek}}, their mentors often affirm that the power chooses the Rangers rather than it just being random, such as the animal crystals of ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' and the Dino Gems of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' only "activating" once they are brought into contact with the relevant future Ranger. Only a few cases have explicitly discussed the idea of the Rangers alone being able to wield their powers; |
| 657 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': The five Quasar Sabers from the planet Mirinoi, which like Caliburn/Excalibur are firmly planted inside a stone until the chosen ones finally pull them. The only Ranger born on Mirinoi, Maya, had already tried to remove one as a kid, so either she spent all that time trying to free the ''wrong'' saber or the sabers themselves have some say in when they're released. They're not one-to-one, either, as two of the sabers are [[TakeUpMySword passed on]] during the series; Mike Corbett drew the Red Saber originally but passed it on to his brother Leo before he apparently died, and after [[spoiler:Pink Ranger Kendrix was killed in battle, her spirit appeared to pass her saber on to former villain Astronema/Karone]]. The question of 'why don't you just smash the rocks' is also addressed: [[TheDragon Furio's]] first instinct upon his failure to pull the sword out is to try that...[[NoSell and he can't even scratch the rocks]], something he himself remarks is insane, implying the magical spell protecting the swords is also protecting the rock. |
| 658 | ** The thirtieth-anniversary special '' Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways'' explicitly acknowledges that the Rangers' power sources choose them in some way. When original Yellow Ranger Trini Kwan is killed in battle, her daughter Minh attempts to use the Yellow Sabretooth Tiger coin for herself, but is initially unable to use the coin as she only wants to fight out of a desire for revenge for her mother's death. [[spoiler:After Minh risks her life to save Billy- the original Blue Ranger- from another attack, the Yellow Coin responds to Minh and allows her to morph. The other Rangers speculate that this is because Minh acted to save a life rather than to punish an enemy, with fellow Yellow Ranger Aisha Campbell assuring Minh that she is now a worthy Ranger]]. |
| 659 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'' opened with the [[Series/PowerRangersDinoFury Dino Fury]] team losing their original powers and zords, requiring aid from Billy Cranston to gain a new power source and new morphers. The most significant result of this was former Pink Ranger Amelia becoming the team's new Red Ranger (their original Red had been seemingly killed and returned as the Zenith Ranger), with Billy assuring Amelia that she wouldn't be the Red Ranger if the power didn't believe she was worthy. |
| 660 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Like children running on a freshly waxed linoleum floor in stocking feet, from ''Ninja Storm'' on. |
| 661 | ** NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Richard Brancatisano in ''Mystic Force''; eventually handwaved as Xander being a native Aussie, and ''Dino Charge'' makes Chase's Kiwi homeland central to his character. Some other minor characters don't bother either, but they don't get enough lines to be intrusive. |
| 662 | *** Lothor and Mora/Morgana. Mora/Morgana not bothering makes sense from an outside standpoint considering they needed to come across as the same person, but Lothor in a flashback didn't have a Kiwi accent and neither does his brother despite being played by the same actor. |
| 663 | ** Particularly amusing in ''RPM'', in which New Zealander Ari Boyland must (hilariously) try to maintain a ''Scottish'' accent as Flynn. |
| 664 | ** ''RPM'' might take a backseat to ''Samurai''. The show frequently will show a Ranger's relatives or even flashbacks of them as children, and bless them, [[TheKidsAreAmerican the child actors just can't do American that well]]. Emily's big sis Serena and the child versions of Jayden and Antonio were especially obvious. |
| 665 | * PaleFemalesDarkMales: Seen on Blue Rangers; compare Tori and Madison to just about every male Blue Ranger ever. The only exceptions are the Blue Alien Ranger Cestro and Aqua Dino Charge Ranger James, who wore lighter shades of blue in their uniforms (and in James' case, his team did have an official Blue Ranger that falls under the "Dark Male" description). |
| 666 | * PersonalityPowers: In a handful of seasons, the Rangers have special abilities outside of the spandex, and as such, there are some cases where this trope applies: |
| 667 | ** FriendToAllLivingThings Cole Evans of ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' can communicate with animals. |
| 668 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', Conner [=McKnight=], an energetic soccer star, has SuperSpeed, and Kira Ford, an aspiring singer who’s unafraid to speak her mind, has a powerful SonicScream. Subverted by their teammate Ethan James, a TeenGenius who has InstantArmor and SuperStrength, though [[DareToBeBadass he grows into it]] through his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 669 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' has this apply to all of the Rangers: Jack Landors has the power to [[{{Intangibility}} walk through walls]], and he won’t let any obstacle get in the way of him doing what is right. TheStoic Sky Tate is disciplined and distant from his teammates, and shields himself as a BarrierWarrior. Bridge Carson is quirky but kind and very perceptive, and can literally see the best and worst of people through his AuraVision. Z Delgado was [[IJustWantToHaveFriends deeply lonely growing up]], and she can [[SelfDuplication make copies of herself]]. Syd Drew can grab objects, absorb their properties, and use them as a PowerFist, mirroring how as the LovableAlphaBitch, she’s used to having everything at her fingertips until her CharacterDevelopment kicks in. |
| 670 | ** The Rangers of ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' have ElementalPowers. [[PlayingWithFire Nick]] is hot-headed and impulsive. [[DishingOutDirt Xander Bly]] is TheLancer, and he’s more [[{{Pun}} grounded]] than Nick. [[ShockAndAwe Chip Thorn]] is bright and positive. [[MakingASplash Madison Rocca]] is TheHeart, and her sister [[BlowYouAway Vida]] is tempestuous and tough. |
| 671 | %% * PeopleInRubberSuits |
| 672 | * PGExplosives: Used absolutely shamelessly; no serious injury is ever shown caused by one of the ''many'' explosions (vaporization, maybe, but nothing's ''shown''). |
| 673 | * PinnedToTheGround: |
| 674 | ** In episode 33 of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', as the Rangers battle the Psycho Rangers, the Yellow Ranger falls to the ground. Psycho Pink proceeds to stomp on her pinning her down. |
| 675 | ** In the fifth episode of ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', the Monster of the Week throws the Pink Ranger to the ground, pinning her down with her foot on her stomach. |
| 676 | * PlugNPlayFriends: Any rangers who aren't friends before gaining their powers often become close friends almost immediately after becoming a team. New additions to the team also experience this. The exception to this is the occasional sixth ranger (although Dillon, who isn't a sixth ranger, fell into this category as well), who will butt heads with the Red for a leadership position for a few episodes before settling down. |
| 677 | * PostDefeatExplosionChain: MonsterOfTheWeek types tend to spark a lot before dramatically falling and then going up in a huge ball of [[MadeOfExplodium explodium]]. |
| 678 | * PowerCreepPowerSeep: This applies every time a new team teams up with an old team, since the old team at this point has already unlocked its full potential, so logically they should be more powerful and skilled than the new ones that are usually in the middle of the season, but for the convenience of the script, both teams are shown as being at the same power level. |
| 679 | * PowerGivesYouWings: Various Zords get wings from allies or once upgraded. |
| 680 | ** The ''Mystic Force'' Battlizer armor was made from a magical European-style dragon. |
| 681 | ** In ''Mighty Morphin'', Goldar had wings, and he was the most powerful [[TheDragon dragon]] on the show. When he lost his memory and joined Rito as a member of a second PluckyComicRelief duo in ''Zeo'', he lost his wings. Finally, later in the season when Rita restores his memory, Goldar's wings magically return along with his sword and, as we can likely assume, his powers. |
| 682 | ** ''Dino Charge'': |
| 683 | *** There's an unusual example where SixthRanger Ivan, whose powers are pterodactyl-based, can sprout wings and is able to fly for a few moments. |
| 684 | *** Riley learns a new sword technique from Xenowing, an alien from a race of BirdPeople. When Riley delivers the “prism slash”, a pair of glowing wings similar to Xenowings’ own appear around him. |
| 685 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: Teamwork is a major running theme on the show. |
| 686 | * PowerTrio: ''Ninja Storm'', ''Dino Thunder'', ''Jungle Fury'', ''RPM'' and ''Beast Morphers'' start with these instead of a FiveManBand. Technically ''SPD'' also started with one, but it was up to a FiveManBand by the second episode. Each trio also inevitably fills the subtropes' TokenTrio (though ''Ninja Storm'' and ''RPM'' switched it up by having the minority male be the leader, while ''Beast Morphers'' subverts it with both males being a minority and one being the leader), TwoGuysAndAGirl, and the separate-but-related trope ThreePlusTwo. |
| 687 | * PrecursorHeroes: Several teams (Galaxy, Wild Force, Mystic Force, Jungle Fury) are successors to previous non-Ranger groups of heroes. ''Samurai'' and ''Dino Fury'' are rare instances of the previous generations also wearing the spandex. |
| 688 | * ThePresentDay: With the exception of ''SPD'' and presumably ''RPM'', all ''Power Rangers'' seasons take place in the year they air. ''Time Force'' opens in the year 3000, but most of the action takes place in 2001. |
| 689 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Red and Blue are constants, and ''Dino Charge'' is the first and only season with no Yellow Ranger. This is especially obvious with teams that follow the ThreePlusTwo pattern. |
| 690 | * PragmaticAdaptation: The original ''Super Sentai'' is made for a Japanese audience while ''Power Rangers'' goes into UsefulNotes/{{Syndication}} around the world, as such elements run into ValuesDissonance and are generally smoothed over for Power Rangers. The MonochromeCasting of Sentai is made into a FiveTokenBand for Rangers, sometimes even having a character [[ShesAManInJapan be gender flipped]] to [[TheSmurfettePrinciple improve the female representation]]. In overall reception, ''Power Rangers'' does better with the fans the more they create their own work instead of slavishly replicating ''Sentai''. |
| 691 | * ProductPromotionParade: The merchandise shilling can get extreme in some seasons, with an excessive number of Zords and {{Super Mode}}s... |
| 692 | * ProtagonistPowerUpPrivileges: The Red Ranger gets all the best stuff, even when he's [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce not exactly the leader]]. |
| 693 | * PunyEarthlings: Most alien villains love to mock humanity for being... Well, humanity. |
| 694 | * PuppetGun: Starting with ''Samurai'', it's common for there to be special weapons used in Megazord cockpits that control the Megazord's {{Finishing Move}}s. This is done because [[MerchandiseDriven brand new toys]] are a lot easier to incorporate in cockpit footage than in all-new fight scenes. |
| 695 | * PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: In ''Mighty Morphin''' the villains tend to say "put down your morpher" whenever they take hostages. Other seasons have examples of this as well. |
| 696 | * PutOnABus: Technically, everyone! But more traditional examples include Tommy (in seasons 1 and 2 when he lost his Green Ranger powers) and Ryan ([[BackForTheFinale returns for finale]]). Kendrix is something between this and a DisneyDeath. |
| 697 | * {{Ranger}}: Pretty inevitable for obvious reasons, though whether they really do suffer BadassDecay or not varies by season. |
| 698 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Some teams qualify: |
| 699 | ** In ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', a LovableJock, a nerd and his TranslatorBuddy, a kid-friendly SoulBrotha, and a ValleyGirl are recruited to save the world from a space witch. Downplayed as they’re all already friends, and prove to be [[InstantExpert quite capable from the beginning.]] Their counterparts from [[Film/PowerRangers2017 the 2017 film reboot]] take this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] — TheQuarterback and former AlphaBitch dealing with a fall from grace, a GadgeteerGenius with [[UsefulNotes/HighFunctioningAutism autism spectrum disorder]], a StepfordSnarker who’s questioning her sexual orientation, and a FearlessFool who lives in a trailer park. |
| 700 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' consists of a stowaway, a security officer, a mechanic, a scientist, and a JunglePrincess. Later, the Red Ranger’s NotQuiteDead older brother joins, and so does [[TheAtoner a reformed villain]] from [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace the previous season]]. |
| 701 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm:'' The three least competent students at a secret ninja academy — themselves the OnlySaneMan (Shane), a surfer (Tori), and comic book nerd (Dustin) — a pair of formerly BrainwashedAndCrazy brothers from a rival ninja academy, and the DeadpanSnarker MissionControl. Oh, and [[MentorArchetype The Mentor]] is a [[ForcedTransformation ninja guinea pig]]. |
| 702 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder:'' A JerkJock [[CharacterDevelopment who eventually becomes]] a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a Nerd, an aspiring IdolSinger, a LonelyRichKid [[spoiler:whose father is the BigBad]], and their MemeticBadass science teacher.[[invoked]] |
| 703 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD:'' All of the Rangers serve on Space Patrol Delta’s B-Squad, and have considerable character flaws to overcome. Jack and Z are a pair of street thieves, Sky is a ByTheBookCop and LeaderWannabe, Bridge is a CloudCuckooLander, and Syd is a LovableAlphaBitch. They’re later joined by their literal PapaWolf superior officer and a FutureBadass version of a kid Z befriended. |
| 704 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive:'' A smug GentlemanThief, a snarky TVGenius, a CloudCuckooLander stunt man, a GenkiGirl race car driver, and a [[spoiler: secretly robotic]] LonelyRichKid. They’re later joined by a HumanAlien with a DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 705 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM:'' A former Air Force pilot who [[WellDoneSonGuy wants his father’s approval]], a [[MemeticMutation SCOTTISH]] WideEyedIdealist mechanic, a FallenPrincess who TookALevelInBadass, a {{Cyborg}} with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memories of his identity]], and the PluckyComicRelief MetaGuy who accidentally bonded to a morpher despite having [[GivingTheSwordToANoob no fighting prowess of any kind]]. Later, they’re joined by a pair of CuteAndPsycho [[TheDividual twindividuals]] who live to [[StuffBlowingUp make things go BOOM!]] Their mentor and MissionControl is a TeenGenius with NoSocialSkills and the victim of a GovernmentConspiracy. On top of that, she’s also TheAtoner [[spoiler: for creating and accidentally releasing the BigBad]]. |
| 706 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge:'' A dorky adventurer, a CasanovaWannabe and talented skateboarder, a nerdy FarmBoy with an interest in swords, a waitress with a passion for paleontology who [[DudeWheresMyRespect wants to be taken seriously by her boss]], and a 100,000-year-old ContemporaryCaveman. Later additions include a KnightInShiningArmor FishOutOfTemporalWater, the modern-day prince of the Knight’s country of origin, the TeamMom OmnidisciplinaryScientist, an AdventurerArchaeologist [[spoiler: who’s also the Red Ranger’s DisappearedDad]], and an alien from a race of BirdPeople. |
| 707 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel:'' An escapee from an AlienAbduction, a young couple, a GadgeteerGenius and ExtracurricularEnthusiast, a StageMagician, and a CountryMusic singer who is also [[spoiler: the Red Ranger’s long-lost older brother with FakeMemories]]. Allies include their {{Human Alien|s}} TricksterMentor, the Red Ranger’s RobotBuddy, and the White Ranger’s EvilDetectingDog. |
| 708 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' features a gamer with a very WellDoneSonGuy attitude- heck, all three core rangers have this- alongside a determinator NatureLover, a [[NotSoStoic stoic]] hidden artist, a ChildProdigy with the artist's mom as his surrogate mom, and his CloudCuckooLander robot brother. |
| 709 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Often, a Ranger will be incapacitated for reasons that correlate directly to the actor's availability for filming. In ''Lost Galaxy'', Kendrix [[spoiler:was temporarily killed off]] so her performer could get leukemia treatment. In ''Dino Thunder'', ''SPD'', and the ''RPM''-''Samurai'' crossover, Tommy, Sam, and Scott are locked in their Ranger forms to hide the fact that the actor is not on set (or in Sam's case, they did not have the budget to cast an actor for a full-time SixthRanger at all). And in ''Cosmic Fury'', Ollie spends most of the season BrainwashedAndCrazy, away from the Rangers. In most of his civilian-form scenes, he is acting opposite rubber-suited monsters who could theoretically be played by whomever is available on set. |
| 710 | * RecapEpisode: Generally one per season. The most noteworthy one being ''Dino Thunder'''s "Legacy of Power", which featured a compilation of clips from the entire franchise in honor of the show's 500th episode. Plus, since Saban took back the reins of the franchise, every season (counting the ''Super'' upgrades) has a {{Halloween|Episode}} and a ChristmasEpisode which will be this (and filler, on top of that). |
| 711 | * RecycledInSpace: Most seasons recycle a lot of the same plots and tropes, only dressed up in different themes such as dinosaurs, ninjas, cars, etc. Believe it or not, ''Power Rangers in Space'' is ''not'' one of these, as it didn't have too many recycled elements. |
| 712 | * RedHotMasculinity: Most Red Rangers are male and a number of them have very typical masculine traits. |
| 713 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': |
| 714 | *** Jason Lee Scott is TheLeader, speaks in a ''very'' [[NoIndoorVoice loud tone]], commands a Tyrannosaurus AnimalMecha (which later becomes a dragon) and participates in just about any athletic activity under the sun from martial arts to weightlifting to scuba diving. |
| 715 | *** Jason's [[LegacyCharacter successor]] Rocky [=DeSantos=] also qualifies to an extent, being a BoisterousBruiser who also enjoys athletics and has a [[BigEater big appetite]]. |
| 716 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': Zigzagged with Tommy. He has a number of qualities in common with Jason such as being the leader and loving martial arts but these were established before he became a Red Ranger. |
| 717 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': Leo commands the [[KingOfBeasts Lion Galactabeast]]. He is also brave to the point of impulsiveness and gets quite a few shirtless scenes showing off his impressive physique. |
| 718 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': Carter Grayson consistently proves himself to be the bravest of his team through his actions; he is the first of the newly recruited Rangers to take the threat of the demons seriously, tries to run the MonsterOfTheWeek over with a Humvee in the first episode, nearly blows himself up to take out a monster in another episode, volunteers to infiltrate the villains' lair in order to save the SixthRanger in the finale and is the first to rush towards a fire disaster in the finale ''without a morpher''. |
| 719 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'': [[TheLeader Shane]] and [[TheLancer Hunter]] are the Red Wind Ranger and Crimson Thunder Ranger respectively. Both have typical alpha male personalities, being cocky, over-competitive, and quick to action. This is perhaps best exemplified in "Boxing Bop-a-Roo" which deals with the two having a rivalry over who is the best. |
| 720 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Conner [=McKnight=] is a soccer jock who is, at least initially, rather boorish. In one episode, unlocking the final stage of his powers involves him screaming at the top of his lungs. |
| 721 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Nick is the most HotBlooded of the Rangers, is the first to volunteer to go into a forest everyone else is afraid in the first episode, and has a CoolBike (that isn't Ranger equipment). |
| 722 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'': Mack is a sports enthusiast and has a love of adventure. [[AscendedFanboy Becoming the Red Ranger is a dream come true for him.]] |
| 723 | * RedIsHeroic: The Red Ranger is nearly always the leader and the hero, with only a few exceptions (Rocky from ''Mighty Morphin'' inherited the red color when Jason departed, but leadership passed to the White Ranger Tommy and Tommy would ultimately become the Red Zeo Ranger while Rocky would become Blue; the Alien Rangers are led by their White Ranger; the Time Force Rangers are led by their Pink Ranger). |
| 724 | * RedShirt: If there's another set of heroic (yet non-superpowered) peacekeepers in the setting, they'll be largely ineffective against the monsters and have to have the Rangers bail them out. |
| 725 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': Galactic Space Alliance troopers. |
| 726 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': Lightspeed Aquabase guards and staff. |
| 727 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': SPD officers. |
| 728 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': Corinth troopers and guards. |
| 729 | * ReinventingTheTelephone: It's there, but justified or averted a surprising amount of the time if you think about it - earlier seasons were before cell phones were common, and in many later ones the morphers ''are'' phones. |
| 730 | * RequiredSpinoffCrossover: It was a tradition ever since the rosters started changing, though the Disney era phased it out starting with ''Mystic Force'', for the current Rangers to have an episode or two joining forces with last year's team. Since then, the only crossover with a previous team was "Clash of the Red Rangers" in ''Samurai'', but even then, as the title implies, only the Red Ranger of ''RPM'' was involved. |
| 731 | * ReunionShow: The current team joining forces with the previous years' is a yearly tradition going back to ''Lost Galaxy'' (even if many Disney seasons skipped it), plus the Milestone episodes and a couple scattered ones in ''Zeo'' and ''In Space''. |
| 732 | ** The biggest reunion show so far is in the ''Super Megaforce'' finale. Over 10 past Rangers from different teams appeared, including none other than Tommy Oliver. And those are just the actual actors; with {{Fake Shemp}}s, ''everyone'' shows up. |
| 733 | * RevolvingDoorCasting: Eventually though, the franchise started the tradition of getting completely new ensembles each season after ''In Space'' ended, as opposed to gradually phasing out cast members (namely the Rangers). |
| 734 | * RhymesOnADime: There have been a few rhyming [[MonsterOfTheWeek MOTW]]s, some better at it than others. At least once in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', we get a LampshadeHanging: The Yellow Ranger isn't succumbing to the villain's HatePlague, and we get... |
| 735 | -->'''Hate Master:''' "Would you give in already?! Doing this is no snap! It really isn't ''easy'' talking all the time in rap!" |
| 736 | ** The Rangers also had an ally who did this, Quagmire from the "Isle of Illusions" two-part episode. (Although, not all his rhymes made complete sense. For example, he referred to Madame Woe (a MonsterOfTheWeek who appeared in a previous episode) as a "nightmare queen" who Billy fought in a "realm of dreams", which really didn't describe Madame Woe or the actual battle at all. |
| 737 | * RhymingWizardry: |
| 738 | ** Several of Rita's early Season 1 monsters in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were summoned by her using a rhyming incantation (eg. "Sky of fire, Wind of fright, Send to me a Knasty Knight!"). She'd also sometimes use one to make a monster giant in lieu of her usual MakeMyMonsterGrow {{Catchphrase}}. |
| 739 | ** Jinxer and Toxica of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' and ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' respectively would use rhyming spells to make monsters giant. While Jinxer usually used different rhymes depending on the occasion, Toxica's growth spell was always "Ancient Spirits of Toil and Strife, Give this fallen Org new life!" |
| 740 | * RightHandVersusLeftHand: Sometimes the Rangers survive only because of bickering and backstabbing on the villains front. The best example was the Psycho Rangers, who were stronger, faster, and better than the Rangers in most ways... except they hated each other and their bosses as much as the Rangers. The arguing between Psycho Pink and Psycho Yellow in particular. |
| 741 | ** An even bigger example occurs in the GrandFinale of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. TheStarscream and the GreaterScopeVillain actually end up [[TakingYouWithMe killing each other off]] early on, making things that much easier for the Rangers. |
| 742 | * RobotBuddy: Alphas 5 and 6 for the Zordon era plus ''Lost Galaxy'', Circuit in ''Time Force'', RIC in ''SPD'', Tensou in ''Megaforce'', Redbot in ''Ninja Steel'', Steel in ''Beast Morphers'', and J-Borg in ''Dino Fury''. ''Ninja Storm'''s Cyber Cam might fit by proxy, since he's a computer-generated duplicate of Cam, but pretty solid for a holographic counterpart. |
| 743 | * RuleOfCool: There's a lot of plot that doesn't make sense, but the action is so cool, does it matter? |
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| 745 | [[folder:Examples S - W]] |
| 746 | * SceneryGorn: Common to most finales, and all of ''RPM''. Also used in the first and last episodes of ''Super Megaforce''. |
| 747 | * ScienceFantasy: Quite possibly one of the finest examples of this trope, along with [[Franchise/SuperSentai its parent]] and [[Franchise/KamenRider other relative]]. |
| 748 | * SculptedPhysique: The various series' monsters. |
| 749 | * SealedEvilInACan: A constantly recurring trope, going all the way back to the first episode. |
| 750 | ** SealedCastInAMultipack: "Cans" make a good source for Monsters of the Week, as well as for lost powerups for the Rangers to reclaim. |
| 751 | * SearchingForTheLostRelative: |
| 752 | ** Andros in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' is looking for his sister Karone, who was kidnapped as a child. She turns out to be brainwashed and operating as the series BigBad, Astronema, but is saved at the end of the season. [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy The following year]], she redeems herself by becoming a Power Ranger. The "long-lost sister" card is played again in ''RPM'' with Dillon and [[spoiler:Tenaya-7]]. |
| 753 | ** Nick in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' is looking for his real parents (he was adopted). [[spoiler:His mother turns out to be the team mentor Udonna, but her husband Leanbow is brainwashed as the evil Koragg. Near the end of the season, he gets rescued and becomes the final member of the team as the Wolf Warrior.]] |
| 754 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', Tyler's father James went missing ten years ago, leaving behind only a journal with notes about strange monsters and colorful magical gemstones. [[spoiler:James bonded with one of the Energems, and fearing that his new superpowers would make his family a prime target, he's been on the run for a decade until he learns his son is also a Ranger.]] |
| 755 | ** Amelia from ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'' was raised by her grandfather, who has never given her any meaningful information about her parents. Her determination to find out what happened to them spirals into a fascination with other un-solvable mysteries like Bigfoot or ghost hunting. This leads to a [[Series/TheXFiles Mulder-and-Scully-esque]] dynamic with her love interest, the rational and skeptical Ollie. [[spoiler:Her parents are eventually revealed to be the show's main villains, Void Queen and King. Once they realize who Amelia is, they let go of their hate and give up evil.]] |
| 756 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Often used with the first morph and/or first use of the Megazord. Lately some initial team Rangers have been getting this too, such as Riley in ''Dino Charge'', and Calvin and Hayley in ''Ninja Steel'' (although the latter do appear in the first episode, they are only in one scene, which has nothing to do with the Rangers). |
| 757 | * SecretIdentity: In most series, but averted when the team is officially sponsored by the government (or in ''Operation Overdrive'', a private corporation). |
| 758 | * {{Sentai}}: Considering the source material is titled ''Super'' Sentai... |
| 759 | * SequelNumberSnarl: Disney and Saban once considered the ''Mighty Morphin''' ReCut to be Season 18 and ''Samurai'' Season 19. Fans generally didn't count the ReCut, considering ''Samurai'' to be the true Season 18 even before Saban followed suit. Seasons since ''Samurai'' are also generally considered two roughly 20-episode seasons. The official count under Hasbro now holds ''Samurai'' as seasons 18 and 19, ''Megaforce'' as 20 and 21, and so on, as per the first teaser trailer for the then-unnamed ''Dino Fury'' explicitly declaring it as season 28. |
| 760 | * SeriesFauxnale: Twice. "Doomsday, Part 2" was written to work as a finale just in case the show wasn't a success didn't get picked up for more episodes; it was and it did. ''RPM''[='s=] season finale "Danger and Destiny" would have been the finale for the franchise but the show got picked up by Saban Brands. Contrary to popular belief, "Countdown to Destruction" although closing up six seasons worth of continuity was never going to be a series finale as ''Lost Galaxy'' was already in commission, which is also the same reason for "The End of Power Rangers" as ''Ninja Storm'' was in development by the time ''Wild Force'' wrapped production. It did, however, serve as the final episode to be filmed in the United States as production would move to New Zealand from ''Ninja Storm'' onwards (also signifying the moment when Saban fully handed the reins of the franchise over to Disney, ''Wild Force'' having been a joint production). |
| 761 | ** These also crop up partway through the Nickelodeon era, since the series are split into separate seasons. ''Dino Charge'', ''Ninja Steel'', and ''Beast Morphers'' all end their first year with the heroes believing they've successfully defeated or trapped the villains and that they can go back to their normal lives--''Ninja Steel'' even going so far as to [[spoiler: destroy the source of the Rangers' power]]--before the next season premier reveals a new villain or scheme (and not counting ''Ninja Steel'' and ''Beast Morphers'' having Christmas episodes in-between where the team must deal with TheRemnant). |
| 762 | * SharedUniverse: Like in Super Sentai, the various seasons of Power Rangers are shown to exist in the same universe. This was most obvious in the early years of the series, which had one continuing storyline that culminated in ''Power Rangers in Space'' and new Rangers' powers were handed down directly from previous Rangers. Later seasons tend to downplay this, but the various crossovers and reappearing characters establish that the universe is the same. However, there are some hiccups and exceptions throughout the franchise. |
| 763 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', set AfterTheEnd, takes place in an AlternateUniverse, something that may not have been intentional during its inception--since it was almost certainly the final season at the time, most theorize the creators planned to TorchTheFranchiseAndRun, but the lack of any cameos from past Rangers made it easy to say it was its own continuity. This wasn't made obvious until its crossover with ''Samurai'' stated it outright. It is, however, still part of the same {{Multiverse}} as the universe that other seasons take place in.[[invoked]] |
| 764 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' is also confirmed to take place in an Alternate Universe in the ''Ninja Steel'' MilestoneCelebration episode "Dimensions in Danger", though most people expected that, since [[spoiler: the end of that series would completely obliterate the timeline thanks to dinosaurs never going extinct]]. Here, both the ''RPM'' and ''Dino Charge'' worlds cross over with the main one. This episode also shows that Rangers from the main timeline have developed and distributed transportal devices to cross dimensions in case of emergency. It's stated that overusing them can destabilize the Morphin' Grid, but considering ''Ninja Steel'' ended with the team using one to attend a Christmas party in the ''Dino Charge'' world, it's safe to say that any future crossovers won't be too difficult.[[invoked]] |
| 765 | ** ''WebVideo/PowerRangersHyperforce'' takes place in the main continuity ''probably''. On the one hand, it has plenty of cameos from past Rangers and is set far enough in the future (after ''Time Force'') that it doesn't risk running against the show's continuity too much. On the other hand, it's highly unlikely the Hyperforce team will ever appear in the main show due to the cost of their all-original suits and zords, not to mention three of their team members [[YouLookFamiliar look identical to major characters from the past]] (not that that's stopped them before). And on a third hand, the events of their finale [[spoiler: may have tossed them into their own separate universe themselves]].[[invoked]] |
| 766 | ** The Boom Studios comics exist in their own timeline, but the events of ''Shattered Grid'' brought them into contact with nearly every other incarnation of the series, including ''Hyperforce'', and it's implied that the ending caused the creation of the tv timeline alongside the comics timeline. Either way, it would seem that while the events of the tv show can effect the comics, the opposite doesn't hold true. |
| 767 | ** All other iterations--various video games, non-Boom comics, the 2017 film, various crossovers--take place in their own continuity. They might cross over with each other or inspire elements elsewhere, but they do not directly impact the comics or the show itself. |
| 768 | * ShipTease: Very common. Examples include [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Adam and Tanya]], [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Cassie and the Phantom Ranger]], [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Jack and Syd]], [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Gemma and Flynn]], and [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Mia and Kevin]]. [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix and Leo]] and [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Trent and Kira]] were originally planned to get a RelationshipUpgrade, but [[RealLifeWritesThePlot various]] [[ExecutiveMeddling factors]] ultimately prevented that. |
| 769 | * ShowyInvincibleHero: The whole point of the show, and arguably the TropeCodifier for a generation or more. |
| 770 | * SidingWithTheSuffering: The franchise has many examples of this: |
| 771 | ** Astronema from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. Once she realizes that Andros, the Red Ranger, is her brother, she begins to rethink her allegiance. |
| 772 | *** The same can be said for Ecliptor, to a degree. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes He can't bring himself to attack Astronema]] and instead, holds off the enemy forces allowing Andros and Astronema to escape from Dark Specter. They both pay for their betrayal eventually. |
| 773 | ** Downplayed with Villamax in ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''. After training Trakeena, Villamax becomes her general after Scorpius' death. After (unintentionally) helping a girl locate her mother, he begins to question Trakeena's actions. When she orders him to fire upon innocent fleeing civilians, he openly defies her, telling her that she's learned nothing. This gets him killed. |
| 774 | ** Diabolico from ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''. After Bansheera forces him into killing his comrade Loki in an attempt to kill the Rangers, Diabolico begins to assist them in stopping her. He gets the last laugh in the finale by blasting her down into the Shadow Dimension, laughing as he's finally gotten his revenge on her by giving the Rangers the victory. |
| 775 | ** Nadira from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', partially due to Trip and Lucas. However what really sets her HeelFaceTurn in motion is watching the miracle of childbirth. After which she confronts her dad over Frax's destruction, to which he blows off. She then finds a lost infant and tries to find the parents, only to be blasted by her father. This action leads to ''his'' HeelRealization and his eventual surrender. |
| 776 | ** Both Jarrod and Camille in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''. Even before [[DemonicPossession being possessed by Dai Shi]] in the first place, Jarrod was a JerkAss and ArrogantKungFuGuy, which got him expelled. Camille is simply Dai Shi's loyal "Dragon", despite his abuse and disposal of her. It's when Dai Shi decides to have Camille executed that Jarrod decides to fight back, while in Camille's case, she eventually starts to develop feelings for Jarrod, not Dai Shi, as well as begin to realize that he considers her expendable. This eventually leads to both of them siding with the Rangers. |
| 777 | ** There's also the Phantom Beast General, Whiger. After being [[YouHaveFailedMe stripped of his Rinzin, title, and rank by Dai Shi and banished from his temple for being defeated by the Jungle Master Stampede Formation]], he goes through this when Casey shows him kindness to his surprise, and the two even team up for a while. Shortly after their team-up, he fades away from existence, but not from Casey's memory. |
| 778 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Virtually every seasonal roster consists of three guys and {{two girls|ToATeam}}. That is, until the invariably male SixthRanger showed up. A few seasons instead start with a PowerTrio of two guys and one girl, and are then joined by multiple (still invariably male) extra Rangers. |
| 779 | ** The Smurfettes in question: Delphine of Aquitar, White Ranger of ''[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin’ Alien Rangers]]''; Tori Hanson, Blue Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''; Kira Ford, Yellow Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''; Lily Chilman, Yellow Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''; Summer Landsdown, Yellow Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' (more on that series below); Shelby Watkins, Pink Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' (again, see below); and Zoey Reeves, Yellow Rangers of ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers''. |
| 780 | ** None of the shows ever had a female character in Red until 2005 with ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'''s Charlie, but she was fighting for the villains. The first heroic female Red Ranger, Lauren Shiba, appeared in 2012 with ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' (and even then, she got minimal screentime/development/relevance/etc). However, there are a handful of examples of non-Red team leaders, including three women. The first is the above-mentioned Delphine of Aquitar. Then came Jen Scotts, Pink Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', and most recently, Taylor Earhardt, Yellow Ranger of ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''. Though sadly, Taylor becomes a QuicklyDemotedWoman when the Red Ranger ''does'' show up. |
| 781 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', sadly, took this a step backward; Yellow Ranger Summer remained the only female out of the five core Rangers as in the source material, while the Sixth Rangers, Gold and Silver, became SingleMindedTwins Gem and Gemma, so Gemma basically amounted to half a character. Though it did make up for it by having the mentor character, Dr. K, be female and get plenty of focus. |
| 782 | ** Like ''RPM'', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' also had a female SixthRanger: in the first-season finale, MissionControl Kendall Morgan became the Purple Ranger. However, for much of the second season, she was OutOfFocus due to limited footage of her Sentai counterpart. This is a bit strange because like all of the seasons in the Neo-Saban era, all cockpit scenes for Megazord fights consisted of original footage, yet even when the Rangers used ''her'' Zord, Kendall would stay behind. |
| 783 | ** ''Cosmic Fury'', which aired 30 years after the franchise began, finally gave the show its first full-time woman in Red: Amelia Jones, previously the Dino Fury Pink Ranger. It's also the first time we have ''three'' girls on the seven-person team: Amelia and Izzy, carrying over from ''Dino Fury'', and Fern, Izzy's girlfriend. |
| 784 | * TheSomethingForce: ''Time Force'', ''Wild Force'', ''Mystic Force'', and ''Megaforce''. Even ''Beast Morphers'' operates out of a company called Grid Battleforce. Foreign dubs add more. Notably, Korea has added "force" to pretty much every ''Power Rangers'' series there. That being said, those are dubs of Super Sentai rather than adaptations. |
| 785 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: |
| 786 | ** In the Zordon era. First there was Rita, then there was her boss Lord Zedd who was way worse than her, then Rita's father Master Vile whom Zordon described as "wiser in the ways of evil than Lord Zedd", then the Machine Empire which Master Vile described as the only ones in the galaxy more evil than himself. Then finally Dark Specter, the grand monarch of evil who ruled over all the villains. |
| 787 | ** Post-Zordon era. This usually applies within each season, with stronger monsters arriving the further the season progresses. |
| 788 | * SpaceFriction: Any season with space travel, but especially ''in Space'' and ''Lost Galaxy''. |
| 789 | ** Cole's Wildforce Rider screeching on turns and leaving sparks while in space in "Forever Red". |
| 790 | * SpacePolice: ''Turbo'' has the Blue Senturion, then years later there's multiple teams of Space Police Rangers in ''S.P.D.'' (Space Patrol Delta). It doesn't stop there, ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Beast Morphers'' respectively feature guest heroes Space Sheriff Skyfire and Captain Chaku, both of whom are derived from the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' franchise. |
| 791 | * SpandexLatexOrLeather: Spandex, no matter what Dr. K tells you. |
| 792 | ** The 1995 and 2017 movies subvert this by having the suits made of PVC and metal plating to give them more of an armor-like feel (and in the 2017 film it's explicitly designated as "armor"). |
| 793 | ** ''Samurai'' also has armored versions for Megazord piloting, to match the toys created to only ''sorta'' resemble the show's outfits when it was thought there wouldn't be a new American season. ''Dino Charge'' and ''Ninja Steel'' followed suit. |
| 794 | ** The A-Squad in ''SPD'' wore what essentially amounted to modified motocross suits; it actually doesn't look half bad, especially considering they're supposed to be an elite police squad. The main team's SWAT Mode went on to somewhat resemble them. |
| 795 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: With the exception of [[spoiler:the first Magna Defender]], don't expect good guy deaths in ''Super Sentai'' to carry over to ''Power Rangers''. |
| 796 | ** Sometimes combined with NonLethalKO in earlier seasons; some villains like Rito, General Havoc, Gasket and Archerina would get blown up in a Megazord fight (which spelled the end of their Sentai counterpart) but turn up fine in the next scene. They stopped doing this around ''In Space''. |
| 797 | ** Interestingly enough, this was originally intended to be averted, as Tommy was going to be killed off like his Sentai counterpart. Predictably, this was vetoed (since they wanted the show to be kid-friendly...and because he was popular) and he was just PutOnABus instead. |
| 798 | * TheStarscream: Uses this in most seasons after ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. Generally, there's two dragons - one Starscreamy, and one loyal. Which one ends up on top varies. |
| 799 | * StockFootage: Arguably, the entire point behind the American series. |
| 800 | %%* StockPoses: ''Rangers'' gets a ''lot'' of mileage out of a few kinds of poses: |
| 801 | %%** AssKickingPose |
| 802 | %%** SuperSentaiStance: Considering this show ''comes'' from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', usage of the Stance is inevitable in most episodes. |
| 803 | %%** UnflinchingWalk: Notable here because signature poses are often performed with explosions as a backdrop. |
| 804 | %%** VictoryPose |
| 805 | %% Subbulleted tropes are not allowed. Please split them off. |
| 806 | * StormingTheCastle: Not as often as the reverse AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs, but it happens. As noted above, ''Zeo'' and ''Jungle Fury'' used this in place of All Your Base for their finales, and ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Dino Thunder'' used both at once. |
| 807 | * StrictlyFormula: The first couple seasons (before they left Earth), outside of season premieres and finales, generally followed a fairly strict formula. A minor dilemma involving the civilian identities of the rangers pops up, the BigBad (Rita/Zedd/King Mondo/Divatox/whoever) takes inspiration from it and have their monster creator design the MonsterOfTheAesop around it, a {{Mook|s}} attack occurs for whatever reason (no morphing just yet), this escalates into the MonsterOfTheAesop attacking (requiring the Rangers to morph), BigBad [[MakeMyMonsterGrow makes it grow]] (sometimes without bothering to wait for the Rangers to fight it on foot), the Rangers call forth their HumongousMecha, MonsterOfTheAesop gets squished by StockFootage, and the plot ends with the Rangers solving their civilian issue. Sure, sometimes it swaps things up (some episodes have the Rangers defeat the monster on foot), but it almost always followed that general formula. |
| 808 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: |
| 809 | ** The red ranger is usually the strongest member of the core team, but how much usually varies depending on what is convenient for the plot, in some cases he is only slightly stronger than other members, and in other cases he is capable of defeating the rest of the core team on their own, or defeat an enemy that not even the rest of the core team could defeat. |
| 810 | ** The Red ranger is usually this compared to the villains, in normal circumstances, the Red ranger needs his entire group to defeat a Monster of the week, even a weak one, but in one-on-one duels he is capable of facing a general or other type of major villain that are usually much stronger than the Monsters of the week. |
| 811 | * StuffBlowingUp: Always there in ''Power Rangers'', but taken to extremes during Bruce Kalish's time on the series, where simply announcing their arrival would cause color-coded explosions behind the Rangers. Particularly JustForFun/{{Egregious}} explosions are known as "Kalishplosions" in the fandom. |
| 812 | ** It goes SerialEscalation during the Kalish years (though it seems Koichi Sakamoto is the one who was really fond of them, evidently, ''someone'' was reining him in for the first 13-ish years of the franchise.) At one point in [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive "Operation Overdrive"]], Mack and Moltor ''pointing'' their weapons at each other caused enormous explosions. It got to the point where it was ''less'' epic because when the background's never ''not'' on fire, you never say "whoa, that attack was powerful" or something. |
| 813 | ** This came under some ''incredibly'' heavy [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] in [[Series/PowerRangersRPM ''RPM's'']] episode "Ranger Blue". When given the opportunity to ask questions about the Ranger tech, Ziggy asks: |
| 814 | -->'''Ziggy:''' Sometimes when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me for no apparent reason. |
| 815 | ** This, combined with the fact that gratuitous booms were a ChekhovsGag brought up later in the episode, has earned them the second nickname of "Ziggysplosions". |
| 816 | * SuperheroPackingHeat: Almost no Ranger is adverse to using (inevitably {{Family Friendly|Firearms}}) firearms if they've got them, but the trope really comes into play with sanctioned law enforcement teams like ''Lightspeed Rescue'', ''Time Force'', and ''SPD'' (the latter of which goes so far as to explain discarded bullet shells as "energy pellets"). |
| 817 | * SuperheroParadox: Once could make an argument that the franchise has this zigzagged. For over 30 years now, different teams of rangers have battled various villains, and somehow, no matter how old or new the threats were, they're joined in battle again over a much shorter period of time. This was especially apparent during the ''Mighty Morphin'' days, where different villains kept getting attracted to Earth because of the Rangers' victories over Rita. Then again, starting from ''In Space'', every villain faced has eventually been destroyed or redeemed, so while there's a wide range of threats, the Power Rangers themselves have been pretty effective in destroying one ancient evil per year. |
| 818 | * SuperheroTeamUniform: Every iteration has the team in some matching outfit design, often with white armor or coloring, and each ranger's suit mostly being their theme color. |
| 819 | * SuperMode: There are some power-ups that have accumulated over the years. ''in Space'' introduced the "Battlizer" mode, which includes some heavy weapons, armor and usually flight capability. The Battlizer mode is in nearly every following Power Ranger series and (surprisingly) is an American-only creation. Many series also have a lighter SuperMode available to the whole team; these usually originated in ''Sentai''. Of course, the very first was in MMPR season 3. Metallic Armor, power up! |
| 820 | ** Though, interestingly, the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' team up between ''[[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Dekaranger]]'' and ''[[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'' had Deka Red use ''SPD'''s Battlizer, and had characters comment on it as being a new device built for him after ''Dekaranger'' ended. |
| 821 | * SupernaturalPhone: There have been several iterations wherein their cellphones have been incorporated with their morphers. |
| 822 | * SupernaturalTeam: [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce The Mystic Force Rangers]] |
| 823 | %% * SuperRobotGenre |
| 824 | * SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands / MagicalSecurityCam: Both sides frequently have some magic way of checking on the plot from the comfort of their base. The first series had Zordon's Viewing Globe, Rita's telescope and Zedd's visor. |
| 825 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Mostly the early seasons when they would rotate actors mid-season. Katherine was a reformed [[TheMole mole]] and was much different than Kimberly, but when she became the second Pink Ranger she took over as a {{Love Interest|s}} for Tommy. Others did manage to stand out, most notably Adam when he came on board. |
| 826 | * SwissArmyWeapon: Many Ranger teams have a standard side-arm that works as a dagger or small pistol. Some individual Rangers, particularly [[SixthRanger extra ones]], have personal weapons like this, sometimes with ''three'' modes. |
| 827 | * TakeOverTheCity: Whatever ambitions towards World Domination they may have, every villain up until ''in Space'' and some after only ever focused on the town the Rangers themselves lived in. [[JustifiedTrope Partially justified]], as managing to subdue the Rangers in their own turf would in turn mean they'd have less trouble taking over everywhere else. A few seasons are fully justified, giving the villains specific reasons to target that city and ''only'' that city. |
| 828 | * TasteTheRainbow: Multicolored spandex jokes aside; there's a Ranger team for just about every category that could fall under a young boy's RuleOfCool: dinosaur Rangers, ninja Rangers, car Rangers, beast Rangers, wizard Rangers, and so on and so on... |
| 829 | * TaughtByExperience: Almost ''ALL'' Power Rangers, but especially the [[RookieRedRanger Red Rookies]]. |
| 830 | * TechnoWizard: A recurring character type, who can usually be counted on to bring out new gear occasionally. See Billy, Miss Fairweather, Trip, Cam, Hayley, Kat Manx, Dr. K, Antonio, Noah, Miss Morgan, Sarah, Nate, and Ollie. |
| 831 | * TerribleTrio: Bulk and Skull from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' are Team Rocket minus one -- they're a pair of comically stupid bullies (one big and fat, one little and weaselly) with no brainy leader. They later had something of a HeelFaceTurn when they became cops in MMPR Season 3 and met with their new leader Lieutenant Stone. And later again in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' when they worked for Professor Phenomenus. |
| 832 | * ThematicSeries: While not quite as much as Super Sentai, each show (''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' onward, though some would also count ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'') contains its own story and characters that are part of a larger universe. |
| 833 | ** ''Samurai'' seems to support this the most as series staples such as the morphing grid are never mentioned not even hinted and the series seems to contradict the fact that The ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were earth's first Power Rangers team by having the team be the 18th generation of samurai rangers, same as its parent series ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''. |
| 834 | * {{Thememobile}}: Even ignoring the Zords, there's still the Rangers' vehicles. And a ton more in the toys that never make it to the show. Variations include: |
| 835 | %% ** CoolBike: The most common vehicles. |
| 836 | %% ** CoolCar |
| 837 | ** And one-offs like {{Cool Board}}s (''in Space''), {{Big Badass Rig}}s (''Ninja Storm'' and ''Dino Thunder''), an AwesomePersonnelCarrier (''SPD''), {{Rocket Ride}}s (''Mystic Force''), and a CoolPlane (''Operation Overdrive''). |
| 838 | * ThemeNaming: Probably unintentional, but the first five Pink Rangers are, in order: Kimberly, Katherine, Cassie, Kendrix and Karone, although it seems the writers noticed this and have avoided K-or-C names since: the next Pinks were Dana, Jen, Syd, Vida, Rose, Mia, Emma, Shelby, Sarah, and Amelia. Of course, later ''Yellow'' Rangers include Kelsey, Katie and Kira, while Kat Manx had a brief stint as a Ranger, too. |
| 839 | %% * ThemeTable |
| 840 | * ThemeTune: A kids' action show? Yeah, it has them. From the Metal of ''Mighty Morphin's'' theme, which has gotten remixed for ''Samurai'' & ''Megaforce'', to a more general Rock feel of most of the seasons afterwards. In a few other examples, ''Mystic Force'' & ''Operation Overdrive'' had songs styled more in Rap/Hip-Hop. RPM's had that too... if you can even count that song as anything. ''Jungle Fury's'' has more of a PopPunk feel to it that fits Power Rangers like a glove. It's interesting to note that one of the demo theme songs for RPM was ''also'' Pop Punk, but to go along with how little Disney cared about the franchise, and wanted it over with by 2009, they opted against it for some reason. |
| 841 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Many, many examples. Especially in the seasons made by Disney. |
| 842 | * ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: True to some extent. While there is an entirely new narrative set in the States or wherever they need it to be each season, they still use ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' Japanese stock footage for the majority of the fight scenes. The Japanese skylines, architecture and fields being so close to places that are ostensibly California will maybe get a throwaway line (i.e. "It's attacking Little Tokyo!" in ''Dino Thunder''), but it otherwise is not acknowledged. |
| 843 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Every once in a while, there comes a situation where weapons, Zords, and even Ranger powers are useless, and the power of the human spirit is the only force that can save the day. |
| 844 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Bulk and Skull, who incidentally are the longest lasting cast members from Season 1 to Season 6, longer than any individual Power Ranger (outlasting even ''Tommy'', if ''Samurai'' is included). The dynamic was recreated in ''Samurai'' with Bulk returning and Skull's son Spike taking his dad's place (with Skull showing up in the last episode). Cassidy and Devin in ''Dino Thunder'', Victor and Monty in ''Ninja Steel'', Betty and Ben from ''Beast Morphers'', and Jane and J-Borg in ''Dino Fury'' also fit this trope. |
| 845 | * TieredByName: Individual Zords combine into a Megazord, and if all (or rarely just most) Zords that year are used in a single formation it's an Ultrazord. The earlier seasons had more of a formula to it before the combinations got fancier names: [X]zords merged into [X] Megazords, combining the [X] Megazord with the SixthRanger's [Y]zord made the Mega [Y]zord, and adding the Carrier Zord made the [X] Ultrazord. |
| 846 | * TitleThemeTune: You will never see a season whose theme song does not constantly say the words "Power Rangers" in its lyrics. |
| 847 | * TokenFlyer: |
| 848 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Kimberly's Pterodayctyl [[AnimalMecha Zord]] was the only one of the Dinozords that could fly. This was subverted when the Rangers upgraded to the Thunderzords and Ninjazords which had one additional flyer in addition to Kimberly's consistent aerial-themed Zords. |
| 849 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': Tommy's Zord is based on ThePhoenix and is the only one of the main Zords capable of flight. |
| 850 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': The Rangers have a number of vehicles in this season. One of them is Lightning Cruiser, a sentient car driven by TJ which can fly. It is the only vehicle in this season with flight capabilities. |
| 851 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': All the Rangers have [[SkySurfing Galaxy Gliders]] but Andros is the only one who can fly without one thanks to his [[PoweredArmor Battilizer]]. |
| 852 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': Damon's Condor Galactabeast serves this function among the Rangers' main five Zords. |
| 853 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': Joel was an aerial stuntman before becoming a Ranger. It is fitting that his Zord is the only aerial vehicle among the main five. Later, the Rangers are joined by [[SixthRanger Ryan]] whose Zord can take the form of an air-and-space vehicle. |
| 854 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'': [[SixthRanger Eric's]] SuperMode grants him flight which none of the other Rangers have. |
| 855 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': |
| 856 | *** Taylor's Eagle Zord is the only one of the main five Zords based on a flying animal. [[IfItSwimsItFlies Max's Shark Zord is capable of flight as well but is really more of a creature of the sea than the sky]]. Taylor is also capable of flight in Ranger mode by deploying a set of wings under her arms. Cole does gain the ability to fly but only in his SuperMode. |
| 857 | *** The Eagle Zord also serves as the Token Flyer in the Zord system that makes up the Kongazord with the other Zords being a gorilla, a black bear, a polar bear and a bison. |
| 858 | *** Cole's Falcon Zord is the only avian creature among the five Zords that form the Isis Megazord. |
| 859 | *** Merrick's three Zords are the wolf, the alligator and the hammerhead shark. The hammerhead can swim and fly while the other two move on the ground. |
| 860 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': Sky's Delta Runner is a futuristic gyrocopter while the other four Rangers have ground-based Delta Runners. |
| 861 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'': Dax's Gyro Driver is a gyrocopter and the only one of the main Zords that flies. |
| 862 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': Sir Ivan's Pterodactyl Zord is the only flying Zord in Dino Charge. |
| 863 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'': Preston's Dragon Zord serves this role for the main Ranger Zords. |
| 864 | * TokenGoodCop: Lieutenant Stone from the last season of the first series and first half of ''Zeo'' is an intelligent, hard-working cop who has the bumbling Bulk and Skull as his subordinates and eventually turns out to have a MeanBoss. |
| 865 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Just for starters: daredevil Kelsey and paramedic Dana, abrasive Air Force sergeant Taylor and gentle TeamMom Alyssa, streetwise orphan Z and rich model/pop star Syd, outgoing DJ Vida and shy filmmaker Madison (noticeably, these two are sisters). Most seasons with this dynamic will have an episode where the girls, who are always best friends, disagree about something and get into an ''epic'' catfight before they learn AnAesop about how much they mean to each other. Wannabe rockstar Cassie and girly cheerleader Ashley, who started the "tradition", had two. Oh, and don't forget the tough chick Gia and the sweet hippie Emma, who ''also'' had one such episode. |
| 866 | * ToylineExclusiveCharacter: Being a MerchandiseDriven show, Power Rangers just loves this trope. Each season has several HumongousMecha combinations, vehicles, weapons, and sometimes even Rangers that never left the toy shelves. |
| 867 | * TransformationSequence: and how! |
| 868 | * TransformationTrinket: The morphers. |
| 869 | ** SuperWristGadget: Most early morphers. They largely disappeared after ''Dino Thunder'', though ''SPD'', ''Operation Overdrive'', ''Jungle Fury'', and ''RPM'' all had one or two Rangers with one and ''Beast Morphers'' is the first season in years to have the main team wear them. |
| 870 | ** Cellphone: Most later morphers are styled like this. ''in Space'' was the first, although it was only for the SixthRanger. ''Wild Force'' was the first to have the whole team's morphers be phones. |
| 871 | *** A bunch of these are half-phone, half-something else, making for some weird crosses at times. The list of other halves include cop badges (''SPD''), magic wands, a ticket punch (both ''Mystic Force''), and LED pointers (''Samurai''). |
| 872 | ** The only morphers that don't fall under either category are in ''Mighty Morphin'' (belt buckles), ''Ninja Storm'' (an amulet ball for the SixthRanger), ''Jungle Fury'' (sunglasses for the core trio), ''RPM'' (flight sticks for the {{Sixth Ranger}}s), ''Megaforce'' (handheld card reader-things for the core team), ''Dino Charge'' (guns), and ''Ninja Steel'' (giant shuriken). The SixthRanger's morpher being very different most of the time often means ''someone'' will fit into this category if not everyone. |
| 873 | * TranslationMatchmaking: Korea airs a ''Power Rangers'' series, but for the past several years it's been a ''Super Sentai'' dub unrelated to the American production. |
| 874 | ** For extra confusion points, the first two of these seasons have the exact same names as the US versions (''[[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Dino Thunder]]'' and ''[[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger SPD]]'') and the third is really really close (''Mystic Force'' vs ''[[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magic Force]]''). |
| 875 | ** For ''extra'' extra confusion points, our ''Jungle Fury'' is their ''[[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger Wild Spirit]]'' and our ''Wild Force'' is their ''[[Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Jungle Force]]''. |
| 876 | ** ''[[Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger Turboranger]]'' doesn't exist as Power Rangers but ''Power Rangers Turbo'' is Sentai's ''[[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Carranger]]''. |
| 877 | * TrueCompanions: Every Ranger team becomes one of these eventually, although some take longer than others to cement. |
| 878 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: The series pretty much enforced this in the first Saban era; while some ''Super Sentai'' seasons had two girls to begin with (the Pink Ranger was always female and the Yellow Ranger could be either gender), others had TheSmurfettePrinciple in effect, which was mitigated by [[ShesAManInJapan making the male Yellow Ranger female]] in the US - though they didn't have to do this for a long time after ''Wild Force'' thanks to ''Sentai'' following this trope themselves more frequently. ''Dino Fury'' changed the ''Green'' Ranger to female - as the Green Rangers of some other recent seasons had been female in Japan - when ''Ryusoulger'' had only one female Ranger and no Yellow. This practice is dropped for PowerTrio seasons, which have all kept the trio's two-males-to-one-female ratio. We wouldn't get a team with three women on it until ''Cosmic Fury'', one of whom is also the show's first and only full-time female Red Ranger. |
| 879 | * TheUnfavourite: Several characters have been known to be, even outside families: |
| 880 | ** ''Zeo'' had Prince Gasket, who was hated by his father for marrying the daughter of his unseen archenemy. |
| 881 | *** Klank could also be seen as this, since he always gets scolded whenever his plans fail. He even gets blamed whenever Sprocket's plans fail somehow. |
| 882 | ** ''Lightspeed Rescue'': Ryan originally believed himself to be this when he was told that his father let him fall off a cliff to save his younger sister when he was a kid. This was proven false as Mitchell tried to save him. |
| 883 | ** ''Ninja Storm'': Shane could be seen as this in his family, since his parents constantly compare him to his older brother, who's a successful business man. |
| 884 | *** Lothor views his nieces as bumbling and incompetent, but the older niece Kapri openly stated that he liked her younger sister Marah more, as shown when he gives her the shrunken Choobo to be her pet. |
| 885 | ** Scott from ''RPM'' is this to his father, who favored his older brother Marcus, an Air Force pilot who was killed prior to the series. Even after becoming the leading member of the Power Rangers sworn to defend Corinth, his father still didn't give him any recognition. It was only after the defeat of Venjix that his father finally gave Scott his respect. |
| 886 | ** This was the case for Prince Vekar in ''Megaforce''. Even though he was the heir, Vekar was overshadowed by his younger brother Vrak, who their father favored more since he was clearly much stronger and more mature than Vekar. This acts as one of Vekar's {{Freudian Excuse}}s for trying to destroy the Rangers, as he believes that accomplishing this feat will prove his superiority to Vrak. |
| 887 | * UnflinchingWalk: Besides its repeated use with poses, the show also does the version with walking through enemy fire on occasion. Done right in the ''Jungle Fury'' season finale, with a single Ranger [[StormingTheCastle marching into the evil base]], knocking mooks back like flies with a swatter. |
| 888 | * TheUnmasquedWorld: After "Countdown to Destruction" (for the most part, some of the public are in denial), ''SPD'' especially so. |
| 889 | * TheVerse: Despite the shift to mostly self-contained seasons after ''Space'', they're still established to all share a universe (except ''RPM'' and ''Dino Charge'', and even they are set on alternate Earths in the same [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] and cross over with the primary dimension). |
| 890 | * VillainsActHeroesReact: Generally, the villains send forth the MOTW with an EvilPlan OncePerEpisode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them. Justified especially in the Zordon Era, where our heroes are bound by Zordon's code to only use their powers to defend, not to attack. |
| 891 | * WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The first five seasons had high schoolers serving as Rangers. This premise has been re-used from time to time. |
| 892 | * WarriorVersusSorcerer: |
| 893 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': |
| 894 | *** The story pits a team of heroic [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude teenage]] martial artists against evil WizardsFromOuterSpace. |
| 895 | *** "Changing of the Zords" part 3, sees Tommy Oliver, TheLeader and best fighter of the team, fight evil space wizard Lord Zedd, one-on-one. The battle ends in a stalemate. |
| 896 | ** Chances are if the BigBad is a sorcerer or someone with magical knowledge, the Rangers will simply use technology or magical weapons. One exception is ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' where the Rangers are magic users just like the villains. |
| 897 | * WeAreAsMayflies: Particularly noticeable. Aliens and ancient humans keep pretty quiet about how ''old'' they actually are, but Shayla still looked young after a 3000 year nap, Zordon was an old fogey when he was sealed in a pocket dimension 10,000 years ago, and the Sentinel Knight and the Keeper were already active and powerful when the continents were one, roughly ''250 million years ago''. Things get even more unfair when we see Thrax, a member of whatever long-lived species Rita and Zedd belonged to (10,000 years did nothing to them, age-wise) grow to full maturity within nine years. It's so pervasive that it was rather jarring to see non-humans that ''didn't'' live for pretty much ever in ''Mystic Force'', where they lived on a human timescale. The GreatOffscreenWar wasn't 10,000 or 3,000 years ago... more like 20. There was some justification at least on ''Dino Charge'''s side, with the fact that a human bonded to an Energem would stop aging unless this bond were to be severed. Koda being a HumanPopsicle for about 100,000 years and Ivan being [[spoiler:trapped inside Fury]] for about 800 years only served to compound to this factor. |
| 898 | %% * WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: So many examples... |
| 899 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Subtly played with; Angel Grove, Mariner Bay, Blue Bay Harbor, Reefside, San Angeles, and Ocean Bluff are either confirmed or [[WordOfGod stated]] to be in California, Silver Hills in the State of Washington, and Turtle Cove in Colorado. Newtech City, Briarwood and Amber Beach are not known, but are somewhere on the West Coast. Corinth appears to be on the East Coast (many believe UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, based on Easter Eggs). |
| 900 | ** Panorama City in ''Samurai'' is an odd mashup of America and Japan, and we couldn't even confirm its name until three-quarters of the way through the season. On top of that, it's in a fictional state abbreviated "PR" (which we can all agree does not mean Puerto Rico as in real life) and has a six-digit zip code. |
| 901 | ** Harwood County from ''Megaforce''. It doesn't take place in the County of Harwood, the city's name literally has "County" in it, further confusing things. |
| 902 | * WireFu: Used extensively for some segments in the series, more so than ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and sister series ''Franchise/KamenRider''. |
| 903 | * WordPower: Oh yes. |
| 904 | ** ByThePowerOfGreyskull (when the morphers are voice-activated) |
| 905 | ** CallingYourAttacks: Gets increasingly more ridiculous with each series; sometimes you wonder if the writers are just ''incapable'' of coming up with decent attack names. |
| 906 | *** Parodied once in ''SPD' when the Rangers shouted '''''"{{BATTLE CRY}}!"''''' |
| 907 | ** InTheNameOfTheMoon |
| 908 | ** {{Invocation}} (when the morphers ''aren't'' voice-activated) |
| 909 | ** ScreamingWarrior: When they ''really'' feel like adapting the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' look and feel - Casey and Lily of ''Jungle Fury'' take this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. |
| 910 | %% ** TogetherWeAreX |
| 911 | ** TransformationNameAnnouncement |
| 912 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Whenever fathers on this show aren't [[DisappearedDad missing]], their relationship with their Ranger kid will otherwise be strained. |
| 913 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Just like Super Sentai, don't expect any non-lethal options for dealing with the monster to come up, no matter how relatively harmless it is. Recent seasons have gotten especially bad with this, with even comic relief villains being casually killed off. |
| 914 | * TheWorfEffect: In the martial arts scenes, often it will be the [[RedIsHeroic Red Ranger]] or the SixthRanger who gets knocked down first when they're trying to establish a new, more powerful threat or that the rangers' powers have weakened. Typically followed by the other rangers getting knocked into them. |
| 915 | * TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Every year, there WILL be a giant monster attack on a major metropolitan area on the West Coast of the United States every week or so. (except for 2005, since [[Series/PowerRangersSPD that series]] was set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture). ''Lost Galaxy'' took place on a ''different'' world that was always doomed. |
| 916 | %% * WorldOfHam: Less so than ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', but not ''less so enough'' to not still qualify. |
| 917 | * WorldOfMuscleMen: |
| 918 | ** Present in the comics (not as much in the Boom! comics though). However it avoids the usual DoubleStandard that this trope usually has since the women are just as muscled. |
| 919 | ** Later toylines (particularly starting with ''Dino Charge'') have bodybuilder style muscular male characters, similar to the other action figures on the market at the time (particularly Marvel). Also like their competitors, female characters look more like models than action heroes with narrow waists and skinny arms. |
| 920 | * WorldOfPun: Where to even begin? |
| 921 | [[/folder]] |
| 922 | |
| 923 | ... And pretty much every other trope you see in kids' shows. This show has been on for a ''{{long| runners}}'' time. |
| 924 | |
| 925 | ---- |
| 926 | --> '''JustForFun/{{Statler| And Waldorf}}:''' Did you know this show has been cancelled five times and brought back?\ |
| 927 | '''Waldorf:''' What, is there a hermit fan as a network executive?\ |
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