Line #35 Fridge/PowerRangersRPM


1	Fridge examples in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''.
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4	* We often go straight to Zord battles due to how the ground battle footage from Go-Onger can look more silly barring any edits or original action they film. In universe, it makes sense that Venjix would mix it up with full on attacks and skip straight to beginning the download, trying to bust the shield right out the gate.
5	* Kilobyte being there when Dillion escapes Venjix’s lair might explain how he got lost in the wasteland as he had clearly been pursuing the renegade hybrid.
6	* Why is it so perfect that in the end, [[spoiler: Venjix]] gets taken out by a building? Power Rangers had spent 17 seasons being dropped or kicked into buildings because of monsters and it was time for the buildings to get some payback. Especially considering the lampshading and deconstructive nature of the season as a whole.
7	* RPM takes place in an alternate timeline, where the RPM Ranger Series are the very first Ranger team, ever. There is no back-up, no crossovers with outside teams within their own universe, but more importantly, no frame of reference for the things that tend to happen around Power Rangers. So what do people do when they see the Power Rangers in action? They ask the same questions that viewers have asked since the start of the series: what's with all the sparks? Why is there an explosion when we morph? What's the morphing call for? Why are we wearing spandex? [[note]] [[BerserkButton THAT]] [[MemeticMutation IS NOT]] [[RunningGag SPANDEX!!!!]] [[/note]]
8	* The origin of the name Alphabet Soup is a lampshading of the sort of organizations that tend to do rather shady stuff for the government[[note]]It is a reference to organizations with complicated acronyms, their name looks like a ''soup of letters''. Got it?[[/note]].
9	* Their presence of the mob Ziggy was once part of in Corinth makes sense, since they'd be able to smuggle in supplies official channels would have trouble with. Not letting Ziggy become a full member because he failed his driving test seems silly... until you realize they're trying to avoid getting taken down on a FelonyMisdemeanor (a la Al Capone and tax evasion).
10	* Remember when Crunch was asking "whatever happened to wireless"? Seems Venjix had it all along, as [[spoiler: downloading himself into a morpher before the building came down on him proves. That's not the kind of power you want mere subordinates abusing.]]
11	* Flynn is from Scotland. The steering wheel in his car is on the right side of the vehicle.
12	* Why was Dr. K moe? She is the American counterpart of Bomper! She even sounds like him too!
13	* Why aren't the Rangers more pissed off about [[spoiler: Dr. K having created Venjix? Probably because it's been two years since then and they've more or less made peace with the fact that Venjix was a human-made monster that'd been released by accident.]]
14	* Why is the BigBad named Venjix despite having no relationship to Venjix from ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''? [[spoiler:Because it's not a reference to Venjix at all, but a sound-alike to the word ''Vengeance'', as in Dr. K's unintentional vengeance upon humanity and intentional vengeance upon Alphabet Soup.]]
15	* Why does Dr. K have weird feet positions? Her actress, Olivia Tennet, is an accomplished dancer.
16	* So Venjix builds a doomsday machine and Dr. K steals it and somehow it's capable of combining with the other zords in the Rangers' fleet... how does that make sense? Because Dr. K created ''Venjix''! All Venjix technology is technically Dr. K's technology, so that's why they're compatible.
17	* Why are the zord battles so short? Because they can't risk damaging Corinth!
18	* At first, the fact that Gem and Gemma look absolutely nothing alike beyond both being Asian (they look about as related as Creator/JackBlack and Creator/BenAffleck) seems like a case of UnfortunateImplications. But there's no reason they have to be biologically related. They could be two random children taken by Alphabet Soup.
19	* Remember in "Ancient History" when Scott told his dad that Dr. K created the Power Rangers? If ''RPM'' were set in the series' main continuity, then this statement would make no sense. But since the season was set in an AlternateUniverse (as confirmed by the crossover with ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''), this statement now makes much more sense! Dr. K was the creator of the Power Rangers in that universe. There was no Zordon, no Ninjor, etc. And the "universal bio-electric field" she mentioned in "Rain", although similar to the Morphing Grid, may not be the same as the Grid from previous seasons.
20	* Another moment in ''RPM'' has to do with Hicks. Early on in "Go for the Green", he's seen scanning the RobotGirl, Tenaya. He briefly mentions that his scanner has been giving him false positives all week as an excuse for it thinking she was a robot. Just another scene showing how much of a klutz he is, right? Cut to just prior to the finale when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Hicks is a hybrid himself.]] The reveal comes off as shocking until you think back to that particular scene as realize that [[spoiler:those weren't false positives at all!]]
21	* In "In or Out" Dr. K states that she intentionally distanced herself from the Rangers in an effort to spare herself from more emotional pain and makes an effort to say nice things and grow closer to all the Rangers, except Ziggy. [[spoiler: This is because her feelings for him were the strongest and thus harder to express, something Ziggy himself points out!]]
22	* Why would they need to start up Series Black instead of Green, especially since its designation is 5 and 4 respectively. It all has to do with Black's powers, an invincibility shield. With Venjix starting to upscale the battles, Dr. K and the Rangers decided to go with a much more stronger power that could help protect than than Green's powers, teleportation.
23	* The additional powers that each ranger can use each fit their strengths as a person:
24	** Scott, an air force pilot, is used to high speeds so he can handle his high speed bursts.
25	** Flynn, a mechanic, can quickly dissect situations so he is able to use the time stop to figure out the best plan of attack
26	** Summer, the most emotionally stable of the rangers, can focus to channel the biofield to use her energy burst.
27	** Dillon, who is integrated with Venjix tech, has enhanced strength thus he can hold the invincibility shield better than the others.
28	** The aversion is of course Ziggy, whose powers is teleportation. A power like teleportation takes a lot of concentration, thus it should have gone to someone who can focus well in high intense situations. Ziggy, of course, does not have this level of concentration so thus he tends to have strange things happen with his powers, with comedic effects of course. However, teleportation is also a good ability for someone who needs to make quick escapes - which Ziggy as both the least-experienced fighter (and thus the one least likely to be able to dodge) and someone who is ''on the run from the mafia'' would find fairly useful!
29	* Many of the monsters have somewhat childish designs (such as a the drinking straw based monster). Out of universe, this is because the Sentai footage, just like the Ranger's tech, but in universe it makes sense when you remember [[spoiler:that at most, Venjix is only a few years old and only had interaction with Dr. K until he was unleashed. Venjix, while a psychopathic monster, is still ''literally'' a child.]] With this in mind, some of the childish designs make more sense.
30	* How does Venjix return to his column every time a body he downloads into is destroyed? It's programmed into the body, or even himself, to remotely return to his pillar in his lair if anything would happen to it. This also explains what might have happened to Venjix in the finale, Dr. K possibly flagged his return location to Ranger Red's morpher instead of his lair. And because Venjix isn't present in his castle, the whole operation shut off.
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33	* When [[spoiler: Venjix gains control of all the hybrids he experimented on and hid in Corinth]], there are ''children'' among them, who don't even look a year over ten.
34	* Only one city on Earth left means every past character you ever liked (well, outside of Time Force... and Billy, still on Aquitar) is likely a smudge on the pavement. It helps that WordOfGod confirms that RPM takes place in an AlternateUniverse, so everyone is a-okay.
35	** Among the establishments that Fresno Bob's mob extorts is [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Karma Pizza]]. That may not have been possible if Pai Zhua master RJ was in charge. So either (1) the pizza place has a franchise in Corinth and the one in Ocean City is toast, (2) the pizza place moved from Ocean City to Corinth, (3) Jungle Karma Pizza was created differently in this alternate timeline. Either way, it's likely that there's no RJ in Corinth.
36	* When Dr K joined Alphabet Soup when she was 5, what were her parents thinking? Did they willingly give up their daughter, not caring about never seeing her gain? Or was Dr K kidnapped without her family knowing where she was. Was her family still looking for her when Venjix was released? Not only that, but it’s most likely Dr K’s parents are dead, seeing as only a few of the whole world survived and started living in Corinth.
37	* Pretty much anything that seems a little too childish or silly can become very sobering when you think about it. Gem and Gemma seem like children? Only because they were imprisoned from a young age by the government and later tortured in a Venjix prison. Everyone in Corinth seeming just a little too okay with living in the last city on Earth? Denial is probably the only way they can live with the sheer horror of what's happened. The zords look too colorful and cartoonish? They were developed by a child prodigy who was kidnapped off the streets and kept in a military think tank until she was eighteen.
38	* In the episode "Ranger Blue" there's a little flashback to Flynn taking a bus back out of the city to rescue a woman's young daughter. Seems nice, until you think about the fact that she was selfish enough to get on the bus herself, leaving A FIVE YEAR OLD girl behind.
39	** It's possible that she was separated from her daughter in the chaos and forced on to the bus, but that just makes the situation even worse, as it means the humans were evacuating so quickly that they were willing to leave children behind in order to save whoever made it in the buses.
40	* The mob and black market is publicly known and tolerated by Corinth's government. In fact, the Scorpion Cartel gang pays a visit to the Green Ranger auditions and hustle Ziggy in front of the entire lineup. And nobody bothers to stop them (except for Tanaya 7 but she had a mission to complete). Not only that but in Ziggy`s spotlight episode "Ranger Green" after being arrested for accidentally teleporting into a bank`s vault, Col Truman interrogates him and mentions that Ziggy entered Corinth along with the rest of the Scorpion Cartel gang. Hell - they even have the gang's leader provide evidence against Ziggy, evidence which could be used to bring down EVERY gang in Corinth (Zig was supposed to drive a truck full of medicine collectively purchased by every gang in town). Of course, the gangs are never brought to trial.
41	* When Flynn is asked what sets him apart from the others his answer is that he's Scottish. It seems funny until you realize that since most of humanity is dead, he's probably one of few Scottish people left.
42	* In Ranger Red, the foot soldiers almost run off with the baby. What use would Venjix have for a baby? Another hybrid. Not even 12 months old.
43	* Scott questions his brother's orders and lack of an exit plan - Marcus says "What's wrong, little brother? You want to live forever?'. This is essentially a suicide mission - at worst signed off on by a father for his two sons, or an older brother for his younger brother.
44	* The orphanage that Ziggy visits in "Ranger Green". Try not to think ''too'' hard about why the last human city on Earth would need one or what that means these children have most likely seen in their short lives...

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