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1->''"You'd think Zordon would be a lot smarter to say something like 'Alpha, Rita's escaped, bring me the five greatest martial artists on the planet!' or 'Alpha, get me [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Steven Segal, Triple H and Bruce Campbell]]!'"''
2-->-- '''Noah ''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment 'The Spoony One']]'' Antwiler''', on the premise of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
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4!!Headscratchers pages for specific series:
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6* ''Headscratchers/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''
7** ''Headscratchers/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie''
8* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''
9* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersTimeForce''
10* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersWildForce''
11* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''
12* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersDinoThunder''
13* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersSPD''
14* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersJungleFury''
15* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive''
16* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersRPM''
17* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersMegaforce''
18* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersSamurai''
19* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersDinoCharge''
20* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersNinjaSteel''
21* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersBeastMorphers''
22* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersDinoFury''
23* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangersCosmicFury''
24* ''Headscratchers/MightyMorphinPowerRangersOnceAndAlways''
25* ''Headscratchers/PowerRangers2017''
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27!!General headscratchers
28* I'm may be nitpicking,but why does almost every Power Rangers Toy made by Bandai America have muscles? Sure, some actors do have muscles, but others don't. Also, all Franchise/SuperSentai toys doesn't have them.
29** It's probably so that they fit the Western idea of superheroes, who are mostly pretty bulked up rather than thin and acrobatic like Japanese superheroes.
30* How did Alpha Six get from Mirinoi to a warehouse crate in Angel Grove?
31** More importantly, what the hell was the postage cost?
32** Smuggled back in Bulk's briefcase some time prior to "Forever Red".
33*** Which leads to the question, why the hell did Adam just... leave him there? Until he expressly needed him for something? Love the guy, but Adam's a jerk. :)
34*** It's Alpha 6, the jive talkin' robot from ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''. Note that when Alpha 6 got rebuilt it had Alpha 5's less annoying personality.
35*** And why did they use Alpha ''6'' when there was an Alpha '''''7''''' in Wild Force's Forever Red episode?
36*** A vague sense of the Prime Directive or something of that nature. Just because humanity has made First Contact and such doesn't mean we're ready to handle the level of tech required for an Alpha class robot- for all we know, he could be reverse-engineered to reveal enough Endenoian tech secrets for mankind to create Masked Riders, or actively manipulate the Morphing Grid the way the Command Center could, and humanity having ANY morphing grid tech is risky enough- I'm surprised no rouge government or terrorist has used it yet for personal gain. Adam just wanted to keep the little guy out of the wrong hands, now that there isn't a Power Chamber or Command Center to protect him. Adam is smart enough to notice that no ranger HQ lasts more than a year these days, so the idea that no place is safe but in hiding is a logical conclusion.
37*** SPD would like to have a word with you for that entire spiel.
38*** SPD was also hiding from the populace as a whole in 2007, so they support me in the "people not ready at that point" thing. Presumably humanity does something between 2007 and 2025 to gain formal recognition and equal status.
39* Why don't the villains ever think of breaking out, oh I don't know, a '''gun'''?!!! I don't mean the lasers that never really do damage, I'm talking about something like a machine gun. Then they could slaughter those pesky rangers in five seconds.
40** {{Jossed}} by ''[[Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger Go-Onger]]'', where one of the Banki is armed with a Gatling Gun.
41*** {{Jossed}} many times before, in fact. There's been quite a few Super Sentai monsters that have used real guns; they've just always been [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms changed to lasers]] in Power Rangers. Unless you want to continue believing that the Omega Ranger was catching "laser pellets".
42*** And PR's had bullets too, sometimes (ironically, more used by good guys than by bad. What bugs me is this: when a Zord ejects ''giant shell casings,'' what happens down below? Who cleans up after every Delta Megazord fight?) However, I figure if you're immune to attacks that reduce buildings to rubble, you're ImmuneToBullets too.
43*** Even more {{Jossed}} by a Go-Onger episode in which human bad guys' bullets were shown bouncing off the suits.
44** They tend to take explosions to the face, and the worst that's happened is a visor cracked open. What are some bullets going to do in comparison? (Foregoing a cunning sniper shooting them through their exposed eyes when that happens.)
45*** In ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'', the Kitsune monster (used as "Katastrophe") did use a rifle, however this scene was cut because it showed her fighting the Kakurangers/Alien Rangers... and because she used a rifle.
46* Why is it that only some of the villains at the end of "Countdown to Destruction" were turned human, and the rest were turned to sand? It can't be because of "evilness", because the HeelFaceTurn Zeltrax was one of the ones dusted; it can't be because those who turned human were originally human, because again, that would count out Zeltrax, and while Rita survived, her brother Rito and father Master Vile were dusted.
47** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe Astronema wasn't the only villain who was kidnapped as a child, raised to be evil and brainwashed]]
48** Ecliptor, not Zeltrax (Zeltrax was in Dino Thunder, some years later). And we never actually saw Rito or Vile at the fight, IIRC. Finster, Baboo and Squatt ''were'' there, implying they dusted, though if Rita survived, they should have too...
49** Seemed to be the most human-''looking'' who survived (and Zedd, 'cause he's just that beloved by fans.)
50** Those who we know survived were all the leading villains from their respective seasons. The only true 'Big Bad' to bite it was the clearly inhuman King Mondo, who had to share the position with Rita/Zedd...and a few years later, even he seems to have survived, albeit in inoperative form. Which is kind of strange, considering we ''saw'' him get dusted...
51*** You mean in "Forever Red"? I think that was just a statue.
52** Rita was, apparently, a human being or at least half human--just because her father was an alien doesn't mean her mother was, since Andros said in ''In Space'' that humans evolved on more than one planet at a time (or, depending on how to interpret it, evolved elsewhere and colonized Earth). Either way, Rita was most likely human or at least half. Zedd used to be some kind of humanoid but was disfigured by the Zeo Crystal defense shield, for all we know he was whaever Andros' race was called. Maybe even Edenoian. Either way when his evil was taken away by the Z-wave he returned to his original state, not so much "turned human" as "healed of his injuries". Divatox we know was some kind of human, as she was likely Dimitria's sister and kidnapped from her home as a girl and raised by the United Alliance of Evil like Astronima (apparently Dark Spectre's army did that a lot, kind of like Hitler's plans to take Aryan children from conquered nations and give them to Nazi families during WWII). The rest were all either machines, monsters or aliens and therefore died. Rita no doubt still retained her magical powers and became a GOOD witch instead of an evil one, hence Magic Mother.
53*** [[FantasticRacism Oh, yes, let's kill the aliens because they're not human...]]
54*** More precisely, [[NeverSayDie we can get away with killing off the nonhumans, but the censors will ask questions if we kill off characters that look human]].
55** I'm sure I read somewhere that most of those transformed had some innate goodness that was enough to spare them for actually being destroyed; Rita and Zedd had their love for each other and Divatox had the implications of her ties to Dimitria.
56*** But Ecliptor genuinely loved Astronema - did that not count as good?
57*** There's a theory out there that somehow Ecliptor's love for Astronema allowed him to exchange his life for her-if you remember, she actually dies right around the same time Zordon does.
58*** The same source speculated that Finster could have been spared the effects of the Z-Wave as we never actually ''saw'' him get dusted and he seemed to be more into Rita's plans for the 'science' of making the monsters rather than being villainous in himself.
59*** If we take the Soul of the Dragon comics as canon, Finster does survive for quite some time, becoming a sculptor and is eventually killed by Scorpina.
60* If the Power Rangers knew where the bad guys were stationed (and most of the teams did seem to learn, sometime or later), then why do they wait until the baddies are ''on the brink of total victory'' to finally stop them? Why don't they storm the baddies' headquarters and take them out before then?
61** Because that would be a short series? Besides, Rule 4 or so of the MMPR rules (one of the lesser known ones) was "use your powers to defend, never attack", so it's possibly a heroes code thing which stuck.
62*** Wouldn't that fall under "Never escalate a battle unless (BigBad) forces you"?
63** Alternatively, they don't have anyone to do recon, so they can't make sure there's a manageable number of monsters there before they attack, rather than taking the monsters on one-on-one as they come.
64*** In some cases they also likely didn't have the resources to attack the base.
65*** Take ''Ninja Storm'' for example. A large spaceship and the rangers have no zords capable of space flight. How do you propose they launch a successful attack? Cam was able to board it with the Dragonforce vehicle, but it didn't pack enough power to attack en masse.
66*** S.P.D. While they knew the location of Grumm's ship, the only space worthy vehicles they had were the S.W.A.T flyers and possibly a couple of shuttles that were likely not designed for combat anyway. Five zords against a ship of that size are not good odds.
67*** Overdrive: For most of the show, there was more than one villain faction - if the rangers went after, oh say, Moltar, Flurious could attack the HomeBase of the rangers. Not to mention that the rangers had the objective of making sure that the jewels from the Corona Aurora didn't fall into the hands of Moltar or Flurious - as long as those two didn't have the gems, the rangers wouldn't bother them.
68*** Jungle Fury: They know where Dai Shi's set up camp, but not only do they have the issue of hurting an innocent possessed by him, but usually he has a standing army along with powerful generals present that would wipe the rangers out if they attacked too soon. Also, due to them still being learners, they didn't have the skill to make their move yet.
69*** RPM: Corinth is the last place Venjix has left to conquer, and he has the city under surveillance. All he'd need to do is have some of his forces hide nearby, then wait for the rangers to go to attack him and have the hidden forces strike. Not to mention that the rangers never pass the level of tech he has.
70*** Samurai: The Nighlocks are located in a dimension that isn't accessible to humans. The rangers would have needed to give up their humanity to strike directly; however, if they failed, then the Nighlocks could rampage freely, since there were never any replacements shown in training.
71*** Megaforce: For the first season, as far as the Rangers knew, there was no single base that the monsters were using. In the second season, they actually ''do'' take the fight to the Armada, but even though they destroy a large amount of the Armada's forces, the Armada doesn't retreat.
72*** Dino Charge: Sledge is only after the energems, and the rangers are more focused on gathering them as opposed to stopping him, since even if they were able to deal with him before finding the other energems, they'd still have to get the rest of the energems. If the rangers transform using the energems, then all Sledge has to do is capture one of them, and he gets an energem; if they transform using one of the Dino Chargers, then they'll run out of juice eventually. Not to mention that Sledge has an army of monsters on his ship, so if the Rangers landed his ship by force, he could just let some of them free and cause a riot, holding the rangers off from advancing until he found a way to deal with them. Even if the Rangers had been able to isolate Sledge from his ship, as we saw in the season, he was strong enough to hold his own against them.
73** Because they'd get beaten, badly. Half the time the Rangers have to struggle against even the monsters of the week and the Big Bads are FAR more powerful than any of those.
74** Because in a good amount of seasons where the rangers know where the bad guys are, early on they aren't very powerful, and the element of surprise can only get you so far. If the rangers were to attack then, one of them could either fall or be captured; and they'd be in an even weaker state then before.
75* That's another thing I don't get: supposedly, the powers of every Ranger team have some ties to the mysterious "Morphing Grid" introduced in the first series, but how is that possible? I know ''SPD'' {{Handwave}}d their connection as having been developed from past Ranger morphing technology, but other than that, none of the powers from around ''[=PRiS=]'' to then were acknowledged on-screen as having the connection (with some, like with ''Lightspeed Rescue'', being completely ''man-made''). Was the Morphing Grid thing just a huge retcon to keep all the series in continuity?
76** The local equivalent of midiclorians? :) Seriously, a connection to the Morphin Grid is required to morph. That simple, retcon or not. How Miss Fairweather managed to get a functional grid connection or six going is admittedly a mystery, though to be fair she IS the Tech Genius.
77** I'm not too familiar with this plot point, but it isn't much of a stretch of the imagination that the inventors of technology-based morphs simply invented devices that tap into the Morphing Grid (after all, someone had to invent the original tech), or devices that only appear to function similar to the other Rangers but don't actually use the Morphing Grid.
78** I think it's like the Speed Force in Franchise/TheDCU. It's the source of power for all heroes who ''morph'' from one form to another, and individual teams' origins are simply how they got access to it.
79*** Actually it's been implied that the villains rely on it as much as the rangers.
80** All rangers using the Morphing Grid is a ''very'' common misconception the Zeo Rangers used the Zeo Crystal which is a source of power rather than a way of drawing power from the Morphing Grid.
81*** Wrong; the ''Operation Overdrive'' episode "Once a Ranger" confirmed that ''every'' generation of Ranger, both past, present, and future, had their power tied directly into the Morphing Grid, regardless of their supposed source; ''OO'' had the Rangers' powers ''man-made'', exactly like those in ''Lightspeed Rescue'', and yet when Rita's and Zedd's son ([[{{Squick}} ...eewww]]) destroyed the Morphing Grid, he did it with the intention of preventing ''all'' rangers from morphing ''forever'', and the Overdrive Rangers weren't able to morph, as a result. Hell, despite the "Mother of all Good Magic" being ''Rita Repulsa'', the ''Mystic Force'' rangers used ''magic'' to morph and call their zords, and they're ''still'' considered to be tying into the Morphing Grid, when doing so. So yes, the intent is pretty much that the Grid is like the Speed Force, with all Rangers getting their powers to morph from there, regardless of the supposed "source". Which brings up another question: Does this mean that the Masked Rider got ''his'' powers from the Morphing Grid, too?
82*** "Once A Ranger" only confirmed that the rangers that were in that episode (and by extension their teammates) used the Morphing Grid, that's only 48 out of 95 rangers which is ''barely'' over 50% and doesn't include the Zeo Rangers it's hardly proof.
83*** Well, we know SPD and Dino Thunder use it, for one. If SPD uses it, then by extension we can assume Time Force used it. Plus, the display of the Morphing Grid in "Once a Ranger" was the transformation sequence background- implying that anyone with a transformation sequence uses the Grid.
84*** Um, so does that mean that the random Jungle from ''Jungle Fury'', The green swish in ''Wild Force'', The black empty space in ''Zeo'', The random volcano they teleport into in ''Dino Thunder'', and The...place Cam teleports into in ''Ninja Storm'', are all inside the Morphing grid?
85*** That ''is'' the most reasonable explanation for it, yes.
86*** That doesn't change the fact that the Zeo Crystal's power ''increases'' over time, while the Morphing Grid requires the struggle either between Zordon and Zedd specifically, or good and evil in general just to ''maintain'' it's power. If the Zeo Rangers did use the Morphing Grid it was in addition to the Zeo Crystal.
87*** Thing is, considering that we're shown that the morphing sequences happen in the Grid, that means that by using the Zeo Crystals, they ARE in a way using their power- by hooking them up to a morpher, the Zeo power is routed through the grid, which converts it from raw magical energy into armor, weapons, and physical enhancements usable by humans. It's not like two batteries, but like a DC power source and an AC converter. The original morphers used a separate power source routed through the Grid, too-the Power Coins, if you'll recall.
88*** Simplest answer: The Zeo Crystal itself gets its power from the Morphing Grid.
89*** Also, Thrax's attack only severed the connection to the Morphing Grid and only encompassed Earth and thus left at least 18 rangers with their power intact, even if he intended to stop all rangers forever he failed miserably even before Sentinel Knight intervened.
90*** It severed the Overdrive Rangers' connections, not the grid in general.
91*** I was under the impression, that after ''In Space'' humankind made contact with with a whole bunch of alien species, therefore gaining a whole bunch of technology, including access to the morphing grid. This also explains where the space station from ''Lost Galaxy'' comes from.
92*** My take on the Morphing Grid is that it's basically a giant hammerspace if you will, where all the ranger gear is stored, from suits to weapons. Morphers link to the grid to allow rangers to access their gear and different morphers use different power sources to make this possible. We've seen more than a few ranger powers that are very clearly powered by different sources, such as the power coins, the dino gems, the animal crystals, the quasar sabres, etc. If I may use an analogy here, think of the Morphing Grid as a place you want to go. The Morpher is the car you use to get there and the power source, such as the Zeo Crystal, is the fuel that makes the car run.
93*** It seems my theory was more or less right. In RPM, Dr K talks about the discovery of an electric energy field that when manipulated, led to the creation of the RPM ranger gear. Presumably this energy field is the morphing grid. And it's clear that the grid is not the power ''source'', because this episode shows that the RPM rangers have a fairly limited amount of energy, likely due to a relatively primitive power source.
94*** If you watch all of the Zordon series, and what Dr. K said in ''RPM'', it becomes fairly obvious: the Morphing Grid is what K called a "bioenergy field", apparently it is, as Zedd said, created by living beings--specifically by the duality of good beings and evil ones. All morphers, and yeah that'd probably include Masked Rider, drew energy from the grid in the same way that your house draws energy from a power grid: the Zeo Crystal lets you morph into a Zeo Ranger, the RPM Morpher lets you become an RPM Ranger, whatever the hell Dex uses to activate his Ectophase lets him become a Masked Rider...but they all draw on the same, all-pervasive energy source. Just like your computer, your TV and your light bulbs all do completely, wildly different things with wildly different technologies of all types...but they all draw energy from some coal plat somewhere. Sor the Morphing Grid is exactly what it sounds like, a ''power grid'' that fuels whatever machine you hook up to it. Really the Zeo Crystals are a perfect example--the ''Zeo Power'' itself grows stronger, but accessing it means morphing, and thus the Morphing Grid. The weapons, armor, Zords become stronger but without the Grid they're useless...just like your computer is more powerful than a calculator but without a wall socket to plug it in it's worthless. TL;DR--the Morphing Grid is just what it sounds like, a universal power grid that lets you morph. Hence they specify the Zeo Powers, Turbo Powers, RPM Powers, Ectophase et al instead of just saying "Morphing Grid Powers", the same way you would specify a computer, TV and light bulb instead of just saying "the power grid".
95** It can be assumed that the Morphing Grid is what converts the raw energy of whatever the power source is and turns it into the suits and weapons devised for the Rangers. I imagine it is probably not that much different than the premise of ''Series/VRTroopers'', where they create something in virtual reality and had the technology to materialize it into the real world. Ranger suits, weapons and other devices are created, they are linked to the power source and then use the properties of the Morphing Grid to give them instant access to those devices without having to lug them around everywhere. It's been shown that the Rangers can use some of the weapons and devices without being morphed, which indicate they exist without needing to be in Ranger form.
96* With Tommy's Master Morpher destroyed in ''Soul Of The Dragon'', are all the original power sources that created its powers gone as well as their Master Morpher emulations? Are the original dragonzord power coin, tigerzord power coin, red zeo subcrystal and black Dino gem no more or are they in storage awaiting future recommission? The only original power from the Master Morpher definitely remaining would be the red Turbo powers in T.J's possession whilst the remains of the emulated green dragonzord powers became a temporary power-up for the green SPD ranger.
97* Why does SPD and Time Force put their criminals [[HumanPopsicle in suspended animation]]? Do they not believe in rehabilitation in the future? And if so, why even freeze them, in the first place? Why not kill them off, thus avoiding a potential escape?
98** In ''SPD'' at least, villains weren't in suspended animation. They were trapped in high-tech cards but were still quite capable of motion and speech within them.
99** AdaptationDecay and NeverSayDie. In the ''Dekaranger'' source material, the criminals were killed off.
100*** To be fair, given real life police forces, this is probably reasonable.
101*** Well, all the criminals we saw the Dekarangers fight were mass-murderers who had already earned the death sentence.
102*** That was always thrown in to justify it. How many times was it, "You're charged with the standard-issue monster antics from this episode, ''and fifty thousand murders we've never seen fit to mention before that there's no way you're badass enough to have committed with your single power and the mech you bought yesterday!'' JUDGMENT!" (Judgment time! Dun-dunnn!).
103*** We also see criminals imprisoned in non-card form. It seems likely that the cards are only for short-term confinement.
104** In ''Time Force'' they ''don't'' believe the Mutants can be rehabilitated and they should be glad that they just don't kill them in the first place. It's part of reason why Ransik does what he does.
105*** Well, not quite. I'm sure that there are a bunch of mutants out there protesting the freezing of mutants. Ransik is not one of them. He just uses racism towards mutants as an excuse to do what he does.
106*** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} [[FantasticRacism would like a word with you.]]
107** Remember Notacon from ''Time Force''? He was put in cryo stasis simply for petty theft. It must really suck to be a criminal in the year 3000.
108* Why does the MonsterOfTheWeek never attack during the zords' transformation sequence?
109** In the source material for most of the series, it is explained the transformation happens in a millisecond.
110** It does happen occasionally. Astro Megazord's debut springs to mind. Then you've got Omega Megazord from ''Lightspeed'', which combines ''in orbit'', so land-based demons never get near it.
111** Watch a Zord sequence they don't feel like putting stock footage in. All that happens is the Zords glow their respective colors and teleport into the same spot, creating a Megazord. It happens fairly quickly as well. The Transformation sequence is just eye candy.
112* Where did Lord Zedd go? They brought back Rita as "Mystic Mother" in ''Power Rangers Mystic Force'' and his and her son in ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive'', but the only mention of him was with the latter, who only commented on how "weak" he was for turning good. And how the hell did Rita become the Goddess of All Good Magic, anyway?
113** I don't think Mystic Mother is meant to actually be the same person, just someone who bears a striking resemblance to Rita.
114*** Actually, that IS meant to be Rita.
115*** Well, it's clear the writers intended it to be Rita (the "headache" line), but as far as I know there's no evidence supplied other than that, and the Mystic Mother doesn't look anything like the Rita last seen in [=PRiS=] (though she does look like the season 1 Rita, as the same actress played both character). It's just easier continuity-wise to say it's not Rita...but maybe her mother?
116*** So Udonna's line "In the past, she was known as Rita" doesn't count, then?
117*** Do keep in mind that the ending of Mystic Force was written/filmed around the time Machiko Soga, the actress who played both Rita and the Mystic Mother in the Franchise/SuperSentai source footage, died. She was written to be Rita as a sort of combination of ActorAllusion, MythologyGag, {{Fanservice}} and a ShoutOut, as a memorial to the actress. I'd say MST3KMantra, but this is a headscratcher, so...
118*** Rita was turned into a good person, but retained her powers, so she simply turned them to good. Its not that complicated. Just like Tommy turned the Green Ranger powers to good when he got them. Magic in Power Rangers is just another tool, it can be used by anyone with magical ability, and how it's used varies depending on their own alignment. Remember that sorcerer in ''Mystic Force'' who was good but became evil, or the A-Squad rangers? Rita/Mystic Mother is that but in reverse. But for all that I really can't imagine where Zedd went.
119** According to the ''Super Legends'' game, human-Zedd became an arcaeologist. Whether you consider the game canon or not could make this a moot point, but it's the best and only thing they've offered so far.
120** While we're on the subject of disappearing villains, whatever happened to Lokar, anyhow? Sometime between the first two seasons, they just forgot he existed.
121*** In the original source material (''Zyuranger''), Lokar (who was actually supposed to be Satan himself) was defeated during the second and final battle. This is the footage that was spliced into the two-part "Doomsday" episode, which was Lokar's last appearance. In the U.S. episode, we don't actually see him destroyed on-screen, but since he never came back after that, it's reasonable to assume that the Ultrazord killed him.
122*** Lack of footage killed him. There is a rumour that the Bloom of Doom (a Zyu2 monster) had a zord fight instead of being blown up by the Power Cannon, and Lokar would have appeared to increase the monster's power - however, it was never shown.
123*** There actually ''was'' a perfectly usable shot of Lokar being destroyed by the Ultrazord from the ''Zyuranger'' finale... The problem is, it looked horrible. Instead of having the giant special effects-projected head explode (such as how they did in "Island of Illusion"), they instead had a badly-made prop of Lokar's head literally ''burst into chunks''. The effects for the shot were really not that good at all (almost resembling something from an Ed Wood movie). In fact, now that I think about it, they should have just reused the shot of him "exploding" from "Island of Illusion."
124*** They could have brought back Lokar in Dino Fury with footage of Ultimate Dai-Satan from the Ryusoulger special but just made the monster of the week who resembled him his nephew instead.
125* Here's a few from the first few seasons that used to bother me (and still do):\
126This is a question about the toy line, not necessarily the TV series: why is it that the ''Power Rangers Jungle Fury'' toys don't have a summary of the show on the packaging? Every single ''Power Ranger'' line up 'til then has had at least a little blurb explaining in brief what was going on with the figures and the zords and whatnot, but ''Jungle Fury'' doesn't. Considering that the toys invariably come out some months ''before'' the show, wouldn't it be a bit counterproductive to drop the blurb from the packaging? It's like... Midway not providing bios for the characters in ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon''; how can you get ''into'' a show or a game or whatnot and become a loyal fan if your first exposure to it doesn't have a summary of what's going to happen to get you hooked?
127** I figure that the buyer is expected to see the show first and ''then'' want the toy, even though the toys are placed in advance. And the blurbs, when they had 'em, are often taken from before some things were finalized... I've never seen one that wasn't at least ''sorta'' inaccurate, and some were "What show were they watching?!" inaccurate.
128** Also, Bandai was extremely cheap when it came to the Disney-era Power Rangers. Notice that they only barely brought over the actual Megazord toys from Japan after SPD. The main Megazords from Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury and RPM were inferior redesigns, with the former upsized and latter two downsized. (The Deluxe Jungle Pride and Jungle Fury Megazords did make it over relatively unscathed.)
129** Probably for the same reason Hasbro eventually stopped putting bios of the Transformers on cards/boxes: doing so requires creating at least three different multilingual packages for various regions of the world (ie: one in English, one in Spanish, one in French, and so on.) Its far easier (and more importantly, cheaper) to just made one package with no bios at all and use it all across the world.
130* Why does everybody who builds a giant, universe-defending robot break it into three to six smaller, worthless robots that have no purpose but to combine into the main 'bot (with the occasional exception of the Red and/or sixth ranger's)? Why not just make the giant robot?
131** The smaller robots are far from worthless; a good deal of them can attack the giant MonsterOfTheWeek on their own, or perform mass rescue operations. The question is, why they don't use the smaller robots to wear the monster down before switching to the giant robot for the finishing blow, instead of risking destroying all the robots by combining them the moment they're summoned?
132*** Because the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil quickly outpaces what the individual Zords are capable of.
133*** And because the show's only 22 minutes long; the few episodes of MMPR that had the individual Zords attacking either had to cut time out of the civilian scenes, lessen the time spent fighting the monster beforehand, have the smaller zords be immediately taken out so that have to combine, or once combined, just finish the monster off with the Final Sword/Cannon/whatever. I believe on multi-parters they're given the freedom to do so without any pacing problems, though.
134*** I assumed that the individual zords are probably faster than a fully combined Megazord. After all, animals on four legs, birds, cars and jets tend to move faster than a humanoid on two legs. So they summon them individually so they'll arrive on the scene faster rather tbe stuck waiting for the Megazord to stroll over.
135*** Also, in the case of some Zords, like the MMPR dinozords and others that aren't kept in a hangar... well, it's just ''easier'' to hide a bunch of small robots all over the place than one large one in a single area. Also, if the zord is hidden in pieces, the bad guys can't just stumble on it and suddenly have control of the entire Megazord/whatever the big combination mecha is named this time.
136** Worth noting: In ''In Space'', the Rangers do keep their Megazords combined. Makes things easier.
137** See it this way, there is ''no'' guarantee that there will be just one MonsterOfTheWeek, the five rangers will be present in time to fight or it will play fair. it's not for sure that they will need their zords in just one place at the same time. having each ranger a Zord for themselves that combine into a stronger megazord, let's them be prepared for more than ''one'' scenario. Also, it easier to storage that way. in some cases, like RPM, it's because they have more than one combination.
138** It's a lot easier to destroy one target than 3-5. And if you're going to make it 1 mech from the start, why not just require 1 person to control it?
139* Why ''are'' the Rangers' outfits more or less high-tech spandex? I mean, its fellow Tokusatsu show ''Kamen Rider'' sometimes has up to a dozen Riders at once, with multiple "modes" each, and every single one of them has the full works of armor: breastplate, shin guards and gauntlets, etc. Only a small handful of Rangers have anything close to that.
140** [[MemeticMutation IT IS NOT SPANDEX]]...and since it can take explosions without damage, and falling from 100-ft robots without killing them, likely the word "forcefield" comes to mind.
141** True, but if they both did that, how would you tell the Rangers from the Riders?
142*** Simple: the Riders have cooler transformation sequences and tend to stay solo, attacking each other almost twice as much as they team up to face off against some third party evil. The Rangers have the HumongousMecha and work as a team.
143*** That, and they'd have the English language...
144** Oy, this answer should be obvious! Remember the Power Rangers Movie? Same Rangers, but with ARMOUR! Now Ladies and gents, what was the difference between the Movie and the series? The movie had a ''budget''! Therefore, they always wore armour but obviously the TV series didn't have the cash to give them armor in every episode. Therefore, they "high-tech Spandex" ''is'' armour. We're supposed to ''pretend'' it's armour. suspension of disbelief and all that. I mean seriously, are we seriously supposed to believe that ''spandex'' survived all that? It's obviously supposed to be armor that the producers were too cheap to provide.
145*** Or its special spandex. And the movie is in its own continuity. So that means nothing.
146*** That and it's pretty much tradtion by now.
147*** Speaking of which, why was the Metallic Armor basically the same suits but shinier, when they had the perfectly good movie suits to use as a MidSeasonUpgrade? The same goes for the new Ninja Ranger outfits that were nowhere near as cool as the Ninjetti outfits. (Come to think of it, they also changed the Piranhatron outfits between the ''[[Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie Turbo]]'' movie and the show, but the show Piranhatron outfits were cooler... well, IMHO, anyway.)
148*** 20th Century Fox owns the right to the movie props. They didn't have access to the movie suits or the Ninjetti suits. Also apparently the movie suits were a pain in the ass.
149*** Um...I have to object to the budget angle; the Kamen Rider franchise has had a similar budget in the past, but they've ''always'' had intricate armor for the Riders; some of them had a literal ''legion'' of Riders, usually with their own secondary form ''each''. So obviously it ''can'' be done. And if it was just a budget issue, then they could just go with the standard breastplate and bracers that they give the original Green Ranger, the White Ranger, the White Dino Ranger, the Shadow Ranger, etc.
150*** ''Kamen Rider'' generally doesn't have mechs, whereas ''Power Rangers/Super Sentai'' (since ''Zyuranger'') always has at least six. That's going to eat up a fair chunk of the budget.
151*** Comparing Ranger suits to Rider armor is missing the point. It doesn't look like Rider armor because it isn't Rider armor, one may as well ask why a suit of chain mail doesn't look like a suit of full plate. The question is why it looks the way it does, and my guess would be it's for mobility. Rangers generally tend to use more agile/high-flying fighting styles than Kamen Riders.
152*** ''Kamen Rider'' series have a lot of different Riders '''now'''. Back in the day, it was just one guy and a bike. So, the budget explanation covered that. Nowadays, they do have the budget to break free from that, but by this point it has already become tradition to have the spandex suits. The original Super Sentai shows broke free of that tradition for a year, but I imagine it was not well received and they went back to spandex afterwards.
153*** Even then, Kamen Rider doesn't usually have mecha (and when they do, it's usually CGI; the only exception I can think of are for crossovers/movies when the Riders lend their powers to the Sentai mech, and that doesn't happen all the time). Also, in the case of shows like ''Gokaiger'' and [=''ToQger''=], the teams are usually changing suits left and right[[note]]the former can change into any team they want; the latter can change colors[[/note]]; it makes sense for those suits to be simple and made of Spandex. Not to mention that in the past, Rider series
154** The reason is that the movie suits already fell apart during the time the movie was taken. The crew had to pause several takes because the armor was about to fall apart and had to be re-applied or patched up otherwise. Imagine trying to film a conversation where you are a Klingon, but your rubber forehead keeps falling off...
155*** That, and the movie suits were made out of PVC over metal plates. They were heavy, bulky, uncomfortable, as mentioned above, actually very fragile. They were so hard to move in and use that they were forced to use professional stuntmen as opposed to the regular actors in them simply for the sake of safety and since the TV show made use of Japanese StockFootage, which didn't have suits like that.
156*** There's also the fact that the movie was produced by Fox, and they likely retain some of the rights to the suits and props used in the movie. I know the rat suits got reused later in the series, But nothing else seems to have.
157*** No regular actors, with the exception of Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, whose suit-actor was injured during a difficult stunt. Johnny's so badass, he did all his own stunts, ''including'' in the Ranger suit.
158** There is still a fairly big difference between the Kamen Rider suits and the MMPR movie suits. Kamen Rider suits (not trying to raise any blood pressure here) generally look like large chucks of fiberglass shells placed around the body, it looks like armor but doesn't exactly have a cinematic quality to them. The MMPR movie suits still had a "spandex" look to them but had additional armor-like pieces interwoven so they looked somewhat protective. As mentioned those suits looked fantastic but were rather fragile and exceptionally heavy (exact numbers vary, but just for reference the basic suit was about 25 lbs. and the White Ranger suit was about 40 lbs. because of the chest shield).
159** It certainly started as a budgetary issue, and then became tradition. The "Kamen Rider shows have many Riders" argument doesn't quite work because early Kamen Rider shows did '''not''' have many Riders (this trend started on the "new" shows, from the last 15 years or so), or even one Rider with varying forms (this started with ''Black RX'', from the late 80s, which had three forms, but a single Rider). By the time the original tokusatsu shows got a good enough budget to afford a full team of armoured individuals, the look of a Super Sentai hero was already ingrained enough that it wasn't really something they ever bothered doing outside of the eventual mid-season power-up adding some armour to the spandex suit. It's also worth noting that even Rider suits were more "spandex-y" at the beginning, growing more and more elaborate over time, showing the evolution of their ability to actually make such a suit usable in the kind of acrobatics they use for fighting.
160* Why wasn't the Gold Zeo subcrystal hidden in the Caves of Deception with the rest of the Zeo Crystal?
161** The answer is simple: it wasn't hidden because it was in use.
162*** Actually, the energy readings being the same was established, but a sixth sub-crystal ''wasn't.'' It seems it's coincidence that the power sources give the same energy readings to the Rangers' EverythingSensor, and the similarity between the Zeo suits and the unrelated Gold Ranger is down to similar power sources. Or the original Zeo Crystal wasn't the only one.
163*** The Gold Ranger had the five Super Zeo Gems with him, what they likely detected was that power not his staff.
164*** No, he didn't; the Super Zeo Gems turned up much later. They didn't come with the staff, they weren't on Pyramidas and Trey didn't hand them over before he left for Triforia, so they can't have been with him at the time or on the ship. He only gave the rangers the Gems when he'd returned to Triforia, ergo the most likely explanation is that the Gems had been on Triforia until then. As to the power source for the Gold Ranger's Power, it must be the Staff, which is fair; it's basically his version of a Zeoniser.
165* Just who is the Phantom Ranger? Did he really have a purpose in ''Power Rangers Turbo''? Except for his contribution of Artillatron and falling for one of the female rangers, he was pretty much useless and irritatingly mysterious.
166** WordOfGod says that he's the souls of all fallen Power Rangers, inhabiting a cybernetic body. Or as some people put it, he's a robot filled with ghosts.
167** The Carranger counterpart was the VRV Master and showed up in like 3 episodes. He wasn't considered a Ranger in that series but had a somewhat Ranger-like appearance so Turbo used him as the SixthRanger. They never really explained him in either Turbo or in Space but in some way his presense did help to establish the larger "intergalactic" Ranger community that became important for in Space.
168* Especially in the earlier seasons, why didn't the Rangers just take out their cool giant robots and just crush the monster before Rita super-sized him?
169** It was against one of Zordon's rules; specifically, "Never escalate a battle unless Rita/Zedd forces you."
170*** I believed it was specified somewhere that part of the whole "defend, not attack" rule was that they don't escalate the battle without due cause. Still, one of my favorite moments of the first season was when Jason was stuck somewhere else and the other four were being wasted by the Green Ranger, they actually turned the Megazord on him. The Green Ranger thought he stood a chance and boldly attacked them anyway, but his energy blast was easily redirected.
171** It's a waste of good mecha; it'd be a pathetic Ranger team that couldn't beat a single normal-sized monster without giant robots. And if they did it all the time it wouldn't have been nearly as funny when Natsuki did it (Bouken 21).
172*** Turbo once called out the Megazord because they couldn't touch the current monster in its normal size, but being that the monster was dependant on light and was still normal size, all they actually used was the Megazords shadow to defeat him.
173*** Why would it be a waste? The heroes should probably have noticed that they will have to take out their robots anyway when Rita inevitably super-sized the monster. It would have made victory a breeze if they would've just tried this.
174*** Overkill. it's a Dictionary word. Look it up.
175*** Plus, gas prices being what they are, refueling a Megazord? That can't be easy on the bank account...
176*** True, but what about the organic zords?
177*** Can you imagine the size of the pooper scooper you'd need?
178*** So just have the animal zords do all the work because the rangers are too lazy? They probably have a limited amount of energy and need to rest between battles. Summoning them ''every'' time a putty/cog/pirhanatron etc shows up would probably begin to stray into animal cruelty.
179*** There are no "organic" zords. They're all machines, some are just cyborgs (e.g, the RPM Zords, the Galactizords). Logically they have some kind of limitations that prevent this, and considering that the Zords can run out of power (even the Mighty Morphin' Megazord did in one battle against the Green Ranger while he was evil) they likely don't want to waste that power on something so trivial when they have more than enough weapons to take care of it. Also frankly they'd look like pussies, and the other ranger teams would laugh at them.
180*** A lot of Zords aren't machines (take Mystic Force, where they're the ''Rangers,'' for starters. As for the organic ones, Galactabeasts are altogether organic (in a PR rubber suit sorta way) before "Zord Transform!" happens. They basically morph just like the Rangers.
181** It wouldn't work. There is nothing in any episodes that suggest individual monsters are in anyway weaker than individual rangers. In fact given that most of them are winning four, five and six on one fights they are probably superior physically. Rangers have on multiple occasions been shown leaping from the ground into their zords and unless the zords were keyed to "Ranger" and that's why Green Ranger was able to get into the Megazord there doesn't seem to be any reason why the regular monsters couldn't do that. And inversely they probably don't usually waste a lot of time trying to squash the rangers because as hilarious as it would be to watch them try rangers are pretty quick.
182** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic addressed this in his review of the ''Turbo'' movie - basically, if they called in the Megazord before the monster was giant-sized, when the monster grew giant-sized, it would be too powerful to be defeated with the Megazord (one can assume that the same is true for ''Sentai'' series, since excluding monsters that don't grow giant-size, usually it's only the generic enemy mecha that get defeated without the use of a zord). The only case where this wasn't an issue was the aforementioned example in ''Turbo'' involving the Megazord's shadow - in that case, they could've used anything to block the light source, but it was a lot easier to summon the Megazord then, oh say, take a skyscraper out of the ground and block the sunlight from hitting the monster.
183* Why did Adam think Alpha 6 would know how to repair the Morphing Grid? As far as we know Alpha has created exactly 0 rangers on the other hand Ninjor created 17 rangers. Ninjor created the 6 Dino Power Coins, the 6 Ninja Power Coins, and gave the Alien Rangers their Battle Borgs and thus probably created their powers as well. 6+6+5 is 17.
184** In point of fact, its outright states that Zordon adapted his Power Ranger tech from Ninjor's magic coins, and logically the later human-made Morphers were based on Zordon's designs, so its actually rather likely Ninjor directly or indirectly created lal of the rangers or led to their creation with the exception of the Zeo Rangers, Galaxy Rangers and Wild Force. ''Maybe'' Jungle Fury, since it was never clear if those powers were magical spirits or technology. So it's more like "a shitload" instead of 17.
185** Alpha 6 may not have created any rangers,but thats exactly what the Alpha robots can do.Furthermore Alpha 6 did work in the command center for a while.Zordon wouldn't leave the rangers without have a compatent replacement should their be problems with the morphing grid.
186* I realize this applies equally to every MonsterOfTheWeek show and that FailureIsTheOnlyOption, but isn't there at least a HandWave or something? Why don't the bad guys ever get two or three (or forty...) giant monsters and just beat the stuffing out of everyone?
187** Lack of resources (read: budget), mostly. Besides, there's the ConservationOfNinjitsu to consider
188** They do every so often, it's just that all it does at best is prolong the fight a little. ConservationOfNinjitsu, indeed.
189** I don't think they ever talk about it in-show, but the times where they do send out many monsters to attack the Rangers at one (the Zedd-Rita seasons had a number of these), they were able to be beaten down individually, whereas in their original appearances (episodes of this kind almost always reused old monsters rather than introduced new ones), they were a threat to the entire team combined. It's either because when the monsters are revived, they are less powerful and may have lost their "special attacks" (I remember the Pumpkin Rapper was a bit of a wuss when he return). Why they don't use multiple new monsters at once is due to budget (real life) and allocation of resources (in-show); Finster seemed to take eons to create a new monster, as Rita was always seen being impatient that they weren't ready yet.
190** In ''Time Force'', reviewer Linkara actually justifies Ransik's inactivity by saying that releasing more than one monster might lead to a leadership revolt. Or as he put it, "Why should we follow your orders if we outnumber you 100 to 1?"
191** In ''Ninja Storm'', Lothor attempts this, but one of his henchmen explains that he couldn't grow multiple monsters because "you didn't pay for the memory upgrade".
192** In ''MMPR'': "The Wedding", multiple monsters do go giant at once. [[ConservationOfNinjitsu They get whooped]].
193** Apparently the more monsters the weaker they are. Maybe whatever energy source the villains tap into can only give so much energy and if there is more than one monster the energy has to divide itself?
194*** Also in ''Ninja Storm'', Lothor was probably sacrificing his army on purpose to overflow the Abyss of Evil. After he succeeded, he had no problem with using his entire army at once against three Rangers. I am led to believe that Lothor was ObfuscatingStupidity the whole season.
195*** I thought that was ''exactly'' the explanation the last two episodes gave.
196** Obviously not official canon, but in a kid's magazine there was the explanation that if they used ten monsters or so, the Rangers would just inevitably gain some new weapons or zords that would be more than capable of taking out ten monsters at once. Obviously a bit of lampshading at the fact that the rangers always seem to get new weapons ''just'' when they really need them.
197*** Might not be lampshading, but an aspect of the Morphing Grid. If its created by the struggle between Zedd and Zordon, or presumably, whomever the good guy and bad guy are this year, then it logically follows that if one side gets stronger without bothering to upset the balance beforehand by eliminating the other side's source, something "coincidental" will happen to ensure that power levels remain equal.
198*** This would be a brilliant way to explain Zordon's "don't escalate the conflict" rule discussed above.
199** In the similar show Masked Rider (an American adaptation/{{macekre}} of Series/KamenRiderBlackRX), which is also made by Saban, the BigBad Count Dregon gets a suggestion to unleash all of his monsters at once. He dismisses the idea, saying that all of those monsters loose at the same time would be too much for even him to control. So there you go.
200*** On several occasions they send a shitton of monsters at once. But usually by this time the rangers are too powerful for that. For example during Rita and Zedd's wedding they sent a bunch of ''season one'' monsters...after the Rangers had upgraded to more powerful Zords. It wasn't pretty. Put another way, it would be like sending a million WWI Biplanes to fight one F-22 Raptor...the best you can hope for is that he runs out of bullets and missiles.
201** Usually, the only time in ''Sentai'' that more than one giant monster is released by the villains is when it's one of the EliteMooks - releasing a bunch of giant [[MonsterOfTheWeek MOTWs]] would mean that each one would have their own power, and as mentioned earlier with Linkara justifying Ransik's behaviour, the villains would not be in control.
202* It bugs me that they could have saved all of us years of bitching about continuity issues in Forever Red by having Carter say something like 'Oh yeah, Lightspeed has been building new morphers for older teams in case of emergencies'. You instantly resolve all present and future issues with Rangers returning with powers.
203** Technically none of the powers used in Forever Red were ever stated to have been destroyed. Only two powers were apparently damaged during the series.
204*** Red Mighty Morphin' powers: Damaged by the destruction of the Thunderzords, but as we saw in Always a Chance, the original coins are still intact. May have gone through some repairs though.
205*** OBJECTION! May the record state that during the Orb of Doom arc immediately before the Alien Rangers miniseries, Master Vile used said arc to transform the Rangers and most other adults into children. In the immediate aftermath, Billy invented a machine which uses the Ranger's Power Coins as a power source which can reverse the Orb's effects. Billy is able to revert himself back into adult form, but before he can use it on the others, the device is captured by Goldar. Immediately thereafter, Lord Zedd and Rita use their wands to destroy the Power Coins contained within. It is this event which prompts the Rangers to begin searching for the Zeo Crystal in order to restore their powers.
206*** OVERRULED! The Power Coins, Rita and Zedd destroyed, were the Ninja Power Coins, not the Dino Power Coins. Furthermore, the Tyrannosaurus Power Coin that was being used by Rocky durring the aforementioned destruction of the Thunder Zords was a duplicate of Jason's and thus it is likely Jason's coin had already been disconnected from the Red Dragon Zord and was thus unaffected by its destruction (thereby explaining why Jason didn't have any trouble sustaining his morph).
207*** OBJECTION! At what point was it stated that Rocky's coin was a duplicate of Jason's? There would have been no reason for there to be a duplicate coin; Jason wasn't going to need one, at least not back in the MMPR days.
208*** It's never ''stated'' it's ''shown'' during "The Power Transfer", To be fair, the characters consistently call it a transfer, so its possible that Jason's coin was depowered in the process. But, then that brings us back to why Jason doesn't have any trouble staying in morph in Forever Red since he'd have to be using the coin that got damaged during "Ninja Quest".
209*** Actually, watching "The Power Transfer" shows at least one Ranger (I believe Zack) has a Power Morpher on their belt buckle with ''no'' coin in it. Therefore it can be assumed the coins were ''transferred'', not duplicated. The episode is "The Power Transfer", not "The Power Duplication".
210*** The "it wasn't the dino coins that were destroyed" explanation is enough to justify Jason's powered status in Forever Red, though.
211*** First of all the episodes were called The ''Power'' Transfer, not the ''Coin'' Transfer. Nothing is stated about coins being transferred. It's entirely likely that Jason, Zack and Trini still had their coins, but they just had no power in, because they had transferred it to Rocky, Adam and Aisha's new coins that Zordon constructed (I guess?) It's not too different to transferring data from a memory stick to one CPU to another, but still keeping the empty memory stick after.
212*** Secondly this issue of how Jason could morph in Forever Red needs a bigger deconstruction, and a focus of two key events in Power Ranger history: Tommy losing his green ranger powers in the Green Candle, and Zordon's sacrifice at the end of In Space. During the power ''transfer'' we have Jason, Trini and Zack pass their powers onto Rocky, Adam and Aisha. The reason the former are still morphed is because that's what little energy they have left during their decreasing morphed state. It's the same reason Tommy remained in his green ranger outfit for a little while, even though he had passed his coin and power onto Jason at the end of The Green Candle. Tommy's shield being worn by Jason as the red ranger was basically another way or saying there's another green ranger in the chamber at the same time, until what morphed energy Tommy had left eventually perished (this essentially happens to all MMPR rangers every time they're morphed, but they always have their powers to remorph back every time). The power transfer was the same thing, only threefold. We don't see Jason perish in his morphed yet unrechargable state during the transfer because him, Zack and Trini are teleported out prior (actor issues with the cast not being present, sure I know, but it has to be looked at within the fictional universe).
213*** So how does Tommy morph back into the green ranger, even though he had already transferred the power to Jason before? Well, Tommy has the dragon coin at least, he just needed a large boost of energy to get it going. This energy was provided by Zordon, who powered the coin and allowed the green ranger form to be activated again. Unfortunately it was only a temporary restoration, and the green ranger power inevitably failed due to just being essentially a ''half-assed'' version of the green ranger before. The show establishes this as a fact. The ''speculation'' however is that at the end of In Space, when Zordon sacrifices himself, he spreads his energy out through the universe or galaxy to destroy all evil, [[FridgeLogic the same energy he used to charge Tommy's coin]]. Ergo, it would stand to reason that this same energy would ''recharge'' empty power coins the same way it did Tommy's dragon coin. If the theory pans out, Jason had an empty power coin when the power was transferred to Rocky's. Rocky's coin was damaged and unusable (like Adam's was in "Always A Chance"), but Jason's was temporarly recharged like Tommy was when he returned as the green ranger. Likely Zack and Trini's are restored too.
214*** Red Turbo powers: Apparently sapped by the conquering of Eltar, but as we saw in True Blue to the Rescue, the Turbo powers are either still in working order, or the Blue ranger powers were now energized by Storm Blaster. By that same logic, the Red Turbo powers could be powered by Lightning Cruiser now. And since "Countdown to Destruction" would've resulted in the freeing of Eltar, ''all'' the Turbo powers should be back in working order.
215*** Red Space Powers?: EXPLICITLY gone as of "Countdown to Destruction".
216*** Nope, the Spacers were just demorphed by the Peace Wave. And everyone except Silver was back for the team-up, so presumeably the powers were just fine.
217*** True, but everyone's ALWAYS back for the team-up, regardless of how permanently they are depowered in the previous season.
218*** Yeah, but any team that was officially stated to have lost there powers has an explanation for how they came back:
219*** Alien/Zeo: The Alien rangers never lost their powers to begin with.
220*** Space/Galaxy team up: The Space powers were ''never'' explicity stated to be gone. The rangers were just forcibly demorphed at the end of the season. Even if this did somehow damage their Morphers (and there's no evidence to indicate it did), considering the technological design, they would presumably be easy to repair
221*** Galaxy/Lightspeed. The Galaxy rangers get their powers back by pulling the Quasar sabers out of the rock again.
222*** Lightspeed/Time Force. The Lightspeed rangers presumably got their morphers back for Mitchell.
223*** Time Force/Wild Force. The Time Force rangers never lost their powers to begin with.
224*** Ninja Storm/Dino Thunder. Lothor gives the Wind rangers new dics, likely powered by the energy he had stored in the Cyclone Morpher. Cam, Hunter and Blake later reclaim the Cyclone Morpher and presumably use it to rechare the Wind and Thunder Morphers.
225*** Dino Thunder/ S.P.D. The dinogems were stated by Broodwing to have been fully recharged (probably by futuristic technology) and the second teamup takes place before the dinogems were depleted anyway.
226*** Once a Ranger. The Sentinal Knight claims to have recharged any of the Retro Ranger powers that were not working already.
227*** Therefore, there has not been a single teamup (except Forever Red) that brings back depowered rangers with no explanation for how they got their powers back.
228*** Including "Forever Red". See all of the above.
229*** Well, "History" states that the Dino Gems were repowered, but not ''how.'' It seems that they just... got better. (Of course, there was no good reason given for the gems, which had been used to cast much larger attacks, to be permanently depleted in finishing off Mesogog, ''either,'' which Just Bugged a lot of fans at the end of the season.)
230*** {{Handwaving}} is a valid trope and remember Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad. The problem with Forever Red is they didn't [[InvokedTrope invoke]] it, so fans can't just handwave it.
231*** Though yet again - little ''needs'' handwaving. Morphin powers: Ninja coins destroyed, dino coins ''not.'' Nothing ever happened to Zeo powers. Turbo powers lost due to fall of Eltar, and the Blue Turbo powers were restored by Storm Blaster, so either Lightning Cruiser or the UAE's destruction restores TJ's - ''his powers are '''doubly''' okay.'' Space powers were not harmed, Zordon's wave just demorphed them. Galaxy powers: we saw Leo pull the sword again. Lightspeed, Time Force: nothing ever shown to happen to those powers. In short: '''All the powers were just fine and there has never been any reason to think otherwise.'''
232* Why'd Tommy get the stupid spiked haircut?
233** The man had long flowing hair for at least 7 years. One of the few skills the man hasn't mastered was making good hair choices.
234** Have you ever tried any kind of martial arts with long hair whipping into your face every time you turn around?
235** Because Tommy ''ALWAYS'' has a stupid haircut, be it long or short the hair must remain dorky. It's one of the rules.
236*** [[Fanfic/OfLoveAndBunnies We don't mention the incident.]]
237* Who does most of the governing out in space? Triforia is stated to be a monarchy, but the ruling Prince Trey spends ''millenia'' at a time wandering around doing good deeds - he recognized Zordon, so he's at least 10,000. More egregiously, all the space villains are stated to have conquered several ''galaxies''. How do they keep control if they spend all their time conquering new territory, and they take their armies with them to the conquering - shouldn't the people be able to just go back to normal, comfortable in the knowledge that, say, Zedd, will never stop by again as he's too busy one galaxy over?
238** It could be that the Rangers themselves have no idea. The villains are using 'universe' and 'galaxy' interchangeably; Astronema doesn't seem to be the daughter of MaligoreDark Spectreanyone important, yet has an inherited title; the physics is insane. We're seeing all of this from the Rangers' POV, in a way--what would an alien teenager think of Earth's politics? They're just clueless.
239** I don't think you have to be as old as Zordon's imprisonment to know Zordon... I always figured that he was in communication with more than just one command center (recall, he wasn't supposed to be physically ''in'' the jar originally.) Trey (and everybody else in the whole danged universe, it seems) knows Zordon the same way the Rangers do: Zordon's stayed in the game all along as best he can from his prison.
240** Apparently they don't; when Lord Zedd came to Earth it was established that he had conquered various places already, but when the Machine Empire appeared he and Rita moved in with Master Vile rather then going to another planet under his control.
241*** So, why is it "conquering", and not razing or destroying? The word conquer is used so much that a distinct impression is given of rule in some way.
242** On a similar note, shouldn't the galaxy be in a lawless "roving local warlords on the rampage" situation not unakin to Iraq right now, with the overlord of most of the known universe - Dark Spectre - only about a decade gone?
243*** ''SPD'' maintaining the law and order, I'd wager. Explains why they aren't that much of a presence in present day Earth because their forces are needed more elsewhere.
244*** Chances are most people weren't aware that Dark Spector was running the United Alliance of Evil until ''Countdown to Destruction'' so his death wouldn't have much affect.
245*** Thing is, the rest of the UAE was taken out too, thrusting all Zedd territory into presumable chaos, all Machine Empire, etc.
246*** Master Vile's fate was never shown and King Aradon (Archerina's father) has never appeared perhaps one or both of them is keeping the universe in order.
247*** I always figured it ''was'' a jungle out there. There are all these space-based villains and they hated each other, and the Terra Venture managed to have enemies in ''two'' galaxies... new villains pop up out of the woodworks on Earth alone at an impressive rate... some of them have destroyed planets before, and many villains captured by SPD in 2025 would have to be active today... and visiting heroes sometimes had their own enemies show up later on. It is ''not'' a peaceful galaxy out there.
248** My guess is that there are [[Franchise/SuperSentai 15 other teams]] out in space who defended the universe on other planets, and the villains there did not attack those planets or they did and failed...
249* Why is it that Sentai has to make their werewolf-themed monsters so damned hot? First was Zen-Aku from ''Wild Force'', then there was Jiro/Garuru from ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', and now I just got a glimpse of R.J.'s werewolf form in ''Jungle Fury''. Yes, I know they're more or less evil in this form, [[DracoInLeatherPants but damn...*drools*]] Are they just embracing the formula of wolf = evil = sexy, or are they trying to break the stereotype that werewolves are ugly flesh-eating monsters?
250** The former, I believe... though I'm not sure Zen-Aku qualifies. That's just weird.
251** Jiro is not a part of Super Sentai/Power Rangers. -_-
252* I can see a stretch of the Ninja Academies having the resources for building morphers, but building zords? Are they running cash like Andrew Hartford in Operation Overdrive?
253** See the WildMassGuessing page. I've always assumed that the Academies were founded by Ninjor - it fits his MO, the morphers use disks (which are likely a more modern version of the 10,000 year old coin technology), the Ninja Animal Giant Robots are what he's good at making, and the timeline fits for him to have been grumpy when we saw him because he was depressed and angry with humanity due to Lothor's betrayal. Plus, its the only logical explanation for why there are a number of ninja academies in California, which we know Ninjor has connections to- the chances of two independent superpowered Ninja groups with nigh-identical abilities and technology is exceedingly unlikely.
254** I was always under the impression that was exactly it. I mean we know for a fact that Ninjor basically created the idea of Morphers and Power Rangers (which Zordon adapted to more technological means) so the more "magical" ninja clans probably come from him. Plus about 99% are good guys (Ninja Storm, Jungle Fury) so whoever founded them probably was too.
255** From what I know, they never explicitly state what the requirements are to get in. My guess? If you don't want to prove yourself, you can get in by paying a pretty sizable fee - said fee is used to pay for various things, such as uniforms and zords.
256* Has an animal-shaped Zord ever done anything individually that a Megazord could not? Why not keep them combined and replace all the extra limbs with guns?
257** Well, there was that ep of MMPR where T-rex did a better job of fighting a Spider monster. But many animal zords are sentinent, making keeping them combined impractical. The Wild Zords or the Galaxy Beasts, for example. Plus being uncombined uses less energy.
258** The animal usage is often {{justified|Trope}}. In Jungle Fury, for example, the zords are the battle spirits of the rangers, so they'd need to be psychically unified or something to summon them combined. In Ninja Storm the zords were kept hidden in plain sight, something easier to do with the giant robot in pieces. In the third season of MMPR, Ninjor gives them animal zords to go with their totem animals, presumably for theme. And yeah, the animals are often sentient, so keeping them combined would be inhumane.
259* Isn't part of the "Power Ranger Rules" to be friendly, caring and prone to forgiveness? In that case, why were the Mystic Force Rangers so mean to Leelee? When they didn't know who she was, they treated her as their best friend, but when they learn who her mother is suddenly they treat her like dirt. Even though Leelee is not evil and she genuienly wants to be their friend. I mean, if Tommy and Kimberly saw this, they would be disgusted.
260** Not necessarily. Tommy and Kimberly treated Bulk and Skull similarly; it wasn't until they became part of the junior police patrol that they got any real respect (Tommy and Kimberly even attended their graduation ceremony), and TJ was really the first (and only) Red Ranger to actually hang out with Bulk and Skull; he seemed to consider them friends.
261*** And that is why TJ is one of my all-time favorite Rangers. The dude was just cool to everybody.
262** Of course, Bulk and Skull were total jerks in the beginning. They were laughable and incompetant as bullies, but still jerks, it wasn't until season 2 that they started to soften up and reform and by season 4 they could actually be considered friends of the main cast. They were still pretty bumbling and immature, but overall good guys who hung around other good people. Leelee did do some pretty bad stuff (but was genuinely sorry for it and tried to make it right), but that still doesn't change the fact that the Mystic Force Rangers do indeed largely come off as jerks all around.
263*** These two situations should not be compared. Bulk and Skull were bullies. Leelee was the daughter of a villain, considered herself a villain at one point, and had deceived them numerous times. The Mystic Force Rangers had very little reason to trust her word.
264* What is the connection between Time Force and SPD? Is Time Force the early version of SPD, or viceversa?
265** There is a theory that Lightspeed became SPD, which then became Time Force. It may have something to do with the use of the Red Time Force Ranger's suit that led to the Time Force-SPD theory.
266** There's another theory that the Silver Guardians eventually became Time Force.
267* As a note to the above article, why didn't Jen stay with Wes in Time Force? They already F-ed up history enough, what's one small change for love gonna hurt?
268* If Thrax is the son of Rita and Zedd, shouldn't he have been purified/destroyed alongside all pre-Lost Galaxy villains?
269** Same reason why The Machine Empire Generals weren't destroyed either, they weren't part of the main attack force at the time.
270** He also was imprisoned at the time.
271* Why isn't there a Wild Force/Ninja Storm crossover, an SPD/Mystic Force crossover, a Mystic Force/Operation Overdrive crossover or an Operation Overdrive/Jungle Fury crossover?
272** Because Disney is stupid. -_-
273** The first was because of the switch to NZ, the MF/OO one was because the did the Veteran Rangers ep instead and the other two, as far as I can figure out, is because Kalish&Co couldn't be bothered.
274*** According to the Rangercast podcast, Disney hated doing old season crossovers because it was "advertising old toys" which they felt was a waste of time and money. In fact, Disney only allowed Once a Ranger on the condition that there be no more crossovers ever, which is why an OO/JF crossover never happened.
275*** Speaking of that, it confounds me that they never ''make'' toys for these occasions. You'd think they'd make special anniversary figure sets with the Retro Rangers.
276*** Presumably the same for JF/RPM (though justified in-story due to the fact that they're probably dead and all.)
277*** SPD/Mystic Force can be justified by the fact that they'd need to use time travel again - while the SPD side certainly has the tech, it would be recycling the Dino Thunder/SPD crossover a bit; and in the case of Mystic Force, while they don't clearly establish the limits of power that magic can use, odds are that if a time control spell existed, one of the villains would've used it to bring back a rather nasty villain. And in the case of ''Wild Force''/''Ninja Storm'', assuming that the rangers didn't stay on the Animarium, Princess Shayla would've needed to be the one to specifically gather the Wild Force rangers up again.
278* Why do so many [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] have special titles instead of being known by their colours? Shadow Ranger, Omega Ranger, Mercury Ranger, etc. I know they're meant to be unique, but they just seem less like one of the team if they have a different kind of name. Plus in Jungle Fury, with our first ever Purple Ranger, the fact they instead call him the Wolf Ranger makes it feel less official and I can't help but feel cheated as a result.
279** It's a carryover from Sentai; it's usually justified there - for example: the Gold ''Zeo'' Ranger's sentai counterpart, [[Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger Kingranger]], was actually a warrior who was active long before the 5 Ohrangers started fighting, hence the reason why he didn't identify himself as "Ohblack"[[note]]Kingranger is classified as a black ranger in Sentai; he's only a gold ranger in Power Rangers[[/note]]; [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Abarekiller]] actually started off as an evil ranger who was evil just [[Main/ForTheEvulz because he could be]], but was evil longer than the White Dino Thunder ranger; [[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Dekamaster]] was the boss of the team; and [[Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger ZyuohTheWorld]] is 3 different colors (black, silver, and gold/amber/orange[[note]]this one is debatable, since he has only been classified as rangers of the first 2 categories[[/note]]) at the same time. The only example you list that I can't think of an explanation for the change is the Omega Ranger - Dekamaster is a black ranger in both PR and Sentai, and shadows are black; the Mercury Ranger is someone who's from the Planet Mercury (not to mention that mercury and silver have very similar colors); and the Wolf Ranger's name comes from the powers he uses (in ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'', his sentai counterpart, [=GekiViolet=], '''was''' named after his his color, but the Rhino Ranger's sentai equivalent is Gekichopper, so make of that what you will).
280* This is more about Super Sentai and the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fetish appeal it's spawned during it's run, but...why does everyone seem to think Doggie Kruger's place is under heavy BDSM training? Virtually every single fanfic, fan picture, and h-doujin I've seen of the guy has him being tied up, gagged, and raped up the ass with various large, phallic objects by a variety of (usually male) characters. For a while, I didn't complain (and I still don't, to a point; he ''is'' a hunk, after all), but...I've started finding h-doujins where he's put in this position by the ''female'' characters, specifically ''Swan-san'', the one character in ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger'' with a canonical "flirt and tease" relationship of the most innocent kind. That really disturbs me, and further emphasizes my confusion over why everyone finds him being put in that position so hot.
281** Guess they just like doing it [[{{Pun}} doggy style.]]
282** Since he is the leader, well... sometimes people like seeing a strong and masterful character bondage'd. He's fetish appeal ''and'' someone whose place is typically sternly giving orders.
283* Why is the Green Galaxy Ranger's Galactabeast referred to as a condor when it clearly resembles a dragon? How many condors have arms? What, were the writers afraid of the idea of a Green Ranger having a zord that might be cooler than the Red Ranger's?
284** It IS a condor. Or a bird or something. Even in the Sentai Lost Galaxy is based on Gingaman it's refered to as a bird of some kind. It's the most dragonlike bird I've ever seen but it's a bird. I dunno maybe the guy in Japan in charge of designing these things was drunk the day he made it.
285** In Gingaman, it's called Gingalcon. So it's actually a falcon, which makes even ''less'' sense than a condor...
286** It could be because most of the dragonlike parts don't show so much in zord mode.
287** There actually might be a bit of FridgeBrilliance here. These aren't earth animals, remember? They're aliens. When you think about it, the lion doesn't look a whole lot like a lion (I guess the lines on its head are supposed to be a mane, but...still), and the wildcat is bigger (proportionately to the other Galactabeasts) than any wildcat I've ever seen. It's possible that they are just called Lion, Wildcat, Gorilla, Wolf, and Condor because that's what the Mirinoites call them when speaking to Earthlings. They tried to think of an animal like the green Galactabeast, but didn't want to use/think of using mythological animals, so named it after the biggest flyer from Earth.
288* There's something I don't understand. People like ''Time Force'' because of how close it stuck to ''Timeranger'', but people dislike ''Wild Force'' becaise of how close it stuck to ''Gaoranger''. What's going on?
289** I've heard ''Wild Force'' was hated because of how {{Anvilicious}} its GreenAesop was. I guess the fans were hoping that that part of the show would've been toned down in the translation from ''Gaoranger'' to ''Wild Force'', but apparently not. ''Timeranger'', however, already had an awesome story behind it, and ''Time Force'' was merely AdaptationDistillation.
290** And while ''Wild Force'' is indeed very close to the original version the writing and acting are pretty god-awful, [[SoBadItsGood although sometimes to the point of being almost charming]], but still.
291* Why does Nick look arabian? His mother looks Irish and Mystic Mother knows what his father is, but whatever it is is also some variant of "white". White+white=brown?
292** [[AmbiguouslyBrown Leanbow looks kind of brown...]]
293** Don't forget that Udonna and Leanbow come from a magical dimension. Perhaps their genes are different from ours, causing the different skin colour. (Sidenote: Come to think of it, haven't there been cases of that in reality?)
294*** Yeah, but here, we just call it ChocolateBaby.
295*** It dosen't help to know that Daggeron, one of their allies is older and brown himself... hmmmm...
296* Why isn't there an ExpandedUniverse based on ''Power Rangers''? It seems to be popular enough, and there are plenty of stories that could be told. For instance, they could be about the war 10,000 years ago, any of the rangers that aren't based on Earth, A-Squad prior to SPD, the conquering of Eltar, and so forth.
297** Although its quite popular with ''some'' older people, the core target market is, by and large, still the little kiddies. Expanded Universe generally means books and novels, which the young'uns don't generally spring for. As for why there isn't an expanded universe of comics... dunno.
298*** There's also the slight matter of each season from ''Lightspeed Rescue'' on can be considered an expanded universe unto itself.
299*** They attempted to do one a long time ago, with two different comic publishers. Neither one was particularly great, and had a LOT of discrepancies - for one, both comics had the coins themselves, not the morphers, turn the teens into Rangers. They also mixed up a lot of villain's powers and mannerisms - Lord Zedd in the comic was basically a male Rita. Plus the monsters and stories were less than great, and sometimes involved impossible situations like Tommy using the Dragonzord as the White Ranger and suggested combining with the Thunderzords, but didn't get the chance to try.
300** The Boom Studios comics have pretty much taken up that role these days. And based on the appearance of the Morphin' Masters in Dino Fury, looking remarkably similar to how they look in the comics, Hasbro considers them canon, at least to some degree.
301* Why do you have to be morphed to pilot a zord, I mean why did Ryan have to risk his life (well increase the risk even more then what is to be expected when piloting a transforming spaceship into battle with a deamon) by morphing while using the max solarzord, you dont need to be wearing a uniform to fly a plane. And the issue has come up in other episodes.
302** Remember that they tend to get thrown out of their zords. Would you want to go through that unmorphed?
303*** I think a zord somehow draws its energy from its pilot's ranger powers. In an episode of Ninja Storm, the Wind and Thunder Rangers had to pilot their zords unmorphed, but were warned that doing so would leave their zords very underpowered.
304*** They also couldn't form the Megazord unmorphed (well, nobody said that, but they didn't use Megazord mode despite getting their butts kicked and combining's the first thing they do when they get their power discs back) and ''then'' there's the fact that you get thrown around a lot if your vehicle is getting kicked by a giant monster. I don't think an airbag is gonna cut it.
305*** Also note that in RPM, the Croc Carrier didn't work at first because its size made it, and I quote: "impossible to power without an independently operating bio-entity aboard." So yeah, unless a zord has a power source capable of allowing it to run unmanned (as the Croc Carrier soon acquired), it draws it's power from a morphed pilot.
306** It runs on the genre. The synchrony of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA's]] pilots; the Lambda Driver from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic''; the Dual Kinds from ''Anime/{{Betterman}}''; the hot-blooded guys of ''Manga/GetterRobo'', the, uh, HumongousMecha engineer grandpa from ''Anime/MazingerZ''... there's always some unique condition to be able to the mechas. So I guess that the Zords run on Getter Energy, and that would also answer why they needed some "youngs with attitude"...
307* Zordmaking. I can believe that Alpha, Magic, the Government, and Secret Ninja Schools can build zords. But Mercer and Tommy? How did they get the materials and manual labor?
308** Tyranodrones got them the manual labor. As for the materials, they had a private bloody Island, and Mercer was already filthy rich, so Mercer probably provided capital while Tommy did the work. As for how Tommy went from absent-minded pro athlete to brilliant mad scientist... ObfuscatingStupidity back in the day as he learned in secret from Alpha and Billy? Secret tutoring lessons via interplanetary phone call to Aquitar?
309** Put it in short, Mercer provided the funding. Tommy, as bizarre as it may seem, provided the brains. With brains and funding, resources can be bought, and cheap labor can be mass-produced.
310** I see...so, now we have to wonder about the mental capacity of the Tyrannodrones. Specifically, whether or not they are sentient enough for this to be considered slavery.
311*** I doubt they were capable of independent thought - otherwise, they wouldn't have betrayed their creator for Mesagog. The fact that their allegiance could be so easily reprogramed without a single 'drone to the contrary puts them at a level of about a desktop computer- they can perform tasks on command, but are unable to provide any initiative of their own, even for independent thought (the "no independent thought" thing being evident in their fighting style- they all fight exactly the same, no variance, no learning from the errors of their fallen comrades around them).
312*** When the ''Dino Thunder'' zords were first introduced, they were tinted a shade of muddy green and referred to as "bio-zords". Therefore, they were actually some sort of hyper-advanced techno-organic...things...
313*** PRDT Zords ''hatch from eggs.'' They're definitely at least mostly organic. What bugs me, though, is how Cam was able to pull ''two complete, fully functional Samurai Star Megazords'' out of freaking nowhere that one time. How long did he have to make those?
314*** he just have ''a lot'' of free time, maybe?
315* So...we've had rangers be Caucasian, Black, Hispanic, East Asian, Native American (the actor wasn't, but the token still counts), Lebanese, and Pacific Islander...but no South Asians? It wouldn't really bother me at all if not for the show's religious adherence to the FiveTokenBand.
316** Technically, if we're going by character rather than actor, then Nick and Daggeron were Magi-American, ethnically Mystic Realm-ian, not Lebanese or Pacific Islander.
317*** True for Nick, but for Pacific Islander, I was talking about Shane.
318** Actually Jason David Frank ''IS'' half-Tohono O'oodham Native American and his real-life brother passed more as a NA so they worked that into the script.
319*** He is? Everything I've found says that he's got European ancestry on both sides and no NA ancestry at all. This is the only place that I've seen that suggests he's even part Native American.
320*** Alright, then we'll go by actor and draw Nick in despite him being from the Mystic Realm.
321*** Nonono, Tommy is being counted because both the character ''and'' the actor are Native Americans. Nick, only the actor is Lebanese.
322** Well, Trini was Vietnamese, that's South Asian.
323*** That's South''east'' Asian, they're closer to East Asians than South Asians.
324* Another question that's more about the casting: Why don't they just cast the suit actors as the actual characters outside the costumes? It's that much less work they'd have to do searching for fighting talent, and the body shapes would better match in both morphed and civilian forms. Just seems like it would make more sense.
325** Because stuntmen and women aren't necessarily going to be as good at acting. Otherwise why not have stuntmen and women in ''all'' movies and T.V shows play the actual characters?
326** AND most, if not all, of the suit actors are Koichi's group, which isn't exactly a FiveTokenBand in terms of race.
327*** And every ''Asian'' Ranger being an awesome fighter and the others basically playing pat-a-cake with {{Mooks}} would ''really'' not go over well.
328** Also, they don't want to risk the actors getting hurt.
329* Why is it that in Zeo, Louie Kaboom was the only Machine Empire villain who stayed dead...while in Ohranger, his counterpart actually ''did'' come back for another fight?
330** Bomber the Great was destroyed in the same Zord fight as Louie Kaboom's destruction. A cut scene showed a red colored back-up bomb with Bomber's likeness fire toward the sun to destroy it. Auric's counterpart had to throw the missile away from the sun. Then Bomber was truly no more.
331** He stayed dead because there was nobody who wanted to rebuild him. All the others were able to be rebuilt because they're a family that wants each other around and have minions who obey them when they need a hand. Louie forced his way into power by threatening to blow them all up so once he was gone they were happy to be rid of him.
332* Why in ''Dino Thunder'', is Tommy's weapon called the Brachio Staff? Am I the only one who looks at that thing and thinks sword?
333** True, it looks mostly like a sword, but you'll notice that it's a blunt tool, not bladed, and therefore not ''technically'' a sword.
334*** No, it's a ''rod'' - such as a policeman's nightstick/truncheon. A modified form of club, really. The valid complaint here is why was the thing called a staff when it's that ''short''?
335*** Which begs the question, ''what's with all the blunt weapons referred to as swords?'' The Spiral Saber is very un-sabery, and it doesn't ''get'' less sharp than RPM's Nitro "Swords."
336* Why is the Megazord's sword almost always called a "saber" when it's usually some kind of broadsword or gladius? Sabers are curved!
337** [[RuleOfCool Because saber sounds cooler]].
338*** That and "sword" rhymes with "zord". Megazord Saber rolls off the tongue. Megazord Sword...doesn't.
339*** MegaSword?
340* Sooo...is there any reason other than shipping that the scene with elderly Tommy and Kat in "A Season to Remember" is not considered canon?
341** Two. First, they couldn't get her for ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', so according to that season, he hadn't seen her in years. Second, in the flashforward, everyone had classic Communicator-watches, and its heavily implied that Zordon was still alive, and thus had survived the Countdown- which he didn't, thanks to the Millenium Message a year after the flashforward. So, timetravel retcon to make the flashforward as we saw impossible, plus casting issues to cement the deal by making a modified version impossible.
342*** Regardless, it isn't impossible to think that they could have met up soon after the season ended and started dating again; remember, he's roughly 25 as of DT. As for the communicators, someone experienced with Zordon-style tech (say, Billy, Alpha 6, or Alpha 7) could have easily built them. And where was the implication that Zordon was still alive?
343*** The fact that they were still ''using'' the communicators. If they were using the communicators, it meant that there was still a BigGood organizing and coordinating Earth's ranger teams sited at the Command Center/Power Chamber; if you'll recall, the functions of the communicators were products of tapping into the teleportation and communication grid of the Center/Chamber. If they were still in use, and still in that style, it meant that the Center/Chamber was still active and inhabited, thus, presumably by Zordon.
344*** But we've seen communication devices after the Center, the Chamber, ''and'' Zordon were destroyed/killed. Just because they look like the old communicators doesn't mean that they work in the exact same fashion.
345*** Maybe Dimitria came back to make them work again? :P
346* So who exactly owns this franchise now? Disney, Bandai, Toei, just who is it?
347** Disney owns licensing rights in America, I think. Even if they don't have the rights in their entirety, they're the friggin' ''Walt Disney Corporation'', home of the most powerful lawyers on the planet- if they don't have full rights, and it ever comes down to the line, the chips ''will'' land in Disney's pile, pardon the very bad gambling metaphor.
348*** Thanks, that's all I needed to know. Now to put Commander Cruger and Grumm in the Disney Grand Unifying Guess.
349*** Oh, come now. Zordon and Dark Spectre fit the motif ''much'' better*** In my defense, I was just playing it safe, wasn't too sure of the ownership of Saban-era characters. [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Gruumm]] and [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Lothor]] were the only villains that didn't have clear origins, and they were Disney-created, and I wanted to have the {{TerminatorTwosome}} thing going that Gruumm had with the Shadow Ranger; guy's a friggin' badass, and you cannot deny that.
350** Good news everyone! Haim Saban has just bought back the rights to Power Rangers!
351** Scratch that, its all Hasbro now. In America. Toei still runs things in Japan and has half ownership of all things Power Rangers.
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353* Another fan of Linkara here. Why did the ''Lost Galaxy'' TimeSkip need to be retconned? I thought Zordon had [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic destroyed all evil in the universe]] in ''Countdown To Destruction'', so the existence of an organized group of new villains in such a short time seems like a bigger plot hole.
354** They wanted to bring in the In Space cast.
355** So give them gray hair. We already suspended our disbelief enough for "teenagers" in their twenties.
356** Why would they need grey hair? Bulk had been in the season at the beginning and he didn't look any older. The show was clearly intended to be set only a few years after Space and then I guess the writers decided to change it when they realised the time skip didn't really make any difference. Zordon's wave didn't destroy Scorpio and his forces because they weren't attacking at the time. Simple.
357*** Also, I know Scorpius is a pretty bad guy, and even self-identifies as "evil" but the loyatly he evokes from his generals as well as the seemingly ''infinite'' patience he shows to some of them (seriously, Furio wouldn't have lasted ''nearly'' as long under someone else) makes him seem more like a warrior king than an out and out bad guy. He's in it for the conquest rather than just to be mean. Don't get me wrong, he's still a bastard, but he's much more of a NobleDemon than any previous BigBad.
358** THERE WAS NO TIME SKIP. In the first episode Bulk and Phenomenos try and book passage on Terra Venture only to realize later that they forgot Skull. Later on they're seen working at a bar/restaurant on the colony. A better question would be how the hell Bulk got back to earth for "Forever Red."
359*** So let me get this straight. The wave was only ever meant to affect the UAE villains, and we can't take Zordon's own words literally. [[SincerityMode I can believe that.]] Thank you.
360*** Yeah, I think that just further questions the continuity of Forever Red, but...I'm not gonna get into it.
361** As Linkara himself points out, one of the main themes of ''In Space'' is the nature vs. nurture aspect of evil, how evil is what you ''do'', rather than an inherent part of who you are. As such, it makes sense that the wave would only destroy those who are actively doing something evil (like, say, conquering the universe), while leaving the evil-inclined people (Lothor, Scorpius, the entire population of Onyx) who were just in business negotiations, on the toilet, having a drink, spending quality time with family, etc perfectly unharmed.
362*** Which would make Linkara wrong. The fact that a point is made that Astronema is capable of good because she was born good, and was not meant to be evil, and Ecliptor for all his redeeming qualities was destroyed by the wave because he was built evil shows that ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' is on the nature side of nature vs nurture.
363*** ...weeping over your dead princess...
364*** If you're talking about Ecliptor, he was in the process of trying to kill Andros.
365*** Because Andros killed Astronema.
366*** Because she was on the offensive, and Andros was defending himself and his people. This is a very, very, ''very'' grey area as to moral justification, especially given that vengeance is usually associated with The Dark Side. Evidently, the Z-wave fell on one side of the knife-edge moral decision; you may fall on the other. Its grey enough an area that arguments can be made both ways.
367*** I believed that Trakeena and her father weren't exactly ''evil'', just that they had a morality that was ''very'' ambiguous. It isn't until Trakeena takes her father's place that she becomes evil...and then insanely evil. As for Lothor...you listened to Linkara, Lothor SUCKS, I suppose being a stupid loser doesn't qualify to be destroyed by the Z-Wave. Then, [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue the demons were protected by the seal]], [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Ransik came from the future]], [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Master Irg could be hiding in the nexus]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Mesogog wasn't created yet]], and a long etc.
368** The season started with a voice-over of 'Sometime in the not-too-distant future...' implying a time-jump. Then Lightspeed Rescue comes along the next year and, at least as far as I can recall, it's set in the same year as real world time, but the events of Lost Galaxy are mentioned as happening in the past. THAT'S the reason for retconing the time skip.
369* Why has the lightning bolt been so prolific in every Power Rangers logo? Most of the shows have nothing to do with lightning. I can kind of understand it being apart of the show's legacy, but Zeo, Turbo, Space, and so forth had little to no connection to the lightning bolt (And if you want to get technical, neither did two of the three original seasons...).
370** Pretty much just RuleOfCool when the show was first released. After it had been on for a while, the lightning bolt just became traditional.
371** A lightning bolt can also be easily understood as a strong symbol of power.
372* Okay, bit of a problem with the Space episode ''Always a Chance''. It's been pretty much accepted by most fans that Adam morphs using the Mastodon Coin, not the Frog Coin, which explains how he can morph even when Alpha reminds us that the Power Coins were destroyed. I get that. But my question is why does Alpha bother to mention that the Ninja Coins were destroyed in the first place? How does the Ninja Coins being destroyed increase the chance of death in using one of the Dino Coins?
373** This is Alpha 6, who was "born" two years after the Ninja Coins destruction. He might not have been programmed with the details of the ranger teams that had come before him on the basis that the Power Chamber was expected to store that data for him; the extent of his available Coin knowledge was probably "Rangers used to use coins as their power source; the coins were destroyed, rendering the coin-driven morphers inoperable".
374*** I would buy that if not for the fact that the Mastodon coin was ''clearly'' visible in the morpher when Adam took it out. Alpha holds the morpher in his hands at one point, he should have clearly seen it.
375*** He might not have even known that there were two sets of coins to begin with. Remember, as human as he seems, he ''is'', for all intents and purposes, a mechanic and button-pusher for the Power Chamber. For efficiency's sake, detailed data not relevant to his day-to-day life or the current crisis (IE, data on the finer points of the first few seasons) might not have been stored locally but rather in the Power Chamber databanks, resulting in a loss of most of his long-term memory in the explosion.
376*** It's also possible that the original coin and the ninja coin used the same morpher. Swapping out the dino coins for the ninja coins probably somehow made their original morphers work again and is the reason why their ranger suits look exactly the same. Alpha mentioned the Ninja Coins because without them, using the morpher would be dangerous.
377*** Um, weren't both sets of power coins destroyed? I was under the impression that the destruction of the dino coins (and powers) was the entire reason they had to go get the Ninja set in the first place...
378*** Nope. The Thunder Zords were destroyed. So they searched for their creator for more power.
379* So, the Rangers give up the power of the Zeo Crystal for the powers of CARS. And, let's reiterate, the Zeo Crystal's powers INCREASE as time goes on. Yes, I know about deleted scenes and story ideas that were ultimately left on the drawing board, but AS IT STANDS NOW, the Rangers abandon a perfectly good and continually increasing power source. For CARS. ''CARS.'' And all this to fight a space pirate. A SPACE PIRATE. THAT just bugs me. (Yes, I've been watching Linkara's History of the Power Rangers reviews, why do you ask?)
380** It may have been a {{plan}} to build up reserve forces - remember, Zordon ''was'' planning on retiring the team soon. If he had left them with the Zeo powers, then they would have been powerless after retirement. By having them switch just before retiring, he ensures that the retired rangers still have powers - he ''was'' building up for a war with Dark Spector, remember. If he had pulled the power switch when he switched the rangers, the new guys would have likely complained about getting shafted.
381*** There's a decent theory on the [[WMG/PowerRangers Wild Mass Guessing]] page that I like. While the Zeo powers were indeed growing stronger, perhaps it was possible that they were in danger of growing ''too'' strong for the rangers to handle. They had already seen the effects of Zeo energy on Jason, perhaps they figured it was best to retire the Zeo powers. It would also explain why Adam risked using his damaged power morpher in ''Always a Chance'' instead of his Zeonizer and why Tommy didn't use his own at any time during ''Dino Thunder''. As for why he used it in ''Forever Red'', my theory is that Tommy was testing a new upgrade (let's say Hayley made it) to the Zeonizer that would theoretically make it safe to use, but after he beat that Machine Empire general in one hit, showing that the Zeo powers were even stronger than before, he decided to write the Zeo powers off as unsalvageable for good.
382** First of all, there is no indication that the Turbo powers are completely seperate from the Zeo powers. Whose to say that they don't draw their power from the Zeo Crystal? Second, as someone on WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall's own page has pointed out, the Turbo powers used technology based on Lerigot's key so that they could cross dimensional barriers. Therefore, it's not hard to assume that the rangers are just using their old powers that have been upgraded with the power to cross dimensions. Since Billy presumably created the Turbo zords, it's possible that he built them to be even stronger than the Zeo zords. Also, since when are cars more ridiculous than Moai and Dogu statues on wheels?
383*** Too bad that Forever Red proved that the Turbo powers have no relation to the Zeo Crystal by showing both Tommy and TJ morphed in their Red Ranger incarnations at the same time.
384* Why does the Green Ranger have a silver trim on his helmet in his only Dino Thunder appearance? Why wasn't it ever shown before on the toys or even the original show?
385** I think they just wanted to do something different. They didn't do it in the original show because it would clash with the Sentai footage. Personally I really liked it.
386*** The suit was a concept piece imported from Japan, hence the silver trim. The reason for importing it was because Disney destroyed the old Green Ranger suit, given that they wanted to axe the franchise after Wild Force.
387*** Strange thing is, Jason David Frank actually OWNS an accurate Green Ranger costume. Why didn't they just use that?
388* Why did they stop using awesome music like We Need a Hero? The new stuff doesn't suck, per say, but they never made anything as awesome as that again. Did they lose the rights?
389** Well ''Space'', the first season to phase out songs during fight scenes, had a very low budget, so they likely couldn't afford it. ''Lost Galaxy'' had a bigger budget but it was being poured into special effects. By the time they got to ''Lightspeed'' I guess they either lost the rights or figured they had got by without songs so far, so there was no need to bring them back.
390** Also, there's still music during the fights, just not they type that could ever be packaged as singles like "We Need A Hero." As the series got longer and longer and each season go more epic with the addition of more rangers to the shared universe the driving rock beat was phased out in favor of more epically heroic orchestral-sounding pieces that really do fit their individual series better than the earlier music. After "In Space" the "Teenagers with attitude" method of recruitment was dropped almost entirely (although it crops up again later on) in favor of young adults, which worked better as the series itself was maturing and growing out of the earlier music. At least, that's my opinion.
391*** Thing is, sentai has new battle songs for every series. PR could. I suppose the expense is the reason.
392* In ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'', Adam is holding his Thunder Cannon backwards. Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC he manages to fire at enemies using what should be the back end of the cannon which makes no sense. Wouldn't it be funny if he tried to fire it at a Piranhatron in front of him but ended up blowing up the wall behind him?
393* So in Zeo, we see the Mighty Morphin' ranger suits displayed at the Power Chamber which is cool and all except...why no Green Ranger suit? For all the problems the rangers had with the Green Ranger, Tommy's time with those powers were an invaluable asset to the team, it feels like an insult to the Green Ranger's memory. Granted, behind the scene they only had that lame flimsy cloth shield, but it would have been better than nothing. And seeing as how there's no real explanation for how the other suits are able to be displayed, despite the destruction of the coins, I think they could have easily handwaved in an explanation for how they got the green suit in there.
394** I think they didn't want two of the same guy's suits.
395*** How come in Turbo, the Zeo suits aren't displayed? The tubes are there but filled in.
396*** The suits are no longer in the background during Turbo, because the writers treated Turbo as basically a redesign. The teleportation effects were different, they no longer used the previous 4 year common phrase "It's morphing time" (it became "Shift Into Turbo", and subsequently changed every year after), it was the first time they had a new mentor. They wanted to move AWAY from Zeo, and consequently MMPR, because the ratings were dropping. Turbo's popularity boosted after the remaining veterans of the team were finally gone, and the cast was all new.
397* Alright now it's kinda just been on my mind for the last hour but let me try this. Pretty much the majority of people who are able to morph are human with the exception of 2, the Phantom Ranger, and Mack Hartford. Now I was trying to figure out the mumbo-jumbo of bio-electric fields and researching on the Power Rangers Wiki. Here is an excerpt, "Dr. K was the leader of a research team developing exoskeleton robotic suits to amplify human strength and speed. They were attempting to harness the human body�s natural electrical output to prolong the suit�s battery life, when they had a breakthrough. The discovery of a universal bio-electric field, an unseen energy grid that connects the life force of all living things. Manipulating this field allowed unimagined advances in technology, including the RPM Ranger Suits & Powers." Now if I'm correct, pretty much the majority of people who are able to morph are human or alien with the "bio-electric field" with the exception of 1, Mack Hartford. Mack was an android, so how was he able to use a morpher and become a ranger?
398** The robot duplicates of the turbo rangers where able to morph as well. It seems that if you have sentience, be it natural or artifical, it counts as the same thing.
399** -That's part of the theory I'm running with in my fanfic: you have to have some form of sentience and be able to tell right from wrong, which would also be why the Rangers are teens or adults; those who are sentient, but not yet old enough to tell right from wrong, even in complicated shades of grey situations, wouldn't be able to use a morpher. I think that's why the Turbo team kinda rides so hard on Justin when he uses his powers for selfish reasons, because he's 12/13 during Turbo.
400** So I guess you can just replace "Bio-electric" with "actual electric" then?
401*** I'm not sure, having not seen OO excepting Once a Ranger, but it seems that Mack has at least some semblance of biology to him (think Terminator, maybe?). There's a specific line in RPM that comes to mind in regards to Dillon, paraphrased "Are you a human that's part machine, or a machine that's part human?". Dillon's still able to use his Ranger powers after the Virus tips him over from mostly-human to mostly-machine, implying that so long as Mack is a semi-biological android, there's no problem with accessing the Bio-Field/Morphing Grid. Also worth mentioning in RPM that the Rangers and Doctor K were legitimately concerned about the possibility of Tenaya bonding with the Series Green morpher, even though none of them (Tenaya included) had any idea she was even partially human (which is a whole other side of Fridge Logic, since machines don't have DNA...)
402** It makes sense that machinery would be compatible with the morphing grid, since the Zords are often tied to the powers of the Rangers, and in RPM the equipment is "downmorphed" to them.
403** Also, even though Mack is an android he still has obviously biological functions, abilities, and needs. It might be that under normal circumstances (i.e. not in two or more pieces) his construction makes him "close enough" to human to fool the Morphing Grid.
404** It's never said that you need to be a part of the morphing grid to be able to access it as a power source. Or vice-versa: remember, the Overdrive rangers got cut off from the grid in terms of using it as a power source, but they didn't drop dead. That said, iMack probably wouldn't be able to use grid-based powers without a morpher.
405* I originally posted this in the Lightspeed Rescue page, but that seems to be pretty dead: So, behind the scenes of Lightspeed Rescue, what was wrong with using Sieg's suit for a sixth ranger instead of making their own costume? Was it damaged? Was there some legal problem?
406** Just a guess here, but maybe it wasn't 'Ranger-y' enough. Yes, the previous season had the Magna Defender who was not very Ranger-like in appearance, but he was openly someone not originally affiliated with the Rangers. The Titanium Ranger was designed to be a part of the team, or at least an upgrade for them.
407* Did anyone else notice the wheels on the back of the Wild Force Megazord's legs? I know in the toy this allows the Bison to turn into a carrier for the other zords to ride on, but why did it never show up in the series? Was it ever used in Gaoranger?
408** The carrier formation is part of the Megazord's TransformationSequence, formed before the rangers get on board and shift it into its humanoid mode. It would have been interesting to see it used like the original Megazord's Tank Mode, but apparently not.
409* Why do Power Rangers never call things in before engaging serious threats ([[MonsterOfTheWeek MotW]] not {{Mooks}})? Sometimes it makes sense but the vast majority of the time when they engage a monster even if they have reason to think they will need backup they don't call for it before charging in, you think Zordon would have made rule 4 "PoorCommunicationKills if you see a monster make sure to call us before engaging". And I know the answer is stock footage restraints, but the writers can just stall others getting there with some excuse.
410** They were out scuba diving.
411*** Not talking about the half (of the team) that were out scuba diving, I am talking about the other half.
412** I'd say in general, there's no real need for a ranger to call something in. The ranger's HQ pretty much always has some kind of alarm system to detect a monster, so all the other rangers will be dispatched asap anyway. May as well jump in right now and start saving civilians instead of wasting time with an unneccesary call.
413*** This wouldn't be posted here if I had not seen half a dozen cases where this wouldn't have solved a bunch of problems. I will agree some seasons they didn't have to (ironically enough, Zordon's tenure was one) but if they don't have an omniscient problem detector (in Space, Ninja Storm, and Dino Thunder ext.) it could have solved a lot of unnecessary problems. Besides how long does it take to say "I am at ____ there are _____ (send help/send help if I don't call back)." 10s maybe.
414* What I don't get is all the references to ClarkKenting about the teams over the years. Look for a group of people who hang out together and wear the [[ColorCodedSecretIdentity same colors]] of the Rangers. That's actually not much to go on. The odds are there are plenty of cliques with a similar color scheme to nearly ''any'' group of rangers.
415** It didn't help that Zordon's crew would regularly teleport out no more than three feet down the hall from the Juice Bar.
416** True but thanks to the communicators they go get a warning beep not unlike a pager, so they'd know to leave and make sure no one noticed their teleportation.
417* How exactly is Saban gonna justify the existence of 16 other ranger teams ([[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Goranger]] to [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Jetman]], plus [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]) that existed before [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]/[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers MMPR]] when it comes time to adapt ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' to the US? There's so far not been any reference to any ranger teams existing prior.
418** They won't have to have existed prior to Power Rangers. They can just be new teams.
419*** Alien teams?, Ancient Rangers?
420*** Exactly. However, just those two would get old. So, there could be other possibilities. Maybe a team that was fighting Venjix forces in a place other than Corinth? Teams that fought during the years 2005 and 2010? Another Time Force or SPD unit?
421*** Or additional Pai Zhua masters with a different set of spirit animals, another Lightspeed Rescue unit, something one of the past tech guys[[note]]Billy, Cam, Hayley, etc.[[/note]] had been working on since we saw 'em last, Wild Force rangers for Wild Zords that didn't show up in that season (there ARE still more than 80 unaccounted for, after all)... the possibilities are endless.
422*** My money for Dairanger is on them going back to the original idea from ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' of them being the original wielders of the Quasar sabers.
423*** As cool as that would be, the Pink, Blue, and Green Dairanger helmets don't resemble their respective Galactabeasts at all. But that is a nice bit of trivia; where'd you hear it?
424** They used the Kakuranger costumes for aliens. I figure they'd just say those 16 unused teams were international Power Rangers. The ones we got were always shown fighting in the US, what about worldwide threats? They could make several of them Japanese, but also make one a Chinese team, an Australian team, an African team, a German team, etc.
425** Dairanger was explained as being never before seen on Earth. In other words, another team of Alien Rangers.
426* This show seems unkillable. In the event that it continues to 2025, what will they do for that season, given that SPD took place that year? They could make a 2005 season...but, let's face it, 2005 isn't a very interesting time period in and of itself.
427** Simply cover another city besides New Tech. No rule saying we're only allowed one alien invasion per year.
428*** If so, though, the ranger-monster-conflict would have to be something of a secret, as I would find it hard to believe that no one in New Tech's SPD would ever mention it.
429** Though they really shouldn't have made SPD into the near future, it could still work out. Also, maybe SPD already exists on earth; we just haven't seen them.
430** Most likely, the won't mention it at all. However, the best thing is to just use comic book time. Spider-Man has been around since the sixties but his origin is pretty much always "10 years ago" no matter what year it is. They still mention the current year, president, make current pop culture references, etc. Likewise, SPD is always 20 years in the future.
431*** It does. There's a flashback in one episode showing that SPD was operational on Earth in 2001.
432** Made a moot point now that Creator/{{Hasbro}} owns the rights to the franchise, and is planning a full on ContinuityReboot for RealLife 2025.
433* If they only had sentai footage for three revived Phantom Beast Generals...''why did they make eight crystal eyes?''
434** ChekhovsGun, they'll be used in a later season.
435** But wasn't Jungle Fury (like almost every other season) supposed to be the last season?
436** The writers were smart enough to realize that Jungle Fury probably wouldn't actually be the last season.
437*** Maybe. On a related point, if they do choose to bring the five other eyes up again, Gokaiger might work out for it. If they ''are'' going to do Gokaiger.
438* Why didn't Saban or Disney use the Sentai Vs. movies for the teamup episode's fight footage?
439** Saban did. Twice. The first was Rangers of Two Worlds, which is looked on relatively favorably, just mainly forgotten as it was made before the regular team ups. The second was Trakeena's Revenge, which had a host of behind the scenes mishaps and is generally considered subpar. The result has basically been that the team up is used to wrap up lingering plot threads from the previous season which either didn't exist or were modified from the Sentai footage (Jinxer's [=GoGoV=] counterpart was the team up villain for Timeranger, as opposed to Vypra in the Time Force, etc.), and as such, the Sentai footage doesn't fit the story being told.
440* A minor nitpick, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Why is it that the Rangers, no matter ''what'' season we're watching, almost never fight at night (I ''think'' they did once in SPD), and aside from the unmorphed scenes in the Wild Force finale ''never'' fight in the rain? Sure, in Lightspeed Rescue the demons couldn't touch water (though we're never shown what would happen if they do...), but are you seriously telling me that ''no villain '''ever''''' wants to attack in the rain?
441** Real rain doesn't show up well on camera. In the episode ''True Blue to the Rescue'', the rangers are fighting (at night incidently) and if you look closely, you can see rain in the headlights of a car.
442* Since ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' had [=MegaBlack=] as the functioning team leader (which carried over in the morphed fight scenes), does anyone agree that T.J. should've been made the Black Space Ranger to reflect this, since he was the team leader in ''Turbo''? I know that the backlash from Zack and Trini's Ranger colours would've prevented this from happening, but it might have made more sense based on the team configuration.
443** You probably answered your own question. Additionally, Green and Black occupy the same "spot," so the producers might have thought it odd to have the Green Ranger ''not'' become the Black Ranger.
444** Andros was always the unquestionable leader of the [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]] team, so any Sentai footage inconsistencies could just be chalked up to Carlos being proactive in battle. Plus, T.J. fits the role of "TheSmartGuy" far better than Carlos.
445* What was the in-story purpose of the "never escalate the fight" rule that Zordon imposed? Sure, as a meta concept it means that the plot would otherwise be over, but doesn't it seem ridiculous? Basically, the Power Rangers have to wait until the enemy has had the opportunity to cause extra damage than they otherwise would have. It doesn't even make sense if it's part of the whole "heroes only defend" rule. Is there something morally wrong with meeting any attack (especially from somebody like Rita or Zedd) with overwhelming force right from the get-go?
446** The way I see it, the rangers have very powerful weapons, which could potentially cause damage and risk civilians. Use a blaster and you risk someone being caught in the crossfire. Summon a Megazord and think of the damage cause by the tremors created by the Megazord's footsteps. Best to only use them if absolutely necessary.
447*** So Zordon doesn't trust the good people he himself picked as Earth's defenders? Makes sense, I suppose.
448*** It isn't really a matter of trust, but of inevitability. No matter how good a person is at heart, there WILL be collateral damage proportional to the damage potential of a weapon, especially if the training your soldiers have received consists of "knows karate".
449*** It's actually fairly similar to the rules police have to follow. You respond to the threat proportionally. Yes, a cop ''could'' end any confrontation much earlier if he or she pulled out their Glock and popped a cap, but in most cases that's going to increase the risks of collateral damage, casualties, and death way beyond what's necessary.
450** Not only that, but the reason to not escalate the fight is to prevent, well, escalation. Say the enemy sends one monster to attack. If the rangers brought their Megazord out straight away before the monster had a chance to grow, yea they would probably win immediately. But what then? If they keep calling their Megazord every time a Putty or a Tenga or a Cog or whatever shows up, the villains are going to up their game. They'll start sending out fully grown monsters straight away. They will never ''not'' send out fully grown monsters. So what happens if a Ranger is late to the fight? What if the Megazord, due to overuse, is currently being repaired or refueled? In fact this might be why some Ranger teams don't always morph straight away when fighting footsoldiers. If they ''can'' beat the enemy without resorting to weapons, why use them and tempt the enemy to start sending out tougher challenges?
451** It was stated in Ninja Quest that the coins were originally made by Ninjor and that Zordon had merely discovered them afterward. Perhaps Zordon and Alpha found another Power Coin just prior to White Light.
452* In the Psycho Ranger episodes and the episode right before Countdown to Destruction, Astronema displays an interest in destroying Dark Specter and taken control herself. Yet in Countdown to Destruction, she seems absolutely shocked and surprised to see him fall. It didn't seem like surprise at seeing him be destroyed then and there but that it was happening at all, based on her dialogue ("Dark Specter, destroyed? How could this happen?! This is impossible.") So what gives?
453** Astronema was likely surprised that someone killed Dark Specter before she could. Of course, she was very quick to take advantage of the moment.
454* The different ranger teams all have radically different sources of power so how is it they're all connected to the morphing grid?
455** I think the morphing grid ''is'' the power source. It's just a power source that can be accessed through a variety of methods (technology, magic, etc.).
456*** I always saw it more as the morphing grid being a sort of HammerSpace where a ranger's suit and weapons are stored and different rangers just use different sources of power to access it.
457* What was with the way the rangers used to run in Lost Galaxy? Did anyone ever notice this? They were always hunched over with their arms spread out. That's not a very efficient way of running. Weirder still, in the Lost Galaxy/Lightspeed Rescue teamup, there's a scene where Leo and Carter are running side by side. Carter is running in a normal sensible way, but Leo is still doing that weird hunched thing. Was there ever an explanation for it in Gingaman?
458** Charging with the sword ready to swing?
459** ''Gingaman'' was a nature-themed Sentai, so they probably ran like that to reflect the animal-like motif of their powers.
460* Something that always bothered me in Power Rangers and Super Sentai, does Earth not have an army, air force, navy? Heck, what about a police force? Watching the opening of Gokaiger and remembering back to Countdown to Destruction I always wondered why the super powers of the world, U.S., England, Japan, etc. not set out fighter jets to help the rangers out too. It's nice to have superpowered beings on your side but alien invasions usually have a ton of aliens versus a handful of superpowered beings. Maybe if they got off their butts to help the rangers, the result would be much prettier...
461** Rule 5 in the Power Rangers universe: the rangers are the end all solution to finish and win ALL fights. Besides, the last time we saw a military organization not directly affiliated with a ranger organization fighting a monster in Lost Galaxy, their attacks had no effect, and they turned over the killing to the rangers again.
462** Except that we saw during Countdown to Destruction and certain episodes of Gokaiger that at the very least normal mooks can be taken down by the likes of Bulk and Skull or [[spoiler:The short Japanese kid with a Kendo stick]]. I can understand weapons not being effective against the monsters but against the mooks...if I was the leader of any country, I'd send in the army to crush the mooks so the rangers can focus on more important tasks, like the much more powerful monsters. Heck, you're telling me that the local highly train SWAT team can't crush a few mooks?
463** To be fair, some seasons do address this in different ways. Lost Galaxy as mentioned above, had a defensive unit (incompetant as they were). RPM had the Corinth military who seemed to be well equipped enough to deal with basic footsoldiers. Time Force had the Silver Guardians while in Lightspeed Rescue and SPD, the rangers ''were'' the government sanctioned response.
464** The local forces have likely realised the safest thing to do is to evacuate the area and leave the fighting to the rangers when possible. Sure, they might have something that can fight the basic mooks but if they do the villains will either send larger numbers of them or send something stronger.
465** Thanks for saving me to have to ask that. Even when I saw the show decades ago (literally), that no army/air force/whatever helped the Rangers bothered me, and it seems they don't know about for example cruise missiles even if just for distracting the bad guys (the big monsters, I mean) that have a range of hundreds of kilometers if not more.
466* So, how exactly does the teleportation fit into the Power Rangers' arsenal? Is it just part of their powers, controlled by the communicators/morphers, controlled by the series' command centre or what?
467** I believe it's to do with the Command Centre. When Billy built the original communicators, he tapped into the centre's teleportation grid by accident and they just decided it was convienient to keep the feature in. And I'm pretty sure there were occasions in the show when the teleportation grid was offline even though they could still morph. Different seasons may have different rules, but then teleportation kind of got written out of the show anyway. As far as I can tell, the only ranger who has teleportation abilities as a part of their power set is the Green RPM Ranger.
468* Why do the rangers always seem to flinch and act scared whenever a monster goes through its growing sequence, despite it happening almost every time?
469** A monster that grows has it's power magnified by several times, making it a huge threat to the rangers outside their zords. They're scared because they're in danger and vulnerable and they never know if their megazord will be strong enough to defeat it (sometimes the megazords fail and they have to kill it when it shrinks again).
470* So when Disney got the rights to Power Rangers, they were going to axe the series after Wild Force...which was their only series at the time. Why did they buy it if they did not want to continue the series? Did they just not like it and wanted to buy it just so that they could end it? And for the record, it is a Merchandise Driven show, meaning that they wouldn't have gotten much money by just repeating the same seasons over and over again with no new toys to sell.
471** I don't know for sure, but I've heard people say they bought it just so they wouldn't have to compete with it.
472** The rumor I read once was that Disney really wanted to buy ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' but the only way they could get it was through a package deal along with all of Saban's other properties.
473*** Close. Disney wanted the Family Channel (then Fox Family) so they could have a place to dump reruns of their ABC shows. There is no evidence they ever wanted Digimon (or any of Saban's show, really), they just got them as a side effect.
474* Why do the Megaforce rangers wear (almost) the exact same outfits in every episode?
475** Because morphing uses stock footage, so the further their outfits get from what they're wearing in the morphing sequence footage, the greater the need for either expensive editing or thin, narrative-breaking excuses for outfit-changing prior to morphing; as high school students, they can't be given Ranger job-related uniforms like recent seasons have - and school uniforms would likely not leave them enough creativity for color coding or visual distinctiveness.
476* One thing I don't get... so, you know Sam AKA the Omega Ranger from SPD... why is it that he is turned into a ball of light after time travelling but it doesn't affect an alien, the SPD rangers, and most of the cast of [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force?]] And before people make the argument, the B-Squad Rangers have similar powers to Sam and they aren't affected when time travelling...
477** The offscreen reason is supposedly that they didn't want to hire an actor to play him when unmorphed (to his credit, Bruce Kalish has since stated that he regrets how Sam was handled). In-universe, it's not really clear.
478* Can somebody give me some behind the scenes information on what happened between Zeo and Turbo's filming? In the end of Zeo Bulk and Skull are going to France and Rita and Zedd are ready for their comeback. I've heard conflicting accounts of it though and some of the explanations don't make sense. If Bulk and Skull's actors were being sent off to star in their spinoff then why did they do the monkey subplot after they decided to keep them for the movie? Why did they set up the Rita and Zedd return subplot if they knew they were going to base the villain on the Carranger's villains? I've never heard a good explanation, does anybody have any info?
479** A lot of people are quick to blame Turbo for losing a lot of the show's audience, but from I've heard, Zeo already had steadily declining ratings. Considering that beyond the new suits, Zeo wasn't really that different in format, it's likely that kids were getting bored of the same old concept. So it may be that the writers figured they needed to shake things up and jettisoned a whole bunch of subplots they had planned.
480** Yeah but was it really the only reason? I've heard since I posted it that Zedd's actor was unavailable and they didn't want to do a season of only Rita. But as the for the whole mess of ideas they used and immediately dropped for Bulk and Skull I've heard nothing.
481* How did Divatox's forces not know where the Power Chamber was when earlier in the season, Divatox had a monster turn it invisible?
482** The monster itself was probably the only one who knew where it was, and it was destroyed.
483* Did they ever explain how the Wild Force rangers go from the ground to the Animarium and back?
484** They probably teleport there, similarly to how the original rangers got to the command center.
485* Before I begin, I would like to state that I am using ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' as a base for this example as it is the only one I have any sort of familiarity with. Ok, let's begin:
486** Many episodes make it clear that the Rangers are the only line of defense against the [[BigBad Warstars]]. ''[[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe Does Earth not have any form of standing military power at all]]''? Just take a look at [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100130011015/powerrangers/images/6/68/BiBi.jpg basic]] [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Loogies infantry]], their standard issue weapons are not [[EnergyWeapon laser rifles]] or even [[BoringButPractical basic firearms]] that might be equal to what Earth armies are issued[[note]]I know about the FantasyGunControl rule that has been standard since the beginning of the series, but toss that aside for a minute.[[/note]]. Nope their weapons are ''[[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight blades]]''! Yeah, [[TooDumbToLive good luck getting within blade striking distance in a modern battlefield with artillery, tank fire, aerial support, and modern infantry weapons that can decimate your entire ground force from miles away before you could even realize it]].
487** As for the MonstersOfTheWeek that also happen to be generals of the {{Big Bad}}'s army, they don't exactly blend in with their grunts allowing for fire to be aimed [[StraightForTheCommander straight onto them]]. Really the only things they have going for them is the [[CoolSpaceship starship armada]] (for as far as we know, have no defensive weapons for whatever reason and are sitting ducks) and the ability to create [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giants out of their defeated high ranking members]] (I'll admit, those 50ft monsters could potentially cause heavy causalities to both civilian and military targets and might be able to take a lot of firepower before going down). But if this fleet were to ever launch a conventional invasion, they would be crushed while Human scientists would looks over their technology and most likely sparks a new technological renaissance not scene since the post WWII world.
488*** Human level technology has proven largely ineffective at dealing with Power Ranger level threats, even when using advanced super science second only to the rangers themselves. On rare occasions ordinary military troops can handle the mooks the rangers beat up on a daily basis but even weak monsters are beyond them.
489*** Thats mostly because PlotArmor plays a very effective role in making sure sword wielding mooks remain a threat to gun toting Humans, the space ships aren't shot down by F-22s, and the Power Rangers look good in the BigDamnHero role. If we remove the PlotArmor, I give the aliens a few weeks tops on all war fronts if only due to [[ZergRush mass numbers]].
490*** Even if we assume human level tech could hurt the monsters and mooks, which does vary from villain to villain but usually on the 'humans too weak to be effective' side, there's still the fact tat monsters can dish out huge amounts of damage. A simple MonsterOfTheWeek would be able to slaughter entire squads of ordinary humans at a time using whatever their personal powers are. Plus many villains simply create or summon their monsters so they have a never ending supply and can simply wear down the Earth's defenses. That's why the rangers are so important, they can face down the monsters without much drain on resoures or manpower. In many cases the ranger teams are outright stated to be the only threat to the BigBad.
491** You underestimate modern military might. Those squads of Humans won't be attacking head on, they would be hitting from a distance, both with small arms and artillery if need be. Can those mooks and Monsters of the Week have a counter for air power. Also those spaceships would be attacked as the world powers of Earth would modify nuclear [=ICBMs=] to reach orbital atmosphere.
492*** YOU'RE not listening, it's been done. Several series have involved a local military force, often using weapons more advanced than what you're describing and it always goes the same way: they end up mildly effective at best because the villains are just that strong.
493* All of the Power Ranger shows taking place in the same universe causes a lot of problems. How is it possible for new rangers not to know about the original six? How come the new villains don't know about Lord Zedd or Dark Specter? You would think alien invasions and monster attacks in Angel Grove would be on the news around the world. There's no way you can have 6 super power teens, alien warlords, giant robots and be discreet.
494** It's been like twenty in-universe years since Zedd and Rita were active, the current rangers tend to be teens so they might not even have been born at the time, and after that the threats were scattered to fairly isolated areas or scattered all over the place with no recognisable pattern. The information is out there but the average person just doesn't care enough anymore since Earth is no longer under constant attack from an individual threat.
495*** That doesn't explain cases when they don't even mention the attacks from the previous year. In any case, it's been inconsistent since Ninja Storm. In that, Power Rangers were considered comic book characters. This was the first full Disney/New Zealand season and the line was probably used to make a break from the past. After that, previous team's existence is usually confirmed in some way. In Jungle Fury, Casey said, "Who hasn't?" when asked if they'd heard of them and Theo said he wanted to be one since he was a little kid. The whole thing is something of a sticking point with Linkara.
496* Does it bother anyone else that Samurai's Clash of the Red Rangers just retconed RPM out of continuity? RPM is considered a fan favorite by many and even the best season by some. But they just fling it out of continuity and make it had never happened in the main universe, which honestly sucks. Why couldn't they say RPM takes place on a distant planet in the future that humans have colonized and they can make it so it doesn't interfere with the plots of SPD and Time Force. The fact Tenaya 7 found Mack's Red Operation Overdrive helmet makes it even more confusing and irritating that it's not in continuity.
497** Actually they didn't really retcon anything. Eddie Guzelian stated that when he worked on RPM, he decided to make it its own continuity so that he wouldn't have to worry about contradicting previous canon. If anything Samurai brought RPM ''more'' into continuity by making it an alternate reality. It does still happen in the Power Rangers universe, just sort of...off to the side some what. It would pretty much have the same effect if it were set on a different planet. Not that I wouldn't have liked it to be part of the main story too...
498** [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel "Dimensions in Danger"]] confirms it takes place in separate dimension.
499* This might be a VERY stupid question, but why is it considered bad for Nickelodeon to be stretching a series out to two years? Admittedly, it's slightly annoying, but you'd think that if they had the Sentai completely available than, say, producing the season while the Sentai is going on and not knowing where the footage is going, then writers would have more time figuring out how to adapt the Sentai into Power Rangers, which would be useful if Dino Charge is going to incorporate Go-Buster elements.
500** For one thing, there's no sign they'll ever stop, and at the time of this writing it's doubtful they'll touch Gobusters in any way. Instead of being two years behind Sentai which is good, it means they have the option to skip the less marketable one of every two seasons (sorry Tokkyuger, ninjas beat trains) from here on out, which feels like cheating. They made it this far without being so picky.
501** The "Less Marketable one" aspect isn't valid, since it's been proven that just because it wasn't very marketable in Japan doesn't automatically mean it won't be marketable in the US - ''Timeranger'' was a flop in terms of ratings and toy sales (it did well enough to avoid being cut short like ''JAKQ Dengekitai'' was, but that's it), while ''Gaoranger'' sold a ton of toys and was a big ratings success. However, ''Time Force'' was one of the most popular Power Rangers series (both at the time it aired and currently), whereas ''Wild Force'', while not as disliked now as when it first aired, is one of the more divisive series (and isn't as popular). Also, they never had to skip Sentai in the past (while Dairanger was never completely adapted, as the suits weren't used prior to Super Megaforce, some of the footage WAS adapted in season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin''), so to start doing so after adapting ''Shinkenger'' (a series which, while really liked, is heavily centered in Japanese culture) and ''Goseiger'' (which is widely considered one of the dullest sentai to date), two series which, if Saban had the option to before hand, would likely have been skipped, is a bit irritating to fans (especially since the first one that got skipped feels like it was practically BEGGING to be adapted into a sequel to RPM. And even if Saban still had to skip Sentai because of how far behind they were when they got the rights back, because it's being spread across 2 years, it means that they have to split the story in half - and as demonstrated by ''Samurai'' and ''Megaforce'', that can be disastrous. It would be one thing if Nickelodeon allowed Saban to film 40 episodes straight, but only aired 20 a year, but that's not the case.
502* In ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', why the HELL does Deviot pull Trakeena into the cocoon with him rather than just jumping in himself? Particularly considering he wants to [[TheStarscream kill Trakeena and take over]].
503** Because he would have been vulnerable in the cocoon by himself, she would have just destroyed it with him in I. This way he has a chance of merging and coming out dominant.
504* How come whenever one of the rangers moves out of Angel Grove, or thinks they might, they have to give up being rangers, or thinks they do? They have the ability to teleport and they have communicators. They can still fight crime together no matter where they are. It's just a very lazy way of getting rid of the actors.
505** Leaving Angel Grove meant they lost that option of cover - living in a town not under attack by monsters, they couldn't explain their sudden absence to go fight the monsters. Makes it much easier for someone, for example, to piece together 'every time there's a monster attack being reported happening out of town, you suddenly disappear.' At least when everyone has to evacuate for a monster attack, it's easier to hide your disappearance in the panic of the civilians.
506* Did it bother anyone else that the villains had the ability to see where the rangers are and what they were doing at any time? It's really creepy? Did the rangers ever realize this?
507** When the series started Zordon and Alpha could see everywhere as well.
508* So why was Damon so convinced that the Megaship was "a museum, not a spaceship"? I mean, this is the season after the Power Rangers had been using it as their base of operations and Megazord, it would regularly come down to Earth and do battle with the monsters. It's not even like Alpha or Andros had rendered it inoperable or anything, as moments later, they do turn it back on to full power, which means it was clearly kept in space-worthy conditions. And yet he's the 'expert'?
509** I have a feeling that in the early days of ''Lost Galaxy'' they had planned on there being a TimeSkip. The first episode has the narrator claiming that this season takes place "sometime in the not-too-distant future". Given that Bulk is still around and doesn't look any older, I would guess that it's meant to be, say, five years after ''In Space''. If the Megaship wasn't being maintained during that time frame, it could have fallen into disrepair. However, since the show kept on going, I guess the TimeSkip idea was dropped, leaving us with a minor plot hole.
510* Why did Leo have to stowaway on Terra Venture? His brother has a high position, reporting directly to the Commander. While there is the matter of resources for a colony vessel unable to restock with any kind of ease, why are the requirements for joining the crew apparently so exacting that they won't allow the crew's families to join?
511** And, in blunt terms, why, apparently, is the old woman who Leo retrieves the pass for prioritized over an able-bodied young person? Based on her attire, she appears to be just a civilian, traveling to the 'new world,' not apparently any kind of scientist (as we see Kendrix and other scientific staff already aboard Terra Venture), and yet she's been given a ticket, while Leo isn't?
512** Perhaps Mike specifically requested that Leo didn't come along? Seems like a bit of a dick move, but there's definitely some tension between them when they first meet on-screen. Maybe Mike thought Leo would be a liability on the mission. As for the old lady, perhaps she did have some special skills or expertise, but just happened to be wearing civilian clothing while on her way to the space station.
513* Exactly why didn't ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'' get adapted into a ''Power Rangers'' season? Was it because...
514** ...toy sales for ''[=ToQger=]'' weren't good in Japan?
515** ...most stock footage was unusable due to Japanese characters (meaning Saban would have to shoot lots of original footage)?
516** ...trains aren't a popular theme for American children's action shows?
517** ...having an imagination theme would [[PeripheryDemographic attract more preschoolers than grade school boys]]?
518** ...it would be too similar to ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' that the creators of those shows would threaten to sue?
519** IIRC, it was a combination of trains not being as prominent in American culture and them thinking the zords looked silly.
520* There are like over a hundred power rangers operating on earth at the same time. They are fully aware of each other, so why don't they all work together, and form a gigantic Justice League-type team? Why do the teams go their separate ways after the "Legendary Battle?"
521** Well, if you remember there are a couple examples of multiple teams at once being unsustainable, or at least that's the implication. Remember in Dino Thunder how the two White Rangers, both Trent and the evil clone of him, were getting progressively weaker, and they had to fight to choose who'd be the remaining White Ranger. And, of course, Zordon's line "too much pink energy is dangerous". Plus, whenever there's a crossover episode, it comes up with some way that the previous rangers come out of then go back into retirement. Like, the Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder one, where the Ninja Storm guys get new morphers that are broken by the end. Or, the SPD and Dino Thunder ones, where there's time travel so they aren't around at the same time. The point is, it seems as if the Morphin' Grid, whatever it is and however it works exactly, can only sustain one ranger of each color at a time, and therefore only one team at a time.
522** Such a large number of rangers working together at the same time in the same place would likely overload the morphing grid OR the morphing grid would give the villains a massive power boost to balance things out.
523* What is the whole point of Power Rangers? Subbing Super Sentai would have been so much easier, cheaper, less time consuming and more interesting than Power Rangers!
524** Because in todays' America where Japanese entertainment is more popular, that might work (though they'd probably dub it instead) but back then they probably didn't think it was American enough to be successful and feared it falling into a MinorityShowGhetto. And they're not about to replace Rangers with Sentai when it's been around for over twenty years and has its' own big fanbase.
525* Is there any particular reason why Power Rangers shows never get their own mooks anymore? Z-Putties, Tenga Warriors, Piranhatrons, Quantrons, Stingwingers, Tyrannodrones...all original to Power Rangers. But it's just been Sentai mooks since then.
526** Budget?
527** The fact that Sentai mooks have become a lot cooler looking in recent years (looking more like actual monsters and not just guys in masks and unitards) might also have something to do with it.
528* When Cam switches to Super Samurai Mode, how the hell does his chest plate return to his suit when he reverts back to normal? It's obvious that it weighs a ''shitload'', so it's pretty much out of the question that he simply puts it back on.
529** Why ''can’t'' he simply put it back on? It may be heavy, but he’s able to run around and fight while wearing it, so he’s clearly ridiculously strong (or more likely, his ranger powers give him super strength). Also, when he demorphs, I imagine the chest plate demorphs as well, even if he’s not wearing it. All the gear returns to the Morphing Grid, or whatever other HammerSpace it’s kept in, and comes back in its default form the next time he morphs.
530** Makes sense, but what about in "Shimazu Returns" when he reverts back to his default form without demorphing? After he finds the Lightning Riff Blaster, he's back to his normal morphed form when he shows up with the Mammoth Zord, despite being in Super Samurai Mode the entire time he was looking for it. That would mean he somehow remembered exactly where he dropped the vest, ran all the way back there, and put it back on. That just doesn't make any sense. Or, maybe when he switches his visor back to the way it was, the vest somehow reappears on him?
531** Perhaps Cam is able to teleport the chest plate to himself when required. Or it might be that once the chest plate is removed, it always demorphs and Cam can summon it the same way any other ranger with a SuperMode summons their additional armour.
532* Whenever Justin is seen without his helmet, he shrinks back down to his normal size. How the hell does this work?
533** The Morphin' Grid did it. Created extra mass thats stored in the grid when he's unmorphed, or something.
534* Is it ever explained how morphers work?
535** How do you mean?
536** Sounds like they're asking, how do the morphers tap into the morphing grid and give rangers their powers.
537*** Well, that depends on the season. But basically, the Morphing Grid is an ever present well of energy that can be accessed through various means (the Power Coins, the Quasar Sabers, the Energems, etc.) Even when a team is man made, such as in Lightspeed Rescue or SPD, its implied that their technology is tapping into the Morphing Grid without even realizing it, and the Grid allows such a thing because its being used for benevolent purposes.
538* Why do Power Rangers create exclusive villains (i.e. Lord Zedd, Ransik, Master Org, Lothor, Mesogog, etc.) instead of using the corresponding villain from Super Sentai?
539** Probably to get around the sometimes limited amount of stock footage. Really, go back and watch MMPR and count how many times they recycle footage of Rita. Original villains are more flexible.
540* Why do all the seasons have to be set in the U.S.? None of the cities are real, they could have easily set them in New Zealand where the show is being filmed with no issue. And it would spare us poorly disguised New Zealand accents.
541** When Disney bought the franchise in the middle of Wild Force, they were going to cancel it then, but were convinced to deunionize it and move filming to New Zealand due to costs. It was part of why JDF wasn't brought back for the PRDT/SPD crossover episodes and we got Trent's actor doing the voiceover for the character.
542* Meta question: When Saban first started to do "Powers Rangers", they decided to add a second female Ranger. Why, out of all of them, did they decide to change the Yellow Ranger?
543** Red is the leader and traditionally male especially at the time, Black is Red's best friend and therefore a role more fitting for a male character and Blue is considered a boy's colour. Yellow is both a softer colour and associated with a feline zord, both are more often associated with female characters.
544** Presumably yellow is the only other color that can pass as 'feminine'.
545* Hasbro is making Power Rangers toys now. Was Bandai America willing to let go of what was once their most lucrative brand, one that they've clung onto for two-and-a-half decades? How did Bandai Japan approve of the idea of the US partner of their main rival Takara Tomy making toys for Super Sentai's overseas counterpart?
546** Business deals like that are are seldom made available to the public, so until someone comes out and tells us, we can only speculate. One would think that with Sentai sales reaching new lows they'd desperately WANT some American toy cash, but lo and behold, now they get none.
547* What exactly classifies Beast Morphers as a Hasbro season? Because the show was written and in the midst of filming way before Hasbro bought out the franchise, similar to Wild Force being planned out prior to the Disney buyout. It just bugs me because people still acknowledge Wild Force as a Saban season
548** Wild Force being a Saban season is actually something that varies depending on who you ask. Anyway, Beast Morphers is officially a product of Hasbro's 'AllSpark Productions' (who, ya know, actually contributed to filming, footed most of the bill, and had some of its own staff work behind the scenes) so that's as good a reason as any.
549* Can't get a good answer on this on the Zeo headscratchers page. In Zeo, the civilian side plot of the 'Mondo's Last Stand' episode sees Lt. Stone, Bulk, and Skull trying to find the first Burble Baby Food baby...who ends up being Ernie. Even with him being related to the founder of that baby food company, it's never said if his surname is Burble or not. That is the ''one episode'' where ''we should have been told Ernie's surname'', if only to say why the company had trouble finding him. I know that they said that they'd gotten the age wrong in the show, but the surname should have been mentioned as well, to sort of indicate that Ernie (or Ernest) + that surname is...kinda common.

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