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1* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: For the S.P.D. as a whole, a police force that uses devices called "Judgement Scanners" to read a target's physiological condition and return an "infallible" result of guilty or innocent. While the S.P.D. is a force for good by the shows account, police forces blindly using technology to pass judgment on citizens is a cornerstone of dystopian sci fi stories such as Film/MinorityReport and Anime/PsychoPass, making the team seem uncritical in their application of force (or it would if Power Rangers villains didn't operate on BlackAndWhiteMorality)
2* AngstWhatAngst: Omega Ranger sure is chipper for a guy from a BadFuture that becomes stuck in another time and can't demorph without turning into a ball of light. And remember, Omega is [[spoiler: an older version of Sam, the kid that considered B-Squad his first real friends]]. In his original timeline, [[spoiler:B-Squad died, except for Z.]] - a fact that doesn't particularly concern Omega at all when interacting with them. And note that he behaved this way ''before'' he SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. After all, Omega is [[spoiler: still an older version of Sam]], and even if he can't still know if he succeded in his mission, he's still living both the dream of his lifetime, fighting with the legendary B-Squad and helping them on equal grounds, both going on in his mission.
3* AlternateSelfShipping: In many ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' fics, the fact that Z can create duplicates comes to the fore for romantic or sexual purposes.
4* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
5** The theme song is the first Ron Wasserman piece ''Power Rangers'' has used in years. '''SPD EMERGENCY!''' It goes with being very diegetic and theme fitting, the guitar riff sounds just like a cop siren and the chorus is sang in a military style.
6** During the climactic fight in "[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Once A Ranger]]", each retro Ranger[[note]]barring Adam -- "[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Go Go Power Rangers]]" is nowhere to be found as Disney couldn't obtain the rights[[/note]] has their respective series' theme song played during their segment of the fight (most had two shown). '''This''' is the theme that plays the longest, through Bridge and Mack's second sequence against Flurious all the way to the end of Adam's fight with Thrax.
7* BadassDecay: The elite Krybots (Bluehead and Orangehead) suffered throughout the series, in their first appearance they were as strong as a monster of the week, but eventually they began to be treated no different than normal Krybots, and although it can initially be argued that it is because the rangers became stronger, even their non-powered allies were able to defeat the elite Krybots with relative ease.
8* BaseBreakingCharacter: Out of the seven main SPD Rangers, two are considered this:
9** Jack: Either one of the best {{Rookie Red Ranger}}s or a {{Delinquent}} who doesn't deserve to be a Red Ranger.
10** Sky: Either one of the best Blue Rangers with good CharacterDevelopment (A point which [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=fNqyHpHFBZY WatchMojo.com agrees with]]) or a sexist {{Jerkass}} who said that Syd doesn't deserve to lead the team due to her gender and not getting the position he wanted [[spoiler:until the finale, that is]].
11* BrokenBase: Some fans think it's one of the best series, others despise it. Still others think that it's good, but not without flaws.
12* CompleteMonster: [[GalacticConqueror Emperor Gruumm]] is the vile [[TheHeavy head]] of the Troobian Empire who regularly conquers and destroys planets. Years ago, Gruumm attacked the home planet of Anubis "Doggie" Kruger, wiping out his entire race and kidnapping his wife. In the present, Gruumm seeks to use Earth's resources to create a body for his master, [[GreaterScopeVillain Omni]], so he can [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer Earth]]. Gruumm regularly enacted plans to destroy Newtech City and endanger the populace, including turning people into dolls; turning them into slime to be used for energy; and attempting to cause a massive earthquake. A brutal emperor, [[BadBoss Gruumm]] regularly threatened his minions; had Piggy tortured and forced to work for him under threat of death; and had his second-in-command Mora brainwashed by Omni. Gruumm also convinced the A-Squad of S.P.D. to join him, having them destroy an S.P.D. base. When Omni's body was complete, Gruumm enacted a full-scale invasion on Earth, and when confronted by Kruger, attempted to kill his wife in front of him. A violent, petty sadist, Gruumm is the absolute worst alien S.P.D. has ever faced.
13* CreepyAwesome: Emperor Gruumm is sadistic, psychopathic and has a nightmarish design, which has led to him being very well-received by the fanbase.
14* EnsembleDarkhorse:
15** Doggie Cruger. Whether it's because of the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, his {{Woobie}} backstory, or because he's the first mentor to go out into battle as a Ranger (not counting [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Tommy]], since he's had a history of fighting beforehand).
16** Kat. The CatGirl scientist has gotten plenty of love not just for her attractive appearance, but also for becoming the [[HourOfPower Kat Ranger]], with some fans wishing she got to keep the suit longer. She was even popular enough to become a playable character in VideoGame/PowerRangersBattleForTheGrid, getting in before Doggie.
17** The A-Squad only have about ten minutes of screentime spread across a handful of episodes, but they're one of the most memorable aspects of the show [[spoiler:for being the first rangers to turn evil of their own volition, and having the first female red among them.]]
18* FanNickname:
19** The four unnamed A-Squad Rangers = Rachel (Pink), Cliff (Green), Ivan (Yellow) and Beevor (Blue) (the last being the most visibly alien one), To which Bruce Kalish approved at a convention so they are somewhat canon.
20** Tinkersam, due to being portrayed as a ball of light throughout the season. Alternatively, calling him [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]], due to both of them being light blue.
21** The Sentai version, ''Dekaranger'', was known for its vehicles with names like Machine Husky and Machine Bull (as in bulldog), but these never made it into SPD except by accident (and the opening credits in CGI form). Enter the Jeep Wrangler, already a staple of the filmed-in-New Zealand seasons, now repainted in SPD colors, which led the fans to dub it Machine Dingo. Never mind that [[ArtisticLicenseGeography the dingo is native to Australia and not New Zealand...]]
22** The Battle Thong. Due to this season's battlizer including (at least in its first mode) a, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]]
23* FanPreferredCouple: Jack/Z, as opposed to [[LastMinuteHookUp Jack/Ally]].
24* FranchiseOriginalSin: This was the first ''Power Rangers'' show where "Kalishsplosions" were commonly used throughout fight scenes. In this show they're not too obnoxious thanks to the editing and fight choreography both generally being pretty tight, but in ''Mystic Force'' and especially ''Operation Overdrive'', they happen at an even greater frequency than in this show and take up much more screentime when they do appear.
25* HilariousInHindsight:
26** In the first episode, Sky says that Bridge is not Red Ranger material. In the [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive 15th Anniversary Special]], it's revealed that Bridge became the red ranger post-series. In that same episode, Kruger asks Sky if he'd follow Syd into battle if she was a Red Ranger, only for him to scoff that she's a girl. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the series, the A-Squad Red Ranger is revealed to be female... [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger And a few years later, Super Sentai had its first female red.]]]]
27** The episode "Boom" is about the titular character wanting to be a ranger. In ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'', his actor plays Mick, who gets to be a ranger in the season 1 finale.
28* HoYay:
29** Bridge, who falls asleep during an important meeting, is prodded by the Police Chief and responds with a half-asleep "Five more minutes, Sky." (referring to the Blue Ranger). Just one of several Ho Yay moments involving these two.
30** Jack/Sky is another popular pairing, which makes sense considering the closeness of their counterparts Ban and Hoji.
31* IKnewIt: [[spoiler:Charlie turning out to be a girl was meant to be a surprise. However, one member on the Rangerboard forum, who was an expert in digital voice manipulation, guessed -- and posted -- that he thought A-Squad Red was a girl. After the reveal, he ended up printing a t-shirt of Charlie that said, "I was right!" and got several SPD cast and crew members to sign it.]]
32* LesYay:
33** Z/Syd. The high-five? Adorable.
34** Also [[http://www.rangercentral.com/episodes/2005_spd/ep21/eppic08.jpg Morgana bodily pinning Z against a tree]].
35* LGBTFanbase: Doggie Cruger became an instant {{Bara}} icon, which he still is to this day.
36* MagnificentBastard: "Reflection" [[Recap/PowerRangersSPDS1E24ReflectionPart1 two]]-[[Recap/PowerRangersSPDS1E25ReflectionPart2 parter]]: [[KnightOfCerebus Mirloc]] is a brilliant alien criminal known for having had a hand in every dirty deal and knowing every shady character, who was imprisoned for his various crimes. When Schuler "Sky" Tate approaches him for information on another criminal, Mirloc calmly chides him for being rude before agreeing to give the information in exchange for Sky telling him a sad story. When Sky tells him the story of when his father died, Mirloc taunts him about it, causing Sky to cry and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowing Mirloc to use his ability]] to travel through reflections to escape through his tears. Mirloc is then enlisted by Emperor Gruumm to defeat the S.P.D. Rangers and makes [[GeniusBruiser clever use of his powers]] to trap almost all of the Rangers in mirrors. In his fight with Sam, Mirloc uses his powers to dodge his attacks and blindside him, coming within seconds of winning.
37* MemeticMutation:
38** Buttery! *finger wiggle*
39** From the episode "Wormhole": "No one gets inside!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]When Zeltrax's men and some of the Troobians surround both the B-Squad and Dino Rangers, they invoke this mantra, starting and ending with Cruger.[[/labelnote]]
40* {{Moe}}:
41** Bridge, the CloudCuckooLander with a ThinkingTic and signature hand gesture, whose zaniness doesn't make him any less effective.
42** Syd for some fans, due to some fun TheHeart dialogue and personal accessories, as well as getting some of the more powerful SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments of the show.
43* MoralEventHorizon: [[MoralEventHorizon/PowerRangers See the page for examples.]]
44* OneSceneWonder: Kat Manx is already arguably an EnsembleDarkhorse by herself but we really lament that there's just one episode with her as the Kat Ranger.
45* PortmanteauCoupleName: Jacyd for Jack/Syd.
46* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BrandonJayMcLaren is seen in major roles like ''Series/{{Ransom}}'' and ''Series/TurnerAndHooch2021''.
47* TheScrappy: Sam. Specifically ''Future''-Sam a.k.a The Omega Ranger, mainly because we don't know a damn thing about him. That he ''does'' appear in the finale, for all of three seconds, without his costume, was seen as an insult by the fanbase. He rivals [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Justin]], [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax]], and [[Series/PowerRangersMegaForce Troy]] for the title of the most hated Power Ranger in the franchise. While most Rangers who earn the Scrappy title do so by having an obnoxious personality, Sam is hated because he ''lacks'' any personality, due to the writers bypassing him as often as possible, with one writer even saying that the use of stock footage was the only reason the Omega Ranger wasn't AdaptedOut entirely.
48* TheShipsMotor: Sky being Bridge's roommate because his hardnosed-ness means his thoughts are more ordered and less apt to bleed over and give Bridge a psychic headache.
49* SpecialEffectsFailure: Occasionally, Rene Nafhau's eyes can be seen behind the Grumm mask in close-ups.
50* SpeechImpediment: Some feel that Charlie always [[SpittySpeaker talks like she has a mouthful of saliva (Gina Varela actually does have excessive saliva]] not by choice obviously), it's never mentioned in the show because heroes mocking a villain's disability would be cruel and very out of character for Power Rangers.
51* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Both Sam and Morgana, we know next to nothing about these characters and they're mostly there to give their opposing sides an extra warrior. For Sam, it's due to ExecutiveMeddling since ''Creator/{{Disney}}'', a multi-million dollar entertainment corporation, was too cheap to hire an adult actor to play him. Despite the fact the show had already established a plot line for him earlier in the season and had the potential to explore it. For Morgana, it's largely due to the story just forgetting about her. She started off interesting at first, using a book to make monsters and having to earn her childhood back mid-season when Grumm reverts her back into an adult. But beyond that, we never know why she hated being an adult, where she came from and why she works for Gruumm in the first place as the show focuses on other plotlines. Come the final battle, she's just defeated rather unceremoniously and that's the end of that. Pity.
52** Some fans miss Mora and Gruumm's hilarious interactions from the first half of the series during the time Mora is Morgana, and wish that Mora had kept her child body and persona for the entire season.
53* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
54** More like character traits from ''Dekaranger''. In the original series, the rangers had several specializations like Hoji (Sky) being a sniper and their guns suggested those characteristics. Those were never used in ''SPD'' (though it's likely Disney wouldn't have wanted a Ranger being a sniper anyway).
55** The A-Squad as villains. The idea of the rangers having to fight the team that they were originally supposed to just be back-up for was a good concept, but the A-Squad gets so little development that apart from their backstory, they aren't all that different from the usual bunch of evil rangers.
56** During the BodySwap episode with Sky and an alien criminal, Sky desperately tries to figure out a way to let the others know what happened and it never ONCE occurs to him to go to Bridge...the PSYCHIC! The climax ends with...[[EvilDetectingDog the robotic dog figuring it out]].
57* ToughActToFollow: ''SPD'' can be seen as this for the other three Kalish Era Seasons, as many fans consider it to be the best of the bunch.
58* ValuesDissonance: A carry over from the original Dekaranger series. In Japan, authority is held in higher regard and less likely to be questioned than in most western countries due to the preference of collectivism over individualism and societally enforced trust in the system. Hence, the SPD Rangers having the authority to pass judgement on criminals without benefit of trial is treated more as straight up good vs evil rather than an abuse of power. However, unlike in Dekaranger, the SPD Rangers merely capture criminals for incarceration instead of outright terminating them.

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