* ActingForTwo:
** Master Xandred and Octoroo are both voiced by Jeff Szusterman.
** In the Mexican dub, Ricardo Méndez voiced both Antonio/Gold Samurai Ranger and Octoroo.
* BadExportForYou: Only the Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, Gold Ranger, and the Megazord appeared in Malaysia, as a UsefulNotes/McDonalds Happy Meal toy.
* {{Blooper}}: In the Wii game, several cutscenes will have characters who are supposed to have spoken lines be completely silent, with the characters responding as if they did speak.
* CastTheRunnerUp:
** Emily was almost played by Ciara Hanna, they even had the contract ready, but she backed out before signing. She would return to play Gia in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''.
** Spike's actor, Felix Ryan actually tried out for the part of Antonio.
** According to a recent interview, during the audition process, at one point, they moved Hector David, Jr. over to the Gold Ranger.
* TheCastShowoff: Antonio, gets a chance to show off his singing chops in "[[Recap/PowerRangersSamuraiHeAintHeavyMetalHesMyBrother He Ain't Heavy Metal, He's My Brother]]". Steven Skyler was first noticed as a background Warbler on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
** Power Rangers are certainly no strangers to acrobatics, but the show just wants to make it clear that Hector David (who plays Mike) is ''very'' good at backflips.
* ChristmasRushed: Production on the show was out rushed in 6 months instead of the usual year due to the timing of Saban buying the franchise back and trying to get it out at the usual premiere time of early the next year. It tends to show in that most of the early episodes are just recycled ''Shinkenger'' plots. This also extends to the ways Saban made the deals they did to get the franchise set up for distribution. First was home media, which was given to Lionsgate for every season from 2011 on, while Shout! Factory got the rights to the others (many prefer Shout have the rights because Lionsgate couldn't appear to give less of a crap about the show, especially when it comes to releasing the holiday episodes from their seasons). Then, they got the broadcast deal with Nickelodeon, which only hampered the franchise due to the arbitrary "20 episodes per year" rule so they have to do 2 seasons per adaptation to do 40 episodes. Then there's the toyline, which was of a lesser quality than previous, or even subsequent, seasons in places.
* DevelopmentGag: When Mia says "every girl wants to get married", it's not meant as ValuesDissonance in any way. See FreezeFrameBonus on the main tropes page.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The main reason why this show was a ShotForShotRemake of ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' was due to Jonathan Tzachor believing that ''Shinkenger'' was a good show, and didn't want to change much of it, [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation as noted here]]. The problem, however, was that ''Shinkenger'' was ''very'' heavily rooted in Japanese culture[[note]]whether this was Toei retaliating in response to Disney wanting more control over the sentai to make it less violent, or due to ''RPM'' being the last season at the time ''Shinkenger'' began airing and Toei believing that ''Shinkenger'' wouldn't be adapted, thus they didn't have to take that into account when writing it, is unknown[[/note]], to the point that prior to ''Samurai'' being announced, some fans believed that if Saban ''did'' get the rights back, they would outright skip ''Shinkenger''[[note]]while this would've been problematic considering that if Saban adapted ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', which had ''Shinkenger'' used quite frequently, and one of the mech configurations came from ''Shinkenger'', they could've explained it away in a similar way to the Alien rangers from ''[=MMPR=]'' using footage from the crossover between ''Shinkenger'' and ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', which would've been the first season Saban had adapted if ''Shinkenger'' had been skipped[[/note]].
** It's worth noting that had Tzachor gotten his way, the rangers would've been sequestered even more, to the point where a proposal by one of the writers to have one of the rangers play with a Playstation was met with shock from Tzachor.
* FakeNationality:
** Steven Skyler, Antonio's actor, is not Latino at all. He's Thai/German and just happens to look kinda Latino.
** Downplayed with Hector David, Jr. (Mike the Green Ranger), who really is Latino, though not Mexican (different sources claim he's either Puerto Rican or Cuban.)
** Despite being about Samurai and being the most Japan-centric season ''Rangers'' has ever done, Mia Watanabe, ostensibly the only Asian person on the team, is portrayed by Erika Fong, who has a Korean mother and Chinese father.
* OutOfOrder:
** The first episode that Nickelodeon showed was the third episode Saban made, so we don't learn anything about how the Rangers got their powers or who the villains are. Though some of this information was shown in promos, including one that recapped some of the backstory that aired right before the premiere. This might have been done in an attempt to skip the boring setup and go right to the action, but unfortunately results in LostInMediasRes. The "real" premiere episodes were aired as [[OriginsEpisode Origins Specials]] midseason, some of the last before the change to ''Super Samurai''. Netflix also follows the airing order, but the [=DVDs=] put "Origins" Pt 1 and 2 at the beginning where they belong.
** "Clash of the Red Rangers" also was aired between the original batch of episodes and ''Super Samurai'', this one being ''earlier'' than its intended place in the story with several power-ups and characters appearing out of nowhere.
* RecursiveImport: After ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' and ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', this is the third PR series to be dubbed in Japanese since Saban got the ownership of the Power Rangers franchise back. And like in the case of the ''Mystic Force'' dub, regular voice actors are used instead of the original Japanese actors.
* RoleReprise:
** After nine years since his last appearance on ''Wild Force''[='=]s "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]", Paul Schrier would reprise his role of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Bulk]] for the entire series.
** On the last episode, [[spoiler:Jason Narvy made a guest appearance as Skull]].
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Besides being underpromoted, as well as having to comply with Nickelodeon's "20 episodes per season" limit (resulting in the show having to produce a "second season"), the most recent hiatus during the Super Samurai season lasted for five months, during which time Nickelodeon Latin America already broadcast the final episodes.[[note]]As a result, they can't be advertised as "world premiere" episodes.[[/note]] There has been speculation that Nickelodeon may have been deliberately trying to get the show cancelled. This has mostly been disproven with Nick and Saban's latest deal to extend the series to 2016 with ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge''.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Many note that Felix Ryan not only has a very strong physical resemblance to Jason Narvy, he can also do a very good impression of his performance.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The Rangers before the present group shown in a flashback are shown using ''[[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkenger]]''-style Shodophone, complete with brushes, while the current generation uses laser-emitting ones. Highlighted much later, when [[spoiler:Lauren appears and Mike specifically notices her morpher, inherited from her father, is different from the current set.]]
* TroubledProduction: A feature on ''Den of Geek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make it [[FollowTheLeader a carbon copy]] of ''Shinkenger''.
* UnfinishedEpisode: One planned episode would have seen Bulk try to become the Brown Samurai Ranger, based on an unadapted episode of ''Shinkenger'' where a FunnyForeigner makes himself the "Shinken Brown".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/PowerRangers Enough for its own page]]
* WordOfSaintPaul:
** Hector David Jr. has said that his character's last name is "Jackson" in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IggPEG2AQ7M interview]] with ''The Hashtag Show''. However, no in-show evidence or related material states this. Considering the [[Music/MichaelJackson obvious reference]], it's very plausible he was just joking.
** Jason Navry personally believes that Skull got married to [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Kimberly]] in the time since ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' and that she is Spike's mother.
* YouLookFamiliar:
** Rene Naufahu, who plated Master Ji, was previously seen as [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Emperor Gruumm]], including a single scene in a single episode out-of-costume.
** Rick Medina, better known as [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Cole Evans]], came back as Deker.
** Grant [=McFarland=], who [[ActingForTwo played both Kanoi Watanabe and Lothor]] in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', had a minor role as Daisuke in "The Tengen Gate".
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