* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: JohnnyYongBosch has said that he personally played Adam in "Once A Ranger" as someone who had grown into a lone warrior & travelled the world using his Ranger powers to help people, and that his remark about going back to his dojo in Angel Grove at the end of "Once a Ranger" was a lie.
* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Flurious, despite have the Corona Aurora and the jewels]] gets beaten fairly easily by Mack with the battlizer.
* CargoShip: Ronny/drills, after her reaction to seeing the zords for the first time got [[MemeticMutation Memetically Mutated]].
* CostumePorn: It's kind of hard to deny that the Overdrive Rangers have some of the most awesome suits, if not ''the'' most awesome, in the entire franchise. The grill-like mouthpieces, headlights, wrap-around visors, compass symbol, metal padding, color scheme, high-tech weaponry, and the way it all meshes together make for some shiny, professional Ranger gear. While the season was pretty weak, the suits were ''not''.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "...Man law."
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Shockingly ''averted'' for once with the theme song- while Power Rangers normally has awesome theme songs, or you can at least listen to them (Some fans saying that while Turbo and Wild Force may suck, at least their theme songs didn't), Operation Overdrive uses rapping. It is considered by a large majority of fans to be the absolute ''worst'' theme song in the entire franchise.
** In a more positive example, copyright meant that using the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' theme for Adam wasn't going to happen. His theme in the team-up special is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSCHed6OhU&t=0m49s revamped version of the theme]], which isn't as good, but is still pretty kick-ass.
* DesignatedHero: Some feel that the team's TenMinuteRetirement after losing their powers in the "Once A Ranger" anniversary special runs entirely opposite to the idea that even without powers, a Ranger never gives up, and that the Overdrive Rangers aren't worthy of being Rangers as a result. Although for what it's worth, none of the past teams who endeavored to keep fighting without their powers had backup; Previous Rangers had to decide between 'keep fighting or let the bad guys go unopposed.' The Overdrive Rangers' options were 'Be the RedShirts or let the veteran Rangers who have everything perfectly under control handle it'
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Spencer. Among the rangers, Ronny.
* FanNickname: [[spoiler:[=iMack=]]]
* GodModeSue: Mack with his battlizer. This is always an issue with the red rangers with these depending on how much they're used, but even [[spoiler: Flurious with the Corona Aurora and its jewels]] which the rangers spent the whole series trying to gather, could even barely slow him down.
* HilariousInHindsight: Tyzonn's actor played a bully in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''. Guess which yellow ranger his team fights with in "Once a Ranger"?
* {{Irony}}: While ''Overdrive'' is considered to be one of the weakest seasons by many fans, the Sentai it was based on, ''GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', is actually considered to be one of the ''best''.
* MoralEventHorizon: While Flurious is never a nice guy from the start, [[spoiler:tricking his brother, who'd come on his hands and knees offering peace, into handing over the Corona Aurora with an offer of friendship, then killing him off in cold blood definitely pushes him over the line.]]
* SpecialEffectFailure: A building hallway was badly disguised as an Egyptian tomb corridor in one episode.
* StockFootageFailure: Ronny in her morphed form. When? Well, check out when the rangers do their roll call, near the end. If they're all in a group...
* UnfortunateImplications: Will, a black Black Ranger. Might not have been a big deal - if they hadn't made him a professional thief. Things got worse after the "incident" at Power Morphicon; Samuell Benta, the actor who plays Will, stole a signed banner from the first Power Morphicon that was going to be auctioned off with the money going to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Needless to say, he hasn't given it back.
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