Fanfic / Power Rangers Wild Fury

Power Rangers Wild Fury is a Power Rangers fanfic by Androzani84, adapted from Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger. It is the 4th instalment in his Sentai Adaptations series, but bears little connection to the previous 3.

A man from Earth discovers a world where animals other than primates evolved into humanoid beings, the Animen. When Hunters come to Earth in search of legendary creatures from the world of the Animen, 4 of them join with this human to become a new team of Power Rangers.

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The Rangers:

• Johnny Perry/Eagle Ranger/Ape Ranger/Whale Ranger: A birdwatcher who lives at the Savannah City zoo with his grandmother. One day, he discovers a portal to the planet Cubalia and brings 4 Animen back with him. Over time, he turns out to have a unique ability to gain the DNA of different Animen to use their abilities.
• Marina/Shark Ranger: A Shark Animan who hails from a large family, of which she is the oldest of several siblings and the only girl. After being trapped on Earth, she’s quick to take to the planet due to its larger supplies of water and raw fish, even if she gets confused by the fact she can’t ravenously tear into it, or the fact it’s been set on fire beforehand. While mostly calm, she can be set off rather easily. (Sela)
• Lenny/Lion Ranger: A Lion Animan who comes from a rough part of his planet. On Earth, he tries to throw himself into whatever activity he picks up, often with comedic results. He also has a strong regard for tradition, which makes it difficult for him to work well with the others.
• Trunks/Elephant Ranger: An Elephant Animan who places great value on knowledge. He resents Johnny at first because he bears the power set of their previous leader, Jeremy Ironbeak. But eventually, Trunks learns to accept his new status quo and gladly fights against the Space Hunters with little issue. He tends to be more suspicious of others, due to his eye for minute details.
• Tora/Tiger Ranger: A Tiger Animan, who has the personality of your average cat: she prefers to laze about and scratch herself rather than do any hard work. But when lives are on the line, Tora does not hesitate to raise her claws in battle.
• Luke/Chimera Ranger: Johnny’s older brother, who was believed dead following an accident in the woods 10 years ago. In actuality, he was merged with the Animen Al, Rhine and Were, turning into a Chimera creature. In the present, he is found by Ignoblia, who extracts the foreign DNA and uses it to create a Ranger form and Zords to counter the Rangers. While loyal for a while, Luke’s realisation that Johnny is his brother and that he never gave up trying to find him, causes him to fight for the side of good.

Allies:

• Jeremy Ironbeak: The former leader of the Rangers, who absconded to Earth ten years ago to hide the Cubezords where they could be used for a great battle. In the process, all of his Primal Energy was transferred to Johnny, leaving Jeremy unable to become a Ranger. In the present, he serves as something of a tech expert who constructs their technology.
• Grandma Rose: Johnny and Luke’s grandmother, with whom they live. She seemingly remains unaware of their status as Rangers, but can sense when her grandchildren and their friends are feeling down and offers advice accordingly. It soon transpires that she knew of the Animen and Cubalia since she was a young girl, having made a pact to keep their existence a secret from those who might exploit them.
• Sir Caesar: A knight who served as the Rangers’ mentor and the Gorilla Ranger prior to his retirement. When discovered during the battle with Gobble Gator, he passes on his former Ranger power to Johnny and then moves in to continue coaching the new team lineup in handling their abilities.
• Stevie: A woman who seems to be remarkably close to Johnny, which Lenny resents, since he likes her. It eventually transpires that she was Luke’s fiancée before he disappeared, and she keeps in touch with her almost-brother-in-law in the hopes of eventually finding out what happened to him.
• Adrien Hyde: A coworker at the thrift shop at which Tora and Trunks find work on Earth. He offers helpful advice which seems to often prove to be unhelpful for the Rangers.
• Mrs. Mack: The owner of the thrift shop at which Tora, Trunks and Adrien all work. She often gets exasperated by how little work her new employees do.
• Power Rangers Megaforce: The legendary Power Ranger team who defeated the Warstar Armada. They show up to investigate a mysterious signal emanating from Savannah City, which Mantack is also hunting down.

Villains

• Archris: A creature who once sought universal domination, until he triumphed in combat against his mortal enemy Floriana. Now, he and his army of mercenaries seek to conquer whatever territory they can hunt in by capturing the strongest lifeforms.
• Ignoblia: Archris’s assistant, who uses his cells to cultivate the Bacteri and to enlarge the hunters. She notably shows a rare cunning side at times, and seems to prefer plant based aliens to animal based. She also has a human identity as Florence Primavera, in which she runs for Mayor of Savannah City.
• Cuborg: A robot resembling a cube who favours brute force. Whenever he’s destroyed, he revives, slightly more alive than before.
• Keldor: A former servant of Floriana, following her final battle with Archris, he was placed in a total survival suit by the latter, to force his obedience and preserve his life until he was healed enough to leave the suit. Keldor resents his servitude, and plans to play the Rangers and Hunters against each other, with the intent of wiping out both sides and becoming the conqueror.
• Mantack: A bounty hunter hired to retrieve the Whale Zord before the Rangers can do so. He has a unique “Anima Arm” which allows him to reconstruct any life form by scanning for memories of it and then using trace amounts of DNA in the Earth’s soil.
• Bacteri: The servants of the Space Hunters, grown from Archris’s cells.

Recurring Power Rangers tropes:

• Animal-Themed Superbeing:
  • Noble Bird of Prey (Eagle): The Red Ranger's primary theme.
  • (Gorilla): The Red Ranger's secondary theme.
  • Threatening Shark: The Shark Ranger's theme.
  • King of Beasts: The Lion Ranger's theme.
  • War Elephants: The Elephant Ranger's theme.
  • Panthera Awesome (Tiger): The Tiger Ranger's theme.
  • Rhino Rampage: One of the Chimera Ranger’s's themes.
  • Noble Wolf: One of the Chimera Ranger's themes.
  • Never Smile at a Crocodile: One of the Chimera Ranger's themes.
  • Super Mode: Johnny's Whale Ranger form.
• Bowdlerise:
  • All scenes of the Deathgaliens serving and drinking wine are absent here.
  • Unlike his Sentai counterpart Hunterji, Poachhitter is never seen firing his rifle, and gets relieved of it during a scene change.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: “Primal Spirits, Awaken!”
  • Luke has “Predator Spirits, Awaken!”
  • Johnny transforms into the Whale Ranger by declaring “Primal Evolution!”.
• City of Adventure: Savannah City.
• Color-Coded Characters: With a twist of their ranger forms not being named after their designated colors.
  • It's also the first time this specific color combination has been used.
  • And then we have the Chimera Ranger, who manages to be the first tri-colored Sixth Ranger colored in Gold, Silver, and Black.
• Humongous Mecha: The Cubezords.
  • Animal Mecha: Beyond the ten personal mecha corresponding to the Rangers, listed above:
    • Bears Are Bad News: The Bear Zord, which also has an upgraded form.
    • Bat Out of Hell: The Bat Zord
  • Combining Mecha:
    • Eagle + Shark + Lion = Beast Force Megazord
    • Gorilla + Tiger + Elephant = Jungle Megazord
    • Beast Force Megazord + Jungle Megazord + Giraffe Zord + Mole Zord = Jungle Beast Megazord. A weaker variant lacking the Eagle and the Shark exists, known as the Kong Megazord.
    • Alligator + Wolf + Rhino = Hunter Megazord
    • Beast Force Megazord + Jungle Megazord + Hunter Megazord + all four expansions = Predator Megazord
    • Beast Force Megazord + Kong Megazord + Hunter Megazord + Whale Zord + all four expansions = Genesis Ultrazord
  • Leader Forms the Head: The Megazords are formed by stacking Cubes on top of each other. The Cubes on top of the stacks that form the head, arms, and chest for both the Beast Force and Jungle Megazords belong to Johnny.
  • Mecha Expansion Pack:
    • The Shark and Lion can be switched with The Tiger and Elephant or Wolf and Crocodile on both Megazords, which give different capabilities - The Beast Force Megazord Jungle Formation gives it extra speed and kick attacks.
    • Episode 4 reveals that smaller cubes, marked with exclamation points and turning from cubes into animals into weapons, have been scattered around the world. These include a giraffe that forms a bazooka, a mole that forms a drill, a bear that forms an axe, and can be upgraded into its Golden Super Mode the Shining Bear Zord), and a bat that forms a boomerang.
    • Late in the series, the Rangers find the Squid Zord, which is marked with a ? and, size-wise, is halfway between the main numbered Cube Animals and the smaller ! ones. It combines with the Beast Force to form the Cephalo Force Megazord and spins its tentacles like a rotor to allow flight.
  • Transforming Mecha: All of the Zords transform from cubes into animals, with the exception of the Rhino (which is justified by it being artificial). The Whale additionally has a third humanoid Battle Mode.
• In the Name of the Moon:
  Johnny: Soaring through the skies, Wild Fury Eagle Ranger!/Defending the Treetops, Wild Fury Gorilla Ranger!/Rising up from the Depths, Wild Fury Whale Ranger!
  Marina: Terror of the Deep Seas, Wild Fury Shark Ranger!
  Lenny: Ruler of the Jungle, Wild Fury Lion Ranger!
  Trunks: Sage of the Plains, Wild Fury Elephant Ranger!
  Tora: Wanderer of the Mountains, Wild Fury Tiger Ranger!
  Luke: The Bestial Triumvirate, Wild Fury Chimera Ranger!
  Jeremy: Predator of the Air, Wild Fury Bird Ranger!
  All: Call of the wild, Power Rangers Wild Fury!
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Johnny is notably the only member of the team to have a personal weapon (the Chain Saber), a secondary form change (the Gorilla Ranger), and a second Zord (the Gorilla Zord). Then again, the Chimera Ranger outdoes him with his own multimode personal weapon and a third form change and Zord. At least until Johnny gets his own third weapon/form/Zord as the Whale Ranger.
• Make My Monster Grow: As always. This time, it's done by inserting a golden coin into the slot on a monster.
• Mini Dress Of Power: Part of the girls' suits.
• Protagonist Power-Up Privileges: As mentioned above, Johnny gets a disproportionate amount of power-ups compared to the rest of the team. In fact, he's the only one to receive anything beyond the basic one that the whole team has. This is justified, as his human physiology makes him more capable of handling multiple Animan powers than the Animen, for whom one is their limit.
• Rod-and-Reel Repurposed: The Chimera Ranger's weapon, the Reel Staff/Blaster/Spear, is a fishing rod that can also be used as a gun or a spear.
• Transformation Trinket: The Wild Morphers, which resemble a Rubik's cube that can unfold into a mobile phone.
  • The Chimera Ranger has a flashlight called the Hunter Morpher.
  • The Whale Hyper Morpher for the Whale Ranger, a golden cube that can fold inside out to become a Hand Cannon.
• Two Girls to a Team: The Shark and Tiger Rangers. This is also the first team since Wing Force where there are two girls using blue and white as their ranger designations.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: As is the norm for Power Rangers., we generally get a Space Hunter appearing with an Evil Plan Once an Episode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them.

Tropes featured in Power Rangers Wild Fury include:

• 10-Minute Retirement: Trunks’s attempts to leave the team behind and return to Cubalia are curtailed quickly.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Whereas Larry was a regular Zyuman who simply existed to provide Yamato with a second Ranger form, Sir Caesar is a Retired Badass who trained the current generation of Rangers and is only stopped from beating up Cuborg by a case of *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!".
  • As opposed to Bangray’s abilities being limited to creating copies of what he sees in people’s memories, Mantack’s power explicitly brings the people he sees Back from the Dead, or if they’re alive, creates clones of them. And unlike in Zyuohger, the user can use this power on themselves.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Jeremy is far less aloof than Bud was, being far more willing to interact with the other Rangers to the point of becoming the resident Gadgeteer Genius.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Lenny and Luke lack the traits from their counterparts that made the latter very divisive.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the Sentai, Jagged was a Team Leader alongside Azald and Quval. Likely due to his status as such being mostly an Informed Ability, Trunkrush is instead a regular low ranking run of the mill motiveless monster.
• Adaptation Species Change: Whereas Azald Legacy was just a random space creature claiming A God Am I who attacked the ancient Zyumans, Centitrax is instead an Animan who was ordered to destroy his planet by Empress Floriana.
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • Sela’s enhanced hearing gets expanded into a more scientifically accurate sonar ability, allowing Marina to use sonic waves to find targets.
  • Tusk’s keen sense of smell (which fell heavily under Artistic License – Biology to begin with) has been replaced with Trunks having a photographic memory. Along the same lines, Tora has sharp claws and teeth in place of Amu’s acute taste.
  • Whereas Zyuoh The World Wolf’s power was basic Super-Speed, Luke’s Wolf Form has the sense of smell that was Adapted Out from Trunks.
• Bad Boss: True to form for Power Rangers villains, Archris is shown to treat all of his minions horribly, even referring to Keldor and Cuborg as “morons”.
• Batman Gambit: Floriana’s plan to deal with the Wild Fury Rangers is to unleash a Legion of Doom upon the world, contaminate them so they’ll spread mind controlling spores into the Ranger’s weapons/Morphers, get one other Ranger team infected, force the two teams to fight each other, wait for a Morphin’ Master to appear to pull a Big Damn Heroes and interrupt them before they can fully restore the Rangers’ powers.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Seemingly every main villain except Cuborg is shown to have their own agenda they’re pursuing.
  • Archris is the most major of the villains, who seeks to claim the Cubezords and use them to conquer the universe.
  • Ignoblia is the most proactive, being up to something that involves becoming Mayor of Savannah City and a unique seed.
  • Keldor is the most manipulative, trying to ensure that either Archris or the Rangers are destroyed in their battle, though he would prefer the former be the one to fall. Unlike the others, he has no grudge against the Rangers and even tries offering an alliance to them.
  • Mantack is initially a bounty hunter hired to defeat the Rangers and take their Zords. But after seeing how much power the Whale Zord grants Johnny, he decides to make its acquisition his main goal on Earth.
    • In the end, It is Ignoblia, actually the Predecessor Villain Floriana, who comes out on top and serves as the Final Boss, revealing that Archris was just an Unwitting Pawn.
• Canon Immigrant: Transcendent Butterfly God Deboth and Emperor of Darkness Zett, the big bads of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and Ressha Sentai ToQger respectively, are adapted here as members of Mantack’s gang (in the Sentai, Bangray was a solo act).
• Cerebus Retcon: Adrien seems to be a doofy Plucky Comic Relief character who ascertains Ascended Extra status all of a sudden. But then he turns out to be a disguise for Keldor, who handily recontextualises Adrien’s actions from well intentioned bumbling to deliberate sabotage.
• Continuity Nod: After joining the wider Ranger community, the Rangers join an exclusive social network and get comments from Taylor, Alyssa, Casey, and Mack.
  • It’s mentioned that while aliens on Earth are common, most of them only come out into the open in New Tech City.
  • Mantack’s ship was bought from Sledge after the latter moved into the Warriordome.
• Dead All Along: Episode 36 reveals Archris perished shortly before Keldor was forced into his service, his body reanimated by Bacteri to use as an incubator.
• Demoted to Extra: Surprisngly, Archris. Despite being the Big Bad, he spends a few episodes early on making no appearance at all (which is kickstarted with him being Put on a Bus to heal from injuries), and even when he returns, what Ginis contributes to later plans is assigned to Ignoblia.
  • Dorobozu and Hunterji’s counterparts Spydus and Poachhitter have their two episode arc condensed into one, which barely focuses on either of them outside fight scenes. Though Spydus does return later on, matching with his counterpart making a reappearance, Poachhitter never does.
• Different in Every Episode: Compared to Naria’s stock explanation of the Continue medals, Ignoblia says a different phrase based on the motif of the monster. In one case, she uses a golf themed line… while reviving a bowling themed monster.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: While she was actively a threat beforehand, Ignoblia turns out to be Empress Floriana, the ancient enemy of the Animen and Centitrax and Keldor’s former mistress.
• The Dreaded: All the Hunters are reluctant to use the Destructoid, but Ignoblia feels that the Rangers have made them cross that Godzilla Threshold.
• Expy: Luke is a mix of near every Sixth Ranger in Power Rangers, with a little bit of Black Beet thrown in.
• Faking the Dead: Empress Floriana turns out to have been doing this since the backstory.
• Foreshadowing: There are plenty of hints that Johnny’s brother Luke is both the creature in the woods, and that he’ll become the Sixth Ranger from the source material.
  • Johnny notes that he heard his brother crying for help in the distance after the creature had run off.
  • The creature is said to resemble an alligator, a wolf and a rhino, while Jeremy mentions that he had companions matching those Animal Motifs.
  • When first seen after being restored to a human, the Chimera Ranger states that he has parents, a brother, a grandmother and a fiancée to return to. The latter three are immediately recognisable as Johnny, Rose and Stevie, while the former may remind viewers that Johnny mentioned his parents died looking for them in the woods, which Luke would not know.
  • After encountering Chimera’s human form in the woods, Marina is shocked when she notices a picture of Johnny with his brother. Because she’s figured out that the latter and their current tormentor are one and the same.
  • Similarly, there are a few hints that Cuborg is the infamous Centitrax the Destroyer mentioned a few times. Most notably, the Whale Zord attacking him on sight and calling him “the enemy”.
  • Ignoblia actually being Empress Floriana in disguise is hinted at as early as chapter 4, when she claims that she comes from a species that hasn’t evolved since prehistoric times, which the story calls out as a case of Blatant Lies.
• Full-Body Disguise: The Rangers (sans Johnny and Luke), Jeremy and Ignoblia all use DNA Cloaks that completely transform them into humans.
• Global Ignorance: When asked if she hails from Iceland, Tora only responds that she did grow up in “an icy land”. Justified, as she is a Hugh Mann alien.
  • Less excusable is Lenny thinking that Australia is in England after staying a few weeks on Earth.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • Empress Floriana, whose onslaught pushed both Centitrax to attack Cubalia and the Primal Force to set the stage for the creation of the Wild Fury powers.
  • The Dark Master, the controller of the Anti Grid and an Evil Counterpart to the Morphin’ Masters who created Dark Specter and influenced every canon villain (and some from the author’s previous fics) into trying to steal the power of the Morphin’ Grid to become its avatar.
• Horrifying the Horror: Seeing Archris returned to his true form terrifies Keldor enough that he runs away upon seeing him.
• Lampshade Hanging: Noah’s initial absence is explained through him being an intern at Cranston Tech, nodding to Noah being an Expy of Billy.
• Legion of Doom:
  • The second Milestone Celebration chapter has Mantack revive Master Xandred, Vrak, Blaze and Roxy to help defeat the Rangers.
  • Once he gets the Anima Arm, Keldor tries the same plan to dispose of Archris, only he uses monsters from previous chapters.
• Meaningful Name: Present with the 5 main Rangers.
  • Johnny’s surname Perry calls to mind the peregrine falcon.
  • Marina sounds similar to “Marine”.
  • A lion named Lenny.
  • Trunks is an elephant.
  • Tora is Japanese for “tiger”.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Archris and Ignoblia created their own evil Ranger and equipped him with their own scratch built Zord that could combine with the 12 the Rangers are looking for. So when the inevitable Heel–Face Turn happens, the Rangers are more powerful than they would’ve been if they’d just collected all 12 Zords on their own.
• Non-Action Big Bad:
  • Archris generally spends his time sitting around, but ends up zig-zagging this in chapter 6, wherein he goes and fights three of the Rangers personally.
  • Completely averted with Ignoblia/Floriana, who acts as The Man in Front of the Man by being a Frontline General.
• Only in It for the Money: Mantack and his crew, with their reaction to two Rangers finding their base being less “He Knows Too Much” and more “How much can we get for selling them?”. This changes after Johnny acquires the Whale Ranger powers and the crew are completely wiped out, at which point Mantack decides It's Personal.
• Scars Are Forever: Johnny’s third solo battle with Mantack leaves the latter supporting a prominent scar on his chest.
• Shout-Out:
  • Marina at one point forces a Jerk to blare out Brotherhood of Man on his phone.
  • Chapter 4 centres on a virus that devolves people, spread by a shaman themed villain.
  • It’s probably not a coincidence that the gorilla Animan is named Caesar.
  • Professor Nozu is a floating brain that absorbs intelligence, similar to the Brainspawn.
  • Mantack’s line upon deciding to capture the Whale Zord for himself is identical to Vilgax’s line upon deciding to claim the Omnitrix.
  • The author noted that the Mid-Season Upgrade of teleportation was more similar to the portal network from Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills.
• Stock Animal Diet: Zigzagged. On one hand, a meal prepared for the Elephant Ranger Trunks is accurate to a real life elephant’s diet. On the other hand, he specifically requests peanuts as a snack.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: We at first seem to be headed for a Bittersweet Ending with Floriana defeated for good, but the 5 Animen having to return home. But then the Primal Force transports the people of Cubalia to Earth, allowing the 7 to remain in touch and forge new lives for themselves.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Doubling up as Villain Decay, in the first two chapters, the 4 Animen working together can’t defeat Trunkrush, requiring Johnny step in both times. But the time of chapter 18, Trunks can take him on alone and win.
  • Johnny upon receiving the Gorilla and Whale powers. In the latter case, Mantack specifically notes that he’s become powerful enough to challenge the latter in a fight.
• Tragic Villain: Episode 37 reveals Floriana and Centitrax to be this.
  • Floriana saw her entire home forest and people torn down because they were dismissed as not being alive because they were plants. And the reason for this? The minerals they were mining were used to create the Quasar Sabers and Trans-Daggers.
  • Centitrax is feared as a destroyer for his actions on Cubalia in ancient times. Actions he was spurred into because the other tribes wiped out his own, seeing them as vermin. Marina even says she can sympathise with him.
  • Transflormation: This turns out to be Floriana’s goal in conquering the universe, so she can rid it of all animals.
• Walking Spoiler: Ignoblia and Cuborg have a lot of twists surrounding them, that are important to the end game. Not least of which that they’re actually the Predecessor Villain pair Floriana and Centitrax.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The Legendary Rangers get forgotten about after the final battle is over. Most notably Javi is still stuck in outer space, with little hope of rescue.

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