Power Rangers Wing Force is a Power Rangers fanfiction by Androzani84, the same author behind Sailor Moon: The Road Not Taken and The Phantom Data Saga. It is an adaptation of the last Sentai series before Power Rangers was picked up, Choujin Sentai Jetman.
See also Power Rangers Take Flight, another take on the same source material.
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Regular Power Ranger tropes include:
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Defied. After the Dominion discover the location of the Nest, the Rangers abandon it before they can show up and set their operation up in both an abandoned air base and a hotel.
- Big Bad: Played With. Algrin is the dominant force among the Dominion, but he serves Queen Uuhcura, who shows up to take the role, only to be killed in short order. Then her brother Sir Tann takes over. But since he gets beaten a few episodes later, Galavahex declares Algrin the new leader.
- Combining Mecha: The Icarus Megazord.
- Cool Bike: The Jet Cycles, which are used by Wayne and Lulu.
- Cool Car: The Roger Launcher is initially a subversion, but later plays it straight, by being able to turn into a BFG
- Home Base: The Nest, directly adapted from Jetman’s own Home Base.
- In the Name of the Moon: Mostly averted, but played straight in chapter 15, where
Word of God notes it was unavoidable. - Make My Monster Grow: The Mutasects and later the Hybrasects can reconstruct their destroyed bodies as long as their bug survives and has absorbed enough kinetic energy.
- The Mentor: Wing Commander, later Group captain June Gordon. Really an alien named Jangar.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Chapter 8 introduces the Rover Launcher as a new finisher.
- Chapters 13-15 introduce the Mecha Expansion Pack, in the form of Dash Boxer and the Falcon Corde.
- Chapter 19 introduces the AviAttackers as a new sidearm.
- Monster of the Week: The Mutasects, which create bodies from common objects. Later upgraded to the Hybrasects, which create Hybrid Creature bodies
- Mooks: The Bio-Roids, spawned from the life energy of he Dominion commanders
- Elite Mooks: The U-Clones, Canon Foreigner henchmen cloned from Queen Uuhcura. They’re notably tougher than the Bio-Roids, requiring weapons to finish off.
- Orcus on His Throne: Defied. Every main villain has gone out and fought the Rangers at least once, with the results either being a Heroic Second Wind for the Rangers or a Curb-Stomp Battle for the Dominion.
- One-Winged Angel: Uuhcura as the Neo-Mutabrid
- The Psycho Rangers: Chapter 18’s Darkness Rangers. Like in the source material, Black isn’t present to have one created, but here it’s due to being held up by U-Clones.
- a different version happens in chapters 25-26, where Tann creates a counterpart for the Icarus known as Orpheus. He even uses the same designers.
- Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Averted with Wayne, Carrie and Steven but played straight with Mark, who was in college when he was recruited by Gordon and Lulu, who is still in high school.
- Sixth Ranger: Averted. The Ranger team has stayed consistent after 22 chapters and most later additions to the Dominion are generally an Arc Villain.
- As of chapter 23, Gliderak and Aluze are zigzagging this. While they are helping the team out, it’s mostly in mech battles.
- Super Mode: Villainous example with Algrin and Uuhcura, who both possess a “Berserker Mode”, which changes their appearance. The reason it’s this and not One-Winged Angel is because they can turn back to (and fight in) their regular forms afterwards.
- Algrin’s is initially a subversion, as using it leaves him weakened and causes him to go unconscious to recover. This changes after he studies Uuhcura’s and replicates her protection.
Tropes exclusive to this fic include:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Algrin’s attempts to use Uuhcura’s body to create a new monster ends up resurrecting the Queen with more power.
- Adaptation Distillation: The arc with the demons is merged with the Empress Juza arc and the Semimaru two-parter to have all the team’s power-ups appear at once and to get The Reveal concerning Halatia out much earlier.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Wayne is a lot more personable than Gai Yūki and warms up to the others a lot quicker.
- Whereas the Neo-Jetman team were a group of jerkasses who functioned as an Anti-Hero Substitute, the Armoured Rangers are portrayed as friendly, if a little misguided due to their mentor’s influence.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: When an accident gives Tann’s Orpheus it’s own will, it decides to destroy all organic life in the universe.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: The Maria/Rie storyline is adapted faithfully here with Halatia/Mary, with one difference.
- And I Must Scream: Mary was aware of everything Halatia was doing (at first) and is relieved to be free from her.
- Amnesiac Hero: Steven is this, with a large part of the Myth Arc being devoted to finding out the truth.
- Ascended Extra: Minor villain of the week Ant Bazooka, who didn’t even get one fight scene in Jetman, gets reimagined as Cannant, The Dragon to Sir Tann.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Algrin’s preferred choice of monsters.
- Berserk Button: Do not use Mark’s memories of Mary against him. Halatia and Gaminator find this out the hard way.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: General Alex.
- Brought Down to Normal: The 4 Rangers sucked into the dream world lose their powers as a result of Predictra’s influence.
- Happens again in chapter 22 courtesy of Kurorg.
- Brainwashed: Lulu in chapters 4 and 28. Wayne ad Steven join her in the latter.
- But Not Too Foreign: Carrie’s mother is Japanese, but her father is definitely American.
- Came Back Strong: Uuhcura’s Neo-Mutabrid form is much more powerful than her original body, being able to tank most of the team’s attacks and beat the holy shit out of everyone.
- Captain Ersatz: The Armoured Rangers are this and a Take That! to the cast of Eiga Sentai Scanranger.
- Vic Hardrock: Vin Harlock. Vic’s “only in it for the girls” mentality recalls Vin’s Informed Flaw of being a sucker for a pretty face.
- Benny Clark Simeon: BC Shimamaura. Benny Clark’s jokes receive the same reaction in universe as BC’s jokes do without.
- Nicky Simonson: Nick Simmonds.
- Michael Koon: Kunio “Mikey” Mikimoto. Like Mikey, Michael abuses Gratuitous Japanese to the point it annoys actual Japanese person Carrie.
- Antonia Montana: Toni Montanez. Antonia’s lack of characterization and dialogue matches Toni’s status.
- Even the team’s mentor General Alex is a Gender Flip of Scanranger’s Professor Alex. His contacts Hayato Moboroshi and Mohammed Nanak recall Scanranger allies Takeshi Hayata and Peter Emmanuel.
- Fittingly, the Monster of the Week for that chapter fits in, being called “Kurorg” (a portmanteau of he word “Kuro”, which proceeds every monster name in that fic and Blackorg, the Big Bad of that story) as a Line-of-Sight Name (Its the only thing he can say).
- Chekhov's Armory: Chapter 5 introduces a set of blueprints for multiple new pieces of equipment. This ends up giving the Rangers new vehicles and a new Zord.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The mysterious woman in black who the whole team gradually encounters turns out to be Queen Uuhcura
- The Chooser of the One: Commander Gordon selects Mark, Carrie and Steven, while Wayne nominates himself and Lulu to fill out the team.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Averted with Gordon’s assistant Ratcliffe, who’s absence from 11 chapters and replacement with Caldwell is handwaved as having spent time on vacation.
- Comic Book Movies Dont Use Code Names: The fic for the most part refers to the heroes as “Flying Rangers” and their Zords as “vehicles”. The Megazords play with this, by being title with “Megazord” in their name, but the narration and characters don’t use it often.
- Connected All Along: Wayne sharing a surname with a character from Power Rangers Megaforce is not a coincidence. Said character is his brother
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: Tann takes down Mark easily in their solo fight, but loses against 4 shots from 4 Rangers. Justified, as Mark was exhausted the first time and Tann had been depowered the second time.
- Crazy-Prepared: Chapter 4 reveals that the change bracelets have a function to break brainwashing that activates when the user tries to morph.
- Chapter 8 reveals another example, wherein any member of the team can have their powers remotely revoked by forcibly ejecting their power chip.
- Chapter 27 turns both of these into a Chekhov's Gun with Mark using both to break his teammates free from their spell. Too bad Wayne is Genre Savvy enough to see through it, forcing a fight between them.
- Death by Irony: Mr. Fuzzy/Bearserker is killed by the same villain that created him.
- The rogue AI Orpheus is done in by heroic AI Dash Boxer, under orders from the very organics he had earlier disparaged.
- Death Seeker: When Mary is freed from her brainwashing, she notes that she forgives Mark for trying to kill her and actually wished that he might succeed. Thankfully, she grew out it.
- Decomposite Character: Tran(za) is split into Fwelf and Tann.
- Radiguet’s One-Winged Angel form is given to Uuhcura.
- Deconstruction Fic: In all, the story seems to be playing most of the tropes it uses more realistically than normal uses.
- Chapter 8 deconstructs the Leeroy Jenkins approach, with Mark’s reckless charge only hurting his friends and giving the villains an opening to weaken them further.
- In general, the story deconstructs the damage Mech vs. Beast fights would cause, with many actually fleeing the city for fear of their lives and the Ranger team working to minimise damage by keeping the battles short.
- Related to the above, Police Are Useless is averted, with the regular military sending in a disaster response unit to deal with the crisis, who eventually begin cooperating with the Rangers.
- Chapter 12 deconstructs the Freudian Excuse, by having Algrin share his story of having his planet destroyed by Uuhcura, forcing him to serve her. Carrie simply points out that her grandparents had their homes destroyed in the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (her mother is Japanese), but they didn’t declare Undying Loyalty to the Americans.
- Uuhcura deconstructs being a Bad Boss, by managing to alienate or kill off all of her loyal minions, meaning that none of them have qualms killing her or desecrating her body for science.
- The Avions deconstruct Offstage Villainy by being victims of said offstage villainy that have come back for revenge.
- The Armoured Rangers are a deconstruction of the Eiga Sentai Scanranger protagonists, showing what would happen if they were dropped into a more realistic setting and stripped of the
Creator's Pet treatment they got in the fic proper. It also indicates that their favouritism from their mentor has warped their worldview and makes the regular Rangers hate them as a result.
- Demoted to Extra: The third Demon Mu is reduced to a minor minion of Uuhcura who doesn’t encounter the Rangers and doesn’t even get a name until after his death.
- Dénouement Episode: After the last chapter, the author uploaded an additional epilogue entitled “The Last Word” It features a Crossover with the original Red Ranger, Mary and Steven getting Throw the Dog a Bone moments and Kuroden and Aobrix coming Back from the Dead.
- Downer Ending: Chapter 11, based on the equally upsetting episode 21 of Jetman.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Uuhcura turns out to be invading Earth because she doesn’t want Dark Specter’s forces taking over the universe and the planet will allow her and her allies to fight back.
- Kuroden turns on Uuhcura after she dishonours the memory of his brother. Too bad it doesn’t work out.
- Galvahex genuinely regrets having to create a fake backstory for Halatia, wishing that he could share the truth with her.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Daniel Brown is initially this to his daughter Carrie, but he comes around before he makes his first appearance.
- Foreshadowing: Chapter 7 has a mysterious woman state that her child is going to be born soon. The woman turns out to be Queen Uuhcura, who’s child Kodokor is a central part of the arc.
- In chapter 8, Galvahex describes what happens to victims of the Brain Scrape like Mary. But he doesn’t say it’s what happened to her.
- Chapter 10 had Gordon noting to herself that won’t be open with a secret of hers. A few chapters later, it transpires that she’s keeping something from them, which gets slowly revealed as the story continues.
- Chapter 12 has Carrie twice mock Halatia for not taking advantage of the fact she is a Human Alien for real espionage. The next chapter gives us a very good reason why they don’t. (Namely, that she would easily be recognised by the Rangers or their support team.)
- Fusion Dance: Uuhcura merges Kuroden with the dead body of his brother Aobrix to create a Mutabrid. The result is totally mindless, with memories of neither remaining intact.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Queen Uuhcura is definitely a Knight of Cerebus.
- Harmless Freezing: Played With. Kodokor easily breaks free of his icy prison, but it damages him enough to give the Rangers and their Avion allies a reprieve.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Private Dawson, who brings along a Brainless Beauty to make himself look better.
- Hidden Depths: Mark turns out to have a knack for sewing and a passionate interest in Gulliver's Travels. Also, strong I Just Want to Be Normal issues.
- Honorary Princess: Halatia, on account of being an Authority in Name Only.
- Human Aliens: Uuhcura and Tann. Averted with Halatia, who is actually a human and the Avions, who are simply wearing disguises. June Gordon is implied to be one too, before being confirmed as such
- Humans Are Bastards: Episode 11 has a group of people stoning Mr. Fuzzy, even after he helped a child and fixed somebody’s car.
- Identical Stranger: Averted. Marvin Hinton looks nothing like Steven Hartford, as Private Dawson can attest.
- Knight of Cerebus: Uuhcura’s full arrival leads to the author toning down Lulu’s jokes and removing comic relief Butt-Monkey due Matt and Eddie.
- Tann’s reappearance also cements him as this, as he beats the stuffing out of everyone he fights.
- Jerkass: Yas Rushton in the “Showdown” two-parter. He basically acts like, the Rangers shouldn’t exist because he doesn’t know about them and steals part of the Ultrazord, causing it to shut down at a bad time. And he caused the paradox he was trying to avert by doing this.
- Killed Off for Real: Yas Rushton, who is unusual in that he is a human character and the fic treats itself as if it were to actually air on television.
- Lost in Imitation: Quite a few elements are taken from Power Rangers Take Flight.
- Wayne’s name was the birth name of that fic’s Black Ranger.
- The Yellow Ranger is a black man.
- Maria’s counterpart is a Princess and the daughter of Juza’s counterpart Or not.
- Missing Mom: Mark, Carrie and Lulu all have dead mothers.
- Mythology Gag: To substitute for the Stock Footage in a text only medium, voiceover announcements are added similar to more recent Toku shows. The ones here are based on GoGo Sentai Boukenger, except for the Falcon Corde, which is based on the Dial Fighters.
- a Ranger goes on a murderous rampage where they lose all rational thinking ability against their lost girlfriend’s Evil Doppelgänger. But unlike Ravi, Mark is stopped before he can do the deed.
- Super Black Hole Crash! Even better, Mark commands “Dash Boxer, jump!” beforehand.
- Near-Villain Victory: Algrin accidentally helps Kodokor almost defeat the Rangers for Uuhcura, until Gliderak stops him.
- Noble Demon: Galvahex is this, as much as his programming will allow it.
- Out of Focus: Steven, due to the author not knowing what to do with him at first. Even when it was decided to tie him into the Myth Arc, he still receives focus episodes only when the author is tired of writing for everyone else.
- Pet the Dog: Kuroden and Aobrix restore Mary to normal and give her back to Mark with no strings attached.
- Galvahex says that if he had known where Wayne was hospitalised, he’d have sent flowers.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Lulu often makes jokes based on the situation, much to everyone else’s chagrin.
- Not So Above It All: Everyone but Steven has made their own such quips at some point.
- Pun-Based Title: A lot of episodes are named this way.
- Punny Name: Swan Sonic (Swansong), Sir Tann (Satan) and the Falcon Corde (Concorde).
- Rank Up: For defeating Kodokor, Gordon gets promoted to Group captain from Wing Commander and Mark gets promoted to Flying Officer from Pilot.
- Shown Their Work: The military promotions are accurate to real life air forces.
- The author also did some research into both meanings for Tarot cards, and dietary habits of ants for separate chapters.]]
- Shout-Out: Mark’s first battle has him fighting against a murderous inhumanoid who doesn’t speak English. Bonus points for the suit slowly forming around him for that scene only.
- A lot of guest characters get their name from Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
- Wayne upgrades his and Lulu’s Cool Bike to respond to the phrase “Come Closer”.
- A flute in chapter 9 plays the tune for the Zanbat.
- The planet Inoue 6.
- Take That!: Yas Rushton is named for “a certain writer that both I and the head writer of Jetman don’t like.”
- 20 Minutes into the Past: This fic is implied to take place prior to all prior Power Rangers series.
- The Unintelligible: Starter Villain Dolan has his dialogue written entirely in gibberish (though the author is gracious enough to translate).
- Kurorg is also this, on account of having no vocal chords.
- Write Who You Know: Yas Rushton was based on (and partially named after) an unpleasant person the author went to school with.
