Nightmare Fuel / Power Rangers Beast Morphers

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Season 1

In general

• For a kid's show, Evox's cobra avatar is actually pretty frightening. There's also something eerie about the way he slithers in and out of his computer terminal. His voice is also legitimately menacing.
  • Note that Evox avatar is considerably more cartoony, and thus toned down, than the original Sentai's Messiah avatar, which is a glowing eyeless skull that is definitely much frightening.

Episode 19 "Target Tower"

• There's shades of this in "Target: Tower" when Ravi destroys Roxy's Avatar. Ravi drives himself into his overheated berserk mode and is snarling at her animalistically as he blasts her repeatedly, and we get to see her terrified face as she becomes unstable. When she finally explodes, she screams in agony. Of course it had to happen, but what a harsh way to go.
  • Which leads to another scary revelation in hindsight. Real, (biological) Roxy is completely aware of what was told to her Avatar so... people in coma are imprisoned to watch their evil copies doing wrong things. Roxy watched how her alter version manipulated Ravi back in episode 4 and couldn't do anything. Who knows how terrifying would be to watch someone take your identity and watch them burn and destroy.

Season 2

In general

• The Reveal in Season 2 that Evox has been secretly possessing Mayor Daniels since the end of "Evox: Upgraded" is pretty disturbing when you realize that whenever Devon hugs his father, he's also unknowingly hugging Evox.
  • Not to mention Mayor Daniels' Evil Laugh while being possessed can be downright terrifying.

Episode 9 "Secret Struggle"

• It's revealed to the Rangers that Mayor Daniels has been possessed by Evox ever since they returned from the Cyber Dimension. If that isn't nightmare fuel, then...
  • Is Evox right? Is Mayor Daniels gone? Which then raises the question... Is Devon going to have to kill his dad? We all know the answer, but still...
    • Even worse... What if Devon did perform a Mercy Kill... and had witnesses? That would have been the darkest episode in the franchise since the proposed ending for Ranger Black.

Episode 15 "Goin' Ape"

• Thought Ravi going berserk on Avatar Roxy in "Target Tower" was scary? This episode has him go berserk not only on Robo-Roxy, but the other Rangers, who barely manage to restrain him. He's arguably the biggest threat to the Rangers in this episode.

Episode 17 "Fossil Frenzy"

• Robo-Roxy's final form is so grotesque and horrifying to look at, that even Evox takes a step back when he first sees her. The fact that even a genocidal computer virus like Venjix/Evox is scared might make Robo-Roxy's final form even creepier...

Episode 19 "Source Code"

• When it was announced that Olivia Tennet and James Gaylyn would return to PR after eleven years^note Actually just four for Gaylyn, as he played Shelby's father in two episodes of Dino Supercharge, the Ranger Nation began to speculate as to what their roles would be, and how would RPM link to Beast Morphers. One scenario was pitched, and it eventually became horrific reality. Sometime prior to the start of Beast Morphers, Nate and Dr. K managed to forge communication between the main PR dimension and Corinth. In the midst of this accord, having already acquired the arsenal of the past teams, Nate asked for a morpher to experiment on. Dr. K handed him one of the Cell Shift Morphers... the one previously held by Scott Truman to be exact, and tried to repower it with Morph-X and snake DNA. Now you're putting two and two together and the pieces are falling into place. Yes, the being that hid in Scott's morpher at the end of RPM escaped, entered Grid Battleforce's mainframe and acquired a new form... the one we saw for the first half of Beast Morphers. It took eleven years, but we finally have a payoff to the Cliffhanger that, at the time of RPM's finale, ended the franchise.
  Evox: You're powerless against me now. I'm more than Evox. Haven't you figured it out? You. You should know who I truly am. Years ago, you experimented with old Ranger technology, hoping to find a new way to morph.
  Nate: Yes... but how do you know about that?
  Evox: Because I was there. You were just a foolish little boy trying to power old Ranger Morphers with Morph-X and snake DNA. All of your efforts failed... until you tried the Cell Shift Morpher. That DNA became part of my data and I was released into your system. A dead end for you, a new beginning for me. You're starting to put it together. A Cell Shift Morpher. That could mean only one thing... [voice shifts to match his true identity] I... WAS... VENJIX!!! I have had many forms, and now, my victory is certain!
• After helping the Beast Morpher Rangers, Dr. K returns to her own dimension, saying that if Venjix was able to hide away in the Cell Shift Morpher following his defeat, then it's possible that his programming could be in other places as well.
• The Fridge Horror in seeing Morph-X towers in actual, real-world cities, like Philadelphia and Chicago — it underscores the fact that, if Evox/Venjix isn't stopped, these cities will be in danger, if not outright doomed — this is the villain who caused the Apocalypse on his original Earth, and quite likely destroyed those cities and killed their inhabitants.

Episode 20 "Evox Unleashed"

• The evacuation of the whole city. Doesn't seem like much at first but it reminds some people of real life events like the Chernobyl Incident. New technology can become a genuine threat to our lives and the show demonstrates how it could look like.
  • Evacuating the city also gives an idea of just how dire the threat is, considering that none of Evox's previous attacks have triggered this sort of mass exodus.
  • Also, look at how gridlocked the highways are during evacuation. Now imagine being there and fearing you might not make it out in time.
• The temporary death of Steel. Being a comedic character, his lines and personality change the mood for better even in the most dire situation. Not here... He gets brutally killed and all his hilarity is gone. In his last moments, he sees how weak he is and his body falling apart. The feeling of dread is doubled by Devon's speech to the Grid Battleforce.

  Devon: Grid Battleforce, this is Devon Daniels, Red Ranger. Today our team of five Power Rangers went out against Evox. Only four returned. When no one else could, Steel made the choice to fight Evox alone... now he's gone. Evox has gained more and more strength. You worked hard to hold on. But it's time for Grid Battleforce to evacuate. Like Steel, the Power Rangers will stay and fight to defeat Evox if we can.

  • What makes it worse is, in a first for Power Rangers, it's not an explosion or energy field that killed him, but Evox straight up killing him with energy blasts, onscreen. One may argue What Measure Is a Non-Human? is in effect (what with this still being a kids show and all), but that doesn't make it any less shocking to have a Sacrificial Lion.