For specific entry, see the following:
- Power Rangers (2017)
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
- Power Rangers in Space
- Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
- Power Rangers Time Force
- Power Rangers Wild Force
- Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
- Power Rangers S.P.D.
- Power Rangers RPM
- Power Rangers Samurai
- Power Rangers Megaforce
- Power Rangers Dino Charge
- Power Rangers Ninja Steel
- Power Rangers Beast Morphers
- Power Rangers Dino Fury
- Power Rangers Cosmic Fury
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
- Power Rangers Hyperforce
For Super Sentai, see here.
- Mighty Morphin' through Lost Galaxy take place in the same continuity as they all tie into each other all other series take place in their own multiverses with anything that happens in one could be considered Broad Strokes in another.
- This would explain several inconsistencies when newer series bring up plot points from older series
- Theories regarding this:
- Bulk going to Mironoi at the end of Lost galaxy is ignored in other series therefor it never happened outside of that subcontinuity
- Any Powers Rangers that lost powers could have them back without explanation as they never lost them outside of their main series. This might explain how Tommy will use his past powers In Super Megaforce
- RPM existed in the same continuity as all others that came before it However It is considered in another dimension in Samurai and probably anything after as the two cannot exist side by side.
- In Samurai Skull is a bit older which would explain how he has a teenage son despite math making spike born sometime in the original run.
- Also in Samurai The Samurai Rangers have been around or centuries despite Mighty Morphin' Rangers being stated as being earth's first Power Rangers
- This would explain why Tommy's Green ranger uniform is slightly different.
- This could also explain the difference between Wild Force Tommy and Dino Thunder Tommy, the former is implied to be rich and owns the local hangout However the latter conflicts with this as Tommy should at this point be working with Anton Mercer.
- Its possible the latter Tommy is older too, late 20's instead of mid 20's which seems improbable with his accomplishments such as having a PhD. (going by his age in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers he would have had to have gotten it in his early 20's.)
- The Movie would fit under this banner as well as an offshoot of the original series' but as it's own subcontinuity.
No, this is not a troll WMG. I somehow feel like this is canon. Maybe their suits are the result of a near-death hallucination?
Case in point: R.J., who clearly used morphers jury-rigged from sunglasses and spare parts that didn't even USE a power source (they just rerouted power native to the user), but insisted that he got them from what is presumably the black market (he "knew a guy who knew a guy").
- Alternately, humans are particularly, ahem, endowed for primates, so humanlike species in the rest of the PR universe didn't evolve the same way. Keeping the underwear on helps constrict these, ahem, parts, so a male ranger who morphs doesn't become female.
- This would also explain the immediate disappearance of the suits when the Command Centre is wrecked by Ooze in the Movie—as soon as the power dies, so does the armour.
- This could act like Zulu time for the military—it's a good, standard language, and you don't offend any major species by not using their language, because the only people using it live very, very far away.
- Zordon could also have introduced English artificially so that at least some Earthlings could communicate with the rest of the galaxy.
- Supporting evidence: those helmets aren't always too good as far as peripheral vision goes. They probably need the extra bit of warning to compensate for lost visual range.
- Then explain Alpha 6
- "Alpha" refers to any and all robots made with the designs of the Alpha line. The number just refers to the order in which they were built and/or programmed.
- Nice theory, but Zordon didn't create Alpha, King Lexian from Edenoi and grandfather of Masked Rider did
- There are also habitable regions of the moon around Serpentara's crash site and the location of the Terra Venture training exercise at the beginning of Lost Galaxy. It does seem that the moon wasn't habitable prior to Rita's release; the astronauts who release her are wearing space suits. There's no evidence that all of the moon is habitable, but it does seem like it's more than just the area around the castle.
- We don't get a distance shot in either of those situations, though. In the training ground, at least, the lighting and rock structures are practically identical to the area where Rita and Zedd kept their mobile home (implicitly near the palace, although far enough that they weren't under Mondo's nose), indicating that it may be the same area. As for the crash site, the valley-like nature indicates it may be that quarry the Machine Empire was digging in every shot of their base we got, which was, if you recall, at the foot of the palace.
- In the unaired pilot, the space dumpster landed on the moon. Not only was the area around the dumpster inhabitable, but it had a blue sky breathable atmosphere (one astronaut notice a smell coming from the dumpster) and the terrain was a sandy desert. You just have to ignore the appearance of the moon in the sky.
- Also-also: Serpentera, Dragonzord and Cyclopsis (sp?) were wayward Predacons reverse-engineered/recruited by Zedd and/or Rita, the last one gifted to Goldar.
- Presumably, different "cultures" of monster primarily stay in different parts of the afterlife. This begs the question, though, of what kind of region do the other seasons' monsters spend eternity in?
- Black market morphers? That's awesome. What story was that?
- First episode of Jungle Fury. When R.J., a pizza shop owner/retired martial artist, is asked where he got three morphers, he responded that he "knows a guy who knows a guy", and quickly changed the subject.
- Let's put this one and a similar one below to rest...
- Kimberly says "This is so 90's" upon getting their communicators, Tommy, Adam, Tanya, and Kat explicitly graduate in the class of 97, the same year that Power Rangers Turbo aired.
- Additionally, Red and Blue have been the only colors that have canonically repeated within a team, so, perhaps blue is more stable as well.
- So, theoretically, it would go something like this, from most stable to least: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green/Black, Pink, White, Silver, Gold (rarely seen, apparently very hard to control as far as Zeo is concerned) & Orange/Purple (almost never seen). Interestingly, the most "stable" colours here are the most unique, in a sense; Green & Black, Gold & Silver, and Pink & White are all clearly tied to each other, often sharing roles or connections of some sort. For example:
- Green & Black rangers share personas, and it is not uncommon for black rangers to go green & vice versa (c.f. Adam, Tommy, and the similarities between Mike of Samurai & Jake of Megaforce)
- Pink & White are often conflated e.g. Kat co-piloting Tommy's zords early on, "White" Wild Force Ranger comes off very Pink, Original Pink ranger included the most white in her outfit (allowing it to intrude on her helmet, something that didn't happen with the others'), Kim & Tommy romance, etc..
- Gold & Silver have appeared paired (RPM), and those colours are typically associated with each other anyway.
- On the other hand, Red, Blue & Yellow might be seen as the basic, most distinct units for a team, which would make sense if they were the most "stable".
- So, theoretically, it would go something like this, from most stable to least: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green/Black, Pink, White, Silver, Gold (rarely seen, apparently very hard to control as far as Zeo is concerned) & Orange/Purple (almost never seen). Interestingly, the most "stable" colours here are the most unique, in a sense; Green & Black, Gold & Silver, and Pink & White are all clearly tied to each other, often sharing roles or connections of some sort. For example:
- The Energems' true power is paradox-free time travel; and as such, they represent Time — the Morphing Grid transcends all space-time.
- The Ninja Nexus Prism that the Ninja Power Stars are contained in is made of Ninja Steel, a special type of galactic steel. Steel is basically iron mixed with other substances, and iron symbolizes physical power. Thus, the Prism represents Strength — the Morphing Grid bestows strength to chosen people as Power Rangers.
- Other monsters with shared costumes could be of the same species, such as Maligore and Dark Specter mentioned below.
- One of the rangers will be related to the astronauts who freed Rita
- A future ranger will be LGBT.
- Confirmed via Dino Fury Green.
- Kimberly will come back and we'll finally find out the identity of the "new guy" who she dumped Tommy for.
- A purified Lord Zedd will play a prominent role.
- The Phantom Ranger will come back and reveal his secret identity
- Considering several different power sources, villain factions, and or other magical nonsense has happened involving the Cretaceous Period; the final part of the Mesozoic era has been radically changed. Not only by the magical and technological artifacts dumped into the time, but also animals and people. This is how an unseen person drew artwork of the Q-Rex but also why there are frequently Cenozoic or Paleozoic animals in the dinosaur centric seasons. When Dino Fury showed an Ice Age Smilodon and Jurassic Period Stegosaurus in the late Cretaceous, it's not a mistake. The time period has become a whacky dumping ground.
- Interestingly enough, the online stop-motion crossover video to promote the new Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers toys may support this... it shows the "Universal Morphing Grid" as a huge red crystal that the RPM rangers have to protect!
- An alternate theory is that during Dino Thunder, Tommy and Kat are going through a rough patch and separated without officially divorcing. After the season ends they get back together.
- Or Tommy and Kat broke up before/during college, then met up again after Dino Thunder and started going out again.
- Or the reason is the events from Dino Thunder's backstory. After the island accident Tommy realized that he had become the prime target for a new dangerous villain and sent Kat away to protect her. Especially likely if they already had a child at that point. Once the threat was dealt with, they reunited.
- You do realize that they could have just broken up pre-Dino Thunder and then gotten back together post-Dino Thunder, right? Because no one else seems to.
- The "Zeo Power Kick" was in Zeo, but it was much weaker. In Zeo, it could knock-out a Cog. In "Forever Red", it sent a Machine Empire general flying and made him explode.
- They said flat out that the problem with the Gold Ranger powers was that they were designed for alien use, not human. Jason was never as powerful as Trey even before the side effects started. However, Trey's race is three people in one body: when he was split into three actual people, he couldn't use the Gold Ranger powers, which is why Jason got it in the first place! Perhaps this aspect of Trey's alien race allows them to channel the Zeo Crystal better because the powers are being split between the three personalities... Thus, Zeo suits can't be safely used by humans, at least ones who don't have multiple-personality disorder.
- The Movie gave us a reason, The Turbo powers were needed to get to the Island and The Turbo Megazord would be the only thing that could stop Maligore since the Zeo Zords would get wrecked. Also if the Turbo powers were Connected to the Zeo Crystal... Why in the blue blazing hell would Zordon take the Zeo crystal to Eltar knowing full well it's gonna become a war zone.
- Because, in a war zone, having an incredibly powerful energy source to fuel your defenses is a very good idea?
- It's a poor Idea when said power source is being used by Someone else... Namely the Rangers on Earth.
- Not like he had any other sources available at the time... certainly nothing nearly as powerful. Also keep in mind heirarchy of need- the rangers were fighting a pirate crew, whereas he was fighting entire armies; its only fair that he get most use from the Crystal. He probably figured that if something happened, the Rangers would be directed to Ninjor or Lerigot, etc. for some temporary powers. Two possibilities:
- Demitria screwed up royally and forgot about that minor detail and left before calling the
babysittersecondary mentor - The idea was that the rangers would still have the Power Chamber after losing their powers, and would use it to ask one of their allies to spot them some morphers for a while- he probably simply never anticipated that communications and data archives with contact information would go down almost immediately after the power loss. He was only mortal, after all, and could make mistakes.
- Because, in a war zone, having an incredibly powerful energy source to fuel your defenses is a very good idea?
- Oh yeah, and before you judge this theory, keep in mind the alternative explanation.
- But that's...eh, why not.
- Think about it: After Rocky took time off to heal from his back injury, he received the Phantom Ranger powers. There are two possible theories as to how he obtained the power. One is that they were passed down to him from a man who was the original Phantom Ranger. Another is that he created the powers himself in the Command Center when the others weren't around.
- "The home planet of the Phantom Ranger."-Astronema, not referring to earth
- Think about it: After Rocky took time off to heal from his back injury, he received the Phantom Ranger powers. There are two possible theories as to how he obtained the power. One is that they were passed down to him from a man who was the original Phantom Ranger. Another is that he created the powers himself in the Command Center when the others weren't around.
- The planet Astronema mentioned was most definitely not Aquitar.
- This is supported by the Judd Lynn, one of the writers for the show during Turbo, who wanted it to be Billy. They didn't have the time to work the story out properly though, and as a result some discrepancies slipped by.
- Jossed (maybe) by Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, as David Yost is coming back to reprise the role of Billy Cranston.
- So in a way he'd be the Buzz Lightyear of the Power Rangers 'verse?
It appears that history was altered so that the attack occurred a year early.
Now, in "A Season To Remember", Tommy's grandson wears an MMPR/Zeo-style communicator. We are meant to assume that the rangers in that timeline are still operating under the guidance of Zordon, who is still based out of the original Power Center. Divatox's foreknowledge accelerated Dark Spectre's plan, and included the knowledge to destroy the Power Center.
At the same time, we might conclude, Zordon gave advanced technology to NASADA, allowing them to build the Astro-Megazord Shuttle. Hence NASADA "coincidentally" builds a shuttle that can interlink with a Kerovian ship to form a Megazord, and immediately surrenders it because a twelve year old mentions Zordon.
In the original timeline, Zordon survived but was therefore unable to purge the galaxy of evil, leading to a much more devastating attack a year later.
- It should be noted Billy created the communicators not Zordon. And we have no idea who Tommy and Kat's grandson's mentor was.
- It should also be noted that those communicators operated via the communications/teleportation system of the Command Center, going inoperable whenever the Center was incapacitated.
- And there can't be a Neo-Command Center by the time Tommy and Kat's grandson became a Ranger because....? Word of God has confirmed that Season to Remember is canon so yeah.
- It should also be noted that those communicators operated via the communications/teleportation system of the Command Center, going inoperable whenever the Center was incapacitated.
- Alternately, NASADA is just a militaristic branch of NASA.
- Think about it. Andros already had his Red Ranger powers prior to the season's beginning, and not only that, but there were 4 Astro Morphers unused which he gave to T.J., Carlos, Ashley, and Cassie almost out of nowhere. What other reason would he have the morphers? Logically, he could have had another team of his own kind fighting in space with him sometime during the events of the previous 5 (or 3 if you put all MMPR seasons together as one) seasons, and then they either betrayed him or died in battle.
- Continuing the WMG above, Zhane may have been the Sixth Ranger of Andros' old team, as Zhane was not only frozen due to serious injuries, but it was also stated many times that he and Andros entered many battles together. When he came back to life, Andros said he was 'glad he was alive' after his cryogenic chamber destructed. In the KO-35 flashback, only Andros and Zhane were seen fighting, meaning that they also could have been the only remaining members of the aforementioned previous team he may have had.
Zordon Era in General
- Given his humanlike head and human appearance in the noncanonical movie, this would make him racist, not evil - a racist of the "everyone who doesn't look like me is automatically evil" sort.
- Proof against this theory: Aquitarans. No way are those closer to humans than Rita.
- Her brother is a skeleton and her dad is the spawn of Satan, Elton John, and the King of all Cosmos. Maybe she's just had work done.
- Given what her son, Thrax looked like, this is entirely possible. The father was Zedd, who is presumed to have looked more human before touching the Zeo Crystal- so his genes should have been human in phenotype, meaning that the monstrous genes must have come from Rita's side of the family.
- Her brother is a skeleton and her dad is the spawn of Satan, Elton John, and the King of all Cosmos. Maybe she's just had work done.
- There's the theory that Zordon used the Power Rangers as his goons to destroy the evil in the universe, because the other forces of evil were preventing Zordon from being able to claim the universe for himself, and as such he saw them as competition towards his own claim to universal power. An excellent way for an evil to gain support, is to demonize their rival and convince the masses that their opponents must be removed. Not only would the greater evil, in this case Zordon, be able to eliminate the competition, but he also has the most powerful forces in the universe (that the city's of Earth place their complete trust in) completely subservient to his word as a gospel... because he's convinced them it's the right thing to do. Zordon and Zedd are probably rivals, because they had creative differences on who could be the biggest douchebag. Dark Specter probably ordered Zordon to be captured, so that Zordon couldn't take over the universe before him. Had Zordon not panicked at the end and, rather than admit his treachery, he wouldn't have continued to play the goody mentor card when asking Andros to help him sacrifice his life, and wouldn't have been a coward escaping having to tell Andros the truth. The Z wave destroyed all the evil currently attacking the universe because, well, that technically was his plan all along, so they'd be nothing to stop him taking over. But him being dead kind of hindered that.
- Explains why he was such a douchebag to Jason, on two accounts. Firstly he neglects to tell the team about the green candle, even though he knew about it, right until it was too late. Consequently Jason blames himself for not getting the candle in time, causing Tommy to lose his green ranger powers, and this serves as a huge emotional scar that Jason probably never really got over. Sure Tommy returned as the green ranger, but only for a short time before losing his powers again. Jason risks making the same mistake with the rest of his team, but manages to learn from his mistakes. Zordon openly congratulates Jason for his good leadership, to get Jason's hopes up, only to knock them down a few episodes later by bringing Tommy back as the white ranger, and makes him LEADER. It was a totally unnecessary move that affects Jason tremendously. He became a quiet, withdrawn hermit for the remainder of his Red Ranger run, with only Zack and Trini by his side, resulting in a split between the team, and Jason (with Trini and Zack) eventually departing off to Switzerland. But it's cool, I mean Jason gets over it, moves on, comes back a changed man in Zeo. He's cool with Tommy being the leader now, the guy is competent, the team is in capable hands, and as long as he still contributes then he still sees it as a team effort. It's fine. Oh except that he now has a ranger power (Gold Ranger) that ends up almost painfully killing him because his powers weren't built for a human physiology, and thus conflicting entirely with his biochemistry. But Zordon doesn't show him any compassion. But he treats Tommy like a golden boy though, and when Tommy's Green Ranger powers were failing, Zordon insisted Tommy stay behind, because his life would be at risk. It might just be elitism than plain universal douchebaggery, but Zordon is still a dick.
- Would also explain why he let them walk out of the Command Center with their morphers. He had Alpha 5 teleport them there; he could have easily had Alpha teleport them back and picked 5 more teens who would have been more agreeable to being Rangers...or however many of the OG 5 teens he'd picked that had said 'no' instead of 'yes' right away. Jason had been willing to listen from the start while the others were either on the fence or against the idea until Rita attacked them. Rita, IMHO, had only attacked them because Zordon didn't transport them to the Youth Center sans morphers. She really didn't have a way to see who Zordon had picked until he let them walk out of the Command Center.
- Alternately, Colonial Angel Grove was on the East Coast, and the whole town packed up and headed west (founding Angel Grove, CA) during the Gold Rush.
- The word "Angel" appears prominently in both "Angel Grove" and "Los Angeles," especially when you translate the latter. Angel Grove was clearly intended to be a major Californian city. The presence of the word Angel, especially in junction with this theory, lends itself to a connection to our formerly Spanish City of Angels.
- Biggest confirmation came in "Countdown to Destruction," when a Bank of California sign is visible during a scene in the city. Also, the climate; the gravel pits; the commonness of earthquakes (given how calm Ernie was about the one in "Day of the Dumpster"); the comment that it didn't snow in Angel Grove in "The Great Bookala Escape"; an oil spill on the ocean moving left out of frame was said to be moving south, indicating that the beach we saw it from was facing west...
- That said, later seasons show (primarily through bus signs) that Los Angeles does exist.
- The real LA has both a Chinatown and a Japantown, and since Angel Grove is basically LA, it makes sense. Maybe all the Zyuranger-stock-footage fights just so happen to take place in Angel Grove's Japantown?
- It would also explain in "A Bad Reflection on You" why the Evil Rangers are at a part of town where there's a lot of Asians.
- Or he went home in season five intending to be captured and killed as part of a plan to destroy or purify the entire united alliance of evil.
- To extend this theory, the reason we haven't seen any of them is that they are all living in the Mystic Realm, not seeing themselves as worthy of living with humanity as a whole due to their crimes.
- Or...
- Jossed, according to Power Rangers: Soul of the Dragon she was banished to Lokar's realm after attempting to gain more power by betraying Rita and got killed by Lokar at the end for failing to kill Tommy's son JJ.
- Jossed, see above.
- It's much, much worse than that for them. They were purified, made into good people, as shown by Rita's becoming the Mystic Mother, source of good magic, by Power Rangers Mystic Force. As newly-made good people, they are capabe of feeling remorse and horror at sins they have committed. Before said purification, they had razed cities, planetary systems, even galaxies in Zedd's case. And they still remember everything they did while evil. Death would be a mercy compared to the guilt they must have felt, and had to live with it for the rest of their unimaginably long lives.
- So his people are Space Jews?
Now, we can dismiss this as it didn't happen within the show itself. Kinda like how the idea that Kimberly married Skull, which was floated around Forever Red. It never materialized so it is non-canon.
But is it not strange that Ernie's last listed appearance is in the Turbo movie, while Zordon left to return to his home planet not long after? Ernie's absence was explained by the line "Well, his foreign service unit recalled him and he had to suddenly leave. I don't know, something about building a bridge in the Amazon," and the Youth Center/Juice Bar was left in the hands of Lt. Stone. Ernie never returns, not even for a cameo. Let that last part sink in. Not even at the end of In Space, the guy who always believed in the team was not there to say a few words. Granted, neither were any of the past Rangers.
Zordon, on the other hand, left shortly thereafter to return to his home planet and be reunited with his family. He left the Rangers in the hands of his longtime friend Dimitria. He is captured and later sacrifices his life to purge the galaxy of evil.
Now, you can say it's a coincidence. Two characters who were on the show from the beginning leaving at the same time. What I think is that while they never outright said it, Ernie indeed was Zordon. Maybe an avatar, maybe a fragment. Who knows? But what would that accomplish? What I think is that Jason, Kimberly, Zack, Billy, and Trini were not chosen at random. While Ernie was written out due to a case of Real Life Writes the Plot (Ernie's actor had some health issues due to a mix of both his weight and because he smoked), evidence suggests that it is entirely probable that they are the same person because he's never mentioned again, even in shows where there are characters that would have known him and prior to Richard Genelle's death in 2008 and Zordon's death in 1998 (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Power Rangers Wild Force, and Power Rangers: Dino Thunder). The two being the same person are never brought up because it's not relevant to the plot. NOW, with the 30th anniversary coming up next year, this would be a great place to canonize this WMG. With Zordon, too, keep in mind that there was limited footage for his face, so that may be another Real Life Writes the Plot issue, as his original actor had left acting about halfway through Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, but they kept using his face through the end of Power Rangers in Space. It had to be wearing out, even by Power Rangers Turbo, hence why he goes back to Eltar.
Remember what kind of events were hosted at the juice bar. Martial Arts tournaments, charity events, parties, you name it. That, and it was a popular place for the teenagers of Angel Grove. As "Ernie," Zordon was in a position to monitor the available youth and figure out who was worthy to be a power ranger. Who had the ability to fight and who showed kindness and compassion. Maybe it was even "Ernie's" idea that Billy sign up for Jason's karate class. After all, Billy was insanely smart, which could be a benefit to the team, but without the ability to fight he could end up as a liability.
And let's face it, he asked for 5 teenagers. Could have been anyone (I kinda like to think there is a universe where Skull was picked to be the Black Ranger) and somehow Zordon picked 5 teens, conveniently in the same place instead of randomly picking teens from around the city. Thus, when Rita was released and began her attack, Zordon had already scouted out five teenagers with goodness in their hearts and in good physical shape.
- More evidence: In "The Green Dream," Bulk and Skull use some kind of energy detector to figure out the Power Rangers' identities. When the Power Rangers use one of Billy's gadgets to block them off from the device, it still registers energy nearby, which turns out to be coming from...Ernie.
- More evidence: Word Of God is Ernie knows who the Power Rangers are and that's why they never (mostly-there's a scene in Power Rangers Zeo where Ernie's at the Rangers' table, counting money) pay for the drinks he gives them, he's doing it out of gratitude for saving Earth over and over. Makes more sense if it can be Zordon, right?
- This also fits with Zyuranger. Zordon's equivalent, Barza, disguised himself as the superintendent of an apartment building where he built up a good relationship with the local kids.
- Someone actually took this idea and ran with it: Mentor on Archive of Our Own by Jen425. While it's not a full Zordon is Ernie in disguise, it doesn't require much in the way of Suspension of Disbelief.
Rather, their minds were overwritten with copies of the others. So, in the case of Billy, there is a copy of Billy's mind over a copy of Kim's mind over Billy's mind. Also, The Kim part of Billy's mind was attracted to Tommy, which cause Billy, afraid and confused, to have many girlfriends over his tenure.
Zach - Angela
Trini - Richie
Adam - The girl at the end of "Return of the Green Ranger, Part 2" who's likely the colonial girl Marissa's descendant. That's if we're not taking the ship tease that he has with Tanya in Power Rangers Zeo.
- Which actually reflects Justin staying on Earth with his dad...
Morphing technology was created by figuring out what changes were made to the items when they were embedded and then figuring out how to make those changes artificially.
- Possibly confirmed by Gem and Gemma's death.
- But her body was destroyed in the explosion, Mike was dead but the Magna Defender taking over his body revived him, for all practical purposes Kedrix's spirit had no proper vessel to return to.
- Her body may have been [temporarily] destroyed, but it's likely that her spirit was put into limbo rather than passing onto the afterlife or truly becoming a ghost possibly because "it wasn't her time yet". And yes, Mike's spirit was probably in limbo as well (ergo he, too, wasn't truly dead).
- And because this is the Power Rangers universe we're talking about (where logic doesn't always take a front seat), it's possible that her Ranger suit offered SOME form of protection — however miniscule — from Psycho Pink's damaging energy wave; and thus, she probably wasn't completely killed, in spite of the dangerously close range of the blast.
- I love this theory, but... Christopher Khayman Lee shows up in the background in Lightspeed Rescue? News to me. Where and when?
- Desert Dome: Not all deserts are Thirsty Deserts almost devoid of life. Many are thriving ecosystems. It makes sense to have one along with the other habitats.
- Grassland Dome: Many people forget about grasslands when they think of biomes, but they are one of the biggest biomes in the world.
- Agricultural Dome: If there’s an Industrial Dome, there needs to be one of these too. The people on Terra Venture can't survive without food.
- Lake Dome: For freshwater life, probably one of the tiny ones.
- Other Forest Domes: It really doesn't make sense to just have one because there are different types of forests. The one we see resembles a temperate forest. But what about a Taiga Dome? Or a Tropical Rainforest Dome?
Also, Time Force's colors correspond to the colors of the Zeo subcrystals.
- Alternatively, by "Zordon and myself", Zedd meant the struggle between good and evil using it, respectively. Thus, since Dark Spector, the Big Bad of Big Bads, and Zordon, are gone, new teams keep popping up because the Grid keeps drawing them in to bring balance. Also, in 3,000, if you'll notice, only one ranger was active, red, and he was not all that powerful, indicating that the Grid was weaker then. It wasn't until the team got back to 2001 that they could all morph; all of our own dormant evil was keeping the Grid up then. Plus, the Gold Ranger had a piece, and there was nothing there corresponding to him.
- Alternatively, the Alex we see after his "death" is a clone of the one who died. The Time Force Agency always keeps a backup on hand. They keep this a closely guarded secret because it would cause the public to lose faith in the Time Force.
- Word of God says yes, Alex is a clone of Wes. Why they decided to wait almost a millennium to clone him is anyone's guess.
- So he could be with Jen, obviously.
- This actually makes some sense. Remember during the series that they tried replicating the quantum morpher's powers for the rest of the silver guardians? Well, what if they succeeded? The resulting power boost to the guardians would turn them into a stronger power rangers operation, and due to the ranks of the guardians, it would lead to the formation of A and B squads, and with an anchored base of operations, they would become SPD, and by following the memories/clones of Wes, Time Force would finally be founded, just as Wes had foresaw.
Which leads to:
- We see Captain Logan saluting him
- He goes back in time without answering to anyone.
- He is able to override Circuit's controls to block information.
- He decides what is classified and what is not
- He was the one who told the other rangers they had to have the memory wipe.
- He was the one who authorized the four to take the Megazord, and canceled Memory Adaptation.
- If he hadn't, they would have been arrested at the door.
- And if you subscribe to the theory that some combination of Lightspeed Rescue, the Silver Guardians and SPD equals Time Force, it may have happened before that... remember the Dino Rangers getting their memories wiped twice after their encounters with SPD.
- Very good theory, but I thought I read on either the main Power Rangers page or the Time Force page that Word of God says Alex is a clone, created maybe 2 decades before Time Force starts.
- The re-created parole because of Nadira and her connections to the Time Force Rangers. It also seems that cryogenic freezing has been discontinued (Ransik seem to be serving his sentence in a regular jail cell) possibly because the rangers figured out that the prisoners were conscious during the whole thing.
- Dr. Fericks did try to help Ransik, but that was because he himself had be shunned and was lonely with robots serving as his only friends. The only other person who claims Ransik had any kind of help is Jen, and at that point she's just parroting whatever Time Force told her and we find out later that Mutants really are treated pretty horribly in the year 3000. Yes there are some mutants who had stable careers and a place in society (Jen's former partner and Lucas' racing rival) they are very few and far between, and very humanoid looking at that. So probably both versions are true, somewhat. Ransik did have folks who wanted to help him but only after he had grown so bitter with human society he decided to strike back.
- The toy line for Ninja Storm did a redeco'd Ninjor.
- This WOULD have been the backstory had MMPR Productions been allowed to continue under Disney for Ninja Storm. Ninjor founding the Wind Academy, anyway. They had something much wankier in mind for the Thunder Rangers' master — The Phantom Ranger...
- It's still possible that he founded the Wind Ninja Academy. It just wasn't mentioned on-screen. For all we know, ten feet behind the waterfall portal is a statue of Ninjor labeled "Our Founder". It's not like we ever got a comprehensive tour of the academy or its history.
- Jossed by the toyline: the third mode is actually a car mode which assembles around the folded-up Ranger—hence the wheels which go unused on the show.
- But in Fighting Spirit he had the Zeo and White Rangers to fight
- That was about living up to the original, and he couldn't break free unless he could fight the original's legacy
- This would also explain why Kat wasn't present, despite being married to Tommy. She is married to the original Tommy.
- The canonicity of "A Season To Remember" is debatable despite Word of God comments due to it requiring Zordon to still be alive.
- That could explain where he had the cash to maintain the zords.
- Not just the zords, but the entire command center. If their command center isn't powered by solar power like one of the below WMGs states, that's going to be one hell of a power bill for Tommy to pay. Even with a doctorate, being a high school teacher doesn't pay much. That would also explain why he's able to afford everything down there as well...well, what didn't get bought/made by Hayley or Tommy's off-planet allies.
- There's nothing to suggest they aren't still dating during the time of Dino Thunder - in fact, Hayley seems to pretty much stay at Tommy's place when she's not busy at her cafe.
- Of course, knowing Tommy, it's equally likely she just found the morphers lying around his place during college...
- This could be the case, since Kat would have been in Elsa's place if the former's actress hadn't gotten pregnant (which is a bit ironic if you've seen Abaranger).
- Most likely. During their first meeting with the Tyrannodrones, they were losing badly until their powers activated, otherwise they may have died. Maybe from then on their fighting skill raised by their powers, but they were good fighters on their own halfway through the series.
- Or, y'know, Wes could just be his father.
- Would it mean, that Wes could be one of SPD founders?
- It's possible, with two former rangers in the Silver Guardians.
- Would it mean, that Wes could be one of SPD founders?
- More reasonably, the calendar is exactly the same as always, but by 3000 the earth still hasn't completely recovered from the Venjix apocalypse. SPD is higher tech than Time Force because Time Force came after most human knowledge and technology was destroyed.
- And what with aliens? Can we assume that Venjix destroyed them all?
- He's simply cut off communications and is sending fake signals out to keep aid from coming. As for why aliens didn't bring human technology back up... it's not like they Uplifted humanity much the first time — note how they held back much supertech long after the Countdown — so why would rebuilding be different? There's probably some form of Prime Directive in place.
- Also, SPD technically wasn't an Earth organization, which is why its tech was so good. It was a Sirian organization with a branch on Earth, which is probably a Prime Directive loophole.
- And the reason for the lack of aliens is Time Force is because the people of that time period are paranoid and speciest which is why Mutants are less than second-class citizens (hell, they're pretty much considered outright criminals from the time they're born) and the humans are Gattica Babies. Following the events of RPM and the reconstruction of human society earth closed off its borders completely because they didn't trust anything that wasn't human.
- Actually during Ransik's trial you can spot some aliens. And Trip is also an alien.
- And what with aliens? Can we assume that Venjix destroyed them all?
- The calendar was changed because of Venjix. See the RPM WMG page for more.
- If I remember, one of the themes in Time Force is the possibility that, with they and Ransik in the past, they are changing the past. Also, the time travel could not need a zord or ship assistance if the travel is less than 100 years in the past/future. Maybe, the trouble comes in large travels(1000 years in the past, for example), because they need more energy and are more unstable.
There is no logical reason for Grumm and the Empire to wipe out all of Sirius, but keep Isinia alive. None for Omni, anyhow; Grumm could certainly use that as psychological warfare against Doggie - but he doesn't.
Also, there are some of Birdie's actions, which almost scream "Blatant attempt at sabotage": deposing Doggie as Earth S.P.D. commander and splitting the team up; conveniently being unable to help when Morgana went on a rampage - a rampage that, if not stopped, would've destroyed Earth Branch and left the entire universe at Grumm's mercy.
There is A-Squad's sudden Face–Heel Turn, with little more than the desire to be "on the winning side" as a reason for their defection.
There's Broodwing, who - despite his numerous Krybots - doesn't seem like the type to pass up the opportunity to sell flesh-and-blood slaves, which the Sirian invasion would've easily given him.
All this seems to point to the whole bunch being in cahoots with the Empire from the beginning, selling out both Earth and Sirius for their share of the spoils. It also points to most of the Sirian populace being under Troobian rule.
The team-up with S.P.D. made a convenient Masquerade for whenever a high-ranking soldier or lowly thug (like Grumm) gets out of hand: just have S.P.D. eliminate them for the Empire. The rest of the free universe will see it as "bringing justice to the guilty".
- Don't forget Sky's little friend Dru. A former S.P.D. Cadet, missing in action, tries to assassinate Cruger for Broodwing and rants to Sky about how he doesn't understand? He's either in on it or acting under duress.
We don't know if S.P.D.'s high command was in cahoots with Omni. But there's still an S.P.D. in Sam's timeline.
- Battlizers only work for red rangers, the correct term is Mega Battle
- Well, that's an out-of-universe rule, not an in-universe one (as far as we know). Besides, the OP was talking about a specific Battlizer, not just the general concept.
- Kat stated the battlizer is only compatible with red rangers
- Yes, at their current level the Battlizer is is only compatible with Red Rangers, but the Omega Ranger is from the future, so it's possible this has changed.
- The only battlizer ever confirmed to only work for a red ranger is the one Kat built. There's nothing to suggest any battlizer that came before or after couldn't have theoretically worked for another ranger. Take Samurai's Shogun Mode for example.
- Well, that's an out-of-universe rule, not an in-universe one (as far as we know). Besides, the OP was talking about a specific Battlizer, not just the general concept.
- What a sad way for such a historic villain to go out, unrecognized and killed by the multiverse's lamest Care Bear Stare. Then again, at least it wasn't the Combined Energy Attack...
- Well, the ''Power Rangers: Super Legends'' video game does show Zedd returning to his evil ways...
- The same source also says that, in at least one Alternate Universe, human!Zedd became an archaeologist. Anyone else thinking Anton Mercer?
- If that's the case, then the look on Tommy's face when he finds out.
- If the Anton\Tommy fangirls are right, that's gonna be one hell of a look.
- Or Smitty
- The same source also says that, in at least one Alternate Universe, human!Zedd became an archaeologist. Anyone else thinking Anton Mercer?
- Zedd's species reproduces with genetic memories like the Goa'uld. The bigger problem is explaining why Thrax was a legendary warlord that was running around and imprisoned when Sentinel Knight still had his body, which was when Pangea still existed. MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. Significantly more ancient than either of his parents!
- Maybe Sentinel Knight was active for a really really long time, from Pangea-era to about 2004, when he took out Thrax and got disembodied in the process?
- This oddly connects to the theory below as Lord Zedd was able to use the powers from the Dragon Coin to create his own set of Rangers, so it actually makes sense that when Rita became the Mystic Mother, she was able to channel the Green Ranger Powers she gained into making the Mystic Rangers.
I find there's two possible explanations. One is a matter of timing, while the other is a matter of semantics/bad luck.
- Theory 1: The timing theory. Without the mystic force to hold the darkness at bay, this meant that the forces of evil stormed over briarwood quickly, and before the other rangers could react in time, the dark forces work entrenched, and launched a Zerg Rush over the earth. While individual teams and legacies might have fought bravely to stem the tide, like in the end of power rangers turbo or in space, they were simply outmatched and slowly were destroyed one team and ranger at a time.
- Theory 2: Semantics. When Flurious made the wish, and put extra emphasis on the phrase Power Rangers, the wish actually removed ALL rangers from existence. Thus, earth was the sight of a great cataclysm as countless evil empires fought for control of the earth, until the dark magical forces ended up as the victorious ones.
- Theory 3: Bad luck. When the wish was taking effect, there was a hidden clause in the wish that made it so that any force against the forces of the master were overrun. Basically turning all luck against earth's defenders.
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
The relationship with Spencer is requited. Spencer is more loyal than Alfred Pennyworth, and someone in that job without any emotional attachment would, if he was prudent, take the salary and RUN to somewhere not likely to be bombed by aliens. Love Makes You Crazy.
- An episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers has Ernie say that they will do for Angel Grove what Batman did for Gotham City, suggesting his existence in the Power Rangers universe. And Spencer is a master of disguise.
- While we are there, Carter Grayson is related to Dick Grayson.
- Or the Batman: Arkham Series versions if you subscribe to the theory they went into hiding after blowing up Wayne Manor.
- Pay attention to the way he tends to act at times. When he speaks he's almost always somewhat louder than needed, his attention span seems to be low, and his speech patterns are slightly accented. Sometimes when he talks, he says very out-there things that come off as slightly childish, such as when they were in Turkey and he made a ridiculously dumb (though somewhat funny) joke about how they were finding a bird. Also, when Rose was explaining the Sentinel Morpher to him by telling him he would be "fried" or something really dangerous, he stared into space and still had to think about it. He definitely doesn't have full-blown autism, but it's worth pointing out that he could be one of the franchise's biggest Cloud Cuckoolander rangers because he might have a few symptoms.
- If the above is true, then this is also confirmed.
- Since Rita and Dai Shi escaped roughly sixteen years apart, this would make "ten thousand years" a rough figure rather than an exact one... But one would imagine Sealed Evil in a Can tends to lose track of time.
- Good and evil were in a cold war 10,000 years ago, and Earth's Beast War warmed things up very quickly.
- "Ten thousand years ago" remained a fixed point in time from 1993-1995, and so it is a rough figure. Besides, the Pai Zhua Masters and Dai Shi's forces weren't NEWBORNS when the Beast Wars happened. On the other hand...
- Well, this one would confirm the one directly above it, since if she didn't know who he was, she obviously wouldn't know where to find him...
- Heck, she wasn't happy when Zedd showed up in "The Mutiny".
- This one would joss the above 2 - but it's probably the most likely of the 3, for the other reason stated in this WMG.
- Heck, she wasn't happy when Zedd showed up in "The Mutiny".
- Hinted at in the show: the overlords who are ostensibly below Dai Shi in power and rank taunt him for being a "mere human".
- Confirmed at the end: Jarrod and Dai Shi separated, but Jarrod could still summon the armor.
- Or she could have a somewhat similar situation to Jarrod; maybe back during the Beast War she made a deal with Dai Shi: immortality in exchange for her eternal servitude.
- Jossed the new casting sheet says all ethnicities.
- And yet he's still white...
- Time travel. They gave their powers to someone else. Ninjor did it. Z-wave Machina. Etc., etc. The problem with giving each season its own continuity is that along the series it's shown again and again that it is just ONE big continuity. Saying it now just make no sense.
- I think all Tzachor said was that the non-MMPR Productions seasons (everything after Wild Force) was out of continuity. (And you can sort of explain away Lost Galaxy through Wild Force as being jumps through different dimensions/timelines/whatever.) Besides, the Zordon Era seasons not being in continuity with each other can't be reconciled, considering the characters carrying over - did the NASADA shuttle go through some sort of dimensional hole between Turbo and In Space, and if so, how are its occupants not the same T.J., Carlos, Ashley and Cassie? (Also, see "If Gokaiger is adapted..." above for why it might not be as big a problem as it sounds.)
- Jossed - ironically, the Gokaiger adaptation is within the continuity of the Goseiger adaptation (specifically, it's a sequel). It seems this was the mindset he had when making the adaptation though, since they include Zeo, Turbo, and In Space teams as separate teams, despite the fact that members are shared between the teams note - however, as Tommy is only shown in his Green Ranger outfit (despite the fact that his legend shift when he was rescuing a kid showed him as the white ranger), it's likely that he got a few other people to fill in for some of his other powers.
- Also supported by the fact that Goseiger exists to advertise not just toys, but a trading card arcade game, the latter of which probably won't make the voyage over the pacific. Just makes good business sense to skip to the one advertising merch they can sell stateside.
- Goseiger is in Gokaiger. You can't really adapt them out of order.
- Gokaiger also has ranger suits from before Zyuranger. All easily explainable as being Rangers from before 1992 or from different worlds in the Rangers-verse; the Goseiger suits will probably be lumped in with those, and then not adapted in and of itself at all due to merchandising difficulty issues.
- What difficulty issues? It's angels with cards! Not that hard to sell. If anything they could sell them in packs for the Tensounder adapted toy.
- Yes, but will the kids into action figures and transforming combining robots buy into card games? I know I wouldn't have, back in the day. We don't have as big a market segment to cater to in America as they do in Japan, and tend to have narrower types of merchandising in general...
- Yu-Gi-Oh! begs to differ.
- Again, different audiences. I'm just going by what I was like as a kid regarding toy-purchasing habits- I bought loads of Power Rangers toys when I was into it, but didn't get into Yu-Gi-Oh! cards despite liking the show.
- I disagree, if only because they would want the 20th season's team to have the same colors as the original team. (Same logic as the Sentai colors for 35th)
- Why are you still arguing over the point. Power Rangers Megaforce has already been announced and it's based on Goseiger.
- Goseiger is in Gokaiger. You can't really adapt them out of order.
- Jossed, but not by much. They will both be in Megaforce''.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- I can definitely see them dropping the Battle Fever J suits, but the Goranger and JAKQ suits could work. They've done symbol visors before.
- Confirmed, although they do allow some other sentai-only teams for some odd reason.
- Jossed, although that was a fan theory about Gosei. Seems like it would have been a better idea to do the same thing with Rita Repulsa in Mystic Force and have Zedd turn out to be the mentor of the Megaforce team - it would have given an explanation for what happened to him after the events of In Space.
- If it's a straight adaptation, it might not be a problem. What Gokaiger seems to be doing is only bringing back one or two characters from the Special Guest Sentai Team Of The Week. It looks like the only full team that's been brought back so far is the Hurricanger Power Trio (and that's the most recent one).
- It's more of a straight adaptation, but jossed - they keep the Gokaiger suits swapping powers.
- Several convention-goers will also be wearing costumes of the Monsters of the Week from previous seasons. The costumes will be the actual props from the previous shows, if they are able to use them. The current villains may even transform the costumes into the actual monsters to distract the current Rangers.
- Most, if not all, former Rangers are revealed to have contribute to the convention. The current Rangers meet some of them without revealing their secret. The former Rangers give each other a knowing look after meeting them.
- Unfortunately jossed - this might have happened if they had done a Turbo tribute episode, but unfortunately, that didn't happen.
- Jossed.
- Alternatively, it'll be a former civilian ally/friend, who wasn't a ranger himself, but knew them. Ideally Bulk, Skull, or Spike.
- Spike's the right age.
- And Jossed. Following In Space and Operation Overdrive, the Silver Ranger is an alien who is battling against the villains...although one has to wonder why they didn't at least have him be from a Power Rangers version of a sentai-only team.
- Toei is filming a version of the Legend War for Power Rangers. Whether or not this WMG will be canon is currently unknown.
- Confirmed - it looks like the footage Toei filmed was used for the finale of Super Megaforce instead.
- Confirmed...sort of. Tensou fills the role of Navi and Datas, but has more in common with the latter than the former.
- Jossed. It's a case of Stock Footage Failure - they don't even leave the skyship, much less interact with the team!
- PR!GokaiSilver and PR!Gai will be two different characters. To make up for this, PR!GokaiSilver will be merged with PR!Human!Basco, and PR!Monster!Basco will be a character of his own.
- PR!GokaiSilver will start out as a mysterious opposing Ranger created by PR!Zangyack. As soon as he is defeated and joins the team it's revealed that "he" is actually a she — a reference to the fact that during the early Saban years every Yellow Ranger was female regardless of whether the Japanese footage had a bulge or not. And since GokaiYellow is already female...
- On the other hand, PR!Gai will be a Muggle Best Friend who tries desperately to become a Ranger (in the vein of Bulk and Skull) and fails everytime.
- Jossed - he ends up being another alien, much like Zane and Tyzonn.
- One of the Zordon's finest warriors in the flashback where he fights Knasty Knight might have been a Ranger on that team. He could be it's Black Ranger since the warrior in the clip was Goushi.
- And jossed. The Goranger suits don't make any appearance whatsoever.
- Jossed, as the reunion doesn't happen until the 30th anniversary. Zack and Billy are both present, it's Jason who's missing, as his actor Austin St. John has had his passport confiscated due to a federal fraud accusation. Trini is represented by her daughter, so we should find out her status. Adam, Aisha, Rocky and Kat will also be present, but not Kimberly or Tommy, for unknown reasons - Tommy's actor Jason David Frank died in 2022 but this was after filming on the anniversary special was completed.
- For Himitsu Sentai Goranger, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Alpha Squad" because they are the first team.
- Alternatively they would be called by their Philippine adaptation's name "Star Rangers."
- For J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Suit Squadron."
- Alternatively they would be called "(Power Rangers) Justice Shuffle" to somewhat match the original sentai symbol.
- Alternatively they would be called by their Philippine adaptation's name "Lucky Aces".
- For Battle Fever J, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Patriot Force." Though it lead into a bit of a paradox since the countries the team members represent did not exist 10,000 years ago.
- Alternatively they would be called "(Power Rangers) Battle Force" to match the original sentai symbol.
- For Denshi Sentai Denziman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Electron Defenders."
- For Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan, they would just replace "Taiyo Sentai" with "Power Rangers" and keep the rest of the name the same.
- The Yellow Ranger would be a female, just like in the Disney Era season which features a Power Trio.
- For Dai Sentai Goggle V, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Visor Force."
- For Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Dynamics."
- There might be a reference to the 1988 six-episode mini-series.
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Battalion Rangers".
- For Choudenshi Bioman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Bio Force."
- It'll follow the same story as the proposed Bio-Man adaptation.
- For Dengeki Sentai Changeman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Change Masters" to match the original sentai symbol.
- Alternatively they would be called "(Power Rangers) Creature Morphers."
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Blitz Rangers".
- For Choushinsei Flashman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Supernova."
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Prism Rangers".
- For Hikari Sentai Maskman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Light Squad."
- Alternatively they would be called "(Power Rangers) Spectrum Five" to somewhat match the original sentai symbol.
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Lightning Rangers".
- For Choujuu Sentai Liveman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Lifeforce Might" to somewhat match the original sentai symbol.
- Alternatively they would be called "(Power Rangers) Life Morphers."
- For Kousoku Sentai Turboranger, is a bit harder since their team symbol has their name in it, unless they edit out the words the team would be confused for the Power Rangers Turbo team.
- Alternatively Power Rangers Drive Force
- A nice Mythology Gag could be made by calling them the "Car Rangers".
- In a reversal to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, these Rangers are ancient warriors reawakened in the modern world to fight the demon tribes.
- For Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Vanguard."
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Supersonic Rangers".
- For Choujin Sentai Jetman, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Jet Stream." The Neo Jetman team would be called "Jet Stream: Black Ops."
- Alternativly (Power Rangers) Sky Force
- Related to the theory in the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers WMG page, a Ranger team for Gosei Sentai Dairanger. Maybe "(Power Rangers) Thunder Squadron" or "(Power Rangers) Five-Star Force".
- Alternatively, to go with the "D" in their symbol, they would be called "(Power Rangers) Dynasty".
- In Super Megaforce, they're called "Legendary Squadron".
- Interestingly, there have been rumors that the unused Dairanger suits would've been used in Lost Galaxy for a team of "Ancient Rangers". So this could partially be true.
Alternately, these Ranger teams appeared during the mid-to-late 20th century like their Super Sentai counterparts. Thought Zordon may have had a role in their creations, since he's been on Earth for 10,000 years. Or may have had an indirect influence on their creations (in a similar way to the post-Zordon Era Rangers).
- Red Prime Ranger
- Red Nexus Ranger
- Red Ranger
- Red Legacy Ranger
- Red Amalgam Ranger
- Crimson Ranger
- Scarlet Ranger
- Alternatively or additionally, the Power Rangers universe is a parallel universe to the world seen in Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle.
- It was stated in a bonus episode of Dino Thunder that the Morphing Grid is actually sentient to a certain degree. It's also been said that the Morphing Grid is powered by the battle between good and evil. So if, during the Gokaiger adaptation, the massive fleet of enemies attacks earth, suddenly there's so much evil in one location that the Morphing Grid is able to restore the powers of all rangers who lost their powers previously, hence the legendary war. Once they all lose their powers though, the Morphing Grid takes all that power to form it's own physical body and ranger powers and starts searching for five new people to give the Gokaiger powers to.
- Jossed - Gokaiger's adaptation is a direct sequel to the Goseiger adaptation. Akared didn't get a PR counterpart.
- And jossed for the same reason as the above WMG.
- Let's face it: A lot of Gokaiger involves using previous ranger powers. Saban can't avoid the footage of Sentai rangers who have not been adapted into a season of PR, at least not for a while. They simply have to provide an explanation for those teams, unless they want to recreate the whole Sam situation again, except to an even worse extent.
- It seems the explanation is all pre-Zyuranger teams (and Dairanger) are considered "alien" Ranger teams from off-earth like the Aquitar Rangers.
- Jossed - while they do include some pre-Zyuranger teamsnote and the Dairangers, they don't include all of them, and they don't give background information for the teams outside of the names - ironically enough, Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, Choudenshi Bioman, Kousoku Sentai Turboranger, and Choujin Sentai Jetman, the series that were originally considered to be the first Power Rangers series before Zyuranger, are not one of the "New Powers".
- It seems the explanation is all pre-Zyuranger teams (and Dairanger) are considered "alien" Ranger teams from off-earth like the Aquitar Rangers.
Nonetheless, most fans wouldn't care if the ninja turtles open up some super mega awesome portal to make it happen, or if the ponies from My Little Pony pop up and magically make it happen, the majority of fans won't care and go flat-out insane over it. That said...
- While this is more of a YMMV, the general consensus is that this one was confirmed, albeit it's the "Legendary Battle" instead of the Great Legends War. While they do actually bring back some of the actors, and they add in the Titanium Ranger, it's mostly Gokaiger footage - and it's just seen as underwhelming here, since the Legendary Battle was clearly trying to harken back to "Countdown to Destruction". While the extended cut is seen as slightly better, it's still underwhelming given the amount of build-up it's given.
- Kyoryuger is going to be the first Sentai since Gaoranger to start with a full team of five but only have one female ranger. As we know, whenever this happened previously, Saban always gender flipped the Yellow Ranger to compensate (save for Alien Rangers) and will probably do so again. However, there is no Yellow Ranger in Kyoryuger's core five, so this means we'll either get a new female Blue ranger or maybe our first ever female Green or Black ranger (probably depends on which of the three is the shortest).
- When this season gets adapted, not only will Bulk be featured in the subsequent Power Rangers season, he'll serve as one of the team's mentors and secret keepers. Let's face it, the man is due for the honor. He wouldn't be able to show the Rangers any techniques or new gear or anything, but would serve as the heart, soul, and conscience of the team.
- Jossed. All early promo material for "Power Rangers Dino Charge" clearly features only one Female (The Pink Ranger). Unless Gold gets Gender-Flipped, or they pass over the Male Cyan for the Female one.
- When this season gets adapted, not only will Bulk be featured in the subsequent Power Rangers season, he'll serve as one of the team's mentors and secret keepers. Let's face it, the man is due for the honor. He wouldn't be able to show the Rangers any techniques or new gear or anything, but would serve as the heart, soul, and conscience of the team.
- They will combine season 1 and 2 (maybe 3 if Akibaranger gets a third season) and put them together into one Power Rangers Season... and it will be awesome.
- Jossed - the source material was unofficial, so it would be pretty odd for Saban to adapt Akibaranger while skipping over Go-Busters or ''ToQger''. Plus, a lot of the content in Akibaranger wouldn't make it past censors.
- The suits and Resha are non typical designs
- The Resha wont fit well into Zord Builder
- The Resha arent the ideal collectible gimmic, being zords means there would have to be a higher price point than cards leys or batteries
- Confirmed...sort of - The core team doesn't get adapted, but some of the villains look like they will be included in Ninja Steel.
- The shuriken on Ninninger spin, just like the Dino Morphers do, and could easily be renamed "ninja chargers" or something similar.
- Dino Charge kept "It's about to get wild!" as one of its catchphrases, and Ninninger is already using "We're running wild!"
- Both series have auxiliary rangers with similar themes (The Graphite Ranger is Riley's cowboy brother Matt and the sixth ranger on Ninninger is Star Ninger, a cowboy-ninja).
- This point may be jossed, since the Graphite Ranger appears to be somebody other than what was originally stated.
- Jossed - Ninja Steel has a completely different cast than Dino Charge, and the plot summary doesn't mention Dino Charge in any way (both directly and indirectly). Barring a crossover, it looks unlikely that it'll be related to Dino Charge.
- While adapting from an older source isn't unprecedented, the main direct spanner in the works is the monster/villain suits were not built to last.
- Jossed. We're getting a Ninninger adaptation instead.
- And unjossed and confirmed - you were wrong by how much, but say hello to Power Rangers Beast Morphers.
- Jossed. We're getting a Ninninger adaptation instead.
- Adding to that, White or Yellow could be the Naïve Newcomer intern.
- Doesn't look like it. The villains are a company in a sense, but are aliens who are involved with a gladiatorial game show and are after a power source that gives the heroes their weapons and powers.
- Considering that Tenaya 7 is seen picking up a discarded Operation Overdrive helmet, if that IS the case, then it would mean that while both the RPM and the main earth have the same teams, the RPM universe started documenting ranger teams long before the man Earth did. My theory is that the main universe Earth and the RPM universe Earth shared teams up until Operation Overdrive - after that, they diverged; Jungle Fury took place in the main universe at the same time as RPM (since we know that Jungle Fury exists in the main universe, as shown in Super Megaforce), with the events of the teams not in the main universe happened in between the events of the teams in the main universe - i.e., the Power Rangers version of ''Go-Busters'' happened after the finale of Super Megaforce but ended before the beginning of Dino Charge, the Power Rangers version of ''ToQger'' happened after the finale of Dino Super Charge but before the beginning of Ninja Steel'', and so on.
- Kind of unlikely - while animals have been used as a motif for teams before, the space-themed series have been better received then the animal ones. Also, unless Nickelodeon decides to give PR an exception to the "20 episode a season" rule or Saban moves the show to a different network, the "Super" part would be the 6th post-Megaforce season...and seeing as how Saban has been reusing themes that were used in Mighty Morphin (Dinosaurs and Ninjas), it would be odd if they didn't have the 6th season be space themed like the aforementioned In Space. Not to mention that Zyuohger has a really similar premise to Ninja Steel, so it's pretty unlikely they'd do the same plot twice in a row.
- It doesn't seem like Saban is going to great lengths to make patterns for the seasons' themes, so saying that space stuff has been used for In Space is a reason to skip a certain season isn't totally solid. Also, an adaptation of Zyuohger wouldn't necessarily have the same plot. Look at Ninja Steel compared to ''Ninninger"; They are quite divergent, like some previous seasons, and an adaptation of Zyuohger could go in many directions.
- It's been confirmed that Kyuranger is being made with American input - why would they adapt the sentai they didn't have any involvement with? Unless they decided to adapt both seasons like they did with Goseiger and Gokaiger in Megaforce, odds are that they're going to skip Zyuohger in favor of Kyuranger. Then again, I've heard Saban's contract with Nickelodeon will have expired by the time Super Ninja Steel will have finished, so Saban COULD end up moving to another network and adapting both separately.
- Looking even more likely to be jossed, since Bandai of America said in an interview that Zyuohger's cube gimmick is not workable - unless they adapt the fight scenes from Zyuohger and adapt the mech footage from Kyuranger (Something that does have precedence, although it has not been done in a LOOOONG time), we're likely getting a Kyuranger adaptation.
- Seemingly jossed for good by the cover art of Shattered Grid, as seen here, where Chameleon Green is clearly present behind the Pink Ninja Steel Ranger - and since none of the other rangers from any of the unadapted Sentai teams (both pre-Zyuranger and post-Zyuranger) are present, it seems that Saban has all but officially decided that Zyuohger is going to be skipped.
- And jossed, albeit in a different way - we're getting an adaptation of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters instead.
- It doesn't seem like Saban is going to great lengths to make patterns for the seasons' themes, so saying that space stuff has been used for In Space is a reason to skip a certain season isn't totally solid. Also, an adaptation of Zyuohger wouldn't necessarily have the same plot. Look at Ninja Steel compared to ''Ninninger"; They are quite divergent, like some previous seasons, and an adaptation of Zyuohger could go in many directions.
- Toqger will feature trains powered by Morph X energy
- Zyuohger will involve aliens arriving on Earth with beast people forms (the Zyumen suits with Bard/Bud/Bird acting as Red)
- Kyuranger will explore the cosmos
- Lu Pat will be an attempt to use the fabled Hexagon concept
- Ryusoulger will have shout outs to the previous dinosaur teams.
- In lieu of a traditional City of Adventure (mostly), it will be set at summer camp—something that no Power Rangers season has done before.
- The villains will be a space-conquering empire who were sealed away into an abyss, but were inadvertently freed by the Rangers via unlocking a mysterious gate underground using five mysterious jewels.
- The Five-Token Band will be a Multinational Team of foreign-exchange students, consisting of Asian Red and Pink (respectively Vietnamese-Canadian and South Korean), Hispanic Blue (of Puerto Rican descent), Caucasian Black (hailing from Ireland), and Native Hawaiian Green.
- Gold would be Afro-Caribbean, whether he hails from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.
- Or alternatively, because of the Black Lives Matter movement, this can instead become the very first Power Rangers team without any Caucasian members.
- Besides the Red Ranger, who's obviously The Leader, the Pink Ranger will be a judo champion filling the role of The Lancer (the second such instance for a female Ranger, after Taylor from Wild Force), the Blue Ranger will be The Smart Guy (he can come up with new Megazord formations, and even discover a long lost powerful artifact to create a Battlizer for Red), the Green Ranger will be The Big Guy (specifically a wannabe thoroughbred racer), and the Black Ranger will be The Heart (a Kid-Appeal Character who's addicted to comic books).
- The Gold Ranger would acquire his powers from an ancient warrior who sacrificed himself to seal the villains away, but initially he will have a lot of trouble adapting to his new powers.
- Think about it: the last time we saw Zack and Trini, it was in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers season 2, as they prepared to head off to the peace summit. The last time we saw Billy, he'd been turned into an old man. All 3 cases were because their actors quit by walking off the set due to various reasons. Out of the 3, only Walter Jones (Zack) has come back to the show, but not as Zack, rather voicing a couple of different MOTW. Now: with Thuy Trang's death in 2001, they seem to have brought her daughter into her role, but nothing (yet) has been said if Trini is alive or dead. This will put that to rest, hopefully confirming if the MMPR Yellow Ranger we see in Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Beast Morphers is Trini or Aisha. While David Yost (Billy) has created his own script and theory as to what Billy's been up to since moving to Aquitar, it remains to be seen if those ideas will be incorporated into Cosmic Fury (this troper hopes so, as Billy's her favorite Ranger).
- As of this writing, there have been 4 Sentai seasons that haven't been adapted into Power Rangers and even if they were all adapted for the next 4 PR seasons, Hasbro would still be at least 4 seasons behind. Therefore it's highly likely that once Sentai is canceled, Hasbro will adopt all the usable footage into the last few seasons of Power Rangers in order to keep their latest cash cow going for a few more years. Once all the usable Sentai footage is completely exhausted, Hasbro will begin production on a Power Rangers cartoon that can run for as long as they like with no need for Japanese Stock Footage.
- A corollary to this theory is that production will be moved back to California and out of New Zealand.
- Now that he no longer considers it an Old Shame, maybe we'll see David Yost again?
- Production will still be in New Zealand.
- How about an all-SixthRangers team-up to compliment Forever Red?
- They'd have to use all original footage for that one, since there hasn't been any sentai equivalent to that. Plus, seeing as how it's pretty expensive as is to film original footage, it would make more sense to do an all-blue version of Forever Red.
- Expanding the theory: Zordon is a Time Lord. (See the theory above)
- Further evidence: Dr. Who (albeit, one of the radio dramas) mentions Eltar
- Gallifrey has been proven to be, canonically, in Power Rangers. (See below)
- Who said he has to be the Doctor, but rather than just a Time Lord.
- Interestingly, over on the Gokaiger WMG page, there's speculation that Captain Marvel was the first Henshin Hero, and that Captain Marvelous is a homage to him.
- The endurance of Zeus, the wisdom of Odin, the strength of Ra, protectiveness of Dementer, the magic of Oberon, and {insert N God here}
In the year 2027, two years after the defeat of Emperor Gruumm, Bridge Carson, now the S.P.D. Red Ranger, is summoned back in team to fight alongside a team of retro Rangers against Thrax's alliance, he returns without incident. Shortly afterwards, the Venjix Computer Network strikes, the S.P.D. Rangers are the first to face it, they are presumed dead. Venjix then decimates S.P.D. and all military forces, though some people like Mason Truman survive. Eventually Venjix exterminates most of the world's population. Any alien that hasn't died in Venjix's onslaught, quickly make their escape. All known survivors move to the domed city of Corinth to stay safe. Dr. K creates the Ranger Operators to combat it, eventually Venjix is defeated but escapes by hiding inside Scott Truman's morpher. It takes some time for it to strike again. Human civilization is slowly rebuilt, cities are constructed across the Americas and people start to travel to other continents.
Venjix makes its move, it isn't as strong as it was but the war is brutal, really shizz goes down :L. In the middle of the war, Venjix decides that if he wants to wipe out the remnants of humanity, he must rip its heart out, Corinth. Venjix attacks the unprepared city with the largest army he has ever assembled, Human forces desperately try to regroup and make their move to the city. It's a long and brutal battle, Venjix is beaten back, but at a price, Dr. K is severely wounded and all the zords are destroyed.
It is decided a new approach is to be taken, and all the military forces of the new cities are merged into one military defense task force. It has a large arsenal of vehicles, but they are not actually zords. Fleets of Pursuit Vehicles, Saloon Cars and advanced Helicopters and Passenger Jets. The forces are led by Colonel Truman, designated Colonel White, based in Cloudbase, a flying aircraft carrier, operating forty thousand feet above Earth used to monitor Venjix's movements. Since the Rangers' zords are destroyed, they are forced to fight Venjix's armies via aerial strikes using the Angels, experimental fighter planes.
- Scott becomes Captain Red, later known as Captain Scarlet
- Flynn becomes Captain Blue
- Summer becomes Captain Yellow, later known as Captain Ochre
- Ziggy becomes Lieutenant Green
- Dillon becomes Captain Black
- Tenaya becomes Captain Pink, later known as Captain Magenta
- Gem becomes Lieutenant Gold
- Gemma becomes Lieutenant Silver
After several years, Venjix is finally destroyed at the cost of the powers of the Ranger Operators. Over the next few decades, Human civilization is fully rebuilt across the Earth, undisturbed by evil, landmarks such as Big Ben (as seen in Big Ben strikes again) are rebuilt. However, Humanity receives no word from aliens nearby, as they moved to fight a massive war in the other side of the galaxy, though the natives of Mars are uninvolved due to their peaceful ways.
The military force conceived by now retired Colonel Truman to defeat Venjix becomes the Spectrum Organisation, Spectrum being a reference to the Power Rangers who safeguarded Earth for years. Spectrum is established through a charter approved on Thursday, 7 July, 2067 and signed on Sunday, 10 July, 2067, that is tasked, in that charter, with keeping peace throughout Earth. Spectrum is mainly involved in diplomatic matters overseen by the former Ranger Operators, who are now senior Spectrum officials while a new group become Spectrum's special agents, though Ranger technology no longer exists. It is decided to renew the space programme to begin relations with alien life again, and also regain contact with the colonists on Mirinoi, who haven't been heard of since Venjix first attacked Earth.
They start off by sending an Exploration Vehicle to Mars piloted by the new Captain Black and two other astronauts. They discover an alien city which they destroy when they fear the aliens were going to attack. To their shock the aliens reconstruct the city before their eyes by reversing matter. The alien Mysterons announce that they will declare Cold War on Earth and they take control of Captain Black. On Earth, Captain Brown and Captain Scarlet fall victim to the Mysterons as well and become their agents, while Captain Brown dies, Scarlet miraculously returns to life after being mortally wounded, it is discovered that he is virtually indestructible. Then follows several months of attempts by the Mysterons to strategically sabotage Earth. Shortly after the last episode, Dr. K decides to begin work on recreating Power Ranger technology, Captain Scarlet and his teammates become the Spectrum Rangers with their own Zords, Captain Black steals some tech and with augmentation by the Mysterons, becomes the Black Mysteron Ranger.
- As long as we're on this subject...
- A sign of damage perhaps? The Green Candle followed by Zedd's repeated attacks on the Green Ranger could have left a mark, almost like a scar.
- Or the opposite? Maybe if the Green Ranger powers were restored, the silver stripe is a sign of the powers being purified.
- Maybe that's how the Green Ranger would look if he ever had acquired Metallic Armour Mode.
- Perhaps Tommy was traumatized by his time as the Green Ranger. What with being turned evil and having his powers sapped, perhaps he he was glad to see them go once he received new powers. However let's say there's always been a part of him that never quite managed to let it go. In "Return of the Green Ranger", Tommy vowes to destroy the Green Ranger if it's the last thing he ever does. Rather aggressive for someone like Tommy. While retrieving the Zeo Crystal, he has flashbacks to his evil Green Ranger days and is even confronted by an illusion of the Green Ranger. He clearly hasn't managed to let this go.
And does anyone think it's a coincidence that when the rangers are given the Zeo and Turbo powers, Zordan makes sure to give the Green powers to someone else?
By Dino Thunder we see Tommy making his own team of dinosaur themed rangers, yet no Green Ranger (no Pink Ranger either, maybe he's still not quite over Kimberley yet). And in "Fighting Spirit" the only fight he doesn't win, is against the Green Ranger. However when the Green Ranger doesn't kill him and even restores his Black Ranger powers, maybe this is the moment where Tommy is finally able to let go of his past and embrace his Green Ranger self.
- Aside from the fandom jokingly attributing it to Brain Damage Tommy suffered as a result of his Coma in Fighting Spirit causing him to misremember what the Green Ranger suit looked like. Popular Fan theory goes that since the original Green Ranger powers eventually faded away, Tommy or someone else (Whoever made the Power Keys, possibly Gosei) Re-Created the powers. However, the result is not a perfect facsimile, owing to not being made by Ninjor, hence the differences between the original suit and the Modern version.
- Alternatively, the powers could be those originally made for Tom Oliver, Tommy's clone. Since Tom was given the new Dragon Coin made by the Wizard of Deception for Lord Zedd, and his powers where never visibly taken away or severed from the Morphing Grid, it's possible that that Coin survived the 300+ years from Colonial times so that Tommy may find it and use it as his own. The fact he may need to build his own morpher, having lost the Gold original, maybe be another reason for the suit differences.
- Tommy was a leader by that point in Zeo and Turbo - the only reason he didn't take on the role of Red in Mighty Morphin was because there was no reason for him to switch to Red at that point. Odds are that if he had been one of the original 5 chosen by Zordon, he would've been Red the first time. Odds are that Zordon would only have given him the Green Zeo/Turbo powers if he had asked for them.
Using the right Super Sentai series to adapt from, this one would involve the new Ranger team drawing their power from helpful spirits to fight evil ghosts from a netherworld, and preventing them from taking over Earth. For this series' Monster of the Week, an evil ghost possesses a One-Shot Character (Victim of the Week, Woobie of the Week, Girl of the Week, etc.) who transforms into a monster; and after the Rangers defeat the monster with their Megazord, they revert back to human while the ghost is destroyed, captured or permanently sent to the netherworld.
- By being a monster or villain in disguise? Rita used to disguise her Puttys and Tengas as people all the time, no reason future villains wouldn't be able to do that. Especially since the villains were evil magic demons that season.
- Rita and Zedd - assumes are aliens but are monsters
- Machine empire - Robots
- Devatox - aliens I think
- Astronima - aliens
- Trakeena and her dad - irrelevant, and also aliens
- Queen Bansheera - Demons
- Alternatively, she recalls the Z-Wave, and she means that "There's no such things as monsters anymore", assuming they were all wiped out by the Z-Wave.
- That's debatable. Most people seems unaware of the invasion that took place in the finale of In Space, and even in Ninja Storm, it's pretty much confirmed the Power Rangers are seen as urban legends by people not directly in the cities that they operate.
- ...except that the invasion was in world scale with angel grove as the center. it can be explained since tori never was skeptical to the whole "alien" thing, she is aware of the "alien invasion" thing, but she believed that it was resolved in other way and the rangers thing was just something the kids said.
- Yeah, she should of told the authorities, but also, the little girl is saying that SHE SAW a monster take her parents, not to mention the fact that in a world where the Rangers identities are public knowledge and monster attacks are well known, children are going to know that monsters are real already.
- If you'll excuse me, I'm just going to head over to that bunker over there before the shipping war breaks out.
- Wow, cradle robbing much?
- I can just imagine for the 20th season that there will be a threat so powerful that will justify a team-up with five Power Rangers from Alternate Universes with four from the previous four series and... One from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- As a corollary, in the world of the adaptation of Goseiger, Zordon survived the events of Power Rangers in Space.
- The villains of the 20th season will be the remaining Phantom Beast Generals, Venjix, and Shitari's PR counterpart, if he performs a Karma Houdini like in Shinkenger.
- The 35th Super Sentai series, the one after Goseiger, currently known as Kaijoku Sentai Gokaiger, is supposedly about a band of Rangers traveling through the various Sentai worlds on an interdimensional pirate ship. So if Saban can hold on to Power Rangers long enough...
- Jossed. Gokaiger takes place in a universe where the other 34 Super Sentais all existed. So an adaptation would actually force RPM and Samurai into continuity, current Word of God be damned.
- Well, the Go-Onger arc in Gokaiger involves interdimensional travel. It would be easy to write the alternate universe setting of RPM around that.
- Which they already did, in Samurai's team-up episode Clash of the Red Rangers.
- Officially jossed by Super Megaforce, the Gokaiger adaptation, which keeps RPM in a separate universe...but confirms that Jungle Fury and Samurai are in the main universe. As for the Goseiger adaptation...it's actually the first half of Super Megaforce.
- Jossed. Gokaiger takes place in a universe where the other 34 Super Sentais all existed. So an adaptation would actually force RPM and Samurai into continuity, current Word of God be damned.
- I guess this isn't exactly jossed, since you did say reality and RPM takes place in an alternate dimension and stuff, but it seems highly unlikely considering that, in Reinforcements From the Future the Time Force Rangers use time travel to go to back to the year 2002 and that the Mut Orgs gave Ransik his powers. I'd say that Time Force is probably within the same continuity as the majority of Ranger Teams are.
- Alternatively RPM takes place in the same continuity with the original Time Force future. But Time Force Rangers' actions in the past prevented it... somehow.
- Time Force is the direct future of RPM's timeline. As 2001 predates the timeline divergence in the late 2000s(K successfully putting up the firewall in the main timeline) the past is a singular one.
- Like their legendary mechanic ancestor, the Megazord is yellow in colour and even shares the same visor shape.