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- She wasn't using names because she was trying to emotionally distance herself from them.
- Maybe she's trying to distance herself from them because she has no real name.
- In her spotlight episode, she mutters, "I wish I could remember my name."
- True. But as we all know, TV writers always write smart characters like Aspies. The extent to which it's intentional this time isn't clear.
- And audiences always seem to interpret smart characters as aspies when they believe there is such a thing.
- As a Asperger's sufferer, it bothers me to see a character who acts like she's one of us, except for one of the most important traits, which is the shyness of finding it really hard to look into other people's eyes. How similar it is to Sheldon Cooper's semi-autism.
Presumably, he broadcast his AI out of the explosion at the last minute, using those antennae on the top of his head to ensure the signal would be strong enough. He then bided his time on a satellite, using it to study the planet and wait for the perfect moment of vulnerability. At that moment, he broadcast himself planetside and started taking over the computer systems, starting with active Ranger HQs (which were probably run by skeleton crews by then, since no Big Bad was obvious).
- It's now been revealed that Dr. K made the virus as part of "project Venjix". Presumably, humans found Venjix's broken body on the moon and got their pet genius Dr. K to try to restore his AI in an attempt to reverse-engineer Machine Empire technology. It... backfired.
- In the Dr. K episode, she is asked to write a computer program on her tenth birthday. It seems likely that she did create Venjix.
- Considering that she created the base code of the virus, it looks like the only things keeping this alive are the One-Mario Limit and the insane writers.
- The virus K created is probably distinct from Venjix the AI, considering his wording in "Embodied." Also, Venjix's modus operandi follows a disembodied AI much more smoothly than a virus, considering how few copies of himself exist at any one time (the maximum is one).
- Perhaps General Venjix got out by inhabiting Cole's morpher, just as he does to Scott's in the finale.
There are hints of this being true in the episode where he first fights the rangers head-on.
- He seems particularly angry at them, constantly mentioning that he's waited to do this "an eternity", hinting that he's been waiting to do this for much longer than the three years since his release.
- It seems so personal between him and the rangers; he hints that he's encountered them in person before, and they did something bad enough (from his POV) that he wants revenge. Since he's never met this team in person before, this means that he must be referring to another team - the Reds, perhaps?
- He constantly calls himself "immortal" and thinks of it as a point of pride. Why would he be so fixated on being unkillable unless he had survived being functionally dead before - such as being destroyed almost completely, but then repaired from the code up by Alphabet Soup?
- He's an awfully good fighter for a computer virus.
- It follows that he's not telling his minions his true origins, based on their comments about how young he is. Perhaps he doesn't want to leak his secret to the (non-ranger) "enemy" via capture of damaged machines?
- See "Venjix will travel back in time to create the Machine Empire" for more theories.
- Curiously enough, this WMG would have been confirmed if Saban had adopted Amit Bhaumik's proposal for a Go-Busters adaptation.
Considering Samurai confirmed RPM happens in another universe, it could be that RPM's Venjix and Wild Force's Venjix are each other's counterparts in both dimensions.
- The mission to defeat the Machine Empire's remnants on the moon was back by the U.S. government. They gave the rangers access to the airbase where they housed the Megaship and they were the first to realize something was up on the moon.
- After the rangers did the heavy lifting, the government helped itself to the wreckage. They attempt to reverse-engineer Machine Empire technology for the defense of earth. They codename this initiative "Project Venjix" after the original Venjix.
- The scientists of Project Venjix yields a method of creating a thinking, sentient Artificial Intelligence but the machine code required is something none of the scientists can possibly understand. It is a ridiculously complex language, one that would take a lifetime of study to learn. With this idea in mind, the minds behind Project Venjix begin a new project: Alphabet Soup, in which young children with advanced intellectual aptitude are kidnapped at an early age and made to study and understand the systems of the Machine Empire in order to replicate it.
- One of the children captured in this way, K, eventually creates an AI. This new AI, developed entirely by Dr. K, is named Venjix after the source of the technology, Project Venjix.
- As of the finale, he is in the Morphing Grid, which transcends time and space...
- Jossed
- Time Force was the last season of Power Rangers before Disney took over. Of course Judd Lynn will dare remake it! (Give or take a few nails and butterflies...)
- This means that "Mystic Force," "Operation Overdrive," and "Jungle Fury" all happened while the package or Venjix were still in transit; everything in those seasons was futile because, once Venjix got the package, he had as good as won.
- The above theory only works if you disregard the Time Skip.
- Not necessarily. It's the "near future" - a few decades at most. The worst-case scenario would have been an army of badass grandparents with superpowers and giant robots- arguably harder to defeat than a group of plucky youngsters. Remember Tommy in Dino Thunder? Now imagine EVERY POWERED RANGER like that. No way Venjix could have taken them without some sort of hidden advantage.
- The whole theory is debunked because:
- Grumm only traveled back in time during "Wormhole."
- Grumm wanted to conquer earth before SPD was able to oppose him. Why would he help anyone else?
- Venjix and the Machine Empire remnant were destroyed in 2002. The wormhole Grumm and SPD went into led to 2004. How would Venjix get and use a message that's delivered two years after his destruction?
- Possible answers to all those are in a WMG below this one.
- And, since the "package" is a Timeline-Altering MacGuffin, it doesn't matter how Venjix gets it, only that Venjix gets it. Maybe he just hacked Grumm's computer and read it off there. Hacking into computers is something computer viruses love doing, after all...
- More possible support — a recent episode made a reference towards Colonel Truman not being in the 21st century, with the implication that Colonel Truman grew up in the era before computerized paperwork, in the 20th century. Thus, it's in the 2010s, most likely, given that Colonel Truman appears to be in his 40s.
- The above reference was likely a joke, given that written paperwork is not strange or uncommon enough nowadays to warrant such a comment. But it works if you assume that the speaker didn't know enough about the actual 21st century because he lives in the 22nd century.
- Except the Millennium Message clearly showed the United Alliance of Evil being the one to conquer the Earth, not Venjix - if he hadn't delivered the message, the Earth would have fallen to Dark Specter, and Venjix wouldn't exist; time paradox!
- Jossed by the events of Clash of the Red Rangers.
- Possibility: Dr. K's use of music-controlled technology as seen in her episode will lead to her tapping into the controls for the Dragonzord, which is still lying dormant off the coast of Angel Grove. She will then send it on a rampage across North America, wiping out Venjix forces all the way to Corinth.
- AND while she's committing her glorious rampage, she's playing the violin version of the original theme music.
- And then the Dragonzord combines with whatever they're going to call Engine-oh G12 to form the greatest megazord EVER.
- AND while she's committing her glorious rampage, she's playing the violin version of the original theme music.
- Another suggestion: Dr. K finaly manages to transmit a distress signal into space. A very old, battle-scared man descends from space... Billy, the last member of the MMPRs, who realizes that everyone he knew and loved is long dead, morphs one last time, assists the RPM Rangers in the final battle, and leaves.
- Billy can't morph.
- The man has spent thirty years doing R&D offscreen. He probably has a new morpher he made himself with the help of the Aquitaran Academy of Sciences.
- Billy won't get his powers back until Power Rangers Super Megaforce, and will end up assisting a different team.
- The man has spent thirty years doing R&D offscreen. He probably has a new morpher he made himself with the help of the Aquitaran Academy of Sciences.
- And then he pilots The Dino Train zords, or at least K-line. Or gives the RPM rangers upgraded versions of the original seven MMPR suits.
- Billy can't morph.
Second, they are robots, and therefore they are still alive, not dead of old age or of whatever anti-biological thing Venjix has thought up.
Third, Judd Lynn took control of the show at around the time of the Turbo cast turnover so he may have more of a sentimental connection to that particular cast; and he's the executive producer of this show's final episodes.
Most important, at least two former Turbo cast members have hinted at involvement with a new Power Rangers related project.
- Or this is all supposed to happen, and Time Force is keeping their mitts off this one.
- So it's both time-locked and a fixed point, like the Time War.
- And that will mean that the RPM Power Rangers will be the last of their kind.
- Do we know that the entire planet was razed? Depopulated or subjugated, sure; but blasted into the Australian outback? If Corinth is on the site of our world's present-day Boston, then that's a heavily urban area; Venjix's onslaught on humanity would have to reduce it to a smoldering wasteland. But lightly-populated and unpopulated areas may have faced only surgical strikes. Venjix probably would have found it inefficient to carpet-bomb, say, Siberia. The Wildzords might still be alive but confined to some rainforest somewhere, unable or unwilling to cross the more thoroughly devastated areas to render aid.
Then SPD centralized everything. Rather than a network of barely related cells, the Rangers were now a regulated army, complete with red tape and a centralized hackable computer network — one target for the virus, rather than several dozen, as noted above about the SPD archives — in a public and easily reachable building. Furthermore, by making it a public army rather than a private guerrilla force, SPD made it much easier to join under false pretenses. Now, instead of faking an entire life and being in the right place at the right time, you just needed to fake a resume and a job interview and to survive basic training if you wanted to be The Mole. Because they centralized everything, it was much easier to take them down. Because they were even more public than Lightspeed Rescue, it was easy to attack them. (The demons in Lightspeed Rescue needed to hijack a megazord to attack the ranger base. The SPD base has a street address.)
- This dovetails nicely with the "it's the same Venjix" theory. Grumm simply found Venjix and agreed to let Venjix wipe out humanity if Grumm's attempt failed. That way, Grumm gets a bug in their system to track them and doesn't need to devote any resources to creating it, and Venjix gets an opportunity for sweet revenge on those who killed him and his empire.
This is close to the earlier guess that it'll end with the RPM rangers leaving Earth; but let's face it, there's a better than average chance that the makers aren't going to allow this franchise to end with a war-ravaged earth and mankind on the brink of extinction.
- Earth was still shown to be ravaged in the 25th and 31st centuries. Even if this happens, another future event will cause the destruction of Earth.
- Wait, we see the ravaged 31st century in Time Force, but when do we see the 25th century?
- The 25th century was shown on the Time Blaster ride during Time Force's run.
- He could be both. Preferably in reverse order.
- His build doesn't match Hiroto/Go-on Gold's. But they could pull a Titanium Ranger with one of the five eventual rangerless zords. Well, four of them: the Croc Carrier was confirmed to be remote-controlled.
- Jossed
- Trakeena, Vypra, Kendrix, Zordon and that old Indian guy who got killed by Deviot would like a word with you.
- Kendrix got better!
- "Ranger Yellow II" sort of nixes this theory. Summer's butler didn't get a happy ending.
- He did, given Summer's drastic change in personality.
- Given how she constantly defies Venjix and that she still has a self-preservation instinct, this might come true.
- The "no one with a face ever dies" logic isn't true (as noted below), she does end-up pulling a Heel–Face Turn, so confirmed.
- Based on upcoming episode synopses: Dillon's Orphan's Plot Trinket is revealed to play "The Farmer in the Dell", so it looks like this is true.
- Confirmed.
- Seems more likely that if he did use nukes, he'd launch the rest into space or the sun so they couldn't be used against him - maybe that's why aliens aren't helping humanity; there's so many nukes around the earth that they'd risk detonating one if they tried to enter the atmosphere.
This would explain the Racing and Animal theme clash on the suits and zords. The military probably thought the original suits looked laughable; but Dr. K wasn't all that worried about aesthetics and just half-assed a design change to make a superior happy.
- Semi Confirmed as of "Dr. K," but they certainly weren't a last ditch effort.
This is because RPM is set quite some time after SPD but a long time before Time Force. What people in this time frame know of Power Rangers is limited. Dr K didn't even know the Morphing Grid's name. Since previous technological teams, such as Lightspeed and SPD, must have known what it was, some knowledge about how ranger powers work must have been lost, either to time or because of Venjix's attack. People knew just enough about Power Rangers to get or guess all the names right, such as "zords".
With limited knowledge and limited resources (there's only one city left on earth), Dr K probably did the best she could with what she had; the result is a set of rangers with very limited power.
Also note that they don't constantly keep the Engine Cells in their equipment. They have to load them every time they need to be used. Odds are, these cells are like batteries and would drain down if left in the morphers, zords, and weapons for too long.
- Also note that the ranger suits are stored at the base; all previous teams used Hammerspace.
- It is claimed that the explosions that happen whenever the Rangers morph are a way of discharging built up energy. This team has inefficient power management in their suits.
- The Zords seem clunkier and less elegant than other seasons.
The first Ranger teams were supplied and guided directly by Zordon and other aliens. Lightspeed was probably working with Black Box tech from the wrecked Turbozords (and possibly Space zords), and so they couldn't reproduce anything they created — they could only tinker and repair. SPD was an interplanetary body with an Earth branch in New Tech City; it's possible that they didn't share any knowledge or schematics with Earth's governments. Operation Overdrive was probably built to the specifications made by the Sentinel Knight; Andrew probably had no idea what he was doing.
The Alphabet Soup think-tank Dr. K mentioned must have been a project to figure out how this stuff works. Venjix struck before they could get to the level Earth's allies and benefactors had reached.
- But they still cut all the footage with Japanese extras in the background, so not quite everyone.
- So...Ziggy is Dr. Z, perhaps?
- So, Red would be Scott, Blue would be Flynn/Dylan, Green would be Ziggy, Yellow would be Summer, and pink would be...Gemma? Dr. K, maybe? Tenaya if she does a Heel–Face Turn? Interestingly enough, though, Go-onger did have a samurai world...
- Jossed.
- Jamming communications so that any distress signals that are sent never leave the Earth, and sending out fake communications simulating the communications that would be sent had he not destroyed the world.
- In the event that some other planet requests aid from Earth against some foe, he sends a small fraction of his army to assist them and thus no one suspects Earth has fallen under his control.
- He has built a planet-sized version of the dome around Corinth (which wasn't designed by Alphabet Soup) and placed it around the planet, so even if someone does show up they won't be able to get to Earth.
- There were twelve zords (not including the three samurai ones. Minus the personal zords already revealed, Croc Carrier, Jetoras, and Triptor, that leaves 4 potential Titaniums:
- Jum-bowhale for Scott's brother if he turns out to be alive. He was a pilot, and... somewhat heavyset.
- T-Line for Tenaya if she does a Heel–Face Turn. She's pretty ferocious.
- K-Line for Dr. K if she becomes a ranger. She's very smart, just like the other two rangers that have used that animal as a zord.
- Wait a minute. One-Letter Name on both of them?
- This would be an Ass Pull that would ruin much of Summer's characterization, but, dammit, it would be cool to let Andrews have Kishamoth.
- There's no guarantee either way. The show has had unmanned zords before. They didn't introduce a Black Time Force Ranger to pilot the Time Shadow Megazord. There was no Gold Time Force Ranger for the Transwarp Megazord. They brought in the Titanium Ranger in Lightspeed because everyone was used to the Sixth Ranger plot. Now the toymakers have released three rangers based on the upcoming trains, in the style of the Spirit Rangers from Jungle Fury. Whether they'll make it into the show or not, we'll have to see.
- There probably won't be a ranger for the whale zord. That ranger would logically be part of a team with Ranger Gold and Ranger Silver, right? Given the setup with Gem and Gemma, it would just be strange to bring in a partner for them out of nowhere.
- True. But if they did....
- It appears they are. Early leaked info, shows three new original Rangers created for the Dino Zords. So it seems likely they're going for this.
- And jossed. Those rangers are toy-exclusive.
- The white one doesn't appear to be at the same scale. Also, is anyone else bothered that the colors of the Triceratops and Mammoth figures don't seem to match their zords?
- Yeah, they look a little off, but the White Ranger is for sure to scale, according to the Bandai Website.
- Unfortunately, the White Ranger seems to be male...also, does anyone notice the similarities between these costumes and the Shinkenger costumes? That's not a good sign for the "last season" ambiguity...
- That could just be a Shout-Out. Remember when the Spirit Rangers first appeared in the toy line, their suits were more similar to the regular Jungle Fury suits, but in the show, they had redesigned Beast Master suits.
- You're probably right on that: Their costumes are different in this pic.◊ Also, the Triceratops Ranger doesn't appear to have one, and we know that the female rangers usually get less figures than the male rangers...
- Female rangers and Ziggy...
- Huh. So our options left are...
- A. The Dino-Train Rangers are toys only, cut from the budget, and/or do not have civilian forms, invalidating any potential newcomers.
- B. The Motorbike costumes are some sort of alternate form, invalidating Dr. K (and possibly Tenaya) from the Ranger lineup due to Tommy's Law of Color-Coordination. (Marcus is still entirely plausible, provided He's Just Hiding.)
- C. The Motorbike Costumes are only toys and/or the Dino-Train Ranger's costumes were undecided at the time they toys went on market, leaving us back where we started.
- This new scan seems to indicate that there will not be any Dino Rangers in the show this year (also no battlizer or team up apparently): http://linearranger.com/RPMNews/news17.htm
- Of course, maybe they're just not sure if they're going to. Remember, Judd Lynn is taking over. They're probably not sure what he's planning.
- And it turns out that they're toy exclusive.
- Of course, maybe they're just not sure if they're going to. Remember, Judd Lynn is taking over. They're probably not sure what he's planning.
Auto is Venjix, who was only thought to have been destroyed.
- This leads into the guess above that Venjix founds the Machine Empire. He survives there attack, and leaves to bide his time and gather strength, building forces and conquering.
- How did Flynn get to Corinth from Scotland? On Mars, they're on the same continent; when Flynn gets to Terra, he settles in the area we now know as Scotland, naming it after his lost land. Why is it Angel Grove and not Los Angeles? It's an alternate universe in which we descended from Martians.
- RPM, Rangers Protecting Mars?
- Dillon does not initially go to Terra/Earth. He leaves the others, fearing that he might hurt them. Over the course of the years, he becomes less of the "brooding bad boy" Tenaya described him as. He encounters Zordon on Eltar and befriends him. Much later, still alive despite the many years due to the Venjix hardware in his body, he travels to earth to aid the then-current team of rangers...as the Phantom Ranger.
- Given the time-loopy nature and presumed Identical Grandson nature of Power Rangers Time Force, this means that one of them is likely the ancestor of Alex.
- Since the Identical Grandson in question was Alex himself, this is even more likely.
- This pretty much screws with the timeline: for what we know, RPM is no further than the 31st century. Besides, it seems like RPM is following a separate timeline, so as not to erase Time Force itself (and SPD) from existence, without necessarily eliminating RPM from history.
- Except Scott still has daddy issues in purgatory. And Flynn could have been killed in any of his jobs. Summer, most of "take care of herself" would be "now she has real friends"
- The time manipulation is a good explanation for the otherwise unexplained fact the Phantom Ranger can walk around when time is frozen in "Turbo".
- ... And this creates a different future where Venjix is just a robot pawn in the Machine Empire only long after Mondo's defeated. And Colonel Mason Truman was never the military boss in a post-apocalypse world. Instead, he's just a ordinary guy who's the father of "Dino Charge" ranger Shelby.
- In other words, Megatron came before Optimus Prime?
- Well he did in G1...say hi Orion Pax.
- And that government was the totalitarian state of SPD, which was losing power and feared a civil war to re-institute Democracy.
- Corinth's location is given as 71 Degrees 5 Minutes 52 Seconds North Latitude 32 Degrees 20 Minutes 46 Seconds West Longitude That puts Corinth in the middle of Greenland.
- And the map shown in the beginning of each episode when Dr. K mentions the safe haven that is Corinth is a map of Boston, complete with the ocean on one side.
Why? Just for the heck of it.
- "We never-"
"-split up-"
"-ever!"
- It's possible Venjix did it as an experiment in how well the human mind can handle Hive Mind stuff, in hopes of linking all his human slaveworkers up to one of his drones to keep them loyal. Judging from what it seems to have done to Gem and Gemma, who don't even have a machine in the mix, he abandoned that line of research because of efficiency decreases.
- Didn't they do this when they worked with Dr. K before Venjix was unleashed?
The reason they're as one dimensional and cartoonish as they are is because Venjix is working off what it understands, which is basic archetypes; they haven't had much in the way of "life" experiences to give them more layers yet.
- Did they get it from the Karovians? The Astro Megaship had that technology.
So, what is the connection between Venjix and the Cylons? Venjix himself gives it away when he introduces Tenaya 7: he claims to have created her in the image of the most horrible thing he could think of. She looks like a normal human. Who do we know who thinks like that? That's right, Venjix is Cavil.
Here's how it goes down:
150,000 years ago:
- Members of Cavil's faction that escaped The Colony's fall into the black hole encounter Mondo.
- (optional) Cavil inspires Mondo to overthrow his organic creators, and the Machine Empire is born.
- King Mondo hears Cavil's "gelatinous orbs" rant, and gives him a robotic body. Since "John", "Cavil" and "Model Number One" no longer apply to the former Cylon, he is renamed "Venjix" and becomes Mondo's general.
Recently:
- King Mondo invades Earth, but is given the boot.
- Mondo is destroyed by Zordon's Heroic Sacrifice, but Cavil/Venjix survives.
- General Venjix tries to recover Serpentera, but both are destroyed by the assembled Red Rangers. As a former Cylon, he does what comes natural, and tries to download. It is only partially successful, and only bits of his data survive.
"Near future":
- Alphabet Soup finds the Venjix data, but is unable to repair it. They ask Dr. K to do so, and Venjix is rebuilt as a virus.
- Dr. K uses the Venjix Virus in a failed attempt to escape Alphabet Soup. This goes badly.
This neatly explains many of the Human Aliens running around the franchise - they're descended from the stranded survivors of the Twelve Colonies, the other worlds they settled, and New Caprica. Also, most of them are more advanced than Earth because they didn't have Lee Adama telling them that Ludd Was Right.
- It was by hijacking those nanobots that Doctor K was able to hijack Jumbowhale- she simply sent a new virus into the nanobots, prompting them to begin acting like biological cells (perhaps even modifying each other to perform as such).
- It wasn't the machine itself she altered; she simply altered the nanobots so that they'd go biological and integrate themselves into the hardware. Also, by having the nanobots effectively destroy each other, Venjix can't take the device back. The only way to ensure that Venjix can't reinfect the nanobots and retake the doomsday device is by making the nanobots turn each other into something a computer virus can't infect easily — life. And the only organism-machine hybrid she's familiar with is the zord.
- It's also possible that she included instructions in the virus to make Zord hookups before rebuilding themselves into something non-mechanical.
- They may have not received the message about its existence
- They know the city is already protected by a group of Rangers and believe they can act best by protecting the cities they are already in.
This is why Venjix is having such difficulty taking down the city. He is, in fact, diverting resources to try to destroy the other Ranger-protected cities. All data-based information to the contray is his propaganda at work.
This is why he destroys the General that tries to Lampshade this. It circumvents the resulting Logic Bomb of realizing the general was correct and being unable to act on that knowledge. (Venjix was well-programmed.)
- Jossed.
It even explains why she is constantly cooing over Dillon and his sister: they are both hybrids themselves, and she figures that she could turn him to Venjix's side if she ever wanted to plan a coup.
- If she had Venjix hardware in her, Dr. K would have known by now.
- (OP) By flimsy, she seems a bit underdevloped compared to other characters. We know that she's Dillon's squishybear, she had a Lonely Rich Kid backstory, and that's really it. She doesn't seem to have motivation or personality outside of her relationship, and when she isn't comforting Dillon, she's kinda shoved in the corner. Maybe this is a bit of wishful thinking, but this would be an awesome twist, give her something to do, and kinda give her closure on her Rebellious Princess story. And assuming Summer was hybridized in the eighty miles to Corinth, and Truman knew nothing about hybrids, it's plausible that she snuck in the dome before they had the screening process in place, and it hasn't really come up since.
- So,as far as Chicks go, she's par for the course. I suppose that it would make a good twist, but it may feel too much like Operation Overdrive. And I guess we don't really know what technology Dr. K had back then, but I'd assume they would have regular checkups.
- Nah, all this is nonsense, if you pay attention to the backstory you see she was ALREADY not just some Rich Bitch. She was praticing some (apparently) high level karate against the butler, was seen riding around on a dirt bike, which could suggest she knows something about the upkeep of one. The is not a SINGLE instance of Summer being the Chick ANYWHERE in any of the episodes, in fact, she is as competent as any of the males in the group, and by an large her gender could be seen as purely asthetic. There are no instances of Summer cooing over Dillon, none. Her motivation is quite clearly to live up to what she belives her butler saw in her. 'Simple' and 'flimsy' are not the same thing. Not every hero has to be an angst ridden train reck of a person.
- (2nd&4th Poster) Just as a note, I wasn't actually saying that she was a chick. I was just saying that the things the OP posted were qualities of most Chicks, and if that was his or her reasoning, then all Chicks are Venjix moles.
- (OP) Neither did I, and if that was implied, I apologize. In fact, the reason that I inferred that there is more to Summer than meets the eye is that she is more of a Chick who has not only taken a level in Badass, but aced the course, then took it again because she was bored. She doesn't have a single character flaw, and when she does screw up, no one calls her out on it, not even herself. And that retroactively affects her character, because superficially yes, she has her motive and her method, but it doesn't have the same effect that it would if she has to struggle with her saintlyhood, or better yet, being the Only Sane Man on Dysfunction Junction. She seems to roll with the punches a bit too much for us to know as little about her as we do, at least for my tastes. As for the WMG, we should probably leave it at improbable until further notice before it gets natter chopped.
- (2P) I agree on that last part, for the same reasons. However, I just want to get one thing in: it actually makes more sense to me now when you explain it that way. It still tastes a little too much like PROO, though; the twist shouldn't be as simple as that, or the fandom will cry Recycled Script.
- Soooo, the only instance I can see where she significantly 'screwed up' is the moment when Tanya mentions her parents and she freezes up, almost allowing Tenaya to get a potshot at her. I have yet too see any signs of 'saintlyhood' from this character. Where do you get that from? Summer still clearly carries elements of a conceited and caustic personality. Indeed, she has sounded full of herself on occasions. All she has shown in battle is simple competence, only a few hairs less of it then Scott or Flynn. Which is justified because they had hero type professions before hand. Her 'levels in badass' only came about after a Time Skip. Unless you count her fight with the Venjix Mooks. Which I don't because they have been shown to be rather easily wrecked.
- Her levels of badass grown exponentially. It's well stablished that Dillon is the strongest of the rangers and that the Black suit is the most powerful, yet Tenaya trashes the fours male rangers morphed, But Summer is able to fight and hold her own while unmorphed. In another episode, Dillon and Ziggy leave the dome in Dillon's car and are ambushed in the middle of the wasteland by mooks. Summer appears out of nowhere: Apparently she followed them on foot, and was rested enough to trash the mooks by herself, doing a "rider" kick without any sort of momentum. She then cracked the map that Gem and Gemma had made, which pointed to a Venjix factory.
- So,as far as Chicks go, she's par for the course. I suppose that it would make a good twist, but it may feel too much like Operation Overdrive. And I guess we don't really know what technology Dr. K had back then, but I'd assume they would have regular checkups.
- The series is over, and to the surprise of absolutely NO ONE, this WMG was jossed hard.
- I assumed that the gas the Attack Bot dropped was the female-affecting gas, and the properties of the chemical did not allow for one that affected both genders.
- Upon second viewing, yeah, the one it dropped was the one affecting females. Its still a distinct possibility that if she had waited, she could have made gas fatal.
- Scott: Eagle Racer Lion Samuraizord Power!Flynn: Lion Hauler Dragon Samuraizord Power!Summer: Bear Crawler Monkey Samuraizord Power!Ziggy: Tail Spinner Bear Samuraizord Power!Gemma: Tiger Jet Turtle Samuraizord Power!Gem: Golden Lobster Power!
- Or they could use Goseiger footage. The green(?) morpher is infected, and there's another girl on the team to be the pink ranger.
- Actually, it was the red morpher, so that wouldn't exactly work.
- Jossed hard. See Power Rangers Samurai.
- Actually, it was the red morpher, so that wouldn't exactly work.
- With the revelation that Dr. K was the one who was actively working with Venjix, this gains a lot of credibility, especially since they named the Domed Hometown, Corinth.
- Alternate: GLaDOS is Venjix, or at least, was at one point. GLaDOS has the same feelings for her "daughter" Chell that her "mother," Dr. K, had for her: a mixture of admiration, hope, and a desire to destroy a child who has gone too far. (See here for more on GLaDOS's maternal feelings for Chell.)
- Actually, maybe.
- Confirmed, actuallynote - Judd Lynn had hoped to get Disney to make a sequel, yet they shut down that effort. Ironically enough, he turned down the chance to make a sequel with Go-Busters in favor of adapting Dino Charge.
- Go-Busters was eventually adapted as Power Rangers Beast Morphers - and it IS a sequel to RPM.
- Confirmed, actuallynote - Judd Lynn had hoped to get Disney to make a sequel, yet they shut down that effort. Ironically enough, he turned down the chance to make a sequel with Go-Busters in favor of adapting Dino Charge.
- So Eltare, Aquitar, Triforia, Mirinoi, KO-35, the Phantom, and, what the hell, Edenoi are just going to sit by and watch while Venjix commits genocide because of a law? I didn't really get the Knight Templar vibe from them.
- Not just a law, but a Prime Directive. We've seen in Star Trek and Star Ocean how obsessive people can be about those, and why.
- The Power Rangers helped Masked Rider fight against Count Dregon who was a home grown threat for Edenoi, just like Venjix is for Earth. Also, in what episode is it stated that the Aquitian Rangers are from the same galaxy as Master Vile?
- They're not. I meant that Vile has his own galaxy, not the Aquitarans. As for the Count Dregon thing, the original prime directive stated that you couldn't interfere, until a certain point. Its possible that in Power Rangers, they can break that noninterference when someone else is interfering, but otherwise, they have to wait until technology reaches a certain level. Endenoi was sufficeintly advanced, so Zordon could legally render aid. Earth, by contrast, was apparently not up to snuff yet- SPD probably hurt in that regard, really, since none of it was technically human technology, and it was relied on so much that humans probably didn't put in as mcuh effort.
- Wouldn't it make more sense to help people who are less technologically advanced?
- On the surface, yes. However, Star Ocean: The Last Hope explains quite well why it isn't a good idea to interfere in more primitive cultures. Cargo Cults in the more primitive examples, economic, political and technological dependency in examples like earth. If anyone bailed Earth out, it would basically become a colony world of whoever did the saving, as it lacks the knowledge to compete against the flow of resources that would ensue in reconstruction.
- I don't know about you, but I'd rather have my world peaceably colonized than have robots kill all organic life on the planet.
- So would I. But if they let it go for problems like Venjix, they open the door for more unscrupulous individuals to claim desperate measures when they aren't needed for their own gain, and take over a planet. As Sam Vimes said, no excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. In this case, they have to let a planet like ours die quickly, to keep themselves from falling prey to bad excuses and killing a multitude of other planets slowly via economic and political domination, the creation of a dual-class society, destruction of native ecosystems, and treatment of native populations the way White Man treated and treats native Americans. It may be preferable to Venjix, but it isn't preferable to WWII, horrible as it was. Open the door for Venjix, and you unleash the potential for, essentially Space-Europe on a thousand Space-Americas. Not wanting that, they make the painful decision- the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and, as many as we are, we are few compared to the number of beings being preserved by such a policy in an inhabitable-planet-filled cosmos like Power Rangers'.
- Alright, now I see why this may be thought of as a good idea in-universe. However, I'm sure there would be people who would be concerned that Venjix would not stop with Earth.
- Not really. Take all FTL ships and long-distance teleportation tech out when the resident aliens pull out, and the ban on tech sharing- long since surmised based on how the standard of living never changed much- means that no specs for FTL stuff would have been on systems vulnerable to Venjix attack. Consequentially, his only means of attacking other planets is as a regular virus, and they probably have much better antivirus tech than Earth, so that isn't a worry.
- God, aliens are jerks.
- Alternatively, maybe the aliens WANT to help, but can't - Venjix could've surrounded the earth with Nukes and made it so that attempting to navigate through them would be like trying to get through a minefield blindfolded, or he's installed anti-spaceship defenses. Although in the case of everything sans Masked Rider, it's likely that due to RPM being in a different universe, they didn't happen in this universe.
- They're not. I meant that Vile has his own galaxy, not the Aquitarans. As for the Count Dregon thing, the original prime directive stated that you couldn't interfere, until a certain point. Its possible that in Power Rangers, they can break that noninterference when someone else is interfering, but otherwise, they have to wait until technology reaches a certain level. Endenoi was sufficeintly advanced, so Zordon could legally render aid. Earth, by contrast, was apparently not up to snuff yet- SPD probably hurt in that regard, really, since none of it was technically human technology, and it was relied on so much that humans probably didn't put in as mcuh effort.
- Dragonzord vs PaleoMax. Discuss.
- Unfortunately jossed - Venjix doesn't even grow giant-size to fight the Ultrazord.
- She doesn't take any level of badass, but surprisingly, she averts the trope of her namesake.
- It could be in the cards. Judd Lynn chose to end it on a semi-cliffhanger, even though he knew full well it's supposed to be the last season. But then considering how he saved the show from cancellation once before, it could just be him being Crazy-Prepared.
- Confirmed, but with the alternate dimension explanation.
- Alphabet soup? Dai-Shocker.
- Venjix? A VERY, VERY, bored Decadriver prototype.
- World ending? Decade is the Destroyer of Worlds.....
- Where is DiEnd? He's Scottish now.
- This very, very cracky WMG? All part of his plan.
- Onore Dikeido!!!!
- The PR! Version of Decade only has contact with the Samurai Rangers (and that only works if you're under the assumption that the events of the Samurai equivalent of "World of Shinkenger" were offscreen), who only had contact with the RPM rangers near the end of RPM (even if RPM and Samurai take place at the same time, as suggested by "Clash of the Red Rangers"). So jossed.
- If we assume that the Venjix from RPM is the same as the one from "Forever Red", things make even more sense- he went specifically to one year before Venjix came to earth, in the hopes that he could use that one year to get entrenched, and when Venjix came, destroy him utterly so that there was no bit left to make into a computer virus. In either case, it means Time Force was effectively trying to save one city in 2000 at the cost of the entire planet in 20XX. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
- Um...Nice Job Breaking It, Hero? That would have applied if Time Force had, say, killed him, but they didn't. He did a Heel–Face Turn. All by himself. It's likely that he would have still tried to prevent Venjix, or tell the rangers about it.
- While you're right that it may not exactly apply, in the case of this theory, its less "Heel–Face Turn", and more "convinced of the value of human life, and that the ends don't justify the means"- antihero to hero, rather than villain to hero. Its like someone today went back and tried to stop the holocaust by destroying the WWII Nazi high command during WWI and a large segement of the german populace with them. Technically would get the job done, but still means killing innocents, and is thus more Anti-Hero-ic than heroic or villainous. In the case of Ransik, they convinced him, albeit unintentionally, that stopping Venjix wasn't worth it if innocents got caught in the crossfire.
- I see...however, wouldn't he still try to do something to prevent Venjix? Since the Time Force future still has mutants, wouldn't that mean that they didn't?
- He did kill innocents while misguided. It may be that he's decided to face punishment for his crimes rather than keep trying; perhaps he plans on returning after he serves his time. Since his imprisonment and community service haven't ended yet according to the San Dimas Time clock- given what he did before going back in time, he's definitely gotten something longer than a nine year sentence- we haven't seen that retcon yet, but will have always have seen that around 2031 or so. Gods I hate time travel logic.
- Um...Nice Job Breaking It, Hero? That would have applied if Time Force had, say, killed him, but they didn't. He did a Heel–Face Turn. All by himself. It's likely that he would have still tried to prevent Venjix, or tell the rangers about it.
- It's possible that an empire was not the only thing that Venjix built: It's possible that he himself built Serpentera. He gave Lord Zedd the zord in exchange for power. When Zedd failed, he went to plan B, a.k.a providing an army for Mondo. After Mondo failed, he decided to take matters into his own hands. His original plan was to download himself into Serpentera. Note the conspicuous red orb on the chest. Slightly less notably, it also has red eyes, just like both Hiramechimedes!Venjix and Yogoshimacritein!Venjix.◊ Of course, the red rangers showed up, and he didn't have time to download himself; he had to pilot it manually. Had they not arrived, he would have the largest, most powerful zord for a body, and a tactical genius AI for a mind. And that would have been very bad.
- As for how Alphabet Soup would have gotten the salvaged Machine Empire technology? They would have stolen it from a certain government warehouse.
- It's possible that an empire was not the only thing that Venjix built: It's possible that he himself built Serpentera. He gave Lord Zedd the zord in exchange for power. When Zedd failed, he went to plan B, a.k.a providing an army for Mondo. After Mondo failed, he decided to take matters into his own hands. His original plan was to download himself into Serpentera. Note the conspicuous red orb on the chest. Slightly less notably, it also has red eyes, just like both Hiramechimedes!Venjix and Yogoshimacritein!Venjix.◊ Of course, the red rangers showed up, and he didn't have time to download himself; he had to pilot it manually. Had they not arrived, he would have the largest, most powerful zord for a body, and a tactical genius AI for a mind. And that would have been very bad.
- As Samurai revealed RPM was an alternate universe, and not set in the distant future, this one is confirmed.
Also, in the three parter Dark Wish, Imperious uses Jenji to wish that the Mystic Force never existed. In this new reality, Briarwood is completely overtaken, even though Imperious never wished for any other ranger team to disappear. Why did none of the still functioning ranger teams come to Briarwood and help? Because they were all busy trying to beat the Venjix virus.
Flash forward to 2007 with Operation Overdrive. A much more technological team, so surely their powers would be more vulnerable to Venjix, right? Well consider the R.P.M episode Ancient History, where Tenaya finds the Red Overdrive Ranger helemt in the ruins of Alphabet Soup. Let's say that when Mr Hartford released Flurious and Moltor, he had trouble creating ranger powers, so he tried to get help. For a while, he worked along side Alphabet Soup, which gave him all the information he needed to create his team, but left when he realised how corrupt the agency was. Since Dr K had a firewall that could resist Venjix, it's likely that Hartford was able to use the same kind to protect his ranger tech from Venjix. And while Venjix may be starting to become a threat by this point, the Overdrive Rangers are preoccupied with finding the Corona Aurora and so figure it's best to leave Venjix to past ranger teams.
As for Jungle Fury, again it's a more spirit based team dealing with a more present threat, so their reaction would likely be that Venjix was not their area of expertise.
Move on to 2009 where Venjix finally infects enough computers to unleash his forces. All ranger teams with still functioning powers try to fight back but are eventually overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Perhaps more than a few morphers are infected by the virus. When it becomes obvious that the Power Rangers can't save them, the government starts working on Corinth City.
However, despite their failure, the combined rangers do at least manage to decimate a huge number of Venjix's forces. This explains why the R.P.M rangers are able to easily beat the Grinders who supposedly ended the world. They had far less numbers to deal with. the Red, Blue and Yellow R.P.M Rangers are recruited and keep the city safe until 2010 which is when the majority of the season takes place. Once Venjix is defeated, the surviors have a full fifteen years to rebuild in time for S.P.D. As for why the S.P.D Rangers claimed that the Dino Thunder Rangers all go on to be successful in their futures (e.g Kira's famous singing career), either the Dino Thunder Rangers survived because they didn't enter the fight, since their powers were non functioning at this point (except for Kira's but maybe hers were just damaged, forcing her to leave the battle) or the S.P.D Rangers were just lying to give them hope.
- ...Thanks for the Tear Jerker with that last line...
- I really don't think that one ranger, badass though he is, would be the only thing making conquest difficult for Venjix.
- You misunderstand me, I'm not saying Venjix was so successful because he didn't have to fight Tommy, I'm saying he was successful because he had Tommy fighting for him.
- Same thing. Being a Memetic Badass is not enough to conquer his former allies. Just remember who brought him to the side of good the first time around.
- Tommy has been turned evil twice during the series. The first time he was turned good because the Sword of Darkness was destroyed. The second time he had lost his memories and had been tricked into thinking his friends were his enemies, he turned good because he regained his memories. Neither would help if he was infected by Venjix.
- So not what i meant. The first time, Jason kicked his ass AND destroyed the Sword. Veterans like him, and Andros know very well to choose the many over the single.
- Still, it probably would have gone down in a similar way to the Old Man Logan story arc in Wolverine - In Old Man Logan story arc, all the villains teamed up to kill all of the X-Men, Avengers & other heroes of Earth, and Mysterio tricks Wolverine into slaughtering the X-Men by having him see them as the villains of the Marvel universe, because he knew the X-Men would hesitate to hurt their ally. So, the other rangers did fight, but were hesitant to hurt Tommy (This would especially apply to the MMPR, Zeo, Turbo & Dino Thunder rangers), which lead to their demise.
- What about the rangers who had never met Tommy before in their lives? Besides, there are more than a hundred rangers. Even if they all hesitate, he won't be able to take them all on.
- Andros or Karone would be able to finish him.
- You misunderstand me, I'm not saying Venjix was so successful because he didn't have to fight Tommy, I'm saying he was successful because he had Tommy fighting for him.
- Jossed as of Power Rangers Mega Force. Thanks to Armed with Canon, Jungle Fury is now with the regular rangers canon while RPM is still its own thing.
When Alphabet Soup found General Venjix, they gave it to K. K, bored out of her skull and lonely, used it as a template to form Venjix, who was meant only as her imaginary friend. She gave it too much firepower, however, in the unconscious hope to be saved, even by a psychopath.
When K released Venjix, Iceland wasn't too worried, because it had a nifty little science project going on—a climate-controlled city. They offered refuge to anyone who could get there. (Iceland, the specific coordinates, fit a little fijord which matches Corinth's map.) Roughly every country ended up with one city of survivors. However, everyone was traumatized in some way. So, to commemorate, they reset the calendar. After Venjix's defeat, it became 1 P.V.E (Post-Venjix Era) instead of AD\CE (Annos Domine\ Common Era). SPD didn't take place in 2001 AD\CE—it took place in 2001 P.V.E.
The other Rangers either a) died or b) didn't want to interfere with RPM (out of either trauma or the same reason that, say, Ninja Storm never contacted Dino Thunder purposefully). Like everyone else in Corinth City (seriously, you'd think the apocalypse hadn't happened!), they were trying to pretend nothing was wrong.
Venjix kept a few nukes, so the galaxy, still reeling from the power vacuum left when the UAE was defeated, stayed the hell away from Earth to avoid being blown up with one.
- A subset of this is that some of the Rangers may actually be children of previous Rangers.Dillon and Tenaya: Either Kim\Jason or Tommy\(insert female Ranger here)Scott: Zack Taylor and Angela, adopted by Colonel TrumanDr. K: Billy\Trini
- And if you like Epileptic Trees, they may have been meant to form a four-man team in the first place.
The reason the people in series think Cornith is the only city left is because Venjix is somehow blocking all attempts to contact Cornith from the outside.
However, its likely at least some people in Cornith know the truth. For example, Col. Truman's belief that they can simply outlast Venjix makes a lot more sense this way.
- Just the east coast? Does that mean Alphabet Soup worked for Hank Scorpio?
- For a similar take on this logic, try the book "The Accidental Time Machine" by Joe Haldeman.
- Jossed - they team up with the Samurai rangers to deal with a previously unknown villain; the timeline in the RPM universe remains unaltered.
I don't recall a date ever being mentioned in RPM.
Many Wild Guesses here.1) Zordon and Alpha were awakened by Rita awakening.2) RPM happened in the 60s or 70s.3) Earth was rebuilt by 19934) General Venjix IS the Venjix Virus, rising through the rebuilt Machine Empire.
- So the line about Trueman not being in the 21 century doesn't ally or was 196- in the 21st century?
- The 1960s are in the 20th Century. 2001-2100 are the 21st.
- So the line about Trueman not being in the 21 century doesn't ally or was 196- in the 21st century?
- Jossed, the Team Up firmly put RPM in an alternate dimension.
- RPM = Rangers Protecting Mirinoi?
- They often struggled to fend off lowly mooks
- It took them 13 zords and seven rangers to beat the Big Bad and in the end it wasn't even them that beat him, it was a control tower!
- Dr. K said that when they initially tested the Paleozord (presumably with Gem and Gemma, unless the Dino-train rangers were some fallen prototypes like them that K never speaks of) it couldn't be controlled because it was based on extinct animals...but both the Classic and Dino Thunder rangers had no problem with controlling pre-historic zords. I know they eventually got it to work but even then Scott had trouble with it, which still makes them seem sub-par compared to those two past ranger teams alone.
If RPM rangers were essentially Dr. K's attempt at reverse engineering Overdrive then it would make sense that they were weaker, her not actually knowing all the ins and outs of ranger tech, only what she can extrapolate from the samples.
- Well first off that wasn't a overdrive helm but a Police helm, in fact you can see the world POLICE etched on the side. Still that might imply before THE END Hartford Technologies had become a supplier of the Silver Guardians or Operation Lightspeed, etc. Another thing to remember was DT was MAGIC, a magical Sentient Vechicle Bio-Zord is a while different thing from one created from scratch with Science.
- I just checked and there is definitely nothing written on the helmet and it does look a lot like a red ranger overdrive helm sans mouth piece by comparison. And in reference to DT, well then that makes more sense, given that its probably easier to get things to work with magic than science.
- You need a higher resolution scan, http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6JFWBM5V, look at the 2 shot of Shifter and Tenaya see the word POLICE in all caps across the front band?
- That looks more like it says "PROTOTYPE". (In a font where the R's don't have the vertical line on the left side.
- I found a higher resolution still◊ from Rangerboard (associated discussion thread here) and it seems the general consensus is that the helm either says PROTOTYPE or PROJECT.
- Fair enough but it's still only a recreation not the original hartford tech.
- Well, no one's saying that it's the original tech. And I don't believe there was ever an indication that the Dino Thunder powers used magic. It was all genetics, biology, and technology, along with a metric ton of Hollywood Science.
- They got super powers by touching space rocks, seems magical to me...but your right the true source is ambigious, still between technology, biology, Green Rocks, and all that Dr. K Would have a time to replicate it with pure tech.
- Well first off that wasn't a overdrive helm but a Police helm, in fact you can see the world POLICE etched on the side. Still that might imply before THE END Hartford Technologies had become a supplier of the Silver Guardians or Operation Lightspeed, etc. Another thing to remember was DT was MAGIC, a magical Sentient Vechicle Bio-Zord is a while different thing from one created from scratch with Science.
- So Venjix is a "Well Done, Son" Guy?
Doctor K, inventor of the RPM Ranger Series, was robbed of her childhood, not allowing her to do things like a normal child would. Pouring her imagination into her Ranger tech she used the zords as an outlet for stuff a child or a young kid could make (abstract animals with big googly anime eyes).
Also, while we know Rangers existed in that dimension, the only ones we saw were secret ninjas. Therefore Dr. K's "breakthrough" in finding the grid could still make sense if seasons like Lightspeed Rescue, S.P.D. or Operation Overdrive didn't exist (as we know them) in this dimension.
- Messiah will be Venjix's new form and Venjix will now be screwing around in the Morphing Grid.
- While unfortunately not happening ( a Go-Busters adaptation is being skipped), this was actually part of Amit Bhaumik's plan.
- And 10 or so years later Go-Busters was adapted and included elements of RPM.
- Jossed - see above.
- Basically, unlike in the mainstream universe, the movie Rangers never step down from their post as the Power Rangers. They fight off (and destroy) threat, after threat, after threat, but then when General Venjix uncovers Serpentara in this universe's Forever Red, the other Rangers don't get word of it until Serpentara arrives on earth. Without the Wild Force rider (the "god like weapon" Pftt...), the Rangers are seemingly doomed, and Tommy decides that he must sacrifice the Ninja Megazord, but Venjix takes it over and shuts all means of exits off to the Rangers trapping them... except for one ranger... Tommy. Venjix takes over the White Morpher and allows Tommy to exit the zord. Tommy then witnesses the megazord exploding with his friends and his beloved Kimberly in them. Venjix then forces Tommy to morph and taking control of his ranger powers, goes to the Command Center and destroys Alpha, Zordon, and the Command Center. Venjix then exits Tommy's morphers to go off to his own affairs, setting up the events of RPM, while Tommy exiles himself ashamed, never to be seen again.
- Every major villain in the future seasons leading up to Wild Force is faught, it's just the means they get to the battle with the rangers are different. The rangers usually end up struglling more then the future rangers though, due to capping off at the Ninja powers and age and battle scars begin to catch up to them. They defeat Master Org faster though, finishing him off while he is still human.
Earth survives, albeit barely, and time marches on. Technology hits new heights and high-tech cities like Corinth are built, but the Power Rangers are remembered as little more than myths and legends from long ago. From here, K gets "recruited" into Alphabet Soup and rediscovers the Morphing Grid. She also creates Venjix from data that was salvaged from the remains of fallen Machine Empire soldiers (those that weren't completely turned to dust) which Alphabet Soup had captured and studied, and she failed to realize in time just how deeply-rooted in galactic conquest such Machines were. Venjix breaks out and easily conquers the high-tech planet with the intent to create a Neo-Machine Empire, and K creates her new Power Rangers as the planet's last defense.
So basically, Master Vile would ironically SAVE Earth by turning back time and starting a chain of events that would change the future. RPM is the future that would've originally happened had he not done what he did.
- Except Zordon would've had a backup plan for that - most likely is that his back-up plan would have given the rangers access to the Dairanger suits when the Machine Empire attacked. Plus, if Megaforce is any indication, Gosei was still around - if Zordon HAD ended up having to sacrifice himself, Gosei would have taken charge. True, the rangers would have faced more of an uphill battle, but they would likely still have won.
This will take some explaining: All previous Ranger teams don't exist. We can be fairly sure of this. So why?
If Rita was never released, the original MMPR team is never recruited. Lord Zedd is never humiliated by Rita's failures and thus never comes to Earth in the first place, likewise meaning Master Vile and Rito never come.
We never learn why Mondo made his power play, but with Zedd on Earth and weakened from battling the Rangers, he may have seen it as a perfect time to attack. If Mondo never breaks away, he never comes to Earth.
Divatox has no reason to come to Earth as no Rangers are there to seek revenge on, and may have freed her monster husband and became a far greater threat, but still never launched a full, long term attack on Earth.
As for what happened during In Space, two things may have happened: Either due to not having their butts kicked by the Rangers and thus having to swallow their pride and admit they CAN'T win on their own, the United Alliance of Evil remained a disconnected collection of rival villains still conflicting with each other as much as the forces of good, or Zordon still escaped, went to his home world when it was invaded, but due to not having a Ranger Team back on Earth he can rely on as a back up (as he never had to recruit one), he has himself killed then and there to release the Z-Wave as a last resort, wiping out the Alliance. It's possible both happened, or Zordon was killed trying to stop the Alliance but their own infighting kept them in check.
Scorpius and his forces never leave their own galaxy, so Earth never interacts with them. Terra Venture may never even exist, as Earth doesn't have any interaction with aliens at this point.
The Lightspeed Rescue Demons still exist, but may actually have WON and rule Mariner Bay as Evil Overlords in constant battle with the US military barely being contained. Why? It's a common fan theory with some Word of Dante support that the Lightspeed Powers were reverse engineered from the wreckage of the Turbo Zords...which don't exist in this timeline.
It's very possible ALL the post Zordon Era Ranger teams no longer exist for the same reason: the ability to access the Morphing Grid died with Zordon and humans never learned how to by reverse engineering the wreckage of the old Zords.
The Wild Force Team potentially, but they could easily just be like the Ancient Warriors, who lacked Ranger forms, and thus may have LOST, leaving the Orgs to rampage unchecked.
Thus humanity was already fighting a losing battle with multiple villain factions who no longer have heroes to oppose them (Ransik and Mesogog don't exist, as the future Ransik comes from wouldn't and Mesogog only exists because Tommy became a Ranger)...enter Alphabet Soup: humanity's desperate effort to unethically create weapons to battle these villains, becoming more desperate when Lothor arrives and steamrolls the Ninja Academies as they also lack access to the Morphing Grid. Humanity's only real saving grace being the villains fighting each other as much as humanity by this point.
Hartford never releases Flurious and Moltor, instead being forced to contribute his talents to fighting the various villain factions and never being able to find the Corona Aurora.
It's only when K uncovers the 'biofield' (the Morphing Grid') that the villains are pushed back using the weapons she and her fellow geniuses make, allowing enough normalcy to return enough for the Rangers' backstories to make sense.
Then Venjix is released, and nukes everyone out of nowhere, and Corinth is allowed to be built and exist due to him being in a multiway war with the other villains, now including the Master's forces and Daishi.
This is why Venjix doesn't just swamp Corinth with sheer numbers: he CAN'T: he uses most of his army to fight the other villains. By present, Venjix is the last villain standing (if only in a Victory by Endurance by virtue of being able to survive so long as his virus is backed up and the others killing one another off), but exhausted so much of his resources he has to scale down his attacks and be more cautious due to his weakened forces.
Thus, Rita pulled the ultimate Nice Job Fixing It, Villain by being freed in the first place.
- Furthermore, if Rita was never released, then she never became the Mystic Mother, which may have made the Mystic Force rangers unable to defend Briarwood from The Master and his fellow magical villains.