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  • Accidental Innuendo: A lot.
    • "Oh, don't leave! You'll miss my coming-out party!"
    • In the first season Halloween episode, Rita: "I love to get nasty, it's so nice!"
    • "Lights, Camera, Action" has the following exchange:
      Rocky: They (the Power Rangers) really reached out and touched me.
      Ms. Applebee: Actually class, they really reached out and touched young people all across the world.
    • "Two Heads are Better Than One" has two of the mothers at the end say "Two Moms are better than one!" On a minor note, when Finster is designing the Two-Headed Parrot, he notes that "one head here and another down there". Three guesses as to what part of the male anatomy "down there" refers to.
    • You will never take the Tengas seriously again if one knew that their name is used as an adult toy in Japan.
    • In "A Bad Reflection on You", Skull asks the Evil!Kimberly if she wants to go see "the submarine races". While there are such a thing as submarine races, the context in which Skull asks is slang for making out and maybe even sex.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Zordon, a wise sage or using teenagers to fight his battles for his own possibly shady means, likely breaking intergalactic law? The 2017 reboot explores the latter idea with its version of Zordon.
    • Tommy, Zordon's paladin, or someone who just wants revenge, and doesn't mind throwing his friends under the bus to do it? Does he divorce himself from the Green Ranger?
    • Is Billy the de facto leader of the Power Rangers? Zordon, while delivering bad news, frequently singles out Billy as the only Ranger who can divine a solution. Without Billy's technological know-how, the team would often have no strategy whatsoever with which to progress.
    • As a result of some Stock Footage Failure (namely the inconsistencies between Billy and his Zyuranger counterpart, Dan, such as martial arts skills and jumping up to grab Bones' head in the same episode as being chased up a cliff), Youtuber Mistare Fusion proposed this question: Do the Ranger powers give the users more confidence as a result of increased physical prowess, or do they actually take over the user's brain and the only real prerequisite for being a Ranger is being able to say "It's Morphin Time" and the name of a prehistoric animal?
    • Kat clearly had a crush on Tommy, but was her jealousy of Kimberly genuine, or was it a side effect of Rita's spell over her?
    • The Unshaved Mouse put forth the idea in his review of The Movie that the Rangers being involved in so many charity activities and fundraisers in their civilian lives was brought on by guilt from all the destruction sometimes caused by their battles with Rita's minions.
  • Alternate Self Shipping: Tommy Oliver is sometimes paired with his clone/ancestor Tom. There're even a few fics that are threesomes of Tommy, Tom, and the White Stranger.
  • And You Thought It Would Fail: Haim Saban spent years trying to bring Sentai to the US, only managing to do so when he found a network executive familiar with it in the president of Fox Kids, Margaret Loesch. Then Fox executives, announcers and affiliates also didn't have any faith - the last ones were only persuaded to broadcast when Loesch said they could have a cut in merchandise sales. And yet the show was a huge hit from the first airing, and started a franchise that remained a phenomenon through the 1990s.
  • Awesome Music: "I Will Win", "We Need A Hero", and of course, "Go Go Power Rangers" (and the extended version)... Ron Wasserman, we love you.
    • 5-4-1!
    • It's so awesome that Masaaki Endoh made a Japanese version. Epic.
    • Here is the theme for those interested: enjoy its epicness.
    • Fight.
    • Data Zone a ROCKIN song from the Fighting Game based off the show.
    • That little music played at the beginning of "Teamwork", "Food Fight", and "The Spit Flower"; and when Jason broke the bench press record in "A Pressing Engagement".
  • Ass Pull: Given that the show is made by splicing together stock footage from Sentai shows with American footage, this is sometimes inevitable:
    • In the "Green With Evil" arc of the first season, the zords are destroyed in a battle with the Green Ranger. In the very next episode, they're back and healed with zero explanation.note 
    • In the second season of the show wanted to change its stock footage from using Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger to Gosei Sentai Dairanger; however, in the show simply explains that the Rangers need to start using the Power of Thunder!
    • What is the Power of Thunder? Never really explained. Where did it come from? Never asked. If its always been available, why not use it sooner? Never brought up. The transition seriously gets a single short exchange of dialogue and is never questioned again.
    • The "Sword of Light" needed to transfer powers to another person back in Season 2 of Mighty Morphin'. Never mentioned again, and later power transfers just have the original Ranger giving their power coin/morpher to the new Ranger.
  • Badass Decay:
    • Lord Zedd had to be toned down after the Moral Guardians deemed him too scary. As a result, he went from being a serious and scary villain to a comedy relief villain like Rita... except, not really. Zedd only seemed less badass in demeanor, but actually following the entirety of Season 3 and even into Zeo, it's clearly a case of the opposite; he became MORE badass in his schemes and forced the Rangers into constant defense, to the point of actually beating them.
    • When Tommy was introduced as a villain, he single-handedly took down the entire team. After this, he was given more power ups with each episode that only served to make him weaker. Then Rita stole the Green Ranger powers, which were only restored through Zordon giving Tommy bursts of his own energy, which made his powers unstable and unreliable before they were lost forever. Then Tommy became the White Ranger. And all was forgotten.
    • Don't forget Goldar, although his was more of a freefall than a decay. After "Green No More" when Tommy beat him while unmorphed, he went from The Dragon who was more than a match for the entire team, to someone who could get knocked flat on his back by an unmorphed Billy. And then Zeo came around...
    • People don't really think of him because he was always an idiot, but Rito. When he debuted he had the same silly personality but proved why you should Beware the Silly Ones: he led a gang of monsters in the destruction of the Thunder Zords, and yes, he had help with the four other monsters, but he did most of the work himself, even delivering the final blow. He gets his ass handed to him by the Ninja Megazord (still better than the Sentai where he was actually destroyed) and after that was getting his ass kicked as frequently and as pathetic as Goldar. He even got overpowered by Rangers throwing SNOWBALLS at him (granted neither the good side or evil side could use any powers, but still. He and Goldar had SWORDS).
    • Scorpina avoided this fate by going the way of Chuck Cunningham.
      • She didn't disappear soon enough, unfortunately. In Season 1 she could wreck the entire team on her own. In her only Season 2 appearance, both her and Goldar were simultaneously taken out by the White Ranger. Subverted in the Zord fight, though, as the two of them simply shrugged off blasts from the Thunder Ultrazord.
    • The Z-Putties were introduced as superior to Rita's Putties, and the Rangers initially had difficulty defeating them, even morphed. Their Achilles' Heel was quickly discovered, and over time they become easier and easier to beat. They were eventually being destroyed by children with dodge balls.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Some fans appreciate Alpha 5 for his role as the team tech and mission support. Others find his voice and his catchphrase very annoying.
    • Tommy Oliver was massively popular back in the 90s and is arguably the most iconic Ranger in the entire franchise due to how long he served on various teams. However, reactions to Tommy's character have become more mixed in subsequent years. While there are still a lot of fans who love Tommy and consider him to be the one Ranger who pretty much made the show what was, there are also those who consider Tommy an overrated Invincible Hero with a bland personality who upstaged all the other Rangers and took all the spotlight for himself. And of course, there are fans who consider Tommy a decent character in his own right but also feel that the writers shouldn't have focused so much on him at the expense of the other Rangers.
    • Kat Hillard is despised by Tommy/Kim shippers who believe she was created solely to take Kim's spot as the new pink ranger and Tommy's girlfriend. On the other hand, her tragic backstory, Kimberly accepting to give Kat her powers, and even her time as Zeo Ranger 1 Pink have earned her a good chunk of fans as well.
    • Aisha Campbell is Trini's replacement in Season 2, getting to be in The Movie, but then being written out suddenly at the end of the Alien Rangers arc (due to Karan Ashley wanting to leave). As a result, she is not necessarily disliked, but a lot of fans feel she is wasted potential, and didn't stand enough on her own. But there are plenty who love her, especially for being the first African-American female to join the team, and Karan Ashley still enjoys great popularity at conventions. Some also love her for how she gets to defeat Ivan Ooze.
    • The Aquitian Rangers are divisive with fans, with some finding them to be bland and underdeveloped characters who only exist to use the ranger suit footage from Kakuranger, while others find them to be interesting and entertaining characters in their titular miniseries and appreciate the fact that they are the first team whose main ranger suits didn't originate from Zyuranger.note 
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Several.
    • "For Whom the Bell Trolls" had a giant Japanese boy standing next to the Megazord in one scene. It made sense in the corresponding Zyuranger episode, but was an out-of-nowhere occurrence here.
    • "The Rockstar" had a fight scene by a pool featuring a guy in blue tribal clothes gesturing in the background that the Rangers paid no mind to. Again, this made sense in Zyuranger (he was Dan, the unmorphed Triceraranger/Blue Ranger), but was out of place here.
    • Another episode has Pink Ranger hurrying off a Japanese boy to safety. Said boy had no prior introduction and the dialog doesn't address it.
  • Broken Base:
    • Whether or not the team should have kept the Zyuranger costumes or switched over to the costumes from Gosei Sentai Dairanger. While the suits from Dairanger are well-liked in the fanbase, the debate is over if the Rangers should have used them. The fact that Saban used footage of the team's Sixth Ranger, as well as the mecha and the Super Chi-Power Bazooka doesn't help. It wasn't until Power Rangers Megaforce that they became a part of the Power Rangers canon.
    • Did the show get better or worse when Tommy became the White Ranger? Opinions vary. Some fans feel that the story of Tommy's redemption was one of the best parts of the show, and love the depth and dimension that it brought to the saga of the Rangers. Others dislike that it turned Tommy from a morally ambiguous Wild Card to a clean-cut Standardized Leader, and that it largely made him the center of the show—which somewhat clashed with its Central Themes of friendship and teamwork.
    • Is Season 2 an improvement or a step down from Season 1? It's got entries on this page under Growing the Beard and Seasonal Rot, with some very convincing arguments for both sides.
    • Discussions over whether Jason or Tommy was the better leader can get heated.
  • Common Knowledge: The original series is sometimes mocked as one of the most egregious cases of Dawson Casting. Except Austin St John was seventeen when he was cast as Jason (but just looked older due to his muscle mass), Thuy Trang and Jason David Frank were nineteen, and Amy Jo Johnson and Walter Jones (who were 21 and 22) looked the most like teenagers. David Yost was the oldest at 24. Even within the replacements, Steve Cardenas was nineteen, and Karan Ashley and Johnny Yong Bosch were eighteen. Bulk and Skull's actors however were well into their twenties, making them the most obvious examples. Catherine Sutherland was twenty, but still within the realms of believability. It's only by Power Rangers Turbo - four seasons later - that it was especially obvious.
  • Creepy Awesome: Lord Zedd. His suit being meaty muscles, his cool theme, and his frightening first appearance where he took over, has made him one of the most popular Power Rangers villains. Even with Villain Decay, fans still liked him as it seemed he was more successful in defeating the Rangers after his marriage with Rita.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Rita is notoriously difficult to shop for, as Rito can attest to:
    Rito: "Y'know, picking out a present for you has never been easy. Remember when Mom and Dad got you that little fire-breathing dragon, but you really wanted that cute little planet, so you used the dragon to burn the house down?"
  • Die for Our Ship: Kat among Tommy/Kim shippers. These fans hated Kat for trying to steal Tommy from Kim, ignoring the fact that Kat was under an evil spell, and once she was free from it she stopped. Hell, she even tried to hook Tommy up with a completely different girl, after Kim had dumped Tommy. And it was Tommy who finally pursued Kat.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Several of the show's monsters became extremely popular, to the point of being just as fondly remembered as the main villains. Probably the biggest of these was Pudgy Pig (who has ended up becoming sort of the quintessential MMPR monster), very closely followed by Eye Guy, King Sphinx, and Pumpkin Rapper. Knasty Knight, Madam Woe, Snizard, Shellshock, a good deal of the MMPR-exclusive Zyu2 monsters, Lipsyncher, Silver Horns, Garbage Mouth, Crabby Cabbie, See Monster, and Brick Bully also have a fair amount of fans to them. Several of them have seen releases as action figures both by Bandai and in Hasbro's "Lightning Collection" line.
    • Tommy was unquestionably this in the first season, before becoming a Base-Breaking Character in the second.
    • More specifically, the Green Ranger. More than one kid's interest in the series tapered off after he was "written out" (i.e. he was killed off in the source material that MMPR got its sentai footage from) and replaced with the White Ranger, and even people who never got into the show at all still see him as a pretty cool and badass character.
  • Even Better Sequel: To several fans, the third season is considered to be the best season from MMPR.
  • Evil Is Cool: Lord Zedd set the standard of coolness for Power Rangers villains. Even after he suffered Badass Decay because Moral Guardians thought he was too scary, he still managed some great badassery.
  • Fanon: Since David Yost has come out as gay, many fans like to believe the character he played, Billy, was also secretly gay. Some even cite his preponderance of one-shot female love interests as evidence towards this, as Billy never had any sort of long or even short-term girlfriend. Though David Yost disputes this interpretation stating on Twitter “Billy’s a ladies man, I’m not”, and ultimately Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always would imply Billy is still with Cestria.
  • Fair for Its Day: The original Black and Yellow Rangers being portrayed by an African-American and Asian-American actors was and still is met with criticism. However, some people from these demographics who grew up with the show did appreciate seeing these characters as superheroes and role models to look up to.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • As common as it is to see Doomstone referred to as "Doomstone," the name is never spoken by anyone in the episode itself. In reality, he's just a nameless tombstone monster.
    • Tommy is "Jeebus".
    • When Adam, Rocky, and Aisha are mentioned separately from the rest of the team, they're usually called the "Stone Canyon trio" because well, they were originally from the neighboring city and there's three of them.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: A Friend In Need, the Poorly Disguised Pilot for Masked Rider, largely gets this treatment from fans, due to the fact that the aforementioned Masked Rider is widely given this treatment as well. Interestingly, the 3 parter is practically stand-alone (it's referenced once later, but that's it), meaning that if one was to jump straight into Ninja Quest after finishing season 2, they wouldn't miss anything. The only reason said episodes aren't listed under Canon Discontinuity is that while Time Force would later retcon Masked Rider to a Show Within a Show, the events of A Friend In Need are referenced later on in Mighty Morphinnote .
  • First Installment Wins: This is likely the only series the general population thinks about in regards to the 25-year-old franchise. It exploded in popularity when it first came out, and fears about losing that popularity led Saban and crew to keep on with the Mighty Morphin motif for two extra seasons. Subsequent series, though they all have their fans, didn't quite reach the heights of popularity that this series had. Much to the fandom's irritation, this has also led Mighty Morphin to get the most focus in merchandising and public relations matters. For example, the Power Rangers balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger since its introduction, rather than any newer Rangers, because they're not nearly as recognizable to the general public. This applies to MMPR as well, since people remember the first roster of Rangers far more than any of their replacements.
  • Franchise Original Sin:
    • The Green Aesop that was widely seen as Anvilicious in Power Rangers Wild Force existed as early as this series. The reason people don't complain about it here, however, is that it was eventually toned down, not to mention that it was more presented as the rangers raising awareness, as opposed to a motive to fight the villains. While Wild Force isn't entirely to blame, since the aesop was a result of the show being a direct translation of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger.
    • Although the second season is infamous for turning Goldar into a joke, his Badass Decay actually began in season 1 when he took a beating from an unmorphed jason.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show aired in Japan via TV Asahi in the 1990s via Japanese dub and (English) subtitled version. Even though it aired late at night,note  it was popular with male viewers in their 20s/30s and with kids at kindergarten.
  • Growing the Beard:
    • Many agree that the series improved when the "Green Ranger saga" arrived.
    • Season 2 was where the show proved it had legs. Prior to that the episodes were very formulaic (with the exception of the Green Ranger saga) and the overall mood was almost pure cheese until the genuinely scary Lord Zedd came along, starting with the destruction of the old Zords and the removal of the comical Rita Repulsa. This coincided with a noticeable boost in production quality (the actors appeared in costume with the helmets off, in addition to staging American-made fights scenes to better match the story) and the special effects jumped up in quality. Longer storylines became the norm and this got even more noticeable in season 3.
    • Scatterbrain is generally seen as the point when American footage of monster fights began to improve greatly in quality.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Billy getting the most love interests out of the entire cast might seem Hilarious in Hindsight when you learn that David Yost is homosexual...until you also learn that some of the staff gay-bashing him behind the scenes (and nobody actually doing anything about it) was the reason he left the series. Not to mention that him having that many girlfriends may have been a desperate attempt by the producers to have him NOT seem homosexual (even though he didn't).
    • Lord Zedd once sarcastically asked, "What is it this time, Finster? A monster that blows itself up?" At the time, simply a humorous jab at the show's Once per Episode fantasy conventions. Nowadays, people are more aware that "a monster that blows itself up" has a very realistic context. And even putting the real world out of it, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy takes the concept and plays it for serious drama when Trakeena turns her entire army of Stingwingers into suicide bombers in the finale.
    • There was an episode in which a time capsule is involved. The rangers then talk to each other about how they hope the future will be like. No hatred, no crime, no wars. You know, the usual peaceful future we all dream of.
    • Likewise, at the beginning of the time capsule episode Billy is the one who personally hopes there won't be any prejudice in the future. This is painful to hear with the knowledge that David Yost would later leave the series because of the prejudice he was receiving from the crew in real life.
    • "Too much Pink Energy is dangerous" went through this twice. First, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy killed off its Pink Ranger. Also, Power Rangers: Dino Thunder shows that having two rangers with the exact same color and power set using the Morphing Grid at the same time is a very bad idea.
    • Every cute scene with Tommy and Kim is this due to what happens to their relationship in Zeo. Ditto with all those moments of brainwashed Kat talking about getting rid of Kimberly and taking Tommy for herself.note 
    • There was a YTMND featuring Rita Repulsa as Hurricane Rita, one of the three most destructive storms in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
    • Going back to Yost, there's the below-mentioned PSA, note  where you shouldn't attack somebody because you think they're wrong.
    • In "Rita's Seed of Evil", Rita's plans to destroy Earth (with an Imagine Spot), and Serpentera has the power to destroy planets which Zedd tried to use on Earth before it's low on power. The finale of Dino Supercharge has the Rangers accidentally destroy Earth when they created a black hole; fortunately they Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Besides, Dino Charge takes place in an Alternate Universe.
    • "On Fins and Needles", where Rita casts a spell that turns Jason and Tommy against each other, is a tad uncomfortable knowing that there was Real Life bad blood between Austin St. John and Jason David Frank for a while.
    • In "Rita's Pita", Tommy teaches his student, Danny, the importance of respecting one’s body. Later, in one of the D.A.R.E. PSA's from Power Rangers Turbo, Danny is shown to be underage smoking.
    • "Green With Evil: Part I" has a Brainwashed and Crazy Tommy infiltrating the Command Center and severing Zordon's connection to our dimension. Power Rangers in Space has Zordon being killed by a Ranger - albeit reluctantly and with Zordon's consent - to destroy the villains. Also, the Boom Studios comics has an evil version of Tommy killing the Zordon of his universe.
    • The fact that Tommy Is Spared By Adaptation compared to Burai from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger became this given all three of Burai's actors and every one of his other Sentai counterparts' actors would all outlive Jason David Frank.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: In "The Great Bookala Escape", after meeting a space traveler Billy hopes to travel the stars too. He eventually got his wish.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Jason David Frank recounted in an interview that when he signed onto the show he was warned that Tommy would only be a Guest-Star Party Member and this wouldn't be a huge career opportunity. Tommy Oliver would end up becoming the Breakout Character of the franchise having the longest tenure of any Ranger, remaining a part of the show until halfway into Power Rangers Turbo. Furthermore, Frank would return another seven years later to act as the mentor in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. So much for the role being temporary!
    • Billy, whose actor is gay, has a unicorn Zord. Unicorns are an LGBT symbol.
    • From "Mighty Morphin' Mutants": Dragonzord, use your tail whip, now!
    • Watch Rita's reaction to Zedd's suggestion they have a child in "Return of the Green Ranger" and then go watch "Once a Ranger".
    • After David Yost came out as gay, the parade of female love interests for Billy can feel like this. When you learn the reason he left the show however...
    • Due to Billy's scientific genius, he would often be the Ranger seen working with Alpha on Ranger technology in the Command Center. Alpha's voice actor, Richard Steven Horvitz, would later voice another character named Billy who would turn out to be the exact opposite of MMPR Billy in terms of intelligence.
    • Michael R. Gotto (Young Tommy) grew up to be a high school teacher. Heh...
    • In "Happy Birthday, Zack", to avoid drawing suspicion to themselves, Jason tells Ernie that he thinks the Power Rangers are aliens from a distant planet. A few seasons down the road...
      • Also the Alien Rangers.
      • In that same conversation, Ernie mentions that the Power Rangers do for Angel Grove what Batman does for Gotham. Him knowing of Batman's existence creates a bit of a Mind Screw later on with the release of Justice League/Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers...
    • One of the new Unsound Effects in the 2010 Recut is "BETRAYED!".
    • This PSA from the original series features a young Najee De-Tiege pretending to morph into the Blue Ranger. He would go on to play an actual Blue Power Ranger much later...
      • The same PSA also features a misunderstood kid being ganged up on by "Rangers" played by Ferrand Thompson
    • The crossovers between Super Sentai and Kamen Rider? Power Rangers did it first! As much as fans don't want to remember it, the Power Rangers met Masked Rider/Kamen Rider Black RX in 1995 while an actual crossover between the two franchises finally happened in 2009 with Shinkenger and Kamen Rider Decade.
    • In "Clean-Up Club", Bulk & Skull's video shows them practicing (miserably) with shinais. In Power Rangers Samurai, Bulk often uses shinais while teaching Skull's son Spike to be a samurai.
    • In "Calamity Kimberly", Tommy jabs that Bulk and Skull deserve their own show. Funny enough, there were originally plans for them to get their own spin-off series, during Power Rangers Turbo's run.
    • Tommy's Sentai counterparts are Burai from Zyuranger and Kou from Dairanger. Completely separate characters, but amusingly enough, Kou's actor had previously played young Burai in a flashback.
    • In "Putty on the Brain", Bulk & Skull suspect that anyone could be a Power Ranger. The stare at each other, before shaking their heads. One of them was a red herring for the Gold Ranger, and over 20 years later, Bulk's actor, Paul Schrier, would end up playing the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers Hyperforce.
    • In "Zedd's Monster Mash", a girl goes as Red Ranger for Halloween. A decade later, we have the first female Red Ranger in Power Rangers S.P.D.. Another decade later, the first (chronologically) Red Samurai Ranger.
    • In "Crystal of Nightmares", Bulk & Skull dreamed that they were Power Ranger like heroes with Skull having a hot dog morpher and Bulk having a Cheeseburger morpher... 23 years later StarNinnger of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger happens to have a morpher shaped like a cheeseburger due to being a American Cowboy Ninja.
    • In "Different Drum", the monster Gnarly Gnome is destroyed by the Power Blaster but then, strangely enough, revived by Rita's wand. Later series/seasons have the Monster of the Week getting destroyed and then revived only to grow giant.
    • In the Alien Rangers saga, we have a Blue Ranger who's an intelligent dark-skinned character.
    • Bryan Cranston voiced several Monsters of the week during his time on the show, and Billy Cranston was partially named after him. In 2016, it was announced that he'd be playing those monsters' enemy, Zordon, in the Continuity Reboot.
      • Also, Billy is the Blue Ranger.
    • "White Light", episodes 17 and 18 of season 2, sees Tommy rejoin the team as the Sixth Ranger with White Ranger powers. The next time Sentai (as well as Power Rangers) would use Dinosaurs as a theme in a show, the sixth (well, fifth) ranger would also be White. For bonus hilarity, the team colors for seasons 2 and 3 of Mighty Morphin are exactly the same as those of Abaranger if one includes the self-proclaimed Abarangernote .
    • This series came out four years before the first Harry Potter book hit shelves—but you might notice that four of the six Power Rangers have colors and personalities that overlap pretty well with the four Houses of Hogwarts. Jason, the noble martial artist known for his bravery, wears red (the color of Gryffindor); Billy, the science geek known for his intelligence, wears blue (the color of Ravenclaw); Trini, the dedicated friend known for her loyalty and kindness, wears yellow (the color of Hufflepuff); and Tommy, the independent one known for having a dark side, wears green (the color of Slytherin).
    • Lord Zedd's Zord, Serpentera, was restricted by a time limit due to the power supply it had...which is the exact same thing that would happen in Power Rangers Dino Charge when the villains had control of the Gold Ranger's mecha!
    • "The Trouble with Shellshock" ends with Kimberly remarking that if she ever sees another turtle, it will be too soon. The statement nowadays comes off as humorously prescient toward the Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation crossover in Power Rangers in Space (which by then, Kimberly was long-absent). Also, the Rangers would later get a turtle-based Zord.
    • "Wild West Rangers" has Kimberly travel back in time to the colonial era and meeting her friends' identical ancestors. The sight of Johnny Yong Bosch in old western duds and Steve Cardenas as a cowboy in red will likely bring Vash the Stampede to mind.
    • In season 3, the Rangers lose the "brute strength of the dinosaur" and gain the "swiftness and cunning of the ninja". The Disney Era of Power Rangers began with Power Rangers Ninja Storm and was followed by Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, essentially an inverse of what happened in the MMPR Era. Tommy, who was present in MMPR for both the dinosaur and ninja incarnations of the team would also return as a regular for Dino Thunder. And the association of ninjas with cunning is ironic when the main villain of Ninja Storm would develop a reputation for being too silly and incompetent compared to the more menacing and serious villain of Dino Thunder.
    • In "Return of the Green Ranger", Tommy's evil clone wears a shirt that incorporates the colors green, white, red and black. The latter two are colors Tommy would wear in Zeo, Turbo and Dino Thunder, making that outfit a piece of retroactive foreshadowing of the next three steps in Tommy's Ranger career post-Mighty Morphin.
    • The Terror Toad would not be Michael Sorich's last outing as a giant toad monster.
    • The Dragonzord (and by proxy Dragon Caesar, his Zyuranger template)'s entrance is very reminiscent of Godzilla, what with it coming out of the ocean to stomp on the surface. Near the end of 2022, a crossover with the Rangers and actual Big G happened!
  • Ho Yay:
    • During the "Green With Evil" saga, Skull tries to kiss Kimberly. She ducks out of the way, leading Skull to kiss Bulk instead. Yes, the first kiss to ever happen on Power Rangers was between two males.
    • Tommy and Jason, who even had several "breakup" episodes; Rocky and Adam, who were best friends
    • Plus Jason and Zack before and after Tommy shows up.
    • Billy puts a ring onto the finger of a statue of a man when the rangers have to retrieve a sword from it. The sword comes loose when the ring goes on. Just think about that.
    • Bulk and Skull. Not as much as some of the Rangers had with each other, but it was there.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Bulk and Skull. It's easy to feel sorry for them, especially if their Humiliation Conga was excessive.
  • Karmic Overkill: While they started out as malicious bullies, Bulk and Skull became harmless Butt Monkeys over their tenure on the show. Despite this, they were often subjected to numerous painful and humiliating experiences, no matter how badly they behaved. In one episode, the Rangers erase the evidence Bulk and Skull have acquired about their identities, humiliating them in public.
  • Les Yay: Kim and Aisha, who were also best friends, briefly lived together, and there's a cute scene where Kim kisses Aisha on the cheek to cheer her up after a local sorority-ish club rejects her.
  • LGBT Fanbase: Jason. He hangs around a gym, tends toward fanservice as much as any other male ranger, is always hanging around Tommy...The false gay porn rumors only made it worse. Also, Zedd for that metal codpiece. This itself is Harsher in Hindsight considering all the crap David Yost took from members of the crew about his sexuality.
  • Macekre: Par for the course for the franchise, but Season 3 is a notable case. The entire Kakuranger series was reversed; the Shogun Zords actually came first in Japan, followed by the Ninja Zords. (To say nothing of the Battle Borgs and Alien Rangers.) For example, Vampirus was the first Season 3 MOTW. The Japanese equivalent was in episode 36.
  • Memetic Badass: Tommy and retroactively Adam.
  • Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: Despite it being a running joke in the fandom and outside of it that the Black Ranger was played by an African-American and the Yellow Ranger by an Asian-American (in the first two seasons only), both Zack and Trini are still beloved for being positive characters. Even before her death, Thuy Trang spoke about other people of Asian descent thanking her for portraying a positive role model for the community.
  • Moe: Trini is the sweetest character on the whole show. Aisha and Kimberly are slightly less moe than Trini, but still very cute and kind as well.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: A rare evil example: Lord Zedd's voice is very cool and intimidating.
  • Narm:
    • A good number of lines delivered when the Rangers are morphed. Exaggerated mid-season two when Jason, Trini and Zack are voiced by sound-alikes due to their actors quitting; while Zack's replacement voice actually does a passable impression of Walter Emanuel Jones, Trini's doesn't sound much like Thuy Trang, while Jason is voiced by someone who not only sounds absolutely nothing like Austin St. John, but simply cannot act to save his life.
    • How awkwardly put together the footage is spliced with the Sentai footage. A good example is during Scorpina's first fight with the rangers. She seems to have the upper hand, then it cuts to Rita applying makeup before Goldar and Scorpina come into the room arguing over how Scorpina apparently lost her fight with the rangers. We're never given any explanation as to how she lost and it's obvious Saban just cut the rest of the fight for time.
  • Narm Charm: Considerably the draw appeal for those who are outside the target audience or have grown up with it. Also, the special effects and monster costumes are pretty cheesy, but lots of fun to watch.
  • Never Live It Down:
    • "Rocky Just Wants to Have Fun." When fans mention their dislike of Rocky, this episode is often referenced along with his Replacement Scrappy status.
    • The first black ranger was African American, the first yellow ranger was Asian American. Though they apparently didn't realize until 10 episodes in, and they flipped these around with the first ranger switch, and have only once done either of these since, people still bring it up over 20 years later.
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: Most of the games made based on the original TV series were overall well-received:
    • The Sega Genesis adaptation is a serviceable 2D fighting game in a similar vein to Street Fighter.
    • The Game Gear version expands on the Genesis version by adding Putty Patrollers to fights against Rita's monsters. It's also the only game where the Dragonzord Battle Mode is fully playable.
    • The SNES version is a fun platforming beat-em-up, with the final two levels dedicated to Megazord battles. Those segments proved popular enough to be expanded upon in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition, based on the latter two seasons of the series with a dash of the movie.
  • One True Threesome: Rocky/Aisha/Adam. Also there are hints of Kim/Trini/any of the male rangers, Jason/Kim/Tommy, and Kim/Tommy/Kat?
  • Older Than They Think:
    • The use of original Toei made footage started earlier than Zyu2. For example, The first ever shot of Rita saying Make My Monster Grow was actually original footage made for ''Power Rangers''.
    • While some fans of MMPR, especially older ones, know that it's based on a Japanese franchise which had already been running for over a decade before Zyuranger, even fewer will probably know that Power Rangers isn't the first time the english speaking world got Super Sentai, even disregarding Saban's other attempts to bring it over with Bioman and Jetman. English dubs have existed in The Philippines as far back as Gorenger (the very first), while a Dynaman was given a very short gag dub on the USA Cable Network. Power Rangers is the only one of them to mix Japanese footage with American, which is probably why it has endured.
    • Many believed that Lost Galaxy or Lightspeed Rescue was the first to have Power Rangers as adults and/or respected careers. Lost Galaxy was ambiguous on the dedicated careers parts, but there were adults. However, Alien Rangers from Aquitar were the first adults.
      • On a related note, Lightspeed Rescue is often credited as the first time the rangers' identities were known to the public. In actuality, the Aquitian Rangers hold this distinction, at least on Earth. Even the fact that they're from another planet is common knowledge among the populace of Angel Grove, to the point where they morph right in front of Bulk and Skull.
    • Many believed that Time Force was the first to have a female leader. Delphine of the Alien Rangers from Aquitar was the first.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: Mega Battle, released in 2017 for Xbox One and Play Station 4. While it has its fans, it's generally considered to be mediocre. The Gameboy games totally stunk though, both having poor controls and overly difficult bosses.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Adam was initially not very popular due to replacing Zack. However, after his actor Johnny Yong Bosch became more mainstream and returned as the character for two crossover events, "Always a Chance" from In Space and "Once a Ranger" from Operation Overdrive, Adam became more fondly remembered for his Nice Guy personality and for helping other rangers when needed.
  • Replacement Scrappy: The replacement rangers were not well liked upon introduction due to replacing the fan favorite team members. While Adam was quickly Rescued from the Scrappy Heap and became one of the all-time favorites among fans, the rest weren't as lucky.
    • Aisha had a short tenure before Tanya replaces her, lasting from the second half of Season 2 to the end of Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers. She was also criticized for essentially taking Trini's roles as Kimberly's friend and the second-smartest member of the team behind Billy, without too much differences. These made Aisha, while not necessarily hated, one of the least-remembered rangers of the franchise.
    • Rocky was put in a weird position due to his status as the Red Ranger but never actually leading the team, due to Tommy becoming leader before he was introduced. He was also not seen as very interesting due to his more generic personality that wouldn't be established until Zeo made him somewhat a comedic character. The fact that he also replaced Jason, one of the most popular Rangers of the franchise, Red or otherwise, did not help. He was even the only Red Ranger not to appear in the "Forever Red" reunion, and his eventual reappearance years later only came because Steve Cardenas had to keep reminding producers of his existence.
    • Kat is not well-liked by Kimberly fans due to replacing her and becoming Tommy's girlfriend later on. Not helping was that she was introduced as brainwashed by Rita into taking Kimberly's power coin, setting her up to nearly die, something she has shown guilt over. While she would be more popular in Zeo, thanks to showing off more of her kinder and heroic moments, she remains disliked by fans of Tommy/Kimberly.
  • Retroactive Recognition:
    • Before he was Malcolm's Dad or Walter White, Bryan Cranston voiced several Monsters of the Week on this show (Billy Cranston was even named after him). Even funnier considering that he was cast as Zordon in The Movie.
    • Mike Reynolds used a similar voice when voicing Pineoctopus to the one he used when voicing over credit card commercials in 1991-1992, for awhile he was given the Fan Nickname "Charge Card Monster", that soon was forgotten when he began to voice General Ivar and Mondo the Magician in season 2 and instead people noticed similarities to the latter two, much like how Robert Axelrod's role as Goo Fish would later lead to comparisons to Lord Zedd.
    • In the Japanese dub, this was the debut of Noriaki Sugiyama as voice actor on voicing Billy/Blue Ranger, before his Star-Making Role as Sasuke Uchiha.
  • Ron the Death Eater: Fandom loves to portray Tommy post-"Green With Evil" as a morally conflicted Anti-Hero, and a wild card lone wolf. In the actual show, he's just as clean-cut as the other Rangers, and the reason he tends up late tends to be either his forgetfulness or being distracted by Putties or some extra-curricular activity.
  • Rooting for the Empire: Sure, they may have been cheesy and ridiculous-looking (when they weren't hideous), but you just can't help but root for Bulk & Skull (at the very least antagonists during the first two seasons). The main villains got this as well, as they were at the very least more interesting than the flat goody-good Rangers.
  • Saved by the Fans: Tommy was originally supposed to die like his Zyuranger counterpart. Instead, he was written out of the series. Jason David Frank moved on to the pilot Cybertron (which became VR Troopers, then his overwhelming popularity meant he was brought back.
  • Seasonal Rot: Season 2 is considered to be the weakest season of MMPR due to its Troubled Production, mediocre quality, replacing Jason, Zack and Trini with Rocky, Adam and Aisha and incoherent blend of Zyu2 and Dairanger footage in the first half, with one of the notable exceptions being Tommy becoming the White Ranger, though it did lead the show Growing the Beard by the next season.
  • So Bad, It's Good: To quite a few people.
  • Special Effect Failure:
    • Jason David Frank told the producers he didn't think he could act well in the original Zyuranger Dragon Armor, so after they originally replicated it, they had to remake it with cloth due to this reason. The problem is, Saban's piece is made of of shiny gold fabric, which looks completely different from the matte gold FRP original.
    • The blade of Ninjor's combined lance weapon had the unfortunate habit of wiggling wildly back and forth.
    • The cameraman made the mistake of getting a few close-up shots of the Putties in "Rangers Back in Time: Part 1," meaning we're able to see the netting in their eyes and even the mouth of the actor through the opening in the mouth of the Putty's rubber mask.
    • Of course, there's the infamous duct tape visible on Zedd's Z-Staff in "Green No More: Part 2."
    • Lip Lock is also a common issue involving the monsters with actual moving lips due to costume and animatronic limitations, thanks to them having to be exported from Japan and being a year old by the time of filming. Unlike the above examples, however, this problem originates with the original Sentai they come from; as many of the costumes had similar issues outside of close-up insert shots.
  • Stock Footage Failure: Numerous times Zyuranger footage is spliced together with the American footage, and the results are unconvincing.
    • Tommy's rise from "Green With Evil" had a small clip of Burai's silhouette arising from his cryogenic sleep. In another instance, Burai is clearly seen in "The Trouble With Shellshock" when the Green Ranger makes his appearance.
    • The most notable instance being when the Shogun Megazord combines with Titanus. As the two machines do not share a Sentai from which to pull footage, the American show blatantly resorts to using footage of the action figures for the scene, evidenced from the Zord having parts of the absent Dragonzord attached, decals that only exist on the toy, a different chestplate, and the White Shogunzord arm turning pink (the Sentai from which the Shogunzord originates has no Pink Ranger). While the Ninja Ultrazord was also made from the toys, the change in color on the Shogun Ultrazord REALLY sticks out.
      • Honestly, the special effects for the Ninja and Shogun Ultrazords aren't that bad. What kills it is the fact that they used the American toys instead of the original Japanese ones. As mentioned, the American toys had color differences and often replaced symbols and logos on the toys with the MMPR lightning bolt. Had Saban used the Japanese toys it likely would've been a lot less noticeable.
    • Another bad case is the stock footage of Zack, Trini and Jason during Season 2, as they left due to contract negotiations about 10 episodes before being written out. Most of the time they'd get away with it if you hadn't noticed they didn't film new group unmasked scenes from the B-Plot of the episode, but Zack frequently switches back to his hi-top fade from season 1 in the stock footage, whereas he had fairly distinct looking dreads in Season 2.
    • Also, Rita's Moon palace retained the blue "Bandra Palace" neon sign above the front door.
    • When Jason takes his Power Coin out to transform into a crystal, the words "Zyuranger Kyoryusentai" are clearly visible on his Power Morpher (known in the original series as the Dino Buckler).
    • The use of both Dairanger and Zyu2 footage during the first few episodes of Season 2 would also lead into the occasional flub where the Megazord switches from the original and Thunder Megazord between cuts.
    • Season 2 Zord fights even include They Wasted Perfectly Good Stock Footage: a Dairanger main villain giant size fighting scene is used… only to be another splice-battle due to using a different Zord formation than the one used in Super Sentai, while they could have split the Ranger to justify the Zord choice.
    • In one shot of the episode "The Rockstar", Dan (Billy's Sentai counterpart) is clearly visible in one shot.
    • In another instance of careless stock footage use, Megazord was randomly joined by a giant Japanese boy in one shot of "For Whom The Bell Trolls", a remnant of how important children often were to the plot of Zyuranger.
    • The endless reuse of the shot of Lord Zedd throwing the growth grenade from his lair led to a mistake in "Rangers Back in Time: Part II", in which Goldar is on Earth fighting Tommy, but is still standing right next to Zedd in the stock footage.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
    • Lord Zedd was very scary when first introduced in Season 2. Too scary. So the executives demanded he be toned down to being a silly loser in Season 3, ruining the point of how dangerous the Rangers' job is. He did recover a lot of his original qualities mid-way through the season in the three-part "Changing of the Zords."
    • The change in the morphing call with the ninja powers is frankly just not as cool as the original. Compare "[color] ranger power!" to "Mastodon / Triceratops /] Pterodactyl [=/ Sabre-toothed tiger / TYRANNOSAURUS!"
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Tommy, the team's Sixth Ranger, started out as evil but eventually turned to the side of good. Later on, Lord Zedd would recruit an entire team of Dark Rangers, who eventually turned good. Yet Zordon never recruits them as a second-team (either a back-up or a team to protect Stone Canyon) that would use the suits from Gosei Sentai Dairanger.
    • Some fans felt that giving Tommy more angst at being forced into evil and making him The Atoner could've given his character a bit more depth and made both occasions of him losing his powers all the more impactful. It is brought up on occasion a few times whenever Tommy gets brainwashed for the plot of the day or when an evil clone is made at one point but not for anything longterm and things are always back to the feel-good by the next episode.
    • Many fans feel this way about the aforementioned Dark Rangers never actually fighting the Power Rangers.
    • "Switching Places" is pretty disappointing as a "Freaky Friday" Flip story, not least because Billy and Kimberly switching bodies has no impact at all on the fight scenes later. At the very least, they could have messed with the Transformation Sequence to have one or both of them say the wrong animal at first, something Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger got right years later.
    • If they had kept Scorpina around, she would have been in "The Wedding" 3-parter, happy to see Rita return and becoming her Maid of (Dis)honor, and have a dance with the reluctant Goldar. With that said, the two would have developed a relationship together not unlike their Zyuranger counterparts.
    • Also, they could have reused the Power Eggs plot, which would configure into Rita's revenge on Zedd.
    • In Season 3, the Rangers gain armor, and at the end of said season, the Command Center is destroyed, but rebuilt at the start of Zeo. This would've been a perfect time to use the suits and updated Command Center from the movie to replace each respective one...but unfortunately, due to the decision to film the movie in Australia, they had to be left behind, meaning that not only was the chance to include them in canon lostnote , but we also had to deal with the glitter insteadnote .
    • If Austin, Walter, and Thuy stayed a little longer, then Jason, Zack, and Trini would have been given a proper send-off like they've done with Kimberly in season 3. We would have also seen them interact with their future replacements and not suffer from being Demoted to Extra. Lastly, Tommy would officially be promoted to leader after the power transfer.
  • Unfortunate Character Design:
    • Tommy as the White Ninja Ranger looks an awful lot like a klansman.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic. Baboo, Squat, and Finster are meant to be outright villains, but come across as more like Jerkass Woobies a lot of the time. For one, Baboo and Squat hardly ever do anything, and while Finster does help make monsters for Rita, he doesn't really have a choice, since she's obviously way more powerful and could kill him if he refuses. Furthermore, Finster doesn't even make monsters anymore after Lord Zedd shows up (as he can make his own monsters). The three of them are also treated like shit by Rita and Lord Zedd (as is Goldar, but he's actually cruel and malevolent, so you don't feel bad for him), with Finster always being polite regardless. It doesn't help that all three of them are very Ugly Cute, particularly Squat due to his pug-like eyes and silly voice.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Dark Rangers at the end of Green No More Part 2- They were a group of arrogant, desrespectful delinquents who harassed everyone within speaking distance, claimed that Angel Grove "belonged to them now" and were chosen to be Lord Zedd's Dark Rangers due to their lack of any redeaming qualities, but after they're set free from Zedd's control, Kimberly ties to invoke sympathy for them by suggesting that each of them is a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold who "just need some friends". This line of thinking would have made sense for a single social outcast, but considering that it's a group of people who were high-fiving each other every five seconds and had been antagonising innocent people left, right and center ever since they arrived, it just seems like an Ass Pull and a rushed way of resolving the conflict.
  • Vindicated by History:
    • A mild inversion. While it's still universally regarded as a good installment, and is still considered the best by general audiences, many longtime fans have become aware of its abundance of filler and thin storylines, supporting the argument that there have been some better seasons since.
    • While quality-wise, many would argue that MMPR isn't the best season, popularity-wise it has stood the test of time. More to the point, the whole franchise as a whole proved doubters wrong in regards to them claiming Power Rangers was a fad that would die out along with The '90s.
    • Season 3 is a slight case. It is generally perceived as the peak of quality solely within MMPR in terms of narrative, character focus, and having serialized story arcs, which wouls be carried over to Zeo and generally beyond. At the very least, many agree that if MMPR has to absolutely be emulated for nostalgia's sake, then at least future writers should look to Season 3, not Season 1.
  • The Woobie: So, Tommy is forced to fight his friends, victim of an evil enchantment every other day, is forced to fight his clone (the closest this show will get to "Luke, I Am Your Father" until In Space), and still keeps fighting. Only in Dino Thunder do we actually see the implications of this.

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