YMMV / Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (2016)

• Arc Fatigue: Beyond the Grid was criticised by fans for this, due to it being a nine-part story that emphasised more on exposition. It didn't help that the post-Shattered Grid/pre-Necessary Evil run of Go Go Power Rangers was better received than this due to the interesting storylines such as the colour swap and Alpha 1.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Lord Drakkon. Some view him as a terrifying example of what Tommy could have become that hits closer to home than most Ranger villains, while others see him as a painfully overdone evil knock off who doesn't tread any new ground.
  • Ellarien. Some fans see her as a weak and bland character in addition to considering her as a Creator's Pet for Marguerite Bennett and that her Ranger form could've been given to an existing Ranger for Beyond the Grid such as Karone, while others find her an interesting character in her own right.
  • Ellarien's close friend (revealed to be girlfriend) Remi also falls into this with some finding her to be a great character, while others just find her to be a weak character whose potential was wasted.
• Broken Base:
  • Issue #20 of the main series. For some, it brings some interesting revelations and some really dark moments to the series. For others there's too much to complain about, mostly the hurried pace of the issue which drives to the ground any attempt of originality, without time to flesh out anything. The talk about minorities struggle comes out flat and forced, the characters who die barely connect to the reader and end up as Sacrificial Lamb, and the whole thing just looks like the worst kind of Darker and Edgier which is just for cheap drama rather than the type the comic has been praised for, even the fight against the Green Psycho Ranger looking boring.
  • The Art Shift in the main comic looking noticeably less detailed on the character design aspect, resembling more the early Go Go Power Rangers style.
  • The post-Shattered Grid team has been mixed. Some fans are excited to see what's next with such a drastically changed gameboard and a brand new team to deal with. Other fans are upset that, for a series called Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, there is a decisive lack of the titular team and the idea they should be front and center no matter what. Even if many people support having comics for other teams of rangers, the fact the team consists of seven rangers from six different teams and an Original Character is even more divisive.^note Specifically, the team consists of Kimberly Ann Hart from Lord Drakkon's timeline as the Ranger Slayer, Cam Watanabe as the Green Samurai Ranger, Heckyl as the Dark Ranger, Tanya Sloan as Zeo Ranger II Yellow, Mike Corbett as the Magna Defender, Andros as the Red Space Ranger, and Ellarien as the Solar Ranger.
  • Fans are seriously divided on the grand reveal of Drakkon's ultimate plan and motivation in the final issue of Shattered Grid. Some say it makes sense and is a satisfying conclusion, while others insist that after killing endless innocents and committing countless atrocities, the reveal that Drakkon wanted to feel loved but could never fill the void in any meaningful way, combined with the fact that he never actually receives a solid defeat from the Rangers themselves and that they simply hit the universe's reset button was massively underwhelming and borderline insulting.
• Cliché Storm: The Lord Drakkon storyline hits many Alternate Universe beats, with a hero turning evil and conquering the world, familiar side characters heading a resistance, visiting parties stepping in for their dead counterparts, and a final battle that resolves the conflict with the visitor's help. Thankfully it's well written enough so that many readers don't mind.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Evil Is Cool: Rita and crew are much more competent and terrifying here than they were in the original. And they look good while doing it.
• Epileptic Trees: For a time, people thought the shadowed figure appearing on the wrap around cover art of Shattered Grid was either Chameleon Green from Kyuranger or Camille from Power Rangers Jungle Fury. It turned out to be the Ranger Slayer/Kimberly Ann Hart from Drakkon’s timeline.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Combined with Broken Base, despite how good the comics are, some do not consider whatever happened in the comics as canon as long as it never happened in the TV series.
• Growing the Beard
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers started with a great reception but the comic really becomes more than just a Decon-Recon Switch and more of its own thing after the appearance of the Black Dragon.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Zenowing's death during a flashback in Issue #35 becomes this as days later his voice actor Alistair Browning would pass away after a battle with cancer.
• Jerkass Woobie: Goldar in the main comic has a shade of this, as seen when Billy points out that enemies of enemies are friends, that Goldar's chained up (even if it's by his own volition) and that Rita may not feel such loyalty for Goldar as he feels for her. Goldar is clearly taken aback, and his facial expression when he says "My empress knows the value I provide. In time, she will remember. She has to." reads less like evil warrior and more like a guy who just wants to belong, be of use, and is genuinely loyal but pledged his loyalty to the wrong person.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Subverted by issue #25 - they really did kill off Tommy! Though he would be revived at the end of the story arc.
• Moral Event Horizon: See the page for examples.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: The ultimate defeat of Lord Drakkon in Shattered Grid.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Beyond the Grid had a lot of good potential on being a great storyline, only to end up being an exposition-heavy storyline that falls under Arc Fatigue.
• Tough Act to Follow: Given that Shattered Grid proved to be a huge critical and commercial success, this was going to be inevitable for Beyond the Grid, especially due to the lukewarm reception of said storyline, with fans finding the plot confusing due to more emphasis on exposition along with a Slow-Paced Beginning, wasted potential, underdeveloped characters, not much action, and feeling that it could've worked better if it was a separate series than part of the main ongoing.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Although many people have considered the possibility of the comic going into events covered in later seasons, no one was expecting one of the Psycho Rangers to show up in the part of the series set in 1969, much less an Original Generation Psycho Green.^note This is largely due to the fact that there was no green ranger in Power Rangers in Space or it's source material, Denji Sentai Megaranger
  • The appearance of TERRA VENTURE in Issue 21, as the base of operations for Promethea.
  • The wrap around cover for the "Shattered Grid" event shows Chameleon Green, though now it's assumed to have just been an Easter Egg.
  • The first cover revealed for Issue #31, which also kicks off a new arc, includes the Talon Ranger which many thought would never be brought over due to rights issues.
• The Woobie:
  • Tommy's somehow gotten it even worse than he did in the original show. He's brainwashed, assaulted with hallucinations of Rita and destruction that affect his relationship with the rangers, and everything that happened along with his secrecy beforehand cause major trust issues among the team, causing constant doubt in and out of combat. And then he gets Killed Off for Real by an alternate reality future version of himself.
  • While everyone on Drakkon’s world qualifies, Kimberly the Ranger Slayer deserves special mention. Not only is she a front seat witness to the fall of the Rangers, but she watches many of her friends die and when she decides she’s had enough, she recklessly storms Drakkon's lair only to be brainwashed into his personal assassin. She only breaks free after being stranded in the past of the main universe, having to take the long path to the main fight. Once she joins the fray, she’s way too ashamed to talk to the Trini of her world even though they’re the only two surviving rangers left from their team. And while Drakkon is defeated, she gets shunted with a bunch of strangers into an unknown dimension ruled by a ruthless emperor, basically having traded one despot for another.
    • Coinless Trini, as she lost most of her friends, and as far as she knows, Kimberly is still Brainwashed and Crazy, leaving her the Sole Survivor. There’s also some dark meta irony as in the real world, it’s the reverse.
  • Heckyl, after all he went through in Dino Charge, is so desperate to protect his homeworld and prevent it from falling to Arcanon this time around that he betrays Zenowing to make his own morpher using the Dark Energem. He defeats Arcanon but at the cost of Zenowing's life when the latter sacrifices himself to save Heckyl from being corrupted again. He’s so ridden with guilt that he feels he now can’t return to the peaceful world he fought so hard to protect. He only leaves his self-imposed exile when he receives Zordon's distress call to fight Drakkon, and he’s rewarded by being shunted into a different dimension.