History FanFic / PowerRangersOceania

* TheDarkChick: Mujina

** BladeOnAStick: Red Ranger's spear

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Desmond
** TheLancer: Cameron
** TheBigGuy: Naomi, mostly since, of the Rangers, she's the only trained martial artist and tends to leaves piles of Nightmarchers in her wake.
** TheMedic[=\=]TheSmartGuy: David
** TheChick: Alex, who tends to be more emotional than Naomi
** SixthRanger: While not actually a Ranger, Hannah hangs around the Rangers enough to get in on the action rather than be a nuisance. [[spoiler: Then Maui shows up to make her the Orange Ranger.]]

* WeaponOfChoice:

*** TurtlePower: The Green Turtle zord.

*** SeldomSeenSpecies: Both the Yellow Seagull and Pink Seahorse zords are unique to the Ocean Rangers.

** KnifeNut: All of the Rangers carry a small knife which can then change into their specialized weapon during combat. In addition, the Yellow Ranger uses a pair of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiomano leiomano]]'', small, flat clubs lined on the edge with shark teeth.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Alex mostly, being a college student as well as the Pink Ranger. Hannah to a lesser extent, not being a Ranger or even an experienced fighter. [[spoiler: Until later.]]

* PowerTrio[=/=]TwoGuysAndAGirl: Started as this with Desmond as [[TheMccoy The McCoy]], Cameron as TheSpock, and Naomi as TheKirk. Ended in the second episode when David and Alex joined to form a FiveManBand. However, this element still tends to remain since these three share the same residence and can usually be found together.

* DivineIntervention: The ancient Hawaiian gods like to pop in on the Rangers and lend a hand in an indirect manner. Sometimes, they’re deliberately called to for a power boost. Other times, well, the Rangers can never tell until after the big fight.

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: [[LampshadeHanging "All right, Bones McCoy, keep on moving. You’re still a Power Ranger, remember?"]]

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Slightly subverted in that Desmond is not necessarily the team leader, even though he’s the Red Ranger. This is specifically stated in the sixth episode. Each Ranger takes charge when the situation puts them in their element. Desmond just happens to be the guy who goes charging in head-first.
* LeaderFormsTheHead: Averted; Naomi’s Yellow Seagull zord, probably because it is the only one that can fly, forms the head instead.

* MagicDance: In Episode Five, Alex uses her knowledge of hula to call on Laka so that her powers, combined with Alex’s element of Creation, would reverse a fungi monster's own magic (spreading decay like a plague) and weaken him. She even manages to make herself a DanceBattler.

* MildlyMilitary: Inverted; Cameron is ''mildly civilian''. As a Navy officer that spends more time off-base, he generally has to be ''forced'' to enjoy himself. This caused trouble in the fourth episode, when he was so focused on a battle that he was not “respecting the land” (being unaware and lacking knowledge of the island culture mostly, though being thrown against a nearby tiki probably didn’t help) and couldn’t morph until a pep talk from both Kanohi and David helped him through it. Played straight later on in that, sometimes, it’s hard to tell that Cameron is in the Navy unless he mentions it.

** EliteMooks: The Benthic Army. Although they’re still used in the role of MonsterOfTheWeek, it is implied that General Kuta has plenty more where they came from.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Cam tries this on Nassarius in chapter 19 and puts holes in his shell and armor, forcing Nassarius to retreat. In the following chapter, Desmond discovers that this compromised Nassarius’ resistance to the magma they’re swimming in.

* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Hine Nui merges her two generals into one giant monster for her final plan).

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cameron's superior Admiral James Taylor accepts his decision to keep the other Rangers' identities secret after their first battle and change his assignment to reflect his new duties as a Ranger; Taylor's only caveat is that he collect any intelligence on Hine Nune (which Cameron as an intelligence officer would be doing anyway) and report it only to him and Captain Ramos.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cameron's superior Admiral James Taylor accepts his decision to keep the other Rangers' identities secret after their first battle and change his assignment to reflect his new duties as a Ranger; Taylor's only caveat is that he collect any intelligence on Hine Nune (which Cameron as an intelligence officer would be doing anyway) and report it only to them.

* GenreSavvy: Clearly, by this point, there isn't a person in the nation who ''hasn't'' heard of the Power Rangers. For example, Alex, when Kanohi mentions the Royal Conch, immediately deduces this to be the source of the Ocean Rangers’ zords and calls it a huge boost to their arsenal.
* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Hawaiian]]: A lot of Hawaiian words are used and explained mostly to Cameron. Those that don't get immediately translated can be found in the Author's Notes.
* [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a Doctor, Not a Volcanologist]]: [[LampshadeHanging "All right, Bones McCoy, keep on moving. You’re still a Power Ranger, remember?"]]

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Subverted for the most part. Alex, as well as Hannah, are probably the youngest of the group and explicitly attend college. David is a doctor, formerly an army doctor in Japan, and likely has already finished a lengthy residency. Cameron is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, which means he's had at least two years of Naval Academy in addition to the amount of time it would take him to achieve an O-4 rank (at least nine years as a commissioned officer). Naomi is directly stated to be 23 at the start. Desmond's age is pretty vague, but given that he's a fisherman who owns a boat, there's a good chance he isn't a teenager, either.

As of Summer 2016, the story has reached over 150,000 words and is still on-going with regular updates.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Although it can be forgiven by the civilian characters, Cameron should be addressed as "Commander" by other officers and enlisted, not "Lieutenant". It's also against military custom for Cameron and Isaac (Alex's brother and a Petty Officer) to refer to each other on a first-name basis, even if they are friends out of uniform.

** SixthRanger: While not actually a Ranger, Hannah hangs around the Rangers enough to get in on the action rather than be a nuisance.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Alex mostly, being a college student as well as the Pink Ranger. Hannah to a lesser extent, not being a Ranger or even an experienced fighter.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Averted for the most part. Alex, as well as Hannah, are probably the youngest of the group and explicitly attend college. David is a doctor, formerly an army doctor in Japan, and likely has already finished a lengthy residency. Cameron is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, which means he's had at least two years of Naval Academy in addition to the amount of time it would take him to achieve an O-4 rank (at least nine years as a commissioned officer). Naomi is directly stated to be 23 at the start. Desmond's age is pretty vague, but given that he's a fisherman who owns a boat, there's a good chance he isn't a teenager, either.

* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Averted for the most part. Alex, as well as Hannah, are probably the youngest of the group and explicitly attend college. David is a doctor, formerly an army doctor ([=JGSDF=], we hope) in Japan, and likely has already finished a lengthy residency. Cameron is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, which means he's had at least two years of Naval Academy in addition to the amount of time it would take him to achieve an O-4 rank (at least nine years as a commissioned officer). Naomi is directly stated to be 23 at the start. Desmond's age is pretty vague, but given that he's a fisherman who owns a boat, there's a good chance he isn't a teenager, either.