History FanFic / PowerRangersTakeFlight

** CoolGuns: The [[MidSeasonUpgrade Echo Blasters]]. (Which then get destroyed in the next episode.)

* AlienInvasion
* AlternateUniverseFic

* Princess Sasha: [[FallenPrincess Daughter of Magda]], and after her defeat an unwilling ally of Trask and Dillik. Uses the Star Handle, a [[LightIsNotGood light-based weapon]] [[SwissArmyWeapon with multiple modes.]] [[OneWingedAngel Can assume a giant monster form]], only to be defeated by the Rangers on Illam. She develops an attraction to Strife before she finds out he's Dillik[[spoiler:, but eventually gets melted into biomass by Trask. [[CloningBlues Dillik attempts to clone her]], but it [[CameBackWrong doesn't turn out so well]]]].

* RegularCaller: Nearly exposes the Rangers a couple of times, as the [=AviMorphers=] [[ObviousBeta didn't have either a functioning talk button or Ranger-specific talk filtering]]; Dr. Bering corrected these issues when she was released from her cryogenic suspension.

* Princess Sasha: [[FallenPrincess Daughter of Magda]], and after her defeat [[DarkChick an unwilling ally of Trask and Dillik]]. Uses the Star Handle, a [[LightIsNotGood light-based weapon]] [[SwissArmyWeapon with multiple modes.]] [[OneWingedAngel Can assume a giant monster form]], only to be defeated by the Rangers on Illam. She develops an attraction to Strife before she finds out he's Dillik[[spoiler:, but eventually gets melted into biomass by Trask. [[CloningBlues Dillik attempts to clone her]], but it [[CameBackWrong doesn't turn out so well]]]].

** The Skyforce Megazord had one weapon, the [[BladeOnAStick Aero Glaive]], that never got used for various reasons.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Trask is nowhere near as depraved as his ''Jetman'' counterpart, Count Radiguet, who is widely considered one of the most evil ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villains ever.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[MonsterOfTheWeek Zephyros.]] Like his ''Sentai'' counterpart, Dryer Jigen, Zephyros is an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who gets to live in peace at the end of his episode. Unlike his ''Sentai'' counterpart, Zephyros returns a few episodes later, gets provoked into growing and destroyed (re-purposing an ImagineSpot from his ''Sentai'' episode for this scene).

* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Mainframe.]]

* Estelle "Casey" Reynolds ('''Pink Four'''): TheChick, [[FriendToAllLivingThings loves animals]]. [[spoiler: Eventually starts dating Chris after nursing a crush on him for a while.]]

* MakeMyMonsterGrow: The Jinnsect fulfills this role until about midway through; if it can latch off the monster as it's destroyed, it can bring it back giant size. It can be destroyed, thus keeping the monster from coming back. This comes in handy when the Skyforce Megazord stops working for a while; when the monster gets destroyed in small-scale, the Rangers shoot the Jinnsect with their Sky Blasters or Enforcers. When the Jinnsects are used up and the monsters are instead made of biomass, they instead grow simply when destroyed, although the demons Trask found were exceptions to this (Infernis arrived giant-sized, Gog never grew; Zin and Drek grew on their own volition, as did their combined form Zindrek).

* FiveManBand: As per ''Power Rangers'' tradition:
** TheLeader: Luke
** TheLancer: Chris
** TheBigGuy: Pete
** TheSmartGuy: Maggie, then Lisa
** TheChick: Casey
** SixthRanger: A few times some of the Rangers weren't able to battle, others subbed for them, including Mr. Patterson for Pete after the latter was attacked (unbeknownst to anyone, by Trask in his armored form), and Dr. Bering and Maggie for Luke in the finale.

* WeaponOfChoice: Their list of stuff includes:

** [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Cool Gun]]: The [[MidSeasonUpgrade Echo Blasters]]. (Which then get destroyed in the next episode.)

*** Talon Sword + Sky Blaster = [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Sky Enforcer]] (which fires the "gravity ball"/"force bubble" finishing blast)

It can be read in its entirety [[http://takeflight.rovang.org/ here]]

* TheDollEpisode: "Yesterday's Trash." The MonsterOfTheWeek takes the form of the Blue Ranger's old teddy bear.

** The Skyforce Megazord had one weapon, the [[BladeOnAStick Aero Glaive]] that never got used for various reasons.

* AscendedExtra: Tomato King was originally a one-off villain seen in Pete's dream in episode 28. He appeared in the aborted season 2 as the comic relief villain, apparently a real demon released by the demon-eater (by accident).

** The Liveman's belt bucklers were just that -- belt buckles with no importance whatsoever. Here they serve as the Windvale Rangers' morphers ([[AdaptedOut replacing the Liveman's Twin Brace]]).

* ChekhovsGun: The Jinnesct used in episode 3 [[spoiler:survives]] the episode. Trask later uses it to [[spoiler:create Mainframe]].

* ColorCodedCharacters: The codenames use a setup similar to ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman''- color followed by number.

* HomeBase: The apartment the Rangers live in, Parkview, and later on a house by a cemetery after [[spoiler: the apartment becomes a MonsterOfTheWeek]]. Also, the Project: Phoenix hangar, to a lesser extent- during the latter half of the series, it's where the Zords and Dr. Bering are based. The space station became this by the end of the first season and into the second season [[spoiler:after the Phoenix base is destroyed by Mainframe in the hijacked Kestrel Megacruiser]].

** Chris, the Black Ranger, is much more of a team player than his ''Jetman'' counterpart, [[ClassicalAntiHero Gai Yuki]], a constant gambler and womanizer.

* BaitAndSwitch: It turns out that making unexcused absences ''will'' attract the attention of your boss, as well as make you run the risk of ''losing your job''. [[spoiler: Fortunately for Luke, his boss was smart enough to put two and two together, and is pretty okay with it.]]

* BroughtDownToBadass: The final battle really drives home how necessary the Rangers are in any ''Power Rangers'' series; the FinalBoss is [[spoiler: just an ordinary monster-of-the-week]] but without any Zords left to fight it, it really drives home how useless conventional weapons are against giant monsters, and that no matter how silly a ''Power Rangers'' villain might be, the Rangers are the '''only''' thing standing between them and world domination or destruction.

* MagicalSecurityCam: Justified; the Rangers each have their own small camera drones called ''Hoverbirds'', which automatically seek trouble and display it in the Rangers' [[TransformationTrinket AviMorphers]] and helmet displays. Unfortunately, Dillik and Trask still have access to the camera feeds from the space station, which, among other problems, [[spoiler: [[RealityEnsues leads to the Rangers' apartment building being turned into a monster and getting destroyed by the Megazord]]]]. Dr. Bering fixes this issue by changing the Hoverbirds' frequencies.

* RegularCaller: [[RealityEnsues Nearly exposes the Rangers a couple of times]], as the [=AviMorphers=] [[ObviousBeta didn't have either a functioning talk button or Ranger-specific talk filtering]]; Dr. Bering corrected these issues when she was released from her cryogenic suspension.

* RealityEnsues: The Megazord stops working after a while due to so many monster battles and nobody to fix it, at least until Project: Phoenix enters the scene.
** It turns out that making unexcused absences ''will'' attract the attention of your boss, as well as make you run the risk of ''losing your job''. [[spoiler: Fortunately for Luke, his boss was smart enough to put two and two together, and is pretty okay with it.]]
** The final battle really drives home how necessary the Rangers are in any ''Power Rangers'' series; the FinalBoss is [[spoiler: just an ordinary monster-of-the-week]] but without any Zords left to fight it, it really drives home how useless conventional weapons are against giant monsters, and that no matter how silly a ''Power Rangers'' villain might be, the Rangers are the '''only''' thing standing between them and world domination or destruction.

** Season 2 would've done this for ''all'' the main ''Liveman'' villains, as the author decided not to use any small-scale battle footage (excepting a brief fantasy sequence) due to an abundance of bad 1980s effects and visible Japanese actors. A new version of Strife ([[CompositeCharacter albeit with elements of Gash from]] ''Liveman''), [[AscendedExtra Tomato King]], and Empire warlords Gant and Eris replaced Bias and his students; the Nobots (based on the Jimmers, just with differing colors) and the Stingers, as well as the monsters, were still used. [[spoiler: The "Mindsphere" referred to by Strife would've been a backup copy of Mainframe's mind.]]

** In ''Jetman'', the Earth Sip space station was destroyed in the first episode; here, while attacked a few times and damaged, the space station was not destroyed and survived into season 2.

* HumanResources: Trask makes the Nobodies and, once he's run out of Jinnsects, monsters out of biomass- a bunch of melted organic material. He has also used it to sustain himself, mainly when experimenting with the sunlight's effects on him. He turns beings into biomass using a special gun.

** Despite the Neo-Jetman plot not actually being adapted (see above), one episode had General Taggart attempt to replaced the departing Maggie with one of his own airmen (with plans to replace the other civilian Rangers), much like how the Neo-Jetmen were brought in.

** The final battle really drives home how necessary the Rangers are in any ''Power Ranger'' series; the FinalBoss is [[spoiler: just an ordinary monster-of-the-week]] but without any Zords left to fight it, it really drives home how useless conventional weapons are against giant monsters, and that no matter how silly a ''Power Rangers'' villain might be, the Rangers are the '''only''' thing standing between them and world domination or destruction.

* ScriptFic: The story is written entirely in script format. Like an actual ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' season, the storylines and scripts are even written with stock footage from the adapted ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' season in mind- represented by images from ''Jetman'' being inserted between the text (with a black screen saying "U.S. placeholder" for any intended US-original footage).

* ChekhovsGun: The Jinnesct used in episode 3 [[spoiler:survives]] the episode. Trask later uses it to [[create Mainframe]].

** Season 2 would've done this for ''all'' the main ''Liveman'' villains, as the author decided not to use any small-scale battle footage (excepting a brief fantasy sequence) due to an abundance of bad effects and visible Japanese actors. A new version of Strife ([[CompositeCharacter albeit with elements of Gash from]] ''Liveman''), [[AscendedExtra Tomato King]], and Empire warlords Gant and Eris replaced Bias and his students; the Nobots (based on the Jimmers, just with differing colors) and the Stingers, as well as the monsters, were still used. [[spoiler: The "Mindsphere" referred to by Strife would've been a backup copy of Mainframe's mind.]]