History Headscratchers / SuperSentai

*** We know that sometimes producers fall into JustForFun/OneOfUs territory (just look at {{Transformers}}!) and nothing's too obscure. Franchise/PowerRangers is often dubbed into Japanese, too, so it's not as obscure as one may think. Consider the design of the last mecha to appear in Go-Onger. It makes ''no freaking sense whatsoever'' for a car-themed sentai to reference the mecha of Zyuranger - a totally unrelated and totally un-special sentai. (Well, every series is the best ever to ''someone,'' but it wasn't a MilestoneCelebration, wasn't the first or last of anything, etc.) However, PR was expected to end with RPM, and it makes ''perfect'' sense for ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' last Megazord to homage its first Megazord. Also, there are several magazine scans out there showing PR-only powerups and characters.

* Ok, [=DekaBaseRobo=]. It starts with tank form with the dog's head in front. The dog's head splits in half to become the chest for [=DekaBaseRobo=]. Therefore, when [=DekaBaseRobo=] stands up, it's facing away from the monster.
** It may be a giant robot, even by giant robot standards, but is it really that hard to just turn around after it stands up?

* What is wrong with the world in ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]''? The Rangers saved COUNTLESS LIVES from the wrath of Bandora and the freaking Devil! But when they return to Heaven the only ones who care to thank them for all they did were the kids?
** Sometime before the final -- one of Dora monsters and few Golems fake the Zyurangers (Episode 46). This '''MIGHT''' be the reason.
** Episode 46, where they lost the trust of the people because of the fakes was also the same episode where they regained it back. Maybe the kids that thanked them were the kids that the Zyurangers saved throughout the show, including the last kid they saved in the finale.

* So there are so many planets in the universe, since most of the villain organizations that are aliens have destroyed countless of them yet there are still enough that survive until the next group alien invaders come along unless their lucky to defeated by the Super Sentai on Earth before they could get their hands on them. And there are still enough that most of the universe ends up being conqured by the Zangyack and even after Gokaiger, they still stand. How is the universe still inhabited outside of Earth and the Solar System?

*** We know that sometimes producers fall into JustForFun/OneOfUs territory (just look at {{Transformers}}!) and nothing's too obscure. PowerRangers is often dubbed into Japanese, too, so it's not as obscure as one may think. Consider the design of the last mecha to appear in Go-Onger. It makes ''no freaking sense whatsoever'' for a car-themed sentai to reference the mecha of Zyuranger - a totally unrelated and totally un-special sentai. (Well, every series is the best ever to ''someone,'' but it wasn't a MilestoneCelebration, wasn't the first or last of anything, etc.) However, PR was expected to end with RPM, and it makes ''perfect'' sense for ''PowerRangers'' last Megazord to homage its first Megazord. Also, there are several magazine scans out there showing PR-only powerups and characters.

* Were the villain groups in Boukenger meant to be an intentional shout out to PowerRangers? The designs of the major members of three of the four groups were based on mecha of the three Sentai seasons that were used to make ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Also, since the only major villain who wasn't designed as such was Gajya/Gajah/Gaja, who wouldn't be used in the corresponding Power Rangers season anyway because you could see his face, is it possible they did this so that the designs of the villains would hold significance to Power Rangers fans as well as Sentai fans?

** The fact that they got a theatrical release.

* Were the villain groups in Boukenger meant to be an intentional shout out to PowerRangers? The designs of the major members of three of the four groups were based on mecha of the three Sentai seasons that were used to make MightyMorphinPowerRangers. Also, since the only major villain who wasn't designed as such was Gajya/Gajah/Gaja, who wouldn't be used in the corresponding Power Rangers season anyway because you could see his face, is it possible they did this so that the designs of the villains would hold significance to Power Rangers fans as well as Sentai fans?
** While it would be nice, I doubt that the Boukenger staff ever thought about making nods like that; Power Rangers just isn't that big a deal in Japan. Episode 5 of Gokaiger had blink-and-miss nods to RPM because the guy who directed that episode worked on Power Rangers, but otherwise Gokaiger has been focused entirely on the Sentai side of things. Similarly, unless someone on Boukenger had done work in Power Rangers, I don't see any significance to the main villains being patterned after mechs that were from sentais adapted into MightyMorphinPowerRangers.

*** Or maybe the head writer or director or executive producer of Boukenger happened to be a big fan of Zyu, Dai, and Kakuranger, so he decided to have the main villains be an homage to those seasons. There are any number of possible reasons why those seasons were picked, with the most likely one being that it's one big coincidence of no significance or meaning whatsoever. Besides, if this was supposed to be a reference to MightyMorphinPowerRangers, why didn't the Boukenger encyclopedia segments at the end of the show ever mention Power Rangers when they got to Zyuranger?

*** We know that sometimes producers fall into OneOfUs territory (just look at {{Transformers}}!) and nothing's too obscure. PowerRangers is often dubbed into Japanese, too, so it's not as obscure as one may think. Consider the design of the last mecha to appear in Go-Onger. It makes ''no freaking sense whatsoever'' for a car-themed sentai to reference the mecha of Zyuranger - a totally unrelated and totally un-special sentai. (Well, every series is the best ever to ''someone,'' but it wasn't a MilestoneCelebration, wasn't the first or last of anything, etc.) However, PR was expected to end with RPM, and it makes ''perfect'' sense for ''PowerRangers'' last Megazord to homage its first Megazord. Also, there are several magazine scans out there showing PR-only powerups and characters.

* I noticed that some of the movies (such as Dairanger) are as long as the regular episodes. So what makes them "movies"?

* Why are some guns called "Vulcans?" Is it just a weaponry reference I'm not understanding?

For ''Dai Sentai Goggle Five'', see [[Headscratchers/DaiSentaiGoggleFive here]]

For ''Choujuu Sentai Liveman'', see [[Headscratchers/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman here]]
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For ''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'', see [[Headscratchers/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger here]]
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For ''Ninja Sentai Kakuranger'', see [[Headscratchers/NinjaSentaiKakuranger here]]
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For ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger'' see [[Headscratchers/TokusouSentaiDekaranger here]]
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For ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'', see [[Headscratchers/JukenSentaiGekiranger here]]
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For ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'', see [[Headscratchers/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger here]]
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For ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', see [[Headscratchers/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger here]]
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* What's the official english spelling for the first Super Sentai series? Is it Goranger or Gorenger? I've seen it spelled both ways, and it's used for the work page, but not anywhere on the work page.

** We see Black Cross King again in Super Hero Taisen and we know how he is revived due to hatred and was shown how he resurrected past villains. That is probably how. However, he is not shown as the leader so this is still debatable. In Super Hero Taisen Z, we see how the BigBad got resurrected so it is safe to presume that he brought back past villains along the way with him.

** Sometime before the final -- one of Dora monsters and few Golems fake the ZyuRangers (Episode 46). This '''MIGHT''' be the reason.

* In Super Hero Wars, where did all the resurrected villains come from? In 199 Hero Grand Battle it was Black Cross King who revived them, but in this one they're just sort of there.