History Recap / PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed

** The Red Rangers in the original ''Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai'' are just glorious cameos save for [=GaoRed=] and [[Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman Red Falcon]]. Here, they're the focus.

* PowerWalk: The rangers walking towards the Astro Megaship Mark II in direct homage to ''Film/TheRightStuff''.

** The only thing that people don't like about "Forever Red" is the continuity problems that result from it, mostly of the account of the Machine Empire's defeat not lining up with the events of ''Zeo'' or ''In Space'' at all. This comes from the writers inserting references to the "Scorpion Rain" fan hoax which supposedly bridged the ''Zeo'' and ''Turbo'' seasons.
** "Where did the powers come from", though, is more of fans not doing the research. Nothing was ''ever'' shown happening to the Zeo Crystal and a big question in ''Turbo'' was "where'd ''all'' the Zeo stuff go?" Though the Turbo powers were destroyed alongside the Power Chamber, "True Blue to the Rescue" reveals that Storm Blaster was able to provide Justin with a spare morpher, so Lightning Cruiser was obviously able to do the same for TJ. Adam was able to use his Mastodon Power Coin in ''Space''.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Serpentera can use its laser cannon to destroy any planet in sight. Venjix's plan is to use the Zord to destroy the Earth in an effort to avenge Mondo.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Cole destroying Serpentera from the inside out causes Venjix's cockpit to explode as he admits his failures.

* RedIsHeroic: As the title suggests, the focus of the episode are the franchise's red rangers ([[LongBusTrip save for Rocky]]).

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Red Rangers have a significantly tougher fight against the Machine Empire's generals than they do against their {{Mooks}}.

* RookieRedRanger: Jason clearly believed Cole to be this, calling him a rookie, even after Cole managed to defeat Serpentera, which Jason himself couldn't do.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Several Cogs are knocked around without being destroyed right before the fight with the generals and aren't aboard the ''Serpentina'' when it gets destroyed, making it possible not ''all'' of the Machine Empire remnants are wiped out if no one finished off those Cogs.

** "Where did the powers come from", though, is more of fans not doing the research. Nothing was ''ever'' shown happening to the Zeo Crystal and a big question in ''Turbo'' was "where'd ''all'' the Zeo stuff go?" Though the Turbo powers were destroyed alongside the Power Chamber, "True Blue to the Rescue" reveals that Storm Blaster was able to provide Justin with a spare morpher, so Lightning Cruiser was obviously able to do the same for TJ. Adam was able to use his Mastodon Power Coin in ''Space'', though it still had issues so its entirely possible the original power coins were repaired between seasons.

** The only thing that people don't like about "Forever Red" is the continuity problems that result from it, mostly of the account of the Machine Empire's defeat not lining up with the events of ''Zeo'' or ''In Space'' at all. "Where did the powers come from", though, is more of fans not doing the research. Nothing was ''ever'' shown happening to the Zeo Crystal and a big question in ''Turbo'' was "where'd ''all'' the Zeo stuff go?" Though the Turbo powers were destroyed alongside the Power Chamber, "True Blue to the Rescue" reveals that Storm Blaster was able to provide Justin with a spare morpher, so Lightning Cruiser was obviously able to do the same for TJ. Adam was able to use his Mastodon Power Coin in ''Space'', though it still had issues.

* YourSizeMayVary: Somewhere between ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' and ''Wild Force'', Serpentera went from "make the Rangers' Megazords look dinky" size to normal Megazord size. Justified since Serpenterra's original counterpart [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Daijinryu only appeared in Dairanger]] and the Power Rangers crew had to redo Serpenterra from scratch.

* PowerWalk: The rangers walking towards the Astro Megaship Mark II in what appears to be a direct homage to ''Film/TheRightStuff''.

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay:
** There are horses and Rangers unmorphed, except for Aurico, on the moon, which somehow has (earth-normal) air and gravity. Which is [[MagicAIsMagicA entirely consistent]] with Rangers' previous trips to the moon, incidentally, as shown in ''MMPR'', ''Zeo'', and ''Lost Galaxy''.
** Besides that, during Cole's "fight" with Serpentera, he manages to hit the brakes and skid into a drifting slide, complete with actual glowing skid marks. ''In space''.

* TheMentor: Jason serves as this to Cole when they fight Venjix. Whereas most of the other rangers destroy their opponents by double-teaming them, Jason deliberately lets Cole get the final hit in on Venjix rather than trying to hog the glory for himself. [[RealityEnsues Ends up backfiring]] when Venjix escapes and activates Serpentera.