History Series / MightyMorphinPowerRangers

*** TheHero: '''[[color:red:Jason]]'''.

*** TheHero: '''[[color:silver:Tommy]]''', despite being a technical SixthRanger.
*** TheLancer: '''[[color:red:Rocky]]'''. (Although Billy or Kim could count too).

*** TheHero: '''[[color:red:Aurico]]'''. He was the field leader.

* HeyItsThatVoice!: Robert Axelrod, who plays Lord Zedd, also plays Finster, as well as Armadillomon and Wizardmon in {{Digimon}}.

[[caption-width-right:273:[[TheNineties The 1993 original.]][[hottip:*:The green one isn't there for long.]]]]

* HumongousMecha: The Zords, obviously. But there's also Lord Zedd's Zord, Serpentera, who was a Humongous Mecha ''even to the other Humongous Mechas'' (The Red Dragon Thunderzord is shorter than where Serpentera's knees are). The Zords from the second and third seasons were from different Sentai shows than the one MMPR was originally based on (''Zyuranger''). Unfortunately not quite all of the colors of the Zyuranger suits coordinated with the colors of the Kakuranger and Dairanger mecha. They were forced to "cheat" a bit by turning the green Shishi Ranger's mecha into the Black Ranger's zord. Similar problem with the Kakuranger having no Pink Ranger, meaning no pink Shogun Zord either. [[hottip:*:Dairanger had a standard green ranger instead of black, while Kakuranger only had five members (excluding Ninjaman/Ninjor) and a female white ranger instead of pink.]]

** Snizard was painted gray and given a cobra hood to become the Cobra Monster in ''PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''.

** Grumble Bee had his red sections painted silver and was given buck teeth to become Waspicable (a peaceful monster who didn't want to harm anybody) in ''PowerRangersInSpace''.
** Pirantishead, [=RoboGoat=] and Turbanshell were repainted and had a bunch of crap added to them to become random alien monsters in an episode of ''PowerRangersTurbo''.

** Salaguana was chopped into little bits and used as reptilian armor for Triter, a heroic alien warrior from ''PowerRangersZeo''.

** [[spoiler:Now that Rita and Zedd are no longer evil in the ''PowerRangersInSpace'' finale, he has no reason to be this trope anymore, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse if he's still alive]].]]
* AffectionateParody: ''Super Freakin' Parody Rangers'': Episodes 1, 2, 3 and the movie (though Episode 3 had elements of ''[[PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'', ''[[PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]]'' thrown in as well).

* BeamMeUpScotty: JohnnyYongBosch has said that people are always asking him to say "[[TotallyRadical Morphinominal]]." Adam ''never'' said that during the show, that kind of slang was phased out before the end of the first season while Adam didn't show up until the middle of the second season. He would eventually say it years later in the [[PowerRangersOperationOverdrive "Once A Ranger"]] ReunionShow.

** He also clobbers the Megazord, Dragonzord, and Dragonzord Battle Mode. Even though in MMPR he's defeated by the Power Staff, it only causes him to change form in ''{{ZyuRanger}}'' to what we know as Mutitis.

* HilariousOuttakes: In the third season (mixed in with extended and deleted scenes), and a tradition that would be carried on over to ''[[PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'', ''[[PowerRangersTurbo Turbo]]'', and ''[[PowerRangersInSpace Space]]''.

** The destruction of the Ninja Coins was quite a victory for Zedd and company, but doing so just forced the Rangers to retrieve and restore the Zeo Crystal. This would make the Rangers even more powerful and able to resist the Machine Empire (which Zedd and company were afraid of). Also, as ''PowerRangersZeo'' showed, Billy using the regenerator to restore his age ultimately led to him rapidly aging. Had the villains not destroyed the Ninja Coins, Billy would've used the regenerator on the whole world, leaving everyone with the same fate.

** In "A Chimp In Charge," as Finster attempts to transform a chimpanzee into the Sinister Simian, he asks "Don't you want to be a big gorilla like [[KingKong King... what's his name]]?"

** TheGlassesComeOff: He also gradually switched to contacts as the series went on, although he would wear them two more times in ''PowerRangersZeo''.

** A redesigned version of Titanus the Carrier Zord was also planned to be introduced for Season 3. [[http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5461/070ed.jpg Various concept arts]] were drawn, but Titanus was left mostly unchanged in Season 3 (aside for the addition of the Dragonzord's chest plate, since the Dragonzord was absent during Season 3). Some of those designs were made for ''PowerRangersInSpace'', and indeed a "Space Titanus" toy was in fact released, though it was never used in the show.

** Dan Southworth (Eric Myers on ''PowerRangersTimeForce'') stated at Power Morphicon that he had auditioned for the role of Adam back during production of the second season.

A "reversioned" version of this series was aired at the end of the Disney Era in 2010, following ''PowerRangersRPM''. Consisting of only the first 32 episodes out of the original 60 of season 1, the new version adds a number of visual effects but generally leaves the audio and editing untouched. Both Disney and Saban number this as the show's official eighteenth year, though most fans prefer to ignore that.

Followed the next year by ''PowerRangersSamurai''.

** Mocked in ''TruncatedPowerRangers'' during the Green Ranger saga when a stylized "outnumbered" became "[[Letters2Numbers outnum6ered]]". [[hottip:*:Outnum-six-ered!]]

** Subverted with Kat, in a surprising touch of subtlety you wouldn't expect from this show, most of Kat's pre-Ranger clothes were an almost-white [[http://legends.tabletsofdestiny.com/images/kat12.jpg pastel shade of pink.]]

** He also clobbers the Megazord, Dragonzord, and Dragonzord Battle Mode. Even though in MMPR he's defeated by the Power Staff, it only causes him to change form in ZyuRanger to what we know as Mutitis.

** The second season wasn't as bad, but still fairly notable. Of the four (including Kat) replacements, Johnny Yong Bosch was 18, Karan Ashley was 19, Steve Cardenas was 20, and Catherine Sutherland was also 20. Add in the remaining 2, and you get another 20-year-old (Jason) and a 25-year-old (David). Before Kat, however, Amy was 23 and still on the show.

--->'''[[color:green:"Dragonzord!"]]/[[color:silver:"Tigerzord!"]]/[[color:silver:"White Ranger Power!"]]'''

--->'''[[color:fuchsia:"Pterodactyl!"]]/[[color:fuchsia:"Pink Ranger Power!"]]'''
--->'''[[color:blue:"Triceratops!"]]/[[color:blue:"Blue Ranger Power!"]]'''
--->'''[[color:gold:"Sabertooth Tiger!"]]/[[color:gold:"Yellow Ranger Power!"]]'''
--->'''[[color:red:"Tyrannosaurus!"]]/[[color:red:"Red Ranger Power!"]]'''

* {{Crossover}}: With ''MaskedRider'' for season 3. This was years before a [[KamenRiderDecade Kamen Rider]]/[[SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Super Sentai]] crossover!

** Ninjor's voice was based on DudleyDoRight, despite most people thinking it's [[LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]] he's spoofing.

* DawsonCasting: Do you honestly know any high school freshmen that look that old? Well, out of the original five, Austin St John was 18 and Thuy Trang was 19, but Walter Emanuel Jones and Amy Jo Johnson were 22 and David Yost was 24. It would have been much more believable if they made them in college.

* DawsonCasting: Do you honestly know any high schoolers at their age that look that old? Well, out of the original five, Austin St John was 18 and Thuy Trang was 19, but Walter Emanuel Jones and Amy Jo Johnson were 22 and David Yost was 24. It would have been much more believable if they made them in college.

Came to an end when Rita's father, Master Vile, arrived and reversed time, de-aging the teens. This forced Zordon to summon a stand-in team of ''Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers'' (the first time we are informed of other ''Ranger'' teams) for about ten episodes while the Earth Rangers traveled through time and space to find the pieces of the Zeo Crystal to restore them to the proper time frame. Then as soon as the Earth Rangers returned to normal, the Command Center was blown up. This was the jumping off point for the OddlyNamedSequel ''PowerRangersZeo.''

While the following three seasons (''[[PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'', ''[[PowerRangersTurbo Turbo]]'' and ''[[PowerRangersInSpace in Space]]'') featured rotating {{Big Bad}}s and Rangers themselves, ''PowerRangersInSpace'' provides a finale for what people call "The Zordon Era" and afterwards Power Rangers followed the SuperSentai standalone season/standalone team format, but unlike Super Sentai, it's all in one continuity.

There was also ''[[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]]'' in 1995 that was given a big budget treatment. It [[NonSerialMovie doesn't fit into the continuity of the series]]; the events of the film are repeated/replaced in the third season. Otherwise, it brought up Zordon's homeworld of Eltar, which later became [[RetCanon canon with the series]].

* DramaPreservingHandicap: Zordon drops out of contact right at the beginning of the "Green With Evil" miniseries, lest he solve things in one episode instead of the five that it took. To be fair, Rita and Evil!Tommy spent considerable effort ''keeping'' him that way.
** The Green Candle also qualifies, holding Tommy back from just curb-stomping Rita's monsters left and right after being shown to equal the entire rest of the team by himself.

* FoeYay: Adam/Scorpina and Kimberly/Zedd is canon, but there's also some evidence for Jason/Goldar, Tommy/Rita, Tommy/Zedd, and Tommy/Goldar.

--> '''Kimberly''': [[spoiler: "Cool stereo!"]]

* LuckyTranslation: The switch to ''Dairanger'' Zords for season two could have been a problem because the ''Dairanger'' didn't have a Black Ranger but a Green Ranger in it's place. The Green ''Dairanger'' Lion zord coloring just happened to be about 50 percent black with a couple of gold and green highlights, making it plausible as a Black Ranger's zord as well. Similarly, ''Kakuranger'' had a female White Ranger in place of the Pink Ranger, but whose Zord was white with pink highlights.

* DawsonCasting: Do you honestly know any high schoolers that look that old? Well, out of the original five, Austin St John was 18 and Thuy Trang was 19, but Walter Emanuel Jones and Amy Jo Johnson were 22 and David Yost was 24. It would have been much more believable if they made them in college.

*** TheChick: '''[[color:fuchsia:Kim/Kat]]''' and '''[[color:gold:Aisha]]'''.

There was also ''[[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]]'' in 1995 that was given a [[BigBudgetBeefUp big budget]] treatment. It [[NonSerialMovie doesn't fit into the continuity of the series]]; the events of the film are repeated/replaced in the third season. Otherwise, it brought up Zordon's homeworld of Eltar, which later became [[RetCanon canon with the series]].

** The second season wasn't as bad, but still fairly notable. Of the four (including Kat) replacements, Johnny Yong Bosch was 18, Karan Ashley was 19, Steve Cardenas was 20, and Catherine Sutherland was also 20. Add in the remaining 3, and you get another 20-year-old (Jason), a 23-year-old (Amy), and a 25-year-old (David).

** The worst was probably David Yost, who was 24 and looked like it.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Practically standard for a kids show in the 90's. A particularly popular one had David Yost and Amy Jo Johnson as themselves doing a "Reality Check," demonstrating that television is entirely fiction and what they do on the show is just for entertainment. They showed that it can be hard to tell the difference between fake guns and real guns, and also that while Billy was a gawky nerd, David Yost was a skilled gymnast.

*** TheChick: '''[[color:fuchsia:Kim/Kat]]'''.
*** KidAppealCharacter: '''[[color:gold:Aisha]]'''.

*** TheChick: '''[[color:fuchsia:Kim/Kat]]''' and '''[[color:gold:Aisha]]'''.

The first incarnation of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and the one nonfans will remember as being all over the place in the mid-'90s. The show uses action footage from three ''SuperSentai'' shows: ''KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' (Season 1 and onward), ''GoseiSentaiDairanger'' (Season 2 monsters, Zords, and the White Ranger's costume), and ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' (most of Season 3; the costumes are only used for the ''Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers''). Lasted a strong three seasons and one movie before Saban decided it would be better to adapt the Sentai formula and start changing costumes every year, although unlike Sentai, the various series exist in the [[TheVerse same continuity]]. The Ranger uniforms were the only consistent thing throughout this incarnation, and that is what made the change to ''Zeo'' so major.

The second season introduced Rita's superior, Lord Zedd, who decides that he's had enough of her failures and banishes her. The Rangers learn that Zedd is much more powerful and that they need to upgrade their Zords into the mythology-themed "Thunderzords". (A method of using ''Dairanger'' zord footage instead of continuing to pay for more original footage.) It brings up the final end of the Green Ranger powers, only to later introduce the White Ranger. It also featured the first ranger replacements as three Rangers were chosen to go to a peace conference ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot In reality, the actors demanded more money]]).

At this point, the [=Zyu2=]-footage started to wear extremely thin as the only way to show the White Ranger with the other Rangers was through American-filmed costume footage; also the monster footage and Zord footage were almost irreconcilable. Rita comes back mid-season and slips Zedd a LovePotion, so [[UnholyMatrimony they get married]]; then, the in-laws started showing up in the third season.

*** SeldomSeenSpecies: Kimberly/Kat (Crane) and Adam

** Inciserator was made up from the head of an unused ''[[{{NinjaSentaiKakuranger}} Kakuranger]]'' monster and the body from Merrick the Barbaric (whose own episode hadn't even aired yet).

* AdaptationExpansion: The "[=Zyu2=]" footage, which featured all new monsters and fight sequences using the ''Zyuranger'' suits and mecha, were filmed specifically for ''Power Rangers'' and are not actually adapted footage from any ''Zyuranger'' sequel (despite the {{fan nickname}}).

* {{Badass}}/{{Badbutt}}: Tommy and Jason, mostly, though everyone got their chance to shine at some point (including Alpha, Bulk & Skull and the villains).

* BlindWithoutEm: Billy. Well, at least until he [[{{TheGlassesComeOff}} switched to contacts]].

** At one point during the Season 3 comics, there was an interesting bit where they pilot the Ninjazords as Ninja Rangers, but the Shogunzords in their regular suits, albeit designed as the movie suits.

** In the episode "A Bad Reflection on You," Skull says to pseudo-Kimberly, "Wanna catch the submarine races tonight?"

* InconsistentDub: The first season was pretty bad with this:
** The Power Sword was either the Red Ranger's main weapon, the Dino Megazord's weapon (occasionally called the Mega Sword) or the Evil Green Ranger's Sword of Darkness.

* INeedYouToShutUp: During "Green with Evil," the Command Center's console gets trashed for about the thirtieth time, and Billy is tasked with making repairs:

** Again in the third season, Bulk and Skull are patrolling through the park when they come across Rito, Squatt and Baboo, seconds before they [[{{VillainTeleportation}} teleport away in their usual multicolored flashes]]. The two begin screaming in their usual fashion, then say the following:

* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: [[{{MonsterOfTheWeek}} Monsters]] such as Eye Guy, Snizard and Pirantishead would often wreck the entire team and come close to victory on their own. But whenever Zedd and Rita would decide to send down "an army of our best monsters," the monsters would more often than not lack all their special powers and engage the Rangers with mere hand-to-hand combat. Furthermore, whereas these monsters usually required the [[{{CombiningMecha}} Zords]] or the [[{{ConvergingStreamWeapon}} Power Blaster]] to destroy them in their initial appearance, they could now be destroyed by a mere slash from their individual weapons, or even a strong enough punch or kick.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mainly used for the MonstersOfTheWeek. The Lizzinator was ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Fang and Vampirus were both PeterLorre, and Dischordia was EthelMerman. Octophantom and Globbor kind of sounded like Bobcat Goldthwait but that may have been unintentional.
** Ninjor's voice was based on DudleyDoRight, despite most people thinking it's [[{{LooneyTunes}} Marvin the Martian]] he's spoofing.
* NoIndoorVoice: Jason once he morphs.

* OfficialCouple: Tommy/Kim.

* OneWingedAngel: Scorpina. Unlike Goldar and most other [[{{MonsterOfTheWeek}} monsters]], she doesn't just get bigger when Rita makes her grow, she goes from "Hot Asian chick in armor" to "Grotesque humanoid scorpion complete with giant claw and whip-like tail."

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The actors playing Jason, Trini, and Zack all left partway through the second season due to contract disputes, and {{Amy Jo Johnson}} left in the third season to focus on expanding her career. As a result, storylines featuring their characters' PassingTheTorch to their replacements were written.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Rita Repulsa. After her [[MagicPlasticSurgery magical moon mud facial]] in Season 2, she's thrilled that she doesn't ''look'' a day over 11,000 years old . . . one can only guess how old she really is.

* TeenIdol: {{Amy Jo Johnson}}. Well, pretty much all the Rangers were at the time.

* TimeshiftedActor: In Season 2's "Rangers Back In Time" and ''Alien Rangers''.

** Billy Cranston, named after former Saban voice actor Bryan Cranston.

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