History Series / PowerRangersMegaforce

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: This is basically Gosei's modus operandi. Wait around a bit and then decide to tell the Rangers they've unlocked new powers when it feels convenient. At first, this seemed to be tied to the Rangers having learned the MoralOfTheStory, but as time went on, he just starts giving stuff without reason. Specific examples include:

* BloodierandGorier: It's minor, but when the villain leader comes down to earth the first time and gets shot, a bit of blood is shown on his hand and arm as stains. This is most likely an oversight, as Saban is normally very good at keeping Power Rangers bloodless.

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** The villains in ''Goseiger'' all had [[ShoutOutThemeNaming names themed]] around various Sci-Fi movies and series (save for the monsters of the BigBad, who were themed around fantasy movies)[[note]]ex: the {{Mooks}}, the Bibi, were named after B Movies; Bladerun was named after ''Film/BladeRunner''; Targate of the Satellite was named after ''Series/StargateSG1''; Irian of the Queen Bee is named after ''Film/{{Alien}}''; Hit of the Tengu is named after ''Film/{{It|1990}}'', and so on - all the name origins are [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Annihilation_Army_Warstar listed]] [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Condemnation_Group_Yuumajuu on]] [[TheWikiRule the [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_Onslaught_Empire_Matrintis other]] [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Brajira_of_the_Messiah wiki]][[/note]]. The villains in ''Megaforce''...follow normal ''Power Rangers'' naming conventions.

* AsianStoreOwner: Ernie is the Indian variety.

* NoPronunciationGuide: In Japanese, "Tensou" is pronounced "ten-soh". Tensou in ''Megaforce'' is pronounced "ten-soo".
** This also applies to Vrak. Even Admiral Malkor doesn't know how to pronounce it. He's called him both 'vr-OCK' before and 'vr-ACK'.
** This also happens in a continuity flub when Gosei refers to the [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force Ranger]] base as Animaria (its actual name is ''Animarium''), but he pronounces it "Ani-MAH-ria", whereas in Wild Force, it would have been pronounced "Ani-MARE-ria".

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the second episode of Super Megaforce, the Rangers decide to go on one in the Legendary Megazord in retaliation for the Armada's attacks. They end up scrapping a good potion of the fleet.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the second episode of Super Megaforce, the Rangers decide to go on one in the Legendary Megazord in retaliation for the Armada's attacks. They end up scrapping a good potion of the fleet.

* VisualPun: When Jake need an adjustment made on his [[AnAxeToGrind Axe]], he brings it to Noah hidden in a [[SenselessViolins guitar case]].

* WeaponOfChoice
** FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Mega Blasters
** SwordAndGun: Super Mega Sabers and Super Mega Blasters in ''Super Megaforce''. Like in ''Gokaiger'', the Rangers can swap them, with Noah and Gia showing a preference for dual sabers and Jake and Emma favoring dual blasters.
** HeroesPreferSwords: Troy's Dragon Sword
** HandCannon: Emma's Phoenix Shot
** AnAxeToGrind: Jake's Snake Axe
** WolverineClaws: Gia's Tiger Claw
** AutomaticCrossbows: Noah's Shark Bowgun
** SwissArmyWeapon: Robo Knight's Leon Blaster/Blade

** The local hang out owner is named [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Ernie]], after a character with the same role from the first four seasons[[note]]unfortunately, it is not the same Ernie of old, due to his actor, Richard Genelle, [[AuthorExistanceFailure dying in 2008]][[/note]].

* NarratingTheObvious: The Rangers will often mention verbatim what an opponent has just said they were/will be doing. This takes up half of the Monster-Ranger interactions. (The other half is dedicated to advertising the Earth and/or how awesome teamwork is)
** In "Gosei Ultimate," The Blue Ranger also makes it a point to tell the viewer that their new Megazord is transforming... during the transformation sequence.
** ''Super Megaforce'' hasn't completely gotten over this, either. "Blue Saber Saga" gives us this gem by Mega Red during the Zord battle:
-->'''Super Mega Red''': We need to dodge those blades! (While the Megazord is dodging blades)

** Orion being an alien and his backstory mixed with knowing nothing about the ''Power Rangers'' led to footage inconsistencies with ''Gokaiger,'' where his counterpart, Gai, was a human and a ''Sentai'' fanboy. Gai's over-enthusiastic and extroverted personality clashed hard with Orion's more reserved one when it came to ''Gokaiger'' footage due to the body language present in it. They tried to counter this by having him in his 3rd episode dance around the school in his underwear, but that only made it ''more'' jarring, since we'd just gotten his backstory of being the only known survivor on his planet left and how the Armada wiped out his people. Not to mention said backstory makes it quite odd why he leaves in the second to last episode ''before'' the Armada threat is stopped from trying to destroy the Earth, which he vowed to stop at all costs previously. It led to the writers forcing in a line from Noah that he could autopilot his zord in the episode as well (that got ''no'' explanation in the original aired version and barely one in the extended version) when that wasn't the case in the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. His morpher and the fact that it and his Ranger Key that he found on his planet also raise questions, since the Keys are products of Gosei and Tensou and the morpher is embedded in some sort of crystal with it with no explanation or handwave. In ''Gokaigr,'' Gai was siven it by Abarekiller, Dragonranger, and [=TimeFire=] in a dream he had thans to [=AkaRed=] while he was in a coma in a hospital after saving a little girl from getting hit by a car, getting run over in the process, so there's at least ''something.''

** Orion being an alien and his backstory mixed with knowing nothing about the ''Power Rangers'' led to footage inconsistencies with ''Gokaiger,'' where his counterpart, Gai, was a human and a ''Sentai'' fanboy. Gai's over-enthusiastic and extroverted personality clashed hard with Orion's more reserved one when it came to ''Gokaiger'' footage due to the body language present in it. They tried to counter this by having him in his 3rd episode dance around the school in his underwear, but that only made it ''more'' jarring, since we'd just gotten his backstory of being the only known survivor on his planet left and how the Armada wiped out his people. Not to mention said backstory makes it quite odd why he leaves in thhe second to last episode ''before'' the Armada threat is stopped from trying to destroy the Earth, which he vowed to stop at all costs previously. It led to the writers forcing in a line from Noah that he could autopilot his zord in the episode as well (that got ''no'' explanation in the original aired version and barely one in the extended version) when that wasn't the case in the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. His morpher and the fact that it and his Ranger Key that he found on his planet also raise questions, since the Keys are products of Gosei and Tensou and the morpher is embedded in some sort of crystal with it with no explanation or handwave. In ''Gokaigr,'' Gai was siven it by Abarekiller, Dragonranger, and [=TimeFire=] in a dream he had thans to [=AkaRed=] while he was in a coma in a hospital after saving a little girl from getting hit by a car, getting run over in the process, so there's at least ''something.''

** Orion being an alien and his backstory mixed with knowing nothing about the ''Power Rangers'' led to footage inconsistencies with ''Gokaiger,'' where his counterpart, Gai, was a human and a ''Sentai'' fanboy. Gai's over-enthusiastic and extroverted personality clashed hard with Orion's more reserved one when it came to ''Gokaiger'' footage due to the body language present in it. They tried to counter this by having him in his 3rd episode dance around the school in his underwear, but that only made it ''more'' jarring, since we'd just gotten his backstory of being the only known survivor on his planet left and how the Armada wiped out his people. Not to mention said backstory makes it quite odd why he leaves in thhe second to last episode ''before'' the Armada threat is stopped from trying to destroy the Earth, which he vowed to stop at all costs previously. It led to the writers forcing in a line from Noah that he could autopilot his zord in the episode as well (that got ''no'' explanation in the original aired version and barely one in thhe extended version) when that wasn't the case in the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. His morpher and the fact that it and his Ranger Key that he found on his planet is also raise questions, since the Keys are products of Gosei and Tensou and the morpher is embedded in some sort of crystal with it with no explanation or handwave. In ''Gokaigr,'' Gai was siven it by Abarekiller, Dragonranger, and [=TimeFire=] in a dream he had thans to [=AkaRed=] while he was in a coma in a hospital after saving a little girl from getting hit by a car, getting run over in the process, so there's at least ''something.''

** Orion being an alien and his backstory mixed with knowing nothing about the ''Power Rangers'' led to footage inconsistencies with ''Gokaiger,'' where his counterpart, Gai, was a human and a ''Sentai'' fanboy. Gai's over-enthusiastic and extroverted personality clashed hard with Orion's more reserved one when it came to ''Gokaiger'' footage due to the body language present in it. They tried to counter this by having him in his 3rd episode dance around the school in his underwear, but that only made it ''more'' jarring, since we'd just gotten his backstory of being the only known survivor on his planet left and how the Armada wiped out his people. Not to mention said backstory makes it quite oodd why he leaves in thhe second to last episode ''before'' the Armada threat is stopped from trying to destroy the Earth, which he vowed to stop at all costs previously. It led to the writers forcing in a line from Noah that he could autopilot his zord in the episode as well (that got ''no'' explanation in the original aired version and barely one in thhe extended version) when that wasn't the case in the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. His morpher and the fact that it and his Ranger Key that he found on his planet is also raise questions, since the Keys are products of Gosei and Tensou and the morpher is embedded in some sort of crystal with it with no explanation or handwave. In ''Gokaigr,'' Gai was siven it by Abarekiller, Dragonranger, and [=TimeFire=] in a dream he had thans to [=AkaRed=] while he was in a coma in a hospital after saving a little girl from getting hit by a car, getting run over in the process, so there's at least ''something.''

** Orion being an alien and his backstory mixed with knowing nothing about the ''Power Rangers'' led to footage inconsistencies with ''Gokaiger,'' where his counterpart, Gai, was a human and a ''Sentai'' fanboy. Gai's over-enthusiastic and extroverted personality clashed hard with Orion's more reserved one when it came to ''Gokaiger'' footage due to the body language present in it. They tried to counter this by having him in his 3rd episode dance around the school in his underwear, but that only made it ''more'' jarring, since we'd just gotten his backstory of being the only known survivor on hhis planet left and how the Armada wiped out his people. Not to mention said backstory makes it quite oodd why he leaves in thhe second to last episode ''before'' the Armada threat is stopped from trying to destroy the Earth, which he vowed to stop at all costs previously. It led to the writers forcing in a line from Noah that he could autopilot his zord in the episode as well (that got ''no'' explanation in the original aired version and barely one in thhe extended version) when that wasn't the case in the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. His morpher and the fact that it and his Ranger Key that he found on his planet is also raise questions, since the Keys are products of Gosei and Tensou and the morpher is embedded in some sort of crystal with it with no explanation or handwave. In ''Gokaigr,'' Gai was siven it by Abarekiller, Dragonranger, and [=TimeFire=] in a dream he had thans to [=AkaRed=] while he was in a coma in a hospital after saving a little girl from getting hit by a car, getting run over in the process, so there's at least ''something.''

** The "new powers never before seen on [Earth]." Due to said powers never having been adapted as ''Power Ranger'' teams or seasons, it leads to a lot of questions as to ''who'' those rangers were, where or when they're from, how Gosei knew about them, how they were catalogued into either the Morphin Grid or their computers to use their powers despite never being on Earth before, how the current rangers just know how to use their powers despite having ''just'' been introduced to them in the episodes they first appear in, and other things. The confusing part is that half the time, the production team actually spent the time, resources, and money neccessary to shoot either quick pick-up shots or longer whole fight scenes[[note]] (some of which were wholly unneccessary if you've watched the original ''Gokaiger'' episodes or look up information about them, as they sometimes replaced fights with rangers that ''were'' adapted into ''Power Rangers'' for seemingly no real reason)[[/note]] to skip over or replace footage of ''other'' unadapted teams or individual rangers, so they didn't even ''need'' to appear and it makes no sense as to why these teams were allowed through into the final product of the adaptation.

** Partly causes the problems in most of the examples below in "NewPowersAsThePlotDemandsIt."
** The rangers' Super powered forms and associated zords having a pirate aesthtic. While people like [[WebSeries/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] argue that it doesn't really matter, it actually ''does,'' since the Gokaigers were space pirates and everything about them and their arsenal reflected it. The show doesn't even make a meta joke about it. While the ''Goseiger'' powers were more general in regards to aestetic and powers so stripping out the angels part of that show when adapting it wasn't that noticeable, stripping out the space pirate part of ''Gokaiger'' leads to questions of why the powers are as they are.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Moving the Legendary Battle to the end of the series instead of before when it takes place. In ''Gokaiger,'' this was used to set up how the current team had the powers of the past ones, as well as explain how the past teams didn't have their powers anymore, thus you didn't question when other teams didn't show up to help the current one outside of the cameos. Here, while the current team having access to the powers of the past ones is partially explained by the Morphin Grid (though the Grid is never mentioned in the show and it's never explained how Gosei and Tensou are able to tap into the Grid and copy the powers, something ''[=SPD=]'' was able to do 9 years prior in the first ''Dino Thunder'' crossover, mind you), the fact that the past rangers never come in to help the current ones deal with the threat of the Armada, especially when they're shown to be watching over them, makes you question why. It's also a question as to why the current team having access to the past powers doesn't overload them or the Grid, as shown in ''Dino Thunder'' when Trent and the White Ranger clone were both damaged through both using the same powers at the same time.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Moving the Legendary Battle to the end of the series instead of before when it takes place. In ''Gokaiger,'' this was used to set up how the current team had the powers of the past ones, as well as explain how the past teams didn't have their powers anymore, thus you didn't question when other teams didn't show up to help the current one outside of the cameos. Here, while the current team having access to the powers of the past ones is partially explained by the Morphin Grid (though the Grid is never mentioned in the show and it's never explained how Gosei and Tensou are able to tap into the Grid and copy thhe powers, something ''[=SPD=]'' was able to do 9 years prior in the first ''Dino Thunder'' crossover, mind you), the fact that the past rangers never come in to help the current ones deal with the threat of the Armada, especially when they're shown to be watching over them, makes you question why. It's also a question as to why the current team having access to the past powers doesn't overload them or the Grid, as shown in ''Dino Thunder'' when Trent and the White Ranger clone were both damaged through both using the same powers at the same time.

The 20th and 21st (Super Megaforce) seasons[[note]]Originally ''Mighty Morphin'' ReCut was counted as season 18; however, as of ''Megaforce'' this is no longer true.[[/note]] of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' The series [[{{Frankenslation}} uses]] Ranger, Monster and Zord footage from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' and a few other elements from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' in the first season and reversed the ratio to be primarily ''Gokaiger''-influenced in the second season (called ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce''). Regardless of the exact number, this installment serves as [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7tN4OIZz_JY/T9fvVxwRbnI/AAAAAAACjD4/3dPde2X3Ewo/s1600/saban-1_28129.jpg the milestone twenty-year anniversary season]]. It was also the final series to be executive produced by series veteran Jonathan Tzachor.

** ImprobableWeaponUser: Gia's Tiger Claw

The 20th and 21st (Super Megaforce) seasons[[note]]Originally ''Mighty Morphin'' ReCut was counted as season 18; however, as of ''Megaforce'' this is no longer true.[[/note]] of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' The series uses Ranger, Monster and Zord footage from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' and a few other elements from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' in the first season and reversed the ratio to be primarily ''Gokaiger''-influenced in the second season (called ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce''). Regardless of the exact number, this installment serves as [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7tN4OIZz_JY/T9fvVxwRbnI/AAAAAAACjD4/3dPde2X3Ewo/s1600/saban-1_28129.jpg the milestone twenty-year anniversary season]]. It was also the final series to be executive produced by series veteran Jonathan Tzachor.