History Series / PowerRangersOperationOverdrive

* DamselinDistress: Ronny.

* ComicBookAdaptation: One story, "Worldwide Warrior", was published in the UK Jetix Magazine.

* WrenchWench: Ronny's tendency for [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar practically]] ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fondling]]'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar new weaponry]] [[{{Nerdgasm}} with an awed smile on her face]] makes one wonder how the show stayed TV-Y7. Of course, she ''had'' to be the first to test out any new gadget. And apparently, being a race car driver who can work on her own cars has left her qualified to work on [[HumongousMecha giant robots]].

* HomeBase: the Hartford Mansion; partly an ElaborateUndergroundBase

* {{Mooks}}: Chillers for Flurious and Lava Lizards for Moltor. Kamdor and Miratrax use hypnotized ninja stuntmen as one-time mooks.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The year before, Super Sentai had gone HD. PR was still SD. The solution? Squeeze the 16:9 Boukenger footage, specifically the Zord battles, into 4:3. The result wasn't pretty. Jungle Fury and RPM simply took the 16:9 footage and cropped it.

* * When prior Rangers guest star, Bridge tries to explain how he got promoted to Red Ranger since ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''. Only ''Overdrive''[='s=] own CloudCuckoolander, Dax, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike thinks it makes sense]]. (For context, what Bridge doesn't explain adequately is that the "dog" and "bird" he mentions are ''aliens''. Plus, ''SPD'' takes place about two decades in ''Overdrive''[='s=] future.)
-->Oh, uh, yeah, well, [[ToMakeALongStoryShort long story short]], our mentor who's, well, a dog, got promoted to head of S.P.D. which was run by a bird but he retired to Miami, and Sky got promoted and I got promoted. That's why I'm the Red Ranger, [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble or will be]].

* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Bridge in "Once A Ranger" sums up where he's been since the end of ''S.P.D.'':
-->Oh, uh, yeah, well, long story short, our mentor who's, well, a dog, got promoted to head of S.P.D. which was run by a bird but he retired to Miami, and Sky got promoted and I got promoted. That's why I'm the Red Ranger, or [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be]].

* ElementalRivalry: Between Moltor (fire) and Flurious (ice). The Film/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus jokes write themselves.

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} Kick into overdrive!]]]]

** [[Kamdor seals a traitorous Miratrix inside the jewel he was originally trapped in, saving the Rangers the trouble of dealing with the latter directly]].

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: Moltor [[CainAndAbel is slain by Flurious]], saving the Rangers the trouble of dealing with the former.]]

''Operation Overdrive'' has a few quirks compared to a usual Ranger season. For one thing, instead of using mainly self-contained MonsterOfTheWeek adventures, the season tracked the Rangers and villains as they followed a trail of clues around the world to the location of the jewels. It also had a BigBadEnsemble instead of just one BigBad, and they tended to fight each other as much as they fought the Rangers. Over the course of the series, Red Ranger Mack also learned something horrifying about his own origins that nearly destroys his faith in himself and his relationship with his father.

** Though this is more played as an EnemyCivilWar until [[spoiler: Flurious kills his brother Moltor when the latter is beaten by the Power Rangers]] and then proceeds to [[spoiler: Collect all the last {{MacGuffin}}s]] and becomes the series' BigBad.

* OperationBlank: [[ZeroContextExample Of course]].

The fifteenth anniversary season of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', taken from ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger''. Legends speak of the [[MacGuffin ''Corona Aurora'']], the Crown of the Gods; an ancient jeweled relic with inconceivable power. According to the myths, millennia ago, two brothers warred with each other in their pursuits of the crown, only for the crown to turn them both into monstrous forms and seal them into planets. Afterward, the crown was taken and its jewels removed, all being sent away to an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet...

The series also contained the [[MilestoneCelebration 15th Anniversary special]] "Once A Ranger" where a new villain comes into play, the son of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd]], Thrax. Targeting the [[MetaOrigin Morphing Grid]] itself, they manage to cut the Operation Overdrive Rangers off from their powers. To stop their plan of decimating the entire grid and eliminating all Power Rangers, the Sentinel Knight [[CrisisCrossover commissions Rangers from previous seasons]] to form a new team (all of the Disney-era shows, with one before they took over) [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Xander Bly]], [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Bridge Carson]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Kira Ford]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Tori Hanson]], and [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Adam Park]] (most characters were {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s, the return of Creator/JohnnyYongBosch especially was appreciated). In addition, Alpha Six takes on a role. The two-parter involves the Operation Overdrive Rangers worrying about being replaced.

While ratings for this season started out good, they would later go on to [[{{Pun}} crash and burn]] - a trend that the [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury two]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM final]] Disney seasons never really recovered from.

* BigBad: BigBadEnsemble variant: Moltor, Flurious, Kamdor, and the Fearcats Mig and Benglo; who are, themselves, a BigBadDuumvirate.
BigGood: The Sentinel Knight is the one who hid the Corona Aurora away and assembles the Rangers to find it again.

%%* AvengersAssemble

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The Flash Point Megazord.

%%* CosmicKeystone: The Corona Aurora

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Spencer

%%* TheDitz: Norg

%%* DrillTank: Drill Driver

%%* ElementalRivalry: Between Moltor and Flurious.

%%* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Mack]]

%%* HumanAliens: Tyzonn and Vella.

%%* TheJeeves: Spencer

%%* MultinationalTeam

%%* OperationBlank: Of course.

%%* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: [[strike:Mr. Hartford]] Andrew

%%* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Mack]], again
%%* TrulySingleParent: Hartford

%%* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

%%BigGood: Andrew Hartford.

%%* {{Mentors}}: Hartford

* DamselInDistress: Ronny is probably one of the biggest examples in the franchise - due to being captured twice by the Fearcats and needing rescuing from the other Rangers.

* {{Expy}}: Flurious and Moltor seems to be based on The Miser Brothers, since they are brothers who hate each other as well as the fact that Flurious is ice and Moltor is fire.

* DamselInDistress: Ronny is probably one of the biggest examples this in the franchise - due to being captured twice by the Fearcats and needing rescuing from the other Rangers.