History ShoutOut / PowerRangersRPM

* Flux [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension overthruster]]? [[Film/BackToTheFuture Flux capacitor]]?

* In one episode, when soldiers are blasting away at Sawbot V2, Scott tells them to stop, going word for word, "[[StarWars That armor's too strong for blasters!]]"

** Tenaya executes [[StreetFighter the Frankensteiner]] in "Key To The Past", [[spoiler:which is appropriate as this is the week where she's revealed to be a brainwashed [[TheDragon Dragon]] much like Cammy was. Which might also explain her braids.]]

* The leader's name is [[Comicbook/XMen Scott, and he's the more heroic type]], whereas [[{{Wolverine}} the guy with the metal implanted all over his body (Dillon) is the brooding bad boy who steals the spotlight like whoa.]] Bonus points for having them butt heads over their vehicles.

* Summer [[KamenRider jumps off her motorcycle and does a slow-motion flying kick attack, hitting the enemy in the process]].

** In "Ranger Yellow pt 1" we hear her going [[WackyRaces 'oh, drat' and then 'double drat']] towards the end of the scene.

* The leader's name is [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Scott, and he's the more heroic type]], whereas [[{{Wolverine}} the guy with the metal implanted all over his body (Dillon) is the brooding bad boy who steals the spotlight like whoa.]] Bonus points for having them butt heads over their vehicles.

** Her "calling card" is the same tune used by a one [[TheWire Omar Little]], it's even used in the same chilling way.

-->'''Ronin:''' Ziggy! You've got a lot of nerve showing your face in the city, [[TheEmpireStrikesBack after what you pulled]].

* It's a bit of a stretch, but the MOTW from "Blitz", being a MadScientist who speaks in CreepyMonotone and gives Dillon the codename [[LawOfAliennames D44]], reminded anime fans a lot of [[KeroroGunsou Kururu]].

* Nobody's mentioned the most obvious one, the [[Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger GO-ONGER van?]]

[[TheEighties Lots and lots.]] According to Eddie Guzelian, he intentionally wanted to "rip off" many of the references to ''Terminator'' and ''MadMax''. Of note, we have:

* In "End Game", the music playing [[spoiler:when all the hybrids in Corinth are activated]] sounds like the "Terminator on the Rampage" theme from TheSarahConnorChronicles.

-->'''Dillon:''' [[{{Terminator}} I am a machine.]]

* Ziggy's last lines during the 'interrogation' in episode 2 include "[[{Film/{{Titanic 1997}} she lives on now, only in my memories.]]"

* Ziggy's last lines during the 'interrogation' in episode 2 include "[[{{Titanic}} she lives on now, only in my memories.]]"

* Black-suited handlers in a secret institute dedicated to churning out {{Tykebomb}}s... [[{{Firefly}} all that's missing are the blue gloves.]]