History StockFootageFailure / PowerRangers

* ''Power Rangers'' actors don't always physically match up with the suit actors in the ''Sentai'' footage:

** An example involving ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger'' occurs in "Love is In the Air", based on the tribute episode to ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''[='=]s counterpart ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' - you can make out a ''black'' Ranger key being used as the Rangers morph into the Turbo Power Rangers, who ''didn't'' have a black Ranger. In the ''Sentai'', the Gokaigers mistook the Turborangers for the Carrangers and transformed into the former first for mere seconds only to be told wrong by ''Carranger''[='=]s Red Ranger.[[note]]technically, ''Turbo'' did have a Black Ranger, the Phantom Ranger. However, said ranger is considered more of a SixthRanger as opposed to one of the core rangers (his Sentai counterpart, the VRV Master, is actually considered more of an Extra Hero; Signalman, the Sentai counterpart of the Blue Senturion, fills the role of SixthRanger in ''Carranger''), and as the SixthRanger keys are restricted to Orion, it still stands[[/note]]

** An example involving ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger'' occurs in "Love is In the Air", based on the tribute to episode to ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''[='=]s counterpart ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' - you can make out a ''black'' Ranger key being used as the Rangers morph into the Turbo Power Rangers, who ''didn't'' have a black Ranger. In the ''Sentai'', the Gokaigers mistook the Turborangers for the Carrangers and transformed into the former first for mere seconds only to be told wrong by ''Carranger''[='=]s Red Ranger.[[note]]technically, ''Turbo'' did have a Black Ranger, the Phantom Ranger. However, said ranger is considered more of a SixthRanger as opposed to one of the core rangers (his Sentai counterpart, the VRV Master, is actually considered more of an Extra Hero; Signalman, the Sentai counterpart of the Blue Senturion, fills the role of SixthRanger in ''Carranger''), and as the SixthRanger keys are restricted to Orion, it still stands[[/note]]

** An example involving ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger'' occurs in "Love is In the Air", based on the first Jealoushito episode - you can make out a ''black'' Ranger key being used as the Rangers morph into ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', which ''didn't'' have a black Ranger[[note]]technically, ''Turbo'' ''did'' have a Black Ranger, the Phantom Ranger. However, said ranger is considered more of a SixthRanger as opposed to one of the core rangers (his Sentai counterpart, the VRV Master, is actually considered more of an Extra Hero; Signalman, the Sentai counterpart of the Blue Senturion, fills the role of SixthRanger in ''Carranger''), and as the SixthRanger keys are restricted to Orion, it still stands[[/note]].

* Particularly noticeable when the Rangers first use their Power Weapons. The Zyurangers each used their respective weapons while unmorphed, which would then transform when they morphed. Thus the American series has the Rangers inexplicably holding random weapons that are then 'powered up'.
* Variation in "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP1DayOfTheDumpster Day of the Dumpster]]"; Billy can be seen with his communicators on his wrists during Jason’s karate lesson, despite the fact that he wouldn't invent them until the next episode. This is because it was originally shot for a later episode “Dark Warrior”.
* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP3Teamwork Teamwork]]", although Kimberly's call for her Dinozord was unused because in Zyuranger there was a kid of the week in frame that would have confused viewers, said kid can still be seen in a single wide shot
* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP9ForWhomTheBellTrolls For Whom the Bell Tolls]]" a giant Japanese boy can be briefly be seen behind Megazord in one shot.
* In the original "Green With Evil" storyline from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', footage of Burai from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' was used to represent Tommy being transformed into the Green Ranger by Rita. The audience was apparently supposed to ignore that "Tommy" is clearly Asian (and with short hair instead of his trademark mullet; highly obvious even when in silhouette) for a few seconds when he first appears in Rita's fortress.
* Also in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', when they have a closeup of their morphers or weapons during the scenes that used stock footage, you can sometimes see the word "Zyuranger" printed on them.
* One episode of Mighty Morphin has Rita capture a girl and hold her captive. Although she wears the same clothes as her Japanese counterpart, she clearly becomes Asian in brief shots. One wonders why they didn't just hire an Asian child to play the part.
* The second season of ''MMPR'' brought in a lot of changes to the show, but the production team were still forced to deal with the leftovers of season one. In many of the Megazord battles featuring the Thunder Megazord, one may notice that the Megazord and the monster are never in the same frame as each other, and mostly use projectile attacks and basic stock-footage punches. This is because these monsters originate from [="Zyu2"=] footage and were originally filmed fighting the first season's Megazord. The stock footage drifts into "failure" status when you occasionally see shots of the previous Megazord's Power Sword, the Megazord's fists and sometimes, the Megazord in full. Eventually the show began adapting the ''Dairanger'' monsters and full Megazord battles returned, but the show was still occasionally forced to use stock footage battles, most notably in the three-part episode "The Wedding".
* During the third season of ''MMPR'', the show began adapting footage from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. This caused a bit of a problem, as the crew now had to work around the fact that there was no Pink Ranger analogue in ''Kakuranger'', since Tsuruhime, the token girl character, wore white rather than pink. When the Shogunzords began showing up in the Western toy line, Tsuruhime's Zord was recolored pink so that it would match up with Katherine, the American Pink Ranger, even though the footage used in ''MMPR'' still had the Zord as white. Normally, [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy an inaccurate toy]] wouldn't have been much cause for concern, but the color scheme became an issue when it came time to use the Shogun Ultrazord, a special transformation that did not exist in ''Kakuranger'', and thus had to be filmed by using [[OffTheShelfFX the toys]]. This created a situation where you could clearly tell which shots were filmed in Japan and which were filmed in America, as the American footage would have the Ultrazord's right arm (Katherine's Zord) inexplicably change from white to pink with zero explanation.
** Additionally, the Shogun Megazord's chestplate was different, having a symbol in Japanese in the Japanese stock footage, and a stylized lightning bolt in American.
* During the Magna Defender's flashback to the death of his son in ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy,'' there's a brief moment where instead of Scorpius, Captain Mutiny can be seen for a few seconds. This is because Captain Mutiny's counterpart in Gingaman was the main villain, while in Lost Galaxy, he was demoted to a secondary villain and Scorpius was created in his stead, but given the same connection to the Magna Defender.
* Particularly bad in ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', where ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'' stock footage is used in several scenes important to the plot. It doesn't cause plot holes because of their similarities, except several critical scenes have [[TheHero Wes]] suddenly turn Japanese.
** Or the ''entire'' staff of Bio-Lab the time the building was invaded. In fact, there are several times when there's suddenly a disproportionate amount of black hair in crowd scenes.
** Eric looks ''very'' much like his ''Timeranger'' counterpart Naoto, so much that one dramatic, non-stock-footage morph was kept, during the multi-parter that introduced the Quantum Ranger. Unfortunately... ''Eric wasn't wearing his hat and Naoto was'' in that scene, so as we switch angles whilst he and Wes are charging at each other for their second battle, he suddenly goes from hatless to hatted.
** An earlier episode (Quantum Ranger/Time Fire's debut episodes) had sneaked in shots of Naoto where Eric is supposed to be, which would work had they worn the same outfit during the scene (Eric is still wearing his uniform while Naoto was off-duty at the time). So close to awesome, yet so far...
* Linkara notes in his commentary for [[spoiler: the end of the Mechakara arc]] in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that it's OK that [[spoiler: his glasses reappear]] during the morphing sequence, [[ThrowItIn as that is what happens in the show]].

* Still, though, sometimes tweaks are visible. Nadira's outfit covers ''less'' than Lira's, Marah's hair is black while Furabijou's is brown, and in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai,'' it's ''very'' distracting to see Octoroo go from having his tentacles completely covering his face to being parted to reveal his mouth.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a pretty obvious case during the roll calls, said case being [[TheBigGuy Ronny]]. They changed her roll call pose from [[BadassAdorable Natsuki]]'s such that the motion is a little more "serious" and stays upright. This is probably due to her [[{{Tomboy}} personality]], which is almost nothing like her ''[[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger Super Sentai]]'' [[GenkiGirl counterpart]]. However, Ronny still finds a way to appear already arched 45 degrees to her left near the end of the roll calls.

* Aljin Abella was the shortest member of the ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' cast, yet was cast as the Blue Ranger, who was the tallest in ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger.'' Theo grew about a foot every time he morphed.
** Related: Zack in ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'' grew back a missing finger when he morphed.
** Daggeron from'' Mystic Force'' seemed to lose about 40 pounds when he morphed.
* And in similar vein, the characters that weren't adapted to ''Power Rangers'' had appeared in it. Eg. [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Zonnette]] was seen piloting ''[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Divazord]]'', [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger Shibolena]] was clearly seen when [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Red Ecliptor]] was destroyed and some reported that [[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Shelinda]] was briefly seen on [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Mutiny's ship]].
* In ''Ninja Storm'', Blake appears noticeably smaller in original footage, due to his Sentai counterpart, Isshu Kasumi, being a bit taller and slightly more muscular than he is. This is especially obvious when he is on screen with Hunter, as Hunter has at least a few inches on Blake, while Isshu and Hunter's counterpart, Ikkou, are roughly the same height.
** Some later ''Ninja Storm'' episodes have Cam randomly switching in and out of Super Samurai Mode while in the Megazord's cockpit for no real reason at all, even if he never used it in said episode.

* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' didn't bother translating the Gosei Cards, which say ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' on them as well as other Sentai terminology. Also, footage from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s Legend War sequence is used occasionally, and heroes that were never adapted for ''Power Rangers'' can still be seen in crowd shots.

* In nearly every episode of ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', when the Rangers morph, there will be an extreme close-up of a hand holding the morpher, which would be fine except for the fact that the Rangers ''never'' hold the morpher properly (if the finger isn't on the button on top, the morpher shouldn't open!) They're holding it correctly in the morph sequence, so that means the focus Ranger's fingers appear to magically move as we switch to stock footage. This occurs constantly and is probably due to RealLifeWritesThePlot: The morpher props are the [[OffTheShelfFX Japanese morpher toys]], so if the actor held the morpher properly, it would open for real. Naturally, non-stock-footage morphs always have the button-push, opening the morpher before the Ranger does a sparkly in-scene change.
* Of course, the worst had to be between Overdrive and RPM, where Sentai had shifted to wide-screen but PR hadn't yet. Sometimes they could get away with the sentai footage being zoomed in, but sometimes it was just plain ''squashed like a bad Website/YouTube video.''
* ''Super Megaforce'' managed to turn this into an art form. On top of not explaining why female yellows from the original Saban era have skirts now, since those characters were female, the producers never cared about replacing (at least ''most'' the time) stock footage of unadapted ''Sentai'' teams present in the ''Gokaiger'' stock footage. However, they seem to do it especially selectively, as it appears they wanted to remove pre-mid 80s teams due to the difference in suit materials shifting more to spandex after the first several years. In episode 13, this came as a double whammy, when before a commercial break, we see four of the suits from ''Changeman'', then after the commercial break, Troy's inexplicably the red ranger from ''Maskman'', since they excluded the footage of Marvelous changing to it from the original ''Gokaiger'' episode.
** You can tell whenever it's switched from American to Japanese footage because of the quality of video. The New Zealand cameras have a richer texture to it. Not only that but a lot of the Sentai footage is shot in the morning which makes it very noticeable if the American footage is in the afternoon.

** Whenever the Rangers use their Gosei cards, the cards all clearly still have the original text from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' (including that title). This is probably why so much of the Rangers' arsenal keeps their ''Goseiger'' names in the first place (as well as TheMentor being called Gosei and the RobotBuddy being Tensou, just so the words "tensou" and "gosei" mean ''something'' here.)
** Similarly, the recurring footage from ''Gokaiger'''s Legend War includes heroes from ''Super Sentai'' that have never been adapted for ''Power Rangers''. Most are way in the background where they're not as noticeable or have been edited to make them less conspicuous, but "Stranger Ranger" clearly shows [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Ryu Ranger]] fighting behind the Red [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Fury Ranger]]. Officially subverted in "Earth Fights Back" when the ''Dairanger'' suits debuted as "powers never seen before on Earth."
** In episode 3, after the Rangers defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek with the Megaforce Blaster, they disassemble the blaster and then run to a completely different area where they had quarantined the infected civilians. After that, when Vrak summons the zombats to [[MakeMyMonsterGrow make the monster grow]], the Rangers are suddenly right back in front of the monster's corpse, holding the assembled Megaforce Blaster. (In sentai, the scenes were ordered differently, the infected civilians not changing back until the monster was destroyed for good at giant size. Why anyone felt the need to change that, creating such an awkward scene, while nobody seemed to feel the need to change the sentai-only suits in Super Megaforce, no one knows.)
** The second battle against Dragonflay (played out at the same time as the Red Ranger fights Creepox for the first time) in episode 4 still has plenty of Japanese text on signs and Japanese traffic signage.
** In "United We Stand," ''Sentai'' footage is used when Beezara kicks Gia and Emma across the soccer field. Before this, Troy was knocked to the ground; however, if one looks closely at where Troy was, it's very obvious that it's ''[[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger Alata]]'' lying on the ground.
** Speaking of Alata, his distinctive red-and-white jacket is ''very'' noticeable in the first few seconds of the opening sequence, as seen in this [[http://www.megaforcecast.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=257&pid=4466#top_display_media screenshot]].
** The loss of Datas leads to a problem with Ultra Gosei Great Megazord. Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that there's a brand new Mechazord head that's just there with no explanation as to where it came from; not to mention the Zord mountings on the shoulders and the odd design on the robot's back. The card that summons it is labelled HYPER Gosei Great, due to total failure to edit the footage. The toyline at least explains the backpack away by having it store 3 Zord vehicles that carry the Sky, Land, and Sea brothers, but no such explanation exists in the show.
** The Robo Morpher has a lot of Japanese Hiraganas left unedited.
** Since this series adapted two Sentai seasons that have members that [[{{Foil}} contrast each other]] blended into the same team this is bound to happen, resulting in minor character inconsistencies:
*** Emma is a understated character while her ''Goseiger'' counterpart Eri is more hyperactive. There's times when ''Goseiger'' footage is used and the Pink Ranger is gesturing animatedly like Eri but with Emma's understated performance, causing this. Should be less apparent when ''Gokaiger'' footage is used and Emma is being played by Ahim, also more understated than Eri.
*** Troy has a relaxed-yet-confident stance and overall body language which really doesn't jell well with Alata, who is usually timid and has his arms clenched together like an angry child. It gets better with Marvelous's body language, though not all that well as Troy's a bit more stiff and Marvelous is always ready to battle.
*** Jake's ''Gokaiger'' counterpart is Don, the team's PluckyComicRelief ButtMonkey; the first episode handles this simply by passing the Green Ranger's uneasy motions as Jake's enthusiasm over his new powers. In later episodes, it becomes even more pronounced with the Green Ranger inexplicably acting like Don at times to the point of being incompetent in direct combat, even though Jake has never been depicted as ''that'' goofy of a character.
*** Noah's ''Gokaiger'' counterpart is Joe, the team's master swordsman. While Don would fit better for Noah as does Joe to Jake, the reasoning for Noah being a master swordsman is to improve himself and be better at helping the team out. However, this is problematic on another layer due to Noah's ''Goseiger'' counterpart, Hyde, being a bow-wielder, resulting in Noah going from one extreme in combat to the other without any explanation. This is a little funny because Joe...well, let's just say that he won't be winning any marksmanship competitions.
*** Gia's body language usually fits her Gokaiger counterpart Luka, but not so much with Moune whose gestures reflects her childishness and over-energetic personality, something Gia is not shown doing out-of-suit, even when around her best friend Emma.
*** Orion - his ''Gokaiger'' counterpart, Gai, is a very hyperactive Sentai fanboy who was always energetic, whereas Orion's personality would be more akin to that of Joe Gibken/Gokai Blue[[note]]ironically, of the core team, Joe is the only one who Orion's backstory ''doesn't'' have elements of[[/note]]. There's also the fact that Orion is taller than Gai, and due to the inexplicable decision not to film any original footage whenever Orion uses Super Megaforce Gold, whenever Orion uses the aforementioned powerup, he will inexplicably shrink about a foot.
** The third commercial in [[http://youtu.be/P2OalZlGu0E?t=50s this video]] contained footage that was obviously lifted straight from a TV-Nihon fansub release of Gokaiger. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vbav2X7lsY newer version]] of this commercial fixed this problem.
** Episode 2 of ''Super Megaforce'' just had Japan as the place where the rocket was launched when clearly the show takes place in the United States, or New Zealand in terms of where it was shot. This was because of the unedited transition between the local shots and the pool of stock footage that was found in ''Gokaiger'' (though this is far from the first time this has happened in the franchise's history).
** That's a thing that happens a lot, even across series that ''don't'' suffer from Megaforce's level of CreatorsApathy. Editing the Earth so things aren't flying from/to Japan never seems to occur to production.
** In "Silver Lining, Part 1" when Jake (as [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Galaxy Green]]) uses his Quasar Saber to disable Gorgax's shield, for a brief moment you can see the tip of the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Green Mighty Morphin Ranger's]] Dragon Dagger hit the shield instead of the Quasar Saber's tip. [[labelnote:explanation]](This is because in the footage from ''Gokaiger'', Gokai Green was ''Zyuranger'''s [=DragonRanger=] as part of a Sixth Ranger Gokai Change.)[[/labelnote]]
** In "The Perfect Storm", the Legendary Megazord throws the Q-Rex into space to destroy an incoming asteroid. We then get a shot of Earth, and it's ''blatantly obvious that the Q-Rex was leaving Japan.''
** Another one with ''Turboranger'' occurs in "Love is In the Air", based on the first Jealoushito episode - you can make out a ''black'' Ranger key being used as the Rangers morph into ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', which ''didn't'' have a black Ranger[[note]]technically, ''Turbo'' ''did'' have a Black Ranger, the Phantom Ranger. However, said ranger is considered more of a SixthRanger as opposed to one of the core rangers (his Sentai counterpart, the VRV Master, is actually considered more of an Extra Hero; Signalman, the Sentai counterpart of the Blue Senturion, fills the role of SixthRanger in ''Carranger''), and as the SixthRanger keys are restricted to Orion, it still stands[[/note]].
** During Noah and Argus' final battle in ''All Hail Prince Vekar'', you can see a shot of Joe's long black hair after he hits Argus.
** In that same episode, during the formation of the Ultimate Legendary Megazord, you can spot the words "Super Sentai" written on the wheels of the Turbo Falcon.
** The "Super Sentai" wheels were also present in the Turbo Falcon's debut ''In the Driver's Seat''.

** Despite Basco not being adapted in any form, during "Emperor Mavro", his monster form can be seen very briefly, [[https://youtu.be/gkK_sssoZEo?t=112 as shown here]][[note]]this was due to the fact that in the corresponding ''Gokaiger'' episode, Basco betrayed Damaras[[/note]].

** Averted when it comes to the Dino Chargers. Unlike in ''Megaforce'' (''especially'' the cards in the ''Goseiger'' half), stock footage involving the Dino Chargers is edited to show the English dinosaur names instead of ''Kyoryuger'''s names (i.e. "Tyrannosaurus Rex" instead of "Gabutyra"). Though there was one moment in Episode 4 where you can briefly see "Gabutyra" on Tyler's Dino Charger, but it's very quick and easy to miss. Even then that's averted as future airings edited to Tyrannosaurus Rex.

** The Megazord battle in "[[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeWorldFamousInNewZealand World Famous In New Zealand]]" is from Brave 18, and as a result, the Rangers go from fighting Meteor in the city, to fighting him in the forest.

* Ninja Steel makes a secondary weapon from Ninninger the morpher. Two problems: since the sword was the morpher in sentai, the sword is used to activate ''every'' star except the morphing ones, and the morphing stars themselves are typically seen on the swords during battle. On top of that, the morphers always vanish during the TransformationSequence and even morph scenes that go StockFootage-less... even if the Ranger in sentai ''was'' using the weapon that became the morpher in PR (meaning that the Ranger morphs, the morpher explicitly vanishing when the suit appears... but it's still being held in the next shot as the Ranger leaps into action.)
** Before the show even started some people already pointed out an instance. Specifically, Chrystiane Lopes as the Pink Ranger. She is significantly shorter than the rest of the cast, including White Ranger Zoe Robins. In ''Ninninger'', Yuka Yano (the White Ranger) was the shortest member while Kasumi Yamaya (who played the Pink Ranger) was a similar height to the others. This isn't without precedence; multiple rangers have had their heights changed when they morph.

** In episode 3, after the Rangers defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek with the Megaforce Blaster, they disassemble the blaster and then run to a completely different area where they had quarantined the infected civilians. After that, when Vrak summons the zombats to [[MakeMyMonsterGrow make the monster grow]], the Rangers are suddenly right back in front of the monster's corpse, holding the assembled Megaforce Blaster. (In sentai, the scenes were ordered differently, the infected civilians not changing back until the monster was destroyed for good at giant size. Why anyone felt the need to change that, creating such an awkward scene, no one knows.)

** One of the more noticeable examples is Fury's furry collar -- in ''Kyoryuger'' he started out without it but gained it later as part of the plot, while ''Dino Charge'' doesn't attach any significance to the collar so he's seen with and without it at various points. Most notably, the opening goes straight from a long shot of Fury without the collar to a close-up of him with the collar.

*** Noah's ''Gokaiger'' counterpart is Joe, the team's master swordsman. While Don would fit better for Noah as does Joe to Jake, the reasoning for Noah being a master swordsman is to improve himself and be better at helping the team out. However, this is problematic on another layer due to Noah's ''Goseiger'' counterpart, Hyde, being a bow-wielder, resulting in Noah going from one extreme in combat to the other without any explanation. This is a little funny due to the fact that Joe...well, let's just say that he won't be winning any marksmanship competitions.

* ''Super Megaforce'' managed to turn this into an art form. On top of not explaining why female yellows from the original Saban era have skirts now, since those characters were female, the producers never cared about replacing (at least ''most'' the time) stock footage of unadapted ''Sentai'' teams present in the ''Gokaiger'' stock footage. However, they seem to do it especially selectively, as it appears they wanted to remove pre-mid 80s teams due to the difference in suit materials shifting more to spandex after the first several years. In episode 13, this came as a double whammy, when before a commercial break, we see four of the suits from ''Changeman'', then after the commercial break, Troy's inexplicably the red ranger from ''Maskman'', since they excluded the footage of Marvelous changing to it from the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. Then in episode 19, the production team did the unthinkable and had the costume department make ''new'' suits of Change Griffon, Green Flash, Blue Mask, and Five Yellow (you can tell because they're made of the exact same material PR's been using for the American suits for years). This particularly egregious because those teams were from unadapted, pre-Zyuranger, Sentai teams and seasons, which was going to be an effect of the stock footage anyways, but also because they actually went out of their way to film ''new shots'' of these suits just because they didn't want Vul Eagle in the shots rather than MMPR red, or didn't wanna do the green screen effects required for it. This is a new form of lazy for the entire franchise, as doing this is specifically spending money to film new shots to be lazy and not film more than that, or replace the rest of the scene with ''different'' choices of teams, since they were filming new shots anyways. It's especially maddening to fans because there are several Rangers that ''were'' in PR and thus ''are'' meaningful to its audience that never had their suits featured despite awesome Gokaiger footage of them existing; it all hits the cutting room floor in favor of Flashman, Maskman, Changeman, etc. Apparently [[RunningTheAsylum the showrunner was a sentai weeaboo]].

** Still on the subject of Ronny, there is also her excessive excitement upon piloting her Zord for the first time. The writers attempted to pass this off as a form of {{Nerdgasm}}, but the fact of the matter is that the footage still retains Natsuki's childish body language, which is adorable when used by an adorable character, but for a {{tomboy}} like Ronny, it comes off as weird - or retarded, if you're feeling uncharitable.

*** During the ''Ninja Storm'' morph, the Green Samurai Ranger is seen using a baseball bat, despite Shurikenger's baseball motif being dropped entirely when adapted for Power Rangers.

* During the third season of ''MMPR'', the show began adapting footage from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. This caused a bit of a problem, as the crew now had to work around the fact that there was no Pink Ranger analogue in ''Kakuranger'', since Tsuruhime, the token girl character, wore white rather than pink. When the Shogunzords began showing up in the Western toy line, Tsuruhime's Zord was recolored pink so that it would match up with Katherine, the American Pink Ranger, even though the footage used in ''MMPR'' still had the Zord as white. Normally, [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy an inaccurate toy]] wouldn't be much cause for concern, but the color scheme became an issue when it came time to use the Shogun Ultrazord, a special transformation that did not exist in ''Kakuranger'', and thus had to be filmed by using [[OffTheShelfFX the toys]]. This created a situation where you could clearly tell which shots were filmed in Japan and which were filmed in America, as the American footage would have the Ultrazord's right arm (Katherine's Zord) inexplicably change from white to pink with zero explanation.

* During the third season of ''MMPR'', the show began adapting footage from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. This caused a bit of a problem, as the crew now had to work around the fact that there was no Pink Ranger analogue in ''Kakuranger'', since Tsuruhime, the token girl character, wore white rather than pink. When the Shogunzords began showing up in the American toy line, Tsuruhime's Zord was recolored pink so that it would match up with Katherine, the American Pink Ranger, even though the footage used in ''MMPR'' still had the Zord as white. Normally, [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy an inaccurate toy]] wouldn't be much cause for concern, but the color scheme became an issue when it came time to use the Shogun Ultrazord, a special transformation that did not exist in ''Kakuranger'', and thus had to be filmed by using [[OffTheShelfFX the toys]]. This created a situation where you could clearly tell which shots were filmed in Japan and which were filmed in America, as the American footage would have the Ultrazord's right arm (Katherine's Zord) inexplicably change from white to pink with zero explanation.

* Of course, the worst had to be between Overdrive and RPM, where Sentai had shifted to wide-screen but PR hadn't yet. Sometimes they could get away with the sentai footage being zoomed in, but sometimes it was just plain ''squashed like a bad YouTube video.''

* Outfits regularly change during the {{transformation sequence}}s, since they were usually not wearing the same civilian outfit as they were in the stock footage, with shirt colors suddenly changing, skirts becoming pants, accessories vanishing, hairstyles changing, and in at least one case, [[ShirtlessScene a shirt appearing]]. Later seasons handwaved it by having the stock footage of them be of them in a uniform, and make sure that the character was wearing the uniorm in the ''new'' footage before morphing.

** Eric looks ''very'' much like his ''Timeranger'' counterpart Naoto, so much that one dramatic, non-stock-footage morph was kept, during the multi-parter that introduced the Quantum Ranger. Unfortunately... ''Eric wasn't wearing his hat and Naoto was'' in that scene, so as we switch angles whilst he and Wes are charging at each other for their second battle, he suddenly goes from hatless to hatted. So close to awesome, yet so far...

* Outfits regularly change during the {{transformation sequence}}s, since they were usually not wearing the same civilian outfit as they were in the stock footage, with shirt colors suddenly changing, skirts becoming pants, accessories vanishing, hairstyles changing, and in at least one case, [[ShirtlessScene a shirt appearing]]. Later seasons handwaved it by having the stock footage of them be of them in a uniform, and make sure that the character was wearing the uniform in the ''new'' footage before morphing.

*** That's a thing that happens a lot, even across series that ''don't'' suffer from Megaforce's level of TheyJustDidntCare. Editing the Earth so things aren't flying from/to Japan never seems to occur to production.

* Outfits regularly change during the transformation sequences, since they were usually not wearing the same civilian outfit as they were in the stock footage, with shirt colors suddenly changing, skirts becoming pants, accessories vanishing, hairstyles changing, and in at least one case, [[ShirtlessScene a shirt appearing]]. Later seasons handwaved it by having the stock footage of them be of them in a uniform, and make sure that the character was wearing the uniform in the ''new'' footage before morphing.

* Of course, the worst had to be between Overdrive and RPM, where Sentai had shifted to wide-screen but PR hadn't yet. Sometimes they could get away with the sentai footage being zoomed in, but sometimes it was just plain ''squashed like a bad youtube video.''

** Whenever the Rangers use their Gosei cards, the cards all clearly still have the original text from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' (including that title). This is probably why so much of the Rangers' arsenal keeps their ''Goseiger'' names in the first place.

** In episode 3, after the Rangers defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek with the Megaforce Blaster, they disassemble the blaster and then run to a completely different area where they had quarantined the infected civilians. After that, when Vrak summons the zombats to [[MakeMyMonsterGrow make the monster grow]], the Rangers are suddenly right back in front of the monster's corpse, holding the assembled Megaforce Blaster.

** Double whammy in "[[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeForgedUnderFire Forged Under Fire]]": The warehouse changes interiors during the Singe and Hunter vs Rangers fight; and arguably a ''huge'' one: the Rangers minus Tyler summon the Dino Charge Megazord [=TriStegoPtera=] Formation to fight a giant Fury, while Tyler uses T-Rex Super Charge mode to fight off Singe. Except Super Charge Mode requires the T-Rex Zord to work and it's combined with three others at the moment. How can it be in two places at once?

* Ninja Steel makes a secondary weapon from Ninninger the morpher. Two problems: since the sword was the morpher in sentai, the sword is used to activate ''every'' star except the morphing ones, and the morphing stars themselves are typically seen on the swords during battle. On top of that, the morphers always vanish during the TransformationSequence and even morph scenes that go StockFootage-less... even if the Ranger in sentai ''was'' using the weapon that became the morpher in PR (meaning that the Ranger morphs, the morpher explicitly vanishes, but it's still being held in the next shot.)

** Particularly noticeable when the Rangers first use their Power Weapons. The Zyurangers each used their respective weapons while unmorphed, which would then transform when they morphed. Thus the American series has the Rangers inexplicably holding random weapons that are then 'powered up'.
** In the original "Green With Evil" storyline from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', footage of Burai from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' was used to represent Tommy being transformed into the Green Ranger by Rita. The audience was apparently supposed to ignore that "Tommy" is clearly Asian (and with short hair instead of his trademark mullet; highly obvious even when in silhouette) for a few seconds when he first appears in Rita's fortress.
** Also in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', when they have a closeup of their morphers or weapons during the scenes that used stock footage, you can sometimes see the word "Zyuranger" printed on them.
** One episode of Mighty Morphin has Rita capture a girl and hold her captive. Although she wears the same clothes as her Japanese counterpart, she clearly becomes Asian in brief shots. One wonders why they didn't just hire an Asian child to play the part.
** Particularly bad in ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', where ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'' stock footage is used in several scenes important to the plot. It doesn't cause plot holes because of their similarities, except several critical scenes have [[TheHero Wes]] suddenly turn Japanese.
*** Or the ''entire'' staff of Bio-Lab the time the building was invaded. In fact, there are several times when there's suddenly a disproportionate amount of black hair in crowd scenes.
*** Eric looks ''very'' much like his ''Timeranger'' counterpart Naoto, so much that one dramatic, non-stock-footage morph was kept, during the multi-parter that introduced the Quantum Ranger. Unfortunately... ''Eric wasn't wearing his hat and Naoto was'' in that scene, so as we switch angles whilst he and Wes are charging at each other for their second battle, he suddenly goes from hatless to hatted. So close to awesome, yet so far...
** Linkara notes in his commentary for [[spoiler: the end of the Mechakara arc]] in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that it's OK that [[spoiler: his glasses reappear]] during the morphing sequence, [[ThrowItIn as that is what happens in the show]].
** In the early seasons, you could tell when it was stock footage because the camera quality was grainier. Later seasons were perfectly clear, to the point of some people being unable to tell when the show is using stock footage, and when it is not, particularly when a ranger morphs and does not go through the usual TransformationSequence, though there are still a few giveaways, one obvious one is that, whenever the US teams makes their own version of the costumes, for some reason, they almost inevitable use a much brighter shade of pink.
*** As far as newer seasons go, ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' is possibly the one exception. In the Sentai footage, the rangers are much bulkier, plus the shoulder pads and chest insignia on their costumes are way smaller. Compare the suits in the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/vi/0/09/Boukenger.jpg stock footage]] to the suits in the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/0/00/OO-rangers.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110801001937 American footage.]]
** Still, though, sometimes tweaks are visible. Nadira's outfit covers ''less'' than Lira's, Marah's hair is black while Furabijou's is brown, and in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai,'' it's ''very'' distracting to see Octoroo go from having his tentacles completely covering his face to being parted to reveal his mouth.
** ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a pretty obvious case during the roll calls, said case being [[TheBigGuy Ronny]]. They changed her roll call pose from [[BadassAdorable Natsuki]]'s such that the motion is a little more "serious" and stays upright. This is probably due to her [[{{Tomboy}} personality]], which is almost nothing like her ''[[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger Super Sentai]]'' [[GenkiGirl counterpart]]. However, Ronny still finds a way to appear already arched 45 degrees to her left near the end of the roll calls.
** Aljin Abella was the shortest member of the ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' cast, yet was cast as the Blue Ranger, who was the tallest in ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger.'' Theo grew about a foot every time he morphed.
*** Related: Zack in ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'' grew back a missing finger when he morphed.
*** Daggeron from'' Mystic Force'' seemed to lose about 40 pounds when he morphed.
** And in similar vein, the characters that weren't adapted to ''Power Rangers'' had appeared in it. Eg. [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Zonnette]] was seen piloting ''[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Divazord]]'', [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger Shibolena]] was clearly seen when [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Red Ecliptor]] was destroyed and some reported that [[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Shelinda]] was briefly seen on [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Mutiny's ship]].
** Like in ''Time Force'', there's an instance in the second episode of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' where the city of Corinth is under attack, and for some reason the citizens all appear to be Japanese.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' didn't bother translating the Gosei Cards, which say ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' on them as well as other Sentai terminology. Also, footage from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'''s Legend War sequence is used occasionally, and heroes that were never adapted for ''Power Rangers'' can still be seen in crowd shots.
*** An audio example occurs in one episode's ThemeMusicPowerUp: When the Rangers defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek, the wrong theme song is used, as [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai "Rangers together, Samurai forever"]] can be heard in the lyrics.
** ''Super Megaforce'' managed to turn this into an art form. On top of not explaining why female yellows from the original Saban era have skirts now, since those characters were female, the producers never cared about replacing (at least ''most'' the time) stock footage of unadapted ''Sentai'' teams present in the ''Gokaiger'' stock footage. However, they seem to do it especially selectively, as it appears they wanted to remove pre-mid 80s teams due to the difference in suit materials shifting more to spandex after the first several years. In episode 13, this came as a double whammy, when before a commercial break, we see four of the suits from ''Changeman'', then after the commercial break, Troy's inexplicably the red ranger from ''Maskman'', since they excluded the footage of Marvelous changing to it from the original ''Gokaiger'' episode. Then in episode 19, the production team did the unthinkable and had the costume department make ''new'' suits of Change Griffon, Green Flash, Blue Mask, and Five Yellow (you can tell because they're made of the exact same material PR's been using for the American suits for years). This particularly egregious because those teams were from unadapted, pre-Zyuranger, Sentai teams and seasons, which was going to be an effect of the stock footage anyways, but also because they actually went out of their way to film ''new shots'' of these suits just because they didn't want Vul Eagle in the shots rather than MMPR red, or didn't wanna do the green screen effects required for it. This is a new form of lazy for the entire franchise, as doing this is specifically spending money to film new shots to be lazy and not film more than that, or replace the rest of the scene with ''different'' choices of teams, since they were filming new shots anyways. It's especially maddening to fans because there are several Rangers that ''were'' in PR and thus ''are'' meaningful to its audience that never had their suits featured despite awesome Gokaiger footage of them existing; it all hits the cutting room floor in favor of Flashman, Maskman, Changeman, etc. Apparently [[RunningTheAsylum the showrunner was a sentai weeaboo]].
** In nearly every episode of ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', when the Rangers morph, there will be an extreme close-up of a hand holding the morpher, which would be fine except for the fact that the Rangers ''never'' hold the morpher properly (if the finger isn't on the button on top, the morpher shouldn't open!) They're holding it correctly in the morph sequence, so that means the focus Ranger's fingers appear to magically move as we switch to stock footage. This occurs constantly and is probably due to RealLifeWritesThePlot: The morpher props are the [[OffTheShelfFX Japanese morpher toys]], so if the actor held the morpher properly, it would open for real. Naturally, non-stock-footage morphs always have the button-push, opening the morpher before the Ranger does a sparkly in-scene change.
** The fight between the Red Ranger and Wrench in the third episode of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' has a poster with large Japanese writing clearly visible in a few shots.
** Ninja Steel makes a secondary weapon from sentai the morpher. Two problems: since the sword was the morpher in sentai, the sword is used to activate ''every'' star except the morphing ones, and the morphing stars themselves are typically seen on the swords during battle. On top of that, the morphers always vanish during the TransformationSequence and even morph scenes that go StockFootage-less... even if the Ranger in sentai ''was'' using the weapon that became the morpher in PR (meaning that the Ranger morphs, the morpher explicitly vanishes, but it's still being held in the next shot.)
** Of course, the worst had to be between Overdrive and RPM, where Sentai had shifted to wide-screen but PR hadn't yet. Sometimes they could get away with the sentai footage being zoomed in, but sometimes it was just plain ''squashed like a bad youtube video.''
** In ''Ninja Storm'', Blake appears noticeably smaller in original footage, due to his Sentai counterpart, Isshu Kasumi, being a bit taller and slightly more muscular than he is. This is especially obvious when he is on screen with Hunter, as Hunter has at least a few inches on Blake, while Isshu and Hunter's counterpart, Ikkou, are roughly the same height.