History WMG / MightyMorphinPowerRangers

This came to this troper after realizing that Goo Fish, like most of the Season 2 MMPR/Dairanger monsters, is cyclopean in nature. Perhaps Goo Fish's Japanese counterpart was meant to be a Gorma monster but for whatever reasons the show decided not to use it for the show (perhaps the costume wasn't finished in time?) When Toei got commissioned by Saban to make new ''Zyuranger'' material for ''Power Rangers'', they remembered they had an unused costume that had been meant for their recently-completed sentai and decided to use it as one of the monsters.

* And the Wind Academy had the Jetman suits

When Master Vile changed time, Aisha was with the Rangers, who had their ninja coins. By the time the world was restored, neither of these were the case, and now there was a record of a Ranger team on earth that predated the original one. All of these changes added up, culminating in a restored timeline where the Rangers went straight from the original Dino Coins to the Zeo powers following a major battle with Zedd's forces, with only the Rangers and related characters (Zedd, Zordon, etc.) aware of the change. One of the big differences is that in this timeline, the Thunder Megazord wasn't destroyed, but was driven back and ultimately rendered useless when the Command Center blew up, leaving them stuck in Dinozord form. Not only does this explain why the Super Megaforce Rangers never use the Ninja Powers, but it also explains how the original Megazord can appear in the Power Rangers version of the crossover involving the Dinosaur-themed Super Sentai teams.
* Jossed. Tommy uses the Falconzord in "Dimensions in Danger" to get rid of the BigBad at the moment. If Season 3 never happened, he wouldn't have had access to it, whether he had access to those memories or not.

Apparently the reason the rangers got the ninja coins is because their old powers were too weak to keep fighting Zedd with...why? I can't remember any real explanation for this but I just thought: when Tommy gets his Dragonzord coin back in Return of an Old Friend (ROAOF), it almost immediately loses power and is then refueled by Zordon so Tommy can fight Goldar/get the dinocoins back, who (Zordon, that is) then needs to be refueled by the Rangers' power coins, which then accidentally spill all over Tommy, not only recharging his power coin but also providing enough power to heal him too. So, the coins end up doing 3 things at the expense of their own power: refueling Zordon, recharging the Dragonzord coin & healing Tommy. Now, since there was enough energy left over to heal Tommy I'm going to assume that the Dragonzord coin got fully charged, however, Tommy only fought half as well as usual so I'm also going to assume that the amount of "brain power" that Zordon was able to expend is equivalent here to half a power coin (hence Tommy's half-assed fighting against Goldar in ROAOF, by no fault of his own) and the amount to heal Tommy was equivalent to that (blatant guesstimate there).

Like the previous WMG, Jason's would have quite likely been in Scotland as Scott as a surname is Scottish in origin. Zack would have been the one in Africa like we see with Aisha and Tanya. Trini's ancestry would have been definitely set before the comics tackled it-and, like Adam, would have been somewhere in Asia, be it Vietnam like her actress' ancestry or either Korea or Taiwan like her comics ancestry. Kimberly...she likely would have been in Ireland or somewhere in the British Isles if they went that route or-if they'd sent ''her'' into the future-we would have seen ''her'' descendants and would have likely or possibly set up things for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' '''''or''''' ''Series/PowerRangersSamauri'' in terms of JJ and Spike.

Like the previous WMG, Jason's would have quite likely been in Scotland as Scott as a surname is Scottish in origin. Zack would have been the one in Africa like we see with Aisha and Tanya. Trini's ancestry would have been definitely set before the comics tackled it-and, like Adam, would have been somewhere in Asia, be it Vietnam like her actress' ancestry or either Korea or Taiwan like her comics ancestry. Kimberly...she likely would have been in Ireland or somewhere in the British Isles if they went that route or-if they'd sent ''her'' into the future-we would have seen ''her'' descendants and would have likely or possibly set up things for ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' '''''or''''' ''Series/PowerRangersSamuri'' in terms of JJ and Spike.

The spell that Rita used said that once Tommy's powers ran out they'd be transferred to her. Tommy stopped the transfer by giving his coin to Jason before they ran out completely, while this appeared to break the spell it merely stalled it, Rita couldn't take the powers from Jason but the spell was still in effect. When Jason gave the coin back to Tommy in Return of an Old Friend the spell was reactivated and was just waiting for Zordon's power boosts to wear off. When Zedd finally made Tommy use up the last of his power the spell was finally completed and Rita gained his powers. Notice how, despite Zedd having removed her powers as punishment Rita manages to return twice? The second time explicitly shown that she was piloting her dumpster under her own power, despite not having her powers anymore? The Green Ranger powers were enough for her to control the dumpster but not enough to actually break Zedd's shrinking spell. Then once she gives Zedd the love potion he restores her old powers and Rita is now a lot closer to Zedd's power level than before.

* It's a damn yummy coincidence that the Dragonzord just so HAPPENED to configured with 3 of the Dinozords and was a key component in forming the Ultrazord alongside [=DinoMegazord=] and Titanus.

* When Tommy was brainwashed and entered the Command Center, Zordon calmly says "So, Rita found somebody to give the Sixth Ranger Coin to" - he knew it existed and Rita had it and never shared this with the main 5 Rangers! The fact that the Command Center could at first only be entered by somebody with a power coin ANY power coin despite the fact he knew a evil Green Ranger would be made, and could get in and wreck havoc. That was either massively stupid, or some type of Gambit about being confident Tommy could be turned good. Considering the Dragonzord can perfectly combine with the other Zords makes it likely the latter was the plan.

This is a bit long, and might it better in Fridge, but I promise its worth it.

Apparently the reason the rangers got the ninja coins is because their old powers were too weak to keep fighting Zedd with...why? I can't remember any real explainantion for this but I just thought: when Tommy gets his Dragonzord coin back in Return of an Old Friend (ROAOF), it almost immediately loses power and is then refueled by Zordon so Tommy can fight Goldar/get the dinocoins back, who (Zordon, that is) then needs to be refueled by the Rangers' power coins, which then accidentally spill all over Tommy, not only recharging his power coin but also providing enough power to heal him too. So, the coins end up doing 3 things at the expense of their own power: refueling Zordon, recharging the Dragonzord coin & healing Tommy. Now, since there was enough energy left over to heal Tommy I'm going to assume that the Dragonzord coin got fully charged, however, Tommy only fought half as well as usual so I'm also going to assume that the amount of "brain power" that Zordon was able to expend is equivalent here to half a power coin (hence Tommy's half-assed fighting against Goldar in ROAOF, by no fault of his own) and the amount to heal Tommy was equivaent to that (blatant guesstimate there).

Now, lets do the sums, that's a whole 2 power coins worth of power minimum that the other five power coins picked up the slack for, half for Tommy, half for Zordon and 1 for the Dragonzord coin itself. So, that's 2 powers coins accounted for by 5 meaning that's each of the original five rangers' coins contributed at least two fifths of their power, leaving each original dinocoin with only 3/5 (i.e. 0.6 times) their original power leftover (and the Dragonzord fully charged but rapidly diminishing with each use).

In summation, no wonder the rangers had trouble keping up with the BigBad, five of the rangers had effectively been depowered ~1.6x and the most powerful ranger (Green, since he had the fully charged coin) was rapidly becoming the weakest due to the lingering effects of the Green Candle!

* They succumb to monsters, including putties more easily than before, constantly calling out either the dragonzord, Megadragonzord or Ultrazord (that is, when they don't call on a combination of those three in the same battle). However, Rita's forced showed no indication of having strengthened in any way that would warrant such force and in the past the Megazord could probably have easily taken those Monsters of the Week out, so why the overkill? In fact, isn't such overkill against the ranger code [specifically, "don't escalate a battle"]? The only logical explanation (that I can see, at least) is that overkill was the only choice for their depowered forms.
* Correct me if I'm mistaken on this one, but the transitions between ground force and the megazord control room became much less smoother post-ROAOF. Indeed, there were some shots of the rangers appearing in the Megazord cockpit as if they'd just fallen into it rather than them just being there as was previously the norm, a sign of them losing control slightly due to weakness?
* Post-ROAOF the rangers can barely go one fight without Tommy and when he does show up he fights noticeably better and can take more hits than the others. This fits with the ideas that his power coin is charged more than the others. After all, doesn't it follow that if its more charged, he'll have a better quality of ranger powers, no?

*** The coins power the zords. Obvious? When the zords are loosing the battle, they need more energy, and the command centre has to send more energy through. This has been seen time and time again, especially when the original Megazord and Red Dragon Thunderzord were against strong opponents. But in the battle against Rito and his legions of monsters, the Thunder Megazord and White Tigerzord were ambushed and outnumbered ridiculously by the monsters. They tried to infuse more energy from the command centre into the zords, so that they could gain the strength and power to rival the attacks against them, but it ''overloaded'', causing the zords to basically destroy themselves. This energy is powered by the coins, the coins are the direct source of the zords. The more powerful the energy in the coin is, the more powerful the zord will be (ergo why Dragonzord was a bitch to take down early on, and then sorta ''decayed'' towards the end). When the zords overloaded, the coins overloaded too. There have been alot of situations where the rangers have infused their zords with more power, but purposely ''stopped'' before the zords overloaded, because their coins would have too, they knew this... but the battle against Rito left them no choice, because they were going to be destroyed anyway. The ninja coins and zords weren't more powerful, they were more agile and flexible to avoid the outnumbering slaughter, to the point where they don't ''need'' to infuse themselves with more strength, because they don't need it anymore. It didn't have anything to do with the green candle, not sure but it's possible that they had this issue even before they met the green ranger.

At one point, Zordon had another set of Rangers--let's go with the Thunder Rangers for the purpose of this WMG. They lost their powers... but ''not'' their Zords and weapons. The Thunder powers were left half-broken, and so Zordon moved on to the MMPR. As a result, he had an extra set of Zords, an extra Sixth Ranger and a Power Cannon lying around for when the Dinozords were wrecked. During "White Light", Alpha and Zordon weren't ''building'' the suit--they were adapting it for use with the mashed-up powers.
* Alternate theory: Zordon plans to create a brand new Ranger team. He created the Zords, the power, and had five (or six) other teenagers in mind. However, Zordon give the Power Rangers a choice in "Doomsday, Part 2". If they chose to be normal teenagers again, then he'll create the Thunder Rangers to take their place. But after the Rangers chose to remain Power Rangers, he stashed away the Thunderzords and the power just in case. Which proved a good move when Lord Zedd showed up.

This might be a stretch, but the Orb of Doom had some type of magic effect that's not actually literally turning back time. If that's what happened why were the Aquitar Rangers able borrow the Shogun Megazord. If time had been reversed, shouldn't that Megazord have never been found? And they also used the Falcon zord which presumably didn't exist until Ninjor created it for the rangers when they first visited about twenty years after the Aquitars fight the bad guys.

** Or Venjix installed the Grow/Shrink feature. Shrinking it allowed it to operate at a lower power requirement removing it's one weakness when Zedd used it, and he didn't make it grow during the fight because it simply didn't have enough power to operate that way at the time.

*** AND it's just been announced that Creator/WalterJones is coming back to the franchise for Cosmic Fury, along with Creator/DavidYost. While the former has come back to the show to voice various characters, this will mark David Yost's first official return to the franchise since leaving in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. Both will likely play their ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' characters and we'll (hopefully) find out what they've been doing since we last saw them.

[[WMG: The Dragonzord was cannibalised to modify Titanus for usage with the Ninja and Shogun Zords.]]
This is why Titanus was seen wearing bits of the Dragonzord's armour whenever it formed the Ultrazord in season 3.

This would explain the fact that four of the seven dinozords [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology aren't actually dinosaurs.]] The guy's an alien, not an earth paleontologist. And he probably never saw a Tyrannosaurus outside of certain inaccurate depictions, explaining why it's body is off.

*** Jossed, when Zedd suggest that they have a baby in season 2 Rita is disgusted, if they already had a bastard child surely she would have mentioned it (besides you know Thrax hadn't been thought of by the show).

** Well, it's been [[TheFogOfAges 10,000 since Lord Zedd has seen them, and Goldar had to remind of himself to Zedd]].

As we know, one rule of the Morphing Grid is that users of the Ranger powers can't escalate a battle unless forced to. Given Kimberly's involvement in the past in Wild West Rangers, Zordon knew that the Power Rangers would be needed within a couple hundred years. From ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' and ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', we know that Zordon at least had some correspondence with NASADA and had more zords (corresponding to the original 5 colors) hidden on Jupiter's moons. Justin was able to get the correct shuttle for the Astro Megazord just by mentioning Eltar. So one would think that Zordon might have intervened to stop the astronauts from unearthing Rita's dumpster...unless he was behind it. In order to prepare the Earth against the tougher opponents on the way like the Machine Empire, Master Vile and [[strike: Maligore]] Dark Specter, Zordon freed Rita from the dumpster to have an excuse to escalate the battle.

** Still, that's not bad for a 16 year old!

* Wouldn't their be relationship be distant enough for it not to matter, making this a case of ArtisticLicenseBiology on Kim's part.
** Unless their is a big important part of the episode missing I would have to say, Yes [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Kim fails biology forever.]]
** Well, even if she knew that the relation would be distant enough, it could still evoke feelings of {{Squick}} regardless.

When Rita escapes her space dumpster, Zordon asked for "Overbearing and overemotional humans" to which Alpha replied "Not teenagers" which Zordon agreed with or more colloquially "teenagers with attitude", so who does Alpha bring? 5 of the most goody goody teens ever, teens who would of fit right in if they lived in [[Literature/TheStepfordWives Stepford]] instead of Angel Grove. So obviously Alpha didn't bring Zordon what he asked for, thus he rebelled.

The ending of the fortieth episode doesn't appear to make sense in the context of the series: Zordon gives the Rangers the option of retiring after they undid one of Rita Repulsa's better schemes, which forced her back to the Moon. That looks like it's just the old status quo reestablished. Why would Zordon even consider disbanding the group then? Wasn't Rita Repulsa still a threat?

The answer lies within the two-part episode itself. Zordon and Alpha reveal to the audience that Rita's decision to land on Earth has backfired for her in the worst possible way. Because she landed on Earth, she inadvertently allowed Zordon access to her collection of spells. This would allow the creation of counter spells, and the Rangers wouldn't be needed after those were developed. Thanks to her own arrogance, Rita Repulsa has been neutralized.

But if Rita has been weakened so much that Zordon would consider retiring the Rangers, then how do we explain her efforts later in the season? Simple: all twenty of those episodes either took place before the fortieth episode -- that is, are flashbacks -- or were simply dreams. AllJustADream was used in an earlier episode, so there is precedent. The difference with these is that we never see the bookends of the dreams; we don't even know who is dreaming. This may seem far fetched, but this is WMG, and the retirement offer does not make sense in context otherwise.

Thunder Zords Thunder Academy makes sense to me. Furthermore the way ''Ninja Storm'' portrayed it, it seems both ninja academys knew how to make Power Rangers for a while.

This is an combination of several [=WMG=]s about the Green Ranger powers. Before Zedd left Rita on her own, he created the Green Ranger powers and gave them to her as a trump card. This also included the Dragonzord, remember the big "Zs" on its feet, which was not originally meant to combine with the Megazord. While Rita was sealed away, Zordon spent that time tracking down the Dragonzord and altering it to combine with his Zords, reverse engineering not only Titanus from it but the Thunderzord tech as well. Once Tommy joined the team, Zordon stated that a prophecy had been fulfilled. For whatever reason, Zordon assumed all those years ago that this ranger wouldn't be using powers that Zedd made, supported by the fact that the [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_of_Light Sword of Light]] didn't have a green spot and Ninjor never once asked what happened to the Green Coin. So after hearing this prophecy, Zordon waited until the White Ranger appeared.

An above WMG suggest that the main five Rangers as a whole were weakened after they restored Zordon. Another explanation for why the main five fought worse following Tommy's return wasn't that they were weakened, but that Rita started adding small amounts of the clay for the Super Putties into the clay used to create the monsters, making them stronger than originally designed. The Rangers could've defeated these monsters using the Thunder Slingers they used on the Super Putties, but Zordon chose not to in order to make Tommy morph. When Tommy was tricked into getting the [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_of_Power Sword of Power]] Zordon realized his mistake, but it was too late, as the Green Ranger powers were now too damaged to even hand back to Jason. So Zordon decided to have Tommy end his tenure as Green Ranger with dignity while he set to create the White Ranger he always envisioned. He chose to make Tommy the White Ranger not only because he had truly proven himself, but to make amends with the Ranger team for deceiving them.

[[WMG:Thanks to the alterations in the timeline, season three never happened.]]
When Master Vile changed time, Aisha was with the Rangers, who had their ninja coins. By the time the world was restored, neither of these were the case, and now there was a record of a Ranger team on earth that predated the original one. All of these changes added up, culminating in a restored timeline where the Rangers went straight from the original Dino Coins to the Zeo powers following a major battle with Zedd's forces, with only the Rangers and related characters (Zedd, Zordon, etc.) aware of the change. One of the big differences is that in this timeline, the Thunder Megazord wasn't destroyed, but was driven back and ultimately rendered useless when the Command Center blew up, leaving them stuck in Dinozord form. Not only does this explain why the Super Megaforce Rangers never use the Ninja Powers, but it also explains how the original Megazord can appear in the Power Rangers version of the crossover involving the Dinosaur themed Super Sentai teams.
* Jossed. Tommy uses the Falconzord in "Dimensions in Danger" to get rid of the BigBad at the moment. If Season 3 never happened, he wouldn't have access to it, whether he had access to those memories or not.

* Definitely Aisha even though Audri [=DuBois=] was the original Trini Kwan before Thuy Trang took the role. Aisha was 11 years old (presumably based on Sicily Sewell's real life age back then in 1996 when Alien Rangers aired and the MMPR 3 team were turned into kids) and became 29 years old when Super Megaforce took the spotlight in 2014. That is if [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim something happened to Trini along the way]]. If not, then it is still Trini but [[FakeShemp in suit only]].

[[WMG: The White Stranger in ''Wild West Rangers'' is the great grandson of clone!Tommy.]]

[[WMG:Scorpina is a member of the same species as [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Scorpius and Trakeena]], possibly even related to them.]]

[[WMG:Fox considered moving the show to prime time.]]
You would think that that one prime time showing (the second season premiere in 1994) was just a special event, which it was, but considering all the complaints about the show from parents and MoralGuardians, it's possible that Fox considered addressing those concerns by moving the show (along with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') to prime time, with this special event as a way of test marketing the idea. They did this at least one more time, but ultimately decided to keep airing it on weekday afternoons when they determined that this idea wasn't popular with viewers.

[[WMG:Goo Fish was an unused ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' monster whose costume was re-purposed for [=Zyu2=] footage]]

They still hated each other, but at one point succumbed to good ol' FoeYay. The result was Thrax, who is somehow old enough to have a rivalry with Sentinel Knight.

We were never given an explanation of where Rita got the Green Ranger power coin, even though we're told Zordon found the other ones. We're also told that Zordon has created teams of Power Rangers before the team we knew so, after Rita past encounters with Zordn's teams she decided to make a ranger of her own. Rita's had possession of the power coins repeatedly throughout MMPR so it's not much of a stretch to think she's had them before, long enough to figure out how to copy the design. Also note that all the Rangers we know for sure that Ninjor created did not involve a green ranger but a white one instead.
* It's a damn yummy coincidence that the Dragonzord just so HAPPENED to configured with 3 of the Dinozords and was a key component in forming the Ultrazord alongside [=DinoMegazord=] and Titanus

[[WMG:Goo Fish was an unused ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' monster whose costume was re-purposed for Zyu2 footage]]

** They're called "Legendary Squadron".
* Interestingly, there have been rumors that the unused Dairanger suits would have been used for a team of "Ancient Rangers" for ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''.